The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-10
A COMMITTEE APPOINTED
THE FUNERAL WILL TAkE
PLACE TO-DAY.
THE INTERMENT AT MEMPHIS
The Senate Does Not Transact Any Business
Out Of Respect For the
Dead.

Washington. D. c., July 9.-She Sen
ate met today under the depressing innu-
ence Of the death of Senator Harras' OF
Tennessee. who had been one Of the con-
spicuous figures in the upper house OF
Congress for over twenty years. Inc desk
he occupied so long was not draped, as
the Senate had as yet no official knowl-
edge Of his demise. :,
Rev. Johnston. the chaplain, of the
Senate. in his invocation, referred feel
ingly to the loss the Senate had Sus-
tanned and spoke of his rugged honesty,
his answering attachment to his polltl-
cal principles, his opposition to all he
considered wrong, his devotion to his
State and his services to the nation
After the journal had been read Sen
ator Bate (Tennessee) made the an
nouncement Of the death of his colleague.
In doing so he paid a high tribute to the
memory of the distinguished dead. He
spoke of the conspicuous part he had
played in his State and in the nation du-
ring his long and eventful career. Sen
ator Harris, he said, possessed high
qualities of leadership, the courage to
assert and the ability to maintain. His
devotion to his duty, as he saw it. in
spired confidence and friendship, while it
often disarmed opposition. He was the
last Of the great war governors, North
and South, said Senator Bate, who pre-
sided over the destinies of sovereign
States during the stirring struggle be-
tween the States. He mad been an influ-
entail factor in Tennessee and his long
and eventful life would live after him.
He also referred to his late colleagues
parliamentary ability and those present
characteristics which endeared him to
his colleagues and made him such a dis
tinguished and marked figure in the SEN
ate Mr.. Bate then offered the usual res
buttons which provided for a public fu-
neral in the Senate tomorrow, to which
the House was invited and for a COM
mittee of nine Senators to accompany
the remains to Tennessee, where the in
terment will be made.
Mr.. Cockrell (Missouri) offered sup
Elemental resolution extending an invita-
tion to the President, the members of the
Cabinet, the members Of thee Supreme
Court, the diplomatic corps, the major
general of the army and the admiral of
the navy to attend the obsequies. Then,
at 1915, on motion of Mr.. Bate, as fur
Their mark of respect to the memory of
the deceased, the Senate adjourned.
After the Senate adjourned the Vice
President appointed the following named
Senators to attend the remains of the
late Senator Harris to Memphis: Messrs
Bate, Walthall, Berry, Turpie, Allen
DeBoe, Pettus, Chiffon and Wetmore.
The funeral services in the Senate to-
morrow over the remains Of Senator
Harris will be conducted by Rev. Hugh
Johnston, pastor of the metropolitan
Methodist Episcopal church, this city
who is acting chaplain of the Senate du
ring the absence of Chaplain Milburn
The Rev. Mr.. Johnston, at the request
of the family. will ne assistend by the
Rev. Mr.. Duffey, Of the Mount Vernon
Southern Methodist church. The cere
monies will not be elaborate, but viii
probably consist simply in the reading OF
the impressive Episcopal burial service.
The remains will be taken to Memphis
for interment over the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway, leaving here tomorrow al
lilo. The body will arrive at Nashville
Monday morning at 6 o'clock and will
lie in state at the Tennessee capitol unit
8 p. IN. Thence the remains will be con
veyed to Memphis over the Nashville
Chattanooga and ST. Louis, arriving
there at 6 o'clock Tuesday morning. The
funeral will occur at Memphis on Tues
day and the congressional escort will
leave Memphis at 8 p. m. Tuesday, arriv-
ing here at CAT Thursday evening.