Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1901 — MRS. J. A. LOGAN EXPLAINS INACCURACIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. J. A. LOGAN EXPLAINS INACCURACIES.

Mrs. John A. Logan, speaking of the alleged anachronisms in the bas-reliefs on the base <>f the Logan monument recently dedicated in Washington, says: “No one supposes that it was not known to the sculptor, the statue commission and myself that Vice-President Arthur did ’ not administer the oath to Gen. Logan as Senator; that Senator Morton was dead and that Senator Thur-

man was not iu the Senate when Gen. Logan was sworn in for his second term. Of course we all know this, but we disregarded it because we wanted these panels to portray the most prominent men in the history of the country who were in the Senate during the sixteen years that my husband was a Senator, “It would hnve been absurd to hnve reproduced literally the group at the Vice-President's desk when Gen. Logan took the oath of otilce. The selection of those who were to be represented on those panels was left to me and 1 tried to select men who served at some time with Gen. Logan and were representatives of the country’s history.”

MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN.