Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-13
PROBABLE CONGRESS WILL
ERECT MONUMENT TO GEN.
ERAL GREENE.
HAD CONSPICUOUS PART
in REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Commanded Forces at One Of the Ro-
mances Of the conflict-House Com
mittee on Pensions to Give Increase
to Civil War HERDS Widow-Wash-
inston Gossip.
Especial Correspondence

Washington, April 13.-Congress Is
likely to do something to honor the
memory of that great soldier of the
senate committee on library has lately
reported favorably bill for the erec-
ton of statue to General Greene on
the Guilford battle-ground in North
Carolina, or rather on the ground
where what is known in history as the
battle of Guilford Court House was
fought.
General Greene was a native of
Rhode Island, a Quaker by descent and
a lawyer by profession He entered
the revolution as a brigadier general
in command Of Rhode Island troops but
was soon made a major general in the
continental army He fought at Tren
ton under Washington and command
ed the American left wing at German
town. Washington had great conf
dence in him and after the defeat of
Gates at Camden by Lord CORVALLIS
in August, 1850, he sent Gates to COM
mand the forces in the south. The
story of his campaign against Corn
wallis, resulting in driving the British
from the south, is one of the romances
of the revolution. Guilford Court
House was one of its most desperate
engagements and, tho Greene reiterated.
it resulted in severely Gripping Corn
wallis who also was compelled to fall
back, leaving his wounded to the care
OF the Americans. 1t is said by Benton
that Guilford Court House made York
town possible. This battle and others
fought about the same time have given
Greene deserved reputation as the
American commander Of the revolution
who stood second to Washington him
self. He was called the savior of the
south"
The house committee on pensions
lately voted to increase from s12 to $40
per month the pension of MRS. Anna E.
Barnard, the widow of John G. Bar
nard, late colonel of engineers of the
army. and brigadier general United
States volunteers. The action Of the
committee recalls the fact that General
Barnard during much of the civil war
was engaged in the construction Of the
defenses Of Washington. He was
West Point graduate and an engineer
OF great ability. He was a veteran of
the Mexican war. He prepared the de-
lenses which were occupied by McClel-
lan's army at Malvern Hill, where Lee
suffered bloody repulse. His work
in connection with the defenses of
Washington was OF highest Importance,
the fortified line extending over a dis
lance of thirty-three miles. in Which
were constructed sixty-eight enclosed
forts and batteries, with emplacements
for 1.120 guns and ninety-eight NOR
tars. OF, which S07 We're mounted. The
works also included ninety-three un-
armed batteries, having emplacements
for 40 guns, and over twenty miles of
infantry trenches. These works were
in large measure responsible for the
fact Washington was never captured
in the civil war. Mrs. Barnard is now
81 years of age, in poor health, and
the committee says in poor circum-
stances, and in view of her husbands
deemed fitting her pension be in
creased.
The stories of ruptures in the cabinet
which are being much circulated late
ly bring to mind the fact that Lyman
j. Gage was nearly driven out of the
Mckinley cabinet in which he was
secretary Of the treasury by newspaper
reports. After Mr.. Gage had been in
the cabinet for a time. an influential
paper appeared with persistent reports
that President Mckinley wanted to get
rid of Gage but had found no way del
icately to let him know the fact. One
story after another of that sort APP
peared until finally, Gage one morning.
picked up a clipping telling how Nc
kinley wanted him out and immediate
ly thrust 1t into an envelope with a
note in which he said:
"Mr. President if you want me to
leave the cabinet you don't need to go
to the newspapers to tell me so.''
Mr. Gage was about to seal up the
envelope and address it to the White
House when he showed it to close
friend who told him not to send it and
that President Mckinley knew nothing
of the stories of retirement. Gage took
the advice, tore up the note and the
envelope, and saved what would have
unquestionably been break in the
cabinet.
Senator julius Caesar Burrows.
chairman OF the committee on priv
leges and elections in the senate, is not
showing any noticeable signs Of
warmth over the campaign publicity
bill. He has always stood out against
such legislation and there is every rea-
son to believe he will do so now that
the question is once more before his
committee. With a congressional cam