The National tribune., 1906-03-01
look q little harsh to be called names
this early in the game. ~

look q little harsh to be called names
this early in the game. III
A Divorce Congress- was hoidirg
down the boards in Washington las.
week, and Gov. Pennypaeker. cf Penn
Sylvania, who objects to cartoons, and
who is the very richest subject iinagina-
Bile for the cartoonist, was President of
the Congress. Some OF the brainest
men in the country attended There
| were representatives from all the States
! and Territories, appointed by the Gov
ernors-many of the Governors coming
! themselves. The discussions were
lively. I-n-d-e-e-d t-h-e-y we're. They
rivalled the exhibitions in the Smoot
trial. and often women who were in
the audience got up iand left. and this
usually happened when some of the
women delegates We're talking. The
| Congress wanted to determine some
method of getting at the divorce ques-
ton that would be acceptable to all the
States and become the universal law, so
that a divorce in Dakota would hold
good in New York. and in Georgia.
where they have nc divorce laws at all.
They also desired to unite on common
grounds for divorce that would be ac-
| ceptable to all the States. They had high
, old scrapping matches among them
selves, but on the whole got together
very well.
In writing of the Mexican War Vet
erans, the editor of the Washington
Post says:
"Scott's march to Mexico was as he
roic as the campaigns of Henry of
| Navarro The real comma nder was
Robert e. Lee, and nothing subsequent
| ly achieved oiscoN erel in him more
military genius than the numerous bat
ties he planned and fought from We a
Cruz to the Mexican Capital"
1t is very fortunate for the writer Of
the above that Gen. Scott is dead, or
the Washington man who wrote that
would have to take to the woods. Cen
Scott was a man of a cyclonic temper,
and quite positive views that he was one
of the. great Captains of the Worlds
history. The men who served under
him were prone to believe this almost
as fully as the General himself. There
was never any question in the army
which invaded Mexico but that Gen.
Scott, alone, planned and executed the
splendid campaign which resulted In
the capture of the Capital of the
MonteZumas. The only man that ever
disputed any share in the credit was
the blatant Gideon Pillow, who was
laughed out of the Army. Gen. Scott's
brilliant services previous to the war
with Mexico We're the forerunner and
guarantee of what he did there. 1t is
rather amusing than otherwise at this
late day to have the credit stolen from
the old General to be given to a young
Captain OF Engineers who at that time
had never heard a gun fired in anger.
r. e. Lee was a very intelligent, zeal
Gus, enterprising young staff officer, be-
yond doubt. but he was as far from
planning the wonderful campaign from
Vera Cruz to Mexico City as q young
Midshipman is of fighting big bat
tleship.
This is what II. T. Browne, of Gin
cinnati, who is in the city. has to say
of the man who will succeed Gen. Chas.
Grosvenor in the lower House of Con-
gress: g.gf-
albert Douglas of Chillicothe, who
VIII be Gen. Grosvenor's successor in
the next House. is one Of the most in
tellectual. popular. and attractive men
in the State of Ohio, ,"nremarked Mr..
Browne. HE is fine looking, highly
educated. and an orator who can sway
an audience. Douglas made a State
reputation when he was a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Gov
ernor in 1899, and though he didn't
win he made friends everywhere. 1t
has been conceded for long time that
he would ultimately represent his dis
trict in Congress" There is one thing
sure, he will have to earn his spurs
himself before Congress accepts him as
zen. NrosVenors equal.
Immediately after the House con-
vened on Tuesday of a. last week the
death of Representative George A..
Castor, of Pennsylvania, was ans
nounced by Mr.. Adams, his colleague,
from Philadelphia, who presented ap-
propriate resolutions After the passage
or the resolutions the Speaker appoint
ed the following committee to join a
Senate committee 10 attend the funeral
in Philadelphia on Friday last: Messrs.
Bingham, Adams. Morrell, McCreary,
Moon, Kline, and Deemer, of Pennsyl-
vania; Smyser. of Ohio; Reeves and
Wilson, of Illinois: Weisse, of Wiscon-
sin; Keliher. of Massachusetts,, and
Jones. of Virginia.
AS further mark of respect, the
House then adjourned.
Comrade Edmund Scribner Stevens,
OF Lebanon. Pa, is in the city making
some studies in the Congressional
ical Chart, upon which he has been en-
gagged for IL years. COmrade Stevens
served in the 96th ILL.,, which was in
Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps att
Chickamauga, where he was severely
wounded and left on the field for dead
and remaining there eight days.
Mr.. and Mrs Nicholas Longworth
are now in Cuba having a lot of fun
They got away from Washington in
good shape, foOling everybody, not even
the home folks or the railroads know
ing whether this very original couple
intended to go North or South, or
whether they intended to go anywhere
away from Washington to spend the
honeymoon. And all the time they in
tended to go to Cuba. They We're re-
ceived in the Capital of the Island Re-
public with all the "honors of war"
Mrs. Alice and Mr.. Nicholas not being
permitted to forget for one moment that
they belong to the family of the Presi-
dent of the greatest Republic on earth,
and the one which gave freedom to lit
tie Cuba. There was great state ball
on the night of Washington's Birthday
anniversary, and Mrs. Longworth was
the gorgeous guest of honor in all her
bridal finery, and wore the $25.000l
necklace which Cuba, "the Pearl of the
antilles" presented to her.
1t is officially denied at the Interior
Department that there is any truth in
the report that the Secretary of the In
terror had made a report to the Presi-
dent and to the Department of Justice
concerning alleged frauds in land deals
in the Indian Territory. The report
stated that the President had prevented
the dismissal of indictments against GER
tain persons in the Territory who were
charged with having been implicated in
efforts to defraud the Indians, and that
the Secretary of the Interior had caused
Investigations to be made which would
reSult in the indict f1anfl of other per-