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...Senator may be expelled for revealing the proceedings of an executive session. Senator Bingham thought one Senator had been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...
...best loved commissioner," "the most efficient" "the most tactful"?to the sound of such words, and of boisterous demonstrations, Henry Hastings Curran ferried away from his post of Immigration Commissioner at Ellis Island, to which three years ago he brought deep knowledge, experience, keen intelligence...
Bride of the Lamb. Every so often and ever since Ruin the playwrights have been putting a tentative foot on the thin ice above the deep affinity between sex and religion. Now a playwright, William J. Hurlbut, has stepped full on it and there are some who say that it will break and he will be found thrashing around with the police. Some of these say that he has written a great play and some that it is cheapened by the obviously sensational. All were bound by its spell...
...last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers of the omniscient...
Bells, Coins. In Rome on Holy Saturday 3,000 bells rocked and pealed over the thousands thronging to church. These heeded the bells, yet cocked their ears for the first deep boomings of the bell of the Roman Capitol. The elders had last heard it in 1870 when the Pope was deprived of temporal powers. The younglings knew of it as a tradition. No explanation of the resumption of its ringing was given out by Church or State...