Evening star., 1907-11-13
Thew Defv Congress.


They Defy Congress.
wr-e .ega-lv ron-exIstepf but r7crngcious-
l. active advisory COMMITTEES Of the Grant
monument commission nv Is action YES
to-day. insisting ON the site selected In
Tie Botanic Garden for that memorial on
tho ground that II IS necessary, to carr,
o,t tl.a park commissioners ,,,a, for +raat-
ing the NAH. deaed Congress and drove
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.f.t,1.,, ,sa.e5 ~ avist Congress- there
e.. Io,1,s 70 can Dodre and Secretary
rras. 49,. ,.a,,,rts ard they have no
r.,...t,r, r,-.,r-,r,, sor shifting their respon-
ettrf-z- 70 the five men who have been
ss,.o7 +,,aj,. e,d,-isory committee
rr,b+. la+aet action bv the advisory COM
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sl,.~rr,. g., account eyrrvbody who is
,,,rar+ad IN any, vay with the unau-
4,,.-fz.d r,sa of anv OCCUPIED part Of the
r,o4,rt,. Garden Chairman TaWney of
49,. TIou.a committee on appropriations
- .Iready- axnresse5 himself vigorously
=, terms ,fndenuatorv of the sharp prac-
4f.e whereby legislation was secured for
,,..,.sii,l,, o,,. object and utilized for quite
,po+her Sneaker Cannon has denounced
,bs a4fort of the park commission to
.d1,a,,a i+s unauthorized repudiated
..La,,a hz, means of the Grant monu-
-nzrt Representative Champ Clark and
,+nsrs have spoken in the same vein
T.orort action on this subject may be
1,..-an+a4 a. eocn as Congress meets.
,rts so-called seIf-appointed. congress
sioDaIIv-renudiated uncommissioned park
,.cr,noissjo, will never succeed by any
80. ,ri-l, y. getting authority from Con
rr,.,.,, fo- nv, orbar nlan which has even
r[-,o+s1,, to 40 with the Mall. 1t has made
SC casr in ,his case and. up TO date, it
- Ioo+ That If will lose the whole
,r,r,a ie tba confident belief of all who
-, ,ta facts
~. C.r,,t monument scheme is only
. +,.r, of q secret crusade to secure by
1e,-t.e what could not be obtained by di-
49,, ,,....,,ra- # WAS the design of the
,.-.. -..,,r,,.ssion TO use the Grant memo
- ..s .-. entering wedge in the Mall.
49,. s,.,.,... ,,f Cen. sherman was To be
e-np.ar.d in the same reservation, a little
,,-.-r .f Grant Site. But tae
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