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Show jj . f I Washington Day by Day I News Gathered Here and There I at the National Capital I 1 1 ' M MISS SHONTS WILL NOT WED FRENCH NOBLEMAN WASHINGTON. Tho departure or, Thcodoro P. Shouts, rormer chairman of tho Panama canal commission, com-mission, with IiIb two daughters, for Now York, where he Ib now head of the Metropolitan traction Interests, has ngnln revived talk concerning the engagement of Miss Slionts to the Due do Chaulncs. U there over wns nn engagement It Is now off, ns Washington society has tho story, nnd the reason for this falluro of nnother International nlll-nnco nlll-nnco Is said to bo the refusal ot Mr. Shonts to grant tho ducal demand for a sottlomcnt. It Is accepted here ns tho correct version of the departure ot tho duko without a brldo thnt Mr. ShontB stood firmly for' the American Idea of marriage mar-riage settlements. He Is reported to havo told Do Chaulncs that ho would glvo his daughter a stylish wedding, provldo hor with a trousseau fit for a princess, and n substantial wedding allowance that would keep her In pin money for n long time, but to enter into any agreement to settlo an Income In-come on her for llfo before marriage, THE real reason for tho estrangement estrange-ment between Spenkor Cnnnon, eight other members of tho congressional con-gressional party and tho canal zone officials was not becauso of tho quarantine quar-antine regulations but because Speaker Speak-er Capnnn nnd his party did not be-Hovo be-Hovo they wero properly trented. When tho steamship on which the Speaker and his party wero arrived at Colon tho men who aro digging tho canal and caring for the canal zono did not oven send n rowboat out to meet them. The party boarded a train at Colon, going to Pannma and after it hnd started and was nearlng Culcbra cut Speaker Cannon went strolling through tho coach ahead. In It ho found Chief Engineer Stevens, who recognized him and tnlkcd with him a few minutes. "Well, good-by," tho chief englnoer said, waving his hand, as the train approached Culebra cut. "This Is whero I get off." FAIRBANKS' AMBITION OPENS HIS P0CKETB00K WITH a presidential bco buzzing merrily In his bonnet, VIco President Presi-dent Fairbanks' hns entered on a social so-cial campaign thnt hnB made (ho whole capital rub its eyes In surprise and wonder nt his extravagance. Sinco tho Fairbanks weather eye was fixed steadily on tlio Whlto House tho expenses of tho family, It Is said, have Jumped from (30,000 to (100,000. Mrs, Fairbanks now Is ono ot tho most popular hostesses In Washington, Washing-ton, mid from tho occasional receptions recep-tions of two years ngo haB developed to two formal affairs u week. Formerly, the Fnlrbankses llvod In n modest houso ut Eighteenth nnd Massachusetts Mass-achusetts avenues, tho ront of which wj'b (3,000 n yenr. Thonthey had only flvo servants In nil, nnd they wero without n cnrrlngo, hiring n vo-hlclo vo-hlclo whonovor needed. Now they pay (12,000 a year for the mansion of TO HAVE the proper nnd legltlmnto expenses of national campaigns paid from tho national treasury for tho different political parties, nnd to permit in presidential campaigns only a closely limited use ot money othor than that drawn from the public funds, Is tho striking project which tho president has In his mind nn a moans of purifying national politics und preventing Improper uso of money drawn from Improper sources. Thero has been much doubt whether wheth-er tho scheme of publicity, after election, elec-tion, of campaign cxpendlturoii would bo very effective. Practical politicians politi-cians havo protested that It Ib locking the burn nftor the horse lb stolen, - It would be required, of course thnt nil money should bo carefully accounted for, vouchors should bo mudo and carefully audited, and tho purposes for which It could bo used would be limited to speaking, llteraturo and or-lsiultatton, HRHD Vl sXj? ours If this he would not do. fl Personally the hend of the Shonts H household wants to seo his daughter H happily married, nnd, It he hnd any H objections to tho French noDlcman, H was willing to put them aside If Miss H Shouts wns satisfied with the duko. H So, according to somo of "tho wlso ones, tho match will never come off, H us the duke Is reported to "need tho H money," for whllo ho Ib long on H lineage and Incumbered estates, he Is H on H To nil appearances the two young H people nre really In love. "But what H cuu u duke und duchoss do without H sufficient means to keep up their end H of the social game?" asks Washington H Bocluty. Still, some believe tho young H people may yet decide to marry with- H out tho settlement and take thlr H chances on papa's determination not H to rehabilitate tho Do Chnulnca es- H While In Now York the Mtees Shonts will help their rather In select- J lng a homo ror the family, to which H they will move from hero Bomo tlmo H early In CANAL ZONE MEN HURT PRIDE OF CONGRESSMAN The congressional pnrty headed by tho speaker 'belloved they hf.d boon so badly treated that they had the steward on the steamship prepare their luncheon ror them. Each mem- J bor or tho pnrty on the train carried a lunch When the train pulled Into Panama Superintendent Beard of tho Panama Railroad compuny had prepared on elaborate luncheon for the members of tho speaker's party. Thoy went In tho dining-room nnd nte the luncheon, nnd on lenvlng the tnble ench mem-bor mem-bor of the party loft nt his- plate tho customary price for a luncheon. Superintendent' Beard found tho monoy on the tablo, and, as his guests hnd gone, sent it back to tho steamship with a curt noto that bo was not authorized to collect monoy for the luncheon. "Tho Panama commission may havo xH gentlemen In Its offices In Washing-ton, Washing-ton, but It certainly hns none ot them nt work on tho canal," the speaker la reported to havo told Gov. Mngoon. Col. Edwurd Morrcll, or Philadelphia, fl und they have more thnn n dozen serv- ants, with twice that total soveral days a week. Over the Fairbanks' kitchen now presides John Rook, tho diet who was the joy or Levi Z. Letter nnd his friends. Rook has bo much money to spend that ho gains precedence In tho mar-hot mar-hot ovor Plnckney, tho buyer ror tho Whlto House. Fairbanks hns given his man a free hand to stock tho pan-try pan-try with tho choicest luxuries, nnd Just what this menus may bo gntherod from tho fact that at two receptions nearly 1,000 guests partook of n but-fet but-fet supper at- which tnrraplu, every kind or shell fish and tho finest Im-ported Im-ported wipes were sorved. Lavish-ucss Lavish-ucss is the keynote of the Fairbanks establishment, nnd to her regular en-tertnlnments en-tertnlnments Mrs. Fulrbnuks now hns added frequent mid largo theater par- TO HAVE GOVERNMENT H PAY CAMPAIGN EXPENSE B It Is understood thnt tho mnount ijtfjjf mndo available rrom tho public trcaa- (Mr ury would be apportioned among tho J!w parties on some such basis as tho rel- atlvo votes polled nt tho last preced if!j Ing nntlonnl election. TIiIb would lei; 1 ); In the small purtlcs ror their share Politicians regard tho Bchemo an ft- Utopian, but aro not nt nil certain whether It could bo dcrontod U serl- r. ously presented to congress by tho v president. Tho president has not developed do-tallB do-tallB or tho plan, nnd may bo con- &fc vlnced yet or Its practicability, but ho has talked or It with much Inter- SO est, and Is thus rnr disposed to ro- Rajf gard It as more than nu Impractical vision. Hi Politicians say that It tho Idea Ha should bo followed to Its logical con-elusions con-elusions It would eventuate In uoth-Ing uoth-Ing loss than the creation ot n groat election board possessing unlimited opportunities tor corruption. |
