Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-23
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Army officers are criticising the Logan
statue quite severely. They say that his
position in the saddle is altogether I'M
military, that one leg is longer than the
other, and that no officer ever carried a.
sword in the way that Logan is repre-
scented to have carried his. Congress
man Lands of Indiana severely criti-
clses the pedestal of the statue. Re
ferrlng to the tablet on the east side Of
the pedestal, which represents Logan be
ing sworn in as a United States Senator,
the oath being administered by Vice
President Arthur, Mr.. Lands says: "I'he
scene 1t portrays is entirely fictitious Mr..
Arthur was elected Vice President in
$780, taking his seat March 4, 1881. Gen.
Logan was then Senator, having taken
his seat in 1879, when, of course he was
sworn in, Mr.. Wheeler of New York be-
ing Vice-President. Unless Logan for
some mysterious reason took the oath
second time Mr.. Arthur could not have
administered it to him. Besides Arthur
and Logan the tablet bears the figures Of
Mr. CullOm, William NJ. Evarts and
Roscoe Conkling of New York Oliver P
Morton and Daniel Voorhees, of Indiana
John f. Miller of California, and Allen
q. Thurman of Ohio. They are repre-
scented as Senators looking on at Arthur
swearing in Logan. OF course this must
have been in 1881, as he presided over
the Senate only Mt its special session in
the spring of that year. Gallon was not
then Senator, but Governor of Illinois,
Evarts was not Senator till severak
years later. Morton had been dead more
than three years; Thurman retired with
the end of legislative day, March 3. The
persons represented as being present at
this fictitious scene who had a right to be
there as Senators, if it had really occur
red, were Conkling, Voorhees, who sue
ceeded Morton, and Miller"
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Old soldiers who wish to take up home
steads upon the opening of the Indian
reservation in Oklahoma will do well. in
the opinion of the land Office officials, to
file their own claims and attend to all
the business themselves rather than trust
their interests to agents 1t is reported
in Washington that agents are going
about making contracts with veterans to
represent them and file their claims, and
are charging fee in advance and a see
ond to be paid after filing the claim; but
an agent can serve only one client prop
erly, unless he calls into service large
force of assistants, which they are not
likely to do and cannot afford to do for
the small fees charged. There is no OBJ
lection to an agent making entries for
any number of veterans, but he will DO
compelled to stand in line with other ap-
plicants and will not be allowed to file
more than two claims at time. When
these have been filed he must step out
and take his place at the end of the line
again. 1t is reported that some agents
have already accepted fees from several
hundred old soldiers and no man can do
justice to so many. 1t will be seen, there
fore, that it would be much better for
everybody to look out for himself.
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The Secretary of War has called for
bids from private steamship companies
for furnishing transportation for the gov
eminent between New York, Cuba and
Porto Rico. The idea is to see whether
it is more economical to patronize them
than to continue the present transport
service. which is expensive. The dock
charges alone amount to 100000 year
During the last three months 1876 pas
sengers and 1926 tons of cargo were car
ried 10y the transports, and the quarter
masters department knows the exact
cost, which has been very large, q single
voyage costing from $4,000 to $15,
Bids are invited for the next three
months upon the basis of the passengers
and freight carried during the last three
months, and if Il large saving cen be eff
fected the transport service will be aban-
doned and the private steamships will be
patronized.
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For some reason our commerce with
Cuba is falling off. During the last nine
months the imports of Cuba amounted to
$53, 10S 102, while for the corresponding