The herald., 1897-04-26
BOTH HOUSES WILL ADJOURN
TO TAKE PART IN DEDICATION
CEREMONIES
Gen. Schoheld Writes Letter Con-
cerning the Character Of the
Great Union General
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not be a quorum in the senate during the
present week. owing to the absence of a
large number Of senators in New York
in attendance upon the ceremonies over
Gen. Grants tomb. Consequently no
business of Importance will be transact
ed. Probably majority Of the senators
desire to adjourn from Monday until
Thursday and from Thursday again un-
til Monday without transacting any bus
mess OF general moment. and this pro
gram is likely to be followed. If the
wish of the Republican members from
the finance committee Is acceded to, the
tariff bill will be reported Thursday,
but it is most probable that this will be
postponed until next week. The work of
preparing for organization of the senate
committee will proceed informally.
Under the arrangements made on Fri
day the house will transact no business
this week. The house will meet formally
tomorrow and adjourn until Thursday.
when an adjournment will be taken un-
til Monday.
sCHoFIELD's LETTER
NEW YORK, April 25-Lieut.- Gen.
John M Schofield, U. s. A. (retired), has
accepted the invitation of Mayor Strong
on behalf of the city of New York to be
one of the guests at the ceremonies at
ttendant upon the dedication. of the
Grant monument.
In accepting the city's invitation, the
general has written a letter concerning
General Grant AS will be remembered,
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immediate command In the field. but
was intimately associated with him both
during fhe closing months Of Jo6nson's
| administration he was secretary Of war
and therefore, for the time being, was
Grants official superior. Their rela-
tions were always of the most intimate
and confidential nature and Gen. Scho-
fields views of Grant should be inter-
esting at the present time. In his let
ter the general says, in part:
1.-THE greatest of all the traits of
Grants character was that which lies
always on the surface, visible to all who
had eyes to see it That was his moral
and intellectual honesty, integrity, sin
cerity, veracity and justice. He was
incapable of any attempt to deceive any
body, except for legitimate purposes, as
in military strategy, and above all he
was incapable of deceiving himself. He
possessed the rarest Of all human facul-
ties. the power Of perfectly accurate
estimate of himself, uninfluenced by
vanity, PRIDE ambition, fiattery or self
interest. Grant was very far from be-
ing a modest man, as that word is gen.
orally understood. His just self-esteem
was as far above it as 1t was above flat
terry.
when Grants attention was called to
any mistake he had committed, he would
see and admit it as quickly and uure-
served1y as II it had been made by any
body else and with a smile which ex-
pressed the exact opposite Of that feel
ing which most men are apt to show un-
der like circumstances. His love of truth
and justice was so far above all person.
al considerations that he showed un-
mistakable evidences of qualifications
when any error into which he might hive
fallen was corrected His pride in his
own mature opinion was very great, in
that he was as far as possible from being |
a modest man. This absolute confidence |
In his own judgment upon any subject |
he had mastered and the moral courage |
to take upon himself alone the highest |
responsibility and to demand full au- |
thority and freedom to act according to |
his own judgment, without interference |
from anybody, added to his accurate es-
innate of his own ability and his clear
perception of the necessity for undivid- |
ed authority and responsibility in the
conduct Of military operations and in all |
that concerns the efficiency of armies
In time of war, constituted the founda-
tion of that very great character.
"It has been said that Gen. Grant, like
was q typical American, and
for that reason was most beloved and
by the people. That is true
as of the people, IL 1t is meant that the
mands the respect and admiration of
the highest and best In mans nturc,
however far above himself. Soldiers
and the people saw in Grant, or in Lin
coin, not one of themselves, not a plain
man of the people, nor yet a superior
being whom they could not understand,
but a personification Of their highest
deal of citizen, soldier or statesman,
q man whose greatness they could see
and understand as plainly as they could
anything else under the sun. There was
no more mystery about it than there was
n the popular mind
The white squadron left it's anchorage
,ff Tompkinsville, Staten island, early
his morning and sailed up the North
liver to its new anchorage of Grants
;omb, where 1t will remain until Wednes-
lay or Thursday. Large crowds gath
.red at the Battery and on the piers Of
he North river front to see the vessels
pass yne New York, flagship Of the
Iquadxon. with Admiral Bunce in COM
nand, took the lead and the dispatch
'oat Dolphin, from which President Nc