The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-31
The House Is Represented in the En-
erciscs ~ - Committee of
Seven Members.
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"
ONE OF THE PATRIOTIC AIRS SUNG
By QUARTET.
Many Eloquent Speeches Made-PrO-
ceedings of the Morning Ses-
siOn-BiIIs Passed.


the senators to a memorial service for the
Indiana soldiers who died during the Span
ish war. AS soon as the Lieutenant Gov
ernor had called the Senate to order, Sera-
tor Early moved that committee be APP
pointed from the Senate to invite the mem
bers Of the House to join in the service and
Senator's Early, Shea and Nusbaum were
asked to extend the invitation. They re-
turned unaccompanied by the house men,
bers, but shortly afterward Representative
Shideler, acting as spokesman for COM
mittee of three, came in and announced that
the House would be unable to join with the
Senate because of a great press of business
and the lack of room in the Senate Cham
Der. The programme was hardly COM
menced, however when another delegation
from the House arrived, headed by Francis
T. Root who announced that the committee
had been appointed to represent the House
in the memorial service. They were seated
around among the senators and the order
of the day was resumed.
On the right of the presidents stand the
battle flag of the battle ship Indiana was
draped so as to show the inscription at
tached to it. On either side of the stand,
regimental flags from the civil war were set
upright, while the desks of the secretaries
and the wall behind the president were COW
cred with flags.
Rev. j. Cumming Smith delivered the in
vocation, after which the Apollo Quartet
sang the ''Star-spangled Banner" to hearty
applause. Senator Agnew was the first
speaker and said in the course of his re-
marks. that the men of to-day were not
weaker than those. of former generations,
because as water will rise to the level of
the fountain head, so the women of to-day
have reared as fine men as those of any
generation. People often said that the race
or heroes was extinct, but Senator Agnew
held that it was not and that to-day Amer
lean patriotism and valor is the highest in
the world. No more glorious army said he
ever marched than that of ours which went
into a strange land and faced strange dan
gers for humanity, and for this their mem
DRY should live as long as the old flag waves
and the country exists. In conclusion he
said that the noble women of America, who
minstered to the sick and wounded should
not be forgotten but that the memory of
them all should never die.
Senator Winfield in opening his remarks
said: I'm its purpose the war with Spain is
unique in the history of the world. Other
men and nations became famous because of
their ability to consolidate nations and coll
onize. and all the wars of Europe, ancient
and modern, were for these purposes. Ours
however, was not fought for territorial ag-
grandizement, but rather that Cuba might
be free. Our soldiers fought and died, not
for their country, but that humanity might
be succored. They died for Others 1t is
sweet to die for country, but it is also sweet
to die for others. We have taken step in
advance of the nineteenth century and our
heroes will live forever
SENATOR NUSBAUM SPEAKS.
Following the speech of Senator Winfield,
came a requiem by the quartet, after
which Senator Nusbaum said that because
of the cry coming to us for years past from
our oppressed brethren and because of our
soldiers going to tine front in response to
that cry, it was fitting that tribute be
paid to the heroic dead He said that those
heroes, who laid down heir lives on the
altar of their country. would have the sat
isfaction of knowing that the sacrifice had
not been in vain and, if war should come
again, the men of the Nation would again
flock to the flag which makes us a Nation.
Senator Hubbell, who has attracted con-
siderable attention in the Senate as an
orator was the next on the programme and
spoke In part as follows:
The year 1898 was pregnant with protent-
Il
people had fired the American heart with
desire to intervene IN their behalf. Unholy
hands were laid upon a sacred American
from nation of freemen Our just de-
mands upon Spain to grant freedom to her
Cuban subjects were refused and from the
throat of every liberty-loving American was
chanted the refrain of the battle hymn of
the Republic:
As lie died to make men holy,
Let us die to make men free.
ganized from men in civil life; the country
became a military camp; the flower of
American youth were enlisted or were
drilling for service in response to calls for
men aggregating two hundred thousand,
million offered themselves for sacrifices to
liberty on freedom blOod-red field of bat
tie. At CaVite and Santiago the navy of q
formidable power was anihilated; at San
Juan freedoms banner was unfurled; Porto
Rico Joyfully received our victorious army,
and the stars and stripes f1oated in pride
over the battlementS of HaVana'S MORO,
9rimly reminding the world how peace-loV-
ing America resents an insult to her dignity.
with rapidity uncomfortable and a
celebrity of movement unequaled in the his
tory OF war, our sovereignty was extended
70 distant ISLANDS, ana our power made
manifest in Asiatic waters, while Europe
stood amazed at our prowess and success.
While the world was yet startled at the
fashlight picture of marching armies and
fighting squadrOns, our commissioners were
debating terms of peace to the vanquished
foe in the historic capital of the French.
and experienced troops could have done
no more than the raw levies from civil life.
Nations were amazed at our achievements.
Courts and cabinets realized that "a new
factor was injected into the worlds affairs.
Half unfrlendly people were forced to give
unstinted admiration and unwilling APP
plause to the achievements of our heroic
army
WON AT A FEARFUL COST.
"Such were the portentous events of the
year, But the undying glory of these events
ure. The material cost Is of little conse-
quence. 1t is the loss of life that counts.
The noble young manhood of America in
splred by love of liberty and aroused to
enthusiasm by the sad story of Cuba
wrongs, fell in battle persisted from ex-
posture and died OF pestilence and fever.
Maneled by shot and shell, weakened by
disease, emaciated by fever, pitiable wrecks
of humanity. they braved death in every
earth TO meet But they died a hero's
death. because they died for a principle.
They died in order that the world might
know that civil liberty is not a delusion;
that constitutional government is not
failure and that liberty Is more than
sentiment. They died 10 make men free.
- Nor shall their glory be forgot
While fame her vigil keeps,
or honor points the halowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps.
Y0n marble minstrel's Voiceless stone
In deathless song shall tell,
When many vanquished year hath flown.
The story how they fell.
I'm the solemn sacrifices of those voiceless
graves a Siboney. and El Caney, and San
Juan, we are taught the lesson of a broader