Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-26


The school board of the District of Co
lumbia has been agitated for several
months by protest from certain agnos-
tics and other citizens against the use of
a song book known as The Students
Hymnal," which contains several famil-
lar religious hymns as we'll as patriotic
songs and choruSeS appropriate for chill
dren's voices. They object to the use Of
any book which contains religious hymns
After Il long discussion in the newspa-
perS and elsewhere the board of educa-
zion laid the protest upon the table and
adopted an elaborate report in which it
agrees to the proposition of those who
contend that sectarian religion should
not be embraced in school exercises, but
do not agree with those who insist up
on excluding every formal recognition of
divine providence from the Schools 1t
quotes at length from the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States in
the Warren case, which held that Chris
tianity was the religion of this nation.
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The original copy of the muster roll of
President Lincoln's company in the
Blackhawk war has disappeared from
the files of the treasury and all traces
of it have been lost. 1t was a part of
the records of the Office of the auditor
for the War Department and has been an
object of interest there for many years
While Secretary Carlisle was Secretary
of the Treasury he sent for it and had it
photographed. His receipt is in the
pigeon hole where the original document
ought to be, which proves that the latter
was nnvnr VntuVOn6 to tho filpS The
treasury photographer remembers the in
cident and the negative is preserved all
right, but he does not recall who brought
the document to him or who took it away,
and it is probably now in the hands OF
some autograph collector because it is
one of the most interesting relics of Lin
coin in existence.
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President Mckinley will take the oath
of office when inauguratcd for his second
term upon handsome Bible furnished
by local statiOner. In size it is about
six and half inches by nine inches,
from the Oxford University press, hand
sOmely printed in plea, bound in Lcvant
morocco, flexible cover, edges red under
gold. 1t is the custom of the clerk of
the United States Supreme Court to fur
lish the Bibles used on such OCCASIONS
but at President McKinley's first inaugu-
ration the Afro-Nlcthodist bishops pre-
sented a large Bible in handsome case
The Bibles used are held by the clerk of
the Supreme Court until the official seal
Of the court is affixed to a statement re-
citing the purpose for which the Bible
has been used, when it is sent to the
President.
There are now more than $4,000 claims
of veterans of the Spanish and Philippine
wars awaiting action at the pension bu-
reau. At the close of the last fiscal year,
June so, 1906, there were only 1,I5J pen
SionerS of these wars on the rolls. OF
this number S13 were widows and SS2
were invalids. These pensioners were
receiving $332, 800, or an average of over
S15 a month each. There were then
pending thousands of other applications,
and the increase has lately been so heavy
that the force employed at the pension
bureau is unable to keep pace with it.
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When Mr.. Roosevelt shall have been
installed as President there will be
in the Senate tn survivors of three
wars--the Mexican, the Civil aud the
Spanish-American. Gen. Bate OF Ten
nessee is the only Senator who saw ser
vice during the Mexican war. Though
Senator Pcttus of Alabama was in the
army during that period. he never got
to the front. There are twenty or more
venerable Senators who were on one side
or the other during the Civil War, but
Mr.. Roosevelt will be the only veteran OF
tho SnlniSb- 4 mpriron c1uflipt
Senator Tillman always calls the Pearl
of the Antilles "Cuby." Mr. Jones Of
Arkansas pronounccs it "Koobah," and
other statesmen have other pronouncia-
tions. Senator COckrcll insists upon call
ing our new possessions in the Pacific the
"Filipians," and Senator Morgan always
alludes to the Sandwich Islands as
"How-aye-ee." There ought to be a COM
mittee on pronunciation in Congress.
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The House committee on printing has
again reported resolution for the pub
LEGATION at government expense of the re-
ports of the committee on awards of the
woDlds Columbian exposition.