The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-26
Many Members Are Lined Up
 With the President
SMALL BILLS COMING SOUTH
Great Demand Springs Up for One and Two Dollar Bills as Well as Subsidiary
 Coin.

1 Washington, OCtODef Zo--NopSeidi.i Representative Bowie of Alabama thinks it by no means improbable that the Sem ate will be forced to yield in large measure to the wishes of the President In the railway proposition. and that there is no reason to suppose that Congress will not pass a measure along these lines in the next Congress
 i "rhe public sentiment of the country IS strongly with the President" said MT Bowie tonight. "In the first place, he IS exactly right about the matter. The in- l terstate commerce commission ought to have the power to fix rate and enforce i it. have no doubt that many of the railway rates are fair and just On the 1 other hand, the complaint is made that many of the rates in force are excessive 1 This ought to have d full and fair test. l If d man has a piece of land and 1t Is claimed by some other person he has right to go to the courts and get their | judgment To say otherwise means noth" l ing but anarchy
 l The House must pass bill early in the session, and with public sentiment in practical accord for legislation l look to see a bill passed-if not this winter. then l next"
 Thinks Bill Will Pass.
 Tn my judgment" said Representative | Mondell of Wyoming today, the House will pass d bill on the lines of the Esch- i Townsend bill to regulate railroad rates and terminal charges. The measure Will | be drawn on the lines recommended by the President and this time the bill will be so constructed as to answer the criti- ! csms made against the bill passed by tho 1 House last winter. It will provide for regulating private cars and terminal charges. I think public sentiment has not changed on this subject unless 1t Is more pronounced in favor of such legislation, There is no question in my mind about what the House will do. We will pass the bill as we did last year. But what the Senate will do with 1t I should not like to undertake to say
 Will Support President.
 Washington. october 25.-(Special.)- Senator Clapp of Minnesota today said he would join with Senator Deliver in an effort to report from the interstate com- merce committee n railroad rate bill em- bodying the Presidents views.
 Senator Culiom recently indicated that he would give his influence to such measure, so that Mir. Roosevelt appears to have the votes of three of the eight republican members of the committee as- sured for his programme.
 Details Another Southern Man.
 President Roosevelt has detailed an- other southern man for social duty at the White House this winter. He Is Lieu tenant Commander David Mex. Kee of the navy native of Tennessee and son of the postmaster general under Hayes administration. With him Cap- tain Fitzhugh Lee. son of the Confed- crate general, will serve. Commander Lee has just returned from Asiatlc wa ters, where he has been cruising for threa years on the Winconsin. He Is well known in Washington where he married Miss Condil Smith.
 Small Bills Coming South.
 The treasury is sending out through the south thousands of small bills and sub sidiary coin. The demand of late has been very large and nearly million dol- lars in bills of large denomination have been received here for exc>ange of one and two dollar notes.
 New Executive Department.
 A new executive department to take control of the insular affairs of the gov- 1 ernment is among the possibilities of the 1 future The enormous growth in the past | seven years of the business of the war department has given rise to the opinion ! among many of the Presidents close ad- visers that the time has arrived for the creation of another cabinet officer. The needs of Inc war department itself-the | military establishment-get 'ittle atten- ton from the war department these days. | Ninety per cent of of the secretarys time is necessarily spent on the Philippine and canal problems.
 Contractors Are Pleased. | Several big general contractors, who have been spending the past few weeks in Washington, are wearing broad smile over Secretary of War Taft's announces ment that the Panama canal is to be built so far as possible by private contract. It will be big thing for the contractors or those of them who have their bids ac- | cepted by the war department.
 While the canal officials claim that the | building of the canal by private contract Is by no means new idea with them, | it is certain that throughout the country the new method of procedure will be looked upon with more than ordinary in- l terest and decidedly new. Assuredly the | impression has quite generally prevailed 1 that the government itself was to under | take the work even to the supervision of each shovelful of dirt. and the decision Of Secretary Taft to the contrary will | likely provoke some severe criticism. Incl l dentally the new plan will hardly ht | in with the arguments of government and | municipal ownership advocates who have | been pointing to the canal as an example | of great work under direct control of | the government.
 | member of the board with the additional suggestion that MT. Truesdell, Morris and Auchincloss constitute the committee, and was unanimously adopted.
 .'The committee will proceed at once | to discharge it's functions. and to report speedily to the board.
 | "RICHARD A. McCURDY, | President"