The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-21
GOSSIP IS LIVELY
 ABOUT ROOSEVELT
All Sorts of Hans Are Being
 Laid For His Benefit
RETURN FROM HE LUNCHES
Some Say That Roosevelt Will Be Elected to Congress and Be Made Speaker While Others Predict
 Various Things.

] Washington, January 0.-(Special) Politicians and statesmen on Capitol Hill are beginning to realize the force of the little boys remark that This life is just one darn think after an other" No sooner are they out of the woods on one problem than there loon-2 up the shadow of others.
 Now comes the suggestion, made in the course of political gossup, that The odore- Roosevelt shall be speaker of the next House of Representatives. The gossips have 1t all cooked up. He is to be elected to Congress from the Oyster Bay district and by exclamation pro- claimed speaker.
 There have been all kinds of reports about Mr. Roosevelt as the time ap- breaches for his return from the jun gles. The accepted one up to this time has been that he is to land at San Francisco. there greeted by Jimmy Garfield, "Giff" Pinchot, Will Allen White and other high priests of My Policies and then start upon a grand triumphal procession to the east.
 He is coming east and bringing the west with him." This was to be the slogan of a demonstration with the avowed purpose to assure his nomina tion for the presidency in 1912.
 This has been the programme up to the present. But now others have hit upon another scheme.
 They say he is to land in New York. that President Taft is to go over and meet him, that all the New York poli- ticans are to give him the glad hand, and offer him anything he wants in politics to get him out of New York.
 The latest proposition for Mr Roose- velt's future involves the suggestion that what he really covets more than anything else is the speak of the House, on the ground that this office will afford the widest field for the pe- culiar Roosevelt activities in reforming everything that can be reformed by legislative enactment. It is claimed that with a Roosevelt in the speakers chair and a man of like kidney In the White House 1t will be possible to eff feet anything that two truly great and infinitely wise statesmen might con ceive to be for the best interests of the country.
 In view of this propaganda 1t is suggest ed that the activities of the insurgents in behalf of the revolution of the rules in the House might well pc suspended. It is admitted that the complete carrying out of the programme would involve investing the speaker with the widest power, and that 1t might be enlbarrassing to MT. Roosevelt, or ct least render 1t less easy for him to effect contemplated reforms, if the House should insist upon sharing the power of the speakers office, as now proposed by the insurgents and the dem- ocrats.
 If Colonel Roosevelt desires to come to Congress-" said Representative Cocks of the Oyster Bay congressional district today, 'I would willingly stand aside for him, and assist in his election. Under such circumstances I would be happy to go back to the farm.'
 Mir. Cocks said that so far as he was advised, Colonel Roosevelt had no desire to become a member of the House.
 "A lot of people in my district would be glad to see him in Congress" he said.
 MT. Cocks was asked what he thought Colonel Roosevelt would do about the rules if he was speaker of the House.
 Gee whizi' he exclafmed; with Roose- welt in the chair the House wouldn't need any rules. He would make rules as he went along. He would control the House with heavy hand. He would out-Can- non Cannon"