The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-01-26
Washington,
|ALDRICH NOT LIKELY
| TO RETURN TO SENATE
Rhode Island Leader, It is Said,
Will Not Appear on
Floor Again.

washington. Jan. 24.-Nelson w.
Aldrich, for 20 years boss of the United
states Senate probably has made his
last appearance on the floor as a men,
Der of that body.
Colleagues Of the senator express the
opinion that when Mr.. Aldrich left
washington last week in the effort to
regain his health at Jekyl island. he
knew that before he got back to Wash
,npton the Sixty-first congress would
nave passed into history and his ca
reer as a member of the Senate ter
minated.
To jntimates the senator declared
he would be back in a week or two,
but it is known that unless he i'm
proves beyond the expectation of his
physicians, it will be impossible. He
left no pair.
Thus quietly, silently, the liking" alb
dicated. He will be back as chairman
of the monetary commission. and by
reason of his former membership in
the Senate will have the courtesy OF
khe floor. But his power Of leader
ship is gone, his ability to trade and
dicker is at an end. :
The passage of the tariff law of 1909
was Aldrich's browning achievement
Then the temple Of his party crumbled
about his shoulders. In the early days
of the succeeding session of the Sixty
FIRST congress Aldrich made known his
intention of retiring.
The day following he met one of the
beading insurgents of the body in thu
Republican cloak room. They were
friends away from the turmoil and
strife of politics.
There need be no fencing between
us, Senator" said the insurgent. why
are you getting out?
Aldrich paused a minute and then
replied:
II have always had a horror of re,
manning here after my powers had de-
clined and / had become q back NUM-
Der, both physically and mentally. !
think it is much better for a man ii
retire in the fullness of his health and
vigor" There he paused.
"And-"said the fnsurgent.
WELL" Aldrich smiled, "the old or,
der is changing here. New men with
new ideas are coming in. l have had
my day."
The report that the Hornet, General
Bonilla's revolutionary gunboat which
has been promoting his cause along
the coast of Honduras. has been board
ed by force from the American gum
boat Tacoma was confirmed in a wire
less dispatch received by the navy de-
partment Sunday from Commander
Cooper, Of the United States ship Marh
eta.
The dispatch merely said it had been
found necessary to place a force on
board in order to detain the Hornet,
and added that details would be re-
ported later The state department has
anxiously awaited these in order to
determine its future course.
The attorney general in investigat-
ing the question whether the Hornet
has violated the neutrality laws of the
United States. and pending the result
the state department announced that
the VESSEL would not be permitted to
commit any actual hostile acts against
Honduras. The action Of Commander
Davis, of the Tacoma, in boarding the
Hornet. 1t is assumed here, was based
upon an intention of the revolution
lists to strike telling blow against the
coast OF the republic.
That Captain Robert F. Peary came
Within one and six-tenths miles of the
north pole, near enough to establish
his claim of having been at the exact
spot, is the decision of the House COM
mittee on naval affairs, which has
been considering the bill to retire Cap
tain Peary with the rank of rear ad-
niral.
The basis of the committees findings
the cnart prepared Dy Hugh Il.
Mitchell and c. r. Duvall of the
United States coast and geodetic sur
Key, and based on Pearys obserYa-
lions
Representative Bates, of Pennsylva-
hia, presented the majority report of
the committee, recommending the pass
age of the Hale-Bates BILL giving
Peary the thanks of congress and Gre
hting him rear admiral on the retired
iC mi in 70 atn,A ~,
the House over the proposed legisla-
ion Representative Macon, Of Arkan-
pas, has indicated that he woulc op-
pose it's passage on the floor