Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-07
THE BECK OBSEQUIES.
PRACTICALLY NO BUSINESS IN THE
HOUSE OR SENATE.

A Meeting of fhe Republican Caucus Upon
the silver Qnestion-A Full Agreement
Not Yet Rcached-The House Pension
Bill to be squeIched.
WASHINGTON. May 6-Under dripping sky,
the mortal remains of James Burnie Beck,
late United States Senator from Kentucky,
were borne at 10 o'clock this morning from the
residence Of Representative Breckenridge, of
Kentucky. to the Capitol. They were accom-
panied by the Senate Committee of Arrange
ments and the honorary pallbearers named by
the Kentucky delegation yesterday.
Arriving at the east front or the Senate wing.
the Senators and pallbearers left their car
r1ages, and, forming in two lines. with Senators
Blackburn and Evarts at the head, the casket
was borne from the hearse by detail of eight
Capitol police up the steps and into the marble
room after which the committee retired, leav-
ing the active pallbearers to act as the guard
of honor The casket was then opened and
the doors of the marble room were thrown
open to the public for an hour and a half.
The Very Simple Ceremonies.
A the sound of the gavel the assemblage was
seated. and DR.. Bullock read the nInetieth
Psalm, which he followed with brief prayer.
Dr. Butler then read the fifteenth chapter of
First Corinthians The reading was followed
by prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer.
the funeral cortege again formed, and at l:30
o'clock, left the Senate chamber in the order
in which it had entered. The President and
his Cabinet followed immediately, then the
Supreme Court Justices, the members of the
DIPLOMATIC Corps and the members OF the
House of Representatives. At lbs o'clock the
presiding officer announced the Senate ad-
journed until IL o'clock tomorrow.
The casket was borne to the hearse through
the east door of the Capitol between two lines
composed of the members OF the Senate and
House Committees on Arrangement,who stood
with uncovered heads. The rest OF those who
were to accompany the remains TO the Baltl-
more and Potomac station fell into the line.
Preceding the hearse were the members OF the
House and Senate Committee on Arrange
ments on foot and following it were the family
and relatives in carriages, the President and
members Of his Cabinet in carriages and tine
members of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives on foot. The procession took its
way around the Senate side of the Capitol and
up Pennsylvania avenue to the railway station.
Upon its arrival at the station, the pal-bearers,
the joint Committee on Arrangements, the
Congressional Committee and the. members OF
the Senate and House of Representatives who
escorted the body to the station were drawn up
in two lines. The casket was then carried
through the station and placed on the exact
spot where the deceased Senator fell when
stricken down with heart trouble last Saturday.
On the Scene of Death.
THERE it remained for a few seconds, when,
preceded by the honorary pallbearers, it was
carried through the station gate. down the long
shed and placed in a heavy outer casket in the
compartment car of the special train rendered
by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. The
train was composed of three vestibuled Pull
man cars, and was devoid of any drapery except
in the interior of the car, where reposed the
remains, which was trimmed simply with black
bunting. Those who accompanied the body to
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of the deceased we're the Committee of Ar
rangements of the Senate, all of the Kentucky
delegation in Congress, except Representative
Goodnight, ex- Congressman Phil B. Thompson,
Lieutenant Young, of the navy, and some Of
the honorary pall-bearers. The train started
on its Journey westward at P. M, and is sched-
uled to reach Lexington tomorrow morning at
8 O'Clock, where the funeral will take place.
This morning, Immediately after the reading
of the journal, the House took recess until
l2:46. After the recess, on motion of McCreary,
of Kentucky, the House adjourned in order to
enable the members of the body to attend the
funeral ceremonies to be held In the Senate in
honor OF the memory Of the late James B.
Beck.
Meetings of Senate Committees.
a MEETING of the Senate Pensions Commit
! tee was held to-day, at which the Morrill, |
disability and service pension bill combined sub
stituted by the House for the Senate depend |
ent pension BILL was under consideration. For |
NAL action was postponed until the next meet |
ing of the committee. 1t is understood, how |
ever, that opposition to the House measure |
was practically unanimous and that the com
mittee will recommend the Senate to non-con-
cur in the action of the House.
An effort was made by the Senate Repub- |
can Silver Committee to-day to agree upon a |
silver bill to be reported to the caucus. Three |
of the 13 members were absent The 10 pres
ent together with Senator Stewart, who was
invited to take part in the proceedings. after a
discussion lasting nearly three hours, decided
week, the bill reported by Senator Jones from
the Finance Committee some weeks ago, with
One of the amendments pro-
posed strikes out the provision In the reported
bill that the notes issued for the purchase of
bullion, when redeemed, shall be cancelled,
and instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to
reissue them, with the proviso that the amount
Of the amount paid out for the bullion de-
posted. Another amendment is the addition
of the sixth section of the bill adopted by
the House caucus which provides for the COW
sring into the Treasury of about SO 900. 900 Of
awful money now held for the redemption of
national bank notes. The Jones bill, it will be
remembered, directs the Secretary OF the
to purchase monthly silver bullion TO
The value of 81 5o0.000 the notes IN payment
thereof to be redeemable in lawful money.
Two of the members of the committee felt to-
lay that they could not unqualihedly give their
support to the measure, although they were
willing to have the matter go to the caucus for
is decision One of them it is said, will sup
port it in case it is approved by the other Re-
publican Senators, but the other was not ready
70 go even so far. He desires time to considnr
he situation Senator Mitchell, of Oregon,
stated, in referring to the proposed compro-
Mise. that while personally he was in favor of
he free coinage of silver, he believed the
Measure 1.-THE bullion redemption clause baV-
ng been omitted) to be free from any vicious
principles. and one that If adopted would ulti-
nately lead to free coinage. In this Senator
Teller agreed.
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