The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-05
DELEGATION WILL
 NOT ALL RETURN ID CAPITAL AT ONCE.
Underwood to Stay Until Sunday-Congressmen to Visit Home Districts
 In Alabama

l The congressional committees which i accompanied the remains of the late Senator Bankhead to Alabama, re-
 turned to Birmingham from Jasper yesterday afternoon-and divided. | Senator Underwood will remain in | Birmingham today and tomorrow, Rep resentative Heflin will remain in the state for several days. Representa- tive Oliver goes to Tuscaloosa; Repre- sentative McDuffie to Mobile, Repre- [ sentative Dent to Montgomery, ana Representative Rainey to Gadsden, Representatives Blackmon and Al- mon will return to Washington this morning.
 l Senator Harrison of Mississippi left | last night for Jackson where he Will Took on" session of the Mississippi legislature. Senator Mcclellan of Ten nessee left last night for Memphis. | The senators and representatives Ewere driven by citizens throughout Birmingham yesterday afternoon, ana last night, several of them accepted in vitations to attend theatrical perform ances The bulk of the party returns | on the special train to Washington via Chattanooga this morning. The visiting members of Congress were in Birmingham not through the performance of perfunctory duty. They all were real friends. some of them of long standing. of the late Ala bama senator In Jasper yesterday as they moved before the casket. which had been opened to give friends last opportunity to view the remains. tears glistened In the eyes of many of them. Senator Mcclellan. born in Dallas county this state. and educated at the University of Alabama as classmate 1 of John H. Bankhead. Jr, was deeply moved.
 ! T suffer personal loss" he said. "The senator, in Congress, was 8 sec ond father to me-"
 Senator Knute Nelson of Minn esota, veteran of the Civil war. was another who expressed his intense grief. Senator Bankhead was a real man" he said. "We were the surviving vet erans of the Civil war. He fought bravely and sustained wounds in the cause of the Confederacy. I was in the armies of the United States. When we met in Washington. there developed instantly a friendship between us which ripened with each passing year. He was a very able man, one who spoke seldom, but one who said some- thing whenever he asked for the att tention of the Senate. Alabama suffers a great loss"
 Senator Pomerene of Ohio. one of the
 
 who recently retired as candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency, said:
 "The Senate, in recent years, has lost many members. One of it's most valuable passed with Senator Bank head He was very able. very strong. very conservative, and as a general on the democratic side, he had few equals. I can readily understand how on the occasion of the senator's fun eral, all Alabama put on mourning. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, one of the younger members of the Senate, looked upon Senator Bankhead as one to whom he should go in crises for
 advice.
 "He always advised when asked to
 advise,' said the senator. "and his ad.
 vice could always be followed because
 1t was honest. He never advised a
 course because he knew that that ad-
 vice was the variety his petitioner
 wanted to give"
 Senator Ball of Delaware said:
 Every member of the Senate, ire
 spective of party, appreciated Senator
 Bankhead. He was one who stood up-
 right and flat-footed on every impor.
 tant question. One could always put
 his hand on the Alabamlan."
 The embers from the House were
 equally as strong in expressing their
 regard for the deceased and their
 grief in that he has passed on.