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Senate ma}^ be authorized after the adjournment to designate the com- 

 mittee on the part of the Senate to attend the ceremonies of the unveil- 

 ing of the statue of Joseph Henry, which is to taive place after the 

 adjournment of Congress. Is there objection? The chair hears none, 

 and it is so ordered. 



After the adjournment of the Forty -seventh Congress, second ses- 

 sion, the Vice-President appointed the following committee to repre- 

 sent the Senate at the unveiling of the statue of Professor Henry, on 

 April 19, 1883: Mr. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Mr. Eli Sauls- 

 bury, of Delaware, Mr. Samuel J. R. McMillan, of Minnesota, Mr. 

 Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, Mr. William Mahone, of Vir- 

 ginia, Mr. Omar D, Conger, of Michigan, Mr. James B. Groome, of 

 Maryland. 



[From Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1883. ] 



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 10,000 people assembled 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. Gen. O. M. Poe, acted as chief marshal. The direction of 

 the executive details of the occasion were assigned by Professor Baird 

 to Mr. William J. Rhees, the Chief Clerk. 



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 da}^. 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, Secretaiy of the Treasury, Secretary of 

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

 General, 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 Represent- 

 atives, appointed to represent Congress; the Diplomatic Corps; the 

 Associate 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; 

 National 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. 



