Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-05-14

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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. Schoteld (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 oil 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 Moline del Rey
and Buena Vista. Sailors who served
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are in port in Arlington
General Sheridan rests undo /. a no
Bile monument not far from .Le Cur
| It's mansion on the brow Oh a hill over
| looking the Potomac Near him are
| Crook, and Gresham, and Gibbon, and
| Schofield, and Wheeler and Harvey.
| Tor seventy-one years Harvey was a
commissioned officer of the United
| States army-a veteran of the old
! Second Dragons. He fought ia the
Black Hawk and Seminole wars, in
| Mexico, and on the plains, and IN the
northern ARM in the Civil war He
was Z soldier after a 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 70 his country. There is a
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 Arouses 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 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
property whether at sea or on land. I'm
der an agreement which ii 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
rangements have been made looking
to the introduction of 1.-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 1t 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 huge fresh
fish bill which was promptly referred
to the committee on appropriations.
This fish bill or rather collection OF
fish bills was simply list of judg-
ments rendered against the United
States by the Supreme court.
Paid by Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sarl 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 it's guns was to seize Spanish
fishing smacks and their loads of
smelts and other things finny. 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-
voying the prizes had strong smelling
suspicious, the fourth day the smell
needed another word beginning with
an IS" to do 1t justice. and on the
| fifth day the fish went overheard.
The Spaniards were good fishermen.
Julian Bengochea and Francisco Con
gales, in a 10 by IL smack the Poder
de Dios. had S1,425.74 worth Of fish,
for which Uncle Sam paid, besides CIV
ing $4,000 for injury to the olfactory
nerves and to the feelings Of Julian
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 go- from Uncle
Sans purse about $500 each. There
are eleven Spaniards who are firm be-
levers in fsherman's luck