The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-17
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That the passage of the rate bill is not going to end the agitation against auction and consideration of several bills by the House Committee on h. terstate and Foreign Commerce.. One of these bills provide that interstate fosfsHsthsi to havs their baggage s checked through to any destination tc which sheS na.d frsnspSsrta,tion frs ns t,d whether it Ps in sns few people who have travelled who have not been forced to see to the rec . checking of their. baggage when they continue their Journey. over another line. And few holders of mileage over different lines have not been refused a through cheek for for their basgage sd ex1 checking it applied. even though the mileage on othey roads to the distina- tion were exhibited. It Is to obviata that the bill was offered. and 1t Is more than probabale that the favorable re- port of the committee will result in Representative Sherman. who Is Chair man of the Republican Congressional Committee, providing for flat two
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 and it is more than probable that it will be enacted into law before the fnty-ninth Congress ends its final ses- sion.
 A Vanishing Race.
 I had the pleasure of meeting a few days ago man from Ohio who is one of vanishing race, that is, man who would and man who did refuse a standing the fact that he desired the place. He Is Hon. Martin Dodge, of Cuyahoga County. Ohio When Mark the first time the Legislature stood, or the test votes that were taken, 72 to 73 in favor of Hanna with Dodge as one of the seventy-three. He had never been particularly friendly with Hanna though he had stood by him in his other lights. However. he had been in- structed by his constituents to vote for Hanna A night before the final vote was taken he was approached by the told that if he would vote for himself his name would be put in nomination and he would receive every one of the seventy-two opposition votes. Thus he the Senate. But he cast the oportun- ity aside. The vote he cast elected Senator Hanna. These facts are shown in the testimony in the Hanna contest ate. MT. Dodge told me that an under- standing had been reached between Me- Kinley and Hanna whereby. Hanna was to be made Postmaster General in the event of his defeat for the Senate. This is piece of unwritten history of that period. Mir. Dodge revealed another matter of interest. in connection with Senator Hanna. He has a letter from Hanna with reference to his candidacy for the Presidential nomination in 1904 written in the latter part of 1902 in which Hanna stated that 1t was his be- lief that Roosevelt would do some thing rash before 1904, and that if he did it would leave an opening for his own candidacy. But Roosevelt did not measure up, or perhaps it would be better to say that he did not measure down to Hanna's expectations, and the result was that the thought of entering long before the fatal illness overlook him.
 MT. Dodge dresses and looks like a typical Southern gentleman of the old school. bearing a striking resemblance to Governor Warfield of Maryland. and to the late Fitzhush Lee; He is one of the few men in the history of the country who has refused Senatorship when he desired to hold the office. W. J. Showalter.