St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-30
Up to Last Evening the Fund for Mrs. Lo-
gan's Benefit Amounted to
$4,000.
It is Confidently Expected That by Satur-
day Next That Sum Will be
Quadrupled.
All the Details of the Removal and
Funeral Now Practically
Arranged.
The Senator's Old Chicago Friends
Meet and Do Honor to His
MeT%ory.

| perfected Immediately for atfording all the
organizations that can reach Washington
| in time chance to participate. A general
order will be issued tomorrow announcing
the programme to be followed. There will
/ be no display in escorting the body to the
capitol tomorrow. The members of the
senate and house committees will meet at
the residence of Senator Manderson, at II
O'Clock, where they will take carriages and
drive to Calumet place. They and an
escort of the Grand Army and Loyal
Legion will accompany the remains to the
capitol. Since 1859, when the senate
vacated the old quarters in the capitol (now
used by the supreme COURT and took pos
session of the new north wing, there have
! been
FIVE FUNERALS FROM THE CHAMBER.
| The first was the funeral of Hon. ThOs.
| Hicks, senator from Maryland, which oc-
cured Oh the 18th of February. 1865. Hon.
s. Foote of Vermont. was the next sena-
tor who died while congress was in session.
Funeral exercises over his remains were
held in the chamber on the goth of March,
1866. On the 18th of March, 1874. the
mortal remains of Hon. Charles Sumner,
senator from Massachusetts,, were borne
|
| The next funeral at the senate was that of
Vice President Henry Wilson, which took
plnce on Nov. 26, 1875. On the 18th or
last March the remains of Senator Miller,
of California, were taken from the senate
chamber to the grave. None of the llli-
nois ladies in the city will keep open house
or hold receptions on New Years day in
respect to the memory OF Gen. Logan and
in Difference to the sore atfiictiOn of Mrs.
Logan. Speaker Carlisle has appointed
the following named gentlemen as COM
mittee
TO REPRESENT TIE HOUSE
of representatives at the funeral of Gen.
Logan: MeSSrs. Thomas. Springer, Hender-
son. TOwnshend, PaysOn, WorthingtOn,
Hit, Riggs, R0well and Neece, of Illinois;
Reed, of Maine; Curtin, Of Pennsylvania;
Burroughs, of Michigan; Symes. of Col
orado. and Carey, of Wyoming. The mem-
bers of the Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee of which Gen. Logan was an origin
ator and lifelong member, are specially
invited by Mrs. Logan to be present at the
funeral. The secretary of the navy has
given permission to all members of the &.
A. Il. and eX-soldierS and sailors employed
in the navy department and navy yard in
this city, who desire to participate in the
procession next Friday, on the occasion Of
Gen. Logan's funeral. to absent themselves
| from duty in the forenoon. The depart
partment will be closed in the afternoon
under the operation of the order issued just
before Christmas. 1t is probable that the
other executive departments will follow the
same course.
| THE ARRANGEMENTS
in detail, as determined by the senate COM
mittee are as follows:
The body will be taken by the committee
to the United States senate and the house of
representatives. escorted by the posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic of the District
of Columbia, at II o'clock Thursday, Dec.
| 80 from the residence to the rOtunda of the
capitol, where it will lie in state until noon
of the following day, under guard of honor
detailed by the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Military Order of the Loyal Legion
of the United States. From 2 o'clock p.
m. of Thursday until IL o'clock a. III. of
Friday the public will be admitted to the
rotunda, passing in at the east door and out
at the west. The east door of the senate
wing of the capitol will be opened at II
o'clock to those having tickets of admission.
| SEATS ASSIGNED.
J The diplomatic gallery will be reserved
| for the families of the diplomatic corps.
The families of the president cabinet Off
GERS, supreme court judges. president pro
TEN of the senate, OF the speaker of the
speaker of the house, and of eX-presidents
and ex-vice presidents will occupy seats in
the gallery east OF the diplomatic gallery.
The families of senators and members of
the house will occupy seats in the east re-
served gallery. The reporters gallery will
be reserved exclusively for the reporters for
l - H. 0,,,5,N 70 fla1
| leries will be opened without discrimination
to all who have general tickets for gallery
seats. The vice presidents room will be
reserved for Mrs. Logan and family. Hon.
John Sherman will preside The order of
procession from the capitol to Oak hill GEM
etery will be under the direction of Lieut..
Gen. P II. Sheridan, to whom organiza-
tions should report as speedily as possible.
THE REMAINS
of Gen. Logan are clad for burial in the
generals ordinary citizens dress of black.
Upon the left breast are the badges of the
| Fifteenth army corps, with the legend
40 roundS,' the Grand Army and the
Loyal Legion, and upon the lapel are the
buttons of the Grand Army and the Loyal
Legion. The remains will be accompanied
to the capitol tomorrow by Maj. Tucker
Gen. Logan's son-in-law; George Logan,
his nephew. and w. B. Taylor his secre-
tary, who will remain there until the
funeral. This is to be done in Difference
to a sentiment of Mrs. Logan's, that
some members of the family should
remain near the dead until burial.
Among to-day's visitors were Col. Fred
Grant and Chester Alan Arthur. delegations
from the Oriental consistory. the Chevaler
Bayard commandery. the Union League
club. and the Union Veteran Club Post 2S.
ali of Chicago. ale on their way to attend
the funeral. A number of handsome floral
offerings have been received at the mansion
from distance. All the gentlemen desig-
mated to act as pail bearers at the funeral
of Gen. Logan have signifed their ac-
ceptance with the exception of eX-Secretary
Lincoln and Gov. Rusk, who will be M
able to be present. The acceptance OF the
Hon. Simon Cameron, however. is condi-
tional upon the weather not being in
clement The responses TO the invitations
sent out by telegraph by Capt. George E.
Lemon. asking
SUBSCRIPTIONS
to the fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan
are coming in rapidly. and at 10 o'clock to-
night the total amount is S26 600. Nothing
has been heard from the committee in Chi
cago engaged in soliciting funds. and similar
committees are engaged in other cities who
have not reported results. Mrs. LOgan's
property is encumbered for nearly its full
value, and the purpose is to raise a sufti-
cient fnnd to clear it of incumbrance and
her to live in the manner to
oh nhn Ian hAN,