. Mr. Underwood, President Wilson's most accomplished lieutenant in the
House of Representatives, has won the Democratic Party nomination as Senatorial candidate for Alabama. The Times correspondent says that he is sure to be elected. This is represented by. opponents of Mr. Wilson's attempt to repeal the clause of the Panama Act exempting American coastwise shipping from tolls as a severe blow to the President, for Mr. Underwood is strongly opposed to repeal. But the correspondent says the campaign for nomination really turned on local issues and personalities. Mr. Underwood's opponent was Mr. Hobson, who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War by sinking the collier `Merrimac' under his feet in order to bottle up Cervera's squadron in the harbour of Santiago de Cuba. Mr. Under- wood's steadying influence will help the Democrats in the Senate, apart from the Panama question. Meanwhile the falling away of the Republican supporters of Mr. Wilson's Canal policy in the Senate is said to be balanaed by a rally to the President of Democratic waverers. Senator Lodge, who is not under suspicion of being very friendly to England, delivered a speech on Thursday which made a deep impres- sion, and may after all win back several Republicans to the President. Though holding that exemption is legally justified, be passionately pleaded for the repeal of the clause, in order that the United States may preserve her honour in the face of the whole world.
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