The National tribune., 1909-07-15

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can Embassy in Mexico City, will be
promoted to be Minister to Salvador.
The block signal and train control
board of the Interstate Commerce
Commission has decided that it has ju-
risdiction to investigate the compost
ton of steel rails and report on just
what kind of rails railroads engaged
in interstate commerce shall be re-
quired to use. There is now in pros
pect a three-cernered fight among the
makers of steel rails. the railroads,
and the block signal and train control
board
Railroad engineers have contended
that the quality of steel rails furnished
say that the steel often is of such
character that heat and cold make a
wide difference in it, causing it to be
brittle and possessing other undesirable
qualities after little use. The steel
companies have protested that the steel
rails turned out at the present time
by the best processes cannot be i'm
proved
The investigation thus far made by
the board has shown that several of
the largest railroad systems are ex-
perimenting with steel rail treated
by new process. The New York
Central has installed on its roadbed,
particularly on curves, about 5000 tons
Of these rails, and its experts are
watching closely the effect of the inn
mepse amount of traffic which passes
over them The Pennsylvania Rail-
road and the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road are conducting experiments also,
and at the proper time the block signal
and train control board will itself
make experiments.
The safety appliance division OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission may
establish a standard for steel rails.
Two very excellent Southerners have
been returned to the United States SEN
ate for another term of six years each.
They are Senator Daniel, of Virginia,
and Senator Clay, Of Georgia.
It looks as tho Paul Jones's ghost
will never be laid" One would have
supposed that after the poor old dust
got back to Annapolis it would be
pay Gen. Horace Porter for the money
he has expended-some $4,000 up to
now-and the first commander Of our
Navy would be permitted to sleep in
peace. But he isn't. Every little white
his casket is picked up and carted a
few feet to some more favored locss-
ton. Now there is a disturbance OVER
in France. When Gen. Porter at last
located the precious dust which we and
France had permitted to be forgotten
the digging had to be done under some
houses. Part of these houses were
bought outright by Gen. Porter and
torn down. On the very edge Of the
excavating, however, was q laundry.
The woman who runs Il has been try
ing for several years to get damages
She said that the digging had unsettled
liable to be buried under the ruins. The
court has at last awarded the old lady
$500 for damages to her laundry. The
question is, who will pay her the
damages?" Gen. Porter has never re-
ceived a cent from the United States
Government for the return of Paul
Jones's body, and probably never will,
but somebody has to pay the $1,000.
A woman cut up high jinks at the
Fourth of July speaking at Gloucester,
Mass, where the President was ad-
dressing the multitude. The woman
pretended to faint, and when she got
the police around her and the crowd
had been pushed back, she declared to
the police that she had feigned to faint,
because she didn't know how else to get
wanted them at once and without COM
ment- She declared that she had seen
at the Presidents side, almost, a man
with a pistol in his hand, and both
held inside his coat pocket. The matter
was investigated, but no man with a
pistol was located. The woman prob
ably had pipe dream.
Senator jeff Davis has written let
4SS- Ern in nfHE, he do
clares that he was not at the White
House dinner because of his anxiety
for his little SON. The lad is only IL
years of age. and had been permitted to
go with another boy of his age to Fort
Myer to see the airship. The boys did
not return in proper time, and Senator
Davis, much alarmed. started out to
find his son. This detained him till
long past the dinner hour, and that is
why he was not at that dinner on the
terrace. a perfectly laudable excuse,
but there are 1000 telephones between
the White House and Fort Myer, and
Senator Davis could have used any one
of them by courteous request. 1t is a
fearful faux pas to slight an invitation
to dine anywhere, much worse TO neg
lect an invitation to the White House.
AS President of the American Ma
tional Red Cross Society, President Taft
has presented Maj. C. A. Devol. U. S
Army, Chief Quartermaster of the Pan
ANA Canal and President of the Cana
| Zone branch of the Red Cross Society
/ a special medal voted by the society as
| a token of the appreciation by the Red
| Cross Of the important services of Maj
| Deyol at the time of the floods at Hat
tiesburg, Miss. in 1908.
The Congress of the United State.
may be loyal, but 1t distinctly is no
patriotic. The two Houses remained
| in session all of Memorial Day. o
course. May 80 came on Sunday, bu
the Grand Army of. the Republic Sc
| Monday for the day, and Congress sa
| just as tho a soldier had never died.
sat on June II, the birthday anniver.
sary of the Flag. and it couldn't be in
duced to adjourn over the Fourth o
July. No. street The country is wait
ing breathlessly for a tariff bill, and 1
| could not stop to think of the father,
and their great work in founding tn,
Government But the members of tn,
House went off on automobile tours oil
Tuesday; yes. indeedy. The countr,
was saved by a 10-minute session oil
Monday. and so they could play ol
Tuesday and get ready for another ar
duous session of 10 minutes on Wednes
day. No; Congress is not patriotic 1t
members know mighty little about tn
meaning of the word.
, Just now the Chinese in Washington
are practically hiding out until tn