The National tribune., 1904-03-24
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. Young MIR. Cdmpbel (han.) is gettlns
Els pay for standing up so manfully fol
Afr. Brstow in the House the other day
He was the only man to come to Mr.
Bristow's support in that first days hgh
ON the Post Office report. On PENSION
day in the House that same week, Mr
Cannon called Mr.. Campbell to the chair
Mr. Campbell, be it known, is a perfectly
new member of Congress, and never held
gavel over anything in his life. He
obeyed the call of the Speaker, however,
and took the chair. Then he got down to
Hork. and passed 800 pension bills through
that House in less than three hours. Ii
was almost record breaker. 1t was a
and Mr.. Campbell will probably appreci-
ate this little later when he gets into
the campaign at home.
At the very time that William Alden
Smith was making fiery speech In "the
National House of Representatives, nom
mating Speaker Cannon for the Presi-
dency. Mr. Cannon's County Convention
was busy at home Endorsing Roosevelt fol-
the Presidency in riP-roaring resolutions
Mr.; Cannon sent those resolutions down to
the White House on Tuesday with his
compliments, and across them the indorse-
fhent:
IF was 80 soon to be done for,
What was l ever begun for?"
Mr.. Williams (liss). who Is by long
odds the most popular Democratic leader
that the House has had in many long
day, went around to Speaker Cannon's
Bristow report (which wasn't the Bris-
tow report at alb, and unsmilingiy asked
IL he could be recognized that day to
make a motion that the days issue OF the
Congressional Record be printed on as
bestus paper. He said that the Filling"
- ia, IL oh nfa hrrf
Tor general circulation, and he Thought
the mails should be protected. MIR. Can
non refused to "fiy Wild" as some of the
Republicans did, and so Mr.. Williams
fost his fun. II the speeches made that
day had gone into the Record as made,
however, asbestos wouldn't have saved it;
but cooler temper came to the rescue, and
sgblue pencils answered for "asbestus."
The new military post which is under
construction at Haines, Alaska, is to be
named Fort William FL. Seward, in honor
Of the great Secretary Of State.
The War Department has decided to
ssnd the full body of cadets from West
Point Military Academy to st. Louis. The
boys will leave the Academy May n, I'M
der command Of the Superintendent, Col.
Mills. and Col. Treat, Commandant Of
Cadets They will establish a camp In the
Exposition grounds in a beautiful tract
which has been set apart for them, and
exhibition drill every day while there.
-Four hundred and thirty-fve cadets
will make up the corps. 1t Is the
first time that such thing has ever been
done, but IL Is thought that it will be
quite az much Of an education for the
people as for the boys, and so has been
sanctioned by the War Department and
a1npnses Droyided for
Senator Tillman has improved to the ex-
tent that he can go to his home in the
South. where he hopes to regain his health
entirely.
The Appropriation bills are in more ad-
vanced stage right at this time than ever
before in the history of Congress. II
the Postal Investigation does not prolong
business, Congress may be ready to ad-
5ourri April 80, or very early in May.
Representative Gaines Tenn.) laid a
startling proposition before the Committee
on Banking and Currency the other day.
He had been investigating the CRITTERS"
that may be carried on money. and put
the matter in the hands of an expert. The
things that expert found would stagger a
man of science, to say nothing of a poor
lay member.
Bacteria, according to the report, will
not live longer than 4S hours on silver,
nickel, and copper coins. Two dirty bills
were washed and one was found to con-
tain 135, 600 bacteria, the other 10000.
Two comparatively new bills contained,
respectively, 2.2J0 and 1000 germs. The
report says: Upon all were found staphy-
iacocci, proving that money may carry
disease"
The very name is enough to carry death
and destruction into a we'll regulated
home. But think of carrying around with
3ou a million or two on a single dollar
BILL It's perfectly awful, SO it is.
Senator Clark (Mont.), who has been
quite seriously i'll for several weeks, and
who has been sojourning in the South, is
back in the Senate again. He looks to be
quite feeble but thinks he will be able to
finish out the session.
Is it absolutely necessary, in the ef-
fort to make bad case worse, to paint
the truth blacker than it really is? Some
Of the newspaper reports OF the little
Mormon woman and her testimony before
the Smoot Senate Committee are so ridic-
ulously garbled that they would make a
barmaid blush for shame. Goodness knows
the Mormon business is black enough with
out wanting to make believe that really
refined and respectable women become
plural wives. The woman who testi-
fed was not pretty, she was not refined
she was ilhterate, and she was badly
dressed. She was fair type of the com
monplace Mormon woman whose con-
science is so warped and who is so afflict.
ed with mental strabismus as to accent
the abominable doctrine which permits In.
theirs to marry step-children, men tc
marry twin-sisters with one and the sa ne
service, and women weak in the upper
story and deformed to be sealed "a
save their souls" Nobody has ever
heard Of pOlygamous Mormon woman
who ever did anything to make the world
wiser or better-until after she got onl
OF the hated bondage. A few such women
have written books, but they contain &c
much that is vicious that they are unfit
for family library. Polygamous Nor
mon women are not typical American
women and the papers that would try II
make you believe so are simply taIkino
for a purpose, and that purpose is mo-
honest.
Senator Foraker came along in his car
rage the other day, and overtakin.
Speak er Cannon, who was walking. picket
him up, and on the way to the Capito
they stopped at the White House. La
Ia la Why. the incident was cahIad -