The National tribune., 1906-02-22

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
such as they have never been able to
get while in garrison in this country.
1t is also admitted that the two bri-
| gade camps were established chiefly to
have on hand q force drilled and
| equipped for service in China should
| conditions there become such as to re-
quire the presence of American troops
resident in the Empire and their prop
erty.
| Tom Lawson-ne of Frenzied
| Finance-was here the other day. and
the earth never tipped single little bit.
| Miss Grace Thurston, the young and
beautiful daughter of ex-senator Thurs
ton, of Nebraska, died last week of an
operation for appendicitis. She was to
have been married in a few weeks.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
| left Washington last week for Colum-
| bia, the Capital of his State, to engage
in one of the hottest political fights of
his career.
A committee of the South Carolina
| Legislature is investigating the State
| dispensary system, of which Mr. Till
man is the father, and claims have been
| oul lildl Tie SS SleIil Is d IdiluIt
A bill has been passed by the lower
branch of the State Legislature exempt
| ing the city of Charleston from the op
| erations of the dispenSary law and per-
mitting it to return to the license sys-
tenn if it wants to.
Mr.. Tillman characterizes this legis-
| lation as the result of "a dirty bar
gain" and made other remarks of a
somewhat sensational character that
caused the Dispensary Investigating
| Committee to summon him to Colum-
bia for the purpose of having him re-
peat his charges officially and give evil
dence in support of them.
Rev John Eaton, familiarly known
as Gen. Eaton, died in Washington, last
week, after an illness of two days. Two
years ago he suffered a stroke of pa
ralysis. from which he never entirely
recovered.
Gen. Eaton was the organizer of the
American school system in Porto Rico,
under the military occupation, when he
was commissioned there in 1898, and In
this field attained prominence as an
educator.
The advance of the Union armies
| through Tennessee, together with Pres
ident Lincoln's proclamation of free
dom to the slaves, caused the negroes
! " Hpch Ill SUCH numbers 10 llle DHlOH
| lines as to embarraSs military opera
tions and threaten serious epidemics
| OF disease. In this emergency Gen.
Grant selected Gen. Eaton, who was
then Chaplain of the 2Tth Ohio, to care
for the contrabands. He had under
his supervision all the homeless, ragged
men, women and children within
| Grouts lines. Bringing order out of
chaos, they were organized, the best of
/ the men, into regiments, while the 9TH
ers. with the women and childen, were
! put to work raising cotton. which was
marketed in New York, the profits of
which helped to relieve the Government
Of the burden of their support. Chaplain
! Eaton was appointed to the Colonelcy
of the SD Regiment of Colored In
fantry, from which he was raised to the
rank of Brigadier-General by brevet.
| Gen. Grant, in his Memoirs speak
| ing of him, writes: "This organization
and care of the Contrabands in 1862.
! 1863. and 1854. was the commencement
of the Freedmen's Bureau"
Gen. Eaton was the close friend of
Grant, and of most of the noted men
| OF his day. He was made Commissioner
| of Education, and made many trips to
! Europe on educational missions, in
which he was recognized superior. He
was greatly interested in Indian edu-
cation and in everything that was for
the uplifting and betterment of the hu
man race.
Forty-two States, besides the District
of Columbia, will send delegates to the
Divorce Convention in Washington this
week. There will be Governors. preach
ers and lawyers, besides a big repre-
| sentation of the feminine sex.
Brig.-Gen. William P Vose, Z. S. A,
retired, died of cerebral hemorrhage at
his home in Washington, Feb. 10.
James w. Davidson, Consul at An
| tung, Manchuria, after nine years has
resigned because the salary is INSULT
cient, according to his letter just re-
| ceived by the State Department.
even with the increase the new Con-
sular bill now pending before Congress
| would provide, the salary would be in
sufficient to compete with other Consul
lates in this growing field of CONNER
cial and political activity" the letter
reads.
The Department of Agriculture has
issued a circular setting forth its views
| of most of the grass seed sold. This
circular deals with blue grass, orchard
grass, clover and alfalfa.
| The Department gathered seed from
| all parts OF tne United states, DuylnB
| in the open market. and of the seed
examined about one-third was foShd
| to be adulterated. The degree of adul-
| teration varied from 10 per cent to IS
| per cent. The names of upward of 100
| firms found TO be selling the adulter-
| ated seeds are printed in the circular,
and publicly exposed.
George w. Beavers. formerly Chief
Of the Division of Salaries and Allow
ances. Post Office Department, indicted
| in connection with the Post Office De
partment irregularities, entered a plea
| of guilty as to the indictment charging
conspiracy. He was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for two years in the pen-
! tentiary at Moundsville, w. Va, and has
| been taken there.
| 1t is very easy to introduce things
! into the United States Senate.
a petition asking for the expulsion
of Senator r. C. Plat, of New York.
from the Senate. which had been filed
with the Vice President, was laid be-
fore the Senate one day last week by
that official. The document is signed
by c. w. Post. the promoter of the Post
| check bill. The petition is supported
| by affidaVits of Mr.. Posts secretary,
| G. +. Dawson, and his brother, to the
effect that Mr.. Plat, in the course of
an interview, announced that he would
| fight the Post check bill proposed by
Mr.. Post because Post checks would
tend to lessen his express company's
money order business, and that he