Show CONGRESSMENS FUNERALS Mrs Senator HEARST is a broadminded andrefined ladya woman who understands the proprieties of official as well as of private pri-vate life It can therefore be readily understood un-derstood why Mrs HEAIIST was chagrined at the form which her husbauds funeral assumed If sbo had known at first what was going to happen she would not have consented to a funeral which would cost the American people 100000 and set all the newspapers in the country to protesting against those costly junketings known as Congressional funerals When she learned what was going on and tho proportions the affair was assuming sho protested and proposed that tha real friends of the dead Senator should accompany the funeral train Bn her invitation and at her expense Finding this would not do the funeral being a Congressional matter and that her protest was likely to make things unpleasant for some parties sho said no more but she suffers from the annoyance nevertheless It is proper enough for Congress to provide pro-vide for tho burial of those members who dio whilo tho national legislature is in session ses-sion It is appropriate that a committco from the two houses be designated to attend I tho funeral and it is not improper that the expenses to a reasonable amount bo paid by the government but when it comes to paying pay-ing f 100000 which is the estimated cost of the HEVKST funeral or SSOOOO the sum which tho nation paid for the funeral of the late Senator MILLER of California oc 52000 which it cost a year or so ago to bury Senator BECK of Kentucky it is all wrong and comes little short of being scandalous Tho fact these funeral trains are littloless than pleasure junketings for Senators and Representatives and their friends Congressmen seek appointments to those excursions and they travel luxuriously luxu-riously in the finest cars whfch can be procured live high and drink the best of wines all at the public expense The occasion occa-sion is made a feast instead of a time of sorrow and it too often happens that the participants instead of being the personal friends of the deceased wore not even acquainted ac-quainted withlrim The evil has been growing very fast latterly and it is to bo hoped that it has now reached the climax and the revolution I will set in When it costs 100000 to bury a Senator it is certainly time to call a halt and for the people to demand that these junketings of the favored few at the expense ex-pense of tho taxburdened many shall be discontinued |