The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16
But Rivers and f1arto's Seen
 to Be Safe
ROOSEVELT LOOMS U
Ousting of Pinchot Revives Freddy Talk"-May Land on Coast of the Setting Sun-Political Cos
 sip From Capital.
BY RALPH M. WHITESlDE.

Washington, January 15.-(Special.)- The river and harbor appropriation bill for improvements upon the national streams and harbors, which will be re- ported to the House early next month, Is described by Chairman Alexander of | the House committee on rivers and har- oors as being very comfortable. The bill provides upwards of s3o,000,00o. The amount sought to be carried in bills in trodueed early in the present session of l Congress aggregates $40. .194. 739, added to
 which are s35 5l5, 100 sought to be carried | in bills that were introduced at the spe-
 cial session that adjourned last August. I This total of almost S76,00oo00 sought, in- | cludes the Tawney bill, 10 appropriate l s2,0O0o00 annually for ten years for inn l proving the Mississippi river, but does
 not of course. include the $50 000,000 which Representative Langley proposed
 to have Congress provide.
 There has been a strong disposition to fight everything during the present ses- sion that looks. like pork" and this,
 coupled with punishing the insurgents, has tangled appropriation affairs greatly. 
 Since the busting of Forester Clifford
 Pinchot I have talked with many con- gressmen. principally westerners, who see a grave situation confronting the national republican party. Every one mentions the name of ex-President Roosevelt. There. has been great deal of speculation as to whether MT. Roosevelt will come home by the way of the Pacific or the Atlantic coasts. The western statesmen predict, in view of things. that Mir. Roosevelt will first touch America in California. The name of Roosevelt is shining upon the horizon with mighty luster.
 For ramifcations and strenuous tactics the present session of Congress beats any thing in the Roosevelt regime. In lieu of sizzling messages we have department rows, insurgent punishment, labor de- mands antitrust movements, corporate litigation, radical legislation and a few other brands of trouble-making things.
 The insurgents blossomed forth in all their glory during the so-called Hitch cock expose when MT. Taft was alleged to have taken a hand in punishing Speak CT Cannon's enemies. Representative Hayes of California who seems to have taken Victor Murdock's place this ses-
 
 gents, declares that the struggle against so-called "Cannonism' will be kept up to the very last day.
 MT. Hayes made use of the immortal ex- pression of Paul Jones when I asked him the other day if his forces had accepted defeat.
 "Why. we have not yet begun to fight" he declared
 l have it from unquestioned authority that Senator Aldrich's determination not to retire from active politics was settled by the present insurgent row. Some weeks ago 1t was confidently reported that nothing could induce Senator AL drich to seek another term following the expiration of his present one Next came his reconsideration. Following this came the announcement that MT. Aldrich would not leave the upper House until he had carried to completion his plans for finan- cial legislation.
 But now comes the latest statement that 1t was really the insurgent warfare that induced him to think things over. Of course MT. Aldrich will not talk of this to correspondents. The reporter who seeks an interview with the Rhode Is- lander gets the invariable reply:
 q never talk for publication. Good day"
 The agitation over the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, to which some congress- men expected, because 1t bore the uniform of Confederate general, made the tin lest break in the big warfare of the day, but nevertheless among the southern contingent 1t was momentous question. It was reported that certain members of the Virginia delegation would refuse to ask Congress to accept the Lee statue along with statue of Gen. George Wash ington. The marbles were placed in Statu- ary Hall some time ago. There was no ob- lection to the statue of Washington, but but Grand Army Posts all over the coun- try wrote to representatives and senators protesting against the government &C., cepting the statue of General Lee. Representative Garner of Texas took a strong hand in the fight, declaring the criticism foolish.
 Tt is ridiculous that a resolution of
 acceptance should not be offered and | passed" said he.
 That the next governor of Kentucky
 will be a republican is the prediction of
 Senator William c. Bradley. Senator Bradley was delayed at home by illness and one of the first things he did ofter arriving, having recovered his health, was to make the above statement. Senator Bradley says We will elect the next state ticket. If you are a bet
 ting man and use the Paris mutual system. you may lay wager on what I am telling you. The Blue Grass state has finally gotten to the point where it may be cassed as a republican state. I think we can elect enough republicans in the lower house of the Kentucky leg islature to give us majority"
 Tt is to laugh" remarked Represen- tative Ollie James when he heard the prediction.
 Nothing can stir up a congressman as much as statue. The agitation this session has been pretty general start ing over the marble presentment of Gen. Robert E. Lee and ending up with Gen Lew Wallace Grand Army posts over the country raised the hue and cry be- cause Gen. Lee was garbed in the unl- form of a Confederate officer Next came the protest against the United , States accepting this statue and the statue of General George Washington
 ment to install the statues in Statuary Hall selected February P as the best day, being the anniversary of the birth of Gen. Washington. And now come tho Hoosiers declaring that art was lost sight of in the Wallace statue and that it is being used solely to exploit . cer- tain kind of limestone, the production of which some wealthy senators are inter- ested in.