The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19
Senators Johnston and Bankhead Pay Tribute to Memories
 of Their Predecessors
MORGAN AND PETTUS LIVE IN HEARTS OF ALABAMIANS
Striking Tributes To Their Departed Colleagues Are Also Paid By Other Senators During the Me-
 moriaI Services.

Washington, April 1S-fspecial)-Fo Over two hours this afternoon the Senate
 listened to speeches upon the lives of Alabama's grand old men. Senators Nor gan and Pettus. Eulogles in the Senate and House are usually dull affairs. de- cided by legislative custom, but in this instance 15 senators gave expression
 to the high regard in which the Ala
 bamians were held and most of the mem- bers of the Senate remained in their places throughout the proceedings. Alabama's large colony in Washington
 occupied many of the seats in the gallery
 and gave expressions of approval to
 the eloquent speeches on the public and
 private characters of the departed. Senator Bankhead made the first speech
 on Senator Morgan, and Senator John- ston on Senator Pettus, the predecessors
 of each. Senator Bankhead was followed | by Senators Cullom, Lodge, McCumber.
 Nelson, Daniel and Burkett while Sen
 ators GallinSer Perkins, Foraker, Scott. l Overman and Depew followed Senator
 Johnston in his remarks upon Senator | Pettus
 1 MT. Bankhead reveiwed the great events
 of the world during the S3 years of Sen | ator Morgan's life.
 Throughout his active life.' said Mr. | Bankhead, John T. Morgan was always ! an able leader, always abreast with and
 ahead of the times" He declared that no man more than Senator Morgan was
 entitled to be called "the father of the lsthmian canal,p although he favored the Nicaragua route. By his persistent and l successful advocacy of that great en- | terprise,' he said he has built for
 himself a monument more enduring than
 bronze and marble"
 He referred to his proposition made to
 the Alabama legislature for a statue of 1 Mr Morgan to be erected in Statuary l Hall.
 Mr. Johnstonis speech upon the life of the l laie Senator Petfus. who In age was two 1 years the senior of Senator Morgan 1 and sketehed his varied career. Like his l colleague, he was soldier of the Con l federate army. His special Valor anu daa'l- i ing courage were related by MT. John siten In connection with q desperate charge at Vicksburg His strength of minG and body was commented on and his sturdy ! character MT Johnston said, gave him 1 the supreme confidence of the people of his state.
 striking tribute to an old friend was pronounced upon Mr Morgan by MT. | Culom of Illinois, who served wsh him in the Senate for 90 years.
 Senator Morgan he said, was in
 many respects one of the most remark able men l have ever known" Pointing to Senator Pettus as an eX-
 ample of one who had grown to sweet
 old age" MT. Gallnger spoke with much feeling of the great and simple char 1 acteristics which he possessed in such l an exceptionable degree
 .'I doubt very much," declared Senator 1 Lodge If we ever had a senator who knew our relations with other countries
 past and present and the political condi- l tions of foreign nations so thoroughly as 1 Senator Morgan. There never was a Det-
 ter or fairer man than he.
 l After other senators added their tribute l to the late senators from Alabama, the | Senate adjourned as a further mark pr 1 respect to their memories.
 Senator Bankhead's Address. MT. Banlxhead said.
 Mr President; In accordance With the | time-honored and beautiful custom, we l have set apart this hour to speak in mem- | orv of a distinguished Alabamian, who for thirty years was an honored and beloved member of the Senate of the United States l must frankly confess that 1 am appalled, at an attempt to pay even the tithe of a tribute to the lire, services, and character of the departed statesman whose obsequies we have paused to solemnze-for in truth, MT. President of all the great men who have served in this chamber, none had more profound and brilliant intellect. a broader grasp and discernment of economies ana government, nor a more sublimated pa
 trotism than John T. Morgan. Knowing
 him as l did in life, knowing the disin- clination that always possessed him to be
 .s.ln xsatf
 glorious praise. any words of eulogy ad-
 dressed to his memory. other than in sim
 ple justice to his public achievements,
 would fail to be in keeping with the spirit of his earthly pilgrimage, or of the mo- tive that aetuated his conduct among men. During the year 1907, and wlthin the space of a few months. my state was bereft of both her illustrious representa- tives in the Senate Scarcely were the garlands with which a grateful and af-
 fectionate people had strewn the new
 made sepulcher of her seinor senator
 withered before Alabama was called %
 fresh lamentations by the intelligence that his comrade in arms and his col- league in honor, Edmund w. Pettus. had
 suceumbed to the call of the memorable
 messenger. and he, too, "Wrapt in the, mantle of his peoples praises was lala
 to sleep in the bosom of his cherished
 state During this hour fitting tribute will be paid to the memory of this brave,
 gentle and useful life.
 Senator Morgan was born on the 30th
 day of June, 1924, and had he lived
 few days longer would have attained the
 age of S3 years. The last eighty-three
 years of this republic is a Wonderful
 story in the history of mankind. The im- asination can scarcely conceive. and the
 human memory staggers beneath. the
 marvellous things that have been accom-
 pIished in that reach of years It has
 witnessed the periods of exploration and discovery. of development and exploita-
 ton. of conquest and acquisition. of fra trieidal strife--almost dismemberment-- and then reconciliation and harmonious reunion. It has seen this government
 wage costly and sacrihcial. but as al- ways successful war, for the emancipation of a people struggling to be free from the