Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-16

ton across the Potomac from Wash.
ington sleep 10000 OF the country's
deal, Federal officers and soldiers and
Confederate officers and soldiers side
by side. Arlington is the camping
ground OF an army that never again
will bear arms.
This national cemetery is perhaps
the most beautiful burial ground In all
the country. 1t lies upon 9 hilitup
where grow mighty forest trees and
where the view is unbroken to q point
far OF down the road to the Potomac.
The caretaker at Arlington will tell
you that no soldier ever saw the place
In life without expressing the wish
that he might lie there after death.
On Memorial day the soldiers of the
regular army and veterans OF the
Union forces of the Civil war will re-
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 C~onfederacy 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 a beau
tiful cemetery in the city OF St. Louis.
Their place is In Arlington. Generals,
colonies, s~ergeants, %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, Schotield (Federal)
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 Moline del Rey
and Buena Vista. Sailors who served
on the Constitution and on the Maine
are in port in Arlington.
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 1t 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. On
der an agreement which 1t is thought
has been given the effect of interna-
tional law unfortiied cities ON the sea
coasts hereafter are to be immune
from bombardment. Various other ar
rangements have been made looking
to the introduction Of "the humanities
into warfare"
1t has been said that it was a 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 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 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 it's guns was to seize Spanish
fishing smacks and their loads Of
smelts and other things anny. If the
fish had been picked, smoked or
sailed it would not have been 30 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 It justice. and on the
fifth day the fish went overheard.
The Spaniards were good fishermen.
Julian Bengochea and Francisco Con
zales, In a 10 by 10 smack. the Poder
de Dios, had $1.425.H 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 n 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
~ nrofana fishing history since that