62D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 3d Session.

MEMORIALS TO THOMAS JEFFERSON AND ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

JANUARY 29, 1913.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. GARDNER, from the Committee on the Library, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 28468.]

The Committee on the Library, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 28468) providing for a statue to Thomas Jefferson, has considered it and reports it to the House with the recommendation that it do pass.

There has been a persistent and growing demand for some sort of memorial in Washington to the two great American statesmenThomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. This demand found expression in the formation of the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Association, whose purpose is suggested by its name, and in an act of the Fifty-eighth Congress creating a commission to procure plans and designs for a statue of Thomas Jefferson to be erected in the District of Columbia.

The Alexander Hamilton Memorial Association, formed in 1908, has worked diligently toward the accomplishment of its purpose, and its members are to be congratulated on their patriotism. But the erection of a memorial to Alexander Hamilton should not be left to individuals. Rather should this tribute be paid him by the Nation. The association has on hand nearly $6,000, which will be turned over to the commission created by this act, to be used in part payment of the cost of erecting the Hamilton memorial.

In the Fifty-eighth Congress the sundry civil act contained a provision creating a commission

to select a site on the public grounds in the District of Columbia for a statue of Thomas Jefferson, to cost complete not to exceed $100,000, and to procure plans and designs for the same, to be reported to Congress during its next session.

Five thousand dollars was appropriated for the preparatory work. John Hay, then Secretary of State, was chairman of the commission, but his illness and subsequent death delayed the execution

of the order of Congress. Augustus St. Gaudens, who was subsequently chosen to design the statue, died without having completed the work. Before another sculptor could be selected the appropriation lapsed.

It is to be regretted that in Washington there is no memorial either to Hamilton or to Jefferson, for those two great names are indissolubly linked with the foundation of our Government. Both were great men in the truest sense. Representing as they did different schools of political thought, their services to this Nation were only the more emphasized by their divergent views upon governmental affairs. Lack of commemorative marble shafts has not deprived them of their rightful places in the country's history. The memorials proposed in this measure represent a grateful people's tardy, but none the less sincere, recognition.

Early in the first session of this Congress the Senate unanimously passed bills authorizing the erection of memorials to Hamilton and Jefferson. This measure joins the two Senate bills and your committee recommends that it be passed.

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EXPENSES OF INAUGURAL CEREMONIES.

JANUARY 30, 1913.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. FITZGERALD, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 157.]

The Committee on Appropriations, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution No. 157 to provide for certain expenses in connection with inaugural ceremonies under the direction of the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, having considered the same report it back with the recommendation that it pass.

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REPORT No. 1416.

LOAN OF TENTS TO HELLA TEMPLE, DALLAS, TEX.

JANUARY 30, 1913.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. SLAYDEN, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany S. J. Res. 143.]

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred Senate joint resolution 143, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

The Senate report on the resolution, which explains it fully, is as follows:

This resolution authorizes the Secretary of War, under proper regulations, to loan to the Hella Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Dallas, Tex., an indefinite number of tents and flies, and poles, ridges, and pins for each as may be required at the meeting of the imperial council in May, 1913.

Your committee has the greatest respect for this order, whose charitable and benevolent purposes are most commendable, but we are of the opinion that if this request is granted it will be followed by ever-increasing requests from our various other benevolent orders, so that it will seriously interfere with the operations of the War Department and tax its resources. Inasmuch, however, as loans of this character have repeatedly been made before, your committee is disposed to report this resolution back to the Senate favorably, with an amendment, but to serve notice that in the future it is believed that compliance with requests of this nature should be limited to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederate Veterans for their annual meetings. Your committee is reminded, too, of the fact that the annual convention of the Confederate Veterans will occur at about the same time as the meeting of the imperial council at Dallas, to which the resolution under consideration pertains, and the Secretary of War should consider this. Your committee does not, of course, contemplate that occasions will never arise, from fire, flood, or other disaster, or from patriotic celebrations, when this kind of relief should not be promptly afforded. Amend the bill by adding:

"Provided further, That hereafter no loan of tents shall be made except to the Grand Army of the Republic and the Confederate veterans' associations [or when some grave and serious emergency exists]."

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PENSIONS FOR INDIAN WAR VETERANS.

JANUARY 30, 1913.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. RUCKER of Colorado, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 19800.]

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 19800) to pension the surviving officers and enlisted men (or their widows) who served in the Indian wars of the western frontiers of the several States and Territories from the year 1865 to the year 1898, inclusive, respectfully report the same back to the House with the recommendation that it do pass with the following amendments:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the provisions, limitations, and benefits of an act entitled "An act granting pensions to survivors of the Indian wars of eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and forty-two, inclusive, known as the Black Hawk war, Creek war, Cherokee disturbances, and the Seminole war," approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same are hereby, extended from the date of the passage of this act to the surviving officers and enlisted men, including marines, militia, and volunteers of the military and naval service of the United States, who have reached the age of sixty-two years and who served for ninety days in the campaign in southern Oregon and Idaho, and northern parts of California and Nevada, from eighteen hundred and sixty-five to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, inclusive; the campaign against the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches, in Kansas, Colorado, and Indian Territory, from eighteen hundred and sixty-seven to eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, inclusive; the Modoc war of eighteen hundred and seventy-two and eighteen hundred and seventy-three; the campaign against the Apaches of Arizona in eighteen hundred and seventy-three; the campaign against the Kiowas, Comanches, and Cheyennes, in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Indian Territory, and New Mexico, in eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five; the campaigns against the Northern Cheyennes and Sioux, in eighteen hundred and seventy-six and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven; the Bannock war of eighteen hundred and seventyeight; the campaign against the Northern Cheyennes, in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; the campaign against the Ute Indians in Colorado and Utah, from September, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, to November, eighteen hundred and eighty, inclusive; the campaign against the Apache Indians in Arizona in eighteen hundred and eighty-five and eighteen hundred