The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-02-04
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

roaring youngsters like La Toilette
AMI Beveridge and others that there
was only mild sensation this week
when Senator Cummins of Iowa de
livered his maiden speech on the
subject of postals savings banks
The new Senator was not hazed as
he would have been in the old days
by speaking to empty seats or hav'
ing to endure irrelevant Interrupt
tions. but held fairly large mum
Der of his colleagues in their place:
and was declared by them later tc
have acquitted himself like vet.
eran.
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Representative Rainey Of Illinois
introduced a little sensatlonalisn
into the proceedings of the House
Tuesday by speech in which he
accused the President of a miss
tatement of facts III his special mes
sage to Congress con ,erning the
Panama canal in 1906 and an at
tack on Mr. Cromwell for his con-
nection with affairs in Panama as
General Counsel for the Panama
Canal Company. He closed his
speech with promise or a threat
to finish Mr.. Cromwell up at some
later date and said, when l am
through with this man Cromwell
the President and the President e.
lect are welcome to all that is left
of him" Mr.. Rainey went back
four hundred years into the history
of Panama, brought it up to date
and concluded with prediction for
the future in which the United
States is to wreck itself on the
same rocks which foundered the
French Canal scheme. Mr.. Crom-
we'll was characterized as the INA
TONS despoiler" and he insinuated
that the President elect has been a
party to schemes on the Isthmus
which have been of profit to Mr..
Cromwell, his personal friends and
Charles p. Taft, his brother Sen
sations have become so common in
Congress of late that they have
lost their edge and SO many have
had hand in the pastime of spank
ing the President that charge
against the President elect is re-
gar1ed as mild affair.
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An elderly white haired man
WHO has spent the most productive
part of his life on a sheep ranch in
Montana, the benign Senator Car
ter of Montana is responsible for
the proposition to have a road
about two hundred feet wide from
the front door of the White House
to the battle field of Gettysburg
with spaces along it allotted to
each state which will be called up
on to erect groups of statuary or
monuments suitable as a Lincoln
Memorial. The proposition sounds
well. A national memorial to the
great president is desirable and
such highway might we'll embody
the artistic and patriotic sentiment
of the people but carried out it
might result in such another group
of statuary horrors as may be seen
in the rotunda of the Capital or in
some of the Squares of Washing
ton. Nothing short of physical vio-
lence it seems can eradicate from
the American mind the love OF
equestrian statues and the thought
Of fifty miles of war heroes career
ing and cavorting on impossible
horses is one to make the mos
stoical apprehensive. Of course tn,
automobiles of New York, Phila
delphia, Baltimore and Washington
are charmed at the idea of roat
SURPRISING that at Daytona for mo
tor racing but artists and architect
are flooding their members in Con
!, gress with appeals to leave the de
: cision about the adornmeut of tn
road to those who know somethin
7, about art. Three propositions ar
before Congress for the construc
, ton of proper memorial to Lir
= coin. One provides for the road t
= Gettysburg, another for a mont
ment upon a location south of tn
Washington monument and til
y third for memorial arch or per
a style between the new Union st;
). tion and the Capitol. 1t has ais
= been suggested that the Capt.,
grounds be extended and suitab
monument be placed in them as
memorial. d. H. Burnham IL
: distinguished architect has cable
= from Europe that peristyle and
," monumental architectural trea