The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-05-24

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Union forces OF the Civil war will re
member alike the graves OF northern
and N2uthern soldiers. One week
later however. there will be another
observance at Arlington when the
confederate veterans and Daughters
OF the Confederacy will hold special
memorial services OF their own in
honor of the southern dead.
7 Great Chiefs Lie There.
| Grant and Sherman, the greatest
TWO OF the northern war chieftains,
sleep elsewhere, one on the shore OF
the Hudson and the other in a beau.
tiful cemetery in the city OF ST. Louis
Ihelr place Is in Arlington. Generals,
colonels, sergeants, corporals and pr:.
Yates are side by side in this encamp D.
ment of the dead. The silent tents OF
Unlonists and Confederates are
| pitched not far apart and no guard
stands between. Schotield tFederai)
and Wheeler (Confederate) sleep al
most side by side. They were friends.
then enemies In war, and then friends
again, serving under the same flag
United States.
There are soldiers of many wars
resting in Arlington. Revolutionary
veterans lie under the same trees that
shelter their descendants killed in the
Pnll1ppine Islands. Soldiers who were
the victims of the Seminole and Sioux
sleep side by side, and with them are
uFh fan ~ -
and Buena Vista. Sailors who served
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are in port in Arlington.
General Sheridan rests under a no.
Bile monument not far from the Cur.
tbs mansion on the brow Of a hill over.
looking the Potomac. Near him are
crook, and Gresham, and Gibbon, and
Schofield. and Wheeler and Harvey.
For seventy-one years Harvey was a
commissioned officer of the United
states army-a veteran of the old
Second Dragons. He fought in the
Black Hawk and Seminole wars, in
Mexico, and on the plains, and in the
northern army in the Civil war. He
was a soldier after a soldiers own
heart
Time and again attention has been
called to the fact that General Law
ton, who was killed at the head of his
troops in the Philippines, lies in ArI-
lngton without fitting memorial of his
services to his country. There is a
government marker above the grave
bearing the Indiana soldiers name
and rank, and that is ala little gov
eminent reminder rising nearly six
inches above the turf. On Memorial
day there will be a memorial OF flow
ers on General Lawtons grave, but
the flowers will fade within a week.
1t should be said that there is a law
possibly an unwritten law-which
makes it impossible for the govern
ment to erect a monument over their
graves in Arlington. The generals
family is prevented from doing it by
the terms of his will. %~ y
Fish Bill Arouses Congress.
1t was fish bill" which
caused congress to pass joint
resolution to direct the president to
an endeaVor to bring about an upder- l
standing among the great powers
which would result in Incorporating In
the permanent law the principles of
exemption of all private property al
sea from capture unless it were
known to be contrahand of war.
Nowadays with The Hague tribunal
in occasional operation and with at.
tempts being made for general arbi-
tration treaties the efforts of the
government are toward eliminating
from the field of spoliation private
whether at sea or on land. Un,
der an agreement which it is thought
has been given the effect Of interna-
ttonal law unfortified cities on the sea
coasts hereafter are to be immune
from bombardment Various other ar
have been made looking
10 the introduction of ''the humanities
into warfare"
1t has been said that 1t was a fish
bill which led to agitation of the ques-
ton of the exemption from seizure OF
private property at sea in time OF
war. Doubtless it was pure accident
IN the matter of date line circum
but 1t was on the last day Of
one Lenten season that the attorney
general sent to congress a huge fresh
fish bill which was promptly referred
TO the committee on appropriations
This fish bill or rather collection Of
1sh bills was simply list of judg
nents rendered against the United
States by the Supreme court.
Paid by Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam paid for eleven boatIoads
IF fresh fish. simply because the huge |
navy which he collected in the West
indian waters thought for the first
month or two that the chief end and |
him of its guns was to seize Spanish
fishing amacks and their loads OF
;melts and other things finny. II the
ish had been picked, smoked or
;alted 1t would not have been so bad
or Uncle Sam, or SO good for the
Spanfard but on the day of their
;apture the fish were very fresh. The
lay thereafter they were less SO, the
bird day the American sailors CON.