The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-15
Exta Session Talk Regarded
 as Uncertain Quantity
STUART SEEMS 10 PLEASE
RooseveIt's Appointment of Son of Confederate Cavalry Leader In vlr- gInIa, However, Is Subject to
 Some Criticism.

qualification to the railroad interests rep resented here and corresponding depres- sion to the advocates of government con- trol of rates.
 Within the past few months MT. Roose- welt has swung like pendulum, first toward an extra session idea and thon l away from it, until the best informed per- sons in Washington have been in dispair as to what he really intended to do. He gradually worked away from convening that body before the regular December date. Starting out with the evident inten- ton of calling it together in October, he edged 1t off to November and now the statement comes from Oyster Bay that the indications are that there will be no extra session at all.
 Joined By standpatters. The railroad people are joined by the standpatters in self-felicitation over the outlook If an extra session should be | called in October or even in November for the express purpose of Legislation and tariff revision, these subjects would | be placed in such a conspicuous position before the country that the chances for | action along these lines would be much greater than If they were considered at a session which had hundred other mat i ters of more or less importance to claim its attention. Even some of the Presi- | dents best friends here are chafing at | his apparent indecision.
 l Only few weeks ago Senator Burke | of Nebraska, received letter from Seo- | retary Loeb saying that Congress would be called together about November II | and Representative Townsend of Mich | igan, one of the authors of the famous Esch-Townsend railroad bill which is to be pushed in the Fffty-ninth Congress. | gave out practically the same informa- l ton. These friends fear that MT. Roose- welt. by his seemingly vacillating attitude, will lay himself liable to adverse criti- cism from persons and newspapers which 1 will affect to see in his refusal to call an extra session knuckling under to the railroad and stand-pat interests. | Virginia Appointment PIeases.
 According to reports from Virginia | President Roosevelt could not have se- | lected a better republican than he did | when he appointed J. E. B. Stuart, son 1 of the great confederate cavalry leader, collector of the customs at Newport | News.
 Stuart was appointed by the President in line with the Rooseveltian policy of l "bulding lip decent republican party l in the south' by appointing former con- 1 federates, their sons and grandsons to | positions in the civil and military serv-
 
 | crats in the south to trail behind tho l officers.
 Last week Stuart dismissed from office l four democrats and reduced his deputy collector and chief inspector, both demo- | crats. The six officials have served | faithfully in their offices for years and | are regarded as among the most com | potent men in the federal service. It is claimed that the changes have been made entirely because the several officials are l democrats. Representative Maynard of | the Second Virginia district was finally | appealed to and in compliance with the | request of citizens of Newport News he | has placed the matter before the civil | service commission for it's consideration. The commission his decided to send an agent to investigate the charges. l | clans if he learned that they were pur- | posely concealing cases. The doctors l themselves. however, have indicated that they will heartily support any action de- | signed to prohibit the practice among druggists of treating yellow fever cases. l The agitation over this matter grows out of a discovery on Saturday of the | case of young woman of some prom l thence who was found to be critically i'll | with yellow fever without a doctor in charge Only a druggist had prescribed | for her The case proved fatal on Sunday and today a new case was reported from | the same house.
 Italians Sought Refuge.
 The twelve cases of yellow fever re- ported near Point La Hache. today | in Plaquemine parish, are understood to | be Italians who left New Orleans in the midst of the excitement following the | discovery of the nest of cases in the old French Market quarter. Several hun dred Italians at that time sought refuge | in Ia I'm T)r a officer at Plaquemine, has isolated the patients and will report all the precau- tions that have been taken here to pre- vent the spread of the disease. The cases are not In contact with any settlement and 1t Is not expected that there will be | any spread of the fever.
 The marine hospital service, 1t was an- l nounced today will take general supervs- ion of the work of removing filth and trash from streets and houses, the in- tention being to put the city generally in a sanitary condition. While it is con tended that yellow fever is not, as was formerly supposed. filth disease. ex- perience here is that people who live in filth and in insanitary surroundings are much more likely to have a fatal term ination of the disease when they con- tract it than are those who live in the midst of a better environment.
 Sweeping Orders Issued.
 The campaign of prosecution of those | who have not paid obedience to the anti mosquito ordinance, is to be participated in by the federal authorities, the city board of health, the police and the va rious ward committees. Sweeping orders have been issued by Inspector Wiktaker to the police to prosecute all landlords and agents who fail to screen their cs- terms. The result of the order was the | making of large number of affidavits by the police today. In one of the up- town wards the citizens committee swore out eighty affidavits for violation of the screening law. some of them against men of large pronrenence and wealth.
 The relief work of the Italian societies is now in full swing. Interesting scenes are daily witnessed in the charity res- taurant which the societies have opened