The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-27
VARDEMAN MUST
FACE Williams | !. | J.
VIII Probably Have TO Reckon
With Congressman Before He
Gets Scnatorsllip.
OF OHIO Il Q RIVER y !: +
Loss Of Leaders i'll Republican
Party Excites Much
Speculation.
trrom Our Regular coTespondent.>

CFrnrl Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 26.-At
least ten members of tho House Commit
Tee on Rivers and Harbors will make an
;nsnection tour Of the Ohio River early
next month It is the intention at pres
cnt to have the party leave F1ttsDurg
on q special steamer on May stu. ne
mississippi will be reached lin about ten
DAYS, as the trip will be made entirely
nv day, and sonertime will be spent at
various places, inspecting manufacturers
and gaining general idea OF the import
ance of traffic Of the river.
81 The following members CT the commit
Tee will certainly so on tho trip: Thes-
+ dore E. Burton, of Ohio, chairman; B. ).
&novener, West Virginia; Roswell Y.
Bishop, Michigan; Ernest r. Acheson,
Pennsylvania; De Alva S. Alexander, New
York: George P. Lawrence, Massachusetts;
James H Davidson, Wisconsin: James
McIacklan, California; William Lorimer,
Z Illinois. and j. Adam Bede, Minnesota.
These are all Republicans. None OF the
1 Democratic members OF the cofnlll at
{ have vet Indicated their intention of go
ing on the j,,nket, but it is stated that
4 Ransdell, Of Louisiana, and Burgess, or
Texas, will probably form two OF the
PARTY. i.s
Representative Wesley L. Jones. Of
washington State, tho only. Republican
member Of the committee who has not
said certainly he would make the trip,
has had to come East once since the nd
= iournment of Congress, and was COM
PEELED to return home to attend to I'M
portant business. but he declared almost
positively that he would join the party
in Pittsburg.
The Pittshurg Board of Trade is arrang-
ing to entertain the committee on lavish
scale when it visits that city. Especial
pains will be taken to impress upon the
members Of the Importance of the river
as "a means Of ransportation to the South,
and they will be given a fair idea Of Pitts
burg as freight originating point, said
to be the greatest in tho world. Inc
business bodies Of other cities Will also
er1deayor to make the visitors rcaliZe the
value of the river as a cheap way Of com
s11unicaticn and Transportation. Cincinnati
and Louisville, to say nothing of smaller
cities like Wheeling, Parkersburg and
other points along the river, will en-
deavor to see that the members of tho
Y committee are impressed with tho import
ance Of the river in a commercial sense.
II is the plan to make the trip by day
light entirely. In this respect it will be q
return to the custom Of pioneer days on
the river when the boatmen tied up" al
nightfnl
The announcement made by Governor
vardaman of Mississippi, within the past
few days that he would be candidate
for the Senate in case Of the retirement:
Of Senator Money, occasioned no sur.-
prise in washington, for 1t has been
known for sometime that the Mississippi
Governor. like the Governor of Virginia,
who Is making fight for political pro-
motion, would like to see himself en-
wrapped in the senatorial toga. But there
is some surprise that the announcement
OF candidacy should BIO coupled with the
statement that the effort to gain the
place would be made In the event of the
retirement of Senator fernando de Soto
; Money. It Is not known that Senator
Money will retire. 1t is not generally
known, at least, that he contemplates re-
tirement from public life His eyesight
Is very poor, but it has been poor for
many years. 1t was 80 poor in 1864 that
Senator Money had to leave tho Confed-