Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-05
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this year, available for appropriations
are estimated at 154 millions, and the
estimated of the expenses of the state
for the year is 1871 millions, leaving an
imaginary deficit of million
In the Senate, Tuesday, Mr.. Williams
of Butler introduced bill appropriat-
ing $50, 900 to Slipperyrock Normal
The house. by the decisive vote Of Ill to
81, defeated the Grady bill appropriat-
ing $25, 900 for the erection of monu
ment to the memory of Simon Came
ron. In the bill Senator Quay, Alex
ander J. Cassatt and COL Alexander
McClue were named as commission to
fulfill the obligation imposed. AS Sen
ator Grady was authority for the state
ment that Col Quay is very much in
terested in the measure. in reality its
sponsor an unfriendly significance was
by some pla ced upon the action of the
house. The bill was reconsidered
Wednesday by Durhams orders and
passed
The proposition to erect a statue to
the rebel general, Robert Z. Lee, on the
battlefield Of Gettysburg, was debated
in the hall of the House Of Representa-
tives on Tuesday evening of last week.
Col. A. K Mcclure spoke in favor of the
bill providing for the erection of the
statute. and Judge John Stewart. of
Chambersburg, against it.
Colonel Mcclure said he did not plead
the cause of Confederacy, but on the
other hand, he pleaded the cause of the
Union-the common union. He wanted
to make the battlefield of Gettysburg
worthy Of the nation. 1t should in it
self tell its own story. He pictured the
monuments and tablets on Cemetery
Hill which tell in every detail the story
of the Union side Of that great battle.
Across the fields. on Seminary Ridge,
he said, the story of the other side
should be told in monument and tablet.
They should not be placed there as
| tribute to the Rebellion, but as tribute
| TO the heroism Of the Blue and the Gray.
| The visitor from foreign land to the
| battlefield of Gettysburg would traverse
| its magnificent avenues, study the posi-
| tions occupied by the two great armies,
| and could not fail to be impressed with
| the equal valor of the forces there lock-
| ed in deadly conflict He would inquire
why one side of the story is given in i'm
perishable monuments, while the other
has nothing to tell OF the equally skilled
and valiant chieftains who gave oyer
twenty thousand of their heroes to the
dead and wounded of the battle, and
would he not ask the question
"Were not the chieftains and warriors
on both sides Americans Were they
not brothers, whose fathers had reared
the great free government of the world
deeply crimsoned with their blood, ana
who had shared in the trials and tri-
umphs Of the Union in the Revolution
ary War, in the second war with Eng
land, and on the plains of Mexieo?"
What answer could we make to-day
to such inquiries forty years after this
|, great battle was fought Viewed from
the standpoint of the tempered passions
of the present, does not the battlefield
of Gettysburg now stand as colossal
monument teaching the gospel of hatef
Legislators, soldiers, patriots of Penn
sylvania, how can such monument en-
dure when hate has perished?
Speaking of the opposition to the mon.
ument, he called atteptiop to the high
places now occupied by Confederate gen
, erals. There is no honor short Of the
Presidency" he said, that has not beer
given to Confederates with the consent
OF all parties.
At the conclusion of Colonel Mcclure,
address Mr.. Bliss introduced Judge John
Stewart, OF Champereburg. Judge Stew
art said he was sustained by an abiding
. confidence that in no event would the
I Lee statue bill receive legislative ap
provaL Il am deeply and unalterably
opposed TO this measure" he said
amidst lopd applause. and followed this
4 by prophecy that after it's defeat no
: body would ever attempt to feyiye it,
He did not think this bill was the prod
net Of Colonel McClure's good Judgment
1t was begotten OF exaggerated charity
Y He denied the legal right Of the Leg
q islature to pass this bill 1--WE who are
opposed to it will never give over oui
' opposition until the court of last resor
Q saws we must" said Judge Stewart
!, with upraised hand, aRd applause fol
r lowed.
He gave brief sketch Of the forma
ton Of the Gettysburg Memorial Asso
citation and said: "You cannot pass {
Y law that impairs contract and we res
! upon the right of those who gave tina
field To its charitable use.
"What is to be gained by putting thi
! statue of Lee on Gettysburg battlefield X
| asked the speaker. If you want his
: toric accuracy as your excuse, then place
upon this field statute of Lee holdinl
in his hand the banner under which h'
Q fought, bearing the legend: We wag'
O this war against q government conceiv
ed in liberty and dedicated to humanity
There Is nothing in history TO Com
pare with this, eaid Judge Stewart
will the speaker pardon meI" eait
Y Colonel Tom Cooper, but there Is nov
n monument being erected on the battle
: field Of Bran dywine to Washington ant
Lafayette"
: But they were patriot. fighting TO
the same cause" retorted Judge Stey
!. art
YES" said Cooper, but they los
the battle. and a ways of lauRhte
!. swept over the room, which increased a.
!: Colonel Stewart retorted with Just a
! / trust you will lose this bill. "
In closing he begged the Legislature
: in the name Of the dead who rest in
Y the hills of Gettsburg to leave then
o alone in their glory"