The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-02
If TaYs Bills Fail Thy Are
 to Get All the Blame
REGULARS SUPPORT TAFT
Speaker Cannon Fears That Taft's Policies Will Fail And He Is Try ing to Force Insurgents 10
 Support Several Bills
By wArrERsoN sTEALEY

was to have been expected the House insurgents are to be made ts bear the odium of the failure of the resident s policies. The speaker and the organiza- ton have gradually veered around to the position that they are in favor of any thing the President wants and are dis posed to pass bills as they are drawn in the executive departments. This attitude is marked departure from that here tofore held by the organization and is done solely for the embarrassment of the insurgents. The progressive republicans contend that they should not abdicate their functions and insist they must have the right of carefully considering and amending. if they think wise, any bill that comes to them.
 The organization is insisting that before the White House bills can be got through | In the form desired by the President the | insurgents must walk into the standpat parlor and take such medicine as the standpatters choose to administer to them. If they don't they are considered responsible for any failure.
 One of the Presidents policies hanging fire is the ship subsidy bill. The speaker fears another defeat at the hands of the democrats and insurgents if he brings in a rule to protect the measure from amendment and prevent the House from giving it intelligent discussion. The in surgents are nearly all opposed to shir subsidy and will not go into a caucus where they will be bound to support 1t The House leaders are therefore charg- ing that the insurgents are holding ur the Presidents policies.
 Yet the ship subsidy bill is one of the few "policies" that the insurgents are not more sincerely for than the speaker
 The only so-called policy the Presi- dent has got through the House after three months ighl is the statehood bill |, which everyone knEee Is not a. party pol icy, but has been forced upon the dom inant party by the democrats. The mair reason the bill Is now being opposed in the Senate is the fear that the demo- crats may at least get an equal division | and elect two out of the four new sen ators from the two new states | Andrew J Houston of Beaumont, Tex | first president of the Republic of Texas hero of many battles with the Mexicans, is an applicant for the office of judge of the Eastern district of that state. to fill the vacancy made by the recent death of Judge David E. Bryant.
 MT. Houston is a republican, the only one of his family of that political faith. He is at present United States marshal of the eastern district. MT. Houston was introduced to the President today by | Representative Burleson of Texas.
 There are many candidates for this va cant judicial position. Cecil Lyon. repub- lcan national committeeman of Texas. has been in town some time trying to ob- tain the place for one of his political as sociates The democrats claim that the President will have to name a democrat | if he gets the right sort of judicial tim ber MT. Lyon says this is joke, and is ready to supply the best sort of ma teral from his own party.
 | Praising the high ideals represented by the old south deploring the spirit of com mercialism of the present time, and urg- ing that a "solid south" be always main- tained along these lines, Maj. Holmes Conrad of Winchester, Va, former Solici- | tor General of the United States opened the Confederate bazar tonight.
 | ''I see no use in the cry to break up the solid south raised all over the country by politicians and their followers, and hope to heaven there will always be a solid south If the solid south is not good enough for others, it is good enough | for us.''
 | lxrya1 Af, t.np tion but for moment, with the relec- ton: We love the negro as he was, not as he is." He then spoke of the ideals of the southland and declared they were represented by such men as Robert E. Lee ."rheir ideals of manhood. integri- | ty, honesty and purity were things better than money could buy. The words southern chivalry.' were never heard be- fore the war, because the ladies and gen. | tlemen knew they were such and kept 1t to themselves. All we ask today is the liberty to gather together, to discuss our own affairs, not in treason or rebellion, but in frendl!ness.'
 Members are besieging the speaker for public buildings bill Some of them are telling him that a public building in their district Is about the only thing which can save them from political annihila- ton next November. The speaker is in- clined to believe it. and in many cases is glad of it, bill or no bill.
 | It Is reported today, however the chances for small bill'' loos s,rer.
 Chairman Bartholdt is inclined to think so.
 | Representative Burnett has been called to DeLand. Fla, by the illness of Mrs. | Pt,rpatt