Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-05-29

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memorial services Of their own In
honor of the southern dead. y
Y /, Great Chiefs Lie There. y sst
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-i
tiful cemetery in the city Of st. Louis.
Their place is in Arlington. Il Generals;
colonies, sergeants, corporals and prt.
Yates are side by side in this encamp-
ment Of the dead. The silent tents OF
Un1onists and Confederates are
pitched not far apart and no guard
stands between. Schoheld (Federal)
and Wheeler (Confe sleep al
most side by side. They were friends,
then enemies In war, and then friends
again, serving under the same iag,f
both dying while in service OF the
United States. Il. a Il *. d I.
VI There are soldiers of many wars
resting in Arlington. Revolutionary.
veterans lie under. the same trees that
shelter their descendants killed in the
Philippine Islands. Soldiers who were
the victims of the Seminole and Sioux
sleep side by side, and with them are
the men who fell at ,Molino del Rey',
and Buena Vista. Sailors who served
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are IN port in Arlington. q 4,
General Sheridan rests under no..
BILE monument not far from the Cur
It's mansion on the brow OF q 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
commissioned ofhcer OF the United
States arpya veteran Of the old
Second, Dragons. He fought, in sthe
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 q soldiers own
heart F8i. Il a! tssi9 MI II q.
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 EArl-
ington 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
lternment, reminder rising nearly six
inches above the turf. On Memorial
day there will be a memorial of now!
ers on General Lawton's grave, but
the flowers Will fade within asweek.
It should be said that there is a law
possibly an unwritten law-which
makes 1t impossible for the govern
ment to erect a monument over their I
graves in Arlington. The generals
family is prevented from doing it by
the terms Of his will. n
q. X Fish Bill sArouses Congress.
1t was a "fish bill'' which
caused congress to pass a joint
resolution to direct the president to
an endeavor to bring about an under
standing among the great powers
which would result In incorporating In
the permanent law the principles of
exemption of all private property at
sea from capture unless lit were
known to be contra band 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
property whether at sea or on land IN
der an agreement which it is thought
has been given the effect Of interna-
tional law unfortified cities onS the sea
coasts hereafter are to be immune
from bombardment Various other ar
rangements have been made looking
to the introduction OF "the humanittes
into warfare" Il sss u x, S5
a It has been said that It was q fish
bill which led TO agitation Of the ques-
ton Of the exempt ion from seizure of
private property at sea in time OF
war. Doubtless 1t was a pure accident
In the matter Of date line circum-
stance, but 1t was on the last day OF
one Lenten season that the attorney
general semitic congress a huge fresh
fish bill which was promptly " referred
to the committee on appropriate
This fish bill or rather collection OF
fish bills was simply a list OF judg-
ments rendered against the United
States by the Supreme court. NJ N M,
Paid by Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam paid, for eleven ,boatloads
OF fresh fish, simply because the huge
navyAwhich; he collected in the West
Indian waters thought for the &drst
month or two that the chief end and
aim OF its guns was to seize Spanish
fishing smacks and their loads fof
smells and other, things finny. II the
fish had been picked, smoked or
sailed 1t would not have been SO bad
for Uncle. Sam, or SO good for the
,spaniard, but on the day Of their
capture the fish were very fresh. The
day thereafter they were less so, the
third day the American sailors con-
=voying the prizes had strong smelling
suspicious, the fourth day the smell
needed another word beginning with
an "s'' to do 1t Justice. and on the
fifth day the fish went overheard:
The Spaniards were good fishermen.
Julian Bengochea and Francisco Con-
zales, In q 10 by IL smack, the Podery
de Dios, had $1;425.74 worth of fish,
for which Uncle Sam paid, besides CIV
ing $4,000 for injury to the olfactory
nerves and to the feelings ofhJulian
and Francisco. Every one OF the elev-
en- smacks when captured was loaded
to the gunwales with fish. Nothing
like the hauls that these Spaniards
made has been known in either sacred
or profane fishing history since that
day twenty centuries. ago when the
nets did break with the burden OF the
catch" The claimants got from Uncle
SANS purse about $4,000 each. There I
are eleven spaniards who are, firm be
levers in flsherman's luck
observation-disclosures ~-r-~~~->>~-
pearls OF wisdom that were supposed
to drop from my neighbours lips. but