The National tribune., 1906-06-14

4 The Senate, without debate or divi-
sion. has voted to indefinitely postpone
a joint resolution providing for an
amendment to the Constitution which
would permit Congress to enact uni
form laws for marriage and divorce.
The resolution was reported adversely
from the Committee on Judiciary by
Senator Nelson. The action has the eff
feet of defeating the resolution.
+ President Roosevelt has directed the
incorporation of the Naval regulations
clause providing that when any vessel
of the Navy passes up or down the Po-
tomac River by Mount Vernon the ships
bugler shall sound taps" the ships
bell shall be tolled and the marines on
duty shall present arms. 1t has always
been the custom for a part of this little
ceremony to be carried out but there
has never been any regulation making
1t necessary for officers to follow the
custom.
There was in session in Washington
all of last week the National Associa-
,tion of Special Agents of Railway Com
panies of the United States. These are
the railway police of the country.
Among the various subjects that were
up for general discussion was that of
train hold-ups and the best way to pre-
vent them. The Association in this con-
nection had a meeting with Represen-
tative Julius Kahn, of San Francisco,
who introduced the pending train hold
up bill in the House. The Association
also considered the best means of deal
ing with fraudulent claim cases, CO.
operation with the Government police
and detective services, the best method
of doing away with boomers and bum
thieves and the proper way of handling
juvenile offenders.
There was also a special shooting
match for handsome gold medal, va
rious trips through the suburbs of
Washington and banquet.
The House had monument day last
week. the bills making appropriations
for the construction of monuments
throughout the country to commence
rate historic happenings or personages
having been fayprably reported upon by
the Committee OH Library being called
by their sponsors. The following monu-
ments were authorized: At Province
town. Mass, to commemorate the land
ing of the Pilgrim fathers; on Kings
Mountain battle-ground, York County, S.
C, to commemorate battle of the
Revolution fought there Oct. Z, 1880;
for a monument on the battlefield OF
Princeton, n. J.: for a monument to the
memory of John Paul Jones' to be
erected in Washington; for a statue to
the memory of Commodore John Barry,
to be erected in Washington: for a
bronze statue TO the memory of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow. to be erected in
Washington.
Mr.. Williams leader of the minority
in the House, who has been conducting
remarkable filibuster against the
House and Speaker because of the fail
ure to report the Statehood bill confer
ence report, has let UP for time, now
that the conference report has been
submitted, and says he will give the
Speaker a reasonable time in which to
give the House a chance to act on the
report. The Democrats have suffered
quite as much from the filibuster as the
Republicans.
Henry Jackson Bright, one of the few
survivors of the famous Guiteau jury,
died last week at his home in this city
Mr. Bright had suffered nearly three
years from heart trouble supplemented
by BriGht's disease and dropsy.
Among the railroad detectives attend
sng the National Convention last week
was A. T. Canada. of Cheyenne. Wyo
He has the unique distinction of being
in command of the only regularly or
ganized band of train-robber hunters in
the United States.
Il have eight men in the troop" said
Mr.. Canada, who are employed by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company for the
sole purpose of being always in readi-
tn CT art
bers.
THE equipment consists of nine of
the best horses that money can buy
eight for the men to ride and one to
carry provisions and ammunition. Then
every one of the eight men is an expert
enced plainsman, dead shot, and fear
less of danger. Besides this we have
special car, equipped for both horses
and men, ready at a moments notice to
take US to the point where the man hunt
is to commence. The horses are trained
similar to fire department horses so
that they will readily enter the car and
lie down at command. My men are
of the kind that you read about but sell
dom see. They can follow a trail at
breakneck speed, that an inexperienced
man could not find by crawling on his
hands and knees.
''The train robbers are thinning ont
IN the West. Most of them are either
dead or in the penitentiary The Curry
gang, that made so much trouble, Is no
more. Some Of the boys were brisk
CROUCH to hold up their hands when re-
quested to do so by my men. They are
in prison. Others did not have thel-
foresight. They are in the cemetery"
eve didn't get home until morning"
is the song that Miss Edith Roosevelt
and number of her young friends are
singing. Miss Roosevelt. chaperoned by
Miss Hagner, the White House Social
Secretary. took a large party of official
young people on picnic party down
the Potomac, using the pretty little
Government yacht MayhOwer. They had
their picnic all right, but when they
boarded the Mayfiower to return she
was left stuck in the mud by the going
out of the tide and couldn't be budged
Not an inch would she move, and So
after a good deal of delay and not a
little dismay. the whole party was taken
iH rowboats to meet the up-river steam
er from Marshall Hall, and finally land
ed in Washington. Miss Ethel SAYS II
was a heap of fun.
A bill has been introduced in the
House appropriating $4,000 to build a
monument to the memory of Gen Law
ton, who fell in the Philippines.
In the House the other day Mr. Muir
ply. of Missouri, introduced a bill pro-
vidiDg for "the free expression of Rep
Tesentatives in Congress on bills, meas.