The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-08-13

the Philippines from 81 200 to 81 400. The
Philippine Civil Service Board announces
that il will appoint at S1.40O stenograpil,
ers who trauscribe 100 words Il minute and
obtain an average of 81 in the fifth sub
ject of the stenography examination.
Lee Yohn. Lawyer. is what Chiha-
man wrote on the Washington Monument.
and then got very much surprised when
he found that this method of advertising
the fact that he was Il legally trained
Oriental was going TO cost him SD. He
said that he thought the stone would look
much pretticr with something to cover up
its baroness. but the Judge thought diff
ferent. hence the fine. Lee 1ohn, wh"
is a lawyer and an interpreter i'll New
York. and WAS in Washington on sight
seeing four. took the next train for the
Metropolis.
Some 30 Regular Army officers have
resigned i'll the last seven months. only
six of whom were West Pointers. The
men who have left the service have rank
ed from Acknowledgement to Lieutenants.
Some of them gave as their reason for
reSigning that they were going into PRIV
ate business that would be more remuneri-
tive But it is said that the larger num-
Der quit because they found that they
could not keep up to the standard set by
the War Department. They were the
young men who had been appointed from
civil life. and who supposed that they
would find an easy berth in the favorite
arm of the Government service.
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The officers who have resigned from the
army since Dee. l.. 1902. are:
Capt. c. Byron. First Lieut.. Arthur NJ.
Line. First Lieut. Richard =. Strong. See
ond Lieut. William NJ. Kistier. Brig. Gen.
John \. Johnston. Capt. Thaddeus T..
Varney. First Lieut.. Stanley Rowland.
First Lieut.. George X. ID. MacGregor.
Second Lieut.. Lewis c. Hamilton. Major
Henry NJ Morrow. Second Lieut. Alger-
non E. Sartoris. Capt. Frank b. Mcken-
ma, First Lieut.. Charles p. Faulkner.
Capt. Robert SeweIl. Capt. George L.
Summerlin. Chaplain Joseph j. Mexican,
First Lieut.. Howard W. Beal. First Lieut..
David McRoach. First Lieut. Edmund NJ.
Rhett. Second Lieut.. Henry NJ. Dousher-
ty. First Lent. James V. Guthrie. Sec
Ond Lieut.. Nelson K. Johnson. Second
Lieut.. James A. Roane. First Lieut..
Jerome s. Chaffee. Second Lieut.. Cleve-
land HisOn. Second Lieut. Earl G. Pierce.
Second Lieut. William |. Westervelt, Sec
ond Lieut.. John W. Kilbreth.
The White House is shut up. 1t is
closed because the decorators and paint
ers' are at work somewhere on its in
terror. Architect McKim seems to wait
to get the President out of the city and
then proceeds to do things TO the poor
old White House. There is always weep
ing and wailing when the strangers in the
city are not able to get in to see the his
toric structure. 1t is part Of the pilgrim
age TO Washington to tread the floors of
the White House. but the architect has
thwarted about 100000 people in this at
tempt during the last year. He was worse
than a dog in the manager last year when
the National Encampment of the Grand
Army met in this city. for he would
scarcely let people walk about the lawns.
1t really is not right to let him boss the
White House after this fashion.
Judge Thomas Ryan. First Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Department. will
not 90 to Alaska to discuss with the Alas
kan Commission about the exhibit that the
Territory is to make at the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition. He has decided to have
the Governor of Alaska come to him,
which is much easier, as Gov. Brady
wants to come to st. Louis anyhow.
The cruiser Minneapolis, which is now
used as a receiving ship at the League
Island Navy Yard. is to be the flagship
of Rear Admiral Wise. commanding the
training squadron of the North Atlantic
feet. Orders for the fitting up of the
cruiser have been issued by the Navy De
partment.
r. T. Greener, Commercial Agent
of the United States at Vladivostock
writes the State Department that the de-
mand in Siberia for American agricultural
implements and machinery is so great that
private firms can not fill their orders. The
Russian Government is establishing at
HabarOfsk a warehouse for the sale to
peasants of these goods, and has asked for
information regarding American makes
He also says that an American firm is
about to erect Touring mill at Cape Fir
soft to cost sol 800 and to contain all The
latest American machinery. The same firm
already has several coal and gold mines
with leases on others. saw mill, sash
and blind factory, and i long contract for
granite work.
Representative Robert Baker, of the
Sixth New York District, is one of those
men who should have been born back
yOnder" somewhere about the time of the
religious wars. when people could die for
their religious principles, be drawn and
quartered. and things like that. Represen-
tative Baker does not believe in war He
thinks that war is horribly cruel. and he
doesn't believe. with the old song, even
where the subject who didn't want to fight
plaintively walled
I'D have those who make the quarrel,
Be the only ones TO fight"
He simply wouldn't have any fighting at
all. He will not vote for an appropriation
for West Point for there is where they
make fighters nor will he appoint a Cadet
to West Point, because that Cadet might
grow up and become a fighter. 1t all
sounds very funny, in this day and age.
this trying TO stop break in the dyke
with one infnitesimal body selected from
among S0,0O0,O00 Of people to do certain
duty, and Representative Bakers Puri-
tanical methods in this age of progress
only serve to show what we might be rs
Nation, were the rest of the 81, 999. 500
people just like him.
Mr. Baker says that defensive war
alone is UNSUITABLE, and believes that the
preparations for war are morally coward
ly. Mr.. Baker is the man who came out
in a column of carefully-preparcd stuff a
few days ago to Indignantly inform some
old railroad that he did not want its
passes. That he had money of his own
to travel on. and that the railroad could
not suborn his vote in Congress with n
pass over its lines. Just why he should
roast the railroad company for heinc rs