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Quay statue in the Capitol at Harris
burg, Pa. The statue has gone into
storage. No claimant appeared at the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Station to claim
the statue, and after remaining there
for weeks il was forwarded to the ware
house of the Harrisburg Storage Com
pany The officials of the railroad COM
pany declare that it is their intention
to auction the statue off should no
claimant appear within a reasonable
length of time. Certainly there should
be men enough in Pennsylvania who
Were kindly treated by Senator Quay
during his life TO defend his statue from
any such disgraceful proceeding as that.
Efforts are being made to obtain par
don for James Arthur Kemp, formerly
property clerk of the Police Department
of Washington, who was convicted of
embeZzlement and sentenced to two
years in the Moundsville Penitentiary.
The petition for pardon was signed by
q number of business men, and every
effort is being made to have this SEN
tence commuted. 1t is said that Kemp
is suffering from catarrh of the stom
ach, and altho he has only nine months
to serve 1t is thought that he will die
before his time is out. While it may
seem hard thing to say, yet it is true
that Mr.. Kemp embezzled the funds
he was about, and was not tempted by
anyone else. After the embezzlement
he deliberately picked himself up and
hiked off for lands unknown, hoping
to escape detection. He had good So
cial position, was well liked by every
body, but deliberately chose to do evil,
when he must have known that diScov-
cry was imminent. 1t is always to be
questioned whether the pardoning un-
der any circumstances of a man of the
character OF Kemp is not more or less
a betrayal of exact justice.
Just now we Americans are priding
ourselves a good deal on what we have
contributed toward the advancement of
the race and the comforts of cfviliza-
tion. Our discovery of the North Pole
or our alleged discovery of, the North
Pole-by two white people. both Amer
fcans, has brought about the conSidera-
ton of our early achievements Up in
New York they are celebrating the in
vention of the steamboat by an Ameri-
can; it was a Washington man and an
American who invented the telegraph;
it was an American who invented the
telephone; it was an American who in
vented the electric light; an American
invented the reaper, which has enabled
us to increase our population at tre-
mendous rate, because we are able to
IeeQ IfleIG now, ana COuiQ not DeIOIe
the invention of the reaper; it was an
American who invented the sewing ma
chine: Americans discovered the sopo-
rife influence of sulphuric ether, where
by the most delicate nerves can be made
fnsensible to the surgeons steel; Ameri-
cans first visited Japan, and opened its
ports TO the Nations of the world;
Americans made the first path in dark
est Africa. and SO we might go on.
America is all right, and we might say
that American civilization, really found
ed upon the Declaration of Independ-
ence, was also the first Government un-
der which all men were declared to be
equal before the law, and Americans
first demonstrated to the world that
a citizen-soldiery would rally to the
support of the Flag and the Constitu-
ton to defend both from the invasion
of foreign foe or domestic inSurrec-
ton. In fact, if there is anything that
Americans are not superior in, some
body please rise up and nail it.
President Taft's Brother Charles" is
deeply devoted to him, and has just had
painted by Sorolla magnificent por-
trait Of President Taft, which has been
installed in the famous portrait art gal
Iery of Mr.. Charles p Taft Senior So
rolla is noted Spanish painter. and
his canyases are worth much more than
tHtlT weight IN SOlu II Is SdiQ lndt 10
obtain the picture at the hands of this
famous artist Mr.. Charles P. Taft paid
a sum which runs into six figures.
The statue of Gen. Lew Wallace
which has been set up in the Gallery
of Horrors in the Capitol is to be un-
vailed very shortly. 1t will stand be-
side that of former Gov. Oliver p. Nor
ton. these two representing the States
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The statue Will be unvailed as soon as
Congress meets. Gov. Marshall and the
Indiana Senators and Representatives
will make addresses James Whitcomb
Riley will read an original poem. The
sculptor OF the statue is O'Connor, and
the work was done in Paris. 1t is said
to be very fine.
Just now YOU are hearing a whole lot
about a new State in the Union It is
to be carved out Of California, and
Northern California is to separate from
Southern California, etc. 1t is all talky,
talky. In the first place, the Constitu-
tion of the United States won't permit
of 1t, and in the second place the people
of California would never consent to IL,
and unless the Constitution and the
people can get together no new State
will ever be made. The United States
Constitution, in section 8 of article 4,
DrOtlueS tEdC no ne" state SNAIL De
formed or erected within the jurisdic-
tion of any other State; nor any State
be formed by the junction of two or
more States, or parts of States, without
the consent OF the Legislatures of the
States concerned, as well as the Con-
gress."
This constitutional provision and the
manner in which California was carved
out of other territory are pointed to as
reasons why such & threat probably
would never reach more definite form.
1t Is not the first time that the question
of the division of California has arisen,
even in so slight way, for taxation
was a problem that started such an agi-
tation in 1S49. At that time, during
the Constitutional Convention, at Mon
terey, there was talk of overthrowing
the Northern influence in California,
then a Territory, and so 70 make possi-
BILE an ultimate division of the State, in
case the southern part proved to be
adapted to slave life.
The Comptroller of the Treasury has
issued a rule in case of civil war veter-
ans who went as substitutes and who
are now claiming bounty for having
been paid to enlist. 1t is an anomalous
sort of a condition, and only man who
has been paid his price for service to
save the Flag would be braZen enough
to demand a bounty for it. The Comp
troller Of the Treasury says:
There is no law authorizing the pay
ment of bounty in the case of a soldier