The National tribune., 1911-02-16

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
State. Senator Cullom is several rungs
of the ladder above Senator Bailey. and
his compeers in the United States Sem
ate think more of Senator Cullom and
his inconruptible integrity in one min
ute than they will for Senator Bailey,
of Texas. If he stays in the United
States Senate thousand years. Sem
ator Cullom, when informed that Sem
ator Bailey had been attacking his
election in the United States Senate
went after Senator Bailey and proceed
ed to roast him to nice golden brown,
and to hear how he stood up for old
Illinois was sure joy to anybody either
born there or who owns it as an adopt
ed State. Senator Cullom said in part:
Senators have expressed great con-
Germ over the integrity and honor of
Illinois Probably 1 have its integrity
and honor at heart to greater degree
than any Senator in this body. In my
judgment, the State of Illinois needs no
defense. Its people, as whole, are as
honest and honorable as the people of
any other State in the Union. That
corruption has existed on the part of
certain members of the Legislature
should not affect the honor and in
tegrity of the whole State and besmirch
its fair name turnout the Nation. If
Illinois is to be condemned on account
of corruption in it's Legislature. there
are few of the great States in the Union
not subject to similar condemnation.
MY record in public life for the past
so years will show that l have always
denounced corruption. and l do not
hesitate to say now that anyone guilty
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ture of Illinois or elsewhere, should be
prosecuted and punished to the full ex-
tent of the law, but it is manifestly
unfair and unjust to hold up the State
to scorn before the Nation on account
of the wrongdoing of comparatively few
of its public officials.
II am not here to apologize for Illi-
nois. 1 take great pride in representing
it in this body, and 1 consider that it's
people have honored me by electing me
for five successive terms to greater
degree than an election to the highest
office within the gift of the Nation"
And when Senator Cullom had con-
cluded his speech, altho it is unprece-
denied in the United States Senate,
there was sure more than ripple of
applause.
All Washington was shocked the
w
per, a noted club woman, dropped dead
of heart disease in a street car. Mrs.
Pepper, who was the wife of Charles
M. Pepper, author, journalist and men,
Der of the Canadian Reciprocity Com
was President of the District
of Women's Clubs and
a member of a large number of musical
and artistic clubs. She was very active
in politics and in every endeavor for
the betterment of women, and was a
woman of more than ordinary ability.
She leaves a husband and a daughter.
Miss Nora Pepper. who has just been
introduced into society.
Charles A. Cottrill, the Ohio colored
man who was appointed last December
to be Collector of Internal Revenue for
the District of Hawaii, has been con-
firmed by the United States Senate. and
the charges made in a protest against
the appointment were investigated and
disproved.
Mrs. Taft divided her spare nights
prosecutions of Sothern and
Marlowe. Both the President and Mrs
Taft are inveterate theatergoers. and
hey always reserve one night a week
FOR the theater. Mrs. Taft was par
interested in the presentation |
If Hamlet" and was generous in her |
applause.
Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. |
j. s. N, retired. went thru the civil |
var, then thru the Spanish war, with |
he distinguished honor of shooting the |
laylights out of Cevera's squadron, to |
inally just about killing himself in "a |
.errible fall on the icy pavement. He |
vas on his way down town, when |
a ic Ch xNbt a
bit Of ice-covered pavement, |
and he fell heavily, breaking two ribs |
and severing others, with internal in |
uries. 1t is not thought that he is Sc
'iously injured, and his physician gays |
hat unless unforeseen developments ap- |
pear that speedy recovery may be ex-
pected. OF course, Admiral Schley is |
hat makes it little more difficult to
recover from RIB fractures. Admiral
Schley is one of the jolliest men liv-
ng. he is very fond of society. and is |
, great card for debutantes, with whom
ne is tremendous favorite.
San Francisco gets the fair. That is,
he Panama Canal Exposition. Just |
put that in your pipe and smoke it. |
Congress made up it's mind to send all
his disturbance and discussion Just as !
FAR away from Washington and from
he Panama Canal as possible, and so |
showed it off to the other side of the
San Francisco. OF course,
san Francisco is all right, and every
BODY is going to have a jolly time there, |
and will enjoy it all the more because
the United States Government will not
be asked to contribute a cent toward |
The maintenance of the show. New Or
cans put up big fight, and a costly |
300 to finance the advertising end of |
he New Orleans scheme.
Madame Bernhardt.
When one looks at Madame Sarah |