The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1906-04-05

VE1E NATIONAL TB1BUNE:
% q looked q shough No wsuld have
60 give up the girl or the job. Finally
Cortelyou and told him tho story. ana
asked him to transfer tho young man
from Chicago to Cleveland, and Would
you believe It! 1t really looks as though
this would be done.
Two Russians whose names do not
matter, for you couldn't pronounce
them IL you had them spelled out for
you, deserted from the Russian army
and got over to San Francisco about q
month ago. where they have been ma
rooned for several weeks. They were
refused a landing. because they were
both suffering with trachoma. that ter
rible filth-and-poverty sore eyes for
which there is no cure. Now, under
our law those two poor men have got
to go back. All sorts OF intercession
from Jews. Gentiles. high sources and
some not SO high have been invoked
for them, but the President Is ada
mant. and back they go to the port
and sudden death. The Russian au-
thorities will see to that.
A sweet job the Government has on
its hands now. 1t has O vacancy for
Chief Of the Sugar Laboratory, Bureau
ture. The place pays $4,000 a year. The
q pplicants must be more than Is years
old. and the subjects they will be Ques-
toned upon will be education and
training in general and agricultural
chemistry. postgraduate training and
instruction, practical experience and
variety of it. and thesis on subjects
connected with the chemical or tech
nical problems involved in the study of
or industries relating
thereto. All for $4,000 a year and fired
at IS or thereabouts.
There was leak In a gas main in
a big fiat apartment here one day last
week. and man hunted the leak with
a match. He found the leak! He also
established the fact that the fools are
not all dead yet.
The Senate seems not to be a good
paymaster. Ex-senator Tnurston and
ex-senator Anthony Higgins, 1t will be
defended Judge Charles
Swain. Of Florida. in the Impeachment
against him last Winter,
and they have not been paid yet. They
sent gentle reminder of the fact to
Vice President Fairbanks the other
day. which is the second time they
have asked for their fees.
prince Cupid otherwise known as
Jonah X. Kala cianaole. of Hawaii.
VI hose seat as d Delegate from that
Territory has been contested. has been
declared by unanimous vote of the
committee entitled to his seat.
And now 1t Is said that Secretary Of
War Root is the Administration can
didate for the United States Senate to
succeed Senator Chauncey M. Depew:
that Representative Longworth is the
candidate for Governor
Ct Ohio. and that Uncle Joe Cannon Is
to be the next Republican candidate
for the Presidency-not the Admins
tration" candidate, but the "Republi-
can" candidate. mind you. 1t is we'll
known that Secretary Taft has had
residential aspirations, and that one
reason he did not wish to go upon the
Supreme Court Bench was because he
knew or knows that 1t will be death
to his ambitions for the highest office.
He rather anticipated being Governor
u Ohio first, and making that pave the
way for the Presidency, and now comes
the son-in-law Of the President with
well-laid plans. 1t is said that Secre-
tary Taft, seeing the handwriting on
the wall, in the anxiety of the Presi-
dent to place him on the Supreme
Eench. will ultimately accept the life
office and let the Presidency go. also
The Governorship Of Ohio.
Secretary Root is simply Catching
t. from the disgruntled Americans in
he Isle of Pines. Well. now. maybe
t would not be just the thing to say
hat, either. for the gentlemen who are
-aising all the fuss seem to be citizens
IF Cincinnati. They have a petition
signed by number OF people which
declares that the War Department, un-
Ter Secretary Root. permitted itself to
be guilty OF a great lapse Of duty, and
ct the American Flag be pulled down
from over the Isle Of Pines; that n
efforts were really made to find out
now many American citizens there
were on the Islands, or what their
wishes In the matter were. They al
cge that there was a campaign Of mis-
to keep the Island in
he possession Of Cuba, and that the
present administration OF the little
Island Is inefficient, extravagant and
burdensome" And what has all that
got to do with citizens of Cincinnati,
pray tell?
Mebbe-so Postmaster-Generai Cortel-
you Is going to be an angel in disguise
Tor the gullible part OF the public
which has small regard for its internal
and believes all that II
the powers OF patent nos
trums which are now known to be
three parts poor whisky or viier alco-
mol. And there are those other flend-
sh concerns which send out question:
able circulars of kind OF still more
questionable practice. All these Gen.
Cortelyou Is cutting out from the Unit
ed States mails just as fast as he can
pin them down to a local habitation.
Last week 81 such concerns were cut
Off from use of the United States mails
IN New York and Brooklyn alone. Con-
Germs which operated from there. A
year ago 30 Of these concerns were
shut out In Boston alone, and last Sep
Lember 13 were shut up in Philadel-
phia. OF course. these concerns could
not operate at all except through the
mails. They are closely watched. and
IL they try to locate under another
name in another city or State are i'm
pounced upon. It Is surely
! great and good work.
Senator Watson, OF Indiana. Is about
to figure as a world reformer. He has
q bin levying q tax Of one
cent on each 100 sheets OF cigarette
papers. These papers ordinarily retail
at five cents a hundred, and all Of the
Of smoking tobacco give