The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-12-30


for the statue of the general has been
in place for long time and 1t is
guarded by four huge bronze lions.
For months visitors have looked on
the pedestal and the lions. but never
have seen a sign of working about the
monuments site. Meantime statues
OF other men much less well known to
fame have been completed. erected
and dedicated. The Grant statue when
II Is finally finished will stand in the
grounds of the Botanical gardens fac
ing the capitol There was long de-
lay In selecting the site because of
tremendous opposition to the place
which the committee had given its
sanction. The warfare of words
waged for weeks, but finally the
Botanical garden site was authorized.
one of the reasons why many people
do not want the statue placed where
the committee decided It should stand
was that In order to make room for It
four magnificent trees would have to
be sacrificed. The trees were historic
and were known as the "Crittenden
elms.' The trees were not cut down
but were removed to another place,
but on account of their age it is q
question whether they will survive.
Hundreds Lose Jobs.
Secretaries. clerks, messengers and
doorkeepers of the house of repre-
sentatives have marked Saturday,
March A, 1911, as a black letter day.
It may witness the blotting out from
the pay roll of the names of hundreds
OF employees most of whom have
served the house of representatives
through the long years of unbroken
Republican rule.
Major Alexander Mcdowell of Penn
sylvania, veteran of the Civil war and
veteran of the congressional service,
is the clerk of the house OF representa-
tives, job of prominence and of much
legislative Importance. Major Nc.
Dowell is one of the story-tellers OF
congress. Members say that he spins
a better yarn than either Joseph G.
Cannon, Champ Clark or Chauncey M.
Depew, the men who usually are con.
sidered to be veritable mines of anec.
dote.
The clerk of the house Is good com.
pany and the Democrats as well as
the Republicans have so found him,
but the majors Republicanism is of
the kind in which no man of his party
can find a flaw and therefore, al.
though he is popular and the best of
raconteurs. the Democrats on coming
into power will sever his services
with congress, bit reluctantly per.
haps, but none the less surely
Now that one comes to think of It,
1t is a mistake to say that March
will be black letter day because as
a matter of fact, unless there shall be
an extra session of congress, most Of
the employees of the present house
VIII continue to draw pay until the
next house convenes, for except in the
event of calling an extra session, the
clerks and the door keepers and some
other employees must continue in the
service during the summer months to
care for the capitol; but most of the
employees while still drawing their
salaries will have little to do until
next December, when in their cases
the real black letter day will dawn
Pinchot Versus Taft
1t recently has been reported that
Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Pin.
chot have fallen out Mr.. Pinchot's
Washington friends say that the
rumor is a joke Of the first rank, and
that II by any chance there should be
a basis of truth In it, the country has
nf Sat- l.l.s
like of which tho history of comrade-
ships can furnish few parallels.
The country knew months ago that
Mr.. Pinchot and Mr. Taft had fallen
out. The president has had the last
shot at the forester, bat it may be
that Mr.. Pinchot will return the shot
In kind. Last summer 76 persons in
the employee Of the forest service were
killed and nearly 200 were injured
while fighting forest fires in the
northwest When the casualty lists
were all in Mr. Plnchot said publicly
that the loss of life and the injuries
to the men of the service were due to
the fact that congress had been mig
gardly in its appropriations. Mr.
Pinchot was bold enough to lay the
blame on the shoulders of individual
members of congress whom he called
by name. These members resented
the implication that they were re.
sponsible for policy of murderous
economy.
Mr.. Taft got back at Mr.. Pinchot in
this wise: In his annual message.
without mentioning Nh. Pinchot's
name Of course. but perhaps making
his reply more direct by the omission,
he said that the loss OF life and the
damage done was not due to the lack
of appropriation by congress to meet
the emergency He declared that the
secretary of the interior had funds
from which the law allowed him to
draw in just such cases and that these
funds were drawn on TO the extent
of a million dollars. Mr.. Taft be.
lieves that congress was in no wise
tot blame for the casualties in the
Northwest last summer. Mr.. Pinchots
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