The National tribune., 1903-07-02
THE NATIONAL TR1BUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

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President sent them to the Zoo. where
they form one of the principal attractions
at this time.
Mr.. Fl. B. DeGraY. President of the
Press Bureau of the Worlds Fair, has
been advised that New Jerseys State
Building at the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition will be a reproduction of Washing
toms Headquarters at. MorristOwn. The
rooms will be fitted up with Colonial furni-
ture and the decorations will embrace
many Washington relics. 4 number of the
Colonial States intend to follow the ex-
ample of New jersey
Here is "Union of the Blue and Gray"
item Mai. A. NJ. Marchand. of the Geor-
gia Military Academyl has been forced to
resign because he punished the cadets for
refusing to march with negro drum corps
on Memorial Day. He expelled three and
suspended a number Of others. The pa
irons of the school then wrote to the
faculty that they would withdraw their
sons unless the expelled cadets were rein
stated. Marchand then resigned. He is
the second Georgian Professor to lose his
place because of the color question. Prof.
Sledd was forced out of the Latin chair
in the Emory College on account of an
article criticizing Southern whites for their
treatment of the negro.
Miss Margaret Long, daughter of the
former Secretary of the Navy, has grad
uated from the Medical School of the
Johns Hopkins University and has re-
ceived the degree of NJ. D., and is now
admitted to the practice of medicine. Miss
I n
ciety life in Washington, but left the de-
lights Of official belledom to enter the
Johns Hopkins University. She now in
tends to go to New York, where she will
have an important position on the staff Of
the Maternity Hospital of that city. Miss
Long was volunteer nurse during the
Spanish-American War, and was assigned
to duty in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where
she remained for nearly year.
Alexander Williamson, who was a tutor
of Abraham Lincoln's younger children,
died in Brooklyn a short time ago at the
ripe old age of 80. After the death of
President Lincoln, Mr.. Williamson was
appointed to a position in one of the De
partments in Washington. which he held
until Cleveland came in and fired him out.
In a recent trial in Manila there was
introduced in evidence letter taken from
Filipino, and signed by a native, saying
that the recent visit of Gen. Miles to the
Philippines was for the purpose of collect
ing evidence to aid the cause Of the anti
imperialists. The letter was in Manila
newspaper. and Gen. Davis, commanding
in the Philippines, sent a copy of it to the
War Department Gen. Miles, when in
terrogated concerning the letter, said that
the use of his name was wholly unauthor-
lied, but the anti-imperialsts are making
the most of it.
Col. Eugene Ware, Commissioner Of
Pensions, says that 100000 names of SUR
vivors of the war of the rebellion are car
ried upon the pension rolls. But he says,
also, that the ravages death is making in
the ranks of the veterans now show that
over 100 are answering the roll call each
day.
Secretary Wilson saSs that the very best
Southern States. He, made recent tour
through Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi.
Texas, Alabama,i, South Carolina and
Florida. He thoroughly probed the situa-
ton in the cheap TOBACCO districts of Tenn
essee and Mississippi, and he says that an
examina ton of the sod of these two States
show that the same qualities are in the soil
of the four Southern States that are found
in the Island of Cuba, and that it is his be
lief that just as fine tobacco and just as
fragrant as that which comes from Cuba
and Sumatra may be grown in these
States. ! -,
Senator Hanna was here one day last
week on business Connected with the pub
lie building at, Cleyeland, but he spent
several hours at the White House, and on
coming out said that the President was
entirely satisfied with the work that Post
preciates his integrity and executive abili-
ty. Mr.. Payne has no idea of resigning,
and his resignation would not be accepted
by the President.
| The Attorney General has rendered an
opinion to the effect that officers of the
Marine Corps are ineligible for retirement
at an advanced rank. under that section Of
the law which provides that ''any officer
of the navy with creditable record, who
served during the civil war shall, when
| retired, be retired in a rank and three
| fourths of the sea pay of the next higher
grade" This shows how uncertain even
| the most carefully-wOrded laws can be
made. -.-- .-
The State and Treasury Departments
have adrOitly circumvented the silver trust
people, who had combined to get about
$4,000 out Of the State Department fol
the conversion and transfer of the 81 ,423,
600 Mexican money placed to the credit
Of the United States in the National Bank
Of Mexico as the award in the Plus claims
case. 1t is a big amount Of silver tc
handle, and fortunately at this time the
Treasury is in need of silver bullion fol
the Philippines. The silver trust people
expected to compel the Treasury also tt
pay higher price than usual for the silver
it needed for this purpose, but the heads
of the two Departments got together anG
the 20 tons of silver were placed at the dis
posal of the Treasury, while the Treasur!
put to the credit Of the State Department
the amount of the award, which it cal
now transmit to the Catholic Church. Tht
whole transaction will cost not more thar
ZOO, only about one-tenth of what the
silver people expected to make out of tht
job.
The fOOt-and-mOuth disease law works
both ways in most unexpected manner
1t now threatens to stop all shipments Of
wool from the Argentine Confederation
where We get about one-fourth of all thu
wool that we import.
Forever Float Old Glory.
DIR. Thomas Calver, Medical Director Of
the Department of Potomac, is also poet
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