The National tribune., 1903-11-26

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it, that he has not heard from, it is be-
cause the members of that family can
neither read nor write The last family
heard from resides in East Boston. They
have invited the President to attend on
Thanksgiving Day the christening feast OF
the Youngest member and sixteenth child
of the family. The President has declined
the invitation with thanks.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, con.
tinues in poor health, but has not, and
will not. resign his seat in the United
States Senate. He has resigned his place
upon the Senate Committee on 1sthmian
Canals, because there will be a lot of hard
work on that committee, and he does not
care to undertake it. He retains his
Craftsmanship of the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois, has
introduced bill to appropriate Sl0,OOO
to bring the body of Paul Jones from
France to Washington, and RENTER it in
Arlington. That looks an easy proposi-
ton and is one that will probably have
the consent of Congress. Then what?
1t is not known surely where the re-
mains of Paul Jones. the first Commodore
Of the United States Navy, rest. 1t is
supposed" that he was buried in the lit
tie Protestant Cemetery in Paris. This
cemetery was long since swept and gar
nished for the growing city, and the
ground is covered with buildings. 1t looks
now as though the only thing to do will
be to buy the ground, raze the buildings,
and dig for the body. If it can not be
found, and nobody has any hope that it
can, the next proposition is to make the
plot into beautiful park and name it in
honor of Paul Jones. 1t is more than
probable that this will be the outcome of
the attempt, in case Congress passes the
bill, but it will cost more than 10 times
$4,000 to accomplish that.
Soldiers of fortune are the product Of
no particular cline or political institution.
There is a prospect of right lively time
down in Panama, and Minister Bunau-
Varilla has received some 100 applications
for commissions in the Army of Panama.
A number of these applicants have held
commissions in the United States army,
and it is said that several of them are
men who resigned for the good of the SER
vice. The Minister from Panama is not in
the recruiting service, however.
President Wos Gil, of Santo Domingo,
is charged by the revolutionists with max
ing an attempt to cede the territory Of
that Republic to the United States to pre-
vent the Insurgents from getting posses
sion of it Now,. just listen to that! And
the other Nations of the earth have to
hold like grim death to what they have,
and scrap ike bull dogs for every foot
foretold our triu: iphs, however. ''To him
who hath shall be given"
Former Senator Jeter G. Pritchard, of
North Carolina. now Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia,
was married last week to Miss Lillian u.
Saum, of Washington. This is Judge
Pritchard's third venture in matrimony,
and yet, according to the Congressional
Directory, he is only 46 years old, having
been born in Jonesboro, Tenn, in July,
1857. He has several children, and one of
his sons is an officer in the army serving
in the Philippines.
When Mr.. Cannon was elected Speaker
of the House, it left Hon Henry H. Bing-
ham, of Pennsylvania. first on the Com
mittee on Appropriations, and the logical
Chairman. Gen. Bingham did not wish to
assume the responsibilities attached to that
important Chairmanship. and passed it on.
1t is quite settled that Mr.. Hemenway of
Indiana, will be Chairman of that Com
ham, and is entirely satisfactory to Mr..
Cannon. Gen. Bingham has been selected
by Mr.. Hemenway to prepare the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bill. one of the, largest and most impOr-
tant Of the appropriations bills, involving
a great deal of hard labor in Committee.
In view of this arduous work. Gen. Bing-
ham, who is seventh on the Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads, has asked
TO be relieved from assignment to that
Committee, on which he has served for
time and attention to the Appropriations
bill. He will be second on that Committee,
as he has been for a number of years.
The Cuban Reciprocity bill passed the
House by a vote of 335 to q, according
to the count of the Speaker No aye and
no vote was taken on the final passage
for neither party cared to go upon record
that way, and so the leaders did not press
The matter that far. The vote was mixed,
many Republicans voting against the bill
md many Democrats for it. The latter
declared that they did so. not because they
believed that the Republicans were right,
Dut because they thought it was the open
ing wedge to Free Trade! The Democrats
made their campaign speeches. and the
Republicans who favored the bill did very
little talking. 1t was foregone conclu-
sion that it would pass, and there was no
use trying to talk it to death.
Representative Washington Gardner. of
Michigan. who has been decidedly op-
posed to all reciprocity legislation, took his
dose i'll a most manly way, and told why
be did SO. 81 would rather,'' said Mr.
Gardner in his speech, fright now take
small, sugar-coated. homeopathic. free
trade, 20 per cent. differential tariff reduc-
ton in favor of Cuba and hold the whole
world else at bay than to be f0rced-as
Champ Clark. of Missouri. has told us we
might under changed conditions-to swaI-
low an allopathic. Democratic, unlimited
dose of free trade, as he says they will
give it TO us when they get the power"
The Senate will now look wise. vrestle
with the bill for week or so, and then
pass it.
The President has received an invita-
ton to be present at the Lincoln Day han
quet Of the Marquette Club of Chica 20
and to speak. The invitation was pre-
sented by the President of the Club. Mr..
Charles NJ. Foell. but was declined by the
President, who said that business would
keep him in the Capital City.
One of the really meritorious bills which
Congress ought to pass at once was in
tr0duced by Senator Galiinger. 1t pro-
yides for the erection in Washington of
a monument to the memory Of the yolun-
teer and private soldiers Of the Union
army. and the sum asked for is 100000.
n commission is to be named, to consist
nf no Of Al