St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
MouRNED BY COLLEAGUES.
The House and Senate Adjourn
as Mark of Respect to RAN


as Mark of Respect to RAN
dali.
WASHINGTON, April 14.-An air of
sadness pervaded the house chamber
when the speakers gavel called the
body to order. Draped in black and
ornamented with a handsome floral de-
sign, the seat SO long occupied by Mr..
that their old colleague had passed
the-eX-Speaker, hung in the lobby. was
also tastefully draped with the emblems
OfSmOurning. In bis prayer the chap
lain said: I'VE bless Thee, Almighty
God. that in the gloom which enshrOuds
US there is the clear shining of Thy
love; and that in the awful stiffness
about the mouth of an opening tomb,
a voice clothed with almighty power
speaks, Il am the resurrection and the
life.' Bowling with submission to Thy
will, we surrender to Thy fatEerhoOd
onr beloved friend and brother. His
name is inscribed among the heroes.
patriots and statesmen of the country
on the imperislable tablets of its his
tory, and his memOry-the memory of
his deeds and character-iS enshrned
in the hearts of his cOuntrymen, for
whose honor and welfare he so long and
shed the precious tears of pity and SYM
pathy at Bethany's grave, wilt Thou not
come to the widow whose welded life
has been one joyous act of devotiOn,and
the children bereaved by this irrepara-
BILE loss. Bring home to them and to US
the comfort and the consolation that no
noble life is really
Extinguished by Death,
but,passing behind the veil which sense
makes, enters upon higher and grand
er being in the glorious light OF Thy
presence. Bring them and US to that
higher life, we pray, through Jesus
Christ. Amen" Mr.. O'Neill, of Penn
sylvania, said: II rise to announce the
death of my colleague, Hon. Samuel j..
Randall, who died yesterday morning
in this city in his house at 5 O'Clock.
This announcement is exceedingly
painful to me. He and have been in
innate. familiar friends. He started in
life at twenty-One years of age full
man in every respect, intellectually and
politically, and as one who had the ele-
ment of supreme leadership, which in
his later years was complete in the es-
timation of his state and the country.
About three months ago it came to my
Lot to announce the death of another
colleague of many years service
Judge Kelley-and it is shock to my
feelings which l can hardly repreSswhen
to-day | announce the death of this dear
colleague. On the first Monday of De-
cember, 1868, we stood before the speak
er's desk and were sworn into Office as
members of the Thirty-eighth congress.
Politically we have differed, butperson-
ally there has been depth of friend
ship in all these years which l cannot
to-day express to this house. We have
lost disting uished man. To-day the
city of Philadelphia grieveS over his
death, as it has seldom been called to
grieve over the death of public man:
and the whole state of Pennsylvania
imournS his deceaSe-a great man, a
statesman, pure man in life. with
strong personal attachments. l noticed
yesterday in this city that every flag on
every public building was at half-mast,
and see from the papers that the same
was true of Philadelphia.
Every Kind of Sadness
was expressed there at his home. /
cannot say more to-day, buta few weeks
from this we will have an opportunity
to pass eulogies upon his fife." Mr..
O'Neill then offered the following reso-
iutions:
Resolved. That the house has heard with
deep regret and profound sorrow of the death
of the Hon. Samuel j. Randall, late repre-
resentative from the state of Pennsylvania.
RESOLVED, That committee of nine men,
bers Of the house, whos With such members