Show HMMON CUTS OUT FRILLS inaugural program subject of baal badinage inage between republicans and democrats WAR TALK IS POOH attributed to cockiness of japanese officers change wanted in senate rules to expedite business hushes hughes has no preal dentral see bee by GEORGE CLINTON washington interest among democrats and republicans in washington to I 1 has been roused by the word fl from flom om ohio that judson harmon made arrangement that upon his reentry re entry into the office of governor zo vernor he would have no inaugural parade no celebration and no inaugural address the extreme simplicity of the governors program not only has interested republicans public ans but has made some of them smile and has bas caused caud them to vent a few intended to be humorous thrusts at their democratic brethren the republicans say that mr harmon harmen in going back to jeffersonian Jefferson Jeffere onlan tan simplicity la Is trying to make an a appeal P to the common people and that ho be feels this to Is necessary because as the republicans put it a good many people have an idea that mr air harmon to la a man of that extreme conservative it if not aristocratic type to which exception has been taken by thousands of voters of both parties in recent years the democrats retort that the simplicity of mr Il harmous armous program Is due to his nature and nothing else and that the republicans find in it something om ething to talk about only because simplicity and lack of ostentation are such entirely novel things to the republican party the tha jefferson legend the legend has baa it that thomas thomaa jefferson prior to taking the oath of office as president of the united states rode to the capitol on horse back practically unattended tended tied his horse to a fence rail and then mounted the platform in an extremely democratic manner to take the oath of office old guides at the capitol who have bad stories handed banded down to them by other guides and it takes only about three generations of them to go back to jeffersons Jeffer tinie time say that jefferson did not bitch his horse to a fence rail but to the limb of an elm tree tre which stood about one hundred feet southeast of the capitol capt tol the guides further say aay that the elm tree which grows on tho the exact spot today Is a child of the old elm the guides story stori has been transmitted to tie phe men on the sightseeing sight bight seeing automobiles offles and tho the story of the horse hitched to the fence Is rapidly being supplanted u P by the story of the horse 0 r as hitched to the tree going back t tu the recent war scare and to the confidential report concerning the likelihood of a conflict with japan it may be said it Is much more than likely th that at american army and navy officers derived their belief that trouble with japan isa possibility of the future from what they call the attitude of cockiness which japanese military y service officers have displayed toward american officers ever since the ja jap p anese russian war ended japs are flippant american officers who have served in the east from time to time since the peace of portsmouth say that japanese soldiers and sailors of rank have treated them in a flippant and condescending way when they happen to meet at first the americans say that they set this manifested spirit down to a feeling of assurance and superiority which had come to tcp the orientals Orient als as the result of their success in sinking the russian fleet and in winning battles on land finally the american officers found out that the japanese were wera not treating officers of other services in III the way that the americans were being treated and so they camo came to the conclusion that japan did hot like america officials in washington when talking privately say that the japanese school trouble in san francisco and halt a dozen other things have made the japanese angry with americans americana and that the masses of the empire are perfectly willing to go 90 to war but that the officials have been holding them in check and probably will continue to hold bold them in check for a long time to come no one in washington seemingly believes tha with japan Is a possibility lity ot of the near future the oriental empire it Is said bald Is not in a financial condition to allow it to go to war and moreover while there thera has been a tremendous amount of friction over seemingly small matters in the past there Is belief here that matters will assume a smoother aspect quickly and that the tha two countries eventually will got get back to he plane of their old friendly relations want business Busl expedited in the senate while some of the members aie trying to secure molin of the rules so be that as they view it business may be expedited thora there are house members who are trying to show that the change in the regulations tor for that chamber forced at the last session of congress not only did not bot make business move faster lint but are in reality a handicap to progress 4 it seems likely that the contest in tho the senate will go on tor for a long time wowe any change can be 0 effected in the laws written or unwritten which govern procedure in that body in the hou house e the attempt of some of the republicans to prove the inutility of no new rules la Is said to be more for the purpose of the tha insurgent republicans public ans that they did not know what they were doing when they forced certain changes than because of any real intention to try to get bark back to the old status it will not be long before for a it the he democrats will be in control of the house and th the a question of the rules will be of no particular republican concern unless perchance some future insurgent democrats should attempt to combine with the republicans to do just what some insurgent republicans by combination with the democrats succeeded in doing at the last session sessio senate moves move slowly the senate changes its ita methods al slowly ow ly and only ater at er long continued deliberation senatorial courtesy Is pretty nearly as strong today as ever it ft was and there are certain things w which aich are done not so much because a majority of the tha senate thinks they ought to be done as because some senator makes personal appeal that lt it shall be done this of c ourse course does not apply to matters of important legislation but rather to such matters as getting bills which are of local interest to some senator through th the 0 chamber with expedition senatorial courtesy also applies to appointments and tho the senate Is id always loath to approve the nomination of a man it if the senators from the nominees state enter objection associate justice of the supreme court charles E hugber has allowed himself to be quoted to the effect that he la Is without presidential ambitious ambitions recently it was told how some of the progressive republicans holding official office in the capita 1 had come to the belief that justice was the only man who could bring together the factions of the republican party tyland lind thus put the organization in condition to make a strong fight in the next presidential campaign this movement of support tor for hughes has gathered considerable headway but the supposition Is that it must now be taken for granted that the justice Is fixed to the bench until the retiring age comes to him it Is conceivable however that it if there should be a united party demand in the tha future that he stand for the presidency he might reconsider his present determination in mi when the newly appointed chief justice of the united states edward douglass white was waa sworn in as aa chief justice the tha oath was administered by associate justice marian harlan who Is the jurist longest in service on the supreme bench during the civil war chief justice white and associate justice harlan met in battle white on the southern side and ilar harlan harian on the northern side captain sims alme M mut at ExRIe tin abord A word of explanation to la still awaited d by the navy department from capt william billam S sims of the european fleet w who he made an alter after dinner speech in england to which exception has been taken by the officials who tear fear that the nature of the speech will offend the continental powers the sailor speaker said something abo about ut america being willing to join forces with great britain in case any toa foe should threaten the english speaking race soldiers sailors and civil officials of f the united states government time an and d again have said things in speeches or have set down things in writing which later came back to cause them trouble it has been declared with an attempt at hunroe that so far as after dinner speeches are concerned the spirit of the occasion was responsible this lie 1 a polite way of saying that the enthusiasm and lack of restraint of the speaker were in part due to something outside what may be called exactly natural causes there to Is apt to be a popping of corks at banquets sober bober sided officer it to Is not likely that hat captain sims of the navy overstepped over stepped the borndal bounds of propriety at the banquet for he be Is I 1 known as a sober minded and sober I 1 sided aided officer but nevertheless ho he will have some explaining to do it Is not likely however that this old sailor will wilf be made to walk the plank though it Is possible le may be admonished moni shed in fairly sharp terms by the 1 admiral of the fleet who may be directed to the admonishing duty by the secretary of the navy tho the caso case of admiral coghlan who died not long ago probably will will be recalled quickly in this connection it was admiral coghlan who as a commander was with delwey at the battle of manila there he won fame and promotion probably no one has forgotten sailor lans recital of the poem in which the german emperor was lampion ed pretty seier sa verely ely the vailor bailor recited the poem at a dinner in new york and instantly there was trouble the poem which the admiral gave to his fellow banque with all the force of which his volca voice was capable sent tho diners into a delirium of laughter and enthusiasm and the sound of the laughter r went round the world it is said that kaiser withelm laughed as aa loud and as aa heartily as aa anybody else and so it to Is possible that it was his bis manifestation of the th possession of a sense of humor which saved the american sailor from getting any punishment bardar than a mild reproof which came in the form of a request that ho he go in peace and sin no more |