The National tribune., 1906-04-12

Mr.. Tillman has not visited the
White House since the President caused
to be withdrawn tke invitation to at
tend the state dinEer rendered to Prince
Henry. of Germehy. four years ago. 1t
will be recalled that the invitation had
been extended a short time before Mr..
Tillman becane involved in a fisticuff
with his then colleague, Mr.. McLaurin.
on the floor of the Senate while that
body was in session. and that because of
this breach of Senate decorum Mr.. Till
mans name temporarily was stricken
from the roll of the Senate. as well as
that of Mr.. McLaurin, by order of Pres
ident pro tenn. Frye. pending the in
vestigatiOn of charges against both Mr..
Tillman and Mr.. McLaurin.
1t was because his name had been
stricken temporarily from the Senate
roll that the President withdrew the
invitation to the Prince Henry dinner.
which occurred the night of the dag
on which the Tillman- McLaurin troU-
BILE was tried in the Senate. But for
this unfortunate incident there is no
directly with Senator Tillman in his
work for drastic rate legislation.
The Government will be prohibited
from purchasing by contract or other
wise any article manufactured by con-
vict labor, if the bill ordered to be
favorably reported by the House Com
bill was introduced by Mr.. Van Duzer.
of Nevada.
All other means for the relief of Ca
leb Powers, indicted as an accessory in
the murder of the late Gov. Goebel, of
Kentucky. having failed. a bill has been
introduced in the House by Mr.. Gaines,
of West Virginia. which, if it becomes
law, will result in the transfer OF the
Powers case from the State to the Fed
eral courts.
The bill amends the Federal statutes
so that defendant i'll a criminal action
who cannot have his rights protected
in the State courts, may, upon petition.
have his case removed TO the Federal
courts. A clause in the bill provides
that it shall apply to pending cases.
Powers effort TO get his case before
the Federal Court recently met with
disfavOr by a decision of the Supreme
Court, and he is now awaiting his
fourth trial.
An amendment to the immigration
bill proposed by Senator Hepburn, of
Idaho, provides some very rigid re-
quirements on the part of Immigrants
upon landing in the United States. The
amendment provides that any immi-
grant arriving in this country shall be
required to make a sworn statement of
his name, place and date of his birth,
and occupation, to be accompanied by
the statement of three persons who
knew him in the place of his foreign
residence. that he was self-sustaining
and had never been convicted of crime.
Duplicate copies of the statement or
certificates thus filed, each accompa-
MED by photograph of the immigrant,
are required-one to be filed in the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, the
other to be retained at the immigrant
station where the immigrant enters.
The amendment provides that any
person refusing to comply with the re-
quirements shall be denied admission
to the United States. Immigrants un-
der 16 may be certified by parents.
The author of "a Man without a
Country" Chaplain of the United States
Senate. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, was
"a years of age last Tuesday. He is a
big man with n big voice, very cultured,
intensely Yankee, but frail. despite his
appearance of Drawn. 1t is a privilege
10 know him, and he is as approachable
as a man could well be. 1t is said that
volume of the prayers he has made
in the United States Senate is being
compiled. OF course. his fame will rest
upon his long-agO story, from which
he derives no royalty at all now. 1t is
one of the most wonderful of all that
class of stories ever written. and should
be read by every boy and girl in the
country at least once a year. and by a
good many of their fathers and moth
ers about six times
Gov Magoon. of the Panama Canal
Zone, has gone back to business after
spending several weeks in Washington.
Just what the Roosevelt boys will do
next can never be charted. FIR instance.
the other day Quentin came home from
school with his whole class tagging at
his heels. About 27 of them all told.
and they were ''all told for that pic
mic, and don't You forget 1t. Quentin
invited them all right, too. He goes TO
the Force School. the big aristocratic
public school not very far from the
on the blackboard his invitation for all
the members of his class to go home
with him after school and have a good
time. incidentally Mother" Roosevelt
was out of town. The President was
somewhat surprised to see his son walk
in about o'clock with q of his kind
trooping closely in his rear. but accept
ed the situation along with Quentin's
explanation that ne had invited them.
No official report of what happened
after that has been given out, and only
the stories of small boys fragmentarily
told give any light on that White House
visit, but, as the gossips say, putting
this and that together there must have
been things doing right along until
darkness fell. and those youngsters
went home and told their Mortified
mothers that with dirty faces. uncomb-
ed heads, soiled hands. buttons off their
torn blouses. shOe-strings united. stock
ings with holes in them, they had been
racing through the White House. play
ing blind mans buff with the President
of the United States, who took his share
of being TT" and that he told them
stories" and-oh, well. what's the use
of saying more. Those kids had the
time of their lives. Think of it! Twen-
ty-seven dirty-faced lads of from eight
to IL, who will have it to remember that
they played games with the President
of the United States in the White
House,
Representative Reeder. of Kansas,
has a very satisfactory sort of dis
trict "out there in Kansas" His Con-
gressional Convention met the other
day and renominated him by acclama-
ton. Then the Committee on Resolu-
tions got busy. and this is what it
evolved: Resolved. That we let well
enough alone" There's brevity that
might be called brains as well as the
soul of wit.
Secretary Root has decided to visit
Chile and Peru on his trip this Sum-