The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

| OOJI uvAVt1INOIOU 66s i6sn ] Washington, Oct. 26.-In accordance
 with the usual custom of states, when a United States ,battleship is named after their commonwealth, the people lof Florida are going to present the officers of the new dreadnaught with a silver service. The Navy Depart ment has appointed Rear Admiral Lu- cien Young to receive the service at Pensacola, Florida, on December lS, 1 next.
 | Washington, Oct. 26.-News of the
 death of one of President Lincoln's appointees to office in the diplomatic service was received at the State De- pertinent the other day. The former official was Hermann Kreismann or Chicago, H., who died at Hertenstein, Switzerland last month. Official tri- butes marked the occasion of his bur- ial.
 MT. Kreismann was made the first American consul to be stationed in Berlin by President Lincoln in 1865. He and Lincoln had been bosom friends for many years.
 Though Mir. Kreismann retired from the consulan service in 1874, he re- mained in Berlin, though continuing his American citizenship. qIe be- came one of the foremost figures in the establishment and management of the street car system of Berlin, and was also the first president of the American Association of Commerce and Trade in Berlin.
 Washington, Oct. 26.-Ever alert to the garnering of the gold Washing
 ton has evolved a new idea to swell it's revenue A movement has been started to make weeks holiday of the Presidential inauguration, with proper side attractions before and af- 1 ter the great event. Optimists lead ing the movement figure that half a million sight-seers would be 1ured to
 the National Capitol. On this basis it can readily be seen that an expen- Editure of even three dollars day by this mass of visitors would fatten the
 coffers of the hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, street railroads and possibly the saloons, with skadS and skads of money.
 The latter has been brought to the attention of the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the Feder- ation of Citizens Associations. An eff fort will be made to interest Presi- dent Taft and procure his aid in the interprise
 They propose to call the annex to the inauguration a patriotic celebra- tion but there arex also to be Mard Gras features that will coax the dimes and quarters from the Arural guard. Fireworks, military parades and pa trfotic processions made up of allegor- fcal and historical floats are among the allurements in contemplation. With the endorsements of the organ izations named it is designed to press the matter in Congress.
 An argument advanced in support of 10 {or,f a a TIT ditions Washington is placed at the mercy of the weather of a single day. It is contended, that this risk keeps many persons from coming to the in augurations but if they were assured of full week of festivities their num-
 Der would beeincreased many fold. A
 washington, Oct 26-One of the
 most yexations problems confronted in
 the United States army is how to
 stop the practice of soldiers selling or otherwise disposing of their cloth ing, according to Brigadier General
 Crowder, Judge Advocate General, who
 has discussed the question in his an-
 nual report, just made public.
 There were last year more than 200 trials for this spffense alone in the ar
 my. It is most prevalent in the Phil
 ippines, here there are men who make regular practice of buying the heavy
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 from the States.
 To meet the problem. the army ad-
 vocated successfully the passage of a
 law making it unlawful to buy, or re-
 ceive in pledge from soldiers, clothing
 and equipment which rightfully be-
 longed to the United States govern
 ment. Under this law there have
 been several convictions, carrying with
 them fines and short jail sentences.
 This has not alleviated the trouble
 in the Philippines, however, as the
 Philippine commission held that the
 law was not applicable in insular ter
 ritory.
 Washington, Oct. 26-A printed card
 setting forth ceneisely the effect of the
 reapportionment of Congress, made at
 the special session, on the political ma chinery of the government has been
 issued from the offices of the Repuh-
 lican National Committee. Congress
 increased the number of members of
 the House from 391 to 433 This will cause an increase of 42 in the electoral college making the membership of that
 body 525. It will fix the number of delegates to the national conventions
 at 1,O64. If Arizona and New Mexico
 are admitted to statehood, as they
 probably will be, the members of the
 electoral college will be increased to
 521 and the delegates to conventions to 1,072.