| Show tULOGIES ON SPEAKER CRISP H t Late Associates Do Honor to His i Memory LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT SPEAKER REED CALLS A DEMOCRAT S DEMO-CRAT TO THE CHAIR Judge Dearmond of Missouri Diverged Di-verged Somewhat From the Beaten Beat-en Path of Such Discourses and Considers in Eloquent Language the Future of the Departed Few Bills of Minor Importance Passed Washington Jan 16The house today to-day in accordance with an order entered en-tered some weeks ago turned aside from the consideration of public business busi-ness and listened to eulogies upon the life and services of the late exSpeaker Charles F Crisp of Georgia The occasion occa-sion was marked by an unusually large attendance of members while the galleries gal-leries were filled by auditors who listened lis-tened with interest to the obituary eloquence elo-quence Tributes were paid to the deceased de-ceased by Representatives Henderson Rep la Catchings Dem Miss Dalzell Rep Pa Richardson Dem Tenn Bartlett Dem Ga McMIllin Dem Tenn Cummins Dens N Y Hermann Rep Ore Deamond Dem Mo Dinsmore Dem Ark Buck Deri La 4 Cooper Dem Fla Swanson Dem Va Lacey Rep la Bell Pop Col Wheeler Dem Ala Woodward Wood-ward Dem N C Layton DemO Dem-O McLaurin Dem S C McCreary Dem Ky Wellington Rep Md Tate Dem Ga Livingston Dem Ga Lawson Dem Ga and Morse Rep Mass > While the eulogies were being delivered de-livered Sneaker Reed called to the chair temporarily Mr Richardson of Tennessee who was speaker pro tern under the administration of Speaker Crisp the first instance in the present congress that a Democrat had been asked to preside over the deliberations of the house In concluding his remarks Judge Dearmond of Missouri diverged somewhat some-what from the beaten path of such discourses dis-courses and considered the future of the departed saying His spirit where Has its existence terminated with the existence of the body Whatever What-ever philosophy may say man rebels at the thought The hope sometimes clung to in desperation sometimes clung to in brightest anticipations that there is a hereafter and that men live in that hereafter none of us will give up The philosophy of ages of calm reasoning cannot banish it It springs up as an Inheritance of humanity as an instinct in the soul of every being that breathes We believe our hopes our affections all that we hold near and dear in life admonish us to believe and constrain us to believe that our friend has not perished but in a higher and nobler sphere this great Intellect this great loving spirit will flourish and expand and achieve new and perform new acts of glory and of grace Before entering upon the execution of the order of the day the house passed two or three private bills also one authorizing the Columbia and Red Valley Railroad company to build abridge a-bridge across the Columbia river in Washington At 6 oclock the house adjourfied |
