The National tribune., 1908-11-19

11CiIf.tI puultN Ilollcr lllt silN hi'NNir
died last week at his home in New York
City, after an illness of month. Mr..
Hale was n son of Rev. DIR. Edward
Everett Hala, Chaplain of the United
-'StateS Senate. He was born at Dor
chester, Mass, in 1856, was graduated
from Harvard in 1SSe. and went to
Paris 10 study architecture.
Hereafter the Marine Band will be
at liberty to fill engagements, playing
for compensation whenever it chooses
20 do 50. This is the effect of an opin-
ion by Attorncy-General Bonaparte,
who declared that the statute that Navy
bands or parts thereof should not re-
ceive remuneratio3 for furnishing mu-
sic outside military posts. when in COM
petition with local civilian bands, does
not apply TO the Marine Band.
Representatives of organized labor
have held that the Navy bands should
not come into competition with union
musicians, and the question has hinged
on whether the Marine Band. strictly
speaking, is n Navy band" in the
meaUiES OF the statute.
In the opinion of Attorncy-Gencral
BonapaTtc. given to the Secretary of the
Navy. many decisions are cited to show
of the Navy, it often has been held to
be a separate institution, so far as leg
islatiye cnGctulcnts are concerned.
Orville Wright, the famous aviator,
has enlisted the support of Russell A.
A1ger, son of the late Senator Alger,
and an acroplare factory will be built in
Detroit, Mich. The first order to be
executed viii be the aeroplanes ordered
by the United States Government, fol-
lowing the success of the trials at Fort
Myer.
The company will be incorporated at
once. and Il temporary factory will be
opened until the new factory can be
built.
Norman L. Mack, Chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, says
that the Democrats must watch the
-Administration-Taf to do so
should establish a bureau here, and
have perpetual Headquarters
Coy. Hughes could never in the world
: be called a cheap skate" bat he GER
tainly did skate cheaply into the Gu
bernatorial chair of the Imperial State
again. He declares ii cost him just
S369GJ 10 he reelected 1t will cost
him Il whole lot more TO get out than
it did to get in.
The signers Of The Declaration OF In
pedendence pledged their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor in
support of that Declaration Robert
Morris went further, and backed up his
declaration with his fortune, and he
never got any vf it back. Now his de-
scendants are soing after that money,
and there is good prospect that they
viii get it. he loaned the Government
s1.480, 600, no Part of which was ever
paid Now his heirs are after the
money, which, with accumulated in
terest Of about I30 years, they figure,
brings the amount into the Rockefel-
Ter class
Forty OF these claimants held meet
ing last week, ard decided to prosecute
their claim against the Government.
They say the Government is willing.
upon proper proof, 20 pay this loan.
President-elect Taft has settled one
thing-he will accept no dinner invita-
tions during his vacation. 1t is not
known just how long the vacation will
last, but it is known that Judge Taft
has arranged for important conferences
in Washington about Dec. Is, and that
he is expected to remain here for two
months at that time.
. Queen Liz Is at it again. She is re-
ported to have raised $4,000 by mort
gaging her remaining property to the
Sprecklcs, and is going to descend on
Washington at the next session of Con-
gress and make last effort to get the
Government to pay her for the "con-
fscated'' crown lands of Hawaii. which
she insisted belonged to her and which
she should have been paid for. Con-
gress has busted itself paying a good
many millions in fool Confederate
claims-churches for instance, which
a dairyInan would to-day scarcely use
for a sanitary cow shed, and which
everybody knows simply served to keep
off the sun and showers during service,
but leaped into costly edifices when it
came to asking the Government to pay
for them. Queen Lii has some cause
ITO kick and if she keeps it up long
enough she Will win out. It is 40-odd
years since the Southern churches were
sacked but the Government is still
cheerfully paying for them.
Already the Democratic contingency
OF the National House of Representa-
tives is discussing who shall be the
iullbEltN tCdbtE III TIC DIdCG OI
leader Williams, as he is to go to the
United States Senate. 1t is said that
Hon. Champ Clark, of Missouri, is slat-
ed for that honor. Mr.. Clerk never led
much TO speak of, and as for being
Ied-weIl, he never was. Mr.. Clark
simply herds in class by himself,
roostinS high above everybody else in
his party. What he likes he speaks
well OF, and what he doesn't like he
slays-and there you arc. Nothing in
such example 10 suggest leadership,
don't you know; but ne may come down
of his perch II he gets to be minority
leader.
The President is not candidate for
the United St@tgs Senate to succeed
Senator Plat. That IS the word with
the bark on. Tho Prcsiden has said it,
and he undoubtedly means it.
on the other hand, Secretary of State
z Elihu Root Is in i receptive mood. and
IL it can be brought about smoothly
without friction or seeming TO be reach,
ing out for il, il IS thought that his cleo
dion VIII please him and President
Roosevelt. Secretary Root wants Ii un-
derstood. however, that the election Il
the Senate has got 20 come free, gratis
for nothing. so to speak. and that he is
not asking for it,
Mrs Bette DanJridge. Of Winches
ter, the only living former mistress OF
= Mrs. Cleveland, IS recovering from al