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citation nyenttons wife has been tnr
ession iii ashihgton Tor about 9
Week closed yesterday after having y q
,ISes,i "a dfessed by the President
secretary Root Of tie State pepsatt.
:iriatit, Speaker Cannon Senator 7 odge.
Representative Adams and other pre;
!n1inetit men who are urging much
sfee dsa reforms in ttis branch 81 the
Government The Consular Reform
Convention Is conposed Of Represent
tatiye business men from every par
AZ tie country and tie object Of its
meeting This year Is to bring about
the passage Of a Consular bill in Con;
gress which will be more sweeping
iii IT'S reform In the service than the
emalssculated affair that recently was
reported from the Senate. Secretary
Root Who is deeply interested and g
most active IN his efforts to bring
about reforms said othe Convention:
teyye want a service now in which a 90
man can remain unless he does hla
work and does it well, We want men
Who have not burned out the fires alres
Of ambition and usefulness in Other
pursuits but who VIII find a useful
dignified and honorable vocation In
r,epresenting the country's business
and commercil interests abroad" He
said also that he believed Congress
to bo intimately and accurately res
ponstye to the public will and that y
The people Of the country really and
anxiously desire the enactment Of any
Legislation that beyond doubt this
legislation win be enacted. Therefore
II nuts in the hands Of manufacturer
merchants and all those interested IL
seeing this country assume Its higll
place among the commercial nations
lie responsibility for seeing CONGRESS
enacts law in regard TO the Consular
service that will make IT efficient and
reliable
The President who embraces every
opportunity to say a word for the re
form Of the service said to the Con
yention Thursday, q feel most strong
II that in the Consular service which
stands entirely apart from the Diplo
matte service proper entrance should
lie made by law into the lower grades
and that the higher grades should be
filled by a gradual process Of weed
;ing out and promotion; remembering,
gentlemen, that the wedding out pro
cess shall not be interfered with. II
q not any too easy to get rid Of Q
kindly natured. elderly incompetent
at best and if you add to the dit.
ficulty by law he then stays perman'
entity
The recent Philippine engagement
il which five hundred Mcros were
killed by a troop of Americans the five
General Leonard Wood has provoked
an immense amount Of hysteria, es'
.peclally in congess. Among the five
hundred savages killed were some
women and children end though Gene
raj WOOD has written . message con
corning tho affair. which is satisfac'
tory to the President q few men III
Congress and a few newspaper antipa'
tbetical to the Administration are try
ing to make a scandal out Of the affair,
AZ General Wood explained and as
all readers Of the progress of England
in Egypt as told by historians and In
poetry by Kipling these savages pIac'
inc small value on the women Of their
tribes use them frequently as shields
IN d fight. The women on tho othe:
hand. unused to having hSts taken
OF for them in elevators and to, bcins
treated as a superior order of being
take their place beside the men in
battle and fight with the same fana'
teal frenzy as their husbands and
brothers. IN some cases they so about
the fields after an engagement finish
ing the work Of slaughter that the
men have begun or hacking up the
bodies Of the dead, AS General Wood
explains many Of the women were
dressed like men and could not be
distinguished from them, and that
some Of the fighters carried tbell
small children in their arms as shields
while they fought. That 1t would
have been impossible for General
Wood to have engaged in the fight
atall without killing women and child.
rem Is obvious and that he ana OUT
soldiers could have fleHdlshly sought