The National tribune., 1907-02-21

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resolute Senator Scott's always stern
countenance beamed with satisfaction.
/ And now they say there will be no
extra session of the Senate, as after a
| conference at the White House, the
| President having eXprest a desire to
have the Santo DOMINICAN matter con-
sidered now, it will probably be done.
Then the extra session is not necessary.
The Senate has been playing tag most
of the Winter. and now it has to get
down to business. The sessions from
this on will begin at II o'clock, and it
is probable that there will be evening
sessions. There certainly must be If
the Senate clears off the slate.
Lent is observed in Washington by
what might be called among men as
| ''high gaming" but being played by
women is called bridge whist AL
ready bridge whist parties have been
planned for the whole Lenten season,
| and society women who arc tagged and
ought to rest will enter the Spring So
| cial season practical wrecks, with
bridge whist debts ''to beat the band"
There is one beautiful home in Wash
| inston which has been absolutely
| wrecked by love of gaming. The hus-
| band played the races till all his own
fortune was gone He hoped to get
his wife to help him recuperate his
losses by loan from her fortune, and
| learned to his horror that while he was
losing on horses she was losing on
bridge whist. This was year ago The
| beautiful home has been given up, small
| apartments. poorly furnished. have been
taken, and the husband is a 5000 clerk
| in the Government employ, while the
three Interesting children are with their
| grandparents This Is only one of the
many disasters which follow in the train
of the bridge whist fiend.
| Hereafter postal clerks must not talk
| so much. The following regulation has
been promulgated:
1T is deemed essential to the proper
administration of public business that
officers and employees of this Office shall
maintain respectful official relations
| with railroad companies and other car
| rying companies. as well as with their
superior officers. Railway postal clerks
| must not engage in controversies with
| or criticisms of railroad officials involv-
| ing the administration of the Postal
| Service by furnishing information to
| or denouncing the acts or omissions Of
| such officials as affecting the Postal
| Service. Clerks violating this instruc-
| ton will be subject to discipline and
| possible removal from the service.
"All information, criticism or COM
! from personal knowledge or obtain
! from credible sources looking to the
| betterment of the Postal Service and
| the comfort and safety of their per-
sons while officially employed, should
be forwarded thru their superior Off
| GERS in order that proper action may be
| taken"
Gen. ShaIlenberger admitted that
| much criticism had arisen over the or
| der, and number of Representatives
and several Senators had called for an
explanation.
A number Of Senate Committee re-
appointments and changes have been
made The most important of these Is
the appointment Of Senator Fulton, Of
Oregon. TO the place on the Military At
fairs Committee left vacant by the
death of Senator Alger.
Senator Fulton is an able lawyer. and
will be of assistance in the Brownsville
hearing. Senator William Alden Smith
was made Chairman of the Committee
On Examination and Disposition of Pub
| lie Documents; Senator Hopkins, men,
ber of the Committee on Enrolled Bills;
Senator Beveridge, member of the Com
mittee on Examination and Disposition
of Public Documents; Senator Curtis,
member Of the Indian Committee, to
succeed Senator Long. who resigned
from that committee.
Senator La Toilette. of Wisconsin, Is
| in favor of tariff revision. He would
revise the existing schedules at an extra
session of Congress to be called imme-
diately after March 4, II such a thing
| were possible. But his colleague, Sem
ator Spooner. says IL Is impossible, be-
| cause the President Will not call an
| extra session for that purpose
Il believe there ought to be an i'm
| mediate revision of the tariff, and the
| sooner the better" said Senator La
Toilette 81 believe the revision should
be thoro. I am in favor of an extra
| diately after March for the purpose
of taking up tariff schedules and work
| ing out a general revision"
John G. Carlisle Is coming back to his
Washington home to end his days. Ru-
NOR has it that he IS to marry again
The K street home of the once famous
Democratic politician has been empty
ever since Cleveland left the Presiden-
tial chair. For long years before that
Mr.. Carlisle had been barred from his
| old home in Kentucky. practically an
| exile. one might say, from his native
| State because he rejected false gods
and would not chase the Elusive 16 to
1 proposition. He had been attacked
and assaulted in his own city Of Coving-
ton because he was, so said Goebel and
| others, a traitor to the white metal"
| They said that he had made Dick Bland
Chairman Of the Coinage Committee
when he was Speaker of tho House af
Representatives, and had given other
evidence OF his fondness for silver.
|
AS matter OF fact, when Mr. Carlisle
| made up his first committees there were
| two other men present, ans one of
these says that Bland was given the
Chairmanship because he was the senior
Democrat who had served on the COM
nlittee, and not to have given him the
promotion which was naturally his
would have lost to the tariff reformers
the support that they needed against
| Randall and tho Republicans And 1t
! was In the tariff, ana not In s1iver that
| the Carlisle element Wala iutArAstad