Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-03-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Fromour Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, NJ arch II, 1905.

From our Regular UorfeSpohdeht.J
Washington, NJ arch /, 1905.
Editor Press
There is no doubt that a San
DOMINICAN treaty will be confined
bv the Senate but it will be so little
like the original treaty first sub
mitted as to be unrecognizable by
it's authors. The history of this
treaty is somewhat curious. The
Secretary of State who has during
his eight years management of the
department achieved big reputa-
tion as diplomatist was i'll and
away from the department during
the San DOMINICAN negotiations.
An Assistant Secretary or shall we
say journeyman in diplomacy
bungled the job. The President
who thinks more of results than
of verbiage and whose time was
much occupied with other matters
permitted the paper to go to the
Senate as presented and it is pro-
bable that he is as grateful as he
should be for the careful scrutiny
and amendment that it has receiv-
ed from the body of lawyers and
strict constructionists.
The death after three days i'll
ness of the venerable Senator Bate
of Tennessee is so far the most
conspicuOus fatality of Inaugural
ton day exposure. There are
may other less notable victims.
1t is impossible under usual Fourth
of March weather conditions that
there shall not be many deaths
from grippe, pneumonia and other
diseases from exposure. When
one remembers that a simple vote
of Congress might change the day
of Inauguration from chilly and
boisterous March the Fourth to
sunny April the thirtieth, the day
on which the first President was
sworn in it is impossible to regard
Congress as other than guilty of
man slaughter through laches. On
every fourth of March at the Inau-
guration ceremonies hundreds of
thousands of people unaccustomed
20 exposure are in the weather
from five to ten hours, often with
out food and it cannot be other
wise than that many of them must
succOmb.
The National Congress of Moth
ers is now in session in Washing
ton and delegates from twenty
states in the Union have been reg
istered, The greatly increased
number-of Mothers Clubs repre-
sented indicates the growing
strength of the organization which
has for it's object education and
welfare of children OF all classes.
The Congress will be in session ten
days and will beaddressed by some
Of the best known educators in the
country. Professor Stanley Hall,
the Author OF adolescence" will
speak and Monday evening Presi,
dent Roosevelt delivered an ad.
dress on his favorite subject oi
Race Suicide. The Delegates will
be received by Mrs. Roosevelt and
will also be given Il reception by
Mrs. Henderson wife of ex-senator
John b. Henderson. There viii
be a model kindergarten and nurs
cry, the latter presided over by
Mrs. Dubois, wife of Senator Du
Bois of Idaho.
Rider Haggard the novelist anC
author Of the we'll know "She , has
been in Washington investigating
as an official commissioner from
the English government the Saliva
tion Army settlements in thi!
country. He will visit the princi
pal cities of this country during
his tour of investigation. Whil'
here he has been entertained b,
the British Minister, Sir Mortime
Durand.
Warning,