Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-21
CONGRESSMAN AT JAMESTOWN.

A party of one hundred members of
Congress, as guests of the jamestown
Exposition Company, made apilgrimage
to jamestown Island Saturday, and
viewed the historic ruins that mark the
spot of the first Anglo-Saxon settlement
on the Westerl Hemisphere. The party
visited the foundations of the building
in which the first legislative body OF
America held its first session. AT
jamestown Island there were speeches
by Congressman Maynard and Mr.. J.
Taylor Ellison, of Richmond. The OBJ
jcct of the pilgrimage was to arouse in
terest among the Congressman in the
exposition to be held on the shores Of
Hampton Roads in 1907 to celebrate
the three hundredth anniversary of the
first settlement. After leaving James
town the Congressman visited Newport
News and inspected the battleship Vir-
ginia, which will be launched on April
5, and then crossed Hampton Roads to
the Norfolk navy yard. A luncheon
was served after leaving the navy yard,
and at night dinner was given the
party at Old Point Comfort, at Chamber
Inns. General Fitzhugh Lee acted as
POSTMASTER and introduced the speakers
in a most happy manner. Hon. John
Goode, in his speech said. 'No where
on this continent can you find such
mighty memories of a mighty past as
down here in Tidewater Virginia" and
then he proceeded to enlarge upon the past
glories of Virginia in a way that evoked
thunders of applause. Before he got
through, Mr. GOOde showed that south
ern democrets had added every inch OF
territory to the Union that had swelled
its size in the century before the war
between the States.
Mr.. John Temple Graves, OF Georgia.
made an eloquent speech and his allusion
to the Confederate Yankee general,
General Fitzhugh Lee, evoked thunders
of applause. dts worth rebellion,
Spanish war to find out what great
people we are" said Mr.. Graves, and the
m embers seated at the long tables, re-
presenting every section of the country,
applauded to the echo.
Then General Lee introduced General
Grosvenor, of Ohio. He said that he had
lust discovered that his grandfather Light
Horse Harry Leg and General Grosve-
nor had fought side by side at Yorktown.
General Grosvenor's speech was gem.
speaking for myself and quorum Of
the leaders of the House of Representa-
tives," he said, and then paused. owe
have all had a mighty good time" He
then arraigned the South for her polit-
ical self.abnegation and said: "Too
many of your great men are dead. Put
some of your living ones to the fore,
Your whole idea that you cannot elect
southern men to great Offices is a mis-
taken one. / can name many a man from
the South for whom Ohio and New York
would freely vote. Virginia would have
builts monument at jamestown 80 years
ago had she not realized that such a
work belonged to the nation at large. D."
General Grosyenor concluded by say
ing that he didn't know what the James
town people wanted, but they should
have it if he had 10 60 on their note for
them to get it.
Judge Wade, of Iowa, then made the
most eloquent speech of the evening in
the course of which he pledged the solid
vote of his State for an appropriation to
the jamestown Exposition.
Then Mr.. Sulzer ofNew York made one
of the catch speeches of the evening" in
the course of which he said that if Sena-
tor Martin, of Virginia, were chairman
of the national committee national
victory would be almost a certainty.
1t was after O'Clock when the con-
gressional party left on the steamer for
Washington, which city they reached at
noon yesterday.