The National tribune., 1910-02-03
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returned to the United States Senate
by vote of the Legislature of Virginia.
| Everybody knew he would be. IN the
Democratic Party he is probably the
noblest Roman of them all. gentleman
ly and the very essence of the old style
of Southern gentleman, and Virginia
would certainly not think of turning
him down while he is able to get to the
National Capital.
Mrs. Taft. wife of the President. by
the provisions of the will of her sister
in-law, the wife of Horace Taft, of
Watertown, Conn.,, has fallen heir to
81. zoe. The money is said to represent
property in Niagara County which Mrs
Tafts sisterin-law inherited from her
mother.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
has withdrawn from entry an immense
tract of land in California, which agents
of the Department have reported con-
tains oil The land, approximately 15O,-
600 acres, will remain withdrawn pend
ing such action as Congress may see fit
to enact with regard to its sale and
disposal. The Secretary also has with
drawn about $4,000 acres of land in
Utah, Oregon and Idaho. which, it is
believed, contain valuable Water-poWer
sites.
/ A question having been raised con-
cerning the right to transmit labels for
seed packages thru the mails under
Congressional frank. the law officer OF
the Post Office Department has ruled
that such labels are not public docu-
ments within the meaning of the law,
and that therefore they cannot be
mailed free of charge.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands will not report favorably the bill
prepared by Secretary Ballinger au-
thoriZing the Secretary of the Interior
to make Withdrawals of public lands in
his discretion. The objection to the
bill is that the power is already lodged
in the President, in the opinion cf the
committee and u majority of his col
leagues.
When the committee assembled to
consider the Ballirger bill, eX-Secretary
of the Interior James r. Garfield ap
peared and requested brief hearing.
He declared that the Ballinger bill was
unnecessary, because the power already
existed in the President, and had been
exercised by President Roosevelt.
Both Senator Nelson and eX-Secretary
Garfield took the view that it was wiser
to adhere to the view that the power
existed in the President than to raise a
question as to legality of past with
drawals.
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. the now ven
cradle widow of Gen. Stonewall Jack
son, was one of the dinner guests al
the White House when the President
and Mrs. Taft entertained the Supreme
Court Justices last Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Jackson is the guest of Mrs. l.. Il.
Letter.
Uniform State laws to govern the in
spection of all food intended FOR do
mestic animals is being urged by SecYe-
tary Wilson. He declares the pure
food law covers animal as well as hu-
man food. and is sufficiently elastic in
its terms to cover every question which
arises.
There is on display in the windows
of one of the great dry goods stores in
Washington "a pairs of tiny shoes, cx-
act counterparts of those made for little
Crown Princess Juliana. of Holland.
Queen Wilhelmina supplied the mate
rial for the shoes herself, and these
materials include one pair made of the
brocaded satin which was part of the
Queens wedding dress. There is one
pair of cloth of gold and another of
cloth of silver and the brocaded satin
with which these shoes are lined is
valued at 500 a yard. One pair Of
the little boots is an exact miniature Of
a woman's carriage boots, being made
of satin trimmed in ecru and mauve.
with a border of pure white fur and
with white SATIN bows. Each Style Of
shoe, whether It was boot or anlSlet,
was made in three colors, white, pink
and blue. The shoes were rlade in
RrocktOn, Mass. and it is said that they
are the first shoes to be sent to Europe
made for right and left foot, and this
necessitated the making of special lasts
for each pair.
After hearing all about the deadly
effect of the ''best shot" we now learn
from w. N McMillen, who was with
former President Roosevelt in East
Africa, that Mr.. Roosevelt is not, after
ALL dead shot Mr.. McMillen has