Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-02-16
Funeral OF the Late Representative
HIOOpeP.

funcral OF tEe Lase Representative
| Hooper.
| The remains of the late Hon SamI Hooper,
| Representative In Congress from the fourth
/ district of Massachusetts lay in state at his
! former residence. No. 1901 II street. this MORN
/ ing, and were viewed by large number of
I the friends of the deceased. They were in
| closed in a beautiful Stein walnut octagon
burial casket, covered with black cloth, and
4 having long silver plateu bar handles. Wide
| bars OF silver-plated metal ran around the
| top and bottom of the casket. The top OF the
! caSket was composed of two large pieces of
| plate glass. and these were covered in turn,
| when the remains Were hid from view by
| cloth-encaSed sections of walnut. The caSkct
was similar III every respect to the one in
| which repOSed the remains of Mr.. Sumner.
| \ silver plate at the head of the casket bore
| simply the name and age of the decea aSet.
The top of the casket was cOrered with flu
ne raj WTeathS, crosses. &C. Gen. O. f. Bah
cock and Mr.. James WOrmley each contrib
nted large wreath and Mr.. f. l.. Stanton a
beautiful cross.
a 1890 y. nj. the committee of farran gpnlantS
and pail bearers, attended by the Sergeant
alarms of the House of Representatives,
with the Speaker. Chaplain, and Clerk
Senators boutwell, and Washburn. and the
Representatives from the state OF Massachu-
Setts, accompanied by their families as
mournerS. assembled at the house for the
purLoSe of attending the remains to the haIl
OF the House of Representatives. The pail
nc arers were Representatives Garfield j. r.
HaWley, Orth, Swami. Arthur, Rainey NJ
l.: ward, and Marshall; and the committee
OF arrangements of the House of Representa-
tiVeS Poland, Wheeler, Niblack. Maynard
Kelley. Lamer, and HOughtOn. The imme Ii
ate family of the deceased being abroad the
only relatives present were DIR. Robert
Hooper, OF Boston, brother of Mr. Hooper,
Mr.: and Mrs. Henry Adams. son-in-in-law
and daughter of DIR. Hooper. and Mr.. Edward
Hooper, a nephew of deceased.
At ? O'Clock the remains were carried into
the House of Representatives. Previously
the Senate had assembled in the Representa-
I'm rln fY.Aa fEfl.. ..y.fs 81 a..
OF seats sat President Grant and the Cabi-
net. The Chief Justice and Associate JUS
ilccs OF the supreme Court occupied seats
Immediately in front of the Speaker. Chap
lain Butler read a chapter of the Bible. ana
at the conclusion Rev. DR.. Atkins ofIereI no
a pr$ yer The remains were then borne out
10 the hearSe and conveyed by a large cor
tege to Oak Hill cemetery. Georgetown
where they will remain awaiting future
directions of the family.
THE CABINET met at noon to-day. with
all The members present. The session was
adjourned shortly after one o'clock in order
TO enable the President and members of the
cabinet tO attend the funeral of Representa-
i've Hooper During the session il is under
acted.
WAsHINGTONIAN ANsABROAD.-The follow
ing Washingtonians We're registered in Paris
on the 23d instant: Jedediah III. LathrOD,
Ms NJ. Ii. LathrOp, Miss Minna B. LathrOD.
Mrs {. c. Oldfeld, j. f.. Sherman Mrs. i.
DcO - W est, & w. F. Williams. Nice-Mrs r. Z.
p. Newman, Mrs. Newman.
THE NEW BRITISH LEGATION is quite fin
ished, but not furnished. Sir Edward Thorn
ton IS having the furniture Carpets excepte,D
mate in Philadelphia, of American WOO |.
Sir Edward thinks our wood better adaptei
TO our climate than that used in the manu-
iacture OF European Turniture.-Hiss GrHlfB,
ti he Graphic.
NAVAL ORDERs.-Co Commander Charles :.
Norton, ordered TO command the Shawmut
at New Orleans; Lieut.. Commander Charles
II. Davis, to the naval observatory, 1st OF
March next; Commander Henry l.. HOwisOn
detached from the command of the Shawmut
on the reporting OF his relief, and ordered TO
duty at the naval academy; Lieut. Corn
mandcr Henry r. Picking from the naval
rendezvous, New York, and ordered as light
house inspector OF the lst district
WAsnGNGTOS presents some rather re-
markable phases Of social life. There is az
this time in that city a granddaughter OF
Thomas Jefferson, who with her young son.
is pleading for an appointment for one or the
-OtEer, as means OF support. The daughters
OF eX-Secretary of the Treasury Robert ]
walker, and those OF Chief Justice Taney
are doing copying as means of livelihood
and there are the grandchildren OF eX-Pre,i-
denis, generals, and hundreds of other dis
the smallest remuneration, so that they NAV
be able TO live.-Washington LetteT.
THE COLFAX SMILE AGAIN-EEI0y of
the Std, Your correspondent, "P.," while
tracing back TO y. =. Willis Mr.. Colfax's
slmile of LincOln's stepping from the topmOSt
round of the ladder of fame into the skies
pe.haps should have CROPPED n little farther
INTO The past. Virgil, i'm describing the games
Instituted in Sicily by EneaS when ne
comes 10 the dOve-shOOting match after
stating that EurytiOn hit the dove high i'm
tne SKY wan ms arrow, says, in the 4EHeid,
book '. line 81
T." DecjdH eraaiD,is r9oa,q,e relil,r IL, ostgfs."
" she GREATNESS fell, and left her life among
Tie stars l..
THE PROSPECT OF AN EXTRA SESSION
The House met at II o'clock to-day and will
continue 10 do so until the end of the session
Apprehensions are felt that an extra session
OF the new Congress will be necessary
SHOuId the political measures with regard to
the southern states be pushed, some Of the
appropriation bills. as well as the revenue
bills, must fail. Republicans think il inn
porlant that measures for the repression of
ltWieSsntSs III the south should be passed at
the present session, even should the apprO-
pflatlon bills fail, as the latter can as well be
acted on by the next Congress before the
close OF the present fiscal year
TIE REVENUE BILL Petitions keen
coming IN against the revenue bill now
'SA'iC tIiC iAOuSts as II rule tDey came from
parties engaged i'm some of the interests
which the bill will affect. NJ. KaIi55 snS
oIhefs, however, have received numerons
o''t.stInents from parties not specially
interested in the bill for opposing ii, on the
general ground that no additional tax is
necessary. There is no question but that the
bill has lost strength in the House, though Mr.
Dawes is still confident of mis- ability to pass
1T IN case he can get the House to limit debate
As number of members have prepared
speeches on the bill and others have amend
ments to offer, the impression is that the
House Will refuse 10 stop the discussion.
SOUTHERN AFFAIRS, THE PRESIDENT
AND CONG RFSs.-It is understood that the
caucus committee, which has charge of the
bill which was agreed upon last Friday
night, have concluded 10 make some mOdifi-
cations in IL, especially the section proyid-
lag FOR the suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus, with the view OF meeting the obec-
tions urged against it by Speaker Blaine
and other leading republicans. They will
probably limit the power OF the President to
suspend the writ and confine it to certain
localities instead of making it applicable 10
the whole country. 1t is stated that the
President does not object to this amendment,
and such bill would meet the approval of
majority of the republicans in both houses
and become law.