The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-19
TWO WEEKS UNTIL
 CONGRESS BEG!NS Naval M0bilizatiOns May Be.
 Made Annual Events SEE IS KNOWN HERE New Chinese Minister to America Was Great Favorite in American
 Schools--Mr. Hitchcock Has
 Reason to Be Proud
SEE IS KNOWN HERE
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 Washington. November 1s.-Special.) )-In two weeks time now Congress will meet in regular session and the government mill will begin to grind on full time. It is going to be mighty interesting grist too.
 As is always the case in the winter pre- ceding a presidential election, politics will dominate everything in Washington from now until Congress adjourns some time next July. At HA s5 Next of the congressional leaders have already returned to the capital and lot of committee work will be done within the next two weeks so that Congress will be in shape to get into it's stride with very little loss of time when 1t. gets to- eether the first Monday in December. The interstate commerce committee of the Senate is tacllling the trust question, the so-called steel trust and sugar trust investigations; the inquiry into state de- partment matters. and the work of other special committees is in full swing
 Members of the House committee on appropriations sailed November g for Panama, to investigate the needs of the canal. Members of the Senate appropria- tion committee has resumed hearings The national monetary commission win meet to consider its final report to Con- gress, which must be made by January & The first formal conference on the forthcoming political campaign is to be held about the time Congress opens De- cember 4. Charles D. Hilles. secretary to President Taft. and a possible choice for the chairmanship of the republican ria- tional committee, Vice President Sher- man, Representative Mckinley, Of Illi- nois, chairman of the national congress sfonal committee, and other republican leaders will discuss republican matters before the meeting of the national com mittee, which is scheduled for December F. in Washington.
 The democratic national committee will meet January 8. The democratic and re- publican congressional committee will not meet until later on.
 The democratic members of the ways and means committee are holding and will continue to hold conferences to out line the party's policy on the tariff and the big appropriations committees are get- ting their work in shape.
 Altogether these will be busy days fin Washington.
 So gratifying was the recent naval mobilization at New York and Los An geles that there is a strong movement to make them annual affairs
 The presence of the warships has stfm- ulated patriotism to remarkable degree, and has afforded the country a visible sense of security. It can be quickly brought together as shown by demon- Ictr 4sara is of the highest type.
 It is worth while in this connection to note that the European powers are in- creasing the amounts expended for naval armament. This year. in round numbers England will spend S74,0OO,OOO; Germany s56.00O.000; United States s34,0O0.OOO, and France s240o0. Next year England will France s29,000,0O0. The United States, on the contrary, will reduce it's expenditures for new ships to s26,000,0O0.
 There was mild excitement in Washing ton when it became known that the Chinese government will send "Alfred'' Sze here as its new minister. Shi Chao Chi Alfred Sze, as the new envoy is of ftcially known, was one of the most pop- ular boys in Washington dozen years back and was then popularly known as Alfred" Sze.
 He was pupil in the Washington pub lie schools, where he amazed the teach CTS and pupils by his fluent English and his ready assimilation of Occidental ways
 When Alfred entered the Central High school he rapidly extended his social and scholastic triumphs He was one of the cleverest students in the school, and no dance. straw ride, picnic or spread" was complete without him. Unlike the majority of his race, MT. Sze was fine athlete. He made the football eleven and the baseball nine, and was an indefatig- able fan. He Joined the cadet regiment and was promoted to the rank of lieu tenant. When wearing the conventional. cadet uniform Sze wore his queue tucked down his back.
 Mir. Sze's scholarship marks were al- ways high. He showed unusual aptitude for mathematics and the languages He was graduated in 1897. His elder brother, Tom Sze, was graduated from the Gen. tral High School in a later class. Alfred was an honor graduate of Cornell Uni versity in 1901 and returned Immediately to his own country. He has held num- Der of responsible posts under his govern rnent. and is regarded as one of the ablest men in China
 Minister Chanag, whom MT. Sze suc- ceeds. is unfamiliar with both the lan-: guage and the customs of this country. The new minister is not a Manchu, and he is classed as being fin sympathy with the liberal movement and the reform I ideals of the younger element in China. Postmaster General Hitchcock has ev- | cry reason to be proud of the fact that tho postal service was operated at . profit of more than $20o.000 during the last fiscal year. In two years a deficit of | SIT ,00O, 900 has been entirely overcome It | is the first year since 1883 wherein the government has not experienced a loss in | it's operation of the postoffice depart ment. The splendid showing that has been accomplished by businesslike conduct of the department must pave the way to larger advantages for the people, Penny postage and a parcel post are now pos sible. AZ.
 .sWesterners, while much interested in | the tariff, the efforts of the government to enforce the antitrust laws, and other questions that will be the leading issues | fin the next national campaign, are more l vitally concerned in the conservation problem" says c. L. Dawson. Q lawyer | of Denver.
 "One-fifth of the state of Colorado is | taken up by government reservations | an area greater than the entire state of Pennsylvania. think voice the senti- ment of Coloradans generally when say | that they favor reasonable conservation. They do not appfove, by ahy means, of wasting. the nations resources, but they l do not believe in the policy of withdraw ling all the government lands from set- l clement.
 ..There probably is no question that the leading issues in the next campaign will l be the tariff and the trusts, but conserya-
 tion will be of much greater importance