The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-07
j, [, B. STUART CALLS ON TIE PRESIDENT Fight Will be Made Against
 His Confirmation BOOKER CALLS ALSO Principal of Tuskegee Is Backing Reese for District Attorney-Rail-
 way Regulation BiIl--Wis.
 consln Politics.
sy PATTERSON sTEALEY.

Washington. December 6.-(Specal)-J p. B. Stuart, the son of the great Con- federate cavalry raider, was caller at the white house this morning. Stuart who is Roosevelt democrat, was ap- pointed collector of customs at Newport News. He immediately began turning out Democrats and was severely called down by the civil service commission. The re- port of the commission will be used as a basis of fight against Stuart's con- firmation He has come to Washington to discuss his case with senators.
 Booker T. Washington called at the White House today, presumably for the purpose of adding his indorsement to that of Judge Jones in behalf of Warren S. Reese district attorney at Montgomery.
 It seems to be pretty well accepted here today that a tenative agreement has been reached in regard to railroad legislation and that the Speaker and Senator Ald- rich would be able to get together on some bill which will not hurt the rail- roads to any great extent after the courts get through passing, in the meantime there would be lot of bluff opposition which will yield before adjournment and allow the measure to pass. It will then be heralded as a great Roosevelt victory.
 The members of the ways and means committee individually, for that commit tee has not yet been appointed, have prac- tically reached an agreement on the Phil lipine tariff bill, reducing the duty on sugar and tobacco to twenty-five per cent. and the bill will be reported shortly after the committee is organized. Before the
 holidays the bill is expected to be before
 the Senate where prompt action is looked for.
 Representative Hefiin will re-introduce
 his bill prohibiting federal judges from
 expressing their opinion of cases to a jury The bill is said to be a result of
 Judge Jones' remarks to jury in the | peonage cases.
 Representative Bowie today introduced
 a bill approprating twenty-five thousand
 dollars for the establishment of a fish l hatchery in the state of Alabama. MT l Bowie also introduced a bill increasing | the salaries of rural free delivery carriers i from sixty to seventy dollars month. | Representative Burnett has introduced
 a bill appropriating seventy-five thousand
 dollars for a public building at Gadsden. There is again talk of making com ! bination in the House and forcing through i a public buildings bill regardless of the 1 Speakers refusal to allow one to be con 1 sidered.
 Governor Lafollette's decision to accept | the United States senatorship for which 1 he was elected last spring, means that 1 there will be a three-cornered fight among 1 his followers in Wisconsin for the guber- l material. The bitterness resulting prom 1 ises to exceed even the Spooner- La | toilette struggle in the legislature. Lieu | tenant Governor Davidson wants to be ] governor and has the state employees with him. Lafolette wants speaker | Lenroot of the assembly to succeed him l and W. D. Connor, chairman of the state l committee also seeks the office. | Postmasters appointed: Ingram, Hale | county; John T. Geddie; Tysonville, Ma l con county: James A. Boyd.