Mr. HAWLEY. I think the joint resolution creating the original commission is sufficiently guarded in that respect, and this is simply a modification of that as to the expenditure of the $25,000. We are not permitted to draw on or involve the Government. The prohibition is absolute in the original resolution against involving the Government in any expense whatever beyond the sum appropriated.

Mr. EDMUNDS. That I have no doubt is so; but this is a new joint resolution, and it is not clear to my mind that it possesses the same guards that the original did; and, secondly, it is not clear to my mind that there ought to be not only a statement that this does not involve the Government in any further expense, but that this sum of money shall be applied in such a way as to make an end of the monument; that it is to be kept within the appropriation and that the Secretary shall not spend any of it unless he gets the work all done for this. It may be all right on looking at it, but we had better look at it to be

sure.

Mr. HAWLEY. I have no objection to making that absolutely certain.

Mr. EDMUNDS. We have had so much unfortunate experience, not only about monuments, but about other structures where we thought we had limited the cost, that I think it is well to be careful. Mr. HAWLEY. There is no objection to any guard.

Mr. MILLER, of New York. If the Senator from Vermont desires it I will let the resolution go to the Military Committee and let it come back, or let it simply lie on the table to be called up hereafter. Mr. HARRIS. I suggest that it ought to go to the Committee on Appropriations.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. If there be no objection the joint resolution will be referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The Chair hears no objection to that reference, and it is so ordered.

On February 21, 1883, the following proceedings were had in the Senate:

Mr. HAWLEY. The Committee on Military Affairs, to which was referred the joint resolution (S. R. 138) concerning the erection of a memorial column at Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, New York, have instructed me to report it favorably and without amendment, and I request its immediate consideration.

The committee unanimously reported the resolution. It is in alteration of a resolution passed last July, which appropriated $25,000. So we are not asking for any more money. Ten thousand dollars of it was to be devoted to a monument and the remainder to the purchase of certain ground and the expense of the celebration. The committee of Congress charged with a partial supervision of the matter thought it better to devote the whole $25,000 to the monument, and leave the expense of the celebration and the other local matters to the State of New York and the Newburgh local committee. That committee and the Congressional committee, in conference with the Secretary of War, decided upon this division of the labor. We recommend that the entire sum given last July be devoted to the monument, and New York State and the city of Newburgh will then take care of the local purchases and of the celebration.

By unanimous consent, the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, proceeded to consider the joint resolution.

The joint resolution was reported to the Senate without amendment, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, read the third time, and passed.

At 9.30 o'clock on Sunday morning, March 4, 1883, the last day of the Forty-seventh Congress, the following proceedings took place in the House :

The recess having expired, the House re-assembled at 9.30 o'clock

a. m.

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. I ask unanimous consent to make a statement to the House for two minutes.

Mr. HOLMAN. On the condition that that shall make no change in the status of the pending question.

Mr. ANDERSON. I rise to make a parliamentary inquiry.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Townsend] will state what his purpose is.

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. I will state my purpose, and then will make my request known to the House.

Congress, at its last session, passed a joint resolution appropriating $25,000 to pay for a monument and centennial celebration at Newburgh, New York, Washington's Headquarters. The terms of that resolution were such as to appropriate $10,000 for the monument

and $15,000 for the other incidents connected with the celebration. The committee in charge of the work and also the Secretary of War desire to have that joint resolution so amended as to permit them to use the $25,000 in the erection of the monument, leaving to the State of New York and the citizens of Newburgh the expenditures incident to the celebration. It is a more simple and a more satisfactory method, and puts the national contribution where it would be more permanent and lasting. It is to make that slight change in this resolution that I ask the consent of the House.

The SPEAKER. Is it a Senate resolution on which the gentleman desires action?

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. It is; it passed the Senate. The Secretary of War is anxious it should be so arranged, and I do not know any reason why it should not be.

The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Townsend] asks unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table for consideration at this time a Senate joint resolution, which the Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows:

A joint resolution (S. R. 138) concerning the erection of a memorial column at Washington's Headquarters, at Newburgh, New York.

Resolved, etc., That sections 2 and 3 of the joint resolution of Congress approved July 1, 1882, authorizing the Secretary of War to erect at Washington's Headquarters, in the city of Newburgh, New York, a memorial column, and to aid in defraying the expenses of the centennial celebration to be held at that city in the year 1883, be, and the same are hereby, amended so as to read as follows: "That the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the erection of a suitable monument or column on the grounds belonging to the State of New York, and known as Washington's Headquarters, with such inscriptions and emblems as may properly commemorate the historical events which occurred at Newburgh and vicinity during the war of the Revolution: Provided, That the design for said monument or column, with the inscriptions and emblems to be placed thereon, shall be subject to the approval and adoption of the joint select committee directed to be appointed by the joint resolution to which this is an amendment: And provided further, That no part of the said sum of $25,000 shall be used in defraying the expenses of said centennial celebration.

The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the consideration at this time of the joint resolution which has just been read?

Mr. HOLMAN. I hope the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Townsend] will explain again the purpose of this joint resolution; repeat briefly his statement in regard to the action of the State of New York touching the other expenses contemplated by the original joint resolution of Congress.

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio. The State of New York has appropriated, I think, $15,000, and the citizens of Newburgh and the council of Newburgh have appropriated another sum, perhaps ten or fifteen thousand dollars, which amounts they expect will be sufficient to pay for certain outside property and the ordinary expenditures of the celebration.

The terms of the appropriation made by Congress limited the expenditures for the memorial column to $10,000, and the remainder ($15,000) was to be expended for general purposes. The committee thought it would be more satisfactory to the public, after the Yorktown celebration, that the Government should have nothing to do with the ordinary expenses, such as brass-bands, ice-cream, and all that, but that all the money appropriated by the Government should be expended upon the memorial column, and the citizens of New York think so, too.

Mr. HOLMAN. That seems to be a very proper measure.

There being no objection, the joint resolution was taken from the Speaker's table, read three several times, and passed.

Mr. TOWNSEND, of Ohio, moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate joint resolution was passed; and also moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table.

The latter motion was agreed to.

LOCAL PROCEEDINGS.

An account of the initiatory local proceedings connected with the celebration has been furnished by R. V. K. Montfort, the secretary of the Newburgh Committee of Five, and is as follows:

DECEMBER 6, 1881.-Hon. Joel T. Headley and Hon. James G. Graham appeared, on behalf of the trustees of Washington's Headquarters, before the common council, to urge the city authorities to take action for raising funds for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a centennial celebration to be held at Washington's Headquarters in 1883.

Alderman Doyle offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted, all the members (eight) being present:

Whereas it is especially desirable to ascertain the expression of the tax-payers of the city of Newburgh upon the question of whether or not the Legislature of the State of New York be requested to enact a law empowering the common council of the city to levy and raise a sum of money, not exceeding $5,000, for a centennial celebration at Washington's Headquarters in 1883: Therefore,

Resolved, That the city clerk be instructed to advertise that such an election will be held at the court-house, in the city of Newburgh, on Wednesday, December 21, 1881, from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., and that the clerk prepare the necessary ballots.

The special election was held, pursuant to notice, on December 21, 1881, and resulted in a vote in favor of the proposed action.

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