The National tribune., 1903-11-26
as. and impress L on you that you must
pay respect where respsct 10 due"

pay respect where r:.pest 10 due"
Kansas has never had nembe. Of it,
and yet the little old SKsw" River. which
10 scarcely navigabls for boots" nine
months In the year, In one week Of the
other three mouths came near washing
half of the population of the eastern part
Of the Sunfower State down into the
muddy Missouri, doing more damage than
the whole appropriation for rivers and har-
bors amounts to.
Senator Hoar il the victim Of the "by
request" fellow, and has introduced q dis
tinctly socialistic bill 1t provides for
Homes and employment for the home
less poor. and making them self-sustain-
ing home-owners. independent Of being
hired"
The ex-slave pension bill isn't marker
to this anarchistic document, and it seems
incredible that the aged Senator from
Massachusetts should have lent himself
to such scheme. OF course, the bill has
not the ghost of show to pass, but why
belittle our standing as Nation by pre-
senting to serious body such fool meas
ureS.
Senator Newlands. Of Nevada, has p
great scheme afoot. He wants the United
States to take possession of Cuba as q
Sovereign State" Porto Rico to be
tackled onto the little island as a County.
He provides that the President and Vice
President of Cuba shall be the Governor
and Lientenant-G Governor of the ''Sov-
erign State" of Cuba, and he has a lot
of other little vagaries attached to the
resolution which he has actually intro
duced in Congress.
Mr. Naw1opdo odr;coa that cipnnlv
coniscate Cuba, for though she is really
ready to come to us, he thinks, she is like
the girl who wants tOstell her lover mo"
two or three times before she accepts Linn,
and Mr.. Newlands blandy explains, also,
that Cuba may be afraid that we will re-
duce her to dependency, but if we just
gObble her up, and label her Sovereign
State" she will soon cease to struggle
MIR. Newlands has never been accused of
being much of ppe-dreamer either.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced a bill
which, if passed, will spoil one of the pref
test parks in Washington, and, in the
of the surroundings Of the White House
He wants to build in Lafayette Park, a
huge white marble structure to house the
Departments of State, Justice, and Com
merce and Labor. While these Depart
ments ought undoubtedly to have home,
there is no sense in sticking them almost
in the front door-yard of the White House,
and spelling one of the peoples breathing
places.
The trial Of August W.: Machen, Samuel
A. and Diller B. Croft, George e. Lorenz,
and Martha j. Lorenz, indicted for con-
spiracy to defraud the Government, has
been postponed until the second Monday
in January, 1904. This date was agreed
upon by counsel for both parties.
Indicting Post Office officials a1d max
ing the indictments stick seem to be two
different propositions D. V. Miller, of
Terre Haute, indicted for conspiracy to ex-
tort q bribe from J. ]. Ryan. the "sure-
thing" man who used the mails unlaw-
verdict of mot guilty" being received by
the crowds present in court with every
demonstration of pleasure.
Senator Dietrich has paired and gone
home to surrender himself to the authori-
ties in Omaha, because of the Indictment
on charge of conspiracy in connection with
Post Office patronage. The Senator says
that he will demand an immediate hear
ing. and he is quite confident that he will
be cleared of the charges.
DIR. Anita Newcombe McGee, of Wash
ington, who was in charge of the trained
nurses during the war with Spain, in Cuba
and in the Philippines, and who had the
signal honor of being the only woman
who was ever appointed Acting Assistant
Surgeon in the United States Army, is
about to achieve new honors. At the Ma
tional Encampment of the Spanish War
Veterans in New Haven, the Constitution