The National tribune., 1908-01-16

'aThe Hague tribunal made an honest
effort to bring about the abolition or
war but this discussion concerning pui-
lets suggests an idea which, L thlnk, II
1t had been taken up by the Peace Con-
ference. would have brought the desired
result.
IF an international agreement were
reached. compelling all Nations TO use
a certain percentage of radium in man
ufacturing bullets, it seems to me tnat'
with radium selling at $3,00O,OO0 a
pound, war would cease automatlcaliy.
Joseph W. J. Lee, United States Min
ister to Guatemala, will probably not
return to that post, but VIII be trans
ferred to some other mission. Mr.. Lee
is now at his home in Maryland, re-
cuperating from the effects of nervous
breakdown. Minister Lee was formerly
Rough Rider.
The prosecution of the land-fraud
cases in the West received decided set
back when the Supreme Court reversed
the conviction of former Representative
John Newton Williamson, of Oregon,
and held that the regulation put into
effect by the General Land Office, re-
quiring applications for entry. in max
ing final prov., to swear that they We're
not acquiring the land for speculative
purposes, was without warrant of law.
While the decision will not affect the
convictions previously obtained IN the
land-fraud cases, not even those OF
Marion r. Biggs, former United States
Commissioner of Oregon, and Gessner,
formerly Williamsons partner in sheep
raising enterprises, who were convicted
at the same time of conspiring with
him. who, instead of appealing. have
served their sentences and paid their
fines, it is probable that the score or
more of indictments now pending IN
Oregon will be more or less controlled
by it.
Secretary Garfield, after a confer
ence with President Roosevelt, which
also was participated in by the retiring
Commissioner of the Land Office, Mr.
Ballinger announces that the prose-
cution of the land-fraud cases will not
be discontinued in any way. Mr.. Gar
field says that the recent decision of the
Colorado court, which resulted in the
quashing of a number of indictments,
was based On questions which pertalned
exclusively to those cases, and was not
the laying down of a general principle,
which would affect future prosecutions.
President Roosevelt also conferred
with Gov. Buchtel, of Colorado. The
Governor will consuN Secretary Gar
field before he returns to Colorado.
Attorney General Bonaparte says
that he saw nothing in Secretary Gar
fields statement which would conflict
with the opinion he had already ex-
pressed. What the Attorney-GenerI II
said, he explained, applied wholly to
Colorado, and meant that the prosecu-
tions there would be abandoned only
when the circumstances showed that
they might be successfully defended by
pleading the statute of limitations.
Hudson Maxim, the man of high ex-
plosives, has just returned from trip
to Europe, and has been sojourning in
Washington. He thinks that the United
States does not comprehend the danger
CD which is threatened by japanese
cunning and alertness. He declares that
the japanese Government is working
day and night preparing for war with
the United States. My, but that does
sound awful! He says that Japan has
money to burn, and srle would little
rather burn it in powder in the United
States than anywhere else. He says
that Japan is very secretive, and loves
to make people think she is going to do
the thing that she wouldn't do for any
thing on earth. and that when she gets
good and ready she will land down on
the United States and just lick the stuff
fling right out of her. Taking it alto
gether, Mr.. Maxim seems to hold
gloomy view of the conditions in the
United States as contrasted with what
Japan contemplates with regard to us
He is quite suIe that Japan has spies in
every part of the United States, and
| that they report ~ the japanese Gov
ernment everything that goes on.
The motto 'In God We Trust may
be replaced upon the gold coins of the
United States, its removal from which
when the new artistic issue was made
a few weeks ago, caused an outcry from
| the four quarters or the country.
A subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures has been appointed to take up the
matter and inquire into the reasons fol-
removing the motto and the advisability
of replacing it upon the coins. The re-
suit is very doubtful, but E recommen-
dation to replace the motto may result
Senator Frye has introduced in the
Senate an appeal from number Of
prominent men, constituting the Execu'
tive Council of the National University
Committee Of Four Hundred, asking the
establishment of the proposed Nationa
University of the United States, to bt
located in Washington.
/ Representative William A. Sulzer, o
New York, was married in Atlantic City
y. J., last week to Miss Clara Rodel
helm. whose home was formerly in Phil
adelphia.
The marriage was surprise to every
, body. even including the bride ant
groom, it is stated Representative Sui
ger is the Tammany brave who was toll
when he came to Washington some II
or IL years ago that he looked lik
Henry Clay After that Sulzer used t.
go out into the corridor on the Demo
cratic side of the Capitol, where the oi
, portrait of the great Clay hangs, an,
pose before it with his frock coat but
toned top and bottom and one ham
Thrust carelessly in the open butto
about three inches above the belt of hi
trousers, and with the other hand h
> would adjust his scant auburn locks jus
as Clay's are painted to look. Then h
: would go back i'm the House and ope
his vials of oratory exactly as histor
quotes Clay as doing. Now. SulZer roar
like a bull with bad cold, and talk
; with a brogue: indeed, the map of Ire
land is written all over his face. Witha
Sulzer is pretty good fellow and we
liked, but he has his faults.
'I 1t is said Congressman Sulzer me
!, Miss Rodelheim in a New York hospita
one day last Fall. when he was maxim
tour of the institution with a party c
friends. 1t is said to have been anothe
i 'love at first sight case.
I Another wilfuI girl has learned tha