The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-23

engagements here tonight as the guest
at testimonial reception and dinner
under the auspices of the American
Peace and Arbitration League AT the
dinner the gold medal Of the National
institute OF Social Sciences was pre-
scented to the president in recognition
of his notable efforts on behalf of
universal psace.
To Lay Down Power.
80 now, good night; good bye. /
am going back to Washington to lay
down such power as / have had. a
power which / have ever been glad
TO exercise for peace, and / leave
with the most cordial feelings for
your appreciation for what ! have
done in this movement"
President Taft closed an address at
the dinner OF the American Peace
and Arbitration league at Sherry 8
tonight in the foregoing words. 1t
was his vavledictory as president, and
he marked Its emphatic declarations
on two absorbing public questions
which brought the 450 well known
men and women present to their feet.
On the canal matter he said that
no matter what the senate OF the
United States might do. the terms of
the Iddy ~G 2QhREAStO II C2S~I AhpSN bttA-
rnately go 10 arbitration. 1t would
not do to say that the question Of
fayoritisn in tolls was domestic
uatter---it had been placed In a
treaty, and no matter II some would
assert it to be domestic the name
did not matter--the arbitrator must
decide.
Twenty-nine Chiefs Take Part.
Twenty-nine full-blood Indian
1ts.f<, IN tho rara1Sa cf THAR
rank, marched stoltdly up the hill at
Fort Wadsworth today with their
"Great White Father President Taft.
At the crest Of the hill, the highest
point on the Atlantic coast between
New York and Florida, they formed a
silent group as the president upturn-
ed a spadeful of earth, breaking
ground for the national American me-
mortal. a sixty-foot bronze statue OF
an Indian warrior, which will tower
1876 feet above the highest elevation
around New York tarbor, a tribute
to a vanishing race.
The guns Of the fort roared ma
tional salute of twenty-one guns at the
moment the president placed his foot
on the spade. AS he stepped back,
Chief Hollow Horn Bear, of the Yank-
ton Sioux, came forward from the
group and upturned second bit OF
earth with the thighbone OF buffalo.
That done the chief replied with 4
speech to an address by the president.
, AS Hollow Horn Bears voice died
away the Stars and Stripes were run
up a great nagpole nearby, to the
rhythm Of Indian folk songs, sung
by the chieftains. When 1t reached
the top the band broke out with the
star Spangled Banner"
Last Gathering Of the Kind.
The gathering the Indians marked
thel asst time, perhaps, that no many
native chiefs will assemble In the East.
Most of them are between seventy
Ave and eighty years old. Some of
them fought against Custer among
those being Chief Hollow Horn Bear,
who stands ak feet four inches tall,
and Chief White Man Runs Him,
more than seventy yeara old, tall,
straight as 4 pine tree and one of the
finest specimens OF the Indian alive to-
day. Whtte-Man- Runs-Hin was chief
OF the Custer scouts. Others were
Chief Two Moons, eighty, nearly blind
and almost hidden by feathers be-
voics naxis - Of ehs sioux. s Saw sa
who carries In his cody twenty-one
bullet picked IN In seyenty night and
skirmishea with Eovcrnment troops
and noi9hborinx tribes.
"A distinguished gathering Witnessed
tho memorial exerciSee Tho plan had
its inception several years. ago, The
monuments h being erected under au.
thorily frem congress by = COMMITTEES,
of which Rodman Wanamaker fs the
head,