The National tribune., 1908-05-21

ming for other people. The other day
in the Senate he tackled the President
after this fashion:
IF it is true, as reported. that the
President of the United States has
agreed not to prosecute railroads for
violating provisions of the commodity
clause of the rate law, then the Presi-
dent should and ought to be i'm
peached."
AS Senator Bailey does not go to
the White House, he can only get his
information secondhand, and seems to
get it very secondhand at that.
Admiral Evans back in his home, Is
glad to be there, and hopes to become
known to fame as Peaceful Bob" But
he won't be if he goes on talking. An
other famous Admiral nearly got his
halo knocked off because he talked too
much.
All the Governors of the South were
seated together in the conference of
Governors at the White House, and
Room, those Governors greeted him
with the familiar ''yip-yip." or rebel
yell, which sounded high above the
handclapping of the other Governors.
The President the other morning Sc
iected two of the handsomest roses in
the vase upon his desk, and sent them
to mother of IL children in Arkan-
sas. Mrs. o. C. Ludwig, wife of the
Secretary of State of Arkansas, will
receive the roses.
Mr. Ludwig called at the White
House with half a dozen other Arkan-
sas State officials, and during the little
visit one of the others happened to
mention the fact that Ludwig was the
father of IL children and the grand
father of one.
by jove. that is splendid. I want
to congratulate you, sir" cried the
President land I also want to con-
gratulate Mrs. Ludwig even more than
1 do you. What is more, 1 want you to
take these roses to her with my compli-
ments"
The Secretary of State promised that
he would bear the roses home in good
order.
You needn't think that because Lar
rinaga, the Delegate from Porto Rico,
comes from a provincial little island
that he is not up to snuff" As mat
ter of fact, there are few better in
formed men in Congress than he. There
are few men in either House of Con-
gress who could be SO much at home
in SO many parts of the world as he.
He is rsduate of the best institution
in Porto Rico; of the Troy Polytechnic
Institute. Troy, n. Y; of the University
of Pennsylvania; a civil engineer, build
er of the first railroad in Porto Rico;
constructor of most of the important
public works erected in the island in
the last 80 years, including roads and
bridges.
Long before the Spanish-American
War he became convinced that Porto
Rico was destined to have its most
important relations with the English
speaking countries, and started the
movement to instruct the people in the
English language. He taught a free
class in a night school for a long
time in English, and when the island
found itself without a Government, in
the interim between the overthrow of
Spanish power and the establishment
of American, he held an important Of
flee in the improvised administration.
He was named by President Roose-
welt as Delegate to the Pan-American
Congress at Rio Janeiro last year, and
took an important part in the proceed
ings. ii'
Because of the alarming growth in
the use OF opium in the United States
and other 'counfries. and especially in
China, the President has forwarded to
Congress. with his Endorsement, a state
ment from Secretary Of State Root,
suggesting an appropriation OF $z6. coo
for the salary and expenses Of Fed
eraI Commission to investigate the evil
The Secretary says that the State De-
partment has made a thoro favestiga-
ton as to the manner in which the
world powers can eradicate the evil II,
the Chinese Empire, and IN his state
ment sets forth these methods.
NO State In the Union has had any
thing like the experience Of Texas in
the matter of owing allegiance to diff
ferent Governments" said Judge w. F.
Barclay, of Weatherford. Tex, the 9TH
er day
In the course Of its history Texas
six different fiags-that of France,
Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,
the United States and the Confederacy.
Now it is once more the grand old en-
blem of Uncle Sam that is kissed by
our prairie breezes and that our people
honor and love as well as ever they did
the stars and bars of the Southern
that this time the flag OF the Union
viii never be suppIanted. 1t has come
to stay forever"
I'm God We Trust" ordered restored
as a motto on the coins by the House
Of Representatives. was approved by
the Senate judiciary Committee, and
reported to the Senate.
No oppossSson at the White House Is
expected to thwart tie viii Of Con-
gress in having the use Of the motto
a matter Of law, instead Of discretionary
matter, subject to suspension and an
Executive order, which was the ease
when the President ordered its discon-
tinHance.
At the age of eight and one-haIf
years Chairman Tawney, of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, heard Presi-
dent Lincoln deliver his address at the
opening of the National Cemetery at
Gettysburg.
On Memorial Day last year he in
formed the House of Representatives
he had the distinguished honor of de-
livering the address at Gettysburg,
speaking from the spot occupied by the
martyred President.
For the first time in his 16 years
service in the House, therefore, he
asked and received, with applause,
unanimous consent to insert in the
Record portion of his remarks on
that occasion.
The subject under consideration al
the moment was an item in the sundry
civil bill. for the support of the ceme-
terry at Gettysburg.
Washington has had a most distin.
guished visitor in the person of Car,ii-
| nal Logue. Primate of ireland. The