Directing the Joint Committee on the Library to revise the statue commemorating women's suffrage which is located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, commonly known as the "Portrait Monument", by placing on the statue an inscription which is based on the original inscription which was on the statue when the statue was delivered to the United States Capitol in 1921, and for other purposes.

IV 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. CON. RES. 44 Directing the Joint Committee on the Library to revise the statue commemo- rating women’s suffrage which is located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, commonly known as the ‘‘Portrait Monument’’, by placing on the statue an inscription which is based on the original inscription which was on the statue when the statue was delivered to the United States Capitol in 1921, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAY 24, 2019 Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Directing the Joint Committee on the Library to revise the statue commemorating women’s suffrage which is located in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, commonly known as the ‘‘Portrait Monument’’, by placing on the statue an inscription which is based on the original in- scription which was on the statue when the statue was delivered to the United States Capitol in 1921, and for other purposes. Whereas, on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women in the United States the right to vote; VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:57 May 24, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HC44.IH HC44 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with BILLS 2 •HCON 44 IH Whereas in recognition of this historic achievement, on Feb- ruary 10, 1921, the National Woman’s Party presented to Congress a monument, commonly known as the ‘‘Por- trait Monument’’, in honor of the pioneers of the suffrage movement that won women the right to vote; Whereas the monument was accepted on behalf of Congress by the Joint Committee on the Library; Whereas, on February 15, 1921, the 101st anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, an unveiling ceremony was held in the rotunda of the Capitol; Whereas sculpted by Adelaide Johnson and originally referred to as the Memorial to the Pioneers of the Woman’s Suf- frage Movement, the monument includes busts of Eliza- beth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott, as well as an uncarved marble block as a reminder that the work of women gaining equality was not com- pleted with the passage of the 19th amendment; Whereas the original monument also included an inscription that read: ‘‘Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, the three great destiny characters of the world whose spiritual import and historical significance tran- scend that of all others of any country or age. ‘‘Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the call of that first woman’s rights convention of 1848 initi- ated and Susan B. Anthony marshalling the latent forces through three generations down more than a half cen- tury of time guided the only fundamental universal up- rising on our planet. The woman’s revolution. VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:57 May 24, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HC44.IH HC44 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with BILLS 3 •HCON 44 IH ‘‘Principle not policy; justice, not favor; men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and noth- ing less, was the clarion call to the most astounding up- heaval of all time. A call which waked the world, sig- naled and inaugurated a revolution without tradition or precedent, and proclaimed the first incontrovertible con- cept of human freedom—that of individual liberty—per- sonal responsibility, including women. ‘‘Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen declared herself an entity to be reckoned. ‘‘This mightiest of revolutions encircling the globe accomplishing without bloodshed the overthrow of en- trenched dogma and hoary bigotries reached to the far- thermost roots of being. Here indeed was the first, the only impeachable demand for right as might ever made. ‘‘Spiritually the woman movement is the all-enfold- ing one. It represents the emancipation of womanhood. The release of the feminine principle in humanity. The moral integration of human evolution come to rescue torn and struggling humanity from its savage self. ‘‘Historically these three stand unique and peer- less.’’; Whereas shortly after it was unveiled in the Capitol in 1921, Congress moved the monument to the Capitol ‘‘Crypt’’, which was not open to the public at the time, and or- dered that the inscription be removed from the monu- ment; VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:57 May 24, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\HC44.IH HC44 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with BILLS 4 •HCON 44 IH Whereas at the time of the unveiling, the inscription was con- sidered ‘‘blasphemous’’; Whereas the monument remained in the Capitol ‘‘Crypt’’ until Congress passed H. Con. Res. 216 on September 27, 1996, directing the Architect of the Capitol to relo- cate the monument to the Rotunda of the Capitol; Whereas, since May 14, 1997, the Portrait Monument has been on display in the rotunda of the Capitol; and Whereas the original Portrait Monument inscription was never restored or replaced: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 1 concurring), 2 SECTION 1. RESTORATION OF ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION ON 3 PORTRAIT MONUMENT. 4 (a) RESTORATION.—Not later than one year after the 5 date of the adoption of this resolution, the Joint Com- 6 mittee on the Library shall revise the statue commemo- 7 rating women’s suffrage located in the rotunda of the 8 United States Capitol (commonly known as the ‘‘Portrait 9 Monument’’) by placing on the statue an inscription which 10 is based on the original inscription that was on the statue 11 when the statue was delivered to the United States Capitol 12 on February 10, 1921. 13 (b) USE OF ROTUNDA OF UNITED STATES CAPITOL 14 FOR UNVEILING CEREMONY.—The rotunda of the United 15 States Capitol is authorized to be used on a date mutually 16 agreed to by the Speaker of the House of Representatives 17 VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:57 May 24, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\HC44.IH HC44 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with BILLS 5 •HCON 44 IH and the Majority Leader of the Senate for a ceremony to 1 unveil the Portrait Monument as revised by the Joint 2 Committee on the Library under subsection (a). The Ar- 3 chitect of the Capitol and the Capitol Police Board shall 4 take such action as may be necessary with respect to phys- 5 ical preparations and security for the ceremony. 6 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 7 are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 8 necessary to carry out this section. 9 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 21:57 May 24, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\HC44.IH HC44 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with BILLS