The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-27
Illinois and Wisconsin VIII Be
Minus One Each
DEADLOcKS ARE UNBRONEN
Action of Roosevelt In Restoring Name
of Jefferson Davis to Cabin John
Bridge Is Very Pleasing to
old Confederates.

Washington, February 26.-(Special.)-
When the special session of Congress
opens March Is, the number of senator's
will probably be 80. With full MEM
bership there should be 80.
Indications are that Illinois and Wis
consin will each have only q single sena
tor. All the prophets from those two
states agree that the chance of elections
before March 10 is small
In the Illinois legislature Senatoc Hop
kins has been losing both votes and sem
timental support, as his contest pro-
crosses, as has Stephenson in Wisconsin.
There seems to be just one man in Illl-
nois who could win the place if he would
allow his name to be used,
That man is Governor Deneen, of whom
1t is said that If he would allow his
friends to present him he would be elect
ed on the first ballot. But Deneen is
standing Loyalty by Hopkins, for two
reasons.
One is that he is pledged to do so, and
the other that he wants the primary
election law, which passed under his ad-
ministration, to be vindioated in the out
come In the contest. The primary result
ed in the Endorsement of Hopkins, and
primary advocates all over the country
are anxious that Hopkins win because
of this For the same reason they want
Stephenson to win in Wisconsin.
"GracefuI Act"
The action of President Roosevelt in
ordering the army engineers to restore
the name OF Jeffei son Davis to the tablet
IN the great masonry arch of Cabin
John bridge was discussed at the smoker
given by the Confederate Veterans as
sociation at confederate memorial home
last evening.
Walter Moore, of Fairfax, Va, de-
clared 1t to be graceful act.' and said:
! ut was fine, brave thing to do The
era of good feeling betvben the north
and the south, he said, tfeaD With Nc
Kinlev,s administratlons Il oitneasI sConrad
president of the association, declared that
! the name was more eloquent by the eras-
! ure than by its restitution, since, like
the picture that is turned toward the
wall, the blank is in effect an interrogs-
tion point.
The occasion of the meeting was the
nineteenth birthday of the association.
Parcels Post.
The parcels post is certain, in the opin-
ion of public men, to be forced to tho
proportions of a difficult and annoying
issue in the next two or three years
Letters and petitions and memorials
which are constantly coming to mem-
bers of Congress indicate that there is
i sharp division of opinion all over
the country, based on what different
people conceive to be their antagonistio
interests Generally the rural population
wants parcels post, and the town people
do not.
The country town merchants and bank
ers have been organized most enectiVe-
lv to oppose It because of their fear that
1t would increase the volume OF mail
order business and hjure the small
towns.
But the opposition does not stop there.
The large jobbing and manufacturing GEN.
ters of the middle west have taken hold
of the opposition and are belaboring their
congressional agents In the effort to line
them up against even an experiment.
Thus recently the Commercial club of
Omaha adopted resolutions without pro-
test against parcels post being even ex-
perimented upon in two counties which
the Postmaster General should designate
with view to studying its financial re-
suits and effect on business.
The Omaha commercial interests de-
clared they wanted no such experiment
because it would result in further extern
sion of policy which would tend to
concentrate business in few great cities.
to the detriment of the small towns and
the provincial jobbing centers.