The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
WHAT SENATE WILL DO IS A MYSTERY No One Attempts to Make a
 Forecast HOWARD GAINS NOTICE New Congressman From Georgia Is Alreidy Getting in the Lime light-Louisiana Is Not
 Disappointed
By RALPH NJ. wHITEsDE

By RALPH NJ. WHITESIDE
 New York, April 2S.-(special) )-What does the Senate intend to do? That oues- ton answered, 1t would be easy to fore cast what the net result of the extra session of the Sixty-second Congress will be.
 It is betraying no confidence to say that at this writing nobody, not even the Senate itself, can answer this ques- ton with any degree of certainty.
 The programme of the House is pretty well known. The branch of Congress so ably presided over by the Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, directed by the Hon. Oscar Underwood of Alabama and en- livened not to say illuminated by the Hon. James Mann and the Hon. Joseph Cannon of Illinois, will promptly pass favorably upon Canadian reciprocity. the election of United States senators by the people, the admission of Arizona and New Mexico to statehood, reappointment and some other measures and will then proceed to carve into the Payne-Aldrich tariff law in a most heartless manner.
 That much Is easy to foretell, but with the Senate it is a. different matter al- together. If the democrats in the upper house were as homogeneous as those in the lower it is altogether probable they would be able to get enough insurgeHa republican support to put through the House programme. It would take only five more votes in a full Senate to turn the trick. But-and here's the trouble there is an indefinite number of demo- -crats out of sympathy with the Clark Underwood programme.
 Just how many of them are suffi- ciently out of sympathy to vote against it cannot be told at this time. A good many of them do not know themselves. In not few states the senators a- ready are practically elected by the peo- pie in primaries and it will depend in the case of some at least of those how the people back home speak out as to how they will finally line up.
 In the meantime House leaders do not seem to be worrying as to how they will cross the Sente bridge until they get to it.
 The proposition to change the name Of Pennsylvania to Lincoln avenue seems to have died a-borning; no matter what they might call 1t t will always be the avenue to those who have lived any time at the nauon capltdl.
 Whether by design or plain accident, Senator John Sharp Williams is now gracing the desk once used by his dis tinguished predecessor from Mississippi, the Hon. Jefferson Davis.
 Hon. William Schey Howard of Geor- gia, who is pointed out the young man who lifted the scalp of that fighting vet eran, Uncle Lon Livingstone, has already txxt~ t.atx, 1, to prohibit express companies and com, mon carriers from competing with the -ostoffice department in the transporta
 n of mail matter weighing less than il | unds
 he Howard measure, it is said, if en- acted into law would wipe out the pos tai deficit. It would also curtail the { enormous profits of the express com panies.
 Of course a wild vail will go m he express companies and it is 4- ily likely that the measure will be adopted at this time but the interstate commerce commission has been making an inVesti- sation of the subject of express com pany rates. As claimed by Representa- tive Howard. investigation has shown that the express companies are virile competitors of the postal service when it comes to the handling of the profit
 
 to be hauled for relatively short dis tances. whereas these companies are con- tent to leave the postoffice department the transportation of the improbable long haul packages.
 The Howard measure means that the postoffice department will have absolute and proper monopoly in the transporta- ton of anything mailable weighing less than Il pounds. The postal service is a weight pf icur pounds although under international postal agreements it will handle H. pound packages mailed in or to foreign countries.
 Every time I pass the Nichaus statue of Garfield at the capitol end of the ave- nue, I wonder why other American statesman of the name has been appar- ently forgotten remarked Richard Sla ter of La Grande Ore.
 ''The other Garfielde insisted on spell ing his name with an e. His full nama was Seucious Gar6elde, and he served in the House with the Ohio statesman so that they went over the history of the family and found that they were from the same original stock.
 'Selucius was something of a politician in his time. and he is well remembered on the Pacific coast for his efforts tc build up the then territory of Washing ton. He was born in Shoreham. Vt, the same village which gave Columbus De- lane and Levi P. Morton to the nation. The Shoreham hotel here is named fer that town.
 'Selucius went first to Kentucky, and vas soon active in politics, with a mem bership in the constitutional convention. Then he got the western fever and was pioneer in California. where he was chosen a member of the legislature. Next he returned to Kentucky and got another office or two, going also as delegate io the democratic convention of 1s56 which named Buchanan for President.
 ''The reward for his activity for Buch- anan was his appointment to Washing