The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-02-03
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Army Appropriation Bill Gives
Full Pay to Gen. Miles.
The President Continues to Make
Speeches and Write Letters
on All Subjects.
Especial to Tus nrrrpr4rASl

Washington. ID. c. Jan. 81, 1905.
The army appropriation bill has
passed and through the efforts of
Senator Lodge and other near
friends of the President the appro-
priation has been made so as to al
low full pay to General Miles not
withstanding he will be drawing pay
on the military staff of Governor
Douglas, of Massachusetts. During
ing the debate on the army bill Sen
ator Hale, of Maine, who is perhaps
the star grumbler of the Senate, took
occasion to criticise with great Sc
verify the army staff bill which was
passed at the last session of Congress
through the urgent efforts Of ex-Sec-
rotary Root and bitterly opposed
by General Miles. II is well known
hat under the old system the official
corps of our army was about as OBJ
solete in its organization and about
as ineffective in its action as would
be an old flint lock musket for mill
tary purposes. All Asia to say moth
ing of Europe had adopted far more
modern and effective system but the
old system finds its eulogist in such
boudoir strategists as Senator Hale,
of Maine. II came out in the de-
bate that he had TO wait ten minutes
or to ''cool his heels" as he express
ed il in his office of the War Depart
ment for an interview with one of
the military officers appointed under
the new law. Twas not always
thus" and Senator Hale looks back
on time when he did not have to
complain of cold feet"
President Roosevelt continues to
make speeches and write letters to
everybody and on every subject. 1t
is almost marvellous that any man
can talk and write so much and make
so few breaks. A deputation of
Episcopal bishops charged with anti
divorce thunder called on him yes
terday and he told them in substance
that he was with them in everything
that tended to the promotion of fam
lily ties and home SATELLITES and large
families. The President has been
twice married and is the father of
six children, so that doubtless he
feels equipped to have heart to
heart talk with the nation on its
martial affairs whenever the OPP
portunity presents. The Washing
ton Clergyman who said that while
he was an ardent admirer of the
President he could wish that Roose-
welt was not so bent on being the
Father of us ALL is probably not
to find him expressing
on the divorce problem.
Having undertaken to adjust strikes,
trusts, railroads, the tariff the navy,
the currency and the size of our
families he probably regards the d.
vorce question as dead easy" but
rs Senator said "The man who is
to talk about divorce is
the man who has procured divorce
or tried and failed, and happily
married man has no right to dictate
divorce laws than bachelors have
to make rules for the care of
babies" Whether this is logical or
not is different to say but the Bish-
ops regard the work of securing the
President as an accomplice in virtue
as the most important accomplish
ment of their conference here.
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Senator'S Hale and Bacon, who in
a spasm of jealousy for the rights
Of the Senate temporarily forgot the
of the United States or
thought the President was about to
set it aside in his transaction with
the little Republic of San Domingo,
have had their timid apprehension
allayed, by a communication from
the State Department. The new re-
Iations between the countries by