The National tribune., 1908-12-17
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The question as to whether the wages
Of seaman can be garnisheed was de-
cided in the negative by the United
States Supreme Court in connection
with the case of James l. Holt, Tax AS
sessor and Collector for the First Taxa
lion Division of Hawaii, against the In
terisland Steam Navigation Company.
Holt sought to attach the wages OF a
Seaman named TEllett, who was in the
employ of the navigation company. The
Hawaiian court held that under the
5aw this could not be done, and the Su-
Preme Court affirmed that judgment.
Senator Piles, of Washington, arrived
last week to get ready for his work in
Congress this week. He said to Ma
tional Tribune editor:
Don't let anything keep you away
from Seattle next Summer. The Alas
ka- a-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will open
on the 1st day June; no failure. no
postponement. Every building will be
completed before the opening; every
exhibit in place. There will be no
Sound Of saw, 10 clatter of lumber. no
ahud of hammer to distract, annoy or
infuriate visitors while obstructed and
obstructing mechanics rush work on
5ncompleted preparations. That condi-
lion will break the record of eXposi-
tfon opening. The Exposition will be
unique, too, in what it exhibits. Why,
The people OF this country have no idea.
at all OF what Alaska and the North
west is, or of what it contains, or of its
resources for wealth These include
everything that is found under the
Surface of the earth or grows upon it
indigenously or is produced by cultiva-
tion or may be produced by manufac-
tHre.s9 These products will be exhibited
sn their natural state and in every stage
OF evolution. The ka-Yukon-Paci-
fic Exposition is solitary in other re-
spects-it does not appeal to the Fed
fral Government for money. The Gov
ernment has appropriated money for
Its own exhibit, but was not asked for
any contribution to the cost of the Ex-
position. The State Of Washington has
fnxested S1,00e,000 with which to pro-
Eide permanent buildings for State uses
after the Exposition is thru with them.
After next Summer the world will be
much wiser than it now is, and this Ex-
position will be the source of enlighten-
unent., Visitors will be more than de-
7ighted-they will be educated. Seattle
Is the most beautiful city on the Pacific
E.east: Puget Sound is the finest body Of
trater pictured on any map; its harbofs
Rre the ideas harbors of the world. It
viii be crinfiraf negligence not to visit
That Exposition" Mr.. Piles looked and
gtEllc tOlCc 81 tOnflkCih6ty
Ailat his auditors were convinced that
he knows what he asserted to be the
Feaf facts, wholly free from local bias
md untinted by imagination.
AIR. Guggenheim, United States Sem
stor from Colorado, is having some
eerfous moments Just now, in all prob
Rbifity, and considering whether he Will
Re. without a Winter overcoat or the
Hebrews without Palestine. 1t seems
to be g. toSs-up, and a matter OF only
q few million OF dollars-about $780,
Doc, 600 or SO. This scheme as devei-
cpel by friends Of the Gaggenheirns Is
To induce the four brothers. who are
Thought to be fabulously wealthy, to
buy up Palestine at a trivial cost of
$40. 000, 900, and present it to their peo-
pie, the Jews. The Guggenheim broth
FRS have not been heard on the sub
jeet, but it is quite sure that they have
not yet giren their consent It is thought
10 be true, however. that IL the four of
Them desired to do It at a cost ef as
much again as: s50,9e0,e00 they could
do it. and yet have money to burn.
The Guggenheim brothers are very rich
nnen, but less ostentatious men never
lived. ALI the style that is slung In
their families is done by their women
Kind. Senator Guggenheim is quiet.
StuScENddfS anu COAlSCiClliOOSf anu Ids
tnade most excellent use of his tremen-
deus fortune. He scans well any scheme
to get money out Of HIM, and IL salts
fled that IL is all right he gives liberal
~, but you don't come any games over
the Senator from Colorado: no, in
fleedy.
And now we learn that Mrs. Corbin.
Tho great admirer of Judge Taft, did
not give all of the $4,000 to the Re-
publican campaign fund, as was stated
by Treasurer Sheldon, when he made
The list of contributors public. Gen.
s,orbin and his wife think that 1t would
De very unjust to the other fair contrib
ators to permit the idea to gain per-
tnanent ground that Mrs. Corbin con-
tributed SO large a sum herself, tho she
Forwarded the money, and it was un-
derstood then, and up to now the same
understanding exists, that the names
OF the other donors shall not be made
public. 1t seems that 10 society wo-
men, among whom Mrs. Corbin Is easily
u leader, dubbed together and gave
each $1,000 for the campaign fund.
Then they got 10 81 200 bills, and sent
Bse package to Judge Taft personally,
for him to use in the campaign as he
gus thing to do.
Washington seems to be at the pres
ent time in the clutch Of q lot OF thieves
Nlo ought to be caught and given long
terms in the pen. They are not satis-
Ned with looting homes, but have COM
menced on the churches Of the city.
and are looting the poor and the mis-
sipnary boxes. Two Catholic churches
and two Protestant ones have suffered
from this sort of thing, and, not salts
fed with stealing the money, the mis-
ereants have upset furniture and COM
mitted other depredations. There are
crimes and crimes, and there are GRIM
fnals and criminals, but the criminal
who will steal from a church ought to
get the limit Of the law. There has been
sert of superstition, perhaps a linger-
Eng spark of manhood, which most of
the times has kept thieves from enter
5ng the churches, tho rich loot could be
pbtained. It would seem, however,
that the changing times have effaced
from the hearts and souls of the ordi-
nary thief all memory Of better days.
This being tho case, the punishment
should be made to fit the crime.
ANYBODY who thinks that the United
States Senate lacks sentiment simply
doesn't know. Cause why? Well, last
Tuesday, when everybody about the
Senate was as busy as busy could be.
1he President sent up the name Of Mrs.
Q4ongstreet for PostlnistreSs at Gaines
willie, Ga. Now, the proper thing to
have done was to have referred this