The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-20
Senator Goes Out If Success
 sor Is Not Elected
IN ELECTION IS DESIRED
Senate Committee Agrees With House Plan and Will Make Rivers and Harbors Bill an Annual Meas
 ure Subject to Revision
By wArrERsoN sTEALEY

Washington, February 19.-(Special.) J. Senators read with amazement a re- ported interview with Governor Noel of Mississippi in which he declares that in case the Mississippi legislature remains deadlocked re-appointment of Senator Gordon will follow, and he will hold his seat in the Senate. If the governor is correctly quoted it would seem that he Is in favor of continuing the present dead lock. There is no dissent from the opin- ion on both the democratic and republi- can side that if the Mississippi legisla- ture fails to elect Senator Gordon, the incumbent through appointment, will in- mediately have to leave the Senate and Mississippi will have but one place in the Senate until the legislature elects.
 There is still hope here that this con dition will not arise. It is not only to the interest of Mississippi to prevent a vacancy but to the democratic party in sad minority in the upper branch of Con gross, and can Ill afford to lose one vote.
 At meeting of the Senate commerce committee today 1t was practically agreed to follow the House plan of making the rivers and harbors bill an annual meas ure, and with that end in view, the committee commenced the work of going over the bill as passed by the House, with a view of making such changes as may seem desirable. The action of the committee will probably result in fewer changes being made than heretofore thought The bill as passed by the lower branch carries over s42,00o,0o0 and not to exceed an even s50,o00,000 may be expected from the Senate committee.
 Speaker Cannon and his immediate fol lowing in the Honse cannot help chuck ling these days over the embarrassing position Of the President For the frs time in several months the speaker is mol in the lin1elight, while the President frantic struggles this way and that are subjecting him to the full glare of pub licity and criticism. Speaker Cannon's friends just can't help thinking that il was only a short time ago that admin istration people were talking about send
 ing some one to him with the sugges- tion that to save the party he should announce that he is not candidate for the speakership of the Sixty-second Con gress, and so destroy the issue of Can nonism If matters keep up and the democrats carry the House, some of the speakers good friends may suggest tc the President that he. to save the party should announce that he Is moi a candidate for renomination, and thus clear the way unanimously for Roose- welt.
 The Senate committee on military af- fairs has favorably reported Senator Bankhead's bill continuing in force un- til December 31 the act providing foi the marking of the graves of the Con- federates who died in northern prisons The work has been in progress for three years and Commissioner Oates, who has charge of it, believes it can be finished by the end of the year. Members oi the Senate are wondering whether Sen ator Hyburn of Idaho. who was so ef- fectually squelched on the Bankhead bill authorizing the loan of tents to the Con- federate reunion, will oppose this meas ure. Should he do so it is expected that he will again be found voting alone
 District Attorney F. J. Parsons of Montgomery is here to make fight for 'reappoinment Parsons believes that ir Sp1Ie or diiy poSilioh eiic VI " may take he will be reappointed. The district attorney is depending upon the Attorney General to see him through.
 Porter Allen, son of J. V. Allen oi Birmingham and R. A. McMillan, sor of Lee McMillan of Gastonberg, are em, bryonic admirals. Senator Johnston to- day appointed the former midshipmar at the Naval academy and Senator Bank head named the latter.
 The House committee on interstate ane foreign commerce has favorably reported a bill which has passed the Senate au- thorizing the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company to reconstruct and operate bridges across Escambia bay Choctawhatchee river and Appalachicola river.