The National tribune., 1906-04-19


them to the local Red Cross Treas
urer. Mr.. Thomas +. Jones. National
Safe Deposit. Savings and Trust Com
pany, 18th and New York avenue. or
to the National Red Cross Treasurer.
Hon. Charles Halhnpl Keep. United
States Treasury Department.
Senator Tillman has filed with the
ment of Mr.. Il. r. Barnes to be Post
Roads the charges against the appoint
master in Washington, as he promised
he would do. Mr.. Tiilman's letter to
Mr.. Carter follows:tG l.
''Sir: 1 hereby notify you that I de-
sire to protest against the confirma-
ton of Benjamin f. Barnes as Post
master for the City of Washington. and
ask permission to appear before the
Committee with witnesses, whose names
are hereto annexed, to prove the fol-
lowing charges against Mr. Barnes
unfitness for the office:
Il. That MIR. Barnes is lacking in
gentlemaniy and manly consideration
for ladies, which caused him to abuse
his authority so far as to order the ex-
pulsiOn from the Executive Offices of
Mrs. Minor Morris on Jan. 4, 1906,
without any justification or good rea-
son therefor.
"2. That having issued the order he
stood by and saw it executed in a most
brutal and outrageous manner. with
out interference, compelling the police
men to drag and finally, with the aid
of negro employed at the White
House, to carry her, with the negro
holding her by the ankles and with her
limbs exposed. the entire distance from
the Executive Offices at the western
end of the White House to the eastern
exit, where she was thrust into a cab
and sent to the House of Detention by
which brutal treatment her life was en-
dangered and health seriously inn
paired from shock and injuries re-
ceived.
80. That after this tyrannical and
outrageous abuse of his authority he
lodged charges of insanity against Mrs
Morris and compelled her to remain in
prison for more than four hours, thus
adding insult to injury and producing
in the public mind impressions deroga-
tory to both her reputation and her
mental condition.
"a. That he made statement to the
press which was full of falsehoods and
which proved him to be lacking i'm that
integrity and high character which a
high Government official should have.
1.-The following are the witnesses
would like to have: Mr.. Walter B.
Clark, Mr.. Robert H. Hazard, Mr.. 1.
G. Norwood, Mr.. James H. Price, Mr.
Henry {. Biggs, Mr.. Elmer T.. Payne.
and Mr.. Jules Guthridge."
Senator Carter will call a meeting
of his subcommittee in the near future
to consider these charges and to dis.
cuss the method Of procedure that will
be adopted.
Go away from home to hear the
news. From Chicago comes word that
a dispatch to the Tribune from San An
tonic, Tex, says: President Roosevelt
Will not hunt any more while he is
President. according to Col. Cecil Lyon,
Republican National Committeeman
for Texas. Col. Lyon had made ar
rangements for another wolf hunt in
southern Oklahoma this Spring. but has
received letter from the President
saying the people make too much sport
of his going hunting:
President Roosevelt was the principle
speaker at the laying of the corner
stone Of the new Office building for the
lower House of Congress Saturday after
noon. the ceremonies attendant upon
this being of a most impressive char
acter. 1.-The Man With the Muck Rake"
was the theme of the President. and he
walked the echoes sire. Party men are
just beginning to comprehend good
many things which the President said,
and they are busy side-stepping any
opinion as to the ultimate result of the
Presidents new ideas THE President
addressed himself to writer's who seek
IN public men only"th purient things
to tell and who prefer to hunt for q
smell than chronicle THE better things
that men do. Then the President said:
"As q matter of personal conviction,
and without pretending to discuss the
details or formulate the system, 1 feel
that we shall ultimately have to con-
slider the adoption Of some such scheme
as that of progressive tax on all for
tunes. beyond certain amount either
given in life or devised or bequeathed
upon death, to any Individuals tax
so framed as to put it out of the power
OF the owner of one of these enormous
fortunes to hand on more than GER
tain amount to any one individual; the
tax. OF course, to be imposed by the
National and not the State Government.
Such taxation should, of course be
aimed merely at the Inheritance or
transmission i'm their entirety Of those
fortunes swollen beyond all healthy
limits.
again. the National Government
must in some form exercise supervision
over corporations engaged in Interstate
business-and all large corporations are
engaged in Interstate business-wheth-
er by license or otherwise. so as to per-
NIT us to deal with the far-reaching
evils Of overcapitalization. This year
we are making a beginning In the d.
rection of serious effort to settle some
Of these economic problems by the rail-
way-rate legislation. Such legislation,
II SO framed. as / am sure it will be, as
TO secure definite and tangible results,
will amount to something Of itself; and
IL Will amount to great deal more in
so far as 1T Is taken as first step in
the direction of a policy of superin-
tendence and control over corporate
wealth engaged In Interstate commerce.
this superintendent and control not
to be exercised in spirit Of malevo-
lence toward the men who have created
the wealth, but with the firm purpose
both to do justice to them and to see
that they in their turn do justice to the
public at large"
Senator Tillman says he Is "Dee-
lighted with the Presidents conversion
to Democratic doctrines. which is really
funny. 1t Is not SO many years ago
since Senator Tillman was designated
the man with the muck rake and the
pitchfork.
Pay OF Officers.
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