Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-12-25
Funeral Services Over the Remains
of Senator Plumb Held in
the Senate.
Senator PETER Eulogized His Dead
Colleague in a Feeling tand
Appropriate Speech.
The Customary Resolutions Were
Passed and the Senate Took
an Adjournment.
The Services in theS Senate.

gloomy atmosphere with every appear
ance Of coming snow, marked the
funeral day of the late Senator Plumb
but the weather was not more gloomy
than the faces of those who witnessed
the last ceremonies over the remains of
the popular Kansan in the chamber
where his brilliancy and untiring energy
bIought him into so much prominence.
Quite crowd had gathered about the
residence, 6I2 Fourteenth street. where
the dead senator had his apartments,
from whence, at 10 o'clock a. m, the re-
maius were taken to the Capitol.
There were no ceremonies at the house,
but the removal was conducted in a
quiet and unostentatious manner,
quite in accordance with the modest
and simple ideas of the deceased states
man. Those who saw the little process
sion wend its way to Fourteenth street,
and then up Pennsylvania avenue to the
Capitol, were enabled to guess whose
funeral it was only by the appearance
OF brass buttoned Capitol policemen,
who acted as pail bearers, preceded by
one carriage, containing Mr.. Valentine,
sergeant-at-arms of the senate, and
t1anked on either side by the police. The
hearse holding the body was driven
slowly along the busy avenue, filled
with Christmas shoppers, up Capitol
hill, to the senate wing of the big build
ing. Here the coffin was taken from. the
hearse and carried by the pail bearers
through the dim corridors to the marble
room of the senate.
EuIogized by PETER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The senate,
with its floor arrangements already
partially prepared for the funeral cere-
monies and the seats so long occupied
by the Kansas senator, draped heavily in
black, was called to order at noon by
Vice President Morton. The chaplain
in his prayer referred to ''the dark
cloud" that hung over the senate, and
referred touchingly to the overwhelm-
ing sorrow Of the widow and returned
thanks for her Christian faith. Before
the clerk could proceed to the reading
of the minutes Mr.. Manderson moved
that they be dispensed with. Mr.. PEI
fer, in a voice which showed con-
siderable emotion and was at
times scarcely audible, spoke
as follows: I esteem myself
peculiarly unfortunate in that before
before l have been a member of this
body long enough to have become ia
miliar with even the dimensions of the
chamber in which we sit, I am called
upon to announce the death of my dis
tinguished colleague, upon whose Won
derful resources 1 had expected largely
to rely, at ten minutes before IL. This
is not the time nor the occasion to speak
at length of the life and the public SER
vices of the absent senator. The dark
drapery about the seat he so long occu-
pied forcibly reminds his fellow men,
bers that they have lost one of their
most active and industrious workers.
His experience, his practical way Of
doing things, his sagacity and his great
powers of endurance, his constancy and
faithfulness in duty, and his alertness
made him conspicuous hers among the
strong men of the senate But
there are others who feel this bereave-
ment more keenly. than we, upon whom
Guo UIOW 1d1lS Will crushing eHoCC.
There is home where this man was
known as the world knew him rot;
place where hearts are lacerated and
bleeding, where a loving family will be
glad even in their grief to receive at our
hands what is left of fond husband
and father, in whose life theirs was
closely bound. To Jhc1n there are at
least two sources Of consolation; one
that he fell while on duty ct his post in
the service of his country; the other
that there is fountain OF strength, in
finite in power and duration, from
which we may all draw in times of
need. At the proper time 1 will ask the
senate to name time when we pay
tribute to our deceased brother in an
appropriate manner. And now, Mr.,
President, ask the immediate adoption
of the resolutions which shall send to
the desk. !" & .54
The usual resolutions were the-. read
and adopted. and the senate adjourned.
until 80. N.