Show CIVILIAN CI WILL RULE THE ARMY General Staff Eliminates the Lieutenant General PRINCE HENRY COMING OVER OVERE I t E ABE BB I AGAINST CUMMINS UT IN IOWA 1 I I Special to The Te Herald I Washington May My M IThe The United States army array is in a curious state tte of C I disorganisation dl at the present pre ent moment This Thie la Js J due d to the radical I change in inita ita It management brought about by the adoption ot oi the general staff idea The general gene staff is i composed of some twenty officers of ot more or less Ies experience experience experience ence who will exercise e the functions heretofore employed by the various heads of the army the quartermaster general the inspector general commis commissary commissar sar sary ary general etc The general staff I will wUl still tjI further nullify the influence of the lieutenant general when that officer happens to be aa a obnoxious to the secretary of war as the present pre ent one In fact the general staff will be the whole thing and with a secretary of ot war who wants wasta his own way as does the present one it will prove but a method by which the secretary will be he hethe bethe bethe the actual head of the army The gen general general eral staff will be by the several heads head of ot the anny army department but hut this opposition will be without avail for the staff ta la is now organized in accordance ec with the law of which Secretary Root Boot was the author and ad chief chiet advocate The members are mainly young men energetic and am sin ambitious ambitious and they will win leave very little but routine duties for the old gray beards who atter after many years of sen erv service ervice ice get into comfortable berths in the department Secretary Root signalled the general staff stan organization with a dinner party to all of the members of the staff staJl and a number of the higher ranking officers of the service on Fri Friday Friday Friday day night of this week The notice noticeable noticeable noticeable able absentee ab entee was Lieutenant General C Miles who is Js persona non grata in higher army arny circles at the present time and will be until he leaves leeve the service next fall White Souse Rouse Repairs The continued criticism of W 1 e eHouse House improvements is be beginning beginning ginning to have effect It was apparently apparently a little thing to have sightseers and visitors vi turned away aay from the front door and be compelled to walk back bark to the street and down do n a side street to the new entrance but the multitude of complaints had an effect Mrs Irs Roosevelt Roo evelt has taken a hand in arrangements and aDd under her direction the architect of the White House im improvements improvements will wm have a flight llight of steps built so 80 that visitors vJ may reach the side entrance without taking the long walk as at present pre ent Mrs Roosevelt will 1111 have the asphalt driveway leading to the portico in front of the White WhiteHouse House torn up and replaced by a nar narrow narrow row atone 8 driveway The Th wide Ide asphalt L vt 25 jy nui m lit uie summer I and is i not ot needed now that the general I carriage approach is to the side en entrance enI entrance trance I Penrose For Por Chairman I Senator Penrose Penro e is being talked of as asa asa asa a ble chairman of the Republican can national committee for the next presidential campaign His colleague Senator Quay Is desirous de that Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania vanla take the leading position to which her Republican majorities en entitle entitle entitle title her and this may be done with Senator Penrose Penro e in the leading place in inthe inthe Inthe the national rational committee Penrose has grown rapidly during the past two years ears in the politics of ot his own state and is i n apt pupil of that king of or po political political craft Senator Quay Prince Henry Coming It is announced that Prince Henry of or Prussia win will make another tour of the United States more extended in fact than the first finn He is to present the statue of Frederick the Great Greet to the United States government in Washing Washington I ton on the occasion of his next ext visit which will be timed so that he be may attend the St Louis exposition in 1904 Prince Henry gave evidence that he be was possessed po es ed of or many democratic characteristics when he made his tour tourin tourin tourin in IMS On the occasion of his visit to the capitol he be was given a luncheon in inthe inthe Inthe the committee room of the senate com corn committee committee on military affairs It as a standup affair but those giving givin it had arranged a special sp al table for the prince ce and a chair for him alone niOne l 1 But he very to make use u e f his is special P cial eil privilege ana stood around with a ai i sandwich in n one une hand and a Of 9 f beer in the other on perfect equality with United States senators cabinet officers and committee clerks who were on the luncheon list Washington in Summer Western visitors to the capital capita con consider consider consider sider it slow even though it is one of ot the i jal Idl 14 show places of the coun country country country try Here are handsome and picturesque i esque residences beautiful broad blO d streets and avenues trees and parks which rival the celebrated bots bols of ot otI I I Paris and beyond all in point of eC in interest InI terest tere t lot for the visitor there are the 1 I many historical government buildings including the magnificent ma congressional I al aI 1 library building buIldIngS which is without an equal In the world All Allot of these things delight the sightseers who throng I Washington but they do not quite sat satisfy satisfy the energetic westerners who want wanta a little Innocent amusement mixed with their education The a summer theatre nor a roof root garden nor I any place where people can go for a little innocent amusement accompanied accompanied nied flied with a drink and so music In fact the place is deadly dull dun and as Puritanical in its methods as s a New England village v of a century ago The city presents an inviting and profitable field for some seine enterprising purveyor of o modern amusements Against Cummins The talk of ot Governor Cummins of Iowa for second place on the national ticket Is not pleasing to the Republican of ot the capital They dont want the Iowa Idea Injected into the th coming campaign to such an extent that they will wUl have to stand for It in all parts of the country and no sooner did the reports come from Des Moines I that Cummins was an avowed candi date for the place than Senators Lodge Spooner and other lingerers at the cap ital began to fo blow cooling breath upon the boom The Cummins candidacy would not have carried much significance significance cance cameo had not the Des Moines Register RIster owned by Director of the Mint loUnt George Geor E Roberts declared that Cummins could have bave the support of his state in his candidacy Senator Lodge who is considered close to the president in matters poUt ical and personal hurried down to call can callon canon callon on Secretary Shaw almost before office hours Mr Roberts was called in and I the three were closeted for several I hours When Senator Lodge came out he was asked what he thought of the Cummins boom and he replied in a sur surprised surprised surprised sort of way that he be had not n t heard of it He merely dropped in he said to bid Secretary Shaw and Mr Roberts goodby He added that he thought it was entirely too early to be talking about the selection of a vice president The older Republicans shake their heads at the Cummins talk They say they want a more conservative cons and older man one in jn whose judgment they can place entire confidence confide ce Governor Cummins is not looked upon generally as filling the role of a safe sate and con conservative man His aggressive ad advocacy advocacy advocacy of the Iowa idea has not en him to the Republicans cans who regard the high protection policy of the party as sacred They consider Cummins as radical and given to taking up side Issues Governor Cummins is about 52 years of age and previous to his t election as governor practiced law for about years |