The National tribune., 1900-04-12
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.


;. d., has most enviabe military record
he was born in Ohio, but was mining il
Colorado when the war broke out. AL
his companions joined the rebe; army, bu
he determined TO take the other side, anG
made his way to Fort Leavenworth, SOt
miles away, to get an opportunity to en-
list: A large part of the Journey he had tc
make on foot. He enlisted in the 4th Kan.
and after awhile became Commissary.
Sergeant Of the regiment. He was mus
| tered out on account of consolidation, and
| then helped raise Co. A, 18th Kan, in
which he became a Second Lieutenant
He took part in all the service of that hard.
| lighting regiment, and within year had
risen TO be a Captain. Then, for over a
year. he was on the special duty of fighting
the guerrilla Quantrell, and several times
inflicted severe punishment upon his gang.
| In 1865 he was AdJutant-General of Gen.
>. L. Corners expedition to punish the
Indians in the Big Horn country, and took
his full share of the severe hardships and
| fightlng OF that campaign. He is a large
gram snIpper at Plattsmouth, and is Chair
man Of the Nebraska Republican Com
mlttee He has been working on the Hot
springs Home project for several years.
When it is remembered that the Ma
hometan religion is as prohibitive as the
Jewish against the eating of pork, and the
hog IS denounced as an abomination of
uncleanlineSs, it seems funny to have
Secretary Hay entering a strenuous pro-
Porte prohibiting the admission of Ameri-
can pork into Turkish ports.
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Commissioner Wight kicked up quite a
bobbery in the City by his testimony be-
fore the House Committee on Appropria-
priation for the police, he said that it spoke
very well for the present force that it was
able to "handle these 10000 colored people
with the Irish, Italians and other classes
that are here in considerable numbers" "
Washington abounds in professional
leaders. There are men who are pro-
ieSsional negroes, Hebrews, workingmen,
farmers. laboring men. Irish, Germans,
etc. OF course, those who assume TO rep
resent the classes mentioned by the Com
missioner could not let the opportunity
pass unimproved, and they have been
holding meetings, addressing petitions to
Congress and the President, and generally
really nothing out of the way in what
the Commissioner said. He only stated
very moderately what every citizen of
Washington knows. Take the case Of the
negroes, for example: There are thou
sands of negroes in Washington who are
any city has. They probably give the
police as little trouble as that many people
to be found anywhere. On the other hand
the city is becoming the rendezvous Of the
worsar kind of negroes who are being driven
out of other cities and the country to the
south. They get the impression that they
can manage to evade the law easier in
Washington than elsewhere, and they
flock hither, to the annoyance of the citi-
Zens of all kinds, white as well as black
One of the Police Judges told me recently
that he was constantly having before him
strange negroes. whom on questioning he
found came only recently from somewhere
else, where things had been made uncom-
Portable for them.
The Italians protest against being class
ed with the negroes, and also having laid
at their doors oifqnses which have been
committed by Greeks, Armenians, and
others from the Levant. For some reason
there has been Il remarkable influx Of these
OF recent years, VINO are mainly engaged
in selling candy and fruits. There are
quite a number Of Italians here, some OF
them old and reputable residents, and
engaged in business, trades, professions,
etc, and they naturally object to being
classed with the candy and frlIit-3ellers and
etc. But the public mind
is not given TO making close distinctions as
10 nationality. Every black-haired, dark
man, who is not German
or an lriShman, is set down az an Italian, |
no matter from what part Of the 200 miles
Of northern shore line Of the Mediterranean
he may have come, and it goes at that. |
The Irish have not said much. They have
got past the point of being sensitive as to |
their nationality. They have won their |
position in this country, and can afford to
let their record take care of itself. They |
know that when an Irishman gets into |
trouble it is because he is bad man, and |
not because he is an lrishman
tot, ~ h 1,
stands in front of the eas. front of the Capi- |
tol, is the subject of many jokes. 1t was |
the most ambitious attempt OF the dis
inglished sculptor's life, and he fondIy |
hoped that it was going to hand him down
10 enduring fame. But it was executed |
when classicism was rampant. and repre-
sents the austere and dignified Father of his
Country in garments, or rather lack of them,
which strike the average American rather
Something like q Roman
oga is thrown over one shoulder, while
he other, with the arm uplifted to Heaven,
s bare. Every year some bad, stone
hrowing boy, knocks the fore finger off
he upraised hand. The wits of wash
ngton say that Washington is saying:
Here L am in my night-dress. My
.lothes are over in the Patent Office"
The statue was intended to sit under the
lone, but when it arrived here, it was found
hat it could not be gotten into the building,
W tiIttt III ilsiu W Dt ScL up WileTe IL
ooks very chilly in raw weather In
Winter the statue is covered with a great
wooden box, which is removed when Spring
S well-advanced. Representative Pearre,
# Maryland, thinks this is unsightly, and
las introduced bill to appropriate $500
o build glass case to inclo5e it.
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The Baltimore Conference of the Metho-
list Church South has beeni in session in this
ity the past week. Itconsists of 240 clerical
md 81 lay delegates, and prides itself on
he fact that it was the last TO break away
rom the parent church. 1t did not follow
or some years the other Southern Con-
erenccS when they broke away on the
question of slavery in 1916. There was
he usual talk about reunion at this meet
ng, but the better informed said that there
vas little expectation of the Southerners
etIrning to the fold. Though the ques-
ion of slavery is dead, the Southern Church
las driftcd so far away from the parent
;hurch in methods and discipline. that they
you'd not be happy under the present
icthodist regime.
Representative Champ Clark. of Mis-
ouri, announces himself as strongly in
avOr of suffrage for the District of Column
ia, and says that he will raise the devil
II the next Congress- if he don't succeed.
How Luck Runs in Alaska.