Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-12

next session of Congress. With business
through the country at a standstill, cur
cency legislation. such now proposed.
would probably not be needed for another
Year. but he d;1 not know whether the
business world would put up with fur
Their postponement of a long recognized
necessity.
Topsy-Turvy in Tennessee.
The presence of Representative Brown
low of Tennessee at the White House
today. merely to introduce n visitor, re-
opened interest in complicated and
most peculiar political situation in that
state. Mr.. Brownlow has long been
under a cloud at the White House. Some
how he came to he known hostile to
the President and his policies. This. to-
gether with local elements. caused a ter
rife fight to be made upon him two years
ago. Alfred Taylor. brother OF Senator
Robert Taylor of the same state. gave
Mr. Brownlow the race of his life for
Congress, and left things badly split in
the district. Nearly year ago Mr..
Brownlow. notwithstanding his alleged
anti-Roosevelt sentiments. came out for
Taft for President. He personally likes
Mr.. Taft. and wanted to see him nomi
mated. While he and his friends We're
getting things in readiness to capture
Taft delegates the Evans-Saunders COM
bination. which controls the organization
in the state, was baSking in adminiStra-
ton sunlight receiving all the patronage.
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Hitchcock who is now a Taft manager,
did Brownlow great harm in his district
by throwing all the post office patronage
against him. Hitchcock came near undo
inc Brownlow, who lost control of the
state and almost lost his district.
While all this was going on Mr. Hitch
cock had the Evans-SaunderS men lined
up for whoever he desired. Representa-
tive Brownlow himself Informed Secretary
Taft that Hitchcock was telling everybody
in Tennessee that Taft could not be NOM
mated. At any rate. Mr. Hitchcock Is
now on the Taft wagon and the Evans
Saunders men are with him. Although an
original Taft boomer, Brownlow finds
himself more or less out-Tafted by his
opponents and he gives signs of deserving
the ship. He has regained the losses he
sustained in his district. but does not
relish the idea that the credit for carry
ing Tennessee for Taft shall be gobbled
up by his political enemies. There are
intimations that he may get on the Can
non wagon and hustle things for the
Speaker, which may result in contested
delegation from Tennessee.
Easier for Mr.. Pearre.
Representative Pearre of Maryland.
who talked with the President about an
appointment for his district. believes that
he will return to Congress this year with
much less opposition than two years ago.
when he had a hard fight in his own party
Il think there will be practically no OPP
position for the nomination this year.
said Mr.. Pearre. when asked about the
situation in his district Mr.. Pearre's
greatest trouble has been opposition from
the l.owndes faction in his own county
Of Allegany. Lloyd Lowndes. a OF
the former governor OF the state. is again
in the field for the nomination. but he
has lost one OF his main supports in ex-
Senator Wellington. who has now come
out for Pearre for another term.
With Wellington cooperating with
Lowndes. as he has been up TO this time.
the chances against Mr. Pearre winning
in his own county were strong. With
Mr. Wellington supporting him he thinks
lie will have easy sailing. Should he
carry his own county without trouble the
other counties in the district will fall
into line, he feels. Il. II. Warner Of this
city. having residence in Maryland. has
been in the field some time. and is san
guine OF good support. especially from
his own county of Montgomery Reno
Harp OF Frederick county is also talked
of as a candidate. The district is safely
republican.
+. w. Chavers. editor of the Ohio Stand
ard World. a publication devoted to the
interests OF the negro race. talked with
the President about History of the
Negro he is preparing TO write.
Coal Lands in Alaska.
delegation consisting of Senator Piles
OF Washington. Delegate Gale of Alaska
ex-Gov. J. II. McGraw of Seattle and d.
a. Mckenzie. who represents some of the
entrymen coal lands in the territory.
called on President Roosevelt this morn
ing. 1t has recently been demonstrated
that there are two large coal fields in
Alaska where coal is found superior in
quality to the famous Pocahontas steam
ing coal. almost equal to PENNSYLVANIA an
thracite. and far better than any that has
been uncovered west of the Mississippi
river The fact is regarded by the geo
logical survey and by the commercial in
terests generally the most important
economic development OF the Pacific coast
in the last two or three decades.
The men who have taken uo coal lands
feel that they should be permitted TO open
up the properties. for the inauguration OF
coal mining not only means much for
them. but Is of the greatest significa nee
10 the people OF the whole Pacific coast
One of the largest fields is situated near
tidewater in the southern part of the
territory. and the other is less than 200
miles inland from Resurrection bay,
whence a railroad already extends for a
distance OF about sixty miles.
The delegation who called the Presi-
dent this morning reminded him that
thirty entrymen had entered on coal lands
in good faith. and the number would
have been much larger had there been
any hope OF securing title in the near
future and had the government restric-
tions been less severe. An entryman is
required to pay SO per acre upon making
the entry and this money which already
amounts In the aggregate to more than
$4,000 is lying idle in the United States