Show KIOTO OF mm STATUE edward D baker says mr cullom should have monument HE ASKS CONGRESS FOR ONE extraordinary career of the statesman and anc soldier who raised re Resl ment of ex gold seekers and waa was killed at balls bluff dy by GEORGC CLINTON washington senator shelby it cullora cullom of 0 who Is the oldest member of the senate in year years and in point of service has introduced a bill to erect a monument to perpetuate the of an illinois man whom be knew know in youth and who it la Is plain from what Is eald said of him should not be lost to the memory ot of bis his country F edward ward dickinson haker baker of kugland england pennsylvania illinois oregon cat cal Ifor rila and new ew york ie Is the man who senator cullom thinks ought to be honored by a monument erected at government expense blaker was born in angland in 1811 lie cama came lo 10 the united state states with his father when be he wae was four yeara years old and lived in to phil adelphia adelph la until be he was 14 then be he went to illinois where be waa was gevea bla his high school education and bis his law course lie waa was an older man by 17 years than cullom but the senator new bin him ase well in fit big his boyhood and later grew to admire him greatly daker baker waa wall a 4 member of the whig party and a great friend of abraham lincoln lie ile waa was representative and state senator in illinois at fie the time the mexican war broke out lie raised a regiment and served all through the be conflict under general scott returning then to illinois and settling in the galena district which promptly sent him to congress his regiment of cold seekers later lak r vent went to california and then to oregon a state which in a early days sent him to the united states senate tie ile waa was in the senate only a few montha months when the civil war broke out prid then be he conceived a picturesque thought lie ile had bad had four year years of war but he be waa was willing to havu four year years more he lie thought that the men who had gone to call ornta fornia durin tie the gold craze and bad had endured all kinds of hards alps would make fine fighting material and so he concluded to raise a california regi ment went and offer if its service to the gov ern eminent ment of course fr lena told him it was a long way ways to california and asked him bow he was going to get his men lie ile aid said ill get them in philadelphia ind tritt new york lie ile went to the two titles and opened recruiting offices with the me iego ud over the door no one but california gold seekers need apply in about two weeks be he had hall a regiment egl egi ment of returned car coral carit it men and a fine regi went it u baker went with it to the front as ita its colonel and be he ai killed in one of the first battles of the war hall dolls bluff and with him was killed lieutenant greble be the first of fleer of at the regular army wh who a lost his I 1 lie a u the civil conflict brehle a aon son now a lieutenant colonel of artillery station ed in ito t c city ity of washington glon cebator locator cullem asked ron congress gress 0 reel the monument in memory of the colonel on the field of halls liall a bluff where be lost bis his life lite tte librarian of congress has issued bis his report which that the ac cession to the library for die ilia last rear were 98 volumes bringing the irand grand total of printed books in the col lection to 1 the collection of map maps and charts number 18 lis ISS pieces the mi collection 80 blumes and pince and print ings etc I 1 he library is I 1 one it f th tb biggest 1 the world red men indale washington tco the streets of washington have been turned into peace paths by representatives of ludlan tribes during the last few day days tria indian indians have come here from rast east et est north and south tor for it must be understood that ibe the entirely civilized 11 of the country hold indians as well a as the w western pains sometime ago it waa was suggested that the indiana indians a 0 the country land them elves solves together torether tor for the purpose of making their Int influence luence felt aa as voters for thousands of american indiana indians are voting citizens just want what move men will ill ome tu no one can ear say definitely yet but ilia indians gain ered red here bern concern themselves with other matters than a possible bal bat ance ct tower lower it seema seems vim the h pick of tas red men lent sent to lor for six footer are and the lull bloods predominate they are as line a looking body of man physically as ever gathered in the cap ajtal city sone ot at the be sioux indiana indians are magnificent specimen specimens and it U mar may be that one of at thil tribe will be taken ai as a model for or the indian statue bleb ie lit to be erected la lz new now york harbor ai at private expanse but with government sanction A proper memorial to the be bract rai ol 01 red meo men who once held this continent lo 10 their keeping baa has been urged for or years and finally the be matter baa has takeo taken shape and form A heroic berate sited sized figure rival ing that ot at goddess of alb ll 11 eity erty will oon soon appear lacing the ilia wa ten of the ocean vice president sherman vat wom abent absent ent from the capital tor for two or thre three day days recently and senator curtis ol 01 kansas wits M appointed to ovel over the while mr eberman wai was away senator carus Is 1 at least a 1 quarter indian and his appear appearance anc oud justify first alle that he li 1 y en riv a full it pit 11 to 0 o nir to 10 aa alil pre liiK ori oil ot at the equate baie ta sign ign the bill giving government sane tion alon to the private project lor for erect lui lul in haluor bor of the in dian races of the coith ih american continent many monument monuments projected john dalzell republican ot of penn syhania sylan la if is a in man of long ice in the house mr nir dalzell ie Is ono one of the guardians of ine the high tar iff and it Is aall sail that he be will ill be the last of the old guard to go 50 down when hen the fighting begin begins dal lell sell however pays attention to thing things other than the tariff on occasion occa elon and one of bla his hobbles bobbles Is in to secure from congress an appropriation of money to erect a monument on the field where braddock addock Or was defeated bl b the french and where george wah wash ington who wa was with braddock gave his first evidence of military genius dansell wants th the 11 government to appropriate 25 to be expended by the monument association of the nattle battle of the monongahela under the direction of the secretary of et war for the erection on the battle field of a sul suitable tible monument to commemorate the event there Is in not a state in the union which has escaped being the scene of a battle of some kind whether ot of the revolutionary the 1812 the alex lean ican the civil or the indian wars from washington ashington state to florida and from maine to california every state has been the scene of conflict the representatives of districts where battles occurred keep constant ly busy until success comes in the ef et fort to secure from the government sums of money to be added to state or private sums for the purpose ol 01 marking working battlefield sites altes Re presenta tave frank W mondell mandell who was elected at large from the stadt of wyoming to the national house wants of the government money to erect monuments on tho the site bite of the old fort phil kearry kearr y on piney creek johnson county wyoming yo ming and on the site of the wagon lox fight light on piney creek in johanon and sheridan counties these battles of course were ere with the indiana and they oc cuffed in the days when old red cloud name suggestive of war was attempting to prevent the entry of the whites into the domains claimed by the warlike sioux to mark cre dattle site representative jorae james T cleflin of alabama has asked tor for an awro pria tion of 25 to erect a suitable eol table monument on the battle ground at tho horse shoe on the river in his homo home state it Is set forth in mr hir heflin it bill asking for the money that hat the horse florae shoe fight was an one of t w the most important and in fact deolive decisive battles of the war between the whites and the creek indians it la Is possible that if mr air heflin undertakes to press bis this measure on january 8 which Is to known as jackson day because it Is in the anniversary of the victory which old hickory won st at new orleans bis his democratic brethren may flock to its support and put it through the horse florae shoe shoo in alabama was w where here the creeks made the final stand and were attar ti and overcome by general jackson aarah 27 ISH 1814 tho the historians have said and mr heflin makes a great point of this that this v victory ended not merely the creek w war ar but the power of the indian races in north america peace celebration planned wille other member members of are trying to secure money for memorials to warlike deeds A william illiam W arlest of pennsylvania wanta wants con gress to pass a resolution that in its belief I 1 the government of the united states should participate in the celebration of the century of peace be tween the united states and orent great britain and canada in such form as its shall advie adrin 0 the rinse of pence the nations nf f the world and ibe the president Is to hereby authorized 1 f extend official co to und and invite into national participation in the th rel bration commemorating the triumphs of pence congress Is said to look kindly nn on this proposal of or mr nir griest be bebau raulle it in any sense can not be regarded ss its a party measure senator atu a it i f new york Is doing what hf he can to further the movement looking to this celebration of one aundrel years nf f i peace belv between leen the united states anti ml great britain on december 24 the centura of peace will be ce lebrat ed for it was on that day that the treaty of ghent put an end to or was supposed to put an end erd to the second war or with angland it probably will wilt be remembered by even casual rend read ers era of history that while the toty of client was wa slimed december Ic embr 21 14 knewl edge that it had rind been beers signed did ant reach the be united states for some time the thereafter the democrats oa on jan jarl barf aar 9 S w 11 II celebrate the anniversary of the battle ol 01 new orleans which was fought in the yr year 1915 ay y oen gen eral jackson something mor more than two weeks after the ih treaty of peace had bad been sighed and the two bad agreed to withdraw hostile armies from rom the field |