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Also, resolution of the Shenandoah Valley Fruit· Growers' The Clerk read as follows : Association fa"'oring law to prevent spread of dangerous insect House resolution 563. pests-to the Committee on Agriculture. Resolved, That the Ilonse has heard with profound sorrow of the By l\Ir. SIMS: Petition of business men of Washington, favor death of Hon. WrLLIA I H. PARKER, late a Member of this House from the State of South Dakota, which occurred at his home in the city of ing H. R. 27670, for prevention of cruelty to animals-to the Deadwood, June 26, 1908. Committee on the Di. trict of Columb!a. Rcsolt;cd, That the business of the House is now suspended that Also, petition of farmers' convention for Carroll County, opportunity may be given to pay tribute to his memory. Resolt:ed, That as a particular mark of respect to the deceased, and fa\Orlng a parcels-post and postal savings bank bill-to the in recognition of his distinguished public service, the House at the Committee on the Post-Oflice and Post-Roads. conclusion of the .memot·ial exercises of the day shall stand adjourned. By l\Ir. S.MITH of l\Iichigan: Petition of P. B. Fort and 26 Resolt:ed, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. others, of Washington, D. C., against the Johnston Sunday bill Resolt:ed, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the (S. 3940)-to the Committee on the District of Columbia. family of the deceased. By Ir. SPERRY: Resolution of the Ieriden Order of Elks, The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on agreeing of ::\1eriden, Conn., fa\oring the establishment of a reserve for to the resolutions. the American elk-to the Conrn1ittee on the Public Lands. The resolutions were agreed to. By 1\Ir. S'rANLEY: Papers to accompany bills for relief of Thomas II. Barker and Hankin Eastin, administrator of the estate of William H . Eustin-to the Committee on War Cliams. l\fr. HALL. l\Ir. Speaker, it is with mingled feelings of sad By 1\Ir. STEENERSON: Petitions of W. T. Spillam and ness and hope that I undert:.:'lke to pay this final tribute to my others, of Red Lake Falls; Edward Johnson and others, of Bel deceased friend and colleague in this body. It is with a "feeling trami; J. P. Seim and others, of Flom; and Axel W. Johnson and of sadness because of the loss of a companionship which I Ilrized others, of Newfolden, all in the State of Minnesota, against duty highly, and the memory of which I sacredly cherish. It is with on tea and cofi'ee-to the Committee on Wars and l\leans. a feeling of sadness because I realize that in his cleat~ his ~len - . Also, petition of the Crookston (l\Iinn.) Water Works, Power, did family sustained the loss of a Joying and devoted husband and Light Company, for reduction of tariff on electric-light car and father. It is with a feeling of sadness because hy his de bons-to the Committee on Ways and Means. parture the State of South Dakota lost one of its most honored, Also, petition of Noyes Brothers & Cutler, of St. Paul, against respected, and patriotic citizens, one whose bright intellect and free importation of surgical instruments in certain cases-to sturdy integrity have been interwoven in many ways in the the Committee on Ways and Means. fabric of her laws and social life. It is with a feeling of hope By l\Ir. TIRRELL: Petition of Groton Grange, No. 7, of that what has been our loss has been his gain. It is with a Groton, l\Iass., fa"'oring establishing a national highways com feeling of hope because he has departed from this world of sick mission-to the Committee on Agriculture. ness, pain, trouble, and sorrow, and has gone to a sphere of By Mr. TOWNSE~D: Petition of residents of Ann Arbor, existence where these are unknown, where all is brightness and against con\erting the Hetch Hetchy Valley of California into happiness and peace. a reservoir for the city of San Francisco-to the Committee on We can not approach the subject of death with aught but the Public Lands. reverence. It is the great unexplainable mystery. Sages and By l\Ir. VREELAND: Petition of oil producers of Wellsville philosophers for ages have \ainly endeavored to discover the and Richburg, both in the State of New York, against any change source of life .and the effect of death. It is the secret which in tariff on crude oil-to the Committee on Ways and Means. the Omnipotent One has wisely and mercifully withheld from us. But enough has been ren~aled to us that we may know that life does not end at the gr:we. .As the 11ew-born infant HOUSE OF ·REPRESENTATIVES. instinctively takes nourishment at the mother's breast, so e>et-y human being, though unlearned and uncultured, has within his SuNDAY, February 14, 1909. breast the instinctive feeling of immortality. It has been said that "the gods conceal from men the happiness of death that The House met at 12 o'clock m. they may endure life." . Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., as fol I shall allude briefly to some of those principal incidents · lows: which, like milestones, mark and indicate our lamented col Our Father in heaven, we meet here on this sacred day to league's upright life, his noble character,. and his patriotic and fulfill a sacred mission. We are come to pay a tribute of love active civil and military service. WILLIAM H. PARKER was and respect to men· who served with distinction their country born l\fay 5, 1847, enlisted in the Union .Army .May 27, 1861, at in the Congress of the United States, than which no greater Portsmouth, N. H., and wa.s mustered into service, to take effect service, if faithfully and efficiently done, can be rendered to the same date, as a musician, in Company H, Second New Hamp one's country. Teach us how to be true to oursel1es, how to be shire Volunteer Infantry, to serve three years, and was dis patriots in times of peace, how to be philanthropists, that we charged from the service .August 28, 1861, at Bladensburg, Md., may feel bound to contribute something to our neighbor, to the being unfit for duty as a drummer. public weal, and to the uplift of humanity; that we may be, . He was again enrolled September 4, 1862, at Keene, N. H., indeed, followers of the world's great Exemplar, and departing, and was mustered into service September 22, 1862, at Concord, lea1e the world a little better than we found i.t. N. H., as a private, Company G, Fourteenth New Hampshire Inspire the men who J;hall speak here to-day that they may Volunteer Infantry, to serve three years. He was transferred bring out the sterling qualities of their departed colleagues; some time in January or February, 1864, to Company .A., Sixth that they may be an example to those who shall come after Regiment Invalid Corps, which organization was afterwards them. Comfort us all with the blessed hope of the immortality designated Company .A., Sixth Regiment U. S. Veteran Resene of the soul, and be especially near to the families who mourn Corps. He was mustered out of service, as of that company the loss of their dear ones that they may look forward with and regiment, .April 28, 1865, at Cincinnati, Ohio, to enable him bright anticipations to a world where sorrows never come, and to accept promotion as second lieutenant in the Sixth U. S. where they shall dwell together with their loved ones forever. Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered into service April 29, And glory and honor be Thine through Him who revealed the 1865, at Cincinnati, Ohio, as second lieutenant Company C, immortality of the soul to the world. Amen. • Sixth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, to serve three years, and was The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and mustered out and honorably discharged the service with the approYed. company October 15, 1866, at Fort Kearney, Nebr. He was MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE LATE RON. WILLIAM H. PARKER, OF brevetted first lieutenant of volunteers March 13, 1865, for SOUTH DAKOTA. faithful and meritorious services. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. OVERSTREET). The Clerk He married l\fiss Clara E. Thomas, of Washington, D. C., will report the first special order. January 27, 1867, the result of the union being 11 children, 8 The Clerk read as follows : of whom are living. Graduated from the law department of the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., class of 1868. Was On motion of Mr. MARTIN, by unanimous consent, admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the District of Co House Ot·der No. 18. lumbia immediately after his graduation. .Appointed collector Ordered, That there be a ses ion of the House at 12 m. Sunday, February 14, for the delivery of eulogies on the life, character, and of internal r evenue of Colorado Territory by General Grant, public services of the Hon. WILLIAM H. PARKER, late a Member of President, June 24, 1874. Resigned July, 1876, upon his ap this House from South Dakota. pointment as assistant United States attorney of Colorado Ter Mr. MARTIN. l\Ir. Speaker, I offer the following resolutions, ritory. Was subsequently appointed United States attorney which I send to the desk and ask to have read. of Colorado. Removed to Deadwood, Dak., July, 1877, where 2340 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-- HOUSE. FEBRUARY 14, since said time up to the time of his death he engaged in Realizing his failing health and evidently with a premonition the practice of his profession. Was elected a member of the of death, Colonel PARKER told me a few days before I left Wash constitutional convention of the proposed State of South Da ington for home that he had selected a site in Arlington Ceme kota June 30, 1885. No-vember 3, 1885, was elected a member of tery where he desired that he might be buried, and there in the state senate from Lawrence County, but owing to the fact . that beautiful city of the soldier dead, overlooking the placid that South Dakota was not admitted as a State until 1889, he and historic waters of the Potomac, now lie the earthly remains did not serve. Was elected a member of the house of repre of my colleague. sentati-ves of South Dakota in 1880. was elected state's attor It is only in those homes where the grim destroyer has entered ney of Lawrence County in November, 1902, and reelected in that the full import of death is felt. The cheering voice is 1904. Was elected to the Sixtieth Congress November, 1906. silent, the willing, helpful hands are still. The empty chair, He departed this life at Deadwood, S. Dak., June 26, 1908. in the vacant place at the table, are silent but eloquent evidences the sixty-first year of his age. of him who has gone. To the bereaved ones the sun does not Colonel P ARKEB while in this body was a member of the Com shine as brightly or the birds sing as sweetly as before. The mittee on the Militia and of the Committee on Indian Affairs, charms and pleasures of life have lost their attractiveness. and it is somewhat indicative of the generosity of his nature The one who has gone before is as a magnet that calls them to and of his interest in military affairs that of the thirty-odd bills heavenly thoughts and things. Yet it is not despair, but resig which he introduced in the last session of Congress two-thirds nation. He has gone to await their coming and, with that faith at least were bills either for pensions or otherwise for the re in immortality which inspires hope, they know that they will lief of worthy and dish·essed soldiers and the widows of sol meet again. We may strew his grave with beautiful flowers diers. His death occurred within a month after he had left expressive of our love and esteem, we may here recount his Washington, where he had been in faithful attendance upon this virtues and his services to his country and express our sym House. pathy to the bereaved family, but hope and comfort must come I had known Colonel PARKER for upward of twenty years, to them from a source infinitely higher than from us poor falli but became more intimately acquainted with him during the ble mortals. I know of no more concrete, hopeful, authorita last year of his life. I had known him as an able lawyer, as a tive assurance than that which is contained in the words of our member of the constitutional convention, a member of the state Savior when he said: legislature, as a worthy and respected citizen of the State. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word and be Later, upon closer acquaintance, we became friends. He was lieveth on Him who sent me shall have everlasting life and shall not one of those friends who was such not only in fair weather, but come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life. in foul; not only in times of prosperity, but in times of adver The final summons came to our beloved colleague at an ago sity and of trouble. Unfortunately his continued illness during when the twilight shadows of life were lengthening toward the the last session of this Congress prevented him from becoming east, and surrounded by his loved ones to whom he was so intimately acquainted with many of his colleagues. To say that devotedly attached, he fearlessly, calmly, and peacefully en he or any man is without faults would be an exaggeration. tered into the great beyond. But let us indulge in the hope of a We all have our faults. "To err is human, to forgive happy reunion with him and our other friends and dear ones divine." His faults, if any, were such as are common to those who have gone before in a place where there are no tears and of his generous nature and amiable disposition, and they were no more partings. so few and of such minor importance that they were eclipsed Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime by his many \irtues as the s.tars are eclipsed by the noonday Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of time, Thy joyous youth began, but ·not to fade sun. He could not see want and distress unrelieved, even to When all thy sister planets have decay'd; the extent of giving his last dollar. He came always to the When wrapt in flames the clouds of ether glow, relief of the afllicted. And heaven's last thunder shakes the world below, Thou, uudismay'd, shalt o'er the ruins smile, Going to the Territory of Dakota in 1877 and locating at And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. Deadwood, then a mining camp, he was one of those hardy pioneers who materially assisted in building up a splendid Mr. GRO~~A.. 1\Ir. Speaker, it is fitting, when one of our Commonwealth. He was one of those who assisted in bringing number lays down his wor~ and consigns himself to the last order out of chaos, in subduing the lawless and turbUlent ele sleep, that we pause for a brief moment and pay tribute to his ment which is usually found in an early mining camp; and he memory. It is well to consider his life, his endeavors, and lived to see it develop into the richest hundred square miles his achie-vements, that we may learn from his failures and re in the world, populated by a law-abiding, peaceful, industrious, joice in his successes. and prosperous people. One might inquire why with all this We have assembled to-day to honor the memory of WILLIAM opportunity he did not accumulate great wealth. The answer H. PARKER, of South Dakota. At the time of his death I had is very simple. His generous nature and his ever-present desire known him but a comparatively short time, but I had learned to assist others would not permit it. In the death of Colonel to regard him with the highest esteem. Born in 1847, he was PARKER the State has sustained a great loss. He took an im but 14 years of age when the civil war broke out. He an portant part in framing the constitution of that State, a cons"ti swered the call to arms, however, and gave fi-ve years of his tution which is generally conceded to be a model. early youth in eager, unselfish service t
Conness, and he was strong enough to earry the day. There he age. I had the honor of commanding for almost two years one of stood, as he had always stood since that time, for the suprem- :Maryland's most gallant regiments-the Sixth Maryland Vol- ' acy of constitutional principle against the exaltation of per- unteers-that fought for the preservation of the Union. These sonal and party passion, for the equal dignity and preservation things make me feel as though it was highly appropriate that of every coordina te branch of the Government against the I should say a word for the distinguished deceased Maryland usurpations nnd the arrogance of power by any one of them. Senator. In order that there may be no mistake about the de This was the first supreme test of his fearlessness and states- scription and history of this distinguished man, I now ask the manship, and he measured up to it nobly. Three years after Clerk to read from the Congressional Directory that story of his appointment to the Senate 1\Ir. WHYTE was elected governor his life and career therein contained, which, though not neces of his State, and in 1874 we find him again in the United States sarily written by Senator WHYTE, we all know must have had Senate. This time he was sent there by a legislature of which his approval as to its essential accuracy. It is mere state- I h a d the honor to be a member for a full term of six years. ment or recital and not eulogistic, yet a good, though far from After the expiration of his first term we find him declining full, summary of his life and career. a reelection to that august body. This refusal of one of the The Clerk read as follows: 6reatest honors which a State can confer upon its worthy son WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE Democrat, of Baltimore, was born in was not prompted by what we could justly consider as a Bal!=fmore, M~ .• August 9, 18~4. His grandfath~r, Dr.. John Campbell roper motive the desire to provide for himself that com- White, a nativ~ of _Ireland, an~ one of the Umted Irishmen of .1 ~98, P . ! . . . came to Amenca m 1800; his maternal grandfather was Wilham petence to which his magmficent powers entitled and assured Pinkney, of :Maryland, who died while United States Senator from that him but because of the illness of his wife. So that when we I State in 1822; he was educated by M. R. McNally, a distinguished , t any peri"od of thi·s full and tirelessly acti"ve career we scholar, who had been .seeretary ~f the fir~t ~apoleon. Fr?m 1 42 to look a ' . 1844 he was enlraged m mercantile pursmts ill the countinghouse of find that Governor WHYTE's energies were stimulated by his Peabody, Riggs & Co., c;>f Baltim_ore~.-,. of. which house George feabody devotion to his fanlily and his finely developed sense of re- was ~e founder; studied law m .tSaltimore•. anq fin.ished his legal ·b·l·ty t hi f ll · · education at the law school of Harvard Umversi9" ill the cl ass of spons1 I 1 o s e ow-citizens. 1 44-45; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and practiced his profession There can be no nobler example of this keen sense of re- in Baltimore; was judge-advocate of a court-martial at the Naval sponsibility to the public than his public career offers after his Ac~demy in 1848. He ~as a representative of Baltimore City in the . . . legislature of Maryland m 1847 and 1848; was elected comptroller of retirement from the Senate m 1880. Some men, after havmg the treasury of :Maryland in 1853, serving until 1855, when he declined enjoyed the highest favors which a discriminating electorate a re~lection; was a candidate for Congr~s ~ 1857 against the Know can bestow are not content to serve their fellow-citizens in a Nothillgs an~ contested the SM;t of tbe sitting M~mber on acc<;>unt of . ' . . fraud and violence at the electiOn, and the Committee on Elections re- capacity less exalted than that m which they formerly repre- ported a resolution declaring the seat vacant, but it was laid on the sented them. We are accustomed to look upon this weakness tabl.e by a vote .100 to 105. H~ was a. dele~te to .the Democratic as one of the foibles of great men With Governor WHYTE nati~nal cop.vention of 1868, which no~atea Horatio Seymour .for . · . . . . ' President; m the same year he was appoillted by the governor Umted however, 1t was not so. In ~881 the eXIgencies of public life States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by tbe appointment of Reverdy required him to serve as Baltimore's mayor. In 1900 he was Johnson as minister to Great BritaiD;; in 1.871 he was elected govern?r called to be its city solicitor To him the call of his fellow- of Maryland for .four years, but x:esigned m 1874 to enable the legis- . . . . · lature to elect hiS successor, on hiS own election to the United States Clbzens was the eqmvalent of a sacred comma.nd. And he Senate for a full term from 1875 to March 3, 1881, to succeed William sanctified those offices hio-h in themselves but minor in their T. Hamilton, as a Democrat. In 18~1, on hi.s retirement trom the · h lik- d 't tho hi h h h d f filled Senate. he was elected mayor of Baltimore, Without opposition. n~ tu re W en ei;l ~ . o ose w c e a . ormer1 Y • • In 1887 he was elected attorney-general c;>f Maryland, serving until With the same nobility of purpose, the same mexorable recti- 1801. He was appointed by President Harrison a delegate to the con tude, the same high powers that characterized his conduct in the gress of South American Republics, but d~lined on account of p_rofes- ' ch · d · th · a1 f · sional engagements. During the years 189 t and 1898 he was chatrman go"Vern~r s air an m e natiOn orum at Washrngto~ . of a commission, established by the city, to frame a new charter for the Of his splendid successes as a lawyer and an orator It IS city of Baltimore. In 1874, in the boundary dispute between Maryland sufficient to say that he was a noble. successor and representa- and -y-rrgtnia, he appeared J;IY aJ?pointment of the governor as coll.D;w . f ,"'. 1 d' f 1· f 1 T h. th f for bts State before the arbitration board, composed of Judge Jeremiah t ~ve 0 .1.u.ary an s amous me 0 .awyers. o rm e pro. es- s. Black; Governor Jenkins, of Georgia; and Senator Beck, of Ken- SIOU of the law was a sacred calling, not a means for ennch- tuckv. In the same year the degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by ment, followed during the intervals in which his manifold public the University ,of Maryland, and subsequently he .receiv~ a lik.e .de?ree duties did not absorb his attention for throughout his long from St. John.s College. In 1900 he was appoillted city solic1tor of ...... Baltimore, which office he resigned in 1903 ; was appointed June 8, and useful life hiS pnvate mterests were subordinated to the 1906, by the governor of Maryland, United States Senator, to fill the requirements of public responsibility. It was therefore a crown- vacancy occasioned by the del:!-th·of H~n. Arthur Pue Gorman, and took ina- tribute to his worth and a strikino- manifestation of the grat- his seat June 11, to ser~e until the le1pslature of Maryland shall elect a • r.. • • • "' successor for the unexpired term, endmg March .3, 1909. 1tude of his fellow-citizens when the governor of his State .ap- When tbe Democratic state convention, on August 8. 1901, adopted pointed him to fill out the unexpired term of the late Senator the plan. of selecting nominees for United States .senators and declared Gorman and when the action of the governor was stanlped with by unan.1mous resolution ~at it should be bmdillg on the Democrats < , • • elected m any county or diStrict to the next legislature to cast thetr the peoples approval when the legislature of Maryland m 1908 votes for the candidates for United States Senator who shall have re- elected him to the same office. An affectionate father, a de- ceived the grea~t number of votes c~t at such primary election in voted husband, a faithful friend a brilliant lawyer and .a fear- such county or distric~. he announced. his candidacy for the bala.?ce of . . ' . ' the term to s.uc.c.eed himself. He received 66,290 votes at the primary, le~s and splendid ppb).ic servant-m short, a strong and a good carrying every county and district in the State without opposition, in- man-this is what ... Governor WHYTE was. It is the achieve- suring his election in January, 1908. His term of service will then ment of men such as he was that inspire the well-known and expire March 3, 19°9· beautiful strain: Mr. KEIFER. Mr. Speaker, WILU.AM PINKNEY WHYTE died Lives of great men all remind us a United States Senator 1\farch 17, 1908, at the age of almost We can make our lives sublime, 84 years. Such 2. long life is rarely allotted to man; and An30::J>I~~\~~n 1 l~!es~~~~~f t~me . to live in this Republic for such a period is to have lived through the best and most important period of the world's history. I Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, have often reflected over the matter of the greatness of indi A forlorn and shipwrecked brother vidual men of the present day compa1·ed with that of times Seeing, might take heart again. gone by. We are apt to minimize our own great men. It was not hard, Mr. Speaker, for a man to be great in barbaric or Mr. KEIFER. 1\fr. Speaker, it is fitting and appropriate that semibarbaric times, nor yet to be great in the bursting out of the 1\fembers of this House, especially of the State of Maryland, civilization in Europe, when it came first out of the forests of should speak of the life and character of WILLIAM PINKNEY Germany and France and from early tribal relations. A great WnYTE, late a Senator from the State of Maryland. I offer no Saxon, or, indeed, a great Roman, always had behind him excuse for adding a word of tribute to his memory, although masses that were of the commonest, illiterate class. When we I had no close personal acquaintance with him. I knew his come to our own period, we find that a great man has to be public history, his splendid life history, and that covered a long great among greatness, and when we speak of WrLLI.AM PINK and successful career. I knew his character and reputation, NEY WHYTE as a great man of his day and generation, we· must that which attaches to a man by what we call" word of mouth." remember his ancestry and the great men .all around him. He That is always truthful, no matter what the publi~ prints may came from a good ancestry, a great ancestry, I can truthfully contain with reference to the individual considered. say, on both his maternal and paternal ~i d es. William Pink I have a very warm feeling for the Stnte of Maryland and her ney, a great statesman, lawyer, and early patriot of this- coun people. Almost one hundred years ago (1811) my father started try, died while a United States Senator, in 1 22, two :.rears from the heights around Antietam Creek, Maryland, from the before the birth of WILLI.AM P INKNEY WHYTE, his grandson. then vi1lage of Slmrpsburg, to the ·west. He carried with him WILLI.AM Pr:NKJ)j~y WHYTE grew up among the ]earned men the plain, simple, sturdy nature that belonged to the peopl-e with of his State and country and had to compete with them in mer wbom he had lived from birth to a period of about 27 years of cantile relations, in social relations, in general business rela- 2344 . CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. FEBRUARY 14,
tions, as an attorney and counselor. at law and as a statesman, pride in the achievements of Senator WHYTE and a delight in . and in all these things he stood w1th the stronger and greater helping to honor him. On the several occasions when I called of them. He succeeded in the United States Senate at one time on him for assistance in the passage of bills introduced by me Reverdy Johnson, a great Marylander, respected and known all I always found him willing and ready to help. over the country a·s a great patriot-statesman. The statesmen of As a man of high aims and ideals, as a citizen of great legal Maryland of the time of the civil war had their difficulties multi and statesmanlike attainments and experience, Senator WHYTE plied somewhat over that of great men and statesmen in some of was exceptionally distinguished. He was such a man as the the Northern States. Maryland was a border slave State, and citizens of any State might be proud to honor, and in giving when the civil war came that was to try the strength of our con him so many marks of their esteem and confidence, my\fellow stitutional unity, they had difficulties to overcome, perhaps prej citizens of Maryland and of the country were reflecting honor udices, that did not attach to men of other parts of the United on themselves. That they were justified in their choice, that States. These men in the light around them and with the condi he was tried and never found wanting, the open book of his life tions about them did their duty to their country through the and high-honored career amply testifies. civil war and since the civil war, and while I belong and have You have heard of the great and stirring events in which he belonged to a party opposed to the one to which WILLIAM figured. Let me dwell upon what is to me the greatest lesson of PINKNEY WHYTE was always attached, I have always had the his life, the thing for which I revere him most, and which, in most profound respect for his character and for the character my opinion, should be the greatest cause of sorrow at his lo s. of his associates in his own State. We are here, then, Mr. By heritage and birth he came to us from our revolutionary Speaker, to-day simply to testify to one of our great statesmen. fathers, and he was thus a link which bound us to the glorious A :Member from Maryland speaks properly of WILLIAM PINKNEY past; but even more by the cast and bent of his mind he stood WHYTE as belonging to the State of Maryland, but he belonged for those things which make the glory of the past and the crown to the Union-to the great American Republic. of our forefathers; they gave us of their best in giving us the Constitution, and it was for this best that Senator WHYTE Mr. TALBOTT. Mr. Speaker, we are called upon once more stood, and which made him such a strong link and such a rep to speak of the illustrious dead. resentative one between the times of our forefathers and these The late Senator WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE was of a most our clays. He was always for the Constitution; for the Con distinguished lineage. His grandfather, William Pinkney, was, stitution as it is, and not as we would make it; his best thought, in his time, the leader of the American bar. Chief Justice his deepest and most profound convictions, the essence of his Taney, who had listened to arguments by Luther Martin, life, were given to the upholding of that instrument, and some Daniel Webster, and the other giants of the time, declared he of the most noteworthy speeches he uttered were in defense of had never heard Mr. Pinkney's equal; and he was as pre its integrity and plain intention. eminent as a statesman as he was as a lawyer. Senator We have fallen upon restless times, and we scarcely know WHYTE, if he had one ambition, wanted to equal the standard wherein we stand from day to day in the fierce cross currents set by his great ancestor, and no one who knew him dQubts of opinion on our representative institutions and the framework that he, in a very great degree, realized his ambition, for he of our Government. We are mightily rocked in the sea of inter was undoubtedly eminently safe as a counselor, one of the pretations and all but drowned in the torrents of authority. most brilliant advocates in his State, and, before a jury, with But the steadfastness of Senator WH1.'TE was as a beacon light out a peer. The story of his life for its last fifty years is the in such times, a clear, cold light to give courage and hope of history of Maryland, and his death closed a great career, succor. He had infinite faith in the fundamental law and its which has had few like it in the history of the State he lo\ed plain interpretation; faith in the intention of the people to place and served so well. While many years of his long life were power only ~n the hands of their chosen representatives as a occupied in public office, he was not regarded as an ambitious bulwark against encroachments from whatsoever source. He or self-seeking man, and I personally believe that with the withstood the storms of opinion like a mighty oak and defended exception of his election as governor and his first election by the rights and liberties of the people, who instinctively trusted the legislature to the Senate, the offices he held, in my time and honored him. at least, came to him because he was worthy of them, and Strict constructionist he may have been; conservative and men knew he could be trusted and delighted in honoring him, wise we knew him to be; but we wish from our hearts that without· effort on his part. . there were more of him in these fevered days. His loss is a Of his integrity there has never been a suspicion or shadow of great one to his people and to his State, but a greater to the doubt, and he discharged the duties of every office to which he institutions he so fittingly represented and so eloquently de was elected or appointed without one adverse criticism. No fended. At the passing of such a man I could cry out with man ever heard an official act of the late WILLIAM PINKNEY David, lamenting over Saul, "How are the mighty fallen!" did WHYTE censured. Always correct, always honest, he served the I not lruowthat .his spirit lives on; that the things he stood for people faithfully. He was singularly free from avarice or will be the better for. his labors; that the true representative greed, and never appeared to consider the profits of an office as government he pleaded for and prayed for will be the more able worthy of his attention, and it has been most frequently com to outlast the storms beating down from high places. mented upon by thoEe who knew that his legal fees were out of Because his life meant all this, because he died while serving _ all proportion to the eminent services rendered his clients. his people and country in a capacity he loved, and because his In his private life Senator WHYTE was pure and blameless. lesson and his influence will live on we revere him and give As a Christian gentleman he was without reproach, with con testimony here to-day, from full hearts, of the love we bore victions of the life to come and the truths of his religion, which him and of the honor and respect in which his memory is held. were ever firm and unshaken. He was charitable beyond his :m2ans. Most undoubtedly his last election to the Senate was the cause of the greatest gratification to him. Coming as it did, RECESS. unanimously, in his old age, it showed that although naturally a Mr. GII,L. l\lr. Speaker, I move that the House now take a man of his character had made enemies and known opposition recess until 3 o'clock. during certain periods of his long and splendid life, at the end he The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the House not only was the best known, but the best loved man in Mary will stand iri recess until 3 o'clock. land, which was a fitting crown of a life largely devoted to the There was no objection. public service of his State and country. Accordingly the House took a recess until 3 o'clock. His death caused more than a mere passing regret, for he had won a warm rand loving place in every Maryland heart, even AFTER RECESS. among those who did not know him personally, and there was At 3 o'clock, the recess having expired, the House was called among our people a feeling of genuine grief when he passed to order by the Speaker pro tempore. away. EULOGIES ON THE LATE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK, OF INDIANA. · Mr. GOULDEN. Mr. Speaker, in this day of our witness to The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the spe the memory of Senator WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE I leave to cial order in reference to the late ABRAHAM LINcoLN BRICK, my colleagues more fortunate in his close personal acquaintance The Clerk read as follows : the tributes of intimate and affectionate association. The State of l\lary1and is doubly dear to my heart as the scene of House Order No. 19. my earliest recollection· and boyhood days and as the field Ordered, That there be a session of the House at 3 p. m. Sunday, February 14, for the delivery of eulogies .on the life, character, and of my activities, as well us the birthplace of many of my an public services of tbe Ron. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK, late a Member of cestors cf sacred memory. As a son of Maryland I have taken this House from Indiana. 1909. CONGRESSION .AL RECORD-HOUSE. ~345
Mr. CHANEY. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the tasks of statesmanship and established himself in the hearts of resolutions which I send to the Clerk's desk. his colleagues, where appreciation is never won without merit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Indiana He had literary tastes of a high order, and his life was embel moves the adoption of the resolutions which the Clerk will lished with the inspiration of the pure and beautiful. He was report. wont to ask the gentle traveler, "Who hast wandered through Tile Clerk read as follows : the world and seen the sweetest flowers blow and brightest gliding rivers, of the fairest land his eyes hath seen?" and to House resolution 565. ask the child, " Where nature is most blest and fair? " and to R csolt·ed, That the House bas heard with profound sorrow of the get the answer that "It is where those we love abide. Though death of the lion. ABRAHAM LI::- more thoroughly for the active and responsible duties of his thoughts, no treason in his dealings with his fe1low-men. He chosen profe sion, he sought the advantages of courses at was happy when helping others, and he had an unfailing charity Cornell, Yale, and Ann Arbor. He graduated from the latter toward all. institution and returned to his nathe county and entered the I was a member of the congressional committee appointed to struggle for a practice in his profession. attend the funeral of our late colleague, and I witnessed the Three years later he was elected to the office of prosecuting solemn and impressive ceremonies with whicp. his body wa laid attorney, and his faithful discharge of its responsible and multi to rest. I noted the sincere grief felt by the people of his dis farious duties gave early promise of the capable and con cien trict over his death. Factories were closed, business was sus tious manner in which he performed the duties of the high office pended, schools were dismissed, and the sh·eets were for squares which he was later caned to fill. His close application to his thronged with those who sought to pay their last tribute to books, his painstakina attention to details, his fidelity to his their departed fellow-citizen. Persons of all ranks and clas es clients, his strict integrity and charming personality brought jostled elbows in that crowd, and mingled the expressions of him clients and enabled him to establish a large and lucrative heartfelt sorrow that each felt in his death and their admira practice. He was skilled in the trial of causes, courteous to his tion and love for his splendid character. opponents, re pectful to the court, and frank and open in his The people of his city had honored him in life, and they did arguments to the jury. With these exceptional qualities, it is not fail in his death to breathe the tenderest sentiments of not surprising that his services were always in demand in im affection and sympathy over his remains. No matter what the portant cases, and he leaves a name that will long be honored memorial shaft chosen to mark his grave may be, no matter by the bar of northern Indiana. how long it endures the elements and mutely stands bearing As is usual in our tate, the lawyer is called upon to partici testimony of the departed, longer still shall his memory be pate in political battles, and Mr. BRICK rendered great service cherished and shall the spirit of the man that was and the good to his party in each campaign. His natural oratorical talent, he wrought live in the hearts of the people whom he served. his trained logical mind, quick in its analysis of public ques In the wonls of Tacitus- tions, his beautiful diction, his practical illustrations, and his What('ver we have loved in Agricola, whatever we admired in him, passionate and enthusiastic appeals in behalf ot Republican remains and shall remain in the minds of men, in the duration of the policies and principles made him the leading figure of his party ages, and the renown of great events. in a district that had for years been the storm center of In The last word is said. Human hands can do no more; human diana politics. sympathy can share but never still the pangs of broken hearts. l\Ir. BRICK was not only a fighter on the firing line, but his I append portions of the beautiful tribute to Mr. BRICK deliv advice was sought and followed in the councils of his party, ered by the Rev. Henry Webb Johnson, pastor of the Presby both local1y and in the State. In recognition of these qualities, terian Church of his home city, who was his lifelong friend and he was nominated and elected to the l!"'ifty-sixth Congress, and neighbor : continued an uninterrupted service for nearly ten years, the TExT.-Seest thou a man diligent in business? he shall stand before longest period served by any Representati,re from his district. kings. (Proverbs, xxiii: 29. ) I said to a friend a moment ago that I could hardly realize that His constituency looked with favor upon his ability and our friend is gone. '£he letter that I bold in my bandi received from faithfulne , and loyally gave him their support each time he him a few days ago makes it difficult for me to rea ize that be is sought reelection. As a Member of this House, he was placed not with us. When he wrote it he was in the prime and splendor of his powers. A deep shadow is upon our city. A life work is done. upon importimt and responsible committees, and served with While the years of our fellow-citizen have not been many his labors distinction on the Committee on Territories, on Naval Affairs, have been multiform. We are never to me:tsure a life by its years, and later upon the App1·opriations. Everyone familiar with but by the noble deeds performed. Achievements measure the value of a life. the business of this branch of Congress knows· that these Behind the success of our fellow-citizen there were vears of prepara committees have to deal with the most comp.rehensiye and tion. He was born under the sky of our county. ~!any here to-day intricate subjects of legislation, and exact of their member have watched his movements and marked his progress from his very cradle. In the early years there was born in his heart an ambition to ship the strictest application and industry. To · these duties make something of himself. He thirsted for knowledge. To acquire an Mr. BRICK contributed his talents with unwavering fidelity. education be was willing to cross every rough sea and to climb every his lofty b('jght. The great state m:m after whom be was named on his He shrank from no sacrifices, and never hesitated to give way from the log cabin to the White House never worked harder for time and mind to the labor of thes~ committees. He sought an education than did Air. BRICK, our fellow-citizen and friend. He no public display of the result of this work, and was always was endowed with large natural gifts, but he well knew that the most royal talent must have discipline and culture. Our Angelos who chisel modest and unpretending in his intercourse with his fellow- our marble, our Raphaels who paint our pictures, our Shakespear s 1\iembers. He but seldom took part in the debates on the floor, who write our poetry, our orators who speak for us in the name of not because he was not equipped with knowledge of the subject liberty must toil long and patiently. Without diligence our feet shall never staud in the presence of kings. · and able to present his views with vigor and effect, but rather He possessed in a high degree the literary instinct, and wielded a because he was diffident and retiring by nature, and of a de graceful pen. His was a brilliant imagination, and he was a poet in meanor and temperament which induced him to refrain from • temperament. He drank of the wells of a Ryron and of a Burns and lifting his voice in debate and to exert his influence and im of a Charles Lamb. Charles Lamb appealed to him most stron'!ly. His crumbs were better than some men's whole loaves. The fact tbat press his ideas in the committe.e room, where in fact all im Charles Lamb cared so patiently for his invalid sister clothed his portant, and particularly constructive, legislation is in reality essays and poems with new charms for Mr. BRICK. In conver ation framed. The services rendered by a Member of this House once with my friend, I told him an incident that was associated with Mr. Lamb that affected him deeply. Poets. orators, artists, and authors to his constituency and the country are not measured bS the were once dining with- Mr. Lamb. As the conversation flagged one of number of bills he introduces, nor in any sense determined them said, " What wopld you do, Mr. Lamb, if William Shakespeare were to step into our presence? " He replied, " I would stand to my by the speeches he delivers. The greatest and most lasting feet and exclaim, 'All hail, thou greatest of poets!'" "But what results are accomplished by earnest efforts in the committee, would you do if the Christ of the New •.restament should come into where learning, ability, ·and devotion to the best interests of this room? " He replied, " Of eourse, I should receive Him upon my the country, such as possessed by our departed friend, have knees." When he had achieved an honorable fame among the great men of their best opportunity to mold legislation and permanently the Nation, then did he stand before kings. There are real kings who to leave their impress upon the destinies of the Republic. do not wen.r crowns and waive scepters and live in palaces. The While it was through politics that 1\Ir. BRICK secured his words " Seest thou a man diligent in business? be shall stand before kings," a.re ·fulfilled when we stand iu the presence of true greatness. adYancement and preferment, nevertheless, he was a politician But what a friend was be. What a patriot. How loyal to the in the highest and broadest sense of that term. "A. politician " friends he loved. Warm in his sympathies, appreciative of the smallest does not mean in its proper sense one who e aims and ambitions kindness. A gentleman in his instincts. He bad his faults, but his good qualities overbalanced his bad qualities. We shall miss his genial are solely selfish and who seeks only his own advancement personality and his manl-y presence. We are all glad that we have without regard to means or methods employed, but rather one known him. What a spontaneous tribute to his memory do we see here to-day.. His distinguished associates in Congress are here to pay the who has an intense interest in governmental affairs, fixed ideas final tribute of their affection and appreciation. With thousands of as to policies and principles, ability to command the respect fellow-citizens I passed through the court-house yesterday, where his ru1d win the confidence of men, and who seeks place and power body lay in state. Every man. 'woman, aud child was sympathetic. I was impressed with the beautiful flags that made the very air throb in the hope that he can be of larger service to his fellow-men. with patriotism. Let us clothe him with the flag of his country, which With no other thought than the public good, no other ambition he .loved, to which he was so true, and for which he would lutve died, than the 'faithful performance of his duty, the po1itician is and let us weave another flag, the flag of charity, out of our heart's best affection, and throw its folds around him.. With these two fiags merged into the statesman, and such a politician and such a let him rest. statesman was AlmA.HAM LINCOLN BRICK. 0 death, where is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy victory? It is impossible to state in formal phrase the many noble qualities that made up his splendid manhood, kindness, gener Mr. ALEXANDER of New York. Mr. Speaker, in the few osity, a loving disposition and an engaging personality. He minutes allotted me I shalT speak of Mr. BRICK, not as ·a Repre had no malice in his heart toward any man, no envy in his sentative, although I regarded him one of the ablest Members in 1909. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE.· this House; nor as a lawyer who came here with a reputation with Rudyard Kipling into the attractive life of the jungle. second. to none in the section of Indiana where he resided; nor The Call of the Wild interested him because it harked back as an affectionate husband and devoted father whose life seemed to the original in nature, showing in animals, perhaps, the in wrapped up in the daughter of whose mental gifts he was so herent governing qualities that dominate men when isolated justly proud; nor as the friend of his constituents, whose re from the ripening and refining influences that make for civili spect, shown to his memory by crowded streets and a thronged zation and peace. To him White Fangs, representing the procession on the funeral day, indicated that they, among whom wild in its evolution, likewise appealed. The cruel pictures did he was born, understood the rare qualities of his head and not please, nor the impossible feats of strength, but the wild, heart. strange life, thrust into sight like an upheaval of ice churned · But l shall speak of him rather as one whom I knew with and stiffened into fantastic shapes, riveted his thought upon the something of the intimacy that one mind knows another after war that goes on among the survival of nature's fittest. each, with absolute candor, has exposed its inmost thoughts. He might be called a "gentle Elia;" yet he was not wholly For six or seven years ABE and I lived at the same hotel. Many content with literature as a mere source of enjoyment. His evenings were we together. Before an open, crackling wood deepest pleasure was in its substance and in the inspiration it fire, comfortably seated in rocking chairs, with the blue smoke breathed into his life. Nor was he wholly satisfied with the of our cigars curling and circling about us, we talked of men, of exquisite and truthful nature pictures of John Burroughs. books, of nature, and of eternity. He was a lover of the best His mind was essentially vigorous, and of a fiber as firm as it literature. His tranquil an caution which swayed h.im, and the painstaking investigation Mr. HOLLIDAY. Mr. Speaker, I desire to place a few made about a matter which he nor his constituents had any wt:eaths upon the tomb of a man whom I loved well. While personal concern. He was partisan in politics, but patriotic I illdorse e"\'erything said in regard to his ability as a states always. When the proposition was before Con Where,er he had gone in the practice of his profession he It has been well said by a philosopher in years past, that: was held in high esteem and warm remembrance by all. It Rashly, nor ofttimes truly, doth man pas judgment on his brother · was his inborn characteristic and good fortune to at once gain For he seeth not the springs of the heart, nor heareth the reasons of the respect, admiration, and love of all with whom he came the mind. And the world is not wiser than of old, when justice was meted by the in contact. He was always spoken of in the highest terms for · sword, his ability and integrity as a lawyer while actively engaged in When the spear avenged the wrong, and the lot decided the right hi When the footsteps of blinded innocence were tracked by burning' plow- the 11rnctice of profession in his own and the thirty-fourth shares, judicial circuits of Indiana. Everywhere he recei\ed the high ~nd the s~ ~ondemning water delivered up the wizard to the stake: est encomiums, and was early recognized among the practition For we wmt, like the sage of Salamis, to see what the end will ~ ers of the bar to be an excellent lawyer and an able advocate. Fixing the right or the wrong by the issues of failure or success:· Judge not of things by their events; neither of character by provi- He was genial, kind, and lo\ing; full of warmth for everyone; dence; appreciatiye of the kindly spirit that was manifested toward And count not a man more evil, because he is more unfortunate : him from time to time, with a keen sense of integrity, honor, For the b~essings of a better covenant lie not in the sunshine of pros and justice, and a generous appreciation of his fellow-men. He penty. was earnest, honest, and capable, and sincerely desirous of ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK has passed over to the other side ser\ing his constituents well; of unusual capacity for prepara into the great unknown, but toward which all mankind has tion and to do well that which he undertook to do. He was looked forward with contemplative eye, hoping that he might always easy of approach and never in the slightest degree ex catch a vision, and thereby obtain a clearer perception of eternal clusi\e, and held himself at all times on a par with the hum destiny, and so we will continue to believe and hope that blest of his constituents, with whom he met from day to day. "death did not come to our colleague bearing in his hand the Because of the e qualities he early gained recognition. Na sickle of destruction, but the scepter of immortality." It has ture, in its kindnes , had endowed him with excellent capabili been said by the philosopher Tupper : ties, and early age found him climbing the ladder of success. That we are of earth for a day, but an heir of the universe forever 1 For neither the congealing of the grave, nor 'gulphing waters of the fir- His tastes were distinctly intellectual. He was an extraordi mament, nary student of literature, and he was unusually responsi\e to Nor rust of rest, nor wear, nor waste, nor Joss, nor chance, nor change Shall avail to quench or overwhelm the soul within thee ! the flashlights of the historian and the voice of the poet. His Thou art an imperishable leaf on the evergreen bay tree of existence· power to analyze the thought of an author and to turn it to his A word from wisdom's mouth that can not be unspoken ; ' own use was always noticeable in all his work. He was not a A ray of love's own light; a d t·op in mercy's sea ; A creature marvelous and fearful, begotten by the fiat of omnipotence seeker of notoriety. He was not seusational, but was always I that speak in weakness and ye that hear in charity · modest and unassuming, and was content with doing his duty Shall not cease to live and feel, though flesh must see corruption · each day in a manner which he beli-eved would assist the people. For the prison gates of matter shall be broken, and the shackled soul go free He had a keen sense of humor and ready wit, and was, all in all, Forever, happy fate, to ripen into perfectness, forever! a generous, noble fellow. Simplicity of character remained with him whom we com Mr. BARNHART. Mr. Speaker, what a sunshine and what a memorate to-daY. He was born of common parents, whose shadow is life! To-day we are in the midst of activity and use lineage was of the common people, and to the common people fulness, and to-morrow our faces and our favors are known no _ he was constantly drawn, and never held a spirit of exaltation more forever. Truly it has been said that man cometh fo1·th above them: To him it was a pleasure to serve, and his con like .the flower of the field, only to fall, in the full bloom, befor~ stituents, however humble, found an obliging and ready helper. the blighting edge of the sickle of death. Also truly it has To know ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK was to feel the warmth been said that man's work doth follow. him. .And notwith of a noble and generous heart and enjoy the pleasure of his standing the awful truism that "in the midst of life we are personal charm. He was as a brother to those who were for in death," there is great inspiration and hope in the assurance tunate in knowing him-broad in fe11owship and deep in love that death does not end all, and that usefulne s and devotion and sympathy for all. Nothing could have proclaimed more to duty, in whatever sphere of life, is the richest legacy that surely and emphatically the high regard and affection of his can be left to posterity, and that loyalty to friends and country people than did the action of his home city and district in the has its bountiful reward, both here and hereafter. filial welcome of his mortal remains and the loving affection 'Vith a magical name and a wealth of industry, ambition, arid and tearful burial of all that was earthly of their fellow love of fellow-men, .A.nRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK, to whom we give townsman and foremost citizen. panegyric here to-day, came into the field of life's acti'f"ities In everyone we find characteristics which mark the true and equipped for leadership in an advantageous way. He was not noble impulses. They are the sentinels which proclaim the only blessed by nature and environment with qualification for man to his friends, the community, and, perchance, to all the the larger sphere of usefulness in his community and his coun world. They speak for quality, as nobility, justice, truth, love, try, but he diligently enlarged his possibilities by studious re and gentleness. These are some of the attributes that were search, until his ability shone in distinguished splendor and he strongly marked in our friend and colleague, ABRAHAM LINCOLN was called, step by step, to the highest councils of his illus BRICK, and which endeared him to all who had the pleasure of trious country. his acquaintance. How often do we find those whom the popu It was not my pleasure to know him intimately, as many of lace has raised to conspicuous position exhibit qualities that you, sirs, who served with him here beneath this great dome, are ignoble, ostentatious, and vainglorious; but it was not so the emblem of supreme sovereignty throughout the world, but I with our colleague and friend, who wore the honors well. did know him to be ambitious to sene his country well, and From my observation of him on the floor of the House, I while he was a stalwart in politics, he was magnanimous to all would . judge he was not given to much speaking; but when of opposite faith, and he followed his party leaders only so far called upon to defend his constituency, or in defense of his posi as he thought them to be right. tion upon questions before the House, he was clear, able, and Born of intellectual and sturdy parentage, he was endowed forceful, ·speaking with earnestness and feeling. with a desire to get knowledge, and after securing a high-school ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK was fortunate in the representation education he achieved scholastic finish at Cornell, Yale, and of a district composed of a sturdy, rugged, and industrious Michigan universities, and entered upon a successful career as a people, of fine moral integrity and intellectual attainments, out lawyer. Soon after he was elected to responsible judicial call of which has come some of the strongest and ablest men of the ing, and later enjoyed the distinguished honor of being elected to State; a district that has always been a great force in the Congress and reelected four times. .And of his seryices here and State's affairs, producing some of the ablest men in its history; of his devotion to his duty, to his friends, to his country, and to men who have not followed, but have led in the work of both the heroes who stood by the Union in its time of peril, an old ~ol State and Nation in the fields of legal jurisprudence, agricul dier, with a crown of snow-white hair over a heart of gold, says: ture, and manufacture. I care not how great his predecessors were, no Congressman ever did more for his district than ABRAHAM L. BRICK. He knew the wants of To be chosen as the Representative of such a district is in his constituents, and none ever worked harder for the poor and umicted dicative of the ability and character of the man. Character is than he. No Congressman ever loved and cared for the old soldier more that silent, unseen force always felt and known of all men. It than be, and no one had a greater reverence for the flag of his coun is always preceding us, proclaiming our virtues and our possi try-this not so much for its triumphs of 1776, 1812, and 1846, but for its blood stains for the perpetuity of this Union. His motto was, " If bilities. It is the silent messenger, standing at the door of op you can not say good of one, say no evil." Hence, he always had some portunity and proclaiming our rights to enter. 'Tis the con extenuating circumstance for the man who may have gone wrong. His queror of adversity and, although it might be outgeneraled for badge of love a.nd huma.nity's heraldry reclines on thousands of breasts whose hearts have felt. Therefore if, after his life of love, be ts but a day, its power of recuperation is marvelous, and success is dust, he needs no tears. Then all the eulogies, monuments, and c.:mo attained at last. tapbs of earth are hollow mockeries. If he lives forever, then he is 1909. CONGRESS! ON AL ' RECORD-~SENATE. '2351 safe, because on earth he furnished the material for his mansions of MESSAGE .FBOM THE HOUSE. charity, for God is just and He knows ABRAHAM L. BRICK. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. W. J. Of his traits as fellow-citizen, n€ighbor, -and friend a lifelong Browning, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House had passed acquaintance says of him: the following bills: To his intimate friends Mr. BRICK always maintained that advance- S. 3969. An act to amend the laws of the United States relat- ment and high standing in the law was his prime ambition, and that it was against both his better ju~gment and his real inclination that ing to the registration of trade-marks; he yielded to the importunities of his friends and entered upon a S . 8628 . .An act granting pensions and increase of pensions political c::treer. His eloquence as a speaker. his interest in public to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and to certain affairs and in the success of his party had, however, brought him Into political prominence. widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors; The same vigor, earnestness, and assiducms attention to work that and had produced the successful lawyer made 1\fr. BRICK a useful, popular S. 8629. An act granting pensions and inCl·ease of pensions Congressman. A hard worker, effective speaker and courteous gentle- . . . . . man, the progress of his service placed him hlgh in the regard of to certain soldiers and sa.ilors of wars other than the crv.il war his constituents and iniluential in the councils of his party. · :and to certain widows and dependent rela.tiV€S of such soldiers But death ends all activity. There remains but the memory of a and sailors reputation. Of the hollown~ss of fame and power and wealth none · were more aware than ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK. At a social function The message also annouced that the House had passed the a few yea~s ago. at the Oliver Hotel, in ~outh Bend, Ind._, in honor following bills with amendments, in which it requested the con of an old-time friend, ~r. BRICK spoke feelrngly of the elusive baubl~s eurrence of the Senate . .of fame and riches which so many pursue to their undoing; and m · . . -eloquent words portrayed the higher satisfaction of an ambition de- S. 1574. An act to create the Calaveras BI.gtree National voted to nobl<: purposes, along ~he c:;eol, sequestere.d vale of a private Forest, and for other purposes ; careei·. Was Jt the . .heart r~calling ~ts own earlier cherished dreams 1 S 8254 .An act grantina- ·pensions and increase of pensions Doubtless so, for h1s high Ideals, his love of nature, and his poetic · ' . · . ;:> • • • temperament often made him yearn for relief from public burdens, to certam soldiers and sa.ilors of the c1vil war and C€rtam de- but his sense of duty to f:i€nds and country held him in the public pendent relatives of such soldiers and sailors; 1 service. He esteemed ~ubhc df!,ty to be param?UDt to personal com- ! S. 8422. An act granting pensions and increase of pensions fort · therefore he died literally rn the harness. . . s~ after his life of generosity, of manifold good deeds to to certam soldiers ~nd sailors of th~ civil war. and to Wldows othe{·s, let us remember his virtues as worthy -of -our emulation, and dependent relatives of such so~diers and sailors; . and as the bleak winds of life toss us hither and thither and . S. 8510· An a_ct ~0 ex~d th~ time of payments on certam submerge our ambitions with billows of misfortune and despair homestead entries m D~ahoma.,. . . . let us hope that they may ever hum a requiem to the eternal S. 889 ~· An ~ct grantin? ~ensiOns and ~c~ease of pensiOns rest of him whose memory we honor here to-day. My hope and to_cert~m soldiers and sailms of th~ late ClVIl war an?- to cer- .ti · t eed his official career well. ta~ WJ..dows and dependent relatives of .such soidiers and my amb I on IS o succ sailors · and And as appropriate benediction to his life and an inspiration S ' . . . . • for us' shall we all join in the humble but uplifting consecra- · · 8 8~9 • .An act. granting pensiOns and mere~~ of pensiOns . ' ch afed t mankind by life s sanctuacy in Max Ehr- · to so~dier~ and sailors of wars other. than the c1vil wa~ and to tion ~ouK. sd,..,. L'2ht. certarn Widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and mann s rn v 1o · sailors Let me do my work ench day, and .if the darkened hours of despair Th · """-th H h d me me may I not forget the strenrtll that comfort~d me in the e message .LUJ. er announced that the ouse a agreed ~!~~f~tton -or' other times. M.ay I ~till re~ember the bright hour.s that to the 'amendments of the Senate to the following bills: found me walking ovm; the. silent hills of my childhood .ox dxeamrng on H. R . 7474. An act granting a pension to Charles H. Balch· the margin of the qmet nver, when a Ii1.7ht glowed Within me and I · H R 31. An · t t ' · . d . f ' ·sed my early God to have courage a.lllld the tempests of the chang- · · 248 ac gran mg pensiOns an mcrease o pen- f~~~1ears. Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of sious to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and -riches are of · widows and dependent Telatives of such soldiers and sailors· the spirit. Though the world know me not, may my thoughts and ac- H R ?t:"':)fiL An t ti · d · f ' t• s be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes from . · -uu" ac gran ng pensiOns an rncrease o pen- t~: earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I sions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain should judge others, lest I condemn m~self. Let. me ~ot follow the widows and dependent relati>es of such soldiers and sailors~ clamor of the world, but walk calmly rn my path. Give me a few H R n~ , tin . ~ . . f ' fr"ends who will love me for what I am and keep ever burning before · ·· ""-' 806 · An act gran g pensums and mcrease o pen- m; vagrant steps the kindly light of ~o~e. And though age and in- sions to certain soldiers. and sailors of the civil war and certain firmity overtake me. and I come not With_in sight of !Jle, castle of my widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors· dreams teach me still to be thankful for hfe and for times ·olden mem- . H R . . . ' ries that are good and sweet ; and may the evening's twilight find me . . . 26461· An act grantmg pensiOns and mcrease of peu- ~entle still. sions to certain ·soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain widows and dependent relatiYes of such soldiers and sailors; ADJOURNMENT. and Then, in accordance with the order heretofore adopted (at 4 H. R. 26746. An act granting pensions and increase of pen o'clock and 34 minutes p. m.), the House adjourned. sions to certain soldiers and sailors of the Regular Army and , Navy .and certain soldiers and sailors of wars other than the civil war, and to widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers SENATE. and sailors. The message also announced that the House had agreed to the AioND.A.Y, February 15, 1909 .. amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 21926) for the Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. Edward E. Hale. organization of the militia in the District of Columbia, except The Secretary proceeded to read the ..Journal of the proceed- amendment No. 79, to which it agrees with an amendment, in ings of Thursday last, when, on request of Mr. TELLEB. and by which it requested the concurrence of the Senate. unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed with. The message further ann-ounced that the House had passed The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Journal stands approved. the following bills and joint resolution, in which it requested CREDENTIALS. the concurrence of the Senate : . . H. R. 23717. An act to extend the time for construction and :Mr. PILES pre~ented the credentials of WES~EY L. JoNEs, be!tinning construction of thB Alaska Short Line Railroad in chosen by the legislature Qf the State -?f ~a.shmgton a Sen- Al~ska; · a.to~ from that State :or the term begmnmg March 4, 1909., H. R. 24149. An act granting to the :Montana, Wyoming :md which were read and ordered to be filed. . Southern Railway Company a right of way across the Fort l\Ir. McLAURIN preseD:ted the credentials of J~ P. Keogh Military Reservation, Mont.; CLARKE. 'Chosen by the legtslature of the. St~te -<>f Arkansas a H. R. 27053 . .An act making appropriations for the Depart- Se~ator from that State for the term begmnmg March 4• 1909, ment of .Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910; which were read and ordered to ~e file~. H. R. 27249. An act granting pensions and increase of pen- Mr. BOURNE presented. the <:edenhals of GEORGE E. CHAM- : sions to certain soldiers .and sailors of the Regular Army and BERLAIN, chosen by the legtslatme .of the ~ta_te of Oregon a Sen- Navy and certain soldiers and sa.ilors of wars other than the ator from that State for the term begmmng March 4• 1909, civil war and to widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers which were read and ordered to be filed. and sail~rs; FINDINGS OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS. H. R. 27419. An act to repeal the act of June 29, 1906, grant- The VICE-PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a comnnmi- ing a pension to Jackson Adkins; cation from the assistant clerk -of the Court of Claims, trans- H. R. 27469. An -act granting pensions and increase of pen mitting a certified copy of the findings Qf fact and of opinion sions to certain soldiers and sailors of the civil war and certain filed by the court in the cause of Henry A. Laughlin, surviving widows and dependent relatives of such soldiers and sailors; partner of Jones & Laughlin, and 10 other parties v. United H. R. 27864. An act granting a right of way over a strip of States (S. Doc. No. 715), which, with the accompanying paper, ' land along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson l\Iili was referred to the Committee on Claims and ordered to be tary Reservation to the commissioners of Fulton County, Ga .. printed. 1 for road purposes;