The National tribune., 1908-05-07

dollars if bill favorably reported b,
the House Committee on Banking ant
Currency becomes law. The measure
which has been in Congress for man,
years. has already passed the Senate
1t is based upon the claims of ex-slave
who lost money deposited in the Freed
mems Bank, which was established 70
the benefit of negroS soon after tn
close of the civil war. The bank failet
after brief existence, and for NOR,
than 50 years the negro depositors o
their heirs have been trying to induce
the Government to reimburse them.
1t is not to the credit of the Govern
ment that it has been so long in max
ing an attempt to adjust the Freed
mans Bank matter. A heap of bill
have passed the Congress that had no
half the merit of this one, but it vii
be many a long day in all probabilit,
before this one gets thru the House
politically, and then it will go thru
with a rush.
Eulogies were pronounced upon the
late Senators Morgan and Pettus, OF
Alabama, in the Senate last week, and
many of the leaders in that body, Re-
publicans as well as Democrats, Joined
in voicing a sentiment of love and es-
TEEN for the two Senators whose nota-
BILE characteristics marked them as men
of unusual abilities.
Senators speaking upon the life OF
Senator Morgan were Senators Bank
head, of Alabama; Cullom, of Illinois;
Teller, of Colorado; Lodge, of Massa-
chusetts: McCreary, of Kentucky; Nell
son, of Minnesota; Daniel, of Virginia,
and Burkett, of Nebraska.
Those who spoke especially of Sena-
tor Pettus were Johnston, of Alabama;
Gallinger, of New Hampshire; Perkins,
of California: Clay, of Georgia; Scott,
iof West Virginia; Overman, of North
Carolina, and Depew, of New York.
An injudicious mother and a father
with temper has been the ruin of a
young mans career. The Ayres Incl
dent at West Point is yet fresh in our
minds, where the cadets, against the
rules, gave their overcoats to young
ladies who were about to freeze while
watching a football game. Young Ayres
did this, and was punished for infringe
ment of the rules. His mother took
the matter up, and made several vari-
Gus kinds of fool of herself in trying
10 buck against Army Regulations.
Then Col. Ayres, the father, and an
elderly Army officer with testy tenn
per. took up the quarrel. The mother
was finally ordered off the reservation
oS West Point and told never to enter
institution was run by lot of men who
were jealous of her peerless husband,
and were trying to vent their spite On
her children. Then it was found that
the husband had done some things him.
self that were not altogether creditabie
in years gone by. He was finally or
dered before a Retiring Board, and it
decided that Col. Ayres was unfit to
serve another day, and retired him
Now the son, who. it is said, is sileg4tly
prosecuted for his trouble with she
powers that be, has resigned from the
service, after having given UP about Is
years to training for the Army. A wo-
mans tongue can do incalculable dam
age.
Following is one of the choice germs
from the message which the President
sent to Congress the other day:
-sTlie man who breaches hatred of
wealth honestly acquired, who incuf-
Gates envy and Jealousy and slanderous
ill-will toward those of his fellows who
by thrift, energy and industry have be-
come men of means. is a menace to the
community. But his counterpart III evii
is to be found in that particular kind of
a multimillionaire who is almost the
least enviable, and is certainly one Of
the least admirable, of all our citizens:
a man of whom it has been well said
that his face has grewn hard and crlel
while his body has grown soft: whose
son is a fool and his daughter foreign
Princess; whose nominal pleasures are,
at best, those of tasteless and cxtrav-
agant luxury. and whose real delight.
whose real lffework is the accumula-
tion and use of power in its most sordid
and least eievating form. in the chaos
of an absolutely unrestricted conlincr-
ciai iniiyidualism under modern c,ndi-
.fc tc @1.of
inent as inevitably as the naraujer
baron became prominent in the ahysi-
cal chaos of the dark ages"
Secretary Taft and Maj.-Geu. Bell.
Chief of Staff. went out hnrsehacK rid
ing the other afternoon together. 7 hey
cantered along in Potomac Park. pay
ing but little attention to where they
were going. when Gen. Bells horse sunk
TO its knees in mud In the new-made
roadway. Gen. Bel at once sprang
from his horse. watch was foundering
helplessly about. and sank into the
mud above his high boots. The soft
mud began TO swallow him up. and in
about two minutes his new uniform
looked like Is cents. Net only that.
bit. II looked as tho his life woriJ I.sy
the forfeit some one did not como to
the rescue, for Secretary Taft knew he
would only compiicate matters by get
ting off his horse. Al ord ely came
riding up. and he tried ID cxtricate his
Chief. but made no heDiwsy until q
school boy came along AID the two of
them pried the Chief of stuff loose from
the mud hole He was aso rry sight,
to be sure. and Secretary "aft laughed
tiII he was near falling from the saddle
at the appearance of the handsome
Major General.
The United States Senate did an un-
precedented thing the other day. II
turned down a message Of the Prcsl-
dent OF the United States. and left II
over TO be read the next morping. Yes.
indeedyi Just like that. The Sen3te
had had a long, hard afternoon, ard
did not get thru until nearly Z . c!oci;,
and the members were worn to a fr1.,:le
when the President of the Senate laid
before the body as the next business a
message from the President OF the
United States" That was Just little
eolmuch for the hungry, tired-out Sen
stors. and they reniged. The message
went over.
More OF our American millions are to
go abroad. Miss Jean Reid, daush> er
Of Embassador and Mrs. Reid, TO the
Court OF st. James, Is going to marry
the equerry to King Edward. Now. in
plain English as she is spoke in this
country an "equerry" wouldn't be any
great shakes; he would be termed a
'hoss wrangler" out on the range and
'stabie keeper" in town. But that isn't
the meaning of the title of Miss ReiIs
future No, indeedy. The King IS
equerry'' is high and mighty person
age, who camps right on the trail of
his boss from the time that parsonage