The National tribune., 1908-01-16


n former Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, has been in the city
1T is my opinion,l' and always has
been, that Hawaii and Guam should be
fortified" said Mr. Darling,
and that a naval base should be estab-
lished in the Hawaiian Islands. Both
of these places are strategic points for
the protection of the Pacific Coast and
the Philippines. The Navy Department
has made recommendations to this ef-
feet to Congress for many years, but for
some reason or other Congress never
saw fit to act upon these suggestions.
THE talk of a war with Japan is
preposterous. Japan. in the first place,
has no cause for a war with the United
States. and in the second place she has
not the money with which to success
fully prosecute war with the United
States or any other power. The Japan
ese war with Russia was terminated
just in time. Japan had arrived at the
end of her financial resources, and
could not have continued the struggle
anyway.
Army and Navy men being trained
to the business of war, naturally look
at these matters with magnifying
glasses. Upon n close investigation of
the whole situation ore must arrive at
the conclusion that all this talk about
war with Japan is unjustified. and pro-
yoeative of harm to the best interests
of the United States"
The Senate and House are the CEN
ters of the greatest Lottery in the
United States. For the second time
this session the lottery has been open
for drawing The first time was when
the drawing of seats of members took
place, and the second time was when
the drawing for committee rooms in
the new House building took place
Both We're eminently satisfactory, and
there were no blanks, every fellow got
something. and that is the saving
grace of the Government lottery
everybody gets something.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma, has in
troduced in the Senate a resolution
providing that no person shall be elig-
ible for election to the Presidency of
the United States for more than two
consecutive terms, and that any one
who shall have occupied the office of
President for eight consecutive years
shall not be eligible for election there
to during the next four years
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, who
himself has Cherokee blood, intro
duced in the Senate bill to provide
for the erection of a statue of Sc
quoyah, the founder of the Cherokee
alphabet, in Washington.
The statue is to be placed in a tri-
angular space at the junction of Mount
Pleasant street and Park road, and the
bill appropriates s25,000, of which
$4,000 is to be used in purchasing the
site and the remainder in paying for
the statue.
If a bill proposed by Senator Bur-
kett, of Nebraska, becomes a law the
Government will aid by appropriations
the teaching Of agriculture. home eco
nomics, and manual training in the
normal schools of the United States.
The Department of Superintendent
of the National Educational AssOcia-
ton is urging the passage of the bill,
and will meet in Washington February
IS to take the matter up with the Sem
ators and Representatives. The or
ganization comprises the leading edu-
Gators of the country. 81
Senator Clay, of Georgia, has pro-
posed a joint resolution authorizing and
directing the Secretary of the Treasury
to issue $350.000.000 of Treasury notes.
noninterest bearing, to be deposited
with bonded Government depositaries
among the national banks. upon which
the latter be required to- pay per cent
interest to the Government.
The notes proposed ara to be in ad-
ditiOn to those already issued, and are
to be distributed in the several States
according to their relative population.
One row of seats in the United States
Senate might, with all due Difference
to the grave and reverend men who
constitute that body, be called the row
of-dare it be called 'freaks?" Listen
to the story of its occupants. First in
that row will he Senator Bankhead,
(Ala.), who thought he was running for
the House and found himself in the
United States Senate, instead. Then
comes the blind Senator from Okla
homa, Gore. Then his colleague Owen,
who is part Cherokee Indian. Then
Senator Whyte. (Md.), the Oldest man,
and next to him Senator Bryan, (Flor-
ida), the youngest man in the Senate.
F'iddling Bob Taylor comes next, he of
Tennessee, who was once Governor of
that State, and who carried on his
campaign by means of his fiddling abil-
ity, rather than by making speeches.
And then comes jeff Davis" You
know all about him now He made
his speech, and it fell iat-except at
home, and of course that is where he
wanted it to win, which it did. That
is the row, and isn't it one to claim
attention? "Step right up, gentlemen
and view the greatest show on earth,
etc.
Senator William B. Allison, the Mes
| tor of the Senate. is the only living
charter member of Masonic Lodge No
1875, +. A. A. NJ, of Dubuque, Iowa
That lodge will celebrate its fiftieth an
| niversary in March, and the Senator
public duties permitting, will attend
the ceremonies. The Senator keeps UP
his interest in the organization, and
when home attends the meetings.
Victor Herbert, the composer, who
| is in Washington as a member of the
| Authors and Composers Copyright
League, to ask Congress to pass legis-
| lation that will protect their produc-
tions from being used and circulated
by inventors of mechanical musical de-
vices. has described the music repro
duced by these devices as "mutiIated
melody"
The term originated by John PhiliI
Sousa in describing talking machine
records and discs was canned music
Mr.. Herbert says his composition. "Ar
American Phantasy,'' requires twelve
minutes for its rendition by an orches-
ira, while it is reproduced by mechani
cal devices in three minutes, necessari
ly mutilating the selection.
The sword presented to Maj Micat
Jenkins by the people of South Caro-
lima. through President Roosevelt, a
the Charleston Exposition in 1902, fol
| Sallantry as a member of the Rough
Riders in the Spanish American War
was DESTROYED la st week in q fire. which