DEATH OF SENATOR BARBOUR. JOHN STRODE BARBOUR, Senator from Virginia, died suddenly at his residence, 144 B street northeast, Washington, about 5:30 o'clock a. m., Saturday, May 14, 1892. Upon the day before his death Mr. BARBOUR attended a meeting of the Committee on the District of Columbia, of which he was a prominent member, and passed the evening in conversation with relatives and friends. When he retired to his room at 10 o'clock he was, apparently, in sound health with no premonition of his approaching end. A few minutes after 5 o'clock the next morning Mr. BARBOUR awoke a relative and said that he felt ill. Assistance was immediately given to him and medical aid summoned, but before a physician arrived at the house Mr. BARBOUR had expired. The announcement of Mr. BARBOUR'S death was received with general sorrow. He was a man with hosts of friends, beloved by many and respected by all who knew him. His death put an end to a well-rounded life and to a career of honor, of usefulness, and of distinction-a career brilliant in its example and of incalculable value in the results accomplished. JOHN STRODE BARBOUR, of Alexandria, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, December 29, 1820; pursued a course of study at the University of Virginia for three years, and graduated from the school of law there in 1842; began the practice of law in his native county of Culpeper; was elected to the legislature of Virginia from Culpeper County in 1847, and was reëlected, serving four consecutive sessions; was elected president of the railroad company then called the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company in 1852, and served in that position until it was merged into what is now known as the Virginia Midland Railroad Company, of which he was president till he resigned in 1883; was elected to the Forty-seventh, the Forty-eighth, and the Forty-ninth Congresses and was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat to succeed Harrison H. Riddleberger, Readjuster, and took his seat March 4, 1889. The term for which he was elected will expire March 3, 1895. Every mark of respect was paid to the memory of Mr. BARBOUR. A guard composed of employés of the Senate watched over the remains at the residence of the late Senator and accompanied them when they were borne to the Capitol. The funeral ceremonies took place in the Senate Chamber in the presence of the members of the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, the Senate and House of Representatives, the principal officials of the Government, and eminent citizens of Virginia. After the ceremonies the remains of the late Senator, accompanied by the committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, were conveyed to Poplar Hill, his beautiful estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, and interred by the side of his wife ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DEATH OF SENATOR BARBOUR IN THE SENATE. MONDAY, May 16, 1892. The VICE-PRESIDENT resumed the chair. The Chaplain, Rev. J. G. Butler, D. D., offered the following prayer: O God, Jehovah, we reverently draw nigh to Thee, worshiping Thee, the only living and true God. Amid the mysteries of life and death, the generations coming and going, we rejoice that Thy throne abideth. We bless Thee for the life and immortality brought to light in the Gospel. We thank Thee for Him who is the way, and the truth, and the life. As we stand among the dying and the dead, give us grace to walk in Christ, ever accepting His truth and imitating His life, having begotten in us, by Thy divine Spirit, that life which shall never end. Sanctify to us, we pray Thee, this bereavement. Remember very tenderly, thou God of all comfort, those who stand most nearly related to Thy departed servant. We thank Thee for every true and faithful life and for this life spared so long. We pray Thee, teach us to live wisely and well, serving God and our own generation, keeping our consciences right before Thee and toward each other, doing whatsoever our hands find to do with all our might faithfully and well, not knowing the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh, so that whenever Thou shalt come we may be prepared to give account to Thee, the judge of quick and dead. Hallow to us the day of God with all the blessed privileges that center in the holy Sabbath. Sanctify all the orderings of Thy providence unto us Thy servants this day. Have us in Thy holy keeping, O Thou, in whom we live and move and have our being. If it please Thee, spare and prolong life, and teach us so to use life's blessed opportunity that when we shall come to the end we may enter into rest. Blot out our transgressions, and grant us grace and peace, in the name of Christ our Saviour. Amen. The Journal of the proceedings of Friday last was read and approved. DEATH OF SENATOR BARBOUR. Mr. KENNA. Mr. President, in the absence, on account of sickness, of the Senator from Virginia [Mr. DANIEL], it becomes my painful duty to announce to the Senate the death of Hon. JOHN S. BARBOUR, late a member of this body from that State. Apparently in the full and healthful possession of every normal faculty, Mr. BARBOUR was among us on Friday in the active and zealous discharge of public duty. Even beyond the allotted time of threescore years and ten he crossed this threshold on Friday afternoon, seemingly in vigorous health, his last day's labor unconsciously performed. At 10 o'clock in the closing hours of that day he retired to his bedroom the embodiment and type and perfection, as far as human eye could see, of physical manhood. On Saturday morning, at the age of 71 years and 5 months, at the hour of five and a half o'clock, with only a word of admonition to those who affectionately surrounded him at his house in this city, JOHN S. BARBOUR passed away. Mr. President, in this second sudden visitation of Providence in the present session of the Senate we recognize a power in whose inscrutable wisdom we were born to live, and in the presence of whose unchallengeable majesty we are born to die. The death of Mr. BARBOUR is a great grief to his household, a calamity to his friends. It has come as a personal affliction to his late associates in the public service here. His State will exhibit in the bereavement of her people a realization of the full measure of her loss, and his country, by the observances in which the nations, by their accredited representatives, are soon, by your invitation, to take part, will acknowledge her sense and appreciation of this melancholy event. And yet, Mr. President, speaking for myself and making frank expression of the inspiration of which this solemn occasion possesses me, I have felt, as the associate and neighbor and friend of Mr. BARBOUR, that memories of his private virtues and public career, elevated and clean and noble as they were, give back, at least in some degree, a compensation from the grave. They soften by the sweet influences which radiate from the consciousness of a life well spent the asperities of grief which nature is prone to indulge on occasions like this. This death is to my mind the gathering of ripened fruit, the garnering of the sheaf in the well-rounded fullness of its golden maturity. JOHN S. BARBOUR was in all the relations of this world an elevated character and an upright man. His sterling qualities of mind and heart bore practical fruit. His genius for affairs made monuments in the business and public walks of men, as, in a narrower sphere, his humanity made gratitudes which will follow like angels, guarding him to the tomb. When the Senate, as is its custom, shall have set apart a day to be devoted to the recounting of his manly virtues and |