. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. THE KNIOHT^ OF COOLIMIMIS IM HE4CE AKTjD) V^^^ Commemorating Columbus 189 bill No. 267, in 1907, which called for the erection of a monumentto Christopher Columbus. It was the first Act of Congress tomention the Knights of Columbus, the Supreme Knight EdwardL. Hearn being named, with the Chairman of the Senate Com-mittee on Library of the Fifty-ninth Congress, the Chairman ofthe Committee on Library of the House of Representatives, theSecretary of State and the Secretary of War, as a commission to act with full authority to select a site and a su
. The Knights of Columbus in peace and war. THE KNIOHT^ OF COOLIMIMIS IM HE4CE AKTjD) V^^^ Commemorating Columbus 189 bill No. 267, in 1907, which called for the erection of a monumentto Christopher Columbus. It was the first Act of Congress tomention the Knights of Columbus, the Supreme Knight EdwardL. Hearn being named, with the Chairman of the Senate Com-mittee on Library of the Fifty-ninth Congress, the Chairman ofthe Committee on Library of the House of Representatives, theSecretary of State and the Secretary of War, as a commission to act with full authority to select a site and a suitable design,and to contract for and superintend the construction of saidmemorial. The bill carried a provision for $100,000 or asmuch as is necessary for the prosecution of the project. Presi-dent Taft signed the bill on March 4, 1910, the pens used bythe Clerk of the House, the Vice-President and the Presidentbeing afterwards presented to Potomac Council. The Secretary of War named Colonel Spencer Crosby to co-op-erate with Supreme Knight Hearn in arranging for the memo-rial, and the Bo
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