8866 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE May 24

EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS

A Bill To Establish the Elmer T. Ells­ in. They arrived in Washington on retary of Commerce with respect to his April 29 and were quartered in the House measure. With the thought that my worth National Monument of Representatives. In a ceremony at colleagues in the House might like to the east front of the Capitol on May 7, read the correspondence he has had EXTENSION OF REMARKS 1861, the regiment was sworn into Fed­ with these officials I request that a copy OF eral service and became officially known of a letter from Mr. McCoRMACK to the as the 11th New York Volunteer Infantry. Secret~ry of Commerce, dated May 15, HON. CARLETON J. KING On May 23, when Virginia cast its 1961, and the reply thereto from the OF NEW YORK fateful vote to secede from the Union, Secretary dated May 19, 1961, be in­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES it meant that Union troops were imme­ serted in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, to­ Wednesday, May 24, 1961 diately to occupy Alexandria. Ellsworth gether with a copy of Mr. McCoRMACK's Mr. KING of New York. Mr. Speaker, and his "Fire" Zouaves embarked down letter of May 23, 1961, to the Secretary of Agriculture: I have today introduced a bill to provide the Potomac on May 24 for his rendez­ vous with death. As his regiment landed for the establishment of the Elmer T. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, in Alexandria, they saw a large Con­ Ellsworth National Monument at Me­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, federate flag flying from a pole on top OFFICE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER, chanicville, N.Y. of a hotel named the Marshal House. Washington, D.C., May 15,1961. A monument such as this seems espe­ Hon. LUTHER H. HODGES, cially appropriate to this brilliant young Determined to remove the flag, Ellsworth went to the roof of the hotel and as he Secretary of Commerce, American who was the first Union officer Department of Commerce, killed in the Civil War. His sudden descended the stairs with the flag in his Washington, D.C. arms, he was shot and killed by the DEAR SECRETARY HODGES: I noted in the death in Alexandria, Va., on May 24, hotel proprietor. 1861, just one century ago, is now re­ newspaper recently that President Kennedy His death, being the first of note to is taking steps to try and meet the problems garded as a martyrdom and his name has occur in the war, produced a profound of the textile industry of our country, and been meritorious enrolled upon the list sensation throughout the country. His that in connection with the same he has of our country's greatest patriots. body lay in state in the White House, was appointed a Cabinet Committee, of which Elmer T. Ellsworth was born on April you are the chairman. From the newspaper taken to New York City by special train, item that I read, this committee has sug­ 11, 1837, in the village of Malta, N.Y. He and from there escorted to Albany and attended the public schools at Mechanic­ gested to the President a program of assist­ Mechanicville, where he is now buried. ance to this industry and is giving further ville and after leaving school at an early Mr. Speaker, the legislation which I consideration to this important matter. age, he went to New York City to find have introduced today is not only for the Several years ago I introduced a bill which employment. From New York, he trav­ preservation of Elmer T. Ellsworth's I thought was a fair one, but with refer­ eled to Chicago where he became a law­ home in Mechanicville, N.Y., but to also ence to which no action was taken. I yer's clerk, studied law, and later became memorialize the birthplace of our Na­ have again introduced the bill, H.R. 6783, a copy of which I herewith enclose, which a partner in a patent-soliciting business. tion's first. Civil War casualty. While practicing law in Chicago, Ells­ touches one phase only of the problem in worth was asked to become captain of the field of textiles, but which I consider to be an important one. I think the passage the National Guard Cadets, a military of this bill would be