Show SENATORS I 1 ar r TM avento A AT r CA zm HAD k SA due ato to conviction for 41 r of l 11 tl n 1 also under li 11 t mentor ment or conviction all precedent was I 1 ignore by bai united states senate lit itt the caso cahoj th tha death of 0 tho the lato late senator t or johei ton j always thought ho he wits was until tho the exposure of his bis wrongdoing was made then ho bo must havo have welcomed death as a happy issue out of all his trouble ile iio was an old man ile iio had sounded the depths and shallows of oc life ile iio had run the gamut ot of human emotions ile he had felt tho the glorious thrills of triumph and tho the pangs of disappointed am aman ittin tn ile iio had bad associated tho the world orld around with the men who give alvo impetus and to tho uplifting u I 1 eights ht ot f mankind in that aro are hurry in us 0 on t to 0 P a civilization that will ritually realize tho the poets dream ot of fp 0 abia apia pla h ho 0 must have suffered in his V ast at days what devils peopled his bis brain what repin ings of 0 f what might havo been must havo bavo depressed his soul who can imagine those these lot let alone tell about them napoleon fretting out hla his proud life on st helena never was as anh unhappy a appy as john 11 II mitchell must have been while suffering buffering the stings of humiliation after exposure ure and conviction came with a suddenness that carried him to the depths of despair ile ho told moro more than one senator who had seen him since his trouble that ho he would never go to jail jai U had there been attempt to consider resolutions of respect tor for the memory y of senator mitchell it Is likely th that thero would have been objection there Is a precedent for such action for or when senator broderick Droder lck of california was killed in a duel with judge terry of that state resolutions of respect were offered in the senate they adro we re opposed by senator foster of connecticut and the resolutions were referred to a committee and never arft ern heard from afterward mitchell Ml of oregon yet there W lao to body of men on earth which is a gre greater tor ter stickler for ceremony governed iby precedent than la Is the united slavs senate but the mitchell Ml case presented a unique situation tho official recognition of the death of a senate Is 13 always a solemn and affecting pit ce eding but even tho the usual funeral funer I 1 rites were omitted in this instants iastan In a the oregon senator had been conyl convicted t of a grave crime against the go goy ern crement ment excepting senator I 1 durkot r to f of kansas no othir ae U b a r of f t 9 senate has ever had bad to faco a il court trial tho the senate has expelled d As members and has often exercised J a constitutional of unseat un seating ind it a sena senator ter but with tho the two exceptions above stated it has never teen leen confronted with such a situation as aa was forced upon tho the public attention by senators from oregon and Han kansas tho the vice president who is tile the president of the senate did ri not ot appoint the usual commit committee teo to attend the funeral hold held in portland ore senator F ulton fulton the solo representative of oregon left in congress had bad intended presenting a brief resolution reciting tho the death of his colleague and asking that tho senate adjourn as a mark ark of respect but even this was not done not even was tho the desk dealt which tile the late senator occupied veiled in the heavy mourning drapery as la Is the custom in a word the senate in sadness pass passed ed over the death of its f former r senator as quietly an and d unostentatiously 1 as aa possible there have been no eul eulogy ogle 4 nig ills successor cessor appointed by governor chamberlain a democrat comes to washington from the far far slope oud and the sovereign state of oregon will again have its nii tui representation in tho the senate seats vacate in the house I 1 Or egons representation in th the jituso will remain vacant until the 11 courts have finally passed upon the th indictments and trials of the states two representatives binger hermann and john newton williaml william son eon mr williamson already has been beell kofl convicted by a federal court of offenses similar to those for which senator matchell Ml liell was made haada to suffer and Is now now awaiting tho the outcome of the appeal of his case as was senator mitchell Ml when death gratefully relieved him of further humiliation and woe I 1 mr hermann la Is yet to be oo 00 tried it thus happens that thero there was no one in the bouso from oregon to make formal announcement to that body of tho the death of senator matchell Ml liell so that no lie official attention was paid the incident there Is so little that can belaik of the strange tragic pitiful senator mitchell Ml that the men of t tho senate who know knew him best beak who liked him best who had bad served in that great forum with him longest and who ire are most grieved at the sad ending of his ill 9 career have bave been dis inclined to speak of him at all I 1 1 I ll 11 ia Is istead dead 11 said one senator and that tha ends tends all jf II 11 he tho man anaa I 1 1 7 l j |