The National tribune., 1910-01-20


countries.
Former Queen Liliuokalani. of Ha-
waii accompanied by a party of rcla-
tives and friends. has arrived in Wash
ington. They have taken quarters at a
motel with the intention of remaining
several weeks.
The one central purpose of the Ha-
waiian visitors is to promote a better
understanding in the United States of
the needs of the island possession and
to encourage immigration from the
United States to Hawaii
Gen. ]. Franklin Bell, Chief of Staff
of the United States Army, is in pretty
bad shape to start for his duties in the
Philippines to take charge of the Unit
ed States troops there. He was in
| Baltimore last week to consult with
some eminent physicians at the Johns
| Hopkins Hospital, and later went to
New York City on the same errand.
The trouble from which Gen. Bell is
suffering seems to be acute indigestion,
and is not thought to be serious. At
the same time there may be serious
phase to it, with whispered sugges-
ton that the General may be suffering
from cancer of the stomach.
South Carolina has sent as one of her
representatives in the Hall of Horrors
an heroic statue of John c. Calhoun.
Senator Tillman has secured the prom
Use of the Senate to have the dedica-
| ton ceremony and acceptance OF the
statue on March u.
| Senator Root, of New York, has in
! troduced a bill in the Senate granting
a pension of $4,000 a year to Mrs
Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of the
| late President Cleveland. This is in
accordance with the law, all surviving
wives of Presidents being treated alike
in this matter, in the Introduction of
special bills for this specified sum. The
fact that none of them have ever need
ed the $1,000 cuts no ice. Mrs. Cleve-
land is probably one of the richest
widows of a President. 1t is well known
that Mr.. Cleveland made a big fortune
while he was President, and it is also
well known that the Clevelands never
spent any of it to speak of in enter
tanning while they occupied the White
House.
Creighton NJ. Foraker, brother of
| former Senator Foraker, has been ap-
| pointed United States Marshal of New
Mexico.
Secretary of War Dickinson, who has
been down in Cuba and Porto Rico
having a fine time, at a breakfast Civ
en- at the plantation of Ramon Pelayo,
made a remark that is being much
commented upon. Secretary Dickinson
is reported to have said to Signor Pc
layo, who is prominent Democrat of
Cuba, that after President Taft had
served second term Signor Pelayo had
better come to the United States and
help him Dickinson) to elect Demo-
cratic President; which rather startles
one coming from the lips of a member
Of Republican Cabinet.
President and Mrs. Taft have been
attending grand opera quite assiduous-
ly the last week. Mrs. Tafts physical
condition is such that she is unable to
take up any social duties whatever, and
$50 spends much of her time at the
theaters and attends all the symphony
concerts, besides taking long rides and
walks with the President. on Wednes-
day morning, under the leadership of
Mr.. Lyle de Andrews, General Manager
of the Manhattan Opera Company, all
the singers by special invitation made
a call upon the President. They were
greeted with every courtesy and were
posed on the east steps of the White
House for a group photograph, the
White House being the background.
Senator Julius Burrows, of Michigan.
has introduced into the Senate bill
asking for an appropriation of $4,000
to erect a monument in Arlington in
honor of the officers and enlisted men
who lost their lives thru exposure and
starvation while serving with the
American Arctic expedition from 1881
to 1884.
The officers whose memory it is de-
sired to be thus honored are DR.. Oc-
tave Pavy, Lieut.. James y. Lockwood
and Lieut.. Fred T. Kislingbu-y. There
are 13 nOncOmmissioned officers and
enlisted men named in the bill.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. p. Taft and their
daughter Louise. who have been guests
at the White House for a few days,
have returned to their home in New
York. Mrs. Anderson, sister of Mrs.
Taft, will remain at the White House
until the return of her other sister,
Mrs. More.
In the absence of the Vice President
one day last week Senator Root was
occupying the chair. While Senator
Root may know a great deal about di-
plomacy and international affairs of
one kind and another, what he doesn't
know about the way of doing business
in the United States Senate would
probably fill fair-sized pamphlet. He
got so obstreperous once or twice that
Senator Hale, of Maine, who is one of
the most punctilious men in the United
States Senate, fairly split the air in a
hurry trip to the Vice Presidents chair
to tell him how and when to do things.
| If Senator Root comprehended his in
Istructions, he gave no sign, for he went
right on doing things as he wanted to,
without regard to precedents. and you
| know when you crack precedent in the
Senate you are mighty nearly doing
murder.
| Mrs. Lucy Park Willard, widow of
the late C. c. Willard, died at her home
| in Washington last week. Mrs. Will
her property which is estimated to be
worth about $3,000,000. Two children,
a married daughter and son, are the
sole heirs to this vast wealth
BY fire in the old Exposition Grounds
| in Norfolk the other day the replica of
| the home in Mississippi of jefferson
| Davis. President of the defunct Con-
| federacy, was burned. This building
was Mississippi's offering to the EXPOSE
tion at Norfolk, and veterans have
complained of more distinct and delib-
crate insults received under the roof
of this building, which was erected by
the Daughters of the Confederacy, than
any other place in the South. During
the Exposition period the house was
ldraped inside and out with Confederate
flags, and the Grand Army badge met
with mighty little Southern hoSn;taIi