The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-29
Mr.. MORRILL'S FUNERAL
EXERCISES WILL BE HELD IN SEN
ATE CHAMBER ON SATURDAY.
Remains of the Venerable Statesman
to BE Taken to STAFFORD, VT, for
BuriaI-Committee Changes.

WASHINGTON. Dec 2S. = Arrangements
for the funeral of the late Senator Morrill,.
of Vermont, who died at an early hour this
morning, were completed to-day The funeral
ceremony will be held in the Senate chamber
on Saturday next at II o'clock noon. Until
then the body will remain at the family resi-
dence. on Massachusetts avenue and will
be borne to the Capitol early Saturday
morning. The services at the Senate will be
conducted by Rev. e. Bradford Leavitt, of
All Souls Unitarian Church, where Senator
Morrill, was an attendant for a number of
years, assisted by Rev. DIR. Milburn, the
blind chaplain of the Senate. The remains
will be taken to the family home, at STRAIT
ford, VT, for burial alongside the remains of
Mrs. Morrill,, although they will probably
be entombed here for time until the family
mausoleum, now under construction, is COM
pleted.
At the family residence of the deceased
there were many evidences of affectionate
regard during the day. Senators and rep
resentatives who had served alongside the
venerable statesman for years called to pay
their tributes of respect. Mr.. Proctor, the
colleague of Mr.. Morrill, for the last five
years. spent the morning at the house, COM
forting the members of the family and aiding
the morning DR.. Swami, the brother-in-law,
and Miss Swami, sster-in-law of the sena-
tor, and for some time a member of the
household, arrived from Boston. Besides the
personal callers, many messages of condo
lence came by telegraph from all parts of the
country. The dispatches from old friends
III vermont breathed the warm personal es-
TEEN which was felt for the senator at his
nome The kilograms represented all sec
tons, coming from California Connecticut
PhllAnRfnhi9 South
parts of New England.
Sergeant Bright, of the Senate.
Was at the house early in the day and took
charge of the funeral arrangements. The
ceremony In the Senate chamber will he
marked by those characteristics of solemn
dignity usual on such occasions. The caSket
Will be first borne to the marble row, and
then, Immediately before the ceremony, the
active pallbearers will bear it to the Senate
chamber, where it will rest Immediately in
front of the presiding officers desk. The
seats in the front circle OF the chamber will
be reserved for the President and members
OF the Cabinet Back of them, on either
side, the honorary committees from the two
houses, wearing large white crepe bands
about the arm, will be seated. Back of them
will be the members of the Senate and of the
House. The funeral cortege will enter and
leave the Capitol from the main entrance on
the east front.
Vice President Hobart to-day telegraphed
he would be here to attend the funeral. The
committee of senators named by the Vice
President to accompany the remains to YER
mont consists of Messrs. Proctor, Allison,
CockrSI, f1Oar, Morgan, GorInan, CullOm,
Vest, J. p Jones, Turpie, Aldrich, Gray,
Chandler, Faulkner, Fairbanks and VOL
colt. The House committee announced by
Speaker Reed is as follows: Representatives
Grout, Powers Hit, Dingley Mccall, Grow,
Bankhead, Catchings, Richardson Foss and
Joseph Wheeler. The special train which
will bear the remains to Vermont will con-
sist of three cars. From Jersey City the
train will go north over the New York New
Haven & Hartford Railway to Montpelier,
where an honorary escort will meet the
train A number of other senators and rep
resentatives besides the regularly appointed
committees expect to go on the funeral
train
There is much speculation as to what
senator will succeed Senator Morrill, as
chairman of the Senate committee on
finance. The committee is generally con-
sidered as in some respects the most i'm
portant in the Senate. 1t certainly is so at
times when financial or tarim legislation is
under consideration but 1t has not hereto
fore been of the continuing Importance of
the committee on appropriations Senator
Allison, who is now chairman of the APP
preparations committee, has, since Senator
Sherman's retirement, stood next to Senator
Morrill, on the finance committee, and, under
the unwritten rules of the Senate, he would
succeed to the Craftsmanship If he should
desire to do so and the best opinion obtain
able Is that he will so decide In order to
take this place he would have to surrender
his craftsmanship of the committee on APP
preparations, but in view of the probable
changes in the Senate committees he would
not relinquish such an important place as he
would under other circumstances Senator
Allison declines to discuss the probabilities,
saying that he has not had time to give
attention to the matter. If he accepts this
craftsmanship Senator Hale will succeed him
as chairman of the committee on appropria-
tions and he will in turn be succeeded by
Senator Perkins as chairman of the naval
committee
If Senator Allison should decline the chair
marship of the finance committee that place
would then fall to Senator Aldrich, who
would in turn be succeeded as chairman of
the committee rules by Senator 'Spooner
There appears to be very little doubt that
the rules of the Senate will be changed
very soon aftec the reassembling OF the
Senate so as to take the majority of the
appropriation bills from the committee on
appropriations and distribute them among
the other committees. Members of the APP
preparations committee themselves express
the opinion that this change will be made.
If it is made it will to an extent diminish the
Importance of the appropriations committee
and proba bility of the change is likely to
have no little influence in determining Sena-
tor Allson's disposition towards changing
committees. Senator Chandler will succeed
to Senator Morrill's desk In the Senate 1t
is in the front row and the position is quite
advantageous.