Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-03
TO CUT OUT DECEIT.
Applause" TO Be Barred From
Congressional Record.
STUCK IN FOR HOME READERS
Bills for Monuments and Memorials
Are Numerous This Session
Wave Perry's Don't Give Up
the Ship" Flag.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

/ w dSI AnSCOn.-COngr6SS INTENDS TO
shut down on 'deceitful illusions to
! applause" Perhaps the public does
not know it, but great many of the
fine speeches which appear in the
| Congressional Record and which fire.
quently are sent out in pamphlet form
to constituents to admire, never were
delivered. A member gets two min
! utes' time, stands on his feet, deliV-
| ers himself of the opening paragraph
! OF a speech and then gets leave to
! print" the remainder in the Congress
sional Record. When the Record ap-
| pears with the speeches in full it fire.
| quently has been found that the mem
Der who was supposed to have de-
| iVered the speech has inserted here
and there in parenthesis the word
applause" and occasionally he has in
serted great applause" and on other
occasions he may put in long, loud
and continuous applause" and again
! great cheering" This has been pro-
nounced time and again to be a petty
sort of deceit intended for home con-
sumption and the making of votes.
this applause practice" for Represen-
tative Dppre has introduced this reso-
luton, which it is said may pass:
Resolved, That the Congressional
| Record shall hereafter contain no ref
erence to any applause that may oc-
cur in connection with anything done
or said on the floor of the house OF
representatives, nor shall any method
Of indicating approval or disapproval
thereof be employed in said publica-
| ton"
There is nothing in this resolution
to show directly what it is aimed at,
but every member knows and it is
probable that a good many men who
have written the word applause
dozen times will vote for the resOlu-
lion rather than have it appear that
they have been addicted to a deceit
ful practice and would like to keep it
up.
Season for Monuments.
This seems to be the session for the
Introduction of bills into congress for
the erection of monuments and me-
MORALS of various kinds. Mr.. Flood
Of Virginia has just introduced a bill,
"To provide for the construction OF
a memorial highway, archway and
gateway in memory of Thomas Jeffer-
son at Monticello, Albemarle county,
| Virginia" The Democrats make more
or less of a shrine of Thomas Jefferr
sons old home The approaches to
it are said not to be what they should
be, and there is a chance that Mr..
Floods bill will pass the house. 1t
will stand a fair chance of passage
In the senate also, because although
the Republicans there are in a ma
jority, no party men like to let it ap-
pear that they are moved by political
considerations to deny honor to the
memory of a great man of another
party.
Representative Legare Of South
Carolina, having noted the successful
attempt to secure monument to
Christopher Columbus in the city Of
Washington, has asked congress to
erect a monument to the memory of
Queen Isabella of Spain.
Show Perry's Old Flag.
The other day in congress an ap-
preparation was asked to repair, pre-
serve and properly exhibit the trophy
flags now in store in the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis, Md. In order that
the attempt to secure the appropria-
ton might have plenty of patriotic
sentiment to inspire its PASSAGE one
of the members had secured from
the naval academy several of the bat
! tie flags which are now in the keeping
of that institution. One of them was
the flag flown by Commodore Perry
at the battle of Lake Erie. 1t Is blue
flag with these words in gold letters
inscribed upon it: Don't Give Up the
Ship" These words, of course, will
he recognized as those of Captain
Lawrence of the United States navy,
who commanded the frigate Chesa-
peake in its battle with the British
| frigate Shannon off the Maine coast
| in the war of 1872.
Lawrence was mortally wounded in
the action and his last words were
Don't give up the ship" words which
became the motto of the American
| navy. Captain Lawrence hes Dur 60
in Trinity churchyard, New York city,
his grave being within fifteen feet of
the iron fence which separates the
cemetery from the busiest part OF that
great thoroughfare, Broadway. Hun
dreds of thousands of people visit this
grave in the course of year and it is
seen through the fence palings by as
many more thousands, who il they
| would stop for a moment, could read
from the pavement the inspiriting in
/ scription which the tomb bears.
Marines Are Ever First.
The reported request from the
/ American minister at the City Of
Mexico for marines to guard the
| legation there in case that the up
rising against the president of Mexico
should endanger the lives of Ameri-
cans, accentuates the fact that the ma
rines of the United States service al
most always have been the first of
the American armed forces to be call
ed on for service in case that this
| country is threatened witt trouble
| abroad.