The National tribune., 1900-04-05
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

| Monitor from the. first. and yentured his
money on that faith. He said recently:
'1put every cent possessed into the Moni-
| tor. The vessel was built at Greenpoint,
opposite New York, and we had to supply
our own funds. because the Navy Depart
ment did not look with favor upon our idea.
| Indeed, the Government would not even
agree to take the boat until after she had
| demonstrated that she could whip anything
afioat. 1t was an anxious period for us
while she was being built, for not only We're
we financially interested but we felt that
the fate of the Nation in large measure de-
pended upon the success which attended
our undertaking"
| Admiral Dewey has leased a Summer
home i'll the Northwestern suburbs of WASH
| Ington, near where President Cleveland had
his Summer residence. The Admiral pro-
poses TO get acquainted with his own coun-
try this year He intends to employ the
time between May. 1 and May II, inclu-
| sive, in visiting Chicago, Jacksonville, ILL.,,
| Tenn, and Knoxville. Tenn. He will then
| return to Washington. He expects to re-
main here until June 1, when he will visit
| Detroit Mich; Grand Rapids, Mich; prob
ably Minneapolis, Columbus, Ohio, and
Cleveland, Ohio
Senator Pettus, whose speech last week
homely old fellow, now in his S0th year,
with a great fund of that dry, caustic wit
characteristic of the plain people of the
West and South. ehas had quite varied
career; was admitted to the bar in 1912; a
Lieutenant in the Mexican War; went to
California in 1S49 on horseback; returned
to Alabama and the practice of law; en-
tered the rebellion as Major of the 2Oth Ala,
and rose to be Brigadier-GeneraI He
was a Judge in Alabama, and wanted
Cleveland TO appoint him on the Federal
bench, but Senator Pugh refused to in
dorse him, whereupon he turned in and
beat Pugh for the Senate.
A far-off memory was revived by the ap-
pearance in the city last week of Chief JOS
eph, the Nez Perce leader, who. % years
ago, led Gen. Howard, Col. Miles, and
others on a 1,000-mile chase, in which he
| fought seven stiff battles, killed and
wounded nearly POO United States soldiers,
and showed a military ability and strategy
| that commanded the praise of his enemies.
| He was finally captured. after three months
of this, and sent to the Indian Territory for
seven years, with about $50 of his warriors
and their families. After that they We're To-
Gated on the Lapwaie Reservation, in north
ern Idaho. Chief Joseph's mission to Wash
| ington was to get the Indian Bureau to let
him leave this locality, which he claims is
poor and unfertile, and go back across the
| llno 10 tile Olu HOIlle Oh his bTIDe at UNA
I'tilla, Ore. He says the white people want
him there, but the Indian Commissioner is
| skeptical. Chief Joseph, who was one of
| the finest specimens of Indian manhood to
be seen anywhere, has grown fat and
pudgy, only his grand head and sharp
eyes telling the story Of what he once was
| He was accompanied by some young NeZ
Perces, one of whom took a fancy one even
ing to array himself in his war-clothes, stow
| a large revolver in the bust of his ward
robe, saturate his copper clay with cheap
whisky. and take in the unrespectable por-
ton of the city, which lies below the Ave
| nue.. Later, a policeman, attracted by the
| blood-curdllng war-hoops, found him chaS-
| ing a negro around a treebox. with the
| aforesaid revolver in thrilling view The
| policeman took the young buck to the sta
| ton, while an ambulance conveyed the ne
gro to the Emergency Hospital for treat
rnent for nervous prostration. The Judge
the next morning sent the young brave to
report to the Indian Commissioner.
The work Of transferring the General
Land Office to its new quarters in the old
PoStoffice building has nearly been COM
pleted. 1t has been an expeditions move,
the work OF the Office going on without
interruptions. Each Division was moved
separately, the executive offices Of the De
partment being the last to go. The change
should have been made years ago to give
additional room to the largely increased
business of the Bureau.
The Commissioner Of Patents is gleefuI.
This change means much to the Patent
Office. 1t means largely increased area
of floor space, and a consequent spreading
out of offices that have been contracted for
years to the detriment of the Bureau and
the health of the clerks. The cry in the
Interior Department is xpansion--expan-
sion of practical sort-and the clerks af-
1,u hn frat t,,fnr s,t- IL:
legs in anticipation of more room. The
change will be of untold benefit to the
Patent Office, yet il is claimed that even
with the additional space the office will
still be crowded.
Don't think that because we do not have
Spring elections to tear us up in the Dis
trict of Columbia, that life is stagnating in
Washington. In addition to the question
Of Social Precedence, which is always
giving Society seismic conyulsions, and
the intestine struggles of the local Demo-
cracy over the delegates to Kansas City,
we have fight of daily increasing bitter
ness between the Muzzlers and the Anti |
MuZZlers. This has at last reached the
dignified seclusion of the United States |
Senate, and last week Senator Gallinger,
of New Hampshire, turned aside from the
momentous Puerto-Rican problem long
enough to secure the adoption of the follow !
ing resolution:
THAT the Committee on the District of |
Columbia is hereby directed to make care |
ful inquiry and investigation as to the |
necessity of further continuing the muz- |
Zling of dogs in the District of Columbia. |
report to be made to the Senate at the earli |
est practicable day, showing when and by |
whom the order was issued, the alleged |
reasons for the order and upon what ground |
it is being kept in force"
The Anti-MUZzlers take the broad ground |
that hydrophobia is Mysteries, pure and |
simple, and that muzzling dogs is simply |
concession to the uerveless condition of |
the hypochondriacs. My private opinion |
is that dogs in n city are an affliction and a |
nuisance, and the more of them killed off |
the better.
Some years ago there was a great deal
said of the chimes rung out every Sunday
and holiday from the Metropolitan NJ. n.
Church, on 4M street, near THE Ma
TIONAL TRIBUNE office, of which the
Rev. DIR. Newman, afterward Bishop, was
then pastor. The chimes-ringer was Prof.
Jas II. Gibson, a fine musician, who died
last week. He was a clerk in the Record
and Pension Bureau Of the War Department,
and very excellent one.
If the fight among the District Demo-
Gratis over the delegates to the Kansas