The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-06-11

discussing the international aspects of
the tour Varying opinions prevail at
the presidents Round Table IT is
also significant in showing that the
president does not receive the support
of some Of his party leaders in his at
titude towards Russia
Senior Gonzalo de Queseda is deter
mined that he will not be forgotten
I during his brief term of absence Tho
cuban minister sailed for foreign parts
with Madame Quesada and all the olive
branches and will not return until the
snow flies But the minister before
leaving was cured of a catarrhal affec-
ton and every time one opens a. paper.
his Paderewski locks. his Micbieavel-
liam brow and graceful dropping nous
tachios, not to mention his eyes. his
nose and his chin are revealed in the
columns Of the daily papers He has
found certain patent medicine al
most miraculous in its virtues. 1t has
cured him Of ailments. past, present
ana 10 come It may be that Senior
Quesada needs the money, but as the
representative of a nation. though the
youngest and one of the tiniest on the
gloDe, 1t is hardly dignified to resort
TO such lengths. He might have played
bridge, or the races. or dipped in stocks.
These would have been more a Ia mode.
An Ambassadors Troubles.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg is suf-
fering the fate of every dip
lGmat who obtains unusual success in
the capital TO which he has been ac-
credited Sir Mortimer Duran SEEMS
TO have set the ball rolling by asking
for raise" in salary. and the Ger
man ambassador seems to have had
an application on file for some months
past This request aroused intense bit
teTness in the Teichstag, and the faith
ers of the German federation said
some very harsh things of President
ROosevelt's most intimate friend. Said
one old legislator from the Rheinish
Provinces:
We do not care how hard little
Speck labOrs to please the American
president and the American people He
might do worse things than that over
in Washington. What we object to is
paying his salary. Since it is his oh
ject to please Mr.. Roosevelt first of
all and be popular win the Ameri-
cans. thsy should place him on their
payrOiis- He is doing their bidding,
not ours
This is exceedingly uHdeserved and
its publication in the leading German
press was certainly very painful to
his exceliency. The baron is going TO
Berlin 10 talk II over, and will sail
the 10Th, having concluded to stay in
Washington just as long as the pres
ldent tarri5s- Naturally it incenses
the sturdy German TO read such com
ments on their ambassador but then
he takes his cue from the throne him
self. and he is in a pretty tight fix.
He Il here TO cultivate the fri zndShiD
of the president. If he follows this
order, he gets into disrepute with the
reichstag and # threat ms not to pay
the bill The German legislators are
all right. but this does not prevent
cordial sympathy for Baron Speck. He
failed to get his Increase of salary.
and he really does deserve it. and he
and his lovely American wife are
among the most lavish hosts at the
capital
Count Cassini intends going by his
faVOrite route, the North German
Lloyd, to Hamburg. and then across
to St Petersburg by rail. After con-
ulting with the foreign office for some