The National tribune., 1909-02-25

Like \ red rag before a bull is q
negro office seeker 10 Senator Tillman
He froths at the mouth, foams like q
madman, and talks like lunatic when
he gets on that hobby. Just nowfhe Is
determined not to confirm the appoint
ment of DIR. Crum. negro, as Collector
of Customs at Charleston, S. c. Gary.
Senator from Oklahoma, helped Till
man a little by saying that it is not good
policy to place negroes in official posi-
tions where it is necessary for white
persons to come in contact with them.
Senator 1'fllman practically admitted
during his three days harangue that
the disfranchisement laws of the South
are designed simply and solely to dis
franchise the eelored voter, and that
they SO operate.
Your Uncle Joseph can perpetrate a
pretty good pun when he is in the
mood. Representative Cheney Und.) }
called on the Speaker to arrange for
recognition of a bill directing the Secre-
tary of War 10 donate two condemned
cannon to city in his district. The
Speaker was in contemplative mood.
Cheney" said the Speaker, slapping
himself on the breast. here is one old
Cannon that hasn't been condemned
yet. but there's no telling how soon he
will be"
Quetin Roosevelt is limb" if
there ever was one, but he has a fine
sense of honor after all, and he tries
to keep his word at all times. When
. he was sent away TO school he was told
that he must not let the fact that his
father is President lead him to put on
airs: that his standing in his school
would rest not on his fathers high
Office, but on his own actions, and he
was not to mention his father at ALL
On the first day the pupils were
asked TO tell where they lived and what
their fathers did for living. 1t ca ne
Quentin's turn.
Where do you live ?"
AT the White House, he replied,
after a pause.
What is your fathers business?'
The admonition not to mention that
his father is President stuck in Quen-
tins throat. He made no reply at I'll.
''Weli?"
Still no response.
"Ceme: You have to answer. you
know. What does your father doe"
The youngest Roosevelt looked the
teacher squarely in the eyes, and re-
piled:
Hes it,"
The startling discovery has been
made by the rubber stamp" warriors
in the Navy Department that Amerf-
can sailors have not been eating big
enough prunes.
A change is being made in the speci-
fcations for the furnishing of this sta
pie food aboard ship, so that the num-
Der of prunes in a gallon must be re-
duced from 10 to so.
1t has been figured with mathemati-
cal accuracy that the men will be better
fighters if fed on bigger prunes.
Sometimes the House reminds one of
coop of ''banty ROSTERS" SO it does.
A bill passed that body providing for
the Census of 1910 and for some 5000
employees to be known as clerks"
These employees, under the provisions
of the act, were to be appointed at
large; that is, the Civil Service lists
were not to be used. and all the ap-
pointments would be from among those
who had not taken the Civil Service ex-
animation. This suited the "outs" pretty
good, but not those who have taken the
examination but have not been ap-
pointed. They thought they ought 20
have a chance so they made things SO
generally uncomfortable that the Presi-
dent vetoed the bill. That's just what
he Cid. The House knew that the
President would veto the bill, for he
had told the leaders so IL they gave
The House firmly resolved to pass the
bill over his veto il he dared TO do such
thing. Oh, the members talked scam
lous free about what they were going
to do if that bill came back to them
with veto patch. Did they do things?
Nav. They just sat around and chin
ned while, rustled up to each other
and back again, ard now the bill is
dead as a door aail. They say" the
bill will lie in the room of the Commit
tee on Census till the next session of
Congress, and then it will be rushed
thru the House and sent to President
Taft, and that he will not veto the bill.
The feeling seems to grow that Pre5i-
dent Taft viii not copy many of the
actions of President Roosevelt.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt had a sorrow
ful day last week. "Ace" wandered
out into the White House grounds and
then disappeared. Ace" is just 4 lit
tie liyer-and-white pub of pretty fine
extraction. and Miss Ethel has had him
only a few months, but she is very sond
OF him. The dog was advertised widely
and detectives sent out for him, and
finally he vas found in Georgetown.
He was brought heffie in the evening
while Miss Ethel WAS dining out, and
word was phoncd to her that her pet
had been found. Although she was due
away from the dinner that she might
come home to see Ace before she went
OF to the dance
The order governing the purchase of
discharge by enlisted men of the Army
has been amended so that soldier who
receives three months bonfs for rein
listment may not purchase his dis
charge within one year thereafter.
Lately the War Department has re-
ceiyed many inquiries as to whether
soldiers may purchase discharge and
then reenlist with the idea of being
considered within the next enlistment
period. Such an arrangement cannot
be permitted.
Senator Cullom, in his remarks,
stated that he was the only Senator
now alive who served with Senator
AHisoa in the Fortieth Congress. dur
ing the Impeachment proceedings oi
President johnson. When Senator Tel
Ter came to the Senate, Senator ALI
son had been there three years.
The Daughters of the Confederac,
os Georgia are having hard time o
fl with their monument 10 the nasti
little beast of a Wirz, who was th'
keeper of Andersonville. Nobod,
seems to want the thing now that it Il
completed. It has been humping aroun'
down there in half-fnished state 70
over six months now. 1t was TO nav