The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-05-24


he will press the work on the type of
waterway he f,oy has In mind.
Acting Secretary Of the Navy New
berry has ordered Capt. Drake. OF the
battleship Wisconsin, on the Asiatic sta
ton. to investigate thoroughly. and re-
port to the Department on the charge
that Capt. Hiram /. Bearss, L. s. NJ. c..
instructed the band to play always in
the Way at the funeral of a marine.
The Navy Department is decidedly on
music being played as marine was
being buried. If it is discovered that
it was the fault of the band leader. then
he is as good as dismissed in disgrace
right this minute. If. on the other hand,
as charged by the sailors and marines
who protested to the Navy Department
Capt. Bearss. L. S. NJ. c., ordered this
tune to be played. he is facing court
martial and he ought to.
William T. Vernon, a negro of Kan
sas. was confirmed by the Senate for
Register of the Treasury, to succeed
Judson w. Lyons. The name of w. T.
Vernon, therefore, will go upon every
gold and silver certificate issued by the
Government.
With the exception of Gen. Rose
Grams. who was appointed Register by
Cleveland, the office has been held by
negro since the Arthur Administra-
ton. when Il. K. Bruce, the negro eX-
Senator of Mississippi, was appointed.
Sir Robert Bromley. Administrator OF
the Island of st. Kits. British West In
dies. died there last week.
Sir Robert was born In 1874. From
1S97-1901, he was an attache of the
1900 married the third daughter of the
late Baron Pauncefote. the British En-
bassadOr to the United States.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the late
gentleman by that name who so much
wanted to be President that he con-
cluded to smash the Constitution to get
himself a little nation over which to
domineer. has been very i'll in New
York City. but is now improving. Mrs.
Davis has not lived in the South more
than week at time for 80 years. For
some reason or another she has a
crouch against the people Of the South,
a great many of whom do not revere
the memory of the late Jefferson, and
so forth. Possibly this may be the rea-
son she chooses to live in the North.
The order to execute a bronze statue
of Baron Won Steuben. MajOr-General
and Inspector General in the Continen-
tai Army, has been awarded by the Won
Steuben Statue Commission, of which
Secretary Taft is Chairman. to Albert
Jaegers. of New York. The statue is
to be erected at the northwest corner
of Lafayette Park. 1t conforms in size
and type to the Lafayette and Rocham-
of ri
ated $4,000 for it.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain,
read to the Senate when it convened on
Monday morning a week ago a text
from the Scriptures which members re-
garded as timely. 1t was:
Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children OF God !;
blessed are we when men shall revile
and persecute you and say all manner
of evil against you falsely for My sake"
And right on top of that Senator
Bailey and Senator Tillman riz I'm the
Senate and openly branded somebody
as a liar from liarville.
In the matter of completed legisla-
ton up to this time the present Con-
gress has broken all previous records.
According to the files of the index
clerks i'm the State Department, more
than 5000 laws have been enacted.
which number exceeds all previous ses-
sions by between 700 and 500.
The record shows. however, that the
great mass Of the laws passed are Of
a private nature. OF the total number
of enactments there are only about ESQ
which are general.
Representative Kahn, of California,
who rushed across the continent a short
time ago to protect his wife and chill
dren from the results of the San Fran
cisco fire, returned to the city yester-
day. and at the New Willard told of
what he saw.
1.-The thing that saved San Fran
CISCO" said Mr.. Kahn, twas the fact
that two-thirds of the residence portion
escaped. The business men did not
have everything swept out of existence,
and therefore there was something left
for them to build upon anew. Instead
of going to other cities up and down
the coast, they remained, and San
Francisco will be built again, and more
beautiful than before. 1t will take a
long time-five years will not wipe out
the disaster-but 1t will be built. and
more substantially. This has already
started by the putting up Of one-story
business houses in which they are al
loNeu 10 remain put ~ Gays.
Senator Lodge was quite determined
to increase the Interstate Commerce
Commission to nine members, and have
the whole business reorganized, but the
Senate wouldn't have it that way, and
knocked out his amendment
Secretary Root, who has leased the
Morton house, on Rhode Island Avenue,
will soon take possession. With this
last choice Of q residence the Roots
will have lived in five of the largest
houses usually offered for rent In the
West End-the Barney place on Rhode
Island Avenue, the Ludlow house on
Lafayette Square, the Bates house at
18th and y streets, the Bourke Cock
ran house on 18th street. and now the
largest and best Of any, in the Morton
house, where the former Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Morton and family spent
several months lately. They had the
house renovated considerably before
taking possession. The Russian En-
bassy, with Count Cassini and his
daughter, the Countess Cassini, found
the house a pleasant habitation for sew
eral years, the latter hurrying their oc-
cupancy SO that the marriage of their
relative might take place there under
brilliant auspices. When Mr.. Morton
was Vice President the house was the