The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-31
National Legislator Who Was Not an
Orator, but Achieved Much for His
state and Country.
CASE OF CAPTAIN M'CALLA
INDIANIAN WHO WANTS CHARGE
OF DISCRETION REMOVED.
Rural Mail Carriers AppOinted-The
II. III. Fitzgerald Case to he
Considered.
am correspondence of the journal.

were the ceremonies in the Senate cham
Der this afternoon in memory of the late
Senator James Mcmillan, of Michigan. Sen
ator Fairbanks, who was one of the speak
ers, said in part:
THE ceremony in which we are engaged
to-day is time-honored and beautiful. 1t is
most fitting that we should pause in the
transaction of the Nauon's business to pay
tribute to the memory of one Of the Ma
TONS departed servants, to place upon the
permanent records of the government our
esteem of his life and work. To-
day recall the fruits and achieve
ments of no ordinary man. Senator
Mcmillan attained high rank, and held
place of distinct and commanding influence
in his State and Nation. and we may well
contemplate the elements which gave him
place and power and which made him
troops of friends. He was not an orator;
he spoke but seldom. and only when occa-
sion demanded, and then only in the brief
est possible way. His eyes were never fixed
upon the galleries. There was never
present in what he did any sign of
thought of mere personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
He coveted the rich jewel, modesty, and
seemed to care most of all for the approval
of his own conscience. He was a man of
uncommon good judgment. He possessed
that homely and invaluable quality called
common sense, and reached the central
truth of important questions with an al
most unerring instinct. His opinions were
always coined in the mind of an
honest . purpose he was ,rSnps sincere re
indirectness or discrimination. He had no
patience with sham and pretense, for he
loved the genuine and the natural He pos
sessed that essential quality in statesman
ship, integrity Of purpose, without which
there can be achieved In statecraft no hon
orable and enduring success. True states
diency, but upon fundamental essentials.
Craftsmanship of the highest order finds its
predicate in patriotic and enlightened
conscience.
Charles Nj. Robinson, a former Craw-
louisville resident, now employed in the
Government Printing Office, has recently
been elected president of the Veterans
Club of the printing office. The club is
composed of veteran soldiers, and the
membership numbers more than one hun
dred. Secretary-treasurer Bonny, also, Is
a former Indiana man, and Captain I. G.
Purcell, a member of the executive COM
mittee came to Washington from -Craw-
louisville. The wives and daughters of
the veterans maintain an auxiliary society.
of which Mrs. Theodore Mcclure, formerly
of Indianapolis, is president. A considera-
BILE per cent of the club is composed of In
diana men. The organization Is maintained
purely for social enjoyment. The men,
bers meet once month and give an en-
tertainment, and occasionally during the
summer an outing is one Of the features.
William A. Hartman, a well-known Indi-
ana printer who enjoys the reputation of
being one of the best in the country, is
winning, laurels in Washington as a Chris
tan worker at one of the prominent mis-
sions of the city. Hartman is employed
at the Government Printing Office, but utili-
ICES much of his spare time in editing
little mission journal that has wide cir
at the mission, where his sermons have
become very popular with the hayward
who stray into the place. The earnest
spirit that characterizes his addresses is
felt by his coworkers to be doing much
good. Hartman came TO Washington from
Charlottesville
Lieut. wilfred Hoggatt, who was reared
at Boonville, Ind, has been in town for
a few days and has been spending consid-
cradle time with his friend James A. Hem
enway. Lieutenant Hoggatt during the
Spanish-American war, held an important
position with the War Department here in
Washington, and shortly after the close of
the war he resigned to go into the mining
business with his brother. They have in
terests in Alaska, where they have made
a great deal Of money.
Wells NJ. Sawyer, inspector of furniture
for the government, has just returned
from trip to Indianapolis, where he went
to inspect the furniture being construct
ed by the Thompson Furniture Company
of that city. The Thompsons, he says.
are among the most successful bidders for
government work of this kind in the coun-
try. This morning Mr.. Sawyer and the in
spector general of public buildings had a
long talk about the old federal building
at Indianapolis. discussing certain details
of the work of taking care of the place.
Representative Miers and Senator Fair
banks to-day presented TO the committee
on military affairs the bill. to correct the
military record of Capt. Henry L. McCalla,
of Bloomington, Ind. In November, 1862,
Captain McCalla left his company and went
home to get horse and an outfit as major.
to which rank he had been promoted Ow-
ing to some jealousies in his regiment he
was marked as a deserter. He made appli-
cation to the War Department for the cor
rection of his record. Judge Hughes intro
duced the bill in Congress in 1864. Repre-
sentative Miers took ii up last session and
had bill pass the House correcting Nc
Gala s record. out IL talled In the Senate
for want of time He presented a similar
bill this session of Congress. which also
passed the House and is now pending be-
fore the Senate committee. Judge Miers
has taken great interest i'm the bill, as he
has known Captain McCalla for many
years Captain McCalas comrades also
have taken an interest and resolutions in
favor of the bill were adopted by the regi-
ment at their reunion last summer SEN
ator Fairbanks has charge of the bill In
the Senate
Senator Fairbanks called at the State De-
partment this afternoon. 1t was said that
no fresh information had been received
concerning the condition of Hubbard T.
Smith, of Vincennes, who is vice consul at
Cairo. Egypt. He is critically i'll at Genoa.
where he was taken on the advice of this
government Yesterday semi-official
cablegram was sent from the State Depart
ally, but no answer has been received.
Alfred A. winslow. minister to Guate-
mala City, who has been in Washington for
several days. left tonight for his home at
Hammond Ind.
III. ID. Jacquish. who is proud of the dis
tinction Of having won his wife i'm Lake
county, Indiana. Is here from Georgia. He
is engaged in gold mining in the South
The Postoffice Department will to-mor
row take up for consideration the COM
plant against p. II. Fitzgerald. of Indian
apoiis. who is charged with operating a lot