Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-21
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| National Capital.
| Senator Vest of Missouri pays a hand
some tribute to President Mckinley in a
recent interview with a correspondent Of
the Brooklyn Eagle. MIR. McKinley's
policy toward the south" said the sena-
tor has been very wise one and what
ever else may be said he Is one OF the best
politicians that have been in the White
House since the days OF Martin Van Buren.
He has done more to injure the democratic
party In the south than all the other re-
publicans together. His declaration in re-
gard TO the decoration OF the graves OF the
| confederate dead and his appointment OF
prominent confederates to high commands
in the army has done a great deal toward
bringing the sections together and he de-
serves full credit for this. think that
about the only good thing so far that has
come out OF the Spanish war has been the
placing OF the northern and southern SOL
dlers side by side, fighting In the same
cause. Mr.. Mckinley was right when he
Icomplimented Booker Washington and APP
proved what he was doing in Alabama He
is the only negro who has done anything
toward settling the race question in the
south. This question must be settled not
by legislation, but by Industrial education
and in teaching the negro to be self-sup-
| boaNihb' iht Ouiy HODt lOT lnb SpttleUeDt
OF the question properly is with the bet
ter class of the whites and blacks in the
southern states. The negro has been given
the right Of suffrage and the only remedy
is to qualify him for the exercise of that
| right. This can be accomplished only by
long years OF forbearance on both sides
and by conservative action. or course,
there VIII be scenes of violence and disor-
DER, such as we have witnessed lately Ia
many OF the northern states, but no leg
islation by congress will help the matter"
The broad and expansive form OF Con-
| sressman Shattuc OF Ohio is decorated. not
to say garnished, with a beautiful red vest,
reports the Washington Post. 1t is not the
brilliant color of the golfers coat, nor We.
the glorious hue OF an Italian sunset. but IL
| is red enough to suggest a confagration or
| lacerated porker. II looms up from a
| somber surroundings in the house like
house afire.
Mr.. Shattuc Is the congressman who un-
dertook some time ago 10 initiate his col
| league, General Grosvenor, into the mys.
teries OF the game OF craps" lie knows
all about come seven, come eleven" and
is proud of his knowledge. with much
more pride, however. does he display his
red waistcoat. He lounges in his seat,
with his head thrown back and his chest
thrown forward, so that the rotundity OF
his ample form, swathed in red, suggests
the glowing globe of a sun-revolving planet.
II is sight for the gods, worthy OF
poet laureate's verse and destined some
Of these days to be commemorated In
Homeric epic or Tennysopan ode.
Captain Smedley ID. Butler, 10 years old
now In Washington, Is son of Congress
man Butler OF Pennsylvania and has served
in the Spanish American and Philippine
wars and in the march to Pekin. says the
New York Tribune. At the battle of Tier
Tsin Butler, who was then n lieutenant
was shot while carrying a wounded pri
vate to place of safety under the enemy's
fire. The private died beside Butler when
they were brought to place OF safety.
Though his wound had not yet healed, But
Ter went to Pekin, taking part in all the
fighting. He was again wounded at the TAX
ing OF Pekin, but refused to go to the rear
and was chosen to carry a message to Min
lister Conger. When he reached the min
ister the latter asked him what his name
was. On hearing 1t Mr.. Conger exclaimed:
MY boy, when l was In congress your
grandfather was my friend and had the next
desk to mine" After the battle Butler
gave in and went to the hospital, where
he bad a severe siege of typhoid fever. He
was again sent to the hospital in the Phil
ipr!nes and was the sick list OF the
transport Grant whe she sailed for San
Francisco. He recovered on the way and
is now in fair health.
The announcement that +. X. Richards OF
Washington had been appointed United
States marshal OF Alaska in place OF c. l..
Vawter Of Montana. resigned. covers a
rather sensational story, related by the
Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Record. Vawter was appointed about a
gear age on the recommendation Of Sena-
tor Carter. From afidavits filed in the
office of the attorney general II appears
that last summer he called on Judge Noyes
Of the United States district court at Nome
and said that friends had authorized him to
offer Noyes 100000 in gold dust as a con-
sideration for the removal of Alexander
Mckenzie, who had been appointed receiver
to certain mining claims that were then in
dispute and In charge of the court Judge
Noyes called In the district attorney and
o. *. Wheeler of Minneapolis, his private
secretary, and required Vawter to repeat
his proposition In their presence Vawter
attempted to crawl out of the scrape, but
finally agreed to place his resignation as
United States marshal in the hands Of
Judge NoyeS III tne lattef would let the mat" |
ter drop. Judge Noyes agreed to do so. and
forwarded the resignation by mail to Sena-
tor Carter, on whose recommendation Vaw- |
ter had been appointed, with detailed ex-
plaIation OF the circumstances. Senator
Carter suppressed the resignation until he |
was prepared 20 recommend successor, |
and then filed 1t with the attorney general |
Much has been written OF the contrast |
between the old and the new century, but |
Representative Fitzgerald of Massacshu |
setts probably takes the palm for the best
condensation OF the worlds progress in !
speech recently delivered in congress.
Think for a moment" he said, what |
100 years has brought forth. This cen
tury received from its predecessor the |
horse; we bequeath the bicycle, the loco
motive and the automobile. We received |
the quill and We bequeath the typewriter |
We received the scythe, and we bequcath |
the moving machine We received the |
sickle; we bequeath the harvester, We re-
ceived the hand-printing press; we be-
queath the Hoe cylinder press. We re-
ceived the painted canvas; we bequeath |
lithography, photography and color pho |