The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-03-26

90 so. there arises a question OF the pro-
priety of doing so. 1t is an unwritten
law that the President of the United
States shall not leave the territory of the
United States during his incumbency Of
the office. Up to three miles out at sea
he may so and still be under the SOW
ereignty of the United States. But thou
| sands of miles of high" seas must be
and so it is probable that no President of
| the United States will ever see this cor
ner of our possessions.
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne
| has decided that the clerks in the Post
office Department must pay their debts or
| they will have to go. He says thai he will
no. have his office made over into collec-
ton agency for people who. being unable
to collect what is due them from post
| office clerks. bring those bills 20 the head
oe the Department.
1t is a righteous decision. but it will
not stick; 1t has been made over anl over
again. The average Government clerk
| always manages to spend about third
| more than he makes, no matter what lis
| salary. Far too many of the male clerks
live double lives. This comes to the heads
of the Departments. when bills are present
ed by firms of goods sold to women who
ought not to have the remotest connection
W
Yet these goods will be charged up to the
clerk. and when they are left unpaid for.
the bills are sent to the Department and
many disgraceful story comes to the SUI
face in that way. Clerks are sometimes
discharged on trivial charges. when back
of them lies record as s'Rounder" that
would disgrace wife and little children if
known. A conscientious official often gets
very seriously censured FOR dismissals,
when he ought to be given Il halo for not
telling all that he knows.
Miss Rebecca Taylor, the young woman
who thought she was digger than the
learned differently. Miss Taylor is the
Young lady who, while holding a position
in the War Department. constituted her.
self the mentor and critic of the Presi
dent in his Philippine policy. Her letters
were such as to delight the heart of the
most cruel Anti and they were voluminous
and frequent. Miss Taylor was warned
missed if she went it ut that gait, and
finally word came from her superior Off
GERS that unless she ceased her datribes
in the public press, she must resign from
her office or be dismissed. As an answer
she came out in 4 particularly fragrant
letter few days later. the answer to
which from her Chief in the Office was the
yellow" envelope which showed that her
connection with that Office at least was
considered at an end
The artists of the Bureau of Ethnology
at the National Museum are at work on
reproduction, in plaster-of-paris, of the 10
largest and most characteristic ruins of the
ancient Aztecs Those which are being
copied are Maya, Zapotec. and some Peru
Wan structures, all of which are found in
the area extending from Colorado to Chile
One of the most interesting of all the re-
productions will be that of the Temple of
Xochicalcos. in the State of Morelos, Mex
leo. This work is well advanced. The
scale upon which these are being repro
duced is large enough to show the carving
and sculpture of the ancient people, and
the models of buildings, which covered as
much ground as the Capitol of tie United
States, for instance, will be about eight
feet long and two or three feet wide These
models will be exhibited at the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition. and will then become
permanent part of the National Museum
exhibit.
No more liquor to be had in the Capitol
restaurants. That is pat, for all the bar
fixtures are moved out. The Committee
Rooms are now the scene of the greatest
activity, and the sale of small leather
covered bottles with silver cup tops has
increased WOH0erIully.
will there ever be gun play in the
United States Senate Chamber! Senator
Clarke, of Arkansas, the newly-hedged
Senator from that State, is going a good
gait to induce one, and in his action there
is Il suggestion that if one comes, he will
be prepared He and Senator Berry, the
one-legged Senior Senator from Arkansas,
are not friends. Everybody knows that. 1t
al of hDI az To tom,
Berry was Governor of Arkansas. Mr..
Clarke seems to be churlsh however. and
does not recognize the etiquet which de-
manded that he accept Mr.. Berry's offer to
escort his Junior colleague to the desk to
take the oath. Senator Berry had pre-
viously sent Mr.. McRae, of Arkansas, to
tell the younger Senator what was the
proper caper and that he was ready to do
his part.
Senator Clarke declined TO walk down
the aisle with Senator Berry. Senator
Bacon, of Georgia, when he saw Mr.
Clarke start down the aisle alone, offered
to escort him, and this offer Mr.. Clarke
also refused So lie marched down to the
desk all by his lonesome and subscribed
to the oath of Office If Mr.. Clarke is
going to begin his career with his feathers
rutfled in this manner there is no knowing
what will happen before the six years are
over.
1t very often happens that the two SEN
ators from the same State do not like
each other, and are somtimes bitter per-
sonal enemies, but they generally have
some sense Of courtesy in them which i'm
pels them not to make shows of them
selves in public.
Congress will now know how the sol
dierS feel over the adjustment of the
caDteens. Congress, under stress, voted to
abolish the Canteen, whereat all the Army
officers in the country declared that it was
very foolish thing to do. 1t was only
fair that Congress should take its own
medicine, which it has now done.
Senator Stone Glo.) carries his House
training into the Senate. He sits at his
desk and writes as industriously as though
he was working for days wages. He
chews cigars by the dozen, but he has done
no talking as yet. When he does-well,
they do say that he can wake the echoes
up in the Blue Ridge Mountains with his
eloquence.
Representative Morrell, of PENNSYLVANIA,
will drive stage during the recess. The
route lies between the Hotel Bellevue,
Philadelphia, and Devon, a Summer re-
sort. Mr.. Morrell isn't doing this because
H..