The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-20
HOUSE CEREMONIES.

The ceremonies in the house were pro-
foundry impressive. They consisted Of
addresses by Mr.. McCleary CMinn.), Mr..
Grosvenor co., Mr.. Richardson (Tenn),
Mr.. Warner Ql), Mr.. Berry q<y), Mr..
Cummings On. W, Mr.. Linney IN. O.,
Mr.. Gardner (Mich), Mr.. Brosius Pa.)
and Mr.. DOlliver QO)
The gallery opposite the speakers ros-
trGm had been reserved for the men,
bers of the G. A. r. and was crowded
with grizzled veterans who came to pay
tribute to their loved commander. In
the area in front of the speakers desk
sat the officers of the Grand Army and
the committee appointed by the encamp-
ment at Philadelphia, who had been
granted the privilege of the floor for the
occasion by a special resolution Of the
house.
In the gallery reserved for Mrs. Grant
and her family were MIS-. Grant, her
daughter, Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris,
Lieut. Sartoris. Mrs. Sartoris and Miss
Grant, a daughter of Col. Fred Grant.
Exactly at u o'clock Speaker Hender-
sons gavel fell. After an impressive
prayer by the blind chaplain the COM
mittee of the Grand Army, among whom
were Commander-in-Chief Albert D.
Shaw, Gen. S. S. Burdett, Gen. R. B.
Heath, S. V, Commander-in-Chief Irvine
Robbins and Chaplain-in-C Chief J. L.
Grimm, were ushered into the house.
After the speaker had announced the
order of the day, Mr.. McCleary, of Min
nesota, chairman of the committee on
library, sent to the clerks desk and
had read the letter addressed to the
speaker, presenting the statue of Gen.
Grant to the nation. Mr.. McCleary then
offered the following resolution:
Resolved, BY the house (the senate
concurring) that the thanks of congress
be given to the Grand Army of the Re
public for the statue of Gen Ulysses S.
Grant.
Resolved, That the statue be accepted
and placed il the capitol, and that a
copy, of these resolutions, signed by the
presiding officers Of the house and SEN
ate be forwarded to the chairman of the
committee Of the Grand Army of the Re
public on the Grant memorial"
MR.. McCLEARY'S EULOGY.
The eloquent eulogies Of Gen Grant
which followed We're listened to atten-
lively and several times wrung round af-
ter round of applause from the floor and
galleries. Mr.. McCleary, in the course
of his remarks, said:
I'm the spring of 1861 more men moved
obedient to the command Of Gen Grant
than were commanded by Napoleon in
all his campaigns, from the beginning of
his meteOric career on the plains of
Italy and before the pyramids of Egypt,
until his sun set at Waterloo; and the
area of Grants operations exceeded the
area covered by Napoleon from the v4ne-
clad hills of France to the snowy steppes
of Russia.
But to appreciate the real dignity and
worth of Gen. Grants services to man
kind, they must be considered in the light
of universal history His genius was ex-
ercised TO save to the world it's most pre-
cious secular possession. l measure my
words when 1 say that the most valua-
BILE secular possession of this world to-
day is the Union of the American States.
Hundred of thousands of lives and thou
sands of millions of treasure have been
expended to preserve it; but in its poten-
cy for good to the world, 1t is worth in
finitely more than it has cost
Every man who had any part, how
ever humble, in the preservation of the
Union, is entitled to the gratitude of the
world.
Hence the propriety of enshrining
within this capitol the temple of the
great pacific people of representation. the
building in which the representatives Of
the commonwealth meet, statue of the
great commander, through whose genius
the Union was preserved. The statue.
worthy alike of the genius which it COM
memorates and the brave men whose
cheerful contributions produced it, will
be accepted and it will be preserved in
honor through the coming centuries"