The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-09-19
oEEIcFRs TRAVELLING ON FED
ERAL BUSINESS ALLOWED TO
CONFORM TO CUSTOM.
Very Comfortable Home for the Con
federate Veterans Has Been Es-
tablished in Kentucky.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10
Wide comment has been occasioned by
Secretary Morton's tipping order,
although in point OF fact it had been
PREPARED before re entered office and
was there, ready for issuance He
looked It over and thought the sums
were as low as any officer travelling
on government business could we'll get
along with It is not true that TINS
is the first government recognition of
the tip.
For wears the comptrOller'S office
has passed 25 cents as a porter's tip, in
connection with each sleeping car
voucher. A few other tips of some
what fixed character in popular prac-
tice have been allowed.
The theory of the department in re-
cognizing the tip is that when an Off
Ger goes on government business with
his expenses paid it is not right for
Uncle Sam To decline to reimburse
them for expenses that are practically
unavoidable 1t is notable that the tip
allowance abroad is just double the
amount granted for this country.
Secretary Morton thinks this repre-
sents about the difference in the eX-
pense to the official traveller He re
calls the story of the American, who,
as his ship was about to sail away
from a European port. announced
to the crowd of lOafers on the dock
that if there were any men in Europe
70 whom he had not given a franc. he
wished such a person would present
himself and get that amount.
Old Japanese Picture.
Considerable interest is attracted
now by the old picture hanging on the
walls of the secretary's waiting room
at the navy department. showing the
Japanese embassy which visited this
country in 1850 The mission was a
special one. and has recently been de-
scribed in one of the popular maya
zines
This picture shows the officers of the
Buchanan administration. who assist
ed in showing these distinguished
visitors about. It must be adj
mitted that while the apparel of the
Japanese visitors looks very odd today
III the old picture, the coats and hats
OF the American statesmen there pho
tographed would look rather odd on
President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay
were they to walk down Pennsylvania
avenue in similar attire.
Senator Henderson, of Nebras-
ka, was in Washington at the time
ana was invited to a reception by
Postmaster-Ge General King in honor Of
these visitors. Mr.. Henderson says
that there is no quarter of the earth
today so remote that a delegation of
its government officials, We're they to
come to Washington, would be re-
garded as such curiosities as these
Japanese We're at that time Had any
one then ventured the prediction
that attended the reception the Japa-
nese people would be successfully re-
sisting the Colossus of the North. in
the interests of the common civilIza-
ton of the Occdent. such prophet
would have received scant attention.
Especially would this have been the
case had he asserted that the Prov
ness of the Japanese in such a war
would be due to their splendid utiliza-
ton Of modern methods and the most
advanced appliances of the day.
This embassy which came in 1860
was in no sense the forerunner of the
Japanese legation, which was not es-
tablished here until 1871.
Home for Confederates.
The only thing that has been done
for Confederate veterans in Ken
lucky" said Bennett II. Young, Ma
ior General commanding the Ken
lucky division L. C. v, to your CORE
spondent, SIS the founding of the home
at Pewee Valley, to which any Con-
federate soldier with proper record
may be admitted provided he has been
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