The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10
ON THE SHERMAN STATUE
TIVE QUESTION VAS ARGUED AP
LENGTH IN THE SENATE,

Senator Hawley of This State and Senator
Mills of Texas Opposed the Resolution
A Vote Was Finally Taken and the Reso-
luton Was Defeated-No Final Action
Taken on the Hoover Bill.
Washington. June 9.-The resolution
offered yesterday by Mr. Wolcott, rep,
of Colorado, for an inquiry into the con-
test for the erection of an equestrian
statue for General w. T. Sherman, and
requiring the suspension of the contract
until the next session, was laid before
the senate. Mr. Wolcott explained and
advocated the resolution.
Mr.. Allison, rep. of Iowa, argued
against the resolution and contended
that the only jurisdiction which con-
gress had over the matter was given
in the joint resolution of 1892 which
provided that commission, consisting
of the president of the Army of the
Tennessee General Dodge), the secre-
tary of war and the general of the
army, were to select site for the statue
and prepare the pedestal on which it
should rest.
Mr.. Hawley rep, of Connecticut, also
opposed the resolution. What he IA
Vored was popular statue of General
Sherman-such a one as his old soldiers
would recognize at half mile distance;
not mere work of art, which might be
entitled The American General" but
which was not the statue of "Old Te-
cumseh."
Mr.. Mills, dem, of Texas, opposed the
resolution. A committee of artists who
arrogated TO themselves an exclusive
knowledge of art would be, he said, the
last people to whom he would refer on
such a subject. He would refer to the
venerable brother and children of Cen
eral Sherman. And as between the SOL
diers who followed Sherman and the
subordinates who served under him,
he would say that they, not a commit
tee of artists, were the proper judges.
Mr., Wolcott renewed his protest
against the Disagreement of Washing
ton by inartistic statues. He had been
informed that the unsuccessful artist
included on his panel pictures of the
judges who had passed upon the work
While the others had not. The action of
that committee had been intelligent and
disinterested and ought TO have weight.
Finally the vote was taken and the
resolution was defeated
Senate bill in relation to contempts of
court, which was based on the Debs
case, was taken up, discussed for some
time and then set aside informally.
The act granting a pension of $50
,l,s \,
vetoed by the president on the ground
that the p8lsioner was now drawing
s12 a month under the act of 1890, and
that his helplessness had no relation to
his army service, was taken up. The
bill and veto message were read, An
explanation was asked by MIR. Platt,
rep, of Connecticut. Mr. Turpie, dem,
of Indiana, argued that the bill was
justified by the report and evidence in
the case,
Mr. Gallinger, chairman of the COM
mittee on pensions, admitted that the
first report was so brief and unsatis-
factory that the president was justified
in vetOing. A fuller report, since made,
proved the justice of the increase Of
the pension The discussion was in
terrupted to permit Mr.. Hale to present
the final report on the naval bill. The
report was agreed to. The conference
report on the Indian bill also was pre-
sented and agreed to.
After further discussion the senate
proceeded to vote whether the Hoover
bill should pass over the objections of
the president, but there was no voting
quorum and, therefore, no final action
was had.
Adjourned at $40.