The National tribune., 1909-08-05

nobody came forward to claim them,
they should have been sold at pubnc
auction About this time the President
of the National Association of Audubon
Societies protested against the sale as
against the public interest Collector
of Customs Loeb scratched his head
and thought minute, and then passed
il along to the Secretary of the Interior.
and he looked wise for time, ana IN
turn referred the matter to the Solicitor
of the Treasury. Under the laws OF the
State of New York the plumage of the
white heron cannot be sold at all, so
that Uncle Sam has no more right to
sell them than an individual has, and
Customs Collector Loeb has S1,ooo
worth of feathers for women'S hats
upon his hands that he can neither sell
nor give away. These very feathers
are worth 10 times their weight in
gold The white heron has almost be-
come eXtince except in certain sections
of the country, and in very few years
will no longer be SEEN. Its beautiful
aigrettes are very much sought for by
women, and there is mourning and also
need OF a little pressure brought 10
bear to wink at the law and give the
feathers away.
Associate Justice Henry Moody, Of
the United States Supreme Court, and
its only bachelor member, is at his
home in Massachusetts, the victim of
an attack of rheumatism. Justice
Moody has been sufferer since last
March, and went to Hot Springs, hoping
that the stay there would at least ease
little of his suffering. but finding that
his health did not improve he went on
to Massachusetts.
Members of Congress loyal to the
tt.NtSn Of hn ITpJr
to the plank which represents the
power and majesty of the law under
that Constitution are going to be put to
a severe test the coming regular session
of Congress. The statue of Gen. Robert
| E. Lee is now completed. and will soon
| be set up in Statuary Hall, and Con-
gress will be asked by the Virginia
members of Congress to accept the
statue along with that of copy of
Houdon's Washington. These two
statues are to be presented in the name
of the State of Virginia under the law
| which says that each State may place
| in the National Capitol two statues OF
those whom she. considers her two
greatest men. Statuary Hall is the old
House of Representatives Chamber. and
| is pointed out to visitors as the Hall
| of Horrors" There are in it some OF
/ the most horrible examples of sculp-
| ture and bronze that you ever laid your
| two eyes upon. The statue of Robert
E. Lee, which is said to be a very fine
one, will undoubtedly raise storm OF
| disapproval. and there is some question
as to whether it will not be suggested
| to Virginia that she place it in Rich
mond rather than Washington. 1t Is
held By a good many of the Northern
Representatives that as Gen. Lee left
| the United States Army to take up
arms against the Constitution and the
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given in the halls of the Nations Capt.
toll. There are those who say that to
permit this statue to be placed in Stat
uary Hall would be to pay premium
on treason. 1t is said that if Congress;
| declines to receive the Lee statue Vir-
| ginia will also Withdraw the Washing.
| ton statue and leave her two places in
Statuary Hall vacant. There are heap
of people who say that in the interest
| of patriotic education it would be better
to reject the Lee statue and let Virginia
go her own way.
Shall it be one stripe Or three? For
| nearly month now the General Staff
of the Army has been struggling with
| a momentous question. The Army reg
ulations provide that general Officer
shall wear a narrow stripe of gold on
| the seam of the dress trousers. The
regulations also provide that the Chiel
of Artillery shall wear two narrow gold
stripes with a narrow scarlet stripe be-
tween. Brig.-Gen. Arthur Murray /;
Chief of Artillery, hence should have
two stripes. He is also general Off
Ger, and as such would be permitted t
wear only one stripe. Just how to dis
pose -af this striped question is what !!
| worrying the General Staff. AS com
promise they might put the two artil
lery stripes on the one leg of the trous:
ers and the one gold stripe on the othel
leg.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the convention of th
Atlantic Deep Waters Association to b.
held Nov. Il to 20. inclusive. at Nor
folk, Va. The whole Virginia delegs
! | ton united in presenting the invitation
, to the President, and he was very gla
to accept He also promised to Wis
the colored school al Hampton. II
will probably arrive at Norfolk on tn
18th, and will make his visit to tn
J Hampton School for Indians and CO.
ored youths on the goth.
: The attention of the President ha
} been brought to the project known q
; the Boston waterway project. Any G
2 the readers of The National Tribun
who have ever made the coastwise tri
a from Boston to New Orleans know
: something about the awful storms thH
a are usually met with off Cape Hattera
: and other points along the Atlanti
Coast This project calls for an insid
passage by water thru existing cana
J, and rivers for distance of about 1,S0
: miles down the Atlantic Coast. TIL
: War Department has already granite
4 authority for a private company to CT
+ thru Cape Cod, and the work Is actua
4 Iy under way there. The principal al
y gument, of course, in favor of the IL
/ land passage Is TO avoid outside dangt
: points, like Cape Cod, Cape Hattera
|. and the several shoals along the Goa.
:. which have been so disastrous to shiI
e ping.
r There has recently been completed
n the Treasury Building what is probabl
., the greatest steel vault in the worl
n So perfect is it that small army
II burglars would stand appalled, at II
e task of breaking into it, even If thu
y were able to gain access to It,
'r The new vault is under the northea
} corner of the building, below the ofiic
occupied by the Division of Issue of q
Treasury Department. The roof of Il
IN vault is about 25 feet under the surfa
Il of the street. 1t is even considerab
lie below the sub-basement of the Treasu
al Building, so that it is apparent that al
is midnight marauder in search of son
lg hundreds of millions of emergen
Id money has some excavating to do b
ne fore he can even reach the exterior
lie the vault. There is but one way
lie reach the vault, and that is by an el