Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-29

Tyler darea not resist said Clay.
II will drive him before me-
On the other hand, the new Pres
ident declared.
is 70 the wall. and that. while I shall
dcplorc the assaults. ! shall. If prac-
ticable. beat back my assailants."
In truth, il was as ili-yoked an al
lance as ever was made. The Whtg
leaders began 10 SHOW a Disposition
TO o,trnp the President. but nc was
too much for them, and vetoed meas
ure after measure. So bitter became
the situation that efforts wero made
10 inpcach him. but were not success
Cabinet, except Daniel Webster, re-
signed. Tyler had made 1t known that
his yihws on public matters were uD-
changed. but he made, every effort TO
conciliate party, without yielding
IN inch.
mis- administration were the anneNa-
tion OF Texas and the treaties with
e.ngland and China. At tile end of hia
term he Was nominated again for the
presidency, but Withdrew from the
ton Was improbable
President Tyler was married in 1913,
and his wife, Letitia Christian. died IN
1872. While In the White House he
married Julia Gardiner. whose father
was killed while on a pleasure trip
with his daughter on the war, steamer
Princeton, as tho guests OF the Prcsi-
dent. Ono son; ID. Gardiner Tyler. is
now Judge Of the Charles City Circuit
Court, which occupies the building in
which his father practiced law az u
young man. Another son, Lyon Gardi-
ner Tyler. is president OF William and
Mary College, ut williamsburg.
At the end of his presidential term,
President Tyler retired to private life
and took up his residence on an es-
tate three miles from Cireenway,
which he called Sherwood Forest In
1861 no suggested n convention OF
border states for the purpose OF de-
visnt; soTe method for adjusting the
difficulties caused by the secession of
South Carolina. The Virginia Legis!a-
ture enlarged this scheme into n peace
conference, and Mr. Tyler was made
president of tho body. which met In
Washington. When he saw that the
efforts Of the convention were fruit
less. he cast in his lot with the Con =
federacy, and advocated tho immediate
passage of an ordinance of secession.
Iio was made n member of the Provis-
ional Congress. He was later elected
to the regular Confederate Congress,
but died on January Is, 1852, in this
city. before taking his seat
COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS-
TO ATTEND UNWILLING
. Government engineers have laid or
tho site for the monument. The sun,
tof $4,000 was appropriated for the
monument and incidental work by
Congress. The contract was awarded
to n. l.. McGann Sons Company. of
Boston. Twenty-Five designs were sub
mittcd and sixteen concerns entered
into the competition.
On resolution introduced in the
House OF Representatives by Congress-
man Montague, Speaker Clark APP
pointed the following committee to
represent tho lower branch OF Con-
gross ut tho unwilling exercises: Mon
taguc, OF Virginia; Fitzgerald, OF New
York: Baker, Of New Jersey; Mann, OF
Illinois, and Murdoch, OF Kansas.
Tie joint committee. representing
the General Assembly OF Virginia, to
attend the exercises are: Lieutenant
Governor j. TAYLOR I3llyson, president
of tho Senate, and Senators Wenden-
burg, Drewry and FLETCHER, and Speak,
err Cox, OF the House of Delegates, and.
Delegates Gregory. Baker, Stubbs,
Spessard and Gum.