The National tribune., 1910-03-17

United States Senator John w. Dan
lei, of Virginia, who has been in Flor
ida for his health, had slight stroke
OF paralysis last Wednesday while at
Daytona While his condition is not
considered serious il is feared that be-
cause of his advanced age there Will
now always be a possibility OF a second
stroke. Virginia cannot easily spare
Senator Daniel. He belongs to that
rare old school of Southern gentlemen
and statesmen now fast becoming un-
known.
Runaway marriages seem to be the
fashion in the Knox family. Reid knox,
the older son, ran away couple OF
years ago and married very charming
society girl, and their only excuse was
that they didn't want any fuss and
feathers about it. Philander Knox, Jr,
the younger son of Secretary Knox,
who has been in school, ran away the
other day and married a young lady in
Providence, r. l. Young Knox is only
about 10 years of age, has not finished
his education, and is not at all bril-
liant, but seems to be a pretty rugged
sort. of a kid HIS wife is younger
than he is, and there is faint sugges-
ton to the minds of many that the
mother of the young lady aided and
abetted her daughter in marrying the
son of the Secretary of State because
of the social countenance that 1t would
give the mother-in-law. If this was
the case, her hopes were frustrated, be-
cause when young Knox and his bride
arrived in Washington to make their
peace with Secretary and Mrs. Knox
the Secretary calmly heard the red
hesded youngsters plea for pardon,
told him it was all right, and then said
that he could now get out and dig for
himself. There was no row ana no
controversy at all. The Knoxes did not
see Mrs. Knox, Jr., and positively de-
clined to see her, and she and her
young husband and the young hus-
bands mother-in-law, very talkatiVe
lady. Mrs. Daniel Geary. left Washing
ton rather down in the mouth. The
nother-in-law is credited with saying
that she considers Secretary Knox
somewhat of a snob, and that her
daughter is just as good as they are;
that the two are very much in love
with each other. and that that will
cover a multitude of sins. AS Philan-
der Knox, Jr-, only has about slO0
month, with no hope of help from his
distinguished father, he will simply get
out and hustle for living. He says
he can do it, and if he has his fathers
old Puritan spirit he certainly can.
Meanwhile no society distinction for
Mrs. Daniel Geary or Mrs. Knox, Jr.
The Senate has passed a bill author
fling the erection of monument over
the grave of Brig.-Gen. James Shields
in ST Mary's Cemetery at Carrollton,
Mo. Illinois has already honored Gen.
Shields by placing a bronze statue of
him as one of her representatives in
the Hall of HORRORS" doing this quite
number of years ago.
Secretary Meyer sent to Congress the
other day a report on the prices paid
for foods for the Navy in various for
eign and domestic ports during 1903,
and the returns show that food is
cheaper all the way thru in China than
in any other country on earth. Fresh
beef is only four and five cents a pound
in Chefoo, altho ice at that point costs
60 cents per 100 pounds.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
made public general shift in the COM
mands at the Navy Yards. Rear-Ad-
rniraI Joseph B. Murdock. Commandant
of the New York Yard, was ordered to
the Atlantic fleet as a Division Com
mander Rear-AdmiraI Eugene H. c.
Leutz, COmmandaft of the Washington
Navy Yard, will be transferred to New
York Capt F. E. Beatty will relieve
Admiral Leutz as Commandant of the
Washington Navy Yard.
The Embassy bill is dead. The Presi-
dent VIII have TO continue to hunt for
extremely wealthy men to send abroad
TO represent US in the Court of st.
James at Berlin, Paris, Madrid and
other foreign points. Our Embassa-
dors and Ministers abroad are obliged
TO support the dignity of the country,
and they have got to do 1t out OF their
own pockets. The biggest salary Of an
ambassador is only about S17 500, and
that will not pay the rent of the En-
bassy in any Of the cities named. We
may talk about 1t as much as we please.
but certain things have always to be
done for the effects they produce. The
French people love show. and they
Judge Nations by the bold front they
put up. If one Of our ambassadors
would go to France and take house
et $4,000 year, he wouldn't be knee
high TO a grasshopper in political and
social circles in the French Capital.
where we So much need just the kind
Of position that money will buy. The
United States is following the very same
custom abroad that 1t does at home.
It pays out hundreds of thousands of
dollars every year here in Washington,
and has some OF its Departments scat
tered around in various buildings in
wtdely-apart sections OF the city. The
proper thing to do would be to build
handsome structures in which the Gov
ernment work can be done, and five
times enough rent has been paid out
now to have Pennsylvania avenue lined
with white marble buildings for the big
Departments OF the Government, and
the same state of affairs exists abroad
our ambassadors paying their own rent,
A bill authorizing the use OF Govern
rnent tents by the veterans who will
attend the Confederate Reunion at Mo
bile, Ala, April 26-2s passed the House
last Wednesday, and there was not q
single dissenting vote. 1t was on this
bill that Senator Hepburn, of Idaho
made his splendid patriotic speech in
opposition to loaning Government tents
to house those who are enemies to the
Flag to-day exactly as they were from
81 TO 'G5. His principal objection to
the loan of these tents was that the
Flag of the defunct Confederacy would
be flung to the breeze above them
which, in his opinion, would be little
short of treason. There are a whole
lot of members of the House who are
going to have to answer for their con
spicuous silence when the bill wa
brought up for consideration. The.
can't all dodge the questions of thei
constituents by saying that they wer
not in when the bill was passed, becaus
there was full house.
Representative Hobson, of labama