Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-10
TRIBUTES 70 HOBART
The Senate Session Today Devoted
Largely to Eulogy Of Late
Vice President.
Lodge. sewall, Depew and other
Senator's Extol Virtues of
Dead Statesman.
House Members Perform a Like Ser.
vice in Memory Of Representa-
tive Green.

Washington, Jan. 10.-The senate paid
an eloquent tribute of respect and affec-
ton today to the memory of Vice Presi-
dent Hobart.
At the opening the Gage report on the
relations of the treasury to depository
national banks was presented and re-
ferred to the egfinance committee
Hale. of Maine, introduced a resolu-
7 tion asking Information regarding the
Seizure Of American property at DeIa-
goa bay, declaring it had been detained
lunlawfully and unjustly. Upon objec-
ltion the Lodge resolution Went over.
Butler. of North Carolina, offered
long resolution on trusts, and gave. no
ltice that he would discuss it later.
| Lodge, of Massachusetts,, and Sewall.
of New Jersey, then addressed the sen-
ate in culogy of Hobart
Senator Lodge said;
There was one conspicuous public.
service rendered by Hobart which /
think has not been understood, certain
ly not adequately appreciated. He re-
storeG the vice presidency to its proper
position and lifted it up before the peo-
pie to the dignity and Importance OF its
merits. The decline of the vice presi-
dency in political weight and popular
destination was one of the unfortunate
developments Of the last fifty years.
The trainers of the constitution in.
tended that the vice presidency should
be in all respects in ability, reputation
4 and weight Of character and standing
| before the people on a plane of absolute
4 equality with the president. We have
but tn turn TO the original clause of the
constitution amended 50 long ago, by
many forgotten, to find proof of this
Il statement. That clause provided that
/ the electors in each state should vote
for two persons from different states.
without naming the Office voted for:
4 that the man recei.ing the highest
l'vote In all the electoral colleges should
be president and the one receiving the
4 next highest vice president In other
4 words, the electors were to vote for Iwn
men equally fit to be president. one To
nave first and the other second place.
Since that time the vice presidency has
Il been treated too often by the party
II convention either as a convenient or
fonerable shelf uron which an eminen.
Imam might quietly close a career or a
4 cons soation prize to be awarded To a
y faction in the party which had failed
with the highest place. The vice presi-
dency came to be looked upon as cer-
tain political extinction for any man,
4 Out of this neglect and misconception
II Hobart silently lifted his great office
merely by the manner in which he filled
It and performed its duties. Quietly
firmly with perfect tact. he asserted
the dignity of his high position. neve,
going too far but always far enough
Without knowing exactly why. the peo-
pie suddenly came to realize there was
a vice president Of the United States
ard that he held the second position il
the government, and that with the eX-
ception of the president he was the onls
man in the country holding Office by .
{. vote OF the entire people. Instead ol
holding aloof and remaining Indifferent
to the conduct of the government. Ho-
bart regarded himself as part of the ad-
miilistration, as a representative of tht
policies which the administration hat
been chosen to carry into effect
Senator Sewall, of New Jersey, paie
a feeling tribute to the memory of TIL,
late vice president. He spoke of tn,
events in Hobart's private life and of
fetal career. and the characteristic:
which endeared him TO the people Will
, whom he had come in contact
Daniel. of Virginia, followed, and de
cared many illustrious men had occu
pied the vice presidential chair, bu
none who had met all the responsible
tiles with more equal and uniform eff
cheney, nor discharged the duties NOR
i acceptably to all concerned. Senate
Depew then paid an eloquent tribute t
the dead statesman and was listened !,
with the deepest attention.
, Remarks were also made by Cockrell
of Missouri: Cullom. of Illinois: Davis
of Minnesota and Morgan, of Alabama
Tho House.
Washington, Jan. 1O.-In the house to
. day the resolution calling upon the sec