The National tribune., 1910-08-18

WAYS since retirement from the Senate
Senator Burton was so poor at the time
he was tried and convicted that he was
unable to pay the $500 fine imposed
by the Government. He has made his
money off of Texas property, buying
large ranches and selling them off il
small farms to Eastern buyers. Senator
Burton is one of the most brilliant ora
tors Kansas ever produced. He is a
man of personable appearance. and but
for the accident of being found out
might be a Senator from Kansas yet
1t was pretty well proven that Senator
Burton's alleged practice before Fed
eral Departments was largely technical,
and he said himself that many other
United States Senators had INDUCED in
the same practice, but had covered
their tracks up better than he did. SEN
ator Burton always insisted that he did
not know that he was ever technically
violating United States statutes.
We have had a Baron in our midst.
He answers to the name of Baron
Kanetake Ouro, the japanese Minister
of Agriculture, who has spent few
hours in the city. One of the first
things that Baron Ouro did was to take
an automobile trip to Arlington Gene
terry. He had only admiration for our
National Valhalla. He also says that
he believes Washington is destined to
be the most beautiful city in the world.
| He seemed to take the keenest delight
and pleasure in everything that he saw.
James A Roberts, able seaman on
the battleship Minnesota, who recently
visited his home at Tucson, AriZ., ar
rived there just as fire was threaten
ing to destroy the town. The fire de-
partment was short-handed. Roberts
recruited volunteers and went at it as
l,O h. +ott tnl,t Il ahn I'D c1a in
and the flames were conquered.
The officials of Tucson told the Navy
Department that the town practically
owed its existence to Seaman Roberts.
and Acting Secretary Winthrop has sent
to the sailor letter of commentator.
The worm has turned The other
day man of family here in Washing
ton proceeded to do things by way of
the courts against laundryman. This
man had sent his wash to the laundry
in a nice, clean box. He got his laun-
dry back in an old, dilapidated box,
which loked as tho ii might have served
for such carrying purpose for months.
There was not even a piece of paper
between the supposedly clean clothes
which were returned to him and the
soiIed box. The man Immediately want
ed to know why. He wanted to know
if he was supposed to wear clothes sent
home to him in a soiled box, a box
soiled by some other mans soiled lin
en-a man whom he did not know and
who might have had all sorts of ills in
his family. The question was declared
pertinent by the laundry inspector of
the department, and the laundryman
will have to answer the why"
Ethan Allen Weinberg, a Brooklyn
youth of 19, has been appointed a con-
sular agent at Aubres, Morocco, and is
the youngest man ever appointed to so
responsible a position. His salary will
he $1,S00 year. Young Weinberg was
formerly a page in the National House
of Representatives. While there he
met Fred W. Carpenter, American Min
lister to Morocco. who was then Secre- |
tary of President Taft When Mr. Car
have asked for the appointment of Mr..
Weinberg.
The man who will succeed the late
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, in the
United States Senate has been selected.
He is Claude A Swanson, former men,
Der of the House from Virginia and
later Governor of Virginia. He was
Governor at the time of the fiasco which
will go down in history as the James
town Exposition and Worlds Fair, or
words to that effect Senator Swanson
is young, but he will not be a second
Daniel come to judgment when he has
achieved twice the years of the late
Senator Daniel, who was a noble old
Roman. lawyer, soldier, statesman. Sem
ator Swanson can talk, oh, yes, indeedy. |
Senator ingalls, once said of Jerry Simp-
son, the only and original Jerry of
Populist days, that he could talk. All
you had to do was to start his mouth
going, and no matter when you came
a pl a To nr pa r lU hat frnnt nrtld
be doing business at the same old stand. |
Some of Senator Swanson's colleagues
in the House used to give expression to
something of like nature concerning
him.
Tried to do the impossible, a negro
in Washington did. He wanted to COM
NIT suicide, and, disdaining all the old, |
tried methods OF shutting off this NOR
tai coil, he adopted one which stands |
unique. He got an ak and tried to |
crush his skull with it. He succeeded |
in giving himself a fearful headache
and no more. except that he acquired |
a bed in the Washington Asylum, where |
his sanity will be inquired into.
A r. Johnson, the Republican nomf- |
nee for Congress in the 10th Ohio Dis |
trict. has put his friends and the party |
in the hole hy declining to run. He
sought the nomination and got il. Then !
he concluded that his business IS too big |
to permit him to accept election, SO |
another candidate will have to be Sc
lected.
Representative Charles Q. Tirre1I of |
the Fourth Massachusetts District, died |
suddenly recently at his home here. |
Death was due to a hemorrhage of the |
brain. He was 65 years old. Repre-
sentative Tirrelrs wife and his only |
son, Arthur H., who had been his pri-
vate secretary, were at his bedside when |
death came
Representative Tirrell was serving his
fifth Congressional term, having been |
reelected to the 6lst session by a ma
1orlty OF 5000 votes. He was born in |
Mass, Dec. 10, 1874, was grad
uated from Dartmouth College in 1866, |
and was elected to the General Court |
OF Massachusetts in 1872. His first po-
Itical position was won In 1881, when |
he was sent to the State Senate, to be |
reelected year later for another term. |
In 1888 he was Presidential Elector
Shortly before becoming q candidate |
for Congress he served a term as Grand |
Master of the Grand Lodge, Independ-
ent Order of odd Fellows to which or
der he had been an active member for |
many years.
The Cuban Government has consent
ed to the raising or the removal by the
United States Government Of the wreck |
of the battleship Maine in the harbor
of Havana. In approving the applica-
ton for permission to undertake the |
work, President Gomez said that the |
Cuban Government would have the |