The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-02-13

Senator Paynter has introduced bill
which is designed to make more definite
the statute requiring State Legislatures
to ballot for United States Senator on
the second Tuesday after organization
It nroyides that when a Legislature
shall organize on Tuesday II small on
the following Tuesday proceed to eject
a United States Senator. In such states
as Kentucky where the Legislature
meets on Tuesday. there has been doubt
as to the intent of the statute, and con-
seuuently Senators have been elected on
two successive Tuesdays following Or
ganization, in order to insure Legality.
A bill appropriating 100000 for the
payment of Catholic Chureh cia. nrar II
the Philippine Islands has been report
ed favorably by the House COMMITTEE
on Insular Affairs
The bill for temporary Home for
volunteer Union soldiers, sailors and
marines who served in the civil war is
again before both bodies of Congress,
and it ought to be passed at once. There
is pressing need for such a Home in
Washington to relieve the pressure on
the Grand Army of this Department
and the Woman's Relief Corps, on.
whom falls the burden of caring for
those who are so unfortunate as to be
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understood that the burden of this re-
lief falls on these organizations, for the
Associated Charities, which care Tor
other derelictS in the maelStrom OF hu-
man suffering, very carefully Gull out all
those who by any chance can be Thought
to be under the protection of the Grand
Army, and very kindly refer them to
that organization or to the Woman'sl
Relief Corps. There is a shabby little
old building that is used as temporary
Home now, but it is not fit for such
use, is too small. is insanitary and badly
located. Col. Thomas S. Hopkins, a
Past Department Commander, has been
made President of the Soldiers Tenn
porary Home Board. and he will devote
all his energies to getting the bill thru
Congress.
The plaza in front of the new Union
Station has been selected as the loca-
ton for a memorial arch to the MEM
DRY of Christopher Columbus. Congress
has appropriated 100000 for the me-
mortal, and the matter is in the hands
of a Commission appointed by Congress,
consisting of the Secretary of State, the
Secretary of War, the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Library, and Ed
ward l.. Hearn, Of Boston, Supreme
knight of the order of the Knights of
Columbus.
Secretary Cortelyou of the Treasury
Department, has forwarded to the House
request that legislation be enacted
granting him permission to sell real es
tate which is owned by the Govern
ment. but is no longer of any use to the
Treasury Department. 1t consists of
old custom houses and other public
buildings and sites for public buildings.
d. nzF a general request that ali
Rea6s Departments shall have this
Iai-i'ese He wishes the property sold
1subite Dr private sales after it has
been a-aFe -tised.
The rotary of Agriculture has
ssael an appropriation of $4,000
20 UE5seCE,e cases of cruelty to animals
n srgls on the railroads. 1t is said
ihat TIE. are a great many cases of
geEs GsEIan Mt violation of this law. The
law AZ: clos a fragrant violation of ordi-
nary humaneness, and ought to be re-
vised.
As result of finding dynamite sticks
In coal furnished the Navy, two in
stances of which have happened within
the last year, Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf has written a letter to the coal
companies supplying the Navy with
coal.
He says that in the future the find
ing of any dynamite In coal will be
regarded by the Department as suffi-
Gent grounds for annulling the contract
for furnishing coal to the vessels of the
Navy.
Possibly this very same kind of "ac-
cident' would account for some of the
alleged bomb" accidents which occur,
and always in the furnace room.
Prince Kalanianaole was the guest of
honor at a unique dinner given at the
Raleigh one night last week. The hosts
We're the members of the Congressional
party that visited the Hawaiian Islands
in May of last year. They were royalty
entertained by the Prince. who is the
Delegate to Congress from Hawaii.
About so guests gathered about the
banquet table and enjoyed reminis-
cences Besides the Prince the guests
of honor We're the Princess Kalaniana-
ole, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis March Hatch
and Mr. and Mrs. George 3. Mcclellan,
all of Honolulu. Prince Jonah is very
fine man, who stands high among his
colleagues.
In connection with the approaching
International Congress on Tuberculosis,
which will be held in Washington Sept.
q 10 Oct II next. a prize of $500
has been offered by the Smithsonian
Institution for the best treatise sub
rnitted To that Congress "On the ReIa-
ton of Atmospheric Air to Tubercuio-
Sis"
The prize is offered from the Hodg-
kins fund, part of which is devoled
TO "the increase and diffusion of more
exact knowledge in regard 10 the ma
1..s 41d properties of atmospheric air
C lection with the welfare of man"
treatises may be written in Eng
iisE reneh, German. Spanish or Ital-i
f FIey VIII be printed and the prizes
eEa ID by Il committee appointed by
Tie rotary of the Smithsonian Insti-
t-fig in conjunction with the officers
Of i International Congress on Tuber-
r g. stated on good authority tina,
4Giai stevenson, former Vice President
IS wiang TO run again for that Office
13lie time ago n man really resigned
On Government office. 1t was Audi
tor Timme. who filed that office for
the State Department. It seems in
credible that any man would give up so
lucrative a position, but he did The
President has now appointed Merritt
o. Chance to fill the office Mr.. Chance
was born in Mount Vernon, ILL.,. in
1863, and is q graduate of the high
school of that city. He was appointed
assistant messenger I'm the Pest-O Office
Department in 1883, and was promoted
from grade to grade. Mr.. Chance was
private secretary to Secretary Root