The National tribune., 1904-07-28


Navy, directed that the sentence be COM
| muted to simple reprimand Some day,
somebody will make bonfire of the red
| tape in the War and Navy Departments.
| and then there will be something sensible
| doing, and there will be no more Court
Navy forgot some of the ingredients of a
| recipe for cake, or maybe it was whipped
| syllabub. The findings in the case are
silent on this important point.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Rristow will take his leave in the month of
October. and will spend the 80 days
tional ticket. Mr.. Bristow thinks that the
Republicans will win all around.
Miss Drlsilla V. Morgan. who is dead
at MOrgantown. w. Va. at the age of 90
years, was daughter of Capt. u. Nor
gan. who was killed in the defense of
Washington at Bladensburg on Aug. "a,
1914. She was born in the house in Nor
gantown. Va, now West Virginia. which
was built in 1774. and has been occupied
continuously by the Morgan family Her
grandfather Col. u. Morgan, was the
founder of Morgantown, and in the Revo-
lutionary War commanded the Virgin
Minutemen.
BY direction of the President. two sea-
coast batteries on the Fort Moultrie Is. c.
Military Reservation have been named for
Revolutionary soldiers. Battery Thomson.
in honor of Col. William Thomson. Lieu
tenant Colonel. South Carolina Rangers:
Colonel. Sd South Carolina. who was com
l116. for valor displayed i'm the defense of
Charleston. S. c.. June %. 1916. and who
died Nov. %. 1876.
Battery GadSden. i'm honor of Brig. Gen.
Christopher Gadsden. Colonel. 1St South
Carolina: Brigader-G eneral Continental
Army. and who died Aug. %. 1909.
Justice Brewer. of the United States
Supreme Court. has granted writ of err
ror to the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Missouri in the
ease of Senator Joseph r. Burton. con
victed in st. Louis of accepting fee for
services before the Post Office Department
wlile 4 member of the United States Sen
ate The case will be reviewed by the
United States Supreme Court probably in
the Fall.
DR.. Anita Ncwcomb McGce, who left
this city several months ago i'll charge of
10 Red Cross nurses to assist the Japa-
nese. has been appointed Superintendent
of Nurses by the Japanese Red Cross So
ciety. She has also been given the rank
of an officer by the Japanese Government.
The Philadelphia Red Cross Society. un-
der whose auspices DIR. McGee and the
nurses were sent to the Orient. heard Of
this last week In her letter to the Red
Cross Society. DIR. McGee says she and
the nurses will soon go to Hiroshima. the
main base. on the Inland Sea. Baron
OZawa. NicePresident of the Japanese
Red Cross Society, under the direction of
the Minister of War. will accompany the
American nurses to the front. Each Amer
lean i'm the party will have japanese
nurse to accompany and instruct her in the
language, customs and other details.
Third Assistant Postmaster-General
Madden is working out set of rules so
that business men may send third and
fourth class matter through the mails
without the necessity of affixing a stamp to
each individual piece. One of the restrc
tons. however. is that not less than 1000
identical pieces can be mailed ut one time
and before depositing the matter for mail
ing the amount of the postage must be paid
in cash to the Postmaster. This will GER
tainly be a great convenience to men who
have large quantities of mail to handle,
and have to affix stamps to each little
piece. Congress made provision for this
privilege at the last session.
Genial, always smiling. Col. s. r. Burch,
of Kansas. has been appointed by Secre-
tary Wilson as representative of the De-
partment of Agriculture on the Govern
ment Board of the Louisiana Purchase FIX
position, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death Of Col. J. II. Brigham, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture. A better ap-
pointment could scarcely have been made.
Col. Burch is a native of Kansas, and was
an excellent soldier at the time when the
Nation needed men of his caliber. He has
fine executive ability, and has occupied
many positions of responsibility since en-
tering Government service. IA years ago.
Before coming to Washington he was SUI
pervisor of the Census for the Eleventh
District of Kansas, and subsequently re-
ceived transfer to the Bureau here, where
he worked for nine months. At the end Of
that time he was transferred to the Dis
bursting Office of the Department of Agr-
culture, where he became one of the Audi
tors and was later made Chief Clerk of
the Bureau Of Animal Industry His work
in this Department led to his appointment
| as Chief Clerk of the Department of Agri-
culture.
1nspectorGen. Burton and Maj-Gen
Chaffee seem to have joined hands to make
the Army all that it ought to be. Gen.
Chaffee wants only the best of men en-
listed Inspector Gen. Burton insists that
Il
| than to be ''doughboy" lie thinks men
are fitted to do certain things. and that it
isn't much use to try to change the plans
of the Creator. For instance, the West
Point cadets who have elected to 70 into
the cavalry arm Of the service have always
been permitted to do so, regardless of
whether they were fitted for that kind of
service or not. Gen. Burton finds fault
with this manner of offering the cavalry.
| In q report to the War Department he
says that he finds many officers in the cav
airy unsuited for mounted service. Some
| of the men are timd, he says, and in rid
| ing are so afraid of their horses that they
are not sufficiently daring and venturesome
| for cavalry purposes. Others, he says,
| lack admiration for horses, and are con-
sequently hampered, and as a third objec-
ton he urges that too many of the cavalry
officers are too fat! Shades of Shafter |!
What are we coming to, anyhow!
| Just the same the General Staff was so
impressed by Gen. Burtons report that it
was referred to the Academic Board of
West Point, and a change has been made
in the method of assigning this years
graduates to the cavalry. Eight aspirants
who applied for cavalry assignments were
found to lack the requirements mentioned