The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-02-01

dismissed. :.
Gen. Luke p. Wright, Governor-Gen-
eral Of the Philippines. has been ap-
pointed and confirmed ambassador to
japan. the first to all that high Office.
his wife was . daughter OF semmes, Of
the rebel navy It IS said that the fea-
son for the failure Of Gen. Wright to
return to the Philippines was that Mrs
Wright looks on the brown people as
akin to negroes. and refuses to associate
with them on social terms. This Great
ed such feeling against her by the
high-class citizens over there that Gen.
Wright found it expedient to resign.
and take some other office equally az
good" There is some interest in off,
cial society as to how Mrs. Wright will
accept the Japanese wonderland quite
as much to know how they will accept
her high mightiness.
Washington got O receding wave OF
the late unpleasantness' between Rus
STA and Japan last week when Mr.. Kim,
the last remaining official of the Ko-
rean Legation. left Washington, after
and Secretary of State. Mr.. Yum
Chung Kim had been Secretary and
Charge Of the Korean Legation for a
number Of years. He was q gentleman
ly fellow, cultured and intellectual, and
very well liked in Diplomatic circles.
The Korean Legation occupied one of
the handsomest houses in Washington,
and one of the largest, owned by the
Emperor of Korea, personally. Those
say who have been inside of it that II
was magnificently furnished. but the
society world of Washington knew
mighty little about it. Sometimes it
was opened for a stag dinner to high
up officials. but further than that no
peep inside OF the house proper was
ever secured. The diplomats of the
Hermit Kingdom lived much to them
selves. having no women with them.
and the members of the Legation at
tended strictly to their own business at
all times, appearing punctiliously at all
diplomatic functions and all affairs Of
state at the White House. They wore
a queer National costume consisting of
a long black silk nightshirt-sort Of a
gown, with q belt and great plate of
royal insignia attached. On their heads
they wore a skull-cap with a turned
up brim, and as they were all small
away under stature, and most UMPIRE
possessing in appearance. they were al
ways the cynosure Of all eyes in pub
lie. There was quite a squad of Them
and they were always together. This
closes the book of Korea-for the pres
ent. Mr.. Hioki, the Charge de At
fairies Of the Japanese Embassy, re-
ceived the last of the belongings of the
Korean Legation. and will look after
the Interests Of the Koreans. who now
belong to Japan.
The President is after the heads Of
the various Departments of the Gov
eminent who have their reports printed
with that big stick" In the investiga-
ton which has been made by the Keep
a .frct f,1to til 10 x1c
of these various Departments, 1t was
shown conclusively that in the matter
of printing the Government was paying
for about 10 times as much work as
was necessary. AS an illustration, q
member OF Congress makes a speech
on the floor of the House on some SUBJ
ject, such az the Statehood bill. He
talks two hours, and makes use Of say,
$4,000 words. Now, when the average
man talks $1,000 words offhand. he is
going to say whole lot of things that
he would much rather he had not said.
and he Is going to say some Of the things
he meant to say with rhetorical -four
above all he Is almost sure not to say
a great many Of the things that it was
important that he should say.
The speech is taken verbatim by the
House stenographers. who have speed
of at least $50 words a minute. and
who are almost infallib1y correct. 1t
Ia a dead sure fact that these stenog-
raphers have license to make that
speech read dramatically. but they
have no power to change metaphor,
logic. arrangement or style. The speech
goes over to the Government Printing
Once and is set up. The proof Is sent
to the member along about 10 o'clock
at night, maybe earlier and sometimes
t. xnI
and send 1t back to the office by Gov
eminent messenger at once. Does he?
No. indeedy. He may be at a White
House reception or at dinner party.
He may be giving a party himself. He
may have sitting" Of congenial spir-
Its in his den. and does not want to be
disturbed. In any Of these cases he
will just lay the speech aside and tele-
phone over to the Government Print
ing Office to insert In the days proceed
ings where that speech should 90 "Mr.
Blanks speech will appear later" or
"Mr. Blanks speech IL withheld for re-
vision"
Again, the member who made the
speech may read 1t over and find that
IT is In such shape that IL he were to
let IL go back to his constituents 1t
would ruin his political future. He
sees at glance that he has got to
buckle down to hard work and make
that speech conform to views that he
has expressed on the same subject at
some previous time, or he will have to
state why he has changed face-about
on the matter. Then he tackles the
speech. He rewrites some Of It. cuts
out great 'gobs" of it, that part which
amused Congress immensely when he
said 1t, but which will infuriate inhu-
entail politicians at home. and adds n
whole lot that he meant to say but
didn't. BY the time he gets through
with that proof 1T bears just about al
much resemblance to the speech he
made on the floor of the House as the
Ten Commandments to the Constitu-
ton. Then he sends for a Government
Printing Office messenger, and tells him
to carry the proof back and give him
a revise of 1t. The next day, back
comes a nice, clean revise with not q
single typographical error in It, Does
II suit the M. c.? Not a bit.
He sits down with that proof, and
what he does to it is plenty. He gets
down the cyclopedia. book of syn
onyms, a classical dictionary, Bartlett's
quotations. and two or three Of his
favOrite books on political economy, and
he goes at that speech again. By the
time he has cut out, inserted, rear
ranged, smoothed down and toned up