Show FOR HARD COMM both parties making ready for congressional elections next fall LEADERS SEEM CONFIDENT CON promotion of peary to be rear pear admiral had a precedent move ment to establish national omal I 1 valhalla washington the republican and democratic congressional campaign committees already have begun active preparations for the campaign next f rail a 11 it seems from the attitude of the officials of the majority bartys committee that they expect to be to game borne extent on an the defensive nalva in the campaign the democrats Demo crata already are showing bowing marked signs agn of taking the offensive and if you can believe the leaders they are going coln 1 l into thil fight with high confidence la in their ability to get control of the next house hougo representative william D mckin ley of illinois chairman of at the republican congressional committee la Is quoted as an saying simply iwo wo will retain control of the house champ clark who Is leader of the minority in the house has said the next house bouse will be democratic by a safe working margin the democratic leader is not a member of the congressional campaign laign committee of his party but he Is id in constant consultation with representative Lloyd hla bla colleague from who Is the tha committees chief lloyd himself its as yet has made no specific promises of victory to his fellow democrats but ho bo has haa assured done to make inake victory certain will bo be done and that in a general way the prospect Is bright real heal fight wilt be the republican congressional committee will pay its ita particular attention to the middle and western country where because of certain faction over the payne aldrich tariff bill they expect to have soma trouble admission Is mado made by the republican that thai there may be ba some difficulty in n now new england nn gland where there are symptoms in one or two districts of a revolt against the duties imposed by tho the last tariff bill and an inclination to doubt whether the republican publican nii party Is going to carry out all of its promises of real progressive legislation champ clark the democratic leader has haa this to say of tho them outlook this congressional campaign will be mado made on the issues of tariff and human ingenuity e cannot annot change this the republicans may attempt between now and the date of adjournment to bring forth some n new a W laade tor for the purpose of be clouding the damaging effects of their tariff law and Cannon lem but when th tha a campaign Is on in full swing tho the people will find that there are only two real issues and they will be the two I 1 have named in some gome sections ot of the country ship subsidy will be a feature of the campaign in other sections financial legislation will be a minor issue but and tariff av will ill be before tho the entire country and on an these issues we will win the republican leaders claim that the tariff issue will not interfere with victory they know that the democrats will talk about the high prices of the nece rattles of life and will do their best beat to io make it appear that the tariff Is to blame but the republicans say that it will be shown to the poo plo pie that tho the high prices are not th tho result ot of the customs duties as they stand but are to be accounted for because of a hilf dozen different natural reasons which tho the people will understand ond ind appreciate peary was wa badly used when the members of 0 the subcommittee of the house committee on na val affairs reported against the plan to promote commander robert E peary to the rank of rear admiral bo be cause ca s a of f ills hla scientific achievements and h hla 1 a 6 services to the world they seemed to think that to be asked to give such it a reward wn was a most unusual thing and that no man whose achievements were like unto those of peary ever had bad his services recognized so BO signally if the committee had looked up precedent and made a study of tho the history of ilde events it might have taken u different view of the matter somo some pecolo believe that it if pea peary ry had been a line officer and not a stait officer no objection would havo have been offered to hla his advance to the position ut of rear admiral thore can bo be no denial demal of the fact that tho the line and start staff of the navy are jealous one of the other be hear a r admiral george wallace wallac niel met ville ret retired Jred was an am engineer ln in ahlet of the navy lie its was a staff officer just as peary la Is and in bla big time he had trouble with the officers of the tb tine line in certa certain I 1 n ways ite melville ivine was a I 1 great arctic explorer and there Is no bouer record tull than ba oa to be b tou pi la in alt the pages or ot northern explore cx plora tiou the rear admiral win was a hero of cl tha unfortunate jeannette expedition expedit lan which was waa led by do da long nearly 30 years yeara ago it was rear admiral mo ville ahe then an engineer officer ot at much lower rank who commanded ono ano of the three whale boats when the ex tion retreated it was waa due to hla his care foresight and self sek sacrifice that the boat was saved and his crew cania came out alive while the crows of the other boats all went down to their death melville Melv llla found himself finally with hla his boats crew on the storm swept barrens barrena in the northern part of siberia there it was that tho the crew rested and recuperated aa well as aa it could in the midst of great privations for some time and then led by melville th the men found their way back over hundreds of miles and succeeded in recovering the records of the Jeann ettes journey congress promoted melvilla Melv Mol llla ville for his great work and the fact that he be wa an engineer officer holding a commission in the staff did not prevent his bis receiving signal honor the engineer today to day has baa the rank of at rear admiral iral national valhalla wanted A movement la Is gathering force in washington to establish a real national valhalla there have been so BO many adverse criticisms of the statues of the great ones which are arc now in the keeping of Ate memorial morial hall tho tb old room of the house of at re presenta tives fives in the capitol that it may bo bey in tho the future a separate ee building will bo be provi provided deol or a great room set aside in ono one of the existing buildings in which the statues sent dent by the states oa as memorials to their famous dead may bo be placed in it a proper setting representative mann of ina called tho the present statuary hal iiii member of congress consT ce says that he always shuts his eyes cyca when lio be walks through the hall cioll where the statues of the great are ara placed men aten who make no pretense to pom possessing artistic instinct say any that they are affected painfully wien they look on the marblo marble anti and bronze memorials lala in this hall or of tame fame also many bany of 0 them without any prejudice in an favor of this athla sculptor or that sculptor say may that the collection ol of statues to Is little more titan than grotesque sonio some of the figures in memorial hall are of heroic size while others appear to be dwarfed by their proximity to the others and to give the impression that the men whom they hey represent were absolute physical pygmies pigmies pig mies some of the statues are ol of men who died comparatively recently and of 0 necessity they are represented in the modern garb and there la Is nothing in a frock coat anti and a pair of trot trousers mers to give enthusiasm or an Imaging imaginative tive chance to the artist it to Is nn invidious task to point aut the differences arti artistic sito and oth otherwise erwi t between some of these memorials I 1 in this hall ball of the capitol it can be said eald however that only it a few a of f the states are in any way worthily represented in an artistic sense benso and it Is not going too far to say eay that somo some a of f the states have picked ut men for honor who certainly were not their greatest citizens one ventures to bo be bold and to pick al out it illinois the great prairie state claims both lincoln and grant and yet neither one of 0 thieo men ara are represented in memorial hall as alfin a son of the state there to Is a bronze figure of gen shields a fine soldier and a good deal of a statesman but sadly enough nino nine people out of ten who look nt at the figure ot of the tha soldier havo have to be told who he was and tho the guides aro in a large measure the sole authorities on an thu the subject in the capitol the other memorial ine norla which bich illinois has haa put in the ho hall Is a statue of francis E willaid the great apostle of temperance miss willards Wll larda memory Is worthy of at honor anywhere but oven even her friends in life and those who remember her lovingly and tenderly do not go in so tar far as to claim that she should have halo preempted pre empted the place which might have been given to abraham lincoln or ulysses S orant grant recently idaho put into the hall ball a statue of on of its great sons shoup it Is a figure of heroic size but it la Is to bo doubted it this son of the west looking down from hla his window in heaven will smile with anything like ilka approbation upon tho the statue which la Is suppose to represent him as he was there thera are other figures in tho the hall ball which are of towering and command ing size all too big for the room LR which they are placed on the othir other hand take one 0 ai the statues which exas has put la in the hall as a memo alil to houston the figure oi 01 this man who iho in public mind was cast lp 19 natures heroic mold to la small and del cate unquestionably it Is in a work ot at art betat but it looks overshadowed as it lia id by the about it se a mera shepherd bey GEORGE CLINTON |