Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1903-02-21

Friends Of the Measure Moving
to Secure Its Passage.
ErFoRrs NOT LlKrLY no SUCCEED

eeaccs - The Cherokee Alphabet.
RooacveIt's Championship of New
mexico-Man who Does Thtags.
Washington. Feb. 10, -ISpeciaLl-Ai-
though 1t il near the close Of congress,
some efforts are being made to secure
the passage OF the ship Subsidy bill.
This measure has been sleeping quietly
III the house committee Oh merchant
iaarlae since last summer, with the
idea that 1t would be reported ont at
the short session of congress. But the
action Of six Reput ican senators ALL
son and Dolllvcg q. Town spooner aud
Qaaries OF Wisconsin, aud Proctor and
Dillingham; of Vermont ia voting
against tse measure seculs TO have de.
| feated il, for the house under the cir.
cumstauces h~esitates to vote for q bin
wnica these senators opposed. II Is
not believed not eaat the bill will be
reported from tae committee even IL 1t
should be amended, Then there ia
some douot about Il passing the house,
aud, IL amended, It's opponents in tie
senate would have an opportunity to
defeat it.
Wrote an Alphabet.
What a smooth, easy talker Is soma
tor MORGAN OF Alabama, and what a
fund Of informatlon he has on almost
any subject III the course Of a speech
the other dag fayoring the admission
Of she territories ie d~iscoarsed about
tbs fndla.s. ile knew al about them,
all t6e great chiefs and warriors and
indians of note that have been forgot.
ten long ago. he had a personal ac-
aualntancc with many, having seen
them when hc was 4 boy. These were
especially Indians OF the south, who
went % The country beyond the Missis
sippL Que he mentioned was George
Guess. a Cherokee, OF whom Moran
said, NO groa sef man lived in this
country, tried BY the tests with which
we measure human capacity Guess
had written an alphabet, and he was
inspired 20 do 50 because. he said, Gen
erai IacSsou assembled his forces Mt
New Orleans for the great victory by
writing some characters ON paper.
F Guess declared be could do SO and
formed an alphabet of forty-elght char
aeters which was perfectly adapted to
the Cherokee language.
Too Much Illustration.
In a speech against e%xtrayagant mp
preparations Representative Gillett al
ll3cd 10 the p%rofu5e manner In which
some publications were ilIustraa1d, es-
p~aclally the reports az the territories.
After mentioning Alaska, with a series
Of extensive photographs. he said
Here Is Oklahoma with a group en-
titled, Picking Cherries on an Okla
homa Fruit Ranch 1t Is a picture OF
some good looking young women on
ladders-such a group as you might not
only see in Oklahoma, but In any other
territory or In any state OF the United
States. Here In the report from New
Mexico l find one picture entitled Nor.
NAL School Basket Ball Team. Silver
City, 1901 1t Is a picture of d group
OF about a dozen plump and comely
young women in boomers; 1t is the
great basket ball team. ! suppose the
object is to show US mat the west Is
riyaling the effete east In modern civ
ilization, and that these people are well
entitled to admission into the Union"
Roosevelt and New Mexico.
Senator Patterson OF Colorado,
speaking for the statehood blu, quoted
the following:
"All / shall say ia II New Mexico
wants 70 be a state you can count me
In, and / will go to Washington to
speak for you or do anything you
wish"
"By whom was 1t deliveredY" asked
Senator Bate.
ut is an address," said Patterson,
delivered by Hon. Theodore Roose-
Welt, now president Of the United
States, at tile rough riders reunion OH
Sunday, June 20, 1890, at Las Vegas,
~. M"
Does the president Indicate" asked
J Senator Hale, 'ln that rather lars
contract that he entered into that Il
had never been in New Mexico be
forefs
"Taat is what he said" replied Pat
ter-on.
AAN WAS - akAAtA-NAS ait@otNr 80
his IMPRESSIONS further inquired
Hale.
He was a stranger" resumed Pat
terson, but they did not take him In"
fLaushter.l
"But thcy tried to-" Clipped In Sem
ator kean.
'IIe took himself tn added Senator
GallngeE
II am quite convinced that they
could not play any gold brick game on
the honorable gentleman who was I'd
dressing LAT meeting" said Patterson.
He Does Things.
Senator Lodge keeps up bis rcputa-
ton as a man who does things. Presi
dent Roosevelt once remarked that he
liked a man who does things, and that
may account for his admiration for tie