People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — STATES REPRESENTED. [ARTICLE]

STATES REPRESENTED.

Some of the Appropriations Made for Monuments. Washington, Feb. 21. Information has been received by the Chickamauga park commission that the Illinois legislature has passed a bill appropriating $65,500 for monuments for the troops of that state at the national park, and that It is expected to have them erected before the dedication of the park in September. A letter from a member of the Wisconsin commission says that an appropriation from- that state of $20,800 is assured and it is expected that its commission will be ready to begin the erection of its monuments in June. The Kansas legislature has also made provisions for erecting monuments to the troops of that state.