The National tribune., 1910-05-19

Former President Roosevelt has been
having great time in spite of several
drawbacks in his plans. From the
Danes he received two magnificent low
ing cups one bearing the Danish coat
of-armS and the other the coat-of-arms
of the United States. He also received
four plaques from the Royal Porcelain
Works. upon which were pictured sew
erai wild beasts. The manager, when
presenting the plaques. said that the
pictures were of wild beasts of Afri-
ca" Mr. Roosevelt accepted the plaques
with few gracious remarks, and While
examining the figure of an elephant
looked up suddenly and said in his
quick, incisive manner, This is not an
African elephant" and the manager re-
piled suavely: No; these plates We're
made especially, as we have no study
of African elephants and so used an
Asiatic." The incident caused laughter,
and Mr.. Roosevelt remarked: Il am
glad to have all kinds of elephants"
Among the very interesting trips that
Roosevelt made was an automobile
drive TO the ancient castle of Frederiks-
borg. which was built by Frederik II.
The main portion of the original struc-
ture has been replaced, and six Danish
Kings have been crowned in the Castle
Church. From there the automobile
trip was taken up to Helsingoer, and
tHS party visited ElSlnOre. the assumed
scene of Shakspere's Hamlet" and
and where Copenhagen antiquarians say
recent researches have established that
Shakspere and his company of actors
actually performed the tragedy at the
castle. Col. Roosevelt walked the ram
parts. where, according to the play, the
ghost appeared.
In fact, the former President is being
greeted with almost royal honors wher-
ever he goes. and we may be sure that
he will do US credit.
A delegation of Usage Indians, Of
Oklahoma, the richest tribal nation on
earth, arrived in Washington recently
to protest against any effort to reopen
the enrolment of their tribe. There
are several measures before Congress
with this purpose in view. and the red
men will register their objections to the
Senate and House committees.
There is something positively tragic
In the manner in which the United
States Government is discussing in the
public print the cost of a burial trip
for one of its high officials. When Jus
tiee Peckham was carried to his last
rest at Albany the round-trip expenses,
including the parfor car. dining car
commissary supplies, hotel bills and
carriages. porters, baggage. tips and
taxicabs, amounted to 81, 448.94, which
in all conscience is cheap enough" But
when the voucher for this expense was
turned in Caleb r. Lincoln, who hales
from Delaware and is Auditor for the
Treasury of the State Department had
the audacity to turn the bill down As
a matter of fact, there ought to be some
provision made whereby expenses of
this character might be betrayed with
out their being made public in this
fashion And for anybody to kick on
expenses incurred by and certified to by
the members of the Supreme Court of
the United States is SO ludicrous as to
become tragieal. Be it said to the credit
of the Comptroller of the Currency the
bill was by him ordered paid.
Not many people know that Dolliver
the eloquent. the Senator from Iowa in
the United States Senate, and who is as
big and brawny of body as he is of
brain, was born in West Virginia
When the statue of Pierpont, the
Union War Governor of Virginia was
accepted by Congress last week Senator
Dolliyer was one of the orators. He is
intimately acquainted with the State
and all its traditions. and with many
OF its people. His father known as
Father Dollivery' was for 40 years a
Methodist circuit rider in the mountains
or West Virginia, and went the round
pf his circuit on horseback, in the old
fashioned way. for years before the
civil war and thru the period of that
great struggle
Father Dolliyer. who was one of
the most eloquent preachers of his time.
preached against slavery In the regions
where slaves abounded and preached
death to strong drink in the regions
where the distilleries were The result
was that he was oftentimes in peril of
MS HE; but. being man of great phys.
1csi strength, as well as spiritual, he
was always able to ward off his enemies.
Father" Doiliver and Pierpont were
great friends Many a night my faith
er mas gone to sleep at Pierpont's house
after joining in family prayers" said
Senator Dolliver
InGer the circumstances when Sem
ator Dolliver talked to the Senate about
Pterpont as one of the saints of God.
when he quoted from the words of the
psaImlst. when he recited the tradition
a! differences between West Virginia
and the old Dominion, reaching back
long before the days of the war. and
when he paid a tribute to the mountain
eers of West Virginia. he was speaking
OF things which the early experiences
of his boyhood had served to bring
close to his heart
Just now Congress is talking about
Representative Fowler, who doesn't
like Speaker Cannon because Speaker
Cannon deposed him from the Commit
tee on Barking and Currency, for which
he became an insurgeat of Insurgents
now holds the record for long spsecbes
in Congress He made speech on the
currency the other day which spreads
over 40 pages of the Congressional Rec
ord, was filled with statistics, and is a
book In itself.
Representative n. ID. Speery. of the
Second Connecticut District, and the
Oldest member of the National House
; OF Representatives, was very painfully
hurt one day last week He was get
{ ting on street car near the Capitol,
and the ear started before he secured a
hrm footing. and he sustained some
very severe bruises, but was able to
4 take another car to his apartments in
: the buckingham. He was not severely
/ injured, but badly shaken up He is SO
years OF age. tail and angular, and his
bones and muscles not being very we'll
cushioned with flesh are easily hurt
The Presidents personal Secret Ser
vice Bureau is costing quite good deal.
The sum that was appropriated to last
for year is reported by Chief Wilkie,
of the Secret Service. to be almost gone
now. and less than six months has
passed. The estimate of Chief Wilkie
! for the next six months leads to the
assertion that 1t will take $4,000 more
year to guard the President. The in
VeStlSation of the sugar customs frauds