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WILLIAM JOEL STONE 
 
 (Late a Senator from Missouri) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 
 
 AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 February 2, 1919 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February 2, 1919 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 1919 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop of 
 
 San Francisco 5 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Selden P. Spencer, of Missouri 11 
 
 Mr. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, of Nebraska 17 
 
 Mr. Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware 20 
 
 Mr. John W. Weeks, of Massachusetts 23 
 
 Mr. William H. King, of Utah. 27 
 
 Mr. Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida 41 
 
 Mr. Henry L. Myers, of Montana 46 
 
 Mr. Hoke Smith, of Georgia 50 
 
 Mr. John H. Bankhead, of Alabama 54 
 
 Mr. Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado 57 
 
 Mr. Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma G4 
 
 Mr. James A. Reed, of Missouri 69 
 
 Proceedings in the House 101 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 101 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri- _ 107 
 
 Mr. Joshua W. Alexander, of Missouri 117 
 
 Mr. Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma 124 
 
 Mr. Clement C. Dickinson, of Missouri 126 
 
 Mr. Leonidas C. Dyer, of Missouri 132 
 
 Mr. Charles F. Boohcr, of Missouri 134 
 
 Mr. Courtney W. Hamlin, of Missouri 141 
 
 Mr. Walter L. Henslcy, of Missouri 146 
 
 Mr. Thomas L. Rubcy, of Missouri 149 
 
 Mr. William L. Igoe, of Missouri.. _ 156 
 
 Mr. Harold Knutson, of Minnesota 158 
 
 Mr. Perl D. Decker, of Missouri 160 
 
 Mr. Milton A. Rom jue, of Missouri 164 
 
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DEATH OF HON. WILLIAM JOEL STONE 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate. 
 
 Monday, April 15, 1918. 
 Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop of San Fran- 
 cisco, offered the following prayer: 
 
 God of our fathers, in whose hands are the lives of 
 men and in whose power is the destiny of the Nation, look 
 down upon Thy children gathered here in Thy name. In 
 the way of Thy love Thou hast again visited this body and 
 taken from it one whose power was our glory. Make us 
 recognize that with Thee arc the issues of life and death. 
 Make us submissive to the decree of Thy divine provi- 
 dence. Thou alone can bring strength to those who 
 mourn. Thou alone can bring peace to hearts oppressed 
 by grief and pain. O grant that his loved ones may find 
 strength in Thee to bear their loss. Grant that his loved 
 ones may through their tears look up to Thee as the only 
 source of joy and consolation. 
 
 Chosen representatives of a mighty people, we come to 
 Thee in the most crucial day in the history of our civiliza- 
 tion. give us light that we may see Thy way among the 
 nations. Give us strength that we may follow the light 
 whithersoever it may be. Make our laws reflect Thy di- 
 vine wisdom and may they direct the issues of the world 
 unto Thy greater glory. 
 
 Give strength unto our President and to those in whose 
 hands are the affairs of our mighty people. We pray 
 above all things that they may have strength and power 
 to endure and to fight to the end. Give strength to our 
 men who in fields afar battle for our rights. Give strength 
 
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 to their arms that they may win victory and that through 
 victory there may come peace. And grant, O Lord, that 
 in the days of peace we may grow in power unto right- 
 eousness and unto the glory of Thy holy name. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Reed. Mr. President, Senator Stone died on yester- 
 day, at 1.30 o'clock in the afternoon. His funeral services 
 will occur at the family residence at 4 o'clock this after- 
 noon. Mis body will be borne to the capital of his State, 
 arriving there on Tuesday morning. It will lie in state 
 in the capitol building a part of Tuesday. It will then be 
 conveyed to Nevada, Mo., for interment amidst those sur- 
 roundings where he began his illustrious career. 
 
 In a few days more he would have arrived at the allotted 
 threescore years and ten. Over half of that long period 
 he had devoted to the public service. He now returns to 
 his State the badge of his office, upon which there is 
 neither blot nor stain. Dishonor never laid its touch upon 
 the life of William Joel Stone. It may of him he justly 
 said that all his mature life was devoted to his country. 
 Possessing those great abilities which would have enabled 
 him to achieve eminence in any position of life and to 
 have acquired fortune, he chose to devote his talents to 
 tin- public welfare and to lead a life devoid of luxury and 
 to die without even a competency. 
 
 His love of country was so passionate as to be beyond 
 the understanding of many men. His loyalty was so 
 exalted that he was not always understood, for all could 
 not rise to the sublime devotion which inspired his soul. 
 I knew Senator STONE better than any man outside his 
 immediate blood kin. I knew him so well that I am sure 
 I knew his great soul — the soul of this great Missourian 
 and greal American. 
 
 Knowing him in this Ultimate way, I may be permitted 
 U> say that during the last three weeks constant news from 
 
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 the battle fields of France telling the story of how our 
 lines were being pushed back by German hordes fell 
 upon his heart with a crushing force. Of all the men I 
 have known there is not one who seemed to me to feel so 
 much the weight of anxiety for our cause, upon whose 
 lips there was so passionate a prayer for victory for the 
 arms of our allies and of our own soldiers. I use no 
 extravagance of speech when I declare that could we 
 restore to him the life that has passed out and bring liiin 
 here among us clothed in health and flesh lie would gladly 
 give his life again if thereby he could serve his country's 
 cause and bring to it a great and victorious peace. 
 
 At such a time as this and in the days that arc to come, 
 when the wounds of a bleeding world must be bound up, 
 the Senate can ill afford, his State can ill afford, his 
 country can ill afford, the world can ill afTord his absence. 
 
 Mr. President, I offer the following resolutions and ask 
 for their immediate consideration. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 225) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate lias heard witli deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of Hon. William Joel Stone, late a 
 Senator from the State of Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators he appointed hy the 
 Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of 
 Mr. Stone, which will take place at 1 o'clock post meridian t" day 
 at his late residence in this city. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
 removed from his late home in this city to Nevada, Mo., fur hurial, 
 in charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended hy the committee, 
 which shall have full power to carry these resolutions into effect 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
 resolutions to the House of Repicsentativrs. 
 
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 The Vice President appointed, under the second resolu- 
 tion, as the committee on the part of the Senate Mr. Reed, 
 Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Smith of Arizona, Mr. Pittnian, Mr. 
 Jones of New Mexico, Mr. King, Mr. Kendrick, Mr. Gal- 
 linger, Mr. Smoot, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Sutherland, and Mr. 
 Fernald. 
 
 Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I suhmit the following resolu- 
 tion and ask for its adoption. 
 
 The Vice President. It will he read. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 liesolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to; and (at 12 
 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Tuesday, April 1G, 1918, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
 Wednesday, January 15, 1919. 
 
 Mr. Reed. I ask unanimous consent to have an order 
 made by the Senate at this lime to fix a date for memorial 
 addresses on the late Senator WlLLIAM J. Stone. 
 
 The order was read and agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Ordered, That the Senate convene on Sunday, February 2, 1919, 
 at 11 o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemoration of 
 the life, character, and public service of the late Senator William 
 Jobl Stone. 
 
 Mr. Beckham. On January 2 an order was entered fixing 
 February 9 as the dale for memorial addresses on the late 
 Senator James. Owing to a conflict in dates, I ask that the 
 order be changed to February 2 instead of February 9. 
 
 The Vice President. Without objection, it is so ordered. 
 The Chair hears none. 
 
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 Sunday, February .', 1919. 
 
 (Legislative day of Friday, January 31, 1919.) 
 
 The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. in., on the expiration of 
 the recess. 
 
 Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I present the following resolu- 
 tions and ask for their adoption. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 433) were read, considered hy 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved. That the Senate assembles as a mark of respect to 
 the memory of Hon. William Joel Stone, late a Senator from 
 the State of Missouri, in pursuance of an order heretofore made, 
 to enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his high char- 
 acter and distinguished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate again expresses its profound sorrow 
 at the death of the late Senator from Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That tiie Secretary transmit a copy of these resolu- 
 tions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Mr. Reed. Mr. President, I desire at this point to yield 
 the floor to my colleague [Mr. Spencer]. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Spencer, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. President: In the infallible record of the Holy 
 Scriptures it is written: "There are three things that are 
 never satisfied— yea, four things say not, It is enough." 
 The first of these is the grave, always demanding, con- 
 stantly receiving, ever insatiable. 
 
 Again its awful power has been felt in this Chamber 
 and ruthlessly it has summoned from service and associa- 
 tion and cooperation William Joel Stone. 
 
 In the sad hush of death and in the calm reflection that 
 follows thereafter many things are forgotten which per- 
 haps ought never to have been remembered and many 
 things are remembered which certainly ought never to 
 have been forgotten. 
 
 After death the big things, commendable and worthy 
 of emulation, in the character and speech and action of 
 him who is gone appear like gold from the refiner's fire, 
 and the dross of human imperfections, so common to us 
 all, becomes alike valueless and discarded. 
 
 Great in mind, great in speech, great in accomplish- 
 ment, as was the distinguished Senator from Missouri in 
 whose memory we are this day assembled, he was con- 
 spicuously great in his loyalty and fidelity to his friends. 
 
 Ingratitude in public life is doubly regrettable and des- 
 picable. The small man when he finds himself in the 
 possession of the place or the power for which he craved 
 is apt to forget the help and self-sacrifice and encourage- 
 ment of those by whose efforts his ambitions were grati- 
 fied, and he yields easily to the suggestion of indifference 
 or neglect in anything that concerns their interests and 
 does not directly advance his own. 
 
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 No one ever accused Senator Stone of either disloyalty 
 to his friends, personal or political, or of indifference to 
 the things in which they were interested. He was a friend, 
 tried and true, faithful and loyal, and in every county of 
 Missouri there are multitudes of those who have followed 
 his political career in the county, in the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, as governor of his State, and as a Member of 
 this body, and who constantly believed in him, trusted 
 him, loved him, and revere his memory. 
 
 One of the repeated events of the political campaign 
 last fall which I shall always remember was the loving 
 devotion of this great number of people, most of them 
 well advanced in years, who could not speak of Senator 
 Stone without a tear, and whose affection and admiration, 
 which represented the accumulated growth of a genera- 
 tion, nothing could either shake or destroy. He was the 
 dominating power in the councils of his party for 30 
 years. When danger threatened, when differences of 
 opinion became acute, it was to bis wise counsel and 
 unquestioned party loyalty that all factions turned in 
 confident willingness to abide by his decision, certain 
 alike of its fairness and its wisdom. 
 
 He had the courage of his convictions. He won his 
 political battles even when the odds seemed largely 
 against him. He was one of the great men of his party 
 in his State and in the Nation. 
 
 The eloquent words which he himself used in his great 
 eulogy of Hon. James N. Burncs, of Missouri, in the House 
 of Representatives 30 years ago this month, may with 
 fitting propriety and with peculiar appropriateness be 
 used of Senator Stone: 
 
 Ik- had Iron in his blood. He was a dangerous man to wrong. 
 He knew how to remember, how to resent, how to revenge. A 
 fallen foe or a repentant one he was ready always to forgive. 
 
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 Accessible at all times to honorable reconciliation, an open roe 
 did well to guard with caution and watch with apprehension. 
 He was fruitful of resource, adroit in attack, masterful in de- 
 fense, relentless in pursuit. His enemies, whether those who 
 had done him a positive wrong or those who had stood as ob- 
 stacles in the way of his great purposes, had never any reason 
 to doubt that sooner or later an opportunity would come In test 
 his mettle. He fought as occasion required, but honorably. Some 
 who stood against him, in their most promising periods of ap- 
 parent safety, have suddenly felt their foundations sinking and 
 seen the fabric of their strength falling about them without com- 
 prehending the cause of disaster. Others he has confronted and 
 sprung upon with the roar and crush of a lion, impatient of re- 
 straint, and swept them away at once. While his enemy stood 
 upon his feet to strike and defy, he had in his blood the merci- 
 less instinct of battle and in his brain the inspiration of the 
 warrior. But when the sun went down upon a battle finished 
 there came back to his heart the gentleness of a woman and a 
 longing to forgive and be forgiven. 
 
 As an orator Senator Stone was magnetic, forceful, elo- 
 quent in diction and in manner, thrilled and thrilling in 
 the earnestness with which he felt and proclaimed his 
 sentiments. Personal gain had for him neither temptation 
 nor attraction. The best years of his life he gave to the 
 service of those whom he represented. Efficient and 
 painstaking, alert and resourceful, sympathetic and in- 
 telligent, he was ever engaged in the duties of his public 
 life and had neither the ability nor the time to acquire 
 anything for himself. He died a poor man in the things 
 of this world. 
 
 Sorrow and joy are mingled together in this memorial 
 service. Sorrow because of the vacant place, the van- 
 ished touch, the silent tongue, the lost companionship; joy 
 in the contemplation of the great things and good things 
 which abound in his long life of great public importance. 
 We bow our heads in sorrow, but in the very midst of 
 grief there springs up with ever-increasing frequency both 
 
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 gratitude and love for the good things that abide and for- 
 getfulness of the mistakes and errors that are forgotten. 
 The things that have heen wrongly done and the failures 
 which are incident to human life let us write them in the 
 dew of the morning that the rising sun may destroy for- 
 ever the record. The things in which we rejoice and which 
 we emulate let us carve upon marble that they may with 
 the increasing years survive forever. 
 
 If a man die, shall he live again? 
 
 It is the agonizing question in the hearts of those who 
 remain. It is the problem that demands solution by every 
 open grave. It is the unspoken thought of every mind. 
 
 Of the life beyond the grave Senator Stone had no 
 doubt. Years ago he said : 
 
 This I do know, that there is in me, as in you, a feeling which is 
 independent of mere desire, a strange consciousness that is not 
 connected with any sense of fear or hope, that there is some- 
 thing in us that is not " of the earth earthy "; that is not of this 
 mortality, mortal. I take hold of this. 
 
 In the last hours of his life he sent a message to Sims, 
 the veteran barber of the Senate, whose love for the Word 
 of God and its teaching is known to many Senators upon 
 this floor and from whom Senator Stone had more than 
 once heard the simple story of the cross. He died on the 
 very day when he had expected to again hear this aged 
 negro preach, and the message which he sent is character- 
 istic of what was running in his mind at the last, " Tell 
 Sims to continue to preach the gospel." 
 
 Other things assume their proper place of insignifi- 
 cance in the shadow of eternity. Pomp and power and 
 wealth and strength are empty baubles when death comes 
 into view. It is so compellingly invincible. Its very 
 silence speaks infallibly of its overwhelming power. 
 Whether it comes without expectation or in the course of 
 
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Address of Mk. SPENCER, of Missoi lti 
 
 waiting, it is alike the manifestation of the absolute help- 
 lessness of man and of the power of God. 
 
 Once after traveling for hours over the plains and look- 
 ing upon the distant hills and valleys and admiring now 
 more and now less the changing scenes of ordinary things 
 ahout me I came, almost without warning, to the very 
 hrink of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado that stretched 
 out as far as the eye could see in a continued picture of 
 indescrihahle grandeur. 
 
 Mountains of varied colors were piled upon mountains 
 of changing hues, and in spite of their mammoth size 
 seemed almost lost hecause of the far greater immensity 
 of the gulf in which they lay — a gulf which the ceaseless 
 river, looking like a slender hand of silver at the distant 
 hottom of the canyon, had cut through the centuries out 
 of rock and earth. 
 
 I gasped for hreath at the wonder of it. Man was im- 
 potent either to create it or to imitate it or to prevent it 
 It was like the rising of the sun by day or the queenly 
 luster of the moon by night — the mighty work of Omnipo- 
 tent God. 
 
 So in this hour we stand in solemn awe before death, 
 impotent to delay or prevent. Kings and paupers are 
 alike subject to its imperial decree. It is God at such a 
 time with whom we have to do. He who " hath measured 
 the waters in the hollow of His hand and meted out 
 Heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the 
 earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales 
 and the hills in a balance." 
 
 Money and rank and earthly achievement, like the froth 
 of the boiling cauldron which for the moment is most 
 conspicuous, soon disappears and fades away. The en- 
 during things— fidelity, loyalty, sympathy, integrity, 
 bravery, gentleness — arc the characteristics that abide, 
 and above them all that simple faith which, like a little 
 
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 child, accepts the tilings which God has promised and 
 the words which He has spoken. 
 
 I never stand above a bier and see 
 
 The seal of death on some well-loved face 
 
 But that I think one more to welcome me 
 
 When I shall cross the intervening space 
 
 Between this land and that one over there; 
 
 One more to make the strange beyond seem fair. 
 
 And so for me there nothing is in death, 
 
 And so the grave has lost its victory; 
 
 It is but crossing with abated breath 
 
 And white set face a little strip of sea, 
 
 To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, 
 
 More beautiful, more precious than before. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hitchcock, of Nedraska 
 
 Mr. President: We have gathered here to-day in mem- 
 ory of one who was in public life, with certain inter- 
 missions, for nearly 45 years, a record of puhlic service 
 and personal sacrifice rarely equaled even in the United 
 States. 
 
 William Joel Stone had the force of character, ability, 
 and education which equipped him for great success and 
 a prosperous career in his chosen profession. Had he 
 followed that profession he would have attained all the 
 luxuries and indulgences which success in it hrings. Yet 
 he listened to the call of public service and at the age of 
 24 years took up the burdens of public life, which he 
 carried, with few intermissions, until the age of 70, when 
 he died in harness. 
 
 I have coupled witli this public service a suggestion of 
 personal sacrifice, and that was characteristic preemi- 
 nently of this great Senator from Missouri, for practically 
 all his life he lived, as he died, a poor man, content with 
 the rather meager salaries which attach to public office. 
 There was a quiet dignity, as well as a suggestion of 
 pathos, in Senator Stone's attitude toward the world in 
 which he labored so long, so ably, and so patiently for 
 such modest recompense, when he might, like others of 
 his ability, have commanded so much. I feel justified, 
 therefore, in speaking of him as one who made a personal 
 sacrifice in serving the public. 
 
 Mr. President, before a man reaches the Senate of the 
 United States he has as a rule gone through a number of 
 severe struggles which have on more than one occasion 
 tried his mettle. I doubt, however, whether any Member 
 of this body ever passed through a more tempestuous 
 career of political struggle in his own State man <li<i 
 
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 Sena lor Stone. He not only went through those struggles 
 for himself but he went through those struggles for his 
 party, to which he was deeply attached, and he went 
 through them for his friends, for whom he was ready to 
 make all sacrifices. He was a seasoned veteran when he 
 came here. 
 
 He delighted in combat. He combined a wonderful 
 degree of courage with a very unusual sagacity, and at 
 all times he exhibited that fidelity to his convictions and 
 to his friends to which the Senator from Missouri [Mr. 
 Spencer] has already referred. In all these contests he 
 showed himself to be a foe to be feared and a friend to be 
 trusted. 
 
 When he entered the broader field of national politics 
 he took naturally and of right a high position of leader- 
 ship. I remember particularly in the great Bryan cam- 
 paigns, which began with the mighty revolutionary con- 
 test of 1896, William Joel Stone was one of the few old 
 honored leaders who did not desert the standard of his 
 party but who came forward with all his resources to 
 carry out the party decree that had been rendered at 
 the Chicago convention. Later, when his party was tri- 
 umphant and Wilson was elected President of the United 
 States with a Democratic Congress, Senator Stone gave 
 to the great constructive measures which distinguished 
 particularly the first term of President Wilson all (In- 
 ability and all the energy and all the enthusiasm which 
 he possessed. He struggled to bring about that party 
 solidarity and party discipline which were absolutely 
 necessary to carry these great national measures into 
 effect. 
 
 Senator STONE had been a tower of strength in the days 
 of struggling Democracy, and he became one of the active 
 forces which made effective the great measures that were 
 undertaken. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hitchcock, of NEBRASKA 
 
 Mr. President, let us not forget to consider the great, 
 final sacrifice of Senator Stone's life. I have said he lived 
 a life of public service and sacrifice. I fully believe thai 
 in the decision he reached, under which he felt compelled 
 to separate himself from the dominant will of the country, 
 under which he felt compelled to vote against the war 
 which the country had decided on, he made that final 
 sacrifice which only a strong and courageous man is will- 
 ing to make in adhering to his personal convictions. I do 
 not know with whom Senator Stone consulted. I doubt 
 whether he consulted with anyone. I knew something 
 of his decision before he made it public. I endeavored 
 to dissuade him from it, but I found he was adamant in 
 his conviction that he was right. He felt that he could 
 not change his position without sacrificing his self-respect 
 and doing violence to his conscience. lie could easily 
 foresee the storm of criticism which he invited, but he 
 was willing to make that final sacrifice. He was ready to 
 bear the criticism of the world and the opprobrium which 
 enemies visited upon him; he was willing to encounter 
 all that for the sake of adhering to what he believed to be 
 right. 
 
 Senator Stone, as I have said, was a fighter. He was a 
 man who had won his way into public life by adherence 
 to his convictions and by devotion to his party. He was 
 the " stormy petrel " of politics. The greater the storm 
 the higher he rose above it. He was not willing when the 
 great crisis came to yield his convictions. lie was againsl 
 war and so recorded himself. But when the country had 
 made its decision and war was declared we all remember 
 how Senator Stone took up actively and energetically the 
 fullest and most complete support of all the measures pro- 
 posed to make that war a success. 
 
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Address op Mh. Saulsbuby, op Dblawabe 
 
 Mr. President: My acquaintance with Senator Stone 
 
 covered a period of more than 20 years. Sometimes it 
 had been of a close and intimate character, sometimes it 
 had resembled that of a casual acquaintance, but from 
 the beginning of the period until Senator Stone's death I 
 admired him for his courage, for his ability and fearless- 
 ness, for his disregard personally of the character of the 
 opposition he aroused or encountered. I believe he as 
 unhesitatingly expressed his views, his likes and dislikes, 
 as any man I ever knew. 
 
 A good many of us recall how once a presidential candi- 
 date of our party characterized the section of the country 
 from which I come as " the enemy's country." We all 
 probably remember the scream of opposition and antag- 
 onism in the public press when that expression was used. 
 A political campaign had to be conducted in my section 
 of the country as well as elsewhere, and William J. Stone 
 was asked to take charge of and manage that Democratic 
 campaign. He knew as well as any man what effort was 
 involved, how unfriendly for the most part would be the 
 attitude of the potential forces, and yet, as a duty he felt 
 he owed to his party and his country, he accepted the 
 work and conducted that campaign so far as it could be 
 conducted in a masterly manner, taking advantage of 
 every opportunity to further the interests of his party and 
 its then candidate will) great tact and consummate skill. 
 Apologizing to none, currying favor nowhere, but main- 
 taining the integrity of the principles of his parly in the 
 
 contesl in every way, he overlooked no opportunity of 
 
 which a brilliant intellect and tireless energy could avail 
 itself. 
 
 It was a great pleasure to me to he associated with 
 Senator Stone whenever our relations were of such a 
 
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Address OF Mr. Swi.sr.i in, OF DELAWARE 
 
 character thai they could approach semi-intimacy. Il< 
 was a very charming man in his personal relations with 
 his friends, and I had the privilege of occupying thai posi- 
 tion from time to time, broken sometimes by periods of 
 absence and now and then by occasions when we bad 
 somewhat violently disagreed on public matters or on 
 questions of policy. Any man who lived with Senator 
 Stone, in my opinion, had such periods. So far as I was 
 concerned, at least, while courtesy might control him in 
 small differences, when anything approached a funda- 
 mental difference it was well to be prepared for any 
 condition of antagonism that might arise. 
 
 Senator Stone was a strong man and fought hard. 
 When he felt strongly, personal consideration and per- 
 sonal friendship did not control his thoughts, speech, in- 
 action. He was undoubtedly a wise, able, and sometimes 
 an intense advocate, and on such occasions personal con- 
 siderations and personal relations, so far as my observa- 
 tion went, had little weight with him. He was a great 
 believer in the efficacy of party regularity and party or- 
 ganization, and impatient of the actions of anyone unwill- 
 ing or unable on ordinary occasions to subordinate his 
 views to the opinions of his colleagues when those opin- 
 ions were expressed clearly by the majority, and he never 
 hesitated, so far as I know, to express to his colleagues, 
 whether of his own party or the opposition, his opinion of 
 their acts or position, and used no honeyed words to 
 soften the asperities which might be engendered. 
 
 For his own part, there were very few occasions when 
 he could not bring his own action into accord with what 
 he knew to be the considered conclusion reached by his 
 party associates. A man of this kind, Mr. President, is a 
 useful legislator. My judgment is that either branch of 
 Congress is better off the more men of this type are found 
 among its Members. Life sometimes is not so pleasant, 
 
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 personal relations are often not so agreeable, but no man 
 who respects strength and vigor and ability and the frank 
 expression of views held by his colleagues can fail to ap- 
 preciate the life and character of William Joel Stone. 
 No one despised more than he a " carpet knight " in poli- 
 tics. He was a leader of men, and led them as com- 
 mander of the fighting forces. 
 
 There have been occasions when mistakenly, as I think, 
 he assumed positions on public questions not held by a 
 majority of us. His attitude was almost invariably mis- 
 construed and commented upon in an unfriendly way by 
 many enemies, most of whom he despised; but, in my 
 opinion, no one could ever properly accuse Senator Stone 
 of being un-American or unpatriotic, for no man more 
 consistently than he, after we entered into the great war, 
 more loyally supported measures intended to strengthen 
 our country, to uphold her power, and to bring her forces 
 to efficiency and victory. 
 
 Senator Stone was a brilliant man; he was a clever 
 man; he was an eloquent man; and he gave to his country 
 the best that was in him. He has been a distinct loss to 
 this body, and those of us who knew him best, even when 
 cordial relations were sometimes interrupted, but whose 
 appreciation of him survived momentary differences, 
 know well that Senator Stone was a strong, able, con- 
 scientious American patriot, a great man, and a good 
 friend. 
 
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Address of Mr. Weeks, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: The Senate has assembled to-day to 
 honor the memory of one of our late and distinguished 
 colleagues, Senator William Joel Stone, of Missouri. 
 While I did not have the pleasure of the close personal 
 relationship with Senator Stone, either in committee asso- 
 ciation or long service enjoyed by some Senators, yel our 
 association on the floor of the Senate and in other ways 
 compelled my admiration of him and his tireless and 
 efficient attention to the duties of his office. 
 
 Missouri is one of the very great Stales of the Union — 
 important in natural resources, in its location, in its prin- 
 cipal cities, and, more than in other ways, in the character 
 of its people. When I came to the House of Representa- 
 tives in 1901, as a result of the Republican landslide of 
 that year, the political complexion of the delegation from 
 Missouri had changed to some degree. I found there, bow- 
 ever, firmly entrenched in the confidence of their constitu- 
 ents several strong Representatives, and notably among 
 the leaders in that body two men who bad even then made 
 their impress on the House of Representatives and on 
 the country— David A. De Armond, who at that time was 
 a member of the powerful Committee on Rules and one of 
 the deservedly leading debaters and Members of the 
 House, who came to an untimely end in attempting to res- 
 cue his grandson from a burning building; and the other, 
 the present Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
 Champ Clark, who, with great credit to himself and his 
 State, is completing a term of service in that position as 
 long as that great office has been held by any man in the 
 history of our Government. 
 
 Being a new Member, with a maximum of time and a 
 minimum of responsibilities, I had opportunity to study 
 
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Mi:moiu\i. Ai)i)iu:ssr.s : Sknatoh Sto.m 
 
 political conditions. Quite naturally my attention was 
 
 called to a State which retained and promoted men of 
 such ability and qualities, and my interest led me to look 
 into the past and the then present senatorial representation 
 of Missouri, only to find that the characteristics and quali- 
 ties which had caused the selection of such Members of 
 the House of Representatives had been equally evidenced 
 in the selection of Members of the Senate from the earliest 
 days of the State. Mr. Benton was an important figure in 
 a Senate led by some of the greatest men in our political 
 history, and his prominence and usefulness served as a 
 standard which has been maintained throughout the life 
 of the State down to our own time in the selection of men 
 of great capacity to represent Missouri in the Senate. 
 
 As a recent example of this custom, Missouri was rep- 
 resented in the Senate during the last years of the nine- 
 teenth century by two of the most conspicuous men who 
 have served in this body— the silver-tongued Vest and 
 that sterling militant figure, Francis Marion Cockrell, who 
 only recently ended his service in connection with the 
 National Government. 
 
 Notwithstanding the great qualities of these men and 
 others to whom I have not time to make special reference, 
 they were succeeded by one who, in my opinion, excelled 
 them all in political wisdom and leadership. Senator 
 STONE was for many years a leading figure in this body. 
 While I had never heard him speak when engaged in the 
 practice of law, he was undoubtedly a most effective ad- 
 vocate in civil life. He at least brought that quality to 
 the SenaU- and became the skillful advocate of the in- 
 terests of the people lie represented and of his political 
 parly. That he performed that service with great effec- 
 tiveness U known to every man witli whom he served. 
 Those wlio have heart! him will never forget his ingen- 
 ious pleas for any cause in the interests of his constituents 
 
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Address of Mr. Weeks, of Massac 
 
 or the Democratic Party, although the soundness of some 
 of the policies he advocated was sometimes questioned by 
 his political opponents and even hy his political friends. 
 I have never heard any stronger arguments in such mat- 
 ters than he has made in this Chamber, and his loss to 
 his State and to his party in this body is as nearly irrep- 
 arable as can be the loss of any one man. 
 
 I had kindly and friendly relations with him. While 
 an extreme partisan, he was on most cordial terms with 
 many of those not aligned with him politically, and I shall 
 never forget one incident in my political life which will 
 always make me recall his friendly tendencies toward his 
 associates. Soon after I entered the Senate I made a trip 
 to the West which was largely political in its character. 
 This was well known to Senator Stone, and my errand 
 was not one in which in any way obligated him to give 
 any attention to my visit to his State. Yet when I arrived 
 in Missouri he was one of the first men to call on me at 
 my hotel and welcome me to his State. He not only did 
 that, but he took particular pains to express his friendly 
 views about me and my mission to those of my political 
 party, with whom he was on close intimate personal 
 terms. While I did not learn this from him personally. I 
 had ample evidence of its truth in many instances, and it 
 showed a most unusual kindliness and friendly disposi- 
 tion toward a political opponent. 
 
 Fewmen have had a longer or more varied political serv- 
 ice. Senator Stone served six years in the House of Repre- 
 sentatives more than 30 years ago, was governor of his 
 State for a term of 4 years, and served in the Senate lor 
 15 years, undoubtedly having a life lease on the latter 
 office. While he had reached an age when nun might 
 naturally be expected to retire or, at least, modify their 
 activities, he continued strong and vigorous to the end, 
 and if he had been spared I am confident he would have 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 continued for many years to have been an important 
 figure in senatorial life and in the leadership of his party. 
 Senator Stone was a consistent party man. He had a 
 sincere belief and faith in the wisdom of the principles 
 and policies of the Democratic Party, and to the day of 
 his death he never tired or relaxed in his efforts to ad- 
 vance his party's cause. While I could very seldom agree 
 with him on matters of political policy, I never questioned 
 the sincerity of his faith in the doctrines he championed, 
 and the vigor and sincerity with which he advocated them 
 compelled my respect and admiration. I feel that I am 
 expressing the sentiments of my colleagues when I say 
 that his passing is deeply regretted among his old asso- 
 ciates in this body, and in his death the citizens of Mis- 
 souri have lost a representative whose first thought was 
 of them, their welfare, and who was a most jealous guard- 
 ian of their interests. 
 
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Address of Mn. Kinc, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: The eloquent eulogies to which we have 
 just listened leave but little for mc to say, but the occasion 
 and my loyalty to the memory of one whom I was proud 
 to call friend bid me speak. We pay tribute to-day to one 
 who was a great American, a tried and proven statesman, 
 a sincere and uncompromising Democrat, a leader, a 
 strong, independent, genuine man, who in a long and illus- 
 trious career established himself in his State and in the 
 Nation. 
 
 During the memorable political campaign of 189G I 
 first met Senator Stone, though his name and achieve- 
 ments were known to me prior to that time. During the 
 campaign just alluded to his qualities of leadership were 
 conspicuously demonstrated. Thereafter and until his 
 death he was one of the greatest political leaders in bis 
 party. Later, and when I had opportunity to become inti- 
 mately acquainted with this great man, my admiration for 
 his ability, sagacity, chivalry, and all those elements of 
 leadership developed in so preeminent degree in him was 
 increased. When he was called from our midst I felt — 
 paraphrasing the words of Burke like saying, " The age 
 of political chivalry is done, and the glory of political lead 
 ership has departed." But, like all men who strive might- 
 ily, with undaunted courage, and who contend for the tri- 
 umph of the principles in which they sincerely believe, he 
 provoked animosities and encountered fierce opposition. 
 The path of the strong man, of the bold and uncompromis- 
 ing man, always has and always will be beset with difficul- 
 ties. This is true in every field of human endeavor. It is 
 conspicuously true in the political arena and in all those 
 fields relating to governments and questions affecting the 
 State. Leadership results from contests, from the con- 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stom: 
 
 iliets which ever will exist among a progressive and virile 
 people. 
 
 Senator Stone was deeply versed in the psychology of 
 the people; he knew well the lessons taught in humanity's 
 volume and had no illusions concerning the fierce and 
 continuous struggles awaiting this and all other peoples. 
 He was no visionary, and deduced his line of conduct 
 from the experiences of the past and his rational and 
 comprehensive studies of his day. Some men become 
 leaders because they are opportunists. They seize upon 
 some passing whim or seize the banner carried by an hys- 
 terica] crowd. Such leadership is false and deadly. It 
 brings humiliation to the erstwhile leader and defeat and 
 disaster to his followers. Senator Stone was profoundly 
 impressed with the view that there is an underlying im- 
 mutable law which manifests itself in what we call social 
 evolution and which finds expression in the social prog- 
 ress we behold in the human race. 
 
 While he regarded society as dynamic and not static, 
 he believed it to be subject to unseen but nevertheless 
 unchangeable principles. Cause and effect had applica- 
 tion in human affairs and in the world's development and 
 activities. Believing thus, he sought to understand the 
 evolutionary processes finding manifestation in the 
 world and to conform his conduct, and so far as possible 
 the conduct of others, to these unseen yet controlling 
 influences to which all are subject. He sought to ascer- 
 tain the motives and purposes of individuals, communi- 
 ties, and nations, the conflicting currents which bore hu- 
 manity, the causes and effects of individual, community, 
 and State action and conduct These questions he 
 studied, and studied thoroughly; In his active and an- 
 alytical mind these great forces and questions were 
 weighed and balanced. Such study and effort gave bim 
 wisdom and qualified bim For safe and brilliant 
 leadership. 
 
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Address of Mr. Kino, of Uta 
 
 His keen and discriminating mind enabled him Id di- 
 vine the dangers to State or party, as well as to antici- 
 pate the plans and purposes of his adversaries. One of 
 the distinguishing characteristics of Senator Stoni: was 
 his devotion to his political principles and the political 
 party with which he was identified during his entire life. 
 This devotion did not result from a desire for place or 
 power, but rather from his supreme love of country, the 
 form of government under which we live, and the princi- 
 ples for which the Democratic Party stands. He recog- 
 nized that political parties were essential under our form 
 of government, but he believed that political parties 
 should exist not for the gratification of the ambitions or 
 desires of any person or for men' party triumph but for 
 the preservation of the Republic and the liberties of the 
 people. Believing that the mission of the Democratic 
 Party was to preserve the Constitution of the United 
 States and maintain the sovereignty of the States and the 
 rights reserved by them as well as by the people, he 
 earnestly devoted himself to that party. Merely to be 
 successful was not what he sought; he sincerely and 
 earnestly desired his country's welfare. Autocracy or 
 imperialism in any form was obnoxious to him. His 
 political philosophy found expression in the undying 
 teachings of Jefferson. 
 
 Senator Stone always trusted the people. He was vigi- 
 lant to oppose power and any movement which sought to 
 deprive the people of the States of the rights, liberties, 
 and prerogatives which, under our dual form of govern- 
 ment, they have reserved lo themselves. In his view, the 
 Democratic Party was charged with the sacred dulv of 
 defending the Constitution of the United States and the 
 individual liberty of the American people. He was pro- 
 foundly impressed with the view that eternal vigilance is 
 the price of liberty and that there is no promise of 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stoni 
 
 immortality even to a Republic which recognizes that all 
 just powers are derived from the consent of the governed. 
 Accordingly he viewed with apprehension any movement 
 
 looking toward a deprivation of the States of reserved 
 rights and the assumption of power and authority by the 
 Federal Government not delegated to it. 
 
 By many he was regarded as a strong partisan. Strong 
 men become strong partisans. Principles which they be- 
 lieve in become a part of the fiber of their being; they are 
 ready to fight for them; they gladly die for them. But, 
 I repeat, his devotion to party was superinduced by his 
 love of country. If I were asked to name the chief char- 
 acteristic of William J. Stone I think I should unhesitat- 
 ingly say it was love of his country. He believed in this 
 Republic, in its destiny; he regarded it as a rich bent 'fac- 
 tion from an overruling Providence, a patrimony not to 
 be squandered but to be sacredly protected; a light which 
 in the darkness of the world was to shine to illumine the 
 pathway of the oppressed and downtrodden throughout 
 the world. I think he exemplified in his loyalty to country 
 the words of a great writer, who said: 
 
 Holy is my hearth; 
 
 Holy will he to Thee my house. 
 
 His country was his hearthstone; it was his sacred 
 house which was not to be defiled or destroyed. To him 
 it was always holy; he desired that to all others it should 
 be holy. When I think of Senator Stone I remember the 
 words of another, who said: 
 
 I do love my country's good with a respect more tender, 
 More holy and profound, than my own life. 
 
 As stated, he believed in parly organization, not for 
 party victory or party achievement or success but to 
 defeat what he regarded as un-American principles and 
 to preserve the Nation. He knew that in a pure 
 
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Address of Mr. Kim., of Utah 
 
 democracy or in a representative government— and, in- 
 deed, in all political structures — there are contending 
 forces, those seeking liherty, freedom, progress; others 
 fighting for stagnant or retrogressive conditions. He 
 realized that any party too long in power, free from op- 
 position or criticism, will become stagnant and finally 
 reactionary and oppressive. Therefore he welcomed a 
 strong and vigorous opposition party and believed that 
 under our form of government the principles of liberty 
 could be best preserved through the instrumentality of 
 virile, puissant, political parties contending in the public 
 arena for supremacy. However, believing political par- 
 ties as the instrumentality to bring about good govern- 
 ment, he regarded it as their sacred duty to stand for 
 moral principles and for freedom and righteousness, 
 accepting the view that the Constitution of these United 
 States is a visible manifestation of God's providence to 
 the world. He felt that political parties were corrupt 
 and immoral if they sought mere party advantage or their 
 course tended to the undermining of our Government. 
 
 Mr. President, I am profoundly convinced that this great 
 man did not regard the Republic as a phantom or an 
 evanescent form, but he believed that it would endure 
 for the ages. He therefore consecrated his life to the 
 preservation of the Republic and the principles of liberty 
 for which it stands. He had a profound reverence for 
 the fathers and the founders of the Republic and regarded 
 political truths as sacred and immortal. lie belonged to 
 the school of political thought which believes that there 
 are certain fundamental principles of truth and righteous- 
 ness which constitute the foundation and structure of just 
 governments, the same as there are immortal truths that 
 are the basis of religion and of the spiritual life, he be- 
 lieved with Hamilton that " the sacred rights of man are 
 not to be searched for in old documents and musty rec- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stoni 
 
 ords. They are written as with the sunbeam in the whole 
 volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself 
 and can never be erased by mortal power." 
 
 Possessing these views, he sought the faith and teach- 
 ings of the founders of the Republic and of his party for 
 wisdom to guide him in his tempestuous, heroic, and 
 intrepid career. 
 
 Mr. President, another striking characteristic of this 
 great man was his sincerity. Carlyle, who philosophizes 
 and teaches, declares that sincerity is the chief fact about 
 a man. Sincere men, of course, are often wrong; but a 
 sincere one, when right, is the safest of leaders. The Sena- 
 tor from Nebraska [Mr. Hitchcock] has just alluded to the 
 strong convictions which Senator Stone possessed and to 
 the faci that when, after serious meditation and study, he 
 had reached a conclusion, he was adamant, lh' followed 
 his convictions to the end, regardless of consequences, and 
 knowing .at times full well that such a course would result 
 in denunciation and the most violent opposition. The 
 truth of this statement is exemplified in his attitude to- 
 ward the war with Germany. Senator Stoni; believed that 
 our Nation could avoid war with the central empires with- 
 out detracting from its honor. Doubtless there were many 
 reasons which combined to lead him to withhold support 
 from the resolution which was the equivalent of a declara- 
 tion of war against Germany. Perhaps his sympathy for 
 the people — the wives and mothers who would lose hus- 
 bands and sons — strongly influenced his determination to 
 oppose entering the war. The daily reports of Hie san- 
 guinary conflicts upon the fields of France and Belgium 
 brought to him inexpressible sorrow. He grieved at the 
 Bufferings and sorrows thai were overwhelming Europe 
 and other parts of the world. He hoped that this Nation 
 could avoid entering the bloody conflict) and thai its posi- 
 tion as the leading neutral Nation of the world would 
 
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Address op Mb. Kino, of Utah 
 
 give it a moral power that could be exercised to pacify 
 and heal the contending nations. He knew the horrors of 
 war, the sorrows and the trials and the broken hearts 
 and destroyed homes which it brings. " Unseen by the 
 corporal eyes, but too clearly visible to the mind's eye, he 
 could see the great army of the dead, the abandoned, the 
 forgotten; the army of cruel tortures and prolonged in- 
 firmities, which pursues its fatal march behind what men 
 so often call glory." 
 
 But, Mr. President, Senator Stone, as much as any liv- 
 ing man, comprehended the aftermath of the war. He 
 realized the stupendous problems which would arise 
 when peace was declared. He could foresee the unrest 
 and disorder, the unloosing of our social, religious, and 
 other bonds, and the madness and chaos of the people. 
 He looked with dread upon what the tide of war would 
 bring to our own land and what its consequences would 
 be with respect to our own institutions and our social 
 structure. With prophetic eye he saw the picture which 
 in part we now behold, and he dreaded the evils which 
 now threaten the world. He felt that if we entered the 
 war it might lead to an abandonment of the policies an- 
 nounced by Washington and Jefferson and Monroe and 
 the fathers who gave us the Republic. Perhaps some may 
 say he was provincial, but he believed that this was the 
 greatest Government of the world and that it should not 
 be drawn into entangling alliances or into the great mael- 
 strom of European nations. He wanted an American 
 character; a great, powerful American Nation, independ- 
 ent of other nations, not chained or bound or limited by 
 the political structures of other lands and climes. I re- 
 member speaking with him shortly before the declaration 
 of war upon the part of this Government. He stated, in 
 effect, that he was afraid of the future and the effects of 
 the great tragedy being enacted in Europe; and then he 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stoni 
 
 added, M I want to keep this Republic as it was handed to 
 us bv the fathers." I remember that he referred to Wash- 
 ington and his position with respect to entangling alli- 
 ances, and expressed the belief that if we entered the war 
 it would result in a departure from what he regarded as 
 the sound and safe policy for our country to pursue. He 
 referred to several statements made by Washington, one 
 of which was contained in a letter written by Washington 
 to Patrick Henry. This morning I found the letter and 
 from it copied the following extract: 
 
 My ardent desire and my aim has been * * * to comply 
 strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, and to 
 keep the United States free from political connection with every 
 other country, to sec them independent of all, and under the in- 
 fluence of none. In a word, I want an American character thai 
 the powers of Europe may be convinced that we act for ourselves 
 and not for others. This, in my judgment, is the only way to be 
 respected abroad and happy at home, and not by becoming 
 partisans of Great Britain or France, create dissension, disturb 
 the public tranquillity, and destroy, perhaps forever, the cement 
 which binds the Union. 
 
 There can be no question, Mr. President, upon the part 
 of those who knew Senator Stone but that his opposition 
 to war was in part based upon his sincere conviction that 
 war would bring sorrow and suffering to the American 
 people and likewise jeopardize the Republic and endan- 
 ger the Welfare and prosperity of the American people. 
 He was preeminently American. He loved his country and 
 he idealized his State. His affection for the State of Mis- 
 souri was really pathetic. He spoke the name "Missouri" 
 with a love and an affection found in the voice of a mother 
 for her child. 
 
 The Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Hitchcock! has just 
 referred to Senator Stone's position on the war. Many 
 Of us differed from Senator Stone in his position taken 
 upon this important question. We believed that the 
 
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Ai)i)iu:ss in Mk. Kim;, oi Utah 
 
 honor of our Nation, the defense oi' our Government and 
 
 our people demanded that the United Slates should ac- 
 cept the condition of war which Germany had created, 
 and Unit we should cast our fortunes with Great Britain 
 and France and their gallant allies in hurling hack the 
 advancing hosts of the central powers, who sought the 
 concpiest of Europe, if not the world. Hut to Senator 
 Stone war seemed a great and unnecessary tragedy. He 
 visualized its horrors and with prophetic eye compre- 
 hended the evils which would follow when peace came. 
 But when we had decided for war no one more vigorously 
 supported the Nation, the President, and the cause than 
 did he. Senators will rememher the tense and dramatic 
 situation when the resolution recognizing a state of war 
 was under consideration in this hody. Standing in the 
 aisle of this Chamher, Senator Stone, with deep feeling 
 and appealing earnestness, gave expression to his senti- 
 ments and voiced Ins view that if we entered into the war 
 it would be " a colossal blunder." Then, in simple and 
 eloquent terms, he stated his position as follows: 
 
 But if the constituted powers of ray Government, the powers 
 
 constitutionally authorized to speak for the people on this mo- 
 mentous issue, shall decide for war, and we go into war, then I 
 shall cast all doubts and forebodings to the winds, and my eyes 
 thenceforth will be blind to everything but the Hag of niv coun- 
 try, borne by American boys through the storm of war, and my 
 ears deaf to every call save that of my country in its hour of 
 peril. If Congress unfurls the battle flag, however profound my 
 sorrow, I will at once stand in salute to that flag, dutifully willing 
 and ready to perform any service, to make any sacrifice necessarj 
 to bring the cause we espouse to a successful issue. 
 
 When the Nation spoke he saluted the Hag and followed 
 it and the brave and gallant American soldiers with a 
 solicitude and devotion unsurpassed by anyone. 
 
 He cared hut little for nonessentials, hut was firm and 
 unyielding when principles which he regarded as funda- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 mental were involved. Criticism from enemies did not 
 affect him, hut the criticism of friends grieved him to the 
 heart; hut neither criticism nor opposition from friend or 
 from foe swerved him from the path which he conceived 
 to he the path of duty. In thinking of him I am reminded 
 of the words of Channing when he said: 
 
 I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpa- 
 tions of society, which does not cower to human opinion, which 
 feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which 
 respects a higher law than fashion, which respects itself too 
 much to be the slave or tool of the many or the few. 
 
 While not in agreement with him upon all views which 
 he expressed or positions by him taken, I nevertheless re- 
 spected his intellectual honesty, his mental integrity, and 
 the motives and purposes by which he was guided. 
 
 Senator Stone was solicitous for the welfare of the peo- 
 ple. He desired this Republic to lead the world, and the 
 American people, by reason of their ideals, their achieve- 
 ments, their devotion to the cause of freedon, to be the 
 evangels of a strong and enduring political faith. I recall 
 his interest in all efforts to unify the polyglot population 
 within the United States. Frequently he talked with me 
 concerning the separatist movements which had prevented 
 the amalgamation and absorption of the aliens who had 
 come to this land. He was anxious for the adoption of 
 some plan that would Americanize the alien in our midst 
 and enable him to comprehend our form of government 
 and the institutions under which we live. Deeply sympa- 
 thetic will) the masses who had sought industrial and po- 
 litical freedom under this ilag, he regarded it as the duty 
 of the Slates and the Nation to afford them full opportu- 
 nity to enjoy the bounties of this land of opportunity, not 
 only material bounties, hut those finer spiritual and ethical 
 ones which have blossomed, even if they have not come to 
 fruition, under our institutions. 
 
 136) 
 
Address of Mr. King, of Utah 
 
 I repeat, Mr. President, his thoughts were always for Un- 
 people, for their welfare, for their prosperity, for his State 
 and its progress and development, and for this Republic 
 and its perpetuity. But his political views recognized that 
 the prosperity of a nation depends upon the development 
 of individual character and an adherence to those virtues 
 which are the product of rational conception of the rela- 
 tions of the individual to the State. I think it can be stated 
 of Senator Stone that his conceptions of what was essen- 
 tial to a vigorous and prosperous Commonwealth were in 
 harmony with the words of Lecky when he declares that a 
 nation is prosperous when and as long as — 
 
 its foundation is laid in pure domestic life, in commercial integ- 
 rity, in a high standard of moral worth and of public spirit, in 
 simple habits, in courage, uprightness, and a certain soundness 
 and moderation of judgment which springs quite as much from 
 character as from intellect. If you would form a wise judgment 
 of the future of a nation, observe carefully whether these quali- 
 ties are increasing or decaying. Observe especially what quali- 
 ties count for most in public life. Is character becoming of 
 greater or less importance? Are the men who obtain the highest 
 posts in the Nation men of whom in private life and irrespective 
 of party competent judges speak with genuine respect? Are they 
 of sincere convictions, consistent lives, indisputable Integrity? 
 * * * It is by observing this moral current that you can best 
 cast the horoscope of a nation. 
 
 Mr. President, with other Senators I went to the State 
 which our departed friend represented in this Chamber. 
 I attended the simple but inspiring funeral services, where 
 friends from far and near gathered to pay their final 
 tribute of love and affection to one whom they had fol- 
 lowed for so many years. A deep and profound religious 
 fervor rested upon all, and the services portrayed the 
 faith, that simple yet mystic and undying faith, which 
 Senator Stone had in the life beyond and in the merciful 
 eternal Father who guides nun and nations. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stoni 
 
 Perhaps he would have experienced some difficulty in 
 
 his lifetime in defining his creed. lie was not dogmatic, 
 nor, indeed, could it be said of him that he was orthodox, 
 and yet if we accept Kant's definition of religion it may 
 truthfully he said that he was a religious man and exem- 
 plified his faith in his life. The philospher says — 
 
 That religion consists in recognizing all our duties as divine 
 commands. 
 
 Perhaps his religious creed might be summed up in 
 these words : 
 
 Religion is a belief in an everlasting God; that is, a divine 
 mind and will, ruling the universe and holding moral relations 
 with mankind. 
 
 Religion was not with him a metaphysical abstraction 
 nor a scientific formula. lie did not concern himself as 
 to whether it was susceptible of scientific demonstration, 
 but it was to him nevertheless something which was real 
 and indispensable to man's welfare and social progress. 
 It may sound paradoxical, yet I think it is true that even 
 men of the greatest intellect and who demand the applica- 
 tion of the strictest rules of logic and who accept many 
 of what may be called the radical teachings of science 
 deny the application of such principles when they come to 
 deal with the spiritual forces and the religious faith which 
 form so important a part in the life of men and which 
 so powerfully determine the character and nature of 
 human conduct. And thus it is that men have felt that 
 "no form of belief is capable of functioning as a religion 
 in the evolution of society which does not provide an 
 ultrarational sanction for social conduct in the indi- 
 vidual." 
 
 By sonic it is regarded as a phenomenon that with the 
 remarkable utilitarian developments of the age and the 
 
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Addbess of Mr. King, of Utah 
 
 marvelous results derived from applied science there 
 should be profound faith in an Omnipotent and Omnis- 
 cient Being to whom man is accountable and from whom 
 it is contended springs spiritual and moral forces for 
 man's advancement. And the astonishment becomes 
 greater upon the part of the extreme materialist when he 
 witnesses the great number who accept the evolutionary 
 principles preached with such fervor and enthusiasm by 
 Darwin, Hackle, and Wallace, who gave the contribu- 
 tions of their mighty genius to the world. But no hypo- 
 thesis or alleged demonstrable scientific truth, no rational- 
 istic creed or comprehended or uncomprehended system 
 of philosophy has driven from the human heart the long- 
 ings for immortality, the faith in the power and the mercy 
 and the goodness and the justice of an Everlasting and 
 Eternal Father. This faith or belief, whatever it may be 
 denominated, is not so much concerned as to whether it 
 is logical or rational or conformable to scientific formula:. 
 Even if conceded to be ultrarational and incapable of 
 being defended by acknowledged canons governing the 
 intellectual and scientific mind, it insists, however, that 
 the great motive power which has propelled humanity 
 forward has been the ineradicable faith in an Eternal and 
 Merciful Father, which, in all ages, has glorified the 
 human soul. 
 
 He believed in God, the Eternal Father; he believed in 
 Christ, the Saviour of mankind. His faith was perhaps 
 not the result of intellectual effort or the analytical 
 processes of his mind. I do not think he attempted to 
 defend it upon the ground that it had a rational sanction, 
 but, nevertheless, it was a living, vital thing, command- 
 ing obedience to the laws of righteousness, devotion to 
 the Everlasting Father, and sacrifice and service— the true 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 expression of the Christian life. I think he would have 
 said of himself, as was written hy another: 
 
 What am I? Naught. 
 Nothing! >it the effluence of Thy light divine, 
 Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom, too; 
 Yes, in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine, 
 As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew, 
 Naught! but I live, and on hope's pinions fly 
 Eager toward Thy presence; for in Thee 
 I live, and breathe, and dwell, aspiring high, 
 Even to the throne of Thy Divinity. 
 
 Mr. President, \vc regret the loss of our departed friend; 
 the Nation needed him, his State needed him, his party 
 needed and still needs him. In this hour with the stupen- 
 dous problems confronting not only this Nation hut the 
 world; problems made and forced upon us by the devas- 
 tating war through which the world has just passed, his 
 services would have been of inestimable value, and his loss 
 becomes more apparent. God bless his memory. May we 
 profit by the illustrious example which he has left for our 
 guidance. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fletcher, of Florida 
 
 Mr. President: Within the borders of Kentucky there 
 have been born into the world many individuals who 
 have lived exemplary and useful lives; many who have 
 served their fellow men in marked degree and their 
 country heroically, as a whole; many who have met tin- 
 responsibilities of citizenship and have discharged faith- 
 fully the duties of public office; many who have traveled 
 the road to fame and at its end passed to the other life 
 respected, loved, and honored. Among these distin- 
 guished sons, whose labors and services were performed 
 in large part beyond the boundaries of their native State, 
 Kentucky can proudly claim William Joel Stone, who 
 was born in Madison County, May 7, 1818. He was edu- 
 cated at Missouri University, which later conferred upon 
 him the degree of LL. D. 
 
 When he was 21 years of age he was admitted to the 
 bar and four years thereafter he was elected prosecuting 
 attorney for Vernon County, Mo. 
 
 His mental capacity and physical energy pushed him 
 into wider fields. He had a taste for politics and became 
 a student of public affairs. His rare tact, genial disposi- 
 tion, clear vision, sound judgment, and patriotic impulses 
 made him a power in the sphere of political activities. 
 
 He was elected to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty- 
 first Congresses. In 1893 he became governor of Missouri 
 and gave the State four years of signal service as its 
 executive. 
 
 As a member of the Democratic national committee, 
 1896-1904, and as its vice chairman in 1900-1904, his wise 
 counsel, untiring zeal, and devotion to the cause were felt 
 and appreciated. He displayed throughout his career ex- 
 traordinary ability as an organizer and his skill ami taci 
 were equally effective in management, lie was elected to 
 
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 the United States Senate to succeed Hon. George Graham 
 Vest for the term beginning March 4, 1903, reelected in 
 1909, and by popular vote in 1914 for the term beginning 
 March 1, 1915. On April 11, 1918, he departed this life. 
 
 He had a trained mind of unusual capacity and strength. 
 He possessed a gentle disposition, which drew men to 
 him in bonds of attachment, lasting and strong. 
 
 He was patient, and at the same time aggressive and 
 courageous in dealing with great questions and in debate. 
 
 He possessed in eminent degree the elements of leader- 
 ship. His public service extended along two lines— execu- 
 tive and legislative. He was equally well equipped and 
 efficient in both. The qualities of mind and heart mani- 
 fested in these functions, reinforced by broad reading and 
 study and thought, found expression in the field of states- 
 manship. 
 
 On the great committees of the Senate he was vigilant 
 and untiring. In debate, on this floor, he was equal to 
 any undertaking, and with a grace and an eloquence and 
 power unsurpassed he handled his subjects in the fashion 
 of a master. 
 
 Particularly on Finance and Foreign Relations, the 
 chairmanship of which latter committee he graced, his 
 services were most effective. His manner and character- 
 istics were original and peculiar to himself. An attrac- 
 tive personality, a wholesome sense of humor, and dig- 
 nity of bearing, combined with expressive eves and fea- 
 tures that beamed with intelligence, assured him a warm 
 greeting in any assembly, whether it meant social inter- 
 course or a relentless encounter with opposing forces in 
 some momentous struggle. He exemplified Edwin Mark- 
 ham's " Preparedness: " 
 
 For all of your days prepare 
 
 Anil meet them all alike; 
 When you arc tin- anvil, bear — 
 
 When you arc the hammer, strike. 
 
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Address ok Mr. Fletcher, of Fi 
 
 Felicity of expression, wealth of information, charm of 
 
 delivery, and fine presence made us recognize in him the 
 magnetic, skillful orator. 
 
 He seemed to treasure no animosities. He was gener- 
 ous in his consideration of others, patient and forbearing 
 toward those who opposed him, gentle and kind toward 
 his associates, and unstinted in his love of those who 
 had claims upon his affections. 
 
 Times camewhen he had to decide upon a definitecourse 
 and the road ahead was not plain and char. So far as 
 I know, he seldom advised with others or consulted Ins 
 closest friends, but he stepped aside witli his own con- 
 science and judgment and adopted the course they dic- 
 tated. 
 
 I may illustrate this best by emoting his own words. In 
 the course of debate, February 3, 1915, on the shipping 
 bill, which he strongly supported, he said: 
 
 I have found out that whenever a man is opposed to a measure 
 he becomes very sure that the people are against it; or, if he is 
 for it, he is bold to assert that the people are for it; but I do 
 not think that men who assume so much know anything more 
 about the wishes of the people than I do. 
 
 The only way I have of knowing what the people want is to 
 make up my mind as to what is best for the country, feeling 
 confident the people will approve if I am not mistaken. 
 
 He ardently hoped his country would not become in- 
 volved in the catastrophe which shook the world in V.U I. 
 He saw clearly what war meant— the loss of young men, a 
 kind of loss which any nation can ill afford to suffer at any 
 time; the destruction of property; the burdens of taxation 
 upon the people, loomed with all their terrors before him. 
 He hoped there might be some honorable way of avoiding 
 the calamities and suffering which war involved. . ven 
 when it was plain that the war lord and military clique 
 of Germany had deliberately proceeded to "Pour the 
 
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 sweet milk of concord into hell; uproar the universal 
 peace, and confound all unity on earth." 
 
 But when the decision was reached that there was no 
 escape for his country, and its duty was to rally its de- 
 fenders of liberty and champions of civilization, and there 
 was no choice hut to meet force with force to the limit, he 
 patriotically joined in the effort and supported with his 
 great ability and unflagging energy and wise counsel every 
 measure and step intended to make victory certain. 
 
 He stated his position with his usual frankness and sin- 
 cerity on July 14, 1917, during the debate on the food- 
 control bill, H. R. 4961, as follows: 
 
 You know, Mr. President, as every Senator and the country 
 knows, I was absolutely opposed to plunging this country into 
 this foreign, far-away European war. ' I warned you 
 
 and the country then that if we insisted upon this course we 
 would open a Pandora's box, the multiplying evils of which no 
 man was wise enough to forecast. * * * But from the be- 
 ginning I have stated over and over again that while I looked with 
 horror upon the proposal to involve this country in this foreign 
 war, I would nevertheless loyally accept the joint judgment of 
 the Congress and the President if they should, acting together, 
 declare for war; and from that day forth I have stood stead- 
 fastly in support of the dominating forces of the Government 
 which declared that war was necessary. That is the position I 
 took at the start, and I shall abide by it. * * * I shall sup- 
 port the President and the Government in organizing our na- 
 tional resources and in using them to the utmost of our strength. 
 
 It was a sad day last April when we realized that he 
 would be with us here no more. A personal affliction had 
 fallen upon each of us; a real deprivation of the help we 
 needed; a misfortune to the country he loved. 
 
 Until our friends go, never to return, we fail to realize 
 how dear they are to us. We arc left, however, with the 
 consolation that memory keeps them ever with us, and in 
 the quiet hours we can almost feel " the touch of the van- 
 
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Address of Mb. Fletcher, of Florid 
 
 ished hand" and hear "the sound of the voice that is 
 still." 
 
 I believe I would not misjudge him if I made the esti- 
 mate I venture to condense. He conceived true liberty to 
 mean the privilege of doing " unmolested what tin law 
 allows." 
 
 And that real democracy means "organized self-con- 
 trol." 
 
 And that his conviction was that "out of the heart 
 are the issues of life." 
 
 A deep and abiding love of country and a steadfast 
 Americanism were the very lifeblood of his strong char- 
 acter. 
 
 Hear him from his conspicuous place on this floor, Feb- 
 ruary 8, 191f>: 
 
 I am for America — our America — above all the world. The 
 kind of men we need now and always need are men who stand 
 uncompromisingly for America and American rights. * " * 
 I care little for the opinions of American citizens who are not 
 first and always really, truly, bravely American. 
 
 In the public service for nearly 50 years, to his country 
 and his country's cause he gave himself— justifying the 
 application of Paul's tribute to the Macedonian church: 
 " They first gave themselves." 
 
 The words of Addison's Cato can well be applied to 
 our friend: 
 
 Tis not in mortals to command success; 
 
 But we'll do more, Sempronious — we'll deserve it. 
 
 And by his character and life he established such a 
 relation between the soul and the Soul Maker that In was 
 prepared when the summons came to pass into the un- 
 discovered future without dread. 
 
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Address of Mn. Myers, of Montana 
 
 Mr. President: It was my good fortune the greater part 
 of my life to know Hon. William Joel Stone, and during 
 all of my life, from childhood, I heard and knew very 
 much of him and ahout him. It was my good fortune to 
 he born and to grow to manhood in the State to which 
 Senator Stone rendered unusual service and brought sig- 
 nal distinction, the State of Missouri. We had very close 
 mutual ties. There were those who were related to me 
 who were among his lifelong supporters, ardent admirers, 
 and close associates, and who were ever very loyal to him 
 and who actively and earnestly supported him in every 
 political contest in which he ever engaged which involved 
 more territory than the county of his residence; effec- 
 tively supported him in every political contest after he 
 had ably filled the office of prosecuting attorney of his 
 county and had branched out into a larger field of po- 
 litical activity. For years the name of Senator Stone 
 was a household word in my father's family. As boy and 
 young man in Missouri, I often heard him on the stump 
 and delighted to hear him expound democracy. His fear- 
 lessness and earnestness charmed me. 
 
 I remember when, as a young man, he was first nomi- 
 nated for and elected to Congress, I being then a boy. 
 When he was first nominated for Representative in Con- 
 gress I heard it said that he had a brilliant future and 
 that he would make his mark as one of the ablest public- 
 men Missouri had ever possessed. He was then in the 
 prime of vigorous young manhood and had already at- 
 tracted to himself and drawn in his train an ardent and 
 enthusiastic band of loyal, devoted personal and political 
 followers who never abandoned him but who stayed with 
 him, faithful and true, through every political contest of 
 
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Mn. MYERS, OF Montana 
 
 his life. When first nominated for Representative in Con- 
 gress he had acquired a reputation as an orator, student, 
 and statesman which bespoke for him a brilliant career. 
 He was then the pride of those who followed his plume 
 in the arena of political combat. 
 
 When Senator Stone was a candidate for the Demo- 
 cratic nomination for governor of Missouri I was a voter 
 and resident of that State and I supported him for the 
 nomination and at the election. I voted for him in the 
 primary and at the general election, lie was my choice. 
 By that time I knew him personally and was an ardenl 
 admirer of him, as man and statesman; admired his 
 ability, fearlessness, democracy, devotion to principle, 
 and leadership; and admired him for all those qualities 
 which made him a renowned leader of men and valued 
 champion of democracy. 
 
 In those days and for many years Sena lor Stone was 
 the idol of Missouri Democrats. He had their admiration, 
 love, and adoration. They trusted in him and looked up 
 to him. They looked to him for leadership. The mantle 
 of the renowned and departed Hon. George G. Vest as 
 leader of the Democrats of Missouri fell upon Senator 
 Stone. He was almost worshiped by his followers. 
 
 Senator Stone had the remarkable faculty of drawing to 
 him great numbers of enthusiastic, devoted followers, and 
 of grappling to him with hooks of steel a great many very 
 devoted and unswerving personal and political friends. 
 He was a man of magnetic personality. As a rule, his 
 friends stayed with him. In that respect he was signally 
 marked as a leader of men. 
 
 When I entered the United States Senate Senator Stone 
 had been a distinguished Member of this body for quite a 
 number of years and had a national reputation. I was 
 received by him witli the greatest kindness. He welcomed 
 my entrance into the Senate with marked warmth and 
 
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 cordiality, and when I was new lure he showed me many 
 acts of kindness and consideration. He did very much to 
 make it pleasant and agreeahle for me here. Our personal 
 relations were always of the most cordial and agreeahle 
 character. During my service here, until the demise of 
 Senator Stone, I was fortunate in seeing a good deal of 
 him and enjoyed personal association with him to a con- 
 siderate degree. I often consulted him. Our relations 
 were fairly intimate, and I enjoyed my association with 
 him. At times I very sharply differed with him ahout 
 matters of puhlic policy and national welfare, hut that 
 never disturhed our uniformly pleasant relations nor my 
 friendly regard for him. 
 
 I always admired Senator Stone's intense devotion to 
 his political party and its principles. Politically he was an 
 intense partisan, and I always admired him for it. He 
 was a Democrat hecause he helieved witli great intensity 
 and fervor in the principles of the Democratic Party, and 
 he adhered to them, championed them, and supported 
 them on all occasions with an earnestness, enthusiasm, 
 and devotion which drew my strongest admiration. He 
 believed implicitly in the virtue of his party and never 
 hesitated to array himself on its side as a devoted partisan. 
 His intense fidelity to party principle was, to my mind, 
 most admirable. He was more partisan, I admit, than I, 
 hut I esteemed him for it. 
 
 Senator Stone was a hard fighter. He never slackened 
 nor wavered in fighting for what he helieved to he right. 
 He was an incessant fighter for the principles of his party, 
 believing them to he the true principles of government 
 for a self-governing people. Believing the success of his 
 party meant the good and welfare of all the people, he 
 fought for the success of his party in season and out of 
 season. There was never any doubt about where to place 
 him in party matters. This I considered a most com- 
 
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Address <>r Mr. Myers. of Montana 
 
 mendable trait, for he stood for that which he firmly be- 
 lieved to be right and best. 
 
 Senator Stone was one of the bravest men whom I ever 
 knew; brave mentally, morally, and physically. Abso- 
 lutely, he did not seem to know what fear was in any 
 sense of the word, lie would defy anything or anybody 
 if he thought he was in the right. His fearlessness was 
 one of his distinguishing traits all of his life, and it had 
 much to do with drawing to him that devoted band of 
 followers and supporters, always back <>! him and stand- 
 ing with him, ever faithful and loyal. 
 
 Senator Stone rendered distinguished service to his 
 State and Nation. He was one of Missouri's foremost 
 characters, one of the Nation's great men. He accom- 
 plished much and leaves much good work behind him. 
 To his family he leaves a splendid heritage, to his host of 
 devoted friends a fond memory, to his State a career of 
 usefulness, to his country nation-wide fame. lie had 
 some great qualities. As statesman, student, scholar, 
 publicist, he had real ability and great accomplishments. 
 
 Senator Stone was an outspoken man. He never hesi- 
 tated to speak out what was in him. It was a matter of 
 comfort to many of his friends, of whom I counted myself 
 one, that in his last illness he professed faith in and 
 reliance upon the saving grace of his Redeemer and 
 looked forward to eternal life with his Maker. Farewell 
 to him, but not to his memory. I take this occasion to 
 discharge a sad duty, to exercise an estimable privilege in 
 paying an humble tribute to his worth and testifying to 
 the pleasant relations that always existed between us. 
 May it be well with his soul. 
 
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Address of Mr. Smith, of Georgia 
 
 Mr. President: All who knew Senator Stone will appre- 
 ciate the splendid tributes that have been paid here to-day 
 to his worth, because they will realize that the tributes 
 were deserved. 
 
 The entire Nation recognized his great ability. The 
 Senate realized his power upon the floor of this Chamber, 
 his brilliancy and his logic. 
 
 Those who served with him in committees found him 
 there tireless, painstaking, and wise. For nearly six years 
 I served with him on the Finance Committee, the detailed 
 labors of which are great. No item of revenue bills es- 
 caped his scrutiny, and at all times it was his earnest 
 desire to let the tax burdens fall where they could be 
 borne with the least trial; at all times it was his thought 
 to see how the less fortunate in life might have their 
 burdens lightened rather than increased. 
 
 I had the privilege for several years of rooming just 
 across the hall from him in the Senate Office Building, 
 and I frequently saw him. If I were asked from my per- 
 sonal association with him to name his two most control- 
 ling characteristics I would say, in addition to his mental 
 power, that they were his courage and his love. I do not 
 believe Senator Stone knew wiiat fear was; lie was uncon- 
 scious of physical fear, and he had no fear of conse- 
 quenees to himself as a result of his conduct. lie was 
 moved always with the earnest purpose of determining 
 what he ought to do, controlled by his judgment, led by 
 his love. If ever swayed from his mental judgment it was 
 by his love. 
 
 He loved Missouri and he loved all the people of Mis- 
 souri. He loved his country and he loved the people of 
 his country. He loved his immediate family with a ten- 
 
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Address of Mk. Smith, of Georgia 
 
 derness and gentleness Uiai would have adorned the char- 
 acter of a woman. He was checked at times in his mental 
 action by Ins love and by his unwillingness to cause sorrow 
 or distress to those whom he loved. 
 
 Senator Stone was honest to an extreme degree. The 
 Senator from Nebraska [Mr. Hitchcock] has referred to 
 the fact that he made sacrifices for his public service. I le 
 could have been a man with great income at the bar, but 
 he gave his time to the public service rather than to the 
 accumulation of worldly goods for himself; and in all of 
 his long career in the public service never a time did he 
 think of a place where he might make something finan- 
 cially for himself. The subject of financial gain for him- 
 self never touched his life. 
 
 Mr. President, I feel excused for mentioning a little 
 incident that touched me very much, which occurred when 
 I was riding out home with him within about 12 months of 
 his death. We lived in the same section of tins city, and 
 frequently he rode out with me in my machine or I rode 
 out with him in his. One evening, as we were riding 
 home, with a glow of delight all over his face, he pulled 
 a little piece of paper out of his pocket and said, "This 
 is a receipt for the premium on my life insurance policy." 
 He put it back in his pocket and called the name of his 
 wife, whom he loved so tenderly, and said : " The reason 
 I am so pleased that I have paid it is that it makes me 
 know she will have this sum if I am called away. While 
 I am here I can provide for her, but this gives her some- 
 thing if I am called." The amount was not very large, 
 but it was pathetic to hear this man of powerful intellect, 
 who could have done so much for himself in a financial 
 way and for his family if he had turned his thoughts and 
 talents in such a direction, filled with joy thai this con- 
 servative-sized policy was to guarantee to the partner of 
 
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 his trials and his joys some little comfort when he was 
 gone. 
 
 I saw Senator Stone a numher of times when he was 
 taking the course which was perhaps the greatest trial of 
 his life. I had known for 12 months before that period 
 how earnestly he desired that his country might escape 
 from embroilment in the European slaughterhouse. 
 When the time came that most of us felt we could re- 
 main out of the war no longer, when the overwhelming 
 sentiment of the country justified the action that brought 
 us into the war with the German Empire, I talked freely 
 with Senator Stone and urged him to vote with us. I 
 pressed it on him; I tried to show him that it was his 
 duty to himself and to his associates. I knew perfectly 
 what controlled him. He talked with freedom about it. 
 Up to the last I plead with him. He simply said: "I see 
 what it means— billions of debts burdened upon the peo- 
 ple whom I love; and, worse than that, perhaps millions 
 of our boys lost in France. We can not go into this war 
 without really going into it." He continued: "If I could 
 give my life and have the sacrifice end there, I would not 
 hesitate a moment; but it is all these sons of mothers 
 throughout the land. I can not but feel that something 
 can be done to save these mothers' sons." 
 
 It was his love for his people. If he could have laid 
 down his own life he would have done so without a mo- 
 ment's hesitation, but it was the lives of others and the 
 sorrow that was to be produced that caused him to take 
 the position which he did. But the moment the decision 
 was made and the war was begun, on every possible occa- 
 sion he stood in his place in the Senate and supported his 
 country in every possible way. Others cast the die; it 
 had to be; then all that he could do to help to whip the 
 enemy and win the war he gave with entire freedom and 
 
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 thoroughness. That he should have heen criticized was 
 natural; that he would he criticized he knew; none under- 
 stood it better than he; but it never moved him a particle. 
 That vote was controlled by his intense love for his people, 
 whom he would have spared, if he could, the trials of w;ir. 
 He was a great man; a great intellect; but, again I say, 
 the two controlling powers of his life were his courage and 
 his love. 
 
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Address of Mr. Bankhead, of Alabama 
 
 Mr. President: When I came to Washington as a Mem- 
 ber of the Fiftieth Congress one of my first acquaintances 
 was William Joel Stone, who had served in the Forty- 
 ninth Congress. This acquaintanceship ripened quickly 
 into a friendship of such enduring qualities as to weather 
 and overcome the vicissitudes of a long life. 
 
 When Mr. Stone resigned his seat in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives to accept the governorship of the great State 
 of Missouri I was enabled, through a continuous corre- 
 spondence, to keep in the most intimate touch with him. 
 When, as the successor of the great George Vest, Gov. 
 Stone returned to Washington and took his place in the 
 Senate our daily personal relationship, after an interreg- 
 num of only a few years, was resumed. Later, as suc- 
 cessor to John Tyler Morgan, whom all Alabamians are 
 wont to call "our greatest," and who with dignity and 
 rare wisdom for so many years graced this Chamber, I 
 entered upon a service in the Senate. From that moment 
 until death placed its icy fingers on his heart I was in 
 closest, most intimate association with the man of whom 
 to-day we speak. 
 
 As a result of this long and unvarying friendship I can 
 qualify as a witness who knew him well; and as such it 
 is not so much my function to recite the biographical 
 and chronological events and incidents of what was truly 
 a great career as to bespeak very briefly and very gen- 
 erally the real merits of a mind and soul which so incon- 
 trovertible' affected Hie destiny of our country. 
 
 It is my conclusion, expressed not with the tempera- 
 mental consideration with which one regards the dead, 
 but in solemn, stern sincerity, that STONE was one of those 
 mortals in whom the elements so mixed as to produce a 
 
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Address of Mr. Bankhead, op Alabama 
 
 great man. His gift for adroit leadership came of a keen 
 and discriminating intellect, radiating in his speech and 
 action the resiliency of a remarkable mind, and of a deep- 
 seated, ever-abiding vision which gave him uncann\ 
 prescience of how the operations of to-day would .tiled 
 the destiny of to-morrow. And thus it has happened that 
 less ably equipped men have declared in one instant that 
 Stone by a speech or a subtle move on the political 
 checkerboard had wrecked the entire fabric of things; in 
 the next, with the full light of successful issue glowing, 
 they have acclaimed him a strategist of the most excellent 
 talent. 
 
 As a rival manager of a presidential aspirant in the 
 Baltimore convention of 1912 I was constantly aware of 
 the subtle genius of Senator Stone— a genius which but 
 for unexpected and unparalleled defectum in his own 
 ranks would have carved out a notable victory. But when 
 one weighs the relative merits of mind and heart, that 
 genius can not be compared to that fidelity to trust, thai 
 allegiance to duty, which prompted him to submerge and 
 subdue his own great disappointment and assume tin- 
 post of confidential leadership in the victor's administra- 
 tion. For four years, with unvarying faith, he piloted tin- 
 President's legislation through this body, and at the end 
 of that time he was found preparing a platform of such 
 appealing parts that the people of the Nation, won by the 
 spirit of humanity it breathed, were happily induced to 
 give the President a second term. 
 
 Senator Stone, being a man of purpose, was necessarily 
 a man of opinion. As such at certain intervals he found 
 it necessary to think and act for himself. Nothing BO 
 aptly indicates the sincerity of a man as, when driven by 
 honest purpose, he leaves the primrose path of least re- 
 sistance and, bereft of former friends, trudges the rocky 
 road of conviction. And yet such is perverse nature that 
 
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 it is against this very type of man that the world, forget- 
 ful of past service and the certainty of honest differences, 
 turns and inveighs with scorn and contumely. 
 
 Senator Stone in the very twilight of his long service 
 shared this common fate. When he declined to lead the 
 fight for the so-called " armed neutrality " bill he was 
 made the target for the darts of learned critics bursting 
 with the force of their own erudition — innumerable darts 
 tipped with the venom of ridicule, abuse, and slander. 
 And yet, while the storm raged, we who knew Stone and 
 who differed with him knew also that according to his 
 conviction he was right, and that, irrespective of the fate 
 prepared, he could have pursued no other course with 
 honor to lumself. 
 
 For my part, I know that he had readied his conclusion 
 after long contemplation; that he took the unpopular side 
 when on the other great prestige might easily have been 
 gained only because of honest and sincere conviction that 
 the unpopular side was in that emergency the side of right 
 and justice. And, Mr. President, permit me in this day, 
 when the passion of that day has subsided, solemnly to 
 express the opinion that much of that bitter criticism di- 
 rected at Senator Stone was unjust, unkind, and even cruel. 
 And from knowledge of the man I bring testimony that 
 that serenity of countenance — misinterpreted as indiffer- 
 ence — which distinguished him in that trying moment was 
 nothing more or less Hum a manifestation of a resignation 
 which perfectly concealed an inward and permanent hurt. 
 
 He was as some grim stone of the sea on whose surface a 
 raging tempest made impress, but whose base it could not 
 cause lo tremble or its parts to disintegrate. 
 
 Mr. President, 1 am very grateful to a Providence which 
 lias made it possible for me thus to speak of my friend, 
 who lias gone into that peace which surpasses under- 
 standing. 
 
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Address of Mr. Thomas, of Colorado 
 
 Mr. President: For five and twenty years my relations 
 with William Joel Stone were close and cordial. We 
 were intimate and affectionate friends. He was governor 
 of the great State of Missouri when I first met him. 
 Grover Cleveland had just entered upon his second presi- 
 dential term. Economic and financial conditions were 
 sinister and the atmosphere was heavy with portents of 
 an approaching financial earthquake. And the Presi- 
 dent's well-known disapproval of his party's sentiments, 
 emphasized by his aloofness from the influence and co- 
 operation of its leaders and statesmen, justified their 
 apprehension of an impending political cataclysm. 
 
 The crisis came in June with the closure of the Indian 
 mints to the coinage of the silver rupee. Within a very 
 few days thereafter Gov. Stone delivered a masterly ad- 
 dress upon the situation. It clearly analyzed the causes 
 and foretold the consequences of the panic should these 
 causes be ignored or misunderstood and the remedies 
 they plainly outlined be rejected. His message to the 
 people was that of a elear-visioned, farseeing statesman. 
 They hailed it as the voice of a skilled navigator to the 
 pilot, counseling a course that would rob the storm of its 
 perils and lay the Nation to its ancient ways. But the 
 hopes of the people were turned to ashes of disappoint- 
 ment, and the voice of Stone became as that of one crying 
 in the wilderness. The storm descended; the commander 
 pursued his stubborn, unyielding course, and over- 
 whelmed his country in measureless disaster. 
 
 I met Gov. Stone very shortly after this incident, and 
 hastened to express my gratitude for what I conceived 
 to be an incalculable service to the public. lie was then 
 seriously concerned for the immediate future, a concern 
 
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 that was for Uiu country. I early discovered what many 
 
 of his countrymen questioned in after years, that Gov. 
 Stone was a patriot in the highest and hest sense of that 
 much-abused and frequently misunderstood term. He 
 was a radical and uncompromising partisan, but his 
 country, her welfare, her interests, as he understood them, 
 was the influence which above all others commanded his 
 affection and inspired his conduct. His view of service, 
 of her policy, her interest, and her duty might subject 
 him to reproach and obloquy, but they were the fruit of 
 his anxious and deliberate reflective judgment. They 
 might be wrong, but they were his, and he maintained 
 them with all the vigor of courageous conviction. Abuse 
 and misunderstanding might subject him to the denuncia- 
 tion of popular clamor and the rebuke of statesmen, 
 cajolery and persuasion might join witli threat and vitu- 
 peration to force his reluctant hand, but he would bear 
 them all with serene fortitude and with the confidence of 
 certain, though tardy, approval. Failing that, he could 
 go his way unto the end, though he might travel bare- 
 footed and alone. 
 
 I shall not review the long record of Senator Stone's 
 public service. Others have done that and done it well. 
 It was a full and an honorable one — not perfect, for that 
 is never humanly possible. He made mistakes, and they 
 were broad ones, in keeping with his nature and breadth 
 Of vision. They were not the result of impulse, but of 
 earnest and continued reflection. 
 
 His view of America's attitude toward the great war 
 was in the first half of its bloody course unquestionably 
 that of the overwhelming majority of his countrymen, 
 Who shrank from the ordeal of a world conflict with all 
 the intensity of an enlightened peace-loving people. 
 Nothing save (lermany's insensate disregard for neutrals 
 and neutral rights, exemplified many times in acts of 
 
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Address of Mh. Thomas, of Colorado 
 
 apalling horror ami unmindful of repeated warnings, 
 
 could have involved us. 
 
 The crisis finally came with her resumption of indis- 
 criminate submarine warfare, followed by the President's 
 request for authority to arm our merchant ships for de- 
 fense against this deadly form of national piracy. Sen- 
 ator Stone was opposed to granting the desired authority. 
 He felt that the allies had transgressed our rights as a neu- 
 tral power quite as frequently and as flagrantly as had 
 Germany, and that the proposed measure would precipi- 
 tate a war which might yet be avoided without dishonor. 
 No request for additional authority to deal with the allied 
 invasions of our sovereignty had been made and none 
 should he granted in the pending instance. He therefore 
 protested and spoke against the joint resolution clothing 
 the Executive with the desired power. The two situa- 
 tions were, to my mind, fundamentally different He did 
 not think so. and he gave his reasons at length to the Sen- 
 ate at a time when the Congress was rapidly Bearing its 
 close. For this he was unsparingly denounced by a vigor- 
 ous and vindictive chorus of disapproval, whose echoes 
 had not ceased when be passed away. He was accused of 
 filibustering against the resolution. The fact that lie 
 spoke against it for nearly three hours, and that the Con- 
 gress expired before a vote could be reached, gave strong 
 color to the charge. Yet, knowing Senator STONE so well, 
 I feel justified in saying, as I said many times while he 
 was living, that he bad no such purpose. He felt bound 
 to give his reasons for his position, and, as he always did 
 on occasions of unusual importance, he prepared him- 
 self thoroughly and in writing. He was very deliberate 
 in speech; at times painfully so. Except on ran- occa- 
 sions of great excitement, he never hurried. Such a man 
 always requires time for delivery. And Senator SlOMB, 
 without a thought of the fleeting moments and the rapid 
 
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Mi-MoiuAi. Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 approach of the fateful 4th of March, pursued his usual 
 way. It was unfortunate, since the puhlic condemnation 
 was somewhat justified and, protests to the contrary, 
 unavailing. 
 
 But he made no protest. He hore the consequences and 
 met the storm without flinching. Consistently with his 
 view, he cast his vote in the following April against the 
 declaration of a state of war with Germany. The friends 
 who knew him well deplored the fact, while expecting 
 nothing else from a man who seldom changed his convic- 
 tions once they were fully formed. While I regretted the 
 Senator's dissenting vote, I could, from my own experi- 
 ences of the Civil War, understand his point of view. 
 
 During that conflict we were hoth hoys living in the 
 South, and face to face with all its seamy sides. We knew 
 what war meant. We had heen made rudely and daily 
 familiar with its carnage, its waste, its terror, and its de- 
 struction. We could recall the long lists of casualties; the 
 endless processions of the dead; the hordes" of armless, 
 legless, blind, and mutilated survivors of the battle fields; 
 the black badge of universal mourning; the agony of 
 widowed hearts and the tears of orphaned children. We 
 could visualize the returning skeletons of want and hun- 
 ger, the destruction of cities, the laying waste of the coun- 
 try and tlie pillage of the harvests, the hordes of refugees 
 fleeing from the pathway of advancing armies, the thunder 
 of tlie guns, and the shouting. I knew that he shrank with 
 horror from tlie reiniliction of war's curse upon his coun- 
 try, and I would have given my life willingly on that fate- 
 ful Gth of April, did tlie sacrifice avail, to spare the Nation 
 the agony of another war. But it had to come. We could 
 neither stay nor avoid it. The progress of the world had 
 garnered its seeds within her bosom. They were lo germi- 
 nate, to ripen, and be harvested, even as others now dimly 
 
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Address of Mr. Thomas, oi Colorado 
 
 perceived shall grow and be garnered in the fullness of 
 time. 
 
 War having been declared, Senator Stone accepted tin- 
 cast of the die and gave the Government his constant and 
 unfailing support. He voted supplies and men, contrib- 
 uted of his modest substance to war loans, and devoted all 
 his energies while he lived to its vigorous and successful 
 prosecution. He died when the great German offensive of 
 last spring had reached its farthest advance, when Paris 
 laid almost at the Kaiser's feet, and Haig's indomitable 
 Britons, with their backs to the wall, were slowly yielding 
 to his terrific onset for the Channel ports. The allied re- 
 verses of the month preceding his death wrung his heart 
 and filled his mind with anxious forebodings. Doubtless 
 the strain they imposed upon his weakened energies was a 
 contributing cause to his sudden death. 
 
 Senator Stone was one of the most powerful intellects 
 of his generation, one of the strongest men who ever occu- 
 pied a seat in this body. His slow and deliberate speech 
 was in direct contrast to the rapidity of his mental 
 processes. He saw all sides of every problem and, with 
 rare powers of analysis, would quickly resolve it into its 
 most prominent elements. He was a competent judge of 
 men. He was a born political strategist, a debater of the 
 highest order, and one of the most eloquent of men. His 
 voice was clear and penetrating, his words well chosen, 
 his diction perfect. But he was at his best only when 
 absorbed by the ardor of conflict. His talent for contro- 
 versial discussion needed the stimulus of active, if not 
 extreme, opposition. When thoroughly aroused all his 
 faculties were enlisted, and well lie knew how and where 
 to direct them. It was no surprise to those who knew him 
 well that as a candidate soliciting the support of his 
 people he never had been beaten. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 The convention of 1896 blazed a new pathway for the 
 Democratic Party. Rightly or wrongly, it wrote a decla- 
 ration of principles whose advocacy meant aggression. 
 It was do longer defensive or apologetic. That it would 
 rend the party asunder was inevitable. That it would be 
 immediately successful was only possible. That it com- 
 mitted the party to a new and radical propaganda, which 
 it must thereafter acknowledge whether it would or no, 
 was beyond question. 
 
 Gov. Stone was the chairman of the Missouri delegation 
 to that convention, charged with the duty of securing the 
 nomination of the Hon. Richard P. Bland for the Presi- 
 dency. He did not accomplish that, for the unexpected 
 happened; but he did more to shape the course and mold 
 the proceedings of that great convention than any other 
 member of it. If Bryan was its apotheosis, Stone was its 
 soul incarnate. His influence was in the very atmosphere 
 of the committees through which its course was directed. 
 Yet there was no assumption of leadership, no assertion 
 of authority, no contentious wrangling for position. 
 Quietly, constantly, persuasively, and effectively he 
 moved past obstacles, overcame difficulties, compromised 
 differences, and suppressed resentments. It was a turbu- 
 lent assemblage, where passion flamed high and opposi- 
 tion countered hard upon every subject involved in its 
 deliberations, where crimination and recrimination thrust 
 and parried from its commencement to its close. Through 
 the maze of its bitter contentions and animosities the 
 hand of Gov. Stone guided the majority safely and 
 steadily to its goal of ultimate accomplishment. As one 
 of his modest aids on that historic occasion, I here pay my 
 tribute to his consummate powers of leadership and or- 
 ganization. A noted public man before, he now became 
 a national figure and so remained until his death. 
 
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Address of Mb. Thomas, of Colorai 
 
 Had he devoted himself lo his profession Senator 
 Stone would have heen a great lawyer. A mind lured by 
 the attractions of material success would have chosen 
 the har instead of the forum. But he was indifferent to 
 the enticements of fortune. lie died a poor man. That 
 was once the signal distinction of a public official. II is 
 still a most honorable one when the official begins his 
 career without fortune. He lived well and modestly, 
 content with the companionship of wife and children, 
 whom he loved and who loved him in turn. His domestic 
 life was singularly felicitous. Within the charmed circle 
 of his home, companioned by a wife the gentleness and 
 refinement of whose character shone through her counte- 
 nance with the soft radiance of a spiritual beauty which 
 time's effacing fingers can never destroy, and blessed with 
 the affection of their children, he found all the joys that 
 a resentful world would have denied him. His heart, his 
 affections, his hopes, and his fears were centered at liis 
 hearthstone. He has gone, but the record of what he did 
 and what he was remains. By that he will be judged, 
 and judged correctly, when the excitements of a world 
 conflict shall have subsided and passion no longer warps 
 or obscures the opinions, when men, clear visioned and 
 deliberate, can with impartial justice review events and 
 careers in the far perspective of receding years. 
 
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Address of Mr. Gore, of Oklahoma 
 
 Mr. President: It is not my intention to discuss the life 
 or to detail the public services of our distinguished and 
 lamented colleague. That labor of love has been done by 
 those who knew him longer than it was either my privi- 
 lege or my pleasure to know him. 
 
 I desire to pay a word of tribute to one or two of his 
 most distinguishing virtues and to call attention to one or 
 two of the most distinguishing traits of his character. In 
 what I shall say I do not mean to institute any com- 
 parison between physical and moral courage. Each has 
 its value, but they have such different standards of value 
 that no true comparison can be drawn. Physical courage 
 is the more common and may therefore be regarded as 
 the more elemental. Moral courage is the less common, 
 but it can not be regarded as the less admirable virtue. 
 
 Physical courage is all but universal in the kingdom of 
 animal life. It is one of the commonest traits that flesh 
 is heir to. We can almost discern traces of physical brav- 
 ery in the protoplasm, in the stuff that life is made of. 
 We can mark it alike in the cell as well as in the con- 
 quering hero. The microscope reveals deeds of desperate 
 daring even among the denizens of the dewdrop. Phys- 
 ical courage is exhibited among the embattled ants. It is 
 exhibited by the tigress of the jungle as she prowls lor 
 prey. It is displayed by the timorous bird as she defends 
 her nestlings with her life. It was exhibited by the 
 dragons of the prime as they lore each other in their slime. 
 The lion of the desert may be as indifferent to danger 
 and as insensible to fear as a Richard of the Lion Heart. 
 
 Physical bravery springs from instinct rather than 
 reason. Indeed, it conies from elemental instinct. It is 
 the essence out of which comes the Brst law of nature. 
 
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Address of Mk. Gore, of Oklahom 
 
 To our finite vision it does not seem to be ;il all times 
 scrupulous as to the character of its cause. 
 
 We love to believe that "he is thrice armed who hath 
 his quarrel just," and yet by our standard no quarrel is so 
 unjust that may not find champions and defenders willing 
 to sacrifice their lives. This was ever so. We find the 
 savage of the forest quite as willing to die in battle as the 
 phalanx of Greece or the legions of Home. 
 
 Upon the battle field of Chalons the Europeans and the 
 Asiatics joined issue as to which race should control the 
 destinies of western Europe. The Hun and the European 
 died with equal desperation. Upon the bloody Held of 
 Tours the Christian and the Mohammedan submitted 
 their issue to the wager of battle. There they determined 
 which religion should prevail over the future destinies of 
 western Europe; the followers of the Cross and the follow- 
 ers of the Crescent fought and fell with equal devotion. 
 
 In the wilderness of this western world men of English 
 blood laid down their lives to vindicate the self-evident 
 truths of the Declaration of Independence. On the other 
 hand, men of English blood laid down their lives to pre- 
 vent the establishment of this free, this self-governing 
 Republic. 
 
 I say this to prove that every cause may find its cham- 
 pions. I repeat that the despot has been able to find fol- 
 lowers who would sacrifice their lives to perpetuate their 
 own chains. 
 
 In vindicating the principles of freedom our fathers laid 
 down their lives in the noblest cause that can challenge 
 the sacrifices of human nature. The principles typified 
 by the Stars and Stripes have never called in vain for 
 champions or defenders. Those principles will never call 
 in vain for champions or defenders so long as valor is 
 esteemed a virtue and so long as heroism is honored 
 among the sons of men. In defense of these principles the 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senatoh Stone 
 
 undying dead have sought for death, as the bridegroom 
 seeks his bride, and yet with equal alacrity the followers 
 and the minions of tyranny gone to their graves to estab- 
 lish or to perpetuate the reign of the tyrant, the sway of 
 the despot, and the dominion of the autocrat This is not 
 strange. This is no mystery. 
 
 I repeat that physical bravery springs out of elemental 
 instinct. It is one of the conditions of existence. It is 
 the condition of survival. All existing generations of 
 every existing species is the survival of long uncounted 
 centuries of strife and struggle. These are the survivors. 
 They are those who have passed through the crucible of 
 unmitigated strife. In the supreme test the weakling, the 
 coward, the parasite, as a rule, has perished by the way- 
 side. This is the law of the Yukon— that only the strong 
 shall thrive, that surely the weak shall perish, and only 
 the fit survive. This at least was the law of the earlier 
 ages of strife and of combat. 
 
 This law may have been in some measure modified by 
 the improving principles of humanity and of civilization, 
 and yet its reminiscences are seen repeated in the history 
 of the race. 
 
 Moral courage is one of the rarest, one of the finest, I 
 may say one of the divinest, attributes of God's image 
 upon earth. Physical courage characterizes both "man 
 and bird and beast." In its earlier stages it obeys neces- 
 sity or responds to desire. It does not always, even in its 
 later stages, distinguish between " the worse and the bet- 
 ter clause." Moral courage characterizes rational beings 
 alone, bul. unfortunately, even among these it is not uni- 
 versal. It distinguishes between right and wrong and 
 never wittingly prefers the worse to the better cause. 
 Moral courage obeys the still small voice of conscience for 
 conscience' sake. Moral courage obeys the behest of duty 
 
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Address of Mk. Gore, of. Oklahoma 
 
 for duty's sake. Moral courage is alike indifferent to Ihe 
 hiss of the cabbie and the applause of the multitude. 
 
 Physical courage may find rccnforccmcnt in the psy» 
 chology of the crowd, in the psychology of the mob, hut 
 moral courage would rather be right than popular. Moral 
 courage will not consent to he wrong in order to purchase 
 a cheap and transient popularity. Moral coin age is In- 
 different alike to the hisses of the mob and to the threats 
 and the frowns of the mighty. Moral courage is indiffer- 
 ent to the temptations and to the blandishments of power. 
 Moral courage never seeks the line of no resistance; moral 
 courage never seeks the line of least resistance. Moral 
 courage goes where the voice of duty commands. 
 
 Whatever be your faith, let me cite a crucial and his- 
 toric instance. Peter denied his Master once, twice, and 
 thrice before the crowing of the cock. He denied his 
 Master rather than submit himself to the jeers of the ac- 
 cusing crowd. He declared that he never knew Ihe Man. 
 On the other hand, his Master accepted without complaint 
 the agonies alike of Gelhscmane and of Calvary. History 
 has pronounced judgment upon these exhibitions of 
 moral courage. It must always he the temper and must 
 often he the fate of moral courage to drink the hemlock 
 and to wear the crown of thorns. Indeed, sir, I do not 
 know but that the crown of thorns is the official diadem 
 of moral heroism. 
 
 There were many lies which hound me to our late and 
 lamented friend and which hind me to cherish his mem- 
 ory. I use the word " friend " in Ihe highest sense of Ilia I 
 most sacred term. He knew both the art and the philoso- 
 phy of friendship, which was to prove himself a friend. 
 His followers loved him for his undoubted and undeviat- 
 ing fidelity. His antagonists honored him for Ins un- 
 daunted and undeviating chivalry. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stum 
 
 I admired his talents and I honored his public services. 
 He was a practical man; he was a practical statesman. 
 He never lost sight of the elementary needs of men, yet 
 he never forgot the elementary rights of free men. To 
 preserve and perpetuate those rights he was equal to the 
 supremest sacrifice, even to the transient sacrifice of his 
 fair name among those who for the moment misunder- 
 stood. 
 
 "Without turning," he always stood for freedom of 
 thought. He always stood for freedom of speech. He 
 always stood for the freedom of the press — a freedom 
 which was used, which was abused, by some to misrepre- 
 sent if not to slay him. 
 
 I honored him for his moral heroism when occasion 
 called for the exhibition of moral courage. Most of all, 
 I honored him because he was among the few men who 
 dare to speak truth to the people in the presence of the 
 king, and dare to speak truth to the king in the presence 
 of the people. 
 
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Address or Mh. Reed, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. President: I can add nothing to what has been said 
 of Senator Stone, so eloquently, so tenderly, and so sin- 
 cerely said, for I know well that all who have spoken 
 voiced the sentiments of their hearts. 
 
 This man was my friend, the dearest friend I ever had. 
 I have tested his mettle. I have looked into his heart. 
 I have seen his soul. He was as tender a husband, as 
 loving a father, as sincere a friend, as chivalric a gentle- 
 man as you will ever meet. He was as wise a man as I 
 ever knew; he was as brave a man as I ever knew; lie was 
 as patriotic a man as ever lived and walked this earth. 
 
 All his life he gave to his Country. He was not an office 
 seeker, selfishly striving to gain the power or emoluments 
 of position. He was a soldier, who on the battle field of 
 the world enlisted for life in the service of mankind. 
 
 Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of public serv- 
 ants, perhaps I should say of officeholders. There is a 
 class who climb to public position by any ladder thai 
 their feet can touch and who, once seated in a place of 
 power, seek only to maintain it for their selfish profit. 
 These men, having gained position, put ear to ground 
 that they may catch each rumble of popular opinion. 
 They study not the safely of the State. They think alone 
 of how they may keep safe the place they hold. 
 
 What an easy, lazy, selfish task to sit serenely and to 
 never ask "What is the right?" "What does my country 
 need?" but "What is best for me, that I, forsooth, may 
 cling to power, gathering the loaves and fishes of (lie place 
 I have?" 
 
 Such men as I am now discussing frequently secure the 
 very acme of public praise. Forever drifting with the 
 stream, their course is without opposition, and they enjoy 
 the tranquillity of uselessness. We find them basking in 
 
Memorial Addresses: Senator Stont 
 
 the sun. They, therefore, never feel the chill of adverse 
 winds. As they are hut the echo of the crowd, its gener- 
 ous applause rings constant in their ears. Such a course 
 requires neither courage nor talent. A fair ahility to 
 guess what may for the hrief hour he popular is all that 
 is required. They do not serve the State, humanity, or 
 God; they serve themselves alone. 
 
 But there arc others, sir, and happily many, who place 
 the call of duty above all selfish ends. We find them 
 everywhere. The faithful servitor in private life who 
 thinks more of his master's welfare than of the dollars 
 he is paid. Such service is beyond a money price. The 
 faithful officer of the country who makes its interest para- 
 mount and to it gives the best energies of his life. Such 
 men are guardians of the portals of the State. There 
 also is the man who, filling a great post of public trust, 
 thinks only of what his duty is, who does not pause to 
 count the cost to his poor self, but, keeping mind and eye 
 fixed on the stars of justice and of truth, steers the 
 straight course of honor. Such a man is statesman, friend 
 of country and humanity, and such alone do serve their 
 country well. 
 
 It has been well said here to-day how absolutely Sena- 
 tor Stone devoted bis life to public service, Notwith- 
 standing the fact that his conspicuous abilities as a law- 
 yer rendered his career at the bar one certain of the most 
 brilliant achievements, lie early abandoned that lucrative 
 profession to serve his country in the Congress. I shall, 
 in the sketch of his life later to he presented, call atlen- 
 tion to his activities in the House of Representatives. I 
 characterize them now by one statement: His every vote 
 
 ;is a Member of the House of Representatives may be 
 examined, his every speech may be read, and there is not 
 one VOte thai Was not cast, there is not one speeeli thai 
 was not made, in defense of the plain, common people of 
 
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Address of Mn. Reed, ok Missoi eu 
 
 this land, in support of our country's rights, in vindication 
 of those great, fundamental principles of democracy and 
 of republicanism that have made this country the laud of 
 freedom, progress, and happiness. 
 
 From his fight to recover for our Government the lands 
 that thieves had stolen hy the hundreds of thousands of 
 acres, on through his career in the House his every act, 
 his every vote, his every thought was upon the side of the 
 people of the United States. No menacing power of 
 wealth, no sinister influence, no consideration of self 
 ever caused him to swerve a hair's breadth from the plain, 
 straight path of duty to his country. 
 
 He became governor of the State of Missouri. Here I 
 want to give to my associates a chapter out of his life 
 which will show how long he suffered under unjust 
 charges, under villainous criticism, and the causes for it. 
 
 With shame I say that my great State, like many other 
 States of the Union, had in its legislative branch come too 
 much within the influence of a corrupt railroad lobby. It 
 was at that period when railroad officials conceived it to 
 be their duty, or at least their interest, to seek to prevent 
 legislation, however wholesome, hy employing devious 
 practices upon legislative bodies. Passes were handed out 
 in great bales to legislators and their families. The rail- 
 road lobbyist was looked for hy certain classes almost as 
 the pay car by the regular employees of the railroad. It 
 was under such conditions Senator STONE dared to de- 
 mand that the Missouri Legislature should pass a fellow- 
 servant hill which would abrogate the ancient and brutal 
 common-law rule that an employee could not recover for 
 injuries if they had been inflicted through the ear. 1. ssm sa 
 of a fellow servant. The defense that had been made in 
 hundreds of thousands of lawsuits had lilt many a 
 brave man's widow without a dollar to live Upon. It had 
 turned into the street as paupers thousands of orphans 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senatob Stoni 
 
 whose fathers, in the effort to save the passengers drawn 
 by their engines, heroically died at their posts of duty. 
 
 String their ancient legal fortress impaired, the railroad 
 lobby rallied. The struggle was intense, bitter, and re- 
 lentless. In the end the lobby was powerful enough to de- 
 feat the bill. In a message sternly demanding that the 
 lobby should not be permitted to influence legislative ac- 
 tion Senator Stone again demanded the enactment of the 
 bill. So bitter was his castigation of the methods em- 
 ployed that he incurred the personal enmity of the mem- 
 bers of the lobby and all of its numerous and powerful 
 allies. 
 
 It was because of this service for humanity and the 
 State that he became the victim of their slander and their 
 abuse, which ran to such supreme heights and was carried 
 on with such illimitable vindictiveness that many men 
 were led to believe the foul slanders that were coined in 
 the hearts of the criminals against whom our revered 
 friend had sought to protect the State he loved and 
 served. 
 
 Most of the actors in that drama are dead and gone. I 
 shall not further dwell upon the theme. In Missouri, 
 where the real truth is known, the people understand that 
 there is not a blot or stain upon the honorable and pure 
 career of Wii.i.iam Joel Stone. From his labors at last 
 came the statute that gave relief against the hardships of 
 the old common-law rule. By his sturdy blows the lobby 
 and the corrupt elements that had infested bur capital were 
 
 given their first gnat defeat, a defeat which ultimately re- 
 sulted in their extermination. When Gov. Stone engaged 
 in that conflict he knew the cost; but then, as at all other 
 times, he stood square fronted to the storm and did not for 
 
 a moment flinch. 
 
 When lie left the otlice of governor this man with these 
 BUperb talents, who COUld have se.lel bis time' at any price, 
 
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Address of Mr. Reed, of MISSOURI 
 
 was in debt thousands of dollars, without, I believe, a 
 hundred dollars' worth of property of any kind. 
 
 He engaged for two or three years in the practice of 
 law, and in that short period was able to pay off all Un- 
 dents he owed and lay by what might almost have been 
 a competence to some men. When he again entered tin- 
 public service his little fortune melted away like snow 
 before the sun. He served until the end of his life in this 
 body and died so poor that substantially all he left to the 
 family he loved was a little life insurance policy. 
 
 Briefly, let me refer to his labors as a Senator: 
 
 Men of the Senate, you have seen him toil unremittingly 
 by day. You know how he labored in committees far into 
 the night. When, some three years ago, the great finance 
 bill was pressing, he undoubtedly broke his health by the 
 tremendous labor he underwent. At that time he sur- 
 vived a sick spell that threatened to bring the end. He 
 never was strong again; and yet he came to this body 
 when he was so feeble that he could scarcely walk. He 
 sat with his committees. He toiled and wrought unceas- 
 ingly. Not a detail of duty was allowed to escape his 
 vigilance and industry. And so, worn out and troubled, 
 this old soldier serving a life enlistment in the army of 
 patriotism, came to answer the question that has been so 
 often referred to to-day, " Is it my duty to vote to plunge 
 my country into the great European war or is it my duty 
 to seek to hold her back? " 
 
 I know his heart on that. I talked with him. I said to 
 him : 
 
 It is the decree of fate; war will be declared. A vote against 
 
 it will mean your political ruin. You are old and you have DO 
 property. 
 
 I wish— great God of justice, how I wish! all the people 
 of his State could have looked into his eyes a> I was look- 
 ing then and could have seen his soul as I saw it revealed 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Si 
 
 and could have heard his voice, tremulous with emotion, 
 
 as he answered : 
 
 I know what it means to me. I know this war is coming. I 
 know the people are aflame with the spirit of battle. I know that 
 it is inevitable; but would you have me consider my personal 
 welfare in a case that involves the lives of millions of men, the 
 heartaches of countless mothers, the breaking up of homes? I 
 can not vote to send our boys into this conflict, to involve our 
 country in this struggle, the end of which we can not see, and 
 the results of which to our country and our civilization we can 
 not prophecy. I can not so vote until further efforts have been 
 made to avert the fearful sacrifices. 
 
 And so lie cast his vote against the declaration of war. 
 
 Was it not a brave thing to do? Had he voted for war, 
 he would not have beep voting to send himself to war or 
 into any danger. He would have been acclaimed a great 
 leader. When he voted against war, he voted his own 
 crucifixion for months; perhaps forever. Had he voted 
 for war, he would not have voted to send his own son, 
 for he was a distinguished Federal judge, beyond the age 
 to be sent to war. 
 
 He would not have voted to send a single close per- 
 sonal relative so far as I know. He was not thinking of 
 himself. He was thinking of the sons of other fathers, 
 the grown-up " babies " of other mothers, the hushands 
 of wives, the fathers of children who would die on dis- 
 tant battle fields. He was looking at tlic orphans that 
 were to he, the army of cripples that would soon march 
 across our land. He was thinking of our country and 
 the dangers that lurked alter the war as well as in the 
 war. 
 
 So he endured the torture of attack, the obloquy of 
 
 slander, the shafts of ahusc, and stood up bravely and 
 without shrinking. Hut as the war went on each day he 
 gave his thought, his heart, his energy to the success of 
 
Addrbss of Mu. Reed, op Mi 
 
 the American Army. I Bay here whal lias already been, 
 in substance, said, it was the grim advance of Germany's 
 hosts that did much to break him down and to hasten the 
 inevitable end. Day after day I was in his office, calling 
 generally in the morning, finding him there almost in- 
 variably pacing the floor. In bis band a newspaper de- 
 scribing how the French were being driven back and 
 back and how the gallant English were being forced to 
 retreat; telling of assaults with poison gas and deadly 
 shells that broke the heroic ranks of our allies and car- 
 peted the ground with thousands of their gallant dead. 
 
 I saw him then and know bow his soul agonized. I 
 know how his body quivered with excitement and sym- 
 pathy for our friends and for our cause. It was not hard 
 then to discover that the old patriot and lover of his coun- 
 try could not longer withstand the agony. At last the 
 strain became too great, the vital cord snapped. In the 
 fullness of his intellectual power, at the zenith of his 
 greatness, he halted. His work for country and for hu- 
 manity had ceased. 
 
 There is no speech or tongue that can quite do justice to 
 a life like his. Faithful to friends and true to every trust, 
 through life's long battle he fronted every foe. His arm 
 was never lowered in the strife. He never struck an un- 
 kind or ungenerous blow. He folded the mantle of honor 
 about him and laid down upon life's battle field and sank 
 into that peaceful slumber death brings the brave. There 
 is no stain or taint upon bis life, and at its end bis friends 
 and all the world can write. "Well done, thou good and 
 faithful servant." 
 
 I present a brief sketch of the public service of Sena- 
 tor William Joel Stone: 
 
 Senator Stom: was a Member of the Forty-ninth, Fif- 
 tieth, and Fifty-first Congresses, his term beginning March 
 4, 1885, and closing March 4, 181)1. 
 
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Mkmokiai. Ai)hhi:sses: Senatob Stone 
 
 During his term in the House he was a member of the 
 Puhlic Lands Committee, of the Selective Committee on 
 Reform in the Civil Service, and a selective committee 
 appointed to investigate the labor troubles in Pennsyl- 
 vania in 1888. 
 
 His work in Congress was principally identified with 
 (1) public lands; (2) reformation of the civil service; (3) 
 amendments to the Judicial Code, having in mind the 
 restriction of jurisdiction of the then United States circuit 
 court; (4) opposition to fraudulent pensions; (5) river 
 and harbor improvement; (6) repeal of silver-purchase 
 law; (7) tariff reduction; (8) opposition to the force bill. 
 
 (1) Public lands: His services in respect to public lands 
 were in connection with two great measures. One of 
 these measures, which was not introduced by him but in 
 which he took a very prominent part, was the repeal of 
 the then existing laws respecting the acquirement of pub- 
 lic lands. At this particular time a vast amount of the 
 land being preempted or taken under the different land 
 laws was being fraudulently acquired. It was estimated 
 by Land Office officials that all the way from 70 to 95 per 
 cent of the entries were fraudulent. A large amount, 
 literally hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable min- 
 eral, grazing, and timber lands were being thus accumu- 
 lated by speculators in utter defiance of the wording and 
 spirit of tlie land laws and. of course, to the detriment of 
 the bona fide settler and entryman. The law in question, 
 if adopted, would have had the double effect of protect- 
 ing past frauds and making future fraudulent ads easy 
 and safe. Against this proposition he fought during the 
 entire three terms. His speeches upon this subject may 
 lie found in the Records of the Forty-ninth Congress, first 
 session, page 7161; Forty-ninth Congress, second session, 
 page 201*:'»: Fiftieth Congress, first session, pages 5561, 
 
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Address of Mr. Reed, of Mi 
 
 5568, 5573, 5596, and 5606. They were models of research, 
 logic, and forensic ability of the highest type 
 
 The second measure affecting the public lands with 
 which he was identified, and, in fact, the author, was a bill 
 providing for the forfeiture by various railroads of land 
 granted by the Government in aid of railway construction 
 under certain conditions, which conditions had not been 
 complied with by the railway companies. In other words, 
 the return to the Government of donated land which had 
 not been earned in accordance with the terms of the do- 
 nation. These forfeiture bills involved something like 
 60,000,000 acres of land. After a fight which he led. last- 
 ing five years, the most of these laws were passed in sub- 
 stance and there was returned to the public domain ap- 
 proximately 60,000,000 acres for settlement, thus afford- 
 ing homes and farms for 375,000 settlers. 
 
 His speeches upon this matter may be found in the 
 Records of the Fiftieth Congress, first session, pages 5-136, 
 5439, 5440, and 7039-7044; Fiftieth Congress, second ses- 
 sion, pages 2674-2676; Fifty-first Congress, first session, 
 pages 7002-7012. 
 
 These speeches show the ability of a gnat lawyer, a pro- 
 found reasoner, and give conclusive evidence of Senator 
 Stone's hatred of everything tainted with unfairness or 
 dishonesty. They brought him into national prominence. 
 Changes in the land laws affecting Oklahoma public lands 
 which would have made speculation and fraud easj ! 
 Fifty-first Congress, first session, pages 2210-2213, 
 2216, 2218. 
 
 (2) Restriction of United States courts:* He had been 
 very much impressed by the injustice of the imprisonment 
 of county judges in Missouri who had refused to vote tax 
 levies to pay the old fraudulent railway bonds. Two of 
 the counties involved —Cass and St. Clair— were in his con- 
 gressional district. He was impressed deeply with the 
 
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Mi:\ioiuai. Annul. ssi s : Sinaihii Stoni 
 
 conviction thai the United States courts, in issuing writs 
 controlling the acts of State officials in their duties under 
 State laws, were exceeding their constitutional powers 
 
 and were breaking down the sovereignty of the State as 
 guaranteed under the Constitution. He regarded it as of 
 
 paramount importance to the welfare of the country thai 
 
 neither the National Government nor the States should 
 he deprived of any of the powers granted in the Consti- 
 tution. He believed that the tendency in the courts was 
 toward a centralization of power and a crippling in an 
 
 unwarranted and unconstitutional manner of the powers of 
 the State. This he found exemplified in the change of the 
 attitude by the Supreme Court of the United States in the 
 matter of following the State court interpretation and con- 
 struction of State laws and constitutions and in the writs 
 issued to State officers as above. The latter evil had been 
 brought, as I have said, vividly to his mind through the 
 imprisonment of these county judges, who under the ex- 
 isting law were not only powerless to issue (lie orders 
 Levying the taxes in accordance with the judgment of the 
 United States court but would have made themselves 
 liable to heavy penalties had they done so. He therefore 
 introduced a hill providing that "The jurisdiction of the 
 district and circuit courts of the United States shall not be 
 deemed to extend to any judicial or other officer elected or 
 
 appointed under the laws of any Slate to compel by man- 
 damus or other writ the performance by such officer of 
 any official act arising under or authorized to he done by 
 the laws of such State." Upon the 5th of January, 1886, 
 
 he lor the first time introduced hills. One of these was 
 the above, affecting United States courts. In every session 
 thereafter he introduced this same measure and fought 
 for its adoption. The speeches made in support of it are 
 powerful and seemingly unansw erahlc constitutional argu- 
 ments; they may In found in the Record of the Forty-ninth 
 
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ADDRBSS ok Mit. Hi;i;d, OF MlSSOl hi 
 
 Congress, second session, page L459, and the Fiftieth Con- 
 gress, first session. 
 
 It may be of interest in tins connection to say that, al- 
 though unsuccessful in having this law adopted, lie con- 
 tinued the fight during his term as governor, sending to 
 the legislature a special message requesting the memori- 
 alization of Congress touching the matter and the pas- 
 sage of a law which would permit the governor, in any 
 case where the county judge was incapacitated hy im- 
 prisonment or otherwise to act, to appoint a commis- 
 sioner to do any and only such specified acts as the gov- 
 ernor might designate and who should remain in office 
 only until those acts were performed. This recommen- 
 dation passed the house of representatives hut was killed 
 in the State senate hy what was denominated in the news- 
 papers at that time as the " hondholders' friends." 
 
 (3) Fraudulent pensions: At the time he was serving in 
 the House of Representatives a vast number of hills pen- 
 sioning named persons were passed. This was done to 
 such an extent that Friday night of each week was set 
 aside and devoted to that purpose. Farly in the first 
 session of the Fifty-first Congress he began to oppose 
 such of these bills as he regarded as fraudulent and un- 
 worthy. This opposition was unusual, startling, and dar- 
 ing, since it in a way challenged the opposition of the 
 old soldier vote, of which vote he had a very large num- 
 ber in his district. The position he took in regard to these 
 bills was that each claim should be carefully considered 
 upon its merits, the worthy claims allowed and the un- 
 worthy disallowed. He undertook the enormous task of 
 investigating the great number of these claims in detail, 
 and so effective was his exposure of the fraudulent char- 
 acter of many of them that during that term, which was 
 his last in the House, the evil was effectually abated. 
 His position on these matters attracted wide attention all 
 
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 over the country and, except from selfish or partisan 
 sources, met with universal approval. Some of his re- 
 marks upon these matters may be found in the Record 
 of the Fifty-first Congress, first session, pages 2502-2509, 
 2763, 2254-2259, 2773, 3012, 3516. 
 
 (4) River and harbor improvement: Beginning with his 
 first session in Congress and extending through the time 
 he was in the House of Representatives he vigorously 
 opposed provisions in the river and harbor bill appro- 
 priating money for the improvement of inconsequential 
 streams. His position upon such improvements was ex- 
 pressed in the following sentence: 
 
 I would improve nothing by national legislation except impor- 
 tant harbors and the important rivers of the country. (49th 
 Cong., 2d sess., p. 921.) 
 
 His speeches upon this subject may be found in the 
 Record, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, page 4246; 
 Forty-ninth Congress, second session, page 920; Fiftieth 
 Congress, first session, pages 3208, 3255, 3259-3261. The 
 final part of the first speech made upon this subject, found 
 in the Record, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, page 
 1216, is rich with rare humor and is well worthy to stand 
 beside Proctor Knott's famous Duluth speech. 
 
 (5) Repeal of silver purchase law: At this time the 
 United Slates Government purchased so much silver annu- 
 ally. During the terms he served the House there was a 
 violent fight over the repeal of this law, which would have 
 resulted in Ihe total demonetization of silver. Upon this 
 question he took a strong stand against the repeal of the 
 purchase clause. The first speech he ever made in Con- 
 gress was in opposition. The first sentence, so far as the 
 Record shows, which he uttered in Congress was the be- 
 ginning of this speech, as follows: 
 
 Mr. Speaker, 1 take it that Statesmanship is never directed to 
 better purpose than when it aspires to make the great masses of 
 people contented and happy. (49th Cong., 1st sess., p. 2603.) 
 
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Address of Mr. Reed, of Blisso 
 
 His speeches upon this matter are found in the Record 
 
 of the Forty-ninth Congress, first session, page l>6o;5; l'ilty- 
 first Congress, first session, page 5807. 
 
 It was undoubtedly Stone's great influence which tipped 
 the balance of Democratic opinion in favor of the ticket of 
 free and unlimited coinage of silver. Stoni: was an ar- 
 dent advocate of the nomination of Mr. Rland for Presi- 
 dent at the 1896 convention. Whatever may he the 
 opinion as to the wisdom of the free and unlimited coin- 
 age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, it is now practically 
 admitted that the interests of the country demanded an 
 increased volume of money. It is not too much to say that 
 whether or not free and unlimited coinage of silver was 
 a correct principle it was a sounder doctrine than that 
 the currency should remain stationary and contracted 
 This hattle waged on behalf of the people undoubtedly 
 hrought good fruit in later years and did much toward 
 the final currency and hanking reform under which the 
 Nation now prospers. 
 
 (6) Tariff reduction: He was at all times strongly iu 
 favor of a reduction of the tariff to a strictly revenue 
 basis. His views upon that matter may he found in the 
 Record, Fiftieth Congress, first session, pages 3856, 1869. 
 
 (7) Force hill: Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, was Speaker 
 of the Fifty-first Congress, and it was during that Con- 
 gress the Republicans introduced and attempted to pass 
 the infamous force hill, which contemplated the complete 
 control of elections by Federal officials military, if 
 necessary. This hill was aimed to perpetuate in power 
 the Republican Party by giving over the control of the 
 South. No congressional measure in my memory has 
 engendered the bitterness in congressional debate which 
 this bill aroused. In both sessions of this Congress be 
 made speeches against the bill. In the last of these 
 speeches he did much to compass the defeat of the hill. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 Lovers of forensic eloquence would do well to read that 
 
 speech. It is found in the Record, Fifty-first Congress, 
 second session, page 1211. The other speech is found in 
 the Record, Fifty-first Congress, first session, page 08 18. 
 
 Other matters of importance upon which he expressed 
 himself were as follows: 
 
 (a) In connection with a hill providing for arbitration 
 between interstate carriers ami their employees he in- 
 dorsed labor organization and advocated the ownership 
 by the Government of railways and telegraphs. (Record, 
 49th Cong., 1st scss.. Appendix, .p. 54.) 
 
 (b) He favored the irrigation of arid areas. (Record, 
 49th Cong., 2d scss., p. 8480.) 
 
 (c) He bitterly attacked "Czar" Reed's abuse of 
 powers as Speaker of the House. (51st Cong., 1st sess., 
 Appendix, p. 45.) 
 
 (d) He voted for and advocated an act prohibiting the 
 importation and sale of convict-labor-made articles. 
 
 (e) The report, partially prepared by him, made by the 
 selective committee on existing labor troubles in Penn- 
 sylvania in 1888 was such a thorough exposure of the 
 unparalleled conditions of labor in that State that it 
 attracted national attention and comment. 
 
 The distinguished services rendered by Mr. Stone as a 
 Member of Congress made him the logical Democratic 
 nominee for governor. He filled that important position 
 from 18915 to 1897. 
 
 His entire administration was stormy and eventful. 
 This was due [tartly from conditions affecting Missouri 
 along with (he entire country and partly from conditions 
 peculiar to Missouri at that time. Among the former 
 may he noted the financial stringency and panic and wide- 
 spread laboi disturbances on a great scale, including the 
 
 American Railway Union strike and miners' strike. 
 Among the latter conditions may he noted the marked re- 
 
ADDRESS op Mh. Reed, op MISSOURI 
 
 duction in the State revenues, the powerful railroad lobby 
 
 which had control of the Legislature, and frauds in dic- 
 tions in the big cities of the State. 
 
 The effect of the general nation-wide financial situa- 
 tion needs no comment. 
 
 There was widespread industrial discontent at the time, 
 which included not only the railway and mine strikes 
 noted above hut the famous Coxey movement. The re- 
 sult of these disturbances was that the military arm of 
 the State was called out in many States of the Union, 
 including the three Missouri boundary States — Kansas. 
 Iowa, and Illinois. Although Missouri was a gnat rail- 
 road and a great mining State, and these disturbances 
 were as powerful there as in other States, the situation 
 was so controlled that disturbances were reduced to the 
 minimum and at no time was it necessary to declare 
 martial law at any point or to call out the Stale troops. 
 This was the result, of course, of his firm bul rational 
 handling of the situation. 
 
 The reduction of the State revenue began about the first 
 of his administration. Under the State constitution tin- 
 rate of taxation for State purposes automatically changed 
 from 20 to 15 mills when the assessed valuation reached 
 $900,000,000. Up to the beginning of his administration 
 the assessed valuation had been a few millions under 
 $900,000,000, thus afTording the maximum revenue. 
 About the beginning of his administration il passed to a 
 few million beyond the $900,000,000 mark, resulting in a 
 loss of one-fourth of the lax rate with no compensating 
 increase in the assessed valuation. Also, in 1892, jusl be- 
 fore the beginning of his term, tin- main building of the 
 State University had burned, and during his administra- 
 tion the normal buildings at one of the normal schools 
 had also been destroyed by fire. In the face of this finan- 
 cial condition the affairs of the State were so handled 
 
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 that not only were all State needs met, repairs and addi- 
 tions to the eleemosynary and educational institutions 
 made, including the present main building at the State 
 University, but the State bonded debt was very materially 
 decreased. At the beginning of his term this bonded debt 
 amounted to $6,680,000, consisting of $1,380,000 at 6 per 
 cent and $5,300,000 at 3i per cent. 
 
 During this administration all of the 6 per cent bonds 
 were paid off and $300,000 of the 3§ per cent bonds, thus 
 reducing the bonded debt by $1,680,000, disposing of all 
 of the higher per cent bonds and reducing the annual 
 interest demand by almost $100,000. As important items 
 in connection with this subject it may be said that the 
 reduction of the annual revenue through the change of 
 rate of taxation was about $500,000 and that during this 
 time nearly $800,000 was expended in connection with 
 additions and repairs at educational and eleemosynary 
 institutions. 
 
 For years the railroad lobby had exercised a potential 
 influence over the State legislature. The fight with this 
 lobby began shortly after his induction into office through 
 his attempt to have enacted a railway fellow-servants' 
 law. The fight became bitter and personal, with the re- 
 sult that for the first time in many years the lobby was 
 driven from power, and although they prevented the 
 enaction of the fellow-servants' law during his adminis- 
 tration his work had been so effective that it was forced 
 through by the first legislature after he left office. 
 
 There had been prior to and during his term of office 
 notorious election frauds in the large cities of the State. 
 He urged and secured the passage of fair election laws 
 which tended to minimize this evil. 
 
 He proved himself the friend of the public-school sys- 
 tem of the State and a champion of the university, send- 
 ing to the legislature a special message upon the latter 
 
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Address of Mk. Reed, of Missoi hi 
 
 subject in which he favored the establishment of ;i mi1>- 
 stantial endowment fund. As stated in the discussion of 
 his record in the House of Representatives, lie sought to 
 relieve the situation brought about in St. Clair and other 
 counties by the imprisonment of the county judges, send- 
 ing a special message to the legislature in that regard, ad- 
 vocating a memorial to Congress upon the subject, and 
 a law empowering the Government to appoint a commis- 
 sioner with special powers to carry on such parts of the 
 duties of the county court as might be designated by the 
 governor and which were necessary to prevent the paral- 
 ysis of the affairs of the counties. 
 
 During his term as governor he took a very prominent 
 part in State and national politics. Among the subjects 
 in question to which he devoted himself was the silver 
 question, with which you are familiar. Others were as 
 follows : 
 
 During his term the American Protective Association 
 reached the zenith of power. This was an organization 
 whose sole purpose was to oppose the holding of public 
 office by any Catholic. R introduced into politics the 
 religious issue, and seems unquestionably, at least in Mis- 
 souri, to have been allied with the Republican Party. R 
 became very formidable and public men were careful in 
 opposing it. He, however, declared vigorously against it, 
 denouncing it in unmeasured terms as un-American and 
 fighting it so effectively that the Democratic convention 
 of 1894 adopted as a plank in its platform a denuncia- 
 tion of the organization. The fact that he was bitterly 
 denounced for this action and received a great number of 
 letters threatening his life had the, with him, natural re- 
 sult of increasing his opposition. 
 
 Out of all his speeches I am sure he would have me 
 select for preservation here these words which he uttered 
 in the Missouri campaign of 1894. He would desire to 
 
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 have them preserved because he spoke them out of the 
 fullness of his heart; because they mirrored his broad, 
 generous soul and his true Americanism: 
 
 Thomas Jefferson was the father of the Democratic Party. On 
 his tomb is an inscription which he had written for himself, 
 " The author of the statute of religious freedom of the State of 
 Virginia." 
 
 There are men within the hearing of my voice now, I doubt 
 not, who recollect how the so-called Know-nothing Party rose 
 up and became a political potentiality in the forties. Its objects 
 were twofold— to deny the ballot to citizens born outside the 
 United States and to Catholics the right to hold an office. And 
 the first Democratic national convention, after this organization 
 arose, denounced it as un-American, wrong in principle, as an 
 attack upon the liberty of the individual and the integrity of our 
 institutions. The Republican Party shortly afterwards nomi- 
 nated a President and Vice President and formulated a platform. 
 But it said not one word in denunciation of that Know-nothing 
 movement. It dodged the issue and said nothing. It has been 
 prone to this policy ever since. Fellow citizens, that political 
 party is not worth your vote or mine that hesitates to do right, no 
 matter what comes of it. 
 
 I denounce this present know-nothing movement, this A. P. A., 
 as our party has denounced it, because it is un-Democralic, un- 
 American, and un-Christian. It is un-Democratic because it is 
 inequitable and unjust. 11 is un-American because it is contrary 
 to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, which 
 provides that no religious test shall ever he required to the hold- 
 ing of public office. And a similar provision is written in the 
 fundamental law of our own Commonwealth. Finally, 1 have 
 it with you all if it is not un-Christian. I do not speak to-night 
 from the standpoint of a Catholic. I am not a Catholic. By birth, 
 by marriage, by conviction 1 am a Protestant; 1 speak from the 
 standpoint of an American citizen, a Democrat, and a man. 
 
 He championed the ri^hls ..f the States and of local gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 He also advocated the construction of a deep waterway 
 
 from the Lakes to the Gulf, with improvement of the 
 Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. 
 
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Address of Mu. Reed, of Mi 
 
 In September, 1891. in a speech at Carthage, he Btrongrj 
 
 advocated the popular election of United States Senators. 
 
 At the annual banquet of the New York Board of Trade 
 
 and Transportation at Dehnonico's in April, 1894, as guest 
 
 of honor, he responded to the toast of " The Western Point 
 of View." His speech was a eulogy of the greatness of the 
 West, which he loved, and of the political and patriotic 
 necessity of a combination of the West and South against 
 the East to secure fair national treatment unless the East 
 would recognize the situation and accord it. This speech 
 attracted national attention and placed him among the 
 presidential possibilities widely discussed. 
 
 Senator Stone's career is fresh in the minds of those 
 who meet to-day to pay respect to his memory. Never- 
 theless, for the sake of history, I shall very briefly review 
 some of his principal acts in the Senate during the years 
 he sat here in this Chamber exercising a potential influ- 
 ence upon public events. 
 
 William J. Stone entered the Senate March 1, 1903, 
 succeeding George Graham Vest, Missouri's renowned 
 " Senator of two Republics," whose service in the United 
 States Senate covered an eventful period of 18 years. 11 
 is well known in the political history of Missouri that Mr. 
 Stone could have been elected to the Senate in 1897 upon 
 bis retirement from the governorship. It is known that 
 he declined the overtures made by Democratic leaders in 
 the legislature because of his profound respect for the 
 towering abilities of Senator Vest and because he con- 
 sidered the distinguished services of Vest merited contin- 
 ued tenure in the Senate. It was not until Mr. Vest an- 
 nounced his forthcoming retirement that Gov. STONE con- 
 sented to become a candidate for senatorial honors. He 
 was elected by the legislature in January, 1903, following 
 a caucus nomination of his own party, without opposition, 
 his only opponent having withdrawn upon the eve of the 
 ballot. 
 
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 His senatorial career began with the special session of 
 the Senate in the Fifty-eighth Congress, called in March, 
 1903, to consider the Cuban reciprocity treaty. His first 
 entry into senatorial debate was on January 20, 1901, with 
 an address upon the Panama Canal treaty concluded with 
 the new-fledged Republic of Panama by the Roosevelt 
 administration. The debates upon this treaty were 
 largely conducted in the open Senate through the medium 
 of resolutions touching the controversy presented by 
 various Senators. Senator Stone drew the attention of 
 his new colleagues by a clear, incisive discussion of the 
 somewhat unusual features of the revolution out of which 
 the new government had sprung. He supported the 
 treaty, accepting the opportunity to advance the great 
 canal project, of such great concern to Americans, but 
 condemned the methods he believed to have preceded the 
 separation of Panama from Colombia, urging a more 
 liberal policy in dealing with the Latin American nations. 
 His words upon this occasion were prophetic, suggestive 
 of a new policy in our relations with Central and South 
 American States, a policy now generally approved and 
 accepted as both wise and just. Among other things, he 
 said: 
 
 The true policy of this Government with reference to the Re- 
 puhlics south of us would lead us on different and higher lines. 
 We should so comport ourselves as to inspire the confidence of 
 our neighbors. They should not stand in dread of our power, hut 
 rely upon it as a shield for their protection. We should link them 
 by bonds of mutual amity and interest. What boots the Monroe 
 doctrine to them if it stands only to guard them against European 
 aggression, while the door is open for us to invade at pleasure? 
 
 If I .mild be potent in shaping our policy in this behalf, I 
 would be governed by one supreme consideration — that of at- 
 tracting the southern Republics to us by a course instinct with 
 the spirit of candor, justice, and fair play. I would enter into 
 such compacts with them as would promote our commercial re- 
 lations and make them for all practical purposes, offensive and 
 
Address of Mr. Heed, of Missouri 
 
 defensive, a part of us. I would strive to inaugurate great repub- 
 lican policies of government — monetary, commercial, and politi- 
 cal — common to all America, and these I would oppose, if need 
 be, to the monarchical policies of the Old World, 
 
 Senator Stone received exceptionally good committee 
 assignments, including places on the Commerce, Indian 
 Affairs, Philippines, Public Buildings, and Education and 
 Lahor Committees, all active, important hodies. At that 
 time, with the Indian prohlem in an acute stage, prior to 
 statehood for Oklahoma and the Indian Territory, his 
 assignment to the Indian Affairs Committee, of which lie 
 afterwards hecame chairman, was particularly important. 
 Many thousands of Missourians were residents of the I wo 
 Territories named, and these people naturally regarded 
 Mr. Stone as their representative. Accordingly he took 
 an active interest in all legislation dealing with the settle- 
 ment of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, sponsoring 
 and advocating many constructive measures vital to the 
 people of the Southwest. Among these were bills looking 
 to the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of the 
 surplus lands of full-fledged citizens; the control of the 
 sale and leasing of mineral lands in the Territory so as to 
 protect the Indian, prevent unscrupulous exploitation, and 
 at the same time promote the legitimate development of a 
 region of marvelous growth and prospect. He exposed 
 and thwarted many designs of speculators and lobbyists 
 who sought to profit at the expense of the Indian and this 
 new country. Statehood was then the vital issue in the 
 Territories, and, though not a member of the Territories 
 Committee, he consistently advocated and voted for state- 
 hood, preferring separate statehood, but finally supporting 
 the only possible measure that could be passed, under 
 which Oklahoma was admitted into the Union. In con- 
 nection with his consideration of the Indian problem he 
 strongly supported the established policy of Congress and 
 
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 the Government in suppressing the liquor traffic among 
 the Indian tribes and was the author of the self-enforcing 
 prohibitory provision afterwards incorporated into the 
 Oklahoma constitution, known as the Gallinger-Stone 
 amendment to the statehood enabling act. 
 
 Through his light with the railroad lobby in Missouri 
 he had become familiar with the evil effects of corpora- 
 tion activity in politics. He had succeeded in securing the 
 adoption of a party declaration upon the subject by the 
 Democratic national convention in 1900, which he wrote 
 and championed. This declaration reads: 
 
 Corporations should be protected in all their rights, and their 
 legitimate interests ought to be respected, but any attempt to 
 interfere with public affairs of the people or to control the sov- 
 ereign which creates them ought to be forbidden under such 
 penalties as will make such attempts impossible. 
 
 During the last days of the Fifty-eighth Congress he de- 
 livered in the Senate a remarkable address upon the sub- 
 ject of campaign contributions by corporations and was 
 one of the first to advocate stringent penalties for future 
 offenses of this character. It has since been provided by 
 law in practically every Slate and by Federal statute 
 that no corporation can make contributions to commit- 
 tees or candidates. Stone was among the pioneers in 
 urging such legislation. 
 
 He succeeded Senator Vest on the Commerce Commit- 
 tee, then, as now, dealing with waterway transportation 
 projects of great consequence to the States touching the 
 Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers. During the early 
 period of his service on this committee the policy of Con- 
 gress respecting the upper Mississippi and the Missouri 
 was distinctly unfavorable. Senator Stone began a long 
 and for many years an apparently hopeless light for a 
 systematic improvement plan, adequately financed by 
 congressional appropriations, covering both waterways. 
 
Address of Mit. Reed, of Miss 
 
 This was before commercial bodies in the Mississippi 
 Valley had undertaken extensive educational propaganda 
 directed toward tbe development of public sentinu nl in 
 sympathy with these projects. Many of the appropria- 
 tions which maintained these two waterways upon even 
 the most temporary basis during these years of deter- 
 mined opposition by potent factors in legislation in both 
 Houses of Congress were due to .the persistent and per- 
 suasive efforts of the Missouri Senator. Dealing with 
 the haphazard method of river appropriations, lie said in 
 the Senate on February 27, 1907: 
 
 Yet we wonder why the commerce on the river goes down, and 
 why the capitalists of St. Louis do not invest in boats and barges 
 for river navigation. There is neither justice nor reason in such 
 a condition. A policy such as we are following creates uncer- 
 tainty, destroys confidence, and retards the development of thai 
 immense commerce that would almost certainly follow if more 
 assuring conditions prevailed. 
 
 He had the privilege of subsequently aiding in framing 
 the provision of legislation which established permanent 
 annual appropriations for the Missouri River and in- 
 creased allotments to the upper Mississippi. At all times 
 he was an ardent advocate of the project known as the 
 Lakcs-to-the-Gulf waterway. 
 
 In his service upon the Commerce Committee be be- 
 came a close student of the national shipping problem 
 and was always a staunch advocate of liberal treatment 
 of American shipping. More than once he advocated in 
 the Senate repeal of the restrictive navigation laws, which 
 he argued were responsible for the decline of the Amer- 
 ican merchant fleet. He had always been one of the fore- 
 most advocates of progressive merchant-marine legisla- 
 tion. Practically every public utterance of his, upon the 
 stump and elsewhere, dealing with general national is- 
 sues had contained strong appeals for merchant-marine 
 
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 legislation upon broad lines. He had opposed subsidies 
 
 upon all occasions, owing to his pronounced conviction 
 that the npeal of the navigation laws would alone pro- 
 mote the growth of a national fleet under American regis- 
 try. Years afterwards, in the Sixty-fourth Congress, when 
 as an administration leader, with his own party in power 
 in the Senate, he was one of the foremost Senators con- 
 tending for the passage of the shipping hill, which after- 
 wards became law in a modified form, resulting in the 
 establishment of the present Shipping Board and the 
 Emergency Fleet. His activities in this behalf are well 
 known. His strong advocacy of an adequate naval pro- 
 gram was inseparably connected with his ardor for a 
 great merchant fleet Speaking on this subject in the 
 Senate, April 27, 1908, he said: 
 
 For many years, both in and out of Congress, I have been an 
 ardent advocate of an increased Navy and also policies looking to 
 the restoration of our merchant marine. The two things are so 
 related that I can not think of the one without thinking of the 
 other. The decadence of our maritime prestige and power con- 
 stitutes one of the most discreditable and humiliating facts in 
 our history. * * * No man is more solicitous than I to see 
 our merchant ships swarming all over the world, and I doubt if 
 any is more keenly alive to the wisdom and necessity of construct- 
 ing a war Navy adequate to subserve the needs of our country. 
 
 During the long session of the Fifty-ninth Congress the 
 railroad-rale legislation pressed by President Roosevelt 
 was the acute issue. The bill finally presented to the Sen- 
 ate empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission to 
 fix rates upon prescribed standards. Debate in the Senate 
 was extended, finally turning upon the question of judicial 
 review of the commission's acts. Many great speeches 
 were made upon the various phases of the legislation pro- 
 posed. Senator STONE delivered during this session one of 
 the most carefully prepared addresses of his legislative 
 
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 career, in which he discussed these problems with rare 
 
 clearness of thought, taking advanced ground upon both 
 the legal questions presented and the general policy of 
 rate fixing. In this speech, delivered April 5, 1906, In- 
 opposed enlargement of the power of the judiciary to sus- 
 pend the orders of the commission and strongly advo- 
 cated the policy of allowing the commission to initiate 
 and fix rates. He favored the regulation hy statute of the 
 practice of courts in dealing with the decrees of the com- 
 mission, saying: 
 
 A law of this kind to be effective, and orders of this kind by a 
 commission of this kind to be of value, must be promptly en- 
 forced. The courts should be open to every suitor, hut the privi- 
 lege of resorting to them should not be turned into an abuse. 
 While guarding the right of everyone to seek a judicial remedy 
 for private wrong, the exercise of that right should he so regu- 
 lated as to prevent it eventuating in a public wrong. 
 
 The original interstate-commerce act, which placed a 
 ban upon rebating, contained a clause punishing viola- 
 tions of the antirebate section by imprisonment. In the 
 Fifty-seventh Congress the imprisonment penalties were 
 abolished by act of Congress. In his speech of April .">, 
 1906, Senator Stone advocated the restoration of these 
 penalties, being the first Senator to speak upon the sub- 
 ject. Later he offered an amendment to the pending 
 bill which restored the penalty clauses of the original 
 act. This amendment was adopted and the bill as finally 
 passed contained the provision. 
 
 In 1907 he made an extended tour of the Philippine 
 Islands and the Orient, and upon his return to the Senate 
 he prepared and afterwards presented a constructive pro- 
 gram for the treatment of the islands. He proposed In re- 
 store them to their own people 15 years alter the date 
 of the treaty of Paris, with a provision for the neutraliza- 
 tion of the territory, retaining naval bases for the United 
 
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 States. This measure was widely commented upon and 
 received the practically solid support of those who favored 
 Filipino independence: The Democratic national plat- 
 form of 1908 contained a plank indorsing this policy, 
 expressed in language almost identical with the terms of 
 Senator Stone's joint resolution. 
 
 Throughout the entire discussion of tariff legislation 
 dealing with the Philippines Senator STONE opposed free 
 trade with the islands. In a notahle speech delivered 
 April 20, 1909, he set forth in a strong argument his rea- 
 sons for his position, hased upon constitutional grounds 
 and considerations of sound policy. He contended that 
 if the doctrine which accepted the Philippines as a part 
 of the United Slates was well founded no customs har- 
 riers of any kind should he raised against them, hut that, 
 if the Nation proposed to return the islands to their own 
 people, it would be unwise to create such commercial 
 relations as would make it difficult to accomplish our na- 
 tional purpose, adding that we were under no such obli- 
 gations to the Filipinos "as to make it our duty to sup- 
 port their government or to build up their industry at the 
 expense of our own." 
 
 Probably his most active work in the Senate, covering 
 a period of over seven years, was in the great Finance 
 Committee, of which he was appointed a member on De- 
 cember 8, 1910. Even before his service upon the com- 
 mittee began he took an active part in tariff legislation 
 and tariff discussions. He participated extensively in the 
 debates <>n the Payne-Aldrich hill, the Canadian reciproc- 
 ity measure, the SChedule-by-SChedule revision attempted 
 
 in the Sixty-second Congress, and on the Underwood- 
 Simmons hill -the present law. In the celebrated contest 
 over the Payne-Aldrich bill, during which the majority 
 
 parly of the Senate divided into sharply defined factions, 
 Senator STONE, still a minority Member of tin- Senate, was 
 
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Address of Mn. Rsed, of Missouri 
 
 conspicuous. Though nol a member of the Finance Com- 
 mittee at that time, he availed himself of the counsel of 
 experts, conducted an independent research into the va- 
 rious schedules, and carried on a vigorous fight in the 
 open Senate for lower duties. Many of his exchanges 
 with Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island, then the chairman of 
 the Finance Committee, attracted national attention. 
 Senator Stone may justly be termed one of the leaders in 
 the fight against the bill, which probably aroused more 
 intensity of feeling among the respective factions than 
 any other tariff bill in our history, stimulating a greater 
 variance of opinion with men of all parties. It was 
 largely due to his fight on the Payne-Aldrich hill that his 
 appointment to the first vacancy on the Finance Commit- 
 tee was made. 
 
 During the last session of the Sixty-first Congress a 
 heated contest developed in the Senate over the charges 
 against William Lorimer, then a Senator from Illinois. 
 Possibly none more bitter, and few more intense, involv- 
 ing a personal issue, ever appeared in the Senate. Sena- 
 tor Stone was not a member of the committee which in- 
 vestigated the charges, but after the evidence had all been 
 presented and Mr. Lorimer himself had addressed the 
 Senate in his own behalf. Senator Stone, on February 28, 
 1911, in an extended speech attacked Mr. Lorimer's posi- 
 tion and declared bis intention to vote to oust the 
 Illinoisan upon the facts submitted. This speech was re- 
 markably dispassionate, displaying in the most striking 
 way the Senator's great powers of analysis and judg- 
 ment. It was regarded by many as one of the best efforts 
 of his senatorial service, and was undoubtedly of great 
 weight in the final determination of the question. He 
 dwelt strongly upon the ultimate responsibility of Mr. 
 Lorimer for admitted irregularities in the legislature and 
 challenged the correctness of Lorimer's interpretation of 
 
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 his relations to his lieutenants, particularly a member of 
 
 the Illinois lower house named Browne. Senator Stone 
 said: 
 
 Does it seem probable that Browne would discuss money con- 
 siderations with his followers, make promises and afterwards 
 keep them, with utter ignorance on Lorimer's part as to what 
 was being done? Lorimer was in command, and he was to be 
 beneficiary of the contest. Can Lorimer's lieutenants be guilty of 
 these crimes and yet Lorimer himself, the beneficiary, be wholly 
 innocent? 
 
 This address is cited as one of the most powerful evi- 
 dences of Mr. Stone's abhorrence of corrupt practices in 
 politics. The question involved in this case was not 
 partisan — party lines were wiped out in considering the 
 facts. Senator Stone weighed the evidence and declined 
 to compromise with what he considered a vicious thing. 
 He believed the lllinoisan guilty of culpability in this con- 
 nection, so declared and so voted, and his view finally 
 prevailed. 
 
 In 1910 a political upheaval resulted in the election of 
 the first Democratic House of Representatives since 1892. 
 In the new Congress Senator Stone, as a member of the 
 Finance Committee, took a prominent part in support of 
 the Canadian reciprocity treaty presented by President 
 Taft. He was one of the most constant attendants upon 
 the sessions of the committee, which were largely occu- 
 pied for a time in extended hearings. It developed that 
 many of the President's party associates in the Senate 
 were opposed to the measure, so that a very considerable 
 portion of its advocacy fell upon the shoulders of Senator 
 Stone and his party colleagues. He was frequently called 
 into consultation by the President and worked faith- 
 fully and assiduously for the passage of the treaty. He 
 was one of those who were keenly disappointed when the 
 measure was rejected, owing to the fall of the Laurier 
 
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Address of Mit. Reed, of Missoi m 
 
 government in Canada through the elections in 1911 and 
 the accompanying reversal of the policy of the Dominion. 
 
 During this Congress the Democratic House, under a 
 pledge to revise the tariff, passed several hills revising sep- 
 arate schedules of the tariff law, including the free list, 
 cotton and woolen manufactures, and so forth. These 
 measures had a stormy passage through the Senate, hut 
 all of them were supported and in large measure spon- 
 sored by Senator Stone in committee and upon the floor. 
 Such of the hills as were passed by the Senate, through the 
 cooperation of progressive Republican Senators with the 
 Democrats, were vetoed by the President 
 
 In the Democratic Senate of the Sixty-third Congress 
 Senator Stone was the second ranking member of the 
 Finance Committee and as such participated in the fram- 
 ing of the tariff bill passed in 1913. He was the chairman 
 of a subcommittee considering several of the most im- 
 portant schedules. His responsibilities in this connection 
 were very great and his labors arduous. His colleagues 
 on the Finance Committee have already testified to the 
 continuous and painstaking devotion of Senator STONE In 
 the exacting duties of his position. He worked many 
 weeks upon the schedules assigned to him. Anyone fa- 
 miliar with the details of tarilY legislation can well testify 
 to the demands upon the legislator who deals with these 
 matters in a conscientious way. It involved many tedious 
 hours of listening to experts, manufacturers and consum- 
 ers, importers and exporters, with many patient days and 
 weeks of laborious research and discussion. 
 
 Senator Stone applied himself lo this vast undertaking 
 with his usual thoroughness during consideration in com- 
 mittee, upon the floor, and elsewhere. At the same time 
 he contributed to the debates in the Senate many illumi- 
 nating and striking utterances in support of the measure, 
 A tariff bill, under the legislative system then prevailing. 
 
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 is a greater tax upon the legislator tlian almost any other. 
 The Underwood-Simmons Act became a law in Octoher, 
 1913, and about a month later Senator Stone was taken 
 critically ill, largely through overwork during the long 
 period for the consideration of the tariff measure. His 
 illness continued for nearly five months, developing a 
 complication which indirectly contributed to the cause of 
 his death. 
 
 During his convalescence in the spring of 191 1 Senator 
 Bacon, of Georgia, chairman of the Committee on For- 
 eign Relations, died, and Mr. Stone, the ranking majority 
 member, was appointed to succeed him. He had served 
 on this committee since April 23. 1908. He continued at 
 the head of the committee until his death in April, 1918, 
 covering a period of 10 years of service on the commit- 
 tee. When he returned to the Senate after his illness, 
 having scarcely recovered, the relations of the United 
 States with Mexico had become strained to the point of 
 breaking and Congress had passed the joint resolution 
 justifying the course of the Executive in using the armed 
 forces of the United States against Huerla. Senator Stone 
 strongly supported throughout the measures of the Gov- 
 ernment in dealing with the usurper. 
 
 During his service at the head of the Foreign Relations 
 Committee he piloted through the Senate many impor- 
 tant treaties, including arbitration treaties, the so-called 
 Bryan treaties for the advancement of peace, the conven- 
 tion providing for the purchase of Danish West Indies, 
 the Nicaraguan convention, and many others of minor 
 importance. 
 
 Mr. Mahtin of Kentucky. Mr. President, as a further 
 mark of respect to Hie memory of Hie late distinguished 
 Senator from Missouri and to the memory of the late dis- 
 tinguish! <l Senator from Kentucky, I move that the Sen- 
 ate do now adjourn. 
 
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 The motion was unanimously agreed i<>; and (at 3 
 o'clock and 3. r > minutes p. in.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Monday, February 3, 1919, at 12 o'clock 
 
 meridian. 
 
 Monday, February S, 1919. 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
 South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
 tions on the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 William J. Stone, late a Senator from the Stale of 
 Missouri. 
 
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 Monday, April IS, 1918. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 
 following prayer: 
 
 O Thou who art supremely great, Infinite in all Tliino 
 attrihutes, our God and our Father; ahove all, through all, 
 and in us all; make us, we beseech Thee, fit temples for 
 the indwelling of Thy Spirit and tractable to its holy in- 
 fluence; that we may conceive wisely, follow the dictates 
 of a clear conscience, and stand firm in our convictions. 
 
 Thus may we think well, live well, pray without ceasing, 
 and be ready, when the summons conies, to pass on into 
 the realms of the blest. 
 
 Death has laid a heavy toll upon the congressional fam- 
 ily, leaving us to mourn; by the passing of two faithful and 
 conspicuous Senators, the wife of a Representative of this 
 body, and one of the oldest and most trustworthy em- 
 ployees of this House. 
 
 Comfort us and their several families, by the faith once 
 delivered to the saints, through Him who said, " I am the 
 resurrection and the life; whosoever bclieveth on me 
 shall never die." Amen. 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
 ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the 
 following resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of Hon. William Join. Stonf. late a 
 Senator from the State of Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of 
 Mr. Stone, which will take place at 4 o'clock p. in. to-day ;il his 
 late residence in this city. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains hi' 
 removed from his late home in this city to Nevada, Mo., for burial, 
 
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 in charge of the Sergeant at Anns, attended by the committee, 
 which shall have full power to tarry these resolutions into effect. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
 resolutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 And that in compliance with the foregoing resolutions 
 the Vice President had appointed as said committee Mr. 
 Reed, Mr. Hitchcock, Mr. Smith of Arizona, Mr. Pittman, 
 Mr. Jones of New Mexico, Mr. King, Mr. Kendrick, Mr. 
 Gallinger, Mr. Smoot, Mr. Curtis, Mr. Sutherland, and Mr. 
 Fernald. 
 
 Mr. Shackleford. Mr. Speaker, I send to the desk the 
 following resolutions and move their adoption. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. William J. Stone, a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 19 Members be appointed on the 
 part of the House to join the committee appointed on the part of 
 the Senate to attend the funeral. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker appointed as the committee to attend the 
 funeral the following Members: Mr. Hucker, Mr. Shackle- 
 ford, Mr. Booher, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Borland, Mr. Hamlin, 
 Mr. Russell, Mr. Rubey, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Hensley, Mr. 
 Igoe, Mr. Decker, Mr. Romjue, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Meeker, Mr. 
 Linthicum, Mr. Temple, and Mr. Rairiey. 
 
 The Clerk read the following additional resolution: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 Accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 30 minute p. in.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, April 16,1018, 
 at 12 o'clock i i. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 Tuesday, April 18, 1918. 
 
 Mr. Garrett of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, in announcing 
 
 the Stone funeral on yesterday the Speaker of the House 
 [Mr. Clark], of course, did not announce himself as a 
 member of that committee. I think he ought officially to 
 be a member of the committee, and I ask unanimous con- 
 sent that his name be added to the list. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, the 
 Speaker's name will be added to the list of the committee, 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Friday, December ..'?', 1918. 
 
 Mr. RUCKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 Sunday, February 2, 1919, be set aside for memorial ad- 
 dresses on the life, character, and public services of the 
 late Senator William Joel Stone, of Missouri, and the late 
 Representative Jacob Edwin Meeker, of Missouri. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
 mous consent that Sunday, February 2, 1919, be set aside 
 for memorializing the late Senator Stone and the late Rep- 
 resentative Meeker, both from the State of Missouri. Is 
 there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 SUNDAY, February 2, 1010. 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry X. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Eternal God, Author of the Universe, Father of all souls, 
 in the midst of the impenetrable mysteries which sur- 
 round us, we come with profound faith, eternal hope, that 
 in Thy wisdom, power, and goodness we shall be exalted, 
 
 ennobled, glorified, in Thine own good time. 
 
 Let Thy richest blessings descend upon us now as we 
 gather here to give expression to the worth of the nun 
 
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Mi MORIAL AODBESSES: SENATOR SXONI 
 
 who were dignified by the people and made Members of 
 
 the Congress of the United States. What they did to glo- 
 rify a Nation of freemen will live and he a hlessing to 
 future generations. 
 
 Let Thy loving arms he about their dear ones to comfort 
 and sustain them in this hour of trial. Give them a vision 
 of the larger life and help them to look forward to a re- 
 union with their dear ones in a realm where mysteries 
 shall he dissolved and the brightest hopes realized in the 
 dispensation of Thy providence. Thorugh Him who died, 
 that we might live. Amen. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will read the Journal. 
 
 Mr. Rlcker. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 the reading of the Journal may be dispensed with until 
 to-morrow. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Missouri asks unani- 
 mous consent that the reading of the Journal be dispensed 
 with until to-morrow. Is there objection? [After a 
 pause.] The Chair hears none. The Clerk will report 
 the special order for to-day. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Rucker, by unanimous consent, 
 Ordered, That Sunday, February 2, 1919, be set apart for ad- 
 dresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 William J. Stone, late a Senator from the State of Missouri, and 
 the Hon. Jacob E. Meeker, late a Member of this House from the 
 State of Missouri. 
 
 Mr. RUCKER. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the present consideration of the resolutions which I send 
 to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
 
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 William J. Stone, late a Senator of the United States from the 
 State of Missouri, and the Hon. Jacob E. Meeker, late ;i Member 
 of this House from the State of Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
 of the deceased, and in recognition of their distinguished public 
 careers, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this 
 day, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
 the families of the deceased. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 Mr. Igoc took the chair. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mh. Clark, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: When Gov. Benjamin Gratz Brown, one of 
 the most brilliant of all Missouri statesmen, on an historic 
 occasion said, "Missouri is a grand State and deserves to 
 be grandly governed," he uttered an immortal truth, lie 
 might have added, with equal veracity, " She deserves to 
 be grandly represented in the Congress of the United 
 States," and she has been in the main, particularly in the 
 Senate, where paucity of members and length of tenure 
 more surely fix a man in the public eye than service in the 
 House. 
 
 First and last, Missouri has commissioned 20 differenl 
 men to represent her at the other end of the Capitol, in 
 the less numerous branch of the National Legislature, in 
 the Chamber of the Conscript Fathers, in "the Upper 
 House of Congress," improperly so called, or, as Senator 
 Morgan, of Alabama, would have it, "ambassadors of a 
 sovereign State" to the Federal Government. Beginning 
 with David Barton and Thomas Hart Benton, her pioneer 
 Senators, who at once attracted general attention and 
 challenged universal admiration by reason of their com- 
 manding talents, down to this very hour, when, in the per- 
 sons of James A. Reed and Selden P. Spencer she holds 
 high position in that conspicuous arena, Missouri has 
 taken second place to none of her sister States. 
 
 These 2G Senators naturally divide themselves into two 
 classes — the Barton line and the Benton line, IS in the 
 former and only 8 in the latter. 
 
 In the Barton line are Barton himself) Alexander Buck- 
 ner, Lewis F. Linn, David B. Atchison. .hunt >s S. Green, 
 
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 Waldo P. Johnson, Robert Wilson, Benjamin Gratz 
 Brown, Charles D. Drake, Daniel T. Jewett, Francis P. 
 Blair, Lewis V. Bogy, David H. Armstrong, James Shields, 
 George G. Vest, William Joel Stone, Xenophen P. Wifley, 
 and Selden P. Spencer. 
 
 In the Benton line are Benton himself, Henry S. Gcyer, 
 Trusten Polk, John B. Henderson, Carl Schurz, Francis 
 Marion Cockrell, William Warner, and James A. Reed. 
 
 Lucky the man who gets into Barton's seat; luckier, far 
 luckier, the man who secures that of Thomas H. Benton, 
 as the precedents indicate a longer public life for him. 
 
 An examination of the dates at which Missourians en- 
 tered and left the Senate will disclose two curious facts 
 in Missouri history. She is the first State that ever elected 
 two men for five full consecutive terms to the Senate of 
 the United States — " six Roman lustrums," as Benton was 
 wont to boast in his pompous way. These were Benton 
 and Cockrell. The only other State to do that is Maine, 
 Missouri's political twin. Missouri was the first State that 
 had only one Senator for any considerable length of time 
 through failure to elect another. By reason of the unre- 
 lenting warfare between the Bentonites and the anti- 
 Bentonites the legislature chosen in 1851 never could and 
 never did elect a Senator, as it was in duty bound to do, 
 so that for two entire years Henry S. Geycr was Missouri's 
 only Senator. 
 
 What is more, the governor did not appoint or attempt 
 to appoint anyone to fill the vacancy, nobody then dream- 
 ing that the governor had such power. But in these later 
 davs several States have followed Missouri's example in 
 failing to elect Senators, and, strange to say, divers gov- 
 ernors have insisted on the right to fill vacancies by 
 appointment under similar circumstances, until finally 
 the Senate, after lengthy and ponderous debate, solemnly 
 vindicated the wisdom and knowledge of constitutional 
 
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Address of Mil Clark, oi Missoi Bl 
 
 law possessed by the governor of Missouri in 1855 and 
 1856, Sterling Price, by declaring that a governor has do 
 right to make such ad interim appointment under such 
 circumstances. 
 
 Of Missouri's 26 Senators there were 18 Democrats, 1 
 Whig, and 8 Republicans. Of 156 years of senatorial 
 representation to which she has been entitled, 2 were not 
 used, 6 fell to Whigs, 28 to Republicans, and 160 to Demo- 
 crats. 
 
 This roster of Missouri Senators is an array of names of 
 which the Nation, no less than the State, may well be 
 proud. There are many great men — scarcely a small 
 one — in the list. 
 
 Missouri is proud of her immeasurable physical re- 
 sources, which will one day make her facile princeps 
 among her sisters; but there is something else of which 
 she is prouder still, and that is her splendid citizenship, 
 consisting at this day of nearly 4,000,000 industrious, in- 
 telligent, patriotic, progressive, law-abiding. God-fearing 
 people. 
 
 When cpiestioned as to her riches she could with pro- 
 priety imitate the example and quote the words of Cor- 
 nelia, the mother of the heroic Gracchi, and, pointing to 
 her children, say truthfully and pridefully, " These are 
 my jewels." 
 
 The foregoing remarks, with a few figures changed to 
 bring the facts up to date, constitute the opening para- 
 graphs in my speech presenting the statue of Gen. Frank 
 P. Blair. They must still be of interest to Missourians, at 
 least. 
 
 Of these Senators, William Joel Stone was one of the 
 most eminent and forceful. Like so many other men 
 who have achieved high position in imperial Missouri, he 
 was born in Kentucky. Good Bishop Berkely was both a 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 philosopher and a prophet when he wrote the familiar 
 line: 
 
 Westward the Star of Empire takes its way. 
 
 It has been so always. Asia peopled Europe; Europe- 
 peopled America; and now we are engaged in peopling 
 the Philippines— thus belting the globe, reaching out to 
 the cradle of the human race. Before the railroads de- 
 flected travel from its natural course it is interesting to 
 note how closely immigration hugged parallels of lati- 
 tude. Until the cataclysm of the Civil War dislocated 
 things the base of population in Missouri was composed 
 of Virginians, Kentuckians, North Carolinians, and Ten- 
 nesseeans, together with a sprinkling of the elite from 
 every State in the Union and from every civilized nation 
 in the world. 
 
 It will interest Kentuckians and Missourians to re- 
 fresh their memories with the fact that James B. McCreary, 
 soldier, governor, and both Bepresentative and Senator 
 in Congress; David Bowland Francis, mayor, governor, 
 Cabinet minister, and ambassador; and William Joel 
 Stone, governor and both Bepresentative and Senator in 
 Congress, were all three born in Madison County, Ky. It 
 is interesting to try to guess what would have happened 
 and who would have come out on top if all three had re- 
 mained in their native county. Judging from their ca- 
 reers, and knowing that all three were ambitious all their 
 days, and that they fought their way to place and power, 
 it is absolutely safe to say that much friction and much 
 resulting heat would have been engendered in the his- 
 toric old county of Madison. 
 
 The members of that distinguished trio were unlike in 
 appearance and endowments in most respects, but were 
 alike in being men of undoubted ability and of soaring 
 ambition. Each in his own particular way was a skillful 
 
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Address of Mu. Clark, of Missouri 
 
 political artist. Stone and Francis prove whal a bright 
 Kentuckian may come to in the rich soil of Missouri if 
 transplanted young enough. 
 
 I had an interesting and amusing experience growing 
 out of the fact that Stone, Francis, and myself wen all 
 Kentuckians by birth. Most of you may not know it but 
 it is true that Ambassador Francis pulls off a Fourth of 
 July celebration of his own when he is at home in St. 
 Louis. As president of the "Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
 tion," he erected a magnificent memorial building to 
 Thomas Jefferson, and it is in that building he and his 
 friends celebrate the birthday of the Republic. In 1915 
 the Fourth fell on Sunday, Senator Stone and I speaking 
 in different places in St. Louis. Ambassador Francis had 
 his celebration that year on Monday, the 5th Learning 
 that both the Senator and myself were in the city, he 
 drafted us and took us out to the Jefferson Memorial 
 Building, where all three of us made speeches. The 
 chairman of the meeting seemed to think it out of the or- 
 dinary that all three were Kentuckians by birth and Mis- 
 sourians by adoption. When he introduced Senator 
 Stone, who spoke first, he enlarged on what appeared to 
 him to be a remarkable coincidence. He repeated that 
 formula when he introduced Gov. Francis, who came sec- 
 ond. He rolled it as a sweet morsel under his tongue 
 when he presented me. I began by saying: "It is true, 
 as the chairman has stated thrice, that Senator Stone, 
 Gov. Francis, and myself were all born in Kentucky for 
 better or for worse, and I am reasonably certain thai I 
 could name certain Missourians who wish that all three 
 of us had remained in 'The Dark and Bloody Ground." " 
 
 Col. Benton served in House and Senate, and to this 
 day holds the Missouri record for congressional service 
 32 years; 30 in the Senate and 2 in the House— but the 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 governorship waa denied him. Trusten Polk was gover- 
 nor and Senator, hut never in the House. James S. Green 
 and Gen. Frank P. Blair served in both Houses of Con- 
 gress, but were never governor. Blair's brilliant cousin, 
 Benjamin Gratz Brown, reversing the usual order, was 
 first United States Senator and then governor, but never 
 in the House. Gen. John Miller, who served longer as 
 governor of Missouri than any other man, served in the 
 House, but not in the Senate; Gen. Stirling Price, John C. 
 Edwards, Willard P. Hall, Joseph W. McClurg, Thomas 
 T. Crittenden, and Alexander Monroe Dockcry were all 
 both governors and Representatives in Congress, but 
 never in tin- Senate. Trusten Polk and William J. Stone 
 were the only two Missourians to go from the guberna- 
 torial chair to the Senate, and in Stone's case there was 
 a period of six years between ending as governor and be- 
 ginning as Senator. He is the only Missourian to serve as 
 both Representative and Senator in Congress and as gov- 
 ernor of his State. 
 
 William J. Stone was a great Representative, a great 
 governor, and a great Senator. He was one of the most 
 skillful and successful political leaders the State ever had. 
 After a long and stormy career he had attained a sort 
 of suzerainty over the Missouri Democrats. He did not 
 accomplish that difficult feat by brass-band methods or 
 by using a meat ax. He did it by persuasion, by diplo- 
 macy, by consultation, and, above all, by being an excep- 
 tionally good listener. When he was in St. Louis, Kansas 
 City, Jefferson, St. Joe, or any other city or town in Mis- 
 souri, the most prominent Democrats called on him in 
 his rooms and consulted with him. That was his favorite 
 method of ascertaining public opinion — his favorite plan 
 of campaign to converse with small groups of men and 
 out of their various views to determine the best course to 
 pursue. He preferred that way of doing things to large 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Misso 
 
 and boisterous crowds; and because he did pursue thai 
 
 wise and successful procedure his enemies and In- 
 possessed a large and enthusiastic assortment of then 
 fastened upon him the sobriquet of " Gum Shoe Hill " 
 which his friends and admirers, who composed ;i might; 
 host, took up and converted into a term of affection. 
 
 He was a political strategist of high degree. Two in- 
 stances will suffice. When he was a candidate for the 
 gubernatorial nomination in a fierce and close contest 
 and Col. Richard Dalton unexpectedly carried St. Louis, 
 Stone immediately appealed to the rural districts and 
 won, after a contest which roused the State to white heat 
 from Des Moines River to Arkansas and from the Missis- 
 sippi to the mouth of the raging Kaw. 
 
 In subsequent bitter contests — and considering what a 
 polite, mild-mannered man he was it is surprising how 
 many bitter contests he had — when the metropolitan press 
 unanimously assailed him with ferocity, he boldly and 
 savagely assailed the metropolitan press, skillfully rallied 
 the rural press to his support, and invariably came out 
 victor. I am inclined to believe that he enjoyed the con- 
 tests more than he did holding the offices — which as- 
 sumption, if true, sheds some light on the never-settled 
 old question which we debated when we were boys, 
 " Whether there is more pleasure in pursuit than in 
 possession." He was elected to the House three times, 
 to the governorship once, and to the Senate three times. 
 Notwithstanding the awful storm of vituperation which 
 broke upon him in the later months of his life, I have no 
 sort of doubt that he would have remained in the Senate 
 for 15 years more had he lived so long. Even before Ins 
 death the storm was receding, and when the great Sena- 
 tor died the love of the generous people of the mighty 
 State which had so often crowned him with her choicest 
 honors and which he had served so long with pride and 
 
Memorial Addresses: Senator Stoni 
 
 approved capacity returned to him in undiminished 
 measure and augmented intensity. Since the mighty 
 Benton was laid to rest in "The Great City of the Iron 
 Crown " no such splendid funeral pageant did the people 
 of Missouri arrange for any other of her illustrious sons 
 as for Senator Stone. 
 
 What manner of man was he? In his prime he was 
 physically the typical Kentuckian — tall, slender, sinewy, 
 lean of flank, high of head. He always reminded me of a 
 Kentucky race horse in his best estate, needing neither 
 whip nor spur to urge him on. 
 
 Intellectually he was of a high order. His parents were 
 neither rich nor extremely poor. They were what we in 
 common parlance designate " good livers," and good liv- 
 ing in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky is a status to 
 which most folks never attain. In case of his father and 
 mother Agur's prayer seems to have been answered, " Give 
 me neither poverty nor riches." They were, however, 
 able to give their son a university education. During his 
 entire busy life he was a lover of good books and delighted 
 to associate with learned people. He was familiar witli 
 the poets, but the books which he studied most were the 
 best of all books — nun and women. As a public speaker 
 he stood high, being dowered with logic, wit, humor, 
 sarcasm, and eloquence when he thought eloquence was 
 appropriate to the theme, the occasion, and the place. 
 Some of his speeches were gems, blending in artistic pro- 
 portions the ingredients aforementioned. He was one of 
 the most deliberate speakers I ever heard, and when in 
 fine fettle it was a delight to listen to him analyze a sub- 
 ject or excoriate an opponent The dramatic quality he 
 possessed in large degree His facial mobility was almost 
 equal to TomCorwin's. His long black forelock, which was 
 forever tumbling into his eves, was one of his principal 
 properties in public speeches. His dell manipulation of 
 
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Address op Mr. Clark, of Mi 
 
 that raven forelock was a joy to his friends and an irri- 
 tation to his enemies. He loathed utterly a double-dealer, 
 a hypocrite, a mountebank, or a liar. He never pretended 
 to be better than he was; he loved his friends, who fully 
 returned his love; and after being the stormy petrel of 
 Missouri for a generation grew ever gentler witli increas- 
 ing years and forgave all his enemies except a very few 
 who had treated him so outrageously and slandered him 
 so maliciously that they had forfeited any claim to for- 
 giveness. 
 
 Here is an incident which illustrates his character, his 
 method, and his energy : 
 
 It will be remembered that in the early spring of 1011 
 newspapers began to mention me for the Democratic 
 presidential nomination. The mentioning grew in volume 
 and frequency until by November it was universally dis- 
 cussed in the public press and in private conversation. 
 Senator Stone and I had never been enemies but we had 
 not been intimate friends. It will also be remembered 
 that the public press was also mentioning Gov. Joseph W. 
 Folk very frequently. A more or less active argument was 
 in progress between my supporters and his as to which of 
 us should have the Missouri delegation. In the meantime 
 Senator Stoni: spoke no word, gave no sign as to which of 
 us he favored, if either. It happened that in the last part 
 of November Dr. Bartoldt's friends gave him a banquet at 
 the Southern Hotel, which he deserved and which lie was 
 anxious I should attend — which I did. Thai afternoon I 
 was out at the home of Judge Virgil Rule, one of my old 
 pupils, three or four miles from the business center of St. 
 Louis. The Judge had invited about a dozen of un- 
 friends to be present to consult about starting my cam- 
 paign. Unexpectedly Senator Stoni: walked in. The 
 other gentlemen, taking it for granted that lie had come to 
 see me, after shaking hands with him adjourned to an- 
 other room. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES: SENATOR Stone 
 
 So soon as they disappeared this brief dialogue ensued: 
 Senator Stone said, " Mr. Speaker, I came out to ask you 
 just one question for my own guidance — are you a candi- 
 date for President? " I replied, " Senator, men do not 
 announce for President as they do for constahle." He 
 answered: "Tell that to the marines. I want to know. I 
 have seen it in the papers. I have Been men who assert 
 that you are a candidate hut I never saw any man who 
 said you had told him. I desire to know definitely." I 
 said: "Yes, Senator, I am a candidate." Without another 
 word, he picked up his hat, cane, gloves, and overcoat and 
 went down town. Immediately headquarters were en- 
 gaged and the fight was on. 
 
 From that hour until the announcement was made that 
 Gov. Woodrow Wilson was nominated Senator Stone 
 could not have worked harder for me if he had heen my 
 father, brother, and son rolled into one. 
 
 He was a delicate-looking man in those days; but the 
 amount of work he did was amazing. I formed a deep 
 affection for the man which will abide with me so long as 
 life lasts. To speak of him is to me a labor of love. 
 
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Address of Mr. Alexander, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Senator Stone's death occasioned tin- 
 Members of the Missouri delegation in Congress genuine 
 sorrow. lie was recognized as a wise counselor and 
 sagacious leader, and was often consulted by bis Demo- 
 cratic colleagues on questions affecting the interests of 
 the party, of which he was one of the recognized leaden, 
 and of the great State whose welfare and prosperity 
 always had a large part in his thought and gave him deep 
 concern. 
 
 In conference he was always considerate of the opinion 
 of others and most courteous and sympathetic. He was 
 painstaking in his efforts to get the viewpoint of his col- 
 leagues, and with rare skill composed differences of opin- 
 ion and secured unity of action. He was easy of ap- 
 proach, truly democratic in his manners, and I believe I 
 may say of him that he enjoyed the affectionate regard of 
 every Member in the delegation, Democrats and Repub- 
 licans alike. We one and all deeply deplore his death. 
 
 Senator Stone was born in Madison County, Ky., May 7, 
 1848. His father, William Stone, and his mother. Mildred 
 Phelps, were members of old Kentucky families. The 
 Stone family lived in Virginia prior to moving to Ken- 
 tucky. Senator Stone's grandfather was one of the pio- 
 neers of Kentucky, and it is said of him that he served as 
 the first surveyor of Madison County, and that Thomas 
 Stone, an ancestor of the family, was a signer of (he 
 Declaration of Independence and a member of a well- 
 known Virginia family. 
 
 Madison County, Ky., furnished Missouri two of her 
 most distinguished governors, 'William Joel Stoni and 
 David Roland Francis, and many of Missouri's good citi- 
 zens in all walks of life were born in Madison County, 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 Ky., or are descendants of Madison County stock. In his 
 early youth Senator Stone attended the common schools 
 in his native State. At the age of 15 he moved to Colum- 
 hia, Mo., and entered the State university. He studied 
 law in the office of his hrother-in-law, Col. S. Turner, then 
 and for many years after one of the leading lawyers of 
 central Missouri. He was admitted to the har in 1869. 
 Shortly thereafter he moved to Bedford, Ind., where he 
 formed a partnership with one A. B. Carle ton, but re- 
 mained there only a few months, returning to Missouri in 
 1870 and locating at Nevada, the county seat of Vernon 
 County. He rose rapidly in the affairs of the county and 
 soon became one of the leading members of his com- 
 munity. He was prosecuting attorney of Vernon County 
 for one term (1873-1875) and was a presidential elector 
 on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket in 1876. That was 
 one of the most memorable presidential campaigns fol- 
 lowing the Civil War, and many a young and spirited 
 lawyer in Missouri got his first baptism in politics in that 
 campaign. 
 
 Senator Stone was a Member of the Forty-ninth, 
 Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 
 3, 1891) ; declining to make the race for renomination, he 
 announced that he would be a candidate for the governor- 
 ship to succeed Gov. David R. Francis. 
 
 Senator Stone's race for governor brought him into 
 great prominence throughout the State. He won the 
 nomination after a memorable contest, in which Hon. 
 Richard Dalton, of Ralls County, was his chief opponent. 
 Much bitterness was engendered in the campaign, and 
 the Republicans regarded the lime opportune to come 
 back into popular favor in Missouri. 
 
 The Republicans nominated Maj. William Warner, of 
 Kansas City, as their candidate for governor. Maj. War- 
 ner was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of one 
 
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Address of Mr. Alexander, op Missoi hi 
 
 of the leading law firms of Kansas City and was regarded 
 a fine lawyer and a public speaker of rare skill and elo- 
 quence. He had been a leader of his parly in the Stale 
 for many years and had enjoyed many political honors. 
 
 He also held high rank in the Grand Army of the Republic, 
 He was very popular with the Union veterans of (lie Civil 
 War. The Republicans regarded Maj. Warner as the very 
 strongest candidate they could name to contest with Sen- 
 ator Stone for the governorship of tin- State. Maj. War- 
 ner adopted as his slogan. " Stand up for Missouri "; this 
 slogan was quickly taken up by the Republican leaders 
 over the State and passed on to the rank and tile, and 
 coupled with it was the cry, " Poor old Missouri." This cry 
 undertook to picture the plight of the Stale under the ad- 
 ministrations of such distinguished Democratic governors 
 as Silas Woodson, Charles Hardin, John S. Phelps, 
 Thomas P, Crittenden, John S. Marmaduke, Albert Moore- 
 house, and David R. Francis, than whom no State in the 
 Union ever had more able and ciheient chief executives. 
 Stone accepted the issue tendered by the Republicans and 
 contrasted the administrations from Woodson to Francis 
 with the Republican administrations of Govs. McClurg 
 and Fletcher. His speech in opening the campaign 
 was a masterpiece of sarcasm and eloquence, and re- 
 viewed with cruel incisiveness the record of McClurg's 
 and Fletcher's administrations. His speech was quickly 
 given wide publicity throughout the State. It was a great 
 speech. The Republicans had planned an aggressive cam- 
 paign, but soon found themselves on the defensive, and 
 continued so throughout the campaign. It is needless to 
 say Senator Stone was triumphantly elected, along with 
 all his associates on the State ticket. 
 
 My only purpose in calling attention to this campaign 
 and Senator Stone's part in it is to emphasize my convic- 
 tion that that was the turning point in his career. If he 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 had proven himself commonplace or had failed in his 
 ability to measure up to the high duties that devolved 
 upon him as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party 
 in that campaign, his career in all probability would have 
 closed with his term as governor. I actively supported 
 Senator Stone for the nomination for governor, and our 
 acquaintance, which ripened into friendship, began in 
 that campaign. 
 
 It is interesting to recall that a little more than a decade 
 later Senator Stone and Maj. Warner served as colleagues 
 in the United States Senate, Senator Stone succeeding 
 Missouri's little giant, Senator George G. Vest, in 1903, and 
 Maj. Warner succeeding Missouri's grand old Confeder- 
 ate veteran and statesman, Senator Francis M. Cockrell, 
 in 1905. Whatever asperities the campaign of 1892 en- 
 gendered when they were pitted against each other for 
 governor had long since been forgotten. They were both 
 chivalrous and lovable men. 
 
 Senator Stone was a leader of men. He had a great 
 and devoted following in the State of Missouri. He held 
 a high place in the leadership of the Democratic Party 
 in the Nation. No man ever gave more generously of his 
 time and money and talents to his party than did Senator 
 Stone. The success of his party was ever a matter of the 
 deepest concern to him. He did not seek place and power 
 to enrich himself financially, but as an opportunity for 
 larger service to his party and country. He believed in 
 the principles of the Democratic Party with all the in- 
 tensity of his nature and that the happiness and pros- 
 perity of the people could be best vouchsafed under a 
 Democratic administration. He was a man of great cour- 
 age. He was an honorable antagonist. He counted 
 among bis closest personal friends men with whom he 
 differed widely in politics. 
 
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Mr. Ai.i.x \n di h. 
 
 Just before the entrance of the United States into the 
 
 war with Germany Senator Stone opposed the aniicd- 
 neutrality bill. He was charged with filibustering to 
 defeat it. This he denied. The criticism of his action 
 became so bitter that the General Assembly of Missouri, 
 the majority in both branches being Senator Stone's per- 
 sonal and political friends, adopted a resolution demand- 
 ing support of the President. While Senator Stone was 
 not mentioned in the resolutions by name, it was well 
 understood at the time that they reflected the sentiments 
 of the Democracy of Missouri and what they regarded 
 his duty in the crisis then impending. 
 
 Senator Stone's opposition to the declaration of the war 
 with Germany was open and fearless. Although chairman 
 of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate, lie 
 declined to take charge of the war resolution ;is was ex- 
 pected of him by the administration. He transferred his 
 leadership to Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, next rank- 
 ing Democratic member on the committee. His attitude 
 on those two resolutions was typical of his attitude toward 
 the world war. He believed that America's participation 
 in the war should be avoided if possible, but when the 
 die was cast for war he accepted the decision without 
 further question and took his place with the supporters 
 of the war measures and consistently maintained that 
 attitude until death closed his eventful career. 
 
 When we reflect that under the Constitution the power 
 to declare war is vested in the Congress of the United 
 States and not in the Chief Executive, and the responsi- 
 bility is personal to each Senator and Member of the 
 House of Representatives, we can well understand how 
 any Senator or Representative clothed with such a tre- 
 mendous responsibility might hesitate to come to a deci- 
 sion involving his country in a war with all its din con- 
 
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memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 sequences. II Senator Stone had lived and had heen a 
 candidate for Senator in 1920 and the people of Missouri 
 had had more time and larger opportunity to analyze his 
 motives and understand the tremendous responsibility 
 from which he shrank, they would have regarded his con- 
 duct in a more kindly light, and he might again have won 
 popular favor. 
 
 The St. Louis Republic, in an editorial following the 
 death of Senator Stone, said: 
 
 Stone was a master of politics. No one of his generation in 
 this State showed such consummate ability to handle men or 
 mold opinion. He never refused a fight when he thought it neces- 
 sary, and his victories were for the most part hard won in open 
 contest. He was true to his friends, and to this fact, coupled 
 with an uncanny knack of sizing up a situation and acting vigor- 
 ously, boldly at the chosen moment, may be attributed his great 
 success as a leader. 
 
 Senator Stone's was a long and distinguished career. 
 He held many offices of trust and honor. His life work 
 is ended. He will ever be classed as one of Missouri's 
 most distinguished citizens. 
 
 Senator Stone was married to Sarah Louise Winston, 
 April 2, 1871, and his wife and three children — Mrs. John 
 G. Parkinson, of St. Joseph; United States Circuit Judge 
 Kimhrough Stone, of Kansas City; and Miss Mabel Stone — 
 survive him. His domestic life was ideal. He was loved 
 with the deepest affection by his wife and children. To 
 them his death is an irreparable loss. 
 
 Eloquent testimony of the high esteem in which Sena- 
 tor Stom; was held by the people of Missouri was shown 
 when his remains lay in slate at the State eapitol at 
 Jefferson City. Rich and poor alike, among whom he 
 had made his home for many years, and leading citizens, 
 in official and unofficial life, from every section of the 
 
 State assembled to pay a tribute of respect to his memory. 
 
Address op Mr. Ai bxandi r, oi Mi 
 
 Mis last resting place is in the cemetery at the city of 
 Nevada, where he first entered upon the career in which 
 he was destined to become distinguished in after years. 
 Surrounded and mourned by the Friends of ids earl} 
 manhood] who had watched Ids career with affectionate 
 interest and pride, the mortal remains of Senator SjONE 
 were given a last resting place in Deepwood Cemetery. 
 
 The name and brilliant public career of Wii.i.iam JoBL 
 Stone will adorn one of the brightest and most interesting 
 chapters in the history of Missouri. 
 
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Addrf.ss of Mb. Febbis, of Oklahoma 
 
 Mr. SFEAKEB: I knew United States Senator William 
 Joel Stone all my life. I lived in southern Missouri and 
 knew him during his public days there. During the early 
 part of it I was a young chap, hut I knew him as Con- 
 gressman, as governor, as Senator, and as man. He 
 played a full part in each role. Death always comes too 
 soon, and this is only emphasized as it comes home to us 
 with our families and our friends. The adage is em- 
 phasized when it comes home to the life of a man who has 
 spent his entire life in usefulness and activity, and such 
 was the life of Senator Stone. I shall not in the few 
 words I utter here to-day try to place Senator Stone on any 
 unnatural pedestal. If he were in the flesh here this day, 
 it would not be his desire. He spent no time, Mr. Speaker, 
 in eulogistic appeals to his Creator " that he was not as 
 other men," but he preferred to be one of them, to think 
 and act as other men. He was one of men. 
 
 It is quite the custom when men are called to that last 
 rest to picture them in some unnatural pose. That would 
 not be Senator Stone's desire. I know of no tribute more 
 beautiful to pay to the memory of a man than to say that 
 he preferred to be as other men and preferred to be one 
 of them, as distinguished from constantly drawing his 
 skirts about him and saying, " I thank God I am not as 
 other men." When I see life ebbing away I am always 
 impressed with the certainty of death and the shortness 
 of the time we may spend here. The thought that is ever 
 uppermost in my mind is that every moment here ought 
 to be spent in some useful endeavor. It ought to increase 
 the ambition to emphasize that thought in the minds of 
 all of us. Senator Stone as Congressman, as governor, 
 and as Senator of the State of my birth honored Missouri 
 
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Address of Mr. Pebbis, op Oklahoma 
 
 as Missouri has ever honored him. He honored the Na- 
 tion and the Nation honored him. He was loved and re- 
 spected hy his friends as no other man in Missouri has 
 been loved and respected. 
 
 I have many tender tics for Missouri and Missourians. 
 I was horn there, married there, educated there, and cast 
 my first vote there. I have felt it was only proper to say 
 these few words, due to my own acquaintance with Sena- 
 tor Stone, due to my residence in Missouri and my hirtli- 
 place there. I have been honored hy an invitation to pay 
 this short tribute to his memory and in loving remem- 
 brance of him as a friend, as a man, and as a statesman. 
 He was true to every trust; he was a man; he was a Mis- 
 sourian; he was an American. 
 
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Address or Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The life of Senator William Joel Stone 
 was an eventful one, filled with distinguished public serv- 
 ice. He was horn in Madison County, Ky., on May 7, 1818. 
 He came to Missouri in his early youth, first to Boone 
 County, and attended the University of Missouri, at Co- 
 lumhia, from which institution of learning he was a grad- 
 uate; and later there was conferred on him hy this univer- 
 sity the degree of doctor of laws. 
 
 In his early manhood he moved to Vernon County, in 
 southwest Missouri, and was admitted to the har in 18G9. 
 He practiced law at Nevada, Mo., and attained high rank 
 in an active practice, winning success hy his untiring in- 
 dustry and his marked ability as a lawyer and as a gifted 
 puhlic speaker. He served one term as prosecuting attor- 
 ney of his county, and afterwards served with conspicuous 
 ability his great district in the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and 
 Fifty-first Congresses. 
 
 My first acquaintance with William J. Stone was in 
 1878, at the congressional convention in Carthage, Mo., 
 when he was a candidate for Congress. There were six 
 candidates in that contest, ll was a great convention, 
 lasting several days— the field against Charles H. Morgan, 
 the popular silting Member resulting in the nomination 
 of Maj. WaddeU, of Greene County. Over that conven- 
 tion pit sided M. E. Benton, a parliamentarian of ability, 
 wlio afterwards served in Congress for 10 years with 
 distinction. 
 
 Several times did Skim: contest for a seat in Congress 
 lioin his district before he was successful. He battled for 
 congressional honors with such men as Morgan, of Barton; 
 Waddell, of Greene; Ferguson, of St. Clair; Bassett, of 
 
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ADDRESS OF Ma. Dickinson, OF Mism 
 
 Bates; Salmon, of Henry; Dc Armond, of Dade, and 
 
 finally winning in 1882 in a close contest in which the 
 other candidates in the convention were Morgan, Abcr- 
 nathy, and Dc Armond— all strong men and worthy. 
 Later the gifted De Armond was elected to Congress 
 
 for 10 consecutive terms and made a great record and 
 a national reputation. 
 
 After serving in Congress for three terms \Vuii\m I. 
 Stone voluntarily retired and returned to the practice ol 
 the law in his home city of Nevada, Mo. Within two years 
 after leaving Congress Stone was nominated, in ;i notable 
 contest with Richard Dalton as his principal opponent, 
 running as "Farmer" Dalton, for governor of Missouri. 
 Dalton carried the hig cities of Missouri with the support 
 of the lahor vote, except Kansas City, which had a candi- 
 date of its own in the person of Judge Janus Gihson. 
 William J. Stone had more farmer delegates in the nomi- 
 nating State convention at Jefferson City than all the other 
 candidates comhined, and was nominated by reason of 
 that support. He hade defiance to the corporation-con- 
 trolled vote of the great cities and won by reason of his 
 popular strength in the country. He won his election in 
 Novemher by a great majority over Maj. William Warner 
 as his opponent, the popular idol of the Republican 
 Party in Missouri, afterwards United Slates Senator from 
 Missouri. Maj. Warner opened his campaign at Sedalia, 
 Mo., in a speech widely published and circulated, the text 
 of which, as I recall, was " Stand up for Missouri." The 
 Republican organ of Missouri, the St. Louis Globe-Demo- 
 crat, had rung the changes on "Poor old Missouri" by 
 reason of Democratic rule, and in the shadow of this 
 attack Maj. Warner had taken his text " Stand up for 
 Missouri," charging a need of change of administration 
 by reason of Democratic rule, and putting his seal of ap- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 proval upon the Republican cry of " Poor old Missouri." 
 William J. Stone opened his campaign in the city of St. 
 Louis in a speech, the most notable ever made in his public 
 career, and answered every attack of the Republican 
 organ — the Globe-Democrat — and the charges made by 
 his Republican opponent— Maj. Warner — against Demo- 
 cratic rule. 
 
 Tbis great speech when made and circulated as a cam- 
 paign document tbroughout the State made unnecessary 
 any further campaign, though the usual speaking cam- 
 paign was conducted to a successful end, using Stone's 
 speech as a text. That speech was a sufficient answer to 
 every attack made upon the State under Democratic 
 administration, as compared with Republican misrule in 
 the days following the Civil War. It was the most master- 
 ful address and appeal ever made, in my judgment, to the 
 electorate of the State, and resulted in the triumphant 
 election of this great Missourian, who served his State as 
 governor for four years with conspicuous ability, when he 
 again retired to private life and entered again upon the 
 practice of his profession in the city of St. Louis. 
 
 After a brief while he became a candidate for the 
 United States Senate and succeeded the gifted George G. 
 Vest, who had retired after serving his State for four 
 terms with great and distinguished ability — a colleague of 
 Gen. Francis Marion Cockrell, who served as Senator for 
 five terms, or 30 years, with like great ability— a great 
 Democrat of wonderful personal popularity — loved and 
 respected for his great worth and popular service. 
 
 Senator STONE was first elected Senator by the Legisla- 
 ture of Missouri in January, 1903, and reelected in 1009, 
 and in 1911, by popular vote, for the term which would 
 have ended on March 4, 1921. In my judgment, if Sena- 
 tor Stom: had lived and retained his health he would 
 
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Address of Mr. Dickinson, of Missouri 
 
 have continued to serve his great State in the Senate of 
 
 the United States by a reelection at the end of this dun, 
 in the middle of which he passed into the great beyond 
 
 He was a worthy successor of Benton and Blair, of Veal 
 and Cockrell, of James S. Green and Waldo P. Johnson, 
 of B. Gratz Brown and Carl Schurz and John B. Hender- 
 son, and the others who filled with honor and distinction 
 that office of high trust- a galaxy of men of merit 
 
 No public man in Missouri ever had a greater personal 
 following of ardent and loyal friends than Senator Wil- 
 liam J. Stone, and they were found in every section of the 
 State, ready to help and sustain him in every contest 
 lie had filled every position of trust with singular ability 
 and with an honesty of purpose that made successful his 
 great public career. He was a successful lawyer, a 
 worthy Representative in Congress, a great governor, the 
 
 only governor of Missouri since the Civil War elected 
 again to high position. He was a fearless champion of 
 the rights of the people against the domination of selfish 
 corporate interests. He won success against the bitter 
 opposition of corporate power and the attacks of the great 
 press in the great cities. He had no great paper to cham- 
 pion his cause. He knew the people and knew how to 
 arouse them in support of his efforts to win, regardless of 
 the organized opposition that continued to combat him 
 in his great public career. The country press was his 
 organ. 
 
 Senator Stone had a great heart. lie not only loved 
 his friends and the great State that honored him so often, 
 but his heart beat in sympathy with the masses of the 
 people, whom he loved and trusted and in whom he be- 
 lieved. He loved fair play, he hated hypocrisy, and was 
 incapable of a mean or a small act. He led an honest and 
 courageous life and left an honored name as a rich legacy 
 to his relatives and friends. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Skim: 
 
 Senator Skim; was a man of strong convictions, of great 
 
 courage, and dared to follow the dictates of his own con- 
 science, regardless of the consequences that might follow. 
 No "in doubted his honesty of purpose or the courage of 
 his convictions. He followed the dictates of his own 
 conscience with a courage unsurpassed in the political 
 life of Missouri politics. 
 
 I knew Senator Stone well. For nearly 40 years I had 
 been his personal and political friend. I had tried to help 
 liini in his struggles for political preferment, for Con- 
 gress, governor, and Senator. His life was a continual 
 battle. Our relations were close and intimate. He loved 
 his friends and they loved and honored him. They 
 believed in him. He knew men, their strength and their 
 weaknesses. He knew the motives that prompted men to 
 action. He knew the right and dared do it. He feared 
 no man or political interests. He was a leader in his 
 party, State, and Nation, and high in its councils. He 
 helped to make its nominations and its platforms. He 
 wrote its great declarations upon which it went to battle 
 with its political opponents. He believed in the Demo- 
 cratic Party and loved its organization, and believed its 
 success was best for the whole country. He loved his 
 country as ardently as any man, and his great heart 
 almost broke when he saw it involved in a great world 
 war into which he had hoped it would not be drawn. 
 However his friends may have differed with him on any 
 great question, no man ever doubted his honesty or his 
 patriotism. 
 
 He was a national character of great ability and power 
 at all times, and his great character and distinguished 
 patriotic services won him the respect and admiration 
 oT all who knew him. He was a leader among men. He 
 has passed into the great eternity, mourned by the thou- 
 sands who knew him and loved him and honored him. 
 
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ADDRESS OF Mr. Dickinson, in Mis.su 
 
 Thousands came from far and mar to sec him laid away 
 in his last resting place in the beautiful cemetery in his 
 much-loved city of Nevada, where he had lived, where 
 his multitude of friends had helped him in his ambition 
 to rise to high place in the service of his country. Peace 
 to his ashes. God bless the memory of the much-loved 
 William Joel Stone. 
 
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Address of Mr. Dyer, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Missouri lost a splendid citizen, a great 
 public servant, in the death of Senator Stone. The distin- 
 guished Speaker of our House [Mr. Clark], my colleague 
 from Missouri, paid a deserved and a fitting tribute in his 
 address to the life and public service of the Senator. 
 
 Senator Stone was very close to the people of Missouri; 
 that was demonstrated by many incidents in his long ca- 
 reer. Like other men in public life who take a determined 
 position upon public questions, he had, of course, his op- 
 ponents in his own party; but, as the Speaker has said, 
 Senator Stone was a man who was not afraid to meet his 
 enemies in the open and who would fight for what he 
 believed to be right. 
 
 Probably that came from the fact, alluded to by the 
 Speaker, that the Senator, whose death we mourn to-day 
 and pay tribute to, came from the State of Kentucky. 
 Kentucky furnished to Missouri some of our most splen- 
 did citizens, men who have rendered great service. It is 
 true, as the Speaker has said, that Missouri in its early 
 days was made up largely of men and women who came 
 to it from States like Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. 
 I am proud of those men and women who came to Mis- 
 souri when it needed men and women of strong character 
 and determination and who helped shape its destiny and 
 make it the great State that it now is. 
 
 I feel some little personal pride in that myself, from the 
 fact that I am a descendant of some of that stock. My 
 rather was born in Virginia and my mother in Kentucky, 
 and I know, from their lives and from the things that they 
 stood for and did, that they believed in everything that 
 was for the best in public and in private life. God bless 
 them, is my prayer. 
 
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Address oe Mr. Dyeh, OF Missoi hi 
 
 So to-day, in paying tribute to those men and those 
 
 women who came from lliose States to help make Mis- 
 souri what it is, I can join not only in paying tribute to the 
 life and public service of our Senator, hut also in paying 
 tribute to the other splendid men and women who did so 
 much for our State and to testify anew to my love and af- 
 fection for my good rather and mother, who were a pari 
 of that great citizenship. 
 
 Senator Stone gave the greater part of his life to (In- 
 service of the people of Missouri and the people of the 
 Nation. He rendered conspicuous, able, and brilliant 
 service, and, although of a different political party from 
 his, I say most truthfully and candidly that I think Sena- 
 tor Stone was one of the ablest public servants that Mis- 
 souri has ever had. I feel that we have lost a public serv- 
 ant, and feel privileged to enter in the Record my judg- 
 ment, as one of the Representatives of Missouri, as to the 
 able public service of Senator William Joel Stone. 
 
 [1331 
 
AdOBESS or Mil. BOOHEB, OF MISSOURI 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: This occasion arouses within me a re- 
 newed sorrow for the loss of a cherished personal friend 
 who permitted none of the many distinctions of a long- 
 honored life of public service to mar or stem the warm 
 current of the trust and affection he gave me. I wish to 
 record here somewhat of my sincere estimate that in his 
 taking away the State and Nation he served have them- 
 selves lost no truer friend than in William J. Stone dead, 
 who, living, had no deeper delight and held no higher 
 purpose than to serve them for their happiest advance- 
 ment and aoblest elevation. His experience, his learning, 
 his accomplishments, and his generous heart equipped 
 him for the most eminent trust of our representative 
 maimer of government. 
 
 Naturally, thinking of him now, my heart turns first to 
 the place and the scenes that form the picture of our 
 friendship's beginning. 1 came here February 21, 1889, 
 to serve the unexpired term of a deceased Representative, 
 the Hon. James N. Burnes. Here I met the late Senator. 
 Here began the forming of lies which the passing of 
 more than twenty-five years have only enriched and 
 strengthened, such ties of mutual esteem and considera- 
 tion that now, in these moments of regretful reflection 
 that an ending of all pulsing, responsive friendships is 
 inevitable, 1 am fain to seek somehow the consolation that 
 recollection affords of the man 1 loved and who gener- 
 ously gave me the affection 1 may DO longer enjoy. Tims 
 only memory's alchemy may turn the gloom of mourn- 
 ing into golden light. 
 
 William Joel Stone, horn 70 years ago in Madison 
 
 County, Ky.. began his career as a statesman- destined 
 to become known and honored among America's highest 
 
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Address of Mr. Booher, of Missouri 
 
 and best — more than .'S."> years ago. It was with the B»1 
 year of the first Cleveland administration thai he stalled 
 a service of three terms in this House. In its si\ yean 
 he was brought into contact and relation with the most 
 famous representatives of our times. His talents for 
 public service, his gifts and graces of speech and hearing, 
 were such as suffered no depreciation of contact with 
 the qualities of the great men about him. John G. Car- 
 lisle was the Speaker of the House, and during Mr. 
 Stone's years there were in this great arena for national 
 heart expression such men as Samuel .1. Randall, Suns. I 
 Cox, Roger Q. Mills, William R. Morrison, Pig Iron Keller, 
 John W. Daniel, William P. Hepburn, Charles R. Crisp, 
 David B. Culberson, long gone from the place they illu- 
 minated with their fine and lustrous personalities, ami 
 with only two scarcely less distinguished happily yet 
 among living American statesmen still in the public serv- 
 ice, Knute Nelson of Minnesota and Joseph G. Cannon of 
 Illinois. These great men represented every pari of this 
 Nation. Ardently devoted to their several constituencies, 
 they were scarcely less fervent in their loyally to tin- all- 
 embracing Federal institution and the first creature of 
 the Constitution, the House of Representatives. Rut in 
 the expression of these endowments of faith and accom- 
 plishments of intellectual enterprise none excelled Wil- 
 liam J. Stone. 
 
 In his fertile mentality grew a remarkable variety of 
 capacities for public service and enlightening public in- 
 struction. His speeches and conversations on the floor 
 of the House and in the committee conferences were 
 illuminating, persuasive, and so entertaining as always 
 to recall with pleasure. To me it was ever a recollection 
 that made me proud that he was my friend and fellow 
 Missourian. He did honor to the name of his State 
 wherever he went, whether in the public service or as a 
 
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Memorial Addkksses: Senator Stoni 
 
 trusted councilor in political party service. He was a 
 Democrat of Democrats in the most Democratic of States. 
 For his expression of himself as such he was especially 
 popular and honored in Missouri. In his participation in 
 the affairs of representative government for all the States 
 of the Union he was no less sincerely and constantly and 
 courageously a Democrat. I do not believe a man has 
 lived since the day of the Father of American Democracy, 
 Thomas Jefferson, the greatest apostle of representative 
 government the world has ever known, whose mind and 
 heart were truer to the rights of humanity than the mind 
 and heart of William J. Stone. Like Jefferson, to him the 
 greatest of all liberties was the liberty of mind and con- 
 science to achieve for the individual unrestrained by gov- 
 ernment the best things possible. In this was he one of the 
 greatest of American Democrats. With all the ardor of a 
 virile, sympathetic nature he was at all times partisan to 
 the principles that exalt the name of Jefferson and which 
 even now shine with new glory in the triumph of the 
 American and allied armies over the implacable foes of 
 democracy. 
 
 In the Senate, where he began his service 15 years ago, 
 being at his death in the middle of his third term, the 
 superior scope for intellectual energy afforded by that 
 great body afforded him fit opportunity for the exercise 
 of his conspicuous abilities. His speeches and even his 
 most casual contributions to its adventurous debates are 
 among the most finished ornaments of the Senate's lit- 
 erary record. He touched no subject he did not e mb el li sh 
 with the attractive suggestions of a lively imagination 
 bodied forth fa the comely raiment of excellent phrase. 
 In the clash of differing views he will be remembered 
 with admiration by his friends and recalled with respect 
 by his adversaries in contention. Partisan as he was, 
 always expectantly looked to as a Democratic leader, his 
 
 ll.'ifi! 
 
Address of Mil Boon eh, of Mis 
 
 loyalty to party at no time in his long public and political 
 career marred his friendships, which were numerous and 
 widely extended. No intellectual divergence of vie* 
 
 from his convictions altered the cordiality of liis relations 
 with men in any position. Incapable of submerging him- 
 self in the presence of political opposition and before the 
 assaults of word and act upon principles he cherished, 
 Senator Stone, like all eminent and forceful Americana, 
 was not without his share of enemies. He was at limes 
 the target of bitter criticisms. He rarely gave evidence 
 that they disturbed him except when they brought into 
 question the integrity of his motives. He either bore 
 himself silently erect and serene in the little storms of 
 party weather or countered the blows of condemnation 
 and ridicule with thrusts of wit and ironical allusion that 
 effectually weakened opposition. No one can say that he 
 was ever worsted in debate or his resourceful capacity 
 depreciated in any controversy. 
 
 Senator Stone's main activities in the Senate were as 
 member of two of its most important committees. Finance 
 and Foreign Relations. As chairman of the Foreign Re- 
 lations Committee he held a parliamentary post for which 
 he was peculiarly and preeminently fitted. R had of all 
 committees the most vital relations with the great question 
 of the world war. When the history of that war in its 
 domestic aspect here and its political incidents and effects 
 shall have been truly told it will be seen, I have not the 
 slightest doubt, that in the haste of excited judgments of 
 the war period Senator Stone was sometimes unjustly 
 assailed for what was incorrectly represented as his atti- 
 tude. He truly represented that large body of sane Ameri- 
 cans who are averse to war and would endure much 
 within honor to avoid quarrels that mean death and 
 crippling to countless numbers of human beings. But I 
 shall not attempt to go any further into the story of Sena- 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator Stone 
 
 tor Stone's share in the final determination of the United 
 
 States to enter the war. Being in, he cast his entire lot of 
 mind and heart into the issue. The most impartial histo- 
 rian will do him due justice. He will be found, I am 
 confident, to have been far more consistent and intellectu- 
 ally righteous than many who held high places and agreed 
 with him in his reluctance to join the war who afterwards 
 became the foremost zealots in its prosecution. He turned 
 all the rare gifts of his nature to the support of his coun- 
 try's cause, ever with the constant prayer for victory 
 breathing with his presence in all company. 
 
 I have said that Senator Stone in his congressional serv- 
 ice touched no subject he did not embellish. It is a truth 
 that will stand forth freshly with every examination of the 
 part he bore in public discussions. His contributions more 
 than adorned debate. They had a practical strength and 
 an aptness of suggestion which were invaluable aids to 
 constructive legislation. I cite a single instance of this 
 rare equipment for the most exalted public service as 
 afforded in the Senate. It occurred but a little while 
 before his death. A man of comparatively frail physical 
 structure, he was more constantly energetic and punctual 
 at the post of duty than very many stronger men. The 
 Senate waa discussing the final shaping of the railway 
 administration bill. Then there arose through Senator 
 Stone's quick apprehension of a demand of public interest 
 sure to come with the future, and which we observe has 
 already come in the present conjectures, as to the dis- 
 position of the railroads. He interpolated an exhaustive 
 speech on the bill by Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, with a 
 question as to the interpretation of one of the concluding 
 clauses of Hie bill — section 24 This was its language: 
 
 That this article is expressly declared to be emergency legis- 
 lation enacted to meet conditions growing out of war; and noth- 
 ing herein is to be construed :is expressing or prejudicing the 
 
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Address of Mil Booiif.h, of Mi* 
 
 future policy of the Federal Government concerning the owner- 
 ship, control, or regulation of carriers or the method or basil 
 
 of the capitalization thereof. 
 
 As he put the question. Senator Stone Baid: 
 
 I have an apprehension that when we come out of it we will 
 be faced with one or two alternatives, namely, the taking over of 
 the railroads into absolute Government ownership, or a capi- 
 talization of the railroads in order to protect the vast Interests 
 involved, and in order that these great transportation lines may 
 be conducted with the greatest possible efficiency in the public 
 interest. 
 
 The apt question elicited from the distinguished Ohio 
 Senator an important response. Observing Ihe presence 
 in the committee handling the bill a variety of views, Mr. 
 Pomerene said : 
 
 The bill as presented originally provided that Government con- 
 trol should continue during the war and until otherwise directed. 
 That of itself, in the judgment of some of the members of the 
 committee, had a suggestion of continued future Government 
 ownership. It is perfectly clear by the enactment of this law the 
 Congress would not be committing itself to any of these policies 
 which might have been in the minds of Senators. 
 
 And, finally, Mr. Speaker, I would not close this inade- 
 quate tribute to the worth of my great friend in his great 
 public service without giving another instance of bis lofty 
 regard for duty. That, too, was but a sbort time before 
 bis voice was no longer to be heard among men. I refer 
 to that occasion as of profound historic significance and 
 one whose meaning is more strikingly evident at this Lime 
 than at any period within our history since the rounding 
 of our Republic. It was last year, February 21. Refer- 
 ence having been had to the method of procedure in the 
 Senate on the next day, with the customary reading of 
 Washington's Farewell Address, Senator Stoni objected 
 to any other course than adjournment immediately afti r 
 
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Memorial Ajddbbssbs: Senator Stone 
 
 the reading of the address. Another Senator remarked 
 that it was the rule for the Senate on such occasions to 
 proceed with ordinary husiness after such reading. 
 
 The Missouri Senator solemnly advised the Senate that 
 it was indulging a "poor compliment" to the greatest of 
 all Americans, that then of all times the address should 
 he read and pondered anew in all the matchless wisdom 
 of its admonitions. Plainly, ohviously, he referred to that 
 part of Washington's Farewell Address in which he 
 warned his fellow countrymen for all time against " the 
 insidious wiles of foreign influence," advising them to 
 keep the faith of present engagements hut to enter upon 
 no entangling alliance which would commit us to partici- 
 pate in the settlement of Europe's quarrels. 
 
 I believe that when the historic occasion recurs in the 
 two Houses this month on the birthday of him who gave 
 to his people that immortal counsel, millions and millions 
 of American people as they note the reading of his words 
 again in Congress will stand where Senator Stone stood 
 last year, revering Washington and still first in the hearts 
 of his countrymen. That reminder by the Missouri Sen- 
 ator was a noble climax to a highly honorable and long 
 honored career. 
 
 [140] 
 
Address of Mr. Hamlin, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Senator Stone was considerably my senior 
 
 in years, but it was my privilege to know him well for 
 about 25 years. I greatly admired his splendid ability and 
 his many admirable qualities of mind and heart I be- 
 lieve that he was as nearly unselfish as any man whom I 
 have known and who was so long in public position. 
 
 During his active, busy life he held public office about 
 26 years, each commission being issued to him as the 
 result of the will of his people expressed through the 
 ballot. 
 
 He was prosecuting attorney of his county. Representa- 
 tive in Congress from his district, governor of his State, 
 and United States Senator from Missouri, and which posi- 
 tion he held at the time of his death. 
 
 He was politically a militant, but hi' always fought 
 fairly. He never conducted a political trench or subma- 
 rine warfare. He went forth to battle in the open, 
 panoplied in what he believed was a just canst', and it was 
 always a light to a finish. lie neither asked for nor gave 
 quarter. 
 
 Like all such characters, hi- had the most loyal friends 
 and the bitterest possible enemies. He bore many scars 
 received in battle for the principles of Democracy, to 
 which he was thoroughly wedded. His contests were nu- 
 merous, but it may be said of him thai he aever lost a 
 battle. In other words, he stood as the candidate of his 
 party many times before the people who knew him and 
 went to his death without a single defeat. I have heard 
 him praised and I have heard him condemned, bul I have 
 never heard any man question either his courage, his loy- 
 alty to a friend, or his integrity. 
 
 He followed faithfully and unerringly the star of De- 
 mocracy which Thomas Jefferson hung in the political 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senatob Stone 
 
 QrmamenL He never apologized for his position or hesi- 
 tated to announce his creed upon all proper occasions. A 
 few years ago a friend of mine and an ardent admirer of 
 the late Senator told me an exceedingly interesting story 
 which illustrates the manner of man that he was: 
 
 All Missourians remember distinctly that just before 
 the close of the Civil War all persons who were even sus- 
 pected of sympathizing with the Southern cause were dis- 
 franchised, and I might say, in the minds of the ultra- 
 Unionist, to he a Southern sympathizer was equivalent to 
 being a Democrat, and under radical rule in Missouri all 
 such were disfranchised, but about the year of 1872, in a 
 limited way, the restrictions were removed and they were 
 permitted to again participate in politics in Missouri. A 
 friend told me that at that time down in southwest Mis- 
 souri, where the feeling was extraordinarily bitter in 
 a county which had theretofore been Democratic, he and 
 others concluded to try to reorganize their party for the 
 coming campaign. They conceived the idea of having 
 an old-fashioned barbecue and announced that it was 
 for the purpose of getting all Democrats together and have 
 some prominent man of that political faith address them. 
 They made the announcement, but were immediately noti- 
 fied by the opposition that such a meeting could not be 
 pulled off in that county; that no man could come there 
 and make a Democratic speech and get away alive. How- 
 ever, the committee went on with their arrangements. I 
 remember distinctly that he told me that they wrote Gov. 
 Phelps, who for 18 years represented a district in Con- 
 gress and resigned his seat here to take charge of a regi- 
 ment in the Civil War on the side of the Union, but who, 
 nevertheless, was an ardent Democrat at all times, and 
 was afterwards one of Missouri's great governors, but for 
 some reason he declined to come. They then extended 
 an invitation to another very prominent citizen of Spring- 
 
 ing 
 
Address op Mr. Hamlin, of Missouri 
 
 field, also a gallant Union soldier and Democrat, Capt 
 McAfee, but he, too, declined tin' invitation. 
 
 The time for their barbecue was drawing mar ami liny 
 had promised to have somebody there to make a sp< ecb 
 and they felt they must make good their promise, ami in 
 their dilemma some one made the following suggestion. 
 "I understand there is a young lawyer over lure at 
 Nevada by the name of Stone, who is a Democrat ami 
 who, I am told, makes a splendid speech. Let us invite 
 him." It was Hohson's choice — there was nothing else I" 
 be done, so that was agreed to and the invitation was ac- 
 cordingly sent. There were no telephones or telegraph 
 lines or railroads, for that matter, through that section of 
 the country at that time, but they sent an invitation by 
 mail and received a prompt reply, accepting it. The 
 committee immediately announced that Wii.i.iam Jobl 
 Stone, of Nevada, would he present and make a speech on 
 the occasion of the barbecue. Very promptly they were 
 waited upon by a delegation, self-appointed, perhaps, who 
 served notice upon them that neither this man or no other 
 man, for that matter, could make a Democratic speech on 
 that occasion and get away alive. He told me thai il was 
 the prevailing custom at that time for men to go armed 
 continually in that county. Human life was regarded as 
 almost worthless. The committee finally became con- 
 vinced that these "rough necks" meant just what they 
 said, but they did not reach that conclusion until it was 
 too late to notify this young lawyer not to come. 
 
 None of them had ever seen Stone. But they knew he 
 would have to come across the country in a buggy. And I 
 may say here that the place at which he was to speak was 
 some 30 or 40 miles from where Senator Stone lived. 
 They knew the road he would come in on, and they con- 
 cluded to watch for him and meet him at the edge of the 
 town and notify him that it would be worth bis life to try 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Stone 
 
 to make a speech there on that day, and explain to him 
 that he could drive in through and around the town and 
 could reach again the road over which he had come and 
 go back home, and that then they would announce at the 
 proper time that the speaker for some reason did not 
 show up. They watched for him and met him when he 
 came to town and explained fully the situation to him. 
 This crowd of rough necks were there, armed to the teeth 
 and " tanked up " on native liquor and swearing that no 
 man could make a Democratic speech on that occasion 
 and live. My friend said that when they explained the 
 matter to Stone and told him that they were sorry not to 
 have been able to get him notice not to come, but how he 
 could get on through town and back home, inasmuch as 
 nobody knew him, none would suspect he had ever been 
 there; but he said Stone looked at them for a moment and 
 said " Did you not invite me over here to make a speech 
 to-day?" "Yes." " Well," he said, " I am here. "But," 
 they said, " we can not afford to let you speak. These 
 fellows swear they will kill you, and they will." He said, 
 " Gentlemen, I was invited to come here to-day to make a 
 Democratic speech, and," with an adjective that he usually 
 employed under such provocation, said " I am here, and I 
 am going to make that speech." "But," they said, "you 
 can not afford to make it; it is too dangerous. But if you 
 are determined to make a speech here to-day talk about 
 something else— other than politics." He said, "I will 
 make my own speech." 
 
 This man told me thai at the proper time Stone went 
 upon Hie platform and thai this crowd that had said he 
 should not speak, and who were drunk and armed to the 
 teeth, rushed up menacingly in front of him. Stone stood 
 and looked at them for a moment and then proceeded to 
 denounce them as arrant cowards; told them what he had 
 been informed they had threatened to do, and defied them 
 
Address of Mr. Hamlin, oi Missoi eu 
 
 to do their worst. He said: "You have not the courage 
 to do what you said you would. I am here to make a 
 Democratic speech and, by the eternal, I am going to 
 make it." 
 
 My friend told me that he had heard Stone many times 
 since make many hitter Democratic speeches, hut that he 
 had never heard him make one quite so hitter as the one 
 he made on this occasion. Those fellows who had said 
 that he should not speak and live gradually slunk away, 
 one at a time, until every one of them had gone, and when 
 Stone had finished there was not one of them in sight. 
 
 I speak of this to show the courage of the man. He was 
 not afraid of anything. 
 
 He grew to he wise heyond his day and generation. 
 From the time that I first began to take an interest in poli- 
 tics he was my political mentor. 
 
 Shortly after he was nominated for governor of his 
 State it was my privilege, as a young Democrat, to he one 
 of the speakers at a banquet given in his honor in my 
 city. From that time on, especially. I knew him well. I 
 met him in court as opposing counsel after he retired as 
 governor. I entered this House, for the first time as a 
 Member on the same day that he entered the Senate for 
 the first time. 
 
 Innumerable times during these years I have gone to 
 him for counsel and advice and I never came away empty 
 handed. I did not at all times agree with him on all pub- 
 lic questions, but I always greatly respected his opinions. 
 In his death I lost a friend, our party a great leader, and 
 his country an aggressive patriot. May his ashes rest in 
 peace. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hf.nsi.ey, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: We have mei here to-day to bear our 
 humble tribute to the many excellencies of character 
 possessed and service rendered his country by the late 
 Senator William Joel Stone during his life. 
 
 The history of Senator STONE and the facts concerning 
 his life have been detailed by others more beautifully than 
 I can hope to give them. As has been recited, he was born 
 in Kentucky and reared in Missouri. He was educated in 
 the University of Missouri, graduating from that institu- 
 tion, after which time he located in Nevada, Vernon 
 County, Mo., for the practice of his profession, that of law. 
 I desire here to say that with the great ability possessed 
 by Senator Stone, had he continued in his profession 
 practicing law with the same energy and continuous effort 
 that he put forth in serving the people in public oflice, he 
 would have soon been one of the very leading attorneys at 
 the bar in his State and Nation, and he would have 
 acquired a goodly share of this world's goods. But he 
 chose public oflice instead, and he early in life was elected 
 to the Congress of the United States. After serving here 
 in this historic body for six years he retired voluntarily. 
 Soon after his retirement from Congress he was nomi- 
 nated and elected governor of Missouri, after a very 
 spirited fight both for the nomination ami the election. As 
 governor he never hesitated to take his stand with the 
 people and against those desiring special favors at the 
 hands of his administration. Assailed many times, yet 
 undaunted, he stood as a mountain among small hills, 
 like a great oak in (he forest, giving no heed to the abuse 
 of those who maligned him. The poisoned shafts of the 
 slanderer fell broken at his feel. He gave the people of 
 the Stalt a lair and honest administration. Going out of 
 the governor's office lie resumed the practice of law, but 
 he soon reentered public life and was elected to represent 
 
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Address of Mh. Hemsuby, OF Missouri 
 
 the grand and glorious State of Missouri in the Senate of 
 the United States, in which hody he was serving his third 
 term when stricken unto death. For many years he was 
 one of the foremost Democrats and statesmen in our coun- 
 try, and in every station in life to which he was called 
 he graced it with great ability, courage, and manhood. 
 His career was a most brilliant one. 
 
 I am glad to say that I counted Senator Stone as my 
 friend; in fact, he was the friend of every worthy indi- 
 vidual wherever he happened to be, as well as the friend 
 of every worthy enterprise. He was in deed and in truth 
 the friend of humanity, for his every act testified to the 
 feeling that he bore toward the great body of our people. 
 In my judgment, there never lived a man more thor- 
 oughly in love with his country and his kind than Sena- 
 tor Stone. Patriotic and courageous, a partisan in poli- 
 tics in the sense that he believed that parties were neces- 
 sary for the perpetuity of our Government and our insti- 
 tutions, he was ready and willing at all times, if neces- 
 sary, to sacrifice his very political life for his convictions. 
 I very well recall, a good many years ago, how he took 
 his political life in his hands when he assailed with all 
 the vigor he possessed certain corporate interests of Mis- 
 souri, because he thought they were insidiously seeking 
 to get control of his party. 
 
 True manly courage can not exist without honor and 
 integrity; in fact, courage is a child of honor. One can 
 not exist without the other. There never was any in- 
 quiry as to whether he would stand by his convictions on 
 any question, however momentous and however perilous 
 to him. We need more of such men. That is the stuff 
 out of which martyrs arc made. Any person can go with 
 the current, but for one to battle against the current, to 
 go amidst the frowning, hissing, and jeering crowd who 
 are drifting the other way it takes courage and manhood. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shim: 
 
 I recall very distinctly one occasion when I was in his 
 office, only a few months hefore he was stricken down. 
 We were discussing the course being pursued by another 
 person in public life, and I said, " Senator, he is rendering 
 a great service to the people, but he will never get any 
 credit for it, because the people will not understand it." 
 He replied, with emphasis, " My boy, it makes little differ- 
 ence whether the people give you credit or not; be true 
 and render service, though they may never appreciate it. 
 My only thought now, during this hour of my country's 
 crisis, is to do my whole duty by my people without re- 
 gard to its effect upon me." So I say, Mr. Speaker, that 
 the people who go to make up the body of our great and 
 glorious country lost a true and noble friend in the death 
 of Senator Stone. They lost a friend who did not count 
 the cost when it came to serving them. The shells of 
 slander and abuse when bursting all around him affected 
 his course none whatsoever. He preferred to be right to 
 anything else. He never bid for the applause of the truc- 
 ulent hirelings of the special interests of the country; and 
 if his true worth could be portrayed, his diligent efforts 
 in behalf of the people understood, even up to the time 
 that he was stricken while riding on a street car here in 
 Washington, there would be erected in the minds and 
 hearts of the great masses throughout our country a 
 monument that would endure as long as courage, as man- 
 hood, and as patriotism is prized by man. 
 
 Senator STONE will be missed in Missouri; he will be 
 missed in the Nation. The country sustained a loss in 
 his death, an irreparable loss. He was one of the most 
 human men I ever met, full of humanity, sympathy, and 
 love. He was never so busy that he could not give one a 
 patient hearing, and he was always ready to render help- 
 ful service to the needy one. We all lost a friend when 
 Senator Stone died, and his family lost a patient, kind, 
 and loving parent and companion. 
 
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Address of Mh. Rubey, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Spf.aker: More than 10 years have passed since the 
 Members of this House have heen assembled to pay a 
 tribute of respect to the memory of a Missouri Senator. 
 On September 20, 1877, Lewis V. Bogg, then a United 
 States Senator, died while serving his first term, and since 
 that time no Member of that body from Missouri has died 
 while in office until April 14, 1018, when William J. Stone, 
 then serving his third term, passed away. Missouri dur- 
 ing her little less than 08 years of statehood lias had 20 
 Senators, 1 of whom have died while in office. Besides 
 those already mentioned, Stone and Bogg, the third and 
 fourth Senators, Alexander Buckner and Lewis F. Linn, 
 passed away while in office. Buckner served only a little 
 more than 2 years, while Linn served nearly 15 years. 
 
 I trust that it will not be considered inappropriate if I 
 briefly touch upon some facts and incidents of history re- 
 lating to the long line of illustrious men who have occu- 
 pied seats in the " upper House " from the great Common- 
 wealth I have the honor to represent in part in the " lower 
 House " of Congress. 
 
 During the early years of her statehood the people gave 
 to their Senators long tenure of office. For 35 years she 
 was represented by only six men; two of these died in 
 office; otherwise the number would have been less. From 
 1855 to 1881 no man succeeded himself in office, with the 
 single exception of John B. Henderson, who was ap- 
 pointed to succeed Truslen Polk in 1802 and who subse- 
 quently was elected to fill out his unexpired term and 
 reelected for a full term. Henderson's length of service 
 was a little over 7 years. During this brief period of 26 
 years no less than 15 men occupied seats in the United 
 States Senate from Missouri. With the reelection of 
 Francis Marion Cockrell in 18S1 the people returned to 
 
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 their former custom of giving long service to the faith- 
 ful; and, as if to emphasize that fact, they reelected Sena- 
 tor Cockrell four times, giving him 30 years, a record 
 equaled only by Thomas II. Benton. To he exact, Senator 
 Cockrell's service exceeded that of Thomas H. Benton sev- 
 eral months, due to the fact that while Benton was elected 
 in 1820 Missouri was not admitted until August 21, 1821. 
 The shortest term of service was that of David F. Jewett, 
 who was appointed to fill a vacancy and who served from 
 December 19, 1870, to January 21, 1871, a period of one 
 month and one day. He had a close second, however, in 
 James Shields, who was elected to fill out the unexpired 
 term of Lewis V. Bogg and served from January 24, 1879, 
 to March 1, 1879, one month and eight days. Only one of 
 Missouri's Senators has ever resigned. That was Charles 
 D. Drake, who resigned to accept the appointment of chief 
 justice of the Court of Claims. Two of our Senators were 
 foreign horn — Carl Schurz, who was horn in Germany, 
 and James Shields, who was born in Ireland. Schurz, 
 after representing the State in the United States Senate, 
 became a member of President Hayes's Cabinet and later 
 located in New York City, where he became a very dis- 
 tinguished editor and author. Shields had the very great 
 distinction of representing three States in the United 
 States Senate. First Illinois, then Wisconsin, and, last but 
 not least, Missouri. David R. Atchison is the only Mis- 
 sourian who has had the distinction of serving as Presi- 
 dent of the United States. He was President pro tempore 
 of the Senate on Sunday, March 1, 1819; and as Gen. Tay- 
 lor was Dot sworn in until March 5, Atchison for one brief 
 day was President of this great Republic. 
 
 WlLLIAM J. Stone, in honor of whose memory we meet 
 to-day, was the twenty-fourth Senator from Missouri. 
 In length of service he was exceeded only by Senators 
 Cockrell, Benton, and Vest. Elected in 1903, reelected in 
 
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Address OF Mr. Rubey, OF Missoriu 
 
 1909, and again in 191 1, the last time hy popular vote, he 
 was just entering the sixteenth year of service at the time 
 of his death. 
 
 The old State of Kentucky has been very generous to 
 Missouri. She has furnished us with some of our most 
 distinguished citizens, among them Senator Stone. He 
 came to the State early in life and was educated there, 
 graduating from the university at Columbia. Every offi- 
 cial position he ever occupied came to him as the result 
 of the confidence and esteem in which he was held by 
 Missourians — prosecuting attorney, Member of the House 
 of Representatives, governor, United States Senator. Re- 
 markable career, one of which any man might well be 
 proud. In even- position, from county attorney to the 
 exalted position of United States Senator, he served bis 
 people with fidelity and distinction. Of all Missouri's 
 distinguished governors, Senator Stone is the only one 
 ever elected to the United States Senate after serving a 
 full term as governor. Trusten Polk was inaugurated 
 governor and in a few days was elected to the Senate, 
 while R. Gratz Rrown was elected governor after having 
 first served in the United States Senate. 
 
 My acquaintance with Senator Stone began in 1892, 
 when he made his memorable campaign for governor of 
 Missouri. His opponent in that race, Hon. William War- 
 ner, attacked the record of the Democrats and selected as 
 his slogan " Poor old Missouri." Mr. Stone accepted the 
 challenge, defended the Democratic record in Missouri, 
 took as his watchword " Grand old Missouri," and from 
 one end of the State to the other proclaimed the greatness 
 and the glory of that splendid Commonwealth, of which 
 some one has written : 
 
 The winds of heaven never fanned, 
 The sparkling sunlight never spanned, 
 The borders of a better land 
 Than this our own Missouri land. 
 
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 Thai remarkable campaign of 1892 added to the luster 
 
 of Stone as an orator, won for him the governorship, 
 firmly established him in the affections of his people, and 
 eventually made him United States Senator. 
 
 In his political speeches Senator Stone was unselfish; 
 he always talked for the " other fellows " rather than for 
 himself. In every campaign he ever waged he never lost 
 sight of his associates on the Democratic ticket, and each 
 one of them received from him strong words of praise and 
 commendation. No man I have ever known was truer to 
 his friends than he. He firmly believed in and faithfully 
 practiced the sentiment — 
 
 The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, 
 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
 Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. 
 
 Of Senator Stone it may be truly said, " He died in 
 harness." On the way to the Capitol, where he was to 
 have made a speech in the Senate, he was stricken. He 
 lingered in a semiconscious state only a few days. Once 
 in a while he would revive, and in those moments he 
 would insist that he must go to the Senate, that he was 
 
 expected to speak, ami that he must be there ready to do 
 
 his duty. 
 
 He died, I am sure, as he would have desired could he 
 have been consulted. There was no long and lingering 
 sickness full of pain and consequent suffering of sympa- 
 thizing loved ones powerless to give relief. On the con- 
 trary, after an illness of only a few days, surrounded by 
 his devoted wife, son, and daughters, he peacefully 
 
 breathed his last and passed to the great beyond That his 
 going brought sincere sorrow and mourning to the great 
 hosts of faithful friends was manifest on the return of the 
 body to Missouri. From the time the funeral train crossed 
 the Father of Waters— the Mississippi River— and reached 
 
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 Missouri soil until the very end of the journey, ;i( every 
 place where a stop was made the train was met by vast 
 crowds of people. At St. Louis, the first stop, that great, 
 magnificent station could not begin to accommodate the 
 friends who were there to pay their tribute of respect 
 The vast throng lined up on either side of the long plat- 
 form and stood with bowed and uncovered heads as the 
 body was borne from the train. Tears flowed down their 
 cheeks, giving mute and unmistakable evidence of the 
 sadness which filled their hearts. The next stop was made 
 at Jefferson City, the State capital, where the body lay in 
 state in the rotunda of that magnificent new statehousc so 
 recently erected upon the bluff of the Missouri River. On 
 this historic spot had stood the old capitol building in 
 which for four years Senator Stone had served as gover- 
 nor. The new capitol, erected at a cost of nearly $4000,000 
 to replace the old one destroyed by fire a few years ago, 
 was just being completed, and Senator Stone's body was 
 the first of Missouri's distinguished dead to lie in state 
 there. The casket containing his remains was placed in 
 the great rotunda, in the recess formed by the great wind- 
 ing stairways leading to the floors and galleries above. It 
 was banked with the most beautiful array of flowers I 
 have ever looked upon — tokens of love, affection, and es- 
 teem sent from far and near. All day long there was a 
 constant stream of people passing the bier of Missouri's 
 distinguished Senator. They came from everywhere; 
 nearly every county was represented. Old men, with the 
 weight of years showing in their tottering footsteps and 
 their whitened hair, paused and looked upon the face of 
 the dead, wiped the tears from their eyes, and with sad- 
 dened countenances and throbbing hearts passed on. 
 These were the friends of other days — men who had 
 known him, honored him, and stood by him in the days 
 gone by, and who now came to look for the last time upon 
 
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 the lace of their friend and pay to him this last mark 
 of their affection and esteem for him. Men and women 
 passed by the thousands. The children came from the 
 puhlic schools; the business men closed their doors and 
 came to pay honorable tribute to the dead. No one who 
 viewed this truly wonderful scene at Jefferson City can 
 for a moment doubt the esteem and love of the people of 
 Missouri for this man who had served them in the three- 
 fold capacities of Congressman, governor, and United 
 States Senator. 
 
 The funeral train left the capital at night, arriving at 
 Nevada, Mo., early the following morning. Here again we 
 were met by vast crowds of people who came from the sur- 
 rounding counties. This was the old home of Senator 
 Stone. Here it was he began his political career. Here it 
 was we were to meet his old-time friends, those who had 
 known him from his early manhood. The manifestations 
 of sincere grief and sorrow shown both at the funeral and 
 at the grave told the story of their affection for this dis- 
 tinguished man far more eloquently than it can possibly 
 be related by me. Home! He was back home again; he 
 had taken his last earthly journey and had come back to 
 make his final resting place near his old home. We laid 
 him to rest in the beautiful cemetery at Nevada. There 
 in the silent city of the dead he rests to-day, surrounded 
 by friends and loved ones who have gone before and 
 where he will be joined in the days to come by other 
 loved ones and other friends who must so surely follow. 
 
 The body of William J. STONE, all that is mortal of him, 
 lies out there in that cemetery; the grass will grow green 
 above his grave, the flowers will bloom, the birds will sing 
 their carols in the trees; friends and relatives will come to 
 visit that grave, to spread (lowers upon it, and to water 
 them with their tears; in time, no doubt, friends and 
 admirers will erect a suitable monument, so that future 
 
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Address of Mh. Rubey, of Missoiiu 
 
 generations may know that the hody of a distinguished 
 statesman and citizen lies buried there. William J. Stone 
 is not there; his immortal spirit took its flight when the 
 breath left the body. He has gone to meet his reward in 
 the great beyond. On that bright day in April, nearly a 
 year ago, his immortal spirit winged its flight — 
 
 To that mysterious bourn 
 From which no traveler returns. 
 
 And to friends and loved ones who put their trust in 
 Him " Who doeth all things well " there comes that sweet 
 consolation: 
 
 We'll meet thee and we'll greet thee 
 
 On the never ending shore; 
 We'll dwell with thee in glory, 
 
 To be parted nevermore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Igoe, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: My persooal and intimate relationship 
 with Senator Stone began only with my election to Con- 
 gress. When I took my seat here in March, 1913, I had 
 known him only in a general way and by reputation, as 
 everyone in Missouri had known him up until that time. 
 
 I think the outstanding things in his character were his 
 courage and his honesty. He rendered great service as a 
 Member of this House, as governor of the State of Mis- 
 souri, as Senator, and also in private life. 
 
 Members have spoken of his courage, and there is one 
 thing I recall as a boy that he did in Missouri, that re- 
 quired as much courage as was ever displayed by a public- 
 man at any time, and that was when, in the State of Mis- 
 souri, some people undertook to set up a sort of religious 
 persecution. It took courage for a man in public life to 
 denounce it, but Senator Stone had no hesitation what- 
 ever in going from one end of the State to the other de- 
 nouncing the movement as un-American, unfair, and a 
 disgrace to the State. 
 
 There is no man, in my judgment, in the Democratic 
 Parly who is entitled to more credit for the success of the 
 legislative program of the Democratic Party in Congress 
 since 1913 than Senator Stone. He was a leader and a 
 worker. He worked day and night as a member of com- 
 mittees of the Senate and he labored with the members 
 of his party. He worked to make a record for the admin- 
 istration and carry out the promises that his party had 
 made. He fought for his party; he believed in his party; 
 and he fought for it because he thought it was an instru- 
 mentality through which the wishes of the majority of 
 Ihe people might best be carried out, and thus preserve 
 tin Government which we all love. 
 
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Address of Mk. Igoe, of Missoi hi 
 
 There are very few people, outside of Members of Con- 
 gress who served 'with him, who know how devoted Sena- 
 tor Stone was to the duties of his office. He did not spare 
 himself, and though at times in recent years his health 
 was impaired he did not slacken his efforts, but devoted 
 his entire time to legislative matters, working far into the 
 night. No one who came to his office for advice or assist- 
 ance was turned away and all were made to feel welcome. 
 It was marvelous how a man so husy could find time to 
 receive so many callers and give them his aid in satisfying 
 their wants. 
 
 I had occasion many times in the last few years of his 
 life to go to him for advice and assistance and talked to 
 him in confidence when these great issues came upon us. 
 Immediately preceding the war and the declaration of 
 war itself I had occasion to meet him and to discuss mat- 
 ters with him. He never undertook, in my judgment, to 
 lead any man along any course nor did he undertake to 
 persuade them from doing what they conceived to be right 
 and proper, and in all the criticisms that have been 
 visited upon him for the course that he took it seems to 
 me that the men who are most bitter never did understand 
 the greatness of his character nor the greatness of his love 
 of his country. There is no man who ever served in this 
 Congress who had a greater love for his country than did 
 Senator Stone. Mr. Speaker, I hope that in the time to 
 come that he will be remembered for what he was, a great 
 American, a great Senator, a courageous man, and one 
 who wished to serve the people who were generous 
 enough to select him to speak for them. Mr. Speaker, we 
 have lost a friend and the Nation has lost an able, honest, 
 and courageous statesman. 
 
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Address of Mn. Knltson, of Minnesota 
 
 Mr. SPBAKBB: It was not my privilege to know the late 
 Senator Stone intimately, but for years I had been an 
 admirer of his strong and fearless personality, having 
 read much of him in the press and in congressional pro- 
 ceedings, and anyone who has followed the career of that 
 strong and forceful man can not but feel that in his 
 death the whole Nation, as well as the State of Missouri, 
 has lost a public servant who could be illy spared at this 
 time. Rugged and honest, he was a type of man that is 
 all too uncommon in these trying times. I do not believe 
 that he ever stopped to think of personal consequences 
 when he took up cudgels for a cause which he believed to 
 be right. With the light of battle in his eyes he would 
 go into the fray without hesitation and without fear, 
 thoroughly armed with facts which were in the main in- 
 controvertible. I have seen him stand as a lion at bay in 
 the Senate of the United States hurling defiance at his 
 opponents, striking right and left without regard to any- 
 thing but the cause of truth and justice. Big hearted and 
 loyal to his friends, it was inevitable that they should be 
 legion and his enemies not a few. In the heal of battle 
 he would throw aside the garb of partisanship and stand 
 erect in the forensic arena dealing blows that struck 
 home. lie despised cant and hypocrisy; he detested false- 
 hood and deceit. During the last few years of his life he 
 shone with exceptional luster. He often disagreed with 
 the lines of policy laid down by the titular head of his 
 parly, and we all recognize that it takes courage of the 
 highest order to disagree politically with those who hold 
 tin destinies of others in the hollow of their hand. When 
 he died the great and silent people of this country lost a 
 stanch friend and faithful servant 
 
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Address oe Mr. Km tson, of Minne 
 
 Missouri has been singularly fortunate in her represen- 
 tation in the Congress of the United States— Thomas II. 
 Benton, Champ Clark, and many, many others, living and 
 dead, whom I might mention. All have served her faith- 
 fully and well— none more so than William J. Stone, pa- 
 triot, statesman, and friend and champion of the common 
 people. 
 
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Address of Mr. Decker, of Missoiri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I desire to pay my tribute, with the rest 
 of my colleagues, to that great Missourian whom we all 
 honored and whom we all loved, Senator Stone. It would 
 be almost impertinent for me to try to analyze his char- 
 acter and his history, because he was in public life as long 
 or longer than I have been in this world. His career in 
 public life began about the time that I was born. I did 
 not know him when he was a Representative in Congress 
 from the district which I have the honor now to represent. 
 I did not know him when he was governor of Missouri. 
 I am not familiar personally with all the storms and con- 
 tests in Missouri through which he passed. My first 
 acquaintance with him which could in truthfulness be 
 
 called intimate began after my election to. this high body. 
 To speak of his ability is unnecessary. It has never been 
 disputed; it has never been questioned, either in Missouri 
 or in the United States. But I do want to speak of the 
 thing which to me stands out preeminently above every 
 other characteristic which this great man possessed. 
 Champ Clark, the beloved Missourian, has said that — 
 
 No man is fit to be a lawgiver for a mighty nation who yields to 
 the demands and solicitations of the few who may have access 
 to his ear but is unmindful of the vast multitude who may never 
 hear his voice or look into his face. 
 
 When the tilings which Champ Clark lias said on his- 
 tory, when tin- (lungs said about him as (he beloved 
 Speaker of this House and leader of Democracy have been 
 forgotten, that one utterance of his, in my humble opinion, 
 will make him live in history. For il is as true to-day. as 
 il lias always been, (hat (he pen is mightier (ban (he sword. 
 No man is fil to be a lawgiver of a mighty nation who 
 
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Address of Mh. Decker, op Missoi m 
 
 yields to the demands and solicitations of the few who 
 may have access to his ear hut is unmindful of the vast 
 multitude who may never hear his voice or look into his 
 face. In that hrief sentence you tind the guiding star of 
 Missouri's great Senator, William Joel Stone. 
 
 And why avoid the question? We are all friends here 
 to-day, arc we not? You know to-day when you mention 
 the name of Senator Stone you do not think of him as 
 Representative, you do not think of him as prosecuting 
 attorney of one of the great counties of my district, you 
 do not think of him as governor, you do not think of him 
 as Senator; you think of him and the part he played in 
 the great struggle of all the world that has just heen 
 hrought to a termination. This is not the time nor place 
 to discuss whether Senator Stone was right or wrong. 
 But to me it would he a mockery, to me it would he a 
 sham, if I stood here in this great legislative Hall to-day 
 and was silent as to the great part he played in that titanic 
 struggle. The majority will say that he was wrong. Let 
 him who can weigh the value of a human life and a human 
 career and then multiply it by 50,000 — to say nothing of 
 the courses which lie ahead of our great Nation— let him 
 who can measure human life say, with dogmatic and arro- 
 gant authority, that our great Senator from Missouri was 
 wrong. But whether or not you can say in your heart 
 that he was wrong in what he did, you can not deny that 
 he thought he was right; and in this solemn hour when his 
 colleagues in public life pay tribute to his memory I dare 
 to stand and resent to all the world the slander, the villifi- 
 cation, the abuse that was heaped upon him from tin- 
 public press and from the rostrum and from the pulpit of 
 my country for doing with courage the things that he 
 thought were right. 
 
 I pay tribute to the men who followed the different 
 course, which they thought right. It took courage for 
 
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 them to do different from what Senator Stone thought 
 sliould be done. Hut in this solemn hour when we pay 
 tribute to this great man, who sleeps the last long sleep 
 in the peaceful country churchyard in the district which 
 I have the honor to represent, I dare to proclaim anew the 
 doctrine that any man who sits in the Senate of the 
 United States from Missouri and does not on every ques- 
 tion, especially the vital question of peace or war, do what 
 he thinks is right is a traitor to Missouri and is unworthy 
 of the senatorial toga of that great State. 
 
 And so it was that in the last hours of his eventful life, 
 with the marks of age taking hold of him, when his feet 
 were close to the river's brink, his heart became more 
 mellow, his feelings for those who opposed him more 
 gentle, his infinite patience and kindness to his fellow 
 men, as it seemed to me, increased. But, thanks be to 
 God, who giveth the victory, there was no diminution of 
 his lionlike courage and of his ability to fight for what 
 he thought was good for old Missouri and for the people, 
 high or humble, of the United States. lie went down as 
 a true Senator from Missouri — went down not with 
 feebleness, not with faltering, but with the courage of a 
 man who realizes the dignity of his office and the solem- 
 nity of the responsibilities imposed upon him. 
 
 Sleep on, brave Senator from Missouri! You followed 
 the even tenor of your way in the last hours of your life, 
 when I knew you well. You followed it imperturbed by 
 the tempests of prejudice and passion which raged about 
 you, unshaken by the storm of villification and abuse that 
 beat over your aged head. Your heart to the very last 
 was kindly and loving and affectionate for the people of 
 Missouri and the people of the world, and even for those 
 who abused and misunderstood you. 
 
 History will be written some day. How high a place 
 you will have on that page I do not know, brave Senator 
 
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Address of Mn. Decker, of Missouri 
 
 from Missouri. But this I do know: That when the storms 
 of misrepresentation, when the blasts of prejudice and 
 misunderstanding, have passed and gone, the people of 
 Missouri and the people of this country will pay just 
 appreciation to you as a great man who in the last hours 
 of his life lived up to Missouri's traditions and did what 
 he thought was right. 
 
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Address of Mr. Romjue, oe Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: There has been so much said this after- 
 noon in memory of Senator Stone, of Missouri, and it has 
 been so well said that I feci impelled not to speak at 
 length. 
 
 When we consider the life and character of Senator 
 William Joel Stone, of Missouri, we find ourselves at- 
 tracted to those elements within him which marked liiin 
 as a man, a citizen, and a statesman of unusual propor- 
 tions. 
 
 In what I shall say to you this afternoon in his memory 
 will not be said with any pretense or claim to his perfec- 
 tion, for he, like you and I and all of us, was human. 
 
 But on the 14th day of April last, when the last spark 
 of life, so far as this world is concerned, expired or took 
 its flight from his bosom, there was stilled forever upon 
 the stage of worldly affairs a heart, a brain, a body which 
 had throbbed and thought and worked for his fellow man. 
 
 I shall never forget the time when I first saw and heard 
 Senator Stone. It was during his campaign for governor 
 of Missouri. I was a boy in my teens. 
 
 A big political meeting was held in the county seat of 
 my home county of Macon. The day was designated as 
 the three governors' day. Gov. Horace Boies, the then 
 Democratic governor of Iowa, was there; Hon. David R. 
 Francis, then governor of Missouri, was there; and Sen- 
 ator Stone, then an aspirant for the governorship of Mis- 
 souri, was in attendance. 
 
 It was a char, bright day. The political contest between 
 Senator Stone and Maj. William Warner was getting at 
 fever heat. 
 
 This campaign look place at a time when partisanship 
 ran higher than it docs to-day in political contests. 
 
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Address or Mh. Romjue, of Missoi hi 
 
 It was a time when the Democrats and Republicans of 
 Missouri followed with intense enthusiasm the leadership 
 
 of their party candidates. The people were intensely in- 
 terested in the issue of the campaign and in the success of 
 their chosen party leader. 
 
 In the early forenoon thousands of people, coming for 
 many miles, had assembled. It was unquestionably the 
 greatest political gathering that had ever been held hefore 
 or after that day in that county. 
 
 Political badgering often took place in campaigns of 
 that time. 
 
 Senator Stone had just reached the climax in a master- 
 ful speech, enunciating and defending the principles and 
 issues upon which his party was waging the campaign, 
 which issues, from his party's standpoint, had just shortly 
 prior in this community been assailed by his political op- 
 ponent, Maj. Warner. 
 
 The meeting of the issue by Senator Stone was received 
 with such unanimous and generous approval of the audi- 
 ence that it rankled in the breast of one listener, who was 
 almost alone of his kind. 
 
 This man arose in the midst of the audience and began 
 to announce his faith in the political party to which 
 Senator Stone was opposed. It was apparent at once 
 that the fellow was intoxicated, for which no one was re- 
 sponsible except the man himself and those who had 
 manufactured and sold the beverage to him. Addressing 
 Senator Stone, he said: 
 
 I recall from the Good Book that it is written thai at a very 
 important time and a very important place a celestial rolled 
 "The stone away." On election day I propose to help Maj. 
 Warner roll "A stone away." 
 
 Senator Stone cmickly seized the situation and said: 
 "My good friend, you will have to lake more of 'War- 
 ner's Safe Cure ' before you will be able to roll this Stone 
 away." 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senatob Stoni 
 
 Of course the retort, as might be expected under the 
 circumstances, was received by the vast audience quite 
 naturally. 
 
 I desire to say this of Senator Stone: In his prime, 
 when he was at that period of life when his body was 
 much stronger than it was in the latter days of his life, I 
 do not hesitate to say that for political vision and fore- 
 sight he was not excelled anywhere throughout the entire 
 United States. Senator Stone had a combination of com- 
 baliveness and a tact for conciliation rarely found in any 
 man. It has been told to you this afternoon how fearless 
 Senator Stone was. Such is true, yet he was always ready 
 to conciliate, always ready to lend his influence for the 
 purpose of bringing factions in his party together. He 
 was always ready to do any conciliatory act that he could 
 do which would not abrogate principle. That he would 
 not do. Senator Stone was more viciously fought, per- 
 haps, than any other man in political life in Missouri 
 within my memory. 
 
 From what you have heard of him this afternoon you 
 will observe that Senator Stone was fearless, that he 
 would fight, that he was courageous, that he would stand 
 first for those things which he believed to be right, and 
 by reason of his great political foresight he soon became 
 what you might term the party leader in our State. 
 Democrats from all over the Stale would flock to him to 
 seek his counsel. It became apparent to the opposition 
 party that in order that they might overcome the influ- 
 ence of the success of the Democratic Party in our State 
 it was necessary to destroy Senator Stone, who in the 
 earlier days, of course, had hern our governor, and all 
 or the metropolitan press of that Stale which were in- 
 terested in the party which was opposed to Senator Stone 
 began at once to turn their vituperation and attacks 
 toward him. These were constantly directed toward him. 
 
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Address ok Mil Hom.uk, of Missouri 
 
 Senator Stone, as I have detailed, was always ready to 
 accept the gauge of battle, and he mei the issue fairly 
 and squarely. He would not be controlled by the metro- 
 politan press of his own party when he believed them 
 wrong. He refused to be dictated to by them. This called 
 upon him opposition from some of the leading papers 
 even of his own party, but Senator Stone had that deter- 
 mination and that vision which is not always found in 
 men of public life; that is, he was not willing to subordi- 
 nate his future prospects to the power of any metropoli- 
 tan press in his State when they disagreed and he felt 
 he was right. So he went out and openly defied the press 
 of his State when they wrongly attacked him, and the 
 people came to his rescue and the country press through- 
 out the State came to his rescue, and they were never able 
 to accomplish his political destruction. I was one of 
 those who were in the funeral party, and I shall never 
 forget when we arrived at Nevada, Mo., Senator Stone's 
 old home town. We stepped off the train very shortly 
 after daylight and the people were at that time beginning 
 to come into the town. 
 
 As I walked a few yards away from the car in which our 
 delegation was located I observed an old gentleman, per- 
 haps about 6 feet tall. He was dressed very plainly. He 
 was tall and erect, and in his face you could sec there was 
 sorrow. I said to a Member of the Missouri delegation 
 who was with me, "Do you see that gentleman? Think- 
 ing of him here at this early hour in the day, would you 
 give me an analysis of that man as you read him?" He 
 looked at him for a moment, and he said, " 1 have no 
 doubt he is one of Senator Stone's most faithful frii nds. 
 He has doubtless come many miles in order that he might 
 be here to pay his last respects to the memory of his 
 friend. I said to my colleague, "Let's go to him and 
 meet him." 
 
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 We did, and introduced ourselves. I asked him if he 
 lived in that town or near hy. He said, " I live on a farm 
 15 miles away." I asked, " Did you come in this morn- 
 ing?" He said, " I did. I rose at 4 o'clock, in order that I 
 might get in here as early as possible." " I presume," said 
 I, "that you are a friend of Senator Stone?" He said, 
 " I am. I voted for him the first time he ever ran for 
 prosecuting attorney. I knew him. lie lived among us. 
 I supported him in every political campaign from that day 
 down to Ins death, and had he lived to become a candidate 
 again I would have been found standing as loyally and 
 faithfully by him as I ever had in the past. We people 
 feel that we have lost our best friend. We have lost a 
 man whom, although we might sometimes and on some 
 matters differ with him, we have always found sincere, 
 honest, and true to his friends." 
 
 I am sure, gentlemen, that those who were in that fu- 
 neral party on that day, and who had the opportunity of 
 seeing the vast crowd of people assembled to witness the 
 last sad rites over the remains of Senator Stone, could 
 reach no other conclusion than that he still lives in the 
 hearts of Missourians and in the hearts of his friends. 
 
 Mr. Hamlin. Mr. Speaker, I desire to announce that one 
 of the closest personal and political friends of the late 
 Senator Stone is prevented from being present to-day on 
 account of sickness; in fact, he is not in the city. I refer 
 to our colleague Mr. Boohcr, and I ask unanimous con- 
 sent that he may have the privilege of extending his re- 
 marks in the Record. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Is there objection to the re- 
 quest of the gentleman from Missouri? [After a pause.] 
 The Chair hears none. 
 
 Mr. Rl CXER. Mr. Speaker, in order to avoid confusion, 
 I ask unanimous consent now that each of the Missouri 
 
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 delegation, several of whom can nol be here to-day, bring 
 kept away on account of sickness, be permitted to extend 
 their remarks in the Record, as well as other Members 
 who desired to be here, but can not be here to-day, be 
 also permitted to extend their remarks in the Record, and 
 also that the same may apply to all gentlemen who speak. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Is there objection to Ihe re- 
 quest of the gentleman from Missouri? [After a pause.] 
 The Chair hears none. 
 
 Then, in accordance with the resolution heretofore 
 adopted, the House (at 3 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) 
 adjourned until Monday, February 3, 1919, at 11 o'clock 
 a. m. 
 
 Monday, February 3, 1919. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
 ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
 lowing resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate assembles as a mark of respect to the 
 memory of Hon. William Joel Stone, late a Senator from the 
 State of Missouri, in pursuance of an order heretofore made, to 
 enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his high character 
 and distinguished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate again expresses its profound sorrow 
 at the death of the late Senator from Missouri. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary transmit a copy of these resolu- 
 tions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
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