Evening star., 1938-05-29
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

A notable event in the history of the
District as an educational center occurred
y, fifty years ago in the
new university beginning of work on
Started Here. the new Catholic Uni
versity. The Star OF
May "a, 1888, says:
The laying of the corner stone OF the
Roman Catholic University today adds
another to the accumulated evidences
which point to the future of Washington
as the educational as well as the poltlcai,
social and literary center OF the United
States. Every citizen OF the Capital
ought to feel keen interest in today S
ceremonies. not simply for their direct
and obvious bearing, but for their pro-
phetic significance. We now have
great Baptist university. deaf mute
institute, a university for colored youths,
a Roman Catholic college OF the highest
standard and other seminaries OF lesser
note. These are a nucleus. The rest
may be trusted to come with time. in
Guiding perhaps the national university,
with its headquarters here and its rami-
fications in every part of the United
States, of which George Washington
dreamed"
TT is evident says The Star of May
26, 1883, that the shipping merchants
,., and others through
An 1nternatlonal out the Unite d
Marine Congress. States interested in
the safety Of vessels
OF coo are in earnest in their movement
to have an international marine con-
gress called by the President, with the
sanction of Congress The chief object
of the congress would be to devise bet
ter code of signals than is now IN use 1oE
preventing collisions in bad weather. Ihe
present code, for instance, provides that
in fog sailing vessel shall SOUND one
blast on its horn to indicate that II Is
on the starboard tack, two if on the port
tack and three if the wind is abaft its
beams. This is manifestly insufficient.
for while a steamer might be able to get
out of the ships way on either the flrst
or the second signal, the three blasts
would leave the whole matter as much as
ever to conjecture. and since with stln
wind blowing minute might be enough
to bring two ships into collision after first
coming within hearing Of each other.
guesswork under such conditions is very
perilous.'
X
AT last, after enough changes OF
party position to bewilder the mind OF
To Consider Treaty ssVs sss9 The n Py,'s; Star o;
:, orer sess;on May 20, 1888, 1.-The
Az Senate has decided,
hv a vote of % to 81, to consider the
fisheries treaty in open session. inls is Is
a notable victory for the people, VINO Will
not question the motives of partisan ex-
pediency in which it had its source, SO
long as they reap its benefits. The nam
objection raised against the proposed
change was the fact that 1t is change.
MIR. Morgan argued that the Senate IS
hundred years old and has never done
such a thing before-a plea which, uni
versally applied. would sound the deatn
knell of all progress. A consideration OF
more force was his dislike of having the
foreign diplomats admitted freely to the
galleries to listen to what the constltu-
tional advisers of the President have TO
say about pending international negota-
tions, because things might be said IN
the heat of debate which these foreign
ers ought not to hear. All such argu-
ments, however, are swept away by the
simple fact that the Senate has never yet
been able to keep its discussions secret,
no matter how many bolts it put on the
inside of its doors or how many sentinels
it stationed outside"