The National tribune., 1907-02-28

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dressed as If for presentation at court.
meadouS train. The waist was almost
entirely of Venetian point. with inscts
Of iridescent embroidery. and, TO crown
all. = big flower hat. such as is Worn in
the boxes at the opera.
John Sharp Williams the minority
leader OF the House, has the following
to say of the race problem:
Il repeat that il is not the nesros
vote +hat constitutes the problem In
The South. because he has none. 1t is
the physical presence of the negro him
self in numbers sufficient TO menace the
White mans civilization. l repeat that
7 can imae ine nothing more detrimental
20 the present great prosperity or more
perilnus to the ancient civilization of
the South than to make this delicate
race .question-the question of the re-
Is stionship that should exist between the
races in the South-tile football of
Northern politicians in the Senate and
in the House. l repeat that 1t will be
dangerous for many years to come and
until public sentiment in the United
States outside of the Sotsth has under
gone Il very great change. Just pre-
ciseiy what every intelligent negro in
the United States wants done and Is
trying to have done is what Gov. Var
daman proposes to do. to wit, to make
a National issue once more of the ne
gro question
Isn't this funny? Deep down in the
subhasement of the Senate there is
machinery which regulates the temper
atnre in which sit the Republics con-
script fathers A network of pipes car
ry under the dasl of every Senator
fresh air that is of the proper temper
aturc. In hot weather these pipes carry
cool air, and in cold weather warm air.
a few years ago a new apparatus WAS
bought which was specially adapted to
keeping the temperature of'the cham
ber in hot weather down to n degrae
cooler than the S,ln-hea.-
ed atmosphere. But this machinery was
never installed The reason was that
scientists advised against ii, on the
ground that a temperature more than
four degrees cooler than the air would
be unhealthy and would endanger the
lives of the older class of Senator'S But
for this it would be possible for Sena-
tors to be as cool in their splendid
chamber on the hottest days I'm WASH
fngton as if they were sitting on the
yeranda of a Maine coast hotel"
1t really is astonishing how things
bark back to Kansas, in one way and
another Now. here is Idaho's new
Senator. yong Mr.. Eorak He was
born in Illinois. but received his edu-
cation in the University of Kansas, To-
Gated in Lawrence
The President has ordered the meat
inspection laws revised. The work is
being done for the Department of Ag-
riculture. and Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson is aiding the Commission with
suggestions evolved from the practical
effect of the present regulations. He
has found these to be loose in some
particulars and too rigid in other re-
spects. 1t is understood that there is 10
be no relaxation in the clauses requir-
ing absolute cleanliness and perfect
or in those requiring close
inspection of the animal both before
and after killing
The work has been going on for some
time now. bat so quietly that nobody
hut the very few especially Interested
knew anythiBy about it,
The members of the Commission are
the most distinguished that could have
been named. Scientists, who have made
reputation for practical application
of their knowledge. have been selected
in every instance
Philadelphia's representative on the
Commission is DIR. Leonard Pearson
He has won distinction as pathologist
and for his achievement In the field
OF original research. The others are
DIR. William II. Welsh, of Baltimore,
the distinguished professor of patholo-
gy In Johns Hopkins University; Drs
NJ. j. Rosenau and c. W. Stiles, of the
United States Bureau of Public Health:
Dr. Joseph Hughes, Prof. Ludwig
Heckler. pathologist of the University
of Chicago. and Prof. V. A. Moore, of
Cornell.
The next session of the Commission,
in all probability, viii be held in Chi
cagO in about three weeks 1t is ex-
bected that the work of revision and
reconstruction Will be finished at that
session.
When the attention of Secretary Taft
was directed to the statement I'm a New
York paper that it had been definitely
determined to abandon the site for the
Gatun dam on the Panama Canal, which
would also require the abandonment oe
the high-level lock plan. he said:
There Is no more foundation for
that statement than there would be for
one to the effect that | am going 10 the
cciving simply tends TO confirm our
original judgment in selecting the site
at Gatun for the big dam. and in de-
terminiDs upon the location there Of
the flight of three locks necessary to
make a high-leveI canal"
And then along comes Chief Engineer
Stevens with Exhibit A, which proves
to be some ''sile'' from the interior of
the Isthmus of Panama, over which
the Gatun dam Is to be located. and he
declares tha. Exhibit A" shows that
that dam site is al, o. K And
he says that anybody who says that il
isn't, is Il wilful preyaricator and If ii
was not parliamentary he would call
'em plain liar" don't you know.
Now isn't this a nice thing to have
said about us?
In Europe or the Orient, when I
have been offered a secretary who has
served in Washington, / Invariably re-
fuse to accept him. Why? Because
You make all of the small fry of the
Corps lot of bumptious cads You
spoil them. those children in the diplo-
matte nursery; you wine them and dine
them: You nurse and coddle them: You
take them, the infants. quite seriously.
you even marry your daughters 10
them. But they have no right or title
to the honor and distinction you accord
them. They are nice boys, most OF
them: of good families and well bred;
but why should that make them pets
of society Why should they be lion,
lied and pampered simply because they
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