The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-16

ment found out absut the unspeakable |
filth that waste be met with there. |
1t is perfectly safe to say. however,
that the average restaurant and board /
ing-house kitchen is a hotbed of disease.
which is spread broadcast by flies that
feed on the vermine breeding ofal about
| the kitchen sink. This sounds harsh.
but sometimes the truth is harsh. This
1 is the truth.
sweeping change in the organiza
| ton of the Forest Service, which will
result in moving the greater part of
| the service to the actual scene ofopera-
/ lions in the West and will leave only a
nucleus of the service in Washington to
| carry on the executive work of the
/ Bureau. has been decided on. and will
be put into operation at an early date.
| This change means the establishment
of so-called division offices in six of the
/ large cities of the big Western States,
i in all of which large forces of the For
est Service will be quartered. These
/ various divisions will report directly to
the head of the Forest Service in Wash
ington The cities selected for these
division headquarters are San Francis
co, Denver, Salt Lake City. Portland.
Missoula. Mont, and Albuquerque. n.
Mex.
i This change In the Forest Service or
ganiZation has been decided on. il is
said. to bring the service into closer
touch with the field in which its opera
tons are carried on. Already prepare
tons are under way for the change.
Representative Richmond Pearson
Hobson broke the rule of the White
House. and now his name has gone into
u ,@1.rs
Hobsen made the mistake of quoting
, the President direct in a speech which
he made at Denver. Representative
!, Richmond Pearson Hobson came to
! ress-confessedly-to force that
body to create larger Navy. This he
: has not yet been able to do. But, like
: the raven, always sitting on, never fit
ting from that particular subject, he
sends his sentiments abroad, in season
4 and out of season, and the refrain from
. Congress TO Colorado and from Ala
S bama to here has been always and all
/ the time "a larger Navy" OF late Rep
Y resentative Richmond Pearson Hobson
t has seen spooks. They are yellow in
e color have slant eyes and go by the
e name of japanese" He's just dead
t sure that the little. deht-ridden Empire
| is going to fight us. Yes, indeedy. Just
| like that he says every day, and some
4 times wakes the echoes of the night
crying, 'They come. They come. The
Japs-the Japs," But they haven't
= come yet Acknowledgements
I Richmond Pearson-sees 'em, however,
u and he wants to be ready for them. So
l. it fell out in Denver that he said in a
6 speech that 1t is said the convention
q didn't want to hear and hooted, he said
4 81 want to say to you that not Sc
$ very long ago the President of the
!. United States said, in my presence
g There exists the greatest probability OF
: a war with Japan"
81 Now this is followed by an emphatic
o statement from Secretary Loeb, the
5. same being authorized by the President
The statement by Secretary Loeb is as
It follows, and is quoted direct:
e ''In reference to the speech of Con-
r gresham Hobson.- the Congressman
: must, of course, have been misquoted
e The President not only never made such
tt a remark. but never made any uremarb
e even remotely resembling it. All that
f the President has ever said is that il
: there We're sufficient Navy there would
never be any possibility of this country
getting into foreign war;"
c Kametaro Hayashida, the Mikado:
d special representative in the Japanese
y PARLIAMENT, the Chief Secretary of the
d Parliament, and the author of Japan's
e parliamentary and election reforms. ha:
been in the city for several days. thu
iguest of ambassador Takahira- He !:
: travelling in the United States to find
s if possible, some type of American leg
e islative building suitable for the Capito
= of Japan, for the construction of which
lS12,090.000 has been appropriated. II
is his object to make ii, if possible, thf
% handsomest Capitol in the world and
It in his suite are experts who will sketch
= land get plans of the buildings that strike
# him as favorable 1t is the hope here
IS as well as in Japan that Mr.. Hayashida
n will net go further for his ideas, anc
81 that when the Diet assemblies in its new
building it will be in a building Of
American architecture. ~~7'''f
OF the United States he, says:s.,,
II Japan owes the United States q
a great debt L take this opportunity OF
9 showing our gratitude and apprecia'
2 ton"
oil Representative William III. Parker
!. died at his home in Deadwood, N. D..
Y last week of dropsy and liver trouble
, after an hiness of three weeks. Ulti-
:. mately his body will rest in the Nationa
It Cemetery at Arlington.
II Mr.. Parker, who was born at Keene
II n. H, May 5, 1847, had distinguished
d record in the Union army from 1851 tt
; 1866 In 1866 he was graduated in law
h from the Columbian, now George Wash.
a lington University. and was admitted tt
: practice before the District courts. This
s he did until he was appointed Collector
Q of Internal Revenue for Colorado Ter
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