Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-18
SENATOR WHITE DEAD
:
End Came at His Home in
Baltimore Last Night.
:
HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE
Senate Adjourns Out of Respect to
His Memory
;.
HIS LONG AND ACTIVE LIFE
Had Held Many Offices in His State
and Two Terms as United
States Senator
HIS LONG AND ACTIVE LIFE

Senator Rayner in brief and i'm
.pressive speech in the Senate few min
utes after noon today announced the
death of his colleague. Senator William
Pinkney Whyte, last night at Baltimore.
After adopting resolutions of regret the
Senate adjourned at 1910 pm. as a mark
OF respect for the memory of the late
Senator Whyte.
ut is with feeling of profound sor-
row." said Mr.. Rayner. that l announce
to the Senate the death of the Hon. Will
liam Pinkney Whyte, the distinguished
senator from Maryland who died last
night at his home in Baltimore at
o'clock 1 had observed in the last few
weeks the plainest evidence of his fail
ing health, but. knowing his speedy pow
ers Of recuperation, l had strong he,
that be would rally from tie
from which he was suffer-.
otherwise decreed, and after /
of remarkable achievement and ST.
usefulness to his state and to his CT
try he passed away
This is not the occasion to pay the
proper tribute to his memory, but it b
hooves me to say that the state whose
noblest aims and best traditions he has
so truly represented will mourn him as
IL would mourn no other of its great sons.
From one end of Maryland to the other
perhaps no other man has ever been
missed before. He was the idol of our
people. He was beloved by all classes
OF the community, and as 1 left my
nome this morning the city he loved and
with whose progress his life was inter-
woven seemed to be cast down with the
full consciousness of the loss ii had sus-
tanned.
I'm his palmy days in certain depart
ments of his profession. he stood without
a peer In times gone by of great politi-
cal turbulence and conflict he had no
equal with us as an orator, and his popu-
iarity with every element of our people
was unsurpassed in my time. Back of
il all there was that which is greater
than learning and success and eloquence
and popularity. That was his blameless
and unblemiShed character in private and
public life.
ut was an honor and a victory to die
as he died. Conscious until moment of
his death, it must have been a glorious
realization inexpressible in words for
him to feel. as he passed into the pres
ence of his maker. that he could look
back upon a life dedicated to the per-
Torrance of public and private duties in
strict accord with the promptingS of his
heart and the dictates of his conscience.
mr.. President. genius and ability may
perish with hardly record of their work
or a remembrance of their being, but a
character like his never dies. 1t stands
forth as a beacon light. shedding its rays
on the generations that are to come and
casting its halo on the shores of eternity.
Resolution and Adjournment.
81 now send to the desk, asking for its
immediate consideration, the following
resolution"
The resolutions announced formally the
death of Senator Whyte and moved that
in respect to his memory the Senate adj
Journ Vice President Fairbanks an
pounced hat IL was adonted
Chaplain Hale, in his opening prayer at
noon. referred to the death of the Mary
land senator. The chaplain said:
Even so. Father, come to US. We are
Thy children. In life or in death, in
strength in weakness, We can always
come to Thee for a Fathers voice. We
4, can always rest on a Fathers arm.
Father. we ask Thy blessings upon
those of his own household who watched
over his illness. and who see his face in
death. For ourselves, his associates here
we thank Thee for the life which he has
given to the service of his country, and
we ask Thee to bless and lift us up
that we may all stand in the presence of
our God and of this nation that each
may conSecrate life to heaven and earth
together These two worlds are one world
and the law of the spirit of life makes us
free from the fear of death.
Go with us where we go. Stay with us
where we stay. We are praying for the
Congress. for the nation. Father, for all
who loved him and honored him and for
all who prize the government of law, in
Christ Jesus"
Request Of Omission Of Committee.
A dispatch was received hepe last night
by Col. D. NJ. Ransdell. sergeant-at-arms
of the Senate. from William Pinkney
whyte, jr., stating the desire of the fam.