Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-01-31


aiken for his authority the common
one of ''They say"
People who are rejoicing at the mild
ness of the winter will be bewailing the
cost of ice next summer.
Up to January 10th, the Congress
sional Record contained 1890 columns
speeches but it has to record but one
bill passed.
The first installments of the romance
"Miss Roosevelt's Wedding Gown"
have already been published but the
serial will run yet for several months.
Que of the developing industries of
the United States is the manufacture
of antique furniture for export to
Europe.
Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, the iourna-
list, was very presumptuous in assum-
ing that he could, like Congressman,
write and speak without reference to
facts.
The army teamsters have champion
in Representative Dovener of West
Virginia, who would put them on the
pension list. The army mule will be
the next to bray for recognition in the
Pension Office.
Sir Henry Irving has left out of his
modest fortune an ample annuity for
his valet. 1t is safe to say that there
is now at least one man who is hero
with his valet.
William Jennings Bryan's costume
in the honorable position of "datto'
of Mindanao consists of high hat and
black silk apron. In cold weather
he is permitted to varnish his legs.
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The fugitive President Morales is
said to be poor man and that he will
have to work for his llying. To have
been president of any of these small
republics and still be poor is about thu
best thing that can be said of man.
Tillman and Vardaman manage tx
keep themselves before the footlight!
on the comedy stage. Tillman at hi
customary pitchfork stunts in til,
United States Senate while Vardamal
has been beating a Mississippi convic
with broom,
Secretary Root insists that consula
offices should not be apportioned t.
''estimable and elderly gentleme
whose Senatorial friends find it neces
sary to take care of them in some way
but the Senate has stricken from th
Consular bill, the clause which make
it necessary for the consul to know th
language of the country to which he
accredited.
Jacob Riis is authority for the stat,
r ment that the President will run
a third term if Congress fails to put int
D law the economies and improvement
: for which he has contended. Havin
9 urged Congress without success, b,
it is said, proposes to hold on until IL
= people who gave him and what
/ stands for the largest majority pres
r dent ever received, can elect Co
+ gress in harmony with truly nation
a economic policy.
I. While Secretary Root wants a b
r passed he does not, like some of /
q predecessors invite members of Co
J. gress to the State Department. but
l. goes to the Capitol and talks with t
n members and committees in spec
l. charge of the bill and he manages
Is inject great deal of common sen
e. into these talks. He is very solicito
err to secure the enactment of bill
d. volving radical reform in the Consu
re service. Heretofore the Consular s
d. vice has been used as a refuge
at asylum for broken down political
ne Senators or members of Congress W
nd are no longer wanted in their Sta
IS. have been assigned to important +
Nv eign posts, many of them at an
yn vanced age ard this, notwithstandi
,ic the fact that they are utterly ignorl
nd and untitled for foreign service, hav
a lived provincial and even sequeste
SO life, long beyond the Osler age of u
MS fullness. The demand for a radi
M change in this system, which is actus
nj suicidal to foreign commerce is M
nd urgent A bill has been drafted m
1ts ing it necessary for Consuls to PAT
in special examination and to know
language of the country to which Il
are sent. These provisions appeal
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