The National tribune., 1902-01-02
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.

n HlDbElutuL HAS Dttll vi ShiliStI shAt.NAA-
the Methodists to build Mckinley Me
mortal Temple" in honor Of the late
| President. An attempt will be made to
raise 100000, and the temple will be
located at the corner of 1st and streets.
Mr.. Clifford Warden, bright news
paper man, and for many years Il valued
attache of the U. $. Senate, has received
deserved promotion to the Office of Act
| ing Librarian. There is no man about the
| Capitol better qualified for this position
than Mr.. Warden, who is familiar with
the entire literature of the Governments
history, and has his information at his
fingers ends, where it will be most scrv-
iceable TO the Senators. He is man Of
much talent in many directions and is the
right man in the right place.
Capt. Jacob G. Donaldson, who made
fine military record as Adjutant of the
3Sth Ohio, and who was for many years
| Chief Clerk of the Secretary of State of
ONO, has been appointed Assistant LIBRA
rian of tfe Senate. Capt. Donaldson is
well known to Republican politicians, hav-
| ing been for many years Secretary of the
Republican, National Committee. He is
one of the best informed men on politics
and public men in the country, and all
the comrades will rejoice to hear of his
good fortune.
The remains of Mai. Hugh r. Belllnap,
late Paymaster in the United States Army,
who died Nov. u, at Calambas, Luzon, of
| appendicitis, were inferred Dec. q at Ar
lingt0n Cemetery with military honors. A
squadron of the 18th T. s. Cav, under
command of Maj. Finley, escorted the
caissoR bearing the body from the Penn
| sylvania Railroad Station to Arlington
! Cemetery. Maj. Belknap was buried be-
| side the body of his father, Gen. Belknap.
| former Secretary Of War.
An able-bodied man has been doing
| fair business by carrying his arm in
plaster cast and begging for assistance.
He was caught, his arm examined, and
| found perfectly sound, and he was given
some months use for it in breaking stone
for the good roads movement.
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| Rear-Admiral Francis Asbury Roe, IA
nous for his desperate attempt to ram
the rebel irOnclad Albemarle, with his
| fimsy little gunbOat, the Sassacus, died
suddenly at his home in this city last Sat
urday. He was appointed to the navy
| from New York, Oct. 10, 1S41. His first
active service was on the sloop John
Adams, stationed in South Atlantic
waters. From the John Adams he was
| transferred to the sloop Yorktown, which
cruised along the coast of Africa on the
lookout for slayers. His next ship was
the Allegheny, of the Mediterranean
| Squadron, on which he served in 1876
| 1S45. He was ordered to the brig Por-
poise, and in her he received his baptism
of fire.. This ship served part of her
cruise in Chinese waters, and there en-
gagged squadron of IA piratical Chinese
junks in 1854. The Chinese were defeat
ed and their rendezvous near Macao was
broken ur.
| Lieut.. Roe was called home on the out
break of the war, and was made Execu-
| tive Officer Of the steam sloop Pensacola,
which was attached to the Western Gulf
Blockading Squadron, and engaged with
the batteries on the passage down the
Potomac, and subsequently attacked the
batteries defending New Orleans. He
participated in the attack on Baton Rouge
on Aug. >, 1862. Receiving promotion to
| the grade of Lieutenant-C Commander, he
was placed in command of the steam gun
boat Katahdin, and he won his first
laurels as commander in an engagement
with the rebel ironclad Arkansas, which
was destroyed. Two fights We're had at
| DOnalds0nville, and for four months he
was constantly skirmishing on the Missis-
sippi River. From the Katahdin he was
transferred to the command of the steam
er Sassacus, of the North Atlantic Squad
ron. In this ship he engaged in battle
with the rebel ironciad Albemarle and the
gunboat Bombshell. He was relieved from
the Sassacus and ordered to the Michigan,
stationed on the Great Lakes.
Lord Pauncefote desires to "clear up
the slate" during his present term as EN-
bassadOr, and dispose of all the questions
of difference which have disturbed the
United States and Great Britain for many
years, some of them since the foundation
of the Government. The settlement of
the lsthmian question will be followed by
those in regard to the Newfoundland fish
cries, the Alaskan boundary, warships on
the Great Lakes. etc.
| The selection of ex-Gov. Shaw for Sec
retary of the Treasury gives Iowa two
places in the Cabinet, and it was assumed
that Secretary Wilson would therefore re-
tire, but this is strongly denied at the
| White House.
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