Middletown transcript., 1906-12-22
WASHINGTON LETTER

WAsHlNGrdN, D. c., December 18th, 19a
THE Peace Prize has been awarded b!
: the Noble Committee Of the Norweeial
parliament t, the President, aud milk,
most recipients of one Of these great prizes
9he President will not use the money
himself, but will turn it to public ends
The value Of the prize is $40, 900, quite I
neat sum f)r Christmas and the mos
recipients Of the Noble prizes have moi
hesitated to use the money for their own
purposes, which indeed they are quite Al
liberty to do. One Of the feWsinstanct $
in which tlieznloney as not SO used oa,
CURED three or four years ago in London,
when the winner of the prize was Regi-
aid Cremtr, snold gentleman, and =
member Of parliament Of not very exten-
81 e private mtans. He might be said to
be comfortably well off and lived himself
in very srnodestly furnished fiat in Lin.
coln's Inn Fields. SAG, 900 to him would
hive been quite considerable fortune
but he contributed the entire amount to
the Eoglish Arbitrati n Society, proyid-
lug from the income for the payment of a
secretary Which tbe society had never
been able before to afford. while the rest
of tie inunes wasderotrd to peace prop
uganda. Tire presentation Vas made at a.
dim er Of lbe society at which Andtew
Carnegie presided. President Rodseteil's
use VI The priz+, money is characteristic.
lie has announced that lie Will devote il,
tf' establishing pefnlant Mt industrial ar
bitration headquarters in Washington
where peace may I've arranged atall times
between labor andcapita. 1t has not yet
been definitely stated whether the COM
mission will build lis sown quartersor teIst
them, but il is understood that the Presi-
dent wishes to select grnn.sd somewhere
last Of tile Capitol where il wousG r,1 oe
to put up a modest Tempe OF
Industrial Peace. Arbitrators will be APP
pointed from amor z The members of tile
Presidents cabinet; the Secretary of Conn
me,ce aud Labor aud the Secretary OF the
Interior being two Mitil the third o. e
either the Attorney General or the Secre-
tary OF State. There will be two repre-
Of labor, two Of capital aid .
third selected from the outside. Or
course the workings Of this commission
have not yet been definitely outlined but
they will be sure 10 be put on a YER,
practical basis.
All OF ihe change, IN the cabinet that
have been projected have now been con-
irmed by the Senate without opposition.
It is true that there y as one speech made
10 executive sessoin by Senator Scott, Of
West Virginia, who opposed the confir.s
nation Of Mr.. Strauss, on the ground thai
while merchant iD New York lie had
lodged the tariff law by undertaking a
great many of his imported goods, this
iolation enabling him to undeTsell his
The matter, however, Was
not brought to a vote, and all the notni-
nations were confirmed without divi-
'ion being taken. There has been one
light hitch in the departure OF Secretary
Shaw whose successor at the Treasury is
o be Postmaster General CorteIyou. Tie
President had intended to make this
witch on9the first OF tile year and Secre.
AIRY Shaw was agreeable. But after some
title hesitation and correspondence, tie
senate made all the nominations effective
IA the 4th of next March.
Speaking the 4tli Of March, a go1d
IeaI Of pressure ilss been broughtto bear
N the President to induce hin5to call an
'xtra eession-after that date to consider
he suhject Of tariff revision. Re has
decided, ho oSeyer, that he
.ilInot do so. Delegations have Visited
lira from Tie Massachusetts nsanufactur-
ng districts and from saridns points Of
he west He has gisen them all the
ame answer, that lle is III favor OF tariff
evision and intetds to take the matter
ip at the proper time, but he has o. ye,
determined when that will be. The
President will beopen to argument OF the
uhjeet aud his decision is not yet irreyo-
,able either for or against tie exna ses-
ion but il may confidently be said that
he chances are against it,
sequel 10 the sensation tlIis week
vei 1 .e reported lobby maiutained here
~ KING Leopold of Belgium WAS the
nmer IN circugation at the Capitol this
week that Major Garrett, formerly Secre-
ary 10 Senator Morgan may be crinii-
taliy prosecuted for his alleged part in
lie affair. Major Garret. has denied that
k had any improper relations with Col.
AoN alsky, King Leopotd's personal rep
'esentatiye, aud maintains that his letters
published in connection with the affair
we're not on the subject Of The Congo at |
III, and that. lie never received any
money There is section Of the Re-
Used Statutes, however, under which he
nay be brought to trial. This provides
o. The punishment If any government
'fficial who conspires With ruler 81
gent Of aforelgn power toih@art tie leg
Station Of tie United States. The PEN
lity for this offense is line Of not more
han S., 600 and imprisonment OF not less
han six months.