The National tribune., 1904-05-12
u. S. TREASURY RECEIPTS.

der what appeared to be the most favor
able auspices. Money was raised by pop
ular subscription, q costly design was ap-
proved, site selected, and cannon donated
by the Government out of which to con-
struct the great bronze figures.
The officers of this association were
President, James Harlan; Vice-President,
John +. briggs; Secretary, James Nj. Ed
munds; Treasurer, Francis Il. Spinner
Managers, Francis Thomas, Sidney Per-
ham, Henry D. Cook. Bishop Simpson
Burt Van Horn, Schuyler Colfax, Ma
thaniel G. Taylor, Frederick Douglass.
Ma. Gen. 0. o. Howard, Samuel Shelian-
barger, John CONFESS, and George h.
Williams.
About half of these are now dead, and
the others declare that they do not remem-
Der anything about it. The act of Con-
greSS declared that the cannon should not
be turned over to the Association until at
least 100000 was raised by it in clean
cash. This money must have been raised.
for there is a record in the War Depart
ment of the turning over to the Association
of II bronze guns. What became of the
guns and the money!
Nobody here knows. Do you? Certif-
Gates of stock at one dollar each were is
sued. Did you ever buy one? These GER
tificates are handsomely engraved affairs
with a picture of Lincoln in one corner,
and in the upper center, the figure of
woman stirring some kind of brew which
stands smoking hot in an urn. There are
some of these certificates yet in the Treas
ury Department, and there is also on file
a kind of magazine, half a dozen copies of
Vol. |, No. l." of the National Lincoln
Monument" 1t bears the date of May IA,
1868. In the salutatory of the publication
il speaks of Gen. Spinner as Treasurer.
and reports that he had recently received
large sums of money from different people.
including $500 from the First National
Bank of Titusville; 500 from Placerville,
CAL; 500 from J. III. Gray, Postmaster
at Austin, New, and various other larger
and smaller donations. Did you ever senl
anything?
The monument was designed by Mills,
and is the worst mixad-up and most in
congruous affair imaginable. 1t was to
be three stories high, with browning"
figure which was to be Lincoln in bronze
sitting uneasily on a chair surrounded by
''slaveS" in various abject attitudes. The
whole structure was to be 20 feet high and
was to have 80 colossal figures in bronze
disposed about it. 1t was to be triangular
in shape. There were to be nude sla yes
and half-clad slaves and slaves enamel
pated, on it, and horses rampant, horses
quiescent, and just horses. There was to
be group representing the Cabinet in ses-
sion, while Seward points toward Europe.
as though explaining the Importance of the
act" so the description runs. There was
to be group of officers of the Army and
Navy, and another group representing the
fall of Richmond.
Oh, but it was to be nightmare all
right. Washington has had several of
them in the shape of hideous bronzes and
horrible marbles, and these have cost
mint of money, but if this memorial to
Lincoln had been built it would have been
the browning misfortune of art. 1t was
never built. But what become of that
S1O0,OOO, and who got away with the IL
bronze cannon! 1t does look as though
some of the prominent men whose names
are down as the incorporators, or some of
the people who bought the dollar stocks,
should remember something about it, but
there has not been discovered a single man
who has any remembrance Of the business,
except that an enterprsing newspaper
person" happened to get hold of the loose
end of thread in the War Department
where the cannon transaction is noted and
has ravelled it down to this. Can you help
out any on the mystery!
The Bureau of Navigation has forward
ed to the next of kin of all enlisted men
who were killed in the Missouri accident,
and whose remains have been sent from
Pensacola to the places designated by their
relations, blank form of request for the
headstones which are furnished upon ap-
plication to the Quartermaster- General,
United States Army, to mark the graves
of sailors or marines buried in private
cemeteries. The headstones are of the best
American white marble, 81 inches long.
IL inches wide, four inches thick, the top
slightly rounded, with the name. etc, cut
in.
Cen Funston is feminist feeding the In
dams up in his military district unless they
are made to work. and he says that giving
them work is an uncertain proposition. be-
cause just soon as they get their
stomach's full and little liquor ahead
they quit, leaving him shorthanded. He
evidently considers the Aleuts about as
worthless pieces of creation as can be we'll
imagined. He decidedly objects to the Gov
eminent feeding them by the wholesale,
he is sure that that method of procedure
tends to pauperiZe them. In no case will
he permit rations to be issued to able
bodied men. Gen. Funston's head seems
to be in good working order and quite rs
large Drained as men of more generous pro-
portions physically. He does not intend
through mawkish sentimentality.
The Korean Crown Prince who has
been in kind of exile i'm
the United States coming here TO
get away from the troubles which
are making storm center of his some-d
to-be kingdom. has been quite i'll of the
measles at the Legation in this city. Crown
Prince Eui-Wha is not having the merry
life that boy of his age should have. Al
though he is heir to the throne of Korea.
he may never live TO reach il, and If he
should live to mature age, it is more
than probable that there will be no throne
left for him to ascend. This is a day
when Captains and the Kings depart"
and thrones crumble in 9 night.
Frederick v. Martin. of Indiana. Com
missioner of immigration for Porto Rico
killed himself at San Juan week ago
Private financial troubles are said to have
unsettled his mind.
My, my, my! How the Right Reverend
Henry Y. Satterlee. Bishop of Washing
ton. did go after the smart set in sermon
last Wednesday. The Ninth Annual Con
vention of the Protestant Episcopal Church
was in session in Washington, and Bishop
Satterlee opened it with an address that
simply excoriated the social life Of the Ma
tional Capital. He declares that Wash
ingtOn il taking on the "faJse idaoIs tn