Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-18
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
DEAD FOX THIS
CONGRESS
ADVOCATES HAVE GIVEN
UP HOPE OF ACTION
Why PopuIiSts in Nebraska
Have Returned to the Re-
publican Fold Under Lead
erShlp Of Roosevelt.
The Morning Journal Bureau,
1929 Pennsylvania Ave, n. w.

washington, d.. C., Jan. IA
That the hopes of the ship subsidy
advocates of getting legislation this
session have about been lost is shown
by the fact that efforts are now be-
ing mad to get the opponents Of the
subsidy bill on the republican side az
the house committee on merchant ma
rine and fisheries to consent to a bin
providing merely for mail subsidies on
W lines TO the Orient. Efforts are
being made to get the three republic
cans of the committee who are against
subsidies to consent to such d narrow
ing of the bill and to vote for d favor
able report on this skeletonized meas
ure.
Neither Representative Hinshaw.
Birdsell or Wilson will consent to vote
for a favorable report even on the
narrower bill. They take the position
that while ordinarily, they might not
oppose such a proposition, they will
not vote for a favorable report now on
amy kind of a subsidy bill, for the
reason that as soon as the bill is al
lowed to get OF the floor Of the house
efforts will be made to amend it back.
into something like the shane in
which it was when it left the senate.
The president has been imDortuned
to send a special message to congress
urging ship subsidy legislation. but
Representative Watson, who is the re-
publican whip of the house, is conf
dent the president will do nothing of
the KIND unless the republicans get
together and agree upon a bill. In the
event they do this, the president
stands willing to aid the cause by d
special message expressing his views
on me Importance of such a Measure
becoming a law,
Representative John Jay Mccarthy
was talking Nebraska politics to n
group of newspaper men and two o:
three congressman. Somebody had
asked who Nebraska wanted for the
presidential nomination in 1908.
We're all for Roosevelt out there"
ne explained. After that the peo-
pie would be for Taft, because he
looked to them most like the Roose-
Nclt sort of man. We are for pro-
Eressive politics. Let me tell you how
things are out there now.
Last summer a man who had been
u popullst. out in Nance county, an
peared in a republican convention as
delePate- He had been won over to
republicanish because Roosevelt's
Ideas looked good to him. and he WAS
Wiling to go that way as long as they
lad tina sort of a mar at the head
Of things.
Well, he had been the butt Of a
deal of fun because Of his former
populism. and decided to put an end
.crever TO that particular sort Of
imllsement so he carefully prepared
platform for the county convention.
md when the convention met watched
cnance and presented IT.. IT was
program of progressive politics that
ooked a little radical to some folks.
lut i was right in line with the ten
lencies of the times. and the conren- ;
ion adopted IL with cheers and with
nut any dissent.
Later somebody got interested In ,
he origin Of that declaration of ,
principles. and conducted an inquiry. I
&c finally stumbled onto the old j
)cala platform of the populists. Rec
'llect IL 1t was the decalogue of pop 6
Illsn IN the years when it was at It's ,
'
THAT old rooster had actually taken a
he Ocala platform, cut out Of it the :
Paragraph on the money question :,
which declared for free silver. pre- :
erved everything else in it verbatim. -
got a republican convention To :
dept il with cheers. !
There hasn't been any more poking -
I fun at him because he was once a
opulist."
Because the regulations Of the land e
itlce required that ho-mesteaders I,
nail reside continually on their land u
order to prove entry. and because
ne present fuel famine in some states q
working hardships on some of these .
Senator Hansborough has in l
a joint resolution granting g
'ttlers a three months ahsance from "
lelr lands when climatic conditions "a
other unusual cause demand 1t. al