The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-04-01
has been sick abed for nearly three

has been SICK aDeU TOT nearly three
months.
Senator Burrows has received a
beautiful letter from A. r. Kruger OF
Marquette, the &C soldier who recently
lost his home by file, and for whom the
senator secured a pension with $500 ar
rears. The old man says that this Is
a miracle which has been wrought in
answer to his prayers 1t certainly did
seem providentiall that the senator
should have been able to call up that
case and have it allowed without delay
of q single day.
When the plan was proposed to rush
business through congress and have an
almost immediate adjournment the
Michigan men stood soldly against the
proposition. They knew that the peo-
pie at home would resent any act or
suspicion of cowardice on the part of
congress.
Are Brave People.
General Spalding said THE people
of Michigan are brave people, and the
citizens of this country are like unto
them. No member of the present con-
gress would dare to face the people, If
by adjournment we gave the world
to believe that we are a nation of cow
ards"
Civil Service Commissioner Mark
Brewer expects to be at Port Huron
on April 90 when the civil service ex-
nminatfons there are held. me COM
missioners do not generally travel
about their own states for such occa-
sions, but Mr.. Brewer has some busi-
ness in Michigan about that time, and
hence will ~ to Port Huron. Appli-
cants for civil service examination
must be 20 years of age.
James H. Kids editorial in the Ionia
Sentinel on "McKinley's First Year."
has been copied quite extensively in
eastern newspapers, including one of
the papers in this city. The editor of
the New York Sun says: 'It is
strong statement in behalf Of the pres
ident, without being an over-state-
ment"
General Miles Claim Criticised.
Major General Miles is being severely
criticised in army and navy circles for
pushing his claim for promotion at a
time of great national emergency. In
the Army and Navy club one of the
veteran retired army officers of the CIV
II war said:
Eat the commencement Of our trou-
bles here Phil Sheridan wrote that he
hoped to be promoted to be major of
his regiment, If the war should last
long enough. Ulysses S. Grant was glad
to get back into the army as captain.
Tecumseh Sherman was delighted when
he was made a colonel. Schofield was
perfectly satisfied to await his chances
for preferment. The two men who be-
came lieutenant generals won their
stars. Now, then, Miles is simply SEN
Tor. major general because he has grown
old in the service, as others are grow
ing old, and when there is some little
prospect of war, he goes to congress and
asks to be made a lieutenant general
before gun is fired" 1t
That is sample of the way people
arc talking of Miles and his bill One
of the naval officers Of the club, who
has seen battle experience, says: mo
body knows yet whether Miles or some
other fellow will prove to be our great
est leader in the event of war with any
country. Actual warfare will develop
that fact. The civil war developed the
real leaders. Mcclellan. Halleck, FIRE.
mont stepped aside for Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan. Nobody entertains
feelings of envy or antipathy for Miles,
but he is certainly not displaying good
judgment or patriotism in pushing his
claims for advancement at this time be-
fore there has been any war and when
we are trying to avoid a war;"
Does Not Want Adjournment
You may deny the report by my au-
thority," says Congressman Dolliver,
because 1 know that the president has
at no time desired or expressed a de-
sire that the congress should adjourn.
Moreover, while there is an impending
crisis 1 know that he wants the con-
gress to remain in session. Further
more, you may say that I know that
IL congress were not in session now,
the president would convene the con-
gress by proclamation. He is not afraid
of the congress. He was so long a
member of the house of representatives
and so thoroughly understands the con-
gress that he has confidence In the con-
stitutional representatives of the peo-
pie. Excepting the brief term of poor
Garfield, there has been no president in
the White House since Lincoln's day
who has been so thoroughly In accord
with the congress as Mckinley Is and
has been from the beginning OF his adj
ministratiQp."