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, Summarizing the <:mtstanding features. of Korea's annexation . nize and apply to all peoples the obvious attributes of national b Japan, reciting the ct>venarrts of Korea's treaties, with the integrity and political independence. These can not be conceded U~ States and othe:r members of the conference~ pledging to some races and denied to others. They can not be extended their good offices to her in the event she should be unjustly dealt to. China and withheld from Korea. The right of self-govern· with, and invoking these covenants in her behalf .. we respect- ment is no more essential to China than to Korea. The former fully requested the delegation to lay our petition before the con- is far more. f()rmidable in population and in territory. The ference fo1· its formal consideration. Certain members of the latter is, nevertheless, as distinctive and deserving. The new delegation acknowledged its Feceipt, btii did not otherwise mani- state of mind which goes with China but stop with Korea fest a.ny concern. eems akin to. the policy of disarmament which discards the

When convinced that this indtial efiort was rmavailing, the battleship but retains the submarine. It may postpone but it mission prepared a: second and· more elaborate application to can net avoid the catastrophe of \vur. the conference, praying f()r an audience and o.ffering to submit Korea is small in numbers, in resources, and in territory. the cause of Korea to its de}.iberate judgment. Copies of this Her Government was overthrown, her domains annexed, and application were delivered personally tO> th secretary of the her people enslaved by successive acts of aggression from 1905 conference. accompanied by a request for their distribution t() 1910. The beneficent covenants of the tl'eaties just nego­among tbe members.. Whether this request was complied with tiated are not for her. Her political effacem,eilt has made lfer the mission does not kn~w~ But its presentation was not ae- unclean. Her voice has been in Washingto.n that of one crying knowledged, and, as far as· the missi0n. is able t() state, it was in the wildemess. n~vei eonsideroo. Though depressed by the treatment she has received from the

L te in the sessions of the conference and after public an- Washington confereJtce, Km·ea does not despair. She will con­nouncement that its labors were approaching a close~ the mis- tinne her sti·uggle for restored nationality whatever sufferings sion prepared a thii·d and last request for recognition. Copies sh8> may endure, whatever vicissitude· she may encounter. of this request we1-e also personally delivered to- the secretary, Other subject peoples confronting equally di mal p1·ospects have and by him se1Jt, presumably by insbruction, to the offices o-f :resisted oppression for centuries, yet never in vain. the Secretary oi State, where they now are, if they have not Distinct in race, in language, in traditions, in religion, and been otherwise disposed of. They were never delivered to the in culture, Korear's effacement is impossible. Her people may delegates. be oppressed, their freedom denied, and their institutions flouted,

In the meantime the missi.on had :received a memorial direct but their nationalism will endm·e. To Japan she must evei' be from Korea.,_ executed b.y duly elected representatives from each an element of disintegrntion, to Asia a nation determined to Province or district, and by a.nthQrized executives of 5.2 socie- enjoy her own life in her own way, to live in peace and amity ties and guilds, petitioning the conference to give a bearing, to with her neighbors, pursuing her own ends without let or bin­this missi()n on behalf of Korea. Q.rance from other peoples. In her struggle for freedom long

The 01igmal ef this: memo-rial was filed w·ith the. secretary since begun and never to end until the goal is reached, Korea genet'a1 of the con.:feren{!e, together with 100 p.rinted h--a:nslatiOlllS iinvokes the sympathy and the encouragement o:f the American aad facsimiles, but its receipt was never formally acknowledged. people.

The eonference a.djouxned without hearing or heeding Korea~ By direction of the Korean mission to the Conference on The I'€suJ:ts o.f its labors are embodied in six treaties which as- Limitation of Armament. sume to rescue the eastern world fTom the contingencies o:f S"YNGlfAN RHEE,

Chairman. war. These we shall not review n()l' criticize. beyond the asser-tion that the conditions con.cededly making f()r war when tile conference was called~ and to remove which it was de igned to accomplish, are as active and siniste~ when it was dissolved as they were when it was o11·ganized. · Japan is still in Manchuria and Mongolia. The only 16 of

her 21 demands ever forced upon China remain undisturbed. Her armies. still occupy Sakhalien and Siberia, and she still holds Korea in thralldom. All lines of CC)mmunication in these regions are under her control. She has not wholly sm·rendered tho e of Shantung. Tbe doors of eastern Asia may be open, but they are sentineled by Japan, and none can enter within or pass without them save: by hel" pe1·mission.

Immune from the restraints of a powerful and increasing, American Navy, relieved from the probability of fortresses in the Pacmc seas~ tmttressed by a four-power treaty, command­ing· every passage between the islands to the Asiatic mainland from Sak:halien in the no,rth to furmosa in the south, Japan emerges from the conference far more powerful than when she entered it. She is the dominating power in Asia. There a1·e none to question, much less to dispute, her supremacy. She is isolated from the other great powers by vast stretches of land and sea, and these have become. her allies. The only limitation placed upon her expansive militarism is the mutual reduction of capital ships made obsolete by the airplane and the sub­marine. Korea is• prostrate, and China! is at her feet~ Her methods of economic penetration, systematized by yeru:·s of ex­perience, may now be applied with impunity, and political con­trol must inevitably follow. Hencefo1·th, Japan means Asia; and Asia, under Japanese hegemony, may in time recall and repeat the career of Genghis Khan. ·

Against this prospect looms only tbe inertia of Korea, China, _ and Asiatic Russia. Korea has been overrun. She is in chains, but she is not conquered. Rebuffed by the nations whose cove­nants she holds, Korea will continue as best she can her struggle against Japanese domination. She is disarmed and physically helpless. But the soul of the nation survives and can not be subdued. Her thralldom, though complete. is no.t altogether discouraging. It is a constant reminder and a per­petual warning to China and to Siberia of the- fate which is designed for them. It serYes. to keep, alive their need for sleep~ les vigilance. And it may serve. to -distract the- policy and shatter the ambition of the one surviving autocracy of the twentieth eentury.

The new state of mind which is said to underlie the treaties negotiated by the: eonference can not contribute to. the cause of peaee if it is n4)t impartial. Ii designed to promote the welfare ()f the world by banishing war from its confines, it must recog-

PHILIP JAISCJHN·, Vi,ce Chairman..

!IEN:RY CHUNG, Secretan.J.

FB:m A. DOLPH, Oounselor.

CHARLES. S. THOMAS, 8pecial Oou·n,sel.

TREATY WTTH JAPAN.

The Senate., as in Committee of the Whole and in open execu­tive session~ resumed the consideration of the treaty between the United States and Japan with regard to the rights of the two Governments and their re..<>pective nationals in the former German islands in the Pacific. Ocean lying north of the Equator, in particular the island of Yapr signed at Washington on Feb­rum·y 11, 1922.

BECESS.

Mr. LODGE. I move that the Senate take a recess until Monday next at 12 o'clock.

The moti()n was. agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 17 minutes p. m.) the Senate took a l'ecess until Monday. February 271

199-2. at 12 o•ctock meridian.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SuNDAY, Februo:ry ~6, 19~~.

Tbe House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to order by Mr. CHES'l'ER \V. TAYLOR of Arkansas as Speaker pr() tempm·e.

Rev. Page Millmrn, of Washington, D. C., offered the follow­ing prayer:

0 God~ who inhabiteth eternity and dwelleth in the hearts of the humble and contrite, hear om~ prayer. As we this day remember those who nave lived among us and dedicated their lives to God and the people, may we be apprised of the wonderful fact that death doth not end all, that-

Beyond this vale of tea:rs There is a life above, Unmeasured by tbe ftight of years, And an that life is love..

With this inspiration in our hearts may we be rigbt, tl1ink right, and do right. Wilt Thou bless the President of the United States, both Houses of Congres~. and aU \Vho are appointed to rule over us. Bless the people, and save uS: for IDs sake who gave himself for us. Amen.

1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3059 1\Ir. OLDFIELD. l\Ir. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that

the reading of the Journal be postponed until to-morrow. The SPEAKER pro tempore.. The gentleman from Arkansas

a. l;:s unanimous consent that the reading of the Journal be postponed until to-monow. Is there objection?

There was no objection. THE LATE REPRESENTATIVE SAMUEL M. TAYLOR OF ARKANSAS. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the spe-

cia 1 order for the day. The Clerk read as follows: On motion of Mr. OLDFIELD, by unanimous consent, Ordered, That

Sun1ay Feb. 26 1922 at 12 o'clock noon, be set apart for addresses on lbe 'life, character, 'and public services of Hon. SAMUEL M. TAYr.ou, late a Representative from the State of Arkansas.

l\Ir. OLDFIELD. l\Ir. Speaker, I offer the following resolu­tion.

The SPI<JAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Arkansas offers a resolution, which the Clerk will report.

The Clerk read as follows : ' Hbuse Rrsolution 293.

Resol1ied That the business of the House be now suspended, that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. Sam­uel ::\1. Taylor, late a ~ember of this House from the :State of

Ar}~~:?L~ed That as a particular mark ot respect to the memory of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public. career, the Honse, at the conclusion of these ~xercises, shall stan~1 adJourned.

R esol·red, That the Clerk commumcate these resolutions to the Senate.

Resolt·cd, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on agreeing to the resolution.

'l'he resolution was agreed to.

Mr. OLDFIELD. Mr. Speaker, it is wen that we should pause long enough in this busy world to pay tribute to our beloved dead. V\·e are met to-day to commemorate the life, character, and public services of our late colleague, the Hon. SAMUEL MITCHELL TA1.'LOR, a l\Iember of Congress from the State of Arkansas.

Col. T.AYLOR, as lle was familiarly known to his colleagues her€' was born in Itawamba County, l\Iiss., on the 25th day of 1\lay: ;1852. He was admitted to the bar in 1876, and practiced his profession for 10 years at Tupelo, Miss., and removed to Arkansas in 1887 and located at the city of Pine Bluff, where hP- lived until his death on the 13th of September, 1921. He is surviYed by his widow, two sons, and two tlaughters.

l\Ir. Speaker, I shall include in my remarks newspaper notices, editorials, resolutions of bar associations, poems, etc., which appeared in the newspapers of the district of Col. TAYLO:R at the time of his death. These give an accurate picture of tlte high esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best. However, 1\lr. Speaker, I want to call attention to this fact, a fact which is rather unusual in the politics of our country. Col. TAYLOR was succeeded by his son, the Hon. Ches­tE-r w. Taylor, who is doubly honored by being designated as ~peaker pro tempore to preside over our deliberations on this llny. I do not recall during my service here that any other l\lember hrrs been so honored.

Soon after Col. TAYLOR moved from Tupelo, 1\fiss., to that progres. ive and wide-awake city of Pine Bluff he was elected pro8ecuting attorney of his judicial circuit and served the people four years in this important· office. He made an able and conscientious prosecuting officer and ·drew to him many devoted friends, who remained loyal to him to the day of his death. 1\lr. Speaker, I did not know Col. TAYLOR intimately until he came to Congress in 1913. However, I had met him on seYeral different occasions and knew him by reputation well enough to know that he was one of the most successful lawyers in our State. It was my privilege to serve with him during hiR entire service in this House. Col. TAYLOR was not only an- orator and nn able statesman but an upright, Christian g('ntleman. He did not ·peak often on the floor, yet \Yhen he did he was given closest attention by those present, for 1\1em­ber · had implicit faith in his sincerity and honesty of purpose. I dare say there was no more popular man in this House than Col. TAYLOR. While he was a partisan Democrat, yet he "·as not offen ·ive in his partisanship. Some of his mo t intimate per~onal friends belonged to the opposite party. Being sincere and honest in his o\vn convictions, he accorded sincerity and honesty of purpose to others. He was a genial, kindly man, ahvays considerate of the feelings of others. I knew him well and intimately and never heard him utter an unkind word abont an~·one. If he coul<l not speak well he did not speak at all. He was never too busy to be courteous. In addition to being able he was also courageous, an attribute not any too

prevalent in statesmen of the present generation. He not only knew what he sQugbt to do in matters of legislation but he had the courage to do that which he felt was right and in the in­terest of the people.

Col. TAYLOR- was ill several months but he persisted in at­tending to his duties as a Member of the House until a few weeks before his death. He came to the House when he should have been conserving his strength. He \Vas thoroughly con­scientious in every official act. He made the statement that he had never cast a vote while a member of Congress that would have been cast differently had every voter in his district been sitting in the galleries looking at him. In other words, his official life was an absolutely open book and he had no mis­givings about a single ...-ote he had cast. During his service here he remained at his post of duty in Washington while Congress was in session until he was stricken with fatal ill­ness. Furthermore, he made his home in Washington during his entire service here within a stone's throw of the Capitol, and during his last illne she could see this great bu\lding from his window. After he became too ill to come to the floor of the House he kept up with what the House \vas doing and manifested great interest in the proceedings of the Congress.

He possessed the spirit of trne southern chivalry and grace of the perfect gentleman, was gallant and forbearing, gentle and considerate.

He was a faithful public official and died in the service, but his memory will live in the hearts of the men and women who love the South and its noble traditions, for Col. TAYLOR typified the best in southern manhood.

He was a Mississippian by birth, but was loyal to his adopted State and in return received the love and confidence of a native-born son. The people attested their affection and appre­ciation of his faithfulness and ability by bestowing upon him the highest honors which were in the gift of the people.

He was a kind and deYotecl husband, an indulgent father, and a faithful friend, and in his last long illness and while for clays he ho...-~recl between life and death he bore it all courageously and never complained. Forgetting his own suffering, his only thought was for the comfort and welfa~·e of her whom he had clwsen in vouth as his life companion-the wife of his bosom, the mothe1: of his children.

I realize, Mr. Speaker, I have paid a very poor tribute to our friend and colleague, with whom we have been recently so closely associated, but it is useless for me to descant upon his virtues. For a number of years he bas passed in and out daily before you ; his life has been an open book, and all who knew him will testifv the world is better that be lived.

'Vhen I attended the funeral in his own home city and saw the great procession of neighbors, friends, and the grief­stricken populace which gathered to pay their last tribute of respect, I could but realize how dear he was_ to the hearts ?f his own home people, by \Yhich the old proverb was borne m upon my mind: "They loved him most who knew him best."

l\lr. Speaker, we are powerless in death's mysterious presence. While acting on the stage of life the grim reaper appeared

and beckoned Col. TAYLOR to depart, and when he passed from this life those who knew him hoped for him that-

Somewhere the sun is shining, Somewhere the angels wait, Somewhere the clouds are drifted Close to an open gate.

As a part of my remarks I insert the following tributes to our late colleague, Wl'itten by those who knew him best:

{F:roin the Pine Bluff Commercial.] COL. TAYLOR'S PGBLIC CAREER LONG, USilFUI.-PRO:\IINE)IT IN PUDLIC

LlFE MANY YEARS-SE'l'TLED HERE I~ 1887.

A biographical •ketch o! Co_ngress~an TAYLOR .will show the recot:d of a long and useful life durmg wh1ch be had rendered much public service and had been repeatedly honored b:y those with whom be d~elt.

SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR was born lD ltawaJ)lba County, Mtss., on May 25 1852, and was the fifth in order of birth of the 10 -children of Col. Clark W. and Louise (Keyes) Taylor, the former having been a native of Georgia and the latter a native of Alabama. Ilis father was a successful merchant and planter in Mississippi and com­manded a regiment in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

After receiving a liberal collegiate education, 8AM TAYLOR began the study of law at Verona, Miss., and was admi!ted to the bar ?f Missis­sippi in 1876. His constant stud~· and expenence made of lnm OlW of th~ best-known attorneys of this State, and he had a profound knowledge of law and precedent. He began the practice of law at Tupelo, 1\Iiss .. where he remained until 1886, having won high tanding at the bar of his native State. ·

('AME RERJil IN 1887.

lie removed to Pine Bluff in 1887 to establish his ho~e and practice his profession. 'l'wo years later he was elected pt·osecutmg attorn~y of the eleventh judicial circuit and held that office with much ct·e<ht .to himself and State for four years. He was an able and l'C'f:ourceful lawyer, which enabled him to -;v~n many f01:ensic victories, and his rep~l­tation as an orator caused mm to be 1n demand on many public occasions at home and in other parts of the country.

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(From the Pine Bluff Commercial, Sept. 16, 1921.]

TAYLOR FUNERAl, lfOST IMPOSING EnR RlilLD RERE-HUNBRliDS MlilllT BODY ON ARIUVAL, E'ILL CHURCH TO OVERFLOWING-CONGRJ:SS IS REP­RESENTED--DELEGATION REPRESENTING {}OVERNM:ENT CONSISTS 011' TWO .MEllfBERS Oil' SE::>IATE, 11 FROM HOUSE Oi' REPRESENTATIVES,. AND FllDERAL JUDGE TRIEBER OF LITTLE ROCK.

Representatives o:! the National G0vernment to-day united with Pine Bluff citizens in paying honor to the memory of Congressman SAM M. TAYLOR, who died at Washington last Tuesday morning, and the funeTal was the most imposing ever held in this city.

The body of Congressman TAYLOR arrived here at 11: 45 o'clock this morning on the Missouri Pacific train that was an hour late. In addition to members of the local bar and a committee from the cham­ber of commerce, the funeral party, which included members of the family of the deceased Congressman and a delegation of United States Senators and Congressmen · from this and other States, was met at the station by several hundred local citizens. Members of the fam­ily and the congressional delegation arrived in a special Pullman.

M.r. TAYLOR was a firm believer in the principles of the Democratic Party and since his youth had been a valued factor in party councils. Ile was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896 at Chicago, where he represented .Al-kansas on the credentials committee. In the same year he was temporary chairman of the State Democratic Convention in this State and presidential eledor at large. In 1910 he was chosen chairman of the State Democratic Convention without opposition. He was elected to succeed Joe T. Ro!).inson as Congress­maD from this distriet when the latter resigned in January, 1913, to beeome governor of .Arkansas. At the subsequent election he was elected to this office, which he held until the time of his death.

.ACTIVE IN SCHOOL AFFAIRS.

Mr. TAYLOR became a member of the Pine Bluff school board in 1897 and served until he resigned in 1913 to leave for Washington. DuriQg the last 12 years of this time he was president of the board l\nd one of the public schools of this city is named in his honor. He was a member of the First Baptist Churcli of this city, a member. of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, and Knights of Honor.

On October 1, 1879, Mr. TAYLOR was married to Miss 1\fary J. Bell, of Pine Blutl', who has been with him in Washington dUI'ing his last illness. He also leaves two sons and two daughters. Daniel Taylor, the eldest, now lives in Chicago, where be is an attorney for the Rock Island Railway ; Chester Taylor, the other son, has been piivate secre­tary to his father since he has been in Congress. Two daughters, Mrs. William Nichol and MrR. H. B. Strange, live in this city, with a grand­son, Taylor Roberts, and granddaughter, Beverly Strange. Samuel Taylor 2d, son of Chester Taylor, is another grandson. -

For a number of years prior to his death Congressman TAYL<»t was a law partner of Judge W. D. Jones, of this city, the firm's name being Tayler & Jones. D:miel Taylor was formerly a member of the firm but withdrew when he became attorney for the Rock Island.

Tbe body was taken in charge by the H. I. Holderness, Co. and taken to the First Baptist Church, where it lay in state until the hour of the funeral, at 3 o'clock, surrounded by a guard of honor composed of deacons of this church, of which the deceased was a member. The funeral was conducted by Dr. John H. Moore, pastor of the church, and the big auditorium was not large enough to accom­modate the crowd of friends who sought to attend. The casket was almost hidden from view by the number of floral tributes sent by individual and organizations as a tribute of the esteem in which the deceased was held in Pine Bluff and throughout the State and Nation.

CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.

Members of the congressional delegation were met at the Union 8ta­tion by members of the local bar and the chamber of commerce, 'vho accompanied them to· the Hotel Pines, where at noon they were guests of the Civitan Club at their regular weekly luncheon. The members of this delegation included Senators McKELLAR of Tennessee and CA.RAWAY of Arkansas; Congressmen PARKS, 'W[:\'GO, OLDFIELD, TILL­l!IAN, JAcowA.Y, and DRIVER of Arkansas, ELLioTT of Indiana, CA~BELL and SHREVE of Pennsylvania, JOHNSON of Washington, SANDERS of Texa , and PADGETT of 'Tennessee; P. A. Malone, Acting Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives; and Judge Jacob Trieber, of the United States district court at Little Rock.

Members of the family who arrived this ID<lrning were Mrs. Taylor, widow of Congressman TAYLOR, and bet· son, Chester W. Taylor, who has been his father's secretary since he entered Congress, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Taylor, of Chicago.

At 2.30 o'clock this afternoon the committee from the chamber ot commerce, composed of President T. J. Collier, Secretary W. D. Hearn, A. D. l!'oster, N. J. Gantt, and J". H. Mearu;,. met the honorary delegation of visitors and accompanied them to the First Baptist Church, where seats had been reserved. Following the impressive service, during which Dr. Moore paid a high tribute w the memory of the deceased. referring to his record as a member o'l the church, as a citizen of Pine Bluff, as a husband and father, and as a Representative of the National Government, the funeral cortege left for Bellwood Ceme­tery, where the body was laid to rest.

CONGRESSMEN LEAVE TO-DAY.

Uembers of the congressi()nal delegation will · leave this afternoon in their private car over the Missouri Pacific Railroad for Little Rock, and at the request of the Acting S-ergeant a.t Arms of the House of Representatives, who is in charge of arrangements, the train that leaves he.re at 4.45 o'clock will be held until members of the party return from the cemetery.

'l'he following pallbearers were selected : Honorary-,\'. D . Jones. W. 0. '.raggart, A. W. Nunn, Dr. Z, Orto,

Leo M. Andrews, Judge W. B. Sorrells, Judge John M. Elliott, C. H. Triplett, M. E. Bloom, Judge W. T. Wooldridge, John M. Gracie, ]]). A. Howell, W. F. Coleman, J . W. Crawford, Creed Caldwell, Ziba Bennitt, J. R. Core, Dr. J. S. Jenkins, Dr. Wm. Breathwit, Irving Reinberger, E. W. Freeman, Mayor Mack Hollis, W. D. Hearn, F. G. Bridges, S. C. Alexander, Dr. Junius Jordan, John B. Speers, and Chas. Owens.

Active-Jos. Nichol, Sam Vaulx, Haynes Gregory, Harry Hanf, H. B. Speers, Carter B. Murphy, Frank B. Tomlinson, and Will Rowell.

[From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, Sept. 14, 1921.] REPRESZ'NTATIVII SAMUlllL TAYLOR DIES IN WASHINGTON-SERVED SIXTH

ARKANSAS DISTRICT SINCE 1912-BURIAL IN PINJ: BLUF1!'-PLI!IUIHSY AND PNEUMONIA CAUSED DBATH OF BELOVED CONGRESSMAN-WAS RANKING IUIMOCRATIC MEMBElt RlVI'lRS-H.ABBORS COMMITTEI!l .

[By R. M. Gates.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Pleurisy and pneumonia caused tbe death

of Representative SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR of Arkansas at 3.12 o'clock this morning at his apartments in the Congt·essional-almost within the shadow of the great Capitol. His wife and son, Chester, his private secretary, were present at the bedside. The remains, accompanied by committees representing the House and Senate, will leave Washin"'ton early to-morrow night for Pine Bluff, where the funeral will take Piace Friday.

Representative TAYLOR, who was elected to Congress from the Sixth A.rk~sas District in 1912 to fill out the unexpired term of Joseph T. Robmson, who bad been elected governor of his State, was 69 years of age. He was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, but removed to Pine Bluff in 1887, where be was shortly afterwards elected prose­cuting attorney, which o1lice be filled for three successive terms. Mr. TAYLOR's health began to fail about two years ago, but it was not until last spring that his decline occasioned any solicitude either on the part of his family or his intimate fi·iends.

He was unable to take the oath of office upon the convening of the extra session ot this Congress and was not sworn in until the latter part of May. From that time until he was -attacked by the illness which was the direct cause of his death, his attendance on the ses­sions oi the .House was irregular. Throughout the decline of his health, ho.wever, he was courageously hopeful, never once saddening his friends in the House by a voluntary expression indicating mourn­ful consciousness of a losing fight. He wa.s made a member of the Committee on Rivers and HaTbors in the first year of his service in the House, as his district was largely interested in legislation with which the committee dealt exclusively, and he died its ranking Demo· cratic Member.

ALWAYS HillARD WITH RESPECT. " SAM " TAYLOR as he was known by his friends and colleagues,

was a Democrat of the old school from which the South's leading pub­lic men of 50 years ago were graduated and later glorified by distin­guished service. He seldom addressed the House, but when he bad anything to say be was heard with respectful attention, because he never spoke except when he bad a message to deliver.

Uniformly agreeable and courteous, " SAM" TAYLOR was beloved by his friends and admired by tho!'.e whose acquaintance with him was less intimate. He had a geniality of manner, a kindliness of expression, an unfailing sprightliness of spirit that made his presence as refreshing as salt air. No man ever engaged him in conversation either on busi­ness or for social intercourse without feeling better for the incident.

B~sides his widow, Representative TAYLOR is survived by two sons, two daughters, and two grandchildren. The eldest son, Daniel, is gen­eral attorney for the Rock Island Railroad with headquarters in Chi­cago, and Chester W. Taylor, who has been his father's secretary while in Congress. The daughters are Mrs. William Nichol and Mrs. Hubert E. Strange, both ct Pine Bluff.

To-day the 8ergeant at Arms of the House appointed the following Members to attend the funeral: Representatives JACOWAY TILL:MA~, DRIVEn, WINGO, PARKS, and OLmrn:LD, all of .Arkansas, and Representa­tives ELLIOTT of Indiana, CAllfPBELL of Pennsylvania, JOHNSON of Wash­ington, SH1lm of Pennsylvania, and PADGE'l'T of Tennessee. Repre­sentatives JACOWAY, DRIVER, and TILLMAN are already in Arkansas. WING{), OLilFIED, and PARKS will leave here to-morrow night with the funeral party.

The committee appointed for the Senate by Vice President CoOLTDGII includes Senators ROBINSON and CARAWAY of Arkansas, MCKELLAR of Tennesse97 HARRISON of Mississippi, HERBELD of Oklahoma, and 8PENCER of Missouri. Senator ROBINSO::>~ is in Europe and Senator CABAWAY is at his home in Jone ·boro, whither he went several days ago.

[From the Pine Bluff Commercial, Sept 16, 1921.] TRIBUTIIIS PAID CONGRESSMAN BY COLLEAGUES-CO:SGRESSIONAL DELE·

GATION GUESTS AT CIVITAN MEMORIAL I,UNCBEO.c -MR. TAYLOR IS LAUDED-WAS FAITHFUL MEMBJ:R OF HO SE, ALWAYS WORKING IN IN'l'ERESTS Oli' HIS DISTRICT AND NATION, LATE L.AWM.AKER'S ASSOCIA'fES IN CONGRJilSS DECI.ARPl JN ADDRESSES. Eloquent tributes to the life and deeds of Congressman SAM: TAYLOR

were paid to the d~eased lawmaker at a memorial luncheon at the Pine this noon when the members of the congressional delega­tion, which accompanied the body home, were guests of the Civitan c~~ ,

Dr. J. H. Moore, of the First Baptist Church, gave the invocation, and the visiting Congressmen were welcomed by the Rev. H. B. Trimble, who deplored the loss of Pine Bluff's distinguished citizen and member of the most august legislative body in the world, stating the loss of Congressman TAYLOR was keenly felt l:ly every resident of big disb·ict. Mr. Trimble said he was delighted to have the colleagues of Col. TAYLOR help pay the last tribute of respect to the dead Con­gressman, but regretted the unfortunate circumstances which caused their visit.

Congressman PADGETT of Tennessee declared it was with a deep sense of r~ret and sorrow that he and his collea.e;ues came to Pine Bluff on such a mission. that Mr. TAYLOR was well liked by his associates in the ·House, that he was a valuable Member of Congress who always had the welfare, stability, and interests of his district and the Nation at heart.

Congressman ELLIOTT of Indiana stated that he wa.s sent to Wash­ington four years ago, and that he had been at his hotel only 30 minutes when he became acquainted with Col. TAYLOR, and the friendship formed at that. time had endured till Col. TAYLOR'S <leath. Representative WINGO of Arkansas referred to Mr. TAILOR as a man who always had the interests of his country at heart and who loved and served with unfailing loyalty the State from which be came. The speaker regretted the loss to Congress and to this district, and ex­pressed the hope that the next Representative n·om this district would prove as capable and loyal a servant of his people as Mr. TAYLOR had been.

Rep1·esentative SANDERS of Texas declared that after seeing the great concourse of people gathered pt the station to do hm1or to a great statesman he was reminded of the Biblical passage, " Know ye then that there is this day a great man and prince fallen." The speaker

1922. CONGRESSIONAL- RECORD-HOUSE~ 306I said he could hope for nothing better than to discharg~ his dutl~s in a, way tllat. woulii bring him the love and r~ pect wh1ch p·revruls for Mr. TAYLOR in his own district. Congressman SANDERS congratulated Arkansas on it;; congressional delegation, and stated tbere was no stronger group of men in Congress from any State.

G. 0. P. SOLO~ PRAIS»S lUX.

Congrf'sRIDan SHREVE of Penm:ylvania related bow he was the la~t man on the Republiean side of the House to talk to Col. ~AYLOR on his last day of service, telling of the fr·iendship which bad e::nsted between them from th~ beginning of the Sixty-second Congress. He character­ized CoL '.rAn~oa. as a man who could see over, above, and beyond all the if;:;ue · of any question, a loyal Democrat, proud of his party and of his State, a delightful man and a sple?Jdid ~epresentative, keenly interested in every question, a man who e fnendsb1ps were lasting.

Enteiing Congress at the same time as Col. TAYLOR and stayin-g at the same hotel with him. Congressman JoHNSON of Washington told of tbe friendship formed between his four-year-old daughter and the local congressman. using this friendship to illustrate the gentle spirit ancl lovable qualities of Col, Tan.or. which so endeared him to his colleagut-s. The l'lpeaker told of his work on the Naturali~Zation and Immigration Committee and declared " the South is the bulwark in the tight for prote<:tion of A~erica for A.nwricans." The protection of ..America fo1· it~ own postenty was called the greatest problem of the day by the speaker.

SENATOR M'KELLAR SPEAKS.

Senator McKELLAR of Tennes~e stated Col. TAYLOR's life could well s+>l''?<' as an example to any roung man in Arkansa.'l or in A.me1ica. CoL T.\YLon was referred to as a man of highest characteristics and ic'leals, having· but one aim and purpose in life ' and· that was to do his. duty as be saw it.

~ongres~marl CA"l"1P"BELL of Pennsylvania tol!l of his fondne-ss for Col. 'l'..\YT..OR. formerl through years of asRociation with bim, and of the henefit he had derived from the advice of CoL · TAYLOR, whose broad viP.ws and cool head had been of unusual value in tbe trying days of the war. ·

The remarkabl<' gentleness of spirit of Col. TAYLOR was- warmly praised by SPnator CARAWAY of Al·kansas, who said in all his associa­tion with him be had never beard him utter an unkind word about anyone, always treating everyone with loving consideration, whether they were for him or against _him. Col. TAYLOR'S loyalty to his con-titurnts was illustrated by tne speaker, Wh{) quoted Col. TAYLOR as

saying: "I always vote as though my constituents were in the room with ID<' and could read my heart."

JlJDGE TiliEBER SPEAKS.

Federal Jud~e Trieber thanked the gentwmen from the North for their kind words about the South. In discussing the love of its citizens !or the South, Judge Trieber describ<'d Col. TAYLOR as a . member of a class of which thEre are now too few, the old-fashioned Southern gen­tleman. Mr. TAn~oR'S skill and eloquence as a lawyer were portrayed by the speaker in his memorial of his dead colleague.

Judge Triebet· related many incidents in which Col. TAYLOR figured when touring the State with him during the campaign of 1896, and eplogized the Congressman' ability as a speaker, hi. clean methods in politics, and the high regard in which be was held by the people o.f the State. ·

Representative WL"GO of Arkansas told of the high esteem in ·which Mr. TAYCOR was held by RepresPntatives of all sections of tbe conntry, of tb~ prominence he had already attained in Congress, his high ide-als, and tbe love borne for him by his colleagu~s.

TELI.S OF ILLNESS.

Congressman TAYLOR's bravery during. the last days of his illness was related by Representativ~ PARKS of Arkansas, who declared Col. TAYLOR died fighting for his country as surely as if he had fallen on the field of battle.

Congressman OLDFIELD of Arkansa added several intin1ate details of Col. TAYLOn's last illness, telling how his one desire was to return to his borne at Pine Bluff. His growing promiuence and influence in Congress was pointed out by the speaker, who referred to his work on the Rivers a•nd Harbors Committee. The speaker declared that Col. TAYLOR was so well liked in Congress by members of both parties 'that he could get more favors from tb~ Republicans than any Democrat in the House. .

Col. TAYLOR's deep affection for his constituents was feelingly por­trayed by Congressman JACOWAY, wbo quoted him as once remarking '' There Is not a man, woman, or child in all my district that I can not take by the band and call my friend."

Congressman DRIVER told o:r the deep grief felt in common by all those who had known CoL TAYLOR. the high praise accorded him on every hs.nd, and then said such commendatiom; of love and respect were fitting tribute-s to a career like Mr. TAYLOR's.

NEGRO LEADER SY~U?ATHIZES.

Among the many messages of con'dolence which have been sent to members of Congressman TAYLOR'S family, is one from John H. Young, one of the best-known NE"groes of Pine Bluff and a leader among his race, as shown by the fact that for tbe past 33 years he bas been supreme master of exchequer of the Negro Knights of Pythias. His lettf!r to the Congressman's widow follows : "Mrs. SAl\IUI!IL TAYLOR.

"DEAR MADAM : You and yours have my deepest symp::~thy in the departure of your beloved husband from us. He was a friend to me and the race of which I form a part. He was ever ready to give a kind word and to advise even the humblest of us who sought counsel from him.

" The prayers of many go up !or you and yours, that you may seek consolation in Him who knows and does all things welL

" Of your beloved husband it can be truly said that a fi'iend to humanity has been called from labor to reward, and whatever any of us can do for you and yours we will willingly and gladly do.

"May each of you take comfort and realize that the Holy Writ says: " ' Write, bles ed are they who die in the Lord, for henceforth they

rest f1·om their labors and theh· works do follow them.' "Yours, respectfully, ·

"JOHN H. YOUNG, Sr."

[From the Pine Bluff Commercial, Sept. 15, 1921.] ~CAL BAR TO HAVJJ PART I~ TAYLOR BURr~O GO IN BODY TO MEE~

TILUY ON WHICH REMAINS ARRIVlll TO-MORROW. At a meeting of the Jefferson County Bar Association at 11 o'clock

this morning, held in the chancery court chamber with Chancellor John M. Elliott chairman and .A. R. Cooper secretary, a committee composed of Judge W. D. J<>nes, Judge W. T. Wooldridge, and J. W. Crawf<>rd was named to prepare resolutions on tbe death of Congressman SAM' M. TAYLOR of this city, to be presented to the Arkansas Supreme Court anrl the chancery and circuit courts of this district.

It was r~que. ted that all membern or the bar meet the body and the members o! the congressional committee upon their arrival in the city at 10.30 o'clock Friday morning and to attend the funeral that will be held !rom the First Baptist Church at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon.

Another committee was named to secure a floral emblem on behalf of the bar association.

A committee has aloo been na.med by the Chamber of Commerce to meet the members of the congressional delegation upon tb~ir arrival in the city to-morrow morning and to escort them to the hotel. This committee is composed of T . .J. Collier, president; W. D. Hearn, secre­tary; N. J. Gantt, A. D. Foster, and J. H. ~leans. Secretnry III?arn or the Chamber oi Commerce :ve...«terday sent a telegram of condolence to members of the family at Washington "from the people of this com­munity through the Chamber ot Commet·ce."

The funeral will be ht>ld at 3 o'clock to-morrow afternoon, as an­nounced in The Commercial yesterday afternoon. Dr. John H. Moore, pastor of this chureh., will conduct Uw obsequies and it is expected that tbe funeral will be the most imposing ever held in this city. In adoition to the list of pallbearers announced yesterday, the name of Will Rowell bas been added to the list of active pallbearers.

Following are the resolutions adopted: "Whereas Hon. S.HIUI!lL 1\lurciUJLL TAYr~oR has been called to his

reward by Him who doeth all things well ; and · "Whereas be was fo1· many years a member of the bar of Jefferson

County and of the State of .Arkansas, where be shone with great brilliancy as a member of the bar, as a citizen, as a public servant, charged by his fellow citizens with the discharge of public duties; and

" Whereas it is but ju t and fitting that the members of his home ba:r should expre s their high appreciation of him as a lawyer, a public serva:nt, a citizen, and a man ab6ve repl"oacll in all things, as far as such. appreciation may be eA"Pr.essed in language by us;

.. Now, therefore, be it Resol~:ed by those 1t'110 knew Tlinl best, That in the death of Ron.

SA~I'LliL MITCHELL TAYLOR this bar has lost one of its greatest and mo t brillia.nt members ; the city of Pine Bluff an honored citizen; the -National Congress, in which be served, a faithful, honest. con­sclentious and efficient member; the people .Df the sixth congressional district, who loved to honor him, a Hei"Vant whose place will be hard to fill; and the world a lovable, genial gentleman, of whom it could truthfully be said,

" His life was O'entle, and the elements ·• ··'l mixed in him that uature might stand up " _i.Dd say to all the world, ' This w.a.s a man.'

"Be it furt1ler resol·ved, That a copy of this resolution be delivered by the ecretary of this meeting to the widow and family."

fFrom tbe Pine Bluff Commercial.] LISCOLX COURT HONORS ME:.IORY OF COL. TAYLOR-l\IE:110RIAL SERVICm

HELD, BAR ASSOCIATION .A.DOPTS RESOLUTIOXS. The Lincoln Circuit Court at Star City yesterday held memorial

services in memory of Congressman TAYLOR. A few moments prior to the convening of court Judge Sorrells received a. IDI"Ssage that Col. TAYLOR had died. With many cases- to. be heard, this information was not imparted immediately to the bar. There were many attorneys of the district pre,ent, and when court reconvened at 1 o'clock Judge Sor­rells announced the death of his friend, Mr. TAYLOR. He then asked if any member of the bar had anything to offer or say. At this time Judge E. J. Kerwin, a friend and admirer of Col. TAYLOR, introduced the resolution,_, which were unanimously adopted by the bar, placed on record in the court and a copy sent to the family of Mr. TAYLOR. Attorney Arthur Johnson and other members of the bar !rom Jeffer­f'On County spoke in highest terms of the life and character of Col. TAYLOR.

The following is a. copy of the resolution : " Whereas it bus plea ed .\lmigJ,lty God. in His wisdom, to remove

fro.m our midst our honored and beloved Congl.'essman, SAMUEL l\f. TAYLOR; and, -

" Whereas he was permitted to serve the people whom he loved and liverl among, until in that service, which was always faithful, be reached tha g{)lden years of his well and honorably spent life; and,

"Whereas his devotion to duty, to the Government of the United States, in the Halls of Congress at Washington, D. C.; to tlie State of Arkansas. to this- congressional district. among which were the counties of Lincoln, Desha, and Jefferson, the people of which latter counties be sen·ed for many·years as their prosecuting attorney, caused him to manife t hi. sincere appreciation and gratefulness in the honors bestowed upon him; even when ambition sang its sweetest song in the years when life was to him sweeter and sweeter, still he remained at his post of duty : and even at the last, when the veil that shuts out tbe lil!ht and the life of each and all was falling slowly, reminding biro that the God he served and loved was calling, and with loved ones at home, yet his high conception of duty to those whom he served and loved, and who in turn loved him, was such as to cause him to live with hope, that bright star of every human breast and heart, and it was this hape that spring· eternal, coupled with his belief in the God of each and all, that gave him strength to fig-ht his last battle quietly and bravely, as he fought all of his battles during life.

"Col. TAYLOR, as he was familiarly called by his friends and many of his constih1ents, was the possessor of one of those pleasing and lovable dispositions that enriched his otherwise beautiful character. Ffe came from the great State of Mississippi, the home of George. Walthal, and Lamar, when a young- man. Arkansas was his State by adoption a;nd of his own choosing; bad he remained in Mississippi he might have become a John Sharp Williams. As a young- lawyer it was early discerned in his career that a bright future was his, po&>-essed as he was of those great virtues and qualities in one's life that go to make men great, kind, lovable, and charitable. He builded a character that is the priceless gem of his lift>, and the greatest in-

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heritu:ace ne leaves his family, wife, daughters, and sons, is the heri­tage of all the ages-a good name.

Out of the tree of life, ceaselessly and perseveringly, he cut day by day the deeds that made him that which be was, a noble, good man, a !nan whose citizenship is worthy of emulation by every aspiring young man in the State. He loved his country and his country's flag; for all that each stat· and ,stripe that Old Glory stood for, so did Col. TAYLOR. During the trying days preceding this country's entry into the World War and while it lasted his love for the success of the ideals of the United States represented by the American flag caused him to remain day and night at his '(>ost of duty. His life was one of the best because one of service--service to hi.s God, to humanity, to his family, his con­stituency, and to his fliends. His life was that of the Christian, and the priricil,)les received in early childhood were exemplified by him dur­ing all the years be served and lived. His home was ever his best beloved spot on earth and in fact and in truth his castle. It was to him the sweetest place of all, surrounded as he was by his . devoted and loving 'vife, the companion of all his young and ambitious years, by his fwo daLlghters and two sons, one of whom is an honored member of the bnr of this district.

"The bright stars and the jewels of his life. those immediate jewels that nestle in the heartstrings of every heart, were his children, and next to them his friends. Long a member of the bar of this district, four years the prosecuting attorney of the people of this circuit, eight years of crvice in Congress as the representative of the people, it is fitting and proper that we on this day mourn his death. We mourn becau e he was a good man, an exemplary citizen, honest and in­corruptible as ~ public official, and a lawyer who faithfully discharged evf'rY clut:r to his client. He had the greatest respect for and in turn was hE>ld in esteem by the judges of the courts before whom be appea.red. A real southern ~cntlP.men, a Christian, scholar, loving husb.and, and devoted father : Therefore, be it

Re8ol·ved by the members of the ba1· of the Eleventh Judicial Distri.ct, of which LiJICOln Oounty constitute.~ one of the three counties in said distl'ict, That these resolutions be adopted this day as an expression of our love for him and hi faithful service to the people whom he served, aUfl that the waters of forgetfulness in time may not wash out either bis good d eeds or his memory from among us and those who may serve in the Years to come.

"He ·u t·esolved furt71er, That these resolutions be spread upon the record of this honorable court; that a copy of ame, under seal of this court, be fm·nished his beloved wife and children who survive him, and to whom we extend our condolences and assurances of deep and sincere sympathy, and that the press of this district be furnished a. copy for publication.

"And, last, as our final tribute to our Congressman, brother lawyer, and friPnd, that the courts of this juclicial district, presided over by the Bon. W. B. Sorrells, circuit judge, and life-long friend of Col. TAYLOR, adjourn out of respect to his memory on the day of his burial.

" May be forever rest in peace.

STATE OF ARKANSAS, Oot1nty of Lincoln.

"E. J. KERWIN."

I, W. A.. Fish, clerk of .the Lincoln circuit court, hereby certify that the foregoing re>lolutions were unanimously adopted by the Bar Asso­ciation of Lincoln County, in open court, and that the same were spread in full upon the records of said court, on this the 13th day of September, HJ21.

W. A. FISH. Clerk of the Lincoln Circuit Court.

[From the Pine Bluff Graphic~ A FRIJIJND ~.1.'0 ALL.

Resolutions on the death of Congressman TAYLOR were adopted at last night's meeting of the Central Trades Council and several speak­ers eulogized him. Tbi · action is further proof of the fact that the dead Congressman 1·ecognized no casts or class in society, but sought to serve nll people to the best of his ability. How well be succeeded in this effort is shown in the expressions of sm.·row that come :from evet·y source. PINE BLUFF CEXTR.AL TRADES COUNCIL, AFFlL1ATED WITH ARKANSAS STATE

FEDERATION OF LA.BOU, AMERICAN FEDERATIO"' OF LABOR, PINE BLUFF, AllK.-A RESOLUTIO~. Whereas God has removed from this world our friend, Congressman

SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR; and Whereas in the death of this good man our country bas lost an able

statesman and leader, our citY and county a beloved citizen ; and Whf'reas the life of Congressman TAYLOR has been filled to the brim

with deeds that have endt-ared him to the hearts of all classes and creells, and bls kindly sympathy and interest were ever given to those in distress : Therefore be it

Rcsol ,;ed by tlte Pine Bluff Central Trades and Labor CounciZ, repre­senting. 2,000 u11ion men, That we extend the bereaved family our sym­pathy in their dark hour of their gt·eat sorrow, ancl that we mingle our prayers with those of others that Heaven may help and sustain them in theit· loss.

Respectfully, yours, .A.. W. LEHRMANN, W. S. BUSICK, ROBT. MALLY, A. L. ~lAPIN, M. F. MITCHELL,

Committee.

(Pine Bluff Commercial, Sept. 13, 1921.) CO~<;RESSMAN· TAYLOR.

The people of Pine Bluff are to-day in grief over the announcement that Congressman SAM ~I. TAYLOR di€d early to-day at Washington, D. C. It was recently rPported ...that he bad been seriously ill for sevet·al weeks, suffering fl'Om pleurisy and pneumonia, but his physi­cians announced that his condition was improved and the hope was held out that he would soon be able to return to his home in Pine Bluff.

Instead of beh1g able to return as nsoal from the scene of his labor as a Member of Congress to receive welcome and commendation from his friends at home, only his lifeless body will be brought back here to be burled, while the lovable SAM TAYLOR exists only in memory.

Although he was officially recognized as Representative from the sixth congressional district of Arkansas, and had held seveml high positions, be was known to his friends as SAM T.-\YLOR, denoting the affection for him from his friends, who were as numerous as his acquaintances. · One of tl1e public schools of this city is known as

the Sam Taylor School, as . a recognition of the valuable services he gave to the school children and school patrons of this city durin.,. the 16 years that he was a member of the Pine Bluff school board d~ring the la. t 12 years as president of the board. '

SAM TAYLOR was a member of an old and prominent Southern family and it may well be said of him that be was a worthy son of a noble sire. He had been a resident of Pine Bluff for 35 years during whicb he became known as one or the leading members or the' Arkansas bar a man always active in behalf of his political party, interested in the welfare .o~ his community and country, the head of a prominent family and a Citizen sod neighbor who was loved because of his integrity and his lovable character. In the death of SAM TAYLOR Pine Bluff has lost a valuable citizen and the sixth congressional district has lost an able Representative. His name will always occupy a prominent place in the list of the many prominent Pine Bluff citizens whose record of service_to_QJ.eir fellow men are inscribeq upon the tablets of love and memot·;,..

[From the Hot Springs Sentinel Record.] CONGRESSMAN TAYLOR DEAD.

Congressman SAM TAYLOR, of this distl'ict, has passed away, and with his passing goes one of the old school of public men in the South. He was genial, pleasing, friendly, and of the type who makes following and support without apparently endeavoring to do so. He was free of the demagogi<' trend too frequently found in present­day politics, and he was always zealous to the interests of friends and <'Onstituents.

His home was in Pine Bluff, and be was so beloved there that the question of substantial home indorsement for him was never raised. Ill in health in his last campaign, and unable to make the personal canvass that is E-Xpected., he came out victorious through the aggres­siveness of beloved friends.

The death of Congressman TAYLOR will be deeply regretted over his district and over the State as well.

SAMUEL M. T.>\YLOR. The body of the late Conqressmau SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, who died in

Washington last Tuesday, w1ll be buried this afternoon at Pine Bluff, whet·e most of his life was spent.

'l'he death of Mr. TAYLOR removed a kindly but forceful man, who had fought his way up to prominence. In his young manhood he had to contend against the numerous handicaps imposed on Southerners by the hatreds born of the Civil War. By close application and right living be pushed steadily ahead. He was honored often by the Demo· cratic Party and he repaid the party by intelligent and earnest effort.

Mr. TAYLOR died in harness. His family and his friends may get satisfaction from the thought that he so acquitted himself as an office· bolder that he owed nothing to the voters who elected him. He gaYQ honest and efficient service and his reelections showed the voters' aP­preciation of such service.-Arka.nsas Gazette.

COL. SAM M. TAYLOR. With the death of Col. SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, of Arkansas, the

Democrats in Congress lose a member who bad endeared himself to all hi s colleagues. There was no more genial soul than this modest man from the growing Southwest. He was a rare raconteur, a most companionable man, gentle in manner, kindly in di. po~ition, genm·ous in all his instincts, firm in his convictions, and singularly devoted to all the higher and nobler traditions of the South. It was worth something to hear him relate some of his earli'er expel'iences in Mississippi and as a young lawyer in his adopted State. His anecdotes were racy of the soil; he was particularly happy in hitting off the Negro dialect and characteristic..<;, and he was nevet· more entertaining than when . telling stories which be picked up at t•emote counh·y inns o1· in corner stores. He will be greatly missed in the halls of Congrt>s.·, in which he had been a familiar figm;e for neat·ly a decade.--Johnslown (Pa.) Democrat.

AN APPRECIATION. (By Mrs. Max Eisenkt·amer.)

In presenting the followiooo poem, to the memory of the late Con­gressman SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, the author says:

" I ask the privilege of penning in my humble way the vit·tues of our late Congressman, SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, as I knew him from child­hood until his death.

" I base my inspii'ation on the bigness of the man, as demonstt·ated in a. congmtulatory handshake and expression of interest in my future success, when my work was placed among the relics of the University of Texas. Pet·haps meeting him on my return from worship may have foFmed the setting, as it was then he quoted to me the following lines from 'Envy Not' : ' Rejoice in all the honors which come to those you know. That you know them makes you, in a sense, a partner to their fame; that you rejoice with them bt·iugs you their friendship.'·~

LIFE' S WINDOW.

In this life of many windows, I see jewels rich and rare;

Come, I beg you, see them with me, Human h earts, just here and there.

Oft 'tis not until the parting Of a jewel, rich and rare

That we waken to its merit Here and there and everywhere.

Let me take you to this window. To one jewel, rich and rare,

Who on earth has lived to bless us, A.nd is now blessed over there.

Up and out at all times >:tood he, In the laws of God and man,

And each deed stood as a blessing; Emulate him, if you can.

Did the things that spell rt>al manhood Come into his daily life·:

Ye~. to him wa · sacred, duty, Whether plC'asant, or with strife.

Loyal was he to his country, Loyal 'vas he to his home.

And the slab that marks his buriat, Will prove this, in years to come..

1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3063 Was be good and kind and gentle,

Was be patient, bTave., and true? Would to God these Belfsame blessings

Were a gift fro:n God to you. Did be love his wife a·nd cllildren?

Here I tread on . acred ground­With the same love in his bosom

That in ever-y prince is found.

Oh. how humble! This a jewel, That in him we, too, will tind ;

And tbtl rich man and the lowly­::lide l.ly him walked all mankind.

Do you doubt it? 'l'ben the school house Tba t in years will n.s r~in<l

Of this pati·iotic spirit Who sought democracy to bind.

And th-ere is another window, With a jewel, rich and rare;

Selfi-shness could never enter, It was service everywhere.

To lend to all a helfiug band, Who strive a goa to rPach,

•• For your glory is my glory, l!io the prophets and p6CIS t.eacll."

Then with eyes brimful .of interest, As th€i.r sparkle I could note.

From his soul there came the .. Envy Not" That from Worthington I quote.

And ill my h~ttrt a feeling For tbi · great man arosP,

As I saw in bim the qualities Of life-not meant for prose.

And I wondered uot be filled this place, A jewel for his land~

There, within the ball of Congress, There. Olli.' stateRman, glorious, grand,

It was just those uohle qualities Of deed ·:tnd minu and heart.

Th~t on earth leaves hjm immortal, As the soul that did depart.

So in his ho-use of many wjndows You now s.ee that jewel fine;

That jewel in the lives of all Who have reached the hcights sublime.

'Tis that great gem. religion, The foundation of all goou:

And through this he built his mansion, Here with man, and there with God.

Back again, to life's first window, To one jewel rich and rare;

Who on earth has lived to bless us, Ilere and there and e-ver~-wbCl'e.

Up and out at all times stood he, In the Ia ws of God and man ;

And each deed stood out a jewel, Emulate him, if you cau.

1\Ir. JACOWAY. Mr. S11eaker, once again we are with sadness reminded of the uncertainty of life, and with the unerring and fatal accuracy of death. Some months since the gentle and generous spirit of Col. SA~ TAYLOR took its flight. All that was mortal of one who had with a royal bearing grown to the fullness and perfection of manhood's estate dropped out of line and was a mem{}ry. In life he was "every inch a king." His was an existence that had paid rare di\·idends to the world in ''hich he had liv.ed and moYed and had his being. All the llavs of his life he had entertained noble th{}ughts; he had perlorrned good deeds and had carried out to a successful con. ·umrriation various and varied poli-cies and plans, which made the world know it 'vas richer and happier in the knowl­edge that he had lived.

It is not for m~ and I dare say the undertaking of anyone, on this occasion, to recite in detail the wonderful history of CoL SAM TAYLOR. Time and space and the knowledge of the poverty of my own vocabulary prevent me from doing so. That is the work of the just historian. No poor words of mine ean add additional luster to the w·ondrous way in which he wrought, when as a young ' man. vital 'nth the rich red blood of a superb manhood, he lived and loved and toiled, and left behind him good and big thing.s undertaken and accomplished, and which stamped him with the hall mark of a potential benefactor in his day and generation. His achievements are securely chroni­cled and preserved in the archives of his Government that be patriotically loved, and which he so faithfully served, and in v~-·hi-ch be had a continuing and abiding faith. To-day as we pay tribute to his memory, and view the record that is his, it wrings unstinte<l praise from legions of friends and admirers; a proud and consoling living reality to those that be lo-ved best, and who in tuTn loved him without limit. 'ro them it is a rich, a priceless family heritage to which they can point with genuine pride, con.scious in the happy and proud thought that the blood that coursed his veins was theirs in fee simple. Behind him he has left a world of beautiful memories which is the common inheritance of both friend and family.

'.Che contests that Col. TAYLOR waged for political supremacy were unique, and easily fall in a class by themselves. While

he was vigorous in debate, and wielded a shining lance, he ne-ver sought an unju1St 'advantage.

His wit in the combat, as gentle as light, Ne'er· carried a beartstain on its l.llade.

From every political contest he emerged with his · own self­respect, stronger with those to whom be llad appealed for support, and also living in the respect and admiration of those who opposed him. In these contests he erected high standards and from them he never varied. In his last race for Con­gress, in presenting his Yiews to the voters of his distlict. he .adopted as his slogan; "We llaYe done that which is our duty to do."-Luke, 17th chapter, lOth verse. And again, in the same race, he broadly .stated that he would adopt and be judged by Thomas Jefferson's stand.ard as to the qualifications a candidate for office should possess:

Is be honl'st? Is he competent? Is be faithful? Is be true to the Constitution?

With these as his guides and embodied into his political creed, he presented his cause to the people of his district and won by majolities that were o>erwhelming, carrying, as I think the record will disclose, all the counties of his district save one, and only losing this by a small margin, 'vhich 'Yas the home county of one of his opponents. It was his belief that the combined judgment of the people is seldom wrong, and that it is the exception ,,·hen an erroneous Yerdict is rendered by them at the polls, feeling that when the people are in possession of all the facts and understand the issues involved that substan­tial justice will be meted out by them. He was the personifica­tion of courtesy in the llotly contested battles waged in the courts ·where he played so prominent and illustrious a ~part for over a quarter of a century. Among the strong votaries of the legal profes~ion, he was one of its El Capitans, profoundly respected, and at the same time justly feared on account of his solid erudition in -that profession he considered the foremost of all . That high course of action that guideu him in the trial of causes characterized him as a political opponent.

At all times he sought to be absolutely fair. I quote his own language: " It has been a rule of my political life neYer to speak despairingly or disrespectfully of my opponents. If they be men of good moral character, the Yoters find it out. If they be otherwise, this the Yoters \\ill also note before casting their ballots; and if my opponents or myself be unworthy to repre­sent tl1e people of our district in the Congress of our country, I simply lay before ;ron these words:

'Be sure your sins will find you out.'" (Numbers, 32-38.)

To me no higher or loftier gauge of battle could be thrown down. It serYes as a true index to the character of the mau. It is but another citation that his mind always traveled the high mountain ranges of thought, and was reflected in a course ot conduct in life that ma_de him loved and respected by his fellows. This trait of character was one of the compelling reasons on that beautiful autumn day in September when his body was l{)wered into the tomb that the rich -and the poor, the high and the low, the white and the blaek, gathered at the church and the grave to pay their last respects and to him pay the homage of a king_ In sorrow we left him in his long sleep resting under a veritable wilderness of flowers.

Mr. Speaker, the low sweet n{)tes of taps have been sounded for our good friend and colleague, Col. SAM l\1 . TAYLOR. The "Grim messenger with the in--rerted torch beckoned him to lie­part, and be was unafl·aid. In lowly submission he bowed Ws acquiescence and obedience to the mandate of the highest of all courts and responded to 'Nature's final decree in equity.'" I know that when his dying eyes again visualized that which life had brought to him and how lavish it had been to him the sting of death was r{)bbed to a minimum. He had achi-eved in honor that which falls to the lot of a limited few. By his side with a heart full of lo~ve, ministering to him, anticipating his every want was she the bride of his young manhood in the spling time of life---the mother of his children . She had been his in­spiration throug-hout the days--his universe. He had seen his children grow to manhood and womanhood's estate. He _saw with pride the first born one of the legal head.s of a great trans­continental railroad system, two beautiful daughters who had established their llomes, and by their ·brilliancy of intellect, charm of face and form, and womanly sweetness had taken their high places in that world decreed by God as woman's absolute dominion : The second son who had bee.n a trinity to him as son, friend, and counsellor, and who now worthily wears the mantle that fell upon him from his father's shoulda·s, had been an unfailing source of comfort and pride to him. The voices and love of grandchil<:h'en made happier and sweeter his

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latter years. So when death came, and before him again he saw revolving on the kaleidoscope of life these beautiful colors and tints that were all made for him the grave was robbed of its ·yictory.

l\lr. Speaker, upon the tenderest heartstrings of his family a sorrow as heavy as a huge stone has been rolled and to-day they g1ieve. In conclusion may I say to them, mourn not: God lives and loves and rules, and in that Beautiful World of Some­where he stand~ with white hands beckoning them to follow­You shall meet him in the morning.

l\ir. WINGO. Mr. Speaker, I will not attempt to pay any extended formal tribute to the life and character of my departed colleague. I am content to leave that duty to the older Mem­bers. What I wish to do is to say a few words of simple tribute to a departed friend.

I do not know of any man among my acquaintance to whom I was drawn more trongly in a personal way than to Colonel TAYLOR. Somehow I never thought of him as the public official, as the active partisan, as a colleague in the House. I always thought of him as I fust met him when a young man stH.rting out in public life myself. At that time he had already achieved an enviable place at the bar of our State. He was already rec­ogni:r.ed as a very strong, potent force in his party. I was the beneficiary not only of his time and courtesy but of his wisdom and counsel. I think he was one of the kindest men I ever knew to those of us who belonged to the younger generation who went to him for counsel and advice. That was the thing that attracted me to him and made me think more of him as a friend than as one in a public position discharging pnblic duties.

Another thought that comes to me about Colonel TAYLOR is that be was one of the few remaining of what I am afraid is a fast-dh;;appearing type. That is what those in other parts of the Republic refer to as a typical old southern gentleman. He was typical of that school thnt I say I fear is fast disappear­ing. I wish there were more men of that character among those in public life to-day. Those of us who bad the privilege of meeting with his neighbors readily understood the love and affection in '\vhich he was held, even by those who differed with him either in the courtroom or on the hustings in a political contest. There was in him that flense of justice, that high honor that was so characteristic that even his adversaries respected and admired -him. These were the things that protected him against the shafts of jealousy and hate, because he was always honorable and fair. He loved his fellow men. He loved his country. He rendered great and distinguished service to both, and his country, his fellow men, and the circle of his immediate friends sustained a great loss when Colonel TAYLOR passed away.

l\lr. TILLl\IAN. Mr. Speaker, in the county of Jefferson, at Pine Bluff, the city by the winding river, named as our State is named, we buried our late colleague and comrade, SAMUEL MITCHELL TAYLOR. The soft September sun shone bright over that typical far southern county site, as a legion of his friends followed his clay to its final resting place in beautiful Bellwood cemetery. In this great throng of people were heavy-hearted relatives, clergymen, Senators, Representatives, Federal and State judges, doctors, lawyers, planters, bankers, merchants, newsboys, and here and there men and women of color, all mourners. There never Ib·ed a more popular citizen. Lo,·er,

. lawyer, statesman, old-time polite, courteous gentleman and friend of man was SAMUEL M. TAYI.OR.

As a young man be was courtly, graceful and handsome. He was singularly persuasive with juries, and as a trial lawyer had few equals. His voice was as mellow and soft as the music of a guitar, and at a party convention or before 12 good men and true in the jury box be was all but invincible.

The years go swiftly by, and it was a long time ago when I first lleard his eloquent tongue in forensic speech. It so hap­pened that the young men and old from the four corners of our State were gathered i.u Little Rock to select an associate justice of the supreme court. The favorite of the old men for the honor was the late Judge Jordan E. Cravens, of Johnson County, the youngsters were for a brilliant young circuit judge from Monticello. At that time I was a callow fledgling of the law, and was there as a delegate, pushing with enthusiasm an<.l vigor the candidacy of the young circuit judge aforementioned, who bad been my college mate and boyhood friend. This young aspirant for high judicial preferment was placed in nomina­tion by young SAM TAYLOR, of Pine Bluff, in one of the most charming, forceful, and effective convention speeches I ever heard. Our candidate was nominated, elected, and still graces the benth. As Judge Chas Coffin, one of the oldsters, said:

We went to the college campus to draft a tyro to invest with the judicial purple, heretofore supposed to be best fitted for, oluer shoulders.

The years went by and the time came when there was a cer­tain important will case pending in my court at BeutonYille, the case of Phillips 'L'S. Phillips, the parties litigant for a long time having lived in Jefferson County. The matter came on for trial. The ablest counsel in the State appeared for the contest­ants and contestee, SAM TAYLOR being of counsel for the con­testants. The law was against him, the facts in favor of the contestee, and yet the 12 men composing the jury were so moved by his matchless appeal that they promptly returned a verdict for his ellen ts.

The years sped on and 'I became a collea-gue of the one-time convention orator and advocate in the Congress of the United States.

Here be was known, respected, and loved by all his fellow Members. He was possessed of stainless honor. There was not enough gold in all the world to buy him or corrupt him.

For the last few years we could see that he was rapidly failing. Re seemed, ho,yever,- to be hopeful, eYen sanguine of recovery and further service, and 3et he did not seem to fear to face the grizzly thing called death, but when be allowed his mind to dwell on the end that be knew would come sometime, his unfaltering trust in God and His revealed promises soothed' and sustained him for the last great adventure which follows the flight of the spirit from the body. ·

As I think of his last days I recall the following lines: I watched a sail until it dropped from sight Over the rounding sea. A gleam of white, A last far-1lashed farewell, and, like a thought Slipt out of mind, it vanished, and was not.

Yet to the helmsman standing at the wheel Br·oad seas still stretched beneath the gliding keel. Disaster? Change? He felt no slightest sign, Nor dreamed he of that far horizon line. So may it be, perchance, when down the tide Our deaL· ones vanish. Peacefully they glide On level seas. nor mark the unknown bound. We call it death-to them 'tis life beyond.

The end carne on September 13. He closed his eyes for the last time in this world and went to sleep in sight of the white­columned Capitol of tlie Nation, in which imposing structure be had for nine years served a proud constituency with immaculate fidelity.

My thought strays back again to the little mound in whose lush bosom we laid him to rest, the grave hidden under the rarest and richest of floral tributes I have ever seen.

Peace, and rest, and leep, good friend. Warm summer sun. shine kindly here ; Warm southern wind, !)low softly here; Green soil above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear heart; good night; good night.

Mr. DRIVER. l\Ir. Speaker, colleagues with more extensive association with Col. Sur 1\f. TAYLOR have spoken of his dis­tinguished service in this body and of his participation in im­portant contemporaneous legislation. Unfortunately I was denied the pleasure of the association afforded them. .

I became acquainted with Col. TAYLOR many years ago, but conditions were such that it continued a casual one until I a!;j­sumed my duties here, at whicll time di:ease greatly ·weakened tile phy ique of Col. TA'l'LOR, preventing his attendance upon the sessions and his appearance at his office except at inter­vals. I was, however, aware of his reputation as a lawyer and statesman. Like many of the statesmen from my native State, Col. TA.YLOR came to us from our sister State of Mississippi, the native home of Augustus H.· Garland, of James K .. Tone~. of James P. Clarke, whom the citizens of Arkansas delighted to honor in honoring themselves. He brought to us the tran­scendent virtues, devotion to duty, and adherence to great prin­ciples characterizing tlle other great characters.

Col. TAYLOR won his spurs at the bar and launched his politi­cal career while a resident of his native State, and but matured himself in continuing his activities in newer and more favorable fields, and died in the knowledge of the fulfillment of his ambition.

He located in the beautiful city of Pine Bluff, Ark., the me­tropolis of the .Arkansas River Valley, where he attained the leadership of his bar, serving faithfully and well as prosecutin::; attorney for three consecutive terms. In 1912 when the Hon. JoE T. HoRIKSON, then representing the sixth district in Congress, resigned to enter upon his duties as governor, Col. TAYLOR was se­lected to fill the place, and brought to his duties that same de­votion, experience, capacity, and energy so usefully employed in his professional an<l official life before.

He was honored by his vart.v in being selected for and pre­siding oYer two State con,·entions with such fairness an<l im­partiality that no stings "-ere left to trouble the party in the

1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORP-HOUSE. 3065 subsequent campaigns. When I reached Washington I became the guest of the hotel "Where Col. TAYLOR made his home for seYeral years, and I recall no one name used with more affec­tion. His friends there, without regard to party affiliations, are to be numbered by the guest list. I sought him out at every possible opportunity, and in the hours of association afforded me I learned why he was so loved. He was entirely unassum­ing and companionable, with a mind stored with a wealth of information, the product of hard study and experience gained in the practice of his profession, his labors here, and his contact with h is fellow man; a man of strong convictions, but devoid of offensive partisanship and without malice. He was a manly man, as gentle a s a woman, but courageous in his adher{}nce to prin­ciples. Just such a man as '1le was portrayed by his colleagues to me. The character of man to counsel and advise. The type of man who e memory is 'cherished by communities, districts, State. and Nation, and whose family life is a benediction.

\Vhen the remains of Col. TAYLOR reached his home city of Pine Bluff the people were assembled from the city and sur­rounding country and without regard to race, creeq, or political affiliation joined in a rare tribute of affection and esteem. He has crossed over the river and rests in the shade of the trees.

Mr. PARKS of Arkansas. l\fr. Speaker, I desire to detain -the Members for only a m01'tlent, for I can no more add to what has been said by my colleagues than we who are assembled here could add to the grandeur, the glory, and the greatness of the life that we come to · commemorate. Those people "Who know us best are the ones whom we call our nei$hbors... The Mem­bers of this House who served with Col. TAYLOR for a number of years know him as a public official. That he was careful,. conservative, industrious, and, above all, a loyal and a faithful public ·ervant was not doubted by any man. When Col. TAYLOR died and was carried back to his home in Arkansas to be buried the pastor of the church to which he belonged, and one who knew him in private life, delivered an oration at his funeral. I desire to incorporate in my remarks the oration of the Rev. Dr. John H. Moore, and ask that it be printed in the RECORD. Dr. Moore expressed my idea and my feelings for our colleague far better than I can. It is a difficult matter to talk about those after death who have been our associates and our friends, and I feel that I could do our friend no greater honor than to reproduce the oration delivered by the pastor' of his church that those of us here might know how he was loved by his associates at home. I therefore append this oration as a part of my remarks : ·

DEAR FELLOW CITIZE~S: In the twenty-fifth chapter of Genesis, at the eighth verse, you will find my text for this occasion.

" Then Abraham died in a good old age, an old man, and full of yea1·s, and was gathered to his people."

Without burdening you with the processes, I wish to state that a comparison of this phrase "full of years" with the other instances where it occurs and a little deeper look into it reveals that it does not mean length of days. The same expres. ion, " full of years," was used to describe the closing of the liyes of Abraham, Isasc, Jeboida, and the patriarch Job. It means satisfied with years. One of these Old World nobles was a preacher ; three of them were laymen. They were all men of God and men of affairs, distinct in their individualities, different in their capacities and fa culties-varied in their expressions of life, yet all of them came to the same calm close. It means that these men were satisfied with life. having exhausted its• possibilities anu having r eached a satisfactory climax. There was no more to strive for. They were not afraid to die; they did not seek death, but were ready and willing to go when call(~d. The high ambition of youth pursued through stern years had been realized. Ther came to a tmnquil close of a noble life. It is a picture of one Sitting down to a table with the choi cest food before him. He has now eaten to his fill and when called by his host to retire to another room he calmly pushes back his chair and goe-s. .

This is satisfaction, not satiety. Many men have been burned out with life and some of them go unbidden into the unknown. I have known many old men to come down to the grave having put nothing worth while into life, and therefore received no satisfaction. Ambition and impulse has led them far astray and they looked backward with regret and remorse and forward with doubt and fear. But not so with Abraham and his type of men. My deep conviction is that the man in whose honor this memorial service is held belongs to the type described in this text. Such men have been inspired and guided by the noble ambition expressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes:

" Build thee more stately mansions, 0, my soul,

As the swift seasons roll, Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven ;with a dome more vast, Till thou at length are free, Leaving thine outgrown shell By life's unresting sea.''

Then Abraham died. Death walks with impartial tread. It casts its grim shadow over the

palace and the cottage. It has lately invaded high circles and em­braced one beloved and honored by his family and by the people whom he represented in the most distinguished law-making body in the world.

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It is a custom in America to bury distinguished men in the place­where they have lived and are loved most. Washington was buried at Mount Vernon, Abraham Lihcoln at Springfield. Ralph Waldo Emer­son and Nathaniel Hawthorne are buried undel' the wind-swept pines of New England. The gentle, noble Washington Irving on the banks of the majestic Hudson. The immortal Hem·y Clay sleeps in the soil of his beloved Kentucky.

It is fitting, therefore, that Congressman SAM TAI:LOR should be la id to rest in the city of Pine Bluff. It was here that he cama with his young family more than a third of a century ago. It was here that he developed his ability as a lawyer and public servant and made for himself a reputation which will ever dignify his name. This was his home and the citizens of Pine Bluff and the sixth congressional dis­trict recognize with deep appreciation the distinguished escort of Senators and Congressmen. In thus honoring your comrade ::md fl'iend You have honored yourselves, for it is the universal verdict of the high and low that-

" His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him tLat nature might stand up and say to all the world, 'This was a man.' "

In fitting this stately text to this distinguished citizen I will first briefly outline--

1. HIS FULLXESS OF YEARS. He was born almost three score and ten years ago in Mississippi of

noble but not rich parents. His education from the standpoint of schools was negligible. He was one of those rare self-educated men. Endowed with a brilliant mind, a retentive memory, a love for nature and fo!ks, he laid tribute upon every lofty influence which touched his life. Ambitious and determined, he tunneled the mountains, bridged the streams, and rode the s torms which came between him aml his goal. I happened to know from family sources that he made a living with one hand and studied with the other. Only those who have been educated under such adverse circumstances can appreciate fully what this means. To him these lines were full of meaning:

"Heights of great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight,

But they, while their companions slept, WNe toiling upward through the night."

In the study and practice of his profession, which foL· the most part was in our city, he early made a place for himself which be held un{!bal­lenged.

Having become a Christian rather early in life, he showed the world anew that a law~r can · and should be a Christian gentleman. He made the law of God the rule of his life and thus lifted himself above the vices which too often mar the ethics of men of his profession.

The resolutions of this bar and the bars of the sixth congressional district, the presence here of o many fine lawyers are an unimpeach­able testimonial of th eir love and reverence for a lawyer who daily practiced the principle of fidelity to truth and honor.

Having aspired to sit in the Hall of Congress, he was five times hon­ored with election to this position of sacred trust. And through all these years he was faithful and efficient and always true to the party to which he gave his lifelong allegiance.

When therefore he came to die he bad reason to be satisfied with life from this standpoint. He could ask no more at the hands of his people. A man who has served his day and generation by the will of God can but come .to a tranquil close of life.

With reverent band I now draw aside the curtain <Jf his family life. He loved his family devotedly. He gave his children all the education they wished. He was a good provider for them. He lived to see all of them mature, honorable. happy, and useful. He taught them the great principles of life and religion which had shaped his own course in life and which will always make his memory to them cherished and sacred. No greater heritage can a father leave his children. He was an affec­tionate and devoted husband to the wife who shared his trials and tri­umphs, who bore him his children, who companioned his last days, and whose heart most keenlv feels and mourns his loss. She now traverses a solemn aisle of pain whose deepest shadows are accessible only to Gou.

But when a man has made a home and has provided advantages and citizenship for his family and lives to see them secm·ely settled in life be can die with great satisfaction.

The complacent anticipation of death as described in Browning's noble words is in accord with my text :

Grow old alcmg with me; The best is :vet to be, The last of life. for which the first was made; Our times are in His hand Who saith. "A whole I planned. Youth shows but half; trust God; see all, nor be afraid.

The other part of this text will now claim our attention for a few minutes. "He was gathered to his fathers."

A moment ago I lifted the curtain for a brief look into his earthly home. I sj.all now lift another curtain and let you look into his heavenly home.

I do ·not speak in vague terms of immortality. Mr. TAYLOR was a Christian. He was so esteemed by all who knew him. I think I can state his confession of faith in a few sentences. He believed in the inspiration of the Scriptures. He believed in the virgin birth, the Deity. the atonement, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He believed in the regeneration and reinvigoration of a human soul by the Holy Spirit of God. He believed in a definite futurity. He based his · hope of eternal life on the fact that he put his trust in Jesus.

"He is gathered to his people." He is no stranger there. Let your imaginations people his heaven. His parents are there. Some brothers and sisters. Many of the friends of his youth who died years ago. Many of his comrades in the Senate of Mississippi. Some of his com­rades in Congress who have preceded him. Add to this those in all the walks of life whom he knew and loved and served.

All men of his type of mind and calling think much of the great Bible characters. I dare say he will find a charm beyond words in meeting with Abraham, and Jacob, and Joseph. and Moses. and Joshua. and David, and Solomon, and all the great prophets and apostles. I ani told by his children that he was a great reader of sermons. H e read as a habit many great sermons to his children when they were young. He will look up some of those grand old preachers and tell them what their•sermons meant to him. Then be will be in high clover when he meets up with that galaxy of Christian statesmen of Eng­land and America whose lives and deeds were his guiding stars in his puhlic careeL·.

Heaven is a real place where real persons are forever in the presence of the blessed God, and in the unbroken companiortship o! each other.

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Men of the bar,. let this occasion call your attention with deep solem­nity to the fac~ that you, too, w.ill elose your la books for the last time, that you will prepare your- last brief, that you will make ;our last plea in the courts of the world, and you yourselves will stan for fina l judgment before the Supreme C01.1I"t of the Universe. The prepa­ration Mr. TAYLOR made for thi appearing was a transaction with the Lord Je us Christ many years ago.

Dear sorrowing companion and children, he marked out the way to heaven for you. It will be no mysterious, meaningless, unknowab-le meeting. You shall know there even also as you have been known here.

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"His day has come, not gone, His un is risen, not set, IJis life is now beyond -The reach of death or· change: Not ended, but begun."

"God does not send us strange faces every year When the soft winds blow o'er the pleasant places ; 'l'he same old forms look out from the same old faces When the violet is here.

"It all comes back, odor, grace, and hue, Each fond relation of the life repeated; Nothing is lost, no looking for is cheated, It is the violet we knew.

" So after death's winter, it shall be God will not put strange sights to heavenly places ; The same old love will look out from the same sweet faces And we sba.ll cry, 'Beloved, I have thee.'"

.And S AM UEL M. TAYLOR died, a man full of years, and was gathered to his people. And may his people and his friends be gathered unto him when the.y die. ·

Mr. SHREVE. Mr. Speaker, I would feel amiss as a Member of the American Congress if I did not express my appreciation of the distinguished gentleman, Col. TAYLOR, whose memory we are here to-day to pe1·petuate. It was my pleasure to meet Col. TAYLOn soon after I came to the Sixty-third Congress. I had spent some time in the southland and we had some things in common. As our acquaintance developed I found that as lawyers we had S()mewhat similar experiences. Col. TAYLOR had been the district attorney of his own county and I had had the same honor in my county, and out of the exchange of stories and experiences there developed a very strong friend­ship. I considered Col. TAYLOR one of the best friends that I had in Congress. He was particularly kind to me, coming as I did as a new Member, unacquainted with the rules and practices of this body. He assisted me greatly with his wise counsel and kindly advice, and was always ready to help a new Member. I think it is the experience of every Member- of Congress as he looks hack to those days when he first came that he can recall some commanding figures who stand out more prominently than all of the rest, perhaps for the very reason that they some time had rendered some service of value to the new Member. Col. TAYLor. was a good man. He had" a great fund of experiences; he was a profound lawyer. He was a delightful conversation­alist. He was fond of ·ws friends, and he would never pass you by without that hearty " Good morning" so characteristic of the southern gentleman. I really had a very sb·ong attachment for CoL TA:YLo.R, and it was my privilege to attend the funeral ceremonies in his home town. · I thought as I stOOd in that beautiful church, filled to overfl()wing with people with tears in their eyes, sorrowing that they had lost a di tinguished citizen, that Col. TAYLon was not only loved in Congress but that he was loved among his own people.

Col. TAYLOn was always proud ()f his district and his city, but he could look beyond the confines of his own State out into the great Union. He was truly an American, an American states­man, and it was my very great pleasure to have had his friend­ship.

Mr. YATES. Mr. Speaker, in the winter of 1917-18 and the months that followed, when all of us were speaking in different parts of the country with reference to the war, the Liberty loan, and the Red Cross, I had the privilege of being assigned to Pine Bluff, Ark. I knew nothing about Pine Bluff. I knew nothing about Arkansas. I felt very far away from home; but at Pine Bluff I met Congressman TAYLOR, and, without multi­J.llying words, it is sufficient to say tba.t his cordiality and courtesy and hospitality were something beyond words, some­thing which I can never · forget. When. on the 4th day of March, 1919, I began my services in this Congress I found the room assigned to me to be the one immediately opposite Repre­sentative TAYLoR's room, and in the nearly 1,000 days that have elapsed since then it seems to me that I mu t hav-e been in his room 1,000 times, as the temporary presiding officer of this body can testify.

.And the r·esult of it was an acquaintance which ripened into an affection, and I became obligated. to him far myriads of favors, large and small. I do not wish this hour to pass without just a word of tribute fr()m me to his memory. He was good, kind, generou , and able, and I mourn his death as a dear friend.

Mr. ELLIOTT. Mr. Speaker, it was my pleasure to- know tbe Han. SAMUEL l\1. TAYLOR of Arkansas during the la t four years of his life only, but during that time I WJlS on intimate terms with him and came to know him and value him as a true friend, citizen, and statesman.

During the time I knew him he was broken in health and of course was not the man whom his constituents knew in the days when he was in his prime and rendering to them the great services which they appreciated and which caused him to be chosen as their representative in the Congre .

When I came to Congress in July, 1917, war had been declared; and the atmosphere around Washington was charged with patriotic fervor, Americanism had taken a new lea e of life and the chief topic discussed was the great war which we had just entered. By chance I put up at the hotel where Mr. TAYLOR was stopping~ We became acquainted on that day and immedi­ately formed a friendship which lasted during the remainder of his life.

We had many conversations upon all topics, and I found him to be at all 9Jnes what we have come to term a true Southern gentleman of the old school. He was well educated and had a thorough knowledge of the law, his chosen profession, and had a keen grasp on all public questions pending in Congress. His adviee was freely sought by his colleagues, and graciously given, ancl it will be many long years before the name of Hon. SAMUEL l\11. TAYLOR is forgotten in the legisl~tive halls of the Congress.

His home life was ideal. He had a splendid wife, two ons, and two daughters, as well as several grandchildren. He often referred, in conversations I had with him, to the various mem­bers af his family, aU of whom were very dear to him. He had pne son who was an officer in the Army of the United State· in the World War, and upon many occasions he referred with pride to him and his work for his country. And when the on eame back from the war he made a special effort to have me moot him and get acquainted with him.

The world has not p,roduced as many men of the type- of Mr. TAYT,OR as we would like, but it is ·a real pleasure to me to know that I was permitted to know him and that we were fr-iend~ It has been a soUI·ce of gratification to me to know that the people of Mr. TAYLon.'s district so appreciated his seFvices to the people and the sterling worth af the Taylor family that they elected his son, Chester W. Taylor, to succeed him in the. national House · of Representatives.

Mr. LOWREY. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen ot the Hou e, my personal acquaintance with SA.AIUEL M. TAYLOR was some­what limited. I come, however, from the State in which he was born, in which he was educated, and in which he grew to manhood. I come from the same section of that State a he did. It has qeen my pleasure to know his connections inti­mately. r was in Little Rock just at the time he was first elected to Congress. I talked with men on the supreme bench and with several of the State officials, and I found something, of tbe very high esteem in which he was held by men of tha.t rank; bnt I had known SAM TAYLOR better from those who had known him from boy hood.

· There is a stot·y in connection with his ·boyhood days that is worth telling anywhete. Those were the days of reconstruc­tion in the South, when everything in his section of the country, was in dilapidation and ruin. Yet there was much of the spirit. of the old Soutlt in his community. There wer·e many people whose financial fortunes were ruined, but who were recognized as people not only of character but of. culture and of intel· lectuality. There was a country preacher in the community: whD was a man of learning, of very high character, of attain~ ment , who undertoolr to exerci e something of leadership iu shaping the tone of things in the community in those distressful times. For instance, he led the young men in the organization of a literary society and in the organization of a Shakespeare society, and he led in the matter of securing as teachers in the community men of real learning and ability, who would inspira the boys and young men to high ideals and worthy ambitions. The result was that in that immediate community, Verona, Miss., was maintained one of the very best schools in the State in those days of poverty and d~stress, and from it there came ja group of men who have marked that community and distin· guished it as I have not known any other small communitY. to be.

It is almost startling to enumerate the men who came out of the locality in which SAM TAYLOR was reared. Among them has been a president of the largest girls' college in the State, a •president of the State university, a State superintendent of ·education, . a superintendent ot city sehools in the largest city 1in the State, and about four professors in leading college of' the State, anti a president of a prominent Virginia college. S~

1922. CONGI~ESSION AL R.EOORD-HOUSE. 3067 much for educational line . From that community came also a man who. served long and most efficiently on the railroad com· mi sion of the State, another who served long on the board ot penitentiary management of the State, a president o~ the l\Iobile & Ohio Hailroad, a general attorney of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, a traffic manager of the Southern Railway, the leading banker for years of the State of Florida, a speaker of the house of repre entatives of the State, a leading State official of the State of Texas, and two Members of this House, one of them, the well-known humorist, Congressman Private John Allen, besides other men useful and successful in busi­ness, in the ministry, etc. I knew practically all those men personally-the Allens, the Brices, the Russells, the Leavens, the Clarks, the l\1abrys, and the Kincannons, and last but not least, the Taylor . SAM TAYLOR grew up as a member of that group of men of whom there were so many to become distinguish~d in professional, business, and political life.

In a life of nearly 60 years I have never known a community that turned out such a coterie of able and successful men. I have talked with them about SAM TAYLOR, and they looked upon him as a man wortlly of every man's friendship, worthy of every man's honor. They believed in him· to the core. They believed in him as a man of large ability and tn1e patriotism, and they were proud of him as a member of their group. I met him only occasionally, but I beard many things from those who knew him best, and I found that they believed in him also as a man of great loyalty-loyalty to his friends, loyalty to his country, loyalty to hi · native State and to his adopted State, and loyalty · to eternal l)linciple. The~· al o believed in him as a Christian without hypocrisy, a man without guile, of high ideals and principles, a cheerful but humble senant of God, a friend of all humanit~. In thinking of him I am reminded of Leigh Hunt's lines:

.Al>ou Ben Adhem, may his tribe increase, Awoke one night from a deep dream ot' peace, And aw, within the moonlight in his room, Mnking it rich and like a lily in bloom. .An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in cis room he said, What writest thou? The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet ac~ord, Answere<l, The name of those who love the Lord.

· And i-s mine one? said Abou. Nay, not so, Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still, and -said, I pra.r thee, then, Write me as one who loves his fellow men. The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd, And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

So I think of SAM T.A"i"LOR as a man who genuinely loved his fellow men, who believed in his fellow men, who had absolute confidence in them ; and so they believed in him. He was a man who loved, honored, and serred God, his Maker, who realizeu l1is obligation to righteousness and truth, and stood fearlessly for the right things.

Mr. RANKIN. Mr. Speaker, some one has said that death is the most fascinating adventure of human existence. Especially may that be true' of one who has the Christian faith, as did our late beloved, lamented SAMUEL M. TAYLOR. To him death was but the glorious transition to another world, and he 'faced it as calmly and serenely as the star of heaven meets the glowing of the morn.

His life was an inspiration to those who cherish friendship or prize the virtues of godly men.

Although Col. TAYLOR and I were born and reared in the same community, I never knew him until I became a Member of this House, owing to the fact that he was many years older than myself and moved away before my time. But during the short period I served with him I learned to read his noble character through the window of his heart, which always stood wide open for the inspection of the world.

He came from one of Mississippi's most worthy and distin­guisheu families, and he carried the high ideals of their tradi­tions throughout .his long and useful career. He never stooped to little things, but spurned the idea of infidelity or deceit and stood before the world as the unselfish champion of human rights. His political, like his religious, faith was founded upon ba ·ic principles which he never deigned to compromise, and his fidelity to his friends was as constant as a living faith.

In the quiet of the cloakroom I have gone with him back across the reminiscent years and seen him live again his boy­hood days among the scenes and among the people we both knew ·and loved, and I have often noted his unfeigned interest in the fortunes of those friends, many of whom have pa sell to the great beyond. He told me of his religious experience , his con­version to the Christian faith, and what a consolation it had

been to him through the trying years of his eventful life. He loved to talk of old Hopewell Church, back in Itawamba County, where he :first heard the Gospel preached, during the stormy days of reconstruction. He talked of his eJ..-perience as a struggling young lawyer in the town of Yerona, in those days which Senator Bob Taylor, of Tennessee, used to call the "Happy long ago."

He believed in the future and looked forward to the coming of a grander day. He believed in his Government, in peace and in war, and pledged his all to its maintenance and support. He believed in his fellow man, applauded the merits of the right­eous, and spi·ead over the shortcomings of those who erred the broad mantle of Christian charity. He believed in God, and

So lived that when the summons came to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, He went not like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approached his grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

THE LATE REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM E. MASON. Mr. l\IANN took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the

special order. The Clerk read as follows: On motion of Mr. KING, by unanimous consent, Ordered, That Sun·

day. February 26, 1922. be set apart for addresses on the life, character and public services of Hon. WILLIAM E. MASON, late a Representative from the State of Illinois. .

Mr. KING. l\1r. Speaker, I o:ffet· the following resolutions. The Clerk read as follows :

House Resolution 294. Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that

opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of lion . WILLIAM E. MA.;ox. late a member of this House from the Stale of Illinois. Resol~·rd, That 'lS a particular mark of respect to· the memory of

the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand adjourned. '

Resolv ed. That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Sen­ate.

Resolved, That the ClNk send a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.

'l'he resolutions were agreed to.

1\lr. COCKRAN. Mr. Speaker, I shall not attempt a general eulogy on the life and character of ' VILLIAM E. MAsoN, though I believe that, excepting the distinguished gentleman from Illinois, who, alas! is soon to leave the House, I am the only l\1ember who served in the F iftieth Congress with him. But others have been more continuously associated with him and to them I leave the task of doing fuller justice to the services that he rendered and the qualities that he possessed.

For my part, I want to pay him tribute in the one aspect which to my mind was the most attractive, as it was the most impressive, and the most valuable feature of his entire public career.

WILLIA:r.r E. MAso - was always the champion of the weaker in every controversy, always the one eager to help the under dog. I think it can be said of him, as of no other Member in either House, that during the whole of his public career no wrong was ever attempted to be perpetrated by a Government, in any part of the world, that MASON's heart did not throb with sympathy for the oppressed, and with a fiery eloquence all his own he de· nounced the oppression and encouraged resistance to it. To him an act of tyranny by a Government was a profanation of the- earth, of the world, created by a merciful God to be the d·welling place of free men. To him it was always apparent, and always present that there never was but one circumstance under which in the whole course of existence the earth became articulate. No vio1~nce to itself has ever sufficed to- make it break the majestic silence which it has maintained since its creation. The footsteps of myriads pass over its surface without awakening resistance. The plowshare might furrow it without provoking any other result than the abundant harvest which blessed the labors of the husbandman. Its entrails might be torn by the pickax without any other result than the ores yielfled by its bosom to reinforce the productive powers of man. Once, and once only does it :find a voice, and that is when the blood of God' creatures stains its face. Wherever human blood is spilt as a re ult of oppression or wrong, there the earth calls aloud to heaven for >engeance upon the slayer. And the man through whom that call finds expression becomes the instrument of the Divine purpose to avenge the crime-and by avenging it prevent or at least discourage its repetition.

It is in that character that I think tho~c who knew him bt\ 't love to look upon l\.Ir. 1\I.a.soN; it is in that character that, in my_

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judo-ment, his fame will be most enduring and brilliaJjt. Now that he has gone, I feel-I think we must all fef'l-that the earth is richer for holding within her bo om that body which when living v;as the force that made the call f.or vengeance upon the ·hedder of innocent blood-the blood of patriots-reecho in these halls, and everywhere throughout the world. And the indignation awakened throughout the world over oppressions peqletrated by any part of it has been the most powerful agency ever established for promotion of justice and freedom. If, as most of us, I think, believe, death is but liberation of the sonl from the body in which it has been imprisoned, then the spirit of MAsoN, no lonO'er trammeled, con:fi..ned, o1· limited by restraints of space or time or matter, is now surveying, with joy beyoncl the power of us mortals to understand, in widely separated parts of the world-in the Philippines, in South Africa, in Ireland-where blood was shed in defense of national existence, the cause that he championed already vic­torious or moving rapidly and irresistibly to vict'Ory complete and decisive. And it must' be for all of us here an inspiring memory that one of our members has contributed so largely to the spread of liberty and battled so triumphantly for the vindication of justice ·wherever war has been waged for free­dom in any part of the world during the 30 years or more of his· service in this House and the other Hou e of Congress.

1\Ir. KING. Mr. Speaker, "When that the poor have cried, Cmsar hath wept."

On the morning of the 16th of June, .A. D. 1921, Hon. WlLLIAJ,{ ERNEST l\IAsoN, a Member of this Hou e and a Representative at Large from Illinois, departed this life ·in his apartments at Con­gress Hall Hotel iu this city at the a.ge of 70 years, 11 months, and 11 days.

The mournful news sprea-d rapidly upon Capitol Hill and through the halls of the House Office Building and about the purviews of the Capitol itself and quiet emotion held gentle sway when BILLY M.A.SDN died. Tile 1lags on the Government buildings seemed automatically to reach half-mast and when the House of Representatives met at noon, the Hon. JosEPH G. CAN­NON of illinois, and patliarch of Congress, rose in his seat and announced the sad event.

Immediately the House adjourned. WILLIAM E. MASON was a son of Lewis J. and Nancy (Wins­

low) Mason, his father a wagon maker and a pioneer of the West, locating at Bentonsport, Iowa, in 1858. There were 14 cbildt~en in the family, in addition. to two others adopted by the kindly couple, and even after the elder 1\la.son became a furni­tm·e merchant and hotel proprietor, the family was in none too prosperous circumstances. ·

WILI:.IAM El. l\1AsoN was born in Franklinville, Cattara11oous County, N. Y., July 7, 1850, and was thrown upon his own re­sources at the age of 15 years by the death of his father, having been educated in the public schools and Birmingham College, where he pursued a two years' · course. From 1866 to 1870 he taught school, dm·in<r the last two years of that time at Des Moines, Iowa, and during this period he completed his classical studies and took up the study of the law. Finally he entered the office of Thomas J. Withrow, an eminent corporation lawyer, who soon afterwards became general solicitor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., with headquarters at Chicago. · When his preceptot· entered upon his railroad duties, Mr. MASON accompanied him to Chicago in order to complete his legal preparation·under his able guidance, and thus was formed a lifelong connection with the metropolis. After another year with l\lr. \Vinthrow, he entered the office of John N. Jewett, remaining for several years with this noted Chicago lawyer. In 1872, shortly after attaining his majority, Mr. 1\IASON was admitted to the illinois bar, pradicing independently until 1877, when he formed a partnership with M. R. M. Wallace.

A later professional association was as senior member of the firm of 1\Iason, Ennis & Bates, and from 1898 until his death be was in partnership with his son, Lewis F., as Mason & Mason, the firm possessing extensive and influential legal con­nections.

In 1879, and before he arrived at the age of 30 years, he was elected as a State representative in the Dlinois General Assem­bly and in 1881 was chosen State Senator. After serving four years in that capacity he was elected to the Fiftieth Congress of the United States and then reelected to the Fifty-fir t Con­gress.

At the close of this Congressional ter.m for a period of six years he devoted himself as iduously to his profession in Chi­cago and during this time he was deepl~ interested in the affairs of the World's Columbian Exposition, playing a leading part in locating it in Ghi<!ago, and in the formation of plans for its !nan~u:ratioo.

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In 1897 the State of Illinois returned him to Washington as United States Senator. From 1903 ·Until 1917, 1\Ir. MAsoN was again in private life but all the while remained active in the councils o:t the Republican Party and appearing on the ticket as an elector and in its national conventions as a delegate. In 1916 he was elected to the Sixty-fifth, and afterwards re­elected to the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses.

Briefly, the foregoing events mark the life com·se of our lamented colleague, 'VILLIAM: m. MAsoN.

No one better than Marc Antony ever knew how to play on the human heaJ:ltstrings of the rna ses. He produced there not only the most varied emotions, but united and molded them into energy and activity, In his oration over the dead body of Cresar he did not invite in the first instance the attention of his hearers to the great deeds which Cresar had performed for the Empire or to t.he captives and ransoms which C::esar had won for Rome, or that Oresar had thrice put away the kingly crown; nor did Antony at once exhibit Cresar's mantle to the crowd " first worn when he returned from overcoming the Ne-rvii," or yet the cuts in it. Nor did he even attempt to read Cresar's generous will in behalf of the people until he bud first obtained the eager sympathy of his hearers by showing that Cresar, whatever his faults, was their friend-the outstanding fact in his favor was, however, that " when that the poor have cried, Oresar hath wept."

It was Cae ar's efforts to alleviate the condition of the masses that they remembered with gratitude after his death, rather than his armies, his conquests and his empires.

Aftev all, what greater encomiums can be pronounced at the bier of a public man than to have it said he was a friend of the poot· and tmfortunate, a man of most modest fortune, yet the sun of_ no day dropped into the West without some gentle or encouraging word said or kind deed done by our dead friend, and who is there who can deny the thought that when on that beautiful June morning his transcellding soul passed noise­lessly through the gates into the everlasting foyer his name was not, by the Recording .Angel, already inscribed in Abou Ben Adhem's eternal column of those who loved their fellow men.

Speak of beauty in nature or in an art, and "BILLY" MAsoN became at once an eager listener and keen participator, and the sound of a pure musical note awoke in him the song of his own soul which in his younger days revealed itself in the clearest of tenor tones.

Free from hypocrisy, clean of cant and detesting false pre­tenses, and having at a very early day in his lire armed him­self -with the good sword of truth, he "fought black error through­out his career in every hideous shape in which he found it---o a brave and fearless man who surrendered it alone to death.

The law is a jealous mistress. This ancient statement has had its truth tested upon multitudinous occasions. While the law demands for itself constant attention and worship, never­theless frequently grants her indulgence and permits an occa­sional glance by her suitor toward her less staid sister-the God­dess of Politics-not covering, however, any great period of time.

WILLIAM E. MAsoN was one of those who succes fully wooed both sisters without arousing the jealousy of either. He was a natural lawyer and a natural politician in the higher sense. While acting in one capacity or the other he was able to give the matter in hand his undivided attention, reinforced by his strong mentality, and producing a high, honorable, and effective representation of his client or the people. So the law ratified in him this double fealty which she condemn-eel in others.

A review of Mr. MAsoN's hi tory as a lawyer demonstrates that he was not only a great advocate but a great exponent of the common law which Sir Edward Coke said was "reason itself." He was a great case lawyer as well and could draw with ease from his memory innumerable citations without resort to the digest.

One of his famous cases of great public interest in which his legal ability was fairly tested grew out of the World's Fair at Chicago. For several months prior to its- o-pening the public was con iderably agitated over the Sunday question. S~vera.l cases were brought to the United States court of The People versus the ·world's Columbian Expos]tion. to restrain the man­agement from keeping open O:Q Sunday. In May an action had been brought by Mr. MAsoN, attorney for Charles Clingman, against the exposition to restrain the defendants from dosing the gates on Sunday. '.Uhe suit was brought both in the capac­ity of a stockholder of the exposition company and as a tax­payer of the city of Chicago. On May 29 the case came before Judge Stein, of the Superior Court, who granted the injunction on the contention advanced by Mr. 1\lAsoN that Jackson Pack had been dedicated by an act of the legisJature (1869) to be held, managed, and enjoyed as a public park, for the recreation

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From the very beginning of his legal career he drew the ad­miration of jlle bar and of the people and on sheer merit he secured a certain place in his chosen profession which he held until the clo e of his life. As a lawyer he was indeed " diligent in his business and be stood before kings."

Above all things Mr.' l\1ASON was a lover of his family and his home. For him the euth furnished no other equal attraction. Once he showed me a picture of this wonderful family consisting of himself and that good and true companion, who baa shared with him in the profits and losses of life, his wife, Edith Mason, together with sons, daughters, daughter-in-law, and grandchil­dren, all together numbering 24 persons. He spoke enthusias­tically and tenderly of his family in a perfect gem of eloquence and recited to me the wonderful charades and other games th-ey used to play. Is it any wonder that as he stlood in this pl'Uce on January 19, 1919, and eulogized our dead colleague, John A. Sterling, on a similar occasion, in a burst of feeling he said:

Of course, Mr. Speaker, we do not agree with Col. Ingersoll that " Life i-s a barren vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities." Of course, every man who has had one friend, who has had one woman to love him, and children to caress him, does not ~<YI"ee with Col. Inger oil that " Life is a barren plane~" but a plane with baTren spots; but the oasis comes whenever we meet a friend an.d find an opportunity to be of use and service.

His popularity in illinois was unequaled. A simple announce­ment that he would speak at a certain place brought out the city dweller and the rural citizen with equal eagerness in great crowds to hear him. He was a favorite speaker in Chicago and on many occasions he has filled that city's great Coliseum to overflowing.

.All this was due to the faith the people had in him as much as to his ability as a -speaker. They knew, to use a slang phrase, that he "lived on the level," that his life was an open book, and that above all he was a consistent follower in his every-day life of that great principle which, though uttered nearly 2,000 years ago in a voice so gentle and sweet, has yet sounded down through the ages like a clarion note to the con­sciences of mankind, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

With many others it was my good fortune to hold his personal friendship and so to enjoy his fund of anecdotes, always given to embelli h an argument or drive home a point, together with the words of wi dom always dropping from his lips and to enjoy and bask in the sunshine of his smile-bright in memory to­day. Strong, forceful, and courageous in a fray, yet conciliation and ldndne s it~elf in the everyday work of life, BILLY MAsoN never injured mankind nor hurt a dumb animal for, as I believe, he supplemented the observance of th-e Golden Rule with a deep-set, beautiful conviction, which no doubt greatly aided him in speeding over life's trail, as were expres ed by Coleridge in his Ancient :Mariner, that:

He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small, For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all.

One of Senator l\lA.soN's great qualities and one which en­deared him to his associates and which won him friends and admirers wherever he was known, was his gift of eloquence, his power as an orator. It has been said of him, "He com­manded all departments of forensic art, yet he was so natural in manner, so simple in delivery, so expert in shading and emphasis, so persuasive and convincing, that his audiences were conscious only of compelling leadership of thought, of un­interrupted communion with a splended mind through the medium of faultless speech."

Early manhood found l\lAsoN a worshipper, as it were, of the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, and a strong exponent of his principles. No doubt this emulation existed throughout his entire career and strengthened and suppl-emented his efforts in rendering aid to the masses, to the poor, to the submerged and the inarticulate. He believed that the good of the people was the highest law. ·He abhorred tryanny in all forms. He did not uphold either the ditine right of kings or any other human being or groups of human beings to exercise, directly or

indirectly, a divine right to rule a people. He agt·eed with Rum­bald when he said: .

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spun·ed to ride and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

As a legislator, MASON upheld all measures of interest to the people at large. He was a · strong advocate of the rural free delivery bill and championed all bills favoring the rights of labor and curbing their antagonists. He was one of the first to stand out boldly for the freeing of Cuba, and his efforts at that period of his career are written in the imperishable records of his counb·y.

Had he be-en a citizen of the Roman Republic he would have been an associate and colleague of the Gracchii. In the . age of chivalry his undying devotion to the weak and the unfortunate would ha\e made him a rival in their affections with Cid the Campeador of Valencia.

_BILLY MAsoN was a staunch patriot. He loved his country, and there was no rock upon its hillsides, no wave that kissed its shores, no blade of grass upon its prairies, for which he would not have yielded his heart's "ruddiest drops." He be­lieYed in the Declaration of Independence as written by the forefathers. The Constitution was as fixed for him as the North Star is to the mariner. He sang the Star Spangled Banner without the dotting of an i or the crossing of a t. He rose in protest at the exhibition of any tendency to modify our Revo­lutionary history or we.aken our Revolutionary ideals. A typical American, he believed that Nathan Hale was a patriot and that he uttered those memorable words, "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country;" and he never for a moment doubted that Ticonderoga was captured by Ethan Allen in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.

Mr. MAsoN's colleagues here knew him perhaps better than most people, and it is by them that the sincerity of his purpose, the warmth of his feelings, the staunchness of his moral stand, and the unfailing strength of his friend hips are appreciated at their true valuation. Viewed from any angle, WILLIAM E. MAsoN was one of the outstanding figures of his day, a man who held the public attention to an age when most men seek quietude of retirement, a man of strong character and per­sonality .

Mr. Speaker, our friend and colleague is gone, his eloquent voice is stilled fore\er. No more shall it ring out in behalf of liberty. No more shall it plead "trumpet tongued" against man's inhumanity to man. The lowly have lost their advocate, but they bear hi-s nam-e -engrayen upon their hearts. He re­ceived the only reward with which a public servant can be content-the inner consciousness which tells him that he has done his work welL

Can we not think in the closing scene " wf1en unto his dying eyes the casement slowly grew a glimmering square" this great and tender-hearted tribune of the people, as the morning sun, symbolic of renewity, touched with gold the great dome of the near-by Capitol, heard the receding voices of his fi·iends the populace saying,

He has fought a good fight. lie has finished bis course. lie ha,s kept the faith.

1\Ir. RODENBERG. Mr. Speaker, I do not know Wbere falls the seed that I have tried to sow With greatest care ; But I sball know Tbe meaning of each waiting hour below, Sometime, somewhere !

The career of no man whom I have ever known was a finer exemplification of sincere, unselfish, and devoted service to his fellow man than that of WILLI.A.M E. MASoN. There was none so quick as he to respond to every call of human suffering. His soul was filled with a deep and abiding sympathy for all man­kind. He was always the fearless champion of truth and justice, and his brave heart never faltered in the defense of the right as God gave him to see the right. Instinctively, he rebelled against every form of wrong and oppression. The cry of dis­tress, the appeal of the helpless and the unfortunate, thTilled his soul like a bugle call and kindled into life all of the passion­ate fires of a matchless eloquence. He pleaded humanity's cause at all times and under all circumstances. Undeterred by criticism and unaffected by the temporary loss of popularity, he steadfastly adhered -to a course that was dictated by a con­science responsive to a finely developed sense of righteousness.

BILLY MASON '"''as never guilty of an unjust, an unkind, or an ungenerous act. !He was th-e enemy of none and the friend of all. There was nothing vindictive in his nature. He was free

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of all malice and wa ever ready to cover with the mantle of charity the frailties and shortcomings of his fellow man. I never knew a gentler or a kindlier soul. The warmth of his genial personality dispelled the mists of gloom and radiated sunshine and good cheer wherever be went.

1\lr. Speaker, Illinois has added many names to the roll of distinguished American statesmen, but none of her great sons who have left their impress on the pages of her inspiring history had a. stronger bold on the affections of the people than BILLY 1\li.soN. He was easily the most popular campaign speaker in the State of Illinois. Brilliant in repartee, logical in argument, unfailing in his good humor and endowed with a wonderful gift of expression, hi eloquent 'Voice always arou!":ed his audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. He possessed an originality that was as captivating as it was unique. There were times when he was not in full harmony with the majority sentiment of his party associates and at such times be pleaded his cause with an earnestnes that always commanded universal respect and with a complete disregard for the effect upon his own political fortunes. And yet, when these differences of opinion arose, those v,:ho disagreed with him never treasured the slightest resentment against BILLY 1\fAso~. They gave him full credit for honesty and sincerity of purpose and a<lmired the courage and fearlessnes with which he defended. hi position. They knew that whateYer mistakes he made, they were of the head. and not of the heart.

It is yet too early to measure the compelling influence of his life upon his day and generation. ·we do know, however, that none played better hi part in the great drama of human affairs, and. that in reviewing his career we can draw an inspiration for patriotic effort, recalling the words of Philip James Bailey:

We live in deed , not yeat·s; in thoughts, not breaths; in feeling , not in figures on a dial.

1\fr. FULLER. 1\lr. Speaker--The SPEAKER pro tempore (1\lr. l\fANN). The gentleman

from Illinois is recognized. l\Ir. FULLER. l\11·. Speaker, it was a sad day to me when

the flags on this Capitol were lowered to half-mast for the death of my friend for almost a lifetime, the Hon. WILLIAM E. MASON.

Abou Ben Adhem, may his tribe increase, Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, .And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the r(){)m he said,

"What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered. " The names of those who love the Lord."

"And is mine on<>?" said Abou. "Nay, not so," Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still, and said, " I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow men." The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had bless·d, And lo ! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

And so I can truthfully &ay of our departed friend and col­league that he was "one who loved his fellow men," and more than that, that be was beloved by his fellow men. I am not overstating the fact that when I say that he had as many warm personal friends as any other man in all the State of Illinois.

-I knew him for all the years of his public life and for more than 40 years enjoyed his per onal friendship; be was my friend and I was his friend. I first met him when the Legislature of Illinois first convened in January, 1879, both of us having been elected to the thirty-first general assembly of the State at the preceding Noyember election. We became warm friend· from that time and so continued to the day of his death. I think I sened with him in a legislative capacity in the Legislature of Illinois and in the Congress of the United States for more years than any other man, and I knew him as well as one man could know another. 1\Ir. MASON was a great campaigner and his services were in demand in every political campaign in Illinois for near half a century. He was always eloquent and convinc­ing. He had a wonderful command of language and of apt illus­trations, which, coupled with a ready wit, alway captivated his audiences. And the beauty of it all was that he was sincere, believed in his party, :mel was always its enthusiastic advocate. I have campaigned with him many times, and his addresses were always as interesting to me as to his audience, for he never made the same peech twice. He always had "Something new to say, or a different way of stating the same proposition, or a new argument in support of his contention. He was always eloquent, always earnest, always convincing.

In the Thirty-fourth General Assembly of Illinois we staged in that State the most spectacular and long-drawn-out contest

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for the election of a United States Senator that ever occurred in all the history of the counh·y. At that time the senate of the State consisted of 51 members and the house of 153. The sen­ate had a Republican majority of 1 and the house a Democratic majority of 1, so that the joint assembly, charged with the elec­tion of a United States Senator, was a tie, having a member hip of 102 Republicans and 102 Democrats. One of the leading members of the State senate wa:s Senator WILLIAM E. 1\I.AsoN. Gen. John A. Logan was a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate and was enthusiastically supported by the Re­publican members, and especially so by Senator MASON, who regarded him as the ideal of a man, a soldier, and a statesman. The balloting for Senator began, and each day was without re­sult until a Democratic member died, and in due time another Democrat was elected as his successor.. Then a Republican member died and again the matter dragged along until another Republican was elected as his successor. Then another Demo­cratic member died, and, hailing from a district in which every precinct was Democratic, no one seemed to doubt that he would also be succeeded by another Democrat.

It was not generally known that there was to be any Repub­lican candidate, but the day before the special election to fill the vacancy numerous cattle buyers and sewing-machine agents might have been observed riding around the district, and strangely, if carefully noticed, it might have been observed that they called only on Republicans. So it ju t happened tl1at next day when the ballots were counted it was found that a Republican had been E-lected in that overwhelmingly Democratic district, and so after a four months' contest, in which many ex­citing incidents occurred, Gen. Logan received the necessary 103 votes in the joint assembly and was duly elected. Throughout all that contest Senator 1\I.AsoN was one of the most active and vigilant supporters of Gen. Logan, and I think was quite as much pleased over his election as Gen. Logan himself. After the contest was over the 103 whose votes had finally resulted in Gen. Logan's election formed an organization and planned to meet once a year to renew the friendships formed during that session and for a general social time. For several years they did so meet. At the last meeting Senator MAsoN was chosen president of the 103, and year after year tried to get the ur­vivors together for the regular annual meeting, but it was pos­sible to secure the attendance of only a very few, so many had died or moved away, and so it was finally necessary to give up entirely all hope of getting any considerable number together, much to the regret of Senator 1\IASON. And now after the lapse of 37 years I think there are less than a dozen of all the 103 living on this earth. The great majority have gone to meet their leader, Gen. Logan, on that other unknown shore, and there it may be that Senator l\IASON may be able to get a very full attendance if he should call a meeting of the 103 over there.

Of all the men who at one time or another served with Sen­ator l\IAsoN and myself in the Legislature of illinois in the years gone by, I can but note that only a very few are alive to-day. And here in this House, those of us who have been here for a number of years can but note the absence of many of our former colleagues when the knowledge comes home to us that they have passed over, their life's work done, and that we shall know them no more on earth. But we shall know them, we shall meet them sometime, somewhere. It often happens here that one of our colleagues dies and the flags on this Capitol are placed at half-mast, but soon those same fiags float again as high as be­fore, and the world goes on and on just the same.

Our colleague, BILLY :MASON, has gone, but be has only O'one on before, just a little while before; and in just a little while we shall meet him over there, genial, kindly BILLY MAsoN, friend of all mankind, and we shall grasp his hand and see that friendly smile which so often greeted us here, but now-

How strange it seems. with so much gone Of life and love to still live on.

Look where we may, the wide earth o'er, Those lighted faces smile no more.

Yet love will dream, and faith will trust (Since He who knows our need is just), That somehow, somewhere, meet we must. Alas, for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress trees, Whoi hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor ooks to see the bt·eaking day Across the mournfnl marbles play, Who hath not learned in hours of faith,

The truth to flesh and sen e unknown. . That life is ever lord of death,

And . love can never lose its own.

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l\lr. KNUTSON. Mr. Speaker, WILLIAM E. MASON was not cast in an ordinary mold. Mentally and intellectually he towered far above the ordinary mortal. Well do I remember our fir t meeting. I had come to Washington to attend the extraor<linary session of Congress which convened in April, 1917, and found the air filled with talk of war and carnage, destruc­tion and de~olation. The fateful day when the die was to be ca. t came, and never shall I forget the wonderful debates held upon tbe resolution to declare war. It was such a scene as will linger in my memory so long as life remains. Of those who spoke upon the resolution none were more fearless, none more eloquent, none more patriotic,rand sincere, than Mr. 1\IAsoN. I can see him now, standing in the well of the House four­square to the world, pleading, in a plaintive way, for peace. His were the words of a prophet, but they fell on deaf ears, for every man present had made up his mind how he would vote, although the roll had not yet been called . on the resolution wllicll committed this great and glorious country to participa­tion in the world struggle. I then became deeply attached to Mr. ::\.lA oN and I am happy in the knowledge that this attach­ment continued to grow until my friend was called to a greater and nobler life. Mr. 1\I.aso ~ had a heart that embraced all man­kind. Any cause of suffering or distress won his sympathy and active support an<l once he became committed to a cause did not lay down his arms until it bad triumphed. In his passing the Nation lost a true and tried legislator, the State uf Illinois a grand and upright son, his family a true and loving father, and we who are here to-day a wise counsellor and friend. His passing bas create<l a voi<l that can not be filled. Uncle BILLY, we miss you. Peace unto your ashes.

How shall words our grief abate? Call him noble; call him great; Say that faith, now gaunt and grim, Once was fair because of him ; Say that goodness, round his way, Made one everlasting day ; Say that beauty's heavenly fiame Bourgeoned wheresoe'er he came ; Say that all life's common ways Were made glorious in his gaze; Say he gave us, hour by hour, Hope and patience, grace and power ; Say his spirit was so true That it made us noble, too. What is this but to declare Life's bereavement, Love'. despair? What is this but just to say All we loved is torn away? 0 my comrade, 0 my friend, If this parting be the end, Yet I hold my Ufe divine To have known a soul like thine!

1\1r. CONNALLY of Texas. 1\lr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, I shall not invade those sacred and intimate pre­cincts of Senator MAsoN's family and home life. I knew him for a period of only four years prior to his death. My as­sociation with him was made more intimate by the fact that we were members of the same committee in this House.

Two outstanding characteristics of the man left their im­press upon me. One was his gentle and friendly qualities, and the other was his political courage. I remember when he first returned to tbis House in the Sixty-fifth Congress. By accident our hotel rooms adjoined. Along in the still hours of the night on one occasion, at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, I was arou ed by sounds of distress coming frc;>m his chamber. I had not at that time formed his personal acquaintance, having had a mere introduction to him in the lobby of the hotel ; but re­sponding to the mo.st common impulses of humanity I went to his room and found him ill. Of course, I rendered such slight and unskilled services as I could. His first thought then was of hiS wife and his family, who were in their home in Chicago. But simple and commonplace as my ministrations were, he reminded me of them, on almost eve1.·y meeting during the four years that followed, by some reference, some exag­gerated estimate of the services I had rendered him on that occasion. '

I remember when a boy, before I came to voting age, I read of Mr. 1\IAsoN while he was in the Senate of the United States. I remember the fierce contest that raged within his own party over his separation from the predominating opinion of tbe Republican Party on the question of the Philippines and on the questions that grew out of the Spanish-American War. I remember with what admiration I viewed his course during that struggle. Perhaps I have a wrong estimate, but I remem­ber that as a result perhP.llS of his divergence trom the con­trolling view of his party he lost his seat in the upper House of Congress. I then admired his course. So when I found him

here I was prepared somewhat for the exhibitions of political courage which he displayed in this body.

Political courage is quickened by no stirring martial music; ng fluttering banners beckon. Few are the comrades by your side to give you something of their enthusiasm and of the fervor that mo-ves men on to conflict. Political courage looks out upon no prospect of glory at the end, but it looks down a dark, cold, and forbidding avenue. But I believe Senator 1\f.AsoN po essed that rare quality of political courage that dared to face a vote or dared to choose a pathway that might perhaps end in defeat or despair.

Whether in attack or in defense he always unsheathed a valiant blade--a blade hammered out in the' foundries of logic and common sense, tempered and sharpened in the fiery forges of sarcasm and ridicule, and yet so curved and pointed and polished by the grace and skill of the orator as to make it a thing of magic when wielded by that master of mind and emotion.

I journeyed with the committee that carried to his home in Chicago all that was mortal qf our colleague and laid him in the bosom of Mother Earth. I saw a great concourse of citizens of Illinois come to pay him the last earthly tribute. They came not because he possessed power, because at the gates of death he had abdicated his power. They came not because he possessed wealth, because what little he had had fallen from his hands. But that great multitude of those who knew him came and in sorrow stood by his bier because they loved him.

On the return j,ourney I had the privilege of reading a little book that Senator 1\I..A.soN had written. Perhaps all of you are familiar with it. It was entitled "John, the Unafraid." It told the tory of an humble citizen who had promulgated a simple faith unmixed with creed and had worked the regenera­tion of the whole community in which he lived . through his humble, godlike walk among his fellow men and by his un­selfish life of service and trusting faith in God without cant, and heedle s of dissension and schism that sometimes mar the religious life of nations and people.

I remember that that little volup1e closed with these words: No matter how dark the night, there is a light still burning in the

window, and the door of the Church of the Brotherhood is never locked.

I believe that when death came to BILLY .M.AsoN, no matter how dark that night, no matter how dreary that pathway, I believe he saw the light that was still burning in the window, and I know that for him the dooJ.' of the Church of the Brother­hood was not locked.

1\fr. WHEELER. Mr. Speaker, when 1\Ir. MASON left us I felt that not only had the Nation lost a most valuable statesman, the people of Illinois a most conscientious Representative, and Chicago a most honored citizen, but that I personally ha.d sus­tained an irreparable loss.

For 40 years I have known Mr. 1\IASoN intimately. I have watched his political career through all of its interesting and varied phase"' and know how faithfully and conscientiously he has served his city, State, and Nation in all those years. I have observed, too, how untiring he was in his efforts to help the oppressed and unfortunate, whether they were in his own immediate vicinity or far across the sea; whether the oppressed and unfortunate consisted of a nation or merely some obscure unknown individuaL And I am certain that even those who did not agree with him in his policies must have been deeply impressed by the earnestness of purpose, the deep and sincere lo-ve for humanity, and the unselfish, untiring, self-forgetful bigness of the man.

I have known him, too, in his family and social !if~, and have seen the nobility and beauty of character whiCh are truly an inspiration to all who kneW" him intimately as I did.

His love for ancl understanding of little children was one of his most beautiful characteristics. It was not an unusual sight to see him surrounded by children and young people, all listen­ing with profound interest to his stories, or blending their young voices with his in song.

As a friend, he was devoted and loyaL Always ready with a word of cheer and a sunny smile in times of stress, or a word of wise co1msel and advil!e in times of doubt and confusion. A man who inspired love and confidence in all who were associ­ated with him.

And so, to-day, I think of him with love and veneration, and with gratitude in my heart that it was my privilege to have the friendship of a man who so beautifully exemplified in the most complete and unlimited degree the character of a true patriot and a no-ble Christian gentleman.

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Mr. FAIRCHILD. Mr. Speaker, I have not come here to make a speech. I have no prepared address. I have come here only by my presence and with a word to pay my tribute to one whom I knew and loved for many years.

I met ·wiLLIAM E. MASON first back in 1897, when he came to the Senate as I was leaving the House. He had been in Congress before and I had known of him, but my personal acquaintance with him dated from that time. Later in this Congress we served together on the Foreign Affair Committee, and then I came to kpow more of him. The one thing that everyone knew of WILLIAM E. MASON, no matter what may have been the subject under discussion, no matter what may have been the situation at the time, was his love of humanity. You speak of his independence. That very independence for which he was noted was based upon his love of his fellow man. Such was the underlying keynote that went through all his life, and I wish particularly to pay tribute to him because of his love for hi fellow man. When he died, not only Irish freedom, but freedom wherever oppression existed, lost a friend. They say he ltas gone forever. Ah, no. He· has departed, but be still lives.

He bas outsoal'ed the shadows of the night. Envy and calumny and grief and pain,

And that unrest which men miscall delight Can touch him not, and torture not again.

From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is immune and now can never mourn;

And yet be lives, for memories of his good deeds .Are our companions in this world forlorn.

Mr. CHINDBLOM. Mr. Speaker, I deem it a privilege to add my expression of regard and affection for my late colleague and good friend, the Ron. WILLIA.:M ERNEST MASON. While he was, at the time of his demise, a Member at large from Illinois and for many years lived in another congressional district, his original home in Illinois was at Waukegan, in Lake County, in the district which it is now my honor to represent, and his mortal remains were entombed, as I was privileged to witness, in the family burial lot in Oakwood Cemetery in the city o:f 'Vaukegan on June 20, 1921.

I first became well acquainted with our late colleague in the memorable political campaign of 1896. In that year he lent his great energy and influence first to the nomination and later to the election of William McKinley as President of the United State . l\Ir. MASON was then in his prime. He had served as a Representative in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Con­gresses from March 4, 1887, to March 3, 18.91, representing the old third district, when only 4 of the 21 Representatives from Illinois resided in Chicago as against 11 out of 27 at the time of l\fr. MAsoN's death. His services in the 1896 campaign were fittingly rewarded by his election to the United States Senate by the legislature in 1897.

No higher recognition of Mr. l\1A.SON's ability as a campaign orator could have been given him than his selection by his party to engage in joint debate with the standard bearer of the De· mocracy in 1896, the matchless platform speaker. then also in the vigo1· of hi youth, William Jennings Bryan. I well remem­ber Mr. MASON's .discussion of the issues of the tariff and the free coinage of silver. We spoke together at some places in Illinois. On one occasion that summer, at Princeton, at meet­ings arranged by the Swedish-American Republican League of Illinois, then recently organized, Mr. MASON spoke between five and six hours during the afternoon and evening. His speeches seemed never to tire either himself or his audiences. What a magnificent voice be had! What fluency of speech; what wealth of information; what delightful humor; what moving pathos and sentiment; what keen invective and satire; how stirring his appeal! Through all his speeches, also, there rang a clear silvery to-ne of love of home and country. His mere recital of "Home Sweet Home" brought tears to his audience. His patriotic references to the flag and to the Re­pub1ic brought repeated cheers from his listeners. His col­leagues in this House and in the Senate saw many flashes of his wit and eloquence, but his true greatnes as an orator was best displayed among the masses of the people, when he roamed at will on the wide range of human interest and emotion.

His kindness was proverbial. ·. He would rather suffer imposi­tion than refuse a possibly worthy dtse his help. He was the life of every group or gathering in which he might be found. An interesting conversationalist on any subject, his fund of stories and anecdotes out of his own experience and out of the common source seemed inexhaustible. He was highly musical, not in a technical but in a natural sense. He sang well, under­stood and appreciated music thoroughly, and possessed the rare gift known to musicians as " perfect pitch." In March of last year he and some members of his family joined in a trip to

Panama. During the moon-lit nights on the Atlantic he con­stantly entertained groups of friends with reminiscences and stories and frequently his melodious voice was heard "rocking on the billows of the deep."

Four years representing a district in the national House of Representatives, six years representing his State in the national Senate, and a little over four years more in this body as a Mem­ber at large from Illinois (in the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses) mark his congressional career. He also served in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the Legislature of Illinois. His. profession was that of lawyer, which he practiced in the city of Chicago · from his admission to the bar in 1872 until his death, with the necessary interrup­tions for public service.

Mr. l\1AsoN's death brought sorrow not only to his family and close relatives and friends and to the membership of this House, but to thousands, many thousands, who loved him and admired him. Few men in our country have reached as large a number of our citizen through public speech as did he. Ile ga>e his full part to the constructive, legislative work of the bodies in which he served. He was faithf-ul to his trust, in­dustrious, and effective. He spread sunshine and pleasure wherever he went. A widow, children, and grandchildren mourn him as a loving husbaml and affectionate father and grandparent. His State and his country mourn him as a faith­ful and patriotic public servant. He forewent wealth and lux­ury for public service and for the pleasurable society of family and friends. Do not such achievements measure a successful life? Assuredly they do ! He lives best who loves best and serves best the persons and things intrusted to his care !

Mr. FISH. Mr. Speaker, there are few men who have served in the House of Representatives in recent years who have equaled, and none have surpas.'3ed, · WILLIAM E . MASON for political fearlessness, ability, and for masterful oratory, which were his outstanding characteristics. There has been no Mem­ber of the House in all its long history who ever equaled WILLIAM E. 1\lAsoN for his fearless devotion to the cause ot oppressed people. He was in season and out of season ready_ to lend a helping hand to the man or woman who was in mis­fortune. Of all the poor people who went to him in distress none went away empty handed, and for all he had a welcome and a word of cheer. He was in truth the champion of the oppressed and the tmfortunate.

The most conspicuous feature of his long political career was his fight against imperialism in opposition to the views of President McKinley, the leader of his party.

Undaunted by all kinds of political pressure, he courageously attacked, along with Senator HoAR of Massachusetts and Speaker REED, the policy of his party to retain the Philippines. Although defeated in his object and driven out of the Senate because of his valiant and unceasing efforts to give liberty to small nations, he never compromised with what he understood to be a grievous wrong.

Viewing the situation in the light of to-day it might have saved this country from many of its present difficulties if his advice had been followed when he opposed the imperial policy, of the United States. Although he failed in freeing the Pllil­ippines he was successful in helping to secure the independence of Cuba.

Throughout his entire political life he was never subservient to the dictations of the interests or of the subsidized press.

He was absolutely fearless in his record of votes, and in all his public utterances. He had the fearle~ess that came from absolute honesty. He could not be intimidated by the press that has ceased to discharge the function for which it was established-the impartial dissemination of news and has become a mere circular to preserve the interests that support its advertising columns.

We, of New York State, are honored by having presented to the Nation WILLIUM E. 1\f.A.soN, and proudly claim a right to share with Illinois his achievements and his eminent career in public life. We are also indebted to him for helping to pas , by his eloquent remarks, the joint resolution to locate the Grant Memorial Tomb on Riverside Drive, which is to-day one of the historical points of interest in New York City.

It was my privilege to serve with him on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and to observe how much he contributed his great talent and experience to the final wording of the Peace Resolution with the Central Powers. Unhappily, he was too ill to appear in the House, but with his usual courage, even though lying on his death bed, he wrote a strong letter adro­cating the immediate passage of the peace resolution, which was read with g1·eat interest by the Members of Congress.

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He was a powerful orator, possessed a strong sense of humor, and often indulged in light and congenial wit, but when aroused, woe to the antagonist against whom be directed his sledge­hammer blow. . He was big hearted, natural, and lived in sim­ple estate, loved by his large family and many friends. He exemplified in his life the golden rule, "Do unto others as ye would that they do unto you," thus making and retaining as friends all whom be met. Of bim it could truly be said:

His life was gentle, and the elements So mLxed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man."

1\fr. YATES. Mr. Speaker, I have three things here which I wish to insert as a part of my remarks.

'l'he SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection consent will be granted.

There '"a no objection. Mr. YATES. Mr. ~peaker, there is a little old Persian poem

in which an inquirer says : Travele r by the c-amel's side, Thou bast wandered far and wide, Tell me, on wl~at tabled strand Hast thou found the fairest land?

And the old, experienced globe traveler replies: Where thy friends and loved ones stand, There thou hast the fairest land.

I spent yesterday in a fair land, a land that was fair, for I spent it in the Congressional Library, reading the many words of a friend of mine, WILUAU E. MASON.

It occurred to me that probably every man in the present delegation from Illinois in this House of Representatives would at this h.our say many things descriptive of Mr. MAsoN; they would, one or another of them, speak of his oratory; his ability as a campaign speaker; his popula1·ity, greater than any other campaigner in Illinois; his stage presence ; his wit and humor on the platform; his capacity to ta.ke care of himself by repartee when heckled either on the political platform or here; his will­ingness to catch a train and go to any town or hamlet or cross­roads in the State or county when duty called or a friend was in trouble ; of his untiring travels over this old town, trying to help omebody at the departments; of his inability to say "No" when anybody at all a ked him for an endorsement; aud of his beautiful family life and devotion to the dear ones at home­and of their loving, touching, undying devotion to him.

It seemed to me that it wonlct be a good thing if I, for a cha.nge, should attempt something different. And so I betook me to where all his congressional and senatorial words are embalmed and pre::;erved forever. (To my great regret, I could not find a shorthand report of his various speeches in the Illinois Legislature, nor could I find that he had handed any manuscript to the daily newspapers-indeed, I think be Dever did that-and accordingly his banquet speeehes remain unpub­lished in the public prints.)

After a whole day reading the outbursts of Jove of country, love of liberty, love of humanity, love of fairne s, and love of the eternal right, I decided that it would take two or three weeks of any man's time to glean, to garner, to winnow, and thresh out from the many, many columns and page· of the REcOIW a collection of his sayings, a compilation of paragraphs, which would do justice to the man or to me. So I abandoned that.

But I found enough. I found enough to prove him, as I alwnys knew him to be, full of love of country, and all the other love. v.·bich I have enumerated, and in addition full of loYe for the downtrodden and oppressed of the world, which made him think always of America, as I think of it, as the heir of the ages, the child of the centuries, the beacon light of liberty, and the last hopE.' of humanity. It \Vas this love for the down­trodden, this unfaltering determination to be " for the under dog," that actuated and animated and dominated his whole official life and caused him to fight fea.rlE.'ssly and "at the drop of the hat " for the black man, for a ft·ee ballot aud a fair count, for the tortured Cuban, and for the Irishman.

It is not well to multiply instances or examples. Accordingly I quote from only one of his more important speeches, 1\fay 18, 1897. . I quote with interest and pride and with a throb in my heart and a catch in my throat some passage from this speech in the Senate delivered May 18, 1897, by Senator MAsoN. The subject under con ~ ideration wa Senate joint resolution 26, resolved, etc., that a condition of public war exists between the Govern­ment of Spain and a government p_roclaimed * * * main­tained * * * by the people of Cuba, and that the United States of America shall maintain a strict neutrality between the contending powers, according to each all the rights or belligerents in the ports and territory of the United States.

Mr. l\IA.soN said in part : Day after day the papers have been full of the announcement that

this country was at last to speak, and that the barbarities inflicted ·by the Spaniard on the Cuban were to have some re-buke, at least in the Senate of the United States. The rules of the Senate, to which we all bow with such graceful dignity, have permitted this gentlemanly fili­buster to continue until there is to-day no guaranty that the voice of the people will be heard 'here, or that there is to be any protest from the. American people either in the legislature or by the Executive agamst the sale of girls, the murder of children, and the barbarities that the Spaniard calls "war."

• • • • • When Senator MASON was elected to the Senate a number of

newspapers said that they regretted it because they believed that be was the ideal Congressman and ought to be kept in the House all the rest of his life; that he would not enjoy it so much in the Senate; and I believe myself that he was of that type of man who would rejoice more in being on this fioor than on the other.

Years and years ago one who had served 22 years in the public service said to me that the ideal public service for an American ~s on the fioor of the American House of Represent­atives. Above everything else in the world I think 'VILLIAM E. MAsoN was a commoner and that he really would have had a happier life if he could have had an uninterrupted experience here.

I am not going to dwell long on international law. Every student of international law knows that it is made by fot·ce and that there is no barbarity of all the past that did not find its .precedent in inter­national law. International law is as flexible as time, as changeable as everything else on the earth. ·

• * • • • • I am not studied much in the use of language. Ah, but he was a master of words! He said: I am not studied much in the use of language.

* * * * • I am here to say as a Republican, I am here to carry out the pledges of my party in convention assembled, that there is no question before the American people so much demanded by the hearts of the intellip;ent Christian people of this country as the demand made upon us here f~~n~o:f ~:~a.we shall lift our voices in defense of liberty in the

* * * * • • * A majority of us favot· the measure but the majority can not control.

• * * * * • I am here neither to praise nor to criticize the President. It is

enough for me to know that in the utmost exciting political campaign this country has ever seen, amidst the heat of battle and the dust and noise. William McKinley's name, his splendid character his beauti­ful Ute, was like a pillar of fire by night that led us to the greatest victory that we have known in modern times, for an honest currency and for protection to the industries of the country. I do not aml I shall not criticize him tor the delay. I trust his judgment even though I may differ with him. I reserve the right to express my opin­ion and to cast my vote upon this question when the hour shall come

Eight hundred starving Americans upon the Island of Cuba ! • • . * * • • •

The native-born Cuban, up to some two years ago, could not teach school in his own bailiwick, and has never been permitted to hold any office of honor or trust. Some of their children came to our schools. They heard the music of Yankee Doodle and they took back to the insurgent father and mother the story of Bunker Hill and they have begun to demand their right-their right to govern themselves.

• • • • * • • Let me say to you, Mr. President, whether we shall sit silent on

and on; whether we shall continue in this dignified body to be silent when all the people ask us to speak: whether the United States shall ao its duty or not, under the Providence of God, Cuba Rhall be free. There shall be no slave on the continent where our flag floats. (Dem­onstrations and applause in the galleries.)

• • • • • • It is common sense that we are after. It is the common sense that

our friends on the other side seek to avoid. I want it understood here and now, as I present this petition.

He was always praying for freedom for somebody! Oh, how we all remember how, day after day, week in and week out, he presented and finally urged, in ringing tones, his resolution freeing Ireland !

As I present this petition from the merchants and the buRiness men of these great cities that it finds echo in every hamlet among the people where I live.

You, my hearers of 1922, may rest assured that WILLIAM E. MASON k"llew well the hamlets of Illinois. From his first cam­paigning in Illinoi~. say, 1881, to his last in 1921--40 years­he knew not only the crowded cities where great throngs

.cheered him on, but also he knew "the hamlets "-and they knew him! ·

No man in Illinois got off more freight trains and local trains at 1 or 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, at more junctions, at more crossroads, at more tank towns than WILLI.A.M E. 1\IAsoN-al­ways cheerful in the face of delay or disappointment, always gladly and cordially welcomed by the hamlet.

During the political campaign just closed I felt the pulse of thousands of people.

That is just exactly what he did; he knew how to do it.

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He continues : There are no Senate rules among the people. In Dlinois if they do

not like what you say they say so, and if they do -they let -you know it. In illinois, from Cairo to Dunleith, 400 miles ot the best State in

the Union, the plaln peo_ple theTe, as well as the merchants, in respon e to the proposHion thnt the Cubans should be free, agreed wiih one acclaim whenever it was mentioned; and, while to-day the people are waiting with bated breath, and financial affairs are based on om· action on the tariff, when you get at the deep undertone of the conscience of the Christian people of this e<>untry, they say, "Let us have freedom in Cuba. Let the Spaniard go back to his own land and let us have JlO slaves upon our continent."

" . .. .• In tbo!';e days it is r::id that he did not think enough of Presi­

dent William l\lcKinley. .In my humble jud.gmeut William McKinley never would ha-ve been nominated ior President of the United States had it not been for the terrific .fight put up in the State of Illinois, nnd I have always believed that one of the cardinal decisions in that fight was back in 1896 in the Springfield district, and next to that in the Jaeksonville district. I can recall now a convention in 1896 in the city of Jaekson­ville, Ill.-and some others here remember it-when every­thing- was absolutely trembling in the balance. WILLIAM E. MAsoN came tbere and took the .floor, and .in a speech of unexampled eloquence and lofty aspirations he wrought -upon that convention until they rose and the very building rocked with cheers for William lcKinley. I think it was the deciding point in the nomination of McKinley. ·

Pa sing on to the conclusion of this one speech of his, which I lla ve taken the time to quote, lle said :

"You can call jingo as long as you like. You may define jingo as long as you plea e. Patrick Henry was a jingoist according to the definition of the gentleman. Every man who would rather fight than buy peace at the dishonor of his wife or hi· child has been called a jingo from the days of early republics until now.

• • * • • * * "In convention • • • at St. Louis • • • my distinguished

friend, the l!lenator fl'Om MassachusettB, Mr. LoDGE, was on tbe com­mit tee to draw up the resolution, .and when it was read, 'f'ecipromty shook the :r:afters, protedion set everybody to work with feet and .bands, but when we spoke the broad deep tone of liberty, when we said we 1·emembered Valley Forge, and, by the eternal .freedom there won, by everything dear to Americans, the party wa.s committed to the independence of Cuba.

T.he hall and the rafters rang and the people all over tbe whole :United States said, "Thank God ! Amen and Amen ! "

• * * • • • I hold my commission, 'Mr. Presiden.t, from no set of men. I got

my seat from -no bo s. I hold my place, youT equal politically, through the machinations or dictations of no machine. By the Eternal Pow-er I bold my commf sion from the people. I promised the p e.ople I would ·speak, but, if ~ have been too long silent, I shall answer to my people, and to my _peQple alone.

I refrain from reading a thousand other paragraphs, .all showing love of liberty. I wish I could have time to read aU, because what ..I want to do is to tell what he says, not what I think.

RP.ferring for a moment to his record, I eall your attention to the brief biograph_y, doubtless approv~d by himself, appear­ing in the Congressional Directory, Sixty-sixth Congress, page 21. This is all ther.e is of it :

WILL'l.\M E. MAsoN, Republican, of Chicago; lawyer; 'born July 7, 1850; married Edith · White, of Des Moines, Iowa, June 11. 1873; 40 years in law practice in Chicago; bas served in both branches of the Illinois Legislature and in ooth bmncbes of Congress; elected, :1916, :to the Sixty-fifth Congress at large; in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress, and in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh CQllgress.

His biography in the Blue Book of Illinois is a little more extended:

WlLLI.AM E. MASON, Republican, Chicago: membet· of the .Chicago bar for 40 years ; was born .in the State of New York, but spent most of his early life in Iowa, where he :married 1\Iiss Edith White, of Des .Moines. nas served in the upper and lower branches or the Legislature of Illint)is, and was oae of those who elected Logan to the Senate;

'served two terms as a Member or the United States Ho:.u e of Repre­-sentatives and one as :Senator, .and at present is congressman at large from Illinois. While in the United States Senate was .instru­mental in having the rru·al free delive~.·y bill passed; also ronde the first 1·eport of the postal savings bank law, while chair.man ~f the .Post Office and Post Roads Committee.

In conclusion, by unanimous consent, I insert in the REcow, as a part of my remarks, pages 125, 126, 127, and 128 of the book written by him entitled "John, the Unafraid," as follows:

Not many days thereafter John came home to Martha, sick with. a f v er, .and 'for many days laid on a bea of pain and suffering. In .his delirium be spoke often to his brothers, caUing them by name, and urging them on to continued service.

On the seventh day h«:! came out of his wanderings and -found 1r1artba at his ide, holding his nand. Feeble of body, but strong and clear of mind, he spo.ke to Martha, saying: ''How long have I been sick ?u And she, weeping fox joy, said: "Be silent, John dear, you have been wandeTing in your mind for seven days; -now :you ~ill soon be well." .And John answered her: "Yes, I am nearly w.ell now.

" I understand my pain is .gone, because my _poor body .has surren­dered its fight ·for longer life. How kind the Father is to give me this

]>ainless time to speak good-bye to you, my love. :My voice seems weak, but my spirit sees clearly all the past, and is rapt in -expectaDcy of the future.

" If this is the end, and there is no life beyond, I salute the Ever­asting Good and am thankful for what I have had. Remember. Martha,

~ donbt not. NeitheT am I !Rfraid. 1 go to n friendly city. The Master lS there.

"Tell my dear minister that Brother Lewis will pay the next month's rent for Sarah and her children.

" Has there been -any .sickness in the Brotherhood?" And Martha said : ."Not an unkind word ha bt>en spoken." And John said; " Truly the Kingdom of Heaven is a.t..hand.

... Has the sickness or fear left them all? '' " Yes " answeTed Mary "they h~ve forgotten fear in caring for each other/• · '

" Have we paid our .neighbors that which we ow~. and is there sufficient to provide for you 'l" .

"And Martha said: "Yes, all is well." Then John said : " There was some unfinished work on my bench "

anu Martha told him that his brother M::trk bad -finished -the work az{d delivered it on the day promised.

".And my shop ; the bench, the tools, and all'? " and 'Martha said : ".All are .in order, dear one, as you wonld have them." .And John said·: "How kmd you all are."

It was the hour of sunset and Martha lifted his head and tumed him so he c·ould see the western sky. "How beautiful" said J"o.hn · "see, Martha, the sun is setting, but it will rise again.' 'rhis is my faith ; it will ri e again."

.AJ?d so John. the _Unafr?-id was prepared to ffO out from this life, not m fear but In faith, with open arms and smiling face as one who goeth out to welcome the coming of his most beloved. ' ·

Upon the streets and within the house many gathered waitin~ news from John the Unafraid. While at his bed1:;ide Martha' his wife and the wife of the Master's cobbler, kept in silent · prayer the watch'es o:C tbe night.

And when the morning came, MaTtila said: "He still lives and his breathing is as natural as that of a sl~eping- child." '

And so John the Unafraid c:une out of the Valley of the Shadow and when strong t o speak, said: "I thought ere this to have solved the f~~.~es of Death; I must labor still with the greater mysteries of

The Church of the Brotherhood goes on. Come ye powerful of all the earth, king~ and rulers; come ~·e commanders of armies and navie:l · come ye e11pturns of wealth and industry; and come ye siL-i{ children of the Father, ye brothers of the MasteT, f01: you are needed in this Church. You need not withdraw from your chureh, but serve more where you are. One kind word to a suffering brother, even the least oi' them, puts you in full communion. No tribute of pew rent is demanded, and no creed must be acknowledged. Promise only to serve the Good, as you understand it. The Brotherhood is weak in theology l.lut strong in religion. Forgetting wealth in the search for values' turning our backs on the shadows and facing the substance putting behind us tbe tinsels of display, looking forw<trd to the thmgs worth while. Wonld you know the way to this church? Spea.k kindly to the next brother you meet ; and if h e be not sick, he 'l'till point you the way. No matter how dark the night, theTe is a light still burnin.,. 'in 'the -window, and th-e door of The Gbm:cb of the Brotherhood is n;ver locked.

Mr. G~l of Illinois. l\Ir. Speaker, human life is a strange and wonderful experiencE'. W.e are as meteors in the sky. Out of the da.rkne s we come, fanned into b1illiuncy by the life-giving atmosphere through which we move~ we flash, for an instant, across the fu·mament; after that, the void .and enshrouding silence. We are as shi_ps that put out from port upon an unkno'WD. sea; sometimes the blue arch of heaven stretches . peacefully abm-e us and the sun is shining, the sea is placid, and mind and b.ody cr·y aloud exulting in the joy of life ; then sto-rms .and waves assail us, and in the "fury of the tempest we realize the weakne s of our str.ength and the poverty of our .l'esourees. But always we tl1ink that to· morrow-yea, always to-morrow--there will be pleasant lands along our lea and fortune, and hope, and ambition beckon us on. .And then, when we come to port, the voyage -ends.

Sometimes we make our voyage solitary and alone. Some­times we only hail another as he pas es. Sometimes we sail, side by side, day upon day, and JTear upon yeru·, .tlu·ough foul weather and fair, with another voyager. With these friendly voyagers we fight the storms to-gether and revel in the sunshine, and enjoy a mutual interchange of counsel and precept. The -effect of th e contacts upon our life's journey is .incalculable. They influence and oftentimes change the courses of our journeys and the final destination at which we arrive.

Jn such a way it has been my privilege to meet our colleague, whose life and virtues we memoralize ·to-day. It was not my fortune to be an intimate friend of Wll.LIAM E. 1\faso.N, al­though, from the commencing of the special session of Congress in April, 191'7, when a state of war wlth Germany was declared, until his death, -:I was m almost constant contact with him and grew to know him very well. While my personal acquaintance with him dated from 1917, I had known him and Jrnown of hlm from 'lllY boyhood, as all Illinoisans of my generation have. As a boy I heard my elders, in the stores and on the streets, ftlld in the heated political campaigns of -those days, speak of him. They never called him Wrr.;r.IA:M E. 1\i.A.soN-it was " BILLY " MAsoN. And so it was fi·om the moment of his entrance into -political life until his death. As a representative in Congress, as United States Senator, as a Representative at large in Con­gress, he was not some pedestaled, intangible celebrity; to tha peop1e of illinois he w..as something tangible, something .r al, somebody they knew .about, plain "BILLY" NlA.soN. Too many J)ublic men, from constant exercise of official power, assume to. tra:vel upon -a .superior plane_; they get away frOlll the soil fr&m which they sprung. 'VILLIA.M: E. MAsoN never rt.id that.

1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3075 We humans do not know a great deal about one another.

Within the shell of the body the individual being dwells. Through the windows of the body the soul within looks out and we see it dimly as we pass. Its visible expression comes from the spoken word, the kindly eye, the activities of the body. There is a radiant energy that emanates from this secret dweller in the temple of the body that has its effect upon all who come within its influence .. With some the force is negative or repelling; with others it is commanding and persuasive and impelling.

With such a persuasive personality was our late colleague gifted. There was no man in our State who ever had it to a greater extent. His public career illustrates that. His views on public questioDS were always distinct and certain and always freely expressed. He took part gladly in political discussion, contests, and debate. He made firm friends and equally vigor­ous enemies. There was no halfway ground with him-he was a parti. an and admitted it. He did not always meet the views of his constituents while in public office. But always, when a candidate for office, and his enemies were arranging for his political obsequies, the results would record a victory for him by the vote of the people. •

This hold upon the people of Illinois was remarkable. I re­member that during the Sixty-fifth Congress 1\fr. MASON voted on certain measures before ·the Congress in a way thought to be ex­tremely unpopular in many parts of the Stnte. Iu the next ' election, in a State-wide race for Congressman at large, be led all the rest, both in primary and in election. During the last national administration, 1\Ir. l\IASON was usually out of harmony with the national leadership, and frequently expressed himself upon the floor of the Hou e in pointed and direct language. Irrespective of the subject, whenever it was known that he was to speak, Democrats and Republicans alike flocked to their seats and gave him respectful and careful attention.

He wa. a power on the political platform. No other man of the State, and I believe of the country, could sway an audience on a political subject as be could. He possessed a fund of wit and humor and sarcasm and invective, a power of logical reason­ing and lucid expression, and, above all, a magnetic, radiant personality tl1at few men have equaled and none excelled.

The name of \VILLIAM E. MASON is safely written in the his­tory of Illinois. It will be a long time before the people of our State have forgotten him. In these simple ceremonies which have been called to mark hi passing, I tender my few words of tribute to his memory. He has crossed over the river and rests under the shade of the trees. After the smiles and the tears, after the joys and the sorrows, after the noise and tumult, old friend and colleague, rest well.

Mr. WILLIAMS assumed the chair as Speaker. pro tempore.

1\Ir. MANN. Mr. Speaker, we called him BILLY MAsoN be­cause we loved him. The people called him BILLY 1\l.A.so~ because they loved him. He appealed to the people. He never endeavored to build up a personal political organization. He appealed to the minds, to the reason, to the hearts of the people. All will remember his physical appearance. He had a v-ery large bead, filled with the fine t of grey matter, but although his head was large and brainy, the outstanding feature of BILLY MASON was his heart. His heart was bigger than his body. His great aim in life was to help somebody who needed help. It was not confined to those in distress abroad. He felt the kindly touch of those close to him, thoRe at home, but every­where, anywhere, his heart throbbed and tbr1lled with emotion for the distre ·sed and oppres~ed in any clime and in any land.

He was a wonderful campaigner! I ne Ter beard his equal in making a campaign speech. He not only entertained an audi­ence, but he reasoned with them. I think no ·one in the country has ever maue such an appealing speech upon that common, trite, and intricate subject, the tariff, as ~I.Aso~ used to make on the stump. He reasoned with the people until they agreed with him, and always his heart was so that he was in touch with their sympathy. We shall miss him, ·we do miss him, from the halls of the House. He was no man's servant, except as be was the servant .of the people. He did what he thought was right and- he had the courage of his convictions. With a voice that was enticing, with the great brain that he had, with the great heart that he had, and with the nerYe to do what he thought was right, it is no wonder that his equal does not exist as a campaign speaker.

His family relations were so touching, so loving that I hesi­tate to enter into that sacred place, but his widow and his children will always know that he occupied the highest place in the esteem and in the love of all Members of this House who knew him so well, and I may say of all the people who admired him so much.

Mr. MANN resumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. Mr. KING. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all

Members may have 10 legislatiYe days within which to ex­tend their remarks in the REconn on these resolutions.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Illinois asks unanimous consent that all Members have 10 legislative days within which to extend their remarks on the resolutions which were agreed to in the House to-day. Is ther~ objection?

There was no objection.

Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, on many occasions I have listened to tributes paid to deceased Members of this House, but I wish to say that on no occasion have I been more impressed with their eloquence and their sincerity, and from my acquaintance with our deceased colleague I feel that be is worthy of them all.

l\lay I ask the indulgence of the House for a few moments to pay a slight tribute to the memory of our distinguished friend and colleague, Hon. WILLIAM E. :MASON.

Prior to his death lie resided for upward of 50 years in Chi­cago, which, although not adjacent, is in close proximity to the di trict in Michigan which I have the honor to represent. He was \Vell known throughout my district, the State of 1\!ichigan, and was not without a national reputation, having seen much of public life, and hnving sened in both branches of the State Legislature of Illinois and with distinction in both branches of the Congress of the United States. I first met him when at a political meeting in the city of iackson, Mich., during the presi­dential campaign of l\lcKinley and Bryan in the fall of 1896, when the issue was 16 to 1. I do not think I am in error in saying he favored the election of Maj. l\IciGnley and to that e1ent he contributed Ills full share. Mr. l\IAso was an ardent campaigner, a fluent speaker, a skillful, logical, and forceful debater, and a strong partisan. His forensic ability was well recognized, and while he expressed himself in most pleasing language, permeated with wit and humor, his strong arguments carried such weight and conviction as to impress all with the soundne · of his proposition. He served his State as United States Senator from l\1arch 4, 1897, to 1\Iarch 3, 1903. In 1917 he was elected as Representative at large to the Sixty-fifth Con­gre s from the great State of Illinois. He was also elected to the Sixty-sixth and reelected to the Sixty-seventh Congress, and sened until the time of his death, June 16, 1921. As United States Senator he strongly ad'located Cuban independence. \Ve all remember \Tith what ardor he pleaded for the freedom of Ireland. His anxiety for this people is being clarified now, although he passed to his reward before its consummation. He would have rejoiced to know of its promise and assurance, although the goal has not been reached.

From a primer written by him, entitled ".A Political Text Book and Voters' Guide," Mr. l\1ASON enumerates on the front })age that he was the author of the Pure Food Laws; father of Rural Free Delivery and Parcel Post; first to report for Postal Sa,-ing Banks; active and practical friend to U. S. soldiers and their families always; and that he voted for suffrage in 1897 and ever since. He was an ardent advocate of the soldiers' bonus and proposed the issue of a $500 bond to be called the Honor Service Bond. In speaking for it in the House of Repre­sentatives on the 2d day of December, 1919, among other things, he stated _:

I am free to say that I have no pride of opinion and am willing to vote for any o1' the hal! dozen bills which have been introduced by my colleagues upon this subject.

l\Ir. MASON was a patriot and lover of the Constitution, always zealous of its strict observance. In one of his latest speeches delivered in Congress April 23, 1920, be stated:

Thi:, Nation has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln.

In his speech for a " United Country," of August 27, 1919, be quotes Gen. Pershing as saying :

It is the consciousness that the soldier bas behind him an undivided Nation which enables him, whatever his rank, to face his task with courage.

And then he himself adds: See what our soldier boys are doing. The world's history has never

recorded greater military skill and bravery tban is being written ·day by day on the western front.

He lost no opportunity of demanding that our tJ·oops be with­drawn from Russian soil. It was a violation of the Constitu­tion, to his mind, to send or keep them there.· And it is deny­ing credit to no one in statin·g-that his efforts to bring horne the American troops sent to Russia was most potent in their re­moval.

l\Ir. MAsoN was well educated and taught school in early life. He was of a pleasing disposition and bad a large fund of current

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information which he ahvays imparted interspersed and en­livened by apt and pithy stories. Knowing him as I did, I am sure he would like to have said of him the story described by Michigan' young philosopher-poet, Edgar Guest, when he says:

But I would like to have my story told Rv smiling frlends with whom I've shared the way Wno, tb.inking of me, nod their heads and say

IIis heart was warm when otl:er hearts were cold. Now, 1\lr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the

Bouse for two minutes on the subject of a young soldier who lost Lis life in the destruction of the dirigible, th€ Rorna, a few days ago.

The SPEAKER pro tempore ( 1\1r. MANN). The gentleman from Michigan a k unanimous consent to address the House for two minutes. Is there objection?

There was no objection. Mr. Sl\liTH of l\1ichig3Jl. I have a ked for these few minutes

to peak of the tragic death of Sergt. Virgil Hoffman, one of the 34 persons who lo t their lives when the great dirigible airship Roma exploded and descended to the earth in flames from a height of 1,000 feet at Langley Aviation Field near Hampton Roads, Va., on 'l'uesday the 25th day of February, 1922. The Roma was America's largest airship. It wa..s equipped with six Liberty motors and to test which it was making a trial flight.

Sergt. Hoffman was a prominent and highly respected young man who e home was at Eaton Rapids, l\fich., in the district I now' have the honor to represent and distant only 10 miles from my home town of Charlotte. He enlisted at the age of 18 in the World. 'Var, when he was just entering upon a life of promise. He saw active service ov-erseas, then in the army of occupation, and continued in the United States Air Service until the fateful day when he came to his untimely death. He was a brave soldier. He loved his country. He gave his life anti made the supreme sacrifice for it. He represented that spirit of bravery and intrepidity lliat disting-u.islles the American soldier und~r every trial. And now that he has gone to the home of his Great Commander our love and adoration follow him. We commend hlm for his gallantry. \.Ve revere his memory and extol his service and true worth. He will live for all time in the hearts of his countrymen.

l\Ir. Speaker, I a k unanimous consent to extend my remarks in the RECORD by inserting a short eulogy and biography printed in tl1e Eaton Rapids Journal, a paper published in Sergt. Hoffman's home town.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Michigan asks unanimous consent to extend his remarks in the manner indicated. Is there objection?

There was no objection. The article referred to is as follows :

SEllGEANT VIRGIL HOFFMAN, IICTI:ll Oil' "RO:U:A" CATASTllOPH.III AT LA:NGLEY FlELD.

Sergeant Virgil Hofl'man, chief rigger of the monster dirigible wbic?­the United States bought from Italy and was burned on an experi­mental flight last Tuesday afte.rnoon, was a victim of the awful tragedy in which the lives ot 34 men were snuffed out near Hampton Roads, Va. and tbe funeral will be held at the Methodist Church in this city next Sunday afternoon with full military honors.

Virgil wa born in this city February 2, 1900, and was a product of the local school· alwars active in athletics and a prime favorite with his mates. After leaving school he went to Battle Creek and worked with his brother as an apprentice electrician; but on the 20th of February, 1918, just after passing his 18th _biFthdayti he en­listed in the .Army and was sent to Columbus for trammg. e landed at Brest .August 1, 1918, and served · with the A. E. F. till the ar!fii­stice was sjO'ned when he was transferred to the army of occupation and saw senice 'on the Rhine for a period of 11 months.

He was permitted to return home for a pe!iod. of several w~eks during the fall of 1920, but returned to camp rn time to be detailed to the crew of "Six men that were sent to Italy last :yeru· a.fter the monster airship leaving New York in October and returmng the follow­ing May, assisting in agai~ ere~ting the machine an~ accompany!ng the craft on it trip to Washmgton, D. C., at the openmg of the disarma­ment conference.

liis untimely death is an awful shock to his mother, MJ::s. John Hyatt and the family and friends who thought so much of hun. He hnd p\anned to visit his mother last Christmas, after an absenc.e of o~er two years, lm t was disapp<?in ted. in obtaining a furlough, and had frequently written her expressmg his regret.

The othCI· members of the immediate family are his two brothers, Earl of Battle Ct·eek, and Howard, of Woo ... ter, Ohio, antl the little sistei· Grace, "'ho lives with her mother.

Mr. FESS. 1\lr. Speaker, my acquaintance with BILLY MASON began -with his entJ.-ance into the membership of this House on the occasion of his last service here. However, I had known him by reputation for a great many years as a remarkable politcialfigure, and that reputation wa..s not altogether acceptable; as is usually the ca e when newspapers talk about a man as a jingo. So quite naturally when I learned to know him here I ·was attracted to the very splended qual~ties that were SQ re­markably displayed· in his activities as a Member of the House.

I think that from the standpoint of effective oratory I have pever heard bis equal speaking to the membership on the floor

of the House to say nothing about the large masses of people that he would address in the heat of a campaign. I noticed that he never feared to take the unpopular side of an issue. He never flinched under criticism so far as I could see, whether the criticism was expressed or whether it was merely inferred by the attitude of Members on either side of the aisle.

One of the most remarkable incidents in my memory ot him was when he came to the well of the House to reply to some eha..rge that had been made against him, when I do not know how much of the sympathy of the House was with him up to the time of the beginning of his peech. I never heard anyone speak in this ehamber who produced the wonderful impre..,sion that he produced on that occasion. l\lore than one of the l\Iem­bers found their eyes so suffused that · they were not able to · look at the speaker because of his tremendous power in the presentation of an issue that at the time seemed in certain quarters to be unpopular.

I have often referred to l\fr. MAsoN as having qualities that ru·e Yery unusual from the standpoint of a public speaker. The more I knew him the better I loved him, and as is always the case where you gain your vie".vpoint of a man from the p.ublic press, you are so much cop.cerned to know him intimately, be­cause, like any other great leader, as one of our colleagues mentioned, he made both friends and enemies, ftiends who were held to him by hooks of steel, and ene-mies, not personal but political, who were as strongly opposed.

So I have felt that it is not only my duty, but my great pleasure as wen to pay this brief ' tribute to Mr. MASON as one who deserves the best from his colleagues, because he was cer­tainly \Yorthy of all the good things that might be said about him. He is one of the figures among us that is an outstanding ex-ample of the value of fearless exposition and even fearless advocacy in times of storm, and a man who would never flinch under adverse criticism. If we have one lesson that is needed to-day, it seems to me that element of courage is ve1·y much in demand. e\en at this present moment.

I want to add my voice to the tributes to this great man, for there is nothing that stirs my heart more than expressions of admiration for a life that is worth while..

Mr. GABALDON. Jllr. Speaker, I am glad to have the honor of speaking a few words, not only to eJ..."Press my personal feel­ings but also on behalf of the more than 10,000,000 inhabitants of the Philippine I lands, on the life and character of WILLIAM E. 1\fAsoN, late Congressman at Large from the State of Illinois.

The name of WILLIAM E. llisoN was well known and well beloved in those far-off islands of the Orient sea. For he was one of the very first Americans to raise his voice in the United States for Philippine independence.

l'llr. 1\IAsoN was a Member of the United States Senate in 1899 when the question of recognizing the independence of the Philip­pines was before the country. Although a member of the Re­publican Party, which was standing out against independence, Senator .MASoN entered· the li ts on the other side of the ques­tion. He opposed the raising of the American flag in the Philip­pines against the wishes of the inhabitants there with heart, body, ancl soul.

The CoNGRESSIO~AL RECORD covering those days in which the decision hung in the balance shows that WILLIAM E. MASON spoke as one inspired. And who can say that he was not in­spired by a higher power, a power that bestows its choicest gifts of oratory and eloquence upon those who are pleading for human liberty?

I had a long discussion of those momentous days in the life of the Philippines with Cong:re sman MASON only a few months before be died. Ne¥er will I forget the fire of patriotism that burned in his eyes as he related the story of his fight in the Senate nearly a quarter of a century previously against Ameri .. cnn sovereignty in the Philippines.

Seiior. GABALDO~­He said-

! lost my seat In the United States SeH.Ate as the result of breaking with President McKinle-y ove-r the qnestion of the United Sta.tes govern­ing the people of the Philippines against their will. I remamed at the bottom of the political la:dder for many, many lo11g years befQre I ~ould again be elected to public office. But listen; nev.er for one smgle IDQment, Qne single second, have I regretted my action. I would tl!-ke exactly the same attitude were I to live through the whole campaign again.

It wa..s almost the same sentiment he had expressed at the close of his great speech in the Senate. Let the CoNGRESSIONAL REcoRD of 1899 recall those words to our memory :

1 am fQr the independence ot the people of the Philippine Islands as I am for the independence of the people of Cuba. I am bound by a solemn 1>romise -made in tbis Chamber.- . Sena~ors .may ha~le and say it i · not nor.nina ted in the bond ; but 1t JS ~ 1.mpl:i.ed. pralllfse more sacred to an llonorable .gentleman than though 1t were wntten 'lD ~Iood..

I have an idea that Filipino homes are sacred, that their. children are beloved, that they 'love their soil, and that tbey have the1r son.e;s:

1922. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-HOUSE. 3077 that the father has his prayer, that they have a hearthstone of some. kind, and that the mother. has a lullaby for her babe.

If in my effort to-day I can get one American to think a little more. of the rights of mau, if I can add one comfort or one hope to the poorest, blackest, meanest and lowest of God's creatures in the Philip­pine Islands, I shall be satisfied and more than paid for my effort.

I am done. I am not well done. I have been advised by those whom I think most o"f as friends to await events. But the events that I saw coming in ea..rly August are here. I could wait no longer. Some have been kind enough to say thnt my seat was in danger.

Why, I have seen the boys come home sick, and I have seen their graves; and I have seen so much of sacrifice in this cause that, as much as I love the association and the seat as Senator among you, I woul<l give it as cheerfully as I would a crust, if my people want it, regretting only that I have so little to give in this cause.

I bad hoped for some powPr of language that the old masters were said to have who stood within this fomm in the past. I have al­most prayed for some magnetic power that I could tum the tide for the liberty of these people, for some magnetic power that I could draw you so close that I could write in living letters upon your hearts the word "Liberty." Not liberty for YQUr family as I prescribe it not liberty for me or Ipy children by your dictation, not Austrian liberty for Hungary, not s-panish liberty for Cuba, not English liberty for the United States, and not American liberty fo~ the Philippines, but uni­versal liberty-universal liberty for which our fathers died.

l\1r. Speaker, 20 years after this speech was made in the Sen­ate WILLIAM E. MAsoN was still working for the independence of the people of the Philippine Islands. Is it any wonder that in l1is death we feel we have lost a friend? On June 13, 1919, Mr. MASON presented the following bill in this House Chamber in which we are now gathered: Whereas all just powers of the government are derived from the con­

sont of the governed ; and Whereas the people of the Philippine Islands, including aU classes and

all political parties, are petitioning the United States to grant them a free :md independent government ; and

Whereas the right (if any) to govern them was acquired by the United States in the War with Spain and by conquest of ·the Philippine people; and

Whereas President :McKinley in his fu·st letter of instruction to the peace commissioners instructed them not to enter into any agreement which 'wou ld mean perpetual sovereignty of the United States over the- Philippine people ; and

Whereas the American people through their Congress declared repeat­edly that they would not take territory as a. result of the War with Spain and repeatedly stated that as soon as the people of the Philip­pine Islands were able to establish a stable government that would protect life and property, that the people of the United States would grant them independence; and

Whereas mo1•e than 20 years ago President McKinley stated that the Philippine Islands are not ours to exploit, but " to train in the scientre of self-government"; and to deny them self-government now would practically be an admission that the United States had failed in. train­ing them " in the science of self-government " ; and

Whereas President Roosevelt said more than 10 yeru·s ago that he hoped the time would arrive when the Filipinos " can decide for themselves whether it is well for them to become independent"; and

Whereas it is now known by the American people that a stable govern­ment has been established in the Philippines ; and

Whereas the Americu.n people have made untold sacrifices in the late war in the interest of self-determination, and to further refuse inde­pendence to the Philippines is not only an abandonment of the prom­ises ma..de at the time we took possession. of the Philippine Islands, but is a violation of our highest ideals : Therefore Be it enacted, etc., That the people of the Philippine Islands are

hereby declared to be free and independent, and tbe Congress of the United States hereby recognizes the Philippine repul>li-c as prayed for in. their memorial and requests the President of the United States to negotiate and submit to the Senate of the United States such political and commercial treaties as may l>e necessary to secure for the people of the Philippine Islands self-determination and a free and independent government.

Ur. Speaker, I can say nothing that will add to the glory of the memory of this patriot. His spoken words, preserved in the CoNonESSIONAL RECORD, will be his everlasting monument. But not only that-his memory will abide forever in the hearts of the Filipino people, whose cause he served so nobly.

Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, it was my very great privilege to know my deceased colleague, WILLIAM E. 1\fAsoN, from his young manhood, and to admire him as a man and a citizen.

Illinois was proud of him ; proud of his eloquence; proud of his untiring energy, of his devotion to his party; proud of the sacrifices he made to promote the well-being of the Nation. He was one of the most versatile men I ever knew; he swayed audi­ences by his eloquence as no other man could. His service to the public was unselfish. He was zealous in the promotion of whatever appealed to his conscience as just. He was sympa­tlletic; his sympathies went out to those who needed sympathy. He was a lover of liberty in its best sense. He believed in the humble citizen; his liie was devoted to the promotion of his cause. He had no sympathy for the aristocrat. He was a democrat himself in everything but politics. His political faith was best exemplified by his constant advocacy of the Republican cause. He was companionable and filled with loving kindness. His heart went out to suffering humanity everywhere. He was a legislator of distinction, both as a Member of the Senate and ­the House. The people of his State, high and low, knew WILLIAM E. MASON and loved him. His name was the signal for enthusiasm at any meeting before which he might appear.

The announcement that he was to speak always brought a great concourse of people together. He was full of wit and humor, quick at repartee, and he had a. knowledge and experience which

-enabled him to speak on any subject. He was an orator of the first class. He was untiring and never-ending in his work. He was in demand as a speakel' everywhere throughout the Nation. His jovial disposition made everybody his friend. He had the courage to express his views upon any subject. He was the delight of the House on every occasion than he appeared before it. Everybody listened to him with attention, and what he said was responded to with rapturous applause.

I regret that he has passed from us, but he has left a record of service that fills us all with pride. His name will be remem­bered by the people of Illinois; his memory will "be reveTed as one who in his life spoke his mind; advocated the cause of jus­tice; dealt With things as he found them; treated subjects on their-merit; and displayed an interest in the cause of humanity that will continue to bear fruit in the years to come. Men like WILLIAu EJ. MASON never die. Their words and work live after they haYe passed away and are emulated by those who follow.

1\fr. C.AJ.'\"'NON. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from New York [Mr. COCKRAN] recalled that he and I are the only 1\Iembers of this House who were here when Mr. MAsoN came as a Member of tile Fiftieth Congress. That was the beginning of 1\'Ir. MAsoN's national reputation, though he had been a popular and effeetive public speaker and legislator in Illinois f()r several years before he was elected to the· House.

But I recall more vividly the Fifty-first Congress and BILLY MAsoN's activities in the House at that time. I believe the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. BURTON] and I are the only Mem­bers of this House who were also Members of that House of the Fifty-first Cong-ress when 1\ir. l\IA.soN made a repu­tation as a forceful and versatile debatQr· and became one of the most popular speakers on this floor. . The Republican Party had come into coptrol of the legislative and executive departments of the Government after quite a season of activity as a minority party. Thomas B. Reed was Speaker, and the first session of that Congress was a stormy as well as a very b-usy one, with filibusters, cormting a quorum, consideration and passage of the Federal election bill and the McKinley Tariff Aet.

1\lr. 1\IAsoN was in his element, for he loved political storms as he loved domestic tranquillity, and in all the legislative and parliamentary contests he took an active and effective part. He used jest as well as argument, had a fund of stories that he apt!Y applied to confuse his opponents and arouse enthusiasm in the galleries until he became one of the most populal' de­baters in the House. He was BILLY l\lASON to everybody-the l\fembers of the House, the newspaper men, the public here and throughout the country, for he was one of the most-quott!d. men in public life because of his quaint and apt illustrations and his fun. He was not always in harmony with. the Speaker and the majority side of the House, and he did not hesitate to level his darts- at his party associates when his convictions differed from theirs. But through it all he was BILLY ?!tisoN to both sides of the House and to the country. He was often criticized, as all of us were in that Congress, but criticism never disturbed him. It was just another opportunity and inspiration for more fun and more stubborn. contention.. He was one of the most effective filibusterers in that House, which was celebrated for filibusters, and he would smile and L'l.ugh as he irritated those whom he opposed until we would laugh with him, for his fun was infectious.

He and I and the majority of us on this side of the House went down to defeat in the election of 1890, which followed the enactment of the 1\[cKinley Tariff Act, and while many mourned and complained Bu.r.Y 1\IASoN laughed and made fun of himself a:s well as of others ; and after the election, Speaker Reed, who had campaigned in 1\IASON's district and mine, re­marked that he had gained the impression that he liad been a three-ring circus out in Illinois, and BILLY retorted that it had ended just that way, with nothing but sawdust remain­ing.

In the Senate he was BILLY ·l\IASON, as he had been in the House, and he did a good deal to upset the dignified serenity of that body when he filibustered and matie fun to more effectively carry his point and supporir his convictions, whether they were in harmony with his party or opposed. Then, after many years, he returned to the House, and we found him the same jovial, smiling, and popular Uemher, the same ready and effectiv.e debater, still holding tenaciously to his convictions. As the gentleman from New York [Mr. CocKRAN] bas said, BILLY ~i.ASON was always for the under dog .. He was built that way, and was th.e most popular and effective campaign speaker we had in Illinois through many years. He was intensely human,

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and the people responded to his human efforts and instincts., with the love of God and man, and consecrated with helpfulness H e is mourned by the Members of this House, and he is most of those in distress and cheer for those strugglina out of de pair. mourned in Illinois, where the people loved as well as honored Ever dedicated to the cause of human freedom he struck off him. the shackles of unmerciful dominion wherever he found them.

He was the Nemesis of despots and the palladium of the tyran-1\lr. DAVILA.. 1\Ir. Speaker, no tribute to the public life of nized. ·

WILLIAM E. l\IAsor would be complete did it not contain an To have known him was to love him. He was the true t ex­exr>ression of the affection in which his memory will always be 1 eruplar of Nazarene teachings I have had the privilege of know­held by the people of Porto Rico. ing. He was fundamentally tight always because he was ele-

We who lin~ b yond the seas knew better than those residing mentally Christlike. The decalogue meant more to him than nearer to hi · home the great qualities of his heart, his love for a tablet of granite. They were God-given precepts which he human libertJ" and the hatred of oppression in any form, which ever exemplified in his daily life of contact. were the outstanding traits of his sterling character. When momentous questions arrested his cogitation, never

We had gained that knowledge of the man in our appeals to did he render a decision calculated to square with popular ap­him for help in securing more liberal laws under the American probation. He sought his Maker for his counselor and not his flag, and be it sRid to his eternal credit we never appealed to electorate. He was right with his God when ofttimes he was him in vatn. - wrong will his constituents. He never e pou ed a cau e on ac-

1.\Ir. MASON knew our problems. He was a Member of the count of expediency, but ever championed truth even again t other House ·when the original organic act was passed, and as the raging storm of public disapproval. aid to the smaller peoples of the earth was one of his principal He said suzerainty over the PhilipP,ines mu t go, and his aim in life he ruade a study of our needs, and never ceased to party said be must go. He went; but back again he came when feel an interest in our affairs. popular judgment emerged from its drunken clamor. Anon

He \Vrts a l\IemlJer of this body when I first came here in the and again he risked political oblivion for his view , when he Sixty-fifth Congr~s, and was one of the first Members from could have had votes for his acquiescence. whom I received assistance in broadening our laws and thus How happy would he be to-day 1f be were standing as are increasing the opportunities of the Porto Rican people. The we, upon the narrow margin of existence, looking over the seas record of his able and actiYe assistance is preserved in the where humanity has had its new birth of freedom in the Emer­records of this House. It will always be cheri bed by the peo- ald Isle. He pleaded the cause of Irish liberty when other pie of that little i land, who esteemed him no less than the people statesmen either held their craven breath or stammered out of his ow·n beloved Illinois. their opposition.

I never knew a more de>oted champion of human rights. His His soul is now with MacSwiney's, blended into the eternal heart went out to eYery people whom he felt suffered from op- sun1 effulgent upon the countryside of old Erin, and Celts every­pression. I have seen this House kindle with enthusiasm as it where acclaim him as their own. With not a single drop of the felt the spell of his eloquence, whether discu~s;ing affairs in blood of Ireland, of Cuba, of South Africa, of India, of the Ireland or the extension of American citizen hip and more Philippines, coursing his veins, he yet enshrined their respective liberal laws to the isla1,1d of Porto Rico. struggles for freedom in his courageous heart; and would bave

I have often thought that if there was one man conspicuous dipped them in his life's blood, if need be, to aid their victory. in American public life to-day of whom it might be said that It is gay to dance with the victors, but give me the man who "the world was his country, and to do good was his religion.'' will suffer with the vanquished. that man was 'VILLIAM E. MASON, of illinois. Such a man was WILLIAM E . MASoN, bold and kind, defiant

Peace to his ashes. and loving, strong and tender, fearless and mercifu~. A man's

Mr. GORMAN. Mr. Speaker-

Thus death.

But have I now seen death? Is this the way I must return to native dust? 0 sight of tet·ror, foul and ugly to behold! Horrid to think, bow horrible to feel !

did Adam, in Paradise Lost, receive his first vision of

Akin were the feelings of the saddened friends of WILLIAM E. MASON, when fir t they learned of his demise. The fresh pangs poignant from the loss of our dear brother swelled in resentment within our bosoms as we visualized the lethal blow of Death, the Destroyer.

What a l\Ioloch is death, we remonstrated, that he should cut down the rugged oak, under whose protecting branches all the oppressed of mankind found shelter.

To remove from our circle a giant brain, functioning with iridescent splendor, and to choke up the crimson current of sympathy and love within a heart as big as the mundane sphere itself were u tragedy "horrid to think, how horrible to feel."

BILLY MAsoN went over the top. His death was a national calamity. Summoned to the footstool of the Prince of Peace, the pen fell from his limped hand the very instant it was tracing, in bold characters, a theme upon the resolution of peace. His mammoth intellect closed its cells of treasured lore and quickened thought as the masterpiece of international good will was receiving its commission to posterity.

Oh, how yf'arningly did he look forward to the hour when his clarion voice would warble forth another lay upon concord in the human family.

\Vith what abiding hope and blithe consciousness did he reckon the nearing day when the well of the House would im­pound the triumphant ayes declaratory of peace with our late foes!

As be measured the intervening time, he jealously weighed each crowding thought, even as the goldsmith balances the tinv atoms in t11e scales. The finger moved and the finger wrote. On and on it wrote. It expounded the golden rule ot international amity and universal brotherhood. It wrote-but ere it finished the huge heart of the master burst. It reached the limit of expanding lo>e for fellow man. The human con­tainer could no longer hold the spiritual es ence.

BILLY MASON died as he bad liYed. His last act was the prolongatioD of his first. His whole existence was hallowed

man was he. He enobled the crust of this earth the while he tarried here. He now enriches it as be sleeps beneath the turf which wraps his clay.

I knew him and, thank God, I am the better that I did.

1\fr. SMITH of Idaho. Mr. Speaker, it was my good fortune to know Senator MASON intimately during the last 35 years, anu also to know many of those holding high places in the Government service, and I can truly sa-y that none of them excelled him in manly virtues, statesmanship, or deYotion to his country.

I had the honor to serve with Mr. MAso~ as a fellow 1\Iember of this body for six years, during which time he was like a father to me. I went to him as freely as I would go to my own father for counsel and advice, and his death wa a deep per onal lo s to me. He took keen enjoyment in being helpful to others, and it was a particular pleasure to him to see his friends get along well. The willingness to assist tho e who asked his help and advice was one of his strongest characteristics, and there are few men who ever helped carry the hope and am­bitions of more people. Strong personal attachments drew to and about him hosts of arde-nt admirers. He was de,·oted to his family, kind and obliging to his friends, and generous to all. The precepts of the lowly Nazarene as expressed in the Sermon on the l\Iount constituted his rule of conduct toward hi fellows. He believed in the brotherhood of man, and u ed his talents in public and private life for the betterment and uplift of humanity.

The work be performed in this body and in the Senate, as well as upon the platform in nearly every State in the Union <luring the last 40 years for his State and Nation, reflect great credit upon his ability as a statesman and student of public questions.

He was one of the best informed men on the problems con­fronting the copntry, and he amazed his bearers by his readi­ness and force in debate. There was neYer a more zealou , more indefatigable, or more laborious l\lember of Congress than Senator l\IAsoN, and he has contributed greatly to the progre s and deYelopment of the country wlrich he loYed so well.

As a member of the congressional party I journeyed to his horne in the great city of Chicago to attend the funeral of this remarkable man, and I was surprised to ob erve that the s_treets were crowded with admiring and sympathetic friends; and while we, his colleagues, loved and admired him, there are thou·

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sands of his neighbors and friends ~ who . fee~ tllis , he~eavement more keenly, ·and upon whom the blow. has- fallen w1tlt cr,usho., ing weight.

On occasions such as this we are v).vidly reminded of· the shortness· and uncertainty of human life, and .. of the w;ords of Lincoln's favorite poem :

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be· pcoud-? Lik'e r a fast-fleeting meteor, a fast-fl;y-ing1 cloud, A! flash of the lightning, a break of the· wa_ve, He passed from life to his• rest in the gt-ave. The leav.es of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and tngether be laid; .&nd· the· young and the old, and the · low and· the high Shall molder to dust' and together shall lie.

• * • So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed That withers away to let others succeed: So the multitude comes, even those we bellold, rro. rep~t every tale tbat has often_-been told.

• • • • • • • . 'Tis the wink of. an eye, 'tis the dl:aft of a ._breath, . From the blo som of health:.. to the. paleness of death, From· the gilded saloon. to the bier and the shroud : Oh, why should• the spirit of mortal be proud?

Of the many beauttfuL encomi.Urns, written and spoken of this distinguished man, the most beautiful, most touching, and· most expressive was tlla of his. pensonal friend and devoted' admirer, David C. Bangs, of Oak Park, m,, as follows:

A TRIBUTE TO LOVABLE "BILLY" 1\IASON.

In poverty and: affluence, in sturm and sunshine1 in joy and sorrow-, he was the same unaffect-ed; simple-hearted man, IIis t life ran like. a 1 thread of gold through 40 years of remarkable political history.

lie assumed nothing but- duty ·; he pretended to nothing but integrity; boasted of. nothing but the deeds· of~ tb.ose, w.bo love Olll' country, and our- flag.

" ative and to the, mannel' bern;" polished, natural, void of affecta-­tion, be aped ' no foreign , styles, dfficar.ded all the tinsels of life, newer nresumeQ . anything upon the bigb positions, to which the people had elevated him;. was ever accessible to all and continued - throughout hi.a· wonderful career the same transparent childish simplicity. that· char ... acterized him, when1 a · littile lad 6 years old, .he began• his public career-

sin~~n~o~~A~~!1b~~'ri1Ttul ill art and nature. He loved the flowers, the. trees, the" running- br-oolxs-all things beautiful, pure, and good"'-but'­most of all, he• loved the. little childJ:enL I • ha-ve · se-en him, break . away frm;n pressing lt'lgislative, duties, , walk through . the corridors of the Capitol clasping tlle hand of a little boy, the child ot a poor widow, intent upon getting him a position. This was only one ot·· many similar­deeds that crowded into . his. bus.y life, It was, ever. a joy to him just to he kind,, just to be good to alL

He, was a Cl'USader. for rigbteGH&Dess. His armor and his lance were in the thick of every battle against oppression; an inirepid fighter for ; liberty, in any form, in any, worthy. caus.c, for a , nation• or an individual.

"This bra:ve and . tend6I' man, in. every · storm of . life, was oak and rock,_ hut ,in the sunsh.ine he-was . vine· and.. flower."

In material goous he was. poor. In intellectual gifts and • rugged hun­estr, in deeds of loving kindne s, he. was . rich. He knew the joy of. givmg-tbe· magic of kind deeds, His " love w.as- as b-oundleSS:· as . the sea " ; the mor.e he gave· the more· he had.

" The • morning sun shone with softened luster• on• his · closing,_ eyes. Us evening beams , played ligbtly on his brow1 calm in· the , dignity of . death, His passing. was as gentle as an inrant's sleep· *" *' *·· a , long, lingering twilight, melting into t the· softest shade. He- is indi.s,­solubly contained• in. the memory and affections of hiS: conntrymen. The weary head reposes now ugon tb.e lap of· l\:lother- Earth. Tbe1 stranger guest no longer lingers at . his hospitable home. Ile is- not . there; be whose classical ta.s.te and various conver atio.n . lent a charm to every leisure hour ; whose bland man11ers· and social. simplicity made every welcome doublY dear ; w-hose- political sagacity read the fate and interests of nations as with a second sight, and -scented the first breath o! t:vranny in the passing gale, whose love of liberty was inflexible, universal, supreme; whose devotion to his country never faltered . in the worst and never wearied in. the best · of/ times." •

Once he wrote a little book-" ·John1 the Unafraid." Unconsciously he portrayed himself.~lovable "BILLY ' l\!~SON.

Upon the grave of " John, the Unafroid," we place the gerfumed flowers of· gratitude and love.

Tears suffuse our eyes. Speech can not contain the depth of grief­that surges o'er our saddened hearts.

·~John the· Unafraid;" thou art no more. We shall not see thy smiling face again ; nor note thy ~entle mien, the joyous twinkle of thine eyes, bear the cadence of1 that-kindly.· voice; nor e'er again behold and love the(' in the living pulsin~ flesh. .

Gentle, noble, generous, kindly genius, . " John, the Unafraid.'' Thou wert indeed a mnn._ " We sbaU not look upon his like again."

"His last breatb committed· his soul to God and liis_offspriug to his ~Juntry." .

" Calmly he looked on either life, and here· saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; .

From nature's te.mp'rate feast rose satisfy'd, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that ·he died/'. "God's finger touched him • and he slept•"

Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker-, "the· survival of• the fittest" pre­supposes the existence of the unfit. Whenever the.unfit have been given a chance it has proven many times that they in turn survive.

In plant life is it true, as everywhere else; that the fittest survive. The stTo-nge t· take ftom the soil the sustenance that means life to the. weak and' the wea.k perisb. But if"the frail plant be given tender (lare, supplied · by, some outsidet agency with the sou.r:ces. at. growth, anfulife~ it. pushes- up in.. 1·enewed strength and unfolds into vigorous maturity.

3679 So it is with human. beings. Some are doomed to be disr.e­

g!i:tde~ set aside-,, dwarfed, trod~en under the heel of th& stronger., op_l1ressed. Too often these unfortunate ones , reach imploring. hands- irr vain to some one higher up, who, if he so willed could not only ·lend them hope and. courage but such substaP-tial aid as- would enable them to take their place at last among the :fittest of- the· eartlh

Do we really find many, when the tn1th is all told, who have that love for ·their fellow man, that pity for struggling, yearning humanity that makes them so sensitive to the cry of despair that they can .not, that they do not, turn asi-de with de.a:f ears? Do 'we, find many who devote the· very best ther-e· is in them­to the aid· and the uplifting_ of these unhappy ones?

The man whom we eulogize to-day was such a man. No wor­thy one appealed _ to him in vain. If it w.as-. humanly.- within· tl1a power of Mr. 1\.I.A_soN to help where help was. n.eeded, he gave­the best he had in the championship -of their cause.· Whether a nation or an individual, mattered · not to him. The· humblest petitioner. reached his big. heart just as- appealingly as the greatest. He was absolute-ly unafraid. of censure and blame. if thro'ugh his influence happiness might come into · the life of some despairing. soul.

He was a fearless thinker, a:n.d he had enemies, . as -what fear­less think-er has not. He never hesitated for what· he consid­ered right and j1:st. It would scarcely be the hope· of. a.. g;t·eat" man to live his life without bitter adversaries. Political recog;-. nition and. aggran_dizement were dear to -him as to. every- maD.> in. public life, but. he fearlessly jeopardized~ his seat among_ the-ruler.s to lend his aid. to the defenseless. _

If there. ev~ was a more effective and convincing snea;ker.. than BILL.Y llisoN I never hea.rd.hillh Eve.ryone:·who knew:lli.rw was familiar with his delightful humox-; wit, and, his..: unfailing: cheer.

But the outstanding characteristic a-bout Mr. MASON; wa-s hiS• tenderness, his- gentleness, artd his. love- for ·· his fa,milY. : and for his friends. It w.as impossible to come in conta<!t. with. hinlt without feeling- the warmth of his friendship. He brougl1t out the vexy best side · of everyone- he- -met. To my,, mind that. is1 oM · 6f the essentials . to greatness- of. character: His, buoyant/ spirit dominated; every gathering of which he was a na.rt.

We called him. '' BILLY " l'rLA.soN•. That was- 0:ur response to his tenderneNs. It did not detract from the dignity of,,his great> soul. It- expr.essed the love · with w.hich we wa-lked beside him a little while.

One Sunday evening .not long before he died ha sang:in·a ,clear,­appealing voice some of: the old famiiiar songs. we all love. It-. was a revelation to those who .had-· never heard him sing.

My office being across the c.on-idor~ from the one occupied by Mr. MAsoN. furnishes- opportunity for knowledge~ of._ many, little instances . of his lillldness to people. Just the . othen. day; a;, ool­ored boy came into my office · with· pitiful distress inr hi&. V'<>ice-J and manner because the man .. who -had bef:rien<led:.hinLwas gone. Life seemed hopeless and empty to the lad without the enoour-. agement and help of his old- friend.

I remember with great pleasure the almost daily chats I had with Mr. l\l'AsoN in the mornings before ot.Iit;e· hom·s: He was usually. at his ot.Iice early, and- lie · was alwa;vs concerned ·fot• · some one--whom he was helping; It-was his life.

We of Illinojs have always known BIL"LY l\fA.soN. He:honored · us · in· his- life, and we honored him Uving, aod- we honor- him dead.

He has gone where--Only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame ; And no one shall work for mo.ney; and · no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are.

1\ir. KING. :Mr. Speaker, I desire to submit herewith the tribute of.• Hon, _ Ernest Lundeen,. formerly- a Member of Con­gress from Minnesota, to the memory of Hon. -WILLIAM E. M~SON.

The remarks are as follows: We who remain remember the Senator. We can not forget our bril­

liant leader of the W.orl-d . War. days. He. spoke the· eloquence of truth. Hls courage inspired, Time after time he took the floor, to battle do:wn ' the foes of our- beloved America; bat ·while ruany applauded,. tear dimmed , and ; convinced, their votes • went elsewhere.- It ·'O-ur beys-- died • in frozen Rus:si-a, . MASON· rom• to · demand their · immedfate• n~tm:n " to • homelan.d. If conscription for foreign ser;v,ice periled; he.. voted. and.. spo.ke a .rllightY' no. If' European entang],emerrts tnreatened, he r6se to. denounce war tn,se.ttle. the real estate title. to · Ew·ope. If libertyJ and• independe-nce---of speech and assembly were threatened, then he rose a champion. .And; so it went aU through those difficult, awfuL days, Y•c-.tr before •that• be was on the firing line ever faithful to. his trust. He battled - to the last, arubwh&e did he fail? - Was-•he not· a_. mighty warrim~ ? · The Halls of Congress still ring with his wonder speeches. Little men co.uld! not understand--small m-en could_not- see-; but he· un:de.rsto.od and l he ..smv. He understood' th-e .Aml'ri:ean people, aud Ire saw to it ·that thei,r inter­~s_ts were protected by his voice and vote. I owe him much more than

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I can t ell. He was a fa t her to me in Congress. I loved him, and I wish to leave these few words to voice something from my heart.

We need more Sena tor 1\fAso~s-big hearted, courageou~ lion hearted, broad minded, lover of the America o! Washington and Lincoln.

The t raditions under which our country prospered and gt·ew great, the foreign policy of Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe, dear to his bca t·t, he t·ose da ily to defend. Cheerful, el()quent. tireless, big hearted, brainy BILLY 1\IAs ox. I love his memot·y, and I commend his speeches and his works to t he ca reful s tudy and meditation of my countt·ymen for he fought the fight of a good man.

ERNEST LUNDEEN, Forrner .lfembe1· Sia:ty-fifth Congress.

1\Ir. SABATH. Mr. Speaker, we meet to-day to pay tribute to our departed colleague, WILLIAAI E. MASON, whom I knew intimately and well for over 30 years.

BILLY 1\IAsoN, as he was popularly known among his friends, was a kindly, generous, and courageous man, never hesitating to do what he believed was right. His life has been filled to the brim with deeds and acts that have endeared him to the hearts of all cia ses and creeds. His helping hand and sympathy were evei' for the weal' and oppressed, and his record in this House as a champion for the independence and freedom of. small nations \Yill ever serve as a monument to his sincere, earnest, and untiring efforts to. those liverty-loving peoples that sought to throw off the shackles of tyranny and oppression.

During his service on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and especially during the last two se sions in which he served, no member of that committee worked more zealously and conscien­tiously to enact reconstructive legislation than he. No one except a member of that committee can realize or appreciate bis courageous and valient fight for the adoption of the Irish resolution. He lead the fight of his party on this measure and, though orne· of the members of the majority were opposed to the purpo e of the resolution, party lines were swept aside and with the cooperation of oome• of the minority the resolution was reported to the House and passed. This was practically BILLY l\fA ON'S la t legislative action in behalf of oppressed peoples. Shortly thereafter he was taken ill. He recovered sufficiently to attend the essions of the House and then came a relapse. He was removed to hi hotel, in the shadow o:t the Capitol, and after a lingering illne s on the 16th of June, 1921, he passed to the great beyond. Five months after his passing away came tbe partial fulfillment of what he advocated-the preliminary steps to the creation of the Irish Free State.

No greater tribute to a man was paid by the citizenry of Chicago than when the cong1·essional funeral delegation arrived with the body of our colleague. A vast multitude lined the street , with bent and bared heads, in heartfelt sympathy and feeling, in the realization that they had lost a friend.

I pay this tribute to BILLY 1\IASON by reason of the fact that he stood close at all times to the people, and was in deed and truth a true repre entative of tho e who intrusted him with their commission. He erved them, his State, and his country well; a life full spent, with duty done, he has earned his rest of sweet repose.

ADJOURNMENT.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. If no other 1\Iember desires to address the House, the exercises of the day are concluded, and in accordance with the resolutions heretofore pas ed, tbe House stands adjourned until 12 o'clock noon to-morrow.

Accordingly (at 3 o'clo~k and 4 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until Monday, February 27, 1922, at 12 o'clock noon.

SENATE.

1\:loNDAY, February ~7, 19~B.

(Legislative day of Thu.rsday, February f!3, 1922.)

The Senate met at 12 o'clock meridian, on the expiration of the recess.

TREATY WITH JAPAN. The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole and in open execu­

tive session, resumed the consideration of the treaty between the United States and Japan with regard to the rights of the two Governments and. their respective nationals in the foqner German islands in the Pacific Ocean lying north of the Equator, in particular the island of Yap, signed at Washington on Febru­ary 11, 1922. ·

l\fr. UNDERWOOD obtained the floor. l\!r. HARRISON; Mr. ~resident, I suggest the absence of a

quorum. ·The VICE PRESIDENT. The Secretary will call the roll.

The reading cle:tJ_c called the roll, and the following Senators answered to their names: Ashurst Gerry McKinley Borah Glass McNary Brandegee Gooding Moses Broussard Hale Nelson Bursum Harreld New Cameron Harris Newberry Capper Harrison Nicholson Caraway Bettin Norbeck Colt Johnson · Norris Culberson Jones, Wash. Oddie • Cummins Kellogg Overman Curtis Kendrick Page Edge Keyes Pepper El'Dst Ladd Phipps Fernald Lenroot Pittman Fletcher Lodge Poindexter France McCormick Pomerene Frelinghuysen M~Kellar Ransdell

Rawson Robinson Sheppard Shields Simmons Smith Spencer Swanson Townsend Trammell Underwood Wadswot'th Warren Watson, Ga. Weller Willis

Mr. CURTIS. I was requested to announce that the Senator from North Daliota [1\Ir. McCuMBER], the Senator from Utah [Mr. SMoOT], the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. McLEAN], the Senator from V.ermont [1\Ir. DILLINGHAM], the Senator from Indiana [Mr. W ATso "'], and the Sen a tor from West Virginia [Mr. SuTHERLAND] are detained at a heat·ing before the Com­mittee on Finance.

The VICE PRESIDENT. Seventy Senators having answered to their names, a quorum is present.

Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. President, I understand the Sena­tor from 1\Iaine [Mr. FERNALD] de ires to have something in­serted in the RECORD. I yield to him for that purpose.

BIRTHDAY OF HE RY W. LONGFELLOW. Mr. FERNALD. Mr. President, two of the greatest Ameri·

cans who ever lived were born in the month of February. We have already observed and paid tribute to one in the Chamber, and in thousands of places all over the country we paid tribute to the other. .A. third was born 115 years ago to:day, one of the most beloved poets in America. I ask that a letter written by the president of the International Longfellow Society, of Portland, 1\Ie., and a poem written by Longfellow, known as The Arsenal at Springfield, be printed in the RECORD.

There being no objection, the letter and the poem were or­dered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

THB INTERNATIONAL LONGFELLOW SOCUlTY, LONGFIIlLLOW BIRTHPLACB,

Portland, Me., Febt·uary 22, 19!!. Hon . BERT M. FERNALD,

United States Senate, Washington, D. 0. DEAR Sl!lNATOR FER 'ALD: Three of the greatest Americans were born

in February. Washington and Lincoln have been honored this month in a thousand places. February 27 is the anniversary of the birth of the world's best-loved poet, our own Longfellow.

The noble olu mansion in which he was born has been dedicated with impressive ceremony by the governor of l\Iaine and a distin­guished assembly as an international Longfellow memorial. It is being preserved fo1· this and future geaerations by the International Lon?:­fellow Society with the assistance of more than a thousand women s clubs representing every State in the Union.

The Longfellow University has been founded for the promotion of world peace, Christian civilization, and brotherhood insph·ed by the splendid philosophy of the poet in The Arsenal at Springfield :

"were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,

Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts."

And the divine command: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." No nobler peace J>Oem was ever written than The Arsenal at Spring­

field . What could now be more appropriate that~ the reading of it into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on the poet's birthday, February 27, and also the printing in the RzcORD the Longfellow University Bible Col­lege invitation to join the college, without fees or dues of any kind, anyone, anywhere, regardless of age, sex, rl}.ce, or religion.

Sincerely, yours, ARTHUR C. JACitSON, President.

THE ARSE . AL AT SPRINGFIELD. (LQngfellow.)

This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;

But from their silent pipes no anthem pealing Startles the villages with strange alarms.

Ah! what a sound will rise, how wild and dreary, When the death angel touches those swift keys!

What loud lament and dismal Mi erere Will mingle with their awful symphonies!

I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus, 'Ihe cries of agony, the endless groan,

Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In'" long reverberations reach out· own.

On helm and harness rings the Saxon hammer, Through_ Cimbt"ic forest roars the Norseman's song,

And loud, amid the universal clamor, O'tr distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.

I bear the Florentine, who from his palace Wheels out his battle bell with dreadful din,

And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war drums made of serpent's skin: