The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-10
LODGE EULOGY
STIRS CONGRESS
Memorial Session Attended by
Diplomatic Corps and
Supreme Court.
GREAT CAREER TRACED
Four Members Of Cabinet Fail
to Attend Services for
y EX-President.
GREAT CAREER TRACED
Spsc.ai Bcspafch 10 THn suN.

SPECIAL Bcspdfch TO THE suN.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.--The last and
probably the highest and greatest off,
cial honor was paid to-day to the mem
ory OF Theodore Roosevelt. With the
huge hall of the House OF Representa-
tives packed to capacity with members
Of the two branches Of Congress, MEM
bers OF the Cabinet, the Supreme Court
Of the United States. the Diplomatic
Corps and officers OF the army. navy
and Marine Corps. Henry Cabot Lodge,
senior Senator from Massachusetts.
held the absorbed attention OF officials
and dignitaries on the floor of the
House and OF the packed galleries
while he laid before them Col. Roosc-
velt's life history.
Senator Lodge traced the remarkable
rise OF the sickly boy through his col
iege days. when by sheer will power he
made himself an athlete, to the heights
of power and honor to which he rose
while still a young man. In q little
more than an hour he sketched the
principal points in the remarkable life
history of the x-President. touching
on his election TO the New York State
Assembly year after his graduation
from Harvard; his life in the West
after that: his political activities up
until the time he was made Civil Ser
vice Commissioner and the upheavals
\ nd hn In hot
! his record as chairman of the Board OF
| Police Commissioners OF New York
! City; the record he made as Assistant
Secretary OF the Navy; as one OF the
| organizers Of the Rough Riders; his
administration as Governor OF New
York, and his seven years IN the White
House.
Senator Lodge dvelt also on tho many
! achievements OF Col. Roosevelt outside
his pubic career, paying the superlative
, tribute to him as a statesman, a public
servant and as his friend.
| "Had No Secrets From People"
With firm voice througout the Sen
ator depicted the long and hard fight
made by Col Roosevelt and Representa-
! tive Augustus =. Gardner (Mass). a
! Major in the army at the time of his
death. for putting the United States on
! its guard and preparing itser for war.
Only at this point and one other did
! the least trace OF bitterness creep into
the Senator's words. Major Gardner was
Senator Lodges son-in-law.
| In only one sentence was IL possible to
read into the Senator's eulogy the leas.
tinge of partisanship or comparison OF
President Wilson with Theodore Rooee-
velt-when he declared that Col. Roose.
welt when President had no secrets
from the American people"
+, Representative Nicholas Longwortr
! (Ohio), Col. Roosevelt's son-in-law did
not sit in the gallery reserved for mem.
hers OF the Roosevelt family Mrs
Lonsworth, General and Mrs. Macauey
and Mrs. Douglas Robinson were the
only representatives of the family there
Mr.. Longworth occupied place among
his collea gues OF the House.
Besides the conspicuous absence o.
some members OF the Cabinet one Incl
dent occurred to mar the solemnity o.
the Joint session. Representatives Little
ipsge (W. Va.) and Slsson (AIiss.
throughout a large part OF the Lodg,
eulogy sat together reading a newspaper
rattling over the pages from time e
time. They sat at one OF the two enor
nous desks on the Democratic side o
the House for use Of tile Democrat,
floor leader and members In charge o
legisla ton before the House.
Kitchin Failed to Appear.
Representative Kitchin (N. C). Demo
cratic floor leader and one OF the com
mittee named to sit with Senator I.odg
just below the Speaker and Nice-Presi
dent. failed to appear.
The ceremonies tremendously impres
sive. at the same time We're simple Il
the extreme.