Connecticut western news., 1910-06-16

ment and from Secretary Wilson's agriculturists and bugologists to the l patent office squad, the hours were to be from S:30 to 5, with thirty minutes for lunch. The prospect of that much | labor is enough to give the average government clerk nervous prostration.
 The fight over the proposed national health department has been enlivened | by sundry and vOciferous charges concerning a doctors trust" Accord ing to the opponents of the measure, there is somebody who wants to get an official strangle hold on all the doc toring in the country. The schools of medicine not embraced under the term regular" together with the mental heaIers and other cults that shy at the materia medica, object that this would be class legislation in favor of a close corporation and against the spirit of liberty. Because of these attacks and the lateness of the session it is doubt ful if the bill becomes a law.
 Following the story of Colonel Roose- velt's letter and invitation to Hamilton Fish and other reports connecting the name of the former president with the insurgent cause, the decision of twen- ty progressive members of the house to attend the Roosevelt reception in New York has been. regarded as sig nificant in some quarters. although in- surgents will not be alone in trooping to the metropolis on the 18th of June. As a matter of fact, Washington will look like Goldsmith's deserted village the day that Teddy comes marching home.
 A movement is on foot in Washing ton to organize a Lincoln memorial association whose object will be the erection of a Lincoln shaft in the na- tional capital that will be companion piece to the Washington monument. Among those prominent in the effort are Senators Elkins and Gallinger. Thomas Nelson Page and Representa- tive Mccall. The design is to raise national fund of $5,0O0.O00 from sub scriptions or otherwise. after which congress can be appealed to with some certainty of results.
 Since the days of Lamont, Cortelyou and Loeb the secretary to the presi- dent has been a big figure in the press dispatches. Not only does he give out most of the newspaper reports from the White House, but he is in a sense an assistant president" relieving his chief of the detail and at least in the case of Loeb serving as the admins tration goat. In way the presidents secretary is a tenth cabinet officer Charles D. Norton, the latest man for the place, is rather new in Washing ton, having been assistant secretary of the treasury only year, prior to which service he was connected with the banking business in Chicago. Mir. Nor ton Is about thirty-eight years old, is an ardent administration man and pop ular. It was announced that the for mer secretary, Fred W. Carpenter, who resigned rather unexpectedly, quit on account of his health. and the presi dent appointed him minister to Moroc- co because of it's salubrious climate. Some inquisitive persons have wonder ed if the premature denial of the Law Ter note affected the case.
 The poor muckraker gets it from all sides. Not, only does the blind chap lain of the house pray against him and the speaker say words concerning him that might sound like prayers if prop erly transposed, but the president takes fall out of him at college com mencements, and the postmaster gen. eral proposes to raise postage rates on the magazines that print his stuff. MT. Taft in his references is optimistic. as usual. He thinks the muckraker will pass. Perhaps he will. and it is to be hoped that the muck will do likewise.
 The latter part of June General Clar- ence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, is going to the Phil ippines to inspect the governmental machinery of the islands. That settles it. Whether congress adjourns or not.