The National tribune., 1909-02-04

same time he was representing a Con
gressional district in Connecticut in tn
National House of Representatives. B
some hook or crook he got thru tina
all right, largely, it was said, becaus
the President thought him to be hon
est. Then he ran for Governor Q
Connecticut, and they used the oil
story against him, and were about t
defeat him. Suddenly there appeare'
in the newspapers of the country
commendation of Gov. Lilley's conduc
III Congress, signed by President Roose
velt. This raised such a hullaballo
that the National Republican Commit
tee had to take hand, and assure tn
people that the President was not elec
tioneering for Lilley, and that Mr.. Lii
ley had used a letter that had bee
written for some other purpose. Thel
Secretary Loeb came out with a letter
saying that the sentences quoted from
the Presidents letter had been segre
gated from the rest of the letter, ant
that the President had not indorse,
Mr.. Lilley's candidacy for Governor
Mr.. Lilley had made his point by tina
time, however, and was elected Gov
ernor of the Wooden Nutmeg State
Then everybody expected him to re
sign from Congress, but he didn't. III
kept on drawing his salary as M. c.
the while he was getting his clothe
manufactured to be made Governor in
Then he was inaugurated Governor
and still continued to draw salary from
tine Government as one of its member.
of Congress. Then Congress. thru Mr.
Gaines, Of Georgia. got busy, and by
resolution pried Mr.. LiIley loose from
his seat in the House. Mr.. Lilley de.
clares that he wanted to be pried loose
all the time, but didn't know how.
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, ha.
introduced in the Senate a bill making
the Office of Supervising Architect OF
the Treasury known hereafter as the
Bureau Of Arts and Public Buildings
and nominating the Supervising Archi-
tect as Director of Arts and Public
Buildings. The bill makes all the off.
cials and employees of the Supervising
Architect Office, officials and emp1oye.
of the Bureau of Arts and Public
Buildings.
This is meant as nucleus of the
Bureau of Arts. To develop it the
President is authorized to appoint, with
consent of the Senate, an advisory coun-
sci, to be known as the Council of the
tects. painters, sculptors, landscape
architects and laymen.
The bill provides that the names OF
the distinguished men shall be submit
ted to the President by the American
Institute of Architects; that is, the
President shall make his selection from
a list of names submitted by the insti-
tute. The duties of the Council shall
be to aid the Director by their advice.
The Council is to get no compensation,
but may have expense allowances.
The South Carolina Legislature has
indorsed Senator Tiliman's action in
the "retort courteous case between
himself and President Roosevelt, and
what will you do about 1t? It is the
South Carolina vote which sends Mr..
TiIlman to the United States Senate.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of the
Secretary Of Agriculture. who has been
abroad for the past four years studying
singing and acting, has returned to
and joined her father at
the Portland. Miss Wilson. in point of
service, is the oldest Cabinet hostess,
as she has been her fathers hostess
thru his necrly completed three admin
istrations. with a fair prospect of a
into a fourth. Miss Will
son is gifted with a naturally good So
prano voice, and has cultivated it under
Jean de Reszke all these years in Paris,
spending her Summers in Scotland with
relatives of her father.
To commemorate the Tooth annfver-
sary of the birth OF Abraham Lincoln,
Postmaster-General Meyer has an
nounced that 100, 900, 900 new two-cent
postage stamps will be issued OF or
before Feb. IL next. The new issue
was provided for by joint resolution of
Congress
The design comprises the portrait
of Lincoln in an ellipse, the only deco
ration being a spray of laurel leaves
and the inscription United States Post
age" in a straight line at the top of the
stamp with the numerals "1809-Feb.
12--1s09" at the bottom The color
design viii be red as with the present
two-cent stamp. The profile was taken
from a copy in the Corcoran Art Gal
Iery In this city Of st. Gaudens' statue
of Lincoln on Riverside Drive in Chi
cago.
There is an old saying that lie well
stuck to is as good as the truth. SEN
ator Sutherland is the victim of a po-
fitical lie which once annoyed, but nov
just amuses him. When he was first
elected to the United States Senate from
Utah few years ago, a newspaper re-
porter sent out lot of "guff" about
the Senator being a son-in-law Of John
d. Lee. the notorious DANTE of Mormon
trail fame. The report also gave much
other picturesque information that
never had any foundation in truth, and
the true story sent after the lie never
overlook it. 1t never does. AS a mat.
ter of fact, Senator Sutherland was borr
in England, grew up in Michigan, and
made his start in life in Utah. Hi
wife is Southern woman
and is distantly connected with the
Virginia Lees.
Society today is becoming in G
shocking sense a gamblers cesspool Il
is just as near to he'll as you can get,
declared the Rev. Arthur Willis Spoon.
er, the pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian
Church, addressing the hundred and
more who have been trying to live fol
the past two weeks as Christ would live
il he were on earth.
Now the reverend gentleman is jus
a little bit mistaken. He thinks these
people who do unspeakabIe things, like
entertaining for their own ancestor!
such as monkeys, bull pups, and par.
rots. are society, but they are not. Sucf
people are only excrescences on tn,
outside skin of society. Taey com,
about as near being real society as Gu
glass approaches a diamond They ar
just fiotsam and jetsam. tossed by tn
fortunes of Change" and IL the banl
fails they drop into utter oblivion Mel
and women of real society are thos,
whom changing fortune never affects
You see IT takes more than clothes an,
money and knowledge how to wea
one and spend the other to make vi
real" society. The Reverend Spoone
has mistaken the imitation for the real