The National tribune., 1910-06-23

by Mr.. Carruthers to an assistant q
another table, who received it anC
transmitted the same message back t.
the first table. Mr.. Carruthers was sat
isfied, the bill passed the House, and il
due course of time the line was con
structed connecting the two cities.
And II was a strange coincidence.
said Senator Bailey, that the first mes.
sage sent over the line from Baltimore
was one announcing the nomination o
James K Polk, who had been Mr.. Car
ruthers's opponent for the Presidency
Altho Chief Justice Fuller is past the
retiring age, he is yet able to read with.
out his glasses, and a demonstration OF
this came the other day when he wa!
reading memorial resolutions in honor
of the late Justice Brewer on the las
day of the meeting of the Court. He
seemed to read with ease without his
glasses.
Pay Director Thomas ]. Cowie, who
has been nominated to succeed Rear
Admiral Rogers as Chief of the Bureau
of Supplies and Accounts and Paymas-
be one of the best administrative Off
GERS in the Pay Department of the
Navy
He is a. native of Iowa, and entered
the service in 1880 at the age of %
He was promoted to Passed Assistant
Paymaster in 1889 and to Paymaster in
1895, with the rank of Senior Lieuten-
ant.
In 1901 he was given the rank of
nant-Commander. and in 1908
was made Pay Inspector In 1905 Mr..
Cowie was detailed to the Naval Acad-
emy at Annapolis, where he was placed
in charge of the supplies and accounts.
He was promoted to Pay Director in
1908, which position he holds now.
Secretary of War Dickinson has dis
approved a Recommendation made by
Brig Gen. George II. Torney, U. S.
Army, Surgeon General of the Army,
that all recruits entering the Army be
compelled to submit to antityphoid vac
cination. For several years the Army
medical authorities have been vaccinat-
ing with specially prepared serum to
immunize officers and enlisted men
against typhoid fever This method
has been used successfully in foreign
armies
About 5000 officers and enlisted men
in the Army have volunteered to under
go the treatment A careful record of
their health will be kept to ascertain
whether the treatment is as successful
in this country as 1t has been abroad.
1t has not been regarded as advisable
to make such vaccination obligatory
for the present. For this reason Secre-
tary Dickinson decided not to require
recruits to be vaccinated against ty-
phoid until vaccination is made compul-
sorry thruout the Army.
The National Capital had one of the
biggest lobbieS last week that it has
ever had in its whole history. Gov.
Sanders and the entire Legislature of
Louisiana, with the Mayor of New Or
leans and the Mayors of numerous 9TH
er Southern cities and many prominent
citizens, arrived on a special train with
the avowed determination to land on
Congress with their forces in an effort
TO get that body of statesmen to select
New Orleans as the place for the cele-
bration of the opening of the Panama
Canal. The party was not particularly
with Congress, because the
decision as to where the celebration for
the opening of the canal is to be held
has gone over until next December, but
the Louisianians had a great time just
the same. They were the guests of
Secretary of the Navy Meyer on the u.
5. S. Dolphin on q trip to Mount Yer
non, where they laid wreath on the
tomb of George Washington. The Pres
ident gave them a reception on the
White House lawn, which was not only
unique. but perfectly delightful. 1t is
the first time in the history of the
White House, in all proba bility, that a
President has ever held a reception on
the White House lawn. The train was
Of IA Pullman cars, and
Louisiana has gotten a whole lot of
very excellent advertising out of the
rip if nothing else.
My goodness, bat the Hon. Eugene
E. Farrar, of New York, does give it to
former President Roosevelt, and how
everlastingly o ffhis base he is. He
says:
Roosevelt has made two very seri-
BUS mistakes, and their consequences
have not yet fully shown themselves.
These mistakes have done more TO af-
feet his standing in the eyes OF the
American people than anything else in
his career Any man is liable 20 make
a mistake, and as a rule his neighbors
will forgive him: but when a man like
Roosevelt makes mistakes of this kind
the people want 10 know the meaning
His first mistake" added Mr.. Far
rar, was in not submitting to the Tati-
can etiquet and rules at the Papal
Court. There was no excuse for Roose-
yclt. for he had been in the White
House long enough to know the rules
and regulations at the Pope's Court in
Rome.
THE other grave error he commit
ed was his Guildhsll speech. The Irish,
everywhere have taken
his matter up and are outSpoken in
heir condemnation of the principles
aid down by Roosevelt. Roosevelt was
he idol of the Irish when he left this
and he returns as a man de-
'pised by them; and when you consider
he large number of Irish voters in this
country the matter gains in sIgnin-
cance."
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot denies, and his
denial is joint with that of James r.
Garfield, that they have ever made any
Of the formation of a new
party or that former President Roose-
'elt VIII lead that party MIR. Pinchot
says: My reference to parties was
mat II Is better TO be a good citizen
than good Democrat or a good Repub-
ican, as the interests are equally strong
In both parties l said the snake we
must Kill is the snake of alliance be-
tween business and politics." But Mr.
Pinchot goes a little farther, and he
says that IN this country, ruled by par
ties. il would be a pretty difficult prop
osition for man TO give his good citi-
expression except to a majority
party, and that political party which
does not adhere strictly to business in
E.s a l..