FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1745 
about raising a building fund for this purpose. The idea of such 
memorial hall or home was first suggested by the late Mrs. Caroline 
Seott Harrison, wife of President Harrison, and the first president- 
general of the society, and has been approved by successive national 
congresses of the society, and a special building committee has been 
appointed to carry into execution the project. 
They purpose, as they declare, to make this building ‘‘a veritable 
Temple of Fame, not alone in honor of the wonderful men and women 
who established our great nation, but also of the enterprise, capacity, 
and public spirit of their female descendants who shall erect it.” 
They intend to make it in architectural design illustrative of the 
period it commemorates, and sufficiently beautiful and imposing to 
constitute an ornament to the national capital, worthy alike of the 
memory of the heroes it honors, of their daughters who rear it, and 
of the great nation whose birth it will help to commemorate. 
For this purpose they ask no appropriation and will not seek in any 
way any pecuniary aid from the Government. They simply ask for 
sufficient land on which to place this memorial continental hall. 
This your committee thinks should be unhesitatingly granted, and, 
by the bill reported, have set apart for such purpose 200 feet square 
from the northeast corner of the Monument Lot, where the towering 
monument to the Father of his Country will at times cast its protect- 
ing shadow over the memorial proposed to be erected to the followers 
of the great leader, and where both together, in beautiful unison, will 
serve to keep green the memory of the fathers of the Republic. The 
city is full of memorials to the men who saved the nation, but it has 
few to the men who made it. 
The commendable effort of the ladies of the land to in part supply 
this lack ought to receive the cordial approval of Congress, and your 
committee therefore report the accompanying bill as a substitute for 
the one committed, and recommend its speedy passage. 
Committed to Committee of the Whole. 
ANACOSTIA STATUTE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. 
January 9, 1896—House. 
Mr. Exisna E. Mrerepirs (by request) introduced bill (H. 3554). 
That there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $25,000 for the execution of the Anacostia 
statue of George Washington, by Theophilus Fisk Mills, sculptor, and for the models 
in metal for the United States National Museum, showing of degrees of measure in 
the nature and convergence of parallel; $10,000 of said appropriation to be advanced 
by the Secretary of the Treasury for the furtherance and completion of the work of 
art, and the remainder to be paid upon the receipt of the demonstrating models in 
metal by the National Museum and all work. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
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