FORTY-THIRD CONC4RESS, 1873-1875. 715 



Mr. JOHN B. STORM. I hope that the resolution, as modified by the 

 Committee on Education and Labor, will be adopted. That committee 

 carefully considered the resolution referred to and came to the con- 

 clusion which the} r have reported. The name of Mr. Stewart was 

 before that committee, together with several other names. After full 

 discussion and interchange of views by the members of the committee 

 they came to this conclusion, and I trust the action of the committee 

 will be approved by this House at this time. 



If we follow the course indicated by the gentleman from Tennessee 

 [Mr. Maynard] and the gentleman from New York [Mr. Cox] I have 

 no doubt that every gentleman upon this floor has some particular 

 friend whom he would desire to honor by suggesting his name for 

 this position. The committee have looked solely to the qualifications, 

 scientific and literary, of the persons whose names have been suggested. 

 If the gentleman can give one reason or state one single particular 

 wherein Mr. Stewart is superior to Professor Coppee, I will yield to 

 him. Mr. Stewart is a merchant' of large business, engrossed and 

 absorbed in mercantile pursuits. I dare say he would be entirely 

 unable to pay any attention at all to any question that might he 

 referred to him should he be appointed to this place. 



Professor Coppee, as a scientific and literary man, is abreast with 

 the age upon all questions of science, and is largely interested in 

 metallurgy, civil engineering, and mining, questions which are now 

 pressing themselves upon the attention of our colleges and schools, 

 and the study of which is replacing the old .study of the dead lan- 

 guages. He has given great attention to these matters and is to-day 

 in Pennsylvania one of the leading scientific minds upon all these great 

 questions in which the people have such a deep interest. I think that 

 it is due to that class of our people that they should be represented 

 upon the Board of Regents by such a man as Professor Coppee. He 

 is in every way qualified for the place, and I think to strike him from 

 the list proposed would be an ungracious act and one which the House 

 would not desire to perform, and to replace him by a man who has 

 nothing but his wealth to recommend him. 



Professor Coppee has a thorough military training, has been honor- 

 ably connected with some of our most honored colleges, and is now' 

 the president of the Packer University. He has published one of the 

 best text-books we have on logic and rhetoric; he is the historian of 

 General Grant, and his criticisms on the military movements of the 

 Army in the late war are the best we have. He is a scholar of high 

 attainments and of great financial ability, and his appointment would 

 be a deserved compliment to his great talent. 



Mr. MONROE. I now call the previous question. 



The Speaker (Mr. JAMES G. ELAINE). Does the gentleman call the 

 previous question on the bill and amendments ? 



