The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-26
DOCTORS CONTROL THE ARMY AND NAVY Wood PrescribeS For Army and
 Rixey For the Navy A CHILD LABOR BILL President Is Being Prominently Men tioned as a Senatorial Fossil
 blity at the End of His
 Term.
A CHILD LABOR BILL

Washington, December 25.-(Special)- President Roosevelt has a great penchant for doctors. It is pr. Leonard Wood, ac- cording to army officers, who rules the army and now steps in Dr. Presley Rixey retirement of Admiral Brownson from the big political office of the navy de- partment chief of the bureau of navlga- tion.
 Dr. Wood-in the Philippines-and the President are In constant correspondence, and cable communication over the cond- tion of the army, and Dr. Rixey is right here on the ground whenever anything gets the matter with the naval personnel. It is hard on the line officers.
 Child Labor Bill.
 A child labor bill for the District of Columbia is believed to have good chance to become law at this session of Congress.
 Senator Deliver of Iowa, the new chairman of education and labor, is heart- fly in favor of such legislation. and he expects his committee to give 1t consd eration as, soon as the session is re- sumed The last Congress reported bill favorably in the Senate, and action along similar lines may be expected next month.
 Officers and enlisted men are dlsap- pointed that it will be impossible for the war department to distribute before the new year the 4S, O00-odd medals and badges authorized by law for those who took part in certain campaigns of the civil. Indian, Spanish and Philippine wars. Only about 1000 badges and medals have been completed.
 Roosevelt for Senate.
 The Presidents future is again causing the mention of his name in connection with the Senate, and it is being pointed out what fine thing 1t will be for him to walk from the capitol steps, after wit messing the swearing in of the new Pres ident, to the Senate chamber and take the oath of office in the most august body.
 The political spectators upon the Presidents future even go so far as to intimate that the President, in the event he has opposition from the Hughes ina chine' for the Senate, will demand pri- mary to settle the question.
 Author of Constitution.
 Who the original designer of the con- stitution of the United States?
 This interesting question may be threshed out in debate before the dis trict bar if Senator P. c. Knox of Penn sylvania accepts challenge given him by Dr. Hannis Taylor of Alabama, for mer minister to Spain. Dr. Taylor says the honor belongs to Pelatiah Webster of Pennsylvania. He offered what seemed to be convincing evidence to support his contention in a recent magazine article, and in treatise which he subsequently, presented to Congress.
 But Senator Knox, in his address be- fore the New England society dinner in Philadelphia, Monday night, gave the credit of being the original architect of the constitution to Benjamin Franklin. This has stirred the blood of controversy in the veins of Dr. Taylor, and he has formally offered to debate before the District Bar association.
 Dr. Taylor is the author of the Eng fish Constitution" This work holds rank
  wealth"
 pr. Taylor Is profound student and jurst and he says he welcomes the fact that Senator Knox has seen fit to take s- sue with him because it will give him fuller opportunity to set forth the dis tnguished claims of Pelatiah Webster to being the original designer of the consti- tuition.
 Concerning Webster Dr. Taylor said lo s,eraxf tha J l< otrt idea of a federal government operating directly upon the citizens and not upon the states as corporations"
 Senator Knox, in his address, said he did not seek to detract one iota from the fame of Webster, and said he admit ted Dr. Taylors assertion that Penn sylvanian promulgated the greatest sin gle effective federal principle civilization has produced" but that the man entitled to the credit of its first public announce ment was Benjamin Franklin. w. $.