New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-03
WASHINGTON NEWS NOTES

washington, May
WHAT IS FAME?-when Senator Allen. OK
Nebraska. made his thirteen-hour speech ne
thought his name was OH the roll OF fame loI al
time Yet the other day, when a visitor from
William ]. Bryan's State had Allen pointed out 10
him. he innocently inquired whether the senator
was from Kentucky? Senator Allen verify seems
to be a prophet without honor In his own country
A newspaper correspondent who was told the ABOVE
circumstance added another Illustration he saio:
During the Popust Convention In st. Louis
was in Nebraska and had occasion to file some
dispatches at local telegraph ONCE. My wriuns
Is not OF the painest. and the telegraph operator
had trouble In decipherng names. One OF them
he puzzled over long time. told him 1t was
new me who Alien i u" was, Why. replied, Senator
who rb. P eed to s hm & and
RAJ I"i upset me asked him il he had never
speech q in the senate against the money power
No. he had never heard OF that Allen Well; had M1
never r heard Of senator Alien Of Nebraska was he
a member OF the State Senate? This Sc tied me,
further Yet everywhere il Nebraska tey used ns;
to tell with pride how the State had more school hi
| ignorance OF Senator Allen"
| THE PRESIDENT AND MINISTER ANGELL.-
President Angel, who will soon go as Minister to
Turkey, his selection to that important post
| TO the impression single visit made on MAJOR
| Mckinley He one OF a delegation which went
| from Michigan Canton to urge the claims OF
| General Russell A. Alger for the Cabinet. Judge
| T. J. OBrien. Of Michigan, who Is now In Wash
| ington. another member or that delegation. i
was not surprised" said Judge OBren. when
| heard that the President had selected President
Angel for so delicate mission az the Turkish one
When we visited Major Mckinley at Canton MI
| Angel, like the rest Of us, made little speech
| telling the good things he knew OF General Ager
| I noticed that Major Mckinley was deeply inter-
ested in him. and seemed almost on the point Oh
| saying, Why don't you speak for yourself MI
Angell?' We joked Mr.. Angel a little about 1t on
our way back Now it seems he was speaking for
himself and for General Ager, too though n,h ne
didn't know i at the time NJ Angeiis s enSness
for scholarly in the diplomatic seTyiGe d oes
else in IT. na Tse br e
administration that American missionaries are "a
pontns Minister'S Who hold this view TO countries
where the missionaries require proection A Uhs
e mans ans %as pr s for the turkish
mission The President earned h ina p hs
progecNe o Tss SuSSS
A CONSTITUTIONAL VACUUM-Senator Call
OF Florida is having hard time getting re-eectea,
Nobody In the Senate had been thinking VI I'm
until the other day there was chance ~ iai
constitutional question. Everybody looked arou,u
N
room. Then it was remembered that Can $ Term
exn,red on March T. and the Florida Legislature
has so far been unable to choose a successor n,
the Senate fe.t his absence so keenly tna' IL "u'i
Vests whispered suggestion ana a tet te great mind
i 1nps ITSELF on the most august Legislative body
the world a Thf has concuse TINT
the election Of any one except ninisei and ~ no
or Ho and So tse Legislature At
the other ana ;n but ons snSTs 's
The senate is likely to continue
POI IT,TCAI, EXPERIMENT ON NO|hi.
1INEs-"How did you come TO send such d iooi
- Coryrosso" said one constituent OF sou'hel"
Corcressman TO another Well was the reply
I'VE had beer sending so many wise mn .hot We
had all turned ,s eu We would reverse it and II
by sending fool We could turn MN re a,'o and the
man This dialogue actually occurie,u. at rtorv
Tnaressman's name s-but that Is another s'o's'
crx.rOR CHANDELIERS MOTTOES.-On the
wall Of Senator Chambers committee rooii n""sS
q r,,,le sheet of paper with some epigralhmat''
sentences in the Senator's own hand"ri,'e' -
a,.,se good enough advice TO warrant their trans
,or from, the comparatively unfrequented commit
roe room TO the columns OF Inc i hSorn making
nSy scum pay before 6or
to ene to o S6Sr own 10 Burdens %
after that help carry the sb Sqra n these et fhree
nhw man needs in life
sTATEsJAN'S PHILOSOPHY.-"The longer
live +" SAWS Senator Perkins. OF California the
moro | find out that the book which ho'o NY
knowledge sh.1nks. and the book wnch eo''"'o
what 7 don't know becomes larger. nave como
to the & can1t teach me something which is
worth while for me to learn. 10 you MI" .eanort
tax in me putting on snnel shr, and going DOWN to
the wharves and mngling with the saIois .,.saJf
no a mi before
Ealing to California by way OF cape Horn %. ,S
quite young 80 be sailors and sit on the side OF
the ship and talk with them iear,ns SUN I,te 70
new ae IN an the foundries too and the machine shop
and watch the men at work n9u sp ma'e Of knowi
edge car be picked up in this fashion Try II once
and see.
THE GRAND ARMY IN THE GRANT PA
RADE-washington people who went over 10 New
York to the memorial ceremonies in honor OF Cen
eral Grant are disposed TO crcise pretty severely
that feature Of the parade which placed cohtlh-
gent OF the Wild West show at the mead OF the
column and the Grand Army Of the Republic al the
loot A prominent official who the parade from
tho Presidents stand said to-day: "Of course,
,hero could be no objections to giving Buffalo Bill
and his Indians place in the parade. But II was
questionable taste. to say the least 10 put 'ie'"
practically at the head OF the column-aifhost III
nediately following the grand marshai ana HIS
staff And certainly 1t was serious lack Oh con.
ssidaration 10 place ten thousand veterans OF the
war at the tag end Of the column II I'm ,ne Repb
uc ebould have been first 1t on this occasion
the final opportunity to pay their ast tSu'G R No
.ho ea,erans veere not even the middle OF the
column Regular state troops cadets ap horn long
aS;ar Tho old soldiers came home from the war all
got up to the monument In time snna Wind at the
wotnrans came up covered with dust, and passed
around the monument with barred heads, 10 De re-
viewed bv the President Of the United states. MIN
self a comrade But It ,was too late then Inc
President had gone on board the Dopnh' leaving ~
the Repubnc and the few civic organizations "lnu-
ing up the parade However II there was ,hn is
was none i'm the sentiment OF the CROWDS along the
i've ~ march For the most part the sharp wind
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