Arizona republican., 1897-12-23
THE NEWS OF WASHINGTON.

Speaker Reed had very timely op- portulity yesterday to rally to tie aid of the republicans and ca-,l vote for their cause. Delegaae Marcus A. Smi h of Arizona was attempting to secure larger appropriation fer his territory -as much as the territory of New Mexico received, and General B ng- ham was resisting him. The oe,n-- crats were supporting him, and on a division MT. Smiths amendment was cared by small marginl Then the republicans demanded tellaTs. and wh5m the cloak rooms had be. Il emp tied and everybody counted the vote sticod 5S to 58. There was d calm. Reprs sentative Hopkins being in the chair Then the door from the Libby slowly opened and the massive form of the speaker appeared. He am3l slowly along, passed, be.wesn the tel- lers, ta.:rying to slowly tap Delcg 1te Smith cn the shoulder. Passing up the center aisle, he turned about to view the ruin he had wrought of the Arizcna/ project. There was lots of fun over Lhe incident, and even Dele gate Smith took it good naturei,y.
 
 "A very amusing incident" said Senator Kyle, occurred in one of the divisions of the war department re- gently. I was transacting some busi- ness with one of the generals S, a v1ry precise, abrupt and Commanding indi- vidual, when a young lawyer from cne of the southern states was ushered in i by an attendant The general, turn ing in his chair, inquired gruff1y: | Well, sir, what can I do for your The young attorney evidently havi g i thought out his prelude as wall as the entire argument he was to present. began by reihearsing the provisions of a bygone river and harbor bill, Ehs i dredging of streams, the meetings of prominent citizens by whom ha had I been deputed, &c.,, when the general stoppsd him. But, sir,' he thundered. will yicu bs kind enough to tell me what you want?' Very much f1ustere l. the young man began again on very much the same s.Ta-E, getting alm0-t as far as 'depuued' when the general exclaimed bluntly: Please tell me. sir, what you want h'sre.' The alter ney, coloring to the roots of his hai7. began his prelude again, whereupon he general rose, and with military command, pointed to a fable. There is table, sir, and some paper; will you please sit there and write out what you want? The lawyer meekly took his seat and I left hin writing h's story"
 Chairman H1tt had teen talking f fr | some time about the barbarity of kil- ing defenseless seal pups.
 "But," said Representative L;vings ton of Georgia, you have in your pos session, as chairman of the foreign af- fairs committee, a resolutio1 | r,5sp ct. ing the poor and defenseless peopl: of Cuba. What do you in end doing about that? Are mot the Cubaas a; much entitled to your care as the sea pups?"
 That question:" replied MT. H-ts smilingly, 'is not asked with ths, v.ew of getting serious answer
 And then he continued with hi speech.
 'In Oakwood cemetery at my hi2me, said Captain Hugh Lewis of Madison Wis, at the EbbItt, "lhe the remains ol 139 confederate soldiers Of al the brave fellows who fought for whet they believed was right they are farth- est from their native southland. At no other point that far to the north is there entombed any large group of those who wore the gray.
 There Is a story about 1t, to which will touch almost any man whose heart is not absolutely cal'ous In 1861 1t was when quite a large number of confedisrates who had been captured at Island No. 10 were broue h. to Camp Randall. Pretty soon sick ness broke out among them and the poor fellows died off rapidly. As many as ten died in single day, and within sixty days 130 had passed over the river. Of these no belonged to the First Alabama, and, save five 'un- known,' rlhe names of all the rest have been preserved.
 Fully thirty years ago Mrs. Alice Waterman, noble-hsarted lady, came from Baton Rouge, La., to make her home at Madison. From the outset she took an interest in caring for the graves of the southerners and her de- votion to the dead seemed to grow With advancing years. She kept the weeds down with her own hands, had each soldiers name painted on head boards, and with her own money bu It a stone curb about the square in which they lay. On the 18th of last Septem- bsr Mrs. Waterman d:ed, and she was laid to rest right in Ehe midst of 'her boys, as she so often affec ionate'y called them. Now that she is gone there is no one to take the deep in- terest which for thirty years she dis played in such an unselfish way, but Major Frank W. Oakley, clerk of the United States court at Madison, and myself have determined to bring the matter to the at:e-,tion of southe n veterans that they may crown Mrs Waterman's work in a worthy way.
 we propose to get funds enough from friends in confederate veterans camps to provide a monument to the dead, and I have DO doubt that funds for such a cause will be forthcoming In fact, there is hardly a town in the south where the people would not, if