The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-13
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themselves worthy of the very great tr,iS;
that was imposed in them by our Govern
ment AT the time of the search for Aguin-
aldo. (By the way. what has become oil
George Washington Ill. who neednf have
lied but did?) The Bureau of lnSular Al
fairs has just received from Manila the
information that the Macabebe scouts
who captured and killed Gen. San. Miguel
have refused to accept the S2,oDo reward
offered by the authorities for the capture
and killing of tie famous insurgent leader.
The scouts say that they were only dong
their duty when they killed the General,
Now. even the Antics couldn't have
asked such a sacrifice as that. Think OF
il. YOU who have been buying houses and
lots, jewelled swords and silver cups FOR
men who did only the things that were eX-
pectcd of them when they donned the uni
form of the Army and Navy of the United
States, Just think of ii! Here are lot
of untutored natives of our new posses
sions who having done their plain duty. as
sworn to do. refuse To take tip. And
Fennmore Cooper is dead.
The city of Washington needs a new
Business High School. 1t needs it very
bad. Congress made an appropriation of
$16S.000 for it. and the Commissioners are
trying to get the ideas of architects inside
of that limit, but have. been unable to do
so thus far. The District Administration
has been such large. juicy graft for so
long that it seems impossible TO get peo-
pie down out of the clouds in their prices
for District consumption since the
revelations" began.
Col. Henry Lippincott, of the Medical
Department of the Army, will not get
stars on his shoulder-strapS. He is in
hard luck. sure. for his commission as Brig
adier-tieneral was made out and the Presi-
dent had signed it. but it had not been de-
Hvered. when some one scratched up the
question as to whether his service as As
sistant Contract Surgeon with the 9th Cal,
which Logan in May. 1865, was civil
war service. The War Department has
decided that it can not be called such to
the extent of making Col. Lippincott a
Brigadier-General and so he viii have to
retire as a plain Colonel. He was made
Colonel and Assistant Surseon-General in
1901.
Mrs. Phil. Sheridan has lived quiet,
retired life ever since the death of her dis
tinguished husband. and not much had
been heard of her until lately. She has,
in fact. almost lived the life of Il religious
recluse. She and the children of Gen.
Grant have all come into prominence re-
Gently. Mrs. Grant was scarcely laid I'M
der the sod when the Grant children pro-
ceeded to sell everything they could put a
price on that had belonged to either the
General or Mrs. Grant. Mrs. Grant had
the good sense to will most of the curiOs
and costly things that she and the Gen
eral had picked up in their trips abroad to
the National Museum. SO that they can
never fall into the hands of strangers.
lint tho bnnSa which Tho pnnnIa ta1
to Gen. Grant was sold just as soon as
the funeral decorations were out of it af-
ter Mrs. Grants death.
Mrs. Sheridan waited for a little longer
time before doing quite the same. The
fine tapestries, almost priceless. which
Gen. Sheridan received as gifts from his
own and foreign nations have been hang
ing in the National Museum or 20 years
These are valued at $4,000 and Mrs.
Sheridan has tried at various times to sell
them for the benefit of her children,
though the Sheridans have plenty of
money and there is no occasion to take
such a step. The price for the tapestries
was too stiff. however, and so they have
not been sold. Now the tax collector
wants to make Mrs. Sheridan pay a tax
OF S225 a year on the tapestries. and she
does not want to do it She thinks the
Government should attend TO that little
matter. If the Government owned the
tapestries it would not have to pay a tax
on them, and as the tapestries are only
loaned. it will not pay the tax, and so it
stands uD to now. The probabilities are
that Mrs. Sheridan will have to pay the
tax. unless Congress relieves her of the
collection by purchasing it for the Gov
eminent. The house that was presented
to Sheridan by the people of the United
States was sold some time ago.
Rear-Admiral Bradford, who has been
Chief of the Equipment Bureau for six
years, has asked for sea duty, and will be
given command of the battleship Illinois
and will probably go to sea in December.
This is the outcome of a scrap with Sec
rotary of the Navy Moody, which began
while the Secretary OF the Navy was a
member of Congress from Massachusetts.
He wanted the photographic Bureau of
the Navy Department placed under civil
Ian control, and not regarded as part of
the Naval work. Admiral Bradford OBJ
Jected. and feud was the result. Trou-
bies with other officers of the Bureau have
finally led to this request. Admiral Brad
ford reaches the retiring age in 1906.
The Department of the Interior has is
sued an edict that all hunting of game in
Mount Rainier, National Park, in the State
of Washington, is prohibited. and fishing
with hook or line is forbidden. Camp,
ing parties are permitted to 90 into the
park. but must not destroy any of the
timber or curiosities. Firearms are per-
mitted only on the written order of the
Secretary of Interior. Saloons are pro-
hibited. and no person will be permitted Ia
permanently reside in the park.
DIR. II. W. Wiley, of the Agricultural
Department. sailed for Europe last week.
where he will spend his vacation in hard
work. He will visit all the large cities
from which the big exports of food are
made to the United States. and will per-
sonally instruct the Consular representa-
tives of the United States in the work
mgs of the pure food law, and urge them
TO do all in their power to urge exporters
to live up TO the terms of the pure food
act.
President Roosevelt has by IN Executive
order put IN practice the doctrine he has
preached since the time he was Assistant
Secretary of the Navy-that powerful
ships and expensive and deadly guns are
useless 20 the Navy unless the men he
hind them can operate them skillfuIly. Ont
of 10 men drilled for gunners perhaps
three qualify, and these may be lost to
the service at the expiration of their on
Lstment, with all that the loss entails in