STATUE FOR THOS. H. BENTON.
State to Be Asked to Appropriate
$25,000 Towards It.
Aided by the representatives in the legislature from Jackson county, the Daughters of the American Revolution will ask for an appropriation of $25,000 from the state with which to erect a monument in honor of Thomas Hart Benton. The monument is to be located in one of the public parks in Kansas City.
A committee representing the society met yesterday in the office of State Senator M. E. Casey, with the entire Jackson county delegation in the legislature. The members of the legislature agreed to work for the appropriation.
As Jackson county has never asked for a state appropriation, not having a state institution of any kind within its borders, the representatives believe the appropriation can be secured.
If the amount is secured the bill provides that the money shall be spent under the direction of the governor, state auditor and the regent of the society.
