The National tribune., 1906-08-09

THE NATIONAL TRIBUN
who has declined to run again. AS the
Sep2torial fight in Nebraska has been
plenty hot already, one more candidate
will add to the gaiety of the campaign
The New York politicians have been
| trying to ring the President into the
! campaign in that State. but he is wary
and refuses the bait While he posi-
lively declines to take any sides in local
| politics, he is in close communication
| with Representative Sherman, Chair
man of the Republican National Com
mittee, and will keep his hand on the
helm there, it is said.
And the Sultan refuses to recognize
| our Embassador! Really, it Is very
| funny, you know. We have been howl
ing about the necessity of an Embassa-
dor to Turkey for years-somebody who
| could walk right in and shake hands
with the Sultan familiar like. and pat
him on the back and ask him how he
felt. 1t was declared over and over
again in Congress by air-splitters that
the reason we couldn't get along with
| Turkey was because we had nothing
but little old Minister Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary. who was nothing
but a kind of messenger boy in the eyes
of the Sultan, and what we needed was
a representative who could stand before
the Sultan as the President of the Unit
ed States personified. And so we got
him. Got the office of ambassador and
the salary to back up the increased
| grandeur, and now the Sultan won't
recognize him. He says he never asked
us to send him an ambassador, and I'M
| fill he does must content ourselves
with the messenger service of Minis
ter. Now, wouldn't that jar your Stats
i
Oklahoma people are casting about
for a nickname" for their new State
to-be. Some 60 nicknames have been
suggested, but none entirely as salts
factory as 1.-The Flag Day. State. That
| title was first suggested by The Ma
tional Tribune in these columns. 1t Is
a splendid name, and as the bill passed
the House and went to the President
for his signature on July IA, Flag
Day" State is the proper title. Colo
RADIO has always been proud to be called
the Centennial State" because she was
admitted to the constellation of State
Stars on the Tooth anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence. Flag
Day. goes all right.
The Navy is to follow the Army in
adopting the Galton system of identifi-
cation by thumb prints, although, to
avoid irritation among the men. it will
be applied only to new recruits. For
| while the measure may be plausibly
| explained as taken for the purpose OF
identifying the dead or wounded, every
one knows that its chief value is In
capturing deserters. OF course, as the
men re-enlist they will come under the
new regulation, but this is not quite the
same thing.
Near Bellefontaine, O., Congressman
Adam Bede. of Minnesota. in an address
last week at the Chautauqua at Silver
Lake hurled defiance at the muck
rakers, and said the world was growing
better and public men We're indicted to-
day for the things accepted 20 years
ago. He said there are not five men IN
both branches of Congress who could
not be intrusted with the welfare Of the
Nation. and he further stated that dur
ing two terms in Congress he had never
seen a member of either House intoxi-
| Gated.
The Navy Department has received
an opinion from the Department OF
Justice which settles for once and all
the time-honored dispute relative to
precedence of officers of the line. the
staff and Marine Corps Of the Navy.
The holding is to the effect that the
date of commission and not the length
of service shall determine the prece-
dence of these officers. The matter IS
wholly one of etiquette, and has been q
source of trouble to the Department foI
some time.
Discussing the new meat-inspectior
law recently, Secretary Wilson said tha
I there was considerable misapprehensior
regarding its scope. 1t does not apply
to any but slaughtering and meat-pack.
ing houses doing an Interstate business
'If the people Of this country" sale
the Secretary. want to be assured tha
the meat that goes into their home:
from those establishments doing a pure.
" State and local business Is clean and
wholesome, they should enter upon {
crusade for general cleaning up. an
powerless myself to act. Quite recently
1 went through some OF these house!
not embraced within the Federal Law
and found them in nasty. filthy condi
, ton and in some cases using diseased
animals. It is my one regret that the
Federal law does not reach them, but
earnestly hope the State and city Off
cials will look after them as rigorousi,
as we propose to look after the Others
II Secretary wilson returned to the De
partment Of Agriculture last week aftel
: paying visits to Philadelphia, Jerse,
City and New York, where he inspected
. slaughtering and packing-houses. Th
. trip was planned in such a way that III,
, packers had no hint as to his comi: :.
"On the whole" said Secretary Viii
son. conditions in the packing-house
, in the three cities named were good.
, was apparent that efforts were bein,
made to comply with the law. In onl.
, a few instances did l find II necessar!
to make suggestions with respect t
. remedying evils which existed"
/ The trip is but one of number which
|, Secretary Wilson will make, and il
every case he Will, SO far as possible
, keep his movements secret.
Brig.-Gen. Albert L. Mills. Superin
. tendent OF the United States Militar,
. Academy, has been ordered to procee,
to the Philippine Islands and reliev
Brig Gen. Winfield S. Edgerly of com
mand of the brigade camp at Fort VII
: liam Mckinley, near Manila. Gen. Ed
\ gerly is ordered to San Francisco, wher
he Is to report for further orders.
Q Gen. Mills will be succeeded as Su
perIntendent OF the Military Academ
A at West Point by Maj. Hugh L. Scot,
d 14th U. S. Cav. formerly Gen. Wood
Chief Of Staff, now on duty in the Phil
ippines.
d The Panama Cannl.