The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-03-05

g aRIf-ADVoCAn
liz newspaper TO tAe condittoa q
things. LAwton vas Al Indiana man
The correspondent wrote . story 70
which response vas instant The state
Of Indiana voted 4 large sum Of money
for q monument to its soldier son. II
was decided. however. to erect II IN
the city Of Indianapolis
cs~0rses AeAe q lase.
For eleven years attempts have been
made to get congress Attingiy To rec
ognize the services Of IAvton. The
senate has just done its duty n tbs
matter and In . few days the house
will follow suit. While at present there
is no stone except the little govern
ment tablet to mark Lawton's grave.
there 10 = portrait In bronze Of the
soldier not far distant. It appears In
the panel which has been lot Into tie
stone which marks the resting Dlaes
OF Maj. Gen. George Crook. the Indian
fighter. On this panel there are por-
traits In bronze of the oAeers who
were present at the capture Of Geroot
mo. tho Apache. LAwton was one Of
them.
In the spring of 1886 LAwton. who
was then captain of cavalry. WAS ~
lected ito lead . picked body Of troops
into Mexico In pursuit Of the murder
Gus Geronimo. For three months.
with saltless muls meat and sometimes
little Of that. for rations. he marched
his 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
Fifth army corps before Santiago. and
he was in the thick of the fighting pre-
ceding the capture Of San Juan Hill.
1t 10 said that history eventually will
know him as the Hero Of El Caney."
1t has been definitely decided that
Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark.
who commanded the Oregon in Its trip
around the Horn and In the neht Oh
Santiago. shall be on the bridge of his
old ship when 1t leads the procession
Of war vessels through the Panama
canal next January. Admiral Clark 10
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 1oard.
1t IL 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 20 ar
ranged that members will sit stimuli
taneously In different cities Of the
country In order that proceedings
may be expedited. The commission
ID being overworked. Its members
are at their tasks all day and not In
frequently far into the night.
Senators and representatives SEEM
ingly are awakening to . sense OF the
need Of relieving individual members
Of the present commission Of = 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 q
senate committee to act with the COM
mission in connection with the In
vestigation of certain matters affect.
ing the Louisville & Nashville rail.
road. Senator Brandesee has pro-
nounced Senator LEAFS plan an at
tempt to scare" the railroad into sub
pission. This may be true or 1t may
not be true. but the proposal to give
the commission a lot Of senators 40
aids in its work is looked on in Wash
tngton as one which would handicap
rather than help the commissioners.
1t is said 1t would result ir 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 decentralize. so
to speak. the labors of the board.
Business Men Suffer.
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 by
the commission. When a body of men
is engaged in works OF such makni-
tude as trying to determine whether
freight rates shall be increased and
trying to determine the physical valu.
alton OF the railroads OF the country,
1t is little to be wondered perhaps
that 1t must Of necessity delay rem
dering rulings in matters admittedly
minor to those mentioned. but never
theless of high importance to the busi-
ness men directly interested.
1t is known definitely that members
OF the interstate commerce commits
sion work late into the night: that
their secretaries and some members
OF the ONCE force break union rules"
in an over-working attempt to keep