Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-01-18
TRIBUTE TO HOBART.
The Senate Listens to Eulogies on
the Late Vice President.
4 RESOLUTION AGAINST TRUSTS.
A Bill to Pension Every One Who Served
Three Months In the Civil War-Lit-
tie business Done In the
House,

Washington, Jan. Beautiful and
impressive tributes were paid by the
senate yesterday to the memory OF
the late Vice President Hobart, His
intimate personal relations with many
senators and his close official afiilla-
ton with all of them rendered his
death a distinct loss to every member
of the body, as well as to the coln-
try. II was in commem0ration OF his
jllustrious career and Of his distn-
guished public service and of his pri-
yate character that the senate set
apart the session of yesterday for the
pronouncement of eulogies upon him.
Personal friends and associates and
party friends and party opponents
joined in paying such sincere and elo-
ouent tribute to the memory OF Mr..
Hobart, to his character and public
services as have seldom been paid to
any public man. Addresses were de-
liyered BY Senator's Sewell and Keane,
of New Jersey; Daniel, of Virginia;
Depew, of New York; Cockrell, of
Missouri; Cullom, of Illinois; Davis, OF
Minnesota; Morgan, of Alabama;
Chandler, Of New Hampshire; Lodge,
of Massachusetts; Gallery, OF Louis
lana, and Allen, of Nebraska.
Senator Butler introduced resoln-
ion "decIaring the duty, power and
purpose of government to destroy
trusts by removing the causes that
produce them" The plan proposed is
to control the issuance of money and
to control the railroads and telegraph
and telephone lines by the govern
ment, when the resolution sets forth,
"the three great trusts for evil known
to civilization will have been de-
stroyed and at the same time the
causes which have logically and in
evitably produced the aggregation OF
great industrial trusts be forever re-
moved and the reign of monopoly be
at an end
Senator Allen introduced a bill
granting a pension of $40 a month
to every soldier and sailor who served
in the civil war for three months or
more.
Early in the session, Senator Hale,
of Maine, introduced resolution OF
inquiry addressed to the department
OF state, as to the seizure OF Amer
lean -four by the British authorities,
| which aroused more than usual in
terest because of its attitude toward
Great Britain. 1t was not acted upon.
At the conclusion of the seulogies on
Vice President Hobart the senate
adjourned out of respect.
Little business Done In the House.
Washington, Jan. H. Miscellaneous
business of minor Importance occu-
pied the attention of the house yes
terday until one o'clock, after which
an hour was devoted to eulogies upon
the life and public services of the late
Mr.. Green, of Nebraska The house
then adjourned until Friday.
Mr.. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts,
introduced bill "for n more equit-
allie distribution of chaplaincies in
the army and navy Mr.. Fitzgerald
claims that at the present time the
communicates of the Catholic church
form a larger percentage OF the men
in both the army and navy than any
other church, and that the percent
age of Catholic chaplains in the ser
vice is far below that of other
churches
Mr.. Mann. of Illinois, introduced a
bill appropriating S3,s5o to improve
the plat of ground owned by the Uni
ted States and known as "Confeder-
ate Mound" in lakewood cemetery,
Chicago, In which are buried ~ union
and 4,O3o confederate soldiers who
died at Camp Douglass during the
civil war.