to express this good will by erecting in that cemetery a statue of General Lee. The appropriateness of an equestrian statue is selfevident.

Not a single survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic has opposed this resolution. It is generally believed that they will be among the first to do honor to the memory of General Lee, because they, as soldiers, will be quick to recognize the outstanding generalship of the man, as well as his nobility of character.

Former President Theodore Roosevelt said:

General Lee is without doubt the greatest of all the great captains that the English-speaking people have brought forth, and this although the last and chief of his antagonists (General Grant) may claim to stand as the full equal of Wellington and Marlborough.

Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice, in his book, Lee, the Soldier, wrote the following soul-stirring words:

"If", says Napoleon, “you would understand the art of war, you should read and reread the 88 campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene, and Frederick; take them as your models, for it is the only means of mastering the art of war.' To that select band of great commanders the name of Robert E. Lee must be added. His exact precedence among them I will not attempt to determine, but that they have received him as a soldier worthy of their fellowship I do not doubt.

William McKinley, himself a soldier, patriot, and martyr, echoed, while President of the United States, the sentiments of his countrymen when, addressing the Georgia Legislature at Atlanta, he declared that

the time has now come in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God when in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers.

The picture of Gen. Robert E. Lee holds a conspicuous place in the Military Academy at West Point, and one of the most prized honors is the Robert E. Lee sword. In recent years captured battle flags have been returned by the various State governments and the Federal Government has loaned tents and other equipment to the former Confederate soldiers on their reunions. There have been numerous appointments of your southern descendants of Confederate soldiers and in some instances grandsons of Confederate generals, to our Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and perhaps the most remarkable example was the elevation of Justice White, a former Confederate, to be Chief Justice of the United States. General Wheeler, of the Confederate Army, was made a general in the Spanish-American War and shared in the honors of San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt.

In the words of President McKinley:

We are a reunited people-united in interest, sentiment, purpose, and love of country as we have never been before. Sectionalism has disappeared. Old prejudices are but a faded memory. The orator of hate, like the orator of despair, has no hearing in any section of our country.

Charles Francis Adams, son of the American Minister to England during the Civil War and an officer in Grant's army, speaking before the Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Chicago, on June 17, 1902, asked:

Shall Robert E. Lee have a statue?

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I propose to offer to your consideration some reasons why he should and assuredly will have one, if not now, then presently.

He likewise said, on Lee's centennial at Washington and Lee University, on January 19, 1907:

As a result of much patient study and most mature reflection, that under similar conditions I would myself have done exactly what Lee did. In fact, I do not see how I, placed as he was placed, could have done otherwise.

At the very end of the war, after the meeting with Grant at Appomattox, when he had surrendered his forces in spite of the fact that Jefferson Davis wanted him to continue and conduct a guerrilla warfare which would have continued the war for years, Lee started to ride back to his camp through the ranks of his soldiers. What took place is vividly described from the following extract from Charles Francis Adams' book The Confederacy and the Transvaal: A People's Obligation to Robert E. Lee:

The universal desire to express to him the unabated love and confidence of the Army had led to the formation of a few battalions of artillery along the roadside, with orders to take off their hats in silence as he rode by. When he approached, however, the men could not be restrained, but burst into the wildest cheering which the adjacent infantry lines took up; and, breaking ranks, they all crowded around him, cheering at the tops of their voices. General Lee stopped his horse and, after gaining silence, made the only speech to his men he ever made. He was very brief, and gave no excuses or apologies for his surrender, but said he had done all in his power for his men, and urged them to go quickly and quietly to their homes as possible, to resume peaceful avocations, and to be as good citizens as they had been soldiers; and this advice marked the course which he, himself, pursued so faithfully to the end.

General Lee's ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. He was a graduate of West Point, served with distinction in the Mexican War and was superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point and commander in chief of the Confederate armies in the field. Robert E. Lee is universally beloved and esteemed in North and South for his private as well as public qualities. He was one of the most remarkable men in American history-of lofty and pure character, an able, brilliant, and daring general, who ranks not only among the most famous of our own country but of any nation and of any time. Even in defeat he retained the affection and faith of his troops and the respect of General Grant and his victorious army and of the people of the North. Time will increase his fame and the high regard in which he is held by the American people, regardless of partisanship and sectionalism.

In appearing before the committee, Hon. Hamilton Fish, the author of the resolution said:

It is not a question of money at all. It is a question, I believe, at this time of paying honor and tribute to an excellent leader, a great American soldier, a great Christian and a great general. It is doing a gracious thing at a time which will celebrate the eradiction of all the old resentments between the North and South and present our country in a solid united front against all that may threaten our Government. Further, I guarantee to you that so far as raising the money, the $50,000 for erecting a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee could be raised north of the Mason and Dixon line, and, if necessary, in the State of New York.

After a careful consideration of the merits of such action, the committee voted to report House Joint Resolution 142 favorably, with the recommendation that it do pass as amended.

Mr. Treadway requested that he be registered as a dissenting voter.

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MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT APPROPRIATION BILL, 1938

JUNE 29, 1937.-Ordered to be printed

Mr. SNYDER, from the committee of conference, submitted the following

CONFERENCE REPORT

[To accompany H. R. 6692]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 6692) making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the Senate recede from its amendments numbered 6, 7, 8, 17, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 78.

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of the Senate numbered 9, 10, 14, 18, 20, 25, 27, 30, 31, 42, and 46, and agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 3:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 3, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert three hundred and fifty; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 4:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 4, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert $34,532,895; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 11:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 11, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $6,386,560; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 12:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 12, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $6,181,985; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 13:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 13, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $161,826,124; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 15:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 15, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $2,463,350; and on page 15 of the bill in line 7, after the "," following the word "camps" insert the word and; and on page 15 of the bill commencing in line 8, strike out "the United States High Commissioner to the Philippine Islands, the United States Soldiers' Home, the nonmilitary activities of the Corps of Engineers, and the Panama Canal,"; and the Senate agree to the

same.

Amendment numbered 19:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 19, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

Restore the matter stricken out by said amendment amended to read as follows:

: Provided, That laundry charges, other than for service now rendered without charge, shall be so adjusted that earnings in conjunction with the value placed upon service rendered without charge shall aggregate an amount not less than $50,000 below the cost of maintaining and operating laundries and drycleaning plants.

And the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 21:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 21, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the matter inserted by said amendment insert the following: work authorized by the Act approved May 6, 1937, at Fort Niagara, New York, $54,000; for work authorized by the Act approved May 14, 1937, at Camp Stanley, Texas, $578,050; for; and the Senate agree to the same.

Amendment numbered 23:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate numbered 23, and agree to the same with an amendment, as follows:

In lieu of the sum proposed insert $9,388,050; and the Senate agree to the same.