The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-06
Regulars Are Desperate Over
Apathy Of President at
This Time
SENATE REGULARS ARE
SULK|NG OVER MATTERS
Insurxent Senator's VIII Not Discuss
Charge Made Against Them BY
Taft That They Arc Respon-
siblc for Defeat
BY wArTERsoN sTEALEY


washington, May 5.-(Specia1) to
give the President chance to see what
a complete wreck looks like. the Senate
regulars refrained from any effort to
patch up the railroad bill today.
They desired him to see the bruised,
bandaged and battered favorite Of the ad-
ministration at it's worst, in the hope that
he will be moved to use the big stick in
the fight to get something through Con-
gress.
1t was announced that the programme
for today's session would call for a couple
of long speeches that would leave little
no time for the consideration of the bill.
That would leave the measure in the air
until the president arrived tomorrow and
give him an opportunity to suggest plans
for disposing of the wreck. In their hope
less state the leaders at both ends of the
capitol feel that they can accomplish
nothing unless the president will consent
to take an active part in the contest.
A senate veteran declared to a friend
today that he proposed to tell the presi-
dent point blank that he had no busi-
Hir7s to be travelling around the country
: =. bills of Importance to the party
% in danger of failure.
!, It may take me week to see him.
h, added, but I will tell him what ]
think of it,
Open mutiny has broken out among the
stampeded regulars in the House.
1t is the custom when a roll call is
to be taken in the House to signal the
fact on electric bells placed throughout
the House end of the capitol and the
office building. The tone of the bells is
loud and penetrating and gives every
body plain notice. To cast record vote
has always been accounted an import
ant act by congressman and it has been
their invariable custom to hustle, when
called, to the chamber for that purpose.
In contrast with this is the fact that
on a recent roll call thirty of the reg
ularS sat in their offices and refused to
respond to the call of the bells. The
republican whip visited them and py per-
sonal exhortation tried to secure their
attention. Their answer was in SUBJ
stance:
The President is running around as IL
he does not care for the BILL why should
We bother about it?"
Progressive Senators are disinclined to
talk about the Presidents charge that
they are responsible for the muddled
condition OF AFFAIRS, because they desire
to avoid personal controversy with him.
Not now" said progressive, who was
asked for statement, but this Is going
to lead to an acute situation. The real
cause of the fall-down, however, is that
they had the foolish idea that they could
write a bill covering as much important
6naC n, ,fe IL
meeting, and then expect everybody ia
vote for 1t, precisely as they sent it to
us"
The Birmingham postoffice case was on
lie floor of the Senate for a brief period
to-day. Senator Bacon was discussing the
diminishing influence of members of Con-
Gress in their constitutional right to have
a say in appointments and brought out
the points that recently the President had
appointed postmasters in the home towns
of Senator Johnston of Alabama and Sen
ator Clay Of Georgia without consulting
either. Senator Johnston interrupted Sen
atur Bacon to say that the man who was
appointed postmaster at Birmingham had
his nomination sent in not only without
the senator's knowledge but also with
out the knowledge of any citizen Of Bir
mingham, except the referee of the state
Senator Bacon then proceeded to say a
aud the tendency Of the Executive to ig-
more members of Congress.
The judiciary committee of the House
has reported favorably the resolution by
Representative Craig of Alabama calling
upon the Attorney General to inform the
House of the facts upon which he has
based his Investigation OF the alleged
cotton pool in New York, and asking him
II the bears are being Investigated as
wei, as the bulls.
The resolution by Mr.. Craig, asking the
Attorney General to inform the House il
an investigation of the alleged wheat cor
ner OF May and July 1903. was ever
made has not yet been reported.
Mr.. Craig expects, to obtain considera-
tion for the reported resolution tomor-
row
Hilary A. Herbert, former Secretary oi
the Navy, who has been Ill for severa
weeks with an attack of kidney trouble
has much improved in health and has re-
turned from Johns Hopkins University
hospital to his home. 1872 Twenty-flrst
street He expects to be able to leave
the house within the next week.
Representatives Richardson md Taylor
who have been In Alabama for severa
days returned this morning.
Mrs. Burnett, who has been i'll in Flor
Ida for several weeks, Joined Representa-
tive Burnett here today