The age-herald., 1901-01-13
Death Found Cushman K. Davis
 at His Zenith
THE PEER OF ANY ANTAGONISTS
Resolution By Mir. Nelson Was Passed Expressing Regret of the Senate. Mrs. Davis and Friends Occu-
 pied Seats in the Gallery.

Washington, January 12.-No legislative business of importance was transacted by the Senate today. The session was devot. | ed to services in memory of the late Sena- | tor Cushman K. Davis of Minnesota. The distinguished service of the Minne- sota Senator and his long services had en- deared him to the members of the Senate, and when he died every member of that body felt that he had suffered a personal
 loss.
 Upon the conclusion of the routine morn- ing business MT. Nelson of Minnesota called up his resolution expressive of the
 regret of the Senate at the death of Sena-
 tor Davis.
 As Mr. Nelson called up the resolution
 Mrs. Davis accompanied by some friends,
 entered the executive gallery of the Sem
 ate. In addition, several other friends of the late Senator occupied seats in the ex.
 ecutlve gallery during the delivery of the
 memorial oration.
 The speakers on the occasion included Senators Morgan of Alabama, Clark of Wyoming, Lodge of Massachusetts and Daniel of Virginia, all of whom were as. sociated with MT. Davis as members of the | foreign relations committee. Others who pronounced eulogies upon the late Senator were his late colleague, Senator Nelson of l Minnesota, and Senator Towne, Senators l Hoar of Massachusetts, Spooner of Wiscon- l sin, McCumber of North Dakota and Eos. l ter of Washington.
 I MT. Daniels Tribute. l MT. Daniel of Virginia paid high trib- | ute to the legal attainments of Senator Davis, saying that, whether in the lower | courts the international tribunals, he would have been the peer of any antag- onist against whom he might have been pitted. Learned and indefatigabe, his opinions will always boast thoroughly trained mind. The addresses of Senator Davis upon international affairs in his own State dominated the best epitome of that
 subject in existence.
 Turning to the eloquence of his late col-
 league Mr Daniel read many passages
 from the Gettysburg address of three years
 ago, and said 1t noble the men
 in whose memory it was delivered. Closing,
 Mir Daniel said a flower he would lay up-
 the tomb of his friend was that in his
 heart always love of country and of
 his fellows.
 Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin said of MT Da- wis that while many men had greater
 knowledge of law, few men had
 reached such a thorough understanding of
 the science of law. In any bar and tribun- al he would have been prominent. Touch. ing the literary side of his nature, MT. Spooner said that in no public utterance perhaps was there not at least one sen- tence which might be taken a moled. MT Pettigrew of South Dakota spoke Of Senator Davis as one of the men produced
 by the great northwest, and paid his trib- ute to his mentality and past characteris- tics.
 Mir. ToWne's Tribute.
 To MT. Towne, who, by appointment, fills
 the seat In the Senate occupied by Mir. Davis, was assigned the duty of closing the services MT Towne said:
 Death found Cushman K. Davis at the zenith of his power and at summit of his opponents. He stood at the head of the committee, which at the present critical juncture in our history, Is the most prom. inent committee of the highest government al body in the world When his feet touch- ed the waters of the river beyond which lies that undiscovered country the glance that sought inquiringly the farther shore was a glance that fell on DO shade of fears. As young man he bad for time yielded to the influences of that irreligious skept- cism which was often the too nasty refuge of minds strongly impressed by the wonder ful development of the physical conscience shortly after the middle of the nineteenth century. But he grew older and as hi4 reading broadened and his habits of in. trospection strengthened the drought that all the preparation of the centuries is pur- poseess and that the end of the innumer- able universities is mere nothingness gave no comfort to his soul and found no Justi-
 ication in his reason. Familiar with the ancient philosophies and with the general principles of recent science he found in both of them that, while 1t yielded no exc elusive basis for a particular creed, yet gave ample support to the sweet assurances of the Christian religion representing the future life.'
 At the conclusion of MT. Towne's remarks he moved the adoption of the resolutions proposed by his colleague, Senator Nelson, which-being carried, the Senate, at 3:45 p. m., adjourned