Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-29


some 81, GOO more; and the steel engrayings
counting $500 to 81, 900 each. One hundre
copies of each book constitute an edition d
luxe for the widow. in morocco and gold.
Sunday for Funeral Orations.
81 am in favor of using Sunday for al
funeral oratious," said Senator Dolph, whe
1 asked him about this matter. ''The da
is especially adapted to that purpose. Onl
one objection occurs to me; Friends vii
talk good deal and make q big book @
euIogies. But even that would be bette
than spending previous time that is bein
paid for by the people at the rate OF 81 600 o
$1,000 an hour. And these special trains O
palace cars across the continent carrying
lot OF people some of whom do not know tn
deceased and few of whom care for him
have no doubt they will terminate with tn
Congress that has just expired. 1t is tn
last thing these dead men would want j
they could speak-a parade over their deaf
bodies, turning, more or less, into what tn,
good Samantby Allen called "a pleasure
sXertion.'"
i called on Mr.. Mckinley, and found hin
at the Eobitt House up to his neck in docu
ments, letters ana garden seeds, trying t.
work his way out, and he was quite a
smiable and cordial as he was before that un
(NAA tG4NdLAE -NONSAiOSl b4AA1AiAs
Mckinley is for Reform.
''There is certain to be q reform in thu
method OF burying public men," he said
Both the Interior and Treasury Depart
ments have been closed this winter on ac
count of the death of ex-Secretaries, anC
thousands of clerks were turned into the
streets who never before heard the names Of
the gentlemen whose demise they were re-
quiTed thus joyOus1y to celebrate. This is
all wrong, OF course, and l hsve no doubt
1t will be stopped. Il department or q
bureau or a division ought to adjourn for a
day when its immediate chief dies; that
much is due to the proprieties aud humanities,
but there the holidaying ought to end. The
Government is too large and its work toe
extensive to allow 1t to celebrate the 'exes.
LAS to the death of Congressman il
should be formally recognized in some way,
bat ana opposed to taking Sunday for it,
- some have suggested. l would have an
hour or two given to speeches funereal the
moment 2 death is announced and return to
il no more. Then, whatever is said, would
be impromptu and spontaneous; 1t would
come from the heart and 60 to the heart and
there would be very little that weuld be
merely formal and artificial.
Speeches Upon General Sherman.
81 was particularly struck with the su-
periority of this method when Sherman 5
death was announced in the House. We
were very busy, but without adioRrning we
paused for au hour while his comrades
Cutcheon, ButterwOrth and others, SAID a
few earnest and fitting words struck off
without elaborate rhetorical finish, but
warm and eloquent Ii was the same ia
the Senate when Hearst's death was an
nounced-what was to be said was said on
The spot and at the moment. This method /
hope the House will adopt hereafter"
"Mr. Oates says that this is only small
part of the expense" reminded the dis
tinguished Chairman of the Ways and
Means.
Yes" he replied, "and whether his fig
ures are exactly correct or not, there is
doubtless abundant reason for curtailing
these expenses, and especially to reduce the
proportions of the so-called .junketing ex-
cursIOns' 10 bury our dead in some far-off
State. They should not be sent home unat-
tended, of course, but it would perhaps be
practicable to enact and enforce definite
law to govern these ceremonies, and to keep
disbursements within reasonable limits.
Senator Hearst was buried last week at an
expense TO make any poor family rich, and
the display was uncaIled for. The next
Congressman who dies will be less extraya-
gsntly buried.
objector Holman's Opinion.
At the Hamilton 1 found Mr.. Holman,
certainly the most distinguished man in the
United States who gets his living by farm
ing. As the Great Objector" and Econ
omy Crank, " he mas made name that the
Farmers Alliance would not willingly let
die, and l don't see clerrlv how the Speaker
OF the next House, in view of the Kansas
DakOts tidal wave, can help making Hol-
man, as be was IA years ago, Chairman of
the Appropriations Committee. In fact, his
democratic manner, his plain clothing, his
rigid frugality, his shrewd face and his re-
lentIess hatred Of rings and trusts, would
seem to make him the Western rival of Mr..
Cleveland for the Presidential nomination
next year-and / hope the editor will per-
NIT me that little prophecy. L was a little
surprised to hear him on this subject;
mo, he said, II am not in favor of saw
ing money BY any negligence of ceremoni-
GUS attention to the dead. i think that
Congress should Immediately adjourn for
the DAY whenever a members death is an
nounced, and that another working day, or
specified part OF a working day, should be
allotted TO the eulogies. This thing has a
significance and value, and it
would not be nearly so impressive and
striking if the addresses were delivered on
Sunday.
Lesson of PutSic Funeral.
"a public funeral o. public man is q
reminder of mortality, of the short
ness Of life OF the necessity of making the
most OF ourselves, of cutting short mere
of avoiding vices and trifing,
snd OF facing manfully the realities and
duties OF lie. 1t is al encouragement, a
and warning to the living, even
more than an honor 10 the dead.
But this junketihg to attend a distant
funeral Is to De deplored-and to be stopped.
The expense attending it is a subordinate
matter but such trip is not solemn, and is
not beneficial IN its effect even on the mem
bers vino attend the funeral. There is only
One obvious way to keep down at once the
cost and the vulgar display. Let the House
and Senate each deputize q sergeant at arms
10 attend as lts official representative and
let him go alone. l suppose a large num-
Der OF people attended Hearst's funeral,
and Of course their primary object is not to
pay honor TO the dead Senator by a good
deal"
Ar. Holman was addressing thousands of
packages Of seeds to farmers with his own
aand, not being able to hire it done, and
shortened my interview in
order to give him chance to start his nit
rallluse again and fire beneficial volleys of
beans, peas, patent potatoes and superior
tuEnips into the bucolie host.
W. A. CRoFFUT.
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