Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-15

member alike the graves of northern
and southern 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.
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 beau
tiful cemetery in the city of St. Louis.
Their place is in Arlington Generals,
colonels, sergeants, corporals and Pri-
Yates are side by side in this encamp-
ment of the dead. The silent tents OF
Unionists and Confederates are
pitched not far apart and no guard
stands between. Schofield (FederaD
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,
both dying while in service of the
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
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
nd {1fo Co
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are in port in Arlington.
General Sheridan rests under no
BILE monument not far from the Cur
tbs mansion on the brow Of hill over
looking the Potomac. Near him are
Crook, and Gresham, and Gibbon, and
Schofeld, 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 soldier after 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 Arl-
ington without fitting memorial of his
services to his country. There is
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 memorial OF flow
ers on General Lawton's grave, but
the flowers will fade within 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.
Fish Bill Arouaes Congress.
1t was fish bill" which
caused congress to pass joint
resolution to direct the president to
an endeavor to bring about an under !
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 it were
known to be contraband 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. I'm
der an agreement which 1t Is thought
has been given the effect Of interna-
tional law unfortified cities on the sea
coasts hereafter are to be immune
from bombardment Various other ar
have been made looking
to the introduction of ''the humanities
into warfare"
1t has been said that it was 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-
stance. but it 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
fish bills was simply a list of judg
ments rendered against the United
States by the Supreme court.
Paid by Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam paid for eleven boatloads
of 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
aim of its guns was to seize Spanish
fishing smacks and their loads of
smells and other things f1nny. If the
fish had been picked, smoked or
sailed it 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-
voving the prizes had strong smelling
suspicious, the fourth day the smell
needed another word beginning with
L