The National tribune., 1907-03-14

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back of him to do so. then the little man
sat down and was quiet for nearly 10
Five times duripg the cere-
he embraced his father from the
back exactly as related. but Immediately
sat down and was quiet, az tho his ex-
uberant little soul just lohged for his
father to know that hs,loved him. The
hugs were all for his father, as he made
no attempt to muss up Mrs. Roosevelts
body will be glad to know the boy Is
getting well again. sf ID
For some reason or another some
body wanted Tuskegee Institute inves-
tigated. Tuskegee Is the place that
Booker Washington has made famous.
50 it got Government Commission to
investigate, and after weeks Of labor
they have found that all the fnuds have
been most admirably and economically
spent. but that 5000 was spent by
Tuskegee to entertain President Roose-
welt in proper style when he went on
his Southern tour. Who Is going to
object to that?
Well. now. how is this for sweat-shop
evidence?
Secretary Shaw in a letter to Speaker
Cannon said that the building in Wash
ington occupied by the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing is a little worse
than public nuisance. His precise and
emphatic language is as follows: Il
doubt if worse sweatshop exists on the
earth than the factory in which the
Government manufactures its money,
its bonds, its internal-revenue and post
Office stamps. The condition of the en-
ployes. especially in Summer. Is we'll
nigh unbearable, and every considera-
tion pleads for Improvement" While
we are washing our dirty linen in pub
lie, to the great detriment of Industrial
and financial interests. Secretary Shaw
getting out his washboard at Washing
ton.
Representative Williams, the Demo-
crat minority leader, has his canvass
for the Mississippi Senatorship well un-
der way, altho but recently returned
from Washington. He is deluged daily
with requests for addresses. coming
from all over the State, and he says
that should his physical conditi IN hold
as well as now he will deliver as many
as eight speeches week. This cam
paign promises to be memorable in Mis-
sissippi politics, and Mr.. Williams ex-
presses himself as confident that the
outcome will be favorable to himself.
AS to the minority leadership. Mr..
Williams declares himself safe. He
states that SO votes are sufficient to
elect and that he has pledged 9S. And
the Mississippian takes great pride in
the fact that the confidence of his fell
low-Democrats will be his until the end
of his term, whether he is chosen Sem
ator or not
Speaker Cannon and a lot of other
members of the House are cruising
round Panamaward. trying to find out
what the - IS the ,reas on everybody
is resigning from the Commission for.
They wanted the Speaker. to make a
speech at one of the ,"doin's." but Mr..
just now, and wants to rest, SO he said
he would rather dance. and he danced!
The grave and dignified Speaker Of the
House tripped the light fantastic toe.
so he did.
1t is believed that with the expiration
of the seth Congress, the, last manned
veterans Of the civil war who have
served in the National .lawmaking body
have been retired to private life. Sem
atOr Berry, of Arkansas. one-Iegged
veteran of the Confederate, army, Is now
in private life after a. continuous SER
vice of % years in the, Senate. Repre-
sentative Roswell p Bishop, of Michi-
gan, who wore an empty sleeve as the
result of service in the Union army, has
followed the one-legged Confederate In
to retirement after an unbroken service
in the House of 12 years. In both
branches Of Congress there are still
many men who fought in one army or
the other during the civil war. but none
Of them, except Senator Daniel, is
manned Or crippled. The Virginian had
his right leg badly shattered by Union
bullets, but, unlike Senator Berry, he
did not lose that member. altho he
usually walks with the aid OF crutch.
Among the men now in public life
who bear the honorable scars OF war
none is more conspicuous for the num-
Der of wounds received in the terrible
conflict of the sos than is Gen. J. c.
Black, the Democratic Chairman Of the
Civil Service Commission. Gen. Black,
who won distinction in the Union army,
but who has always been Democrat,
was shot more times than probably
anybody now IN the pension rolls. He
draws pension of 800 a month. Ex-
cept for slight limp in his walk and
a weakness in his arms. he shows no
effect of his many wounds.
For more than 40 years James l..
Pugh, the former Alabama Senator, who
died at his residence in this city on
Saturday. and George Graham Vest,
Missouri's distinguished Senator, who
died In 1904. were as Damon and Pyth-
las. They met first In the Confederate
Congress at Richmond, the Alabamian
being member of the House Of Rep
resentatives of that short-iived Parlia-
ment. and the Missourian a member of
the Senate. No two men in the pubic
life of the Nation were on more inti-
mate terms after they became members
of the Senate in Washington, both
reaching that great body at about the
same time. Senator Vests second son.
George Pugh Vest who died in this city
a year or two before his fathers death.
was named for Senator Pugh. The Ala
bamian himself. lawyer of acknowl-
edged ability and at one time Chairman
of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was
always proud to proclaim the opinion
that Vest was the greatest constitutions
al lawyer he had ever known. Senat )r
Pugh used to relate with pride his as
sociation with the Mlssourian at Rich
mond. and in illustration Of Vests pro-
found respect for constitutional forms
and inhibitions the Alabamian claimed
that the Missourian never cast vote
in the Confederate Senate on any aues-
ton of importance for fear that the
measure that was passed with his vote
would afterward be declared unconsti-
tutional by the courts, tor the reason
that Vests election to the Congress at
Richmond was Irregular "'Price's army
sent Vest to the Confederate Senate, f"
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