The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-16
SENATE ACTION.
Senator Foraker Formally An
nOunces Death of Hanna.
Committee of % Appointed to
Attend the Funeral.
AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Services Will Be Held in the
Senate Chamber.
Committee Will Accompany the
Body to Cleveland.

Washington, Feb. 16.-Formal an
nouncement of the death of Senator
Hanna was made in the senate today
imr iiately after the opening prayer.
The duty of making the official state
ment of the senator's death fell to Mr..
Foraker, Mr.. Hanna's colleague. Most
of the late senator's colleagues were in
their seats before the senate was
called to order, and their faces bore
traces of the sorrow which all felt. The
galleries, too, were crowded. The
opening prayer was delivered by the
senate chaplain, DR.. Edward Everett
Hale.
On motion of Mr. Aldrich the for
mality of reading the journal of the
preceding day was omitted and Mr..
Foraker was recognized to make his
announcement.
He said: Mr.. President have a
painful duty to perform. 1t is that of
making formal announcement of the
death of my colleague, Marcus A.
Hanna
1.-The event was not unexpected at
the time it occurred. For months past
it has been evident to all who were
associated with him that he was in
falling health. He was urgently and
repeatedly advised to desist from his
labors and make a special effort to
resist his maladies, but his strong will
power, hopeful nature and fidelity to
duty were such that he disregarded all
such suggestions and continued at his
post until three weeks ago, when he
was Frustrated with typhoid fever.
His friends then became justly
alarmed. That alarm spread through
out the country, and in response to
unusual manifestations of public SYM
pathy his physicians bulletined his con-
dition daily, and finally almost hourly.
He is named by all his countrymen-
by his political associates, not alone
because he was their great organizing g
leader, who repeatedly led them to vic
tory, but also and more specially be-
cause he had gained their affections
and reigned in their hearts as a favor
ite-by his political opponents because
they are chivalrOuS and generous
enough to experience sorrow when a
brave man falls though he may be of
the opposition and because they recog-
nized in him a bold and fearless foe
man, who commanded their respect
and excited their admiration.
"It is unnecessary to speak in this
presence of the great loss his death
has occasioned to his party, his state
and the nation. All know it better
than any language can express it.
Mr.. President, this is not the time
for extended eulogy. Later 1 shall ask
the senate to set apart a day when all
his colleagues can join with me in pay
I ing ntC1nR Jf1DuIS TO MS lie, CLdTdCleI
and public service.
For the present I content myself
with offering the following resolutions
for which l ask present consideration:
The resolutions introduced by Mr..
Foraker were as follows:
Resolved. That the senate has heard
with profound sorrow of the death of
the Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, late sem
ator from the state of Ohio.
Resolved, That a committee of 25
f1,a oCiI Inr7f
tenn shall be one, be appointed by the
presiding officer to make orders for
experimenting the funeral of Mr.
| Hanna, which shah takr place in the
senate chamber at II o'clock on We'd
nesday, February II instant, and that
the senate will attend the same.
Resolved, That as a further mark OF
respect his remains be removed from
Washington to Cleveland, o., for burial
in charge of the sergeant-at-armS, at
tended by the committee who shall have
full power to carry these resolutions
into effect and that the necessary ex-
penses in connection Herewith be paio
out of the contingent fund of the senate
Resolved, That the secretary COM
municate the proceedings to the house
of representatives and invite the house
| to attend the funeral in the senate
chamber and to appoint committee
with the committee of the senate.
Resolved, That invitations be ex
| tended to the president of the United
States and members of his cabinet, th'
| chief justice, and associate justices o.
| the supreme court of the United States
| the diplomatic corps the secretary O
| state the admiral of the navy and th'
lieutenant general of the army to attend
| the service in the senate chamber"
| The committee provided for in th'
resolutions was appointed by the chail
! as follows:
Senators Foraker, Allison. Aldrich
Hale, Platt (Conn.). Frye, Spooner. Per
kins. Wetmore, Hansbrough, Warren
Fairbanks, Depew, Kean, Scott, Bever
idge. Alger, Kfttridge, German, Cock
rell. Teller, Bacon. Martin, Blackburn
| and McEnery.
i The resolutions We're adopted and i'm
mediately thereafter, on motion of Mr.
Foraker. the senate as a further mari
of respect, adjourned.