The National tribune., 1904-08-11
u. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

Monday, Aug. ......es.s. l,S4,Oo9.Si
Canal Zone, and particularly the Isthmus
of Panama. The trip Isl to be taken be-
tween election day and the convening of
Congress the first Monday in December.
Col Hepburn has long been identified
with Isthmian Canal mfttefs, and he, as
Chairman of the Committee. and his as
sOciates on the committee, believe it would
be desirable that they should familiarize
themselves with the situation there so that
| the Legislative needs of the American zone
on the lsthmus, especially those relating
| to the government of the zone, may be con-
sidered by the committee in the light of
personal observation.
Senator Hopkins. a member of the In
teroceanc Canals Committee of the Sen
ate, approves of Col. Hepburn's plan, and
expressed the belief that his colleagues on
the Senate committee would desire to be
included in any visit made by members
| of Congress to the Isthmus. The plan is to
sail from Norfolk, Va, directly to Colon,
with as many members of both the Senate
and House committees as will make the
| trip. The project has THE hearty indorse-
| ment of President Roosevelt who will ex-
tend to the committees all possible assist
ance from the Executive branch of the
| Government.
|
Gen. Davis. Governor of the Panama
Canal Zone. was cabled to come home he
cause of the serious illness of his wife,
who was at Big House. UP in the AdirOn-
dacks. Gen. Davis left Immediately for
the north. but Mrs. Davis died last Friday
night. before the General could reach her
side.
The old Monahansett which was Gen
Grants dispatch boat during the war of
the rebellion. and which now belongs to
went ashore in big fog off Misery Island
the other night and is complete wreck.
She was built in 1862.
Secretary Morton is just everlastingly
stirring things up in his Department. He
asked one of his Division Chiefs a ques-
tion about some materials the other day.
The Division Chief called up the Chief
Clerk. the Chief Clerk called up the AS
Chief Clerk, in turn, asked mere clerk
for the information desired. 1t was then
returned to the Secretary Of the Navy. in
dorSed through the same channels. Then
| the Secretary of the Navy got busy. He
believes that Division Chief should know
| things without having to ask through half
Il dozen channels some subordinate clerk
| He has brought to the Navy Department
the direct methods of acquiring informa-
| tiOn in vogue OF Il wideawake Western
railroad, where the head of a Department
knows exactly what is going on, and does
not have to get his information second or
| third hand. Secretary Morton has in
| formed the Chiefs and others in authority
| in his Department that hereafter, when he
wants to know how much material there is
M a nd rf n rt m ha Inf
of that Department is going to answer the
query right off, or he is going to know the
reason why. 1t has given the Navy De-
partment an awful jolt, but has already
| resulted in an improvement in the manner
of acquiring informal ton in that Depart
ment of the Government:
| Once in a while the Government wins
out on a deal. In letting contracts for war
| vessels, the Government always contracts
for certain speed. and if the vessel,
| though otherwise acceptable, fails to make
| the required rate of speed, the builders are
| to forfeit certain sum. The Ohio, just
| floated from the Santa Barbara yards last
| week, was contracted for to make a speed
Of IS knots an hour. A knot is the naI-
| teal term for a mile. The Ohio on her
! trial trip was only able to make about II
knots an hour, SO under the contract the
builders will forfeit about $4,000.
| Here are the heads of the tickets which
| will figure in the ''also ran" columns after
election day:
gia, and Thomas III. Tibbles, of Nebraska.
PrOhibitionist-Dr. Silas G. Swallow, of
Pennsylvania, and George w. Carroll, of
| Texas.
Socialist--Eugene V. Debs, Of Illinois,
| and benjamin HanfOrd, of New York.
| Socialist Labor-Charles II. Corregan, of
New York, and William w. Cox, of Hi
nois.
| The Socialist party had its ticket out
| first, it's National Convention having met
at Chicago May ]. The Socialist Labor
party, which is vigorously opposed to the
American Federation Of Labor held it's
Convention in New York the first week of
July. The Populsts held their National
Convention at Springfield, H. July f. The
| Prohibitionists met at Indianapolis the
last week i'll June. 1t may be another Ma
tional ticket will be nominated. A call
has been issued for a Convention Of the
formed Aug 20 in Chicago.
| A long, long time ago, when political
| campaigns as they are known now were i'm
their infancy, it used to be quite popular
| to hold political meetings out i'm the woods.
erybody was invited and everybody went.
Those were the days when political speak
ers really made impressions and changed
votes Later orators ''hired halls and
split the atmosphere of the superheated
auditorums with their eloquence. Every
art was exercised to get people out to hear
the speaking" and more often it has been
the music and the various sideshow attrac-
tiOns which have held the audience rather
than the orator. This year the politicians
are going back to the picnic fashion.
| Particularly is this true of Vermont,
where the State leaders are preparing a
series of political picnics." Out in Kan
sas this plan has been in vogue for sew
eral years. Speaking in the Grove" is
a very common announcement in the local
papers, and 1.-The Grove" is usually a half
of a quarter section which has been planted
with c0ttonwoods and boxelders to form
a windbreak in the early days, but which
has now arrived at the dignity of a fine
growth of shade trees, admirably adapted
for day or even q weeks picnic. Men
seem to get closer together out under the
blue sky, and the mental as well as the
physical atmosphere grows clearer. When
the leaves are telling stories to each other
under the soft kisses of the prairie winds.
and the sky is the only limit to the horizon,
men see with clearer vision, tand perhaps,
think with keener judgment. The sophis-