The National tribune., 1908-01-02
THE NATIONAL rR1BuNE WASHINGTON THURSDAY

THE NATIONAL TRIBy
says that it is his turn now. 1t will
probably be Senator Allison" how
ever, just as long as the veteran states
man lives to say SO.
vice-President and Mrs. Fairbanks
ate their Christmas dinner at home,
surrounded by their children. and had
a delightful time. The Vice President
stitution, for he puts in about Is hours
day at work with a very small amount
of play, which play is all in the way of
dinner giving and social functions, yet
| you never hear of his being i'll for a
moment. He attends to all his duties
with the regularity of clockwork, yet
he never goes on tramps, presumably
does not know how to load gun, and If
he fishes nobody knows it.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution of the District of Columbia have
firmly resolved that they will proceed
| to memorize the words of America
SO that they will not be made ridiculous
when asked to sing it and are unable
to do SO.
Senator Lodge has introduced a bill
| of special interest to Navy men. 1t pro-
vides that officers retired for disability
| incident to active service, and VINO have
| been employed on active duty. after
their retirement, shall receive pay and
| allowances equal to that of men on the
active list of the same length of SER
| vice.
1t further provides that If actively
| employed for an aggregate of three
years after retirement. when detached
from duty they shall retain the rank
and highest retired pay of the grade
they held.
Gov. II. b. Hoggatt, of Alaska, is the
latest Territorial Executive to get into
trouble. He has been in town to defend
| his good name and official character be-
fore the President and his friends say
will have no difficulty whatever in
checkmating the schemes of his enc
mics Gov. Hoggatt's friends say that
| the chief movers against him are the
gamblers and divekeepers. whose busi-
ness he has made mighty Improbable
since he assumed office.
Nathan N/Harlan, United States Dis
| trict Attorney of the Second Alaska
District, is also in town. Harlan is a
| bitter enemy of Gov. Hoggatt, and
say first The Governor, it is hinted,
intends to file charges against Harlan,
| because the latter failed to break up
the gambling joints at Valdez.
All the other towns have gone
good" that is to say, have shut up the
open gambling houses. Valdez is still
wide open. District Attorney Harlan
is a candidate for vacant Judgeship in
Alaska. He'll probably not get it, if
Gov. Hoggatt has any influence with
the Administration.
| All Washington was shocked last
week to hear of the death while on a
| snowshoeing vacation in the mountains
of Minister Hauge. of Norway Heart
failure is the cause assigned. Mr..
Hauge, with Nine. Hauge, left this
country for Europe on Nov. Il, on a
| three weeks leave of absence. Mr..
Hauge. who was 45 years old at the
time of his death, had been connected
with the Norwegian Legation in Wash
ington since 1901. He was born in
Christiania April 3, 1862.
His diplomatic career began in 1889
when he served as Attache of the Lega-
ton in London, Paris and Berlin, until
Feb. l, 1893. He was then transferred
to Stockholm. later serving as Acting
Secretary of Legation at Paris. Copen-
hagen, Berlin and st. Petersburg.
! Mr.. Hauge came to the United States
in 1901, and was appointed Min ister
Nov. II, 1906. He saw important diplo-
matte service in the Foreign Office OF
his country.
They are telling a tale about Secre-
tary Taft which is said to be really true.
He was scheduled to appear at din
ner given by some high and mighty
parsonage while abroad, and arrived on
time and went to the apartments as
signed him to make ready for the din
ner. They waited and they waited, and
no Secretary Taft Then after another
wait a messenger was sent to learn the
cause of delay, and was Informed that
the Secretary would soon appear, which
he did after another half hour. The
dinner was cold, the dinner giver was
hot, the guests were lukewarm and the
eminent Secretary of War looked as
tho he had been parboiled. The why
of the delay was not told" in 50 many
words, but it certainly did get out, and
what do you suppose it was? The emf
nent Secretary had split his trousers
across one knee just as he reached the
guest room. There was nothing for 1t
but to get some other trousers, but after
a hurried ransacking of shops any
| where within reach not a pair could be
procured that would not make the Sec
retary of War look as tho he had
sprouted after the trousers were picked.
Then the only thing that could be done
! they were when the Secretary finally
donned them and appeared at the din
ner If he said something else that
began with I'd" and ended with the
same letter, who could blame him?
/ "One Editor Kicks Another" is the
i headline of somewhat sensational
| paragraph in Denver paper, and when
you read who the editors" are you
! find that one of them is ex-senator
Patterson, of Colorado. 1t is just a
common sort of a newspaper row that
he and Mr.. Bonfils of another Denver
paper got into, each having called the
other names thru the columns of their
two papers, and SO they took it out in
kicking.
! Rear-Admiral Charles w. Abbott, re-
tired, died last week of pneumonia. He
was rs years old
/ Charles Wheaton Abbot was born in
Il Warren, r. l., where he died, and early
became identified with the United States
j Navy, accompanying Commodore Perry
on his expedition to Japan in 1885
as clerk to his father. Commodore Joel
Abbot. He entered the Naval Academy
in 1856, and was graduated just before
the civil war. He served on the sloop-
of-war Pawnee in the civil war, and
was attached to the sloop-ofwar
j Brooklyn, under Admiral Farragut, al
the capture of Forts Jackson and st
Phillip In 1867 he was appointed
: 1891 with the rank of Rear-Admiral
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