The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1913-02-07

Representative French has Riyer
considerable time to the question O.
appropriations for the improvement
of the Columbia and Snake Rivers
and especially the locks at Cello, ane
feels that the Northwest has beer
recognized in a fair degree in tn,
Rivers and Harbors appropriation bill
that passed the house this week. Mr.
French was also able to have an am
endment included, providing for the
survey of the Occur d'Alene Rive,
looking to improvements by the Fed.
erai government. This river was ex.
amined nearly 80 years ago by the
government and since that time nc
attention whatever has been paid to
it though Mr.. French is advised thai
there would be much business if the
river could be improved.
The following resolution was intro
duced in the Senate last week bv
Senator Perky and unanimously pas
sed: 20
Resolved. That the Secretary of the
Interior be directed to advise the
Senate whether or not the Depart-
ment contemplates the cancellation
OF any homestead entries upon any of
the United States Reclamation pro-
Jects in Idaho because of the failure OF
entrymen to make payment covering
the operation and maintenance charg-
es, and If so the names of the entry.
men and description of the location
of their entries.
Senator Perky has made the follow
ing nominations for the Naval Acad.
envy at Annapolis: :
Charles F. Ward Lewiston. Idaho
Principal. ~
Harlem Pefey, Boise. Idaho, FRS,
Alternate. "
Howard w. Stewart, Emmett Ida.
no, Second Alternate.
Lawrence Madison, Boise, Idaho
Third Alternate.
The examinations will take Mac.
sometime in April.
In department of the Wash;notor
Eeraid devoted to short stories under
tne caption OF "Statesmen-reai and
near" recently appeared the follow
ing: when he becomes member of
congress from Idaho in March. AL
olson I. Smith will celebrate stimuli
taneusly the twenty-fifth anniversary
OF the day. he first struck Washing
ton-in freight car. He had been
living out in Cambridge, Ohio, but got
a ciearical job with a firm in Wash
ington: The only difficulty in the wav
OF taking the job was that he lacked
the railroad fare. Fortunately. he
neard OF a man who was shipping a
driving horse here, and Smith ohrs;n-
ed the privilege of sharing the freight
car with the horse, in return for act.
ing as valet to the animal in transit
One OF the bitterest congressional
wrangles in recent years came to An
emo, when the house, by big margin.
approved the design and location To-
a $Z.OU,OOO memorial to Abraham
Lincoln, selected by the fine arts com.
mission and a special comm;ss;n.,
consisting of President Taft SneaLa,
Clark, Senators Cullom and Wetmore
ana Representatives Cannon and Nc,
Gall. The memorial will be an enor.
nous rectangular stone structure, on
the north bank of the Potomac. on.
posite the Lee Mansion in Arlington
National Cemetery. The outlines of
the approved design are simple. and
the architecture is to be of the Greek
type. Gigantic Doric columns will
surround the exterior. Inside. n a
nall higher than the Chamber of the
mouse OF Representatives, will be !.
colossal statue to Lincoln, and on a
tablet his Gettysburg address will he
carved. The building will be located
on the axis of the Capitol and the
washington monument, and between
the Washington monument and the
Potomac. '"e
Representative Borland, of Missouri;
led the hight against the scheme. He
and others preferred a memorial road
from Washington to Gettysburg. The
friends of the Greek temple" ;dea
charged that the road project was a
scheme got up by the real estate men
and automobiles. The House de.
bated the question all day. All Of ne
orators on both sides of the aisle took
part. Southerners We'd with Northern
crs IN praising Lincoln. The advo-
,ates OF the memorial building ieered
It the road men for wanting some
hing useful" as a memorial TO lin
:oln; Representatives Ollie M. lame.
u Kentucky. asked Mr.. Borland II
&c would pull down the Amer;c,n
lag because i was not useful" Re.
'resentative Cooper, Of Wisconsin.