The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-30
WASHINGTON LEl1LR
Capitol News by Special Cor
respOndenCe

at Gettysburg, until after the eiectioh
In November, did not speak by the
card. He has made two since the Get
tysburg effort, the last of which was a
long address at Valley Forge, Pa,
stopping over NIGHT on the 10Th ins:.,
on his way back to this city from
HYDE Park, N. Y, where he went to
attend a Roosevelt wedding. He was
the guest of Attorney General. now
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania who has
recently purchased a beautiful country
seat of some 900 acres at VALLEY Forge,
where he proposes to reside most of
the time while he is a Senator. He
also owns a magnificent houee on *
st eet in Washington, as well as q
home in Pittsburg, of which he is a cit
izen. Valley FORGE and its history In
snired the President, and he told his
audience thai the le7son of Valley
Forge was the lesson OF humdrum, every
day hardworking life. doing ones best
all the time and waiting patiently
for TIE result. TIE President hurried
back to Washington. He SAYS he. has
liiCf III III us Va
visit nlaces ard make speeches. He
recently surp ised every one by offe~-
ing to Paul Morton of Nebraska who
a few weeks ago was a Democrat, TIE
ce~c~ta~yship of the NAVY. Mr.. Morton
brs the matter under advisement. 1t
is given out hat Mr.. Victor H. Met
calf will be the new Secretary of COM
merce and Labor. On the 20th. the
President received the Ve'e~ans' Asso-
citation of the Twent.-third REGIMENT
If Brooklyn, N. Y. AS he shook hands
with the soldiers he reminded them
that the ideal they should have in view
is to do full dut.r in c~ivate ard civil
life and be able to handle themselves
when called 10 a~rrr. On Tuesday the
'~ssident received Cardinal Sato"a
new envoy from Rome who is on his
way to the st. Louis Exposition. The
meeting in which Secretary Cortelyou
naade his last appearance before hur-
ying to Chicago. The Slocum disaster
in New York was discussed at length,
and Mr.. Cortelyou advised the Presi-
dent of the scope of the proposed in
v~estigation. The President now ex-
poets to go to Oyster Bay on the I'd of
July.
Officials in Washington express much
satisfaction over the mastery speech
delivered by Elihu Root in Chicago in
which he summed W the work accom-
-If-t,ol -, tlo Dor,bIton- 30 - - J.wino-
The fret fifty years of its existence. IL
is retarded as a we'll OF information
f ON which one may draw ample CAM
paign material.
Nothing goes so we'll in Washington.
or elsewhere as a banquet. Even in
New York, when TIE whole city was
plunged into distress and mourning,
there was a big banquet in prog ess at
Delmonico's with Wlaitelaw Red pre-
siding and Bishop Potter telling funny
stories. TIE no-t notable thing of tire
kind in this cit-f was the dinner Just
given BY Secretarv Taft to Cardinal
Satolli, who entered the p~alm-decor-
ated room in his sea let robes. The din
ner was in return for the same COM
oliment extended to the Secreta Y by
the Cardinal when he was in Rome ne
gotiating about the friars in the Phil
ppines. Although it is summer hot In
Washington, Mr.. Taft a a notable al
ay of guests at His table including
Archbishop Farley of New York. Arch
bishop Ireland, Gene al Chaffee. Adj
miral Dewey, Secretary MOODY, Chief
Justice Arellano of the Philippines m
Justice Brown of the SUP eme Court.
OF course the Cardinal said grace.
Your correspondent called at the or
fee of the Panama Commission yes
terday ard learned that it is expected
hat a year or eighteen months viii
elapee before any cont acts for digging
the big canal can he let. BY the end oe
that time no one can fortell whet the
surveys will develop. Secretary Taft
and the Panama Commission lave
agreed that the cold currency Of the
United States shall Re the legal ten
der in Paroma and the money OF Pam
anna shall be LEGAL terder in The canal
zone. This agreement is yet To ID rat
fled by the constitutional convention Of
Panama.
If hard times happen 10 strike the
country lust as the campa!sn opens,
and if they should contirre until NO.
vembe~, Il would Re unfortunate Tor
all concerned. Those y ARE watch
ing the situation here in Washington
say there has beer an aim pst coni-
plete cessation Of tn causes 'hicn led
to the comparative ~sta-aaiton o. the
last ten months. Mucn of the intia-
ton has been eNwir4t "a from cFtr.ta
and the voice of TIE o yer AID
boone" is no loneer head iE the land.
DR.. Salmon OF the Department OF Agri-
culture, says the reason beef is so high
is because cattle are scarce. And the
reason sugar has .on up Is because 1t
too. is scarce. But big crops a.e every