The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-05-02


State Department that the remains OF
Col. George w. Roosevelt a distant rel
alive of President Roosevelt, who died
a few days ago while occupying the po-
sition of Consul-G General to Brussels,
will be brought to this country. They
will be inferred in Arlington National
Cemetery, Col. Roosevelt having served
as a member of Pennsylvania volun-
teer regiment in the civil war.
The special committee appointed by
Secretary Cortelyou to count the Ma
tional bank notes in the office of the
Controller of the Currency has reported
that the count tallies to a dollar. The
committee, headed by Maj. Fred Brack-
EFT, has made most complimentary re-
port on the affairs of the Currency Blu
reau of the Office, and speaks highly Of
the Chief of the Bureau, Watson w.
Eldridge.
The count shows that there are in the
vaults of the Currency Bureau s173,-
501290 in National bank notes, await
ing calls from the banks. The commit
tee has been engaged on the count just
three weeks. There had not ben q
count prior to this one for number of
years.
Mr.. Eldridge, the Chief of the Blu.
IL,
reau. most of the time as Chief, for SO
years He has been retained in his po-
sition by every Controller for many
years. During his connection with the
office over $4,000, 100000 of National
bank notes have been handled and shipt
with safety to the various Nationa!
banks of the country. Not dollar has
been lost in the So years.
Mr.. Eldridge's Bureau receives the
y,ov, ofn 1,ar int Il
by the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing. They are then placed in vaults to
the credit of the banks. When banks
desire more currency, and have fur
nished security therefor, it is shipt to
them by express. At times millions OF
dollars day are shipt out, becoming a
part of the currency of the country.
Every note is counted before it goes
out, and the greatest care is taken.
'The first time ever saw Abraham
Lincoln was in 1852, just IS years agc, "
said former Gov. William Pitt Kellogg.
of Louisiana, who was in Washington
the other night. "I had just been adj
mitted to the bar, and was in Spring
field, the Capital of Illinois. was young
and perhaps rather timid, and for that
reason I remember particularly MI.
Lincoln's kindness to me. He had large
black eyes that looked out on you from
deep sockets, and seemed to peer down
into your soul. Tho his cheeks were
rather sunken and he had a hungry
look, his face was lighted with inspira-
ton; you felt in his presence that he
was a man far above the ordinary.
st sat there at the table that morn
ing in the court, and Mr.. Lincoln, who
was then known as one of the greatest
lawyers of Illinois, leaned over and
picked up a book just in front Of me.
As he did so he bowed in a kindly way,
without saying a word. To this day /
have never forgotten that bow and the
expression on his face. -Four years later,
in the convention in which the Repub-
lican Party was born, sat next to hina
as a Delegate. He represented Sanga-
mon County, and made that great
speech in which he said: You can fool
all the people some of the time and
some of the people all the time, but you
can't fool all the people all the time
He had the most winning way in getting
votes 1 ever saw. Two years later, in
1853, he was a candidate for the United
States Senate against Douglas, and
made speeches from the same platform
on which / spoke. 1 was candidate
for the Legislature on his ticket, and
he advocated my election. In 1860 1
was a Presidential Elector on the Lin
coin ticket in Illinois, Only this morn
ing L received a copy of a paper con-
tanning the State ticket Of that year,
and found that I was the only man
whose name was On that ticket who Is
yet alive. Those were wonderful days,
and they produced wonderful men, but
Lincoln was the greatest of them all.
He was the greatest man that / have
known in the SIS years that have been
in public life
The likeness of Pocahontas, which
will appear on the fiye-cent stamp Of
the jamestown Exposition commemora-
tive issue, was secured from an old book
in the Congressional Library. written by
Capt. John Smith. The book is known
as ''The General Historic of Virginia,
New England and the Summer Isles"
and was published In London in 1924
The engraving is by Simon Vande Passe,
of the old Dutch school.
In a panel at the top Of the stamp, in
white letters, are the words, United
States of America" At the bottom, in
a panel, are the words, Postage, Five
Cents Under the portrait, on a scroll,
''Pocahontas,' and the date of birth and
death, l595-1617. On either side of the
portrait are shields, their bases resting
on the lower panel, containing the num-
Der 5. Arising from behind these shields
are scrolls with the words, Founding
of jamestown, 1907" In vertical panels
on the right and left are the words,
Commemorative Series, 1907"
OF the "a Senators who 80 years ago
participated in the impeachment trial of
President Andrew johnson, only five are
known to be alive, and they all are or
were Republicans. Only two of these
survivors voted against impeachment.
They are Gen. John 3. Henderson, who
then represented Missouri in the Upper
Chamber, and who is now one Of Wash
ingtons most conspicuous citizens, and
E. G. Ross, who, now So years old, in
firm in health and utterly broken in for
tune, resides with son at Albuquerque,
y. Mex. The other three-those who
voted for mpeachmcnt-are ex-senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island; George F.
Edmunds. and William NJ Stewart, of
Nevada. OF all the 10 Senators whose
seems to have gone hardest with Mt
Ross. He was Senator from Kansas
and the feeling there was so bitter and
intense that for his brave act in Wash
ington he was driven from his State,
discredited, disheartened and broken in
spirit. Had Ross voted with the over
whelming majority of his party in the
Senate, johnson would have been con-
yicted of high crimes and misdemeanOrs
and deposcd from the Presidency. 1t
was the one vote of the courageous
Kansan that saved him. Ross was at
one time Territorial Governor of New
Mexico. but aside from this he appears