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Show BLAINE'S' DEATH The Sid News Received with Sorrow Everywhere, TitlMITr.S or AFIMTION'. Tbe Annoancemenls Hade In tti3 Senata and House. Mcamui." ui' iiiviiiiii mi. Ile-.iew SUM, He I e ni hiieeeMor.- Ileuioeral ml Hi publican Sluurii rnaelliee. Washinuto.v, Jan. 17. The news of lllaluo' death spread through the department with startling rapidity. While It crettol n profound feeling everywhere, thu feeling was Intensified Intensi-fied In tbo statu depntment, where there was hardly an olll.lal or (au urn-ployo urn-ployo who hal not u personal acquaintance ac-quaintance wllh thu dol man. Although the ovent wai dally i xpected nud every one was In a measure re-pare re-pare J for thu tuceptlou of tho SJd news It was n shock to urcry one. It 'was a noticeable lact, ns Indlcallur thu character of the man who for two terms held the highest petition lu the Cabinet, that hu never again passed under thu portals of tho suito ueiurt-luent ueiurt-luent alter thu day of hla resignation. T hose who havu buen long In tbo statu department, and kuew lllilue wbeu hu was at tils best, recogiilxed with sorrow, sor-row, durlug his lastecrvloa there, thu remarkable cbauge lu his physlcil oondltlon. President Harrison said the news of lllalue' death made n very profound Imprenlon on him. While recogulz lng(thu fact that hla ultimate recovery waa Improbable-. Hill ho was wholly unprepared for It, uud tba announcement announce-ment waa n great shock to him. He fell uuable, under tho circumstances, to enter upon the consideration of any publlo business with tho ruerutrra of his cabinet, and therefore, after an expression ex-pression of regret and sorrow at tho loia sustained by themselves and the country In lllalue' death, the meeting of tbu cabinet adjouruud. Tho associates of lllalro paid the following tribute of ufecllou aud esteem to his memory: ai.cm.rAHA utr BTATh, utvh; In diplomacy hi chief characteristic was hla exalted Americanism. Ho was a thorough believer In the Mjnroo doctrine, und reciprocity, which distinguished dis-tinguished the ohm) or hla rubllo carver, waa the outgrowth ol hla conviction riepcctlug till doctrine. HI diplomatic corresoudenco will runk among the beat ol hi political productions. Hla reputation abroad will mainly rest upon hi nets ua secretary ol stale, and It Is no exsggcr-atlou exsggcr-atlou toaaythat In the past teu jear at least hu haa been Iho beat known American in foreign lands. Bl.Clll.TAUV Of IMF. TIlUAbUnV 11)3-ILK. 11)3-ILK. His career has beeu one of leadership, leader-ship, and wlthoDt doubt he possessed thu confidence, rosiuotand atlectbu of a ait majority of the American people peo-ple more than any man of hi lime. Ills fame waa world-wide. Hla persons! per-sons! popularity and bis hold upon thu popular ullectlon la not confined lo hla own party. Ills death will bo sincerely sincere-ly mourned. ATTUIIENV-Ur NrllAL JIII.Ll.lt: With reference to Illalnelt may be truly said that his failure to be President Presi-dent was an accident. At the funeral of Daulol Webster one of hla neighbor looking on the faoe of the dead statesman states-man said: "Daniel Webster, tbe world will be lonesome without you." Thu same may with pro; rlety be said of Jamea U. lllalue. StvCHh.lAllYTitAcn: Illalne, with the possible exception exception of Huury Clay, waa the moat brilliant statesman aud political leader thu counlrj, ever produced. pro-duced. Ho was a born leader of men and richly endowed by nature with all thu qualities that make a great statesman. states-man. sroniTAiir MJiun James Q, lllalue held tbe attention nud oommauded tho restart of his country to u most extraordinary degree; de-gree; more, I think, than any other tiolltlcal leudersluco Lincoln or Henry Clay, His deith will be greatly lamented, la-mented, and tho whole nation will do hla uiemory honor. Ilia critic will not bu lu thla country. fcI.Clll.TAUY 1 l.k'IHB. Blalno waa a wondurful man and wouderfully gllted. Hu waa one ol thu greatest stall smell and political leader thu country ever produced, uud theuiost canspluuous leader of hla time. Hie loss will be widely felt und mourned, buthls life will bou continuous continu-ous Inspiration lo his ) arty, l-OSTSIASTLK cll-Nr-UA!. WANAMAKKlf Pennsylvania may bu proud of her brilliant ton, cleverer than Henry Clay and as eloquent us Daniel Webster. Web-ster. As nn all around statesman, hla nemo will always be cherished with the greatest Americans. Bix'ittrAitv itrjatc. I huvonohisltitlou in saying that In many respects Illalne outranked any of bis contemporaries, und nonu wlel led greater Innucocu lu shaping lhe fortunes of thu Jtepublloan arty. HI death, while not unexpected, will be a great shock to Iho people of tbe Whole nation, !rrcajcctlvo of political sentiments. ma umiciimroN. A gentleman who was Intimately associated with Illalne said that at U o'clook, tbo day of lllalue' resignation, resigna-tion, It was given out he had no idea of resigning from the cabinet. At that hour be viont home and found that some ono ha I marked it numbi r of Int-nlrw which ntrnlulcfranheJ from .Mlnnpupoll an I (Milled In tnvtrsl pijois ri.oy iircus d lllalnu wllh beirtjlng the l'nsident und wllh uiliu hi place lu the uiblLtt ns n cover for a cotiplrnc to do'eat the President ntnl seiiilu the nomination, lhe I itervlewn wound Up by declaring that If lltalon were au honorable mm he woilj have resigned re-signed from thn cabinet. Unler the heatnfli llgna lor over tlnio Interview Inter-view lllaluo wrntu his leslgnatlou mid ho has since (old friends that thero lter wer)Uit two opcaihuuol illller-enrei illller-enrei tvtwectl himself ntid thu I'rral-dent I'rral-dent and lu'at they we u fully cxphlntd and satisfactorily settled. lllslno was uoux-lous of hla poor health. A prominent ltrj nlilloan who railed on him nbntit u year ago, lu peaking of this, sail: "I went to lllalnu the litter part uf last January nil J ual ed him If he was going to ha a candidate for the 1'resl-clone), 1'resl-clone), lie answered, '.No, eli; I cannot can-not entertain the thought tor ono moment. It won! 1 kill uio sure, mil I know It, and 1 do not believe 1 riavu a friend on cirth who wnul I ask mu to bo n candidate If lie Uirnr thu slate of my health.' lllalnu added, 'I am going to write a letter ou thu eulecL' Alter lllslno ha I written the letter lie-was lie-was waited ujiori by a friend and urged to reconsider his actio . With an air of despondency tho sick man relleJ that hu was tatlilleJ that hu could uot live through n heated political campaign, or If hu shuul I thu hataainicnlsuf thu ( residential ulllcu Aould surely terminate 111 life ultli'n six months after he took hla seat. He Intended, an 1 thla statement was slg-ulllcant slg-ulllcant In vh w of eulweqtit lit events, tu resign hla olllco aa secretary of state In thu i ally summer aud teliretohla Maine home nud spend his rrmalulug daya 111 thu quiet of literary work. ANNOU.NUHl IN OclNcllll.aJ. Tho senito met with thu gloom which Iho Intelligent) of lllalue' death, an hour before, naturally cast over Iho body nuJ aver thocapltol. Thesa 1 event wis appropriately noted III the opeulng trajerof Chaplain Duller. As soon as tho reading of J eiterdoy' lournal waa coniletd, Mr. Hale rose and announced lllalnu' death, lie said! "We aro again summoned Into tho Iireseuco of death. A very gtiat mau i as passed away from earth. Hlslong lilacs In some meusuro irejared Us, but the dread ovout will oarry sadnesi und mourning throughout all tbu United H tales and will awaken Interest wherovor civilized men llus ou thu face of tbo globe. This Is no time or I laco for me to speak lu detail of his distinguished publlo llfu. 1 do not think there Is one senator hero who would deem It lilting that wumako a precedent thla lime, and although lllaluo at thu time of hla death was a private citizen, thla bodyabould taku Immediate adlourumeut." Mr. Cocbrell, a Democrat from Mia-aourl, Mia-aourl, made a formal motion for au Tidjouriiuioiit. The Vice l'teildent put thumotlou and declarod thu Beuutu adjourned until tomorrow. In bis opening prayer in the Houie thu chaplain referred to tbu death uf lllalnu In feeling and sympathetic terms. Then nmld profound alle uce, Mr. Mllllken, n lleputilicnu from Maine, who represents lllslno' old district, aroeo and tald: "It becomes my sad duly to announce an-nounce to the House thu death of James U. lllalue, for fourteen years a prominent aud leading luembor of thu House. Kvery posltlou he held he glided with tho light of genius, uud he has given to tho publlo service for u konerullou such devotion uud such Industry In-dustry and such labor, Ihat 1 do not doubt but that every member of tbe Houio will be glad lo iy him a tribute of reelect by adjournment." Mr, Holm, a Demoorat from Indiana, Indi-ana, said:. "Thu death of James U, lllalnu will profoundly Itnurem tho sonalblllly of the country. Ureat lu statesmanship, known uot only In our country, but to the atatcamuu of thu world, and not only great In states, tnanihlp, he waa great In the Held of literature aa a historian In tbe grandeit epoch ln tho history of tho world. Hu did hla work well aud It would teem, Mr. Bleaker, lo bu eminently roter and filling with tho announcement nf hi death here ou thu theater of his great acblovemenla the Hcuso out of respect to his memory should adjourn." ad-journ." Tho motion was agreed to rnd the House adjourned. I The messages of condolence nnd sympath) received by tho family are very numerous, aud from meu uf both political arlles. Among tho uumler were me-sifcs from the follow lug! drover Cleveland, Coventor Holes ol Iowa, Uoveruor Nelson, Chief Justice Fuller, Uoveruor l'utlleou of I'eiiusyl. kiiIu, UovernorCrounsu of Nebraska, ltibert T. Lincoln, minister to Hug. land, und Andrew Carnegie. OIlAtl.NCLV u. una BAY: "lllulue'a death, while ex; ected, was nevertheless u shock tj his countrymen who honored and loved him. Ho hud Ihueulhusiastlo devotion and at the same time the tender eduction of Ills followers beyond all) political leader uf cur generation. Hu filled agrentplaee, led u mighty and devote 1 army uud has left no tutceasor. The only time I wus ever arrulgned against Jllalue was In tbo lalo coiienllou. I know ho did not want tho nomination and would not accept had It I ecu elided to him. Had hu been nominates and elected he would not have Hied tu havu been inaugurated." AULA! BTr-Vl.VSON BUS "I shall uver retain thu most kindly memories uf Mr. Illalne, and his family havu my profound sympathy In their hourot deeest sorrow." llie.e were the words with which Vice-President-elect Hteveuson closed un Interview on tbu death of Jame U, lllalue. "1 know lllaluo very well," hu aald, "served with him in thu Forty-fourth Cougrrsanud was further thiowu lu contact wllh him as a member of the board of vliltora to Woit Point. Wheu I entered Cougnis, Illalne had Juit closed his third term aa speaker, nud ho was an admirable speaker. As to his personal characteristics, hu Indeed wasncharmlrgman. I cannot help feeling In many rasped that here, sembled Henry Clay. Hlsdiath will bo regre ted by Democrats as heartily as by Itepubllcaiis." LMllSLATUIlia AUJOUIIV. IHacuisieM'u, Col, Jan. I7.Thu legislature adjourned thla morning out of rusect to tbo memory of lllalue, Italia house adopted resolutions plalv ' liiir the qualities of the di oil statesman, rue Hcutu resolution said: "Wu desire to pay the tribute of nur admiration admira-tion and resitct to tho worth ami abilities ol lhat oular rtitcemau whosu ut Ho labors and tnatdiloii ilcqiieiicu accomplished so much for California lu herslrugglu for tho per luauency au I supremacy of Caucasian cIviiiMtlm." Thu Asiimbl In Its resolution said: "Hu has been the constant Irlen I ol ( allfornlu and the rhamplon uf thu light nrinrclllreus " Hai km, Or., Juii.27, Tho legislature ndjuurut-l today a u ruatk of rtsrect to Illalne. OlAMtiA, Wnili , Jan. 27. Thoro wan no change In thn senatorial nlluv Hon today. Tho leglsltturo adjourued outoftesect to Illalne. |
