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

Even branches of the United States
Government get Jared occasionally
when they present bills and are in
formed that it is time to ''cut it short"
The Navy Department, the aristocratic
Department of the United States Gov
eminent, next to the State Department,
got this kind of information recently.
1t was informed by the Comptroller of
the Treasury that the Department
printing allowance for the current year
is exhausted.
The notice created considerable as
constituent in the Navy Department,
and. under instructions from Assistant
Secretary Newberry, clerks immediate
ly busted themselves in seeking to as
certain where the trouble lay. Navy
Department officials were under the i'm
preston that there were funds in the
Treasury to the credit of their print
ing account sufficient TO last until the
beginning of the fiscal year, July l.
Until the various accounts have been
thoroughly gone over and compared.
orders for printing in the Navy De-
partment will be practically suspended.
In case it is definitely established that
the printing allowance of Secretary
Metcalf's Department is exhausted, it
is said the work there will be hand
icapped badly.
but oHt sup III diN OHt soldtc 10 eiiS
program adopted by the President for
his trip down the Mississippi after he
leaves Canton. on Sept. 80. He will
embark from some place in Iowa, rot
yet determined. and make stops on the
way down at Cairo, st. Louis, and
Memphis.
The trip is to be made with the In
land Waterway Commission and the
members of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep
Waterway Association. From Memphis
the President, it is said at the White
House, will come direct to Washington
without stopping anywhere en- route.
A meeting of the Columbus Memo
rial Commission was held at the De-
partment of State last week and pre-
liminary arrangements were made to
carry out the provisions of the Act of
Congress, approved March last, APP
propriating 100000 for the erection in
this city "of suitable memorial to
the memory of Christopher Column
bus"
The Commission consists of the
Chairman of the Senate Committee on
the Library of the Fifty-ninth Con-
greSs, the Chairman of the Committee
on the Library of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the F'ifty-ninth Congress.
the Secretary of State. the Secretary of
War, and the Supreme knight of the
Order of the knights of Columbus. All
the gentlemen named We're present.
One of the plans proposed for me-
mortal to Columbus involves the cree
ton of a monumental arch over Della
ware avenue between the United States
Capitol and the Unon Station, and near
the latter, SO that it might form q
gateway to the city. Although the Co
lumbar Commissioners are not finally
committed to any design. it is under
stood that most of them favor monu-
mental with f'01YITn hnS the
central figure in preference to an arch.
But the questions Of site and design
are yet to be determined.
The names of the great men of our
Republic are not only perpetuated in
the nurseries of the Nation, but are en-
duringly embodied in her geographical
nomenclature. There is no President
of the United States who has not been
remembered by loyal hearts in some
section of the Union. Our first Execu-
tive can claim % post offices in as
many States. Lincoln has 81. several of
them south of Mason and Dixon's line;
Grant has 20. Jefferson "a, Madison %.
Monroe 25, Garfield 20, Adams II.
Seventeen Offices bear the name Of
Roosevelt, and other heroes of the
Spanish war share also in this tribute.
Fifteen post offices are named for
Dewey for Schley for Sampson
{.
Two States have improved upon the
ordinary method of using a great
mans name by having Horace. Greeley
County, Neb., and Horace Greeley
County. Kan, while Texas. with true
Western unconventionality. has Ben
Wheeler andd Ban Franklin. and New
York honors in Tilly Foster, heroine
otherwise unknown to fame.
The memorial statue to former Sec
rotary of State Thomas F. Bayard, first
ambassador of the United States to the
Court Of st. James. will be unyailed
June % at Wilmington, Del. The
Cleveland. Federal Judge George
Gray also will speak. The statue
which will stand at the entrance to
Rockford Park. is of bronze and more
than life size. 1t was modelled by Miss
Fife Stillman (now Mrs. William
Ritchie) of London and was given by
an unknown friend of Mr.. Bayard.
The War Department has post
poned indefinitely the proposed trans
continental march for the purpose of
testing the respective merits of Ara
bian and other horses. That action
was rendered necessary by report
just received from Mr.. Homer Daven-
port that his Arabian stallion which he
had offered to the Department for the
test was i'll and will be unable to be in
condition to undertake the long trip
for several months TO come.
Rear Admiral Evans, commanding
the Atlantic feet, denies the story sent
from Norfolk that he had exchanged
some sharp words with Admiral New
lille. commanding the British squa dron,
in regard to shore leave of British tars
while at jamestown.
Admiral Evans declared that Their,
was no truth whatever in the report
that there had been a clash and that
only the most friendly and cordial re-
lations existed between Admiral New
lille and himself He said also that he
had never intimated that too many
British sailors had been allowed to go
ashore. The British ships left Hamp-
ton Roads several days ago. and the
usual farewell visits were exchanged,
during which Admiral Neville took oc-
casion to personally thank Admiral
Evans for courtesieS extended to his
officers and his men during their stay
at jamestown. @
Information has been received here
concerning the unwilling of a hand
some monument last week at Aspen,
Colo. as tribute to the memory of
the late Gen. Davis H. Waite. former
Governor of Colorado, by the Western
Federation of Miners. daughter of
the late Governor, Mrs. Josephine Waite
Garrison. holds a clerkship in the De-
partment of the Interior. 1t is stated