The Washington times., 1902-06-24
Various Schools Hold
Their Exercises at
the University.
SENATOR LODGES ADDRESS
In His Speech Before Law Graduates
He Opposes the Popular Election of
Senators-Would Make the Houses of
Congress Too Similar.

itial functions being limited to the de-
livery of the baccalaureate address by
President Hadley. The more formal
events of commencement week are put
off until Tuesday and Wednesday, and
Monday is generally set aside by tradi
tion as belonging exclusively to the
graduating class
Glass Day Exercises.
The class day exercises OF the Scien
tific School seniors were held in the open
amphitheater erected on Grove Street,
on the old Sheffield property, at 1890
a. m. Tiers of seats covered with cano-
pies extended along three sides of the
inclosure. and in the middle sat the
seniors in caps and gowns, smoking the
class pipe. Singing and the reading of
the humorous histories of the class con-
stituted the program. The historians
were James A. Farra, Pisgah. Ky; Gar
ritt S. Cannon, Hoboken, n. j.; Newell
H. Hargrave, Cincinnati, and Samuel
L. Russell, Seattle, Wash. Arthur Barn
well, Charleston, S. c., acted as chair
man OF the morning. while A. J. BruT.
Brooklyn, N. Y; Gratz Dent, Savannah,
Ga, and J. F. Trumbull, served on the
committees.
Presentation Ceremonies.
At II O'Clock the senior class of the
academic department held its presenta-
tion day ceremonies in Battell Chapel,
President Hadley presiding. The class
Grafton was delivered by Frank Huestis
Sincerbeaux. Moravia, n. Y, and the
class poem was read by Floyd Welman
Jefferson, OF Louisville, Ky.
The annual meeting of the Yale Law
noon, and there was an unusually large
attendance owing to the presence of Sem
ator Henry Cabot Lodge as the guest of
the day. The annual dinner of the Law
School Alumni Association was held at
l o'clock in Hendric banquet hall, over
which President Hadley presided. Among
the speakers after the collation. were
Senator Lodge, Judge Simeon E. Bald
win, Prof. Henry Wade Rogers, and
Judge William X. Townsend.
Law School Commencement.
The law school commencement. at
which Senator Lodge was the orator of
the day, with "oIiver Ellsworth" for
his subject, was held at 3 o'clock in
Hendric Hall.
After sketching briefly the early ca
reer and training of Oliver Ellsworth
and his selection as a delegate from
Connecticut to the Philadelphia conven-
tion OF 1857, Senator Lodge referred to
the problems which faced the conven-
ticn, and continued:
Now, exactly what was 1t that Ellis
worth did? He won his victory for
equality of State representation in one
branch of Congress, but did far more
even than this, for he saved the Con-
stitution itself and made 1t possible.
Without that compromise there would
either have been no Constitution or the
Constitution made without State rep
resentation would have gone to pieces
in the early years at the first moment
when the large States asserted their un-
1rammeled control Of the National Gov
ernmeLt
Election ofCSenators.
"Just now there SIS a movement or
foot TO bring about the election Of Ser
ators by direct popular vote. If sue
cessful it will inevitably be followed by |
proportional representation in the Sem
ate, and the most radical revolution con-
ceivable will take place in our form of
government. We alone among the ma
tions possessing representative govern |
ments have solved the problem of an |
upper house resting upon an inde- |
pendent basis and effective in legisla- |
tion.
If the Senate is placed upon the |
same basis as the House and is chosen |
in the same way by the same constit- |
uency Its character and meaning de-
part; the States will be hopelessly weak |
ened, tho balance OF the Constitution |
will be destroyed, Capitalization will |
advance with giant strides, and we shall |
enter upon a period of constitutional |
revolution of which the end cannot be |
foretold.
When we contemplate what the |
equality Of the State senate meant at |
the time OF the Philadelphia convention, |
what it has meant throughout our ma |
tional life, and what its overthrow would |
mean today, We realize the great service |
of Ellsworth and how large and erdur- |
ing a place he holds in our history.
A Constructive Legislator.
He also stands out conspicuously as
one Of the great constructive legisla
tors Of great period OF construction,
for It was he who drafted the judi
ciary act upon which the judiciary sys-
TEN of the United States has rested
ever since. and to which all subsequent
legislation for the judiciary has been
but extension and amendment"
In speaking OF a charge made By one
Of Eilsworth's contemporaries in the
Senate, William Maclay, OF Pennsyl-
yania, that Ellsworth was a tool OF Alex
ander Hamilton. whom Maclay regard
I'd as totally corrupt. Senator Lodge sx-
claimed:
How false it all is. What q lesson.
100. !s here II we will but take the
trouble 10 learn. ! never remember the
lime when / have not heard the Senate
,f the moment described as at 1t. low
est point. as having fallen far from the
high level OF the earlier and better
lays Then / read Maciay, and TAX.
leart, for II he is right and our Senate
md our Government we're such as he
described, and IL the bitter critics OF the
moment are also right. and II VIC are
worse now than in earlier and better
LAYS, then. indeed, the impossible has
ome to pass. for the Republic still sur
,onored at home and abroad, than ever
,efore.
.Then feel sure that the critics of