The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-12-24

ment IL not completed. The pedestal
for the statue Of the general has been
In place for a long time and II Is
guarded by four huge bronze lions.
For months visitors have looked on
the pedestal and the lions. but never
have seen 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
1t 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 1t
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 It Is a
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 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
is the clerk Of the house Of representa-
tives, 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
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 80 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, a 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 4
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
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 tt
care for the capitol; but most of the
employees while still drawing theil
salaries will have little to do unit
next December, when in their casei
the real black letter day will dawn.
Pinchot Versus Taft.
1t recently has been reported tina
Theodore Roosevelt and Clifford Pin
chot have fallen out. Mr.. Pinchot'
Washington friends say that tn
rumor is joke of the first rank, an
that If by any chance there should b
basis of truth in 1t, the country ha
case Of severed friendship for tn
like of which the history of comrade
ships can furnish few parallels.
The country knew months ago tina
Mr.. Pinchot and Mr.. Taft had falle
out. The president has had the las
shot at the forester, but 1t may b
that Mr.. Pinchot will return the sho
in kind. Last summer 76 persons Il
the employee of the forest service wer
killed and nearly 200 were injure
while fighting forest fires in tn
northwest When the casualty list
were all in Mr.. Pinchot said publicl
that the loss of life and the injurie
to the men of the service we're due +
| llo ldCI tudI COu6TobS udu Deeu uit
gardly In its appropriations. Nj
Pinchot was bold enough to lay tn
. blame on the shoulders of individus
members Of congress whom he Gale
by name. These members resente
the implication that they were r,
sponsible for policy of murderou
, economy.
: Mr.. Taft got back at Mr.. Pinchot
this wise: In his annual messag
| without mentioning Mr.. Pinchot
, name of course, but perhaps maxim
, his reply more direct by the omission
, he said that the loss of life and tn
, damage done was not due to the lac
. Of appropriation by congress to me,
Z the emergency. He declared that tn
> secretary of the interior had fund
from which the law allowed him I
I draw in just such cases and that thes
: funds we're drawn on to the exteI
| Of million dollars. Mr.. Taft b
/ lieves that congress was in no wiz
, tot blame for the casualties in tn
|. Northwest last summer. Mr.. Pinchot
q friends believe that he will have som
D thing further to say on this subject.
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