The National tribune., 1906-06-21

making So hours that cattle can be
kept by shippers In the cars without
food, water or rest. 1t Is outrageous.
A United States Senator gets a crouch
that lasts Is hours IL he Is kept from
his dinner SO minutes. Yet he has
good breakfast, good lunch. with var
ious kinds of liquid refreshments in be-
tween. He raises cain IL his fine car
riage horses are not carefully fed on
the hour, and watered every hour or
two when being driven, yet he condemns
poor, dumb cattle to go SO hours with
out rest, food or water. Sometimes
things do not gee, and cruelty to ami
mails is quite as much Of crime as
cruelty to people who can talk and make
their miseries known.
And now they say Congress will adj
journ June % or whereabouts.
Senator William Pinkney Whyte, Of
Maryland, has q good memory. While
Senator Knox's bill granting National
incorporation to the Lake Erie & Ohio
River Canal Company was under con-
sideration in the Senate, Senator Whyte
thought he recognized a familiar note
in It,
why 1 remember that BILL" said he
privately. Il made q speech against it
in the 10th Congress 3S years ago. and
killed it with constitutional argu-
ment."
Mr.. Whyte explained that the subject
Of granting National Incorporation to
Interstate canals was proposed in the
Federal Constitutional Convention and
rejected on the grounds that the States
ought to grant these charters.
Congress Is In favor Of . sea-level
canal, and the President says he will
veto such a bill II passed. It Is thought
that COngress-and Congress means
both House and Senate-wOuld be very
glad to accept the Wadsworth Meat In
spectiOn bill, but the President says that
he thinks he will veto that. A Western
member of Congress suggests that It
will save time, lots of worry and hard
work to have the President draft the
bills he will be pleased to sign, and just
send them in to Congress.
Senator Allison, of Iowa. is not in the
very best physical condition, having
been indispOsed for several weeks, al
though in the Senate Chamber most Of
the time. He characterizes his ailment
as lust a cold"
Our bonnie Alice is winning deserved
favors abroad. The word comes back
to US through authentic sources that al
though she sat next the King Of Eng
land" at a dinner given in her honor by
ambassador Reid, she remains the
simple. unaffected girl we know best.
That is exactly what we expected. At
the reception which followed Miss Alice
wore yellow crepe simply made in long
flowing lines. and her only jewels were
in a dog collar Of diamonds.
It Is announced at the Treasury De-
partment that the receipts from customs
for the present fiscal year already ag-
gregate $685., 1928. although there are
Is days remaining to complete the full
year. This is an excess Of nearly ST.
100000 over the receipts for any pre-
viouS year.
1t is predicted that by June 80 the
excess over the receipts of last year will
reach $40.000.000. The second highest
or ESTABLISH. A remarkable increase
in internal-revenue receipts is also
shown by present reports.
Maj. Hugh L. Scott. 18th Cav
airy, now in the Philippines. has been
selected by Secretary Taft to succeed
Brig-Ge Albert L. Mills as Superin-
tendent of the Military Academy, who
is to be given the command Of an Army
department, probably in the Philip
pines.
Gen. Mills already has served more
than five years as Superintendent. and
resumes line duty by his own desire.
Congressman Hepburn was nominated
by reclamation at the Eighth District
Republican Convention of Iowa last
week. Resolutions were adopted in
dorsing President Roosevelt. Iowa's two
members of his Cabinet, and the Iowa
delegation in Congress.
Col. Hepburn was enthusiastically
especially "for great assist
ance rendered the President In the rail-
road-rate fight"
A review of the business OF the Su-
preme Court of the United States for
the term 1905-06, which has just closed,
shows that 463 cases, or 81 more than
In the previous term, were disposed of.
Four hundred and lightweight cases
were added during the term. and sos
cases are still In the docket. For the
first time In IS years the Court reached
cases I'm the regular call within Ill
months of the date Of filing.
The bronze doors Of the new Capitol
ut Harrisburg bear portraits of the late
Senator Quay and the present Senator
Penrose and Of Senator Clark, OF Mon
tana. proprietor OF the works at which |
these were cast. Pennsylvanians have
learned OF this combination for the first
time and with mingled emotions OF as