The National tribune., 1906-02-15
ABOUT PEOPLE.

achieved much success. He came prom
inently into notice two years ago by
advocating the dramatiZation of the life
of Christ. There were some scandalouI
| charges against him, which it is be-
!ieved led to his suicide.
Mrs. Eliza w, wife of Brig. Gen.
John G.. Butler. u. S. A, died at her
home in Washington. Feb. s. The re-
mains We're taken to Troy. y. Y. for
interment.
Brig. Gen. John Eaton, formerly
United States Commissioner OF Educa-
ton. died in Washington. Feb. o. after
an illness of one day. He was born in
New Hampshire in 1929, and graduated
from Dartmouth College After teach
ing school for some years I'm Ohio no
entered the army as Chaplain OF the
27th Ohio and was appointed by Gen.
Grant Superintendent of Freedmen.
Later the Secretary of War extended
his authority so as to embrace all tho
military posts from Cairo TO Natchez
and Fort Smith. and for his work ne
was commended by President Lincoln.
Gen. Grant said that 10000 men were
organized in hfs camps. In 1863 he
became Colonel of the 63d L. s. c. T..
and was promoted to Brigadier- General.
He was connected with the Freedmen's
Bureau until 1866, when he was mus
tered cut and became editor of the
Memphis Post and later State Superin-
tendent of Schools for Tennessee. Next
he served for Is years as United States
Commissioner of Education, and built
up that Bureau to its present dimen-
sions. After leaving the Bureau he be-
was prominent in all educational mat
ters. He wrote voluminously, and sew
eral of his books had a quite extended
circulation.
The Special Committee of Investiga-
ton of the New York Life Insurance
Company blameS eX-President John A.
Mccall very sharply for paying out vast
sums to Hamilton and others without Il
proper accounting. The committee rec
ciinmends that suits be entered against
Mccall and Hamilton to recover this
money. Among the sums is one of s15.-
600 ostensibly advanced to Hamilton
to pay the State tax. The committee
ADMITS there were measures of legisla
ton proposed every year which were
threatening to the company, and they
should have been opposed in n proper
and legitimate way. The committee has
no information that any money was put
to illegitimate uses. Mccall Is reported
as seriously i'll at Lakewood n. J., and
suffering from a complication of All!
ments, which have been aggravated by
his worry over the investigation. Ha
has lost 80 or go pounds in the last few
months.
The course of Senator Gorman's son.
Arthur p German, Jr., is being watched
with no little interest He succeeded in
having himself elected 10 the Maryland
Senate and receiving the assignment of
Chairman of the Committee on Finance.
and in that capacity has met with his
first defeat. The Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad is a flaming issue in Mary
land, and every member of the Legis-
lature wants some share in the settle
ment of the matter that he can report
to his constituents. Between the vari-
Gus lobbies, the conflict of individual
ambitions and the not very well-defined
opinions of the Maryland voters there
is considerable of a mix-up, and it Is
hard for a man who has aspirations
for a future career to steer his way
successfully. Young Senator German
had a fight TO finish Feb. 6, when he
reported resolution. which bears his
name, from the committee and did not
report two others. He was Immediate
ly jumped upon by his fellow-Demo-
Gratis and conducted himself quite well
in the debate which followed, but he
was turned down by vote of Is to II
German tried to bring the Republican
members TO his assistance when he
found that the Democrats were going
back on him, but the Republicans re-
PEELED his advances. 1t is alleged that
his, scheme of investigating the railroad
involved a committee of German Demo
Gratis with power to sit for two years,
so that they would be in a position to
aid his father in fight for a return
to the Senate next year. 1t is not i'm
possible that the Democratic plan for
will be rejected and the
plan adopted. which pro-
vides for an immediate investigation 20
terminate before the close of the ses-
sion, April 2.
1t develops that the Philadelphians
are not by any means a unit for the
retention of Maj. c. f. Gillette as City
Engineer of Philadelphia for the COM
pletion of the Filtration Plant. a dele
CATION was before the committee of the
House last week protesting strongly
against his plan, which they felt was
decidedly inferior to other proposed
plans.
Charles f. Magoon, Governor of the
Panama Canal Zone, was before the
Senate Committee, and said that he
found an excellent organization for the
of the Zone when he en-
tered upon his duties, and the sanitary
force was particularly well organized. +
the Government having been fortunate
in securing a number of Army men who |
had been engaged upon the sanitation
Of Cuba. In discussing the raVages of
the yellow fever he said that while !
most of the victims were white, some |
were colored and the natives We're not
entirely immune. He claimed that ali
The sanitary conditions were much bet /
ter than they had been.
Postmaster-General Cortelyou says |
hat the official record of the PoStmas- |
ter will be the basis upon which the |
will decide to continue him |
in office at the expiration of his term.
Political activity one way or another
will have no influence, hut if anything |
may be counted rather against than in
'avor of n reappointment. The main
question will be whether n man has
made a good Postmaster and is satis-l