The Montgomery tribune., 1910-05-06
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Inauguration Of the Bureau Of Re-
publics. Nelson A. Miles Hurt.
The High Cost Of Food
Investigation.

Washington, d. G. April23. 1910.
There Is always matter of inter
est ut great capital, and there is
only one great capital in this hem
ispnere-great not in population,
but great in the influence of the
only first-class power on the west
ern half of the planet. Ottawa,
the city of Mexico, Rio Janiero
and Buenos Ayres are all capitals
of local influence and abounding
prosperity, but their influence is
not like that of the country of
which Washington is the capital,
OF world wide permeation. Dur
ing.th week that is now closing
there was an Inauguration of the
Bureau of American Republics in
Washington. 1t seems only yes
terday, although 1t was two years
ago, that the elite of Washington
assembled to see the corner stone
laid by President Roosevelt in the
presence of Andrew Carnegie, who
gave three-quarters of million
for the beautiful marble building
which faces the White House Park
on 18th street. The President on
this occasion spoke of the friendly
relations which existed between
the United States and all the
South American republics-not a
monarchy among them, at least
not In name, although the Presi-
dent was too shrewd to make this
cynical qualification which might
have pinched the toes of both
Mexico and Venezuela, sad per-
hsps others. Well, ut any rate,
the completed building now stands
where President Roosevelt care
fully spread some mortar on the
corner stone, and its completion
was celebrated by speeches from
President Taft, Andrew Carnegie
and Senator Root, who has done
more than any other man to
cement the kindly feeling which
now exists between our older and
our younger sisters of the South.
There will be horse fair in
Washington this week, and Pott :
mac Park south of the White
House, where it is expected the
International Exposition celebrat-
ing the completion of the Panama
Canal will be situated, is gay these
fine afternoons with equestrians of
both sexes, with hundreds of
automobiles, a few carriages. the
Marine Band aud the frequent ap-
pearance of the President AN Mrs.
Taft. In no place in the country
this season of the year can be seen
a greater number of distinguished
people, Senators and Members of
Congress, cabinet m mist RS,
ambassadors. representatives in
the official corps of both the army
and Navy. The ex-General in
Chief of the Army, Gen. Nelson A..
Miles, yesterday met with a severe
accident while riding in this park.
He was thrown from his horse and
seriously injured, sustaining a
concussion of the brain, and hav-
4 ing two ribs fractured, his shoulder
wrenched, with minor bruises and
cuts about the head and body,
The accident occurred about dusk
and was precipicated by the rush
of automobiles and motorcycles
and the blair of the Marine Band
Gen. Miles Is seyenty-one years
old and very much disposed to re-
joice in his pristine strength. This
is not the first time he has beer
unseated in public. 1t was at the
!. second Inauguration of Roosevelt,
or was it the funeral of Mckinley
! that his horse reared at the Capito
: and threw him to the ground. o.
that occasion he was up again an.
quickly mounted. A short time
after that he rods In the West 1
: hundred miles in one day. Potoma'
Park has broad. oiled roads fol
automobiles and carriages ans