The National tribune., 1905-10-05
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ing knowledge of public affairs which
makes him an invaluable lieutenant OF
the greatest political party on earth
But he will get back all right.
And now they say that Speaker Can
non will make Mann, of Illinois, Chair
man of the Committee on Appropria-
tons. Mr.. Mann has never aStonished
Congress with any phenomenal attri-
butes that would seem to fit him above
any one of a dozen others for that re-
sponSible position, but you can just
bank on it that If Mr.. Cannon does Sc
lect him, Mr.. Cannon knows exactly
what he is doing, and that Mr.. Mann
will not be round peg in square
hole. Mr.. Mann is a gentleman, dig
nified, conservative, but courageous,
and one of the recognized workers in
Congress.
Arnold Shanklin, of st. Louis, has
been appointed Consul General to Pan
anna by the President. Mr.. Shanklin
was highly recommended by the most
important Republicans in Missouri. in
Guiding Senator William Warner, Chair
man Atkins, of the Republican State
haus. Mr.. Shanklin succeeds former
Consul-General Lee, now Minister to
Ecuador.
Complying with the instructions of
President Roosevelt issued April l last
that meetings of the Isthmian Canal
Commission shall be held in the offices
of the Governor of the Panama Canal
Zone on the Isthmus of Panama on the
1St of January, April, July, and Octo-
Der each year, the members of the Com
mission sailed for the Isthmus on Sept.
%. Gov. Magoon is the only member
there
bers of the Consulting Board of En-
gineers to accompany the Commission,
and it is understood that all of the
members of this board went. The
steamship Havana, of the Panama Rail-
road steamship line, took the party to
the Isthmus
The President stands by the award of
the food contract by President ShOnts
to his Omaha friends, though it is said
not to have been the lowest bid. In
this connection, and apropOs because
of the recent high opinion expressed of
him by the President, comes severe crit
icism of the award from Joseph l..
Bristow, former Fourth Assistant Post
and later special agent
of the President to investigate railroad
down in Panama. Mr.. Bris-
tow says that there is being a good deal
of money -um-well-extrava
gantly, don't you know, down at the
Canal. and he thinks that Mr.. Markell,
got the award: but the President says
it is all right, and what the President
says goes
Well, if ever a man had a good re-
commentator, Acting Government
Printer Ricketts, has it. Somebody, a
woman, with whom Ricketts, has at
some time boarded, wrote to the Presi
dent asking him to make Ricketts's ap-
pointment permanent, becaust, she said,
he was SO conSiderate, SO gOod-natured,
and always such gentleman. She
wrote the President that she didn't sup
pose that what she said would have
much influence, but she felt that she
must write and tell what she knew
about Mr.. Ricketts,, who had once
boarded with her. Now, you needn't
laugh that is commentator of the best
sort.
The State Department is in receipt of
a dispatch under date Of July 81, 1905,
from the American Consul-General at
Seoul. Korea. reporting the death in
that city on July 26, 1905, of Arthur
Sturgis Dixey, private secretary to Ed
win V. Morgan, American Minister to
Korea.
Senator Crane, of Massa chusetts, suf-
fered queer injury the other day. He
was brushing his hair when an awk-
ward movement sent the bristles into
one of his eyes cutting the eyeball and
making a painful wound from which he
suffered not a little. The eye is now
about we'll
sas. which was to have come off Oct.
Oct. "a.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, In now a
student at Harvard. His room is No. Is,
Hall, the dormitory about
which centers all the social life of Har-
ward. Mrs. Roosevelt went up to Bos-
ton TO install her eldest hope in his new
quarters and to pat into shape his sofa
pillows and see that his pictures were
hung straight. Theodore. Jr., is not
much of society lad. He goes in for
yet is not much of a star at
but boxing. 1t is not recorded
that he is particularly studious, and up
to now has exhibited none of the brain
or brilliancy of his distinguished faith
er. but just the same he is a good boy
has never given his parents one mo-
ment Of anxiety. and is a credit to them
in every way.
President Roosevelt is credited with
being hard at work on his forthcoming
message to Congress, which will have
a sting for wrongdoers In every para
graph and when he isn't busy with the
message, he is declining to run for the
Presidency in 1908. It's ''airly'' TO set
out Presidential booms. There's dam
ger Of panics. drouth, rains, frost-lots
of things may come along to blight
young plants set out too soon. But
wouldn't it be funny IL Roosevelt was
forced to run again, just as Cleveland
was the second time? He, too said
one term was enough, and said 1t real
hard.
Some of his enemies say that Gen.
Joe Blackburn will have a hard time
getting back to the United States Sem
ate, but all Kentuckians do not think
alike.
"AIl the indications are that Hon.
Joseph G.. S. Blackburn will be returned
to the United States Senate" declares
Mr.. e. NJ. Lewis, of Shelbyvilie, Ky.
Mr.. Lewis is manager Of Senator Black
burns campaign. and Is well informed
as to the political conditions i'm the Blue
Grass State. THE opposition to Sen
ator Blackburn has for it's prime factor
the State machine, of which Gov. Beck
ham is the head.
The machine is strong in Kentucky