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5738 CONGR.ESSIONAL . RECORD~ENATE . APRIL 29, feature of his natiTe State-cry tal lakes. mirrors of the skies; elor, was considerate in his chnr~es, and served the poor as her mountain summits diademed with the snows of winter; and faithfully as he ser-ved the rich. He was nn adroit manager of her mormtu.in ·walls draped for half the year with scenes of his cases, and in jury trials especially he was a succe sful tran cendent beauty and of joy forever. Nor is this all. He and powerful advocate. was ju ·tly proud of her -e>entful history, civic triumphs, and ma "I can not say, either, thnt ln statecraft he came up to the terial progress, nnd .of that popular will that had kept him for leTel of such men in the history of the State and Nation as more than a quarter of a century in the fields of his fondest Langdon and Sullivan, Webster and Woodbury, John P. Hale ambitions. and GA.LLING.En, but on the line of public sen-tee where he "1 have hem·d it said, but J ·roll not vouch for its authenticity, wrought lle was equa1ly faithful and equally efficient. He thnt the younger Tell when traveling with his father, the great stands to-day at the bend of all others ln 011r national 1 ~i la archer, on the lower levels of Switzerland, growing tired of the tion in securing from the Treasury just needs of t11e American monotony aid to his father, 'I do not like these lowland plains; soidier, his widow and his orphans, and I am inclined to thiuk I'd rather dwell 'mid the avalanche.' This goes to illustrate to that it is upon the strength of hi devotion to t11i. cause that some extent the. entiment that binds for life the mountaineer to his chances of I:emembrance along the lines of the future largely his ruitive mountntn home. SULLOWAY was a fixture in his depend. allegiance to l1is birthright and his citizenship. 1f there WP.t'e " ~lr. President, in forming an estimate of our men in public richer harvests to be gathered in fields beyonrl, tl1ey had no life we are apt to gauge our jU<lgment by our own political charms for him. There is a fascination about this mountain life procli\itie . SULLOWAY was a Republican, and so am I. For that is irrepre. sible. I heard it featured once in a memorial myself, I could not pay him .a higher tribute if I would. But if poem as it came from the lip of n native-born. home-loving, we apply ' the nonpnrti._an stanrlard of public duty, that whicll poet-preacher of New Hampshire who lived it out in love ::md gne to the genera] welfare, that which in\olve the integrity of peace in a life of three score years nnd ten within a radius of our form of government as fashioned by the fathers, its coordi 20 miles from the spot on the mountain !'!ide where he wns born. nate powers, and the representative principle upon which it "It wa on the 4th day of July, 18G3, a day ever memorable UYes and moves and has its being, we shall find that in his for Union \"ictories. lt was at the centennial celehration of the fidelity to these es ential principles of our national life he was town in New Hnmpshire wbe1·e my mother and her immediate as immovable as the granite ·bills. Partisan or nonpartisan, he ltindred were born and where our worthy president of this asso stood foursquare for a tariff wall bu.:Jt up to high-wnt· ·· mark ciation fir t . nw the light of day. The comnlittee of arrange .for tl1e protection of American industries and American labor. ments had invited one of their native-bom townsmen, who had He was for a nG'\'Y large enougl1 to police the navigable water ati ·en to diRtinction in a career outside the State, to return of the globe if need be to ·protect American comm{'rciul anu to his native heath and trace for th~m the history of u hundred treaty rights, and for an army adequate for the natioonl do years. fen e antl domestic peace. Judge him, if you will, by any of "Suiting his lines to the occasion, our poet said: the!'le tegt and you will find him an efficient and faithful •· Wbll<> I honor the man who comes bnck with his laurels public ervant. .-AlJ blooming and fr h on the tirue-w·rinkled brow, "This i my epitome of the dead man's life. lie was born 1n From thE> scenE's of deba1:e or national qoa.rl't'l To biPD•l wtth his kindred wbo follow the plow, my native State of a Joying Ne.w England mother, in an humble I cherish, I love the truE> bP:ro who lingers home where life was a tru.ggle for existence, from \Vhich con Lif('-lnng at tl1e tomb wht>re bl.· fathers liP, dition, unnided by the power of money or social influence. he WhllP tb(' tlme-god is writing with sl<PIPton fingPrs F.ncb >;<'l'DP on th{' hPart as It farl{'~ from the eye. made his way up against strong re istancc to the zenith of his I love the ambition that hovers the nighest ambition in the American Congre s, and died in the Nation's To tb l.' fount wbencl.' our rorliest plPasur<'s flow, nrm , and with tately ob equi she buried him as one of her Wh(~'{e fligbt like tbP larl<'s is the surPst anrl highest. Wbll{' Its home ls unReen iu the valley bt>low. worthy dend in hi native eartll beside hi kindred dust, there to reRt in peace forevermore. "'Paint me as I urn,' said Cromwell to his limner. 'When "\Veil may I say in the pre ence of his death and the pending you shall these unlucky (leeds relate. speak of me n I am,' said crisi amid the nations of the earth, in the language of Byron: Othello. 'nothing extenuate nor et down aught in malice' •":Between 'two worlds ll!e hovers like a ~tar, "He who speak~ of om· dead RuLLOWAY just a he was at 'Twixt night anti morn upon the horizon's edge, every stage and turn in life, whether in youth or at the bar, in How little do we know tbat which we arc, tlm legislature or in Congre s, is his he ·t eulogi t and his truest How le s wha1: we may be. ft•ierrd. lle may then justly say of him thnt he was the physical " The eternal surge of time n nd tide rolls on Aml b{'ars afar our bubbles. type of n giant race of men; that he waR endowed by nature .As th{' old burst new enwrges, lashed from the foam of ages, with a \.Yell-poised hrain, a hrave heart. and a genial tempera While the graves of empires heave, but like some passing wave." ment; that after the manner of America's self-made men, he forged his 'ray upon hi own merit trom lowly conditions to one AD.TOURNMEJ\~. of usefulne m1tl fan1e; that he frtced the wo1·hl until death The SPEA.KER pro tempore. In. accordance with the reso called him to leave it with an open countenance and an hone t lution already adopted the House wiU now adjourn. hand; that in the drama of life be was never known to play the Accordingly (at 2 o'clock and 50 minutes p. m.), the House p:u·t of a pretender to ad\ance his private interests or to win adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, April 29, 1918, at 12 o'clock public favor; that if he cares to dwell upon hi faults ot• noon. frailties incident to human nature, be will find them condoned by his deed~ of love and genero ity, and he will find that many of the recipient of his princely charities still remain to bless SENATE. his name o nrl revere bis memory. 1lfoNDAY, April 29, 1918. " The domnin of his personal and political strenctb la:y in the bearts of the common ~ople, they who ' wear their stars not on (Legislative day of Wedncsday,.April g.q, 1918.) their brensts bnt in them.' The Senate met at 12 o'clock noon. '' He wa familiarly known throughout the Stnte as ' CY l\1r. GALLINGER. 1\.l.r. President, I suggest the absence of a St:LLOWAY.' or 'Qy' for bort. not out of disrespect but as a quorum. term of endearment. Hi political friend hip reached beyonrl The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll. party line . 1 was in Manche. ter once at a general election Tbe Secretary called the roll, and the following Senator an when he wa running for Congre. , nnd I heard a stalwart swered to their ru1mes: Democrat ~my' I am a Democrat, dyed,in-the-wool. never cut my Ashurst llardlng Norrl.s Smith. S.C. ticket, but this time I've got to vote for "CY,"' and o be did. Baird B.:u·dwick NugE-nt " I hall do him no inju. tice when I say that be was not Bankhead HPnderson OverllUln ~~~~~!~f:md Bc•ckham Hitchcock Owen Swanson a finished scholar. He uid not clnim it. His scholastic privi Brandegee Johnson, Cal. 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