gress, and the President of this Society shall be chairman of said committee."

And you appointed the following committee: General O. O. Howard, Captain R. S. Tuthill, Colonel W. F. Vilas, Colonel D. B. Henderson, Colonel W. P. Hepburn, Captain J. A. T. Hull, Honorable Hugh R. Belknap, General J. A. Williamson, General J. C. Breckinridge.

Extract from the Minute Book:

The committee met at the call of the chairman in Washington, at the Arlington Hotel, on January 15th, 1896. There were present: General Grenville M. Dodge, Chairman; Colonel William F. Vilas, Colonel David B. Henderson, Colonel William P. Hepburn, General J. A. Williamson, Captain J. A. T. Hull, Honorable Hugh R. Belknap; and absent, General Oliver O. Howard, Captain Richard S. Tuthill, General J. C. Breckinridge. Upon motion of Captain J. A. T. Hull, Colonel Cornelius Cadle, Recording Secretary of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, was elected Secretary of the committee.

After consideration of the object of the Society, the following resolution was offered by Hon. Hugh R. Belknap, and unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That Honorable J. A. T. Hull, M. C.; Honorable William F. Vilas, U. S. S., and Honorable W. P. Hepburn, M. C., members of our Society, be appointed an executive committee from this committee to take charge of and secure the needed legislation and appropriations from Congress to secure the erection of the statue of General U. S. Grant, recommended by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.

Colonel David B. Henderson offered the following resolution which, after full consideration, was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this committee that the statue for General Grant, recommended by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, should cost approximately $250,000.00, including pedestal and all the work and property necessary for the erection and completion of the same, and the executive committee is hereby directed to memorialize Congress accordingly. Resolved further, That Congress be asked to designate the President of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the Secretary of War, and the Commanding General of the Army, to select the site, pass upon the models, and have entire charge of the erection of said statue, and of the carrying out of the resolution of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and of these resolutions.

Resolved further, That Congress be requested to make, as a preliminary appropriation, the sum of $10,000.00 to be used by the committee, consisting of the President of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the Secretary of War, and the Commanding General of the Army, as a fund to procure models of a statue to General Grant from which a selection may be made. The committee then adjourned, subject to the call of the chairman. G. M. DODge, Chairman.

CORNELIUS CADLE,

Secretary.

Attached hereto is House Bill No. 4588, introduced into the House of Representatives, January 22d, 1896, by Colonel W. P. Hepburn, and now pending.

54TH CONGRess,

1st Session.

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H. R. 4588.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

January 22, 1896.

Mr. Hepburn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Library and ordered to be printed.

A BILL.

To provide for the erection of a statue of General U. S. Grant.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, president of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the Secretary of War, and the Major-General Commanding the Army of the United States, be, and they are hereby, created a commission to select a site and secure the erection of a statue of the late General Ulysses S. Grant; said statue to not cost in excess of the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. That said commission is authorized to select any unoccupied square or reservation, or part thereof, in the District of Columbia, on which to erect the said statue.

SEC. 3. That the said commission is authorized and required to advertise for plans, specifications, and models for the base, pedestal, and statue provided for in section one, and may pay to competing artists for the same and for expenses incident to making such selection, a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, one of which plans, specifications, or models shall, if deemed sufficiently meritorious by the commission, be selected, or the commission may select any part of any of the plans, specifications, or models that it may elect, and that it can use.

SEC. 4. That as soon as practicable after the selection authorized by section three is made, said commission shall, on behalf of the United States, enter into contract with the proper person or persons, as said commission shall determine, for the furnishing of all materials, skill, and labor, and the doing of all necessary and proper things and acts necessary to erect and complete in the highest and best manner and form of art the statue provided for in section one: Provided, That the consideration to be paid by the terms of said contract shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and forty thousand dollars: And provided further, That the Secretary of War shall from time to time detail such officer from the Engineer Corps of the Army as said commission may desire to inspect material and work and generally superintend the erection of said statue under the direction of said commission.

SEC. 5. That said commission shall, upon the completion of said statue make all needful arrangements for the unveiling of said statue with proper ceremonies, in which the President of the United States, the judges of the Supreme Court, and the members of the two houses of the Congress, the

official representatives of foreign Governments resident in Washington, and such other persons as the commission may determine, shall be invited to be present and participate.

Upon motion of General John McArthur, the report was received and ordered printed in the annual report.

Captain Everest:-Mr. President, I had the pleasure of meeting the Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in Chicago, day before yesterday morning, with the QuartermasterGeneral. The Quartermaster-General desired me to say to you that there was in his hands something like two hundred and seventy odd dollars for the Sherman statue, that was contributed by members of the Grand Army of the Republic.

The President:-There is about twenty-two hundred dollars in their hands. We have been unable to collect that fund, but are making an effort to do so.

General Fullerton, Chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission is with us today. His commission is taking great interest in marking the positions of the Army of the Tennessee at Chattanooga, and I know our Society will be glad to hear from him.

General Fullerton:-Mr. President, the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission has finally acquired the land known as the "Craven plateau" on the side of Lookout mountain. We have been negotiating for such for about two years. The prices first asked were most exorbitant, but we finally succeeded in acquiring the land at reasonable figures. We are now prepared to mark the positions of the troops of the Army of the Tennessee on the battlefield of Lookout mountain. There has been some little doubt about a certain point on the field fought over by Osterhaus' division, and, before marking the lines, we wish to have that cleared up. There will be no trouble at all in settling this matter. I shall be pleased, after this meeting, to talk with some of the comrades present, who were in that engage

General H. V. Boynton, the historian of our commission, was to have been here today, but he telegraphed that he has been detained in Chattanooga by a very important matter. He also wished to talk with you concerning the location of Osterhaus' troops, both on Lookout mountain and Missionary ridge. But I am sure there will be no trouble at all in fixing these positions.

We wish for consultation only in order that you may agree with us in marking the lines.

Colonel Cadle:-Mr. President, the Shiloh Battlefield Commission has prepared a topographical map of the field. We have made a very complete survey of the nine square miles of that field, and have a map, a blue print of which is on exhibition on the other side of the hall. Major Reed, a member of our Society, the secretary and historian of the commission, has brought the map. here in order to have those who were at Shiloh look at it. We have located the exact positions of the camps of every Union command that was there on the morning of the 6th of April, and we have located them in most places by finding the "Sibley" tent ring marks and those of the officers' tents and the sinks, the ditches that are just barely visible upon the ground, but they are there so that we absolutely identify the exact position of each regiment.

The battle lines that are sketched upon another, the preliminary map, also before you, showing the first day's fight, have been made from a study of the reports, and the evidence of survivors. We should be glad to have this map studied by all of you who were at Shiloh, and to have your criticisms.

Captain E. B. Hamilton:-Mr. President, within the last few weeks there has died a companion known to all of you, and a warm personal friend of many of you. I refer to General James D. Morgan, late acting President of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. I believe that it is fitting that this Society express its sentiments to its sister society, intermingled as the members of these societies were during the struggles in the war of the rebellion. I desire to offer the following resolution:

We have learned with much sorrow of the death of General James D. Morgan, at Quincy, Illinois, on the 12th of September, 1896. He entered the service of the United States in 1861, as an officer of the 10th Illinois infantry, and rose to the rank of BrevetMajor-General of Volunteers. At the time of his death he was the acting President of the Society of the Army of the Cumberberland, which position he had held many years.

He was a patriotic and enthusiastic soldier, a trusted aud -efficient officer in every position he held,-a public spirited and noble citizen.

As friend, citizen, soldier, and commander, we held him in high esteem.

To the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, we extend our sympathy; and to his widow, we offer our tenderest condolence in her great bereavement and unmeasured sorrow.

That a copy hereof be furnished to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and to Mrs. James D. Morgan.

I move that this be adopted as expressing the feeling of this Society.

The motion unanimously prevailed.

General John C. Black:-Mr. President, I wish to make an inquiry as to the status of the application of Judge Raymond. The President:-I am going to call that up.

General Black:-Mr. President, in order that that may be before the Society properly, I ask that notice may be given of such an amendment to the Constitution as will allow Charles W. Raymond, and those similarly situated to him, to become members by the vote of the Society. The situation, if you will allow me to state it briefly, is that Raymond's father, an officer of the Army of the Tennessee, died in battle, honorably, before the formation of our civic federation. His son has now no father to succeed, therefore, under the strict letter of our rules he could not become a member.

It is suggested that I should state to the Society that Judge Raymond is a member of the Loyal Legion, that we made such arrangements as that he could enter.

General McNulta:-In the matter that was up before the Society a few minutes ago, General Hickenlooper, Colonel Grant. and myself have had a conference, and it was decided that I should present the matter for the consideration of the Society, and I have drafted it in this form so that it may go in the minutes provided it is found to be sufficient, and to be acted upon at the next meeting:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.

That the Fifth Amendment to the Third Amendment be amended by adding the following:

"The sons and daughters who have heretofore been designated by members as their successors, and also the sons and daughters who may hereafter be nominated for membership by any such member, shall be entitled to mem