Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-12
A WREATH TO BE SENT
GORDON MEMORIAL MEETING
HELD AT THE CAPITOL.
Members Of the Senate and House Re
spond to Call to Take Appro-
pirate Action.

At q meeting in the minority room of
the House of Representatives yesterday
afternoon 1t was decided by the ex-con-
federate senators and members OF the
House to send a wreath to Atlanta as
tribute from them to the memory of the
late Gen. John B. Gordon. There are fiji
teen ex-confederates in the Senate and
twenty-one in the House. Eight senators
and sixteen representatives responded to
the call issued by Mr. John Sharp Williams
for the meeting of yesterday. Senator
Bate was chosen as chairman. He made a
brief address, in which he eulogized Gen
Gordon in glowing terms. He said:
Senator Bates Eulogy.
1T knew General Gordon very we'll, hav-
ing served with him as soldier and in the
Senate He was one of the most genial
and warm-hearted gentlemen I have ever
known and one of the bravest of soldiers.
The Confederate Veterans Association was
organized largely through his efforts. He
was man of quick perception. with ring
ing voice, an earnest manner and unbound
ed enthusiasm. He left a name untarnished
and as brilliant as any in the annals of his
country. know of no man who left a
better reputation behind him as soldier and
patriot. He was always ready when there
was to be a fight, and aggressively so, and
in times of peace, after the fighting was
over, was as genial as May morning"
Senator Bacon's Tribute.
Senator Bacon Of Georgia said: 'Tt was
a pleasure and an honor for me to have
known General Gordon from the time 1
was thirteen years old. when he came to La
Grange, Ga, to enter the law Office Of one
of my uncles. From that time until his
death our relationship was close and of the
most cordial character. few years later
he went to Alabama to engage in business
enterprise, and when the war broke out he
came to Atlanta on his way to the war in
command of the famous old 'Raccoon
Roughs.' I went with him to a tailor shop
in Atlanta when he ordered his first uni
form. and during the last two years of the
war was with his command. His wife was
nearly always with him In camp.
mo man in his state was so loved; no
Georgian could die who could be so
southerner other than General Lee was so
universally loved. You are all old SOL
diers. and nothing can say could add to
your estimate of his military ability. He
out, and in less than four years was the
trusted lieutenant of Lee. and at the age
Of thirty-two commanded the right wing
Of Lees army. He gave the highest evil
where, as colonel Of the 9Th Alabama Regi-
ment, he was wounded six times"
A Wreath to Be Sent.
It was decided to send as the tribute of
the confederate members in Congress
large wreath to be placed on the coffin of
General Gordon and a committee was Sc
lected to draft resolutions. The members
OF this committee are senators Bate CHAIR
MANI, Pettus, Cockrell, Daniel, Bacon, Ber-
ry, Blackburn, McCreary and McEnery
and Representatives Maddox. Talbot,
Croft, Bankhead, 6pight. Davis, Pierce and
Field.
Each of the eleven states Of the confed-
eracy represented in Congress is repre-
scented on the committee. If possible a
committee Of five members of Congress will
attend the funeral to represent the confed-
crates in the Senate and House.