The National tribune., 1910-03-03

wedding took place in st. Patrick's
cathedral. in New York City. and was
one of the most splendid ever held in
that historic structure.
DIR. Harvey W. Wiley was one of the
guests of honor at the banquet of the
United States College of Veterinary
Surgeons at Rauscher's the other night
and was one of the speakers. OF course,
what DR.. Wiley does not know about
pure food would make very small
book, but nobody suspected that there
were frauds perpetrated upon the
equine world as well as upon the hu-
man. DIR. Wiley, however, states that
the National Government is looking
into the adulteration of food products
for horses. He said that specific in
stances of fraud in the preparation OF
food for cattle and horses had been
filed, and that this action is taken on
the part of the Government as much to
protect stock from bad food as to save
the owners losses.
Since the controversy over the desire
of Senator Hale to have Peary honored
| by retirement as a Rear-Admiral and
| the statement by the Navy Depart
ment that he, Mr.. Peary has no utle,
| il is quite remarkable to see the change
| in the newspapers who have been can.
| ing him Admiral Commander,
| Captain" and Lieutenant" They have
| all finally got il down to the right place,
| and he is Just plain Mr.. Peary,' as The
National Tribune has been stating ever
since all this controversy over the North
Pole arose. Congress has about con-
| cluded that as the National Geographic
Society is the only one that has passed
upon the Peary records, before it pro-
ceeds TO adopt any one of some ~
measures that have been introduced in
Congress for Peary's relief it will be the
wisest plan to have the Peary records
examined by some of the National so
cieties before Congress shall move any
further in the matter. 1t is also Sug-
gested that a committee to pass on the
whole thing be appointed.
Rear-AdmiraI Melville. L. S. N, re-
tired; Rear-Admiral Schley, L. S. N,
retired, and Gen. Greely, Z. s. Army,
retired, all of whom were rewarded by
the United States Government for dis
tingushed services in connection with
Arctic exploration, probably will be Sc
lected by the House Committee on Ma
val Affairs as a Board to pass upon Civil
Engineer Peary's proofs that he reached
the North Pole.
Friends of Mr.. Peary on the commit
tee say he would welcome the appoint
and observations. In this connection it
is pointed out that while Admiral Mel
Vile has been very much pro-Peary
from the start, with Admiral Schley an
original indorser of Cook, that Gen.
Greeiy has kept almost entirely out of
the controversy.
The miserable wretch. Charles A.
Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield,
is again called to our reluctant minds
by the death in Denver last week of the
woman who is believed to have been
his divorced wife. She went under the
name of Mrs. Mena Govan. and kept a
restaurant in which she made a great
deal of money and was very popular.
She never would talk of Guiteau, but
when accused of having been his wife
she would only say: Il have nothing to
say" She fell on a stairway and frac-
| tured her skull, from which she died.
| Washington's Birthday, so far as Con-
gress in concerned, did not amount IC