The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01
LEADERS CONFER
 UPON CANT ACN Situation Affords Great Encour-
 ageHsnt to Democrats CONFIDENT OVER NEW YORK
Democrats Expect to Elect Governor There This year-Progress of Rat ification ot income Tax Amend
 meat ss Being Watched
By wAqTERsoN srEALEY

V 9sfington, February 2S.--(Special.)- sieiHaso Lloyd of the democratic con- CT sfala committed and Secretary
 ve9dso0 f the demodratic national com nIiifHa hel vconference today on the spp ressional campaign. Mr. N.H been in New York p in Washington on esgsfatt . confer with MF. 4 nn f the announce II. 8 .aa man and the mel 1ssors sanmittee that there i rnony be- tween | soa sees this year. Nh e cal |, have full charge l ssai szaaz.u but there will be more saaa between the two committees sa .eretofore. MT. woodson stating t is the intention of the national con. .nittee to lend every assistance possible to MT Lloyd Mr Lloyd's headquarters will probably be To- cated in ChicSgo, where he can keep in close touch wNh the middle west dis tricts which promise democratic majori- ties this fall. Branch offices will likely be maintained In both New York and Washington. the latter for the dstrlbu- ton of literature, but the main work of the campaign will be directed from Chi cago.
 National Committeeman Woodson is very hopeful of the democrats carrying the House
 He said today that the situation was such as to afford every encouragement to the democrats, whom he believed would sweep the country this year. MT. Wood- son was particularly enthusiastic over conditions In New York, where, in his judgment. democratic governor will be elected.
 Representative Hull of Tennessee, who is devoting considerable interest to the fight e7srsthe y4lt v sstation of the income tax constitutional amendment, believes that by this time next year the result may be definitely told
 So far, Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina have ratified the amendment The legislatures of Virginia. Mississippi Oklahoma, New Jersey. New York, Mary land. Massachusetts and Ohio are now in session. In some of these cases the legis- latuie Is meeting in special session and may not, therefore, pass upon the consti- tutional amendment. Massachusetts, Maryland and New York are the most un- favorable legislatures to the amendment, the others are considered very favorable. In the case of New York, where the dem- ocrats purpose to make the amendment an important issue this fall. there is con siderable hope that the next legislature will ratify even in the event that the nro session against If
 Nearly all of the states not enumerated above hold sessions of the legislature next January so late in that month it may not be learned whether 12 states can be found to stand against making wealth bear It's just share of taxation. Senator Bailey of Texas, who has rem dered excellent service in connection with the income tax amendment. leaves for Richmond tonight, where tomorrow he will make a speech to the Virginia leg lslature in favor of ratification.
 Mrs. Julia Curtis Lee died here today at the age of 80. She was a native of St. Louis, Mo-, coming to Washington im- mediately after the war and was prom inent in the social life of the city. Her father. Richard Bland Lee. was stationed at Jefferson barracks at the time of her birth He was the brother of Light Horse Harry Lee or revolutionary Ianle, the father of Robert E. Lee. The interment will be near Mount Vernon, Va.
 The administrations naval programme is like all of the rest of its programmes. It asks about twice as much as 1t expects and is usually satisfied with anything 1t gets.
 The President swallowed the tariff bill Payne and Aldrich framed for him with such good grace that the congressional leaders have an abiding faith that any thing they hand out to him on postal banks, railroads. conservation, etc, will be satisfactory.
 The two 27.000-ton battleship programme will probably result in one battleship be- ing authorized, if that.
 If it were not for the influence of the Steel trust there would not be battle ship authorized this year. Most of the members of the committee believe the navy .battleship top heavy and that the smaller type of fighting craft should be increased. This would mean not only ef- fciency, but economy.