The National tribune., 1907-03-21
OUR STATESMEN
.ssV.ACATION.
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IHont nag supeTVlSiOu, ana ne Will re-
main on duty here all the time neces-
piled with. Mr.. Straus IS one member
of the Cabinet who is fond of the motor
car. He uses one here, and last year
made a 4,500-mile trip thru England
and the continent. It's just possible he
may take some time during the Summer
for an automobile excursion in some
favorable locality, but that hasn't been
settled.
The Vice President and Senators.
Vice President Fairbanks will prob
ably travel as much in this country this
recess as Secretary Taft will abroad
Mr. Fairbanks is in the public eye as
a Presidential possibility, and he Is lit
orally swamped with requests to make
speeches at State Fairs, celebrations OF
important events in National and local
history and on other occasions. Many
of them he will accept. One invitation
he has under serious consideration
which is most novel, is the celebration
of the 50th anniversary of the founding
of the White Earth Indian Reservation
in Minnesota on June IA. Congress has
given the Indians $1,000 to pay the ex-
penses of the celebration, and the Vice
President has been urged strongly tC
attend. If he does, he will be elected
a member of the tribe with due cere-
mony. A trip to White Earth would
mean stopping at many places en- route
and the delivery of addresses in cities
like Minneapolis or st. Paul. There are
lot of Indians on the reservation
named Fairbanks, one of them, Ben
being reputed to be worth in the neigh
borhood of 100000. Needless to say
perhaps, that every Indian of that name
claims kinship with the Vice President
now that he has attained his present po-
sition. The Vice President and Mrs
Fairbanks went to Indianapolis imme-
diately upon the adjournment of Con-
gress. where they now are.
Senator Frye, President Pro Tempore
Of the Senate, will spend his time in his
home State Of Maine. Mr.. Frye is an
enthusiastic fisherman, and he will go
to the Maine lakes in the Spring to pur-
sue his favorite diversion. The re-
mainder of his vacation will be spent at
Poland Springs.
Senator Allison, Chairman of the
great Committee on Appropriations, will
spend his vacation at his home in Du-
buQue, Iowa. Mr.. Allison's health has
not been of the best Of late, and he
takes every opportunity to rest. He ex-
poets to return to Washington next Win
ter fully restored and able to attend TO
all his Senatorial work.
Senator Aldrich, Chairman Of the
Finance Committee. and sometimes
called the "boss Of the Senate" has
started on his annual trip to
Europe. He will remain abroad for
some weeks, and when he returns will
spend most of the remainder Of the
recess at his home in Rhode Island.
Senator Hale. of Maine, has a country
home at Ellsworth, where he spends as
much time as he can. He sometimes
goes there in the middle of,a session Of
Congress to rest up for q few days when
public business permits, and he has no
plan but to takeYa long rest.
He is one Of Secretary. Mefcalrs party,
now In southern waters. but will go to
Maine as soon as he returns home.
Senator Beveridge. of Indiana, who
was SO energetic in the past session, in
pushing child-labor legislation and fur
ther legislation for the control Of the
meat trade, may 60 abroad. He has
been invited to deliver the Indepen-
dence Day address before the American
Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and
probably will accept. Some time dur
ing the Summer Mr.. Beveridge will go
into the woods for vacation. He does
this every Summer in order to get close
to nature and at the same time rest up
for future hard work.
The Speaker and Representatives.
Speaker Cannon II another statesman
who will rest this year. He was a
of one Of the parties which
went to Panama and Porto Rico imme-
diately after adjournment. He will
probablys come to Washington on his
return to the United States, and will go
to his home at Danville, ILL.,, soon after
that.
Representative Tawney, of Minnesota,
Of the House Committee on
which provides money
for the construction Of the Panama
Canal, has gone 70 Panama with the
Speakers party. He has long felt the
need of personal information about the
canal, and took the trip to get his in
at fret hand. When he re-
turns to Washington Mr.. Tawney will
spend some little time getting rid Of
TO his home at Winona to look after his
law practise, which he has kept up
during his service in Congress.
Representative Serene E. Payne,
Chairman of the Committee on Finance.
Is another statesman who felt the need
Of first-hand information about the
canal, and he is now on the Isthmus.
He will spend his Summer at his home
IN New York.
congressman Burton, CHAIRMAN OF
the House Committee on Rivers and
will visit many of the great
cities Of the United States during the
coming Spring and Summer. First will
be New Orleans, where he and other
members of his committee will inspect
the lower Mississippi on invitation of
one of the public bodies of that city.
Later the committee will go to Duluth
and other places on the Great Lakes,
and in June members of the Rivers and
Naval and Military Com
mittees will go to Hawaii on invitation
Of the island Government. In this party
will be Mr. Burton, of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee; Mr.. Foss, at the
head of the Naval Committee, and Mr..
Hull, Chairman OF the Military Affairs
For the past two seasons Secretary
in the West, and he will probably do so
this year. AS confidential man to the
President Mr.. Loeb goes wherever his
chief does, and he will accompany Mr..
Roosevelt on his trips to the Middle
West in May and October. He will
probably take his vacation before the
Canton trip, spending month in Wyo-
ming. H
From the foregoing II will be seen
that on the whole the leaders of the
Government will have fairly busy
Summer.
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The colored people Of America must