El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-05
%. Of 81 Regular
Weekly Letter from
The National Capital.

| the same time we want no German
coaling stations handy at our coasts
| The English strongholds in Antilles
and Bermuda are bad enough. Incl
dentally we have limited to the Danes
that we won't allow a sale to anybody
else. which may help them to make up
their minds.
The Turkish Indemnity.
1t seems we are going to get that
Turkish indemnity through the
Cramps after all, the sultan's govern
nent having signed a contract for a
new warship at a price including it.
Which is a roundabout way to do
business. but if the Cramps turn in
100000 to the treasury. the state de-
partment will accept it and write the
account off. considering the Philadel-
Dhians the sultan's agents. Germany
gets some indemnity herself in the
same way. as a Turkish battleship
will be rebuilt at Kiel. Turkish men
of war generally get aground on their
own beefbones-accepted naval slang
for lying at anchor-in the harbor of
and never. never go to
sea. but if the sultan wants to have
them around as ornaments. nobody
has any objections. II haven't. any
how.
The Inaugural Ball.
The inaugural ball is going TO be a
great affair without any w. c. T. U.
and with plenty of cham
pagne-or alleged champagne-for
thirsty citizens with the price. Over
$50, 900 has been raised locally for
guarantee fund and wide open town
is promised the guarantors. They'll
get their money back all right this
. 4
the biggest crowd ever there before
is expected. One way of raising mon
ey is sale of the right to build re-
viewing stands on the avenue along
the line of march and this is going on
now. Then March 4th comes, every
government building and park on the
avenue will be boxed with enormous
white pine structures and completely
hidden. Inauguration day visitors
must go away with a queer idea of
There will be no oIeo-
ice cream at this ball as
there was at the last. chairman Ed |
son says. The ball will be held in the |
big rooted court of the Pension office. |
Is usual |
The Shrievalty of Havana. |
The war department has turned |
Town the hereditary claimants to the ]
of Havana. In 1928 Spain |
iuctioned off the office of "alguacil |
mayor to the highest bidder. who |
vas Don Sebastian Calvo de la Puerta. |
As an additional inducement the place |
vas made perpetual and transferable |
~ descent or sale. In the course of
ime it came into the hands of a Count
)'Reilley-fine old Castilian name
Who was the husband of the last of
he line. From him it passed along
tn he |
Who sold half the office at auction in
1ayana in 1895 to DR.. DupleSSiS- By I.
his time there was no power vested
n the holder. but there was Substan-
ial emoluments. The principal one
vas the right to collect about a dollar
n gold for each head of cattle killed
n the city. Which was a fat thing
hen the Philistines came along and
he military government declared the
ranchise extinct, much to the indig-
alton of the countess and the doctor.
loot has confirmed this action. ruling
hat the right to appoint to office was
art OF the Spanish sovereignty now
xtinct. However the lady and gentle
nan can appeal to the courts for
amages if they feel so inclined as
hey probably will
The West Point investigation is not
ecelving much attention here. It's a
ueeT tnlHS W see the great united
tates government solemnly investi- {
ating into the pranks of a lot of boys, .
nd. as one military man told me:
It's pretty hopeless. No rules or legi-
latiOn will ever make boys or women
ito middle-aged business men Of ,
taid disposition
Senatorial Fences :
Politics have subsidized into a long t
lnge interest in the senatorial fights I
[cLaurin of South Carolina is on the &
nxious seat. He is an expansionist 1
nd all that and the non bryanocratic i