THE ‘ 
National Capital 
Events of Interest from the Seat of 
Governmen 
By J. E. Jones 
| 
The Breeze Bureau, 
Washington, Feb. 16, 1915. 
The Requiem 
Nine United States senators laid 
down the burdens of office on 
March 4, and of these at least two 
ever would have been elected to 
the senate but for the fact that 
their bank acounts held millions. 
On the other hand, two, and _ possi- 
bly three, of the most conspicuous 
men who have served in the upper 
branch of congress in years have 
retired to private life, and these in 
the order of their importance are 
Root, of New York: Burton, of 
Ohio, “and Bristow, ‘of Kansas: 
‘hose nine names are prominent in 
the minds of the people of the 
states that are represented, but in 
nother session new figures will ap- 
peat in the senate and new men of 
great intellect will be uncovere:l 
from under their bushels. 
The Arlington Memorial 
Krom the great mall of Washing- 
ton one can look across the river 
into Virginia, and two conspicuovs 
sights stand out. One is the med- 
ern wireless towers, from whielr 
messages have been sent to Paris. 
Panama, San Francisco and thous- 
ands of miles across the ocean. <A 
mile to the northwest, high on the 
hillside, clustered about by magnifi- 
cent trees, stands the former home 
of Robert E. Lee. Its massive white 
pillars and the background of the 
building, resplendent in the same 
clean white, gives one that gentle 
touch of the colonial which has in- 
spired poets and writers to spin 
their beautiful stories around <Ar- 
lineton house. 
General Robert E. Lee was sur- 
rounded with all the magnificence 
that belonged to a southern gentle- 
man. When the war broke out he 
led the Confederacy. As a penalty 
he lost his home and estate, and it 
hecame the great national ceme- 
tery. The remains of heroes of 
the Revolution have been trans- 
planted to this hallowed ground; 
great generals of the civil war and 
of the regular army have been 
brought to Arlington for burial: 
here the unfortunate victims of the 
Lattleship Maine found their last 
resting place. As though to finish 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mount Hernon 
THE HOME OF WASHINGTON. 
By J. HE. Jones 
A pretty little story of visits to Mount Vernon on the Potomac—‘‘im- 
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have not had that good fortune this clever, happy Httle story of our beloved 
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the story, the mast of the Maine 
was set up among. their graves. 
Each year the fading ranks of the 
Grand Army of the Republic are 
recruited at Arlington, and within 
the last few years they have 
been joined by veterans of the Con- 
federacy. A year ago a monument 
to the Confederate dead was dedi- 
eated in this cemetery and the Blue 
and the Gray met on an equal plane 
to properly dedicate it. On Mem- 
orial Day of each year the Presi- 
dent of the United States delivers 
an address at Arlington. It has 
become a custom that is so_ thor- 
oughly established that it is almost 
a national institution. Lest the 
splendor of this great annual event 
might be too frequently marred 
and its significance depreciated, it 
las been determined that a $750,000 
memorial ampitheatre and chapel is 
to be built, and Secretary of the 
Navy Daniels has turned the first 
shovelful of earth and work has be- 
gun on the memorial. The con- 
tract calls for completion within 
two years. The ampitheatre will be 
circular in form, open at the top, 
and contain a chapel. It will pro- 
vide a place where memorial exer- 
eises and other patriotic functions 
may be held and where shelter may 
be provided when occasion re- 
quires. 
‘Wants Another Inquiry 
The spectacular congressional 
lobby investigation of 1913 has not 
completely eliminated the lobby ac- 
cording to a statement by one of 
the most conspicuous characters un- 
veiled. Colonel M. M. Mulhall de- 
clares that ‘‘a few months after the 
investigation was over the old lobby 
began to come back, and they are 
stronger today in Washington and 
at the state capitals than they have 
ever been before.’’ Colonel Mul- 
hall, therefore, wants another in- 
vestigation. 
One-Cent Letter Postage 
Senator John W. Weeks, of Mas- 
sachusetts, may be counted as one 
of the half dozen best informed men 
in congress upon postal affairs. For 
many years he was chairman of the 
committee on postoffices and post 
roads of the house of representa- 
tives, and it was there that he 
achieved his best work, resulting in 
his election to the senate to succeed 
Murray Crane. Senator Weeks de- 
clares that the government is mak- 
ing a large profit on first-class mail, 
and he adds that too much discrim- 
ination exists in the postal laws fa- 
voring certain classes of mail. It is 
interesting to note that by some 
process of reasoning the postmaster 
general has recently turned back 
$3,500,000 into the general treasury 
of the United States as represent- 
ing what he claims to have been a 
surplus in the revenues of his de- 
partment for the fiscal year ended 
June 30, 1914. Of course, there is 
nobody, except possibly Generu] 
Burleson, that has any idea that the 
post office made three and a half 
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