Show FOR HARD N both parties making ready for congressional elections next fall LEADERS SEEM CONFIDENT promotion of peary to do be rear ad miral had a precedent movement to Esti establish blish national valhalla washington tho republican and democratic cong congressional ress ional campaign committees already havo have begun active preparations tor for the campaign next fall it seems from the attitude oi of the officials of tho the majority bartys committee that hat they expect to be to some extent on the defensive in the campaign the democrats already aro are showing marked signs of taking tho the offensive and if you can believe the leaders they are going into tho the foght with high confidence in their ability to got get control ot of the next house bouse representative B mckin ley of illinois chairman of the republican congressional committee la Is quoted as saying simply iwo wo will retain control of tho the house champ clark who la Is leader of the minority in the house has said tho the next house will be democratic by a safe working margin the democratic leader la Is not a member ot of the congressional campaign committee of his party but he Is in constant consult consultation atlon with representative lloyd hla colleague from missouri who Is tho the committees chief lloyd himself as yot yet has made no specific promises of victory to his i fellow democrats but ho be has assured them that everything that can be ilo done ne to make victory certain will be done and that in a general way the prospect la Is bright where real fight will be 80 the republican congressional committee will pay its particular attention to the and western country where because of certain disaffection over the payne aldrich tariff bill they expect to td have some trouble admission ta Is mado made by the republican committeemen that there may be in now new england w where h ere there are symptoms in one or two to distrito districts of a revolt against the dutle duties imposed by the last tariff bill and an inclination to doubt whether the republican party la Is going to carry out ill all of its promises of real pa progressive 1 1 legislation champ clark the democratic leader has hah this to io say of the thae outlook this congressional campaign will be made on an the issues of tariff and can human ingenuity cannot change this the republicans may attempt between now and the date of adjournment to bring forth some new issue for the purpose of clouding beclouding be the damaging effects of their tariff law and hut but when the campaign Is on in full swing ih the opeo people will find that there ore are only two real issues s and they will be tho the two I 1 hayo haye named in some sections 0 the country ship subsidy will be a feature of the campaign in other sections financial legislation will be a minor issue but and tariff will bo before tho the entire country and on these issues we will win the republican leaders claim that the tariff issue will not interfere with victory they know that shat the da democrats ma will talk about tho the high prices of the necessities of life and will do their best to make it appear that tho the tariff Is to blame but the he republicans Republic say that it will be shown to tb the people thai the high prices are n not ot the result 61 atthe tho customs duties as they stand stad ri but aie are to tobe be accounted fot for because of a half dozen different natural reasons which the people will and appreciate peary was badly used when tho the members of the subcommittee mitt edof of the house committee on iw val affairs reported against the plan dian to promote commander robert E peary to the rank of rear admiral be cau calu a of his scientific achievements and tits his services sen ices to the world they 1 seemed to think that to tb be asked to give such a rewa re wardi A rd was a most unusual t thing bing and that no man whose achievements were like unto those of peary ever had his services recognized so eo signally it tho the committee had looked up precedent and made a study of the history of like events it might have taken a different view of the matter some people belleve believe that it if peary had been a line officer and not a staff of ocer beer no objection would have been offered to his advance to the position of rear admiral there can be no denial of the fact that the line and staff of the navy aro jealous one ot of the tha other rear hear admiral george wallace met mel ville retired was an engineer ln in chiet of the navy he was a staff officer just juat ns as peary Is and in his time he b had ad trouble with the officers of the line in certain ways melville was a great arctic explorer and there la Is no better record than his bla to be found in all the pages of northern exploration tho the rear admiral was a hereof hero of the unfortunate jeannette expedition which was led by do de long nearly 30 years ago it was rear admiral melville then nn an engineer officer of much lower rank who commanded one of the three whale boats when the expedition pe tion retreated it was waa due to his bla care foresight and self sacrifice t that hat the boat was saved and his crew came out alive while the crews of the other boats all went down to their death melville jound found himself finally with hla his boats crow crew on the storm swept barrens in the northern part of siberia there it was that the crew rested and recuperated as well as it could in the midst of great privat privations fous for some time and then led by melville the men found their way back over r hundreds of miles allea and succeeded in recovering the records of the Jeann ettes journey congress Congre sd promoted melville for hla his great work and the fact that he be was an engineer officer holding a commission in the staff did not prevent his rece receiving v ng signal s gna honor onor the 0 engineer today to day has the rank of rear admiral national valhalla wanted A movement Is gathering force in washington to establish a real national valhalla there have been so many adverse criticisms of the statues of the great ones which are now in the keeping of memorial hall the old room of the house of representatives in the capitol that it may be in the future a separate building will bo be provided or a great room set aside in one of the existing buildings in which the statues sent by the states as aa memorials to their famous dead may be placed in a proper setting representative mann of illinois has called the present statuary hall in the tha capitol a hall of horrors another member of congress says that he always shuts abuts his hie eyes when he walks through the hall where the statues of the great are placed men afen who make no pretense to possessing artistic instinct say that they are affected painfully wuen they look on the marble and bronze memorials in this hall of fame amista also many of them without any prejudice in favor of this sculptor or that sculptor say eay that the collection of statues Is little more than grotesque some of the figures in ill M memorial hall ate aie of heroic size while others appear to bo be dwarfed by their proximity to the others and to give the impression that the men whom they represent were absolute physical pygmies pigmies pig mies some of the statues are of men who died comparatively recently and of necessity they are represented in the mod ern garb and there Is nothing in a frock coat and a pair of trousers to give enthusiasm or an imaginative chance to the artist it is an invidious task to point out the differences artistic and otherwise between some of these memorials in this hall of the capitol it can be said however that only a few of the states are in any way worthily represented in an artistic sense and it Is not going too tar far to say that some of the states have picked out men for honor who certainly were not their greatest citizens one ventures to be bold and to pick out illinois tho the great prairie state claims both lincoln and grant and yet neither one of these men are represented in memorial hall as a son of the state there Is a bronze figure of gen shields a fine soldier and a good deal of a statesman but sadly enough nine people out of ten who look at the figure of tho the soldier have to be told who he was and the guides are in a largo large measure tho the sole authorities on the subject in tho the capitol the other memorial which illinois has put in the hall ball Is a statue of francis E willard the great apostle of temperance miss willards Wll lards memory is worthy of honor anywhere but even her friends in life and those who remember her lovingly rind and tenderly do not go so tar far as to claim that she should have pre preempted emited empted the place which might have been given to abraham lincoln or cs S grant recently idaho put into the hall a statue of one of its great sons shoup it is a figure of heroic size but it la Is to bo be doubted if this son of the west looking down from his window in heaven will smile with anything like approbation upon the statue which Is BUpp oseo to represent besent him as he was there are other figures in the hall which are of towering and commanding in g size all too big for the room in which they are placed on tho the other hand band take ono one of the status statue 4 which texas has put in the hall as a memorial to houston the figure of this man who in public mind was cast in natures heroic mold is small and delicate unquestionably it la Is a work of art but it looks overshadowed as aa it to la by the statues about iti it as a mere shepherd boy i georga CLINTON |