The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-23

Declaration OF Independence Is the cor
nerstone of glorious Republic. the
Federal Constitution is the completed
edifice of a magnificent Union. Without
the Constitution, the Declaration be-
comes of little value. The 18th day of
september should be observed with pa
triotfc veneration.
The great instrument of nationality
for the preservation of which hundreds
of thousands of our loyal citizens gave
their lives, ceased to be an experiment
after nearly eight years of test and
strain. 1t has meant far more since
1865 than before the final overthrow of
the doctrine of States Rights, and it will
mean still more to us with each coming
year. Intelligent citizens ought to be
perfectly familiar. not only with its
spirit. but with every section and clause
1t certainly is well worth an hours time
on every anniversary of its adoption by
the members of the Constitutional Con-
vention to study it carefully and weigh
Just how near our Government at Wash
inston comes to respecting its impera-
tive provisions
There is a suggestion of communal
life about the possible election of the
Democratic ticket this Fall which does
not strike Washington society favorably
Mr.. Bryan has suggested turning the
White House into fats that will accom-
modate at least two families and posi-
bly, more. The great big white building
has been hardly big enough for one
family up to now. President Roosevelt
found it so very small for his family
that he Immediately set to work to have
it enlarged, or, rather, to give himself
more room by taking the business of
fees out of it and putting up an office
on the outside. The suggestion that
another family, especially one where
there are three or four childrn, can be
housed in the White House along with
the Presidential family is rather star
Ting to say the least.
Cocaine users who are unable to buy
the drug at their local stores also will
be unable to purchase it hereafter thru
the mails. Acting Postmaster General
Granfield has promulgated an amend
ment to section 494 of the Postal Regu-
lations. This section denies the use of
the mails for carrying Intoxicating
liquors. poisons or explosives, and, as
applied after yesterday, includes cocaine
or its derivatives.
Reports gathered by the Post Office
Department show that an enormous
amount of cocaine in one form or an
other has been passing thru the mails
large proportion of the stuff has been
sent in the guise of snuffs and medi-
cines.
Two bronze tablets In memory of
President Mckinley are soon to be
placed in Brandywine Park driveway
in Wilmington, Del. One Of them is to
be commemorative of a littIe-knowfi in
cident in the career of the slain Chief
MAGISTRATE ~,
which Mckinley. as a Corporal in the
Union army in the civil war, was the
leading character. While savage bat
tie was raging Corp'l Mckinley made
his way to the front. and served the
men on the firing line with water. And
a picture of the scene is now to be per-
petuated in bronze. go
The United States Government has
filed a petition in the Jamestown Ex-
position Federal Court litigation here,
asking protection as creditor of the
Exposition on account of it's 81, 900, 900
loan, and claiming priority of payment
over everything else owed by the Ex-
position Company.
The petition sets out that the balance
due the Government is $s97.953.57.
OF the s1,000.000 loaned the EXPOSE
ton, the Government had got back but
s102,046.43. 1t had been thought that
the Governments loan was only a lien
on the Exposition gate receipts. but to-
DAYS petition, filed by Assistant United
States District Attorney Talley, claims
that under the special statute appro-
priating the loan it comes as a first
lien.
In Federal Court the land options of
the % States having buildings at the
jamestown Exposition were extended
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be bought or the buildings removed by
that date.
Secretary Root is quite fully himself
again, and has left Muldoon's, where he
was taking a course in physical exer-
cises and the rest cure as well. He was
a caller at Sycamore Hill last week.
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With full naval honors the body of
Rear-Admiral Charles M. Thomas. U.
S. Navy, who died in Delmonte, Cal,
on July 3, was buried in Newport, r. I.
1t was the first funeral of a Rear-Ad-l
miral of the day that has taken place
in Newport in Is years, and it was
made notable by the number of high
Army and Navy officers present.
Some member of the Bates family will
get about 81, 900 of easy money if he can
prove his claims to the satisfaction of
the United States Government. The
State Department is searching for thet
heirs of Frank Bates, an American citi- |
gen, about rs years old, who died in
Mendoza, Argentine Republic, on Nov. |
8, 1906. Alban G. Snyder, American
Consul General at Buenos Ayres, who
New Pension an
Under the Widows Pension Law OF April 49, 1908.