The National tribune., 1909-07-01

Bluefields Steamship Company and the
independent planters continue, the State
Department has informed the local Gov
ernor at Bluefields that he will be held
responsible for the protection of Amer
lean property or far any case of the
improper Imprisonment of any citizen
of the United States The British
cruiser Indefatigable is also at Blue
fields making an investigation of the
treatment of British interests and citi-
zens.
After brief Illness and surrounded
by her family, Mrs. Harriet 5. Crocker,
widow of Gen. John S. Crocker. passed
away at her residence in TINS city iast
week. Mrs. Crocker met with an acci-
dent on Friday last which hastened her
death. She was 81 years old.
That the submarine mine defense of
the United States has been brought to
a high state of efficiency was well dem
onstrated by the work of the student
officers of the Coast Artillery School at
Fortress Monroe, Va, when the entire
entrance to Hampton Roads was closed
in the record time of eight hours and
As minutes. This period included the
time required to load the mines on shore
and prepare the cables, as well as the
time required to plant the mines. Sub
|sequently some of the mines were dis
charged at a moving target.
This is the first practice of the season
on a war footing and the best record
yet scheduled by the Coast Artillery
Formerly it required two days to close
the roads. Practice in New York Har-
Dor will be held later.
Mai. Richard Sylvester, Superintend-
and who recently was reelected Presi-
dent of the International Association
of Police Chiefs, was presented with a
gold key by Mayor Douglass, of Niagara,
during visit to that city, following the
convention. which was held in Buffalo,
n. Y, last week Also, the Major was
given a silver-headed cane by the citi-
zens of Niagara thru the Mayor.
1t is a great thing to be rich and a
lover of your kind. Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid, wife of our ambassador to Great
Britain, has just given the Red Cross
Guild of San Mateo tiny bottle of ra-
dunn, the precious metal to be used for
experimental purposes. The hospital is
near the home OF d. o. Mills. the father
of Mrs. Reid, and he has also done
much for it. Mrs. Reid's gift was
princely one, for the Tiny Bit of ra-
dunn cost about $25, 900. 1t will prac-
tically last lifetime. it is said, SO that
the gift is for all time.
When real Summer lights down on
the Capital and Capitol. starch willis
like everything else and the members
of the United States Senate peel their
Senatorial dignity in a hurry. Dur
ing the Winter il is not the proper caper
to wear anything but the funeral black
'frock" coat, and as for going without
.'wesket," oh my. But just now,
with the mercury getting heart failure
in Its attempts to climb out of the top
of the tube, clothes-well, the less sad
about them the better perhaps. The
law demands that a man shall be COW
cred, and when that's said about all is
said of the members of the Senate and
House when they have to sit in the hot
box up on the hill. OF course the
members of the House have always
been sensible about clothes and have
worn the coolest thing that the hand
me-down shops can put out. In the
Senate, 'Gum-shoe" Bill Stone (Mo)
has donned the very snowiest of white
fanneIs. Vice President Sherman al
ways has worn exactly what he wanted
to, and from presid ng in dark busi-
ness suit in the Spring he has come to
a handsome suit of the very daintiest
pinky gray fiannels. Senator VIM. AL
den Smith tMich.) has soft gray Sum
mer clothes, the Southern Senators still
stick to their white crash and linen
suitings. Stately and ponderous Sena-
tor Bacon, of Georgia, has also got
himself into Summer fiannels of snowy
whiteness. The older Senators, like
Senator Aldrich, however. have taken
to alapaca coats, as they always do.
Vests have dsappeared. utterly, and
- well, they are out of
sight. and probably off" for not a
few fancy belts hold up the immacu-
late unmentionables of some of the
Senators. A thrill of horror went round
the other day when it was rumored that
in executive session coats were to be
off-they were not; 1 have
this on splendid authority, and so the
country is saved again.
Will they? Will the President, of the
United States and the President, of the
Imperial Republic of Mexico ever
really meet at that wonderful middle
of the bridge across the Rio Grande at
Ell Paso? Maybe so. At least prepara-
tions are being made for it. President
Diaz has always been ready to go half
way. but no President of the United
States has been willing to meet him at
that dividing line between the two
and so all plans have failed.
President Taft has half promised that
West this Summer. and President DiaZ
is said to be making plans for the
great event already. President Taft
has not said what his opinion is of
the President leaving United States
jurisdiction during his term of Office.
Of course, President Roosevelt knocked
the spots off the old superstition while
he was President, but that is no reason
why another President should forget
traditions and the unwritten law.
Senator Raynor (Md.) is picturesque |
at all times. sometimes his talky-tallSy |
IS Iurid and at other times it is simply |
This is what he got off |
the other day in a talk on the tariff:
The Republican party" said Senator |
Raynor, has looked into the tariff, and |
having seen it again and looked 1t over |
and reviewed it, has allowed it to stalk |
abroad in all of its unblushing and |
naked deformity.
1T has done worse than this. 1t has |
observed the gaunt figure of tariff re- |
form lowering over the Western plains |
and prairies, and instead of needing its |
pleading voice and giving it. in this bill, |
he sustenance to sustain its life, it has |
taken it and buried it with all of its
onging hopes and aspirations. But, !
Mr. President, one thing is sure. and |
hat is that il has buried it alive. Its |
pulse still throbs and it's heart still |
beats. The figure will again come forth |
md. with the blood coursing thru its
yeins, it will rise again. 1t will be |
heard at the home and fireside of the |
American consumer; ii will be heard in
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