Show T fOR INDIAN RELICS J Memorial Building Is Planned J I i e for Washington CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING I Two Young Women at National CapAre Capital Capital Cap Cap- ital Are Made by Adoption i tion Ion Charles Crisp New Parliamentarian of f the House JI E By GEORGE CLINTON t In Washington In ono of these dispatches die dis patches re recently it was waa said Laid that Senator Sen Sen- ator Curtis who has baa a considerable share of or Indian blood In In his hla veins had bad the honor as acting presiding officer of of- 1 of ot the tho senate to sign a resolution i. i k ft K gran permission for tor the tho erection 1 1 c ot of a memorial statue to me we American Indian on a site overlooking Now York harbor Now Senator Curtis and Rep- Rep Representative r t Carter of ot Oklahoma who f Jl like dike the senator has Indian blood in Ills veins have promised to aid In a 1 movement started by th the Improved Order Or Or- der of Red Men of or the United States t for or tho the erection in Washington of a memorial building to the tho American Indian InI In- In I 1 ilan dian to cost Tho The tribute It 2 is proposed shall take tae the form of a aX 14 X structure in which are are to be kept such v relics of Indian husbandry art and If yr lIl as s may be c contributed by associations as- as J and individuals In speaking of the tho proposal for tor the Indian memorial Mr Carter says S This entire country has been carved out of or the domain of the red men v who Insofar as tribal relations are t t. concerned are s passing away v and soon will be merged Into general f J l ri cosmopolitan citizenship of ot the coun coun- f try It seems to me some such memorial me me- morial as suggested where the relics relics' of ot the handiwork of ot the Indian may if tie the pres preserved would be a Just and faith faith- V I ful tribute to t the e American if S dues Jines S Two Two Girls Become In connection with this Indian matter matler mat mat- V ter ler It might be said eald that two young V T i women of ot Washington one the secretary secretary secre- secre tary nry of ot Representative A A. O. O Stanley I 3 chairman of the steel Investigating Domini t tee and the other one of the thep p committees committee's stenographers have been 4 taken into the great grent Chippewa tribe of or Indians by adoption n. n w Y ULL nen j iU men Merritt I ILL 11 was waa b I. I f thIs hIs testimony before the Stanley committee com corn j in connection with the matter tf Lh t of ot the iron ore deposits be he h suggested half halt Jocosely that adopt adoption on L' L into he the tribe of the the awaited awaited await awalt- I t ed the two young joung ladles ladies if they would r but say the word It seems that Mr Merrit was taken Into the tribe some years Sears ago as a hereditary chieftain of ot ofa ofa a band of ot which the full-blooded full members mem mem- ers bers ers are now extinct This honor save gave Mr Merritt the right to adopt others into the tribe p z Miss Minnie Mahier Mahler and Miss Katherine Katherine Kath- Kath t. erine Green both of ot whom are of Henderson Henderson Hen- Hen Henderson derson Ky and who now have employment em- em in a congressional commit commit- rlee are now through the formality I of adoption known as Wabun and toe the translations or oz which are s supposed to be the first faint I flush of oOt incense breathing morn and andt t eastern morning star New fiew House Parliamentarian Asher Asber Hinds who was the parlia- parlia tm m of ot the house when Mr CanI Cannon Can Can- I tuba non was wap speaker Is now a member of ot 0 the he house bouse from the Portland Me die dis The house houle needs a parliamentarian parliamentarian parliament parliament- I l' l arian who is not so BO known however but Is called clerk at the speakers speaker's f When Mr Hinds stepped from the desk lesk down to ro the floor door as a memI mem- mem I it was thought that the Democratic Demo- Demo cratic speaker would be put to it to find a successor who would be able as Mr Hinds was to quote precedent or decide a point on on n the instant There was as a a. a careful study of ot the field and finally the choice for parliamentarian fell ell on Charles Crisp Criep of Georgia ho rHo is a a son i of Charles s Frederick Frederi k Crisp also of ot Georgia and wh who was a member of ot six congresses In succession and who was also the the Democratic speaker 1 0 of th the house In the second Fifty-second and T third Fifty con congresses I TIilman Comes Back Senator Benjamin R. R Tiliman of or S 'S South Carolina is not only back I ran un Washington out but is back in inthe the field fi ld Id for tor re election re-election to the upper house The rho senator was a very illman ill III man last Inter but his health seems to to have improved wonderfully At ther the r time that the South Carolina senator was so 80 ill there was something pa pa- a in what he be said to a friend when bo tie was about to leave Washing Washing- I ton He lIo has bas a good deal of ot poetry in In him what some people cont con- con t sider his I rough exterior He was In meed raced of rest and when he was asked if If bo ho were going home he be said Yes i II U am going down to the old state and to my garden to look at the roses and to hear the mocking birds sing Edmund Heller Helter who accompanied Colonel colon l Roosevelt on the Smithsonian expedition into Africa is now In the pari part ot of the Dark Continent again with Paul J. J RaIney of New York Mr Rainey Is collecting on behalf behalf behalf be- be half of ot the Smithsonian institution and Mr Heller r Is preparing the sped mens The Smithsonian institutions institution's reports show that up to last month the members of ot its new African i had collected for it large I mammals small mammals and birds It is the intention of the Smithsonian institution shortly to tc erect a monument to Samuel P P. Lang Lang- Mey Jey the father tather of aviation Champ Clarka Clarks New Cane I r It-Is It a quickening holiday spirit which hovers over Capitol hill but The J house bouse employees are remembered and of ot I congress give back and l p I J 1 1 r n P. P I forth with the tho freedom born of friendship friend ship and affection Tho The SEcretaries are not forgotten and neither are th the telephone operatives Speaker Clark Clarl this year received his first Christina present early Representative Langley Lang Lang- ley presented Mr Clark with a cane can mounted with a deer born horn and silvercrest sliver silver crest Mr Langley recently went vent to tho the Panama Canal Zone and there secured the wood from which the cane was made It was a fine piece of ot Umber timber tim Um- ber which the tho French had left behind them when the tho De Lesseps forces admitted admitted ad ad- ad- ad failure and left the Isthmus and the French canal project In writing recently of ot newspaper correspondents In Washington who have gone into the government service servIce Berv Ice several names names' were omitted but bu first let one bo ho spoken of ot who still Is in the newspaper ranks and land who apparently apparently ap ap- apparently ap- ap looks with no longing eye for tor a government Job although It Is probable that he be has been or could have b ben been en offered one many a n. time More Notable Correspondents William W W. Price Is the Washington Stars Star's White House representative Mr Price Is a North Carolinian but buthe buthe he be has lived at tho the capital for years and for tor a decade if it not longer he be has baa been found every day In the press presa pressroom pressroom room of ot the White House It is probable probable probable able that Price knows as many public men by sight as ns any other man In the United States The coming and goIng going going go- go Ing at the White House Is constant and the tide sets in January 1 and ends December 31 to begin again on the morrow Its source Is from every part of ot the country from coast to o coast and from Canada to the Gulf Gult These men passing in procession Price has seen and for the most part knows Ho He is a court of ot last resort on names and faces and ho remembers bers hers perfectly what this man who has come today was here for tor years ago v nen lie us pata a n. 10 w visit a lormer Cormer pres- pres presIdent pres pres- ident Thomas R. R Shipp who was for tor some sometime sometime time what Is known In newspaper parlance parlance parlance par par- lance as star n a reporter was waa connected connected connected con con- with tho the Indianapolis News until he was Induced to come to WashIngton Wash Wash- ington by former Senator Albert J. J Beveridge who wanted him for Cor his private secretary Some time Ume before Mr Mr Beveridge left office effice Gifford Giffard Pinchot Pinchot Pin Pin- chot chef who was then chief of the forest service asked Mr Shipp to enter the C forest rest service and so he left lett h his s place In the senators senator's office to take service under the tree saver After Atter Mr Pinchot Pinchot Pin- Pin Pinchot chot left lett the government employment Mr ShIpp went with him as secretary of the National Conservation ass cin- cin tion and now be he has gone back to tom In to be the executive secretary secretary secre seers tary of at the National Conservation L congress Major John M M. Carson and Mrs Carson have Just celebrated their golden wedding annl anniversary ersary Major Majo Carson Is a veteran of the Civil war and for tor years he was Washington c cor correspondent r- r respondent of at the Philadelphia Ledger He was one of the first presidents of ot the Grid Gridiron ron club and was perhaps the best known correspondent in Washington Wash Wash- ington fifteen Otteen years ago The government government govern govern- ment meat pressed him into its service finally as editor of ot the dally daily consular reports and last las year It diverted Mr Carsons Carson's energies to the European field where it sent him bim to make stud studS I ies lea or ot the commercial conditions Army Officers Disagree Washington looks on the dIsagreement disagreement disagree dIsagree- ment meat between be General Leonard Wood chief f of ot staff ItatI of ot the army and Representative Hay chairman of or orthe the house committee on military affairs at af fairs over the form of ot army reorganization reorganization as really a disagreement between army officers themselves as aa asto asto to the form reorganization really ought to take If It the bill In the form In which Representative Hay has bas drawn It shall pass congress and be s signed ned by the president which apparently is not at all likely MaJ Gen Frederick C C. Ainsworth the adjutant general of ot the United States will wuI be he retired before before before be be- fore long with the rank of ot lieutenant general General Wood and General Ainsworth Ainsworth Ains Alas worth do not agree on a good many matters connected with the military profession It is a curious coincidence coincidence comet comet- dence that both of these army officers of ot high rank one ot of them General Wood the highest ranking officer on the active list today entered the service as assistant s surgeon c connect connect- ed of ot course with the medical department department de- de de do- of ot the army It is is true t therefore that two do doctors tors have risen more rapidly in rank than any two l line ine officers who can be named Some Someone Someone Someone one has baa qu quoted ted Who shall decide when doctors disagree and it probably probably probably ably will wUl be for tor the laymen of ot congress congress con con- gress to settle the matter Representative Morris A. A Sheppard of ot Texas Is chairman ot of the bouse ouse committee on public buildings and grounds Mr Sheppard and his committee com com- it Is believed are favorable to legislation l which will make an appropriation appropriation appropriation to erect in Washington a building to cost in which can be stored the archives s of ot the government govern govern- ment meat which now are scattered through the buildings of ot eight or ten different departments These archives are aro of immense historical value and the American Historical I association has baa been urging congress for a n long time to provide for tor their care their proper cataloguing and their proper placing so that they can be f by students If It any one of ot half halt a a dozen buildings In Washington sho should ld be destroyed by fire today the loss Joss to the students of ot the tho country and to the government Itself would be In in- calculable |