The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1905-09-08
WASHINGTON TOPICS.
What is Going on at the Ma
tons Capital.
THEMES OF CONVERSATION.
The Treaty--Hague Tribunal
-Scaudal--Court Martial. ,

-ScauOdl~-VOUAS mdKIAd
WEEKLY LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
or course the news from Potts
mouth that peace has been agreed
unon overshadows everything else in
cha news line. Washington was to
have had the convention that brought
the war between Russia and Japan to
q closc and the treaty was to have
been known as the treaty OF Wash
!ngton. It Is possible that It still
NAV he sighed in Washington. There
Is 40 telling just how long the nc--
,otlators may be at work drafting
the treaty and when they get through
they will 10 wherever the President
happens t. be 50 that he may bc a
witness at the moMent0us event Of
the s,gnIng by the ENJOYS. Thus II
he IS at Oyster Bay, the treaty may
he known to history as the Treaty OF
Sycamore Hill. II he ls in Washing
tun at the time It will be known as
The treatyscr Washington. There is
soinc precedent for the naming the
treaty after the CHIEF ncgotiators wit
ness the Observation-Disclosures treaty
and the Clayton Dulwcr treaty, but
this precedent Is not likely to be
followed In this case. Anyhow the
treaty has been as good as signed,
aud the congratulations of the world
are pouriHg In On President Roose-
vclt IA the man who made 1t possible.
There Is the greatest satisfaction at
the State Department over the out
come Of the conference, for 1t would
have been rather setback to AmerI.
can pride for the negotiators to have
broken or after they were once
brought together In this country.
1t is thought that as soon as the
new treaty is out OF tho way the
President will renew his application
for another meeting of the Hague
Tribunal In accordance with his sug-
eeston to the powers last spring.
The State Department has learned
that nearly all OF the powers ad-
dressed while accepting In substance
the invitation, suggested that the
meeting should wait till the conflict
Of Russia and Japan was out Of the
way. The matter has rested there
aud it will take another formal sug-
gestion to bring the matter to frui:iou
ANY Of the powers that was signatorY
TO the Hague conference might feel
itself qualified to issue this invita-
ton, but it probably will be left with
President Roosevelt to conclude the
matter and get all the friendly ma
tions together again at the Hague.
This probably will be taken up as
soon US Secretary Root gets back to
Washington when the President Will
confer with him on the issue of the
desired reminder.
The situation in the Agricultural
Department Is improving. The peo'
pie iucriminatcd IN the cotton leak
have been indicted and that matter
Is u the way Of settlement. Prof
Geo, Moore has been renstated 10
the Division Of Soils, 1t having beer
proved that there was nothing crlnl
nal iu his connectdon with the Nitro
Culture Companyand that he coule
10 the work that the department
wauted done better than any othe
man available. The Secretary o
Agriculture today issued i forma
statement also that the investigation
10 the Bureau OF Annual ludustr.
had completely eXonoratcd DR.. sal
ulou, the Chief Of the Bureau, VIII
was under a cloud for some tim
owing to the stories OF his connection
with the Howard Publishing Com
pauy that had been furnishing tn
bureau OF Anlmal Industry with tn
meat labels which are attached u
the siaugbtcrcd carcasses Of animal
that pass government inspection be
fore bciug put ou the market. 1t
stated that Or. Salmon's connectlo
With the publishing company was oe
fore the label Ia question was devise
aud that since then he had served hl
raunect!ou with the company an
there was notbIpg TO criticisc in hl