The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-04
MEMORY OF O'BRIEN
COLONEL WILEY WILL PRESS HIS
 BILL.
In Pexpetrating the Memory of the Gallant Irish

Washington, Feb. S.--(Special.)-- Representative Wiley will press vigor- ously this session the bill introduced by him when Congress met in Decem- Der appropriating 950,000 for the erec- tion in the city of Washington of a monument to the memory of Jeremiah O'Bfien, upon which shall be inscribed, according to the wording of the meas ure, the following:
 Erected to the memory of Jeremiah QBrien, who captured in the first sea Aght of the Revolutionary War the British schooner Margaretta."
 sCnI0nel Wiley introduced similar. bill in the Fifty eighth Congress. and it would doubtless have been favorably acted. upon but for the fact that at the tme there was strong movement which had commenced earlier, for the erection of monument to Barry.
 Irish Americans in the larger cities of the country had petitioned generally for that recognition and the OBrien bill could not then come to the front. In the Fifty-eighth Congress Colonel Wiley made a forcible speech in favor of the erection of. the monument to O'Brien which was full of interesting historical facts, and in which he spoke in detail of the heroism of this illus trious Irish American. Congress pass eA resolutions of thanks to Captain DBrien in 1775 and turned over to him end Captain Foster the sloops and ap- purtenances of the two ships that were in action. The captured sword of the British commander is said to this day to be in the hands of an O'Brien de- scendant as a precious family herr loom. Six of the O'Brien brothers fought on the Unity, the vessel com manded by Captain OBrien when the Margaretta met with defeat.
 While tho urgent deficiency bill was before the House of Representatives, Livingston. of Georgia, ranking Dem ocratio member of the Appropriations Committee. kindly yielded time to Col. oneI Wiley to make a speech, and he addressed himself to the need of pass ! ing a bill he introduced earlier in the session to aid in the temporary sup port of the common schools. If passed this measure would bring to the sup port of schools from $5,e00.000 to $15.- 00O. 900 a year for eight years. Population of Oklahoma.
 Tn a speech made in the House the other day. Representative Fulton of Oklahoma incorporated In his remarks official figures from the special census bulletin showing the population of the new state which was taken shortly before Oklahoma ratified her constitu- tion preparatory to joining the Union l of States.
 The table gives the number of people who lett the older States and settled in Oklahoma. It will be seen from the following dgures how much the States below helped to swell the population of Oklahoma: Alabama, e.As0: North Car olina, s,153: South Carolina. s.200: Mis- sissippi, 22.400; Georgia. Is.O00: Ten nessse, Is00o: Kentucky. 32.000; Ar ISansas. s9. 900: Missouri. 12S,OOo and Texas. 153.00O. While he had the floor Mir. Fulton claimed that there are to- day in Oklahoma 10000 Democrats from Missouri. That would indicate, if his statement is correct, that since
 the census was taken the tide of em- ltgration from Missouri in that direc- ticn has heavily increased. If that be
 correct it may make quite a difference
 in the Democratic vote next fall In
 some of the Congressional districts Of Missouri which have been uncomfort~
 ably close of late years.
 From States which are usually Re-
 publican the census figures show also
 that Oklahoma has heavily drawn from
 them. too. so in the general run of
 things the party loss in Congressional
 districts may even up. The figures
 were as follows for the States named
 below: Kansas, 112000; Iowa. 63000;
 Illinois, 57,000: Ohio. 2S.000; Nebraska,
 ie000 and Indiana. 34,0oo.
 study of these facts ought 70 he
 very satisfactory to the people of Ala
 bama. With all the advertising that
 was done. and amid the great rush for the new country, Alabama, compared
 with the States adjacent lost com parativeiy small percentage of her pop uiation. It demonstrates that condi- tions and prospects in Alabama were such that the people of the State gen, erally were satisfied with their sur. . roundings, fact that Is proven in tn : cd out for Oklahoma.