Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-23
Mr.. TARSNEY DENIES,
His Reply to Newspaper Articles As
sailing His Reputation as a Soldier.
THE LARD BILL In THE HOUSE.
Eloquent Euiogies in tho Senate
by Breckenridge and ingalls,.
THEIR TRIsUrEs TO SENATOR BECK

THEIR TRIBUTES TO SENATOR BECK.
SENATE.
The Senate met at noon under the arrange
ment that today's session il to be devoted to
eulogies Of the late Senator Beck Of Kentucky.
Immediately after the reading Of the journal
Mr.. Blackburn offered resolutions, which we're
agreed to, expressing the profound sorrow Of
the Senate at the death of Mr.. Beck, and de-
claring q suspension Of business to enable his
character and disting guished public service.
BLACKBURN ON BECK.
Mr.. Blackburn made the opening address.
He told of the birth Of Mr.. Beck in 1922 in
Dumfriesshire, on the banks Of the Soiway,
under the shadow Of Adrian's wall, where lib
erty first dawned upon his race. and where the
tide Of battle turned against tle Roman in
vaders Of Caledonias soil. Burns had been
his favorite poet, and frequent quotation Of
his had been:
Then let US pray that come it may.
AZ come 1t will for = that:
That ssnte spd worth o. or a. the earth
Will bear the bree and a that"
He had appeared in Lexington. KY, in ls42
without fortune or friends aqd determined to
make it his future home. He had been born
under the ban Of those Twin jaIlors of the
human soul, obscure birth and iron fortune -
He had acquired both. and could fairly claim,
as did the first Napoleon when he returned his
naughty answer to the emissary from
the Austrian ospitsl. who inquired about his
descent go tell your mae ter that am to my
family what Rudolph was to the house Of
Hapsburg-the author Of my own fortune, the
founder of my own dynasty" During Mr..
Beck's service in the House of Representatives
he was, Mr.. Blackburn said, the most conspi leu
Gus feature among those Who shared his opin-
ions. For stur rdiness of blows he had not often
met his equal and never encountered his super
ior. His lance had been ever couched i'll de-
fense Of the helpless. Mankind had proHted
by his labors and
THE WORLD WAS BETTER FOB HIS LIVING.
In 1878 he had been sent to the Senate by the
great state OF Kentucky, and had been with one
exception the only native-born Scotchman who
ever held seat in the Senate chamber. But
such had been the confidence of the people OF
Kentucky in Mr.. Beck that thrice had that
great commonwealth passed by host OF bril-
liant Sons, Ito the manor born" to entrust her
dynasties to the care and keeping of her truest
adopted child But the bak had fallen in the
forest The strong man had been taken away.
But there was naught left to mourn save
bis absence. His lifes labor was we'll done.
His name would be honored by those who
followed. His fame, fairly earned. was secure
For his future he (Mr. Blackburn) had no
fear Mr. Beck had been no sectarian in re-
igion. He had held no creed, but he had be-
ieved that the truest and most sublime of all
faiths was that which taught men ~ use their
best endeavors for aiding and elevating thelr
fellow men.
CR1EDs AND DEEDS.
"Cesse, then, to prate about your creeds
And Les us live in noble deeds"
His had been the religion Of humanity. He
had believed that q man who helped his fellow
men was doing Gods service. His life had
been nodded on that faith. II there were one
soul at whose approach the pearly gates of the
celestial city would open widest and offer freest
entrance to its eternal glories, it would cer-
tsinly be to one which in its life on earth strove
hardest to aid the weak, to shelter the defense
less. to tighten the burdens Of the heavy laden,
and which brought the most smiles and the
fewest tears to the children of the world.
Let us (said Mr.. Blackburn in conclusiOn) rest
in the belief that, after life we'll spent. with
its every duty faithfully performed. his soul, al
last, has found eternal rest among the scenes
of its creation. III the presence of its God
Mr.. INGALLS, TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD SENATOR.
Mr.. Ingalls, was the next speaker. Mr.. Beck
career, he said. could not be considered other
wise than as extraordinary, and Of singular and
unusual distinction. In great state proud of its
history of the lineage Of its ilustrious families,
of the honor OF it's heroic names, Of the
III.
stranger had surpassed the swiftest in the race
of ambition and the strongest in the race for
supremacy. He has departed. His term had
not expired; but his name has been stricken
from the rolls Of the Senate His credentials
remain in its archives; but an hunored success
sor sits unchalleuged in his place. He has no
vote nor voice; but the consideration of great
measure affecting the Interests of every citi-
zen Of the republic is interrupted with the
concurrence and approval of all, that the rep
resentatiyes of forty-two commonwealths NAV
rehearse the virtues and commemorase the
career of an associate who Is beyond the reach
of praise or censure in the kingdom Of the
dead
THE RIGHT TO LIVE
is, in human estimation, the most sacred, the
most inviolable, the most inalienable. The Joy
of living, in such a splendid and luminous day
40 this, is inconceivable. To exist is exulta-
tion, to live forever is our sublimest hope.
THE FoREBoDINss OF DESPAIR.
Annihilstion, extinction and eternal death
are the forebOdings of despair. Nations die
and races expire; humanity itself is destined to
extinction. The last man will perish and the sun
will rise upon an earth without an in
habitant With the disappearance of man
from the earth all traces of his existence will
be lost The palaces, towers and temples he
has reared, the institutions he has established
the cities he has builded. the books he has
written, the creeds he has constructed, the
PHILOSOPHERS he has formulated-all science,
art. literature and knowiedge-wiii be obliter-
ated and engulfed into empty and vacant OBJ
ivion.
The great globe itself. yea all which it in
herits, shall dissolve, and like this unsubststial
pageant, faded. leave not a rock behind"
There is an intelligence so vast and enduring
that the flaming interval between the birth and
death Of universes is no moro than the fash Of
fireflies above the meadows of summer;
colossal power by which these stupendous orbs
are launched In the abyss, like bubbles blown
by child in the morning sun. and whose sense
Of justice and reason connot be less potential
than those immutable statutes that are
the law Of being to the creatures she
has made, and which compel them to
declare that il the only object Of
creation is destruction, IL inhnlty 10 the
theater of an uninterrupted series Of irrepar-
able calamities. il the final cause Of life ID
and eternity an illogical and indefenSibls
catastrophe.
4 STRAIN OF TRIUMPK.
Mr.. President, this obsequy 10 for the quick
and not for the dead II il not an inconsola-
BILE lamentation. II 10 strain Of triumph.
It 10 an Affirmation to those Who survive that
as our departed associate, contemplating at the
CLOSE OF bis life the monument OF good deeds
he had erected (more enduring than brass
and loftier than the pyramids Of kinss) might
e1ciaim, with the Roman poet, non omnis
mortar, 90, turning 70 the silent
with Just and reasonable confidence, upon that
most impressive and momentous assurance ever
delivered 70 the human race
HE that belieyeth In Ne thouuh he vare