The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-08
FUNERALS
Of STATE
The Senate Bears Cost
of the Hanna
Obsequies.
(Mail Special to the Advertiser1

| such prominent men and so closely
linked in personal and political friend
ship as Presid INT Mckinley and SEN
ator Hanna should have both been CIV
en- a state funeral and that the obse-
quies should have been held in prac-
tieally the same place and attended by
practically the same officials. It is
true that President MeKinley's funeral
was held in the rotunda of the Capitol.
which is in the center of the Capitol
I building, while Mr. Hanna's was held
in the Senate chamber, two minutes
walk away. But ali the official world
! of Washington was present at each, in
! Guiding the judiciary and the dipIo-
/ matte corps. 1t was little unusual
: that the remains of Senator Hanna
We're not allowed to lie in state at the
Capitol here but possibly the family
remembered keenly the experience of
! the Capitol officials when the remains
! of President Mckinley were lying in
state in the rotunda. The crush be-
came something terrific at the entran-
! ces, as a lot of the tough negro element
from South Washington thronged in.
They fought and tusseled in the crowd
and riotous scenes ensued.
The government paid the expenses OF
the Mckinley funeral and it will also
pay the expenses of the funeral of Sem
ator Hanna. But the expenses of the
Hanna funeral will come out of the
contingent fund of the Senate 1t is
the rule at the Capitol to pay the ex-
penses of all Senators, members, and
employees who die during their term of
office. OF course the Hanna estate is
well able to pay the cost of the funeral
but the Senate would hardly think of
allowing such thing to be done
No one can tell exactly what the
cost to the Senate of the Hanna funer
al will be. In all probability the fig
ures will not be made public for very
long Unexpectedly when the report of
the secretary of the Senate appears
about year from now. The cost will
be pretty large. An estimate of $15,-
900 will not be far out of the way. Not
only the expenses here in Washington
but likewise the expenses at Cleveland
will be borne. As a rule the people in
locality where a Senator or Mem
Der is buried try to pile the expense
on the government a great deal more |
than people here in Washington. 1t
remains to be seen whether the under
takers and singers and others, who
have a part in the Hanna funeral at
Cleveland, will be any exception. When
the late Representative Dingley, of
Ioin cfo 70 In ha
House and his body borne back to
Lewiston, the good people of that city
attempted to hold the government up
for thousands of dollars. The under
taker put in swinging bill, which the
sergeant-at-armS of the House made
him cut in two and the quartets of
singers charged something like 800 for
their services. The House authorities
refused to pay Patti prices for the SER
vices of these singers and the bill was
reduced materially.
The cost of the special trains to
Cleveland will be quite an item in the
Hanna funeral expenses. There We're
two of these special trains over the
Pennsylvania railroad. One was for
the family and the funeral cortege, the
other for the special committees that
left the following day. 1t is barely ;
possible that the railroad company may /
contribute the use of the special trains
but that is not probable
After the sergeant-at-arms of the
Senate has paid all the bills for the
state funeral there wiz be a large sum
for the Hanna estate TO pay, to meet
the cost of his last sickness here IN
washington. That will be in the
neighborhood of $4,000 more, although
nobody without knowledge of the exact
figures can guess anything near what
il will be. The hotel bills alone will
be very large, for the best rooms in ;
the Arlington were occupied by the
Hannas and the best rooms were occu-
pied by the relatives, who came here
to be by the bedside of the dying man. i
The doctors bills will be almost as !
large as those for the treatment Of a
President 1t is not probable that |
Surgeon General Rixey, of the Navy,
who was called in the case early when
Mr.. Hanna was supposed to have only
an attack of the grip, will be paid any
thing. Navy doctors are paid salary
by the government and, as matter of
fact. DR.. Rixey had nothing important
to do with the case as soon as 1T de-
veloped serious complications But he
was a close friend of the Hanna fam
lily as ne was Oh the 1diniiS Oi Linz AeatS
President Mckinley and Mrs. Hanna
did not want to wound his feelings by
dismissing him after the other doctors
had been called in.
DR.. Osler, of Baltimore, will have the
largest bill of all probably. He was
here days and days attending to Mr.
Hanna He is frequently called in
here from Baltimore and
i'm hardly any case, where Ie is en-
ga ged for only a few minutes does he
charge less than $500 or $500. Famous
rs a, diagnostician. DR.. Osler's services
are. as a rule, within reach only OF the
very rich. Then DR.. Carter OF Cleve-
land who came here and remained
more than a week. will by by no means
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