The National tribune., 1909-01-28

smashed up when MS aercpiane Drohe
on trial here at Fort Myer, has about
recovered his health. He is on his way
to Paris TO meet his brother, who has
been amusing the French with his aero
plane experiments. and who has incl
dentalIy taken about ali tn prizes.
Senator Dillingham;, of Vermont.
caused a tremor of excitement to pass
over the Senate when he introduced
resolution to amend the Constitution,
making the term of office for the Presl-
dent six years.
This measure was introduced by the
late Senator Proctor on Dec. q, 1896,
and has been hanging fire since the
5sth Congress. The resolution proposes
that From and after March 4, 1909,
the term of the President and Vice
President shall be six years, and that
no person while holding Office of Chlef
Executive shall be eligible for re-elec-
ton"
The matter was referred to the Com
aaittee on the Judiciary.
"Ratones' is the polite way to say
1t. but plain rats is right good Eng
Iish. And the palmer English of it is
that rats are doing a vast deal OF harm
In the District of Columbia, and some
measure has to be taken TO get rid OF
the pests. The Superintendent of street
Cleaning has issued an edict to this ef-
feet He says that rats do more harm
10 the District property than fire. He
says the French trap is one good way
to catch them, but quite as good way
is to saturate pieces of sponge with
grease.
Nobody on earth has ever found just
what a persimmon is good for LII you
Il, Sr-%
stay frozen for 4 month or two they
sometimes make delicious eating; that
is. if the pucker is all frozen out OF
them. If it isn't. then you have to let
them freeze for month longer. Inc
paopie CT the South have q kind OF
corn pone called ''persimmon bread
which is really quite good, and then
there was once made in the Soutn
s'persiunraor beer,2which is said to be
..perfectlv delicious Maybe it is, and
then, again, maybe it isn't. 1t is pre-
sunlably altogether owing TO your tast-
er as 10 whether it is delicious or not
Anyhow. President-elect Taft has popu-
larized both beer and bread made OF
Simmons. At the banquets given him
in the South he had both along with
their coneomitaHts-"'p 'possum and
sweet 'taters.' The 'simmon yiands viii
take off flesh, and the 'possum and
taters add it, so he possibly had method
in his madness. and considered that
with diet of the two he could Keep
about even on flesh.
A Government bond issue of $780,
600. 900, the proceeds from which are
TO be used for construction work on
the Panama Canal. IS proposed in
bin introduced in the Senate by Mr..
Hopkins. of Illinois, a member OF the
Senate Committee on Inter-Oceanic
Canals.
\ The bill raises the limit of the amount
of bonds that may be issued in aid 6i
the construction OF tna canal from
was referred TO the Committee on Inter-
Oceanic Canals
After eight years Junction City,
Kan. man, John d. Baldwin by name,
mas got from Congress $50 for a horse
which WAS killed b. fragment OF a
shell at Fort Riley in 1900 The AMI
mai was struck by fragment OF q
shell fred from gun belonging 10
Siege Battery o, fth Art. while at tar
get practice
Senator Knox. who is slated to be
Secretary of State nndsr President
Taft. is getting ready for big worR
evidently. for his friends have intro
z
executive and judicial bill providing 10:
an Under Secretary OF State at $4,000
q year. a. Fourth Assistant Secretary ol
State at $4,000 a year and other en-
ployes for the state Department.
Iowa is getting scared All this tall
about another Secretary of Agriculture
after Secretary Wilson has been per
,nitted to CRAFTY his ambition by serV
a1c
served in that office does not pleas
them. They point witt. pride to th'
reforms which Secretary wilson ha.
Introduced into his Department, ant
ask that he be retained.
The case OF ti,e United States agains
Robert Powell. Involving the question
whether the 14th amendment can b.
invoked II the T-Tsited States courts Il
,.-nfect regros against lyRcbing, wa
decided by the Supreme Court OF tn
United States IN faEor of Powell, on
writ of crrc. bringing the case from
the United states Circuit Court for tn
Northern District OF Alabama.
Powell is under indictment on In
charge OF assisting 4 mob in the hang
ing of a negro NJ med Horace Naples
AT Huntsville. the specific charge bein
that. as q member pf thr lynching party
Powell had deprived Naples of tn
right to a trial BY due process OF law
The Circuit Court he'd tilat the lat
amendment was rot applicable to tn
case. and declared that IL could not b
Invoked unless the injustice complaine
of was inflicted by the State or its au
thorities. The Supreme Courts deci
sion affirmed the decision of the lowe
tribunal.
: The United States Attorney in Sa
Francisco has been authorized to inst
tute suit against the Fguckee River an
General Electric Company and the Cal
isornia- Nevada Electric Power Com
pany and other parties interested. b
tile Attorney-General Of the Unite
States, on the request of the SecTetar
of the Interior The action is bein
taken 20 acquire land at the outlet Q
Lake Tahoe, found to be necessary /
connection with the Truckee-Carso
proiect in Nevada of the United Stats
Reclamation Service.
The storage of water in Lake Tahc
IS an essential feature Of the Trucke'
Carson project. which has been COZ
s;ructed under the reclamation act, an
which involves the irrigation OF mo-
than 100000 acres Of land.
The United States has for the la
six years been negotiating with Il
parties who own or control the ira
at the outlet of the lake.
There was q suggestion the other d;
that as Representative Charley La
dis was retiring from Congress at tn