The National tribune., 1911-04-20

Inc Other day, accompanied Dy MS pEi-
vate secretary and the usual Secret
Service guard, he was sauntering thru
Farragut Square, when he ran into
| regular convention of nurse girls and
their little charges. He stopped to
| shake hands with all the little children
that were running around, took leep
at the babies and spoke to the nurse
girls. Most of the nurses knew who he
was, and their happiness was supreme.
Just how debasing and demoralizing
| whisky is. or fermented liquors OF any
kind, has been demonstrated IN the last
| few days in the Police Courts OF Wash
| inston. Just few days ago woman
was sentenced to the workhouse for a
year She was an educated. highly cul-
tured woman, speaking two or three
| languages, had been in Government
employ and mentally was fitted to fill
any position of trust. Straight whisky,
| for which she had an inordinate love,
| got the best of her, and she Is now on
| the level with the veriest scum of the
| lowest elements of the great metropolis.
| A day or two later man was SEN
fenced to the workhouse for six months
as the result of whisky, man not half
as good as the average tramp. This
| man was piano salesman, rated as
No. l, probbly the best in the country,
and very fine pianist, having had a
| Splenulu HluSlCdl euuCilioii' 4NOlNilA-
standing this he has been arrested as a
plain drunk and sent up for six months.
There is one Representative from
| New York who Is not strong on par
| liamentary law, and whose judicial
mind leads him to believe that parla-
mentary law is really designed to pre-
vent proper procedure in deliberative
bodies. This particular Representa-
tive is Martin Littleton, a lawyer. He
came to Washington long before the
close of The 61st Congress, and conciu-
ded to take notes from one of the gal
leries. 1t was up there that one OF
the Members of the House, who was
prowling around, discovered Judge Lit
ming fire OF debate on the floor, his
forehead tied up In hard knots, and
look of bewilderment on his face. The
NJ. c. asked Judge Littleton what on
earth he was doing up there, and that
gentleman replied that he was trying to
get on to the parliamentary stunt.
He said that he had invested in vol
ume of the rules of the House, and had
started out to study 1t as his grand
mother had made him study the Shor-
ter Catechism, and the farther he went
the more mixed up he got. 80 far"
he said. it strikes me as the final word
in idiocy. I got a book with all the
rules OIL lN6 House III II, anu 1 We DetH
studying 1t like q catechiSm: but l feel
as If I were being taken down with all
the symptoms Of paresis. aphasia, and
every other mental disturbance dis
cussed by the experts In big murder
case. / may learn something about 1t
by and by. but just now parliamentary
law seems about as lucid as thesis
written by n Bellevue patient en- route
to q gold cure"
Among the new members of Con-
gress 1t is probable that none will at
tract more attention than Edward w.
Townsend, the new Democratic mem
Der from Montclair, n. ]. He is the
author of the "Chimmie Fadden"
stories that were so popular a few years
ago.
Judge Martin Littleton, representing
a New York district in Congress. is just
now being pointed out and introduced
as the lawyer who saved Harry Thaw
from the electric chair or an actual
prison. Instead of this he got him
sent to an asylum Albeit Judge Lit
Teton finds this allusion most tiresome,
and there are a lot of people who Won
der If 1t was not perversicn of JUS
tice, that Judge Littleton was smart
enough to keep Thaw from the electric
chair. The world would De better off
tent of characters as criminally inclined
as Harry Thaw.
The Massachusetts Senate has reject
ed the proposition to provide an eques-
trian statue of Benjamin F. Butler in
her State House grounds. In all prob
ability If old Ben Butler were alive he
would not elect 20 be carried down TO
posterity by an immense eff1gy in
bronze. Maybe a some time or other
there were artistic bronze statues, but
you certainly don't see any made in the
present age. Most of them are holy
horrors, and 1t certainly would not bs
very wicked to worship them.
A pathetic birthday anniversary was
celebrated in Washington last week.
The friends of James Ormond Wilson
were arranging for a celebration OF his
86th birthday, but when the anniver-
sary arrived James Ormond Wilson had
answered the last summons He was a
lawyer and former Superintendent of
Schools of this city. He was connected
with the public school system from
1870 to 1885. He was a native of Mas
sachusetts, and completed his educa-
ton at Williamson Seminary. and then
took the degree Of Bachelor and Mas
ter of Arts in 1850. After coming to
Washington he served eight years on
the District Board of Education and
then Is consecutive years as SuperIn-
tendent. Many reforms now used in
our schools were instituted by Mr.. Will
son during his administration.
The District saloonkeepers have been
warned that there Is a Federal statute
which renders 1t a criminal ofYense to
sell liquor to Indians 1t Is well known
that Indians and bug juice have a sin
gular affinity, and as we have a good
many Indians from the reservations
coming to Washington on business with
the Government they are very apt to
fill up on firewater and then proceed to
raise Cain. There have been two or
three shooting matches on the streets,
Indians simply trying to make holes In
sensation on the streets. In compii-
ance with the request Of F. H. Abbott,
Assistant Commissioner of Indian AZ
fairs, the District Excise Board has
addressed letters to all the saloonkeep-
ers of the District calling attention to
the United States statute and request
ing that IL be observed. In case 1t is
not the saloonkeeper who violates IL Is
liable to get himself into various kinds
Of trouble.
Hon. John Ward and his wife, who
is the daughter of ambassador Reid,
have taken a lease on the mansion Of
the Marquis of Bristol in St James
Square. They had heretofore been oc-
cupying the house of Earl Dudley, but
his return from Australia made 1t nec-