The Portland daily press., 1893-02-28
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON
Honored by Senators as No Predeeess.
or Has Been.
ELOQUENT ADDRESS BY MIR. FRYE
INTHE SENATE CHAMBER.
spaalrer Crisp Iikens the House to q Beer
Garden-An Uproar in that Undigni-
fed Body Yesterday.

Garden-An Uproar in that Undigni-
fed Body Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, February 27.-Vice-
President Levi P. Morton was honored
tonight as none of his predecessors have
been. The entire Senate, without distinc-
ton of party, united in rendering him a
complimentary dinner. The banquet
was held in the dining hall of the Arling-
ton, and was the best skill and taste
could supply. The decorations were
effective and the company distinguished.
Scarcely one Senator of prominence
was absent. Among other guests present
were ex-Senators W. M. Evarts and T.
W. Palmer, General Alger, Frank Hat
ton, P. Y. DeGraw, FL. L. West, g.. q.
Clarke. Senator Henderson, president
pro tenn of the Senate, was chairman and
toastmaster.
Messrs. Hale, Cockrell, Evarts, Villas
and other orators were fully equal to The
occasion. The guest of the evening,
Vice President Morton responded in part
as follows: ''There are events in the
life of every man that stand out with
such prominence as to make such an I'M
print upon him that an indelible impress
ion remains while memory holds its
seat. This occasion, so hattie ring
to me, these speeches so complimentary,
your cordial greetings and hearty good
will expressed in such pleasing form,
shall ever live within the book and vol
UNI of nv brain, unmixed with baser
matter"
In the Senate.
The pension appropriation bill was
taken up, and after discussion passed
without amendment. The conference
report on the military academy bill was
agreed to. The house bill to grant the
GAINESVILLE, McAllister & st. Louis Rail-
road Company right of way through In
dian Territory passed. A conference
was ordered on the sundry civil appro-
priation bill, and Messrs. Allison, Hale
and German were appointed conferee es on
the part of the Senate.
The Senate resumed consideration OF
the House bill regulating the sale OF in
toxicating liquors in the District OF Col
umbia and several amendments offered
by Mr.. Gallinger were voted down. The
bill was still under discussion when at
o'clock on motion of Mr.. Faulkner OF
West Virginia, business was suspended
that fitting tributes might be paid to the
| memory Of his late colleague, Senator
John e. Kenna, who died here last
January.
Mr., Faulkner offered the usual resolu-
ton of sorrow and coincidence and de-
livered eulogy Of the dead senator.
Mr.. Frye was the next speaker. He
had never been, he said, and was not
now in full sympathy with the manner
of the Senate in paying tributes to the
memory of associates who died. 1t
seemed to him too cold and formal. The
fact that senators were selected to deliv-
er addresses weeks and sometimes
months after the occasion, was an invi-
tation to careful preparation which ex-
cluded all impetuosity of speech, all
words forced from lips by beating hearts
behind. Tt seemed to him it would be
better on the day the death was an
nounced for senators who wishedto speak
what the heart then and
there dictated. If he had been
permitted on the day Senator
Kenna's death was announced, wheu his
heart was full of the loss sustained, when
his memory was crowded with his vir-
tues. when his soul was stirred to its
depths by emotion, he could have spoken
with much more satisfaction to himself
than he could now. After reviewing the
career of. Mr.. Kenna and praising his
good qualities, Mr.. Frye said That within
his memory death never gathered such a
rich harvest of great men in the same
| length OF time as in the last month of the
old year and the first month of the
new. Five Major Generals, all OF whom
had won rank on the field of battle,
| fighting for the country, former Presl-
dent of the United States, a judge OF the
Supreme Court, the "Plumed Knight,
that most brilliant man of his generation,
80 Ir,1o nd
world over, so broad minded and liberal
that the lips of Jewish Rabbi were un-
sealed in great public meeting in the
CITY of New York, in his praise, three
United States Senators-one courtly gen.
tleman of the old school modest, dgni-
fed. faithful, Mr. Barbour of Virginia.
Another brilliant soldier, accomplished
scholar, experienced statesman, Mr. Glib
son of Louisiana, the other ''our friend
Mr.. Kenna.' "Mr. President" he said
IN conclusion, "where are these great
| men? Lost? Forever lost? A thousand
times no. Are they destroyed? That
black mcSster death could no more de-
strby those great souls than he coulf
| stretch his icy hand upward and pluck
the stars from the skies. They simply
crossed covered bridge, and to the
other shore where they shall find employ
ment fOr all their great powers from Uou.
| Applause in the galleries. Further
eulogies were pronounced by Senators
| German, Blackburn, Cullom, Gray, Vest,
Stewart, Daniel, Hawley and by Mr.
Kenna's successor, Mr.. Gambler.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted, and the Senate adjourned.
In the House.
After discussion the Indian appro-
priation was passed. Mr.. Holman of In
diana moved to suspend the rules. and
non-concnr in the Senate amendments to
sundry civil appropriation bill, includ-
| ing the Sherman bond amendment. Mr.
| Cochran of New York opposed the mo-
ton. The House ought to have an op-
portunity to fully and fairly discuss the
Sherman amendment. He trusted the
bill would not be sent to conference
with formal non-concurrence before the
members of the House had opportunity
| to exchange views.
Mr., Bland favored sending the Sher-
| man amendment to conference with the
understanding 1t should not come back
from committee. Motion to suspend the
rules agreed to. Messrs. Holman, Sayers