Proposed Confederate Monument- Mayor Latrobe’s Views:-

A committee of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in Maryland, composed of Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Major F.H. Wigfall, Thos. A. Symington and W. H. Pope, called on Mayor Latrobe on Saturday to advocate his approval of the resolution allowing the erection of a Confederate memorial monument on Eutaw Place. After hearing the views of the committee the mayor stated that the resolution had not been presented to him for signature, and he could not officially declare what his action would be in regard to it. The views expressed by him informally, however, indicate clearly that the resolution will not receive his sanction.. He fully coincides with the opinions given editorially In THE SUN, and disapproves of the erection of any monument commemorative of the late war in this city, either Confederate or Union. He regards the city authorities as the custodians of the streets and public squares, which they hold in trust for the citizens. While the majority were undoubtedly Southern in Sentiment during the war, a large minority were of the opposite opinion. He thinks that being common proprietors, and the relative proportions in sentiment remaining unchanged, the opinions of the minority are entitled to be respected in so far that nothing obnoxious to them should be allowed upon the public highways. The mayor will not in this matter allow his private feelings to influence in any way his official action. Mr. Enoch Pratt also called on the mayor on Saturday and expressed his opinion in opposition to any monument being erected by either side.