The National tribune., 1907-02-21

the man lf3W Is n deScnHr3te. the WO-
man known as his wife is a brainless
! little huzzy whose mother seems 10 have
been of the same class and who delib-
erately threw her daughter at the head
of u man who was rich enough to care
for the whole Nesbit- Holman family
The only objection which Mrs. Nesbit-
Holman seems to have had against both
Thaw and White possessing her daugh'
ter is that Thaw, while rich, objected to
supporting any one but Evelyn and her
: brother. while White was willing to in
clude the mother and other members OF
! the family The mother preferred the
man who gave her The most financial
support The place for such a trial is
not in family newspaper. and its de-
tails need not be looked for in The
/ National Tribune.
( Sonora Creel. wife of the ambassador
from Mexico. is just about The richest
( woman in the world. She has not got
it all yet but has few millions and
! the rest a-comin'. so to speak. She is
heiress to only 5000. 900, 900, more ratf-
er than less. 1t has all been dug out
of the earth down in Mexico, and there
are still millions to be dug. Sonora
1 Creel is a charming woman. dresses in
admirable taste, and knows how TO
! wear clothes. which counts for more
than being able to buy them. The wo-
/ man who can wear a cotton gown with
grace has more to recommend her than
/ the woman who can wear cloth of gold.
. hut wears il badly on a figure that is d
lIothes-horse or meal-bag for shape.
! Senator Carmack. the ''red-hea deti
| rooster from Tennessee. who goes out
! into the gloom of defeat at the polls
! March T. says that there is enough
poison in the 18th amendment to spoil
the whole Constitution. Mighty slow
/ poison. mighty slow. Mr.. Carmack of
the kinlly auburn tresses.
| In a 150-page second addition to her
/ petition of 1905. Queen Liliuokalani,
! the former ruler of the Hawaiian
! Islands. has asked the Senate for the
settlement of her claim for sovereign
! lands taken from her, as she asserts, at
! the time the United States acquired the
( islands. Vice President Fairbanks laid
the additional petition before the SEN
! ate.
| Hoist by their own petard!
Senators have only themselves to
blame for what happened TO them last
week. They called for the whole" of
ithe documents i'm the Hanks-Harriman
case, and they got it from the Interstate
Commerce Commission in wagon
drawn by q four-horse team.
| 1t is stated that the policeman on
duty in the Capitol grounds threatened
! to report the driver of the delivery
wagon with the documents in 1t to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
: to Animals, for the whole result of sew
! en- months labor by the two indefatiga-
BILE gentlemen and a large force of
| clerks of the Commission was piled in
a wagon with only four ordinary-sized
! horses to draw it. There were % diff
I ferent exhibits, together with two able
| bodied colored men, the whole. exciu-
sive Of the colored men. tied up with
rope into movable packages.
Just what the Senate will do with the
documents is question. Nobody ex-
| poets that they will even be unpacked,
and if they were Mr. Hartman is the
only man in the United States who
/ knows what thes mean. Mr. Hanks
says frankly that he does not, and the
| Interstate Commerce Commission took
| three guesses at it and appointed three
| investigating committees without find
ing out.
There was a report current at the
| Capitol that Senator Culberson, who
4 was really at the bottom of the trouble,
/ intended to Introduce bill appropriate
/ ing money for an addition to the Capt.
| tol in which to store the exhibits But
this was contradicted by Representative
| Tawney. who said that 1T was only an
other covert attempt on the part of the
Senate to usurp the preregatives of the
I House, and that tho the Constitution
might be amended that way in time, IT
( had not been vet, and he proposed to
/ stand by the Constitution as IL was now
/ interpreted
! Meanwhile the Hanks Hartman ex-
hibts are at the Capitol awaiting dis
| position.
AS result of correspondence be-
| tween Secretary Taft and Mr.. E. ].
Scott, secretary to Dr. Booker T. WASH
| ington, white men will no longer be
appointed chief musician of bands of
colored regiments in the Army except
in the improbable event that it Is i'm
possible to secure competent colored
musicians for that service. few
weeks ago Mr.. Scott wrote to the Sec
retary of War asking him to open the
way for the appointment of colcred
musicians as band leaders In the four
colored regiments-9th and 10th Cav
airy, and oath and 25th Infantry The
| only case where a colored man has
been permitted to serve as band mas
! ter in the Regular Army Is that of
Lieut.. Loving, leader of the band of
the Philippine ConstabuIary, which
made a decided hit at the Louisiana
! Purchase Exposition.
I Up to this time the invariable prac-
| tice has been to appoint white music
| ians as leaders of the colored bands,
/ the stated reasons being that hereto
! fore there were no capable colored mu-
/ sicians available. That condition no
! longer exists. Mr.. Scott told the Sec
/ retary of War that a continuance of
the old custom CLOSES the door on op-
| portanity'' to colored musical talent so
makes 1t harder to enlist desirable
I civilian musicians"
BY direction of Secretary Taft, the
I Military Secretary has written letter
10 the commanding officer of each of
j the four colored regiments, in which
he says:
THE Secretary of War has directed
that hereafter white men be not ap-
pointed chief musicians of bands of
colored regiments when colored men
possessing the requisite qualifications
can be secured for that position. He
therefore directs that when a vacancy
occurs in the position of chief musician
in your regiment, due effort be made
TO fill it with a suitable and competent
! colored instructor of music. and II such
4 cannot be obtained, you will report the
fact to the War Department He fur
ther directs that in no case will the
! appointment of white man be made
/ without the express authority of the
! War Department"
i The laugh VIII come no matter how