Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-03-22
BY GEORGE CLINTON.


Gratis nave reinstated it.
The army appropriation bin carries
legislation reducing the cavalry of the
army from 10 regiments to 10, and ii
| contains some other legislation which
the republicans say is "extraneous."
The senate is Republican and it seems
TO be opposed to the action Of the Dem
ocrats in attaching legislation to the
supply measure. There are arguments
for and against the course which the
democratic majority in the house has
followed. but the right or the wrong
OF the thing aside, the fact remains
that the senate is likely to get at log
gerheads with the house over these
matters and as result it may be that
congress win sit until a time long
after the national conventions have
been held
Produces New Situation.
If either house wishes to do it, it
can hold up appropriation bills and by
/ refusing to sanction them can leave de-
partments and branches of govern
ment without visible means of support,
provided, of course, that adjournment
( comes before the supply bills have
been sanctioned. If the senate shall
| agree with the house and pass the APP
preparation measures with their riders
1t is possible. perhaps even probable,
in one or two instances that the presi-
dent will veto the bills which he does
not like. If he should veto the army
bill, for instance, because of attached
legislation of which he disapproves,
the army officers and the 10000 or TO-
600 enlisted men would be left without
cent of pay, and more than this,
there would be no money for the pur-
chase of supplies. This thing did hap
pen once away back in the time of
President Hayes. He vetoed an army
appropriation bill because it had a
dent nor his party could subscribe. The
matter which was put onto the bill
at that time, however, was to some ex-
tent political and controversial in its
nature. Nothing has been put onto
the appropriation bills this year which
is not either directly or indirectly con-
nected with the service for which the
money supplied by the bill is voted. 1t
is said that there has been no situation
ust like this within the memory of
the oldest member.
Indians Visit Taft.
President Taft was visited day or
two ago at the White House by three
bands of Sioux Indians from the San
tee. the Pine Ridge and the Rosebud
agencies. The braves of the Pine
Ridge were led by Jack Red Cloud,
son Of Old Red Cloud, who died
a year ago and who in his day
was one of the great warriors of the
Dakota nation. Jack was dressed in
the clothes of civilization. In a way
he looked well enough, but not alto
gether comfortable This son OF
warrior of many battles has seen
some fighting himself He was out"
with the bands of Kicking Bear and
Short Bull in the last uprising against
the whites in the days of the Ghost
Dance craze. The last time that one
white man who was at the White
House when the Indians called saw
Jack Red Cloud, the Indian was tear
ing down the trail leading past the
traders store at Pine Ridge and
emptying his Winchester with glee-
full disregard of the terror that he
was causing.
At the time of Jacks escapade in
December, 1890, he was not thirty
years old and he was full of war and
enthusiasm. He had left the hostile
camp beyond White Clay Creek bent
on a frolic on his own account. On
his pony, painted, red fianneled, and
feathered, he dashed through the
agency emptying his gun and nearly
soaring the lives out of half dozen
newspaper correspondents who hap
pened to be in the trail.
suIleniy Surrenders.
Young Red Cloud on that day cir
cled the agency, and before the troops
could kid him or arrest him he was
beyond the danger line, headed
straight for the hostile camp,
The day of the Indians call on the
president. General Miles walked up
Pennsylvania avenue through snow
storm looking not much older than he
did wfen he YVES in command OF Pine
Ricge agency twenty-one years ago
last December and January. He was
told that Jack Red Cloud was at the
White House and said that he would
ike to see him and that II he was as
good looking man as his father ne
must be a fine, outstanding Indian
The general recently received let
ter from Short Bull. one OF the Sioux
cbjeftniaE who led his tribe on the