The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-08-25
PERSONNEL OF THE
 PEACE COMMISSION
MT. Roosevelt Is Expected to
 Head the List
LOUISIANA SENATORSHIP
Some Interesting Claims for Pro- hfbitiOn Party-Lived Longer
 Than Many More Powerful
By RALPH M. WHITESIDE

Washington. August 24-(Special) )-If former President Roosevelt will head the Universal Peace commission soon to be appointed by President Taft, for mer Senator McCreary of Kentucky will be another member, as will Repre- sentat tive Bartholdt of Missouri. The commission will consist of five mem- ] bers. I have heard no report as to who are likely to be the other mem bers, but if these three gentlemen are not named it will be because they do not care to undertake the work.
 The expediency of utilizing existing international agencies for limiting the armaments of the nations and of mak- ing the combined navies of the world force for the preservation of world wide peace Is the principal object of the commission.
 1 Power to consider and report upon any other means which might diminish expenditures for military purposes and lessen the probabilities of war is vested in the commission. It must report with in two years.
 Much interest is felt here as to the new senator from Louisiana, Gov. J. Y. Sanders. From what men from the land of the pelican have to say, Governor Sanders, while the youngest man in the senate, Is bound to take a leading place among the grave and reverend band of the highest legislative body in the land
 He is said to be a man of force, de- | termination and unusual ability, who Is | in, Ina hah of nf In h in trG
 1 Speaking of fishing along the Pacific l coast Albert s. Kent of Oakland, Cal. said the other day that one of the best | fish in the Pacific is the yellow tail which is edible and palatable.
 "In a mornings casting in the Cata- linian harbor. Avalon, I have taken | three, four or five, averaging 25 and 30 pounds" said he. Tn the clear. trans parent waters of that region the angler may watch his quarry strike the drift | ing bait, live sardine, and then listen rapturously to the whizzing of his reel for several hundred yards of line, and by the time his finny meteor has be- come exhausted by his efforts the ex- l perienced eastern coast angler believes | him to be cousin-german to the more sober hued bluefish of the Atlantic
 "The fish of the Oriental ocean," con tinued Mr. Kent, twill not compare edi- bly with those of the Atlantic, with one | exception-the sanddab, which Is more like the English sole than any fish ir i American waters. It is small, from six to twelve inches in length, and lies or the sea bottom, 500 to 1000 feet deep To catch it requires heavy line weighted with five-pound sucker, ano with No. 12 to No. 24 minnow hooks baited with cut sardines. The line is on a large wooden reel of windlass clamped to the gunwale of the fishing skiff, and is allowed to run out until bottom is touched. The market fisher man immediately reels in, and ofter on every hook will be found a sanddab A few hours fishing will if atmos- phere and tidal conditions are favora- ble, half fill the boat and ready mar ket for the catch is found in Los An geles and Pasadena"
 The person who would say that tho prohibition party has done nothing tC entitle 1t to a place in history is fai lastray, according to James Montgonl- cry of Minneapolis Minn. 'The prohi- bition party has lived longer than did the liberty, free soil, the know moth ing, the greenback. and the populist par ties taken together, and they were the best known and most powerful of all our minor political organizations. Fol twice as many years as passed between
 the birth and death of the whig party
 which sent William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor to the White House and which had Webster, Clay, Fillmore
 Everett. Bell, and Crittenden for lead CTS, 1t has been with us. It has par