The National tribune., 1908-03-12

| 1t is stated on pretty good authority
that no Statehood bills will be present
ed this session for either New Mexico
| or Arizona. While bills have been in
| trOduced it is not at all probable that
| they will be brought up in the House.
| Representative Charles Landis. of the
| famous Lands family, has been unani-
mously renominated to serve another
| the election will be nearly unanimous
| also.
It is said that Senator Hansbrough,
who is the ranking member of the Com
mittee on Agriculture of the Senate, of
| which the late Senator Proctor was
Chairman, may be made Chairman of
the committee.
| "a Senator Hansbrough is Chairman of
the Public Lands Committee, and ilc
probably will be succeeded by Sena tor
/ Nelson. The Committee on Agriculture
outranks the Committee on Public
Lands, dealing with an appropriation
bill every year. and it is thought that
MIR. Hansbrough will be willing to make
the change.
Senator Proctor was also a member
of the Committee on Appropriations and
| rost Offices and Post Roads Senator
Wetmore, who was formerly a member
| of the Appropriations Committee and
who was not named on that committee
at the first of the session because he
had not been returned to Congress, may
be restored to his old place on the APP
preparations Committee.
There's a man in the District of CO.
lumbia-his name is Bradfield-who
declares that Bryan-William Jen-
nings-is not a Democrat. He says he
simply canot see why anybody should
want to vote for him as a Democrat.
| "Now. l cannot understand why any
Old-line Democrat should favor Popu-
| st-Prohibitionist-1m Socialist :
Altruistic Egotist like William Jennings
Bryan as a candidate for the Presidency
Mr. Bryan is not an "old-line Demo-
crat"
That is the way he stacks things up.
If Virginia won't reimburse Gov
Swanson for the splurge he cut in en-
tertaining visitors at jamestown. how
can 1t be expected that Congress will do
anything for the Exposition Company?
Gov. Swanson did his best to uphold
Virginia's reputation for hospitality, and
succeeded to the tune of $4,000. Now
he wants to get that sum from the
State. and the Legislature axed him
no" And that isn't playing fair. 1t
looks good deal as tho the people who
were managing that Exposition had
never seen the color of gold before, and
thought they had gold mine in the
Government exchequer. 1t is unfor-
tunate, but it ought also to teach
lesson.
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the
United States Supreme Court, has pur-
chased the famous Marshall estate, at
Beverly Farms. near Boston, as a Sum-
mer cottage for himself and his wife.
The estate, which was made famous
by the Judges father, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, the famous poet. has long been
show place of the countryside 1t
was in this house that the illustrious
fast Table"
The Justice and his wife will take uo
their residence there soon.
Senor Don Eduardo de Beistegui,
Third Secretary of the Mexican Embas-
sy here, died last week of pneumonia,
after an illness of only three days.
Senor Beistegui. who was 81 years
old, was appointed to his position in the
Embassy only six months ago. His
brother, Miguel, is the Mexican Minis
ter to Chile. Senior Beistugei was born
in Paris. where his parents were visit
ing at the time.
House special committee has at
last started upon an investigation of
charges that the Electric Boat Com
pany, which manufactures submarines,
has been mixing in politics, threatening
Representatives in their districts and
overawing the House Committee on Ma
val Affairs so that they would vote for
more submarines than the Government
needed. The House came around to the
investigation tardily, and only after
Representative Lilley, of Connecticut.
had told them specifically how infiuen-
tial Republicans in Connecticut haG
come around to him as a member of
the Naval Affairs Committee and askeiI
him to vote for more submarines, as it !
would help them in getting contracts.
Around the Capitol it is believed that
there is a lot of interesting information
about the methods by which the Gov
ernment has been brought TO purchase
goOdly numbers of submarines, but it Is
feared that the investigation will result
in n whitewash. PROBABLY there will be
some kind of comment in the final re-
Company, but not a Republican MEM
impression is around that the investiga-
ton will come down to that, altho the
Speaker has appointed some fairly good
men to conduct IL. The leading men,
Der, who serves as Chairman, is Repre-
sentative Henry S. BOutell, of Illinois.
IL members of the House have been
improperly Influenced it will be ex-
ceedingly difficult to prove 1t. The ses-
sion is getting well along toward close.
Speaker Cannon Is very loath that any-l