Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1905-01-06

EiSoU W00lS, Tic superintendent OF
the capitol. and Mr.. Coffin. the mama
ger OF the house restaurant, ara con-
vinced that there will be no complaints
this winter on the restaurant PROPOSE
ton. A great archway has been cut
In the wall between what were former
" the two separate dining rooms, and
a steam table In the center will afford
excellent facilities for promptly feed
ing the hungry IN all parts Of the res
ftaurant Besides this. the bill OF fare
win be much less elaborate, and II Is
the present intention to have all the
dishes enumerated on the bill OF fare
ready to serve immediately, beginning
Mt noon. thus doing away with the long
delays incident upon the preparation
of special orders Members of the
house may notice other improvements
in their wing Of the capitol building,
but 1t Is safe to say they win not be
quite so pleased over any OF them as
they will be with the restaurant i'm
provements.
Capitol Power Plant.
Work Will not be begun until next
fall on the new capitol power plant.
which. when completed, will furnish
the power for heating. lighting and
ventiiating the capitol building. the
Congressional library and the senate
and house office buildings now under
course OF construction. The appropri-
alton for the power plant. which will
probably be the biggest Of its kind I'm
the country, was made at the last ses-
sion of congress, but work on the Office
buildings is not sufficiently under way
to warrant an immediate beginning OF
the improvements In the capitol engine
room.
> Nurses to Erect a Monument.
The Spanish-American war nurses,
whose annual convention was held re-
Gently at st. Louis. decided by unani-
nous vote to erect costly and hand
some monument In the Arlington Ma
tional cemetery to the memory of those
humane and patriotic army nurses
who died as a result of their exposure
In the enervating climate of the trop-
les during the war with Spain and the
insurrection in the Philippines" The
, design OF the monument has not been
decided upon, but many members are
said TO favor figure representing a
nurse in her service uniform ready for
duty.
Civil Service mt Panama.
President Roosevelt has signed an
order completed by the civil service and
isthmian canal commissions, extending
the civil service regulations over the
employees OF the canal commission.
The order embraces all employees ex-
cept those appointed by the president
| and lahorers
New Treaty with Germany.
Negotiations have been initiated for
a treaty of arbitration between Ger
many and the United States. Several
days ago President Roosevelt suggest
ed to Baron Sternburg, the German
ambassador. that treaty of arbitra-
ton between the United States and
Germany would. In his Judgment, be
very desirable. Ambassador Sternburg
conceded in that view and told the
president that he would inquire OF his
government what steps II any 1t de-
sired to take In the matter. Soon after
Ambassador Sternburg called upon
President Roosevelt and info4med him
that the German government had ex-
pressed itself as entirely agreeable to
the presidents proposition and that he
had been directed to open formal nego-
tintions for such treaty.
Secretary Hays Joke.
Diplomats stationed in Washington
are gratified with the announcement
by President Roosevelt that Secretary
Hay will remain I'm the cabinet for an
other four years. This is because the
diplomats to man esteem Secretary
Hay very highly. For the most part
they know his views on leading Ques-
tons. He is extremely practical, and
he is frank
From time to time there has been
talk OF Secretary Hay retiring because
OF Ill health. AS matter OF fact, al
though he is sixty years old, he is
In excellent condition physically. He
has had his joke about the frequent ru-
mors OF his poor health. To friend
who once congratulated him upon his
excellent appearance he said with as
sumed WEAKNESS, "Ah, yes, but / am
suffering from an incurable disease"
The friend, surprised. expressed dis
belief. but Mr.. Hay insisted his mala-
dy was hopeless. The friend said per-
haps ii was not really so bad, and what
was the disease?
"Old age" replied the secretary.
| The Presidents Son.
Young Theodore Roosevelt, who has
been here for some weeks, having left
school because of an ahiiction OF his
eyes. Will not return to Groton, but
will remain in Washington for the rest
of the session. He has tutor from
Boston, Matthew Lee, a nephew of the
first Mrs. Roosevelt, who was Miss Al
ice Lee OF Boston.
Rural Free Delivery.
When congress created the rural free
delivery branch OF the postal service
it did not realize that it was establish
ing the greatest political machine of
the United States. The fact has been
recently impressing itself in most Sc
rfous manner upon senator's and rep
resentatives. and they have brought 1t
to the attention of the president, who
has dfrQcfa< fha civil aarvfoa f<,rs mis-,