Show SENATORS SENATOR'S DEATH IGNORED I ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAPITOL CAPITOL CAP CAP- ITOL WHERE HE LW HA HAl HAD SERVED MANY YEARS Due to Conviction for nt of Lands Lands Both Both Oregon Congressmen Also so Under Indictment Indictment Indictment Indict Indict- ment or Conviction All Al precedent was Ignored the tho United States Senate in the case of the death of the late Senator John H. H always thought he was until the exposure ex ex- ex I of his wrongdoing was made then he must have welcomed death as a happy Issue out of all his trouble He was an old man He had sounded the depths and shallows of life Ute He had run the gamut of human emotions He had felt the glorious thrills of trIumph triumph tri trI- and the pangs of ot disappointed ambition He had bad associated the world around with the men who give impetus and tongue to the uplifting thoughts of mankind that are hurryIng hurryIng hurrying hurry- hurry Ing us on to a civilization that will eventually realize the poets poet's dream of Utopia I What he must have suffered In his last ast days what days what devils devUs peopled his brain what of what might have lave been beel must have depressed his soul who soul who can Imagine these let alone tell about them Napoleon fretting out his proud life ute on St. St Helena never was as unhappy as John H. H Mitchell must have been while suffering the stings of humiliation after exposure exposure expos expos- ure and conviction came with a n. suddenness that carried him to the depths of despair He told told- more than one Senator who had seen him since his trouble that he would never go to jail Had there been attempt to consider resolutions of respect for the memory of Senator Mitchell l It Is likely that there would have been objection There is a precedent for such action for when Senator Broderick of Cali Calf fornia was killed in a duel with Judge Terry of that State resolutions of respect respect re ra- re- re raI I wele offered in the Senate They were opposed by Senator Foster Foter of Connecticut and the resolutions were referred to a committee and never I were heard from afterward Mitchell of Oregon Yet there is no nc nobody nobody body of men on on onearth earth which is a greater great great- er stickler for ceremony governed by precedent than is the United States I Senate But Dut the Mitchell case presented presented pre pre- seated a unique situation The official recognition of the he death of a Senator Is always a s solemn lemn and affecting proceeding proceeding proceeding pro pro- but even the usual funeral rites were omitted in this instance The The- Oregon Senator had been convicted convict convIct- ed of a grave crime against the gov gov- Excepting Senator Burton of Kansas no other ri members of the Senate has ever had to face a criminal court trial The Senate has expelled members and has often exercised its constitutional prerogative of unseating a Senator but with the two exceptions above stated It has it-has has never been con- con fr with such a situation as was f forced upon the public attention by Senators from Oregon and Kansas The Vice President who is the President of the Senate did not appoint appoint ap ap- ap point the usual committee to attend the funeral held in Portland Ore Senator Fulton the sole representative of Oregon left in Congress had Inte intended intend ded d- d ed presenting a brief resolution reciting reciting reciting re re- re- re citing the death of his colleague and asking that the Senate adjourn as a amark amark amark mark of respect but even this was not done Not even was the desk which the late Senator occupied veiled in the heavy mourning drapery as is the cus cusS tom torn In a word the Senate In sadness sadness sad sad- ness passed over the death of its Us former former for for- mer Senator as quietly and unostentatiously unostentatiously as possible There have been no eulo eulogies es His HiR successor appointed appoint appoInt- ed by Governor Chamberlain a Democrat Democrat Dem Dem- Democrat comes to Washington ton from the far Pacific slope and the sovereign n State of Oregon will again have its full representation In the Senate Seats in the House Oregon's representation In the House will remain vacant until the courts have finally passed upon the indictments and trials of the States State's two Representatives BInger Hermann and John Newton Williamson William William- son Mr Williamson already has been convicted by a Federal Court of offenses offenses offenses of of- similar to those for which Senator Senator Sen Sen- Senator ator Mitchell was made to suffer sutter and andIs andIs andIs Is now awaiting the outcome of the appeal of his case as was Senator Mitchell l when death gratefully relieved relieved relieved re re- re- re him of further humiliation and woe Mr Hermann is yet to be tried It If thus that there was no one in the House from Oregon to make malee formal for for- mal announcement to that body of the death of Senator Mitchell l so that no official attention was paid the incident There is so little that can be said of the strange tragic pitiful case of Senator Mitchell that the men men of the Senate who knew him best who liked him best who had served In that great forum with him longest and who are most grieved at the sad ending of his career have been disinclined to speak of him at all He is dead said one Senator and andI I that ends all If ho he were the man I r 4 |