The National tribune., 1904-01-21

tence after this fashion: ..The gentleman
from Indiana's remarks are clearly set
ferth," etc. Another very bad break is
the use OF .ain'tn for ''isn't." 'sHave
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| As q matter OF fact, IL the House Htenog-
raphers were to send the debates of the
Heuse to the printer exactly as they fall
from the lips Of the Members, there would
Of tho House very speedily. Even after
the Stenographer has dressed the remarks
up grSmmafically. the Member will GO
OF the proof with a blue pencil till the
slips look as though they might have
sma ilpox. Things look SO differently in
cold black and white from what they do
when heard in the heat Of earnest debate
/ 1t is quite probable that $3.50. 900 will
soon be made available for the purpose of
fighting the boil weeviI, which is about to
ruin the cotton crops of the South, particu-
priated, is to be expended under the direc-
ton of the Secretary of Agriculture.
| Another batch of presents from foreign
potentates and powers to our Ministers,
Consuls and soldiers abroad has been
scheduled to Congress. and the Senate yet
remains obdurate: Dear, dear!
In 1897 new law for the exclusion of
bad teas went into effect. 1t was shown
at the hearings before the Committee at
that time that the United States was get
ting the very worst teas that had ever
been put on the market, and that these
| teas wero loaded down with deleterious
substances, but that they were sold cheap
| ~, and. in ignorance of the vile stuff they
were really buying, the people of the coun-
Try purchased tho cheap tea. Two New
York importers Of tea, who have been re-
belling against the law, which reduced
| their income sharply, and who want to
bring in the vile mixtures with which they
flooded the country in previous years. have
carried their objections up to the Supreme
| Court Of the United States, and are soon
| to have q hearing. The law as It sands
| now provides for the appointment b. the
Secretary ct the Treasury OF q board of
seven experts in teas, who are required
to prepare and submit to the Secretary
| nen1Gion of the board the Secretary Of
the Treasury establishes standards of puri-
| ty, quality. and fitness for consumption
| of all kinds Of teas imported into the
country.
It is well-known fact that some Of the
Pennsylvania Members of Congress have
large property interests in Pennsylvania
which demand their personal attention,
and this has often left the delegation de-
pleted on a roll call. The absences have
been so frequent and prolonged that the
newspapers of the State, notably in Phila-
delphia and Pittsburg, have been each day
naming those Pennsylvania Members who
were net at the Capitol attending to their
duties The Members take pains. now. to
walk down in front OF the Speaker in full
view Of the Press Gallery, two or three
constituent objects to, it is having his
particular Statesman Sinking his duties.
The Post Office Department has been
trying automobiles a. mail wagons in the
District, and they are an utter failure.
The constant stopping and starting wears
ont tho fnAchinery 80 rapidly that it made
the repairs amount to an enormous sum.
All sorts Of expedients were tried. but all
| in vain. The automobile company tried
its best to get its wagons to do the bust
ness which faithful old horses have so long
performed, but the experiment has been
ahandoned.
Old Fort Marcy has finally and fully run
its course and has been abandoned by the
Government as military post 1t is one
OF the picturesque and historic points of
Old Santa Fe, and was the outpost Of
now part Of Kansas City, No, to Santa
Fe, New Mexico, for % years or more. 1t
was established on the high bluffs over
looking the old city sometime in 1916, and
the Forty miners" who set out to search
for gold in the Rockies made Santa Fe
their resting place for months, before going
ON into the unexplored Businesses OF the
monntains which doomed up further west.
Fort Marcy was their only protection from
the Indians, who practically owned the
whole country to the California line In
those days, and some Of the most awful
massacres in Indian history have the old
Fort for their center 1t was in Santa
Fe that the Jesuits established their foot
hold IN the West, and one OF the finest
monasteries of that order stands to-day.
over 200 years old. It was near to Old
Fort Marcy that the Aztecs are said to
have deposited the holy fire brought from
Mexico when Cortez invaded their sacred
towns and destroyed their gods. The Gov
eminent has presented the old fort to the
city of Santa Fe. and it will be turned into
a graded and high school, The reservation
lis valued at 100000, and lies now in the
heart Of Santa Fe.
Secretary Root has recommended to the
Appropriations Committee of the House
that 5000 be appropriated for the erec-
ton Of new Amphitheater at Arlington.
The one in use now is not large enough
for the distinguished guests who are in
vited to attend the Memorial Day cere-
monies there. to say nothing OF trying to
crowd into the space $1,000 people, when
it will accommodate, at the utmost, but
1,500.
Memorial Post. Cleveland, o.
Memorial Post. al, Department of
Ohio, Cleveland o., entered the new year
with 652 comrades in good standing. In
1903 the following were mustered out:
B. NJ. Barton, co. G, 10Th and 104th Ohio,