The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-09
GRANT MONUMENT REPORT.
Sculptor SimmOns's Designs Have
Deem Approved by the Committee.

CINCINNATI. Sept S.-The following re-
port on the Grant monument was adopted:
your committee on the memorial to our
late comrade General Grant, to be erected
at the capital in Washington. report that
for two years past they have been in corre-
spondence with the sculptor, Mr.. Harrison
Simmons, of Rome, Italy, in relation to re-
placing the statue which was forwarded to
Washington and which failed to receive the
approval of the joint committee on the
library of Congress. The members of your
committee who had carefully inspected the
work. believed that the likeness was good
and that the statue was one of the very best
of the many now in place in Washington,
but as the committee the library of Con-
greSS decided otherwise, we were compelled
to accept their conclusions and require Mr..
with one which would be satisfactory.
I'm order that there should be no possible
chance for another rejection, we required
Mr.. Simmons to present to the committee on
library a clay model of the head and photo
graph of the full statue. Mr.. Simmons came
over with this model, and your committee
for him had a very satisfactory interview
with the joint committee of the library.
That committee was aided by the produce
ton of a large number of photographs OF
General Grant in the possession of the War
Department and they gave the model A
very close inspection and unanimously APP
proved the same.
Mr.. Simmons was then directed to pro-
coed with the work, and as a result we feel
that we will have much more satisfactory
statue than the first one completed. Mr..
Simmons is hard at work in the finishing
of the figures in the equestrian statue of
Gen. John A. Logan, the bronze pedestal
for which has been completed and placed in
position in Washington. He does not be-
lieve that he can have our work ready for
final acceptance much before the Congress
meets in December, 1899, but he will hasten
1t all he possibly can. We regret very much
this long delay, which has seemed unavoid
able. Your committee, however, has worked
should be creditabe to the Grand Army of
the Republic and worthy of our diStin-
guished comrade.
IS. S. BURDETT Chairman.
'R. b. BEATH, Secretary"
The following was also adopted:
Resolved, That the work of establish
ing the Gettysburg National Military Park
and the preservation and care of that great
patriotic citizen that the prominent fea-
lures of the plan to locate and mark the
battle lines and positions of all the COM
nlands in the contending armies has our
hearty appreciation; further,
Resolved, That we are grat!fied that the
commissioners under the supervision of the
secretary Of war, are pushing the work of
marking the lines of the Army of Northern
Virginia as rapidly the title to the nee
esSary land can be secured by the United
States; further.
Resolved, That, in view of the limited
appropriations, the progress which the COM
missionerS have already made and the sta
bility and excellence of the work already
soldier, and we trust that Congress will be
liberal in granting the funds to complete
this great work according to the plans
adopted. The result will be grandly monu-
mental and must awaken sentiments Of
pride and patriotism in every true Ameri-
can heart.