Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-03-17
WRITES HALE EULOGY.
E. v. Murphy Regrets Retiring of
Names Legislator.
A PARLIAMENTARY GENERAL.

VETERAN REPORTER OF SENATE DE-
BATES, WHO HAS SEEN MANY GREAT |
STATESMEN IN FIFTY YEARS SERVICE, i
SENDS LETTER OF PRAISE TO DE- |
PARTING SENATOR.
Washington POST
Just before his departure for Maine
Former Senator Eugene Hale received
the following letter, eulogizing the SER
vice of the Maine statesman in the
Senate, from E. V. Murphy, who has
been connected with the United States
Senate as official reporter of debates
more than so years:
Dear Senator: You will not, trust,
regard me as presumptious you GER
tainly will not regard me as self-seek-
ing, now that you have retired from
legislative life and have no favors to
bestow, when | express to you the pro-
found regret | feel at your departure
from the Senate-a regret which is
shared by all my associates, than whom
none has better opportunities for judg
ing of the value of the services of the
members of the exalted body which
they serve, and of which you have been
so long a distinguished ornament.
During the more than 50 years of my
connection in an humble capacity with
the Senate can recall no one who has
rendered more disinterested, more able,
more valuable, and more patriotic SER
vice than yourself. Looking back over
this extended period and running my
minds eye over the long list of illustri-
Gus names Of those who have added to
the luster, the power, and the prestige
of the Senate, can recall no one who
has more worthily discharged the du-
ties of that high office, while in many
respects you have eXceled them all.
Scores of times, when it seemed i'm
possible to avert an extraordinary SEES
sion of congress by reason Of the con-
gestion of business and the apparent
impossibility of securing the passage of
the great supply measures essential tC
the maintenance Of the government,
under your superb and mastery man.
agement have seen order brought out
of chaos and those great bills saved
from defeat. | say to you now what
have said probably thousands of times
to others, that as great parliamentary
general you stand preeminent.
| MIGHT HAVE AVERTED WAR.
Had your wise counsel been needed
the Spanish war, with its sacrifice Of
many precious lives and untold million.
of treasures, would have been averted
to say nothing of the long train o.
evils that have followed in its path anC
which will remain to vex us indefinitely
during the years of the future
You have never courted public o.
private favor; you have been indifferen
to praise or to blame. Your own en-
lightened conscience has been the char
which has guided you in public life. A
senator you have been 1.-THE mobiles
Roman of them all.
: Your contemporaries have failed t.
do you justice; but when the history o
the times in which you have partici
pated in public affairs comes to b
written if you do not occupy a mos
conspicuous and a most honorable plac
then that history will be a sham and
lie.
With grateful Acknowledgements TO
the kindly consideration and apprecia
ton you have always and so substan
TALLY manifested for the services of m
i associates and myself, they and | ar
most deeply grateful. Be assured
Senator Hale, you will never retire S
far from the scene of your memorial
legislative service that our best wishe
for your health, happiness, and WEI
fare will not follow and abide with you
| have the honor to be, with un
Z feigned admiration and profound re
spect,
E. V. MURPHY.
D Washington, March 10, 1911.
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