The National tribune., 1903-03-12
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The Democrats OF the Senate at last
have leader. Senator.G German had beer
rendered the position of minority leader
before he had been a rehabilitated mem
Der of that body IL hours. He accepted
the honor with thanks.
The dusky ex-Queen of the Hawaiian
Islands, Mrs. Dominis, or better known as
Queen ILL., President Cleveland's favor
lite sovereign, didn't get the 100000 for
the Grown Lands" which never were
hers, and which she consequently could
not hold and could not sell.
In the closing hours of Congress some
body tackled onto the Immigration bill a
ing liquors of any character shall be sold
within the Capitol Building of the United
States, and it passed!
Representative Lacey, Of Iowa, is
aroused over the proposition to place the
sthtue Of Robert Il. Lee in the Capitol
81. the Nation. He says that the next
thing that will be done the Virginia Leg
slature will be wanting to put in the
Brown, under the guise of their having
performed patriotic service" Mr..
Lacey says that Virginia is acting in very
bad faith, in his opinion, in asking that
Lees statue shall be placed in the Hall
of Heroes"
Apropos of the Lee statue is a bill that
was introduced in Congress in the closing
hours by Representative Weeks, of Michi-
gan, which has made the Southern menu
bers tear their hair and rend their gar
ments. The text of the bill is as follows:
Whereas John Brown, Of Osawatomie,
Kan, was instrumental in Kidding the
United States of the curse of human
slavery; and
Whereas the State of Virginia and
other Southern States of the Union were
particularly benefited by his disinterested
and philanthropic career in behalf of the
oppressed; therefore
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
statue of John Brown, of Osawatomie,
Kan, in marble or bronze, with appr0pri-
ate pedestal, be erected in or upon the
United States Custom House and Post
office Building or grounds in the city of
Richmond, in the State of Virginia, and
that the sum of $3.50 be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriate
ed. to pay for the same and the necessary
expenses attending the erection and dedi-
cation.
Sec. 9. That n Commission consisting
of the Secretary of the Treasury, the At
tOrneyGeneral and the Secretary of War
be, and the same is hereby. constituted
and appointed and charged with the duty
of carrying out the provisions of this reso-
luton"
it is said that member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. who is also men,
Der of the House, will introduce the bill
at the beginning of the next session and
that he proposes to push the bill in case
the Lee statue project is also pressed.
To show how the shoe fits when on the
other foot, the following interview is
given. 1t is characteristic of the men who
desire the veterans to do all the forgiving
and all the forgetting: Representative
Maynard, of Virginia, who had the resolu-
ton Of Mr.. Weeks called to his attention,
expressed himself as being Disguised with
its provisions.
"dy State did not. appreciate John
Browns 'disinterested and philanthropic
and our people do not take kindly
to such ideas as that which is. contained
in. the resolution introduced by Represent.
alive Weeks. The State and people Of
Virginia would resent and resist in every
possible way the accomplishment of the
plan outlined by the gentleman from
Michigan and the men whom he doubtless
~. ..-a 4
Secretary Moody has decided 10 name
three of the big 16,0O0-ton battleships the
Vermont, Kansas and Minnesota.
Il
Miss Edith Newlands, daughter of the
new Senator from Nevada, is one of the
finest whips in the East, and is an excel
lent horsewoman.