Amador ledger., 1908-01-10
FROM
WASHINGTON
Washington, December 81, 1907.

The holiday season in Washington
is not prolific of news, as nearly all
senators and congressman are absent
from town, and public officers are
overwhelmed by the burdens which
the season imposes. But there re-
NAMED energy enough to make an
attempt to explode the Hughes presi-
Dental boom in New York, where the
republican county committee post
poned for a month action on the
motion to declare for the governor
as the Empire States candidate for
president. But the republican club
of New York refused to be dictated
to from the outside, and declared
emphatically for governor Hughes,
although Job Hedges, fresh from a
trip to the white house, sought to
have the club likewise postpone
action. These two events seem to
indicate that the republican party in
New York is divided, and that both
factions are exceedingly earnest, one
for the present governor, and one for
the candidate of President Roosevelt,
whoever he may ultimately chance
to be. Political developments in
New York, Ohio and elsewhere clear
ly show that the work of selecting a
republican nominee for president
will be struggle between president
Roosevelt and his organization on
one side; and on the other. the
people, who demand a free choice,
aud who protest against the dictation
by president of who his successor
shall be. Such dictation the people
think comes too dangerously near the
establishment of personal govern
ment, and the idea is so strongly i'm
pressed that it is safe to predict
| fight against the new departure which
will cause hot work in the national
convention. Thomas W. Lawson of
Boston of frenzied finance fame-is
adding gayety to the situation by
organizing a Roosevelt party, which
insists on renominating the president,
and he is receiving encouragement in
spite of the presidents second asser-
tion that he will not be candidate.
Last week the senate and house
committees we're completed and an
nounced. The positions given to
bers of the California delegation
are as follows:
Senator Flint: chairman committee
on the geological survey, member of
coast and insular survey, education
and labor, interoceanic canals, irri-
cation, Pacific Islands and Porto
Rico, and public lands.
Senator Perkins: chairman com
mittee on civil service and retrench-
ment; ranking member committee on
naval affairs, chairman subcommittee
on notifications, member of the COM
mittees on appropriations, agricul-
ture and forestry, commerce and
fisheries.
Congressman Knowland: Interstate
and foreign commerce, coinage,
weights and measures.
Congressman Smith: edcuation,
public lands.
Congressman Englebright: irri-
Igation of arid lands, mines and min
ing.
Congressman Needham: ways and
means.
Congressman McKinlay, elections,
insular affairs.
Congressman Hayes: immigration
and naturalization, banking and
currency.
Congressman Kahn: District of
Columbia, military affairs.
Congressman McLachlan: rivers
aud harbors, expenditure on public
buildings.
1t will be noticed that senator Per
kins is on the most important com
| mittees of the senate. The COM
mittees of which senator Perkins and
senator Flint are members have
charge of business which particularly
concerns California and the Pacific
coast The assignments of the two
California senators supplement each
other, and all California matters are
sure to have over them their watchful
care
The geological survey is doing
much good in California, and the
scope of it's work is extending.
Coast and insular surveys are of the
greatest Importance from both com