Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-03-06

things. Lawton was an Tnd;s u
me correspondent wrote s+orr 49, :.
wnlcn response was instant. The STATE
u inuiana voted large sum of money
LOT a monument to its soldier son T.
was decided, however, to erect # in
the city OF Indianapolis.
Congress Acts at Last
ror eleven years attempts have hean
ilaue 70 get congress fittingly to rec
osnlze the services Of Lawton Tbo
senate has just done its dutv IN The
matter and in a few DAYS tha house
VIII follow suit. While at present there
IS no stone except the little govern
nient tablet to mark Lawtons grave.
mere is portrait in bronze of the
soldler not far distant. 1t appears in
the panel which has been let into the
stone which marks the resting place
OF Maj. Gen. George Crook. the Indian
llgnter. On this panel there are por-
traits in bronze of the officers who
were present at the capture of Geroni-
mo, tho Apache. Lawton was one of
them.
In the spring of 1886 Lawton. who
was then captain of cavalry. was Sc
lected TO lead a picked body of troops
INTO Mexico in pursuit of the murder
Gus Geronimo. For three months.
With saltless mule meat and sometimes
little of that, for rations, he marched
MS command 1896 miles through
parched and barren deserts until the
Apache and his band were captured"
In the Spanish war Lawton com
manded the second division of the
Firth army corps before Santiago, and
ne was in the thick of the fighting pre-
cedlng the capture of San Juan Hill.
1t Is said that history eventually will
know him as the Hero of Ell Caney."
1t has been definitely decided that
Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark,
who commanded the Oregon in it's trip
around the Horn and in the fight off
Santiago, shall be on the bridge of his
old ship when 1t leads the procession
of wal vessels through the Panama
canal next January. Admiral Clark is
expected in Washington again to con-
fer finally with the naval authorities
upon matters In preparation for the
great event Of the next New Years
day.
May Enlarge Commerce Board.
It is believed in Washington that
soon congress will largely increase the
membership of the interstate COM
merce commission and that the duties
of the enlarged body will be so ar
ranged that members will sit stimuli
taneously in different cities of the
country in order that proceedings
may be expedited The commission
is being overworked. Its members
are at their tasks all day and not in
frequently far into the night.
Senators and representative seem
ingly are awakening to sense of the
need of relieving individual members
of the present commission of a part
of their duties by increasing the
boards membership and spreading the
work out territorially.
Recently Senator Luke Lea of Ten
nessee has been engaged in an at
tempt to secure the appointment of
senate committee to act with the COIN
mission in connection with the in
vestigation of certain matters AFFECT
ing the Louisville & Nashville rail-
road Senator Brandegee has pro-
nounced Senator Lea's plan an at
tempt to scare" the railroad into sub
mission. This may be true or 1t may
not be true, but the proposal to give
the commission a lot of senators as
aids in its work is looked on in Wash
ington as one which would handicap
rather than help the commissioners.
1t is said it would result in a scat
tering of authority, would clog the
records and delay proceedings.
This proposal of Senator Lea IS
mentioned here simply as an example
of one of the many attempts made
from time to time to decentral1ze, SO
to speak, the labors of the board.
Business Men Suffer.
Business men of different parts OF
the United States have been put TO
inconvenience and to loss because OF
the slowness with which decisions IN
cases important to them are given py
the commission When body OF men
ia engaged in works of such magm-
tude as trying to determine whether
freight rates shall be increased ana
irving to determine the physical valu'
alton of the railroads of the country
It is little to be wondered perhaps
that it must Of necessity delay rem,
dering rulings in matters admittedly
minor to those mentioned, but never
theless of high importance to the DUST
ness men directly interested.
It is known definitely that members
of the interstate commerce commls.
sion work late into the night; that
their secretaries and some members
Of the office force break union rules
in an oyer-working attempt to Keep
mace with the mass of business when
bae come before the commission TOT
consideration. Instead of decreasing
tba work is increasing all the time.
It's rapid development has attracted
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