Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-16


administration OF 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 a 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 If 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 men
of the army
Way back in the time of President
Hayes. congress passed an army ap-
preparation bill with a rider" attach
ed which was Objectionable to the Re-.
publican party and the Republican adj
ministration. The president did not
hesitate a minute to veto the bill, and
as a sequence the army found itself
without pay for a considerable period
OF time. Warren Leland, one of the
hotel keeping brothers, who were in
their day as good hosts and providers,
had been given a good share of army
patronage. officers seeking out the Lee
land hotels in whatever cities they
could be found. The old Sturtegant
house in New York, which stood at
broadway and Twenty-eighth street.
and which long ago disappeared, was
one of the Leland hostelries. There
was another In Chicago, and some 9TH
ers elsewhere.
Warren LeIand's Big Offer.
When President Hayes vetoed the
army appropriation bill IN order to get
rid of its rider" Warren Leland wrote
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,
were at the command of the officers
OF the army and navy and that he was
perfectly willing to wait till dooms-
day for his pay, knowing that 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 ofethe, service.
who faced temporary conditions OF
pauperism.
Mr.. Merriam's New Position.
DR.. G. Hart Merriam, who I'M
til recently was the chief of the
governments biological survey, which
Is bureau of the department OF
agriculture. is now the head Of what
is known as the Hartman Geological
Foundation with headquarters in this
city DR.. 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.
The Hartman Geological Founda-
ton was provided for in the will of
Edward H. Hartman. the railroad
magnate, who died less than two years
ago. The headquarters of research
now have been established in Wash
ington, and here Mr.. Merriam, In ac-
cordance with the wishes of Mr.. Har-
rinan as expressed in his will, is to
carry forward the work of extending
knowledge of natural history.
Few people knew that Edward III.
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
CT business.
Discovering His Other Side.
If 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 it, for the railroad
man was going on a 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 seen
Mr. Hartman before. | sat in the
first seat at his left at the dinner Ia
Bile. The other guests were three men
of huge business affairs, one of them
the head of the greatest railroad or
ganization in the United States and
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 that
line; and stocks and bonds and other
things fioated around until / felt ut
terly. shut out because. Of these things
| did not know much, and cared less.