The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-06
StandpatterS Like Cannon
 and Sherman Not Changed
INSURGENTS NOT WORRIED
Efforts By the Standpat Element tc Win Over the Insurgents Have Failed Utterly for the Latter
 Are Independent
BY wArrERsoN srEALEY

Washington, December 5-(Sp ecial.)
 Noither Uncle Joe' Cannon nor Sun
 ny Jim Sherman take up their duties
 spirit. Neither cares rap about the
 results of the last election and neither
 is in any mood to conciliate the coun- ] try or the republicans who have
 strayed away from the standpat idea. What the presiding officers are
 thinking is exactly the way the stand
 pat leaders of the House and Senate feel about 1t. So, with this sentiment
 predon mating in the working major | ity," all efforts of President Taft to re- organize his party and harmonize op- posing factions are considered to be heroic. but too late. With the stand
 patters determined not to be reconciled
 and the rn-coats," as the reaction
 aries who deserted Cannon in the<cam-
 palgn are called, only lukewarm in 1 their rrosressiveness, the President | will have his own troubles.
 The greatest difficulty of all will be
 with the insurgents The President 1 wants to bring them back into the fold 1 of the party. but they have told him
 tfat they consider themselves the real
 party and his friends outside the fold.
 They invite the President and the
 Presidents advisers to "get right" with
 them CT continue along their own way
 of -hirlSing,fa a losing game, the insur- gents aver, and they point as proof the
 political revolution of November last. Moreover the insurgents want to be | harmonized with deeds, not words.
 After Steel Corporation
 Representative Stanley of Kentucky
 announced today that he would imme-
 diately press his resolution request l ing information from the Attorney
 General of the United States Steel cor poration and demanding an investiga- i tion. The Stanley resolution was for
 mal,v reported by the House judiciary
 committee at the last session in the i face of the opposition of the Attor-
 nay General
 The Attorney General replied that at l that tirla he. could not grant the in i formati0n desired, leaving an inference l that tho department of justice was hot
 foot aster the Steel corporation and 1 that the efficiency and secrecy of the l operations of the department of jus
 tice would be impaired by making a statement giving to Congress the facts l then in the possession of the depart
 ment of justice.
 MT. Stanley will endeavor to find out l just what the department of justice has denp in this matter since the adjournment
 of Congress.
 | MT Stanley also offered a resolution providing for an immediate investigation | by the House of Representatives. This l resolution was reported to the rules com mittee. Samuel Gompers and other labor
 leaders appeared before the committee l in it's behalf Owing to the fact that
 Congress was about to adjourn, this com
 mittee took no action. This resolution will be taken up by it's author at the | earliest possible moment and the rules committee will have an opportunity to
 say whether or not 1t favors the investi-
 gation requested.
 Dent Approves Committee | Representative Dent of Alabama said l today that he was opposed to the appoint
 nient of committee on committees or
 any other plan that would take from the l speaker of the House the responsibility 1 Of appointing the committees.
 l q am in favor of the House electing I it's rules committee said MT. Dent, 'and l in enlarging that committees powers if necessary to secure to a majority of the | house, representing majority of the peo- l pie control of legislation But to place | the responsibility of naming committees l on a committee elected by the. House would be to place it actually upon no man | or men, that could be made accountable l for their trust There would be log-roll- | ing and trading that would bring the party into such confusion as disrupted It when 1t was in power under Cleveland MT Dent said, however, that he would not hesitate to subordinate his views in the interest of harmony for which pri- | inarily all he said, ought to strive. Active Postmaster
 Hats off to Postmaster DuGgar of Tus-
 cDloosa, Ala He was recently appointed postmaster upon the recommendation Of
 Senator Johnson. He is live democrat. Tie first thing Duggar did was to let nut the assistant postmaster. l. T. Brad |. I'd, who is a republican. Duggar made up his mind that as the country had gone democratic at least one postofrlcs
 must be democratic clean through. Brad ford has protested against Ire removal
 but Duggar seems to be within his rights
 The only thing is that the civil servict commission will name the new man. The postmaster has his choice of -he eligiblcs and may find democrat at least he hopes so.
 Candidate From Alabama
 w. T. Sanders of Athens. Ala, is a can iidate for the bench of the court of com raerce. the newest branch of the federal Judiciary, and he will come to Washing ton in a short time to ask the Pres
 iicnt for the appointment President Taft was asked by Representative | Richardson to consider MT. Sanders can d;dacy, and the President indicated wish that the south be represented in the court MT. Sanders, who Is an attorney of Athens, was formerly member of the Alabama railroad comrnission. Attack on Wooden Schedule Representative Frank Clark of Florids. has started the tariff ball rolling by in trodrcing bill revising he woolen schedule The bill is now asleep in the committee on ways and m.1rs. It will continue to nap until Representative
 Oscar Underwood of Alabama sits at the head of the long green table Tn the ways
 and means committee next year.
 Clearing i'm Tennessee Members of the Tennessee delegation say that the political situation has cleared considerably in their state and they be- iieve there Is no doubt that democratic senator will be elected by the legislature. Representative Heflin of Alabama has appointed shaffoer Hood of Dadeville hts
 private secretary.