The National tribune., 1906-05-24

he will press the work on the type of
waterway he now has In mind.
Acting Secretary of the Navy New
berry has ordered Capt. Drake. of the
battleship Wisconsin, on the Asiatic sta
ton. to investigate thoroughly. and re-
port to the Department on the charge
that Capt. Hiram 1. Bearss, L. s. NJ. C..
instructed the band to play Always in
the Way at the funeral of a marine.
The Navy Department is decidedly on
its ear about this report of rag-time
music being played as marine was
being buried. If it is discovered that
| it was the fault of the band leader, then
| he is as good as dismissed in disgrace
right this minute. If, on the other hand,
as charged by the sailors and marines
who protested to the Navy Department,
| Capt. BearSS. L. S. NJ. c., ordered this
tune to be played. he is facing a court
martial and he ought to.
William T. Vernon, a negro of Kan
sas, was confirmed by the Senate for
| Register of the Treasury, to succeed
Judson w. Lyons. The name of w. 7.
Vernon, therefore, will go upon every
| gold and silver certificate issued by the
Government.
With the exception of Gen. Rose
Grams, who was appointed Register by
Cleveland, the office has been held by
a negro since the Arthur Administra-
| ton. when B. X. Bruce. the negro eX-
Senator of Mississippi, was appointed.
Sir Robert Bromley. Administrator of
the Island of st. Kits. British West In
dies. died there last week.
Sir Robert was born in 1874. From
1S97-19O1, he was an attache of the
pr;Yi JS,,,h yNo ;oer nd tn
1900 married the third daughter of the
late Baron Pauncefote. the British En-
bassador to the United States.
Mrs Jefferson Davis. wife of the late
gentleman by that name who so much
wanted to be President that he con-
cluded to smash the Constitution to get
himself a little nation over which toi
domineer, has been very i'll in New
York City, but is now improving. Mrs
Davis has not lived in the South more
than week at q time for 80 years. For
some reason or another she has
crouch against the people of the South,
a great many of whom do not revere
the memory of the late Jefferson. and
so forth. Possibly this may be the rea
son she chooses to live in the North.
The order to execute a bronze statue
of Baron Won Steuben. Major-General
and Inspector General in the Continen-
tai Army, has been awarded by the Won
Steuben Statue Commission, of which
Secretary Taft is Chairman. to Albert
Jaegers. of New York. The statue is
to be erected at the northwest corner
of Lafayette Park. 1t conforms in size
and type to the Lafayette and Rocham-
beau statues. Congress has apprOpri
ated $4,000 for it.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, Chaplain,
read to the Senate when it convened on
Monday morning week ago a text
from the Scriptures which members re-
garded as timely. 1t was:
blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children of God
blessed are ye when men shall revile |
and persecute you and say all manner
of evil against you falsely for My sake.
And right on top of that Senator
Bailey and Senator Tilman riZ in the
Senate and openly branded somebody
as liar from liarville.
In the matter of completed legisla-
ton up to this time the present Con-
gress has broken all previous records. |
According to the files of the index |
clerks in the State Department, more
than 5000 laws have been enacted. |
which number exceeds all previous ses-
sions by between 700 and 500.
The record shows, however. that the |
great mass of the laws passed are of
a private nature. OF the total number
of enactments there are only about 250
which are general.
Representative Kahn, of California, |
who rushed across the continent a short |
time ago to protect his wife and chill
dren from the results of the San Fran |
cisco fire, returned to the city yester- |
DAY. and at the New Willard told of
what he saw.
The thing that saved San Fran
CISCO" said Mr.. Kahn, was the fact
that two-thirds of the residence portion
escaped. The business men did not
have everything swept out of existence, |
and therefore there was something left |
for them to build upon anew. Instead |
OF going TO other cities up and down-i
the coast, they remained, and San
Francisco will be built again, and more |
beautiful than before. 1t will take q
long time-five years will not wipe out
the disaster-but it will be built, and |
more substantially. This has already
started by the putting up of one-story |
business houses in which they are al |
lowed to remain but 80 days.
Senator Lodge was quite determined
commerce
Commission to nine members, and have |
the whole business reorganiZed, but the |
Senate wouldn't have it that way, and |
knocked out his amendment. |
Secretary Root, who has leased the |
Morton house, on Rhode Island Avenue, |
will soon take possession. With this |
last choice of a residence the Roots I
will have lived in five of the largest |
houses usually offered for rent in the |
West End-the Barney place on Rhode |
Island Avenue, the Ludlow house on |
Lafayette Square, the Bates house at |
18th and y streets, the Bourke Cock |
ran house on 10th street. and now the |
largest and best of any, in the Morton |
house, where the former Vice Presi- |
dent and Mrs. Morton and family spent |
several months lately. They had the |
house renovated considerably before |
taking possession. The Russian EN-
bassy, with Count Cassini and his 4
daughter, the Countess CaSsni, found |
the house a pleasant habitation for sev-
eral years, the latter hurrying their oc- |
cupancy SO that the marriage of their |
relative might take place there under
brilliant auspices. When Mr.. Morton
was Vice President the house was the |
scene of many handsome entertain
ments.
Five feet and five inches is the mini |
mum height fer commissioned officers
entering the Army from civil life fixed |