Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1910-12-30

employee. New York already has
passed a law which helps a little In
the solution of the difficulty The
committee will report
early in the next session.
visitors to Washington are won
dering why the great Grant monu-
ment is not completed. The pedestal
for the statue of the general has been
in place for a long time and it 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-
Law 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 II
four magnificent trees would have to
be sacrificed. The trees we're 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 1t Ii q
question whether they will survive.
Hundreds Lose Jobs.
Secretaries, clerks, messengers and
doorkeepers of the house of repre-
| sentatives have marked Saturday,
March 4. 1911, as q black letter day.
It may witness the plotting 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-
ttves, a 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 @.
Cannon, Champ Clark or Chauncey M.
Depew, the men who usually are con-
sidered to be veritable mines of anee-
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 lie 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, a bit reluctantly per-
haps, but none the less surely.
Now that one comes to think of 1t,
1t Is a mistake to say that March 4
will be black letter day because as
matter of fact, unless there shall be
an extra session of congress, most of
the employees of the present house
will 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
4 Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford PIN
chot have fallen out. Mr. Pinchot'r
1 Washington friends say that tht
: rumor Is a joke of the first rank, anC
!. that If by any chance there should b.
a basis of truth In 1t, the country hai
, a case of severed friendship for tn,
u like OF which the history OF comrade
l. ships can furnish few parallels.
I The country knew months ago tina
II Mr.. Pinchot and Mr. Taft had falle1
!, out The president has had the las
y shot at the forester, but IL may b,
that Mr.. Pfnchot will return the sho
g in kind. Last summer rs persons II
L the employe Of the forest service usr
l. killed and nearly 400 were injure,
q while fighting forest fires In tn
y northwest. When the casualty list
n were all in Mr.. Pinchot said publicf
q that the loss Of life and the injurie
3 to the men of the service were due b
a the fact that congress had been mis-
IL gardly in its appropriations. Mi
70 Pinchot was bold enough to lay tn
T. blame on the shoulders Of individus
IL members of congress whom he Gale
s. by name. These members resente
Id the implication that they were r,
ID sponsible for policy of murderou
y economy.
d. Mr.. Taft got back at Mr.. Pinchot
Is this wise: In his annual messag,
Do without mentioning Mr.. Pinchot
~ name OF course, but perhaps maxim
~ his reply more direct by the omission
lie he said that the loss of life and til
st damage done was not due to the lac
as OF appropriation by congress TO me,
X the emergency. He declared that Ii
An secretary Of the interior had fund
es from which the Law allowed him
draw in just such cases and that the,
es funds were drawn on to the exta,
of OF million dollars. Mr.. Taft h
ed lieves that congress was in no wi,
al tot blame for the casualties In II
Ill Northwest last summer. Mr.. Pinchot
tx friends believe that he will have aom