REPORT ON THE HENRY STATUE. XIX 



States upon the occasion of the presentation and inauguration of said 

 statue." 



Approved February 24, 1883. (Statutes, volume xxn, page 659.) 



The following gentlemen were selected as the joint committee to rep- 

 resent Congress : 



Senators : Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts ; Eli Saulsbury, 

 of Delaware ; Samuel J. R. McMillan, of Minnesota ; Joseph R. Haw- 

 ley, of Connecticut; William Mahone, of Virginia; Omar D. Conger, 

 of Michigan ; James B. Groome, of Maryland. 



Members of the House of Representatives : Hon. John T. Wait, of Con- 

 necticut; William Aldrich, of Illinois; Thomas M. Browne, of Indiana ; 

 John A. Kassou, of Iowa; George M. Bobeson, of New Jersey; John 

 W. Candler, of Massachusetts; R. J. Walker, of Pennsylvania; A. H. 

 Pettibone, of Tennessee; J. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky; J. Randolph 

 Tucker, of Virginia; Andrew G. Curtin, of Pennsylvania; Randall L. 

 Gibson, of Louisiana. 



In accordance with the previous arrangements, the statue was un- 

 veiled on Thursday afternoon, April 19, 1883, at 4 o'clock. The day 

 was clear, mild, and propitious, and about ten thousand people assem- 

 bled to witness the ceremonies. 



The invited guests met in the lecture hall of the National Museum, 

 and proceeded to the platform which had been erected around the statue. 

 General O. M. Poe acted as chief marshal, and Messrs. Daniel Leech, 

 John D. McChesney, and George S. Hobbs as assistant marshals. 



The following order of arrangement was adopted : 



The President of the United States ; * the Chief Justice of the United 

 States, Chancellor of the Institution ; the orator of the day, President 

 Noah Porter, LL.D., of Yale College; the chaplain of the day, Rev. 

 A. A. Hodge, D. D. ; the family of Professor Henry. 



The establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, viz, the Vice- 

 President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of 

 War, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Postmaster-Gen- 

 eral, Attorney-General, Commissioner of Patents. 



The Regents and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and Ex- 

 Regents; the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives, appointed to represent Congress ; the Diplomatic Corps ; the As- 

 sociate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ; Judges of 

 United States Courts; Claims Commissions; ^Judges of the Supreme 

 Court of the District of Columbia ; Senators and Members of the House 

 of Representatives ; Commissioners of the District of Columbia ; the 

 General and Officers of the Army ; the Admiral and Officers of the Navy; 

 Ex Members of the Cabinet and Ex-Ministers of the United States; Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences ; Founders of the Henry trust fund for 

 Science ; the Commissioner of Agriculture ; the Assistant Secretaries of 



* The President was absent from the city at the time. 



