The National tribune., 1904-08-18
U. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

Friday, August IL ......... 1852 01603
Saturday, August 1a. -. 1.27s ,ass. 81
Monday. August Is. i...S.. 1.7ss, ,eos.5o
just in time to get into the midst Of the
border troubles. He TasR fghter-with
his brains and tongue. and they early won
him renown. He was a member OF the
Confederate Congress, in the lower House,
early in the war, and later was sent to the
Senate. He is not credited with anything
particularly brilliant at that time, and ex-
cept as a sturdy supporter Of all good
measures, for Senator Vests name was
never connected with anything that had
Job" in it, he never did anything very
brilliant in the United States Senate. He
could hold his own in debate pretty well,
but even his weapons fell before men like
John j. ingalls,.
While gentle as a woman, Senator Vest
was mighty petulent at times, even moody.
He offended his very best friends by his
brusqueness, and would all but cry over
it an hour later. Many reasons were as
signed for this strange phase of his char
acter, by his friends, but the late Repre-
sentative Heard, of Missouri, summed it
all up in one word Liver" AS racon-
teur Vest had probably not~a superior. In
his later years that was his strong hold in
the cloak rooms, to sit and smoke and tell
stories He all but alienated a good many
Of his friends because he could not forgo
the temptation to point story with their
foibles.
In his later years Senator Vest tried to
defend Jefferson Davis, whom he got to
know very well during the days he served
in the Confederate Congress. He had
high admiration for the President of the
COnfederacy. He insistently denied the re-
port that at the Hampton Roads confer
H. ~ oc A.,
war Lincoln wrote Union" at the top of
a sheet of paper and told Stevens to write
below it whatever terms he pleased, and
that Davis would not permit Stevens and
the Confederate Commissioners to accept
Lincoln's terms. Senator Vest declared
that the story was an Invention, and had
no foundation in fact All the same his
tory amply supports 1t.
An Igorrote is cross between an In
dian, negro, Chinaman, and q Turk.
He is small, he is dark. with rather thick
lips like a negro, has the straight glossy
black hair Of the Indian, which is worn
banged as the Pueblos and Zuni Indians
wear theirs, big black eyes like the Otto
ture of all these, and more like that of
Chinaman, though it lacks that horrible
"yellow" which the sons of Confucius all
have. He isn't pretty, the 1gorrote but
the specimens which have visited Wash
ington do not look in the least like the
savage head hunters which their history
has painted them to be. There were five
of them landed on the President one day
last week-fve Igorrotes and three be-
longing to the Moro tribe. They really
created little excitement in this town so
saturated with notables, but that may be
accounted for by the fact that the Chinese
Enfba ssador, and the Turkish Minister and
b. Ill e
the belaced push is out of town.
go a.
Despite all that has been said, the
1gorrotes wear clOthesAwhen they must.
The clothes were not made for them, and
might have come out of q misft shop.
They are nlisfit all Fight. Some of the
clothes were white duck, at least they
were duck, and supposedly they had been
white. The long trousers were rolled up
guests were barelegged and
They have small feet, like the
Indian. These half-baked savages under
stand some OF the American Indian dia-
lects, too. This goes to slow, as some sci
entists think, that the 1gorrotes are some
kin to our American Indians, but an In
dian wouldn't have, anything more to do
Chinaman. One of the outfit wore tan silk
pajamas, but his beads and bracelets
and other ornaments made up for paucity
of raiment otherwise. Two wore trousers
and coats Of silk, and nothing else, ex-
cept an, oh, the pity of it, cheap tan
tangle Of gold-colored designs, and fas-
tened close to the throat Under that was
another tangle Of designs. tattooing. if
you please, blue on tan ground, just
India ink or indigo and Igorrote skin, you
know. and when that coat was unbut-
toned, which it was most of the time you
got view of such tattooing as you will
rOte.
OF course. they could not talk English.
They jabber a sort Of polyglot Spanish,
and their interpreter was little 15-year
old youngster named Antero He could
ipino boy Is just as smart-Alecky as the
American or any other boy of that age.
He didn't like his clothes little bit. He
hitched them up exactly as the sailors in
comic operas do, and just about as often.
If he hadn't, you felt morally sure that he
would be run in for indecent exposure
He saw everything that was going on. and
then some, and he had question for it,
as we'll as a pert answer for every ques-
ton that was asked him. He took nothing
on trust. Having come from Missouri, he
had TO be shown.
The party as has been said, included
three Moros and FIVE Igorrotes The
Moros were: Datto Facundo, half brother
of Rajah Muda, overlord Of the Samal
Moro tribe; Gallo and Sapuchi, his armed
guards, who accompany him in all his
travels. The Igorrotes were: Antonio.
chief; Antero, interpreter: Lemoeos, priest;
Chinoliu, judge. These were all Boutoc
IgOrrOtes. In addition there was Baucas-
san, chief Of the Suyoc Igorrotes.
They met a curious crowd when they
landed in Washington, but they are used
to that now They were piled into a rub
ber-tired automobile 'bus' and carried to
the Indian boarding house, where they
got breakfast and bath, from which they
emerged with shining brown skins, over
which they were obliged to pull the little
clothing referred to before, much to their
disgust. '"roo hot" said Antero, the kid,
too hot, no like little bftr' They
are learning the vernacular fast. They were
then taken to the White House to see and
shake hands with the big White Chief"
President Roosevelt met them in the East
Room, and he enjoyeds the situation i'm
mensely. He couldn't understand a word
they said to him, or they. a. word that he
sa ID to them. but the kd got in his work
all right. With all the posnposity imagi-
nable he interpreted tiis words of each,
and II In Oprfpcflv sa fus fn.s aav that tl,c