The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-23
LIVELY TIMES FOR CONGRESS- After the Holidays Arc
 Over. TIE BROWNSVILLE AFFAIR A Rivers and Hafbors Bill VIII Be
 Passed All Eyes Are Turned Toward Ohio, Where Senator Feraksr Is strus- slins To Retain His Seat in
 Congress.
 
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 sessions Of the Senate and the House promise to be lively after the holidays.
 In the former body. the Brownsville Shooting scrape is expected to furnish the most sensational speeches. and 1t is not unlikely that some of the running debates will bs full of spicy and tart sayings. President Roosevelt is thor oughly determined to have his way in this matter. He Is reported to be bring ing lots of pressure 10 bear upon Re- publicans to have them fall in line. His
 friends talk as # he Is confident that his position wfll be upheld. but they privately admit that he would much prefer to have . victory brought about by more Republican than So many Dem ocratic votes. The Democrats almost to man.. think the President did right when he discharged without the honor the three companies of negro soldiers. On this. point the Republicans are at this writing, badly divided.
 Senator Foraker has gone out to Ohio to take hand in the Senatorial con- test soon to be decided at Columbus. The general opinion here Is that he Is entirely out of the race, but he has. lots of staunch friends and having a score or two to settle with those respon- sible for his political misfortune9, #
 may turn out that he and his support CTS will hold the balance Of power in the Legislature. More than year ago. word went out that Senator Foraker was to be eliminated from Ohio politics. That movement started In the camp of the Roosevelt-Taft followers. They have certainly done their, best to cru cify Mir Foraker. Indications are that the news to be sent out from Columbus within the next two weeks. will be well worth reading.
 Rsvss ana Harbor BiII.
 Most Of the members of Congress seem to think there will certainly be a river ana harbOr bill passed during the present session. How large . bill and what projects will be included, few can tell at this, writing.
 The YnanagerB of iegistation are oh- securing the situation. Their policy will probably be to keep the measure for the further improvement of the water ways of the country back as much as possible. This is ths short session, and owing to the fact that . number of the representatives now serving will not be in the next House. the attend ance ie not as regular as it might De on the part of some thirty or forty. 4 majority of the defeated ones are Re- publicans. Their AbAeneA counts. and from now. until the tth of March. the Republican whip Is going to have trouble for the "Big Five in the Houps E Ineurrection is breaking out from time fo time and & considerable num- Der of Republicans, chafing under the iron rule of Speaker Cannon and his lfentsnarts, ara feeling around 10 Inc duee the requisite number to break away and revsse the rules. If this movement is euccessfuI it will probably not happSn until after the meeting of the next Congress. Then the Republi- can majority win be something less than 1t Ia now Besides. it is common talk here that fifteen or twenty new Republicans are coming in who prom Iaafi inc voters in the recent campaign that they would not vote to uphold the policies af the men who appear to have the House by the throat. They were elected largely because the voters be- lIevad they would favor modification in the rules SO that Uncle Joe" and his four political sidespaftners would per. mic freer swing in the popular branch
 Renresentative Burton. of Ohio, for about ten years Chairman of the House Rivers and Hafbors Committee. fsn't saving much just now, as to the pros. pects of the bill. As is well known. he ia on the anxious seat regarding the ITnited states Senatorship in his States TTe wants to become the successor of Joaaoh Benson Forakef, Ills friends are working hard to land the prise for him. and a few declare they will suc- ceed. Mir Burton is out In the Buck eye State now looking after his chapoea. The contest will be. settled early in January. If Mr. Burton fails to win the Is that the honor wifi fall upon Editor 1 P. Taft. brother of the Presi.
 Fer Cabinet Jos. 1
 Tn that event the strong talk is that | MT. Burton will be offered 8 seat in the Taft cabinet. Many believe he will be | placed at the head of the Treasury.
 The House managers are evidently | going to hold the river and harbor bill back as long as possible in order to use it as A club over fractious members of both political parties. This was the trick played last spring when the public buildings bill wes That was kept on the ragged sdge of uncertainty until Speaker Cam non. and Senator Aldrich could rush measures they wished passed hat would suit their purposes.
 Approprlations for the improvement ,f the waterways are more important To the South than anything likely to De accomplished in Washington this session It Is fortunate for the South that so many of her projects are re- xarded worthy by members of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee from the North, East and West. and at the same time the length of Ber- vice has arranged 1t so that all seven of the Democratic members of the committee are from Southern States. They are: sparkman of Florida. RanS- He'll of Louisiana, Burgess of Texas, of Mlssissippi. Moon of Tennessee. Taylor of Alabama, and Ellerbe of South Carolina. The three last named are serving their first term on the committee.
 MT. Ransdeli is president of the Ma .ional Rivers and Harbors Congress which recently held the fifth annual in Washington. He is an | ardent believer In expenditures of larger sums by far more than have been appropriated for the waterways In recent years. even if the govern ment In order to push the work has to resort to a bond issue. The big which so lately voiced the sentiments of it's delegates. numbering something like 5000. and including solid, representative business and pro- | iessionaI men from nearly every State in the Union, passed resolutions in | favor of putting out S500.000.000 in | bonds If necessary.
 MT. Humphreys is considered one of + the best equipped men on the com nittee. ThIs is due to the several | .srns he has served thereon, for he | 1as given most of his time to this work, believing that nothing congress