October 4, 1901.] 



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niunds introduced his ' Bill to establish the 

 University of the United States/ and moved 

 its reference to a special committee, no op- 

 position was made. Had he retained his 

 physical vigor, he would doubtless have 

 made his chairmanship of the committee 

 effective. 



3. At the Senate's session of August 8, 

 1892, when Senator Proctor presented the 

 ' Memorial in regard to a National Uni- 

 versity ' by John W. Hoyt, and moved that 

 it be printed and referred, Senator Sherman 

 moved the further printing of 5,000 extra 

 copies, which was ordered unanimously ; 

 also, that at a subsequent session other 

 thousands of extra copies were ordered 

 printed without objection, 



4. Although at the opening of the 52nd 

 Congress, Senator Proctor, whose interest 

 was very positive, assumed the chairman- 

 ship, by request, he was occupied with im- 

 portant measures already in hand, and sub- 

 mitted his sterling and unanimous report 

 so late in the Congress that other matters 

 prevented its consideration. The commit- 

 tee was a strong one and would have been 

 potential, could they early have taken it in 

 hand, as they would have done a question 

 of commerce, finance or war. The Senate 

 was ready. 



5. When the Senate ' Committee to estab- 

 lish the University of the United States ' 

 was made a ' standing ' committee, there 

 was no opposition to the change. 



6. In the 53rd Congress, when Senator 

 Hunton was chairman of the committee, he 

 was so circumstanced that his able report 

 (also unanimous) could not be prepared^ 

 submitted and supported, as it was, by his 

 own and other able speeches, until the time 

 had come when appropriation bills had the 

 right of way, and a single negative vote 

 could again prevent action by the Senate. 



7. It was not until during the first 

 session of the 54th Congress, when the de- 

 termination of the executive council of 



the National University Committee had 

 met with assurances of cooperation from 

 all parts of the country, and the council, 

 with the Chief Justice of the United States 

 presiding and but one of its fifteen mem- 

 bers absent, gave three protracted sessions 

 to the framing of a new bill, that there ap- 

 peared the first sign of opposition, either in 

 or out of Congress. 



The members of the executive council at 

 that time were these : 



The Honorable Melville W. Fuller, Chief 

 Justice of the United States ; Ex-U. S. 

 Senator Geo. F. Edmunds, of Vermont ; 

 Dr. William Pepper, Ex-Provost of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania; Hon. Andrew D. 

 White, Ex-President of Cornell University, 

 Ambassador to Germany; Ex-Governor John 

 Lee Carroll, of Maryland, General-President 

 Society of Sons of the Ee volution ; General 

 Horace Porter, President- General Society 

 of Sons of the American Revolution, Am- 

 bassador to France ; Ex-U. S. Senator Eppa 

 Hunton, of Virginia; Ex-U. S. Senator A, 

 H, Garland, late Attorney- General of U. 

 S. ; Ex-U. S. Senator J. B. Henderson ; 

 Col. Wilbur R. Smith, of Kentucky Uni- 

 versity ; Gen. John Eaton, Ex-U. S. Com- 

 missioner of Education ; Hon. Gardiner G. 

 Hubbard, President National Geographic 

 Society ; Professor Simon Newcomb, Direct- 

 or of the Nautical Almanac, U. S. N.; Hon. 

 John A. Kasson, Ex-U. S. Minister to Aus- 

 tria and Germany ; Hon. Oscar S. Strauss, 

 Ex-U. S. Minister to Turkey; G. Brown 

 Goode, Assistant- Secretary Smithsonian In- 

 stitution ; Ex-Gov. John W. Hoyt, Chair- 

 man National University Committee. (In 

 the places of Messrs. Pepper, Hubbard, 

 Garland and Goode, since deceased, there 

 are now : Hon. H. A. Herbert, Ex-Secretary 

 of the Navy ; Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution ; Lieutenant- 

 General Nelsoa A. Miles, commanding the 

 Army.) 



The bill was unanimously approved by 



