The National tribune., 1903-10-22
NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON

the result" and then he sat down. The
resolution was dropped like hot potatoes
Uncle Sam has way Of getting along
It is rumored that Leopold J. Stern. who
is up in Canada, may return to the United
States to tell what he knows about the
postal frauds. Mr.. Stern was indicted TO,
accepting payment in full for mail car
riers' satchels which he only supplied in
, fighting extradition. 1t is thought that
! if he comes back and turns States evil
dence, he will get off pretty easy. In any
event. the penalty for him would be about
500 in money and one year in the peni-
Tertiary. and it will cost him heap more
than that to fight eXtradition, and he
5 would have to stay in Jail meantime. 1t
is considered that he can give some pretty
good evidence against others who are in
dicted.
Representative Babcock is having n
rocky time of it up in Wisconsin. Gov.
Robert Nj. La Toilette has started out to
take Mr.. Babcock's scalp, and he is going
a bout ii in Il businesslike way that is cold
as steel chiScls. He has sent out letters
in which he asks five questions. all of them
expressly and emphatically insulting to Mr..
Babcock. He will colate and use the an
swers to these questions in his campaign
will Mr.. Babcock be doing? He is the
kind of man who does not know when he
is licked. That is a pretty tough PROPOSE
ton to meet.
President Roosevelt has appointed John
p. Nields, of Wilmington, Del, District
Attorney, and that is black eye for Mr..
Would-be United States Senator Addicks.
Mr.. Nields was Senator Balls selection for
the place. Senator Alice, the Addicks
Senator, named another man, but the Pres
ident took the bits in his teeth and set
tied matters in hurry.
The United States Barracks at Column
bus, Ohio, were offered for sale at public
auction at 100000. but there were no bid
ders. so they still remain in the hands of
the Government.
The deficit in the Postal receipts for the
the year is S4.j6O. 600. which is more than
a million below the estimate which was
made a year ago. The total transactions
of the Postal service for the year. nclud
ing the money Order system, was 81 .O23.-
I31 .4OS. During the six years of Auditor
| Castle incumbency the aggregate of finan-
cial transactions which have been audited
and settled in the Bureau amount to five
| thousand millions of dollars.
pected to be one of the grandest buildings
of its kind in the word, will cost alto
gether S14OO00G0, of which the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad pays S1.10O.0OO. the Balti
more Il Ohio Railroad S4.5G0.G00, and the
District of Columbia S2.O00OOO 1t is not
at all clear to many people why the Dis
trict of Columbia should have to con
tribute so enormously to bring the rail
roads into the city. Elsewhere they have
to pay for such privileges. There have
| been suits entered to restrain the payment
of the District of Columbia's allotment,
bat it is believed that they will not amour;
| TO anything.
How does the following stack uD as an
exhibit for the manner in which the land
of the free and the home of the brave
takes to its bosom the benighted of the
world! The Department of Commerce
and Labor, the baby member of the Cabi-
net, ha, just completed compiling immigra
! ton statistics of the last so years. The
hgures are calculated TO surprise even TIE
well-informcd. for no attempt has ever be
! fore been made to present the totals of the
| immigration from the old world to the
new. No statistics are avalab back OF
1870. no records were kept. But since
that year. 2O,nv.dJO people have come to
us from other lands. The number of for
eign-born people in the United States to-
foreign parentage is 26,0OOOOO. In 1920
1886 aliens came to this country. Last
year, S5O,0i3 came.
The two-cent stamp is to be changed
again. Nobody liked it. The face OF
Washington looked like that of benevo
lent old Alderman, and the flags looked
liked red striped yacht pennants. The new
stamp Will have n shield in colOrs, and
a better picture of Washington. The main
difference will be in having the shield in
coiors instead of the flags.
A shcrt time ago Washington school
teacher was to read paper before a num-
Der of ladies. The paper was not writ
ten by her, but She had kindly consented
to read it. She came to the words 'subOr
nation of perjury over which she STUN
bied previously, and then looking I'D she
finally pronounced it "subordination of
perjury" and remarked naively, La
dies, maybe you know what that means;
l don't!'
The United States troops in Cuba and
Porto Rico are said to be much healthier
| than in this country or the Philippines.
The National Butchers Association has
been holding its sessions in Washington,
and has stirred things up lively in some
ieSpeCLS. IoT lHStIlcc, waiter fIeiIeT
of st. Louis, Vice-President of the West
ern Butchers Association, goes on record
as saying that embalmed beef isn't the
worst ever, by any means. He says that
much of the storage beef used through
out the United States is so old that it is
actually poisonous. Meat is kept in cool
ers till it has mold all over it. This is
poisonous. Of course, il is partially wash
ed off with soda, and other preparations
known to cooks, before it is used" he says.
but he is yet of the opinion that one is
running great risks in eating such beef.
He also says that the freezing of beef
to preserve it should not be permitted. In
fact, he says a good many things about
packing house beef that leads one to all
but resolve to be a vegetarian.
Secretary Wilson, Of the Agricultural
Department, has been advised by Great
Britain that she has raised the embargo
on cattle and sheep from New England
ports. This marks the conclusion Of the
| work done by the Agricultural Depart
ment in stamping out the oot-and mouth
disease in the New England States. Sec
rotary Wilson regards this the most inn
pOrtant work that has ever been done by
the Department for American Agriculture.
mo country" he says, "has before sue
ceeded in stamping out such an extensive
outbreak of this disease. The work was
accomplished under great difficulties The
weather in New England last December
was very Indictment, and the inspectors and
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