The National tribune., 1910-03-17


1.-The District of Columbia shall itself pay
for them.
The shooting and hunting of game 10y
rural mail carriers while they are Off
loially employed on the service of theil
routes, or the carrying of guns for that
purpose, Is to be prohibited in the fu'
!ture. An order to this effect has beer
Issued by the Post Office Department
complaints were received that delay II
the delivery and collection of mail wa:
caused at certain places by the prac'
ltice.
| Wade II. Ellis, Assistant to the Attor-
lney-General, who resigned, has become
chairman of the Republican Executive
Committee of Ohio, and has actively
taken up the work in the Buckeye
State.
The Director of Posts of Nicaragua
has assured the Post Office Department
that hereafter United States mail sacks
will not be used, by Nicaraguans as
travelling suit cases or for private pur-
poses.
When sacks have been received back
| from that country and others in South
America they bore evidence of having
!
strongly scented.
Several weeks ago a Nicaraguan citi-
zen arrived at New Orleans with all his
clothes, except what he wore, inclOsed
in United States mail sack. The sack
was seized by the customs officials, who
reported the matter to the Post Office
| Department.
| Less sacks were received back from
South American points than were sent
there.
| Representative Roberts. of the Naval
! Affairs Committee, is very severe on
| Mr.. Peary. He said:
! so far as the subcommittee was able
to see there was nothing in the record
| of Mr.. Peary. as. far as his service to the
Navy or to the country was concerned,
which made him worthy to receive an
annual salary Of $4,000 a year for the
! balance Of his natural life. 1t is absurd
to propose that a ciyilfan-for that is
| just what Mr.. Peary is and nothing
elsc-should be made Senior Admiral
| of the line when he is not even a Naval
Constructor, merely Il civil engineer in
the Navy. While 4 iaudab BILE feat, AIR.
PeaIy reached the North Pole not in
the performance of any duty imposed
upon him, but by carrying out a self
| imposed task.
If the friends of Mr.. Peary wish to
recognize his service. think it would
be proper to ask Congress TO vote him
a gold medal. Under the legislation
now proposed he would get more pay
than Rear-Admiral Robley d. Evans
and other Admirals of the line
Mr.. Peary endured the hardship
and privations to reach the pole, but so
| did others. Why not make Mat Hen
son Captain in the Navy as a reward
for his services? think the proposed
legislation has been ill-advised, and the
Subcommittee so held
Senator Stephen B. EIkins. of West
Virginia was elected unanimously Pres
| ident of the University Club of Wash
| ington to succeed Charles ID. Walker.
Senator Eikins is a graduate of the
University of Missouri. class of go. He
received his early education in the pub
lie schools of that State. and was ad-
mirted to the bar in 1864. In the same
year he went to New Mexico, where he
learned to speak Spanish like a native
of old CASTLE. and mastered the knowI-
edge of Spanish well.
Washington is to have the highest
wireless telegraph tower in the world.
1t is being erected by the Atlantic Radio
Company, and will rise 200 feet above
the roof of the Evans Building, of this
city, which is itself $50 feet high, MAX
ing the proposed tower $50 feet above
the ground
". c. Pierce, of Chicago. Superin-
| tendent of the International Sunday
school Association, said in an address
| Friday night that next May 81 countries
would be represented at the Sunday
School Convention that will be held in
| this city at that time, and the delegates,
who will represent these 81 countries
will parade the streets.
The United States Senate has been
sorely stricken at this session of Con-
Sress. Two Senators have died. five
have been dangerously ill, but are now
recovering, and one has resigned Sen
ator John w. Daniel, of Virginia, is
under the care of physicians at Palm
| Beach; Senator Alexander S. CLAW. of
Georgia, IS i'll at his home; Senator Geo.
c. Perkins, Of California, was injured
! by severe fall on the ice, bur is SLOWLY
recovering; Senator Bacon. of Georgia.
and Senator Charles A. Culberson. of
ieXas, are both recovering from ex-
tended illness. Those Senators taken
by death we're J. McLauren. Of MissIs-
slppi. and Martin Johnson, of Norlb
Dakota. Senator +. L. Thompson has
resigned, and Senator William Alden
smith has been operated upon for aD-
pendicitls and his condition is serious
These are all good men, and the taking
away of any one of them will be seri-
ously felt in the United States Senate