St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-07

| Missouri, but Illinois, by resolutions of
| its legislature, decided that his statue
| should be one of the two which it is elf
| titled to place in Statuary hall. Illinois,
! therefore. had the chief place in today's
ceremonies, but Missouri and Mime
sofa also took advantage of the oppor-
tunity to do especial honor to the menu
DRY of their soldier of ofDy-goue days. Ap-
propriate ceremonies and addresses by
| representatives of the three states
named marked the unveiling OF the
| statue. The ceremonies began at l
| O'Clock with small street pa
rade, which was an incident rather
| than feature of the occasion.
| A troop of cavalry from Fort Mver and
the artillery band stationed in this city
escorted the speakers and guests from
the Metropolitan hotel to the capitol.
riages were Gov. Altgeld and staff.
of Illinois; Gov. Nelson and staff,
of Minnesota; Gov. Stone and staff, of
Missouri; the members of the Shields
| statue commission; the family Of
GEN. SHIELDS;
| the committee of arrangements. and the
| executive committee. Veterans of the
Mexican war, members of the u. A. r.
| and of the Emmett guards, of this city,
| brought up the rear of the procession,
which moved to the capitol.
The exercises at the capitol began at
1:30, when Mr.. Springer presented to
| the house the formal resolution accept
| ing the statue on behalf. of the congress
of the United States. In advocating
this, Mr.. Springer, in brief speech, re-
| viewed the life of Gen. Shields, and
| paid glowing tribute to his noble quail
| tiles.
Gen. John G. Black followed. In the
| course Of his remarks, Gen. Black said:
''The statue is to stand through the
ages for which the capitol may endure
as type chosen by our great state of its
best citizenship. The state as you eros s
it is an album where shine the names
| of Joliet, the deyout, of La Sale, th e
chevalier, of Marquette. the earnest,
and of whole host of shadowy and
heroic characters. In the seventy-five
| years since our constitution was
| adopted, our bar and our courts have
been thronged with wise and brilliant
advocates and Judges. Illinois glorIes
in her sons, living and dead, and from
| them all she has named the dauntless
| Shields, her citizen. her soldier, her
senator and her judge; not that he is
| greatest of all, but that in addition to
his public career he stood for the broad
est catholicity of American citizen
ship"
Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, Mr.. Bland, of
Missouri, and
MIR. HALL, OF MINNESOTA,
also paid feeling tributes to the mem
ory of the man upon whom such dis
tlnguished honor was conferred today.
Col. Oates, the one-armed Confed-
crate veteran. threw flavor of per-
sonal Renaissance into the proceedings
by arising at the close of the set
speeches in the house. He apologized
for intruding, but as Confederate
veteran under Stonewall Jackson, who
had met Gen. Shields on the field of
battle at Port Republic, he said he
could not refrain from saying few
words. He declared that no soldier
ever fought more brayely or gallantly
than Shields at Port Republic. He
honored him as highly as if he had
fought on his own side.
While the orations were being deliv-
cred the committee on arrangements
entered the house, and at the conclusion
the members Of the house and the Wis
itors fled out to Statuary hall, where
the unyeiling of the monument took
place.
Mr.. Condor, of Chicago. delivered
long address in eulogy of Shields.
At the conclusion Of his speech Miss