The National tribune., 1906-05-03

tendencies made law in that State a
/ kind of legalized nightmare, is too pos
tive to permit q suggestion of return
to it or anything bordering on it.
| The Secretary of the Treasury las,
| week received In an envelope post
marked Astoria. Ore. from an unknown
person. the sum Of 81, which, the send
er stated, represented the amount OF
property acquired by him according to
high financial methods" and that ne
i desired the money credited to CON
science" The unit has been deposited
In the Treasury on account of Con
science"
| The State Department is to have a
new home-maybe. And under the
same roof with 1t are to be housed the
! Department of Justice and the Depart
| ment of Commerce and Labor, and this
building is to cost 100000, and that
is none too much money to spend for
such a purpose. either. This country
| Is too big and too splendid to be mig
gardly about housing its big Depart
ments-those people who do the work
for the Government. Secretary Root,
in urging the appropriation, says:
1.-THE increase Of business. the in
creased completely of business, and the
| increase in the number of Consuls and
of foreign missions. bring with it not
merely a necessity for SO many more
clerks doing the same thing. but also
a necessity for organization and system,
which necessity, when the business was
| small. did not exist. To do a great
business you have got to have system
or you will be swamped. We are COM
ing I'm the State Department to a point
where we are going to be swamped for
lack of proper organization, and we
cannot have a proper organization
WI hD 70 H.
their work.
we have now come to a new era.
The progress Of internal development
has reached such point, and the
wealth OF the country has reached such
point, that American enterprises are
pushing out into every country. Amer
lean construction is going on all over
the world. American trade, American
banking and great American interests
are being built up in almost every
country on earth.
Suitable accommodations for meet
ings of conferences. congresses, arbi-
trations and arbitration tribunals are
a part OF the necessary facilities for
doing our work in the world. and for
doing the things which the people Of
the United States want their Govern
ment to do. in the interest of COM
merce. in the interest OF the Develop
ment Of international law, and in the
interests of peace and a good under
standing among the Nations Of the
earth We have our duty to perform,
and our Government is trying to per-
form it, and although we are among
the great Nations of the earth, we are
without the ordinary decent facilities
for doing our share of the work.
THE records OF the Department are
In a condition and are handled by
of nAc xx.f,f
simple conditions. but which are now
wholly inadequate. / want to introduce
q new system. I want to apply the
same methods Of dealing with records
with which I became familiar and to
a certain extent helped to develop in
the War Department. cannot do it
because there Is no room for the clerks
to work. or for file cases to be placed
and for typewriters to be worked. In
the meantime we are having to go on
by methods which / can best illustrate
by saying that it is like a country law
Office having the business OF q great
city law Office dumped down on it.
'"The enormous activity which has
sprung up in procuring and promoting
peace within recent years has devolved
immense additional labors upon the
State Department.. and yet we have
only SO per cent Of the space originally
provided for that Department by Con-
gress 80 years ago.
'Other countries provide rooms
where tribunals of arbitration may hold
their sessions. We have no means of
accommodating them and cannot ac-
commOdate them. IL the meeting be-
tween the representatives of Japan and
Russia had been held at any other time
than in the Summer the meeting which
led to the peace last August, we would
hna
having no place at our Capital where
they could meet. AS it was in the
Summer, SO that they naturally would
not come to Washington. it was the
natural thing to fit up a hall In the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth for them to
meet in
And the same lack Of room is felt
in the other two Departments There
should be no delay in starting to build.
The other Nations OF the world are
so used to having outsiders jump i'm
and help them out when great calami-
ties have befallen them that they can
not understand President Roosevelt's
polite thanks and declination OF all
pr offers of outside assistance. 1t is
time for the rest of the world to learn
that this is the greatest Nation on
earth, the richest, and the most gener-
Gus. 1t is scarcely old enough to have
RUNS. and IL Is safe to say that we
Will never get old enough for that, for
VIC love our early institutions and care
FOR them as we go along. Further
more. we are not so old as to have ar
rived at calloused hearts, and when a
great calamity like that at San Fran
cisco befalls any of our people ii is a
matter of National pride that we care
for our own. But thanks just the same
President Roosevelt also has the
right idea about relief of the unem-
ployed. He suggests that Congress
make an immediate appropriation of
100000 for repair and erection Of
Government buildings I'm San Francis
co. that the unemployed mechanics may
at once be put to work.
Hon. Timothy Sullivan, OF ode ate"
New York City, was in Washington
last week, and loafed around the House
| for few minutes. He did not take
his seat. however. The Hon Timothy
does not like Congress. He prefers to
stay in Albany, where he says there lis
somethin' dom" He has not appeared
| Ii Washington before this session. and
simply refuses To attend the sessions
| OF the House. He came over to vote
| Ia his committee for the metric sys-
tenn for Government weights and meas
ureS, That Is the only thing In Com