The National tribune., 1909-11-18

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this country to announce his accession
| to the throne TO the President of the
| United States performed that duty a
| the White House Monday. The mission
consists of Zia Pasha, formerly Turkish
ambassador at Vienna and at Rome
and Minister of Imperial Archives and
Public instruction, and Col. AZiz Bey
formerly Military Attache of the Turk
| ish Legation here and Consul-Genera
| of Turkey at New York. Zia Pasha has
the rank OF ambassador and Col. Azi2
Bey that of an Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary.
They were received in the Presidents s
room at the Union Station by Chandler
Hale, Third Assistant Secretary of State;
Department. and A. Rustem Bey,
Charge d'Affaires of the Turkish EN-
bassy here. and escorted to the New
Willard, which will be their home dur
| ing their brief stay in the National Cap
ital as the guests of the Nation.
In accordance with diplomatic Gus
tom the Envoys remained quietly in
their apartments until the time appoint
ed for the presentation of their creden-
tials.
Accompanied by A. Rustem Bey, the
Turkish Charge here, the Envoys called
at the State Department, and were for
mally received by Secretary Knox in
the diplomatic room. He welcomed
the Ottoman officials to this country in
cordial terms. The President received
them at the White House at 2:S0
o'clock.
They We're q brilliant lot, sure, and
completely overshadowed Col Cosby.
Superintendent of Public Buildings and
Grounds who is just too handsome for
anything in his full regimentals as Chief
Aid to the President.
Land salses' If Senator Tillman isn't
at it againi When the President in
eluded Columbia, S. c., in his itinerary
in his latest jaunt, that "Fust State of
tn Confederacy, suh,' made up its al
legged mind that it would make all the
other "good-time towns look like a
Zip an a bit'' in the grub-staking line.
Where the gourmets of Columbia, S. c.,
made their mistake was in inviting the
sinister senior Senator from South Car
olina to attend the main feed and cough
up a sawbuck for the privilege. Senator
Tillman's breakfast had spoiled on him,
or something had happened to turn his
temper to cauStic soda. He fired the
invitation back, and a piece of his re-
marks was that in asking him to pay
SO a plate to bask in the sunshine of
President Taft's smile while they ate
was violating decency and self-respect-
ing hospitality" Mr.. Gonzales. editor
of the Columbia State, who was Chair
man of the committee, waited until the
President had come and gone, and then
he opened on Mr. United States Senator
Tillman, and his English, il Is classic,
and his meanin', it is plain. He be-
lieyes that Tillman is a goat. He
says in part-and. believe this chroni-
cler, this part" is the miidest end of
the public word castigation to which
1ae
Carolina-and, as I was saying, the
printable part in a family paper is as
follows
when il comes to maintaining the
good name of South Carolina, for which
he now essays to be jealous, Tillman's
display OF an appetite for getting some
thing for nothing or much for little.
which had its incipient manifestation
when he WAS Governor in the cultiva-
ton Of private cat crop at public eX
pense, and its latest development in the
Oregon land affair, might be detailed
as startling inconsistency between the
word and the deed"
MIR. Gonzales also speaks of Senator
Ti;lmans notorious lack Of courtesy
and refinement" at a time that Column
bia was trying to do him honor at a
banquet, and says-but what's the use?
The cruiser Etruria. of the royal Ital-
ian Navy. which was one of the feet
representing Italy at the HudSpn-Fulton
celebration at New York last month.
arrived in port Monday morning. and is
lying at anchor in the lower end of the
harbor near the naval battalion ship
Puritan. This is the second visit the
Etruria has paid to this city in the past
three months. A short time prior to
the New York celebration the warship
hi .r.rf xvafta ri airla1 haf
for several days. During the previous
visit of the ship to this city her officers
and men were warmly welcomed by the
members OF the Italian-American col
ony here. and made many friends. On
the present visit these frieL Ljships will
be renewed.
Italy is the only European Nation
whose ships have visited this city in
the past 10 years. Four different naval
ships flying the italian flag have
dropped auchor in the harbor here.
Probably for the first time in the his
tory of the country a President of the
United States has acted as a pallbearer.
Raymond Patterson, one OF the most
widely Unknown and best-loved Washing
ton correspondents, who had been all
his life nearly connected with The Ma
tional Tribune, died last Saturday. He
personally. as well as politically, and
the President expressed desire to do
him honor by being one Of the honorary
pallbearers.
The rank Of Major-General in the
Army was conferred last Saturday upon
William II. Carter, in command of the
Department of Iuzon, in the Philippine
Islands.
The retirement on account of age of
Maj.-Gen. John L. Weston, in COM
mand of the Department of California,
made possible the promotion of Gen.
Carter to become one of the seven Ma
jor-Generals in the service.
Gen. Thomas II. Barry has taken
command of the Department OF Califor-
mia.
Lyman J. Gage, Secretary of the
Treasury under Mckinley. is TO marry
again. Ex-Secretary Gage is~a bowling
Theosophist now, and lives in the Iur-
pie Island of Madame Somebody or
other out San Francisco way. lie has
done a number of queer stunts--queer
for a man OF his stamina and standing,
that IL, and the marrying now of
woman who might he bis granddaughter
Is one of them. He was pretty well
mixed up III the brief society career in
this city Of young and handsome wo-
man who committed suicide or who was
murdered near Washington year ago,
Il Miss Edith Thompson, TO whom he
had been q friend"
Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roose-
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