The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06

Between times of talking over their presidential riches, the democrats are discussing the possibilities of gaining control of the Senate at the next cleo | tion. And already this is not so much rainbow chasing as it might be. It is no | news that the republican majority In the Senate is now only eight. A turnover of 1 five seats would give them a clear major 1 ity. Of the democratic senators who go
 out at the next election only one seat, l so far as the party is concerned is in
 danger, that of Senator Watson of West Virginia. On the republican side there 1 is no such easy confidence.
 Senators Borah and Bourne will prob ably come back from Idaho and Oregon; 1 Briggs of Delaware is likely to be suc- ceeded by a democrat Norris Brown of | Nebraska, confronts the probability of one fight for his nomination, and a still
 more dangerous one for election, with
 chances in favor of the democrats mak- ing a gain. Senator Curtis of Kansas | must scrap Walter R. Stubbs for the republican nomination in Kansas. and I then the winner must meet up with a | democracy that talks confidently of get | ting away with the legislature on the issue of anti Taftism and anti-reciprocity. I Quite lot of things are the matter with I Kansas, from a republican viewpoint, chief of them being a tendency to go democratic.
 | Just the same sort of trouble confronts | Senator Dixon of Montana. He will have to fight From" Carter for his republican
 nomination, and it will be no easy battle; | and the winner must then go into the
 ring with democracy that, albeit con- siderably disconcerted over talk in Wash
 ington about free wool, Is none the less | cockey and confident.
 1 Senator Frye of Maine has fine | chance to be succeeded by a democrat.
 The senator's health is far from good,
 and 1t Is not expected he will again | be a candidate. The democrats hope to hold the state and to control its sena- torial representation for the first time
 in it's history.
 1 Senator Gamble of South Dakota will probably have a three-cornered fight for nomination Himself posing as the mid dle-road republican aspirant, he will | have a stalwart opponent probably in Representative Martin-and progressive yet to be indicated, in the field against | him.
 | A safe way to gamble on South Dakota | is to divide the money into four piles, l put one on the democrats, one on Gam 1 ble, one on the republican stalwarts, and | the fourth on the republican progressives; | then go to sleep and wake up after cleo
 tion to see whether you lost all the piles, | or only three
 If Senator Kenyon of Iowa votes reel
 procity he will probably get away with
 the democratic. nomination for the long term to succeed himself. If he votes the other way, he will likely lose to that l battle e-scarred-not bottle-scarred. mind
 you-veteran of many wars Col. Lafe Young; and If Kenyon and Young have
 a close fight, stranger things might hap pen than the election of democrat to the senatorial situation.
 l Altogether, the democrats stand chances
 to gain in eight or nine places; the re- | publicans have just one chance-West | Virginia,-to make gain The Senate is
 leaning towards democracy.
 Experiments that have been conducted l for several years by the department of agriculture have progressed to point i where 1t seems likely there is new
 industry open to the south, and one that 1 will make the United States independent | of a foreign camphor supply. In a paper that has just been issued by Prof. Rod | ney True and s. c. Hood the results in l Florida are discussed and the conclusion
 is reached that camphor production in this country Is practical. and can be made profitable.
 Japan now furnishes the bulk of the camphor in the worlds trade. The most of 1t comes from Formosa, but a sma1 quantity Is brought from the mainland of China. The history of the tree and the drug is interesting, and Is gone into
 by the authors of the paper.
 Managing Director Dave. of the South ern Commercial congress, returned tt Washington this morning from three
 weeks trip throughout the south. Dur
 ing that time he traversed parts of i
 states He reports a most hopeful feel
 ing all through the south as to it's futur, , and its development. This Is particularl,
 true in the cotton-growing states. Of course. it is mere coincidence tha !, right in front of the White House b 9 the sign: Danger! Look out for tn : steam rolleri'