The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-25
TRIBUTES ARE
 PAID THE DEAD House Spends Five Hours EuIO- gizing Congressman THOMPSONS LIFE IS LAUDEO Alabama Members Speak In Words of Praise for the Deceased Mem
 Der from the Fifth
 District.
THOMPSON'S LIFE IS LAUDEO


 Washington, April 24-The house was in session for over five hours today for the purpose of paying tribute to the memory of the late Senator NJ A. Hanna, the late Representative C. W. Thompson of Ala bama, and the late Representative w. W. Skiles of Ohio. Eulogies to Senator Hanna were delivered by Representatives Grosvenor Longworth Goebel. Southard. Kyle. Morgan, Voorhees,, Hlldebrand and Shook of Ohio, Tawney of Minnesota. Brick of Indiana, Lowering of Massachu- setts, Smith of Illinois. and Terrell of Massachusetts.
 Tributes to the memory of the late MT. Thompson were paid by Representatives Wiley, Underwood, Clayton, Burnett and Bowie of Alabama. Llttleheld of Maine. Thomas of North Carolina, Bailey of Illinois, Connor of Iowa, Padgett and Gaines of Tennessee, and Patterson of North Carolina.
 Speakers to the memory of MT. Sklies were Representatives Grosvenor. Kyle. Cassingham, Shook and Hldebrand of Ohio. Currier of New Hampshire Webb of North Carolina, and Terrell of Massa- chusetts.
 MT. Underwood's Tribute.
 Representative O. W. Underwood spoke of his deceased colleague. Mir. Thompson, in part as follows:
 "In thinking of the life and death of our dead colleague and great friend. Charles Winston Thompson, I have drift ed into these reflections. our dead friend had attained many of lfe's victories and yet he was not over ambitious, he did not acquire success at the cost of peace to himself. He had amassed a fair for tune, but he had not gathered 1t by pull ing down his fellow man. He was ih- eral in his charities and kindly in his heart. He had attained high political honors bvt never did he bellttls ;s a.r- cess or true worth of those he competed with
 He drifted into the great beyond In his early manhood, in the midst of ife's achievements and rewards. but he was philosopher with 1t all, and lived and died al peace with himself and with the world. He played well his part and died loved and honored by his friends and constitu- ents.
 "A darkenlng sky and a whitening sea,
 And a wind in the palm trees tall; Soon or late comes a call for me,
 Down from the mountain or up from
 the sea.
 There let me lie where I fall. And friend may wrte-for friends
 there be-
 On a stone from the great sea wall, Jungle and town and reef and sea
 I loved Gods earth and His earth
 loved me,
 Taken for all in all"
 Representative Wiley Speaks.
 Representative A. A. Wiley of Alabama spoke of MT. Thompson in part as fol- lows:
 MT Speaker-We stand in the shadow of great sorrow. Again we are im- pressed with the solemn words of the poet:
 |" oh, deep enchanting prelude to repose, The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our
 woes;
 Yet half hear the panting spirit sigh. It is dread and awful thing to die
 "Ebon-handed death, with his relentless scythe, has again invaded our ranks and cut down a beloved colleague in the full pride and strength of a glorious young manhood
 "On the 2Oth day of last month, at the hour of 1 o'clock D. m. his disembodied spirit winged it's flight from the ills of life to a brighter and better home be- yond the skies-to that
 {" Mysterious world, untraveled by the
 sun,
 Where times for wandering tides has
 never run
 "In his untimely death the state mourns one of her strongest and nobles sons. His illness was brief. Grief-striclSen, We scarcely had occasion to gather around his sick bed, before we were summoned to follow his body to the grave.
 'I was his intimate personal friend, and loved him for those qualities of head and heart which endeared him 10 all who came into close contact with him. As a father. son, brother, nelghbor. friend, church member and patriotic citi- zen, he discharged every duty cheerfully and with the approval of good con- science.
 Time robs us of our treasuers one by one, leaving us nothing save our dead. The ways of God are past finding out. In the midst of a useful and honorable career, with q rainbow of promise span ming brilliant future and glowing with
  yond our finite comprehension to under stand why the dread summons should come to him at such an inopportune hour.
 Was Broad Gaueed Man. Charles w. Thompson was a broad gauged. progressive, liberty-loving Ameri- can He was not a theorlst pessimist. He was no literary vagrant lettering about the soft places of incidence and ease He was intensely practical. He did things. He accomplished results. With Nepoleonic grasp of the situation. he reached conclusions with unerring &C., curacy. and apparently without conscious intermediate process. Earnestly patriotic. his ardent wish was to have all sectional lines obliterated. to behold the north. south east and west banded together into the common bonds of personal union and fraternal love. Direct in his methods, clear of comprehension. with a bright mind full of useful knowledge fluent in speech and graceful in manner it was no marvel that in his public addresses he became so interesting and instructive that common peOOlp heard him