Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1912-02-16

Percy Of Mississippi said that he was
willing, for his service runs little
more than a year. to change the con-
dition of a farmer for that OF sailor,
and SO he was transferred to the COM
mittee on naval affairs, thus creating
two agricultural vacancies which
promptly we're filled by the appoint
ment of Obadiah Gardner and Hoke
Smith
Army Bill In Peril.
Representative Hay of Virginia.
chairman of the house committee on
military affairs. has introduced bill
affecting the army which Is not alto
gether to the liking of offic and en-
listed men, and which, 1t is said also,
is not altogether to the liking of the
administration. or course no one
knows, what change of mind may come
to the army and to President Taft,
but Mr.. Hay and his colleagues in the
house. In order to give the bill an ad-
ditional chance for passage and sigma
ture. have attached It as rider" to
the army appropriation bill
This means that If 1t passes. the
president In signing the appropriation
bill must sign the other bill also He
cannot separate the two, and II he
wishes to veto the Hay bill as vicious
legislation" he must also veto the
measure which provides sustenance
and pay for officers and enlisted meD
of the army.
Warren Glands Bin Offar
When President Hayes vetoed the
army appropriation bill in order to get
rid Of its rider" Warren Leland wrote
a personal letter to every army and
navy officer in the United States and
to the members of the furlough and
graduating classes at West Point and
Annapolis. In the letter he said that
his hotels, and all that was In them,
We're at the command of the officers
of the army and navy and that he was
perfectly wiling to wait til dooms-
day for his pay. knowing taat If at
any period this side of that day con-
gress should pass the army bill, the
money recompense for board and lodg-
ing furnished would be forthcoming
Mr.. Leland lost nothing by this word
of welcome to officers of the service.
who faced temporary conditions OF
pauperism.
Mr.. Merrlam's New Position.
DR.. G. Hart Merriam, who un,
til recently was the chief of the
governments biological survey, which
Is a bureau of the department OF
agriculture, is now the head of what
Is known as the Hartman Geological
| Foundation with headquarters in this
city. DIR. Merriam is perhaps the high
est authority in America on subjects
| pertaining to the life of mammals and
birds, and he is one of the chief au-
thorities on American Indian history,
tradition and folk lore.
Few people knew that Edward H.
Hartman, one of the richest men in
the United States and one whose time
seemingly was almost wholly given
over to the extension of railroad lines
and the securing of railroad holdings,
had any other heart interest than that
of business.
| Discovering His other Side,
II one may be forgiven for speaking
personally, the story of how | found
out that Mr.. Hartman cared for other
things than his family, and stocks and
bonds, may not be uninteresting, Not
long before Mr. Harriman's death
newspaper business called me to
Augusta, Ga. My companion on the
trip knew Edward H. Hartman per
sonally. Just as the train was leaving
Washington, Mr. Harriman's private
car was attached to 1t, for the railroad
man was going on visit to his broth
er in the south.
My companion was invited to dine
with Mr.. Hartman in his private car
and | was included In the invitation
out OF politeness. | never had seer
Mr., Hartman before. | sat In the
first seat at his left at the dinner ia
BILE. The other guests we're three :ner
of huge business affairs, one of them
the head OF the greatest railroad or
ganization in the United States anf
the others proportionately great In the
world of business. Nothing but bust
ness was talked at the dinner table
the extension of this line and thai
line; and stocks and bonds and otbe,
things fioated around until | felt ut
terly shut out because of these thing,
l did not know much, and cared less
Finally. In order to let my host know
was alive, turned to him and said
II have all the journals of the Harri
man Alaskan expedition thus far ia
sued. and. what is more. have read
Them
His interest In Natural History.
Mr.. Harriman's eye lighted. II.
turned to me with a sort OF surprised
enthusiasm. and he said in a voice tina
was almost an exclamation: II seldom
find anyone outside of the circles n
the strict scientists who have NOR.
than a sort of hazy recollection that
once on q time there was such a thins
as a Hartman Alaskan expedition
So far as this man of huge and per
haps oyerpowering commercial opera
lions was concerned. there was pre
cious little else in the conversation TO,
the next hour except his Journey I,
Alaska taken ten years before In tn,
company of men known all over III,
world for their scientific attainments
The man Of business had thrown ava,
business and was showing that he wa,
glad of the chance
from other localities. One of the pos