The National tribune., 1909-04-15

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officers that he did for Army officers,
and the result of attempt to obey his
orders has so depleted the active force
of naval officers on duty as to cripple
the Department Four officers of the
Navy Department have been injured,
and there is a well-defined revolt. Off
cials of the Navy Department contend
that the test as prescribed by Roosevelt
is not applicable to them, as they in
their training as naval officers received
no training on horseback, bicycle or in
walking, and that it is not at all prob
able that they will ever be called upon
to do any one of these things as Off
GERS in the United States Navy Mean
time some officers who are trying to
take the test will be in the hospital at
the expense of the Government for
some time to come. Lieut.. Needham
Lee Jones, of the Bureau of Navigation,
Navy Department, is confined to his
room with bad cut on his head and
two broken wrists. He was trying to
ride bicycle in accordance with the
prescribed tests. and as he had never
been on a wheel before the result was
disastrous. Lieut.. Semmes Read, Naval
Aid to the President, lies half paralyzed
from a fall from his horse. Lieut.
Commander Powers Symington, while
riding horseback, was thrown from his
horse and his shoulder broken. Pay
Inspector Simpson had rib broken in
o. fall from his horse about the same
time. None of these who have been
injured have ever had any practice on
wheels or horseback, and they question
whether the test should be applied to
them. 1t is said that President Taft
will be implored to revoke the order.
The bronze tablet to be placed on the
hagpole at Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
by the United States Government has
been completed. 1t will be put in posi-
ton in few weeks. The inscription
on the tablet is as follows:
1.-The National ensign which inspired
Spangled Banner was during the bonn
bardment os Fort McHenry, Sept. IS,
1914, flying from a pole occupying this
position
And so the marines go back. At
torney-General Wickersham has given
an opinion to the Secretary of the Navy
in response to his inquiry that Congress
was fully within its constitutional
rights in the enactment of legislation
directing that the United States marines
be restored to duty on board ships of
the United States Navy.
In anticipation of the formal rendi-
ton of this opinion the Navy Depart
ment has already issued orders for the
execution of the provisions of the act
Of Congress The question of constitu-
tionality was raised by Secretary Meyer
in the first days of his administration,
and it was then reported that it was
the intention of the Department to dis
regard the statute, and to follow the
policy of President Roosevelt to restrict
the marines to shore duty.
And the Brownsville matter is likely
to get good airing also, with a strong
possibility that most of the men will
get back into the service.
Secretary Dickinson has issued the
formal orders in the matter of the in
vestigation of the Brownsville affray to
determine the qualifications for re-en-
listment, with back pay, of those mem
bers of the 25th Inf. discharged with
out trial in September, 1906. The court
Of inquiry will be composed of Lieut.
Gen. Young, Maj.-Gen. Sanger and
Brig.-Gens. Schwan, Price and J. w.
Wilson, with Capt. Charles r. Rowland.
2lst u. S. Inf, as Recorder of the court.
All the members of the court are on the
O. lief nd I..Su
tually provides otherwise they will
serve on three-quarters pay.
Capt. Rowland is one of the assist
ants of Judge-AdvocateGen Davis,
and is an officer of unusual energy and
ability. 1t will be his special duty to
prepare the cases for the consideration
Of the court Owing to the character
of the work of the court and the num-
Der of cases affected by the legislation
tabout 160 men were discharged), it is
more than probable that the court will
be compelled to hold daily sessions
thruout the Summer.
There is young down Easter" who
knows a right smart more than he did
when he came to Washington, even If
ne is a High School boy from Marl-
boro, Mass. This youth, animated by
patriotic motives, so he AYERS, and no.
body believes that he did it to be bad,
carved his name, Howard Blake" on
the Washington Monument. just like
that. And then a special policeman
dropped on him and yanked him over
to the Police Court. where Judge Kim
ball fined him $5e in the interest of
iecent citizenship and by way of teach
ing him some s%nse. The youth de-
clared that he did not intend to mar
Government property; that he was per-
mitted to carve his name in the endur-
ing stone of Bunker Hill, and he didn't
know that the Washington Monument
was any more precious than Bunker
Hill. He knows now that it is $50
costlier.
President Taft has changed another
policy of the Roosevelt Administration
in the matter of diplomatic and consul
Tar appointments. On assuming charge
Of the Department of State Secretary
Knox found on record an order issued
by his predecessor prohibiting the send
Ing in diplomatic or consular capacity
Of naturalized citizen of the United
states to the country of his nativity or
to which he formerly owed allegiance
1t is not altogether clear why this regu.
lation was issued, altho it is known to
have had the approval of President
Roosevelt. Mr, Taft however can cnp