| Show MAN Y GENERALS MANON ON RETIRED LIST The rho Number Has Now Reached Two Hundred and Sixty Six MAY CUT DOWN THEIR PAY Ami Will Ilce Some At Attention t During Tills Se lou of ur Congress l Special Correspondence Washington Feb 20 The top tOil heavy army urmy will HI receive some attention In this Congress s It may not 1101 bo be that the of icu or of general of or the tho army will willlie willbe be lie abolished ed although lilt hough there Is U a II strong strand feeling that the great office created to honor such soldiers as us Scott Grant dram Sherman and Sheridan should not be become become become come common property properly of or a dozen Boren men i whose whoso names will scarcely scarce figure In III his i tory tort lor The Tho Idea of or those who nho are trying to have tho the olive abolished Is IB that It be reserved for tor men who havn Nava particularly distinguished themselves In command of ot great armies on the jIlt Gal Battlefield tIc field Before this cnn be abol abolished shed hh d there will be on the retired list of the army as lieutenant generals six sl men and It will take taka a very close stu atu student student dent of ot recent events to tell w wherein herein any of ot them earned that title In view of ot the fact that Thomas Meade Durn Burn Burnside side Hooker Crook nod and a n dozen ozen other of or tine the civil war never held heM a II higher rank than major general TilE m LIST Besides these six al lieutenant generals there thero ate are about 25 r major generals and ami brigadier generals on tho the retired list Hit With Willi eight major generals and 20 brigadier generals on the active list let and numerous promotions for retire retirement retirement retirement ment of ot these theae grades frequently being mado the retired list Is becoming some something something thing of or a n menace to the army and many fear that If Ir It keeps on increasing an effort may bo be made to abolish It or cut down the pay of retired officers Restrictions are arc proposed In lit Inthe the army appropriation hill which may tend to prevent large lare additions to the list In to the future ELT LUCK Roosevelt luck luek again was u remark made mado by b a not over friendly to tho time president when he heard hearl that the Democratic tic senators were holding a 11 caucus to unite their party against the policy of oC tho the president In Santo Domingo I Could anything ho he moro snore opportune he ho continued Just as we wo were all nil split spilt to pieces on everything tho the Democrats determine to unite against n the tho president which will force tie xia IS to get together for tor him I 1 think that there Is going to bo be a change In ht luck but I am nm now no convinced that ho Is a man mar of destiny CRANES C BUli nILL Senator Sena lor Crane Crano of or Massachusetts a aman aman man who never seeks notoriety to any great extent finds himself the subject of ot considerable public discussion be because because because cause he lie Introduced u a bill to establish a It dilutions childrens bureau In III tho the Interior Intel lor department which bureau was us charged with the duty of ot Investigating and re reporting reo reporting porting upon nil all matters pertaining to the tilE welfare of ot children and child life and shall hall especially Investigate the tha questions of or Infant mortality the tho birth birthrate rite rate physical al degeneracy orphanage Juvenile delinquency and Juvenile courts desertion and Illegitimacy dan dnn dangerous dangerous occupations accidents and dis disease disease ease caRo of ot children of ot the working classes employment ment legislation affecting chil children children dren In tho several states and territories ries rles and nn such other oilier facts as us have havo a IL hearing bearing upon the tho health efficiency character and training of at children Some Borne l ome who criticise this tins measure say that Crane Introduced It to secure facts to back up the theories of or the president regarding race raco suicide RAILWAY MAIL HATES BATES s For several years Frank Frnnk Pettigrew when a 11 senator from South Houth Dakota nude made nn an earnest endeavor to secure a n reduction In the amount of oC money mone paid railroads Is for tor tho tiro transportation of or malls There was waR a long drawn out Investigation of ot tho the subject by a Joint of ot the iho senate and house Volumes of testimony were taken and result was vas CS never ver rend read and the net and the tho seine Fomo 14 speeches notches p In fn Congress usual appropriations Now another ef or effort fort tort In tho the same direction Is III be being helnA made mude or perhaps It would be better to tomy my say that there Is agitation In that di Ill direction It began about bout tho the time tho the passes Were ero being curtailed on differ different different ent lit railroads In the tho country and may ma manot not hao been a n coincidence but a do de sire Ire to got gut oven ovenA A BIT nIT MIXED Representative of Ala AlaI baron I nn discussing IIII the tho railroad late Into bill In tho the house perpetrated an 11 Irish bull Mr rr Chairman ho he said speaking sp of or tho the work worl of oC tho the commit committee tee there thero are 1110 a n 1 treat great many ma II features In this legislation at It wo to haul had u It great grent deal Ile l of at trouble that tint nr are not In Ir Inthis this tits bill II He t l that tho the com corn had ell iod somo some of these objectionable u features feature ItEI IlE Tim Till CONSTITUTION Some Santo land bill was being considered In limn Iho senate which caught the eye C O of or Senator Spooner of Wisconsin I 1 notice a clause In the tho bill ho Ire raid Mid where tho the constitution c Is III reen reenacted reenacted acted noted very Industrially and I 1 question I t he the necessity It Is nothing now new to reenact the tiro constitution blithely remarked Senator Sen Senator ator of or Indiana I 1 will tay 11 to tn the senator that It Is done hero all na nathe the time Although the tho senator sa says a It Is b quito customary to reenact the tho con constitution retorted Spooner It Is III squally equally customary to forget It after atter It II Is III reenacted |
