Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1904-10-21
WASHINGTON
NEWS NOTES.
NEWS OF THE WEEK BRIEFLY
CHRoNICLED.
SOUTHERN BIDS HIGH
On Lumber For Panama Canal and
WIN Probably Lose Out. Cantecn
Was of Great Moral Benefit Says
Army Officer.

VIII FropaDly Lose Out. Canteen
Was of Great Moral Benefit Says
Army Officer.
Washington. The New Orleans
Mint is safe. 1t will not be made a
target of attack at the coming ses-
sion of congress. For several years in
succession this institution has been
subjected to more or less, adverse re-
ports, which have taxed the ingenui-
ty of its friends at home to defend it
against these assaults. To Senator
McEnery and Gen. Meyer belongs the
credit, at the last session, of prevent
ing it from being dismantled and con-
verted into an assay office. At the
obtaining the desired appropriation
from the national legislature, Direc-
tor Roberts, who completed his re-
port, made provision in his estimates
for continuing the mint on the present
basis, and to this end asked for an
appropriation of $S9,10O for the next
fiscal year, beginning July l, 1904.
With this Endorsement, its friends in
both houses of Congress will have no
trouble in safeguarding its interests
and obtaining the desired appropri-
alton for the national legislation.
1t is said here in official circles that
the present Republican national cam
paign differs so materially from pre-
ceding campaigns as to be almost re-
volutionary, and to completely upset
and do away with the methods that
have been in vogue since the birth of
the party. So radical indeed have
been these changes that they may be
said to mark a new era in national
campaigning, and to make impossi-
bic any return to the old system. "The
President" F" said high official of the
government today, sis practically
conducting his own campaign. He is
responsible for all the suggestions
that have been adopted and carried
out by his lieutenant, George Bruce
Cortelyou. Some day, l believe, the
president will take the public into his
confidence and tell just how the bus
mess of eorralling voters in the cam
paign of 1904, was accomplished. He
will probably not do this until he has
permanently retired from official life,
and when he tells the story, as / think
he will, perhaps in a modified way, it
will make most interesting reading" +"
That the eanteen is of great moral
benefit to the army is the claim made
/ by Brig. Gen. g. II. Burton in his an
nual report as inspector general of the
army to the Secretary of War. "It
seems to be almost the unanimous
sentiment of the army" he says,
that the one thing lacking to meet
the soldiers wants and tastes is the
canteen feature. The absence of this
leads to sickness, the commission of
military effenses, desertion, and other
crimes, as well as impaired discipline
by driving men to resort TO the low
dives and groggeries that have sprung
up like mushrooms around military
reservations since the prohibition law
was enacted. In fact, the canteen
feature is not only benefit morally,
but the profits derived from the sales
of beer and light wines are used to
improve the mess as we'll as for the
purchase of periodicals, publications,
etc, all Of (which add to the soldiers
comfort and contentment. -
The officials of the Panama Canal
Commission in this city are still en-
gagged in figuring out the relative cost
of the lumber offered by the sixty or
more bidders to the proposals adver-
tised on Sept. 19 for 100000 feet
of dressed and rough timber. 1t may
be couple of days yet before an
nouncement is made of the awards.
1t was learned by The Times-Demo-
crat correspondent that, while great
many Southern lumber manufacture
ing Mams-took part IN the bidding, the
prices quoted for by them were COM
paratively higher, and that the show
ing made by them was not so good as
made by lumber concerns in the west,
A great many firms from Chicago and
Cleveland filed bids with the commits
sion on his requisition, and their
prices, it is said, were scaled down to
the lowest notch.
:~s
It has been decided that the pres
ident IS yacht Mayfiewer is to be plac-
ed out of commission and her officers
assigned to the new hattIeships which
soon viii be ready Cor service. IL has
been expected that Admiral Dewey
would go to the winter maneuvers on
the Mayhower. As she will not be
available; he probably will go on the
Dolphin. -
Inquiries made at the railroad bu-
rsaus. here indicate that there win not
be a big outpouring of government
clerks from Washington this year to
vote. Interest among the department
clerks in the present campaign seems
to be for the most part only casual. Oh
course, hundreds viii take leave of ab-
ssnce and travel back to their places
cf residence in order to drop their bal
3pts on Nov. s, but the total will be
smaller than in many years.