The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-01-04
CONGRESS- GETS BUSY.
Much Work to Do and Only
Two Months Time.
RROwNsyILLE wILL NoT BOWS:
Ieeretary raft Presidential capaI-
date-senator Plat Announced For
. Speech He DId Not Make-Pa4ri-
arehs Pettus and Morgan score.
BY CHARLES W. ARTHUR.

BY CHARLES W. ARTHUR.
Washington. Jan. A. Ispecial.l :
Congress reassembled today after its
two weeks holiday and from now I'M.
til the 18th of March next win be kept
very busy indeed. Even II it does
nothing more than act on the regular
appropriation bills and the river and
harbor bill which Is now being pre-
pared by the committee Of which Rep
resentative I. E. Burton Of Ohio is
chairman, 1t will have no time to
spare, and as there are several i'm
portant pieces of general legislation to
be attended to 1t is obvious that prac-
tlcally every working day during the
remainder of the session must be used
to good advantage. The Brownsville
affair promises to take up considerable
I time in both houses, and If the senate
decides to direct Its committee on
military affairs to conduct an investi-
CATION the committee doubtless will be
busy for month or more. At least
two or three speeches on the subject
OF the discharged troops are due in the
house, and as most of them will be
from Democrats who uphold the pres
ident's action and as the Republicans
viii wish to reply to all such ad-
dresses 1t Is possible that discussion
OF some length win be INDUCED In. OF
course this will come in under the lati-
tude allowed during the debates on
appropriation and other bills. as the
Brownsville matter proper win not be
brought before the house unless the
committee on military Affairs decides
to report one OF the two pending bills
providing for the abolition of tile four
+ regiments of colored troops now in
the service, which is not likely.
Taft a Tentative Candidate.
The political game as played in
Washington has recently taken on new
activity. Authoritative announcement
of Secretary Taft's tentative candidacy
for the Republican presidential nomI-
nation In 1908 has been made, and, al
though the secretary has issued a state
ment saying that his ambitions are not
political, he has not denied the an
nouncement, aud his friends have gone
to work. An interesting feature of the
/ general political situation Is furnished
by Information from inside sources to
the effect that the odd guard" OF the
Republican party-the element which
was led by NJ. A. Hanna and which Is
now controlled by such men as Sem
tors Foraker Of Ohio, Scott of West
Virginia and Aldrich OF Rhode Island
has succeeded in capturing the party
organizations In practically all the
southern states which have been In
the hands of supporters Of President
Roosevelt ever since the death of Nc
Kinley. II this be true, the delegates
which these states win send to the
next Republican national convention
will support conservative for the
nomination and oppose Secretary Taft
or any other man who, like him, is
closely identified with President Roose-
Welt and his policies and who is APP
proved by the president. The "con-
sentative" element in the senate Is
now fighting the president openly.
which is accepted as an indication that
II believes that 1t has at last struck
what is called In the southwest a
winning gait" Heretofore the "con-
servatlves" have opposed Mr.. Roose-
yelt's policies secretly, but in their
public utterances and speeches have
declared their warm commentator OF
him and all his views.
clapp, Not Plat.
An amusing Incident has resulted
from the announcement in several
newspapers that Senator Thomas Col
Her Plat of New York would deliver
a speech about Indians at the home Of
a prominent Washington citizen, the
occasion being one OF the periodical
meetings Of local society for the adj
vancement of the red man. Senator
Platt has not delivered a speech in or
out Of the senate for years, and the
announcement naturally excited
great deal Of interest. Correspondents
Of New York papers who went to the
home Of the prominent citizen in ques-
ton on the night appointed were dis.
appointed by the information that the
press agent OF the organization had
made mistake and that the man who
was to deliver the speech was Senator
Clapp Of Minnesota, who takes an &C
i've interest in matters pertaining to
Indians and who is the chairman OF
the committee on Indian affairs.
Moraan and Pettua,
Two Of the most interesting men,
bers Of the senate are the representa-.
lives Of the state of Alabama there
John Tyler Morgan and Edmund win
ston Pettus. They are the oldest Of all
the senator's. the former being eighty.
two and the latter eighty-five. Both
Of them live in the same town. Selma.
and for years past they have succeeded
In keeping in the postofice there as
postmlstress a lady whom the Repub-
lican leaders Of the state have many
times tried TO supplant This lady IS
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