The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-06-13

$1,000, every penny of which was con-
tributed by the members of the West
ern Federation of Miners. Gen. Waite
was given the sobriquet. Bloody Bri-
dies Waite after his wartime speech
in Chicago, in which he declared:
Rather than our National liberties
be destroyed would we ride in blood
up to our horses brides"
The Navy Department has been
obliged to abandon its plan to trans
form the cruiser San Francisco into a
mineship because the change Will in
volve the expenditure of more than
100000 and consequently would re-
auire Congressional appropriation.
The San Francisco is now at Norfolk,
where the work was to have been I'M
dertaken. The plan was to equip this
ship with a plant capable of handling
rapidly and with reasonable safety
what are known as floating and sub
merged mines. such as were used with
great effect during the Russo-Japanese
war. A properly equipped mineship
can place these elements of coast de-
Tense in any ordinary harbor in sufii-
icient numbers to insure protection in a
course of a day or two, whereas many
days and even weeks would be con-
Sumed by an ordinary vessel in the ac-
comp1ishment of the same amount of
work.
! The conversion of the cruiser Balti-
more, now at New York, into mine
ship is also temporarily suspended for
similar reasons.
An order has been issued that all
ipostmasters of the United tSateS of the
second and third classes will be grant
ed leave of absence for not exceeding
| fifteen days to enable them to attend
the annual meeting of the National As
ISOLATION of Postmasters to be held in
this city Oct. %. % and "a next.
| Word has been received here that c..
/ E. Grunsky, who is in Arizona on i'm
portant work for the Department of
| the Interior, will shortly resign from
his position as consulting engineer in
the Reclamation Service to resume the
practice of law.
Mr.. Grunsky was appointed MEM
Der of the first Isthmian Canal Com
mission from California by President
Roosevelt in 1904. Upon the reorgan-
ization of the Canal Commission he
was appointed to his present position
under the Interior Department
In an opinion by Justice McKenna.
in the cases of the United States
against the Paine Lumber Co. of Wis
iconSin, the Supreme Court of the
United States has construed the long
disputed problem of the land rights of
the remnant of the Stockbridge and
Munsie Indians that remain in Wiscon-
sin favorably to the Indians The In
| dams have from the first commended
that the treaty of 1856 conferred on al
lattees under it the right to dispose of
tine timber on their lands, while the
National Government has taken the
contrary position, and in these suits in
sisted upon treating the lands occupied
| nv them q of tho nnhlic do
main The lumber companies come
Into the case as defendants in proceed
ings charging them with violating the
| law against cutting the public timber.
They pleaded purchase from the In
dian occupants, and in their fight
The decision of the United States Cir
cult Court for the Easern District of
Wisconsin was affirmed.
| The Treasury Department today
purchased 100000 ounces of silver for
delivery at Philadelphia at 1920 cents
| per fine ounce.
! Senator Hale (Maine) is in the hos
pital at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Bal
timOre, recovering from what is termed
delicate operation" but it's nature
| is not disclosed. 1t is stated to have
been quite serious one, but the Sem
the way to recovery.
Mrs. Roosevelt ran up to Oyster Bay
last week with the kidlets of the family,
Archie. Quentin and Edith. By the
way, the last named, tall girl of some
a kidlet. as she is now Miss Roose-
Welt, but just the same she wears girly
girly short dresses, as yet, runs races
with the small brothers, and romps
like child of 10, SO may for few
months longer come inside of the limit
for kids" The children will remain
at Oyster Bay. and Mrs. Roosevelt will
go with the President on his little side
trips. They all expect to be together
at the Summer home by che last of
June. The house at Sycamore Hill has
been repainted and renovated through
out. The grounds are in splendid con-
dition.
Regarding the changes proposed to
! be made in the Treasury regulations
governing imports into the United
states as of even greater value to Ger
| man exporters than the actual con-
cessions of reduced duties contained in
the recently negotiated. tariff arrange
ments, the German Government is I'M
iderstood to be DESTROYS of having these
changes take effect at the earliest pos
| sibie moment The reduction of duty
N German champagne viii not take
effect until July /, according to the
terms of the agreement But 1t is held
| to be the spirit of the understanding
that the concessions to German mer-
chants made in the amendment of the
customs regulations to meet their COM
plants should take effect as soon as
possible, or in other words in advance
of July l. Therefore az soon as notice
reaches Washington that the German
emperor has signed the bill passed by
the Reichstag to give effect to the terms
| of the modus vivendi, the President
will issue proclamation announcing
| the fact and the amended Treasury
regulations will be issued Immediately
Thirteen clerks in the Recording Di-
| vision of the General Land Office have
| been granted all of the leave of
absence they have earned so far this
year, and when this is expired they
will be officially separated from the
service" Although Commissioner Bal
linger is not willing to make a formal
announcement of this change. in order
| that he may not cast any reflections
on the clerks that are gone. it is
| known that the dismissal of these en-
ployes is part of the plan of reorgan-
! iZation being put into effect gradually
cies are to be filed at once by skilled
typewriters from the Civil Service lists
Commissioner Ballinger and Secre-
| tary Garfield have stated that they arc
very sorry to have TO separate these