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...Passed a bill providing $30,000 to erect a monument in France to the 93rd (Negro) Division of the A. E. F. (Bill went to Senate...
...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...