Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-24

and Jones the experience and supervision, with
the re-uIt that Webster reaped $50, 600 in profits
and Jones SO 600
shortly afterward Gen. Jones was elected as
delegate from Wisconsin and served four
years. but was defeated for the third term by his
connection, as second. with Jonathan Cilley of
Maine in the fatal duel with VIM. J. Graves OF
/ Kentucky.
On the 4.h Of July. 1888 through his instru-
mentality. the territory OF Iowa was in turn
7 created from the territory of Wisconsin, and
named IN accordance with his suggestion. COM
I priElhg all Wisconsin territory except what now
+ Constitutes the state Of Wisconsin
1 When Iowa was admitted rs a state in 1S47
Gen. Jones WAS made Senator from that state,
together with Augustus Cesar Dodge. son Of
/ Senator Dodge Of Wisconsin Young Dodge
and Gen. Jones drew lots for long term
and Jones won. Through his close
friendship with President Pierce, dating
from the latters service in Congress. he
I was largely instrumental in having Jefferson
/ Davis appointed Secretary of War in 1853.
/ Davis often visited Jones at his house and the
[ two college chums were fast friends. In the
| Senate Gen. Jones was for six years chairman
| Of The committee on pensions, and under him
/ we're Senators Seward and Sumner.
| IN AFFAIRS OF HONOR
| Senator Jones in his time was a great be-
lever in the ''code" and figured in seven differ
ent affairs of honor" although principal in
only one. In 1926 he carried a challenge from
[ Gov. Dodge to Or. James Fl. Ralph, who was
afterward a member of Congress from Mis-
souri, Shortly after that he carried another
challenge to DR.. RAJ pa from Robert T. Brown,
a member Of the Missouri constitutional con-
ventiOn of 1890. Neither OF these challenges
was accepted and Raj ph was set down as a cow
ard AFRAID TO risk his life in honorable duels
with gentlemen In 1927, while studying law
IN st GenesIeve. Jones was himself chal-
Iensei bN an oyer-hasty young army officer.
Lieut. Williams of South CAROLINA. He promptly
accepted. and all the arrangements were per-
fected. when the lieutenant. being the agrees
scr. apologized and the affair was declared off.
Later IN the same year Jones served as second
IN a bloodless duel between Thomas W. Newton
and Ambrose Ii. Severe. Newton was then sec
Rotary OF Missouri territory and afterward be-
came Congressman from Arkansas Severe
vas also subsequently elected 10 Congress from
Arkansas and later was appointed minister to
Mexico.
HISTORIC DUEL.
Bat The greatest duel with which Gen. Jones
was connected was the historic conflict in 1888
between Cilley Of Maine and Graves of Ken
tuckv. near the Marlborough road outside of
Washington, growing out OF heated debate in
Congress. in that debate Cllley charged that
according 70 newspaper reports. James Watson
Webb, editor of the New York Courier and In
ttt7'f--the man who gave the name whig to
the wing party-had accepted bride. Webb
arrived IN Washington that evening. aud hear
Ing Of the incident sent letter to CIlley in re-
gard TO it BY the hand OF Graves Cilley de-
clIred to receive the letter. whereupon Henry
Clay. surrounded by squad OF admir1ng wings,
declared tina. the refusal to receive it
was personal insult to Graves Graves
though a close friend of Cilley, was
then prevailed on to challenge Ciley. naming
rltes as the desirable weapons. Through the
Influence Of Franklin Pierce then Congress
f.rn ZONES IDdured IN acta
second Three rounds wore fired and on The
third round Ciliey fell dead The hubbub that
eHsued in Congress and throughout the country
Wa extraordinary An Investigation or
tered. which. after long and animated debate,
resulted IN The passage of stringent laws char
acterizing dueling as murder. Gen. Jones and
many others directly or remotely concerned in
the tragedy we're defeated for reelection BY
their constituents that wear.
IL $50 Jones again acted as a second. this
time 10 Gen. John &. Fremont, who had chal-
leuged Senator Foote of Mississippi on the field
of honor. but the duel was never fought. Eight
years later Jones carried q challenge once more
from senator Dodge of Wisconsin to Col Will
lam Seldeu. formerly treasurer of the United
states under jackson and Van Buren, but the
quarrel was compounded and the duel did not
take place.
As MINISTER TO BoGoTA.
-Four DAYS after Cen Jones' term as Senator
expired. on March 8, 1859, President Buchanan
nominated him rs minister to Bogota After
PRECEDENT Liucoln's Inauguration he was re-
called and right there comes in a strange chap
ter of Gen. Jones history.
In Nav, 1861, while still in Bogota and think
ing. in the absence of any information TO the
contrary. that Jefferson Davis still United
States Senator. he wrote to him as an old
friesd. requesting his good Offices in the de-
sired promotion OF his son. who had been ap-
pointed second lieutenant in the cavalry service
b. President Pierce. This letter was trans
mitted with official dispatches to the State De-
Partment, but it did no. reach Washington
until after Davis had become president of the
southern cohfederacy. The letter was
accordingly intercepted and held at the
state Department. and. under the Pc
culiar circumstances. its contents were nat
uralIy miscOnstrued by the powers in authority
Returning To America. Jones arrived in Wash
ington on December 5. 1861 saw his old friends
President Lincoln and Secretary Seward was
cordislly received at the White House BY the
f1e-ia-It. and accorded diplomatic
nov occupied by James q. Blaine, facing
Lafayette Square.
ARRESTED IN SEw YORK.
At the State Experimentation in the treas
uTy buildins-on December 10 Gen. Jones lpde
goodbye to Seward. who on parting pledged
him over a bottle OF wine and then took a train
20 New York with his niece, intending to pro-
coed thence To his home in Iowa Arriving at
New York be vent at once to the New York Ho-
tel and registered. Before laying down the pen
aud leaving the clerks desk he was summaril,
arrested and next day conducted before Chief
Of Detectives Kennedy. That functionarvs
only explanation of the arrest was conveyed bv
the production Of - telegraph tape on which was
written this Dispatch
''WAsHISGroS ID. c.. Dec. 49, 1851
30 ths Chief of Detectives. New York CITY:
Hon Geo. W. Jones, returning minister
from South America. leaves here for the New
York Hotel Arrest him and send him TO Fort
iafavet.e.
''(SIgned) VIZ H SEWARD"
No charge was specified against Gen. Jones.
but nevertheless be confined for sixty-four
DAYS al Fort Lafayette a political prisoner.
and Il IL said that explanation has to this
day been given Of Secretary Stewards conduct
III the matter.
In TINS connection Gen. Jones' last accounts
"a minister 10 Bogota, amounting to several
thousand dollars. we're never allowed by the
State Department and remain unsettled. ID is
principally to have these settled by act of Con-
gresS that the venerable nonag snarian 10 now in
Washington. Bills to this end we're last week
introduced in the Senate by Senator Wilson of
Iowa. and in the House by Congressman
Henderson of the same state.
Louis James New Wife.
Louis L James the motor ia Tn becnps tho