The age-herald., 1900-04-11
MANY TRIBUTES TO
 RICHARD P. BLAND
The Senators Made Eloquent and
 Earnest Addresses.
REMARKS OF VEST
He Referred to the Dead Statesman as the Father and Pioneer ofBi-
 metallism in the
 United States

Washington, April 1o.-During its session today the senate paid it's tribute to the late Richard Parks Bland, long a representa- tive from Missouri. The eulogies pro- nounced on the dead stateman were nota- ble for their earnestness and eloquence.
 Soon after the senate convened MT. Jones of Arkansas introduced and had adopted a resolution calling upon the president, if not incompatible with the public interest to transmit to the senate detailed statement of the expenses of the commissioner gen. eral of the Paris exposition; and also to state the salaries of all employees of the commissioner. MT. Jones stated that in the report already filed with the senate, the detailed items of expense and salaries were not concluded in accordance with the law. This he believed ought to be reme- died, hence his resolution.
 Without objection from any source, the senate then, on motion of MT. Chandler agreed to take final vote on the right of Hon. M. s. Quay to a seat as senator from Pennsylvania on Tuesday, April 24, at p. m.
 At 1 o'clock resolutions expressive of the regret of the death of the late Repre- sentative R. P. Bland of Missouri were called up by MT Cockrell of Missouri and eulogies upon the dead stateman were pro- nounced by senators. In the executive gallery Mrs. Bland sat and listened to the brilliant eulogies of her illustrious husband. She was accompanied by several relatives and friends.
 Vests Address Was Eloquent
 MT. Vest of Missouri was first to addres. the senate his brief remarks being touch- ing and eloquent. In part he said:
 For twenty years MT. Bland and myself were intimated personal and political friends. There was nothing spectacular nor sensational about MT. Bland. He was not political graphophone. always speak ing, nor an importunate mendicant for popular applause.
 He was an earnest, honest and modest man of strong intellect and profound con victions of duty.
 MT. Bland was the father and pioneer of bimetallism in the United States, and gave his life to that cause. He had studied the question in all its phases Not only in the writings of eminent financlers. but in the canyons and mining camps of the far west. where Pikes Peak towers with its snow-crowned brow above the smaller mountains like some hoary-headed mon- arch of the feudal ages surrounded by his grim nobility"
 Further along MT. Vest said:
 Richard Parks Bland should have been the nominee of the democratic party nat urally and logically at the great national convention of 1896 held at Chicago I know personally that he did not desire that nom- ination. I know he above all others, knew of his precarious health, that the icy fingers of death might touch him at any moment. He was defeated as all the lead CTS of that great popular movement who have born the heat and burden of the day and excited the bitter antagonism and op- ponents have always been defeated in all ages and countries, when success was about to crown their efforts. Political par ties are not actuated by gratitude, but by hope of success It has always been so and will be so to the end of time. Put Aside For Bryan
 "So, in 1896. Richard Parks Bland, the veteran leader of bimetallism, who had stood by its banner when others faltered and deserted, was put aside for young and brilliant orator, who was school boy when Bland introduced this bill and passed through the house of representatives in 1878 the first bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to l. Always has it been so. The hands that place today upon the pedestal of pop ular favor their idol will shatter that idol on the morrow, and varied is the mind of desultory man, studious of change and pleased with novelty"
 After paying beautiful tribute to MT Blands love of his family, MT. Vest con- cluded follows:
 His body lies in the soil of the great commonwealth whose people loved and honored him so long. His spirit has passed across the dark river to be greeted on the other side by the five children who went before him.
 '"The night is gone,
 And with the morn
 ''The angel faces smile
 (Which he had loved long since And lost awhile
 Statesman, patriot, stainless gentleman and dear friend, farewell"