The Washington times., 1905-01-22
HOUSE AND SENATE
EULOGIzE INGALLS,
IN MANY SPEECHES
Statue Of Famous Kan
san Received in Stat
uary Hail
HIS MEMORY IS LAUDED
Congressional Delegation
From the Sunflower State
Honor Predecessor.

IlOllOT PREDECESSOR.
Tribute of high admiration and affec-
tomato regard was paid in the House or
Representatives Yesterday 70 the late
Senator John James ingalls, of Kansas
Men of beth parties united in eulogy
OF the distinguished orator, poet. and
statesman, snd the marble statue that
has been reared IN Statuary Hall was
formally aecerted on behalf of the ma
ton.
The exercises followed almost imme-
diately those that had taken place in
the Senate. Mrs. ingalls,, and the party
of relatives and frieads who We're with
her, went directly from one end of the
Capitol TO the other
Representa- tive Reader of Kansas pre-
sided over the House while the exer-
cises We're in progress Addresses were
made by al other members of the Kan
sas delegation, and by Representatives
Clark of Missouri Gibson of Tennessee
Wiley of Alabama, and hamilton of
Michigan.
Curtis Speech.
An interested crowd flied the galleries.
Curtis Mr.. Curtis traced t-le history Of
ingalls, progress upward and onward
and of the Invaluable service he render
cd to his State. He told of the rise Of
Populism and described its decline.
Concluding he said:
AgrarIanism has had its day. The
State which gave Blaine 1S0, 600 votes in
1884 gave, in its slow recovery, I25 0oo
majority for Roosevelt in 1901
With the slow change back TO the
A1gustan age and the spirit of the irn-
perial days that made Kansas all she is.
came recrudescence of admiration for
and sympathy with her greatest man.
He was not there &c explain his own
brilliant life and advocate his cause.
The hearts OF the men of Kansas turned
back 70 him alone
Tribute to Memory.
By an act of their Legislature they
have placed MS counterfeit presentment
here as thsir tribute to his memory.
Mr. ingalls, in his lifetime could have
asked nothing more, and the love of his
fellow-citizens could give nothing less.
Yet this monument is for the world
at large. No Kansas school boy will ever
need it TO remind him who that man
was, or what he did. who was named
John James Ingalls, >
ingalls, and Vest Compared.
Mr.. Clark OF Missouri. who followed
Nh Curtis made one Of the able address
IS of the season. He described the sis
terhood OF Missouri and Kansas. and
sketched the public lives OF the two
great men who represented these States.
AT the same time. IN the Senate
1T was a matter of ineffable pride
with ;he people west OF the Mississippi
tha; for many years the two most bril-
liant speakers in the Senate of che
United States lived on the sunset side
Of the great river-George Graham Vest
Of Missouri and John James ingalls,
Of Kansas.
They were the opposites of each
other in nativity. in lineage. in meth
DDS of thought. in stvIe OF oratory, and
in politics. Irgalls boasted that he
was New England Brahmin,' what
ever that may be. Vest was a fine
sample of the Kentuckian. caught
young enough and transplanted 10 the
rich aIiuvial soil Of Missouri.
Classic Educations.
Both had classical educltsons. In
gals being IN alumnus OF Williams
College. Massachusetts. and Vest of
Center College. Kentucky Both de-
lighted in the learning Of the ancien2s
and the modern, and both reveIed in the
poets
ingalls, was a Judge advocate of
Kansas militia for II short while; Vest
served on Prices staff Il few days
Ingalls, speeches were composed
In,
Greek fire: Vests were a mixture of
vitriol. sweet oil. rosewater. naphtha.
and guncotton
Danton's motto was. L'audace,
Laudace, Toujours raudace. Ingalls,.
weapon was Sarcasm. Sarcasm. AL
ways s;lrcasm.' In that regard he ranks
with Tristan Burgess. John Randolph of
Roanoke. Thaddcus Stevens. and Thom-
rs Bracket Reed Vest tempered his
sarcasm with genial humor, which
cured the wound which he had inflicted
Ingalls, Power CT Speech.
ingalls, possessed the most copious
and most gorgeous vocabulary OF his
day. more copicus and more gorgeous
indeed than that of any other American
orator. except Henry A Wise; and was
the most painstaking precisian in the
use OF our vernacuIar who has ap-
peared in our Congressional life. He
polished his sentences until they gilt
tered as a gem. He was wen qualified
10 write an unabridged dictionary or a
book on synonyms. Clearly he thought
with Holland that:
= The temple Of art is built of words.
Painting and sculpture and music are
but the blazon of its windows. borrow
ing all their significance from the light,
and suggestive only Of the temple
use
Vests die;fon was rich. but the con-
struction of his sentences lacked evil
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