The National tribune., 1910-03-03

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until they have ralsed the 100000 pen
nies necessary rs If
Bellamy Storer. former Embassador
| to Austria, gave q lecture ut the Catho-
lie University on Washington the
tChristian," on W,aShington's Birthday.
| 1t will be remembered that the Storers
Il the RooseveTts. the Pope and several
other distinguished personages got very
much mixed up during the Roosevelt
| Administration when Mr.. and Mrs.
Storer. converted to the Roman Catro-
| lie faith, undertook to engineer the
President of the lUnitedu States into
Catholic preserves. D..
Representative Charles Scott, of Kan
sas. interposed an objection in the
House to the Government lending Army
tents for the Confederate Veteran Re-
union at Mobile in April. when the
measure following favorable action up
on it by the House Committee on Mill
tary Affairs reached the unanimous
consent calendar. When ii was called
up under unanimous consent Mr.
Scott arose in his place, and said that
his constituents were dead against such
a loan, and as their Representative he
must object, and proposes to continue
TO object to this loan. He said he had
been besieged with letters and petit
tions from the veterans of Kansas to
speak and vote against this measure.
and that it would not beseem him to
disobey the instructions of the veterans
The country is to be saved from the
fire-eater, former Gov. James X. Varda-
man, of Mississippi. For So ballots this
man Vardaman held up the Mississippi
Legislature in a vain struggle to be
elected United States Senator The
struggle has gone on for seven weeks.
Vardaman was considered d leader in
the start, but his votes fell away, and
Leroy Percy. of Greenville, a lawyer
and a planter, was elected to succeed
the late Senator A. ]. McLauren and
serve during the three years of his un-
expired term. 1t is not probable that
there lives to-day man who is more
interruptions in his use of the English
language than former Gov. Vardaman.
The man who finally defeated him is a
native of Mississippi. born Nov. 9, 1861
He was graduated from the University
Of the South and from the law depart
ment of the University of Virginia, and
took post graduate course at Prince
ton University. He then returned to
Greenville and engaged in the practice
of the law in connection with the man.
agement of extensive land interests.
Since early manhood he has taken an
active part in the political affairs of his
State. MIR. Percy bears the stamp of a
gentleman.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes found
himself in somewhat of a dilemma the
ether day in a decision in the United
states Supreme Court, of which he is
one of the Justices. The decision was
upon the constitutionality of the cor
poration tax provisions of the Aldrich-
Payne tariff law. The corporation
known as ''the Fifty Associates has
been brought into the United States
Supreme Court by one Of its stockhoid-
ers, and it developed that Mrs. Holmes,
wife of Justice Holmes, inherited one
share of stock in, this corporation and
now holds it. II is thought that under
the law this would disqualify Justice
Holmes from participation1i the deci-
sion of the United States Supreme
Court upon this matter. At the present
cary for all of the other Justices to sit
in cases of such extreme importance as
this one, and Justice Holmes very
promptly declared that he could
not and would not Sit in Judgment while
this case was being tried. He had tried
10 Tree hlmself from all business con-
Germs which might have come up in
the Court, and he stated that he had
done so until this unexpected thing
turned up. 1t is probable that the
hearing will be halted until Mrs.
Holmes can sell this share of stock. The
Fifty Associates is one of the few Mas
Sachusetts corporations chartered to
buy and sell real estate. 1t was first
chartered in 1920, just 90 years ago
Feb. 90, in connection with n museum,
but Few years later its powers were
extended by special act of the Legisla-
ture.