The National tribune., 1899-08-17
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

Secretary Hitchcock has gone to New
England for short vacation, During his
absence he will visit Vermont and New
Hampshire and later be the guest Of the
President at Lake Champlain.
The cavalry regiment being raised in the
Philippines commanded by Col. Luckett
has been designated the 11th U. S. Vol:
Cav. This is the only cavalry regiment
that will be raised at present.
Ex-Representative JAS Hamilton Lewis,
of Washington, he of the sharp tongue and
fautless raiment, was in the city last week,
as forceful, as fluent and as well-dressed as
ever. He came on double errand. First,
he is trying to save from the gallows
Swede who was condemned for murder
seven years ago, but has had the execution
postponed from time to time. Col. Lewis
wants the Supreme Court to interfere. His
pleas are that the man is now insane, and
therefore not in condition to be hanged.
Furthermore, he has been in prison seven
years, and is therefore legally dead, and his
sentence should be altered to Imprisonment
for life. Col. Lewis also came as the coun-
sci for the American League Of Miners,
numbering 5000 members. These ac-
cepted an invitation from the Canadian
Government, and went into the Atlin Dis
trict, in British Columbia, where they de-
veloped valuable gold mines. By subse-
these away from them, and sold the most
valuable. The League presents a claim
against the Canadian Government for
losses aggregating S25,000,O00, and wants
the State Department to take the matter up.
While against annexation. on accountof the
dangers from foreign labor, and for other
reasons, Col. Lewis says that the people OF
the Pacific Coast want the war fought to a
victorious finish. He claims that Free
Silver is still live issue, and the people are
as much in earnest as ever in demanding 1t.
He thinks that the next Republican ticket
will be Mckinley and Roosevelt, and favors
as the Democratic ticket Bryan and Schley.
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Hon. Chas. P. James, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia, died at Leesburg, Va, Aug. 8,
at an age passing so. He was born in
Ohio, and appointed by President Hayes.
He retired in 1890.
The Sdrer knight, weekly newspaper
established some years ago by Senator
Stewart to advocate the cause of Free
Silver, and subsequently consolidated with
Wdtchmdn and Siluer knight, is to become
Democratic weekly, under the name OF
The Wdtchmdn.
In preparing for removal to new quarters
it was decided in the Postoffice Department
from 1888 back. These are millions of
applications for postoffices with petitions,
Endorsements, etc, and millions of bids for
Star Route contracts, etc. The accumu-
| lation is SO great that it is estimated that il
would cover a two-acre field 10 feet high
| and require weeks to burn. All the prepa-
rations were made to begin the destruction
when the Solicitor rendered an opinion that
| the thing could not be done without the
| authority Of Congress, and SO the papers
will remain in storage until an act can be
procured. rtI..,t
Prof Willis Moore, Of the Weather Bu.
| reau, has issued his first report on the
weather conditions in Porto Rico. 1t deals
with the meteorology of May, 1890, and is
accompanied by report on the coffee croI
| of the island. , ~
In 1897 Congress- bought the house in
which President Lincoin died-516 10th
street and this Summer about S4,700 is
being expended putting 1T in good shape
Effort is made to put the. place into as nearly
as possible the condition it was when the
President expired, and keep it SO. This is
particularly the case withthe room in which
Abraham Lincoln breathed his last. A
new fence is being put around the back o.
the lot, the walks tepaired, new heating
apparatus and plumbing put in, ETC. The
house is used as a museum for remark
1 dDlt COlltCtiDfI vi tCiiCo, IhduO
Comrade o. H. Oldroyd. formerlyof Spring
field. H., and to the gathering Of which ht
1 has devoted his life. These include alnloS
everything OF interest pertaining to the
man. In addition to a rich store of the
belongings of Abraham Lincoln, there
are about 200 biographical works anC
books elating to slavery. and the war
nearly 300 portraits and busts, over 20t
medals, numerous autograph letters, abou
| 20 pieces of music, 250 funeral sermons
nearly $50 pictures illustrating the assas
sination and funeral of the President, anC
| over 300 newspapers containing his speeches
and papers.
Among the interesting articles in tn,
collection is the flag in which Booths
foot caught as he leaped from the boz
after firing at Lincoln, and one Of his
sp,Irs; a black locust rail split by Lin
coin in 1880; the last cook stove used by
Mrs. Lincoln in the homestead at Spring
field; family Bible over 9S years old, OF
which he wrote his name while yet a boy
of nine years; the cradle in which the Lin
coin children were all rocked; an Office chat
used by him at Springfield two settees be
longing to the family; a torch carried in :
procession in 1860. The house will b.
open to visitors in October.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani is living very
lquietly on 18th street, in this city, and de
votes herself to reading and study. She i.
deeply interested III American history ant
poetry, and claims TO have thoroughly ac
cepted the situation with regard to her ma
tive land. She wants annexation to b,
made complete at the earliest moment, ant
a good. fair Government given Hawaii
with all the appointments made from Wash
ington. She believes that she has a goOt
title to the crown lands, valued at 81 600, 900
and will make her claim when the affairs O
the island are being settled.
|
The Treasury spent S11 ,11O. Sc for specia
secret service work during the Spanish war
It costs Uncle Sam s92, 900 a year to main
, tain his "fly cops" in the Secret Service o
the Treasury Department They arrested
: 679 people last year. of whom 21S were con
, victed, 293 are still awaiting action, 16,
: were acquitted, and two are fugitives.
; OF the Is counterfeit notes issued las
year, but two were at all dangerous, ant
but few Of these got into circulation.
) A small tornado on the afternoon of Aug
3 played havoc with Washington's shad
) trees, the parks and tin roofs. About
/ half-inch of rain fell, but it all came down a
once.
3 Just by way of experiment the Wa
5 Department is sending to Manila $500
/ pounds of a new kind of emergency ra
ton. 1t comes in one-pound cans, and i
: understood to be composed of meat an
vegetables, desiccated 50 as to be extremel
9 compact and highly condensed. Whel
3 wanted for eating it is Icrumbled in pin
7 of cold water and boiled five minutes, tn