The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-01-12
Memorial Building Is Planned
for Washington.
CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING
Two Young Women at National Cap
ital Are Made Chippewas by Adop'
tion-Charles Crisp, Ne"
ParIiamentarian Of
the House.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

patches recently it was said that SEN
ator Curtis. who has considerable
share of Indian blood in his veins,
had the honor as acting presiding Of
ticer of the senate to sign resolution
granting permission for the erection
of a memorial statue to the American
Indian on a site overlooking New YORK
harbor Now Senator Curtis and hep
resentative Carter of Oklahoma. who
like the senator has Indian blood IN
his veins, have promised to aid in a
movement started by the Improved Or
der of Red Men of the United States
for the erection In Washington OF a
memorial building to the American IN
dian to cost 100000 The tribute. 1t
is proposed, shall take the form OF a
structure in which are to be kept such
relics Of Indian husbandry, art ana
literature as may be contributed by as
sociations and individuals.
In speaking of the proposal for the
Indian memorial. Mr.. Carter says:
This entire country has been carved
out of the domain Of the red men.
who, insofar as tribal relations arc
concerned, are rapidly passing away
and soon will be merged into general
cosmopolitan citizenship Of the coun'
try. 1t seems TO me some such me-
mortal as suggested where the relics
Of the handlwork of the Indian may
be preserved would be just and falth'
full tribute to the American aborlg'
ines"
Two Girls Become Chippewas.
In connection with this Indian mat
ter it might be said that two young
women of Washington, one the secre-
tary of Representative A. 0. Stanley,
chairman of the steel Investigating
committee, and the other one OF the
committees stenographers, have been
taken into the great Chippewa tribe OF
Indians by adoption.
When Leonidas Merritt was giving
his testimony before the Stanley com.
mittee In connection with the matter
Of the Messabba iron ore deposits. he
suggested half loosely that adoption
into the tribe of the Chippewas await
ed the two young ladies If they would
but say the word. 1t seems that MIR.
Merit was taken into the tribe some
years ago as a hereditary chieftain OF
a band of which the full-blooded mem.
bers are now extinct. THIS honor
gave Mr.. Merritt the right 40 adan..
orners into the tribe.
Miss Minnie Mailer and Tdiss Kath-
crime Green, both Of whom are Of Hen.
derson. Ky, and who now have en-
pioyment in a congressional commit
tee. are now. through the formality
OF adoption. known as Wabun and
Wabunanung, the translations of which
are supposed to be "the first faint
flush Of incense breathing morn and
eastern morning star"
New House ParIiamentarian.
Asher Kinds. who was the, parlla.
mentarian of the house when Mr.. Can.
non was speaker. is now member OF
the house from the Portland (Me.) dis.
trict. The house needs parliament.
arian, who is not so known, however.
but is called clerk at the speakers
desk. When Mr.. Kinds stepped from
the desk down to the floor as a mem.
Der. it was thought that the Demo
cratic speaker would be put to it to
find successor who would be able
as Mr.. Kinds was to quote precedent
or decide poin. on the instant There
was a careful study of the teld and
finally the choice fer parliamentaria
fell on Charles Crisp of Georgia, Tho is
q son of Charles Frederick Crisp. also
Of Georgia, and who was member
of six congresses in succession and
who was also the Democratic speaker
Of the house In the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third congresses.
TiIlman "comes Back"
Senator Benjamin r. Tillman OF
South Carolina is not only back
In Washington, but Is back In
the field for reelection to the upper
house. The senator was a very Ill
man last winter. but his health seems
to have improved wonderfully. At the
time that the South Carolina senator
was SO i'll there was something pa
thetic in what he said to friend
when he was about TO leave Washing.
ton. He has a good deal of poetry
in him, despite what some people con.
slider his rough exterior. He was in
need of rest and when he was asked
II he were going home he said, Eyes,
| am going down to the old state and
to my garden to look at the roses
and to hear the hooking birds sing"
Edmund Heller, who accompanied
Colonel Roosevelt on the Smithsonian
expedition into Africa, is now in the
northern part Of the Dark Continent
again, with Paul ]. Rainey Of New
York. Mr.. Rainey is collecting on be-
halt of the Smithsonian institution
and Mr.. Heller is preparing the speci'
MEMS The Smithsonian institutions
reports show that up to last month
the members of its new African expe-
dition had collected for it 700 large
mammals, 5000 small mammals and