The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-23
MADISoN's MEMORY,
An Exchange of Courtesies Between
Senators Hoar and Daniel.


WASHINGTON, Feb. GA pleasing ex-
change of courtesies took place in the Sen
ate to-day in the discussion of the Daniels
amendment to the sundry civil appropria-
tion bill providing for a base and pedestal
for a monument to Gen. Hancock. Mr..
Hoar inquired as to the statue itself, aud
was informed by Mr.. Daniel that the statue
was only in contemplation. Mr.. Hoar then
referring to Madison said that it seemed
almost reproach to the people Of the
United States shat no adequate and worthy
memorial of that great statesman and
patriot existed at the seat of government.
The state Of Virginia, in the erection Of a
statue of Washington surrounded by the
great Virginians of his day-the nobleSt
work of art on this continent-had not pro-
vided an eff1gy Of Madison.
POSSIBLE REASON.
Perhars one reason why, IN selecting the
group, Madison was Quilted, and other
eminent and ilustriouS Virginians pre-
ferred, might have been an expectation that
that duty of piety and patriotism would be
discharged by ths national congress- Madi-
son, he went on to say, was one Of the
greatest of men. There was no single
mind so impressed on the constitution
as his-not even excepting that Of his
great rival, Alexander Hamilton. And if
his (Gr. Hoar's) public life were prolon yed
there were few acts that would give him,
or his nstituents, more pleasure than CO.
operation with any move nent which the
st te of Virginia (whose more immediate
representative Madison was) would initiate
for the erection in Washington of proper
monument to Maids )n's great faulg.
SENATOR DANIELS GRATIFICATIoN. =
Mr.. Daniel expressed his exceeding graft
1cation at Mr.. Hoars remarks in relation
to the memory of James Madison,3 1t had
been said in ancient Rome, that VIII e one,
wandering through the Forum, would won
der at the absence Of a monument to Cato,
his memory was kept greener by It's absence.
The same might be said in reference to the
absence Of Madison's effigy from the group
of the Washington statue in Richmond. In
the days of Madison there had been no
states more heartily in sympathy with each
other than Massachusetts and Virginia
The soldiers of Virginia had fought on
Massachusetts soil; and soldiers of Massa
chusetts had been farther south even than
Virginia, shoulder to shoulder with those of
Virginia, in that greatest struggle Of all
ages.
PLEASING TO ALL.
1t could not be otherwise than peculiarly
gratifying, not only to Virginia's senators,
but to all the people of Virginia, to hear
the encomium pronounced to-day on her
eminent men by the dlstinguls ed senator
from Massachusetts,, He trusted that it
was an Indication tlat however much the
majority sentiment of those two great
commonwealths might be divided now,
on some incidental questions, the
day was not far distant W hon the minds Of
their great and good men would be in
entire unison and harmony on propositions
and questions that were recognized as for
the universal good. He hoped, however,
that the state of Virginia would not wait
for fitting recognition of her great states
man by the government OF the United
States.
MUST SEND TWO STATUES.
The citizens of that state could never
pass through the memorial nall of the
capitol at Washington without feeling
some sense of regret, and almost Of morti-
fication, that she had not yet contributed
statues of two of her sons to that hall, and
he no ped that, even before the government
of the United States could carry out the
plan so elegantly suggested by the senator
from Massachusetts, the state of Virgi ia
would furnish, as her contribution to the
hal of honor. figures Of James Madison and
Patrick Henry.