The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-02-27
POLITICS. AND POLITICIANS.

POLITICS. AND POLITICIANS.
Ex-Governor Robert R. Glenn, of
North Carolina, will go on the lecture
platform next fall, and one of his
subjects will be the negro problem.
Two of the new United States SEN
ators eligible to membership in the
"millionaires' club" are Charles j.
Hugher, Jr., of Colorado, and Carroll
S. Page Of Vermont.
The most important senate commit
tee during the extra session of con-
gress will be that on finance, which
will be charged with the work Of
considering the tariff bill when it
comes from the house of representa-
tjves.
II is the general understanding in
Washington that Mr.. Taft wishes to
fill the Treasury portfolio either from
Illinois or Ohio. Should the appoint
ment go to the president-elect's own
state, it is the belief that the honor
will fall to Myron T. Herrick.
1t now appears probable that the
republican candidate for governor Of
Virginia next year will be A. P. Gill
lespie of Tazewell county. Mr.. Gill
lespie is lawyer, and was a member
of the Virginia constitutional con-
vention.
Elihu Root is the only new sena-
tor who will receive important COM
lai'tee appointments in the Sixty-first
congress. Having been at the head
of the war and state departments,
he will be placed on both the Mill
tary Affairs and the Foreign Rela-
tons committees.
Judges, lawyers and those interest
ed in political affairs have taken
more than usual interest to advance
the pay of United States circuit and
district judges. All agree that the
salary of the United States judges
should be advanced, but considera-
be difficulty is to be experienced, it
IS said, in arriving at just solution
Of the problem.
Larz Anderson, who is spoken of
DIS the most likely successor of Lloyd
Criscom as ambassador to Italy, is
millionaire resident in Brookline,
Mass. with a winter home in Wash
ington. He is not without diplomatic
experience, having served for seven
years as secretary of legation and en-
lassy at London and Rome. Mr.. An
1elscn and Mr.. Taft's families have
been intimate for generations and
a'e connected by marriage.
The vacancy in the senate commit
tee on Appropriations caused by the
,,e ath of Senator Allison of Iowa will
he filled by Senator Hale of Maine,
v hose retirement as chairman of the
Committee on Naval Affairs will
cause the promotion of Senator Per-
kins of California to that place. The
retirement of Senator Hemmenway
of Indiana and Senator Teller OF
Colorado will make vacancies on the
Committee on Appropriations. Mr..
yVetmore of Rhode Island is candi-
date to succeed Mr.. Hemmenway,
but probably a western senator will
he chosen. Either Mr.. Simmons of
North Carolina of Mr.. McLaurin OF
Mississippi is likely to succeed Mr..
Teller on the appropriations commit
tee.
A statement has been made to the
effect that President Roosevelt, after
his successor, Mr.. Taft,
to the senate chamber and later on
to the east portico of the capitol,
where the new president takes the
oath of Office and delivers his inau-
gural address, is not to return to
the White House with President Taft,
but to take the train Immediately
for New York. Rarely, if ever, 1t is
declared, has the outgoing President
since war days returned to the White
House on such an occasion with his
successor. The custom has been that
when the president and the president.
elect leave the White House for t.
senate chamber and the east pOrIlcO
the outgoing president has not re-
TUNED to the White House.