The National tribune., 1905-10-12

Treasury when Secretary Shaw resigns
in February. That's all right. AS it is
the very first rumor Of the week, how
ever. there is plenty OF time for some
body else TO be assigned to the Treas
ury Portfolio before another Saturday
night.
Secretary Root is at the helm of
State and things are happening. Very
quietly, but happening just the same
It's like him. just exactly-Gen.
Chaffee. don't you know. He Is over in
England OF official business. and he has
no time for society and probably didn't
take his full-dreSS uniform along King
Edward. through Sir Thomas Upton,
indicated to Gen. Chaffee that he would
like to meet him, and Gen. Chaffee,
with the business of his Government in
his head. sent the polite but very as
founding reply to England'S crowned
head and anointed King that his BUSH
ness was such that 1t would be impos-
sible for him to go to call on King
Edward. Isn't it delicious? Suppose
1t had been-well. Gen. Corbin, for in
stance. Why. the side of the scale con-
tanning the Government business would
have gone skiting skyward in a nifty
second But Gen. Chaffee-oh, we'll,
he is a different proposition altogether.
Now, here's a scheme. Every man
his own dairy farmer, that's what we
will be pretty soon. you know.
The Department of Agriculture has
imported from the Island of Malta a
herd of 6S milking-goats. These ami
mails have arrived in New York. and
are now in quarantine awaiting inspec-
ton. They will be taken to the Con-
necticut Experiment Station, where
they will be fed. MIXED and propagat-
ed under scientific conditions. The
will he n brill oh,
the Experiment Station of the different
States. Secretary Wilson says of them
''The milking goat has been neglect
ed in the United States. Goats are al
most entirely free from tuberculosis.
Their milk is peculiarly adapted to
than that from any other animal. 1t
is also valuable for invafidS. People
who cannot keep a cow may keep a
goat"
The herd was selected by c. F.
Thompson, special agent of the De-
partment During the voyage across
the Atlantic IS of the goats yielded
milk which was consumed by the crews
of the steamer. The goats average
about three quarts of milk each daily.
The President in letter to Assistant
becretary of State, Mr.. "Indiscreet'
LOomis. writes that Secretary Hay was
perfectly satisfied with the manner in
which the Bowen-Loomis matter was
adjusted, and that the late Secretary
of State commended Mr.. Loomis for
his actions. That does not prove that
Secretary Hay was always right, though
he was pretty much of the time. One
Secretary of State thought SO, as the
Presidents letter proves. but now
comes the new Secretary of State, Mr..
Root, who has had a long acquaintance
with Mr.. LOOMS, and Mr. LOOMS has
to go. Secretary Root does not want
him in his office at all. and to give him
9 nice quiet exit the President will ap-
point him to some foreign mission
special"
And now he is Count Witte" MY.
mN if he would only come back to
Portsmouth wouldn't he be a lion sure
manlike way he has talked since he
went hack to Russia?
Gen. Gomez. of Cuba, is not acting
2 bit like hero. He was a kind of
hero in the late unpleasantness in which
we licked the sox off of Spain, wasn't
he? He aches TO be President of Cuba
and keeps monkeying with the Lib
eraf' ticket. He seems to have been
left all around in his recent efforts to
iispiace President Palma, and now he
is coming to the United States to ask
the President to help him out. He is
going to tell President Roosevelt all
about the bad Government, the lack of
justice. what a farce free Government
is, and whole lot more things that are
not so. Gomez Is a kicker. He always
was. He is a soldier of fortune, and
when fortune does not come his way
he stands off and throws mud on every
thing that anybody else suggests Co
mez didn't play fair during the Cuban
war a good deal of the time, and he
is acting exactly the same way now.
Details are being slowly supplied
concerning the destructive typhoon
which swept over the city of Manila
and part of the Island of Luzon last
week. The first report was cabled by
Gen Corhin, who reported that con-
siderable damage had been done in
Manila and that the, army post on
Malahi Island had been completely de-
stroyed. In Manila buildings were un-
IOofed, trees uprooted. and movable
property destroyed The typhoon was
described as the most destructive known
In the Philippines in several years.
A later dispatch received from Com
mander John u. Miller, Commandant
of the Naval Station at Cavite, stated
that the hurricane did $50 900 damage
to the buildings. plant. yard and craft
at that point. Gen. Greedy was also in
formed that the Signal Corps lines lead
ing out of Manila had been seriously
interrupted by the storm. A dispatch
from Admiral Reiter commanding the
Asiatic fleet. says the gunboat Leyte. of
$50 tons and 125-horsepower. which
was out Of commission and lying in the
harbor. was sunk and lost during the
typhoon. The Leyte was one OF the
vessels belonging To Spain which was
taken by the Navy at the close of the
Spanish-American war.
The post at Malahi referred to In
the Dispatch of Gen. Cprbin is 81 miles
from Manila. I'm Laguana Province
Is il really the end of Addicks? If
1t Is there will be much rejoicing but
II Is never safe to be sure where Adj
dicks, OF Delaware, is concerned. There
seem to be complications in the little
State even yet. The eclipse of Addicks
was accomplished after a struggle. and
angry words from the defeated man.
which he will probably have to answer
for some time. United States Senator
Frank Alice as Chairman of the Re
publican State Central Committee pre-
sided over the Committee meeting ther
last week. and over the two factions OF
the Republican Committee at that Ii
will be remembered that Alice was
elected to the Senate to hold the place
for Addicks, or SO 1T was said. When
1t came time to re-elect a State Chair
at 49,. IT,