The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-01-30
KING EDWARDS MESSAGE
Parliament Takes Formal Action
on Death Of Queen Victoria.
COINCIDENCE is VOTED.
The Remains will be Taken to Ports
neutrality-suspicious. Over the
Queens Will.

! London, Jan. 25.-4:1S p. m.-Both
houses of Parliament this afternoon re-
:eived identical messages from the King
and voted coincidence with his majesty
Oh his bereavement and congratulatlon
On his accession to the throne.
| The lord chancellor, Lord Halsbury,
and the speaker. William Court Gully,
.ead the message in their respective
houses. 1t was as follows:
| Edward Rex: The King is fully assured
| that the House of Commons will share the
| deep sorrow which has befallen his majesty
land the nation by the lamentable death of
| ais mother. the late Queen. Her devotion
| TO the welfare OF her country and her peO-
pie and her wise and benefcent rule during
| he sixty-four years Of her glorious reign
will ever be held in affectionate memory
by her loyal and devoted subjects through
3ut the dOmtDiOns OF the British empire
An Irreparable Loss.
In the House Of Commons A. J. Bal
four, first lord Of the treasury and gov
eminent leader, in moving the address in
reply to the message. said the House in
all its long history had never met under
sadder circumstances or with a clearer
duty to express the universal sorrow ex-
tending from end to end Of the empire.
The sorrow was felt not only as ma
tional but Of irrepara BILE personal loss. 1t
was hard yet to realize the magnitude Of
the blow which had fallen on the coun-
try. In the whole history of
the British monarchy there had never
been case in which the ma
tional grief had been so deeply
come, an epoch more crowded with i'm
portant changes and great developments
than any period of like length in the his
tory OF. the world. The influence of the
crown in the British constitution was not
diminishing but an increasing factor,
and must continue to increase with the
growth and development of the self gov
arnlng communities over the sea which
were founded by Great Britain through
the person Of the sovereign who was a
living symbol of the unity Of the empire.
Confidence in King Edward.
This cumulative result of great ideal
Of the great example of Queen Victoria
was the greatest the world had ever seen.
Her position threw upon the Queen a life
of continuous labor. Short as was the
interval between her final signature of
yet long enough to clog the wheels of the
administration. as witnessed by the vast
mass of untouched documents awaiting
the hand of the sovereign.
In moving a double response of condo
lence and congratulation Mr.. Balfour
said they all had unfailing confidence that
the great interests committed to the new
sovereign were safe in his keeping. They
assured him Of the ungrudging support of
his loyal subjects and wished him the
honor of long life and the greatest of
Gil blessings, to reign over happy. con-
tented people, and that in the eyes of
posterity his reign might fifty compare
with and form an appropriate sequel to
the great epoch which had just drawn to
a close.
Salisbury's Reply.
Lord Salisbury moved the reply to the
Kings message, in a speech full of emo
ton. He said that in performing the
saddest duty that had ever fallen to him
he was only echoing accents of sorrow,
deeper than he had ever known of this
nation, which had been called
under the .dispensation of Provi-
dence they had suffered, and their
admiration of the glorious reign and
splendid character of the sovereign they
had lost. Being constitutional mon
arch, with restricted powers, she had not
reigned by sheer force of character but
the lovableness of her disposition and by
her hold on the hearts of her subjects
The example which she set Of governing
by love and esteem would be never for
gotten, nor how much she assisted in
the elevation of her people by their sim
pie contemplation of her brilliant quail
ties as wife, mother and woman.
A Constitutional Sovereign.
Her wonderful powers of observing
with absolute strictness the limits of her
powers as a constitutional sovereign and
at the same time maintaining steady and
persistent influence over the actions of
her ministers inspired the greatest adj
miration. She always sustained rigoP-
Gus supervision over Duhlic affairs viviur
her ministers the benefit of her advice
and warning them of dangers. No min
lister could disregard her views or press
her to disregard them without feeling
he had incurred a great danger.
She brought the country peacefully
through great change, from old TO new
England She possessed extraordinary
knowledge of what people would think.
He had always said that when he knew
what the Queen thought he knew for
certainty what her subjects would think,
especially the middle classes. The King
came to the throne with the one great
advantage of having before him the
greatest example possible; he had been
familiar for a generation with political
and social life. He enjoyed enormous
popularity and was almost as much be-
loved in foreign courts and countries.
Congratula tons could be rendered him
with earnest sincerity and in the belief
that he will adorn the throne and be no
unworthy successor of the Queen. Lord
Kimberley, the Liberal leader in the
House of Lords, and the archbishop of
Canterbury seconded the address.
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman. the
Liberal leader, seconded the motion,
which was adopted, the members stand
ing.
The House then adjourned until Feb
ruary Il.