The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-27
HOUSE EUU0G|lES HOBART.
MANY TRIBUTES OF LOVE, ADMIHA-
TION AND RESPECT.
Political Enemies ~ Well as Friends
Join in Expressions showing How
the Dead Vice President Had En-
deared Himself to All Of Them.

wAsHIN1TUN, Jan. 25.-The greater
portion Of the session Of the house TO-DAY
was devoted to eulugies on the life ana
public services OF the late Vice president
Hobart. The tributes paid to his memory
were not the usual perfunctory eulogies,
but breathed the love and admiration anu
respect in which he was universally heid.
Those who spoke were Messrs. Gardner,
Stewart, Parker Fowler, and Daily OF new
Jersey, Payne of New York, Dalzen ana
Brosius of Pennsylvania, Richardson OF
Tennessee and Griggs OF Georgia.
Urgent Deficiency Bill to Conference.
The urgent deficiency bill was sent TO
conference, and Messrs. Cannon OF limos.
Barney of Wisconsin and Livingston OIL
Georgia were appointed conferees.
Information About Indians.
A resolution was adopted calling upon the
secretary of the interior for Information
as to the number OF Indians on the sac
and Fox reservations who were not PAID
tiieif tribal ail6wdnces from 1855 to 1855;
what such allowances would amount TO-
and what portion Of the salaries OF a,,d ,ns
from 1866 to 1899 have not. been PAID.
The house then proceeded to the consid-
Grafton Of bills on the private calendar.
Cable Company wants Pay.
Mahon called up the bill to authorize the
secretary sr, 81 state to pay the Australasia
OF the expenses incurred In repairing me
nsmea nqIgk re war SaSle with sh' spain
This was the first bill carrying an appro-
priation to Indemnity a company for prop
Mahon took the position that it was not
liable for loss due to the interruption OF
the cable. but only for the actual expense
of repairing the cable.
Raw eaid the attorney general had re-
ported that the company had no claim
for indemnity There were thousands OF
claims pending, and he thought II would
establish dangerous precedent to pay one
which the attorney general had reported
against.
Hit, chairman of the foreign affairs COM
mittee, thought the bill should be amended
so as to state specifically that the claim
was act of grace.
occupation Of the Philippines the cable
company had done more business in sim
gle year than it would have, done in twenty
there was no equity in the claim
Moody, OF Massachusetts, argued that
the law of nations was. we'll settled that
war operations had to take its chances.
He cited the case of the American fisher
men whose claims had been disputed and
that before we paid citizens of Great
Britain indemnity as an act of grace,
England should be compelled to pay what
was due our own people.
Spceches ON Hobart.
O'Clock the house suspended public BUSH
ness to listen to tributes to the memory
of the late vice president, President Ho-
bart
Gardner, who served for several years
in the state senate with Mr.. Hobart pre-
scented the resolution OF regret and was
the first speaker.
In the career of Mr.. Hobart there was.
he said, nothing sensational or episodical
His aims were definite. his course steady
as the granite hills. his efforts as sus-
tanned as the motions of the planets. In
formed men spoke of his requirements;
the philanthropists of his transformations
charity: business men marveled at his
business Judgment: politicians wondered
at his clear perceptions of the character
and the value of issues; statesmen at his
wide and early knowledge of national and
international affairs: his sympathy was
as broad as the field of human struggle -
Payne, leader OF the majority, and Rich
ardson, leader of the minority, each paid
a tribute TO the late vice president
Grosvenor, In warm euogy, said Mr.
Hobart was the first vice president within
his recollection who gave dignity and
value and executive cooperation to the
office. He said that when the present
tariff law hung in the balance in confer
ence no one man did as much to effect the
result as he.
DolIiver delivered an eloquent tribute,
Grateful to his countrymen for the
honor they had given him. he set himself
to deliver the office of vice president from
the cheap and petulant influences that
ceeded all men know. and it is not too
much to say that had he lived he would
have drawn to himself such a measure of
popular enthusiasm that his countrymen
would have asked him to step into the
first chair.
AT APO p. m. as a further mark of re-
spect the house adjourned.
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