The National tribune., 1903-06-11

has always worn a full beard. He has
been in the South for several weeks, and
showed up in Washington one day last
week. with his chin new-reaped and sand
papered. His own mother wouldn't know
him in that guise, and he has been having
= world OF fun with his friends.
Rather an interesting case appeared be-
fore the Supreme Court the other day. 1t
was a case of a disputed copyright on
"The Professor at the Breakfast Table,
BY Oliver Wendell Holmes, big publish
copyright suing another publishing house
for infringement. The Supreme Court de-
cided that "The Autocrat OF the Break
fast Table" had been careless Of his rights
and had not secured q valid copyright.
The interest came in in the fact that one
Of the Associate Justices OF the Supreme
Court who agreed to the decision was
Mr.. Justice Holmes, son OF the distin-
suished author.
Mr. Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme Court, celebrated his 10th birth
day on June 1. He has been 25 years on
the Supreme Bench, and both he and Chief
Justice Fuller could retire on the age limit
if they wanted to, but they do not. JUS
tice Harlan is one Of the biggest men in
Washington, physically and mentally. He
'.golfs" with an abandon that a man of
20 might envy, and he thinks nothing Of
walking five miles.
The laws in the District Of Columbia
are getting down to wire edge. One
may not distribute tracts from house to
posters license! Now wouldn't that frost
you?
1t is said that Senator Hanna has been
ordered abroad by his physician. He in
tends to take an active part in the Ohio
campaign, and is Obliged to rest during the
Summer months. Senator Hanna has
broken rapidly in the last three years. |
The death of his close personal friend, |
President Mckinley, aged him 10 years.
|
Periodically, Senator Dryden, Of New |
Jersey, has to deny that he is about to re- |
sign his Office. ''The rumors that have
been circulated containing intimations af- |
fecting a probable resignation on my part
absurd" Mr.. Dryden said. There has
not been the slightest foundation for their |
existence. No person has been authorized /
to say or intimate that any business obi |
CATIONS have assumed may interfere with |
my official duties as Senator. l hope this !
will put an end to the ridiculous rumors
that are in circulation"
What is the matter with the "AntiesT' |
Herbert Welsh, the head and front OF the 4
Anti-Imperialists' League, sent out 10000 |
letters to people throughout the country |
asking them to petition the Secretary OF /
War to print Gen. Miles's report on con- /
ditions in the Philippines in full. The let
ter sent out by Welsh also asked that the |
report of Gen. Hunter upon the case OF
Maj. Howe, accused Of responsibility for
beating Filipinos to death, Be published
in full.
As matter Of fact these reports were |
given out in full to all the newspapers OF
the country. Because the columns of the
are too full OF good, live mat
ter to cram them with dead issues, this
Mr.. Welsh got it into his head that the
reports had been suppressed at the War
Department.
In reply to the impassioned appeal in
the 10000 circular letters Of Mr.. Welsh
exactly 154 replies have reached Secretary
Root. Only 6l Of these ask directly for
the report to be published in full. There
are 16 Of which call attention to the mat
ter without making any comment or ask
ing any questions whatever, and seven peo-
pie inclose the Welsh circular unindorsed.
Secretary Root is carefully answering all
these letters, informing the correspondents
that the reports referred to were given in
their entirety to the press.
Kansas is going about filing her vacant
inches in Statuary Hall in the National
Capitol, and has appropriated $4,000 Tor
statue Of John ]. ingalls,. The statue
is to be seven feet high, cut from Carrara
marble and rest on q granite pedestal
four feet high.
Representative Ball, Of Texas, has an
nounced to his constituents that he will
resign from Congress Nov. I, and quit pol
itics. He expects to begin the practice
OF law, but it is said that he will make
good gubernatorial timber, and that he
cannot go out of politics.
Apropos Of this Texas statesman, who
is a good deal of man, and who is well
liked both in Washington and Texas.
comes story about Senator Bailey, of
the Long Horn State. The Senator was
credited with Presidential aspirations. and
a group Of Democratic statesmen tackled
him about it here in Washington the other
day.
Senator Bailey never cracked a smile,
but said gravely: Gentlemen, there is
fine picture Of Jefferson Davis, handsome
ly framed, hanging on the wall Of my Of
fice."
The inference was obvious, and the
matter was dropped. Mr.. Bailey once
said in a speech on the floor of the House
that his little sons grandfather had fought
in the Confederate army, meaning Bailey
pere. Il will never permit any man to
speak slghtingly of that grandfather's
service to my son, nor shall he be taught
that his grandfather was a traitor. My
boy believes his grandfather was a pa
triOt. and he wasv'
Mr.. Bailey said a good many other
things in the same vein, which are mat.
te- Of record, but the reception that those
sentiments. so openly expressed received
from his Democratic colleagues from the
North speedily convinced the Texas states
man that it would be some time before the
Democrats Of north of Mason and Dixon's
Line would accept such sentiments So,
too, he knows that with JEFF Davis's pic
tnre on his wall as his ideal hero, his
chances Of the Presidency are small, in
deed.
Chief Taxidermist G. B. Turner, of the
National Museum, is having all and more
than he can attend to mounting number
of rare animals which arrived during the
last few weeks. First Of all came a |
superb specimen OF the Argali or Marco
Polo's sheep, the finest nnd largest of the |
wild varieties Of sheep known to science.
Besides this magnificent animal, the
American Big Horn and the handsome
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