The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-13

from speaking in public except when 1t
was a duty or a necessity
Daniels Old Opponent.
Mr.. Daniels va) paid d high tribute
- the legal attainments Of Senator
Davis saving that whether IN the lower
courts or i'm international tribunals ne
would have been the peer of any antaS-
onist against whom he might have Deen
pitted. Erudite and interchangeable ms
opinions were always the best results OF
a thoroughly trained mind The ad-
dresses Of Senator Davis upon interna-
tfonal law, delivered in his own STATE.
Were deHominated the best epitOme OF
that subject in existence
Turning to the eIOquence Oh MS idte
colleague, Mr.. Daniels read many pas
sages from the Gettysburg address OF
three years ago, and characterized II
as noble as the man in whose memory
il was delivered.
Towne Closes the Eulcgies.
To Mr.. Towne. who b. Do'ntment
fills the seat in the senate DAVIS,
was assigned the duty CT Ca -Ig the
services. His address was the first made
by Mr.. ToWne in the senate and It had
been prepared with care. Mr.. Towne
Wes unstinted in his praise of his prede-
cCsS0r, Of whom he said that, while ms
virtues were known and appreciated IN
Minnesota, he had hardly reached the
full recognition due aim Wnen ne uleu'
Mr.. TOWne said.
Death found Cushman X. Davis at
the zenith of his powers and at the
summit of his opportunities he stood
at the head of the committee Whlch, at
the present critical JUncture in our his
tory. is the most prominent committee
Of the highest governmental BODY IN
the world If the policy on which his
party has entered is to be pursued, the
unexpired portion Of his current terms,
COMPRISING the next four years, must
be all important in the shaping ana
adjustment of that policy as related to
numerous and complicated interna-
tiouaT interests This was d situation
calculated to appeal to mis- highest am
bitiOu TO stimulate his Erea test
potencies. to spread before his mental
vision the most satisfying prospect OF
worthy and enduring fame. Yet. here
on the threshold Of the contamination
of his career. at the very entrance to
that fair field for whose delights and
glOries all his past seemed to have been
"A designed preparation, inscTutable
fat TAD ordained that he should pause.
No one realized the tragic pathOs of
the catastrophe more than he did, yet
bore the sorrow of il with herOism
equal TO the physical courage which
he opposed to the stOutest assaults of
pain. He might vince, bUtHhe would
not CRY out. he could express regret,
but he al not complain"
Religious IL Later Years
Mr.. Towne referred to Senator Davis
religious convictions, saying. And
when his feet touched the waters of the
river beyond which lies that undis-
covered country the glance that
sought inqUiringly the farther shore
was a glance that felt no shade of fear
As a ypung man he had for a time
yielded 10 the influence of that If
religious Skepticism which was often
the too hasty refuge of minds strangely
impressed by the wonderful develop
ment of the psychical science shortly
after the middle Of the nineteenth cen
fury. But as he grew older and as his
reading brOadened and his habits of
intrOspectiOn strengthened the thought
that all the preparation of the centuries
is purpoSeIeSs and that the end of in
Vulnerable UniVeTSeS IS mere nothing
ness. gave TO comfort To his soul and
found no justification in his reason.
Familiar with the ancient PHILOSOPHERS
and with the general principles OF re
cent science. he found in both of them
that which. while il yielded no ex-
elusive basis for a particular creed,
yet gave ample support to the sweet
assurances of the Christian religion
respecting the future life
He quoted Senator Davis as saying
not long before his DEATH
Il know human history, and I know
that in the first century something
happened that destroyed the old world
and gave birth to the new. The resur-
rectiOn of Jesus would account for that
change. and do not know of any other
adequate solution that has ever been
proUused.
Thus il seems to me. the conclusions
/ of philosophy the rationale of science
! and the teachings of revealed religion"
/ said Senator Tywne, point unerringly
I 20 immortality
Al the conclusion of Mr.. Towne's re-
I marks he moved the adoption of the
! resolution proposed by his colleague. (
/ Senator Nelson, which. being carried.
I the senate at 3.45 D. III. adjourned.