Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-08-05
COMMOE COUECIL,

The board met in regular session,
President Zent in the chair, and present,
Councilmen Kelly, Caro-, Camp, Vance,
DOherty, Gay, Carpenter, Grant, Moon
and Ryan.
The minutes of the preceding months
meetings were read and approved.
By request OF his honor, Mayor League,
| the general council was called in Joint
| session, when the mayor read the fol-
! lowing message announcing the death
and III respect to the memory of the
late EX-President Andrew Johnson:
MAYORS OFFICE, CITY HALL,
MEMPHIS, TENN, August 4, 1915.
Honorable Board of General Council:
GENTLEMEN-The cause [ have for
inviting you to meet in joint session to-
day is one of sorrow and sadness to the
people of the entire country, but espe-
cially to the citizens of Tennessee. God,
in his infinite wisdom and goodness,
has seen proper to take from our midst
one to whom you have often by your
action given evidence OF your apprecia-
ton of his worth and true greatness.
To-day the civilized nations of the earth
tender sympathy to these United States
for the loss sustained by the friends of
civil and religious liberty and the advO-
Gates Of equal and exact justice to all,
without regard to race or creed. An
drew Johnson, United States senator
and EX-PTesident OF the United States,
is dead. He departed this life on Satur-
day, the thirty-first OF July, in Carter
county, in this State, of paralysis, in the
sixty seventh year of his age. You will,
no doubt, present suitable resolutions
expressive of the grief of cur fellow
citizens, and of the general council, of
the city of Memphis ct the loss, at this
particular time, of the valuable services
and wise coUnsels Of this truly great pa
triOt and statesman, at time when the
people of the entire country were turned
toward him to hearken to his pleadings
for brOtherly love, for peace and good
will toward each other. Alas. gentle
men, we have to mourn for the death of
Andrew Johnson; he whose every official
act proved that he lived for, ana desired,
only for the preservation OF the consti-
tuition of the republic, and whose dying
request was that he be shrOuded 10 the
flag of his country, With great respect,
your Obedient servant,
JOHN LOAGUE, Mayor.
Alderman Metcalf presented the fol-
lowing resolutions on the same subject:
WHEREAS, The sudden death of EX-
President Andrew Johnson and United
States senator elect for the State of Ten
nessee, has produced profound sorrow
and great loss to our whole country,
which he served so iong and well, in
many public trusts; and
WHEREAS, This city and State share
more painfully III this sorrow, and Ia
ment more deeply this loss, because the
deceased was one OF that long line Of
great men and statesmen whom Tonnes
see claimed as her own, and who repre-
scented and distinguished her so many
years in the State and national councils;
and
WHEREAS, 1t is meet and proper, for
these reasons, that the city Of Memphis
should officially recognize and deplOre
his death; therefore,
Re80tUed, That the mayor and two
from the board and three from the COM
mon council, be appointed committee |
TO prepare suitable resolutions to be |
spread upon the records of the city in |
testimony OF the grief that is felt and |
loss sustained in the death OF Andrew |
johnson, Tennessee's early adopted and
oDg-distinguished son.
Resolved, That the city authorities
unite with the citizens in their meeting
called for Saturday evening next, to
take action in respect to his death; and