The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-20
NO APPEAL FROM
HIS DECISION
Treasury Department Clerk will
Settle Woods Status.
i0R TIE PRESENT AT LEAST
Hrs. JOHN ". M.ACKEY VISIT
ING WASHINGTON.
OR TIE PRESENT AT LEAST
lsneeLal to rhe 1HeraId.l

Especial 70 The lHerald.l
Washington, Dec. 19.-The resolution
Introduced in the senate last Friday
81 Senator Trlman questions the pow
4 Of the president to make a recess APP
5ointment where an expiring special
session merges into a regular session
Il congress. The attorney general and
he-secretsry OF war. it is siid, advised
he president that he had such power,
.nd. being so advised, he reappointed
General Wood and commissioned him
gain as major general The resolu-
ion suggests the further question as
% what legal way is there, IF any, by
Which the power OF the president IN
he premises and the right of General
Mood TO exercise the authority ana
functions of a major general pending
bis confirmation or rejection by the
enate, can bee raised and determined
The question viii necessarily De passed
lpon by the accounting Officers OF the
re1sury when they allow or disalloW
sencral Wood the salary Of major
GENERAL during the period in question,
5r when they pass upon the pay ac-
cunts of the disbursing officer who
pays him his salary. It VIII be a mat
er OF surprise to the general pubic
O learn that the accounting officers
lf the treasury department cannot be
nterfered with by the courts in mat
org of this character. and thsrt, conse-
siuently. they are the arbiters at the
present time of the important problem
,f whether or not General Wood is
cgal major general Should they de-
tide in his favor by allowing the pay
accounts of the officer who pay him his
iaiary. there is no way by which the
batter could be taken into the courts
by those opposed 20 General Wood, and
me action Of these officials viii prac-
ideally settle the whole question
washington Corral of the Military
Order of the Caraboa rivaled the IA
nous Gridiron club at a banquet given
Saturday evening The secretary of
war the general commanding the
rmy. many of the officers Of the army
% the city who took part in the war
On the Philippines. and lot Of sena-
.ors. representatives and prominent Of
lcials and newspaper writer's partici-
ated in the iollity. Military titles were
Rft AT the door. and ONCE inside every
me became a 'CarabOa' or a "hOmbre."
Thich is Spanish for plain man" Cen
Eal Young. as the grand paramount
laraboa, presided In the seat of hon
b was Secretary Root. There were no
bet speeches. and no toasts to respond
tories. consisting mostly Of "joshes'
nn the then governor general. the civil
Governor. the QuaTteTmasteTs. the Fill
5inos. Aguinaldo. and others who made
jfe misera bic for the officers while they
we're I'm the islands. One song, which
may be heard in every military post,
bad this chorus, in which all the ban
aueters Joined.
'Oh. am the boss. or am the tool2
u Nrn.r
o Ike Co show who's the boss of this
show.
Us it me. or Emilio AguinaIdoc"
Not Spoiled by Riches.
Airs. John ". Mackay. who has been
-isitllg washington for week or so.
s one of the verv wealthy women Of
he world who has not been spoiled by
yreat riches She was born in afflu-
ence reduced to absolute poverty
wherein she was obliged to do the
hardest kind of manual work. and
gain by fortune was made rich be-
9ond the dreams of avarice. She has
Spent most Of the last twenty years
abroad. and is an accomplished lin
ruist as well as "a close student Of po-
itical and social conditions. She laugh
ngly declares herself an expert min
Ing engineer. and talks entertainingly
1f the early days in California. before
where she and her children shared the
struggles and privations. as they later
Shared the success OF their husband
md father. During her visit in Wash
nEtOn Mrs MaCkay has been sight
seeing like an ordinary visitor. She
has been to the treasury department.
he washington monument has looked
d upon congress in session. and has
been presented to the president. OF
curse. she has been generously enter
aimed while iu the city. and an ele-
CANT dinner WAS given i'm her honor by
dr and Mrs. Thomas r. Walsh, who
-ormaIly opened their magnificent new
esidence on Massachusetts avenue for
he occasion. Mrs. Mackay, although
living abroad. is intensely American.
md Soc declared she enjoyed this, her
1rst visit 10 Washington. more chan
Rny experience she had had FOR years.
The Late Marcus Baker.
The scientific and literary world lost
Hn unassuming but valuable member
his week in the death OF Marcus A.
saker. assistant secretary of the Car
legie Institution. of this city. Mr..
Baker came go Washington in 1873. to
become an assistant 90 the chief of
Inc coast and geodetic survey, with
which he continued thirteen years. Du-
ing this time he Travelled extensively
. Alaska. where he gained an exact
knowledge of the Alaska boundary
question. and was the authority of sew
efal important magazine articles dis
ussing the question involved in the
determination OF the proper boundary.
.ater he was cartOgraRher Of the Vene-
zuelan boundary commission in the de-
termination Of the recent difficulties.
he was the author of a dictionary Of
ALASKAN names. and secretary Of the
National Board of Geographic Names.