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Show H' Epidemic of Retirement Is Sweeping tbe Upper House H' 1 in Congress. ; SENATE WILL NOT BE 1 ( ' . RECOGNIZABLE NEXT YEAR iH- Insurgency in the G. 0. P. Has H.' Great Deal to Do With Epidemic. IHj BY RALPH M. WHITESIDE. 4 ,. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. , WASHINGTON, May 7, A genoi-al In- vestipjition Into the cause of the Ill-health H ( of senators soon will lie in order. No I less thnn elsrlit of the members of the j highest legislative body in tho world arc on the sick list, including1 Senators Daniel t i of Virginia, McCumber of North Dakota, , . Tillman of South Carolina, Dcpcw of Now York and Pcnroso of Pennsylvania. The Jf idea that the trouble Is due to too niucli Insurgcncv Is not tenable, m the patlonts H t are not among those who find It ncces- sarv to take this insurgent business very mJmW much to heart. The epidemic of rotlrc- V inent among senatorial leaden? may per- T haps bo attributed to this cause, how- ' ever. The United States senate, by the wav, promises to ho almost unrocosiilz-kmW unrocosiilz-kmW i , able after March 4, 1911. Aldrlch will be i out certainly, if the Macedonian cry from j the regulars docs not. lnduco him to change hl.s determination. There seems xo be a strong chanco that the scats or Senators Hale of Maine. Burrows of Mlcnl-' Mlcnl-' , Kn and Depow of New York will be oc- oupled by other men; while Lodge of - Massachusetts, Beverldgo of Indiana, h "Dick of Ohio. Kcan of Now Jersey, La- Follellc of Wisconsin, and other loaders, can hardly bo said to havo a copper-' copper-' . fastened cinch on tholr places. Thon kjm J. Senators Flint of California and Piles of 1 Washington havo announced that they LLB ' have had enough of tho senate. It will mwm , have been a long time since so many new I faces will havo been seen In the senate. ( Bureau Domestic Scioaco. Uncle Sam proved such a huge suc-j suc-j ces with the cook book that Senator Shelby Cullom of Illinois is in favor of u. going one further anil establishing a bureau of domestic science ao that Uncle Sam mav show the American women how 1 to keep house properly. Senator cullom proposes that the government npproprl-I npproprl-I ate $00,000 to maintain the bureau and ' run it in connection with the department of agriculture. Speaking of his measure. Senator Cullom said: "Homes could be ' made happier and brighter if ignorant J women were taught how to run their ; households better. If Uncle Sam can . ; show the women how to cook he can T surely show thorn how to koop house. I think sucli a bureau would be a huge ,1 success and would do much good.' There i aro thousands of free-born American citizens who will ngreo with Lnclo Shelby. t J , G raisers of Homo Floet. i The navy department has announced a t change In the policy regarding cruises 1 i or the home fleet. Hereafter It 1b the Intention that the fighting- vessels of the j - Atlantic and Pacific fleets shall make a orclgn cruise evory year. Carrying out 1 that policy, the battleships comprising 'h i the Atlantic fleet wlU start on a cruise next fall to the Mediterranean. While the Itinerary has not been worked out. visits will bo paid to several of the prln-H' prln-H' . 'Ipal ports of southern Europe. As this H. will be the first foreign cruise for many H i of the voungcr men In tho Ben'lce, the ,' ' cruise will be of unusual interest Tho Pacific fleet will cruise to South Amerl-can Amerl-can ports late In the summer to take part in celebrations to be held in honor of the 100th anniversary of Chile's independ- " Awakened at Last, t "Deeply impressed by the fact that many B ' hundreds of American farmers, imbued V ivlth pioneering proclivities, are passing over opportunities for making homes in B i he west and Hocking to the frontier In , -western Cannda. the secretary of agrl- ' c ulture is preparing to Inagurate a sys- A ' tern whereby sottlera will bo Induced to j-'. occupv arable tracts within the forest t reserves. As a starter on this policy. I ', gecretury Wilson has already dispatched J Chief Forester Gnivos on a tour of the 3 j' forest reserves in tho west, with orders H S 'to serve notice on all forest supervisors and forest rangers that horeaftcr everything every-thing possible must be dona by themselves them-selves to "aid settlors not only to find farms within tho forest reserves, but to acquire theso tracts and becomo bona fldo citizens of western oxpanses. According Ac-cording to the secretary's determination, many of the burdens heretofore Imposed upon settlers in demonstration to possibilities possi-bilities of farming tracts they have discovered dis-covered within the contlnes of national forests are to be lifted, and tho forestry employees are to bo required to exert H evory effort to people such portions of the D roBorves as exhibit any signs whatever E of being of valuo for the raising of 1 products. Colorado and the Tariff. "Colorado cannot complain of the new tariff," said C. K. Carnpfort of .Leadvillo, Colo., who was In thl3 city recently. "Tho zinc Industry Is booming now as It never boomed before, and there Is no telling ho wblg the production will bo this year as a result. Mining In Colorado Is in a healthier state than It has ever been before. More gold Is being produced, not only In Colorado, but in all tho other states where the precious metals are mined. I believe one of tho reasons that the cost of living is so high is the present pres-ent great production of all the metals, especially gold. I have noticed for more than twenty years that whenever the production of gold Increases the prices of foodstuffs of all hinds Increase corrc-spondigly. corrc-spondigly. In other words, the more gold mined, the higher tho prices of everything every-thing else In proportion. It is the same way with silver. If wo havo a tremondouit output of silver In any one year, advances ad-vances In prices of necessities of nil kinds occur." San Diego to Colobrate. "San Diego will have a celebration in honor of the completion of tho Panama canal, whether it gets the aid of congress for the project or not," doclarod H, II. Miller of that city. "The Panama committee com-mittee already has raised 51,000.000 in subscriptions for the celebration, and tho city Intends to Issue another million In bonds, which will give enough capital to carry out the plan successfully, whether aid from congress be obtained or not. It makoc no difference whether San Francisco also has a Panama exposition. We have decided in San Diego to have one, and we are certainly going to havo it. Of course, a strong- effort to have congrcsa aid the plan with a big appropriation appro-priation will be made, and we hope to have some success along that lino, though with so many competitors It may be a hard tank to get help from the government. gov-ernment. Realising this, we are going ahoad anyhow. All of southern California favors holding the exposition In San Diego in preference to San Francisco. It Is true that San Francisco can easily raise J5.000.000 for an exposition, but that is not going to scare off San Diego or prevent her from having a big celebration." celebra-tion." Seattle is Booming. P. Gaffney of Seattle, a retired business busi-ness man, came here to place his daughter daugh-ter In one of tho llnishlng schools. Mr. Gaffnoy haa beon in Cuba on a pleasure trip. Speaking about Seattle. Mr. Gaffney Gaff-ney said that business is good, and that the exposition which not long ago cloacd a succoasful ceason had done much to advertise the town and attract capital and enterprise. "There nover had been any Japanese question in Seattle There Is no such thing aa fear of an attack on the Pacific coast. II Is nil nonsense. We have about 4000 of them in Seattle, occupying all sorts of positions, mostly those of functionaries. They are useful and peaco abiding people Of course, wo don't like them as well as the Chinese, but we can't get tho Chinese. Withdraw Their Bid. Washington and Baltimore have decided de-cided there has been o much backing and wheollng about the International aviation avia-tion meet that thoy do not enre to sec the man birdies fly and have hence withdrawn with-drawn their bid for the meet. Trees With Titles. The department of tho interior has adopted a new policy which will fill thu forest preserves full of trees with uch high sounding titles as the Joseph Gumcy Cannon hickory, the Richard Achilles Bal-llnger Bal-llnger redwood and the William Howard Taft mulberry. Whon Secretary Ballln-ger Ballln-ger grave pormlssion to name a tree In California tho "PInchot treo," he broke down the barriers which have beon preventing-th department from naming treen aftnr prominent men. Up to this week only one kind of tree bore a distinguished title. That is the "Roosevelt tree" In the Mariposa grove In California. |