V ?—*
j Washington
STATEHOOD KEEPING
LOWER HOUSE BUSY
Saturday Session Is Held for
Debate on the Bill Admitting
Territories.
Washington. May 22.—Expectation,
of members of the House whose homes
are within easy reach of Washington*
that they might spend the week end
with their families, wero rudely shat
tered, when It was decided that therd
should* be a session today. It wai
the first Saturday session in many
weeks, and the statehood resolution tc
admit Arizona and New Mexico was
the only business on the calendar. Th*
measure will be constantly before
the House until Tuesday night, when
It will be called up for passage.
The Investigations Into the depart*
ments Of government Instituted at th«
outset of'the democratic congress hav*
begun to take shape and today plana
for holding hearings with relation tc
the state, postofflce, interior and trees
ary departments were discussed by th«
party leaders.
I Thesff’wlth the special Investigation^
T Into the United States Steel corpora
tion and- the American Sugar Reflninj
;ompany, It was declared, will undoubt
rdly progress throughout the summer
whether congress is In session or not
The Senate was not in session today.
Washington, May 2!.—What is prac
tically an ultimatum was served od
the Senate today by the democratic
leaders of the House that there musi
9e a vote In the Senate at this sesslor
>n Canadian reciprocity, on the farm*
-rrs’ free list bill and on the revised
wool tariff. Provided these terms arc
met the House will agree to a reces#
from July 1 to October 1. Otherwise
the Senate will be held In contlnuoui
lesslon throughout the ‘'dog days" b*
tlie House refusing to adjourn.
k Democratic advocates of free ran
wool have completely surrendered, 11
was declared, when the House wnyt
tnd means committee today continued
the work of revising the tariff on wool
tlembers of the committee who hav*
oeen fighting against Chairman Under
wood and Speaker Clark to place raw
wool on the free list were said to havi
• greed to the retention of a reduced
Juty.
a Though the exact rates to be as
tossed on raw wool and manufactured
xrtlcles have not been disclosed, the
tentative bill to be submitted to thi
Democratic caucus probably will be i
3at revenue measure, with, raw woo*
rut about 50 per cent or more anfl
manufactured articles reduced from 5C
to CO per cent, dependent on the de
cision of the commission as to how
low the figure can go without seriously
7 impairing the revenues.
A lively’- discussion of the till! la ex
pected in the democratic caucus.
IOWAN HIS
L ' CAPITAL
.
Lieut. Franklin H. Drees, oj
Carroll, Inhales Gas in Room
in Washington Hotel.
Washington, May 22.—Lieut. Frank
lin H. Drees, United States marina
corps, whose recent tests gave promise
that he would win an enviable record
in tlie service, was found dead thli
morning In his room. He was from
Carroll, la.
A gas tube, running from an opet,
Jet, was in Drees' mouth. His head
was swathed in a blanket to conflm
tlie poisonous fumes. He left no note
nor had his conduct for the past three
days, which lie spent here, seen in
dicative of melancholy. His frlendi
believe he was suffering from over ap
plication to his work, nnd*it is said
that only three months ago. when in
took his examination for promotion
he passed the- highest of any of the
\ men of his rank.
When Coroner Nevltt completes hii
investigation, the body wih probably
be taken to Carroll for interment
Lieutenant Dre.es’ mother is now visit
ing her soniniaw, also an officer In tht
marine corps at the Boston navy yards
and was notffled ' today of her son's
death.
Lieutenant Drees was born March 3,
1881. in Carroll. He was appointed fro it
Iowa and accepted rus first commission
March 10, 1308. During liiw three years
service, he did duty in Annapolis, Pan
ama. the Philippines, at Washington
and at Portsmouth, N. H.
PICKETT IS OPPOSED
TO JUDICIAL R EC A Ls,
Washington, May 22.—Renewed at
tacks upon the recall provision of tin
Arizona constitution from the republic
an side and the democratic criticism
of the unamendablo featuie of the New
Mexican constitution held tlie attention
of the House in yesterday's consider
ation of the statehood - resolution.
Representative Booher, of Missouri,
democrat, said New Mexico was vir
tually controlled by t(ie railroads ami
large Interests and that the present
form of the constitution Js such as to
preclude the ijosslbility of being easily
changed. He urged letting Arizona
H have the recall for Judges..
Representative Picket, of Iowa!
-criticised the principle of the recall as
applied to judges.
Following bun Representative Con
nell, of New York, democrat, approved
the pending resolution, declaring it
■was the only fair way to treat,the tv.-c
territories.
OAKLAND, CAL.—Tlie grand jury
last night returned two indictment*
■against Henry Dalton, assessor of A in
ineda county, who was arrested lata
yesterday. The indictments charge re
ceiving a bribe arid asking and agree
ing to take a bribe. Dalton s bail was
fixed at $25,000 for the first indictment
and $15,900 for the second. The grand
Jury heard testimony from tlie bpring
Valley Water company, who helped ar
•unge the trap for Dalton, and from
clerks and minor county officials.
SEWARD. ALASKA—Following a
demonstration when the steamer Edith
arrived with foieign coal for th3
Alaska Northern Kail • company, a
H. Wheatley, representing the com
pany, made a demand yesterday on
Fr.lted States Deputy Marshal AVhlts
Icy for the protection of the cargo. |
AVliitosIey swore in a stiffl. lent number '
if men for this purpose. Tbc-re is afreet j
talk of following the example 'if tlio 1
T'ordova coal party, which U-sniped j
foreign coil overboard.
r B * r ' i.
Twenty years ago the average ilfo >
me,.-ranee policy wu for i'JJfXi,: ncr |t t
is mure than $3,000.
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AFTER General Grant had
looked over the ground and
said In that emphatic way
of his. "The place must be
:aken." there was nothing else to do but
take It, of course. A column was formed,
with General C. F. Smith’s division on
the left and
L«w wanace a
on the right.
One of the iur-.
vlving veterans
of that time
says: "The
ground in front
of Smith was
covered with ab
atis too thick
for a rabbit to
get through, but
old Smith rode
right in front of
the center, as
erect as a ram
rod, and, though
I was nearly
scared to death,
I saw his white
nustache over his shoulder and so went
ahead. At the abatis the men fell In
leaps. The Are was awful, and, seeing
some wavering, Smith put his cap on
its swond, swung It high In the air and
yelled: ‘Come on, boys! No flinching
low!’ as cool as a cucumber. Picking
i path among the trees, our men fol
owed their gallant chief up the hill and
planted their colors on the breast
works.”
The Smiths were “in it” that day
ture enough, for still another of the
lame afforded a striking instance of
coolness under fire. Wallace’s division
was led by the Eleventh Indiana sou
ives and the Eighth Missouri und»t
Colonel Morgan I. Smith. As they set
>ut on the ascent Colonel Smith lit a
cigar and led the way until they reach
ed the crest. Before they reached It,
however, his cigar had been shot away,
ind, taking out another, he asked for a
■natch, which was handed him by a Bol
ster.
“Thank you." he said. "Take your
place now. We are almost up.”
One of Custer’s Performance*.
It was while Phil Sheridan was flght
,ng Wade Hampton at Trevilian Sta
tion, Va„ that Custer, taking advan
tage of the enemy’s preoccupation, slip
ped up a
road directly In
Hampton's rear
and seized all
hia spare horses .
and wagon
trains. Just
about the time
he had got them
some cavalry
from Fitz-Hugh
Lee’s column
galloped up In
the rear of Clus
ter, and there
he was. caught
between two
fires. But, al
though he lost
not only his
captured wagon
trains, but his own as well, and, though
mother body of the enemy Immediately
uttacked him from another direction,
duster was equal to the desperate situ
itlon, somehow extricated his little
force Intact, straightened out his third
,lne of battle and held on until Mer
■ltt’s brigade charged through to his re
lief.
Uncle Sam Goes Eferyvere.
“Where do you belong?” asked a Vir
ginian of a wounded soldier who was
taken prisoner
on the field of
Chancellorsvllle.
"I pelongs In
Bennsy lfanla,"
was the reply.
"Then what In
blazes are you
doing down here
in Virginia?"
"Veil, I comes
down here to
fight," rays the
u n f o r tunate
man.
‘ I To fight, eh?
| f Then why don’t
you do your
lighting in your own state?”
The ‘Pennsylvania Dutchman”
hought a minute, then replied:
‘‘Veil, I fights mlt Ungle Sam, und
Ungle Sam he goes eferyvere!”
A Victory l»y Forrest.
It was General Forrest’s motto, so
tradition states, to ‘‘get there fustest
with the mostest men” and to sweep his
opponents off their feet by the vehe
mence of his on- _
slaughts. At one
time, however,
he was appar
ently taken at
a disadvantage
when General
Sturgis, with an
army of 8 000
men, confronted
Forrest when he
had with him
not half that
numberof troop
ers. He assail
ed Sturgis on
his own chosen
position and was
his leading brigade being hurled back
with terrible slaughter from the breast
work of rails and logs behind which
were Intrenched his foes. Believing
that, the time had come to advance and
charge the Confederates, the Union
troops had no sooner got outside their
breastworks before Forrest was upon
them like a demon, having a two horse
"■aUery, the pieces of which were
tharged with canister. He opened up
it a range of only 60 yards. Sdch a ter
•ible gap was formed that the Union
nen were thrown Into confusion, taking
tdvantage of which two Confederate
irlgades charged hotly Into the mass
md, quickly taking six guns, turned
hem upon the foe. soon changing ap
P ■f'.PIH u fV ■»
parent victory for the Unions Into a
pronounced defeat. This victory w«
won by Forrest at Brice's Farm, Mis
sissippi, and was the outcome of Stur
gis' attempt to sweep him from Sher
man's line of communication.
i
Those Foreign Markets.
The United States government Im
ported some foreign arms during tht
flrst years of the war, speaking of some
or wnicn a cer
~ tain officer re
( ported: “In pla
) toon firing with
r» the Belgian mus
kets I can al
ways tell how
* many pieces
^ have been fired
by counting ths
men on the
ground. It’s a
case of ‘fire and
fall back’ flat.
One of these
Belgian muskets
will kick like a
mule and burst
hum vim »* v»»»
est facility. Several soldiers In our Il
linois regiments have been killed In this
way. The bayonet, too. Is a novelty—a
soft Iron affair apparently designed to
coll round the enemy, thus taking him
prisoner."
The Assault at Cold Harbor.
When General Grant wrote In hts per
sonal memoirs 20 years after the war,
"I always regretted that the last as
sault at Cold Harbor was ever made,"
he voiced the feelings of thousands who
agreed with a
LCICUnilCU BUULit
ern officer that
‘ It was not war;
It was murder!"
This regret, how
ever, could not
save the lives of
the thou sands
who met death 0p,:
or wounds on Mi ;;
this occasion BO
nor detract from HNf
the valor of the Hp
Confederates B|f
who so resolute
!y repulsed the
glorious columns jgp
v no.1 «ui|5 nmuiy
to their death. AH that can be said of
the fighting at Cold Harbor, declares a
competent war critic, is that on the Fed
eral side It wasa wild havoc of slaughter.
Veteran officers set the example of gal
lant exposure as though the hopeless
ness of the situation could be relieved
by godlike bravery. Scarcely 22 min
utes from the time the signal was given
the repulse of the corps was complete.
Three thousand men had fallen.
Among the officers the loss had been
portentous.
This Is on? of those awful military
blunders that cannot be obliterated,
rannot be forgotten.
An Advance Without Orders.
In recalling some of the stirring
events of the war and some of the
unique Incidents there Is one episode that
should not be overlooked, and that Is
the time when the privates took mat
ters into their own hands and won a
victory, me soi
| diera of the Ar
I my of the Cum
J berland were or
A dered to clear
the rifle pits at
the base of Mls
slonary ridge.
This they did,
and then, ac
cording to orders,
lay on their
arms and let
the Confederates
pop at them
without reply
In*. This did
not suit the Union men, and soon they
began to get uneasy. First one regi
ment, then another, moved out and
started up the ridge until Anally the
whole Army of the Cumberland was
climbing that hill, struggling over rocks
and timber, but ever onward, without
any orders having been given for an
ldvance. The result was that eventual
ly General Thomas' soldiers captured
the ridge and turned the batteries, win
ding a decisive victory.
When General Grant saw the men
scrambling up the ridge, he turned to
Thomas and said, "Who ordered those
men up?*’
"I don't know, but I did not.” was his
answer.
"Did you order them up?” asked
Grant of Granger, who was standing
near.
"Not I,” answered Granger. "They
started without orders. But no matter.
When those boys get started, nothing
:an stop them!"
A Youth's Act of Heroism.
The Confederate defenders of Fort
Gregg, near the city limit of Peters
burg, less than 220 In number, were sud
denly assailed . ______
by several thou- 1
sand of the en- j
emy and repuls- I
cd five charges L
in succession be- l
fore finally over
powered by num
bers. When bul
lets ran short,
the riflemen
hurled stones
and bricks over
the low parapet
upon the heads
of the daring as
sailants and
fought the un- ,
equal battle out
until reduced to 4
less than 30 In
number of un
wounded men. After these were con
vinced that all was lost a youth named
Atkinson from North Carolina seized
the tattered flat he and bis comrades ;
l
had ao bravely defended and dashed
over the parapet, followed by bullets
from perhaps Stt rifles, but safely as*
caplng with the trophy of his valor.
Colonel Mosby’s Rice.
Colonel Jack Mosby w*a net very par*
tlcular who he picked up on his raids
around the country, but of course pre
ferred a prisoner with straps on his
shoulders to one without them. It Is
told of him that one night In March,
no ana ms
men were prowl
ing about the
Union head
quarters at Fair
fax Court House,
Va., and from a
prisoner learned
where General
Btougbton, com
mander of tho
Infantry out
posts, was sleep
ing. Taking with
him a few trusty
men, Mosby
stole up to the
general's house.
*- — ■» ana as ueneral
Stoughton turned to face the intruders
he was confronted by a bruce of re
volvers.
"You are my prisoner!” said the guer
rilla "My name is Mosby—Jack Mosby,
»t your service. Stuart's cavalry is all
around us and Stonewall Jackson's be
tween you and the army.”
And Stoughton was so thoroughly de
ceived that, though having an army o!
several thousand within call, he allow
ed the guerrillas to carry him off a
prisoner.
The Fighting Fifth Hew Hampshire.
Where all were brave It might seem
invidious to mention merely a few, but
the limitations of space make this nec
essary. The Union regiment accredited
with the greatest number of men killed
In battle la said i~
to be the Fifth
New Hampshire,
which emerged
from Gettysburg
"with only 87
men with the
colors." It took
part with re- j
crulted forces In I
the awful on- ■
slaught at Cold
Harbor, where
It lost (8 men In
that brief morn
ing’s work.
Bounding over
the parapet of a
Confederate bat
tery without flr- *— ■ "
In* a shot, they charged the enemy's
second line, but, having no support,
were obliged to fall back on the bat
tery, disputing every foot of the ground
in a hand to hand struggle. The Con
federate artillerists 'fell upon them as
they retreated, but they beat them off,
singly and together. The last to leave
the scene of carnage was a captain of
the gallant Fifth, who with a parting
Mow split the head of an opponent from
crown to chin, leaving the poor felloe
nearly decapitated beside the gun hi
had so bravely defended.
It Made a Difference.
When the Union troops were passim
through Missouri In pursuit of Genera
ix i ibOj a
of nerroes earn
out of some cab
Ins to look a
the soldiers, oni
of whom asked
"Boys, are yoi
all for the Un
Ion?"
"Oh, yea mas
sa, when yoi
uns Is about w<
Is."
"And whei
Price eomei
you're all se
cesh, arm’
you?"
"tior*, ye*
massa; we's al
food secesl
■ - ———men. l.ku i
de white folks to get ahead ob nlggen
in dat way. massa.”
■and Sherman’s Army.
It’s an old story, of coursa, but will
bear retelling Just the same, of the man
who la said to have saved Sherman's
army from a great disaster, some say
from destruction.
On the morning of March 18, 1865,
as Sherman was ._'
marching to
ward Raleigh,
N. C., with his
army In two col
umn# on roads
several miles
apart. General
Slocum, com
mander of the
right wing, dis
covered a body
of the enemy
apparently In
possession of
the road. Ap
pealing to Sher
man for orders.
lie was told to (_ I
go right ahead,
as there was nothing In front of him
except a mere handful of the enemy,
and he need not wait for Howard's left
ivlng to come up. The great chief then
rode away, and Slocum ordered an ad
vance, but Just at this Juncture one ol
his aids brought to him a young man
in Confederate gray who claimed to be
a deserter and wished to see the com
mander. He was. he said, a Union man
w ho had been kept a year In Anderson
vllle and had enlisted In the Confeder
ate army. He then gave Slocum the
■tartllng Information that there waa an
my of 40,000 men In ambush In hla
front. It was at first believed that he
was giving false Information, but he
waa recognized as a former Union sol
dier, his advice was followed, and Gen
eral Joe Johnston's careful plan went
for naught.
The Inc of the Shirt.
"The shirts made by the patriotic la.
dies of America,” wrote a soldier feel
ingly from the front, "are noble articles
as far down as the collar, but would not
— do to use as an
only garment.
"Captain Mor
timer de Mon
tague of the
■kirmiah guard
put on one when
he went to the
general's recep
tion, and the
collar stood up
so high that he
couldn't put his
cap on, while
the other de
partment didn't
<*ulte reach to
1.1. —.1.1 A .
he entered the
drawing room General Scott remarked
very feelingly, ‘Ah, here comes another
of the wounded heroes!’
“ 'He's net wounded, general,' re
marked an officer standing by.
" "Then why Is hbi head bandaged up
so?’ asked the venerable veteran.
“ 'Oh,' said the officer, 'that’s only
one of the shirts made by the patriotic
women of America.’
"In about five minutes after this con
versation I saw the venerable veteran
and the bandaged hero at the office tak
ing the oath—with sugar In It—to
gether.’*
A Confederate Hero.
"The grandest sight of my war expe
rience.” declares a grlssled veteran whc
yet treads the earth with martial step
"was during Gordon’s grand sortie at
Petersburg. The Union batteries on the
flanks and rear of the breach made It so>
hot for Gordon _____
that he sounded
•retreat.' But the
getting out ot
a trap Is the
hardest part of
It. It was at
this crisis that 1
witnessed that
grand sight—a
Confederate offi
cer on a white
horse riding at
the blazing can
non fall tilt. I
stood near a gun
in Fort Haskell
which was do
ing more tnan
Ite share of slaughter when the
commander of the battery called out
to a knot of us, part of a rifle
company, 'Shoot the man on the
white horse!’ One after another our
best marksmen squeezed In between
the gun and the parapet wall and took
aim through the embrasure. After sev
eral had put In their shots the orderly
sergeant tried it and came back crest
fallen. Handing me his rifle, he ex
claimed, with a laugh: ‘Here, you, Vet!
Fetch down the man on the white
horse!’
"With a reputation to sustain, I ac
cepted the challenge. When I drew a
bead on the gallant horseman. I saw
that he was leading a band of men
back from the main line direct upon
our guns. Shells tore the ground In
front of him or exploded overhead, and
Invisible case shot cut down his follow
ers, but he held his seat like a statue of
war. Firing at random, I crawled back,
banded the sergeant his rifle and said:
•He Is too brave. Let him go!’ He was
Anally shot dead by a bullet through
the temple within 30 yards of our fort."
Oatwltted His Captors.
One of the distinguished captures of
3llmor, the rough rider of Early’s raid
ing column In his famous dash, was
Major General W. B. Franklin. Placed
in a carriage, he
was sent across
the Maryland
line Into Virgin
ia under escort
of a strong
mounted guard.
His captor was
kept very busy
scouting and
raiding, and one
night was away
from his com -
mand for sever
al hours. Return
ing at dawn the
next morning,
I he was dlsaust
I ! ed to find the
guard and all
the prisoners except General Franklin
sleeping soundly In fence corners and
various places. But the general he
could not find at all. It seems that the
distinguished captive had an ample
supply of liquor In his valise, which he
was allowed to retain, and, being of a
generous disposition, had treated hla
guards to all they wanted—and much
more than was good for them—with the
result that freedom dawned upon him
about the time that the fact of his es
cape dawned upon Gllmor.
Irishmen In Bine and In Gray.
Honors were pretty nearly even the
(Irst time that Irishmen In blue met
their fellow countrymen In gray In the
fight at rerry
vtlle In October,
18G2. Those who
wore the gray
constituted the
Fifth Tennessee,
while those who
cariled the Un
ion banner were
In Uytle's Tenth
Ohio. The Ten
nesseeans charg
ed valorously
across an open
field upon the
Ohioans, who
were Intrenched
behind a stone
wall. The latter
rsent a volley* *-*■ -*
Jwbleh decimated cruelly the ranks of |
I'-he former: bat. nothin* daunted, the I
lennenrauM leaped tne oreastworae,
and there eneued a "perfectly lovely
shindy" which ended disastrously for
the Ohioans, who were compelled to re
treat. after leaving many men of their
regiment on the fleld.
A Sharp Saher right.
It was not often that the opposing
cavalry came Into each close quarters
that they could use their sabers with
effect, but It happened on one notable
occasion in eaurt
-i Tinniim ST
years ago. Tea,
> mere than a
quarter century
. has passed since
Coleael E. M.
McCook, at the
head et a cav
alry division
from Burnside's
army, met and
charged upon
two divisions of
Le n gstreet’s
men under Cap
tains Morgan
and Armstrong. While McCook led hla
division at a galloping charge. La
Orange, at the head of a demtbrigade.
came upon a superior force of Mor
gan's troopers around a battery, made
a dash for them and sabered the gun
ners as well as their cavalry support
ers, taking two cannon and many pris
oners.
When the main opposing lines fairly
met on open ground, there ensued one
of the prettiest hand to hand combats
ef the war, at the end of which the re
doubtable Morgan was routed and his
battleflag and escort were captured.
This Happened at Shiloh.
During the battle of Shiloh sm offices
hurriedly rode up to an aid and In
quired for Grant. "That's the man.
with the fleldglass." said the aid.
Wheeling hla horse about, the atran
ger rode furi
ously at the gen- '
eral and, touch
ing his cap, ad
dressed him
thus:
"Sheneral, 1 >
vants to make
one rebort:
Schwarts's pat
tery Is took."
"Ah!” said the
general. "How
was that?”
"Veil, you see,
sheneral, der
shecesslonlsts
Hanked us, und
der shecesslon
corns in aer •
rear of us, und den Schwarts’s patten
vas took."
"Well, sir, you of course spiked the
Cline.”
“Votl" exclaimed the Dutchman la
astonishment. "Schplke dem guns!
Schplke dem pran new guns 7 V’y, It
would shpoll demit
“Well,” said the general sharply,
’’what did you do?"
"Do? Py tarn, vs took dem pack
again I"
Fighting Behind Movable Breast
works.
Colonel Mulligan, who did his best to
defend Lexington In September, XSSI,
attributed his defeat mainly to a clever
inox or tne (con
federates In us
ing movable
I breastworks on
the second day
of the attack.
"They had,” be
said, "construct
ed a breastwork
, of hemp bales,
which they rolled
In front of their
lines up the hill,
advancing unde#
this cover. All
our efforts could
*■ ■ ■ " '■—*not retard the
advance of those bales. Round shot
and bullets were poured against them,
but they would only rock a little and
then settle back. Heated shot were
fired on them with the hope of settln
them afire, but they had been soaked
and would not burn. By means of these
movable breastworks the Confederates
advanced so close to the lntrer.chmentg
that they were enabled to open lira
with fatal effect and finally won the
day.
The Doctor Ought to Know.
A lady devoted to the soldiers was one
day going through a ward of an over
crowded hospital near the front In war
time when she ___
rouna two con
valescents ham
mering and saw
ing vigorously
and Inquired
what they were
doing. J
"What we do- ■
In? Maktn a M
coffin—that's ■[
what."
“A coffin? And I
for whom Is it W
intended?” |
“W ho for?!
That feller over I
Lucie, pointing
to a cot, the inmate of which was
watching the proceedings intently.
“Why," she said in a low voice and
shuddering, “that man isn’t dead yet,
and perhaps may not die after all. You
had better not go on now."
“Go on! Why not? The doctor, he
told us. He said make the coffin. And
I guess he know’d what he give him!"
A Telephone Courtship.
Boston Transcript: Bertha—Fred
Hart is going to marry Bessie Light.
Edith—You don't mean It! For mer
cy's sake, what could be have seeu la
her?
Bertha—That's what I say. Do you
know, I suspect he must have oourted
her over the telephone.
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