The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
The State Has Busting
 Representatives.
s<.stsss saorsan ana Pettus and All
 se Represe.tatives Do Their share q work-rributs ts Wiley.

Washington, July s.--(special)---Con- gressionai legislation Is legislation by committees. &
 1t is more than that. It Ia lesisla- tion by .sub-committees. One of the commonest remarks one hears here Is something like this: Was not Smith active in behalf of that billf' Tes, but he was not on the subrcomnaittee.
 The Alabama delegation in Cong-ees have won good places both in the House and the Senate on committees and on sub-committees They have been able during the 59ths Congress to reuder substantial service to the State. 1<ua- tor Morgan has never disturbed hlfh- self about small state affajrs he has been most watchfuf always Of the lar- ger interests of Alabama.
 Senator Rettus combines the care for the little and the care Tor the fargef questions in happy proportion.
 Together the two senators from Ala bama make the most interesting pair in that body. They are more common ly pointed out to strangers than any other two senators.
 Tn the House beginning with the First District Wash Taylor has won his spurs handsomely as doing with i. great effectiveness all the work needed to be done to conserve the interests of his constituents and especially the interests os Mobile. Mobile Is grestor in sense than the congressional dis- frict. It belongs to the State.
 Mir. Clayton has taken particular care of his own people and has figured . conspicuousiy in much of the larger legislation Tin Con&rsss. The same IS true of every other member of the Alabama delegation. None of them but has grown in the opinion of the House during the present session. MT. Bur- nett has gotten what he went after and is distinctly q stronger personality n the House.
 Monteenaery's own immediate repre- sentative. Col. Wiley. has had the fus- fest time of his life His mail amounts at times to one hundred letters per day. The people of the district know very well how he meets these cnlls upon him. He is steam engine In brooches. quick, energetic, anxious to be of service and he has Justified the confidence of his friends and support CTS He was one of the subcommittee appointed to draft what is commonly known as the Dick Militia Bill" pear- ing the name Of the chairman of me committee. Colonel Wiley was selected as the Democratic member of the con- mittee to advocate the bfirs passage in the House. It became law and has proven greatly beneficial to tho national guard forces in the several states
 Not content with what had thus far been accomplished along this line, he introduced nt this session bill to es- tablish and maintain rifle ranges to provide for rifle practice throughout the country That bill has now become a law. and the militia appropriation has beer increased one million dollars. This additional appropriation secures to Alabama National Guard about $4ev- GOO per annum, besides the amount the State donates to her citinen sol- diery for military purposes.
 He secured also valuable soil sur- vey of Montgomery county and Sec refary Wilson, of the Agricultural De- partment, has promised him that he will cause survey to be made Of the soil of Wilcox county next, In regular chronological order The force at hand is SO limited and the demand so great, that the work of making these surveys Is necessarily slow.
 when Colonel Wiley was elected to Congress. there was not single rural free delivery route in the Second Dis trict. Now, through his zeal. these routes, aggregating more thgn hun dred. extend Into all but one county of the district.