The National tribune., 1903-12-03

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further than to give thesdipiomatic break
fast, and to extend tof>high officials the
courtesies due their position She has an
nounced that she will notN stand in line
at any of the State receptions. either.
which is rank mutiny, don't you know.
Mrs. Hay ought to take warning by Mrs.
Blaine. She didn't like the hoi polloi
that she had to meet in official life, and
so she just said she wouldn't, and that
ended it. 1t nearly cut short Mr.. Blaine's
career, too.
1t is said that Mrs Hay is in bad
health, but that is probably only an ex-
cuse. Mrs. Hay does not love the com
mon people. She rather hates them on a
whole. and asks why size should be both
cred with receiving every week people
whom she never saw or heard tell of, just
to crafty ''their vulgar curiosity" Mrs.
Hay is very high and mighty. and in this
respect is entirely different from the Sec
retary of State. who is democracy itself
1t is said that Mrs. Roosevelt is not at
all pleased with this decision of Mrs
Hays, and that she has tried in vain to
make her change her mind.
The Hay home, which stands across the
park from the White House. is probably
the very swellest in the city. 1t is big and
roomy, and is literally crammed with all
things beautiful in art and science. 1t
must be selfish person. indeed. who
would wish to keep all these rare and
beautiful things for the eyes of Il small
coterie of personal friends. Even the
palaces of the old world are thrown open
to the people. that they may know and
learn son 1thing of life that is better
than their own sordid existence. 1t is a
diplomatic move. too, for it brings the
people and the nobility closer together
and helps both. While Mrs. Hay need
not make her home a show place, she
wants to remember that the common
people," whom she hates, but Lincoln
loved. belong to the class from which
her husband lifted himself, when he came
to Lincoln as an underpaid private secre
tary.
There were but few surprises in the
makeup of the majority members of the
Senate Committees. Senator Penrose has
captured the important vacancy on
Finance. made doubly important by the
prospect of some revision of the tariff
schedules during the first session of the
Fifty-ninth Congress. The next most inn
portant place. the assignment to Appro-
priations, falls to Senator Gallinger.
Senators Foster of Washington. Quarles
and Alger are assigned to Commerce, and
Senator Mitchell goes to Judiciary. Sen
tor HanSbrough secures the vacancy on
Irrigation. accorded to him because of his
authorship of the national irrigation bill.
Senator Hanna becomes Chairman of In
teroceanic Canals. Penrose of Post Of
fees and Post Roads: Gallinger of District
of Columbia, and Dillingham; Of Immigra-
ton. Senator Elkins having voluntarily
withdrawn from Post Offices and Post
Roads, the place goes to his colleague,
Senator Scott.
1t is stated by the Chairman of the
Committee on Committees, Senator Hale,
that the committee never for moment
contemplated putting Senator Smoot on
the Immigration Committee,
Mrs David Francis has been elected
to succeed Mrs. James l.. Blair az Presi-
dent Of the Lady Board Of Managers of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Mrs.
Francis, who is remembered in washing
ton as most charming hostess, is fitted
by social position and financially to fill
the important position, II is an Office
that requires tact and social prominence.
because the noted people of the world
will be entertained by her during the
Summer.
Somebody said to Senator Teller the
other day that it must seem odd to him
to call himself q Democrat, to which the
aging Senator from Colorado quickly re-
piled that 1t was easy. 1t seems that
when Senator Teller started in politics
he was rank Democrat. During the
Lincoln campaign, however, he became
enamored of the Illinois statesman and
went over to him. he remained in the
Republican party until his dramatic walk
out in 1896. Senator Teller is now count
ed with the Democrats, receives Demo
cratic Committee assignments, and sits
on their side Of the Senate Chamber.
Ex-senator James X. Jones, Of Arkan-
sas, will shake the dust of that State
from his feet and take up his residence
in Washington. Senator Jones is brok-
en- in spirit and in ambition by the treat
ment he has received In the State he has
served SO long and faithfully. He hopes
upon the Isthmian Commission. Politics
. ide, there is not a finer gentleman in
the whole South than Senator Jones. He
is big fine-lo0king old gentleman, with
hair and beard. which he
wears short, and has the manners Of the
old school, courtly, gentle, and always
impressive. 1t was not his fault that the
country would not follow the vagaries of
the Democratic party in its wanderings
Of big National Party Is not the whole
push. though a great many people seem
to think he Is. He has to have at his
back party in which the people have
confidence. and for lack Of this, Senator
Jones lost two or three Presidential cam
paigns. For this, the Democrats have
soured on him!
Mr.. David P. Barrows, Of California,
Of the Public Education Service in the
Philippines. has been appointed General
Of Education in the
Philippines to succeed Mr.. e. FL. Bryan,
Of Indiana, who has been obliged, on ac-
count of i'll health, to return to the
United States.
Senator Gibson, Of Montana, is very
much disturbed over the rapid rate at
which the Western public lands are be-
ing acquired in great tracts by specula-
tors and cattle companies, instead of by
individual farmers.
"The National Conventions of our
great parties" he says, ''have from time
to time during the past 40 years resolved
that the public lands Of America should
be preserved sacredly for the actual set
tier; but it is a sinister fact that for four
years after each convention the dictates
Of the big land holder and speculator have
prevailed.
'In my own land district in Montana
large tracts of public land, ranging from
], 600 to $4,000 acres Id extent, have dur
ing the last two or three Years been ac-
uuired by prominent land holders undar