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Show The custom of devoting a day to , funeral orations over United States senators and members of Congress who die in office is one that will bo dispensed dis-pensed with. The people's representatives represen-tatives are publlo servants, paid for attending to public business. ' No one of them is so necessary to the publio that business must needs be suspended at his death. The rule is a mere custom, cus-tom, as no matter how lnconsoquontal the senator or member of Congress may be, the same formula has to be gone through. We like better the old time customs. On the dark day which prevailed through New England early in the Century, almost everybody believed the day of judgment was at hand. Abram Davenport alone in the publio assembly of his state stood unmoved. un-moved. Ha said the proper place for each member was to stand at his post whatever befeL and ordered tho candles to bo brought in that the public business busi-ness might go on. If there were more Abram Davenports in tho legis-ature legis-ature sessions would be shorter, and core and better work would bo done. |