The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-07

responds to the PresluentS s recommends ton for amendatory tarin legislation. and the Republican majority in the Senate will stand for 1t, such legislation can be placed upon the statute books before the final adjournment of the 61st Congress
 It is stated by those who claim to be "on the ainside'' that if the Republicans retain control of the House, the tariff legislation the President Is known to favor will not be attempted at the com ing session of the 62nd Congress By that time, it Is thought the tariff board will have obtained the information de- sired by the President relating to for eign la bor, cost of manufactured articles, on which 1t is believed the present tariff is too high.
 The defeat of Senator Julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan, which means his retirement from public life. leaves Speaker Cannon as the last of the old guard in Congress In the 5lst Congress the old guard consisted Of five Republi- cans viz: Representatives Reed, oi Maine; Mckinley. of Ohio; Burrows. of Michigan; Henderson, of Iowa and Can non, of Illinois. Each was candidate for speakership, and the contest for that office was indeed full of excitement In fact, there has not been. since that time among the Republicans any fight over the speakership in the party caucus because of the fact that the con- test was settled in the interim by the several delegations.
 The .'big five of the House in the 51st Congress made their, mark. Reed won the -speakership after a few close ballots Mckinley who was made chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and gave the country the Mckinley tariff law, was defeated In the following Con gressional election, as was Cannon. but Mckinley became governor of his state, and later President of the United States. Burrows was promoted to the Senate. When Reed retired at the close of the 55th Congress, Henderson succeeded to the speakers chair and served two terms, to be followed in the office of Speaker by Uncle Joe" Cannon, who on March next will have served four consecutive terms as speaker. being long CT in continuous service than any of his predecessors. Three of the ''big Ave- joined the silent majority.
 No member of the Mississippi delega- ton had harder light for renomination than did. Representative Sission. of the Fourth Congressional district Sisson' g friends say he won by "a mules head His opponent was. Frank Harper, mem- Der of the Mississippi Senate. and from start to finish Sisson knew he was m the race While Sisson Fin the campaign availed himself of railroad trains and automobiles in travelling about his dis trict, his rival. Harper canvassed the district on an imposing big, black mule, named Maud. To the voters of the dis trict MT. Harper said that if they would send him to Congress he would bring Maud with him to Washington and find a place for her in one of the nearby suburbs and ride her daily to the Capitol on his way to duty
 It Is reported here that Sisson i'm pressed upon his constituents that If Harper beat him 1t would be charged that the people of the district preferred to be represented by Maud. the mule. rather than by live, energetic repre- sentative who stood well in the House and also with the Department of Agri- culture, and, who, in the next House, would likely be in position to secure for the district it's pro rata of grain for all the stay-at-home mules.