Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-08-05
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The Lincoln Memorial.


The nations noble tribute to
Lincoln, for which Congress appro-
priated 100000 in February,
1913, which is now in course of
construction in Washington, is to
take the form of monument SYM
bolizing the Union of the United
States of America, inclosing in the
walls of it's sanctuary three memoir
ials to the man himself -one a
statue of heroic size, expressing Lin
coins humane personality, the 9TH
er memorials of his two great spec
ches, one of the Gettysberg speech
the other of the second inaugural
address, each with attendant sculp-
ture and painting telling in allie
cory of his splendid qualities evil
dent in those speeches.
By means Of terraces the ground
at the site of the Lincoln memorial
will be raised until the same level
is obtained as the ground at the
base of the Washington Monument.
First, a circular terrace, 1000 feet
in diameter, will be raised IL feet
above the present grade. On it's
outer edge will he planted four con-
centric rows OF trees, leaving a
plateau in the center $50 feet in
diameter which is four feet great
er than the length of the Capitol.
In the center of this plateau, sur
rounded by a wide roadway and
walks, will rise a terrace 16 feet
high and 500 feet in diameter, max
ing a total elevation of grade q
feet above the present grade. On
this will rise the memorial to Lin
coin. rqlr
The Colonel And The Treaties.
When Colonel Roosevelt came to
Washington two years ago and APP
peared before the committee inves-
! tigating campaign expenses, he
turned the plans of congressman
topsy-turvy. With this recollection
in mind, the Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee is not particularly
anxious to have the Colonel appear
before it to tell what he knows and
thinks about the pending treaties
proposing to pay Colombia $685.
! 100000 for the partition of Pana-
ma The Colombian treaty promises
to become a great political issue,
because it not only carries the sug-
gestion to repudiate the acts of the
Roosevelt administration with ref
erence to the independence of the
Republic of Panama, but it opens
wide the question of continuing the
policy of secret sessions of the
committees of the Senate in consid-
ering treaties. Those Senators who
4 have been making a fight for pub
lie hearings upon all questions de-
clares that there is no more inter-
esting matter before the American
1 PEOPLE than surrounds the affairs
of the Colombian and Nicaraguan
treaties. Although the Republicans
always maintained this policy when
they were in power, they are now
practically unanimous in criticizing
the Democrats for holding eXecu
tive sessions.
The Timber BarOns.
Mr.. Joseph Z. Davies, of Wiscon-
sin, has long been a friend of the
Wilson family, and he carried that
friendship into the campaign two
years ago, and was secretary of the
Democratic National Committee Da-
vies had ambitions to be a cabinet
officer, but missed fire. After having
choice of a lot of ambassadorships
and the place of Governor of the
Philippine Islands, he finally accept
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