The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-13
Pos a SaVn S Bark ill Nav
Be Utterly Lost
II is BtTN..N Two FIRES
Insurgents and Democrats VIII Vote
Against Roots Amendment and
without Amendment Regulars
VIII Try to Kill 1t
BY wATTERsoN sTEALEY

Washington February 12-(Special)-
Senator Root has badly muddled the sit
uation in the Senate in the postal savings
bank bill which, despite administration
pressure and platform promises Is not
certain of being enacted. Certainly not
in its present form.
Senator Root takes the view that while
there are doubts as to the validity of a
postal savings measure, it would be valid
If there were provision made for the in
vestment of the deposits in government
bonds. Senator Aldrich favors this idea.
The purchase of bonds with the postal
savings funds is what Senator Aldrich
wants for the reason that this would
open a way to take care of the gov
ernment bonds not needed for security
for circulation under central bank sys-
tenn.
Democrats and insurgents do not like
the idea of using these funds for the
purchase of government bonds. They do
not want the money deposited in the
postal banks taken away from the To-
oaities wherein 1t is deposited. And
beyond this, they are not anxious to do
anything that will help to bring on the
establishment of a central bank
The situation just now Is that if the
Root amendment is adopted the Senate
democrats and insurgent republicans will
do their utmost to prevent the passage of
a postal savings bill, and If 1t is not
adopted, then the forces that line up
back of Senator Aldrich will endeavor to
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of the proceedings.
The Root amendment, therefore. may
prove to be the rock on which the postal
savings bank measure is sunk.
Senator Bankhead of Alabama author
ixed the announcement today that his
campaign for re-election to the Senate
will be con-ucted from Jasper by his
two sons, John III. Bankhead. Jr., and
headquarters there and receive commun-
ications during the campaign from sup
porters of the senator throughout the
state
1t had been the hope of the senator
to spend q great deal of time in Ala
bama before the primaries but it Is al
ready obvious that with the rivers and
harbors bill pending in the Senate and
other matters of Importance to the state
find 1t impractical to devote as much
time in the state as he had hoped The
senator Is a member of the commerce
committee, before which the rivers and
harbors committee will come next week
and he will be compelled to remain in
committee and on the floor during the
time of the bills consideration. After that
comes the conference committee and the
senator thinks It advisable to stay on
the ground and prevent any Alabama
river and harbor appropriation from get
ting lost when the conferences of the
two branches meet.
Ine supervising architect has recon-
mended, after a conference with Repre-
sentative Burnett, that 100000 be appro-
priated for a building at Cullman the
site has already beer. .scovided) and $11o,-
900 to complete the building at Gadsden.
The appropriations will go In the public
buildings bill, if there is bill.
In addition to the items heretofore
printed in The Age-Herald, the Coosa
river receives $4,000 for maintenance.