The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-16

to resign to accept foreign mission or
place in Presidents Cabinet. But
Senator would hardly resign his seat
to be mayor of New York city, as De-
Witt Clinton did in 1903. Certainly he
would not resign to accept the position
of collector of the port for Norfolk and
| Portsmouth.
bout one-third of the people who have
| resigned from the Senate have accepted
positions as Cabinet officer, ministers
abroad or governors of States or Terri
tories, and the number of these is about
equally divided.
SENATORS WHO HAVE BEEN
PRESIDENTS.
Eight men who were afterward Presi-
dents of tho United States are in the list
of Senators who have resigned. Mr.. Ad-
ans resigned because the legislature of
Massachusetts,, chose James Lloyd, jr.,
to be his successor-action which was
commonly interpreted to be an insult
to Mr.. Adams. Andrew Jackson resigned
from the Senate to be justice of the Su-
preme Court of Tennessee. He resigned
seat to which he was elected later to
enter the White House. 1t may interest
| Senator Hill to know (if he does not
know it now that Mr.. jackson is the
only man who ever went from the Senate
TO the White House. Pierce resigned
a seat in the Senate with the idea OF re-
| turning to private life. Martin Van
buren, resigned to be governor of New
| York: VIM. II. Harrison to be minister to
| Colum bia. Monroe resigned to be min
/ lister to France; Buchanan to be Secre-
tary of State. Tyler resigned because
he would not follow the instructions OF
his State legislature. In these enllght-
ened days the Senator ignores the leg!s-
| lature and keeps right ON serving in the
| Senate Four Senators from North
Carolina have resigned because they did
not agree with the legislatures OF their
State
The list of those who have "died with
harness on their backsn includes some
notable names There was D. G. Brod-
erick of California, who was killed in a
duel with Judge Terry of his State in
1857. There was famous Ben Hill Of
| Georgia, who died just as his term was
coming to an end. There was Roger
Sherman of Connecticut, vino served
less than two years. There was Felix
Grundy of Tennessee, once Attorney
! General. There was W.P. Fessenden Of
Massachusetts Gust beginning his Oath
year of sprvice). There was Zach Chand-
| Ter of Michigan, whose daughter married
Senator Hale. There were the two Clay
/ tons, mem bers of family whose name
is indissolubly linked with that of Della
ware. There was Stephen A. Douglas of
/ Illinois. There was Oliver +. Morton
| of Indiana. There was Henry Anthony
| OF Rhode Island.
THE GREATEST DEATH RECORD.
The record of vacancies caused by
death in the present Congress is not SO
| great as the record which can be shown
for the Thirtieth Congress- On the 5th
of May, 1s47, Jesse Speight of Mississippi
died. On the I'd of November Senator
huntington of Connecticut died. On the
| "a of December Senator Fairfield
of Maine died. On the 10th of
| April, 1S4S Chester Ashley of
Arkansas died. Or, the 25th of October.
1S4S, Senator D. H. Lewis of Alabama
died. So in the term of this one Con-
gress five Senators. died in Office. The
record of the Fifty-third Congress thus
far is only three. To be sure all three
died this year and within few months
of eech other. But then four Senators
died in Office in 1926 and four in 1s47.
Three Senators died in Office in 1880, 1857,
| 1861, 1866 and 1875, respectively. The
three who died il 1873 were o. S. Ferry
of Connecticut November 21), WA.
Buckingham of Connecticut February 5,
land A. johnson of Tennessee (July z.
Thus Connecticut lost both of her Sena-
tors by death in one year.
Some ingenious Congressman figured
out some years ago the amount of time
wasted by the two houses of Congress
in obituary services over dead mem bers.
Not Congress passes that several men,
| bers of the two houses do not die, and,
according to invariable custom, a day
is set aside in each house for memorial
services over each man who dies. OF
course the death rate IN the Senate is
not so great as the rate in the House
But if day he taken from the sessions
of Congress for each of the Senators in
the list of those who have died in the
service, almost a legislative year is rep
| resented--a pretty serious matter when
the amount Of unconsidered business in
the two houses is considered. But then
a great many people profess to believe
that the less Congress does the better
for the country.
FUNERAL EXPENSES.
A consideration which is not invaria-
BILE when Senators die is that of funeral
expenses When a Senator dies in Wash
ington his remains are put in charge of 3
congressional committee aud escorted tc
the place of burial with great pomp. AL
of this is at the expense of the govern
ment. An average senatorial funera1
will cost the government 81, 500 fol-
transportation, $500 for 1.-The casket an6
an additional $50 for the undertaken
work here, $3.50 for the local undertake,
the place of interment, 500 for flowers
$3.50 for supplies for the congressional
committee en- route, $50 for hotel bills
Then there may be such extras as /
choir or a special organist at the church
Altogether a respectable funeral cost,
the government close to $1,000. If tn,
Senator to be buried is from California tn,
expenses can easily reach SIS, 600 O,
sc, 900. Sometimes, as in the case of Mr.
Stock bridge, the Senator dies at or nea,
his own home. Then the Senate simnly
sends committee to attend the funeral
} There was another expense ATTENDING
the death of those mem bers of the tw1
! houses who died in Office before 1875
This was for the erection of cenotanh,
in the Congressional cemetery in mem
DRY of deceased Congressman who wer
not buried there. The last bid received
for these cenotaphs was $164. so. Proba
bly, when they were first erected the,