The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-06-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The President still fingers here. He
addressed the Grand Army from the plat.
form at Gettysburg on Monday. For
active headquarters of Republican con-
ference. Just now he is pretty busy re-
plying to delegations of prominent: Re-
publicans who do not wholly approve OF
the appointment of Mr.. Cortelyou as
manager of the campaign. 1t is reported
that the President is somewhat irritated
by these meddlers, and says he appointed
Cortelyou because they would not be sat-
is6ed with anybody else.
There are twelve or fifteen Republican
Senators in the city looking after various
interests besides fence-fxing. The most
of them are on business for their constit-
uents, but some are earnestly trying to
serve the public by devising measures for
the modification of executive methods
These will be presented and urged next
winter. One aims at the uni6cation of
those bureaus which are all doing sub.
stantially the same thing, and doing it
over and over without any public benefit.
Secretary Whitney did much effective
work in this line, recognizing as far as
possible the various bureaus and divisions
of supply. Tits well known that the new
cruisers built by him were mostly paid for
by the economies thus introduced and
enforced.
1t is now purposed to do similar and
much needed work. There are six bu-
reaus of statistics where there ought to be
but one. There are four or FIVE hydro
graphic bureaus, run on methods contra
dictory to each other, and it is proposed
to roll these into one. There are thirteen
printing Offices. The Geological Survey
has done and is doing a great and inval-
liable work, i'll mapping on large scale
the entire surface of the United States,
but it is a work which obviously belongs to
the Land Office, with which the Geolog-
ical Survey has nothing whatever to do.
That bureau has developed another func-
ton whose Improbable activities under
c. D. Walcott should be reduced by dras-
tic methods, if not entirely abolished
Reference is made to the publication of
bulletins consisting of speculations so
abstruse and even esoteric that to almost
all readers they are incomprehensible as
the mystic dreams of the Middle Ages.
The law forbids the giving away of the Sc
booklets; they can be obtained only by
purchase. There is one which cost many
thousands of dollars and was published
many years ago, which has sold only eight
copies-and the author of it announced
that fact with pride, alleging that two
had bought the document by mistake be-
cause there are only six people in the
United States who could understand it. !
quote from that book as follows:
1--WE are able to commutate as it were
the combined Aexual and bifilar couples
relative TO the tortional couple or fixed
sine. If the temperature CO.
efficients of physics reformation should
hold similar generic relations to the
amount of reformation that the temper
ature cofficient of electrical conductivity
hold TO the conductivity, then an investi
cation like the present might reasonably
be expected to lead to results bearing
directly on the mechanism of electrical
resistance.
In speaking of hysterisis the author
says: "In this oscillatory march (time as
abscissa) since each reformation (ordi-
uate) now begins where the preceding de
formation ceased, continuous series of
cycles is necessarily generated. :.
Fortunately the context of our paper is
sufficiently clear and does not admit Of
serious misapprehension."
understand that one OF the two search
ers after truth who bought this bulletin
by mistake went over to ST. Elizabeth's
Insane Asylum. to see if he could find the
author. Seriously, is it not high time
that the government ceased to pay mil
lions of dollars every year for investiga-
tons into the occult sciences?
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The troubles of the Red Cross Society
do not seem to be at all ended by the res
ignation of Miss Clara Barton and the
election of Mrs. John A. Logan as Pres
ident. Those who protested and still
protest against Encouragement and NAL
feasance are minority of the executive
committee, but they are people of world
wide distinction, while the stand pat"
party are obscure. The former demand
IA resignation of all the officers and the
appointment of president by the Pres
ident of the United States, with board
of control of eighteen members. OF
course the Red Cross Society will never
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