Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-18
ACCEPTS STATUE
OF MISS WILLARD
CONGRESS H0NORs MEMORY
OF TEMPERANCE LEADER
Members Of House Pay High Tribute
to Her Works and Character.
Statehood Bill Goes to
Conference
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON Feb. 17.-In order
to facilitate action at this session on
the statehood bill the house today
passed resolution sending that meas
ure as amended by the senate directly
into conference without offering an OPP
portunity for debate. With the ex-
| ception of Mr.. McLachlan of Califor-
MIA, who voted with the Democrats,
party lines were strictly drawn. After
several hours discussion the naval APP
preparation bill was laid aside, and the
house entered on exercises appropriate
TO the reception and acceptance of a
statue of Frances e. willard.
In his prayer in the house today the
chaplain. referring to the exercises in
cident to the reception of the statue
of Frances e. Willard to occur later
In the day, said that by the purity of
her soul, the breadth and scope of her
intellectual attachments, the eloquence
and chastity of her speech and the
unselfish devotion to the purity of the
home, the state and humanity she had
won for herself the splendid and just
encomium, 1.-The uncrowned queen of
purity and temperance"
On Statehood Bill
The house ordered a yea and nay
vote on the previous question to con-
slider a resolution from the committee
on rules to disagree on the senate res
olution to the statehood bill and ask
for conference.
The previous question was ordered,
100 to 1877, a strict party vote.
In discussing the resolution Mr.. Dali
zel of Pennsylvania, who Offered 1t,
said that if legislation was to be had
at all it was necessary at this late
day to have the bill go to conference
as speedily as possible.
Mr.. De Almond of Missouri protested
against cutting off an opportunity for
the house to express its own mind.
Mr.. Lloyd of Missouri charged that
35 Republicans who were in sympathy
with the Democrats on the statehood
question had been coerced by rules and
leadership.
Mr.. Powers of Maine said that he was
not aware that there were 80 Repub-
lican recalcitrants or that Mr.. Lloyd
was designated to present a statement
of their wrongs.
A rule likewise was criticised by Mr..
Williams of Mississippi, who said that
both New Mexico and Arizona desired
separate statehood.
II challenge the gentleman now.
dare the majority of this house to let
us have a vote on that question:" he
said.
"SIanket Indians"
Referring to the so-called Republican
recalcitrants who had been whipped into
line, Mr. Williams characterized them
as "blanket Indians" He said if they
had been let alone and not been bound
in writing hand and foot, the minority
plus those men would have been able
to adopt the amendment as to New
Mexico.
AT O'Clock the bill was laid aside,
legislative business was suspended and
exercises were begun for the reception
and acceptance from the state of IL
linois of the statue of Frances E. Will
lard in statuary hall.
In anticipation of the ceremonies, a
vast number OF women and school
children, mostly girls, thronged the
house corridors during the day, pass
ing on into the hall to view the statue.
The proceedings were opened by the
reading of a letter from Governor De-
.neen of Illinois, presenting the statue
to the United States.
! Mr. Foss of Illinois offered resolu-
ton of acceptance. Speeches extol-
ling the life and deeds of Miss Willard
were delivered by Representatives
Foss Graft and Rainey of Illinois, and
Littlefield of Maine.
First Statue of Woman
Mr. Rainey said that until today no
state had contributed to statuary hall
the statue of a woman. He con-
| tinued In part as follows:
"In the years which followed the
war one of the forces most potent to
sweep away the mists and let in the
sunlight upon the north and south alike
was the army of women led by Fran
ces E. Willard, marching through the
north and south following the white
banners upon which she had inscribed
the motto For God and Home and Ma
tive Land In the dark days which
followed the war she furnished the
common ground upon which all could
stand, whether they lived under bright
skies where the magnolia blooms, or
under grayer skies in the colder north
"She led the fight for the home, for
personal purity, for better habits of
living. for the right of children and for
the uplifting of women. If pearce
hath its victory, 1t is peculiarly appro-
pirate that Miss Wizards statue
should stand here under this dome.
In the state which produced Lin