Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-10
WASHINGTON.
Proceedings in the Senate and House
Yesterday-Deaih Of Ex-Presi-
dent Millard Fillmore.
Message from the President-Pr0eeed
ings in View Of the Sad Event
HOnOrs to the Dead.
IN THE SENATE.

WASHINGT0N,l March 9.-The chap
lain ia his prayer besOught Divine Prov
idence, that now, when Satan and his
angels are loose all over the land, no
true man might become disheartened or
found faltering at his post, and that AL
mighty God would guard all nations
with his flaming sword of truth.
Senator Fenton said that intelligence
of the death of Ex-President Fillmore
had been received, and though it might
not be the time now to make suitable
remarks, he thought it appropriate that
the senate should adjourn in respect to
the memory of the illustrious dead; he
therefore moved that the senate adjourn.
Senator Sherman inquired what pre-
ce6ent there was for such action, and,
though he was willing to follow the es-
tablished precedent, he did not think the
example a wise one. He entertained
every respect for Ex-President Fillmore
and his public services, and would yield to
no one in doing honor to his memory.
Senator Blair said the senate adjourn
ed upon the death of Ex-President
Buchanan.
Senator Anthony said congress ad-
journed upon the death of General
Washington, and it was upon that occa-
sion that the phrase "FiIst in war, first
in peace, and first in the hearts of his
countrymen,n was uttered.
Senator Fenton's motion was agreed
to, and the senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Dawes announced the death of
Ex-President Fillmore, and said that
the death of man who had held such
an exalted position in public and in
private life made it the duty of the house
to arrest its further proceedings and
take some proper notice of such an
event.
Mr.. Cox moved the following resolu-
ton:
This house having received with be-
coming sensibility and sorrow intelli-
gence of the death of Millard Fillmore,
Ex-President of the United States, at
Buffalo, New York, on the eighth in
slant, does hereby resolves:
First-That the members of this
house, of which he was distinguished
member and leader, unite in hOnoring
the purity of his private character,
probity, ability, and patriotic motives,
which illustrated his public career, and
the grace and dignity which marked
the retirement Of the latter years of his
life.
Second-As a token of honor to the
many virtues, public and private, of the
illustrious statesman whose death in the
ripeness of his age has arrested the at
tention of the nation, the speaker is
requested and authorized to appoint
committee of seven members to attend
the funeral of Mr.. Fillmore on behalf of
the house, and to communicate copy
of these resolutions to the relatives of
the deceased.
Messrs. Wood, Cox and Maynard
spoke of the private character and pub
lie services of Mr.. Fillmore.
The resolutions were agreed to and
committee appointed, consisting of
Messrs. Cox, Dawes, Maynard, Tyner,
Wheeler, Wells and Darnel.
The house then adjourned.
EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCEMENT.
The following was issued this morn
ing:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, /
Washington, March 8, 1874.
1t is with deep regret that the Presi-
dent announces to the people of the
United States the death of MiIlard Fill
more, one of his honored predecessors,
who died at Buffalo, New York, last even
ing. The long-continued public services
and eminent purity of character of the
deceased Ex-President will be remem-
bered beyond the days of mourning in
which the nation will be thrown by the
event which is thus announced. AS a
mark of respect to his memory, it is or
dered that the executive mansion and
the several departments at Washington
be draped in mourning until the close
of the day on which the funeral shall
take place, and that business be en-
tirely suspended on the day of the
funeral. 1t is furthermore ordered
that the war and navy departments
cause suitable military and naval honors
to be paid on the occasion to the MEM
ory of the eminent citizen whose life is
now closed. q. S. GRANT, President,
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
To any man more modest and less
egotistic than White, the blonde editor
~ of the Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald, the
following from the Courier, Journal
might be beneficial: "The editor of
newspaper which wears a patent outside
should be very careful about writing
sarcasm for his outside. AT Nashville
there is an establishment which prints
the insides of a great number of the
weekly journals of Tennessee, and the
editor of the sprightly Lebanon Herald,
DR.. r. l.. G. White, receives his inside
from the Nashville concern. DIR. White,
having seen in the daily Union and
American, of Nashville, the poem
called tAll Quiet Along the Potomac ;
sat down and wrote for his outside q
very sarcastic paragraph upon the folly
of the Nashville daily In publishing
verses. Mr.. Bell, of the Union and
American, read DIR. Whites sarcasm.
Instead of snatehing up pen
and writing down DR.. White
a bowling idiot and midnight assassin,
MIR. Bell quietly picked up pair of scis-
sors and cut All Quiet Along the Poto-
mac from the Union and american
containing it, then leisurely walked
down to the establishment where DR..
Whites inside is printed, and gave the
poem to the editor of the patent iRsides,
requesting its publication. The verses
were accepted, and when DIR. White got
his next inside from Nashville 1t had
All Quiet Along the Potomac in as
conspicuous position as his worst ene-
my could have wished to see it after
reading his sarcasm. If news comes
from Tennessee that DIR. White has re-
sumed the control of his own inside, bis
friends in other parts of the country will