The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-12-07

COOkS the w nlt6 HOUSE went OOWn
on Wednesday with the big Rhode
Island turkey and all the concomitants
OF q turkey dinner, and the Presidents
valet went with the family to take care
OF the traps. Mrs. Roosevelt. in plain
walking attire, tucked up her sleeves
and bossed the business of getting that
Thanksgiving dinner on the table, and
they do say it was a crackin' good
dinner. too, albeit 1t was served with
little or no company.
"Plain-Dealing" is pretty little
"wood-lot' six miles from the railroad.
in Albemarle County, Va, right in the
heart of the timber and hills. pretty
well removed from neighbors. 1t is a
pretty little cottage of story and q
half, painted light brown with darker
brown trimmings, and has bright-green
shutters. 1t is surrounded on three
sides by a porch. In fact, the porch is
is furnished in the very simplest man.
ner imaginable. and the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt go there just to get rid
of folks 1t Is only an hours ride from
Washington, and when the President Is
tired out he goes there for a day, to
tramp through the woods OF course,
as they do not keep an establishment
there. they cannot have their horses
there just for a day, SO the tramp is the
only exercise they can get, but the
Roosevelts are all fond of tramping.
Theodore, Jr., is getting along all
right, his broken nose having behaved
itself very well. He has returned to
Harvard. Miss Alice got home from
her grandmother's in time to have gone
with the family to Plain-Dealing, but she
Is still little ailing, and it was thought
best for her not to go. Baby Quentin.
who really isn't SO much Of a baby after
all. being about seven years old now
was also left behind with his governess.
II was thought the day would be too
strenuous for his little legs, as he is
pretty short for his years. and a long
tramp would do him up. They dined
with Commander and Mrs. Cowles The
Presidential party returned to the White
House Friday evening, much refreshed,
and the President had HIS own fun with
the correspondents, who were disposed
to think they had been pretty shabbily
treated.
And now it is Senator Patterson. He
OF Colorado, don't you know. He owns
two newspapers, and it is because of
cartoons and editorials in these news
papers that he was tried before the
Supreme Court Of Colorado, and was
adjudged guilty of contempt Of the Colo
RADIO law in so printing things. He was
fined $1,000. and committed to Jail I'M
til the fine was paid. Subsequently the
Court ordered stay Of execution for
60 days pending an appeal by Senator
Patterson to the United States Supreme
Court.
Senator Patterson declared emphat-
fcally at first that he would go to Jail
rather than pay the fine imposed. His
attorneys also Informed the Court that
Senator Patterson would exercise con-
stitutional right as a United States Sen
ator to claim exemption from arrest
while Congress was in session, and
thereby have set aside the judgment of
the Court so that he might be enabled
to be present when Congress convened
this week. Further discussion followed,
fowever, and the Senator then told the
Court that IL q stay Of execution was
issued he would hasten an appeal to the
Supreme Court OF the United States, and
If that body refused to take cognizance
of his case or decided the case against
him, he would pay the fine Immediately.
The Court agreed to this.
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, who
is Chairman OF the Senate Committee
on Elections and Privileges. before
whom the Smoot case has been on trial
for two years-more or less, possibly
lcss-says that the Senate Committee
will render q verdict this Winter. "FOr
this relief much thanks"
Representative Pat" Murphy, al
Republican who represents the 18th
Congressional District Of Missouri.
promised a Mrs. McCready, the mother
of big family Of Republican voters
OF the Ozark region, that II he was
elected he would wear to Washington
a suit Of Missouri "Homespun," Kl
she would spin and weave the cloth. |
nj oh avsSA D~A
ed, sure. Mrs. McCready also made |
good. She spun the cloth. which isl
real "butternut," don't you know, and |
she cut and made the clothes, and
well. you just ought to see them, and |
him! For he wore the clothes to |
for anybody, and Mrs. McCready's ge-
MUS ought to be emulated by other |
women.
Representative Longworth. Of Ohio. |
is going to begin at the right end Of |
the tangle. He does not want to In |
crease Consul. Ministerial or Embas-
sadorial salaries, but he is going to |
introduce bill to buy residences for |
all Of our foreign representatives. That |
Is exactly what should be done. The |
United States has been niggardly in |
this respect. and yet 1t costs us ire
mendously to pay SO much rent. I'll
= L.
then man Of moderate means might |
aspire TO some Of the higher positions |
abroad. AS it is man must be q null |
timillionaire to accept the office Of |
to the Court OF st. James. |
for instance, where the house rent
costs nearly twice the yearly salary
Is 1t worth cable to the United |
States to learn that William Jennings
Bryan, perpetual candidate for Pres
ident of the United States, the other
night attended minstrel performance |
in Picking? Bryan didn't go to min
strel shows over here. He was the |
whole show himself
Secretary Of War Taft sums up the
conditions in the Canal Zone after this
fashion:
by December 1. 1905, we shall have
spent $60,000,000 in the course of ac-
curing a transcontinental canal.
''The $10.000.000 appropriation for
preliminary work has been exhausted |
1.-THE pay roll at present amounts to
about 100000 a month. It contains
900 names.
Efficient labor is difficult to obtain,
and 1t may be necessary to employ |
Asiatics. Another year will determine.