The National tribune., 1910-03-24
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. While President Taft is touring in
the West and making from eight to IS
speeches day Mrs. Taft and her sis
ter. Mrs. Moore, are in New York City
shopping and having good time gen.
orally.
Mrs. Dennis Claude. the granddaugh-
ter of Francis Scott Key. author of the
Star Spangled Banner" died in this
city last week.
Mrs. G. ]. Diekima. wife of Judge G.
J. Diekima. Representative from Michi-
gan, died last week, and her body was
taken to Holland, Mich, their former
home for interment.
Senator Lodge is unsparing in his
ldisparagemento of not only the statues
| in the Hall of Horrors" in the Capitol,
but also of the originals of the statues,
and he doubts very strongly whether
Congress acted just as wisely as II
might in opening the doors of the Cap
itol for the bronze and marble effigies
OF the favored sons of the several
States. Senator Lodge so expressed
himself at the unvailing of the Calhoun
statue, saying: I'VE do well to place
high the statue of Calhoun, and would
that he could stand with none but his
peers about him, and not elbowed and
crowded by the temporarily notorious
and the illustrious obscure" When Sem
ator Lodge said that he. just simply ex-
coriated the epidermis of the whole
question. He didn't particularize the
"illustrious obscure;" but if he had, of
the something like 60 statues that now
make that little old hall look like
graveyard on a moonlight night there
probably wouldn't be half a dozen left.
There are about half dozen that would
really and truly have no right to be
there. 1t is more than likely that the
volcanic wave of patriotism that has
been rolling and rumbling ever since
the landing of the Lee statue in the
Capitol is one of the causes which has
brought about the close inspection of
the statues that the several States have
selected TO represent them in the Ma
tional Capitol About the only safe
guard that was thrown about the plac-
ing of statue there was to declare that
it was that of a former Vice President
of the United States, or that the SUBJ
ject of it was dead. And that was all,
except that the subject must not have
left mendacious reputation behind
him. There is strong reason to be-
lieYe that if the objection is only kept
up vigorously there, will be a reading
OUT of the statues in Statuary Hall
dliu d Fe-eHdclHieEl Oh the law difO~lHS
States to place them there. In the first
place, the little old hall is hardly big
enough to form a background for one
good-SiZed statue, and the men of
smaller stature have the largest statues
in the hall. There is a tiny little plas-
ter-of-pariS statue of Washington there
that is only about five feet high, and,
as everybody knows, Washington him
self measured six feet four in his stock
ing feet.
Mr.. Peary is having pretty difficult
time of it down South in the land of
chiralry. He was scheduled for lee
ture in Atlanta, and had engaged a hall
that would seat 5000 or 5000 people,
and the Mayor of the city declined to
present him and the Governor of Geor-
gia also declined to present him, so it
looked for time as tho he would have
to present himself, but he finally dug
up somebody who was willing to say
that This is Mr.. Peary." The Mayor
of Atlanta said that he didn't have any
use for a man like Peary, who had been
using the Government money all these
years, and then desired to use the
knowledge he had gained thru the use
of that money for his own private ends
Also he said that he thought that Peary
was a faker, and that he should have
presented his records to number of
scientific societies of Denmark and 9TH
er countries. To this Mr. Peary replied:
Would you consider it the proper
thing for an American naval officer or
any American citizen 10 go to foreign
country and ask that country to pass
upon discovery made in an American
ship under American direction?''
Which is right funny, when one re-
members the fact that Mr.. Peary was
never an officer in the United States
NaVV heinD inst MI nIai fi,-i
engineer, and he was not gathering in
formation for the Navy Department
Owing to the chivalric manner in which
he has been treated in the South Mr.
Peary has Cancelled all of his lecture
engagements down there.
Representative James B. Perkins died
in Washington last week. He was one
of the strong members of the House
from New York, and it will be a diff
cult matter to fill his place with just as
good man. The President fixed upon
Representative Perkins as an excellent
man for the Diplomatic Service, and he
was about to be appointed ambassador
to Brazil. Representative Perkins
knowing what a fake most of the ad-
journments of Congress are-that is,
when they adjourn in memory of mem
bers of the House who have passed
laway-left a special request that they.
lshouid not tamper with his memory in
that way. There was time when the
House or the Senate could really and
truly adjourn just as soon as the death
of a member of either body was an
nounced. but of late years this custom
has descended into regular farce COM
edy. member of either body may be
dead the evening before, but his col
leagues. altho his death and eulogies
appear iE the morning papers will
make no attempt to bring it before
either House or Senate until about two
minutes before those bodies wish to ad-
journ. Then they proceed with long
] and mournful faces to announce the
death of the colleague. and move that
| the House do now adjourn in honor of
the deceased" and. of course, as the
House is all ready to adjourn, it ad-
journs.
| Benz. +. Noyes, civil engineer of
the Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad who
had lived much in Washington, died
last week in Baltimore. Mr. Noyes was
a cousin of the late Crosby S. Moves, of
the Washington Evening Star, and cele-
brated his 91st birthday last January
He was one of the most experienced
engineers in the country. He accom-
panied Thomas Winans to Russia in
1851, experimenting the construction
of the first railroad between Moscow
and st. Petersburg. For his services in
the AlXeandroffsky shops he was pre-
isented with medal of the Order of