The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-02

inally. He is from General Sedgwick's old home in Litchfeld county, Cornwall being the town of the old heru's nativi- ty and burial General Sedgwick grad uated from West Point fn 1887 four years in advance of General Nathaniel Lyon. He served in the Mexican war with honor. The Sixth corps, which formed the nucleus of the army of the Potomac in the civil war, was com manded by him and he was a military idol long before he was killed at spott- sylvania, Va, May ?, 1864. General Sedgwiek left no family. There were nephews, including Harry SedgWick ot Cornwall and Charles F. Sedgwick, as- sistant cashier of the Farmers and Mechanics National bank of Hartford, The artist, the late T. Sedgwick steele of Hartford, was also a nephew. The erection of a monument at Gettysburg in honor of General Sedgwick by the state will be heartily approved through out Connecticut.
 The committee on agriculture will take up Governor Woodruff's special message Thursday, concerning the Con- nectcut Agricultural college. The governors project favoring the removal of the college and the use of the prop erty for state reformatory has not met with the favor that was expected The house chairman of the agricultural committee, Andrew Kingsbury of Gov entry, will ask for the use of represen- tativo hous for the hearing. In years past the fate of the agricultural college has been discussed in this hall, crowded to it's utmost capacity, and the meeting this week will no doubt be attended by farmers from every section Of the state. The policy of transferring the college to the use of the ttate reforma-
 tory is objectionable in more ways
 than one. The state has clear title to
 the property, which was perfected un- der ex-Attorney General Charles Phelps
 of Rockville, but is under moral obli-
 gation not to use it for any purpose outside of agricultural education, The
 intent of the donor Charles Storrs, was
 that the property should be used for an agricultural school or college, and the
 state accepted it under that condition. In the words of ex-Attorney General Phelps 1t would be morally wrong for the state to divert the gift from the
 purpose of the donor. The agricultural committee which has given the bill, in- creasing the number of trustees of the college so that the alumni can have two members on the board, 8 good deal of
 consideration, will not report favorably
 There are less than 200 graduates of the
 college in the state and 1t is thought by the committee that their interests will
 not demand for he present an addition al trustee,
 A photograph of the bronze statue designed by Bella L. Pratt, the Boston sculptor, for the Andersonville monu- { ment, was shown at the meeting of the
 Connecticut association of Union Pris-
 oners of War in Hartford, Good Friday
 and met with universal approval The figure is that of young volunteer in fatigue uniform The face Is full of in-
 telligence and manliness, reproducing
 the courage and attitude that charac-
 terized the boys of 61 All the mem bers of the Andersonville Monument
 commission, including Colonel Frank W. Cheney, the president, were present
 at the Prisoners reunion, and were
 thoroughly gratifed with the approval
 of their work, which was shown by
 the old Andersonville men.