The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-05

The following joint resolution providing for
the erection in the District of Columbia of a
suitable memorial building, in the inner court
of which shall be placed the mortal remains of
Ulysses s. Grant, was introduced in the Senate
by Senator Hale, of Maine:
ResolUed bU the Senate and House of Representa-
tues Of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, that q memorial building, which shall
be suitable monument to the memory of the
illustrious soldier, the distinguished President,
the patriotic citizen, 2. s. Grant, in which may
library, n hall sufficiently large for military,
naval, and civic conventions, and rooms for the
accommodation OF the various associations of
war veterans and sons of veterans of the United
States of America. and in the inner court may be
placed to rest the mortal remains of U. s. Grant,
and other distinguished Americans be erected in
the District of Columbia under the supervision
OF commission to be composed of the President
Secretary of the Navy, the commanding officers
Of the Army and Navy. and the Architect of the
Capitol, in accordance with plans accepted by
said commission after public competition.
This resolution has the concurrence and sup
port of Senator Plumb, of Kansas, who intro
duced the joint resolution to remove Gen. Grants
remains from Riverside Park to Washington.
1t has the hearty Endorsement of Gen. Edward
F. Beale, of this city, the intimate friend of Gen.
Grant while he lived and the trustee, friend, and
adviser of Mrs Grant. Mrs Grant herself has
said that If the Generals remains should be re-
moved from their present restiDg-place to an
other she would prefer that they be placed as
provided in the resolution.
This is the proposition of ''The Military Order
of America" which goodly number OF gen
tlemen organized in this city on Friday
night. 1t is proposed that the lineal de-
scendants of soldiers, sailors, and marines en-
gagged upon the American side during the War
of the Revolution, the War of 1912, the War
with Mexico, and of those engaged on either
side in the War of the Rebellion shall be eligible
to companionship of the second class. Surviv-
ors of the War of 1912, if any, survivors of the
Mexican War, and participants in the War of
the Rebellion will be eligible to first-class COM
panionship. Citizens distinguished for conspic-
uous and consistent loyalty to the National Gov
ernment who eminently active in contribut-
ing to the success of the order will constitute a
third class. There is a provision also by
which those engaged In future legalzed wars of
the United States and their lineal descendants
will be entitled to membership.
| Another effect which the Military Order of
| OF America will endeavor to pl omote will be
| the erection of grand memorial bridge across
| the Potomac to Arlington, in commemoraton of
the peace of Appomattox on the reuniting of
| the two sections of the country.
| Among the incorporators of the order are
| William Howard Mills, Royal E. Whitman, AL
bert Ordway, Richard c. Dubois, Frank E. Brow
nell, A. F. Mcmillan, G. v Haskell, Felix A.
Reeve, Thomas B. Sanders, William P. Huxford,
w. Rich, William s. Rosecrans, John l.. Glen,
Dewitt G. Sprague, Edwin NJ. Truell, George
X. Brady, James K. O'Beirne, Henry deb. Clay
Jerome B. Burke, Nathan Burnham, Wyllys s.
Stetson, r. II. Sylvester, Henry A. Phillips,
Charles H. Townsend, Edward w. Whitaker,
| G. Rogers, Frank A. Butts, Calvin Farnsworth,
James Longstreet, Florence T. Donohoe Charles
| II. Ingram, Edward f. Beale, William II. Pres
cott and George A. Bartlett.