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Show Washington Day by Day Ncwb Gathered Here and There at the National Capital I .MISS SHONTS mi NOT 1 WED FRENCH NOBLEMAN 1 WASHINGTON. Tho departure of " Thtodoro P. 8honts, former 3 chairman of tho Tanama canal com I mission, with his two daughters, for iNqw York, whoro ho Is now head of tho Metropolitan traction Interests, I has again rovlved talk concerning tho I engagement of Miss ShontB to the I Due do Chaiilncs. . w If thcro ever was an engagement m it Is now off, ns Washington society has tho story, and the reason for this- jj failure of nnothcr International alll- II anco is said 'to bo tho refusal of Mr. Jfi Shonts to grant the ducal demand B for a settlement. It In accented hero as tho correct yorslon of tho departure of tho duko M without a hrldo that Mr. Shonts stood n firmly for tho American idea of mar-$R mar-$R rlago settlements. Ho is reported to j havo told De Cbaulncs that ho would m iglvo his daughter a stylish wedding, fi 'provide her with a trousseau fit for n S .princess, and a substantial wedding S allownnco that would keep nor in pin m money for a 'long time, but to enter 9 Into any agreement lo sottlo an In- como on her for llfo before marriage, fjj FHE real reason for tho cskrnngo- 8 mcnt between" Speakor 'Canuon, B eight other members of tho con- M grosslonal party and tho canal .zono offlclals was not because of tho ji'ifar-a ji'ifar-a antlno regulations but nccauso Speak-' ffi cr Cannon and bis' party did not boll bo-ll Hovo they were properly treated.- B , Who'n tho steamship on ''which "tho g Speaker and his party wcro arrived K at Colon tho men who are digging tho canal and caring for tho canal zono did not even send arowboat out to meot them. The party boarded a train. at Colon, going to Panama -and after It had startcdanU- was Hearing k Culcbra cut Speaker Cannon went ' strolling through tho "coach ahead; In It ho found Chlof Engineer Stevens, who recognized him aud talked with him a fow minutes. . . "Well, good-by," the chlof "engineer" said, waving his hand, as tho train, approached Culcbra cut. "This Is whoro I got off." ( ' FAIRBANKS' AMBITION OPENS HIS P0CKETB00K WITH a presidential boo buzzing merrily in his bonnet, Vice President Presi-dent Fnlrbanks has entorcd on a social so-cial campaign that has mado tho wholo capital rub its eyes In surprise and wondor at his .'eVtrtfvaganco. , SInco tho Fairbanks weather oyo was fixed steadily oh' tho WhitoHouso' tho oxpensos of tho family, It is said, ihav Jumped from $30,000 to $100,000. ,Mrs. Fairbanks now is one of tho most popular hostesses yin Washing-ton, Washing-ton, nnd from tho occasional recop-i recop-i tloiiB of two years ago has dovclopcd to two formal affairs a week. Formerly tho Fnlrbankses lived in a modest houao at Eighteenth nnd Massachusetts Mass-achusetts avenues, tho rent of which wfs $3,000 a year. Then thoy had only Ave servants in all, and thoy -woro without a carrlago, hiring a vo-hlclo vo-hlclo whenover ncedod. Now they pay $12,000 a year for tho mansion of i TO HAVE tho propor and legitimate oxpensos of national campaigns paid from tho nnttonal treasury for tho different political parties, and to permit In presidential campaigns, only, a closoly limited uso of monoy othor than that 'drawn from tho .publlo I funds, Ib tho striking project which tho president -has In his mind as a moans of purifying national politics nnd preventing Improper ,uso of monoy I drawn from Improper sources, K Thorei-hns boon much doubt w'hotM- 8 er tho schomo of jiubflelty, after oloc-tlon, oloc-tlon, of campaign, expenditures (would-bo (would-bo very effectlvo. Practical, politicians politi-cians havo. protested that It Is locking, tho barn after thohorso 1b , stolen. ' It would b'e required, of Qpurso tbajtttj monoy Should, bo 'carefully ccoimtcd' for, vouchors.ishouldbo ,. made 'Jrad" I 'tfurpowa for which it ftpujdbo usdd'worfla'aljfc limited to speaking, )lteratur'ttnJwf. sanitation. K?l?J ' 0UT3 If. this ho would not do. Personally tho head ot tho Shonts household wants to see his daughter happily married, nnd, If ho had any objections to tho French nonleman, was willing to put thorn asldo If Miss Shonts was satisfied with the duko. So, .according to somo of the ,wlso ones, tho. match will never come' off, as tho?duko Is reported to "need the monuy-i" for whllo ho Is long on llnca'so-'and .Incumbered estates, he la short on cash. To all appearances the two young , people, are really. In love. "But what can a duko and ducti'oss do without sufficient means to keop up their end of tho social gome?" asks Washington society. Still, Bomo bollovo tho young peoplo may yet dcIdo to marry without with-out tho settlement and take their chances on papa's determination not to rehabilitate the Do Chaulnei estates. es-tates. Whllo In New York tho Mleecs Shonts will help their father in selecting select-ing a homo for tho family, to which thoy will movo from hero somo tlmo' early In Juno. , CANAL ZONE MEN HURT PRIDE OF CONGRESSMAN Tho congressional party headed by -the speaker bolloved thoy had boon so badly treated that thoy had tho stovard on , the steamship prcparo their luncheon for them. Each mom-her mom-her of tho party on tho trnln carried a lunch box. When tho train pulled Into Panama Superintendent Heard of tho Panama Hnilroad company had prepared an elaborate luncheon for the members of tho speaker's party. Thoy went In the' dlntng-room and nto tho luncheon, and on leaving tho tablo each member mem-ber of tho party left at his plato tho customary prlco for a luncheon. Superintendent Heard found tho money 'dn.tha, tablo, and, as his guests had gone, sent it back to tho steamship with a curt noto that ho was not authorized to collect money for tho luncheon. ' "The Pannma commission may; havo, gentlemen In its offices iq'SWashlng-'(on, iq'SWashlng-'(on, hut It certainly has nono of them at. work on tho canal," tho speakor Is' reported to have told Gov. Magoon. Col.' Edward Morrell, ot Philadelphia, and they havo more than a dozon sorv-. ants, with twice that total several days a week. Over tho Fairbanks' kitchen 'now presides John Itook, the chef who was tho Joy of Leyl' Z. Letter and his friends. Itook has. so much money to spend that ho gains procedendo In tho mar-' ket over Plncknoy, tho buyor "for tho. Whlto House. Fairbanks has given his man u free hand to stock tho pantry pan-try with tho choicest luxuries, and Just what this means may b6' gathered from tho fact that at two receptions nearly 1,000 guests partook of a buffet buf-fet supper at which tarrapln, evory kind of shell fish nnd tho finest Imported Im-ported wlnos wero sorved. Lavish-nebs Lavish-nebs is tho keynote of tho Fairbanks establishment, and to her regular on-tortnlumonts on-tortnlumonts Mrs. Fairbanks now has added frequent cud large theater parties. par-ties. ... - ' ' TO, HAVE GOVERNMENT PAY CAMPAIGN EXPENSE ." ." 'it 'is understood thnC'tho-amount, mado avnljnblo from'-tho "publlorois-ury "publlorois-ury would1 befnppi-Ubned nmpnijitti'e parties on 'soma, such basis .as "jho xT-atlvo xT-atlvo votes .polled at, the la'sLurc'cd-Ing la'sLurc'cd-Ing national oloctlon. ThjaQTfi'd lei .In tho small partlo's for;' their Slrirpr . Politicians regard tho 'sendmi v as, Utopian, but aro not at all cortnln "whethor it could bo dofcatotMf , seriously seri-ously presented to congress by tho president. . . - f, .' . Ttopresldont hds(ifi6t developed do- taljs.pf tho. plau.'i'i'rid. imry',bQ- convinced con-vinced yet ofllS" 10811111, but ho 'jjas t'alke'd ol' It with' much' Intor-ijsL Intor-ijsL nnd 1b thus fnr dUppsod to ro-"g'arffjlt ro-"g'arffjlt as moftrrtlMhi -aniimDractlcal if clBUBX:.tJbitlf ,.'tho Idea siitttifeigMnr(u) Jo . ita 'logical con-fclulfo'tK'M con-fclulfo'tK'M wgi(lc ,j)v'eiitmto in noth-I"Jtf) noth-I"Jtf) tuan tlio creation of a great i,"Jii'nH Ubssossfng unlimited 1 oppojtjinltles for corruption. |