Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-21
FOR A M e M O r | A L
Proposition to Buy the House in Which
Lincoln Died.
What the Memorial AssOciatf0n De-
sires to Accomplish i'm the Dis.
trict-Other Local Matters.

Rev. DR.. Teunis s. Hamlin. Mr.. Gardiner
G. Hubbard and Mr.. Myron NJ. Parker
were given a hearing this morning by the
sundry civil subcommittee of the House
appropriations committee, to enable them
to prefer a request for an item in the ap-
preparation bill to purchase the house on
10th street where Lincoln died. These gen.
tlemen appeared in behalf Of the Memorial
Association Of the District Of Columbia.
The statement submitted to the committee
showed that the association is organized
for the following purposes:
First. OF preserving the most noteworthy
houses at the capital that have been made
historic by the residence of the nations
greatest men.
Second. OF suitably marking by tablets
or otherwise the houses and places through
out the city of chief interest to our own
residents and to the multitudes of Ameri-
cans and foreigners who annually visit the
capital
Third. OF thus cultivating that historic
spirit and that reverence for the memories
of the founders and leaders OF the repub-
lie upon which an intelligent and abiding
patriotism so largely depends.
I'VE desire as soon as may be to mark
with suitable tablets the most notable
men Of our nations earliest years have
lived and labored. We especially wish to
purchase the house on 10th street In which
President Lincoln died. 1t is the only
building at the capital distinctly associated
with him. We wish to restore 1t to the
condition in which it then was. both exter-
nally and internally, and to make 1t a per-
petual shrine Of patriotic pilgrimage for
the millions that venerate his memore AS
a step in this direction we have leased the
house, in order to secure it from demoli-
ton, and have placed in it a very valuable
collection of relics and mementos from the
Lincoln homestead at Springfield. Ill. These
and many other precious relics of the
great President now procurable should be
the property of the nation, and should be
sacredly cherished at the national capital.
The title to this and to any other historic
houses, places or properties preserved by
the labors of the association will by our
charter vest in the United States and re-
main under the control and management
of the association at the pleasure Of the
Congress-"
The statement thus set forth bears the
following signatures: Melville w. Fuller,
John NJ. Schofield, John w. Foster, L. z.
Bancroft Davis, Walter S. Cox, S. H.
Kauffms nm, A. r. Spofford, John Hay, j.
w. Douglass, Myron NJ. Parker, Gardiner
G. Hubbard, W.. D. DavidSe, S. r. Frank
lin, Charles c. Glover, Teunis S. Hamlin.
These gentlemen were appointed pursuant
to joint resolution of the two houses of
Congress approved June IA. 1892, by the
President of the United States, president
of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House. as members Of the association.
Against Betting by Telegraph.
A bill has been introduced in the House
by Mr.. Gillett of Massachusetts, which, If
enacted into law, will put STOP 1t is said,
to the bookmaking at st. Asaph race track
The bill provides: THAT any person who
shall knowingly be a party to the trans
mission by telegraph or telephone or mail
or express or otherwise, from one state
or territory into another state or territory,
or from or into the District of Columbia, of
any gambling bet, or report of such bet or
the odds quoted on any race or prize fight
or other event, or any person who shall
knowingly be a party to the transmission
or reception py telegraph, telephone, or
mail or express or otherwise, from one
state or territory into another state or
territory. or from or into the District of
Columbia, or from any foreign country into
any state or territory, or into the District
of Columbia, of any report or result of
any lottery drawing or scheme, by means
of cipner or otherwise. shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be pun
ishable In the first offense by Imprisonment
for not more than two years or by fine
of not more than one thousand dollars, or
both ard In the second and after offenses
by such Imprisonment only
The bill was referred to the committee
on judiciary.