Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20
Capital Sidelights


the worlds history that each nation
pas produced?
An interesting list of some of these,
as compiled by Col. Wade III. Cooper.
president of the Continental Trust
90. of Washington. has been
printed in the Congressional Record
On motion of Representative Reese
or Tennessee, as follows:
In France It is Mirabeau and his
contemporaries of the French RevO-
luton, Napoleon and his excursions
INTO MOSCOW and into Egypt. where
ne reminded his soldiers that 40 GEN.
turles looked down upon them. In
England 1t is the Duke of yelling
ton and his victory at Waterloo, or
LORD Nelson and his victory at Ira
1algar. In Germany 1t is Frederick
the Great and Bismarck. In Scotland
II Is Wallace and Wycliffe and Bruce
and Sidney. In Ireland 1t is Emmett
ana O'Connell and Grattan. In Italy
IL is Garibaldi. In Hungary 1t is
r., hossuth. In Austria 1t is Marie
Ieressa and in Russia it Is Rather
inc the Great.
In Cuba it is Marti. In Mexico it
Is Juarez. In the Dominican Repub-
nc 1t is Duarte. In Argentina 1t is
san Martin. In Brazil it is Bonofacio.
In Bolivia it Is Sucre. In Chile it is
OHiggins, In Colombia it is San
lander. In Guatemala it is Barrios.
In Honduras 1t is MoraZan. In Pan
anna it is Herrera. In Uruguay 1t is
Artigas; in Peru it is Unanue; and in
Venezuela it Is Bolivar
In our own great American Repub-
tic 1t is George Washington, it's
founder, and Abraham Lincoln, its
savior and preserver.
y n
Effort to stop the now of "red ink,
winch is the only thing that the Post
once Department seems to get free
from the Government, and to wipe
out the seeming deficit in the opera
tlon or this greatest single specialized
business in the world. is being made
IN connection with the contemplated
revision of the postal rates now under
discussion in the House committee.
The business leaders of the country
are urging that this greatest of all
communication services be put on
strictly service-at-cost basis. which
will put on the proper side of the
ledger the free service that the Postal
Service is now rendering other agen-
cies Of the Government. John w.
O'Leary, president of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States,
emphasizes that:
THE post office operations are pro
ducing "a deficit, and yet there is in
the present year, as nearly as can be
estimated, $15.000,000 worth of
franked and other Government mail
going through the post office. If
that $15,000,000 were credited to post
office operations the deficit would be
very much cut. In addition to that
various policy services are rendered
free or at less than cost and until
we can get a proper accounting of
these matters it is unfair to call the
resulting charges deficits"
To perpetuate in bold sculpture on
the face of a mile-high cliff of solid
granite, known as Mount Rushmore,
in the Black Hills, the history Of our
expansion and development as Ma
ton, the first national memorial has
been undertaken by South Dakota.
This is in accordance with an act of
Congress in 1925. 1t is located in
scenic Custer State Park, within the
Harvey National Forest.
The sculptural features in connec-
ton with this memorial involve a
colossal portrait of George Washing
ton, our first President, 60 feet in
height to the right, a colossal por
trait of Thomas Jefferson, who con-
ceived and negotiated the Louisiana
Purchase, and who caused its sub
sequent exploration and survey by
the pathfinders, Lewis and Clark.
To the left will be carved a colossal
portrait of Abraham Lincoln. I'm
mediately back of this group will
appear a similar portrait of Theodore
Roosevelt, who completed for the Ma
ton and the Western Hemisphere
the construction Of the Panama
A i've MT hi f,r4
will be cut on the face of the granite
mountain directly back of the entire
group. enumerating in vivid success
sion these impressive and far-reaching
historical events, including the pur-
chase of Alaska from Russia and the
cession of the Floridas by Spain.
Every once in a while we get a
cross section view of Congress. and
are surprised to note the high quality
of men who happen to have been in
che House or Senate at the same time.
lending common council in the max
ing of our laws.
Such f1ashlight picture was
shown to the House recently by
Representative MacGregor of New
former member, Col. John B. Weber,
aged 81, who served in the Forty
niath and Fiftieth Congresses. from
1885 to 1889.
Col. Weber had his military title as
comma nder of the seth Regiment in
the Civil War. He first entered poll
tics as unsuccessful opponent OF
Grover Cleveland for the Office of
sheriff of Erie County, n. Y, and the
same day that Weber took his seat in
Congress, Cleveland was inaugurated
President. having in the meantime
been mayor Of the city of Buffalo and
Governor of the State of New York.
But here is the summary of famous
men-all of whom are now dead
who served with Weber in the House.
as compiled by Representative Mac
Gregor:
From Alabama came Gen. Joseph
Wheeler of Civil and Spanish War
fame, and also John III. Bankhead,
who afterward became United States
Senator, the father of our friend and
colleague, the Representative from
Alabama, William B. Bankhead; from
Georgia came Charles F. Crisp.
Speaker of the House in the Fifty-sec-
ond and Fifty-third Congresses and
father of our esteemed colleague.
Charles r.. Crisp; from California,
the late lamented Justice of the
United States Supreme Court,
Joseph McKenna; from Illinois, the
beloved Uncle Joe Cannon, who.
was the idol and respected friend of
most of us here, and also our lately
departed friend, William Mason, ia
miliarly known as Billy Mason, who
went to the Senate and then. came
back to us; from Iowa, DAVID b. Hen
derson. Speaker of the House in the
Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Con.
crosses; from Indiana, William S.
Holman, whose name is so familiar to
all of us as the author of the Holman
rule; from Kentucky, John G. Carlisle,
Sneaker of the House in the Forty