Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-05-26

theil. desks until they have put on the
legislative books two or three more of
the resolutions contained in the Demo
cratic declaration of principles set
forth at Baltimore In 1912.
Senate Debating Tolls Exemption.
The senate just now is debating the
tolls exemption clause of the Panama
canal act. The bill repeating the free
tolls provision was reported to the
senate without any Recommendation
back of 1t. 1t was accompanied by an
amendment. also without recon-
mendation either way, which declares
that the repeal action by the United
States congress does not in any way
suggest or intend to suggest that this
country shall by the action forfeit any
of its treaty rights, or intends SC to do
in the future
This amendment seemingly Is &C
ceptable to the administration, for it
does not in any way affect the pro-
posed legislation, and it probably is
intended merely as grstuity to mem
bers of congress who have opposed
the administration position. 1t seems
| to be the belief of the majority of
! legislative thinkers in Washington that
the senate by small majority, there
| by upholding the president in his APP
peal on the subject to congress.
Honor to Barry's Memory.
1
! The unwilling OF the statue OF Com
modore John Barry on May 16 of this
year adds another to the memorials
of American Heroes now standing
in the city of Washington. Barry S
sea service to the American colo
MES during the Revolutionary war
was of a high order, second Only,
probably, to that of John Paul Jones,
although there are many men who
! think Barry's record should stand on
a plane with that of the Scotch
American who carried the war into
the enelny's waters and won two of
the famous naval battles of the con-
fitf.
Before long, it is believed. the
money necessary will be subscribed
to erect in Washington a statue to
AGmiral Francois Joseph Paul 20
Grasse, the French naval commander
who, by blockading the British squad
ron at the mouth of Chesapeake bay
in October, 1881, helped to force the
capitulation of CORVALLIS and the sur
render to Washington of tbs Brush
forces at Yorktown.
The Sons OF the Revolution organi-
cation as represented in the Washing.
ton chapter has endorsed a resolution
to make every effort to secure the
funds necessary for the erection of
the statue to de Grasse. 1t is prob
able it will be erected in Lafayette
square Immediately opposite the White
/ House.
The Washington chapter OF the Sons
! of the Revolution a few days ago
made trip to Yorktown and with
them as their guest went ]. ]. JUS
serand the French ambassador to the
United States. 1t was while on this
trip that the chapter adopted a reso-
luton to secure the funds for the
erection of suitable statue to de
Grasse.
Yorktown Rather Decrepit
The scene of Washington's great
victory, made possible by the aid of
the French, has been spoken of as a
lettering village. 1t is more than q
4 bit decrepit with age, but its years
have been honorable and in this lie
the hope and the belief that the Amer
lean people will exert themselves to
save the historic places in the village
from the decay that threatens.
/ Where the York river joins issues
with the Chesapeake bay lies York
| town. You can reach the place where
Washington overcame CORVALLIS by
| a water journey from Norfolk that
takes little more than an hour. The
trip ard the interest that lies at it's
end pay compound percentages on the
time invested
Here and there in Yorktown are
Substantial old dwellings of the
colonial period. They will outlast the
| buildings of a later Day, for they we're
founded on the rock of honest con-
srruction. One old place has tower
ing chimreys that, with the rest of
the house, have a time-weary look,
| but dissolution is not in sight because
| the builders builded well. This is the
| Thomas Nelson home, and for time
| CORVALLIS made it his headquarters,
a fact which came to the knowledge
OF the owner, who was with Wash
! ington in the ranks of the besiegers
Had His Own House Bombarded.
Colonel Nelson went to the COM
nlander-in-chief and told him that the
| british general was IN his house, and
that il guns could be brought to bear
| with the residence as mark, Corn
wallis might be crushed under the fall
ing walls if there we're good heavy
gun marksman in the American army
They tell you today in Yorktown that
Colonel Nelson told his chief he would
sacrifice fifty homesteads II ne owned
them to put CORVALLIS on the hes
1ital list.
The American gunners fired away
i. the walls Of the Nelson home and
hit them three or four times. Corn
'xalis was there, but 1t did not take
him long to learn the drift of the
shooting, and he took refuge In a cave
under a parapet of brick work and
sand, and there he lay safely.