The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-12

THE WASHTN
control everything there, and that the
number of men is strictly limited. We
judge that at some prehistoric period
of Marian development a thoughtess
ways and means committee raised the
duties on gloves and hosiery. and that
the ladies riz up and took charge.
The uprising in protest against the
peach-basket hats has developed at
last real explanation. It seems that
when the Delaware peach crop got its
annual frost, somebody who had made
I'D a supply of some millions Of bss-
kets for il, took the story seriously.
and sold the baskets for hats. Thus
the other crop of peaches also got a
frost
The report Of the engineers that the
fourteen-foot channel through the Mis-
sissippi valley viii cost Sl2S,0O00o,
threatens TO serve the useful purpose
of getting this waterway business down
to a sane basis.
If Admiral Baron U11u manages to
eat all these dinners and still go away
confirmed in his friendly attitude to-
ward the United States. j. may be set
down chat the peace is secure.
Army officer who had been assigned
TO develop an important invention, was
accused of improperly using the money
ne employed in his work, and sent UP
for five years Now It turns out that
he had a great and valuable invention,
which the military authorities Will
adopt Seems as II he had an apology
coming from some quarter.
Il Is also interesting to contemplate
now much longer the tariff debate might
have been had Mr.. Bryan been a
Senator.
Attorney General Bonaparte was Of
the opinion that the Sugar trust had
not violated the Sherman law in it's
suppression Of the Segal refinery. The
Sugar trust, brought to bar, apparent
" differed from the Attorney General
Weather report promises two whole
However, this may be another 1naugu-
ration day production.
They say that the politicians viii have
nothing to do with the reorganization
of the New York customs service under
Mr.. Loeb If Mr.. Loeb isn't something
Of a politician himself, he has unlearned
an awful lot Of things since the pre-
convention months Of the Taft cam
paign.
Appears that Mrs. Howard Gould
only had about s7SS.O00 spending money
in ten years. No wonder she wants a
divorce.
People who succeed in dying before
the vote on the income tax viii not
mind what happens to it; and the sue
cession Of pOstponements suggests that
everybody has a fair chance.
Makes a difference, whose OK is gored.
/ When somebody wants TO talk on the
/ Finance Committee side, but isn't ready
the night session OF the Senate car
/ easily be suspended; but when some un-
Iregererate party like La Toilette asks
consideration, there's no consideration
{ In stock.
Does a platform. plus President
plus a minority in the Senate, constitute
a political party, or does Senatorial
majority outweigh all three?
j.
If Mr.. AIdrich manages TO make him
/ self understood. his view is that any.
bodp who takes political platform
/ seriously deserves to get the same
/ treatment that Senator Lodge has &C
| corded the consumer; he ought to b'
abolished.
The business of New York city seems
to be chiefly selling bonds, just al
agriculture in New England, is 6oY1 teC
mainly to raising the tariff
II this man La Toilette were rea
we'll and strong and ate meat three
times a day. wouldn't he be the ami
! mated proposition, though!
The lob Of pulling the wool over tn
Country's eyes has been completed. bu
fl isn't so successful as in times past
The country has been able to SCI
through It pretty we'll this time.
Mr.. Lorimer is uncertain in whicl
house of Congress he shall vote on tn
tariff bill What's the matter will
voting in both2 He can do Il.
! FIFTEEN POUND BLUEFISH.
BARNEGAT. N. J., June 12.--Bluefis
/ and vveal<fsh gain are in these waters
Cant. Thomas Birdsal created conslC
cradle excitement last night by bringin
home q bIuefsh Weighing fifteen pound
eight ounces that he had caught jus
! outside Barnegat inlet Even the oldes
I fnhabftant had to admit that this wa
I. the biggest bluefish he ever had know
70 be caught trolling in the spring q
! the year
White House Callers
! Senators Depew Of New York.
RristOw Of Kansas.
Jones of washington.
d rT1z-Tov of Tennessee