The National tribune., 1906-05-10
stopped. and Father sherman left tn

Senator Bacon said: 'I have asked
| the War Department to advise me as
| soon as possible if troops have been
| ordered to escort Father Sherman. If
I ascertain they have been so ordered
| then as a Senator from Georgia L shall
| protest against it.
REV. Thomas Sherman will be well
come to come to Georgia and to follow
his fathers line of march to the sea.
| As an individual. he would be cordially
welcomed by the people of Georgia. His
! father, Gen. Sherman. We're he living,
would be cordially welcome. But this
military feature is an insult to the
State"
Representative Livingston, of Geor-
| gia. said that he would telegraph Gov.
! Terrell. asking him if the reports pub
| lished We're correct. and if so, whether
the Governor had filed any protest.
Now, you know, if Gen. Sherman
we're alive and were to go down into
| Georgia they would mob him. That's
what they would. despite Senator Ba-
cons assurances of courteous treatment
and kindly greeting. The famous old
song Marching Through Georgia"
throws the people of Georgia and other
portions of the South into fits They
would just as soon as not sing Bonnie
Blue Flag" in a National Cemetery
dedicated to the Union dead but don't
you dare sing Shcrman's song down
there and expect 10 get away without
insult. 1t has been tried. you see. Yes,
since the return of the rebel flags the
South is forgiving and forgetting-fast.
Secretary Bonaparte caught cold at
the Paul Jones ceremonies, and has
been quite i'll ever since. On top of this
it is said that he had so severe an at
tack of indigestion to suggest
ptomaine poisoning.
Have you heard the very. very latest?
President Roosevelt favors Secretary of
War Taft for the Presidency. and if
Taft is elected. why. President Roose-
welt is to be Secretary of State. and
there you are.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
will sail for Europe June /. Mr.. Long
worth seems To be willing to give Con-
gresS half Il chance. at least, to get its
business done before he leaves the
country for the Summer When the
Longworths reach England they are to
be presented at court by the Reids. the
ambassador having planned a series of
entertainments for them also. They are
to have a perfectly gorgeous time while
there, and will probably be gone three
or four months.
Commenting on the dispatches from
San Francisco expressing the surprise
OF some members of the Citizens Com
mittee there that only $300,060 of the
relief fund of $2,s09. goo appropriated
by Congress is still available for relief
work, Acting Secretary Oliver of the
War Department. points out that it was
never contemplated that that appro-
priation should be spent directly by the
citizens of San Francisco. The money
according to the resolutions of Con-
gress, was to be expended by the War
Department; was to reimburse that De-
partment for the rations, tents, blank
cts, etc, belonging to the Army, which
were rushed to San Francisco, and also
purchase other relief stores. The ap-
preparation. Gen. Oliver explained. was
allotted among the various supply bu-
reaus of the Army, certain amounts GO
ing to the Commissary Bureau. the
Quartermaster's Bureau and the Signal
Corps. the money allotted to the latter
being for the purpose of restoring teIe-
phone and telegraph communication,
etc.
In the five months of the session the
Congress has passed 130 public laws
bills of general nature-and about
$3.50 pension bills This promises to be
d record session for many years, so far
~, y
the long session of Congress two years
ago practically 1900 pension bills were
enacted, and il has been a good many
years since that record was exceeded.
Already at the present session that
number has been passed by more than
400. and many more pension measures
are in sight. Most of these have been
signed by the President and now are
laws. IL is likely he will sign 300 or
400 more this week. 1t is expected that
the number OF pension bills enacted at
the present session will approximate
1000.
The President has not vetoed more
than half a dozen bills at this session,
and most of these dealt with new Judi
cial districts. created for the purpose
of getting new Judges, District Attey1.-
neys and Marshals. On the recon-
mendation of the Department of Jus
tice that not many of these court bills
were necessary to the transaction of
public business the President vetoed
them. No pension bills have been ve-
toed, although the President has scru-
tinized each one with care, as he does
all bills.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt
skipped by the light of the moon" the
other night. and like the vcriest pair of
lovers took a sail down the Potomac
to goodness only knows where. They
were gone a day and a night on the
pretty little yacht Sylph, and just slid
out of Washington quiet like to get rid
of reporters and of people. and they
sure did. They both came back rested.
They left the children at home.
The President received a call from
party of Pennsylvania school girls the
other day. and In this delegation was
Miss Augusta Muhlenburg, a descendant
of the famous fighting parson. Gen.
Peter Muhlenburg. of Revolutionary
| fame, whose statue stands in Statuary
Hall, at the Capitol. as one OF PennsyI-
vania's quota of great men. Those who
know Miss Muhlenburg say that her
features are exact reproductions of
those shown in the statue of Gen. Muhl-
enburg in the Capitol.
They didn't have the backbone to do
| IL, the members of the House don't You
know. and so the Government will still
| furnish to grateful constituents seeds
and bulbs and sich like. OF course. II
| is all bloomin' farce the seeds won't
| grow, nobody ever knew any of them
| to grow-but they tickle the vanity of
the recipients, who think they are get
| ting special favor from their "meln-
| ber of Congress" and also getting some
| thing for nothing. and so when il came
| to show down in the House the other
! day as to whether the worthless seeds
| should be again sent out or not, there
was an overwhelming majority for free
seeds and so the things called seeds"
will still cumber the mails, franked out,
and farmers will plant them and have
| the trouble for their Mains while f-l n