The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-05
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GEN. Grants Remains.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 1.-The
Post tomorrow will publish responses
from the governors of seventeen states
and territories in reply to request for
an expression of opinion respecting
General Grants final resting place.
Eleven of them, Governors Wolfley of
Arizona, Stevenson of Nevada, Taylor
of Tennessee, Humphrey of Kansas,
Merriam of Minnesota, Fleming of
Florida, Shoup of Idaho, Moore of
Washington Territory, White Of Mon
tana and Larrabee Of Iowa, unequivo-
cally favor the Arlington cemetery or
the soldiers home at or near the ma
tional capital, as the proper location
for the last resting place of the illus
trious dead. Governor Fifer of Illi-
nois, has always believed that the re-
| mains of the illustrious general should
have been inferred in the bosom of
| Illinois, but he questions the propriety
of agitating this question while Gen
eral Grants family, who should be the
sole judges in this matter, are living.
Either Arlington or the Soldiers
Home near Washington, he says,
would, however, be preferred to the
neglected spot where the great hero
now sleeps. Governor Beaver of Penn
| sylvania says he would not have select
| ed Riverside had the selection of bur-
| ial place devolved upon him, but that
place having been chosen by General
| Grants family. 1t sho lid not be
| changed without urgent causes. Gov.
Francis of Missouri favors, first, St.
Louis, Gen. Grants home for many
years, and next to st. Louis, Airing
ton cemetery at Washington. Cows.
Lue of Michigan and Thomas of Utah,
while expressing preference for a seq
ulcher at the national capital, or upon
national grounds, believe it only prop
or to defer to the wishes of General
Grants family. Gov. Gordon of Geor-
gIa thinks the disposition of General
Grants body should be largely con-
trolled by the wishes of his family.
The Post, commenting upon these re-
| sponseS, says: seventeen responses
have been received, and these almost
| with one accord, favor the removal of
the remains from the neglected tomb
at Riverside. New York, to the Nation
al cemetery at Arlington, or the Sol
diers' Home where monument cred
liable to the nation would be erected
/ to the memory of the greatest hero of
the age. Some of the governors nat
urally hesitate to express a positive
| opinion on the propriety of removing
| the remains without first understand
| ing the wishes of General Grants fam
| lily, but there is no installing the SEN
| timent universally disclosed that the
neglect of the tomb at Riverside is not
only disgrace upon the city and state
of New York, but upon the country as
well. In but two cases were there re-
/ fusals to respond to the POSTS mes.
Sagss-GoV. Hill of New York and
Gov. Pennoyer of Oregon, declining to
express any views on the subject.
Sixteen of the governors addressed are
away from the state capitals and could
not be reached by telegraph.
The Mortgage on the white House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-The recent
agitation about building new and ex.
pensive presidential mansion has
| brought to the surface au old mort
forgotten or lost sight of for long
| time. MIR. NJ B. Harlow, secretary
and treasurer OF the Mount Vernon
| Avenue association, is the man who
brings forward the claim. In an in
terview about the proposed new exec
utive mansion, he says:
81 am glad to see the subject agitat-
ed, and hope it will be taken up and
pushed by congress. When it is, our
islature has transferred its claim
against the government for money
borrowed by General Washington ia
build the present structure, will pre-
sent that claim and ask for payment
for the old before it commences the
new. The claim, which is for $40, 900,
has never been denied by the govern
ment. nor can it be, for we have the
| promise OF the government, made
| through Washington, to pay the money
back to Virginia should it ever be able
to do so. We will not. perhaps, ask
that the claim be paid in money, but
will probably suggest that congress
defray the expenses of building the
proposed national highway - Mount
Vernon. If they agree we win trans
| fer the Virginia mortgage on the
White House as her contribution tC
the project"