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Show forth with the freedom born of trlend-sblp trlend-sblp and affection. The secretaries are not forgotten and neither are the telephone operatives. Speaker Clark this year received his first Christmas present early. Representative Lang-ley Lang-ley presented Mr. Clark with a cane mounted with a deer horn and Bllver crest. Mr. Langley recently went to the Panama Canal Zone and there secured the wood from which the cane was made. It was a fine piece of timber tim-ber which the French had left behind them when the De Lesseps forces admitted ad-mitted failure and left the iBthmus and the French canal project-In project-In writing recently of newspaper correspondents in Washington who have gone into the government service serv-ice several names were omitted, but first let one be spoken of who still is In the newspaper ranks and who apparently ap-parently looks with no longing eye for a government Job, although it is probable that he has been or could have been offered one many a time. More Notable Correspondents. William W. Price Is the Washington Star's White House representative. Mr. Price is a North Carolinian, but he has' lived at the capital for years and for a decade If not longer he has been found every day in the press room of the White House. It is probable prob-able that Price knows as many public men by sight as any other man in the United States. The coming and going 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 the country from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf. These men passing in procession Price has seen and for the most part knows. He is a court of last resort on Dames and faces, and he remembers remem-bers perfectly what this man who has come today was here for years ago when he paid a visit to a former president pres-ident Thomas R. Shlpp, who was for some time what is known in newspaper parlance par-lance as a "star reporter," was connected con-nected with the Indianapolis News until he was Induced to come to Washington Wash-ington by former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, who wanted him for his private secretary. Some time before Mr. Beveridge left office Gifford Pin-chot, Pin-chot, who was then chief of the forest service, asked Mr. Shlpp to enter the forest service, and so he left his place In the senator's office to take service under the "tree saver." After Mr. Pin-chot Pin-chot left the government employment Mr. Shlpp went with him as secretary of the National Conservation association, associa-tion, and now he has gone back to Indianapolis In-dianapolis to be the executive secretary secre-tary of the National Conservation congress. Major John M. Carson and Mrs. Carson have Just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Major Carson Is a veteran of the Civil war and for years he was Washington correspondent cor-respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger. He was one of the first presidents of the Gridiron club and was perhaps the best known correspondent in Washington Wash-ington fifteen years ago. The government govern-ment pressed him into its service finally as editor of the daily consular reports, and last year It diverted Mr. Carson's energies to the European field, where it sent him to make studies stud-ies of the commercial conditions. Army Officers Disagree. Washington looks on the disagreement disagree-ment between General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, and Representative Hay, chairman of the house committee on military affairs, af-fairs, over the form of army reorganization reor-ganization as really a disagreement between army officers themselves as to the form reorganization really ought to take. If the bill in the form in which Representative Hay has drawn It shall pass congress and be signed by the president, which apparently Is not at all likely, MaJ. Gen. Frederick C. Alnsworth, the adjutant general of the United States, will be retired before be-fore long with the rank of lieutenant general. General Wood and General Alnsworth Alns-worth do not agree on a good many matters connected with the military profession. It is a curious coincidence coinci-dence that both of these army officers of high rank, one of them. General Wood, the highest ranking officer on the active list today, entered the service as assistant surgeon connected, connect-ed, of course, with the medical department de-partment of the army. It Is true, therefore, that two doctors have risen more rapidly In rank than any two line officers who can be named. Some one has quoted "Who shall decide when doctors disagree?" and it probably prob-ably will be for the laymen of congress con-gress to settle the matter. Representative Morris A. Sheppard of Texas is chairman of the bouse committee on publli buildings and grounds Mr. Sheppard and his committee, com-mittee, It Is believed, are favorable to legislation which will make an appropriation appro-priation to erect in Washington a building to cost $750,000. In which can be stored the archives of the government, govern-ment, which now are scattered through the buildings of eight or ten different departments. These archives are of Immense historical value and the ' American Historical association has been urging congress for a long time to provide for their care, their proper cataloguing and their proper placing so that they can be studie ( by students. If any one of half a? dozen buildings In Washington should be destroyed by fire today the loss to the students of the country and to the government Itself would be Incalculable. Fi!lML!CS Memorial Building Is Planned for Washington. CURTIS AND CARTER AIDING Two Young Women at National Capital Cap-ital Are Made Chippewas by Adoption Adop-tion Charles Crisp, New Parliamentarian of the House. By GEORGE CLINTON. Washington. In one of these dispatches dis-patches recently It was said that Senator Sen-ator Curtis, who has a considerable share of Indian blood In bis veins, had the honor as acting presiding officer of-ficer of the senate to sign a resolution granting permission for the erection of a memorial statue to the American Indian on a site overlooking New York harbor. Now Senator Curtis and Representative Rep-resentative Carter of Oklahoma, who like the senator has Indian blood In his veins, have promised to aid In a movement started by the Improved Order Or-der of Red Men of the United States I for the erection in Washington of a memoria'bullding to the American Indian In-dian tocost $500,000. The tribute, it is proposed, shall take the form of a KUrecture In which are to be kept such relics of Indian husbandry, art and literature as may be contributed by associations as-sociations and Individuals. in speaking of the proposal for the Indian memorial, Mr. Carter says: "This entire country has been carved out of the domain of the red men, who, insofar as tribal relations are concerned, are rapidly passing away and soon will be merged Into general cosmopolitan citizenship of the country. coun-try. It seems to me some such memorial me-morial as suggested where the relics ! of the handiwork of the Indian may I be preserved would be a Just and falth- I ful tribute to the American aborig ines." ' Two Girls Become Chippewas. In connection with this Indian matter mat-ter It might be said that two young women of Washington, one the secre-i secre-i tary of Representative A. O. Stanley, i , chairman of the steel- investigating i v committee, and the other one of the committee's stenographers, have been taken Into the great Chippewa tribe of Indians by adoption. When Leonldas Merritt was giving his testimony before the Stanley committee com-mittee in connection with the matter of the Messabba iron ore deposits, be suggested half Jocosely that adoption Into the tribe of the Chippewas a wait-1 wait-1 ed the two young ladies If they' would but say the word. It seems that Mr. Merrlt was taken Into the tribe some years ago as a hereditary chieftain of a band of which the full-blooded mem; bers are now extinct. This honor gave Mr. Merritt the right to adopt others Into the tribe. Miss Minnie Mahler and Tulss Kath-erlne Kath-erlne Green, both of whom are of Henderson, Hen-derson, Ky., and who now have employment em-ployment In a congressional committee, commit-tee, are now, through the formality of adoption, known as Wabun and Wabunanung, the translations of which are supposed to be "the first faint Bush of Incense breathing morn and eastern morning star." New House Parliamentarian. Asher Hinds, who was the parliamentarian parlia-mentarian of the house when Mr. Cannon Can-non waf speaker, is now a member of the house from the Portland (Me.) district. dis-trict. The house needs a parliamentarian, parliament-arian, who is not so known, however, but Is called "clerk at the speaker's desk. When Mr. Hinds stepped from the desk down to the floor as a member, mem-ber, it was thought that the Democratic 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 the instant. There was a careful study of the held, and finally the choice for parliamentarian fell on Charles CrlEp of Georgia, ho is a son of Charles Frederick Crisp, also of Georgia. aDd who was a member of six congresses In succession and f who was also the Democratic speaker of the house in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses. Tillman "Comes Back." Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina is not only back in Washington, but Is back in the field for re-election to the upper house The senator was a very 111 man last winter, but his health seems to have improved wonderfully. At the time that the South Carolina senator was so 111 there was something pathetic pa-thetic In what he said to a friend when he was about to leave Washington. Washing-ton. He has a good deal of poetry in him, despite what some people consider con-sider his rough exterior. He was in need of rest and when he was asked if he were going home he said, "Yes, I am going down to the old state and y to my garden to look at the roses and to hear the mocking birds sing." Edmund Heller, who accompanied Colonel Roosevelt on the Smithsonian expedition Into Africa, is now In the northern part of the Dark Continent again, with Paul J. Rainey of New York. Mr. Rainey Is collecting on behalf be-half of the Smithsonian Institution and Mr. Heller Is preparing the specimens. speci-mens. The Smithsonian Institution's i . reports show that up to last month the members of Its new African expedition expe-dition had collected for It 700 large mammals. 3,000 small mammals and 250 birds. It Is the Intention of the Smithsonian institution shortly to erect a monument to Samuel P. Lang- ley, the "father of aviation." Champ Clark's New Cane. It Is a quickening holiday spirit which hov rs over Capitol hill. The ! house rmp'oyees are remembered and roembfrs of congress give back and I |
