The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-02-12
ess. Failing in their attempt to secure a

cess. Failing in their attempt to secure
direct appropriation. the friends of the
monument association think they will sue
eeed in passing bill giving them authori-
ty to remove the remains to the university
grounds. He has received copy of let
ter from the wife of the statesman. OF
which the following is a copy:
3ro Messrs. WALTER B. ScATEs. D. A. GAGE, and
]. c, BURRoUGHs-- Gentlemen: In reply TO your
letter dated Dec. 3, 1870, which have this day
March s. 1871 received rough the dead letter Of
fee, have the honor to say that heartily agree
ument association In the proprety of removing the
monument to the university grounds. 1t Is my
most earnest and heartfelt wish that 1t should be
islature Will cosent TO the sale Of the grounds and
the appropriation of The funds to the immediate
completion of the monument Ny steg-sons, Robert
and Stephen, are uf the same mind. Your commit
tees letter reached me- without stamp, and simply
| addressed TO Mrs. A. Williams, and only after be
| lapse I three monihs, This will, / hope, excuse
my apparent III gigence of SO important subject
With respects, gentlemen. am very truly yours,
ADELE WILLIAMS.
Washington D. c., March 5, 1871.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb 1.-THE specia
order being the bill to make an appropria
| tlon of $4,000 to complete the Douglas
monument at Chicago, Senator Moderwell
opposed the appropriation, and said that
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money, and, besides, it could not be con
siitutionally done, and. ii it were done, the
halcyon days of pen kniyes and such per-
quisites would return. ~
Senator Morgan opposed the appropria
ton tor similar reasons, followed by Sena-
tor Mills.
Senator Garfield advocated the passage Of
the bill. he gave the history of the burial
Ut Douglas in Chicago against the first
wishes OF his widow, who first desired to
have his remains inferred in the Congress
sionalCemetary, out of Difference to the uni
yersal wishes of the people of the state. The
gilt of the land to the state by bis widow,
and the failure to complete this u,onument
was on account of great war. He op-
posed the. idea that his remains or monu.
ment should be removed, and argued the
passage Of the bill, to silence forever these
schemes. He closed by declaring that
the act appropiating the money to the
| Lincoln monument was just and constitu
tional, and that Douglas was one of the
three great men produced by the state of
Illinois-Lincoln, Douglas and Lovejoy-
and no danger to the treasury could come
by perpetuating their memories in endur-
ing stone.
Senator Steele followed in an eloquent
appeal, and quoted impressively the re-
mark of Douglas, when told that his old
friend Maddox had gone over to the South,
because all his friends were there. Doug
las said: "Where is the man 10 all this
nation that has more friends in the South
than l have, yet there is duty here higher
than friendship. The man who is moi
for his country in this crisis is my perso
nal enemy, and upon this stake my rep
utation." Senator Steele also quoted tina,
sentence from his speech made in Chica
go: There are but two parties in this
war-patriots and traitors" The sena
tor said that Stephen A. Douglas did more
than any 100 men in the State to arouse
and fire the patriotism of its people, s'Dt
we live" he said, ito lay up dollars? M.
no a thousand times mol We live t.
perpetuate our great institutions ano
the names of a men great in patriotism
and craftsmanship, that others com
, ing after them may emulate them in thell
virtues. In this way we will preserve
united country and great and independ
ent people"
The bill appropriating $5O.OO0 to com
: plete the Douglas monument at Chicago
was passed by vote of % ayes to l.
uays.