The National tribune., 1907-10-03

Roosevelt about the projected voyage ol
Rear-Admiral EyanS's great aggregation
Of battleships from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast of the United States, found
| that the President was not to be swerV-
ed from his purpose to have the fleet :
program carried out.
He has determined apparently thai
no consideration suggested or expected
up to this time shall prevent the DEM
onstration.
1t is understood that the President l.
fully aware that the fleets excursion
will cost a great amount of money, ana
that there are objections to the cruise
ION several grounds, among them that il
is an unwise move for reasons of inter-
national policy. These matters, how
ever. will not serve to dissuade him
from his intention to have the fleet start
for the Pacific within the next three
months.
Now. what do you think of this? The
Comptroller of the Treasury holds that
tobacco is a necessity.
George w. Webb, an Inspector in the
immigration Service, located at Tucson
Ariz., put in a bill for 81 expended in
the purchase of tobacco. w. l.. Soleau
the Disbursing Clerk of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, had his doubts
as to whether it ought to be paid, and,
TGIeTTeu ~ tiit
Comptroller. Webb was called upon for
"a statement, and explained that several
weeks ago % Mexicans were arrested on
the border under the suspicion that they
were entering the United States in Vlo-
lation of the immigration laws. They
were thrown into Jail at NogaleG, and
20 packages of tobacco bought in order
to pacify them.
Tn Ind Tranawal1
that some time ago he held that the
cost of tobacco and cigaret paper pur-
chased for laborers placed in quarantine
by the Health Department of the Canal
Commission was payable by the Gov
ernment, and that the present is a SINH
lar case.
Tobacco" holds the Comptroller.
has long since been recognized as a
necessity, and not a luxury, among la
boring men-I mean the class of COM
mon laborers employed on public
works-and especially with this class
when in confinement. A person in quar-
antine is practically in confinem ent All
penitentiarieS and other similar inSti-
tutiors have recognized this fact; even
insane asylums issue tobacco to certain
patients.
Tobacco issued under the circum-
stances under which the tobacco in
question was purchased and issued is
not a gratuity any more than the pur-
chase and issue of coffee would be a
gratuity. The use of these nerve stimu-
larts, narcotics, or whatever they may
be termed, may be defeterious to
health, but humanity, as it is consti-
tuted, and especially the class in ques-
ton, have become habituated to their
use. and when such persons are con-
fined these things are both meat and
drink to them and in my judgment are
proper supplies to be kept and used at
a quarantine station
In compliance with a request from
the Secretary of the Interior, DIR. Wall
ter Fewkes, of the Bureau of American
Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution to undertake the work of ex-
cavation, preservation, and repair of
the cliff dwellers and other prehistoric
ruins in the Mesa Verde National Park
in Southern Colorado. The Mesa Verde
National Park was created by an act of
Congress, approved Jusle 20, 1906 1t is
on'the border of the MonteZuma Valley,
just south of ancient Montezuma road,
and it contains some of the best pre-
served relics of the prehistoric cliff
dwellers in the country. DIR. FeWkes
will have direction of the scientific work
of unearthing and preserving the Mesa
Verde ruins, and an adequate sum has
been allotted by the Interior Depart
ment for that purpose. DR.. Fewkes has
just completed extensive excavations at
Casa Grande, Ariz.
The statue of Washington in front of
the Capitol and the busts of Pulaski and
koscius{io in the corridor of the gallery
floor of the Senate were decorated on
the 26th by delegates from the Polish
National Alliance of the United States
These delegates, 400 in number, came
to Washington from Baltimore, where
the alliance is holding it's annual con-
yention.
The delegates, headed by former
Representative McCleary. now Third
Assistant Postmaster General, and T. NJ
Helnski, of Chicago, marched to the
Capitol plaza. When they were within
100 yards of the statue of Washington
they raised their hats and remained un-
covered during the ceremony, which
consisted of speeches by Mr. McCleary,
Hr Helinski, and Col. Joseph Smolin-
ski, and the placing of a floral wreath
at the base of the statue, which was
done by Mrs. LipZynski.
The delegates then marched to the
gallery floor of the Senate, where they
placed floral decorations on the busts
Of their two fellow-countrymen Dur
ing the afternoon delegates visited the
Congressional Library and several other
public buildings, and at 2:30 they were
received by the President at the White
House.
North Dakota will be the name of
battle ship No. %, one of the new 90
000-ton vessels, contracts for which
were recently awarded by the Navy
Department. The other vessel, as here
tofore announced, will be called the
Delaware.
President Roosevelt has decided that
as so many naval vessels bear the names
OF New York cities, it would be unfair
TO carry out the original plan of naming
No. % the New York and changing the
cruiser of that name to Saratoga. Utah
now Is the only one of the States after
which no war vessel has been named
BY the Presidents mail one might
suspect that there is but one man capa.
Bile of filling the whole eye of the whole
people. and that is Theodore Roosevelt.
The White House mail bags are
crammed full of letters from admirers
If the President asking him to run for
President. To all these a courteous
answer is returned by Secretary Loeb.
in which he gives the stereotyped reply
that the President is not considering n
third term, VIII not consider a third
term, will not accept a third term. and
there you are President Roosevelt's
yes" has always meant ives" whr
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