Bisbee daily review., 1907-03-17

was announced at the White House recently that the president would ap- point Senator Blackburn of Kentucky sz member Of the Isthuian canal commission when congress adjourned, the question was asked whether the retiring minority leader would go on the commission as a "dead duck" or molly coddle" Senators and rep sesentatives who fail of reelection kre known in Washington during the closing days of their service as dead ducks"
 Besides Senator Biackbuni the ''dead ducks in the senate who re- tired from that body March 4 were: J. Frank Alice of Delaware, James H. Berry of Arkansas. Edward w. Car mack of Tennessee. William A. Clark uf Montana, John F. Dryden of New 0rsey, Fred T. Dubois of Idaho. Joseph I Willard of Nebraska and Thomas If. Patterson of Colorado. berry IS the only old-timer in the group He entered the senate twenty-two years ago, and has served continuously since he took his seat. He is going back to his home at Bentonville, Ark, to spend the remainder of his days. He retires from congress as he entered that body-a poor man. He was an officer in the Confederate army and lost a leg at the battle of Corinth. Miss. He always refused to wear a wooden leg, and during the years be has served is the senate he has been on crutches. ~ m
 Joseph c. S. Blackburn, who came to the body six years ago, goes from ha fn T<S1 Ra. s.fN hp Lo plQ canal commission a Sl0000 job. He owes his good fortune to President Roosevelt who has frequently shown disposition to take care of Demo cratic dead ducks" who showed friendly attitude toward the admins tration. Blackburn came to his res cue when the resolution for an inves- tigation of the shooting up" of Brownsville was under consideration by the senate One morning the Ken -uckian was a caller at the White House. the following day he offered IS an amendment to the Foraker reso- ution declaring that in dfscharging he colored troops without honor the president did not exceed his authority. 1t was an effective move. It forced the Republicans so to modify the or aker resolution as to make 1t assert that in ordering an investigation the senate was not raising the question as to whether the president went be- yond his authority. Blackburn has never admitted that he got his ''cue" from the president, but certain it is that he gets place on the Isthmian canal commission. Two years ago the president took caren of ex-Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, on the interstate commerce commission because Cock rell had always shown a kindly disBo- sition toward the policies of the ad- minfstTation.
 The retiring Deleware senator, J. Frank Alice, who has been here since 1903, has never posed as a statesman, and he appears to be rather glad thal he is to go back to the jewelry store he owns in the town of Dover. He was sent here as creature Of the Cas- Addicks machine, and failed to be reelected because he could not make peace with the two factions of the republican party in his state.
 In the retirement of Edward W. Car mack of Tennessee. the senate loses a man of real ability. In the one term he has made his influence felt in the Fl experience he would undoubtedly have been the leader of the minority Be fore he entered public fife he was the editor of newspaper at Memphis Whether he will re-enter the news paper business or practice law he has not yet decided. Tennesseans say he might have continued in the senate if he had not anIagonized the presi- IT nall x1d to submit his candidacy to a primary election and lost, although he attempt ed to prove that he was not unfriend- ly to the president. In 8 recent speech in the senate. Carmack declared the president said of him on one occasion: sT would see that Tennessee senator in Hades before I would do him q favor The president probably never used the expression, but Carmack be- lieves he did. and he proposes to keep on dfsliking the chief executive.
 Notwithstanding his forced retire ment from the body, William A. Clark of Montana will be able to keep the wolf from his door or from his doors, as he has mansions in three or four places in the United States and Tn Europe. As the copper king" of Montana he decided in 1900 that he wanted to come to the senate, and he came as a result of methods that led to. an investigation by the senate, and sresolution to prevent his from talk ing his seat. He won in the senate and for six years he has been gratify- ing his ambition to be United States senator The guides have pointed him out to the tourists as the richest man in the senate and one of the richest men in the world, and he has, appar- ently, enjoyed the notoriety. He has not left his impress on any legislation that has been enacted since he came to the capital, and he will nos be missed, except by sightseers.
 John F. Dryden of New Jersey is an other retiring senator who objects to the title of dead duck" He was sent here five years ago to fill out an uu- expired term. He wanted to come back, but the reformers within the Re publican party in New Jersey got busy and put a crimp in his ambition. As the head of one of the largest life in surance companies in the country he will take up his private affairs where he left off when he entered the sen ate, if he really left off. Personally. 1r. Dryden Is a pleasing man, and during his service in the senate he made some warm friends. who insist that ne is a man of ability. Occasion ally he has taken an active part in fhe deliberations of the senate.
 Mormonism Is responsible for Fred T. Dubois having to give up his seat