The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-12
A NAT1oNAL DISGRACE.
Senator Hearst's Funeral Train Crowded
with Junketers.


WASHINGTON, March 1O.-The funeral
train which left this city Saturday last
bearing the remains of Senator Hearst,
was more in the nature of an excursion
than anything else. There has been a
great deal of unpleasant gossip in Wash
ingten concerning it. This resulted
from the action of Senator Stanford. In
the periods during which Senators Stan
ford and Hearst served together, they
formed a strong personal attachment
and there was no more sincere mourner
at the deathbed than the former. As an
additional mark of respect to the family,
Senator Stanford ordered his private
car to Washington SO that it could be
used when the remains were taken to
California. AS is known funeral parties
under congressional direction are more
or less of picnic, and when the SER
geant-at-arms of the senate was arrang-
ing for the Hearst obsequies, he was
overwhelmed, with applications to in
Glide in the party as mourners, friends
of certain senators. These parties had
not the remotest interest in the matter
further than that they desired9a free
trip to California with refreshments and
wines on tap at the governments ex-
pense. These applications were PRESSED
with so much persistency that large
party was arranged. Nine Pullman
coaches, besides those provided for the
family and congressional committee,
were attached to tho train, and they
were filled with the friends of senators
who had pull.
On Saturday, when Senator Stanford
| reached the station from which the train
was about to depart, he discovered the
occasion, for the most part, was not for
mourning. Airily dressed relatives of
senators occupied sections in the long
! train of Pullmans, and there was a gen
eral air of good humor about the affair that
indicated expectations of rousing good
time. The senator. was really shocked
at the spirit of the alleged mourners,
and to show his disgust at the condition
of affairs, he ordered the couplings be-
tween his own cal, and the rest of the
train to be loosed. AS the train steamed
out of the station the Stanford car was
| left standing in the shed. Stanford will
attend the funeral in California, but he
| did not care to go across the continent
with poker players and wine drinkers
who were supposed to be mourning for
his departed friend.
The widow of the dead senator is a
great stickler for social proprieties. Be-
fore the congressional committe was APP
pointed to accompany the remains, the
names of several senator and members
were submitted to her for approval She
insisted that they adj be persons distin-
| guished in social as well as public life,
and it took a great deal of revision to
make the committee finally acceptable
to the widow.
Representative Oates, of Alabama
says the Hearst funeral cortege, now on
its way, to California, cost not less than
| $50, 900. Nine senators and eight repre-.
sentatives were appointed on the part oi
! the respective houses as an escort OF
honor. The wives OF some of these men
accompany them as well as two em.
ployes of the senate. 1t was sent out
the day before the train left that Mrs
I, Hearst had set her foot down on so large
a party going, and that sooner than have
the solemn obseauies made, a mere ex-
Ecuse for a junket at government expense
she would pay the cost of the train her
self and shut out the junketers, but she
does not seem to have been successful.