The National tribune., 1903-11-19

decorated are mnde of kind Of cement
Ami mixture a'r Of and. and some n.
found hole as big as his hand in the bach
of one Of the ricket6 ookirg cherubs
which perch at the feettpf Victory. 1t i:
a pity that an electric car canDc- run
away just there some " and NOW the
whole thing down.
| 1t has been discovered that the carr
in which the flour for thP Washington
market is hauled are pnsRSakably filthy
| and that they must necessarily taint every
| ounce of flour that is carried in them
Col. Haskell, Sealer rsOf Weights anG
Measures for the District.,,so reports il
his statement to the Commissioners.
Wouldn't it be funny il the Nationa
| Capitol has to worry laiong without
restaurant? The "bar-keeps" who have
been running a restaurant on the sldf
declare that they cannot make a livinl
| by selling grub alone. They say thai
all their profit came from selling the drinks
| that went with the orders for food. They
declare that to keep even they will have
to serve an inferior quality of food. Thosf
| who have had to ent at the Capitol viii
naturally wonder how it would be possi
BILE to set up more inferior meal thar
has been served there for number OF
years. \ cup of coffee that is boiled From
week in to week out costs 10 cents. Rolls
are 10 cents dozen. but it costs 10 cents
for two at the Capitol restaurants. The
hest of pies cost 20 cents each; the Cap
itol restaurants dole out the slices SD that
they make 40 cents profit on each. Oysters
sell for q cents a gallon. 1t costs you
25 cents for six in watery sort of a
stew at the Capitol restaurant. On Oys
ters they make about 200 per cent.
The man who runs Capitol restaurant
gets it rent free. He does not pay for gas
and his heat costs him nothing. He pays
no water rent. He has snap. in other
words. Yet he kicks because he cannot
sell beer, or wine. or whisky.
While it was really great joke-that
Of shutting out the selling Of spurious
liquors in the CaptoI-it was done, good
and hard, and the Joint Resolution is now
law. While many of those who voted
for it, or let it go without voting at all
would very gladly have the thing undone
it is not at all probable that there is a
single member of either body who dares
to face the temperance sentiment of the
country and vote to have. liquors sold in
the Capitol restaurants. There will not be
majority for it anyhow.
Just what is going to happen nobody
knows. There are members of Congress
who want a drink about every half hour.
Where are they going to get it? There
is no drinking place within half mile
of the Capitol where NJ. C.'s would want
to be found dead. They do not want to
carry bottle with them all the time, for
that might lead to complications. Really,
fl,., cit se, ,trrf,t
drinking mans standpoint 1t used to be
the fashion to have whisky brought up in
"a teacup and placed on a members desk
when he was going to make long con
tinued speech. That was what allied Clark
OF Alabama. when he asked in maudlin
manner, Where am / at|' From the
galleries the stuff looked like cold tea or
bouillon, but it smelled like-well the odor
told the story, and the Sergeant-at-Arms
very often had to do the rest.
Rear-Admiral Bradford, q Chief Of the
Bureau of Equipment Is quite earnest in
his views as to the insuffiiiency Of our
foreign coal depGts. 1Wenecd many more,
but none was acquired last year.. The
Department last year bought 4S7, ,065 tons
OF coal abroad at an average price of So
q ton. ,o- = go
and especially for the philippines. Only
an Insignificant fraction of the Philippines
area has been chartedeso that it can be
sailed with confidence. 7c. /
TIE Admiral strongly opposes the trans
fer to the Department. Commerce and
Labor Of the photographic Office. the
Naval Observatory. and the Nautical Al
maze Office, because these are necessary
o,ftu in
ton for war. and should be under the jur-
isdiction Of sea-going. combatant officers
instead Of civilians.
The prospects are bright for a fine
home for the Bureau Of American Re
publics. Every one Of the Nations of
South and Central America, except Colon
bis and Brain has appropriated money
for the building, and our Congress will be
asked to give $4,000 as the share of the
United States and to set apart q suitable
site.
-,es6 ~
The Board of Ordnance and Fortifca-
tions refuses to make public the report
Of the failure Of the Langley fying-ma-
chine
Maj.-Gen. Chaffee and Brig. Gen. Gil
1espie have left Washington for the pur-
pose of consulting with the naval officers
in Cuba on the division Of the land in
the naval stations at Guantanamo and
Bahia Honda, between the Army and
Navy. The stations are to be strongly
fortified, with the best Of guns, which will
be under the control Of the Army. The
lines between the military and naval con-
troll will have to be accurately determined
Mr.. Charles Stewart, Superintendent Of
the Navy Department Library and Naval
War Records, recommends that Congress
increase the number of volumes issued,
and that sets be supplied to Union and
Confederate volunteer officers. In the vol
umes about to be published the operations
of the Confederate navy will be complete
iy presented for the first time. This in
cludes the history Of the warfare carried
on in the smaller aters, bayous, bays,
and inlets. Mr.. Stewart also urges, and
his recommendation should be carried
into effect, that the records Of the ea rlier
history of the navy of the United States,
including the Colonial period. the Revo-
luton. the battles against the French, the
Tripolitans, the War Of 1912, and the
operations against the West Indian
pirates, and in the Mexican War, should
be gathered edited. and published.
Representative DaIzeII says that the
elections have not the least effect upon the
prospects Of President Roosevelt for nomi-
nation. That is fixed now, and nothing
on earth can prevent 1t. The elections
are about what should have been expected
in an of year.
Postmaster General, in his report urges
that there shall be pension system for
the railway mail clerks, which he says Is
a service second only in danger to that in