The National tribune., 1904-05-05
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held an entirely different meaning. Mr..
Cockran'S speech was withheld from the
Congressional Record for revision" 1t
will probably be revised to fit i'll with the
the delivery of the magnificent effort
in which he said what he meant to say
was, etc.
The United States Senate will have a
new office building to match the one which
is being erected for the House. 1t is to
cost S3.0OO,OO0. The Senate has been hot
under the collar ever since the House got
ahead of it in the matter of the erection of
suitable Offices and tried its best to spoil
the House plans. Failing in that it pro-
| ceeded to give itself an even handsomer
building, for it is to cost SoOOOOO more
| than the House offices. 1t is all right.
can not afford to be niggardly III the cree
ton of buildings which are to stand for
centuries.
Much to the surprise of Col. Thomas W..
SymonS and to his friends, he has been re-
| tired from the Office of the Superintendent
of Public Buildings and Grounds in Wash
ington. Col. SymonS was instrumental IN
having the legislation drawn and passed
which provided for the improvement of the
Erie Canal in New York. and the Cover
nor of New York was especially anxious
that Col. SymonS should act in an advisory
capacity upon the Committee in charge of
the construction of the canal But he could
not accept this Office and receive a salary
from the Government ut the same time, be-
cause the United States statutes Will not
permit it. In order to get around this. the
friends of Col. SymonS put through Con-
greSS IA bill which would give him the of
flee he now holds. but without compensa-
ton. and he could then accept the New
York job.
The President the Secretary of War and
Judge Acknowledgement Davis consulted
over the matter. and concluded that as the
bill which was passed provided that Col
SymOns should have leave of absence
ii was necessary to have somebody to fill
the office of Superintendent of Buildings
and Grounds. and so the President APP
pointed Capt. Charles $. Rromwell. Corps
of Engineers. To fill the Office which Col.
Symons seems to hold very lightly. since
he has been laboring hard to get things
fixed up SO that he could accept the New
York offer. 1t is not expected that he will
return To the Office i'll Washington, for the
life of the canal commission is supposed
10 he at least eight years and perhaps
longer
1t is thought that the President was
quite willing TO let Col. SymOns go as it
was an appointee of his who created the
fearful contretemps at the time of the SUI
preme Court reception last Winter. when
Chief Justice Fuller and the Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States. the guests of honor, were
showed out of place and some unwilling
Diplomats showed in at the head of the
line. While the matter was all SmoOthed
over. it has ranked in many hearts. and
it is more than likely that Col. Symons is
really glad to be released Internationally.
Representative Hearst has one most ex-
| cellent quality. lie knows when not to
talk. He never did pose Il speechmaker,
and has made but one speech since he came
to Congress. and that was in the commit
tee room, and did not get into the Con-
gressional Record. Those who heard it say
that it was a very good speech and we'll
spoken. directly to the point, and without
attempt at OratOrical effect. Mr.. Hearst
and Judge Parker are running a race on
| who can keep the quietest. as to speech.
In the Senate gallery the other day there
sat three men who have been Governors of
Vermont, and all three have at one time
or another served Vermont in Congress-
They were Ex-Governor and Ex-Represen-
tatlve John w. Stewart. and Senate Proc
tor and Senator Dillingham;. both of whom
have been Governors
|
| This has been the coolest April in Wash
| ington in % years.
| \ lot of Post Office clerks are located
/, in building nearly quarter of a mile
| away from the main office, and on the two
pay days of each month these clerks have
| been obliged to come to the Post Office to
| get their pay. Auditor McCardy has been
| thinking, and consequently he has decided
TO stop this sort of thing. There are 200
! clerks, who at the least calculation, take
I'D minutes to go and come. twice month
| Counting this all up, the Auditor found
| that 4o7 days of work were thus lost to
| the Government. He has decided to send
the payrolls and the money to the Busch
| Building, where the clerks work, and will
| let them be paid right there, thus saving
all but about I'D minutes of the time of
| each clerk.
| clares that trained bear is a tool" and
| so also are the snakes which the snake
! charmer brings into this country. Words
do get put To strange Uses sometimes OF
| course, the idea is that these are tools of
trade, but it reads mighty funny anyhow.
Representative Legare Is. c. is the
| father OF four children but looks himself
| 10 be just out of kneepants. \ messenger
for one of the telegraph companies carried
II message to the House the other day. and
looking around for the head page, and not
| finding him. turned to Mr.. Legare. who
sat near ut hand, taking him for one of the
| pages.
/ Hey. kid. youse take dis yer telegraph,
and turns it over to dat udder Teller! See ~
And Mr.. Legare saw. with a smile
/ Maj. George w. Evans, protege of Lin
coin. and with fine record as one of the
young soldiers who enlisted for the defense
OF the National Capital. has just completed
I'D years service as DSbursing Officer and
Chief of the Division of Finance i'm the In.
terror Department. In those years of serv.
ice he has handled over billion of dollars
without a single error
| 1Onkheer van Swinderen, the newly.
appointed Minister from the Netherlands
has arrived and presented himself to the
President. He is not stranger to olde,
Washington. as he once served here as an
attache of the Legation lie wanted tc
come to Washington, and expresses himself
as delighted to be here again.
Countess Cassini begins to think tina,
the God OF Battles is not smiling upon he,
project to ease the torments of the sicL
and suffering. for it has rained steadl,
since the day before the lawn fete which
she had planned for the Russian Red Cross
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