Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-01-17

Washington, Jan. 13.-In the senate
yesterday eulogies were pronounced
on the late senator Cushman *. Davis
OF Minnesota. Senator Spooner OF
Wisconsin said of Senator Davis that
while many men had greater knowl-
edge Of case law few men had
reached such thorough understand
ing of the science of law. Touching
on the literary side of his nature, Mr..
Spooner said his facility Of expression,
the perfection of his use of words,
seemed so natural an attribute that in
no public utterance perhaps was there
not at least one sentence which might
be taken as a model
Senator Pettigrew Is. D. spoke
proudly of Davis as one of the men
who was produced by the great north
west and paid the highest tribute to
his mentality, and personal character
istics, To Senator Towne, who by APP
pointment fills the seat In the senate
occupied by the late Senator Davis,
was assigned the duty of closing the
services. His address was the first
made by Mr. Towne in the senate and
1t had been prepared with care.
Towne was unstinted in his praise of
his predecessor, of whom he said that
while his virtues were known and APP
preciated in Minnesota, he had hardly
reached the full recognition due him
when he died Mr.. Towne said:
Death found Cushman X. Davis at
then zenith of his powers
and at the summit of his
opportunities. He stood at the
head OF the committee which at
this critical juncture in our history 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
term comprising the next four years,
must be all-important in shaping the
adjustment of that policy as related
to the numerous complicated interna-
tional interests. This was a situation
calculated to appeal TO his highest
ambition, to stimulate his greatest po-
tencies, to spread before his mental
vision the most satisfying prospect of
worthy 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 glorlcs all his past seemed to
have been designed aud prepared. ruscrut.
able fate had ordained that he should pause.
No "ne realized the tragic pathOs OF the ca
tastrophe more fully that ne aid; vet he
bore the of n with hHrplgtu. L.,
the phl seal courage with which he opposed
the stoutest assaults of pain. lie might
vince but he would not cry out; he could
express regret but he did not complain
Mr., Towne also referred to Mr.. Davis re-
bgtouh convictions, saying, And when his
feet touched the waters Of The river beyond
which lies that undiscovered country, the
glance which sought Iuquiriugly the farther
shore was glance that felt no shaae Of
Gear. AZ the conclusion of MIR. rowne's re-
marks he moved the adoption OF the rcsOlu-
lions proposed by his coueuguc senator
Nelson which being carried, the senate at
IN THE HOUSE
After an hour spent in miscellaneous
routine business during the course of which
SEA erui bills of minor Importance were
passed the house devoted the day 10 a con
tinmtion Of the debate upon the liver and
harbor appropriation bill which was In.
interrupted Friday 10y private bills The
matu feature was an elaborate speech by
Mi CAtchiugs ,MtssD, In dcfeusc of the
Improvement of the lower Mississippi river.
Catchings rctirrS from the house, March
after fourteen years OF service, during
several Of which he was chairman Of the
river and harbur committee and during all
of which he hnS hecu the special champion
OF the Improvement of navigation on the
Mississippi His speech saturday was In the
mature OF yalcdiCtnry. II was received
with marked attention. At its conclusion Mr..
Eatchincs was given an impressive personal
ovation.
other speeches were principauy hy mem
bers who had hecu disappointed In not