The National tribune., 1910-07-07

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seems in satisfactory condition" Brig
Gen. Clarence r. Edwards and wife
accompanied the Secretary of War to
the Philippines.
The Warden Of the United States jail
in Washington is winning golden opin.
ions from everybody in the country for
his humane treatment of prisoners I'M
der his care since he became Warden
a little over two years ago. Comrade
Mckee believes in treating every man
like a gentleman whether he is 4 gen.
tleman or a criminal. and it is stated
positively of him that he has never
spoken harshly to a prisoner; in fact.
has never spoken in anything but the
mildest manner since he has been War
| den of the Jail.
| There are some mighty good reasons
why Warden Mckee differs from hum
dreds of other men who are Wardens
of big penitentiaries and jails. and the
best and most prominent reason is that
las he was himself confined for a year
and a half in prison, he knows how 1t
goes and to what horrible indignities,
humiliations and injustices those be-
hind the bars can be submitted.
Warden Thomas H. Mckee served in
the Union army in the early civil war,
a member of a West Virginia regiment
He was captured and incarcerated in
Libbey Prison, remaining there for IS
months and attaining his majority while
a prisoner of the COnfederacy. After
the civil war he went to Indiana, and
was elected Sheriff in charge of the
LOgansport County Jail He was Sher-
iff from 1879 until 1880, and then he
began dabbling in literature. He served
the Republican National Committee in
the capacity of literary editor for IL
years and then began writing books
He is an author of repute. He was a
clerk in the Senate from 1888 Until
1890 and journal clerk of the House
from 1895 until 1903.
Comrade Mckee is a stalwart Of the
stalwarts. He is a devotee of Repub-
lican principles and of the Methodist
Church, and he mixes the two most as
tonishingly whenever he makes
speech, which is not seldom. He is
good talker and a delightful man in
every way, and when he makes spec ch
everyone sits up and takes notice.
The Municipal Court of Washington
has no Flag flying over it. Now, what
do you think of that? The Municipal
Court began its operations in its naw
building more than year ago. The
National emblem is by law required to
float over all Government Buildings,
whether municipal or Federal, in the
District, and the. Municipal Court is the
place where the city judiciary is housed.
The Clerk of the Municipal Court de-
clares that the principal reason for the
Flag not being upon the building is for
lack of funds. He said that for two
months the flagstaff and flag rests have
been on hand, but the Court officials
found it necessary to obtain the permis-
sion of the owners of the building be-
fore they could build the flag platform
and erect the pole. By the time this
permission was received it was neces-
sary to use the appropriation that had
been made for the Flag and flagpole to
buy stationery for the Municipal Court,
and when the permit was obtained the
money had been exhausted. They say
that they will have Flag flying early
in July.
This reminds Mrs. Annie w. Johnson
and Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball of the
time they had in getting fagpoles on
the school houses. Mrs. Johnson, away
back in 1896, was President of the De-
partment of Potomac Womans Relief
Corps, and succeeded in getting a bill
thru Congress giving an appropriation
of $4,000 to buy flags for the school
houses in the District of Columbia, but
the securing of the money and the flags
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nearly year to induce the Comptroller
of the Treasury to construe the law to
read that an appropriation for flags
meant that certain portions of the
money should be used to buy fagpoles
to put on the school houses from which
the flags could fly. He insisted that
flags did not mean flagpoles. Mrs john
son and the other patriotic women of
the Department insisted that the intent
of the law was that the flags should fly
over the school houses, and that they
couldn't fly unless they had poles to fly
from. Hence when Congress appro-
priated the money to fly flags over the
school houses it meant that portion
of that money should be spent for flag
poles. Mrs. Ball, who was Department
Patriotic Instructor at that time, had
not a little trouble with some Of the,
recalcitrant rebel teachers in the schools
of the District, who positively refused
to teach school under the Stars and
Stripes. They were finally convinced
that it would-be a real good thing for
them to submit unless they wanted to
find themselves minus place in the
school, and now the Flag calmly floats
over every school house in the District
of Columbia during the school year.
When Mrs. Johnson and Mrs Ball COM
menced their labors in this respect
there were but three or four school
houses in the District that had flags.
Senator McEnery Dead.
All Washington, and particularly his
colleagues in the United States Senate,
were startled last Wednesday morning
to learn Of the death of Senator Nc
Emery, of Louisiana. Senator McEnery
had gone to his home in New Orleans
after the closing of Congress seeming to
be in excellent health, altho a little