The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-15
.AMENDMENTWON'
PASS, SAYS CLASS.
Representative Predicts.
Defeat of st Clair
Measure.
SURPRISE OVER
ELKINS' FLOP
Senator'S Views Regarding Rate
Question Said to Have Under
gone a Sudden Change
When People Talked
of Dawson to Sue
ceed Him.
eFrom Our Regular correspondont

tffom Our Regular Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. ID. C., February H.
representative Carter Glass. of the Sixth
NHsihia District, returned to Washing
ION to-day from his home in Lynchburg
Hc was In Richmond Saturday and
talked with many members OF the Leg
isiature. relative to the st. Clair amend
incnt 10 the ,rcdIstricting bill, which de-
tachcs the counties OF Craig. Bland Giles,
Pnlaski and Wythe. from the Ninth Dis
tfict and adds them to the Sixth.
think the bill win not pass the
House with the st. Clair amendment"
said Mr.. Glass That was the best in
formation 1 could get on the -..bject and
relied upon it,
Mr.. Glass. In discussing the bill. said
he did not want to be regarded as
occupying the inhospitable position of
heing unwilling TO welcome the people
OF the Ninth District counties as con-
htitucnts, but that ALL or nearly all the
state senators. and many. If not ALL the
members OF the House from the Sixth
District. were In opposition TO the nea-
sure. and that he could not assume a
position against his constituents who
were in the Legislature. Mr.. Glass
said he had many very warm friends in
the counties II was proposed to add to
Ills District, whom he would delight to
serve in Congress He did not intimate
that he was in favor OF any such addl-
tion TO his District
IL Is understood that Senator ST Clair
still claims that the bill as amended in
the Senate Will pass
Things Have Changed.
1T is Il great dead easier to get battle
flags now than 1t was forty odd year,
ago remarked Representative Lamb
after the unanimous passage OF the reso-
luton to surrender many of them to
the Confederate Memorial Literary So
ciety, at Richmond, Representative
Lamb appeared before the committees, on
military affairs In behalf OF the bill.
and had no difficulty in securing
favorable report.
Representative Lamb said to-day, he
did not believe there would be a vote
in the Senate In opposition to the reso-
luton. Tho Attitude OF Congress to-
wurds this subject OF Confederate battle
flags. which had for so long remained
in the custody OF the War Depart
ment, illustrates well as anything can
do. the great change tat has come
over the North and West In the past
decade. regards matters Southern and
Confederate. When an attempt was
made little more than decade ago. to
have President Cleveland return these
old flags. such AN out cry went up
from the g. A. r.. that the President
had to find an excuse for resembling the
order that the flags be given back to
the States entitled Ia them Senator
Foraker said the flags should never be
returned so long as his head was above
ground, and other prominent Republi-
cans made remarks OF similar import
Now. Mr.. Foraker is the patron of the
bill TO appropriate 100000, for the prop
cr marking of the graves OF Confederate
soldiers who died and were buried at
Northern prisons. and voted last year
for the return OF tht battiefags cap
tnred from Southern regiments. He
will also vote for tho s>solution on pro-
vidirg for the return of the aSS of these
flags. the identity of which could not be
established when the coors were re-
turned to the various States last year,
under the resolution introduced by Re-
preventative Lamb.
The Committee on Ways and Means
decided to-day to report a bill abolisii-
ing the tax of six cents ON the sale or
leaf tobacco. The effect OF such Il bill
would be TO allow ANYBODY to sell to-
bacco leaf without taking out license for
the purpose Representative John Wes,
ley Gaines, of Tennessee. has been fight
ing for this bill for years, and last yepr
succeeded in getting II measure of this
sentatives, but it never got out of the
Finance Committee of the Senate. Mr..
Gaines thinks the passage Of this BILL
will be of immediate advantage To the
tobacco grower.
FulWiler Isn't Hurt.
Colonel S. Brown Allen, WHO has JUS,
been re-apponted marshal of the West
eri District of Virginia, is here for the
purpose of urging the confirmation of
the nomination of r. A. Fulwler to be
postmaster of the city of Staunton. Col
onel Allen says he does not think there
VIII be any serious difficulty encotn-
tered In securing confirmation of the
appointment. There will not be charges
iiled against Mr.. Fuwier. The meeting
IN staunton to protest against the ap-
polntment of Fulwiler Colonel Allen
says, failed to develop anything against
the character or the appointee. IT is
charged that the advocates of the reten-
tion of Major Yost in the office con-
trolled the meeting and inspired it.
Hon. Harry st. George Tucker, Presl-
dent of the jamestown Exposition Com
pany, left for Richmond Tonight. He
will appear before the Finance Com
mttee of both branches of the GEN
,eral Assembly. probably, in behulf of
the bin to appropriate sl5O.OOO to the en-
position, in addition to the s2OO,OAO al
ready appropriated by the State Mi.
Tucker said that from, all he could
learn lie did not believe there was So
rlous doubt that the Legislature would
make the appropriation.
Mr., Tucker is delighted With the pros
pect of securing an appropriation from
Congress for the exposition. rheMHonse
Committee on Industrial Arts and Ok
positions viii take mp the bin next
week, probably on Monday.
Mr.. Tucker and Mrs. Tucker, whosnre
now established IN their home at No,
1872 III lI,s;treet, Northwest, will entertain
the Secretary of War, the secretary of
thR Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy.
Ank the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ut dinner
tContlnued on second Pnge.J