The National tribune., 1906-04-05

AY, APRIL 5, 1905.
TO more recognition than Is allowed
them by the men who are running the
Republican Party in Kentucky at pres
ent. They stood firm in the evil days
In Kentucky. and made It possible for
Kentucky to remain in the Union and
the Government to be maintained,
without which there would be no offices
now to distribute.
Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby. wife OF
Gen. L. W. Colby. has secured a di-
vorce from him. Mrs. Colby Is editor
of the Woman's Tribune, which has
been published by her in various Sec
tons of the United States. being taken
from Washington, d. c.. to Portland.
Ore, year or two ago in the interest
OF the suffrage agitation there. Mrs.
Colby secured the divorce on cross-pe-
tition. her husband having filed a petit
ton for divorce himself. She charged
non-support and abandonment. Gen.
and Mrs. Colby have virtually lived
apart for the last dozen years. Mrs.
Colby has adopted the Indian girl
which Gen. Colby picked up on the
battlefield of Wounded Knee when she
was only a few weeks old. The child
Is named Zintka Lauana, and has typi-
cal Indian features. As small child
she had the typical Indian temper also.
The President had as his guests at a
stag luncheon the other day Capt. C.
L. Radcliffe, of the First Life Guards.
London, and Paul Niedieck, of Ger
many, both of them ardent sportsmen
and athletes. After lunch the Presi-
dent and his guests started out for n
walk. The walk was about seven miles
In length. over hill and dale. up hills
and over rocks. and when the two
guests got back they were almost in q
state OF collapse from fatigue. while
the President was just ready for a go
at official business.
Mr.. Heflin, of Alabama. is at 1t again.
He has introduced a bill for Jim
Crow cars in Washington, the Capital
Of the Nation. In other words. cars
for colored people, to be attached to
each of the cars for white people. It
should not pass. and it probably will
not.
A carboy of mineral water busted
with n noise like the blowing up of
Hell-gate the other day in the Repub-
lican cloak-room at the Capitol. OF all
the funny scatterations you ever saw
than took place when that explosion
cracked open a streak of air in the
cloak-room where number of mem
bers sat telling stories and enjoying a
smoke. The only real damage done
was to ruin the carpet, and a few win
dows were cracked by the bald pates
rammed against them in a frenzied ef-
fort of some of the Republican MEM
bers to get through the closed aper-
s..A-
ertion of showing the windows up. For
single half minute each member
thought he had been dynamited, but
out in the House your Uncle Joseph
sat in his high chair and banged the
gavel and chewed the end of cigar
unmoved. 1t would take more than a
charge of dynamite to rattle him.
Secretary Root has asked Congress
for the sum of $4,000 to enable the
United States Government to be prop
national Peace Conference which will
be held in 1906, this year, some time,
the date not having yet been set. The
Conference will be held at The Hague.
A giddy rumor obtained notoriety
last week that Associate Justice Harlan
would retire from the Supreme Bench
TO devote the remainder of his life to
the building of a great Presbyterian
Cathedral here in Washington. 1t was
a pretty pastoral sort of a story, but
not natural, don't you know. Justice
Harlan fastened to deny the retire
nent scheme, but stated that he was
deeply interested In the uniting of the
two Presbyterian churches here. and
the building OF the cathedral, and
would help it all he could. By the way.
a presbyterian Cathedral is rather
an innovation.
The President sprung one of his sur
prises on the Washington people Sat
urday night by appointing a new Post
master for the District, vice Postmas-
ter Merritt. who wants to retire to take
something better. There has always
been a scrap between the residents"
Of Washington-that means the people
who make Washington their home and
are not Officially here in Government
employment-and the Presidents about
whom shall receive District appoint
ments. The residents of the District
those whose interests are here and are
not subject to changes of political par
Ties every two md four years, believe
that District Offices should be given to
District people. people who would have
a vote in the District II we had such a
thing. and not people who have to go
to Idaho. or Maine. or New York, or
Kansas to cast their votes. To the sur
prise of everybody, excepting himself
and perhaps two or three others. the
President appointed as Postmaster Mr..
3. f. Barnes, now Assistant Secretary
to the President. Mr.. Barnes was born
In New Jersey, is 81 years old and has
been for Is years filing clerical posi-
tons first in one Department of the
Government and then another. His
present salary is $4,000. AS Postmas-
ter Of Washington City he will draw
$4,000 salary, or $1,000 more than a