The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-20
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
Eulogies on the Life and Services of the Late
Senator AnthOnv.

| Eulogies on the Life and Services of the Late
Senator Anthony.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Mr. Coke introduced
bill to establish and regulate quarantine on
| the live stock trains, and to regulate commerce
| between the States as to live stock Referred.
At the conclusion of the morning business Mr..
| Aldrich offered the following:
Resolved, That the Senate has heard with pro-
found sorrow of the death of Henry B. Anthony late
senator from Rhode Island.
Resolved That the business of the Senate be now
suspended to enable his associates to pay proper
tributes of regard to his high character and dis
tnguished public services"
Mr., Aldrich said that suffering as he was
from sense of personal loss which was be-
yond expression, he despaired of his ability to
pay an adequte tribute to the memory Of Sena-
tor Anthony. He implanted in the hearts of the
sons of Rhode Island a patriotic spirit that
would continue to bear fruit in perpetual remem
brance of his example.
Mr.. Edmunds referred most touchingly to the
personal affection existing between himself and
the dead senator, and expressed the hope that In
the years to come all our senators might have
the fidelity and devotion to duty displayed by his
late friend and associate.
Mr.. Bayard said that in the death of Senator
Anthony the United States had lost most
perienced and respected public servant, the State
of Rhode Island a distinguished and faithful
well beloved friend
Mr. Pendleton characterized the deceased SEN
ator as most genial and cultivated gentleman,
whose devotion to duty and party fealty was al
ways accompanied by suavity and candor. His
aims had been lofty, his methods honorable, and
his heart true and kind. 1t was Mr. Pendleton's
belief that Senator Anthony never willingly
wounded the feelings of any human being. He
had been of great natural dignity, a lover
of his senatorial duties, and facile princeps in all
matters of propriety
Mr.. Garland said the Senate and country
will deplore the loss of such man as Senator
Anthony He had been conspicuous example
of man who believed our conduct in life should
be without parade or ostentaton.
Mr.. Ingalls, said the period covered by Mr.
Anthonys service in the Senate had been one of
momentous Importance in the history of the
Nation. 1t included the period of civil war.
There were giants in those DAYS" and when
the Macaulay of another age should turn to re
hearse history he would find little in our
recorded annals to explain the remarkable and
long con tlnued prominence of Senator Anthony
in the country, or the extraordinary influence
he had exercised over all his contempt
raries 1t might well be wondered that
he seldom spoke who spoke so WELL but no
printed page could record the genial and benig
nant courtesy he had shown. He had been
minister of grace, He had never made an
enemy and never lost friend. Him could no
heat of controversy disturb, could any
rancor of partisanship provoke into retaliation
unworthy Christian and gentleman His
tire career had been feicitous. Fate had spared
him its irony, Nemesis had been propitiated,
fortune had favored him, calumny and detrac-
ton had passed him by There had been no
winter in his years, and he had length Of days
without infrmities. He had honor, health, love-
friendship affuence; his life had not been frag
mentary and unfinished, but full, round and
complete. For him death had not been an inter
ruption, but climax
Mr.. Henderson said Mr.. Anthony's life had
been open as the day; he had known no conceal
ments, and had q true mans hatred of shams
Other addresses in eulogy of the deceased Sen
ator were made by Messrs. Morrill,, Hoar, Haw-
ley Butler and Sheffield. The latter seconded
the resolutions offered by Mr.. Aldrich, they
were adopted, and the Senate adjourned