The National tribune., 1903-10-08
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President wants much more rapidly as
soon as the House convenes in December.
Some of them add significantly that the
President may not be sustained, anyhow;
but that is conjecture
The Central Labor Union has an
nounced that it has accepted the Presl-
dents decision that the Government
| Printing Office is an "open shop, anu
though they think it will set back the
Union p years, they will not oppose ms
reelection 1t is claimed that the labor
organiza ton shrank from any lnVestga-
ton into the Government Printing Office,
| fearing it would show their domination
there in no favorable light.
The death of Sir Michael Herbert,
British ambassador to the United States,
came as Il distinct shock to everybody III
| this country who had ever known nm.
ambassador Herbert had been IN the
| United States but short time in his hlgn
capacity, but he was here a NUMBER f., VI
wears ago as an attache of the British En-
bassy. and was much liked then, feeling
which grew as the American people be-
came better acquainted with him.
Sir Michael Herbert was charming
man to meet personally, and his American
wife. nee Miss Leila Wilson. of New 1ork,
together with her distinguished husband,
made the British Legation one of the most
| interesting and entertaining places to Visit
| in Washington. 1t is not always that men
who occupied the position that Sir Michael
did can be unreserved!y praised. For Sir
Michael one hears and has heard only
praise. He was gentleman IN the high
est sense of the word. While his states
manlike qualities had been but briefly
tested. he had commended himself to ev-
erybody by his interchangeable labors in the
| Venezuelan matters, and as he was just
in the prime of life, five years short of
! so. promising career lay before him.
Sir Michael was very sick man when
he left the United States. and his close
friends knew that his case was almost
hopeless. Quick consumption had claimed
him for Il victim. and he died in Switzer-
land of that dread disease. Wednesday,
Sept. 80.
OF course there is a great deal of con
| lecture about who may succeed Sir
| Michael. Nothing will be done about it
until the late ambassador is laid away in
the ancestral tomb. but current gossip has
it that Sir Thomas Upton would be will
| ing to accept the Office of ambassador II
teIluefpu MIN, anu llldl lue Uuittu States
| would welcome him with open arms. III
Sir Thomas is no better diplomat than he
| is cup-lifter, England might suffer, for she
has had some excellent ambassadors III
Washington this last generation or two.
However. Sir Thomas has made hosts of
friends in the United States. and man
who can bear so gracefully three defeats,
hand running. as was the case when the
Shamr0ckS raced the American boats. has
| InpI in
prove just as acceptable an ambassador
as he has a friend.
Representative Hemenway. of Indiana,
close personal friend ex-senator Fair
banks, is in the city, and he declares that
Senator Fairbanks is not a Presidential
candidate. and that he will not be a can
didate for the Vice-Presidency. Mr..
Hemenway says that Indiana is for
Roosevelt for President. As Mr.. Hem
enway is close enough to Senator Fair
banks to speak by the card" this ought
to be considered conclusive.
Representative Hemenway is in favor of
a Congressional investigation of the Post
Office Department scandals, and has so
informed the President. The President is
also said to favor an investigation. feeling
that if the investigation now winding up
in the Department has not been thorough
enough Congress will 90 as deep as is
| necessary to get the facts. If the investi-
CATION which is concluding has been thor
ough. the Congressional investigation need
not be extensive. 1t is regarded as Ger
| tain that the President will agree with
other Republicans that there should be
an investigation of all Departments of the
Government in which charges of corrup-
| ton have been made. Furthermore the
| President will probably insist ON such an
| investigation.
During the hot Summer months the of
| ficers of the army stationed in Washing
ton are permitted to wear ordinary street
attire. but with the coming of October the
order has been issued by the Secretary Of
War for all officers to don their uniforms
during office hours. There has been a
great deal of growing over this order to
wear uniforms all the time. The officers
say that it is expensive, and, then. they
do not like to make the routine duties of
| the War Department seem to be Army"
duties. They will not wear their uniforms
on the street, SO that it is necessary for
them to be constantly changing, and they
consider it good deal of fuss and feath-
| erS.
| 1t is said that the President has ex-
pressed himself as perfectly disguised
with the condition of affairs in the Repub-
lican party in Delaware and has ordered
the factions to get together He is of the
opinion that the election of a Democratic
Mayor of Wilmington was due to the
quarrels in the Republican party, and he
doesn't like it a little bit.
The Post Office Department has been
looking up the subject of penalty en-
velopes, and the result is the cutting off
of their use except for purely business and
routine matters, in almost every De-
partment of the Government The very
last order is that articles bought for off
GERS and enlisted men of the army shall
not be sent in penalty envelopes, free.
The monthly circulation statement Of the
Comptroller of the Currency shows that nj
the close of business Sept 30 the amount
of national bank notes in circulation was
$40, 42f.I35, an increase for the year of
SOB. .937, and an increase for the month
of 81 ,S3S,560. The amount of circulation
based on United States bonds was 1919,
515,S24, an increase for the year of $55,-
612,6SO. and a decrease for the month of
S5GO.49S. The amount of circulation Sc
cured by lawful money was S40,910,711, a
decrease Cor the year of 50 239. 743, and an
increase for the month of So, 399O 56 The
amount of registered bonds on deposit to
secure circulating notes was 1881. 4S4. $50,
and to secure public deposits, $l6i,214,
872.
Corcoran Art Gallery is once more
opened to the public. 1t has been closed
for three months, much to the disgust of
Summer tourists who think that seeinp