. 3178 · OONGRESSIONkL RECORD-HOUSE. MARCH 24, vears must have pressed still more heavily upon his power of en­ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. durance, he took upon himself, at the request of those near him, the labor and duty of organizing and uniting those inside of his THURSDAY, Ma'rch 24, 1898. own political household in favor of the policy of bimQtallism-a policy which he always declared involved neither change nor The House met ~t 12 o'clock m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. innovation, but was as to our law restoration, as to silver itself HENRY N. COUDEN. restitution, and a safe return to the ancient, long-tried, and well­ The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. established usage and practice of our fathers. With what success Mr. BOUTELLE of Maine. Mr. Speaker, I move that the he prosecuted and completed his portion of this great design the House resolve itself into Committee of the Whole House on the official record of the late national convention specially disclos'es, state of the Union for the consideration of the bill making appro­ and we all are witnesses. priations for the naval establishment for the next fiscal year. It must have seemed even to his ardent zeal in the beginning STATISTICS OF LAKE COMMERCE. ~ "tJrk of mountainous difficulty and of much uncertainty in the Mr. PERKINS. I ask the gentleman to yield to me to make a event. It involved a correspondence under his direction and report. supervision with persons residing in every State and Territory · Mr. BOUTELLE of Maine. I yield to the gentleman to make and Congressional district of the United States. It required a a report. daily comparison of part with part, a summary of very numerous . Mr. PERKINS. The Committee on Printing makes the follow­ details, sudden and constant resort to the best method of answer ing repcrt, and asks its immediate consideration. and reply, information wide and ac~urate, with ceaseless vigilance The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Iowa submits a report and circumspection to the close. Such were for many months his from the Committee on Printing, for immediate consideration. labors, worthy of the man and of the cause. The Clerk read as follows: Those versed in modern mechanism and invention have furnished us with a phrase now become quite familiar-" applied science." Concurrent resolution No. 23. Resolved lnJ the House of Re,presentatives (the Senate concurri-ng), That there Called upon to designate in the briefest terms the controlling, shall be printed by the Public Printer 10,000 copies of House Document No. guiding principle of a career so greatly prolonged, so highly dis­ 217, Fifty-fifth ConifeTess, second session, entitled Statistics of Lake Commerce, tinguished, we might justly name it "applied common sense" in 4,000 of which sha be for the use of the Treasury Department. its broadest significance and in the most active development. Mr. PERKINS. There is an amendment to the resolution. Action was a necessity of his being. He was as prone to take The Clerk read as follows: the initiative, and to keep it, as the sparks to fly upward. Some · Strike out all after the word "Commerce," in line 5 and add: n4,000 copies one, now many years ago, in Washington, spoke to him once for the use of the House, 2,000 copies for the use of the Senate, and 4,000 copies about accepting a position upon the Federal bench. "No," he for the use of the Treasury Department." said, "I desire no such position. I do not wish to be tied up like . The SPEAKER. Is there objection? a log in a raft with nothing to do but to float or to drift at the Mr. BAILEY. I would like to know, if the amendment is end of a line. 'My boat must be in the moving current. I must agreed to, how the 1·esolution would read? feel the gale; should it come, I must ride out the storm, if I have .Mr. PERKINS. It makes another division of the number of nothing left but the rudder in my hand." copies. This readiness to participate adively iu affairs was not exercised Mr. BAILEY. Well, but you strike out a few words. I under· without care or caution. He was neither rash, reckless, nor indif­ stood the Clerk to read- ferent to consequences. His vision, his view of men and events, The SPEAKER. A change of number. was clear. He was subject to no delusions. He sometimes failed, Mr. BAILEY. I understand; but I thought the Clerk read as men must who will act while others wait, but he was of valiant strike out the two words, "vital statistics." . heart, strenuous will, and of that fertility in resource which either The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the amendment. eluded or defied disaster. Failure, with him, was no finality­ The amendment was again reported. rather a cause and occasion for further endeavor. Mr. BAILEY. Now, what I asked was that the Clerk report His life was so crowded with action that it is not known that he the resolution as it would read when amended. had the leisure, even if he had the inclination, to have left behind The SPEAKER. The Clerk has so reported the resolution. him a single line of personal history or reminiecence. Moreover, Mr. PERKINS. I can tell the gentleman. he was a man of strong attachments; in friendship, earnest and Mr. BAILEY. It is utterly impossible to know how it would sincere. How he loved Memphis, the city of his home and resi­ read by what the Clerk has read. dence! He delighted to speak of its thrift and progress, of its har­ The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolution as it bor and landings, of its public buildings and other improvements, would read when amended. all of which had felt the fostering hand of his care and solicitude. The Clerk read as follows: How inseparably his name is connected with the magnificent So as to read: n 4,000 copies for the use of the House''­ transit-way of commerce and travel which, hard by, spans the broad current of the Father of Waters. Often he spoke of his Mr. BAILEY. I want the whole resolution. State, always in the language of the warmest affection-his native The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Texas wants to hear tha State, whose great and generous constituencies had so long and so resolution read as it would read after it is amended. bounteously given him their support·arid conndence. The Clerk read as follows: The faculty of almost instant adaptation of himself to circum­ Resolved by the Hou.se of Representatives (the Senate concun-ing), That there shall be printed by the Public Printer 10,000 copies of House document stances of whatever exigency, his manner of molding men to his No. 227, Fifty-fifth Con~ress, second session, entitled Statistics of Lake Com­ side and way, his steady advance against insm"mountable obstacles, merce, 4,000 copies for the use of the Honse, 2,000 copies for the use of the his survival of the rudest shocks of adverse fortune were as mani­ Senate, and 4,000 copies for the use of the Treasury Department. fest throughout his whole course as they are indescribable. Mr. BAILEY. Now, Mr. Speaker, I have not seen this docu­ Witness his departure to Mexico at the conclusion of the great ment. I presume that it relates to interstate commerce on the civil war, his adventurous sojourn within the domain of that Re­ lakes. · public, his voyage to England, for he crossed the ocean not in quest Mr. PERKINS. It relates ·to the statistics of lake commerce. of ease, but of fresh fields of new enterprise; his return to Ten­ The request is from the Treasury Department. The resolution nessee and to this city, the reentry upon the business of his pro­ was introduced by the gentleman from Ohio rMr. BURTON]; and fession, his continuous and very successful practice in the courts, if the gentleman from Texas needs any further information, I the canvass for his first election to the Senate, his successive re­ have no doubt the gentleman from Ohio would be glad to give it. elections to that position-these are testimonials written at large Mr. BAILEY. I will not detain the House by asking that; but to the genius, character, and conduct of one destined to so con­ I am not perfectly sure that such a document should be printed. spicuous a career. The SPEAKER. Is there objection to the present considera· Last scene of all-his death at the capital-at his place and post tion of the concurrent resolution? [After a pause.] The Chair of duty, the obsequies in the Senate Chamber, the funeral cortege hears none. thence bearing his remains to their final resting place, a whole The amendment recommended by the committee was ag1:eed to. city in mourning to receive them, a State-the whole sisterhood of The concurrent resolution as amended was agreed to. States-in soiTowing sympathy with yon for a loss so irreparable, commemorating with you, my hearers, also to-day the demise of BRIDGE .A.OROSS ST. FRANCIS RIVER, ARKANSAS. a great statesman whose course, with all its vicissitudes, has been Mr. McCULLOCH. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask consideration in the end so grandly crowned with years, with honors, and with for the bill (H. R. 5030) to authorize the construction of a bridge the just fame which follows a life so useful and beneficent.