Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-07-19
HIGH OFFICIALS
LEAVE CAPITAL
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DAM
ELS GOES TO PACIFIC COAST
TO INSPECT YARDS AND WAR
VESSELS OF PACIFIC.
SECRETARY OF WAR, GARRISON.
Is VISITING AND INSPECTING
ARMY POST IN THE WEST.-IN-
CLUDING TEXAS.
Especial Stdf CorrcspoRdtntD


when President Wilson is returning and
big government work is to be resumed
with new energy. there is quite an exc
du> of high officials The ranks of the
presidents advisers are being decimat-
ed. Secretary Of the Navy Daniels has
sped away to the Pacific coast on in in
spection tour. Navy yards and stations
in that section will all take notice Sec
rctary of War Garrison too. has Jour
ncyed into the west. visiting and inspect
ing army posts of which there are many.
Before very long Secretary of the In
tu'iOr Lane will entrain for the far
West: to travel back and forth and up
and down. wherever there are irrigation
projects. Indian reservations or other
Y Interior enterprises i'll operation. Sec
retary of State Bryan is scheduled soon
for the Chautauqua Circuit for Il few
weeks. Secretary of Commerce Redfield
speeds soon to his vacation on the New
England shore.
Whether they are away on important
field work under their jurisdiction. or
are soiOurning elsewhere flr pleasure
or for profit several members promise
to be giving Washington the go-by for
the remainder of the heated season. Cab
met meetings. will probably take on a
perfuEctOry character for a while if they
are not largely dispensed with under
President Wilson's idea that il is not
worth while TO have cabinet meetings
biweckly unless there il something to
do.
President Wilson will be i'm town from
now on. daring most of the time that
congress is in extra session and. of course
will keep the machinery going. This
however. is distinctly the vacation per
iod at the federal capital The many thou
sands of government clerks take their
annual leave fJr the most part dur
ing July and August. Many government
Offices are deserted. Little effort is made
To do more than keep up with the ron
tine work 1t has become the practice
of three or four cabinet officers TO Oc-
cupy that period with inspection duties
where there is much government prop
erty under their supervision ut q dis
tance. 1t is especially important for 4
new secretary of war or Il new secretary
Of the Navy or IA new secretary of the
Interior. Large appropriations and mat
ters of policy depend mere or less upon
these officials. Congress at least expects
them to have information and recOmmcn-
datiOnS ready.
4 peace festival at Washington be
IN hn III
has been suggested here. following the
success of the recent Gettysburg reunion.
Col. J1hn McElrOy. editor of the leading
soldiers paper. the National Tribune. is
identified with the suggestion which
many veterans are urging One question
not easily settled. is an appropriate
date which would warrant calling the
affair fifty year anniversary.
One might think first Of the Grand Re
view which was Nav % 1865. for the
Army of the Potomac and May u for
the Western army. but the reply to that
is Confederate veterans cOuld not prop
erly be asked to join in cOmmemorating
Y il. An anniversary of the termination
Of the Civil War would be more i'm point
for such i gathering but there is diff
Guilty in saving on what date the war
ended. The courts have decided that
as to Tennessee. the Civil War ended
June 13 1865 in Tennessee. 1t has also
been decided that as to several Southern
states the war ceased April ,, 1866 and
not till August % Of that year in Texas
I. New Mexico and Indian Territory.
NJ Gen. Grant came TO Washington i'm
fmediatelv after Appomattox and issued
orders April Is. 1863 to stop recruiting
and June l. 1866. all the volunteer forces
were disbanded. However April is a lit
tie early in the year for a Washington
celebration 1t was July Of that year
when enliStmcnts for the navy were dis
continued The last surrender of the
Civil War is supposed to have been that
Of Kirby Smith, May 26, 1865, but as a
matter of fact there was subsequent
Surrender in Alabama.
If the idea of a peace festival meets
with some approval and is carried out
the purpose is to have the observation
on very large scale that will command
National interest.
. The forlorn Office seekers will have i
7 revival of hope this week with the return
| of President Wilson. Pickings have beer
very meager for them but none the less
every few days some seeker is reward
/ ed. 1t is noted that senator's now ant