The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-24
CRAFT IN ALL
DEPART MENTS
National Capital Seems to Be Perme-
ated With Fraud.
SOME PERSONAL GOSSIP
SAD DILEMMA OF THE TURKISH
MINISTER.
Especial to The Herald.O

NSpeclal TO me HeraiC-1
tAI ASHINGTON, July 23.-"Scandal,
wv scandal, everywhere, and hardly
time to think might be the par
aphrase of Coleridge's famous lines, if
one may judge by the way things are
going at present 1t must not be sup
posed that the administration is to
blame just because it unearths cOndi-
tions that were allowed TO grow up
under previous ones. The pendulum
swings from postoffice to land office,
and then takes i'm a few senators, to
turn again to the state department
where Mr. Loon1is is whitewashed with
the admonition that he is all right,
but mustn't go il again; then the de-
partment of agriculture got its in
nings in connection with the cotton
leaks; the Panama canal gets it's share;
and the government printing office
struggles into line with the controversy
over the Langston and Mergenthaler
typesetting machines, with the final re-
suit that the hand-set advocates play
both sides against each other with
much glee and no little satisfaction.
There is the word from the president
that the cotton leak must be stopped
and its perpetrators punished; but
some of the force is taken from his
strong assertions to probe to the depths
when the leniency that followed the
Santa Fe rebate cases and the Vene-
zuelan asphalt affairs is taken into con-
sideration.
Lcomis Must Be Dropped.
Now that Mr. LOOMS has done his
hefty share in passing the remains of
John Paul Jones out of the hands Of
ex-Ambassador Porter into those of
Admiral Sigsbee, there are conjectures
as to where his further usefulness to
the country may lie. 1t is supposed
that he viii be genteeIly allowed to
eli g 81 vr~1,
there was a time when it was thought
that he would be dramatically conduct
ed to the outer edge of the public ser
vice and there dropped off with the a
d. s. thud; as Mr.. Bowen was. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that Lloyd c. GriscOm.
eminently fitted for the place. is slated
o be Mr.. LOOMS successor as Assis-
tant secretary of state. Mr.. GriscOm
has been newspaper man, soldier
diplomat and a success at all. He
knows the Orient and the Oriental. He
knows Latin America. He has repre-
sented this country during trying sit
uations in Constantinople and Toxic,
Japan. He was one of the three" Grin
goes in Central America" thai Richard
Harding Davis wrote a book about,
which was not as good reading as Girls
CONS article in the Philadelphia Sun
day Press, on the same trip, which took
in Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama an
Venezuela. Mr. GriscOm is a very good
man for the place. and barring his love
of being known as "A heavy swell, viii
be a distinct addition to Washington
official and social life. He has money
enough to support his position.
Thompson of Nebraska.
David Thompson of Nebraska, is in
teresting Washington as to his politi
cal fortunes and who is for the nOnce
our ambassador to Brazil. 1t appears
hot l.,
Merican mission when the redoubtable
Conger has bowed himself out. 1t was
generally understood that he was to
remain in Mexico but a few mOnthse
when the call of duty would call him
home to stand for the Republican party
in the next gubernatorial tight. But
duty is a bit tardy with the call and
Mr.. Conger vociferates that he was not
appointed temporarily, but for the full
term, and that he means to remain j.
Mexico four years at least. Thompson
is full Of bitterness and he scorns the
consolation prize of going to the SEN
ate. He wants to remain out of Wash
ingtOn for the good reason that he has
a divorced wife laboring in one of the
departments. a lovely, gentle woman,
who has made scores Of friends during
her residence in the capital city. The
details leading up to this divorce are
not particularly creditable- to the am
tend to make the second Mrs. Thomp-
son a power in local society. The first
Mrs. Thompson has two children. the
elder a daughter. who possesses an ex-
cellent voice and is ambitious to shine
professionally. Under the circum-
stances Mr.. Thompson infinitely pre-
fers remaining out of the capital, but
ne is deadly tired of Rio Janeiro and
Mexico offers an inducement of $4,000
more salary, with living at a reasonable
figure. BY the way, il would be inter
esting 10 know how many of the up
per law makers or breakers are di-
vorced from their wives and married
10 others. The list would be quite for
midabie and would furnish the presi-
dent with material for missionary la
bors for a year or more.
Cherib Bey's Dilemma.
Mr.. Pierce. the acting secretary of
state may soon be asked to intervene
between the authorities of a local Gem
etery and the Turkish minister, Cherib
Bey. on account of the burial of the
mother of the latter, Nesrin Bey. who
died at the legation last winter. IL
seems that the minister asked only
temporary shelter for his mothers re-
mains as he intended to apply for
leave of absence to convey the body
back to COnstantinopie and bury the
vcnera bic woman according TO the Mo-
=
easy going temperament, as evidenced
by the fact that his credentials were
made to President Mckinley and he has
never been able to be presented to Pres
ident Roosevelt. because he has not had
time to have them changed by the sub
lime porte, Therefore, he has not been
able to get his leave of absence and is
una bic to say when he viii apply for il.
II is said that the cemetery authorities
wash him TO take his mothers remains
from the vault and bury them. because
the Koran forbids its dead to be laid
in alien graves. The cemetery people
voeiferate that they do not care cop
per what the Koran forbids and want
summary action in this case. and only
Mr.. Pierce can dare approach a diplo-
mat on such a DELEGATE subject Mr..
Hay was called on last winter by the
distracted city authorities. because
Cherib Bey wanted TO keep the body in
his drawing room for an indefinite
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