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 SAMUEL D. McENERY 
 
 (Late a Senator trom Louisiana) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF 
 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXT^-FIRST CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate Proceedings in the House 
 
 February 20, 1911 February 26, 1911 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in tlie Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. I'ierce, D. D 5,7 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 9 
 
 Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 23 
 
 Mr. Fletcher, of Florida 25 
 
 Mr. Smoot, of Utah 30 
 
 Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 33 
 
 Proceedings in the House , 37 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 38 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 41 
 
 Mr. Gordon, of Tennessee 52 
 
 Mr. Burgess, of Texas 56 
 
 Mr. Madden, of niinois 58 
 
 Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana G2 
 
 Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 77 
 
 Mr. Goulden, of New York 82 
 
 Mr. Pujo, of Louisiana 85 
 
 Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 87 
 
 Mr. Flood, of Virginia 92 
 
 Mr. Estopinal, of Louisiana 94 
 
 Mr. Collier, of Mississippi . 97 
 
 Mr. Dupre, of Louisiana 100 
 
 Mr. Wicklifl'e, of Louisiana 105 
 
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HON. SAMUF' '' K.i-^H-MFHV 
 
DEATH OF HON. SAMUEL DOUGLAS McENERY 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 December 5, 1910. 
 
 The Vice President (James S. Sherman, of New York) 
 called the Senate to order at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., olTcred 
 the following prayer: 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose presence 
 we now stand, look with favor, we pray Thee, upon Thy 
 waiting servants now before Thee, and graciously hear 
 the common supplication which with one heart and with 
 one mind we make unto Thee. 
 
 The absent faces remind us anew that it is not in us 
 who walk to direct our steps, and that we are ever de- 
 pendent upon Thee, without whom not a sparrow falleth. 
 We remember before Thee, our Father, those of our body 
 whom Thou hast called from these earthly courts to 
 Thine higher service, and pray that there as here they 
 may be compassed about hj' Thine everlasting arms. 
 
 And for us, as we gird ourselves for the work to which 
 Thou hast called us, we pray that we may be guided by 
 Thy wisdom and upheld by Thy strength; that this ses- 
 sion, begun in Thy name, may be continued by Thy grace 
 and ended to Thy glory. 
 
 And unto the name which is above every name will we 
 render praise, now and forevermore. Amen. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnekv 
 
 Mr. Foster. Mr. President, it is my sad duty to an- 
 nounce to the Senate the death of my late colleague, the 
 Hon. Samlel Douglas McEnery, a Senator in this body 
 from the State of Louisiana. He died at his home in the 
 city of New Orleans on the morning of the 28th of June 
 last. 
 
 Mr. President, I shall not speak to-day upon the great 
 services which my colleague rendered to his native State 
 and to his country, but at a later date 1 shall ask the Sen- 
 ate to fix a day when appropriate ceremonies can be had 
 and proper tributes paid commemorative of his life, 
 character, and public services. 
 
 I send the following resolutions to the desk and ask 
 for their immediate consideration. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretaiy will read the resolu- 
 tions offered by the Senator from Louisiana. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Samuel D. McEnery, late a Senator from 
 the State of Louisiana. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of tliese reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 The Vice President. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Janu.\ry 21, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Martin. Mr. President, after conference with my 
 colleague [Mr. Swanson] and with the Senators from 
 Louisiana, and witli their concurrence, 1 desire to give 
 notice that on Mondaj', the 20th day of Fcbruan,% at half 
 past 2 o'clock, I will ask the Senate to lay aside all other 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 business in order that proper tribute may be paid to 
 the memory of my late colleague. Senator Daniel, 
 and the memory of the late Senator from Louisiana, 
 Mr. McEnery. 
 
 Monday. February 20, 1911. 
 
 The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, unseen but not 
 unknown, in our great loss we take refuge in Thee, who 
 hast been our refuge in all generations. In our sorrow 
 Thy pity revives our fainting souls, and in our distress 
 Thou hearest us as we call upon Thee. Thou hast indeed 
 been unto us like the shadow of a great rock in a weary 
 land. 
 
 And now, O heavenly Father, in our affliction give unto 
 us the peace that floweth as a river. In our sorrow grant 
 unto us the comfort that is born of hope and the faith that 
 is rooted in love. As we meditate upon the life of Thy 
 servants whom Thou hast called from our midst, make 
 us worthy of the fellowship of the great cloud of wit- 
 nesses with which Thou hast surrounded us. 
 
 And unto Thee, who art the God of all comfort and of 
 all grace, will we ascribe praise, now and forevermore. 
 Amen. 
 
 Mr. Foster. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which 
 I send to the desk. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretary will read the reso- 
 lutions submitted by the Senator from Louisiana. 
 
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 The resolutions were read, considered by unanimous 
 consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Samuel Douglas McEnery, late a Senator 
 from the State of Louisiana. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
 ceased Senator, the business of the Senate be now suspended to 
 enable his associates to pay proper tribute to his high character 
 and distinguished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 hitions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy 
 thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. President: It is with feelings peculiarly tender that 
 I offer this last tribute to the memory of my late col- 
 league, Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery. 
 
 There was so much of liis public life intimately con- 
 nected with my own, almost from the time I reached 
 man's estate until he died, that his death was a veritable 
 shock to me. He was lieutenant governor of Louisiana 
 and presiding ofTicer of the State senate at the same time 
 I became a member of that body, and for years we fought 
 shoulder to shoulder many of the political battles of the 
 State until political exigencies demanded that we should 
 lead opposing forces in the bitterest factional contest 
 Louisiana has ever known. These diflferences were 
 buried years ago, and in their stead there grew up and 
 existed the warmest friendship. Our relations in this 
 body were particularly friendly, and I felt a great per- 
 sonal loss when he passed away. 
 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery was a native of Monroe, La. 
 His father. Col. Henry O'Neil McEners', was born in Ire- 
 land, but emigrated to this countrj^ in early youth, and 
 settled at Petersburg, Va., where he married Miss Eliza- 
 beth Douglas, of that State. 
 
 His father remained in the Old Dominion some years 
 after marriage, and several sons were born there, among 
 
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 them John McEnery, an elder brother of the Senator, who 
 was also destined to become one of the governors of 
 Louisiana. 
 
 The father moved with his young family from Virginia 
 to Louisiana in 1835, settled in Ouachita Parish, acquired 
 a plantation, and there, two years later, on May 28, 1837, 
 his youngest son, Samuel Douglas, was born. 
 
 It was a new countrj-, and had been settled by strong 
 and masterful men, who were planters on a large scale 
 and employed slave labor. They had to meet and over- 
 come untold difficulties, and, without doubt, these early 
 experiences left their imprint on the boy, for they were 
 calculated to develop the traits of independence, pluck, 
 and courage that marked his career throughout life to 
 the very end. 
 
 But while the hardships of those early days were many 
 the rewards were even greater. Land was plentiful, the 
 crops abundant, and the family prospered. 
 
 Col. McEnery was an able and successful man, one 
 who made many friends and acquired a great deal of 
 influence in his adopted State. He was a Whig in poli- 
 tics until that party disappeared before the aggressive 
 onslaughts of the " Know Nothings," when he became a 
 Democrat, and remained a conspicuous figure in that 
 party until death. As a reward for his public services 
 he was twice appointed register of the land office at 
 Monroe, La., a position of trust and responsibility, espe- 
 cially in a new country at that time. 
 
 Col. McEnery was enabled to equip his sons for the 
 struggle of life in the best schools and colleges the coun- 
 try' afforded, and his youngest son, who had been named 
 for an uncle on tlie Federal bench in Florida, was given 
 a tliorough academic education at Spring Hill College, 
 conducted by the .Jesuit fathers, near Mobile. Ala. .\fter 
 graduating there he was appointed to the United States 
 
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Anniuiss or Mk. Foster, of Loiisiana 
 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis, and practically finished 
 the course at the institution, when he resigned to enter 
 the University of Virginia, where he remained until 
 the death of his father in 1857. Then he matriculated at 
 the National Law School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., studied 
 two years, and was graduated in 1859. 
 
 At the solicitation of a former classmate at Annapolis 
 he went to Marj'ville, Mo., opened a law office, and had 
 begun the practice of his profession there when the war 
 came on between the States. Without hesitancy he re- 
 sponded to the call of the South and enlisted as a private 
 in the army of the Confederacy. The rudiments of mili- 
 tary training received at the United States Naval Acad- 
 emy, together with a masterful and intrepid character, 
 attracted the attention of* his superiors, so that while 
 serving under Gen. Magruder in the early Virginia 
 campaigns he was promoted and commissioned a lieu- 
 tenant. Later he was transferred to the trans-Mississippi 
 department, where he saw hard service and heavy 
 fighting. 
 
 With peace he returned to Louisiana to assist in re- 
 building it from tlie devastation of four long years of 
 war and secured employment teaching school in Ouachita 
 Parish. He was to learn, however, that those who had 
 just laid down their arms could not travel the paths of 
 peace until another long and bitter struggle was waged, 
 even more cruel than hostilities in the open field con- 
 ducted under the rules of war. 
 
 It is not necessary to recount the hoiTors of that time. 
 Their enormities have often been repeated here, and the 
 country' is familiar with them. 
 
 It suffices to say that out of those bitter and angiy 
 passions a condition developed calling for all there 
 was of leadership and patriotism among the white men 
 of the South, and it was at this juncture that CapL 
 
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 Samuel Douglas McEnery first became generally known 
 and endeared to the people of the State. 
 
 All through the struggle to restore white supremacy 
 Capt. McEnery was active, determined, and aggressive, 
 never ceasing his efforts until the government of Loui- 
 siana rested again in the hands of the white people. 
 Then he returned to his labors in the public schools and 
 later resumed the practice of law. 
 
 At this time a number of public offices were tendered 
 him as a reward for the part he took in redeeming the 
 State, but he refused them. 
 
 He had been marked as one of the leaders of the time, 
 however, and in 1879 was nominated for lieutenant gov- 
 ernor. This honor was all the greater because the con- 
 vention that named him was controlled by the opposing 
 faction of his party, and its action was in recognition of 
 his heroic service in the cause of white supremacy. 
 
 As lieutenant governor he served two years, when the 
 death of Gov. Wiltz, in 1881, called him to tlie guberna- 
 torial chair and placed the destinies of Louisiana in his 
 hands. 
 
 Shortlj' after he assumed office the seat of government 
 was removed from New Orleans back to Baton Rouge, 
 where it had existed before the war, and he will always 
 be remembered as the first executive to administer the 
 affairs of the State from the restored capital. 
 
 Few executives have had to contend with such unfavor- 
 able conditions as prevailed in tlie State at that time. 
 War, pestilence, flood, and famine, following in close 
 succession, left their fell effect upon her people. 
 
 The financial condition, when he became governor, 
 was unsatisfactory'. Doubt, distrust, and litigation had 
 well-nigh destroyed the credit of the Slate, and at one 
 time it was feared that certain of the courts would have 
 to suspend for want of funds. 
 
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AouRESs OF Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 
 
 The expenditures largely exceeded the revenues. By 
 way of illustration, the receipts from licenses and taxes 
 placed to the credit of the general fund in 1880-81 were 
 little more than half the appropriations charged against 
 the fund. The magnitude of the task confronting him 
 can therefore be readily seen. 
 
 To meet this deplorable situation Gov. McEnery con- 
 vened the legislature in extra session, and our public 
 duties brought us together then for the first time. 
 
 In his first message he called attention to the fact that 
 during the reconstruction period the revenue laws of the 
 State had been progressively growing less efficient. 
 Large amounts of property, movable and immovable, 
 had escaped taxation, and there was no uniformity of 
 assessment. As a consequence some sections were pay- 
 ing a large tax on a high valuation and others a small 
 tax on a low valuation. 
 
 The assessment roll for 1880 showed a valuation of 
 less than $178,000,000, which was wrong, he said, and 
 did the Stale no credit; if fairly assessed at only two- 
 thirds of its valuation the assessment should easily show 
 $300,000,000, and he recommended legislation that would 
 correct the evils of unjust and unequal valuation. 
 
 But before these reforms could be carried out, and 
 almost at the inception of his administration, Louisiana 
 was almost overwhelmed with the most destructive flood 
 that has ever visited any State. 
 
 Inundations have by no means been infrequent in 
 the historj' of that Commonwealth, but none have 
 approached the destruction wrought in 1882. The tor- 
 rent that swept down from the northern rivers broke 
 through the levees of Louisiana in 83 different places. 
 The arable land inundated amounted to 606,674 acres, 
 and in 16 parishes alone the loss sustained amounted 
 to $12,061,910. 
 
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 In this torrent dwelling houses, cabins, fences, and all 
 improvements were swept away; the work stock and 
 cattle were drowned by the thousands, and the destruc- 
 tion and suffering of the people was intense. Thousands 
 of families were imprisoned for days upon the roofs of 
 houses, rafts, or small areas of elevated land, and when 
 the floods subsided they were powerless to cultivate their 
 fields. 
 
 There were recurring floods for the next two years, 
 and the damage was less only because the flood had left 
 less to destroy. 
 
 The empty treasury, the havoc wrought by the ele- 
 ments, the demand for levees and other public works, 
 together with the unsettled conditions throughout her 
 borders, demanded executive ability of high order to 
 direct the ship of state, and Gov. McEnery threw him- 
 self into the work with all the zeal and energj- that had 
 characterized his leadership in the White League. 
 
 Two years after the disastrous flood of 1882 he reported 
 to the legislature that 120 contracts for the construction 
 of levees had been let, and that 130 miles of levees, em- 
 bracing over three and one-half million cubic yards of 
 earth, had been built. 
 
 The limited resources of the State prevented carrj-ing 
 out at the time many of his suggestions, but his messages 
 to the general assembly are replete with wisdom and 
 valuable advice. 
 
 The public schools especially appealed to him. His 
 personal experience as a teacher imnicdiatelj' after the 
 war enabled liini to thoroughly understand their wants, 
 and he labored for the improvement of the system. 
 
 In his message to the legislature he recommended that 
 every cent not needed for current expenses should be 
 appropriated for public instruction, and Icgishilion en- 
 acted to provide for compulsorj' attendance at school. 
 
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Address of Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 
 
 He said the State should interfere as little as possible 
 with the economy of the family, but had a right to protect 
 itself by requiring enforced attendance. He held, how- 
 ever, " that the State could only give a general and partial 
 superintendence in this matter. That the danger of 
 popular education lay in relying exclusively on the State 
 and National authority for aid; and that no community 
 succeeded in educating its children until it had faced the 
 hard fact of local taxation." 
 
 Gov. McEnery's administration, following as closely as 
 it did upon the heels of the ignorance, extravagance, and 
 corruption that marked the reconstruction period, upon 
 the epidemics that scourged that State in 1878 and 1879, 
 and upon the floods that wrought such havoc in 1882, 
 1883, and 1884, would have been notable for the repairs 
 it made to this long and varied series of disasters if for no 
 other reason. 
 
 But his administration was notable, aside from these, 
 for many legislative achievements and public works; and 
 while there are numerous things for which it will be 
 remembered, the greatest of these, it may be said, is 
 charity. 
 
 While he was governor the State provided for the per- 
 manent maintenance of Camp Nicholls as a home for the 
 brave men who gave their youth and manhood for her 
 defense during the war between the States, while the 
 Charity Hospital in New Orleans, one of the noblest and 
 grandest institutions of its kind in all the world, was the 
 special object of his care and attention. 
 
 As a result of his assistance the ambulance service of 
 that institution was established, and by the inauguration 
 of consultation clinics, its beneficent work was extended 
 to the outdoor poor. 
 
 The impulse he gave to this great work of philanthropy, 
 the kindly influence he exerted in promoting its useful- 
 
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 ness, and the material assistance he rendered in enlarging 
 it are recorded in the archives of the State and em- 
 blazoned on the walls of the institution itself so that 
 future generations may know them. 
 
 Although not renominated at the expiration of his sec- 
 ond or regular term, it was characteristic of him that he 
 did not sulk in his tent. 
 
 Recognizing the necessitj- of Democratic success and 
 white supremacy, he threw himself into the contest with 
 all his old-time ardor and energj', rendering invaluable 
 service in one of the most brilliant campaigns ever waged 
 in Louisiana. Shortly thereafter, when a vacancy oc- 
 curred on the supreme bench, he was appointed, not only 
 as a recognition of his high service alone, but as a tribute 
 to his high integrity and to the complete confidence of 
 the people in him. 
 
 While he was serving in this high judicial capacity, 
 some twenty-odd years ago, he and I were called upon to 
 lead opposing factions in the Democratic Party as candi- 
 dates for governor. 
 
 The campaign centered upon the rechartering of the 
 Louisiana Lotterj- Co., an institution created during the 
 days of reconstruction, and a heritage of the ver>' con- 
 ditions from which Capt. McEnery had fought to relieve 
 the State. 
 
 It is difficult for one who did not participate in that 
 campaign to appreciate the bitterness it engendered, or 
 the heartburnings that remained long j'ears after the 
 struggle was ended. 
 
 It is no exaggeration to say that nowhere since seces- 
 sion was the issue has any State been wrought up to 
 such a high pitch of excitement as existed in Louisiana 
 during the struggle for the recharter for the lottery 
 company. 
 
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Address of Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 
 
 The issue went against his faction. I was elected gov- 
 ernor and he resumed his duties as a member of the 
 supreme court. And right here I wish to say that liad 
 he never served his people in any but a judicial capacity 
 his fame would have been secure, for as a jurist his work 
 was of the highest order. His natural mental gifts had 
 been improved by careful study and he possessed the 
 faculty of expression in a remarkable degree, so that his 
 decisions were noted no less for their deep learning and 
 cogent reasoning than for their clearness and perfect 
 diction. 
 
 It was a peculiar coincidence, Mr. President, that both 
 men who successfullj- opposed him in his last two con- 
 tests for the governorship should afterwards be instru- 
 mental in elevating him to other high offices where they 
 served with him. 
 
 Yet this is exactly what happened with both Gov. 
 Nicholls and myself. After the bitter campaign of 1888, 
 Gov. Nicholls, as 1 have said, in recognition of his great 
 services and eminent abilities, appointed him to a posi- 
 tion on the supreme bench of the State, to which illus- 
 trious body the governor went himself after his term of 
 oflice. 
 
 And even as Gov. Nicholls had tendered him a place 
 upon the supreme bench, so it was my great privilege, 
 while serving as governor, to be instrumental in having 
 him come to the Senate. 
 
 Both had met him in battle on the hustings for the 
 suffrage of the people, and with good reason knew his 
 worth as an antagonist in the field; both had known him 
 when the bitterness of the struggle had been buried and 
 forgotten, in the judicial chamber or here in the Senate; 
 both became endeared to him because of his lovable 
 personality and sterling worth of character; and, Mr. 
 President, I am absolutely frank in saying that when 
 
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 he died there were no two men in the State who 
 more deeply deplored his passing than Gen. Nicholls and 
 myself. 
 
 The devotion in which he was held was never more 
 clearly shown tlian when first elected to the Senate in 
 1896. The democracy was confronted with a crisis that 
 year and he was called upon to save it. 
 
 The legislature was charged with the election of a 
 United States Senator. After a spirited contest it was 
 found impossible to return the regular part}' candidate, 
 owing to factional wounds, and a condition developed 
 which threatened to deprive the party of the senatorship. 
 In this situation there was but one man in the State 
 upon whom all factions could vmite. That was Justice 
 McEnery, and it was decided to call him from the quiet 
 shades of the judicial chambers to take up the legislative 
 burdens here in the Senate. 
 
 In this instance, as throughout his career, he never 
 faltered when the Democratic Party called. Owing to his 
 views on the tariff, however, which placed him at vari- 
 ance with a majority of his party, he announced his desire 
 to make his position clear to the Democratic caucus. He 
 frankly declared that he was a protectionist, in favor of 
 all internal improvements, with broad national views on 
 many other questions, and that ho could not change these 
 views. He was elected with the understanding that he 
 should be free to vote in accordance with liis personal 
 views on those questions, and these facts should not be 
 forgotten in considering his record here. 
 
 During the consideration of the present tarifT laws, his 
 attitude was the subject of widespread comment, and of 
 bitter criticism in certain quarters. The position he then 
 assumed, hoAvever, was in keeping with the announce- 
 ment he made to the legislative caucus when first elected, 
 and with the stand he took on first coming to the Senate, 
 
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AnDRESs OF Mr. Foster, of Louisiana 
 
 upon the convening of the Fifty-fifth Congress, in 1897, 
 when the Dingley law was being drafted. 
 
 Addressing the Senate early lliat session, he called 
 attention to criticism just then being leveled at him for 
 the first time since entering the field of national politics 
 and stated that his position was by no means new to the 
 people of Louisiana. It was substantially the same, he 
 asserted, as he had assumed in 1884, when trivnuphantly 
 elected by the people of that State to succeed himself 
 in the high oflice of governor. "And when 1 was nomi- 
 nated by a Democratic caucus for this present position," 
 he continued, meaning the senatorship, " before the 
 vote was taken, and so that there could be no misunder- 
 standing, I went before the caucus, although not called 
 on, and made the same statement ihat I did in my in- 
 augural address in 1884." He believed the tariff to be 
 pureh' a business question, which had no place in party 
 politics. 
 
 But while his views on the tariff were most familiar 
 to the present generation, it is likely that he will best be 
 known to posterity because of his attitude toward Hawaii 
 and the Philippines. 
 
 In acquiring those islands and absorbing their unciv- 
 ilized people, he feared this country was entering upon 
 an era of turmoil and strife, and by the introduction of 
 the McEnery resolution did all within his power to avert 
 what he considered must prove ultimate disaster. 
 
 That resolution, adopted by the Senate in the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress, was as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That fay the ratification of the treaty of peace with 
 Spain it is not intended to incorporate the inhabitants of the 
 Philippine Islands into citizenship of the United States, nor is 
 it intended to permanently annex said islands as an integral part 
 of the territory of the United States, but it is the intention of the 
 United States to establish on said islands a government suitable 
 
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 to the wants and conditions of the inliabitants of said islands as 
 will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United States 
 and the inhabitants of the said islands. 
 
 That resolution was presented when the country was 
 flushed with the victor}' of the Spanish War. The banner 
 of Castile and Aragon had been driven from the Pacific, 
 the aegis of this Republic had been extended over 2,000 
 islands of the sea, and more than 10,000,000 people sud- 
 denly found themselves beneath our flag. 
 
 He knew that it was not popular to advocate withdraw- 
 ing from the Philippines, nor did he propose doing so 
 until order was restored, acknowledgment received of 
 our undisputed sovereignty, and provision made for coal- 
 ing stations and other naval needs. 
 
 But he also knew that two races could not live in har- 
 mony and on terms of equality anywhere, not even in 
 the Orient. His knowledge as a profound student of 
 history, together wiUi his bitter personal experience dur- 
 ing the reconstruction period in the South, told liim that 
 the immutable laws of nature forbade it, and in order 
 that those islands might not become an integral part of 
 this country, he introduced and advocated the now 
 famous McEnery amendment. 
 
 The adoption of this resolution was very bitterly 
 opposed bj' many Senators who were against the ratifica- 
 tion of the treaty of Paris, and it was the subject of a 
 fierce and bitter debate in this body. 
 
 I shall not go into the merits of that debate nor discuss 
 the diflcrences of opinion as to the effects of this resolu- 
 tion, but shall content myself with staling that the de- 
 ceased Senator always contended that his great purpose 
 in introducing this resolution was to prevent the incorpo- 
 ration of Ihe Filipino into the citizenship of this Republic, 
 and to prevent a permanent annexation of the islands as 
 an integral part of the territory of the United States. 
 
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Address of Mr. Foster, of Loiisiana 
 
 In 1878 Senator McEnery married Miss Elizabeth 
 Phillips, daughter of a prominent planter of Ouachita 
 Parish, a lady of much culture and refinement, who sur- 
 vived him, with two sons, Mr. Charles Phillips McEnery, 
 and Dr. Douglas W. McEnen,', and one daughter, Jane, 
 wife of Ml-. \V. B. Parks, all residing in New Orleans. 
 
 Senator McEnery was one of the historic characters of 
 his State. He was, at diflcrent limes, lieutenant governor, 
 governor, associate justice of the supreme court, and 
 United States Senator, and his promotion from one place 
 to another in regular progression proved that he fdled 
 all the places with credit and to the advantage of his 
 people. 
 
 He was a Louisianian in ever}- sense of the word, 
 devoted to the interests of his people, and with marked 
 ability and characteristic independence sought to serve 
 them whenever and wherever he could. 
 
 He carried with him a personality of his own. He was 
 a courtly gentleman, a true and loyal friend, and a brave, 
 honest, and courageous public servant. As a Senator he 
 was universally loved and respected, and in everything 
 that he did while here, it is my honest conviction that he 
 did it from a high sense of duly to the people whom he 
 represented. He acted upon the principle that his first 
 duty was to his State, and, while at times differing with 
 his party associates, yet he always held their respect and 
 confidence. 
 
 The late Senator was very close to the hearts of our 
 people. They held him high in their love and esteem. 
 The people knew him. They knew his faults and virtues, 
 and they implicitly trusted him. They knew that he 
 always placed their interests above personal considera- 
 tion and that their welfare was uppermost in all his 
 endeavors. This is attested by the fact that while occupy- 
 ing high positions in which his personal interests might 
 
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 have been advanced, yet he died a poor man — a splendid 
 tribute to the honesty, integrity, and uprightness of his 
 public and private life. 
 
 It is Avell known that for a number of years Senator 
 McEnery and 1 were opposed in politics. After 1 became 
 associated with him in the Senate our acquaintance soon 
 ripened into a profound friendship. I doubt if there were 
 any two Senators from any State in the Union whose 
 relations were more pleasant and congenial than ours. 
 
 It was a pleasure to have him as a colleague. He was 
 always courteous, kind, and thoughtful, and never during 
 the term of our service did we have a serious disagree- 
 ment. Sometimes, it is true, we voted diflcrently, but 
 we each accorded the other the sincerity and honestj- of 
 conviction, and such differences never interfered in the 
 slightest either in our personal or official relations. He 
 was to me a friend upon whom I could absolutely rely 
 and whose loyalty and devotion I could trust without 
 question. Such a friend is indeed a loss. 
 
 Senator McEnery left Washington Citj- at the close of 
 the last session in good health, but was taken sick on the 
 train before reaching New Orleans and had to be car- 
 ried home. He lingered for a short time, very weak, but 
 conscious almost to the very end, and met the summons 
 from beyond in the same brave, courageous spirit that he 
 met all the dilVRulties and trials of life. 
 
 Surrounded by his wife and children, and witli almost 
 the same sweet, gentle smile that always greeted his 
 friends and loved ones, he met the reaper, while his spirit 
 passed beyond the river, and let us hope will rest forever 
 in peace. 
 
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Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 
 
 Mr. President: The late Senator from Louisiana be- 
 longed to a type of men quite too rare in these days. He 
 was a man of dignity, integrity, high sense of honor, and 
 independence of thought. A Democrat in politics, he did 
 not allow partisanship to control his speech or his votes. 
 Once satisfied that he was right, no influence could swerve 
 him from the path he had marked out. He belonged to 
 the old school of southern statesmen, and he carried him- 
 self with a poise and dignity of manner that bespoke the 
 gentleman that he was. Courteous, kind, thoughtful of 
 otliers, he commanded the respect of his associates in the 
 Senate, as well as of the people of the State which he 
 so ably and conscientiously represented. 
 
 It was my privilege to serve with tlie late Senator 
 McExery for 13 years. Of the same age as myself, there 
 was much in common between us, and our friendly rela- 
 tions were to me a source of much pleasure. We were 
 botli members of the Committee on Naval Affairs, and in 
 the committee room I learned to value and admire him. 
 He was a constant attendant upon the meetings of the 
 committee, and in the matter of appropriations for tlie 
 Na^'y was neither reckless nor parsimonious. He be- 
 lieved in a well-balanced and strong Navy, and his voice 
 and vote were in favor of adequate appropriations to 
 build it up and sustain it. A student at the United States 
 Naval Academy at Annapolis, he was a warm friend of 
 that institution, taking special pride in its development 
 and success. Alwavs watchful of the interests of his own 
 
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Memorial Aodkksses: Senator McEnery 
 
 State, he was broad-minded and generous toward all 
 other sections of the country. 
 
 As I knew Senator McEnery, he was a most charming 
 and lovable man. Brave and self-reliant, he was at the 
 same time tender and considerate. He never lost sight 
 of his obligations to his fellow men and never inten- 
 tionall}' wounded their feelings or wronged them in any 
 way. He was a conscientious public servant, a popular 
 citizen, and a good and true friend. He stood for what 
 is best in life, living up to high and true ideals. 
 
 Mr. President, Sam tee Douglas McEnery brought honor 
 to his State in all the positions of trust and responsibilitj' 
 that his people conferred on him. In the Senate he illus- 
 trated the high qualities of heart and brain with which 
 he was endowed. He had the confidence and respect of 
 evei-y Member on both sides of the Chamber, and the 
 announcement of his death brought a peculiar sadness 
 to all our hearts. We miss him from his accustomed 
 place in this body; we miss his genial greeting and his 
 kindly words. He has answered the summons that sooner 
 or later will come to us all, and it will be well for us if, 
 when the call comes, we are as well prepared for the 
 great change as was our associate and friend in whose 
 honor these words of eulogy are being spoken to-day. 
 He has gone from us, but his meniorj- will be a benedic- 
 tion and an inspiration to all who practice truth, who 
 love justice, and whose life is patterned after the teach- 
 ings and example of the Master. On his grave we would 
 place a flower, and in our heart of hearts we would 
 embalm the mcmoiy of a good man whose services to 
 his State and his country entitle liim to a place among 
 those who have brought honor and renown to the insti- 
 tutions of the Republic. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fletcher, of Florida 
 
 Mr. President: Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon, 
 became captain general of Greece, repelled the Persian 
 invasion, captured the East, mourned that there were no 
 more worlds to conquer, and died at the age of 32. The 
 times were different from ours. There have been few 
 Alexanders and no such conditions since. 
 
 Seventy-three years seems rather a generous allowance 
 for the life of an individual, but for one capable of great 
 service at a time when there is so much needed to be 
 done, it appears but a short time. To obtain an educa- 
 tion to fit one for a noble profession itself requires quite 
 a few of those years. To become established in that pro- 
 fession and make a reputation for high proficiency 
 requires time. To have such a career interrupted by 
 active service in the field during a terrible war would 
 consume quite a few years at a critical period in such a 
 life. The governmental affairs of a great State, such as 
 must be understood by the chief executive, are sufficiently 
 important and exacting to occupy the best j^ears of one's 
 life. The position of associate justice of the supreme 
 court of that State, with the onerous duties imposed in 
 that high judicial capacity, might well amplify such a 
 career and crown such a life. 
 
 Faithful and satisfactory service in these exalted posi- 
 tions would seem about all that could be well crowded 
 into the life of one individual. 
 
 It must have been extraordinary qualifications for the 
 widest fields of general public usefulness that moved 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery on to the national forum and 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator McEnery 
 
 caused him to be chosen by his people a Senator of the 
 United States from the State of Louisiana in 1896, again 
 in 1902, and again in 1908. 
 
 Rarely, I think, can it be found that so much has been 
 accomplished in the years allotted to him. Seldom have 
 such responsibilities been heaped on one man's shoulders. 
 It required unusual capacity and ability of a high and 
 varied character to successfully meet the obligations, dis- 
 charge the duties, and perform the services which pressed 
 upon our friend. That he squarely faced and completely 
 mastered the difficulties of every situation; that he pos- 
 sessed a keen sense and correct conception of fiduciary' 
 responsibility, which he carried into practice; that he 
 diligently and faithfully performed what was undertaken 
 is demonstrated by the continued confidence of his peo- 
 ple, which amounted to genuine affection and absolute 
 trust. 
 
 His early and extensive mental training; the discipline 
 and hardship of active ariny service; the stirring times, 
 arousing every patriotic impulse and calling out the 
 resources of his strong intellectual and moral nature, 
 which he experienced in the days of young manhood, 
 combined to equip him for the highest official station. 
 Born at Monroe, La., May 28, 1837; educated at Spring 
 Hill College and the University of Virginia; a lieutenant 
 in the Confederate Army; engaging in the practice of 
 law; we find him governor of Louisiana when he was 44 
 years of age. At 51 he w^as associate justice of the 
 supreme court of his State, and while occupying that 
 position he was elected United States Senator. 
 
 On all matters with which he had to deal he consulted 
 his own judgment and conscience, earnestly and seri- 
 ously. Not that he was inconsiderate of others, or heed- 
 less of their opinions, or not respectful of the views of 
 his fellows, but his final action liad to square with his 
 
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AonitEss OF Mr. Fletcher, ov Florida 
 
 reason and his conscience. He was in every sense and 
 in every relation and at all times a man as brave and 
 self-reliant as ever stood in line of battle or conquered 
 in the fiercer struggles of peace. 
 
 My last conversation with him was in the cloakroom 
 just before the adjournment of the session June 25, 1910, 
 and he did not complain of being ill, but seemed in his 
 usual health, although somewhat wearied by the long 
 session. He left Washington that night for his home 
 and died in New Orleans soon after arriving there, June 
 28, 1910. 
 
 Louisiana has lost an ideal citizen, a most faithful and 
 efficient public officer, and the whole country shares in 
 that loss. It saddens one to see such men of the old 
 school pass away. While in the main I believe the world 
 is gi-owing better and progress is being made and devel- 
 opment taking place, and men and things becoming more 
 complete, perhaps more perfect, still there were some 
 qualities peculiar to the times and lives of a generation 
 ago which have been diluted rather than strengthened 
 by the commercialism of the present. For instance, the 
 polite and chivalrous manners, the deference and devo- 
 tion to woman, the value of one's word, indicated by the 
 saying, " his word is his bond," and the absence of 
 hypocrisy. 
 
 We would do well, in the rush of things these days 
 and in the evolution taking place in other directions, 
 not to lose sight of these sturdy and beautiful traits of 
 character. 
 
 I ventiu'e to say that the man can not be found who can 
 truthfully assert that Samcel D. McEnery ever deceived 
 him or failed to do precisely what he agreed to do. 
 
 Courteous in his bearing and kind and considerate in 
 his disposition, he was likewise perfectly open and frank, 
 and always sincere. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnerv 
 
 He never shirked a duty or evaded a responsibility. 
 He did what he considered to be right and had no apolo- 
 gies to make or explanations to offer. He illustrated the 
 ancient Greek teaching — " to be rather than to seem " and 
 " to do rather than to idle." 
 
 Like Henry Clay, he could say, " I have no commisera- 
 tion for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the 
 great mass of mankind." And like the great commoner, 
 I imagine he felt " it is the doctrine of thi-ones that man 
 is too ignorant to govern himself." He loved his State 
 and people with a devotion rarely equaled, and he de- 
 sired to see them prosper. He felt a just pride in the 
 Nation and strove to promote the welfare of all. His 
 work is written in the history of his State and country. 
 
 As governor, he expressed in his message to the legis- 
 lature his deep concern regarding the industrial growth 
 of Louisiana and the development of her resources, say- 
 ing: "We must realize the fact that she is rich and 
 force her to the front rank of States." He directed the 
 way of her progress by urging legislation regarding 
 assessments and taxation, finances, and improvement of 
 the levees, and arousing interest in education. On the 
 latter suhtject his message to the legislature took high 
 ground to the effect tliat " the people of this State are 
 prepared to approve any legislation that will secure an 
 effective sjstem of free elementary instruction." 
 
 Embalmed in sheep, to be preserved for all time, are 
 his decisions rendered in the highest court of his State. 
 As chief executive, his name and the result of his labors 
 will be handed down to succeeding generations. .\s a 
 Member of this body, he wrought and placed on the per- 
 manent records illustrations of his statesmanship and 
 patriotism. So he is not to he forgotten, and reference 
 to his life and work will evoke appreciation of his great 
 ability and his exalted character. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fletcher, of Florida 
 
 At Kamakura, once the capital of eastern Japan, which 
 boasted a population of more than a million in the days 
 of its gloiy, the colossal statue of the great Buddha, all 
 but 50 feet in height, stands near the sea. The casting 
 was begun in 1252. Twice has the temple which inclosed 
 it been swept awaj' by a great tidal wave, the last time 
 in 1494. But the great bronze figure still remains 
 
 A statue solid set, 
 
 And molded in colossal calm. 
 
 As a soldier in the Confederate Army under Magruder, 
 as a lawyer, as governor, as judge, as United States Sena- 
 tor, Samuel D. McEnery has built a monument more 
 lasting than this — one gratifying to the aspiring soul. 
 
 He has passed beyond our vision. It is a comforting 
 thought that — 
 
 There is no end to the sky. 
 
 And the stars are everywhere, 
 And time is eternity. 
 
 And here is over there. 
 
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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: We are to-day reminded that almost 
 half a score of our colaborers, who so recently were in 
 our midst, have passed to that — 
 
 Thrice happy world, where gilded toys 
 
 No more disturb our thoughts, no more pollute our joys! 
 
 There light and shade succeed no more by turns, 
 
 There reigns th' eternal sun with an unclouded ray, 
 
 There all is calm as night, yet all immortal day, 
 
 And truth forever shines, and love forever burns. 
 
 The death of Samuel Douglas McEnery, at his home in 
 New Orleans, on Tuesday, June 28, 1910, was a great 
 shock to his colleagues in this body, yet it was not alto- 
 gether unexpected. It had been evident for months that 
 his licalth was failing him, although he was found always 
 at work faithfully serving his State and his country. He 
 engaged in the deliberations of the Senate up to the 
 very day of adjournment, and then returned home to 
 enter into immortal sleep. 
 
 A native of Louisiana, educated at the United States 
 Naval Academy and the University of Virginia, a grad- 
 uate from the State and National Law School at Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., Senator McEnery obtained a technical 
 mental training which well fitted liiin for the great prob- 
 lems which in later life pressed upon him for solution. 
 When the Civil War broke out young McEnery had just 
 reached his majority. He enlisted in the Confederate 
 Army, serving through the war with marked distinction. 
 
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Address of Mk. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 For more than 30 years Senator McEnery had been a 
 leader in the political affairs of his State and Nation. 
 Through his devotion to duty, his unflincliing integrity, 
 and his extraordinary ability, he has been honored with 
 the high offices of lieutenant governor of Louisiana, gov- 
 ernor of Louisiana, associate justice of the supreme court 
 of Louisiana, and three time elected to the United States 
 Senate. 
 
 Few men in public life have ever exhibited such inde- 
 pendence of thought and action and shown such indom- 
 itable will to succeed as has Senator McEnery. These 
 characteristics accompanied him through life. His atti- 
 tude on various questions at different times under con- 
 sideration in this body has been the comment of his 
 countrymen throughout the United States; but he was 
 ever true to his convictions and never hesitated to voice 
 them either by word or by action regardless of criticism 
 or public opinion. It was his frankness and honest^' that 
 won for him the profound respect and admiration of 
 everj'one. He defined his position on any subject with 
 freedom, and remained true to it. He was not offensive 
 in urging his views upon others, but fought with 
 undaunted zeal to gain his point. 
 
 It is fitting and proper on this occasion that we give 
 expression to the virtues of those who depart this life 
 and to turn our thoughts to the life beyond. It would 
 seem cruel, indeed, if the knowledge and the intelligence 
 and the good works acquired and accomplished in this 
 world of action should pass away forever like a puff of 
 wind. There must be something after all in the great 
 realms above which to the human mind is too glorious to 
 comprehend. It is a very happy thought to contemplate 
 the eternal life and pi-ogression of the spirit of mortal 
 man. It is consoling in death to have a vivid realization 
 of a continuation hereafter of association and friendship 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator McEnery 
 
 with those whom we so honor and love. Such thoughts 
 and such hopes urge us on to nobler deeds and higher 
 ideals. 
 
 In Senator McEnery we recognize the student, the law- 
 yer, the soldier, the constructive state builder, the jurist, 
 and the statesman. A stalwart for the right as he con- 
 ceived it, devoted and true to his commissions, fearless 
 and courageous, he won the esteem and confidence of 
 everyone with whom he came in contact. 
 
 Senator McEnery's life was ripe in usefulness. He 
 approached the grave — 
 
 Sustained and soothed 
 By an unfaltering trust, 
 
 Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him and Hes down to pleasant dreams. 
 
 His more than threescore years and ten were well 
 spent, and to him might justly be applied the plaudit: 
 
 Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter into thy rest. 
 
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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. President: There is at least one reason why these 
 ceremonies affect me in a different manner than they 
 affect any other Senator, save, perhaps, one; and that 
 reason is the fact that my presence as a Member of this 
 body was caused by the death of one of those in whose 
 honor these ceremonies are being lield. I can not, there- 
 fore, on this occasion divest myself of the thought that the 
 great gain which has come to me has been at the expense 
 of the great loss to his family, to his friends, to his State, 
 and to his country of him to whose seat in this Chamber 
 I have succeeded. 
 
 I can not expect during my comparatively short tenure 
 of office as a Senator of the United States to equal him in 
 point of good service to our common country and State; 
 but I can remember his devotion to the interests of both 
 as they appeared unto him and, to the best of my ability, 
 try to emulate him in the desire for the discharge of duty 
 as it appears unto me. In that expression, " The desire for 
 the discharge of duty," perhaps can be found the keynote 
 of his character, the principle that molded all his public 
 actions, his desire to do his duty as he saw it. 
 
 In the first flush of young manhood at the beginning of 
 the Civil War, true to his convictions of duty, he volun- 
 teered in the Confederate Army and fought to the end of 
 that strife for what he considered to be the rights of his 
 State and of her sister States of the South joined with her 
 in that common cause. At the end of that terrible strife 
 he returned to his home and took up the profession of 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Mc.Enery 
 
 law as a means of livelihood. During his legal career he 
 proved his adherence to his professional duties. In the 
 trying times of reconstruction he proved himself faithful 
 to the duty of assisting in the redemption of his State from 
 corruption and misrule, and shortly after the restoration 
 of white supremacy in Louisiana he was called by her 
 people to discharge the duties of the second highest posi- 
 tion in the executive branch of the State government, that 
 of lieutenant governor. Then for seven years he filled 
 the highest position in that branch, that of governor. 
 During his incumbency of those great offices he knew no 
 motive in molding his public action higher than the desire 
 to serve the interests of the State he loved so well. 
 
 Shortly after his retirement from the office of governor 
 he was tendered and accepted the appointment of associate 
 justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, and filled that 
 position with both honor and ability. It was during his 
 incumbency of that office that Louisiana passed through 
 the stormiest period of her political history since the days 
 of reconstruction — the great antilotteiy fight as it is 
 known, the most conspicuous leaders on that side being 
 the present Chief Justice of the United States and the 
 present senior Senator from the State of Louisiana [Mr. 
 Foster], the latter being the successful candidate for gov- 
 ernor in that memorable contest. But though Justice Mc- 
 Enery was defeated as the candidate of tlie lottery forces 
 and supported likewise by some who declared themselves 
 opposed to the extension of the franchise, which in public 
 statements lie declared to be his own position, he passed 
 through that fierce and bitter i)olitical strife without a 
 breath of suspicion being directed toward his personal 
 integrity. 
 
 In 1896, while still on the supreme bench in Louisiana, 
 he was called on by the regular Democratic Party to save 
 it from defeat in the senatorial contest then pending in 
 
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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 the general assembly, and as the only man in Louisiana 
 who could save it from defeat at that time. To this call 
 of duty he responded and was elected and took his seat 
 in this body in 1897. 
 
 His public history from that time to the period of his 
 death in 1910 is a part of the history of the United States, 
 and 1 may add, of the Nation. How well he discharged 
 his duty here to his counti-y and to his Slate the records 
 of the Senate and the testimony of his colleagues therein 
 can tell. 
 
 Louisiana has never had and she never will have a 
 Senator who loved her better or was more anxious to do 
 his duty by her as he understood it. And that duty he 
 discharged regardless of criticism or of consequences. 
 
 In private life he may have been not without his faults, 
 as other strong characters are not without them; but for 
 one I believe that the man who possesses no faults will 
 be found to possess not many of the strong virtues. He 
 loved his family, his friends, his State, and his country, 
 and that is saying much for any man. 
 
 1 do not know how I can more appropriately close these 
 brief remarks concerning him than in the language of 
 the governor of Louisiana conveying to the general as- 
 sembly of that State the oilicial notification of his death: 
 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery was distinctly a Louisianian; his 
 career is interwoven with her history, and she never claimed a 
 son that had a stronger hold on her affections. 
 
 As a friend he was loyal beyond measure; as a citizen patri- 
 otism moved him to action; as a statesman he was a profound 
 thinker, broad and liberal in his ideas and determined every 
 question by the standard of right and wrong. Fond memories of 
 him will ever find an abiding place in the heart of every Louisi- 
 anian now living, and future generations will remember him as 
 one of Louisiana's sons who never forgot a friend or betrayed a 
 trust. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnery 
 
 Mr. President, I move, as a further mark of respect to 
 the memory of Mr. Daniel and Mr. McEnery, that the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to, and (at 5 
 o'clock and 45 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Tuesdaj-, February 21, 1911, at 12 o'clock 
 meridian. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 December 5, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Ransdell of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol- 
 lowing resolution, which 1 send to the Clerk's desk. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Samuel Dougl.\s McEnery, late a Senator of 
 the United States from the State of Louisiana. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and send a copy thereof to the family of tlie deceased 
 Senator. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 January 31, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Broussard. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 for the present consideration of the following order, which 
 I send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Ordered. That Sunday, the 26th day of February, 1911, at 12 
 o'clock noon be set apart for addresses on the life, character, and 
 public services of Hon. Samuel D. McEnery, late a Senator from 
 the State of Louisiana. 
 
 The Speaker. Is there objection? [After a pause.] 
 The Chair hears none. The question is on agreeing to the 
 order. 
 
 The question was taken, and the order was agreed to. 
 
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Memoriai. Addresses: Senator McEnerv 
 
 Sunday, February 26, 1911. 
 
 The House was called to order at 12 o'clock noon by 
 the Clerk, Hon. Alexander McDowell. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henrj' N. Couden, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 O Thou who art supremely wise and good, just and 
 merciful, pure and holy, our God and our Father, we 
 thank Thee that no night of sorrow can obscure the light 
 of Thy countenance from those who put their trust in 
 Thee. No disappointment so deep, so poignant, that 
 Thou canst not turn to hope. Hence we pray most fer- 
 vently for those who were bound bj' the ties of love and 
 friendship to the departed statesmen, who strove ear- 
 nestly to reflect in their lives and deeds the image of 
 their Maker. Grant that the history recorded this day 
 may be an inspiration to those who read, to pure motives, 
 clean living, and noble endeavor, that, though dead, their 
 works may live and bear the fruits of the spirit thus 
 reflected in their lives. Help us, we beseech Thee, so to 
 live that when we pass to the great beyond we shall be 
 missed and cherished by those who knew and loved us, 
 and song of praises we will ever give to Thee in the name 
 of Him who taught us to live w-ell, and when the sum- 
 mons comes to pasS serenely on with perfect faith and 
 confidence in Thee, O God, our Father. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Pujo took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 Mr. EsTOPiNAL. Mr. Speaker, 1 offer the following reso- 
 lutions, which 1 send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Krsolttcd. Tint the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Sami'ei. Douglas McEnery, late a Member of 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 the United States Senate from the State of Louisiana, which oc- 
 curred in the city of New Orleans, La., June 28, 1910. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that 
 opportunity may be given to pay tribute to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the deceased 
 and in recognition of his distinguished public service the House, 
 at the conclusion of the memorial exercises of the day, shall stand 
 adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions t« 
 the family of the deceased. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Ransdei.l, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is a melancholy pleasure to pay tribute 
 to the memory of Senator McEnery, for I loved him in 
 life and wish to do all in my power to honor him in death. 
 My first vote was cast in 1884 for Sam McEnery, as we 
 called him in those days, then a candidate for the exalted 
 office of governor of Louisiana, and I voted for him every 
 time after that his name was presented to the people. 
 He was very popular in north Louisiana, where both of 
 us lived, and why not? Had he not been our wise, fear- 
 less leader in rescuing Louisiana from the horrors of 
 reconstruction and negro domination? Had he not been 
 our " levee governor " and the savior of our richest lands 
 from the annual floods of the cruel Mississippi? Had he 
 not been the active promoter and upbuilder of our public- 
 school system? Indeed, was there anything of good for 
 Louisiana in those days, a quarter of a century ago, which 
 was not closely allied with the name of Sam McEnery? 
 
 I doubt if any other citizen of the State was ever so 
 popular, and I am sure that no one ever retained such a 
 sti'ong hold upon the att'ections of his people to the day 
 of his death as Senator McEnery. 
 
 It was universally admitted during recent years that no 
 matter what he said or how he voted it was all right 
 with the people of Louisiana, and no man in the State 
 
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 would have dreamed of opposing him for the Senate. 
 Such continued popularity can be accounted for only by 
 the fact that the Senator was a most remarkable man; 
 liberally endowed in mind and heart; unselfish and gen- 
 erous to a fault; never forgetting a friend and bearing 
 no undue malice to foes; wise in plan and bold in execu- 
 tion; a good governor, alive to every interest of his State; 
 a great justice of our supreme court; a United States 
 Senator for everyone, and as solicitous for the poorest 
 citizen as for the most influential; a simple, unassuming, 
 modest gentleman, honest and true, who never used his 
 great abilities for an unworthy purpose in all his long 
 life of 73 years, but ever devoted them to promoting the 
 welfare of Louisiana. 
 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery was born at Monroe, La., 
 May 28, 1837, and died in New Orleans June 28, 1910. His 
 parents were Henry O'Neil McEnerj', a native of Ireland, 
 and Caroline H. (Douglas) McEnerj-, of Virginia. His 
 early education was at the Jesuit College, Springhill, Ala.; 
 then for three years as a inidshipman at Annapolis, from 
 May 25, 1852, to June 23, 18.55, when he resigned; and 
 later at the University of Virginia. He studied law at the 
 State and National Law School, Poughkcepsie, N. Y., and 
 after being admitted to the bar practiced for one year at 
 Maryville, Mo. Returning to Louisiana shortly before 
 the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army and 
 served as a lieutenant of the Pelican Grays, Second 
 Louisiana Regiment, under Gen. Magruder, in Virginia, 
 and also in the trans-Mississippi department. 
 
 Senator McEnery's first prominence in public life was 
 as a leader of the Democrats in Ouachita Parish during 
 the darkest days of reconstruction, when he displayed 
 such able qualities as an organizer against the corruption 
 and misrule of carpetbagism, with its attendant racial 
 horrors, that he soon became recognized as the foremost 
 
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Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 
 
 citizen of north Louisiana. In the State Democratic con- 
 vention of 1879 he was nominated for lieutenant gover- 
 nor, as running mate to Louis A. Wiltz, candidate for 
 governor. They were elected, and on the death of Gov. 
 Wiltz, in October, 1881, McEnery became governor. 
 
 So successful was his administration that he was nomi- 
 nated and reelected in 1884 for a term of four years. In 
 1888 he was again a candidate, but was defeated by that 
 grand old hero of the lost cause. Gen. Francis T. NichoUs, 
 who had been governor prior to the selection of Wiltz. 
 In such high esteem was McEnery held by his successful 
 opponent that he was immediately appointed by him a 
 justice of the supreme court of the State. I recollect well 
 the criticism of many lawyers at the time, who said that 
 while he was an able man and had made a good governor 
 he was not sufficiently versed in the law to make a good 
 judge. Their opinions changed, however, for within one 
 year McEnery was regarded as one of the ablest jurists 
 in the State, his decisions being noted for brevity, clear- 
 ness, and correct analysis. The admirers of Judge 
 McEnery insisted upon his again running for governor 
 in the antilotterj' campaign of 1892, and after a vigorous 
 fight he was defeated by Murphy .1. Foster, later his col- 
 league and intimate friend in the Senate. This campaign 
 did not take McEnery from the supreme bench, and in 
 1896, after Gov. Foster had been reelected in a hard- 
 fought struggle, McEnery's former foes in the Demo- 
 cratic Party implored him to leave the shades of judicial 
 life and again enter the political arena in opposition to 
 Walter D. Denegre, who was supported for the United 
 States Senate by Republicans, the Citizens' League, Popu- 
 lists, and all foes of the State administration. It was a 
 trj'ing hour for the party, and no man in the State could 
 save it except McEnery. He responded to the call then, 
 as he had ever done, and was elected to the Senate by a 
 
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Me.muhiai. Addresses : Senator McEnery 
 
 slender majority. So well pleased were tlie people of 
 Louisiana with his stewardship in this great office that 
 they reelected him in 1902 and again in 1908. 
 
 From the day of Senator McEnery's election as lieu- 
 tenant governor, in the fall of 1879, to his death, June 28, 
 1910, over a period of more than 30 years, he continuously 
 held the highest ofTices in the gift of the people of 
 Louisiana with the greatest credit to himself and honor 
 and profit to his State. Few men have such a record as 
 that. 
 
 Senator McEnery was married June 27, 1878, to Miss 
 Elizaheth Phillips, daughter of Charles Phillips, a promi- 
 nent planter of Ouachita Parish. His home life was 
 happy, four children being born of the union, three of 
 whom survive him — Charles P. McEnerj, an insurance 
 man of New Orleans; Dr. Douglas \V. McEnery, who was 
 his father's secretary for some years; and Mrs. Warren B. 
 Parks. 
 
 While Senator McEnery' is well remembered and loved 
 for many measures of his administrations as governor, 
 the one which gave him the most fame and was of 
 greatest benefit to Louisiana was his splendid service in 
 rescuing the lowlands of the State from the floods of 
 the Mississippi. He became known as the " levee gov- 
 ernor," and when one considers that nearh' half the area 
 and more than two-thirds of the wealth of Louisiana are 
 guarded by levees from overflow it will be seen how 
 complimentarj' was such a title and in what high esteem 
 it would be held by its possessor. I can not better de- 
 scribe his work in connection with these great public 
 improvements than by quoting from an article tiiat ap- 
 peared in the Times-Democrat of New Orleans in 1887, 
 entitled " The levee governor: " 
 
 Gov. McEnery succeeded to the governorship on the death of 
 Gov. Wilfz, on the 17th of Octoher. 18X1. Owing to the faet that 
 
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Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 
 
 the appropriations by the legislature had largely exceeded the 
 revenues, the financial affairs of the State were in such condition 
 that a special session of the general assembly became necessary. 
 Accordingly, Gov. McEnery called it together December 5. In 
 his message to that body thus early in his administration he 
 showed his solicitude toward the levee interests of the State, and 
 insisted that the full amount allowed by the constitution (1 mill) 
 should be appropriated by the legislature for levee purposes, in 
 addition to so much of the swamp-land and drainage fund as 
 was not needed to maintain the office of register of State lands. 
 
 This policy in favor of the construction and maintenance of 
 the levees so early inaugurated has been steadily followed to 
 the present time, with what benefits to the State let the record 
 show. Before the policy could be fairly put in operation (levee 
 building for the season being practically at an end, owing to the 
 rise of the river, when Gov. McEnery assumed the gubernatorial 
 chair) the great flood of 1882 came upon the State, causing wide- 
 spread disaster and a direct money loss in crops destroyed, stock 
 drowned, farms washed away, and so forth, of not less than 
 $15,000,000, thus abund;mtly justifying the governor's position 
 that every available dollar that the State could raise for the pur- 
 pose should be devoted to building and strengthening the levees. 
 The governor was prompt to come to the relief of the sufferers 
 by the flood, and although there was no relief fund available, he 
 did not hesitate to contract obligations for food and other relief 
 for the unfortunates. His action met the universal approval of 
 the people, and was promptly ratified by the legislature when the 
 body met in May. 
 
 The flood had not entirely passed from the State, leaving wide- 
 spread desolation and ruin in its track, when the legislature 
 assembled. In his message the governor again strongly urged 
 the necessities of the levees, and insisted that it was the duty of 
 the General Government to come to the assistance of the State in 
 the matter, holding that it was a case in which favorable action 
 on the part of Congress was not only justified, but imperative. 
 
 However, Gov. McEnery did not wait for Federal aid. He 
 recognized that the surest help was self-help, and bent every 
 energy to rebuild the broken levees and put tliem in order for the 
 high water of 1883. He succeeded measurably, but the flood of 
 1882 had been so destructive, sweeping away hundreds of miles 
 of levees, that the full accomplishment of the work was impossible 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnery 
 
 with the limited means at command. The flpod of 1883 came, 
 and, although less disastrous than the one that had preceded it, 
 proved very destructive, and caused those who saw their property 
 again swept away to despair of relief from the invading waters. 
 Gov. McEnery, however, was only nerved to greater efforts to 
 rebuild the levees and avert from the State the disastrous conse- 
 quences of overflow. He saw that what was to be done must be 
 done quickly in order to take advantage of the levee-building 
 season. He also saw that the funds at command of the State were 
 entirely inadequate to the purpose in view. What was to be 
 done? The legislature would not meet in regular session for a 
 year, and there was a strong popular sentiment against a special 
 session. In this emergency the governor determined to appeal 
 to the people themselves. He therefore issued a call for a con- 
 vention to meet at Baton Rouge June 18, 1883, and to be com- 
 posed of delegates selected by the various police juries and the 
 city council of New Orleans. The object of the convention, as 
 announced in the call, was " the maintaining, repairing, and build- 
 ing of levees; the inauguration of a practical system to prevent 
 and close crevasses; the adoption of a plan to prevent the cutting 
 of levees for roadways and the use of them for highways; and 
 in the means to be employed for this improvement of the navi- 
 gation of the Mississippi River." 
 
 The convention, famous as the levee convention, met at the time 
 appointed. It was composed of the representative men of the 
 State, its personnel possessing an influence such as has been 
 wielded by the membership of few bodies in the State. The 
 moral support of such a body of men meant the moral support of 
 the entire State, and this support was freely and unhesitatingly 
 tendered the governor in the emergency which had called the 
 convention into life. 
 
 The' convention fully justified the wisdom of the governor in 
 calling it. It infused new confidence in the dwellers on ripa- 
 rian lands, held up Gov. McEnery's hands in the good work he 
 had set them to do, and unloosened the purse strings of police 
 juries and private individuals to such an extent that the adminis- 
 tration was enabled to proceed with energy with what had seemed 
 an almost hopeless task. So vigorously was the work pushed, in 
 fact, that when the annual rise of the river came in 1884 the 
 levees were found in condition to resist the flood and keep in 
 
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Address of Mh. P»ansdell, of Loiissana 
 
 safety the thousands of people and millions of property sheltered 
 behind them. 
 
 This was not the only beneficial result that flowed from the 
 levee convention. Following the request of the convention, Gov. 
 McEnery invited the governors of the States of Mississippi, 
 Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Illinois to the proposed inter- 
 state convention at Vicksburg. The invitation was accepted and 
 the convention met. Its deliberations were fruitful of the best 
 results. It brought about unity of action on the part of the 
 States subject to overflow and protected by levees, and a deter- 
 mination to make a united demand upon the Federal authorities 
 for aid in holding the levees and improving the navigation of 
 the Mississippi River. 
 
 Thus to Gov. McEnery"s initiative is Louisiana largely indebted, 
 not only for the interest manifested in levee matters in the State 
 itself, but for Federal assistance in the work of maintaining and 
 rebuilding them. 
 
 Of the work itself. Gov. McEnery reported as follows to the 
 legislature (message. May 4, 1884) : 
 
 " Since 'he report made to the general assembly in April, 1882, 
 120 contracts for the construction of levees have been made, and 
 nearly all of them have been faithfully executed. The work 
 done under these contracts and the unfinished work under prior 
 contracts not completed in April, 1882, amounts to nearly 130 
 miles of levee, requiring 3,699,636 cubic yards of earthwork at 
 a cost of $887,970. The State during the same period expended 
 for preventing or closing crevasses ¥35,500, making an aggregate 
 cost of levee work for the period of ?923,470. 
 
 "The United States Mississippi River Commission in August, 
 1882, allotted i?75,000 to close gaps in levees between the mouth 
 of Red River and Cypress Creek, and $110,000 to close gaps in 
 Pointc Coupee, all for levees in Louisiana, except $65,283, which 
 was expended for levee work in Arkansas. The sum of $15,000 
 was likewise allotted toward building the Bonnet Carre Levee, 
 and other allotments were made for the protection of levees dur- 
 ing the late flood. 
 
 " The levee work in Louisiana by the United States commis- 
 sion nearly equals that done by the State, being mainly above the 
 mouth of Red River, and it has cost the United States Govern- 
 ment $839,381. 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator McEnery 
 
 "The riparian parishes expended on levees since 1881 large 
 sums, reports from 10 parishes alone showing $211,106 of local 
 and individual funds expended. Three railroad companies alone 
 expended $99,450. Thus the total amount expended on levees in 
 Louisiana has been $2,048,000 since 1881." 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that in 1883 some of the riparian 
 parishes were subject to another overflow, owing to the fact that 
 many of the levees that went down before the flood of the pre- 
 ceding year had not been rebuilt or were not sufficiently 
 hardened to withstand the rise of 1883, Gov. McEnery was fully 
 justified by the fact in adding: " In the beginning of March, 1884, 
 the levees of Louisiana were in better condition tlian they have 
 been at any previous time for more than 20 years." With such 
 energy had the work of rebuilding the levees and repairing the 
 waste created by the waters been prosecuted in the meantime, 
 and so energetically and systematically has the work of levee 
 strengthening and building been continued, that the floods since 
 1883 have been successfully resisted (rare local crevasses ex- 
 cepted), and the people of the riparian parishes have been able 
 to sow and reap behind the dikes erected for their protection, in 
 full confidence that they would withstand the pressure of the 
 •waters. Lands abandoned for a quarter of a century have again 
 been brought into cultivation, values in riparian parishes have 
 increased, and jjrosperity is again within reach of the dweller 
 by the banks of the rivers. 
 
 I live in East Carroll Parish, one of the worst overflow 
 sections of the State, and was there during the period of 
 Gov. McEnery's great fight for the levees. I therefore 
 know personally that this account is not overdraNvn and 
 does not give him more credit than he really deserves. 
 The fight, so well begun tlien, has been systematically 
 carried on ever since in splendid cooperation between 
 the several States of the valley and the United States Gov- 
 ernment. Many millions have been spent; and a great 
 system of levees, continuous, except at the months of 
 rivers emptying into the Mississippi, exists from Cairo to 
 the Gulf. And the awful floods which did untold damage 
 during the early eighties now beat frantically but in vain 
 
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Address of Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana 
 
 against the splendid levees begun by our " levee gov- 
 ernor." 
 
 Senator McEnery, while a very close attendant on the 
 sessions of the Senate and scrupulous in his attention to 
 every detail connected with his great oflice, never neglect- 
 ing anything, even of the least importance, rarely ever 
 addressed the Senate, and then only after careful prepa- 
 ration, in the choicest of language. His three principal 
 addresses before that august tribunal were as follows: 
 
 1. In opposition to the annexation of Hawaii, June 24, 
 1898, in which this noble sentiment was expressed: 
 
 The dignity, character, and strength of nations, as of men, and 
 especially of a republic, depend, in the eyes of the world and of 
 its own people, upon a rigid observance of justice and right, and 
 it should refuse to embrace a policy of aggrandizement, espe- 
 cially where the people to be affected are not consulted. 
 
 2. In defense of the suffrage clause of the Louisiana 
 constitution of 1898, delivered January 23, 1900. This 
 speech was a vigorous, able description of the trying 
 times of reconstruction and the desperate attempts of 
 the whites to redeem their States from negro domina- 
 tion and misrule. While he spoke he was interrupted 
 by Senator Butler, of North Carolina, who taunted him 
 on the grandfather clause, and in reply he uttered these 
 eloquent words : 
 
 When the constitutional convention was in session I was tele- 
 graphed to know what was my opinion of this section 5. I 
 replied to that telegram that, in my opinion, it was unconstitu- 
 tional. I then received another telegram, after its adoption, to 
 know if, when it was attacked, I would defend it in the Senate 
 of the United States. To that telegram I replied that I would. 
 
 I stand, Mr. President, always ready to defend the people of 
 Louisiana when their character is attacked. I stand ready to 
 defend them when their interests are in peril. I stand ready 
 to defend them when their laws are assailed. 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator McEnery 
 
 It is the same way, Mr. President, in reference to my duty to 
 the Government of the United States in regard to the war that 
 is now being waged in the Philippine Islands. I do not stop to 
 inquire whether the people of the United States are right or 
 wrong. I do not stop to inquire whether or not the first volley 
 was fired by the Filipinos or by the troops of the United States. 
 It is enough for me to know that the authority and power of this 
 Government is assailed, and that it is the duty of every citizen, 
 no matter what were his convictions, to rally to the support of 
 the Government, not only to send its ships abroad and its armies 
 upon the field and to supply money and munitions of war, but 
 with our great sympathy and whole will and heart to stand by 
 the President of the United States and uphold his hand until the 
 enemies of this Government are brought under subjection. That 
 same motive, Mr. President, induces me to defend to the best of 
 my ability the constitution of the State of Louisiana when it is 
 assailed. 
 
 But, Mr. President, although that was my opinion at that time, 
 I have since studied the question more carefully, and I hope the 
 reasons which I assign are a sufficient justification for that change 
 of opinion. 
 
 3. A very elaborate, historical argument on the tarift' 
 during the debates on the Payne-Aldrich bill, May 25, 
 1909, in which he sought to show the interest of the South, 
 especially Louisiana, in the policy of protection and to 
 prove that the early fathers of Democracy were believers 
 in protection. This speech and his vote on the bill, 
 together with his vote on the Dingley Tariff Act of 1897, 
 stamp him as a strong protectionist. He never sailed 
 under false colors, however, in seeking ofTice, but, on the 
 contrary, unequivocally stated to the legislative caucus 
 which elected him Senator in 1896 that he believed in 
 the principle of protection and would carrj' out his own 
 ideas thereon if elected. His views on the subject never 
 changed, and he was perfectly consistent and honest in 
 trying to enforce them. 
 
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Adokess Of- Mr. Ransdei.l, of Louisiana 
 
 The leading characteristics of Senator McEnery were 
 loyalty to his friends and utter unselfishness. He was 
 always willing to accommodate his Louisiana colleagues, 
 and under no circumstances did he ever fail to comply 
 with a promise. No detail was too small for his personal 
 attention. I sometimes thought that he had a special 
 genius for detail, and to that I attribute much of his 
 success. His relations with his brother Senators were 
 most cordial, and every one of them would do his utmost 
 to accommodate him. 
 
 Senator McEnery died full of years and honors, uni- 
 versally loved by all who knew him, and so strong in 
 the affections of his own people as to be above the 
 slightest danger of political rivalry. One of his most 
 beautiful attributes was his kindness to and considera- 
 tion for the poor. Only a few days ago a laboring man, 
 with the grime of dust on his clothes, visited his home in 
 New Orleans, saying, with tears in his eyes: "I want to 
 see the place where Mr. McEnery was laid out. He was 
 the best friend I ever had." There are hundreds just 
 like this man, for Samuel Douglas McEnery was the 
 friend of the poor. What higher tribute could have 
 been paid him than the simple words of this poor 
 laborer? 
 
 Mr. Speaker, his fame is safe in that world beyond the 
 skies which knows no change. His memory will live for- 
 ever in the State and Nation he served so well, and with 
 one accord all who knew him may exclaim: 
 
 His life was gentle, and the elements 
 
 So niix'd in him tliat Nature migh.t stand up 
 
 And say to all the world: " This was a manl '' 
 
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Address of Mr. Gordon, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker; We hold it one of the noblest duties of 
 the living to signalize and perpetuate the virtues and 
 memories of the dead. And in obedience to this sacred 
 sentiment we are assembled here, this beautiful Sabbath 
 day, to pronounce and record our brief tributes of ad- 
 miration and respect for the character and career of our 
 departed and lamented colleague, the Hon. Samuel D. 
 McEnery, late United States Senator from the State of 
 Louisiana; who, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and 
 on June 28, 1910, " gave his honors to the world again, 
 his blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace." 
 
 A brief year ago it was pathetic to observe him amid the 
 scenes that surround us to-day passing to and fro from 
 his duties in the Senate Chamber of this edifice, moving 
 carefully and cautiously as if his powers were failing 
 and he were then tottering slowly down to life's last rest- 
 ing place. And yet, while this was pathetic in one sense, 
 nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, it is a sublime spectacle to .see 
 an aged man, with trembling step and his white hair 
 streaming to the breeze, still bravely' stemming the rude 
 stream of life as it beats him from side to side, till at last 
 exhausted he folds his arms and sinks beneath the ruth- 
 less waters. And so Senator McEnery died as he had 
 lived, in the harness and at the wheel. He fell as it 
 becomes a statesman and a .soldier to fall, at the front 
 and in the battle. He did his dutj% and he did it well. 
 
 Senator McEnery was a native of Louisiana; was an 
 alumnus of Spring Hill College, Alabama; of the Uni- 
 
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Address of Mr. CIordox, of Tennessee 
 
 versity of Virginia, and of tlie United States Naval Acad- 
 emy at Annapolis, Md. He was a graduate of the State 
 and National Law School of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and was 
 engaged in the practice of the legal profession till the 
 stirring times of 1861, when he closed his law books and 
 hurried to the tented field. How well some of us still 
 remember those wild, thrilling days, when the war crj' 
 was heard in our land, " To your tents, O Israel, to your 
 tents!" when the drum and the bugle were heard upon 
 almost eveiy hill and in every dale, on everj' mountain 
 and in everj' vale, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, 
 and from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, calling the 
 people to arms. Two mighty hostile hosts are now pre- 
 paring for a conflict that is to convulse the continent and 
 astound the world. A new flag is unfurled on the land, 
 and a new pennant now floats on the sea. In the ensuing 
 crisis our colleague cast his destiny with that of his own 
 people and for four booming and blazing years battled 
 bravelj' for the cause for whicli Davis sufl'ercd in prison, 
 for which Lee and Forrest fought, and for which Johnston 
 and Jackson died. 
 
 Our comrade did not attain high rank as a soldier, 
 being only a first lieutenant at the close of the war. But 
 mere rank, however, offers no adequate measure of one's 
 efficiency as a soldier or of his force and fire as a man. 
 Merit is modest and often unambitious, and many are 
 content to do their duty without the reward of laurels, 
 titles, or decorations. And it is worthy of remark that 
 there were hundreds of soldiers in the southern armies, 
 and I suppose also in the northern armies, during our in- 
 terstate war of file sixties wlio were highly educated and 
 professional men but who did not aspire to positions of 
 rank or authority, but who, in the absence of their oificers 
 and in sudden emergencies, were often leadei-s and com- 
 manders unto themselves. And this is why the volunteer 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnekv 
 
 private soldiers of the American Armies from 1861 to 
 1865 displayed a higher degree of martial individuality 
 and intelligent efficiency than the world had ever before 
 or has since witnessed in soldiers of the line. Many col- 
 lege and university graduates fought through the war 
 with only the rank of private soldiers, and have since 
 attained to positions of high civic distinction, having 
 become consuls and ministers, judges and governors. Con- 
 gressmen and Senators. The late Thomas B. Turley, 
 United States Senator from Tennessee, was only a private 
 soldier in the Confederate Ai-my, and afterwards became 
 an eminent lawyer and jurist. What other nation has 
 furnished literati and authors, philosophers and scien- 
 tists, advocates and jurists, orators and statesmen, law- 
 givers and civic rulers from the private ranks of its dis- 
 banded armies? This is an exceptional distinction and 
 belongs to our land alone. So that Senator McEnery was 
 one among many of our able and eminent men after the 
 war who did not attain high military rank during our 
 great American conflict. 
 
 But he appears preeminently upon the scene during the 
 dark and dreary days of " reconstruction." For 10 long, 
 weary, and perilous years after the war, during which 
 the government of some of the Southern States was prac- 
 tically a congressional oligarchy and a military des- 
 potism, our colleague took an active, conspicuous, and 
 efTective part in the memorable struggle of the white 
 people of Louisiana to maintain their racial supremacy 
 and to preserve the white man's civilization. This was at 
 last accomplished, but not fully, until President Hayes 
 drew the bayonet from the breast of Louisiana. The 
 ability, courage, and determination displayed by Senator 
 McEnery, then a private citizen, during this stirring and 
 stormy period are matters of history and need not be 
 elaborated here. Suffice it to say that " he was a lower 
 
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Address of Mr. Gordon, of Tennessei; 
 
 of strength in the time of trouble." And when peace and 
 tranquillity had been restored to his long-suffering people, 
 they remembered and honored him by making him ttvice 
 their governor. And when he was elected to the United 
 States Senate, in 1896, a public-spirited and prominent 
 citizen of the State, Mr. Percy Roberts, wrote to his wife 
 as follows: "The Lord God still lives and reigns! 
 McEnery is Senator by a vote of 70 to 64. That is good 
 enough for one day." This fervid ejaculation, doubtless 
 the expression of a popular sentiment, of itself alone 
 implies a splendid eulogy on the ability and character of 
 our departed associate, and is doubly significant as com- 
 ing from one who was by his side and knew him best " in 
 the days that tried men's souls." 
 
 Finally, our distinguished countryman served the peo- 
 ple of his State two full terms in the United States Senate 
 and was serving his third term when he laid down his 
 arms and " slept with his fathers." 
 
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Address of Mr. Burgess, oe Texas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Louisiana has a unique and splendid 
 history, and no man of his time is so interwoven with 
 that history as is Samuel Douglas McEnery. He was 
 born in Louisiana on May 28, 1837, and his history is 
 comprised in the history of the State from that date 
 until the day of his death. 
 
 He was elected first lieutenant and went into the Civil 
 War, and made a good soldier. He was elected lieuten- 
 ant governor with L. A. Wiltz, and at the death of Gov. 
 Wiltz succeeded him as governor. In a contest for a 
 renomination he was defeated by his comrade in arms 
 Gov. Francis P. Nicholls, and so much were they attached 
 to each other that Gov. Nicholls appointed McEnery on 
 the supreme bench, from which he was elected to the 
 Senate, and was reelected until his death. 
 
 It was my strange and peculiar good fortune to feel 
 that I knew this good man intimately before I had ever 
 met him. This was due to the fact that I married a La- 
 fourche girl and visited the Lafourche neighborhood 
 very frequently. That was the home of Gov. Nicholls, 
 and Nicholls's name and McExery's name were linked 
 together there in the minds of all the old settlers, and I 
 fell that I knew McEnery by mingling with those people 
 an<l hearing them speak of him and talk about him, and 
 when I came to Congress I met him here. 1 found in 
 him here the same qualities that I had conceived him to 
 possess from what the people had said of him generally. 
 
 McEnery was perhaps not a great orator, not a great 
 statesman, but he was a man great in character. As 
 
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Address of Mk. Burgess, of Texas 
 
 IngersoU said of Roscoe Conkling, he " walked the high- 
 way of his own will and he kept the company of his 
 self-respect." All through McEnery's life this is brought 
 out plainly : He walked the highway of his own will, and 
 of course he kept the company of his self-respect and 
 all others' respect. He was a gentleman, a kindly man, 
 and disposed to do everything and anything that re- 
 dounded to Louisiana's glory as a State. I would, if I 
 had time, and opportunity aft'orded, speak of the glories 
 of Louisiana. But time will forbid that. It is enough to 
 say of tliis man that he was true in every relation of life. 
 He seemed to iiave a devotion to trutli tliat knew no 
 vacillation, that knew no change. For him to conceive 
 that a thing was right was for him to form an opinion at 
 once and go straight ahead. He seemed to have been 
 molded on David Crockett's homely motto, " Be sure you 
 are riglit, and then go ahead." As a statesman, as a 
 jurist, as a soldier, he shines in this respect more than 
 in all others. 
 
 .\nd now, that we have come to pay this feeble tribute 
 to his memory, he is gone. The places that knew him 
 will know him no more. But he left behind him as a 
 tribute to the young men of the land, to his wife, family, 
 and friends, his lich heritage of a good name and a life 
 well spent. He did not leave any great riches, but he left 
 that much, and no man can leave a nobler heritage to 
 his wife, liis family, and his friends than the heritage 
 of a clean, pure life devoted to duty. 
 
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Address of Mr. Madden, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Four times during this Congress God 
 has seen fit to call home one of Louisiana's illustrious 
 statesmen; four times have we lost, in each of these, a 
 true friend and a noble citizen. To-day in Congress 
 assembled we endeavor in our humble way to show our 
 appreciation of the worth of the latest of these; to speak 
 outwardly thoughts which have for years been present 
 in the minds of many of us. 
 
 On the 28th day of June, 1910, at the venerable age of 
 73, the Hon. Samuel D. McEnery died. In his life he was 
 an amiable, unselfish, sincere friend; an honest, upright 
 citizen; and an able, distinguished Senator. In his death 
 we have lost an invaluable life. Few men have won for 
 themselves more love and respect than this worthy 
 brother of ours; few men have more deserved the hom- 
 age of the Nation. 
 
 Mr. McEnery had an eventful life, and an education 
 which not only surpassed that of our average citizen, but 
 compares well witli the highest erudition in our hmd. 
 His knowledge, acquired from books, from professors, 
 from eminent associates, and from close observation of 
 the various things around him into contact with wliicli 
 bis services as a soldier and a public man brought him, 
 was of that practical, wise, and fruitful sort that has made 
 our countiy wliat it is. Few men are so constituted that 
 they can be scholarly, professional, practical, successful 
 
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Address of Mr. Madden, of Illinois 
 
 in business, exalted and yet sympathetic, kind, unselfisli, 
 and humble — mixing with the great masses of people with 
 a brotherly love and aflfection, going among them with 
 that kindly spirit which makes all — 
 
 Grapple them to their hearts with hoops of steel. 
 
 Ah, his was a beautiful life! 
 
 In the Senate and in the House of Representatives there 
 are Members, each going about his duty as of old, laugh- 
 ing, chatting, working, tliinking. 
 
 But yet I know where'er I go, 
 
 That there has passed away a glory from the earth. 
 
 I feel that one of the best of us has responded to Stern 
 Ruin's call. It saddens me at times when I see one by 
 one noble, generous lives taken from among us, when I 
 miss them in the customed place, when 1 cease to hear 
 the well-known voice, or to receive the hearty hand- 
 shake — it saddens me when I reflect that all 
 
 Await alike the inevitable hour. 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
 Rut the sadness gradually merges into thoughtfulness, 
 and then, thank God, I realize, with a rush of joyous 
 feeling. 
 
 That our death is but a sleep and a forgetting; 
 
 * • * * • 
 
 Trailing clouds of glory, do we come 
 From God, who is our home. 
 
 And when I consider this man's merits, his courtesy 
 and kindness, his nobility of character, his patriotism, 
 his love and gentle sympathy, and fondly feel the soft 
 
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 atmosphere of his influence ahout me, 1 again find com- 
 fort in Wordsworth — 
 
 What though the radiance which was once so bright 
 Be now forever taken from my sight, 
 
 • * • * • 
 
 We will grieve not, rather find 
 
 Strength in what remains behind; 
 
 In the primal sympathy 
 
 Which having been must ever be; 
 
 In the soothing thoughts that spring 
 
 Out of human suffering; 
 
 In the faith that looks through death. 
 
 Mr. McEnery received his broad education at various 
 leading institutions in this country — at Spring Hill Col- 
 lege, near Mohile, Ala.; at the United States Naval Acad- 
 emy; at the University of Virginia; and, finally, at the 
 National Law School in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he 
 acquired a profound knowledge in the profession which 
 he afterwards adopted. It was a wide range over which 
 he swept to gain this learning, but it was not a mere 
 vague, frivolous flight, from which he emerged with a 
 smattering of its fruit; it was a patient, toiling course, 
 which built up a firm foundation worthy to sustain in 
 after life the noble character, the distinguished man, the 
 exalted statesman. 
 
 I stand before you to-day with love and honor for the 
 memory of the late Senator. He was a man worthy to be 
 honored by men. He was one of us. He lived as wc live, 
 had the same temptations as we have, stumbling a little, 
 perhaps, over the roughest places, wliicli only made liim 
 the more human, brought him nearer to our hearts, ami 
 emboldened us to place in him our love and trust. 
 
 A creature not too bright or good 
 
 For human nature's daily food; 
 
 For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 
 
 Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
 
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Address of Mr. Madden, of Illinois 
 
 He was a typical southern gentleman, genial, open- 
 hearted, and courteous, endearing himself to all witli 
 whom he came in contact, thus acquiring an extensive 
 acquaintance among all classes of people, and leaving 
 behind him mourners without number. 
 
 Large was his bounty and his soul sincere. 
 
 Such is the way of life that this great man will perhaps 
 in a few weeks cease to be missed by his fellow Senators 
 and Representatives, from whom he won such high 
 esteem during tlie long term of his service, but he will 
 never be forgotten by them and will alwajs be thought 
 of with a lingering fondness and remembered as a glori- 
 ous type of manhood. 
 
 I will no further seek his merits to disclose, for in my 
 humble way I can not do such a great man justice. I 
 leave the details for those of you who are more able than 
 I. I merely wish to join with you, to join with Louisiana, 
 to join with the Nation in paying tribute to the loved and 
 honored memory of Senator Samuel D. McEnery, and to 
 extend to his sorrowing friends and relatives my deepest 
 condolence and sincere sympathy. 
 
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Address of Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Samuel Douglas McEnery was born in 
 Monroe, La., May 28, 1837. His father, a native of Ire- 
 land, moved to this country when a boy and settled at 
 Petersburg, Va., where he married. After living there 
 awhile he moved to Louisiana, residing first in More- 
 house Parish and then in Ouachita, where he became a 
 cotton planter. In politics he was a Whig, but later, 
 during Know-Nothingism in Louisiana, he became a 
 Democrat. Senator McEnery's uncle, for whom he was 
 named, was appointed a judge on the Federal bench of 
 Florida by President Tyler, and after the Civil War 
 became a member of the supreme court of that State. 
 John McEnery, a brother of the deceased Senator, was 
 elected governor of the State of Louisiana on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket in 1872, but on account of the intervention 
 of Federal troops, called bj' Gov. Kellogg, he was pre- 
 vented from taking his seat. 
 
 Senator McEnery was educated at Spring Hill College, 
 near Mobile, Ala., and was afterwards appointed a mid- 
 shipman in the United States Naval Academy at Annap- 
 olis, where he completed his course, but after a two 
 years' cruise resigned before his graduation. From there 
 he went to the University of Virginia, where he remained 
 until the death of his father in 1857. He then matricu- 
 lated in the Law College of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and 
 from tliat institution he was graduated in 1859. After 
 graduation he went to Maryville, Mo., where he prac- 
 
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Address of Mr. Bhoussard, of Louisiana 
 
 ticed law until the outbreak of the war between the 
 States, when he at once returned to Louisiana. 
 
 At the outset of the war he helped to organize the 
 Pelican Grays and was made first lieutenant of that com- 
 mand, which subsequently became a part of the Second 
 Louisiana Regiment. That regiment immediately went 
 to the front and with it he remained until its reorganiza- 
 tion. He then helped to organize a company which 
 formed part of Logan's battery of heavy artillery and 
 was assigned to duty in the trans-Mississippi department. 
 
 At the termination of the war he returned to the parish 
 of Ouachita to realize that the fortune of his family had 
 been blasted by war. Thus impoverished, he resumed 
 the duties of private life and became a school-teacher, 
 and while so engaged studied the civil law in order to 
 prepare himself for admission to the Louisiana bar, 
 where the amended Code Napoleon at that time was, 
 as it still is, in force. 
 
 He successfully passed his examination and was ad- 
 mitted in 1867 to the bar of the State of Louisiana, prac- 
 ticing in the hill parishes of north Louisiana. 
 
 Scarcely had the young soldier entered into the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Louisiana than he was brought 
 to a full realization that reconstruction laws overwhelmed 
 the people of his State, as they overwhelmed at that time 
 the people of other States of the South. McEnery had 
 become well known and well beloved throughout north 
 Louisiana, and by his magnetism, his faculty for making 
 friends, his devotion to duty, his training as a soldier, and 
 his patriotism, he was well equipped indeed to take an 
 effective part in the contest between righteousness and 
 debauchery', oppression and good government, barbarism 
 and white supremacy. He was a strong and active figure 
 in every one of those movements which after many years 
 of struggle resulted in the annihilation of radicalism and 
 
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 carpetbagism in Louisiana and placing the government 
 of that State into the hands of the white people. 
 
 In 1876 McEnery rallied the people of north Louisiana 
 to the support of Gen. Francis Tillou Nicholls, the 
 maimed hero of many battles during the Civil War, who 
 was the Democratic nominee for governor, and McEnery 
 was, to a great extent, responsible for the success of his 
 candidacy. The election of Gov. Nicholls was the termi- 
 nation of a long-drawn contest by which the people of 
 Louisiana reentered into their own. This patriot and 
 hero is still living, having added to his service to his 
 country during the Civil War services equally if not 
 more valuable in the position of governor, chief justice, 
 and associate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 
 from .which last office he has, on account of his old age, 
 recently resigned, and in his retirement is presently 
 enjoying the remaining years of his life in well-earned 
 rest. 
 
 After the election of Gov. Nicholls in 1876 the United 
 States Senate sent an investigating committee to Louisi- 
 ana to investigate that election. Chief Justice E. D. White, 
 of the Supreme Court of the United States, than whom 
 Louisiana has produced no greater man; E. B. Krutt- 
 schnitt, unfortunately taken fi'oni us in the prime of his 
 usefulness, a man of remarkable legal acumen, unblem- 
 ished character, and of a high order of patriotism, nephew 
 of that former brilliant Senator from Louisiana, the 
 lamented Judah P. Benjamin, who, after retiring from 
 the Senate, occupied several offices in the Confederate 
 cabinet under Mr. Davis; and Samuel Doi clas McEnery 
 represented the Democratic Party in that investigation. 
 Its result failed to disturb the seat of Nicholls as governor 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 The new constitution adopted in 1879 l)y the white 
 people of Louisiana to supplant that of 1868, enacted by 
 
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Address of Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana 
 
 the carpetbaggers and negroes, made it necessary to elect 
 another governor. Louis Alfred Wiltz, a man of wonder- 
 ful attainments, well versed in the affairs of our State, 
 with considerable experience acquired as mayor of the 
 city of New Orleans, was nominated by the Democrats for 
 governor, and Samuel Douglas McEnery for lieutenant 
 governor. Wiltz, unfortunately for Louisiana lived but 
 a short while after being sworn in as chief executive of 
 the State, and McEnery, by operation of law, succeeded 
 him. Taking up the reins of government where Wiltz 
 had left them, he assumed control of the affairs of Louisi- 
 ana at a time when everj'thing was in turmoil; when the 
 finances of the State had to be recouped; when the 
 devastating waters of the Mississippi were overflowing 
 the fertile plantations of Louisiana, adding another 
 catastrophe to those of war and reconstruction, which 
 had so impoverished the people of the State. His was 
 a Herculean task, but he was equal to it, and it was not 
 long before conditions were restored to their normal state. 
 The money of the people commenced to be properly used 
 and the levee system to be reconstructed. At the expira- 
 tion of his term as governor he found no difficulty in 
 securing a reelection, thus continuing the magnificent 
 work which he had undertaken; and at the end of his 
 second term, in 1888, he was generally known through- 
 out Louisiana as the " levee governor," and that appel- 
 lation was applied to him during the balance of his life. 
 McEnery was succeeded in 1888 by Gov. Nicholls, who 
 had been a predecessor, and immediately upon entering 
 into the duties of his office he appointed McEnery asso- 
 ciate justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, the 
 appointment being for a period of 12 years. So, in 1890, 
 when the contest for the renewal of the charter of the 
 State lottery became an issue before the Louisiana Legis- 
 lature, McEnery was a member of the supreme court and 
 
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 a known and avowed opponent of the Louisiana State 
 lottery. 
 
 The unequal contest in the legislature against the State 
 lottery was led by Senator Foster, and the fight was car- 
 ried forward until the Democratic Party divided in 1892 
 on the issue, resulting in two Democratic nominations 
 being made for the office of governor. Senator Foster 
 became the candidate of the antilottery wing of the party 
 and made a valiant fight which ended in driving from 
 the State that infamous institution. Senator McEnery, 
 then a justice on the supreme bench, became the choice 
 of the prolottery Democrats and was nominated by them. 
 Later a primary election was held between Foster and 
 McEnery, each the nominee of the wings into which the 
 party had become divided, resulting in the nomination of 
 Foster for governor. 
 
 McEnery remained on the bench until 1896, when 
 another contest arose in the State. This time the contest 
 was between the Democrats who had nominated Gov. 
 Foster to succeed himself and a fusion of Republicans, 
 Populists, and disgruntled Deniocrats. While Foster was 
 elected, the disaft'ected elements carried the contest into 
 the legislature, and the effect of that contest had direct 
 bearing on the election of a United States Senator to suc- 
 ceed Senator Blanchard, whose term of office was to 
 expire the following year. 
 
 Senator Blanchard, afterwards as splendid and efficient 
 a governor as our State ever had, was a candidate; An- 
 drew Price, my immediate predecessor in this House, 
 one of the best men it lias ever been my good fortune to 
 know — a clean, honest, benign, and munificent gentle- 
 man, who was called much too soon from the midst of 
 those whose favor he so justly merited — was also a candi- 
 date; as was Judge W. F. Blackman, a man of great 
 magnetism and remarkable ability, a distinguished jurist 
 
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Addkess of Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana 
 
 of Louisiana, who continues to occupy a position on the 
 bench of that State, reflecting credit on the people v>ho 
 have elevated him to that office; and another aspirant 
 was Mr. Walter D. Denegre, a splendid representative of 
 the old French families of Louisiana, who represented 
 the allied forces, while Blanchard, Price, and Blackman 
 were members of the regular Democracy. To elect one 
 of those four candidates it seemed impossible. Judge 
 McEnery, who, though not a candidate, had been receiv- 
 ing three votes during the daily balloting before the legis- 
 lature, was sent for one evening; he went to Baton Rouge 
 and on the next day was elected United States Senator. 
 This was effected by the withdrawal from the race of 
 Blanchard, Price, and Blackman. 
 
 I was elected to this House and entered into the duties 
 of my office at the same time that McEnery was sworn 
 into the United States Senate — March, 1897. In passing, 
 I state with just pride that Senator McEnery and I never 
 disagreed upon any public question nor ever voted differ- 
 ently during our service in Congress. 
 
 1 so distinctly remember the wide publicity which was 
 given to the fact that Senator McEnery's election had 
 cost him only $2.35 — the railroad fare between New 
 Orleans and Baton Rouge. That a Senator at that time 
 could be elected at so little an expense came almost as 
 a revelation, and it was a subject of comment as a mat- 
 ter of conversation and newspaper and magazine publi- 
 cation. And I want to add, right here, that it can be 
 said that his subsequent reelecUons to the Senate, in 1902 
 and 1908, cost him as little as his first election to that 
 body, as in neither campaign did he have an opponent 
 for the nomination in the primaries or at the election by 
 the legislature. 
 
 Senator McEnery was repeatedly elected a delegate to 
 the Democratic national conventions, and was chairman 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnery 
 
 of the Louisiana delegation at the Chicago convention 
 which nominated Mr. Brjan in 1896. 
 
 The Senator's service in the Unito<l States Senate was 
 highly honorable, indeed; and, while it might not be 
 classed as exceedingly brilliant, it was extremely efTective 
 and advantageous to his State. The want of brilliancy 
 in his service in the Senate was not occasioned, however, 
 by lack of attainments or oratorical talents; but it was 
 due to a misfortune which overtook him early in his 
 service — a deafness which did not permit him to under- 
 stand what was going on in the Senate — and excluded 
 him, therefore, from active participation in the running 
 debates of that body. This misfqrtune multiplied his 
 labors; but he was always thoroughly posted on all pub- 
 lic matters. His services were marked by an attention to 
 duty, a devotion to the State and country he loved so 
 well, an honesty of purpose, and a zealous patriotism 
 unsurpassed by anyone who has ever been honored by 
 an election to that distinguished body. 
 
 Having been continuously in the service of his State 
 since the inception of the Civil War, and in public office 
 from 1879, yet he never acquired wealth, but died as poor 
 a man as he was when teaching school upon his return 
 from the Civil War. In fact, it was noted through the 
 press of the countrj- that there appeared on his property 
 on which is located his home in the city of New Orleans, 
 where he died, on the verj' day of his death a notice that 
 the property was for sale. 
 
 As to his absorbing attention to duty in the public 
 service and his disregard of self-interest, which did not 
 permit him at any time to accumulate wealth during his 
 long public service in Louisiana and Washington, the 
 same can be said of him that was said of that patriotic 
 and distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania, Samuel J. 
 Randall. In fact. McEnery's life was very much akin to 
 
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Address of Mr. Broussard, or Loiisiana 
 
 the life of Randall, who was so much loved throughout 
 the South. Both were of Whig origin; both were essen- 
 tially democratic — plain, unassuming, patriotic, inde- 
 pendent, and devoted to duty. They were men of deter- 
 mination, of courage, moral and physical; devoted to the 
 Democratic Party, to which they belonged, and both pro- 
 tectionists. In all other questions, however, party man- 
 date was, in their view of public life, a public duty. 
 Upon the tarifl' they invariably disagreed with their 
 Democratic colleagues, but that disagreement was not 
 accompanied with disparagement of the fealty which 
 they at all times lent to the cause of the party with which 
 they were affiliated. 
 
 It is to be said, perhaps, in behalf of the old Democracy 
 that there was more tolerance of differences upon non- 
 essentials than there now is under the modern manage- 
 ment of the party. 
 
 Randall, first elected to the Forty-second Congress, 
 reelected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, 
 was, on the death of Speaker Kerr in the Forty-fourth 
 Congress, elected Speaker of that Democratic Congress. 
 Twice he was reelected to that high and important office, 
 continuing as Speaker in the Forty-fifth and Fortj'-sixth 
 Congresses, both of which were Democratic. 
 
 Throughout his services in the Senate, McEnery stood 
 by the interest of his State, and in that position he has 
 found in accord with him many sons of Louisiana repre- 
 senting that State in both branches of Congress. 
 
 When the Mills bill, a Democratic measure, came to 
 a vote in the Senate in January, 1889, both of the Senators 
 from Louisiana, Eustis and Gibson, voted against its 
 passage. 
 
 The McKinley bill passed the House on May 21, 1890. 
 As this bill carried a bounty on sugar, it was generally 
 opposed by the sugar planters of the State of Louisiana, 
 
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Memorim. Addresses: Senator McEnerv 
 
 and Wilkinson, Coleman, and Price, representing tlic first, 
 second, and third districts, respectively, voted against the 
 bill, while Louisiana's other Representatives in the 
 House — Blanchard, Boatner, and Robertson — abstained 
 from voting. Of these, Coleman alone was a Republican. 
 On September 10, 1890, the Senate voted on this measure, 
 and both of our Senators, Eustis and Gibson, failed to 
 cast a vote either for or against the bill. 
 
 The Wilson bill, a Democratic measure, passed the 
 House February 1, 1894, and Meyer, Davey, Price, Boatner, 
 and Robertson — all Democrats — voted against it. The 
 seat of the other Member from Louisiana had just been 
 vacated by the appointment of Mr. Blanchard to the 
 United States Senate. The bill passed the Senate July 3, 
 1894, and our two Senators, Caffery and Blanchard, voted 
 for it. President Cleveland refusing to subscribe his 
 name to it, the measure became law by operation of the 
 Constitution. 
 
 The Dingley bill passed the House March 31, 1897, and 
 Mej'er, Davey, and myself voted for it, while Ogden, 
 Baird, and Robertson voted against it. It passed the 
 Senate July 7, 1897. with Senator McEnery voting for and 
 Senator CafTery against it — an equal division of Louisi- 
 ana's delegation in both House and Senate. 
 
 The Payne bill passed the House April 9, 1909, and 
 Estopinal, Pujo, Wickliffe, and myself voted for it, while 
 Ransdell and Watkins voted against it. Through the 
 death of Congressman Davey, the seat fi'om the second 
 district was vacant. It passed the Senate on July 8, 1909, 
 with Senator McEnery voting in favor of its adoption, 
 while Senator Foster registered his vote against the meas- 
 ure. From conference the bill came to the House on 
 July 31, 1909, and Pujo and Wickliffe changed their 
 votes from the affirmative and voted against the adop- 
 tion of the conference report. Ransdell and Watkins, 
 
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Address of Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana 
 
 who had voted against the bill when it passed the House 
 on April 9, 1909, also voted against the adoption of the 
 confei'ecs' report, while Estopinal and myself voted in 
 favor of the report of the conference committee. 
 
 I well recall the conference held by the Louisiana dele- 
 gation in Senator McEnery's office to determine the 
 course to be pursued by the delegation with respect to 
 this last measure. The delegation favored the bill in 
 some particulars and opposed it in others. Senator 
 McEnery immediately laid down the rule which he said 
 should be our guidance : Will this bill as a whole benefit 
 or injure Louisiana? He argued pointedly that what 
 benefited the people of Louisiana was paramount. One 
 section, he said, can not be made to suffer unless the 
 entii'e State suffered likewise. We were, he continued, 
 the representatives of the State, and, as such, should 
 look to the interest of its people as a whole. Resum- 
 ing, he said that these rules were his guidance; and 
 by these rules his conduct as a Senator was always 
 guided. 
 
 Occupying that position, he has never been held not 
 to have performed the duties incumbent upon him in a 
 patriotic manner, nor was he ever looked upon xsdth sus- 
 picion by his Democratic colleagues in the performance 
 of those duties as he conceived them to be any more 
 than the shadow of suspicion ever hovered over Samuel 
 J. Randall, who, though a protectionist, was three times 
 elected Speaker of the House by the Democrats and ap- 
 pointed a member of the Ways and Means Committee in 
 the Forty-seventh Congress by Speaker Keifer, still a col- 
 league of ours in this House; nor any more than suspicion 
 attached to Samuel M. Robertson, this prince of splendid 
 fellows, who, after casting his vote against the Wilson 
 bill, became a member of the Ways and Means Commit- 
 tee and was elected secretary of the Democratic caucus, 
 
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 holding both the assignment to the Ways and Means 
 Committee and the secretai'yship to the caucus for many 
 years until his retirement from Congress. 
 
 But these were days when the Democratic Party was 
 wary and suspicious of radicalism, when toleration was 
 the order of the day and conservatism was her north star. 
 
 Under our Constitution, in so far as the tariflf is con- 
 cerned, our citizenship may be included into two broad 
 classes — those who advocate protection and those who 
 advocate tariff for revenue. Among protectionists may 
 be included extreme Republicans; and among the Demo- 
 crats may be included those other extremists, who would 
 advocate free trade if that were possible under our Con- 
 stitution. The difference between the tariff-for-revenue 
 man and the protectionist is, therefore, expressed in per- 
 centage. If we accept the ad valorem basis as the true 
 basis for the purpose of this illustration, or if we reduce 
 the tariff law to an ad valorem basis, it would appear that 
 those who advocate an average ad valorem duty of 40 
 per cent, that being assumed as the percentage that would 
 bring sufficient revenue into the Treasury, would be 
 looked upon as adherents of the policy of tariff for reve- 
 nue, while those who advocate a 45 per cent ad valorem 
 average, that percentage being assumed as more than 
 necessary to produce the required revenue, would be 
 regarded as protectionists. 
 
 On both ends of this proposition there are, of course, 
 extremes, for the free trader would cut the 40 per cent 
 average and take chances of a deficiency in the Treasury, 
 while, on the other hand, the high or " stand-pat " protec- 
 tionist would increase it above the average of 45 per 
 cent and take the same chances. If this be true, who is 
 to judge when the tariff on a given article is a revenue 
 tariff and when it is a protective tarifl'? The people of 
 each district must decide for tliemselves, and the Rep- 
 
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Address of Mr. Broissard, of Lopisiana 
 
 resentative of that district should voice the decision of 
 his constituency; the people of each State should decide 
 for themselves and the Senator should voice the opinion 
 of his State. This was Senator McEnery's rule of guid- 
 ance, and his people approved of it by reelecting him 
 again and again without opposition. 
 
 Fundamentally speaking, the Democratic Party is built 
 upon the idea of individual libertj' in its broadest sense 
 and scope within the limitations fixed by the Federal 
 Constitution. That scope essentially includes the prin- 
 ciples of local self-government; that scope includes State 
 sovereignty, which is the broader expression of local self- 
 government, and necessarily contemplates that the Rep- 
 resentative, if he be a Member of the House, should 
 receive his primary instructions from the constituency 
 composing his district. And the Senator, representing a 
 sovereign State, should receive, primarily, his instruc- 
 tions from the people of his State. 
 
 In the early days, during the time that Mr. Randall 
 was a Member of this House, among Democrats caucuses 
 were unknown; conferences were the order of the day. 
 Democratic Members met in conference, looked into a 
 situation, discussed and sought to convince each other 
 that unity of action was important, and sought a com- 
 mon ground upon whicli to stand. Where, however, in- 
 structions of a constituency contravened, the result of 
 the conference was not mandatoiy upon the Member. 
 
 In so far as Democratic Congressmen were concerned, 
 this continued to be the rule of action in both the House 
 and Senate, and it is only of late that a different course 
 of action has been inaugurated. When this new course 
 was adopted and the caucus resorted to in place of the 
 conference, rules to safeguard the people in keeping with 
 Democratic doctrine were adopted. 
 
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 The rule itself, in so far as Democratic Members of the 
 House are concerned, had best be quoted as a thorough 
 exemplification of the fact that the principle of the party 
 has never been abandoned in the substitution of the cau- 
 cus for the conference, but that the integrity of State 
 sovereignty and local self-government has been main- 
 tained in theory at least. I quote from the rules adopted 
 by the Democratic caucus: 
 
 That no Member shall be bound upon questions involving a con- 
 struction of the Constifulion of the United Slates or upon which 
 he made contrary pledges to his constituents prior to his elec- 
 tion or received contrary instructions by resolutions or platform 
 from his nominating authority. 
 
 This is the wording of the proviso; this is in keeping 
 with the principles contended for and the policy pursued 
 by Senator McEnery as a member of the Senate; and I 
 take some little pride in the fact that, because of my 
 course, perhaps, these exceptions, essential as they are 
 to the ver>' life of democracy, responding to a will of 
 the government by the people, recognizing the sovereignty 
 of the State and local self-government, have been recog- 
 nized in very words, as they should ever be in Democratic 
 practice. Let the theorist theorize, but let men of thought 
 measure their power by their authority. Let them not 
 surrender the power, but better that than to usurp au- 
 thority not delegated. 
 
 The Congressman — and I use the word in its true 
 sense — is but the agent of the people who, or the State 
 which, sends him here. The principle, in so far as a 
 Member of the House is concerned, is that those who elect 
 that Member have a right to instruct him in regard to 
 their interests, and the Representative has absolutely no 
 right to act adversely to such instructions. When his con- 
 science will not permit him to carry out these instructions, 
 
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Address of Mr. Broussard, of Louisiana 
 
 the Congressman's plain duty is to resign his office or, 
 better still, not to accept the office, unless it is his purpose 
 to act agreeably to the instructions of his constituency. 
 
 A State which sends a Senator to the higher body has 
 unquestionably the right to instruct its Senator; and 
 whenever it is impossible for the Senator to reconcile his 
 conscience or his judgment with his instructions, then 
 his mission is to forego the office and permit the State to 
 send some one who will carrj' out the instructions of its 
 people. 
 
 Such was always Senator McEnery's conception of his 
 duties, and a broad toleration of those principles in a 
 militant democracy but enlarges and broadens the peo- 
 ple's conception of duty, lends itself to confidence in legis- 
 lation, and removes every opportunity for suspicions and 
 criticisms, which always tend to undermine the people's 
 belief in the integrity of legislative bodies. 
 
 Senator McEnery was a man of great simplicity of char- 
 acter; he greeted everjbody most kindly; he was cour- 
 ageous in doing what he believed was right in carrying 
 out instructions of those he represented; he was fearless 
 in asserting his opinion; and such qualities as these en- 
 deared him to the people of Louisiana. 
 
 He was a man of heroic soul, poor in the goods of this 
 world, but infinitely rich in a fame that outlives him; an 
 unsullied reputation, to which his legion of friends in 
 Louisiana and elsewhere can point with unceasing pride 
 and bid future generations to emulate his honesty, his 
 fairness, his independence, and his patriotism. And in 
 those respects he stands as an exemplar to all men who 
 are devoted to a constitutional government and who are 
 striving to elevate the people in the enjoyment of those 
 things which are dejcreed sacred and inalienable — life, 
 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnery 
 
 Great son of north Louisiana, permit a fellow citizen of 
 south Louisiana to assure you that you are no more 
 honored and your loss is no more keenly felt in the hills 
 of your section of our State than on the plains of south 
 Louisiana. In common with your neighbors of the hills, 
 we call you our own. Surely, your deeds were for our 
 entire State and your statesmanship broader than any 
 section. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Louisiana, like Virginia, has been par- 
 ticularly unfortunate in the loss of Representatives dur- 
 ing the past decade. Louisiana has lost five by death and 
 Virginia seven since I have been a Member of this Con- 
 gress. Senator McEnerv and myself entered the Fifty- 
 fifth Congress together. For a short time he lived at the 
 same hotel with me. During all the years that have 
 passed since 1807 he was very near me. I often met and 
 talked with him at the Metropolitan Hotel. We had much 
 in common, being about the same age, having entered the 
 Civil War about the same time and served with John 
 Bankhead Magruder on the historic Peninsula of Virginia, 
 he with the infantry and I with the cavalry arm of the 
 service. 
 
 For this reason, no doubt, my good friends and col- 
 leagues of the State of Louisiana have requested me to 
 unite with them in these solemn ceremonies for the pur- 
 pose of paying tribute to the life and character of another 
 Member of Congress from their State. 
 
 Sami'El Douglas McEnery was distinctly a Louisianian. 
 For thirty-odd years he bore a conspicuous part in her 
 history, largely shaping her policies and aiding in her 
 upward progress. In the trying days of reconstruction 
 he proved his worth as counselor, guide, and public serv- 
 ant. Loyal in friendship, fervid in patriotism, a pro- 
 found thinker, with high ideals and broad liberal views, 
 he labored incessantly for the good of his State and his 
 people. 
 
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 He held the highest honors Louisiana could bestow and 
 v/as trusted with her most important affairs. He incurred 
 criticism and censure, but his motives were never ques- 
 tioned, and no charge of corruption or betrayal of trust 
 was ever imputed to him by even his bitterest enemies. 
 
 This alone is praise enough for any man who was an 
 active leader and worker in even*' political movement in 
 his State for more than 30 years. 
 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery was born May 28, 1837, and 
 died June 28, 1910. He was a native of Monroe County, 
 La. He attended Spring Hill College, near Mobile; the 
 United States Naval Academy at Annapolis; the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia; and the State and National Law 
 School at Poughkeepsie. 
 
 Just of age when the Civil War came on, he enlisted in 
 the Confederate service as second lieutenant in Company 
 C, Second Louisiana Infantn-, and served in tlie Army of 
 the Peninsula (Virginia) under Gen. John Bankhead 
 Maginider to May 1, 1862, on which day he is reported 
 dropped by reason of the reorganization of his company. 
 During his connection with the Second Louisiana Infanti*}' 
 his regiment participated in the engagement at Lees Mill 
 during the siege of Yorktown by the Union Army under 
 Gen. George B. McClellan. On July 23, 1862, McEnery 
 was appointed second lieutenant and drillmastcr, to report 
 to Brig. Gen. Albert G. Blanchard, and served with gal- 
 lantry and distinction in the trans-Mississippi to the close 
 of the war. 
 
 The principles for which he fought and the righteous- 
 ness of his case is being recognized as the years roll l)y. 
 In a few short years thinking men will say that possibly 
 after all it would have been better for constitutional gov- 
 ernment and human liberty had the principles contended 
 for by the South in that great struggle been established 
 and maintained. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 
 
 We can not contemplate the rapid passing awaj' of these 
 old Confederate soldiers without remembering the condi- 
 tions after their defeat that tried, even more than war, 
 their courage, patience, and fortitude. Historj' is searched 
 in vain for a parallel. In the era of good feeling of to- 
 day we do not like to dwell on the helpless and hopeless 
 condition of the Southern soldiers after Appomattox. 
 Under good laws, well administered, it would have been a 
 Herculean task to restore their fallen fortunes. Success, 
 in spite of the worst legislation that ever afflicted a fallen 
 and suffering people, is simply a marvel, and stamps these 
 men as the best, the bravest, and the truest that have ever 
 lived in all the tide of time. 
 
 The philosophical historian of the future will tell the 
 wonderful story of their achievements in peace, and our 
 children's children will set it to their credit as equal, if 
 not surpassing, the victories they won in war. 
 
 Such is my faith in the people of our Southland that I 
 predict with confidence that before the last old Confeder- 
 ate soldier shall join liis comrades on the other side he 
 will see his beloved South stronger in material resources 
 and richer per capita than any part of this Union. 
 
 McEnery was a leader in the political campaign of 1876, 
 and largely through his brilliant leadership his party's 
 success was made possible, and redemption from the hor- 
 rors and misrule of reconstruction was accomplished in 
 Louisiana. 
 
 His State never forgot these services, nor will the name 
 of McEnery ever cease to be associated with that sadly 
 needed redemption. 
 
 In 1879, though not in accord with the dominant politi- 
 cal faction, he was nominated for lieutenant governor, 
 and became governor in 1881 by the death of Gov. Wiltz. 
 He was reelected in 1884, and was defeated for nomi- 
 nation by Gen. Nicholls in the convention of 1888, and 
 
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 was by him appointed as associate justice of the supreme 
 court. 
 
 In 1896 he was appealed to as the only Democrat who 
 could be elected to the United States Senate against the 
 coalition in the legislature of Populists and Republicans. 
 
 His action before the Democratic caucus on this occa- 
 sion perhaps gives a truer line on his life and character 
 than any other occasion afforded, and shows the beacon 
 by which McEnery steered his course through life. He 
 frankly and fearlessly told that caucus his views and con- 
 victions on leading political questions; that he was a pro- 
 tectionist; was in favor of national improvements, with 
 broad national views on various other questions, and if 
 elected would follow his convictions regardless of party 
 views and platforms. 
 
 He concealed nothing and conceded nothing as against 
 his convictions of right and duty. Frankness, openness, 
 and independence marked eveiy day of his life to its close. 
 When McEnery was harshly criticized by many Demo- 
 cratic journals and leaders, his defense was that his views 
 were made known before his election; that the Demo- 
 crats accepted him under these conditions, thus granting 
 him independence. He was reelected in 1902 and in 
 1908, and twice submitted his name to the popular vote. 
 
 No Senator enjoyed or exercised more absolute inde- 
 pendence than McEnery. His colleagues and his constit- 
 uents fully realized that his convictions controlled his 
 votes, regardless of party platforms and views. 
 
 A most effective and diligent worker, no labor was too 
 great, no duty was too small to claim his courteous and 
 painstaking attention at any time. Dignified, cordial, 
 polite, whether to governor or newsboy, he won the con- 
 fidence and respect of all. His characteristics of manner, 
 his faculty for making friends in everj' sphere of life 
 aided greatly in the results he accomplished. While 
 
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Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 
 
 manners did not make the man, it did make the man's 
 work more easy and effective and made an able and 
 distinguished man a delightful friend and companion. 
 
 So appropriate are the words of an editorial of the 
 New Orleans Times-Democrat of June 29, 1910, that I shall 
 here quote them: 
 
 All recognized McEnery as a faithful servant of Louisiana and 
 its people, always ready to work in tiieir interest and never think- 
 ing of himself, for he acquired little or nothing in his thirty-odd 
 years of public service, and he served all who applied to him with 
 equal zeal and earnestness. No man was naturally kinder of 
 heart, more considerate of others, and there have been few men 
 in active political life in Louisiana who have made more friends; 
 indeed, during the latter days of his life he received the faithful 
 support of those who had been most heartily opposed to him 
 during the stormy days of factionalism in Louisiana, in which 
 he played so important a part. No one will deny that in him 
 Louisiana has lost a faithful and devoted son. 
 
 He measured up to every duty and obligation. He was 
 vigilant, active, and efficient, and singularly successful 
 in the accomplishment of results. His strong, active mind 
 and business habits enabled him to gra.sp the salient point 
 in every problem with ease and dispatch. His large 
 experience and extensive acquaintance in life gave him a 
 breadth of view that made him agreeable and pleasant 
 in conference as well as fair-minded in the settling of all 
 differences. 
 
 Ripe in years and honors, beloved and mourned by the 
 State he so ably and etriciently served, honored and 
 respected by his colleagues and his Nation, he rests from 
 his labors. His deeds and influences live after him, a 
 model and example to admire and emulate. His ambi- 
 tions realized; his patient, untiring efforts crowned with 
 rich success; his life work done, he sleeps in peace and 
 love and honor in the sacred soil of the State he loved so 
 dearly and served so faithfully. 
 
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Adoress of Mr. Goulden, of New York 
 
 Mr. Speaker : We have met on this peaceful Sabbath 
 to pay tribute to the memory of one of our late associates. 
 Though but a short time. Congress has had many losses 
 by death since we closed our labors in June last. 
 
 It is sad, indeed, to know that so many of our friends 
 have been called to answer the last summons of the 
 Supreme Ruler of the Universe. 
 
 One by one they have fallen, dying in the midst of 
 careers of usefulness. Better thus than drag along for 
 years in suffering and worry, with nothing to cheer them 
 in the way of future deeds commensurate with past 
 achievements. 
 
 Better far to pass to the other shore while able to pei-- 
 form acts of usefulness to the country and of benefit to 
 mankind. 
 
 To-day we meet to honor the memory of S.xmiel Doi'G- 
 LAS McEnery, a distinguished Senator from the State of 
 Louisiana. 
 
 He lived beyond the allotted space of threescore and 
 ten. 
 
 His life was one of usefulness and distinction. Of him 
 and his life the words of Emerson fitly apply: 
 
 Lifi' is too short to waste 
 
 The critic's bite or cynic's bark. 
 
 Quarrel or reprimand; 
 "Twill soon be dark; 
 
 Up! Mind thine own aim, and 
 God speed the mark. 
 
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Address of Mr. Goulden, of New York 
 
 He was honored by the people of his State as a justice 
 of the supreme court, as governor, and as United States 
 Senator. 
 
 In all these positions he served with rare ability and 
 honesty, reflecting credit on his Commonwealth and the 
 Nation. 
 
 His name and deeds add luster to the history of the 
 great men produced by this countn,^ since its creation. 
 
 A sterling character, a good soldier, a patriotic citizen, 
 an upright judge, and renowned as the chief executive of 
 a great State, his deeds live after him. 
 
 Such men can only be found in a republic where equal 
 opportunities exist to all its people. 
 
 It was my special privilege to have seen our friend in 
 his home city a few years since, and there among his close 
 personal friends and associates to study his character and 
 witness the respect and affection in which he was held by 
 those who had known him all their lives. 
 
 He was the soul of hospitality, generous and kind to 
 all, especially to the stranger within the city. 
 
 His feelings for the veterans of the Federal Army, 
 whose character and fighting qualities he learned to 
 respect and admire in the days that tried men's souls, 
 never left him. 
 
 He was always willing to accord to them every possible 
 recognition, and was exceedingly liberal in his views as 
 to pensions for the boys in blue who had saved the 
 Nation. 
 
 As a comrade serving under a different flag, I am 
 impelled by a sense of duty to lay this brief, simple trib- 
 ute on the grave of an honored patriotic citizen of our 
 common country. 
 
 He has gone from among us, having crossed to the 
 other shore in the full hope of a blessed immortality. 
 
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 It is a road that we must all travel, for it is appointed 
 unto man once to die. This decree is unalterable; all must 
 meet it. Let us meet it, as he did, bravely. 
 
 The memory of the life and deeds of our friend is ours 
 to cherish and emulate. 
 
 He sleeps, but in that sleep beneath the sod 
 
 No dreams shall come — those dreams that banish sleep; 
 No watchers, then, naught save the eyes of God, 
 
 To watch his slumber long and still and deep. 
 Then mourn him not as dead — he can not die — 
 
 And mourn him not as sleeping in that day; 
 He wakes, he lives, not far in yonder sky. 
 
 But near us, though not seen, he walks to-day. 
 
 His memory will abide with his family and friends a 
 benediction and a blessing. 
 
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Address of Mr. Pujo, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The people of the district 1 have the 
 honor to represent on this floor had great affection for 
 Senator McEnery while living, and now that he is no more 
 they respect and venerate his niemoi->'. His name is not 
 only treasured by the people, but his achievements in the 
 upbuilding of his State are recorded in her historj'. His 
 crowning public service is usually considered as having 
 been the development of the levee system of Louisiana, 
 because of his great and successful efforts in that behalf, 
 but in my judgment his work in encouraging emigration 
 from other States resulted in the betterment of conditions 
 in Louisiana more than any other act of his public career. 
 
 1 remember that in 1887 he convoked a great interstate 
 agricultural convention at Lake Charles. United States 
 Senators, Representatives, and others high in every line 
 of human endeavor gathered there and obtained at first 
 hand knowledge of the possibilities of the State. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the result of that convention in the mate- 
 rial development and settlement of southwest Louisiana 
 was frequently adverted to by Senator McEnery as one 
 of the crowning acts of his administration while governor 
 of that great State. It brought a population of thrifty 
 farmers from the North and the West into a section of 
 the country then used for stock raising only, and that part 
 of the State at this time is thickly populated and more 
 than a hundred million dollars have been added to the 
 taxable value of Louisiana, to say nothing of the great 
 number of splendid citizens who have made their homes 
 with us. 
 
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 Mr. Speaker, I did not belong to the then political fac- 
 tion in the division of our party in Louisiana of which 
 Senator McEnery was leader and to which reference has 
 been made. I found mjself on the other side. I was 
 never thrown in close contact with him, but always enter- 
 tained, in common with the people of Louisiana, the 
 highest respect for his integrity and the greatest admira- 
 tion for his ability. 
 
 When I came to the Fifty-eighth Congress Senator Mc- 
 Enery extended to me, always, when I called upon him 
 for assistance every help within his power; he was ever 
 courteous, and it seemed to be a labor of love for him to 
 assist his colleagues in obtaining legislation at the other 
 end of the Capitol. 
 
 I then began to understand why it was that he was so 
 strong and so popular with those who knew him best. 
 His uniform courtesy, liis absolute sincerity, his freedom 
 from guile appealed to all the better instincts of man and 
 not only invited but compelled the greatest degree of 
 respect. In Louisiana many people have often asked the 
 question, Why was Senator McEnery so popular? In 
 the first place, Mr. Speaker, it is because he was an honest 
 man and a truthful man, capstoned by unquestioning 
 loj'alty to his friends. 
 
 His great success in public life was due to that cause 
 above all others, and a State is to be congratulated when 
 her public men place such an estimate upon their words, 
 upon their actions, upon their positions as to invite the 
 admiration, of their friends and challenge the respect of 
 their enemies. Louisiana has lost a great public servant, 
 his family one who devoted his life to their welfare and 
 advancement, and his friends one whom they will regret 
 as long as they have the memorv' to recall his devotion to 
 them under anv and all circumstances. 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 Mr. Padgett said: 
 
 I live for those who love me, 
 
 For those who know me true; 
 
 For the God who made me 
 And the good that I may do. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, these lines were written years ago, and in 
 their sentiment may be found an accurate understanding 
 of the motives of Senator McEnery. They afford an 
 explanation of the motives and purposes of his life. The 
 mainspring of his conduct was reflected in those lines. 
 Through them there shines a light that brings into bold 
 relief the influences which mark and emphasize his life 
 and his work. 
 
 Though there was a great difference in our ages, there 
 existed a warm personal friendship between us. Having 
 a considerable family connection in my home town, 
 among the best and most honored of our citizenship, he 
 visited the town. He upon the Senate Naval Committee 
 and myself upon the House Naval Committiee, our work 
 brought us into association and fellowship. From the 1st 
 to the 4th day of June, 1910, we were upon the Board of 
 Visitors together at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. I 
 believe it was the 28th of the same month that he was 
 called hence. It never occurred to me during this last 
 association and labor that so soon would he be translated. 
 
 It is my purpose, Mr. Speaker, to speak only a few 
 words as to the impressions 1 had of him. The influences 
 
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 of his life, association with him, fellowship with him, 
 made upon me certain impressions as to his character, 
 as to the principles and motives which actuated him in 
 his conduct, and it is of these that I rise to speak. I shall 
 not attempt to review his work in his political and active 
 life in his own State. Others have already spoken elo- 
 quently and in detail of the splendid career and of the 
 magnificent work which he did in his own State. 1 shall 
 content myself in this respect to say that in his own State 
 in those dark days, in those troublous times, he was a 
 rock in a weary land and a shelter in a time of storm. 
 
 I shall speak of him first as a man with a big heart, and 
 such he did possess. In the language of the first line of 
 the verse, " I live for those who love me," truly Senator 
 McEnery did so. He loved his friends. There was no 
 sacrifice for them— in their interest, for their welfare, 
 for their well-being, for the elevation and promotion 
 of their interest and their upbuilding — which he was 
 not willing to make. Out of his heart at all times there 
 flowed a stream of affection and unceasing love for his 
 friends. He was true to his friends, and for them he 
 was not only willing to sacrifice, but was ready to go 
 further. For them he was ready to labor and to toil, to 
 give of the energy and of the power of his life and of 
 his being. And no more can be said that carries a higher 
 attribute than to say of a man that he had a heart full of 
 love for his friends. 
 
 There is another phase in the life of this man, an ele- 
 ment of his character which was fundamental, of which 
 I desire to speak, and that is that in the broad, deep, high, 
 and noble sense of the word he was a patriot. He loved 
 his country. He loved her history, he felt a pride and 
 personal interest in the institutions, in the spirit and the 
 genius of the people, of the countn,-, and of its citizenship. 
 From the foundation of the country until this day there 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 was no noble deed performed, there was no noble illus- 
 tration of patriotic purpose or high achievement for 
 which Senator McEnery did not feel and claim a personal 
 interest and manifest a personal appreciation. His 
 patriotism was not bounded and limited by the con- 
 fines of his own State. I would not be understood to 
 minimize his love for his own State and his own peo- 
 ple. I would emphasize and magnify it, and yet as 
 great as was his love for his own State and the insti- 
 tutions of his own people and his own citizenship, his 
 patriotism rose above and was broader and compre- 
 hended the historj^ of the whole country and the love and 
 fellowship of all the people. 
 
 He shared the hopes of the future of the country. 
 Although he had reached a ripe age in his years, he had 
 not turned his face to the rear. He faced the future, and 
 in the future of the countrj-, in the development of its 
 industries, in the progress of the people, the enlarged 
 spheres of usefulness that are reserved for the generations 
 to come in that higher, nobler, larger, more generous 
 civilization that is to be the heritage of our children and 
 our children's children as the fruit of the labors of this 
 and past generations, he looked with confidence and 
 assurance, and felt a lively interest and expectation in the 
 glories of our counti-y yet to come. 
 
 He was a brave man. No man could ever say that he 
 concealed his convictions. What he believed he believed, 
 and he hid it from no man. Having the courage of his 
 convictions, he was tenacious to his duty. He was not a 
 coward in the face of responsibility. He met boldly and 
 frankly and openly the discharge of every duty that came 
 to him in the conscious conviction of what he believed was 
 right. 
 
 There is one trait of his character upon which I desire 
 to speak with peculiar pride. He was a courteous gentle- 
 
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 man. He belonged to that old school wherein politeness 
 was regarded as a superior virtue. I would not speak it, 
 Mr. Speaker, as a criticism, and yet I do desire to call 
 attention to it. In the present day, in the tumult and the 
 hurry and the bustle and the confusion and the strife 
 incident to the conditions that surround us, I sometimes 
 feel that the present generation does not have that regard, 
 that veneration, for that superb element of character — 
 politeness, courteous and dignified demeanor — which 
 characterized our fathers and our grandfathers; and it 
 differentiates, if you please, the unpolished diamond from 
 the polished diamond. In this respect Senator McEnery 
 was a polished diamond. 
 
 I may add that he was a true man. 
 
 I live for those who love me, 
 For those who know me true. 
 
 He loved the truth. He loved the truth, not for policy's 
 sake, not because it might be expedient, but because there 
 was implanted in his heart, there was ingrained in his 
 soul, the love of that which is true, of that which is real, 
 of that which is genuine. He despised hypocrisy. He 
 hated a sham. He admired integrity of character and 
 nobility of purpose, and ever strove to measure his own 
 conduct by that high standard that ever makes the meas- 
 ure of a true man. He was true to his convictions of duty. 
 He was true to his country. He was true to the obliga- 
 tions of citizenship. He was true to the obligations of 
 friendship, and there I may observe, Mr. Speaker, that 
 citizenship and friendship impose obligations. He was 
 not forgetful that as a citizen obligations rested upon him, 
 obligations which should mark and shape his own con- 
 duct and his own actions; obligations which should con- 
 trol his relationship with his fellows, and which should 
 mark the discharge of his duty toward the institutions of 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 his country; and in the long years of his life, in the long 
 years of his public service, varied as they were, no man 
 can put his hand upon one act of the life of this man and 
 say, " Herein was he false to his duty and the obligations 
 to his country' and its citizenship." 
 
 He was a man of broad sympathies. He had humani- 
 tarian views. His sympathies were as broad, as tender, 
 and as generous as his conceptions of his duty to human- 
 ity. He was a man of broad intellectual vision. He did 
 not live in the low valley of ignorance and superstition. 
 He had ascended a considerable height on the mountain 
 side of knowledge and of information and of learning, 
 and from his viewpoint he was enabled to look out far 
 and wide and have a large vision of the activities of men, 
 the energies of life, and the sympathies of the brother- 
 hood of man; and to these he measured up nobly and 
 grandly. 
 
 But, Mr. Speaker, he is gone— they say " dead." If you 
 mean destruction, no. If you mean annihilation, nay. If 
 you mean transition, truly. If you mean the shedding of 
 the habiliments of flesh, that hamper and circumscribe 
 and limit the possibilities, the hopes, the aspirations of 
 the human soul and the human life, yes, indeed. Into a 
 larger, better, more glorious life, where the responsibility 
 shall be greater, where the opportunity shall be larger, 
 where our capacity shall be commensurate with those 
 opportunities, he is gone. As we stand at the grave we 
 say, "We can follow no farther," and yet out of our souls 
 comes the thought — 
 
 I know not where His islands lift 
 
 Their fronded palms in air; 
 I only know I can not drift 
 
 Beyond His love and care. 
 
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Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Virginia claims the privilege to add her 
 voice to the note of sympathy at the death of the distin- 
 guished Senator from Louisiana. There is a strong his- 
 toric tie that binds Virginia to Louisiana. It was Vir- 
 ginia's Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, 
 who as minister to France in 1803 contracted with Bona- 
 parte for the purchase of the Louisiana territory, and it 
 was Virginia's Jefferson, author of the Declaration of 
 Independence and third President of tlie United States, 
 who proposed to Congress to ratify the purchase, and laid 
 aside his scruples as to the constitutionalit>' of the meas- 
 ure in order to add to the Union the immense territory 
 that stretches from the Mississippi to Oregon — an em- 
 pire that exceeded the conquest of Cortez and lay beyond 
 the dream of Alexander. 
 
 My claim as a Virginian to offer my tribute to the de- 
 ceased rests also on the fact that he was educated in part 
 at the university of my State, and it is not inappropriate 
 to pause for a moment to remark that it was, most I'kcly, 
 the splendid mental training he received at the Virginia 
 University which enabled him to accomplish the great 
 work he did and achieve the great reputation which will 
 send his name resounding down the corridors of time. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, never was there a more chivalrous and 
 courteous gentleman, a more genial and sympathetic na- 
 ture, a more independent and courageous character than 
 Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery. He was the very soul 
 of courtesy and self-respecting dignity and demeanor. 
 
 He had splendid natural mental endowments and 
 enjoyed the advantage of a very thorough intellectual 
 
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Address of Mr. Flood, of Virginia 
 
 training in early life. He was educated at Spring Hill 
 College (Alabama), the United States Naval Academy, 
 and the University of Virginia, and was a graduate of the 
 State and National Law School at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
 He was thus well equipped for the severe strain which 
 his subsequent career imposed upon him, and this mental 
 equipment was reenforced by an indomitable will and an 
 unconquerable determination to succeed. 
 
 When the Civil War broke out. Senator McEnery had 
 just attained his majority. He did not hesitate a moment, 
 but enlisted in the Confederate Army and served with 
 distinction throughout the entire war. 
 
 When the war ended he returned to his native State and 
 rapidly rose to the head of the legal profession. 
 
 For more than 30 years he had been a leader in the 
 political affairs of his State and the Nation. Every honor 
 which an appreciative constituency could bestow was 
 heaped upon him. He was lieutenant governor of Louisi- 
 ana, then governor, then associate justice of the supreme 
 court of the State, and was then three times elected to the 
 United States Senate. 
 
 Senator McEnery was recognized by all of his associates 
 as one of the most upright of men. The finger of sus- 
 picion never pointed at him. There was not gold enough 
 in the mines of Alaska to deter him from the performance 
 of a duty. 
 
 And so in his career we recognize the honest man, the 
 diligent student, the courageous soldier, the accomplished 
 lawyer, the constructive State builder, the jurist, and the 
 statesman. 
 
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Address of Mr. Estopinak, of Loiisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: When Samuel Douglas McEnery died, 
 full of years and public service — I will not say full of 
 honors, as the stereotyped phrase goes, for place and posi- 
 tion do not honor such a man — there died one of the great- 
 est men I ever knew. He not only had the great mind that 
 encompassed and illumined every subject he touched, but 
 he had the great heart, the broad human sympathy, which 
 gave understanding and made constructive statesman- 
 ship easy and natural. He was not a leader of men in the 
 usual acceptance of the term; he was more than that; he 
 was the diviner of ways, the solver of difficulties, the 
 mceter of trying situations, the one man who was equal 
 to every emergency. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, it was in 1872 that my association with 
 Gov. McEnery began — I say " Governor " McEnery, for 
 that is the designation which seemed to cling to liim from 
 his old friends throughout his years of judicial and sena- 
 torial service, and I am sure he liked it, from them. From 
 that time on we were friends; and in all the heat of fac- 
 tional strife and through his every political vicissitude — 
 for years he was the storm center in Louisiana — 1 
 was his supporter, ,at all times and under all circum- 
 stances. On one occasion conditions arose in our Slate 
 which forced him into a situation whicli. 1 tliink, he 
 w'ould gladly have avoided; not that he thought that he 
 was in the wrong, for I am sure he was sincerely confident 
 that he was in the right. It was not of his seeking, nor 
 
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Address of Mr. Ustopinal. of Louisiana. 
 
 even of his accord, that he was placed at the head of a 
 protesting ticket that all realized was destined to defeat. 
 He was defeated, but it was not his defeat, for no self- 
 seeking purpose dominated him. It was the defeat of the 
 party which had called upon him to carrj' its banner, and 
 he lost nothing of popularity nor the love of the people. 
 
 Senator McEnery liad a brilliant war record in tiie 
 Confederate Army. His political life commenced in 1880, 
 when he was elected lieutenant governor. I was a mem- 
 ber of the State senate over which lie presided and can 
 recall his popularity with that body, all of whom became 
 his warm admirers and sincere friends. The death of 
 Gov. Wiltz a few months after his inauguration raised 
 him to the gubernatorial chair, and his election for a full 
 term followed at the next State election. He was brought 
 out as a candidate for a tiiird term, but was defeated for 
 nomination by Gov. Francis T. Nicholls, who had been 
 governor, but who had been retired by the constitutional 
 convention of 1879. Recognizing the great ability of his 
 defeated opponent. Gov. Nicholls appointed him as asso- 
 ciate justice of the supreme court — a graceful act — which 
 was applauded throughout the State. It was while on the 
 supreme bench that he was drafted to again lead the 
 ticket of his faction of the party and, after a contest in the 
 State convention and in a race before the people, he was 
 finally defeated. A critical situation for the party arose 
 in 1896, which resulted in the election of Justice McEnery, 
 for he was at that time on the supreme bench of the State, 
 to the United States Senate. He served continuously in 
 the Senate until his death, having been twice reelected 
 without opposition. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Senator McEnery had that simple honesty 
 which followed the right at all times without thought 
 of effects. He had that loyalty which gave confidence 
 and friendship as well as received it. He had the most 
 
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 democratic spirit and ways of any man I ever knew. As 
 far as rank and station went, men were all one to him. 
 I do not mean to infer that he did not have his warm 
 friendships and chosen confidants, but rank and station 
 had nothing to do even with these, for he had friends in 
 every walk of life to whom he gave his fullest confidence. 
 He faithfully served his State as lieutenant governor, 
 governor, justice of the supreme court, and United States 
 Senator continuously for 30 years, and his sudden death 
 cast a gloom over our entire State. 
 
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Address of Mr. Collier, of Mississippi 
 
 Mr. Speaker: We are assembled here on this Sabbath 
 day to perform one of those sad duties whicli have be- 
 come so frequent during the sessions of the Sixty-first 
 Congress. Sunday after Sunday finds us in this historic 
 Hall, reverently gathered together to pay our last tribate 
 of respect to the memory of some lamented Senator or 
 Representative. With distressing frequency, on our way 
 to the House to attend our daily duties, our attention has 
 been arrested, and we are again shocked, by the sight 
 of the American flag flying at half-mast upon the Capitol, 
 announcing to us that the dread messenger had again 
 appeared in our midst and again served his rude and 
 unwelcome summons. 
 
 To-day we meet to commemorate the life, the character, 
 and the services of a distinguished statesman from the 
 Commonwealth of Louisiana, Senator Samuel Douglas 
 McEnery. He was a man whom the people of his native 
 State delighted to honor. Few, even among fortune's 
 favored, have had as many distinguished honors con- 
 ferred upon them as the people of Louisiana gladly con- 
 ferred upon their favored and illustrious son. Lieuten- 
 ant governor, governor, associate justice of the supreme 
 court, and three times elected to the United States Senate 
 is a political record which is rarely found in the sum of 
 one man's life. 
 
 For considerably over a quarter of a century Senator 
 McEnery was an important factor in the political history 
 of Louisiana. 
 
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 As a Senator he was careful, painstaking, conscientious, 
 and fearless. He at all times represented what he be- 
 lieved to be the best interests of that great State whose 
 commission he held. The welfare and prosperity of 
 Louisiana was ever his aim and purpose, and during his 
 long service in the United States Senate he earnestly 
 labored for the advancement and upbuilding of his native 
 State. 
 
 The many positions of trust conferred upon him, the 
 numerous honors given to him by his people, and the 
 continued indorsements he received from the electorate 
 of Louisiana were evidences of his personal popularity, 
 and conclusively show the high esteem and respect in 
 which he was held by the people of his native State. 
 
 His claim upon the affections of his people was not 
 based alone upon his political services. He was an ofTicer 
 in the Confederate Army, serving with much distinction 
 in Virginia and in the trans-Mississippi department. But 
 it was during the dark days of reconstruction that Senator 
 McEnery rendered the conspicuous services which so 
 endeared him to the people of Louisiana. His bold and 
 fearless stand against carpetbaggism, his active opposi- 
 tion to the political vices of the period, and his splendid 
 efforts in behalf of white supremacy will never be for- 
 gotten by his grateful people. Much of the admiration 
 he excited in the breasts of the citizens of his Common- 
 wealth can be traced back to his tireless energj% intrepid 
 conduct, and the conspicuous qualities of leadership he 
 displayed during those troublous times. 
 
 The distinguished Senator whose memorj' we com- 
 memorate to-day lived a long and useful life, the greater 
 part of which was spent in the service of his country'. 
 Despite his advanced age, he was still engaged in this 
 service when the dread messenger came. 
 
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AiiDKESs uF Mr. Collier, of Mississippi 
 
 Senator McEnery will be missed in Louisiana, that 
 beautiful land of splendid citizenship, of romance, of sun- 
 shine, of flowers — the land he loved so well. That land 
 will know him no more; he has passed away, but he is not 
 forgotten, for he has left behind him, enshrined in the 
 hearts of the people of Louisiana, a priceless legacy, " the 
 memory of earnest deeds well done." 
 
 Mr. Speaker, it is indeed a melancholy thought, when 
 we reflect, that when those whom we knew in this life 
 have passed away we will see them on earth no more and 
 that they have vanished from our mortal sight forever. 
 This thought would be intolerable were it not for the 
 promise of immortality, which, like a bright star of hope, 
 lights life's journey through the years down to the grave. 
 
 And thougli tlie dead may have passed from our mortal 
 vision forever, and the busy scenes of their labors will 
 know them no more, yet the human heart, torn by sorrow 
 and distress, in the supreme moment of desolation is com- 
 forted and consoled by the Divine assurance that " He 
 doeth all things well," for — 
 
 There is no death; we fall asleep 
 To waken where they never weep; 
 We close our eyes on pain and sin; 
 Our breath ebbs out, but life flows in. 
 
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Address of Mr. Dupre, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Samuel Douglas McEnery is dead, and 
 a leader in Israel has fallen. Not a leader in any State or 
 sectional sense — though his life story is inseparably inter- 
 woven with the history of Louisiana for the last 40 years 
 and though he typified in the simplicitj' and integrity of 
 his private life and in the independence and fidelity of 
 his public career the best traditions of the South — but a 
 leader in a large and national sense, for in his 13 years 
 of service in the Senate of the United States it fell to him 
 to cast the deciding vote on some of the most important 
 measures from an economic and governmental standpoint 
 that have arisen since the Civil War. 
 
 I shall not, in view of the numerous addresses that 
 have already been made, review in detail his long and 
 eventful career. As a midshipman in the United States 
 Navy, as a soldier in the Army of the Confederacy, as the 
 leader of an outraged people in their revolt from the 
 domination of aliens of his race and their less guiltj' fol- 
 lowers of an inferior race, as lieutenant governor, as 
 governor, as a justice of the supreme court, and as a 
 Senator of the United States he was true to everj' trust 
 reposed in him, discharging every dutj' with a devotion 
 born of an unalloyed patriotism and a capacity derived 
 from a high order of intelligence. Like Oliver Goldsmith, 
 " he touched nothing that he did not adorn." 
 
 His public life can be divided into four eras : His heroic 
 struggle for white supremacy in reconstruction days, his 
 tenure as chief executive for seven years, his judicial 
 
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Address ok Mr. Di pre, of Louisiana 
 
 service for eight years, and his senatorial service from 
 1897 to the day of his death. 
 
 I could only speak of the first from hearsay, so I shall 
 not dwell on those trouhlous times, but no historj' of 
 Louisiana will ever be complete without recounting the 
 deeds of that gallant band known as the White Camelias, 
 who at the cost of such tragedies as the Monroe and 
 Colfax riots restored the white race to control of north 
 Louisiana. 
 
 Of them all none more bravely or more loyally fought 
 the good fight than did Samuel Douglas McEnery, and to 
 the very last there were thousands of men in that great 
 section of our State who, recalling the part he played 
 in reconstruction times, rallied enthusiastically to his sup- 
 port whenever he was a candidate, without regard to local 
 problems or however much they disagreed with his atti- 
 tude on national questions. 
 
 His gubernatorial service will be best and longest 
 remembered because in his administrations the founda- 
 tion of a rehabilitated public-school system was laid, 
 broad and deep enough to sustain the magnificent one 
 that now prevails in Louisiana, and even more, because 
 as during his term our State suffered the most disastrous 
 overflow in its histon,', so with him as chief executive was 
 enacted the first legislation that created the present levee 
 board system, which through the union of local taxation 
 and Government aid has given us of the Pelican State the 
 same feeling of security which the Hollanders feel behind 
 their dikes. 
 
 I sometimes think that his judicial career was the most 
 remarkable and noteworthy of his public life. Trained 
 at Annapolis for the Navy, it is true that he had studied 
 law at the University of Virginia and at the National Law 
 School at Poughkeepsie, and had, during the storm and 
 stress of reconstruction times, practiced his profession, 
 
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 but he had never held judicial office and had for more 
 than a decade been engaged with the duties of lieutenant 
 governor and governor when he was appointed to the 
 supreme bencli in 1888. He gave the greatest satisfaction 
 in that capacity. As a member of the Louisiana bar, I 
 make so bold as to say that his decisions will stand com- 
 parison with those of our best jurists; they are charac- 
 terized by an admirable grasp of the salient facts, by a 
 thorough knowledge of tlie record, by an unusual display 
 of common sense, and by an informing sympathj' with 
 the great basic principles of the law, and by a terseness 
 and vividness of expression that can not but arrest the 
 reader. 
 
 He came to the Senate just before the Dingley bill was 
 under discussion, at a time when the two great parties 
 were verj' evenly balanced in that body. If 1 mistake not, 
 his was the pivotal vote that made possible the passage 
 of the Dingley bill. A Democrat, he paid no heed to 
 party platform or the action of his Democratic colleagues, 
 doing that which he believed best for the interests of his 
 State. 
 
 Soon after the Spanish War came on, and the treaty of 
 Paris, with annexation of Porto Rico and "benevolent 
 assimilation " of the Philippines, was presented to the 
 Senate for ratification. Again his vote was the deciding 
 one, and it was cast against his party associates, for rati- 
 fication, and for the right as he saw it. The McEnery 
 resolution declaring the policy of this Government with 
 regard to our insular possessions will ever live in histoiy. 
 Again, in the last tariff legislation he was a conspicuous 
 figure, voting, as he had announced on the hustings and 
 to the (leneral Assembly of Louisiana, that had unani- 
 mously elected him, for the best interests of Louisiana 
 as he understood them, regardless of party tenets. 
 Samuel Douglas McEnery is the only man in Louisiana 
 
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Address of Mk. Dipke, of Louisiana 
 
 who could have pursued such a course and continued to 
 retain the otTicial confidence and support of his people. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Senator McEnery possessed in a remark- 
 able degree the faculty of making and holding friends. 
 He seemed to emerge from a political defeat stronger 
 than before his entrance into the contest, maintaining the 
 entliusiastic devotion of his followers and obtaining the 
 good will and respect of his opponents. For instance, he 
 was defeated by Gen. Francis Tillou Nicholls for the 
 Democratic nomination for governor in 1888, and within 
 a short time thereafter was appointed by Gov. Nicholls, 
 his recent antagonist, to the supreme bench. Gov. 
 Nicholls himself in 1892 became chief justice of the 
 supreme court of our State, and I have it from his own 
 lips that he and Senator McEnery grew, in the daily asso- 
 ciation of the consultation room, to be close personal 
 friends. Again in 1892 Senator McEnery was defeated 
 for the Democratic nomination for governor by the pres- 
 ent senior Senator from Louisiana, Murphy J. Foster. 
 Within four years it came to pass that Samuel Douglas 
 McEnery was, with the approval of his former political 
 foe. Gov. Foster, elected to the United Slates Senate, a 
 position for which he was not a candidate and which came 
 to him absolutely unsolicited. Only a ^\ eek ago 1 listened 
 in the Senate Chamber to the eulogy delivered by Senator 
 Foster on his former colleague and heard him testify to 
 the intimate cordiality of their relations in the Senate and 
 to the deep alfection wliich he came to feel for his former 
 opponent. It onlj- needed association and closer ac- 
 quaintance with Senator McEnery to learn to love him. 
 
 Senator McEnery was in public life from 1877 to 1910. 
 He was often engaged in fierce factional conflicts, but 
 never did the breath of suspicion attach to his personal 
 character or his official rectitude. After a lifetime spent 
 in the public service he died poor, but I violate no profes- 
 
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 sional confidence when I state that, if he left behind him 
 but little of this world's goods, he died owing no man a 
 penny. Knowing him as I did, it has often struck me that 
 Robert Louis Stevenson, the well beloved, might have had 
 him in mind when writing those memorable lines in his 
 Christmas sermon defining the chart of true manhood: 
 
 To be honest; to be kind; to earn a little and to spend a little 
 less; to make, upon the whole, a family happier for his presence; 
 to be able to renounce when that shall be necessary, but without 
 embittcrment; to have a few friends, but these without capitula- 
 tion, and on tho same given condition to keep friends with one's 
 self — here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and 
 delicacy. 
 
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Address of Mr. Wickliffe, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: On June 28, 1910, Samuel Douglas 
 McEnery, a Senator of the United States from Louisiana, 
 died. To those looking for a true story of the life and 
 character of a public man it might be said: "Wait till 
 death shall still the lips of prejudice and bias." For every 
 man, especially if he be prominent in national life, has 
 some enemies undeserved or some friends, so called, 
 whose amicable relations toward him may be due to 
 favors received or expected at his hands. 
 
 Again it mav be said with some measure of truth that 
 fulsome eulogies pronounced soon after death, before the 
 grass has yet grown green above the grave, are too reac- 
 tionary to be truthful and are more the result of a desire, 
 to speak well of one who was but j-esterday a living, sen- 
 tient being by our side than to hold a mirror up to reality. 
 Hence to write a true biography perhaps a generation 
 should pass after the death of the subject before a Boswell 
 or a Lockhart should take up his pen. It is a question 
 whether, after all, either he who knew one of his fellow 
 men intimately and loved him as a friend or he who was a 
 contemporary of the departed one and held him as an 
 enemy is qualified to mold posterity's opinion of any 
 great character in history. 
 
 The truth can never come from the putrid lips of 
 prejudice nor emanate from the inane utterance of the 
 fawning flatterer. 
 
 But I leave these comments as not altogether germane, 
 since we are here to-day not for the purpose of attempt- 
 ing biography, nor to attempt to assume the role of a 
 Boswell or a Lockhart, but as those who were his fellow 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator McEnery 
 
 legislators, to pay simple and humble tribute to the mem- 
 ory of him whom we knew well. And yet, while we come 
 as friends who knew him well and loved him sincerely for 
 his many good qualities of mind and heart, I for one 
 realize that to overestimate the renown of him whose 
 death we mourn to-day would add no particle of solace 
 to the loved ones left behind. 
 
 It would not be his wish if, across the " great divide," 
 he could communicate with us here; for no characteristic 
 was more firmly impressed upon even the most casual 
 acquaintance of Senator McEnery than his intense and 
 sincere modesty and his scorn for and hatred of flatter}'. 
 
 He was a man who " would not flatter Neptune for his 
 trident nor Jove for his power to thunder; " and bearing 
 such motto upon his shield he would not willinglj', nor 
 without protest, suffer hiiHself to hear concerning him- 
 self that which he was too manly to say to another. 
 
 "With this most characteristic element in his nature 
 firmly impressed upon my memory, I shall respect that 
 attribute of our friend, dead, just as I even refrained fi'om 
 transgressing his will in that particular while he lived. 
 
 In speaking of Samuel Douglas McEnery, I do not 
 claim for him a place in our history above other great 
 men who have preceded him to the great unknown. I 
 realize full well that this Nation has in its life during 
 which four generations have passed produced brilliant 
 sons, great statesmen, and warriors renowned, while the 
 Old World has in its march on down through the centuries 
 passed given birth to her share of the great. 
 
 The pen of a Herndon or of a Wcems may not give to 
 posterity the story of his career; the brush of a Trumbull 
 or Meissonier may not hand down to those of the after- 
 math a canvas preserving the epochs of his life; and his- 
 torians may pass his tomb without turning to gaze at the 
 name inscribed thereon. 
 
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Addhess of Mb. Wickliffe, of Lofisiana 
 
 Yea, upon the stage of our Nation's life there may have 
 been actors of more note, upon whom the calcium light 
 glittered and shimmered in more brilliant rays; but never 
 in all our national life did one hold a great office of trust 
 whose form inclosed a truer, nobler heart, which throbbed 
 with a purer desire to do the right in public life as God 
 gave him to see it, than the dead man. Never was there 
 a more generous foe, nor a more loyal friend. 
 
 From his birth at Monroe, La., May 28, 1837, to his 
 death on June 28, 1910, his career was made up of many 
 marked and thrilling events. I shall not attempt to detail 
 at great length his life stoi-y, nor the many places of honor 
 and trust which he held. 
 
 Born of Irish ancestry, educated at Spring Hill College, 
 Alabama, the United States Naval Academy, the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, and at an eastern law school, his mind 
 was broadened in early youth and manhood by associa- 
 tion with those who came from all parts of the Nation. 
 
 His ardent espousal of the cause of his State in 1861 and 
 his brave and gallant services in the Confederate Army 
 were in keeping with his whole life, for he loved Louisiana 
 above all else, and where she went he followed, as Ruth 
 did Naomi. 
 
 A private citizen after 1865 for a decade or more, lieu- 
 tenant governor of his State in 1879, its governor from 
 1881 to 1888, justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, 
 1888 to 1897, and a United States Senator from that time 
 to the date of his death, being three times elected to that 
 great body, all proclaim the great esteem in which he was 
 held by his people, and their undying confidence in him. 
 
 Soldier, lawyer, governor, jurist, and Senator of the 
 United States, he served his people well, and they, in turn, 
 denied him nothing. Sequently new honors came upon 
 him during almost a generation, yet he was " no petted 
 sprig of Norman blood, rocked and dandled into office." 
 
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 From earliest manhood his people had his love and re- 
 spect and he their confidence and admiration, and to the 
 end Samuel Douglas McEnery never lost the former feel- 
 ing for them, nor his people the latter for him. 
 
 The honors he received at their hands came to him in 
 almost every instance unsolicited. Within 24 hours after 
 he permitted the use of his name as a candidate, at the 
 earnest solicitation of the leaders of his party, he was 
 chosen by the caucus as the Democratic nominee for the 
 United States Senate in 1896 and elected soon after, and 
 never afterwards had opposition. 
 
 His political career began, we might say, in 1856, when 
 but a lad of IS years, while at home on vacation from col- 
 lege, he took an active part on the stump in behalf of the 
 Democratic candidate for governor against the Know 
 Nothing or American Party and contributed in no small 
 degree to the success of the former; for notwithstand- 
 ing his extreme youth he early evinced the capacity for 
 grasping public questions and of expressing himself force- 
 fully, effectively, and with forensic ability. These facts I 
 learned from the lips of one who was the chief beneficiary 
 of his loyal and effective support in that election. The 
 secretiveness, the narrowness, the un-American ideas and 
 doctrines of the Know Nothing Party were abhorrent to 
 his open and frank nature and to his liberal ideas of the 
 rights of his fellow men. 
 
 His ability as a lawyer was well known, and when the 
 Federal investigating committee of the United States 
 Senate was sent to Louisiana in 1876 to investigate the 
 election of that great and patriotic man, Francis T. 
 Nicholls, as governor of Louisiana, Edward D. White 
 (now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of our Nation), 
 Ernest Benjamin Kruttschnitt (a nephew of Judah P. 
 Benjamin), and Samuel D. McEnery presented the cause 
 of the Democratic Party, and so well and so ably did they 
 
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Address of Mr. Wic.kliffe, of Louisiana 
 
 perform this service that the Federal Government refused 
 to further interfere in the politics of the State, and the 
 beginning of the end of negro rule in Louisiana was at 
 hand. 
 
 The reconstruction period in Louisiana and the South! 
 No voice nor word painting of man has ever yet fully 
 bespoken its terrors; no brush of artist can or has ever 
 portrayed its horrors; and not even the masterful pen of 
 Thomas Dixon has adequately described that reign of 
 license and lust for loot by carpetbag government which 
 pervaded the State legislative halls in the later sixties 
 and early seventies, nor given complete description of the 
 black pall which covered the corpse of the Confederacy. 
 
 Yet amid it all there arose figures — dauntless, uncon- 
 querable, unafraid, unmovable — who "played hide arid 
 seek with death " or incarceration in a felon's cell that 
 the land of Washington, of Jefferson, and of Jackson 
 might be preserved to the Caucasian race. And in this 
 group, among those who stood in the forefront to save 
 his State from the horrors of murder, rapine, and plunder 
 at the joint hands of African and carpetbagger, Samuel 
 D. McEnery risked life, liberty, property, all. 
 
 To him resistance to negro domination was as obedience 
 to God, and on this question there was no compromise 
 with him. 
 
 In later years of his service in the Senate Senator 
 McEnery was afflicted witli deafness, which, while ordi- 
 narily a great handicap to most men, yet with him it 
 caused no cessation in his labors, for, unable to hear the 
 proceedings in the Senate he read the Record carefully 
 each day, and was better posted on matters transpiring in 
 Congress than many of the Members who were not so 
 afflicted. 
 
 Such was his work, while chief executive of his State, 
 for the redemption from overflow of her fertile lands that 
 
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 he takes his place in the history of Louisiana and in the 
 traditions of her people as the beloved " levee governor," 
 by which title he is now and always will be remembered. 
 Stephen Montague said: 
 
 To know how a bad man will act when in power, reverse all 
 the doctrines he preached when obscure. 
 
 Here was a man who always, before being chosen to 
 any office even, declared his position on all questions, and 
 lived up to those declarations when power was bestowed 
 upon him. 
 
 As an evidence of his frankness and love of the open, 
 it is recalled that before being chosen by the Democratic 
 Party caucus as its nominee for the Senate in 1896, he 
 declared in an atldress to the members of that caucus his 
 difterences with the National Democracy on the tariff' 
 question, and, frankly avowing his faith and belief in the 
 theory of protection, stated that he took his place by the 
 side of Samuel J. Randall, and hence, while at variance 
 often with most of his State delegation in Congress, it 
 can never be said that in voting for that doctrine consist- 
 ently throughout his years of service in the Senate he in 
 any manner deceived his people, who so often repeatedly 
 elected him to the United States Senate. 
 
 There were those in Louisiana who agreed with him on 
 this question, and while a vast number did not, yet such 
 was the nobility of his character and his sincerity of pur- 
 pose that the latter class forgot this difference for many 
 other issues on which there was perfect accord between 
 him and them. 
 
 His honesty was his pride, and the slightest stain upon 
 his reputation for probity, if believed by his people, would 
 have tortured him like the shirt of Nessus. Of criticism 
 by his friends he was duly sensitive; but tlie calumniator 
 and muckraker who sought to impugn his motives and 
 
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Address of Mr. Wicklikfe, of Louisiana 
 
 to destroy his reputation for honesty were ever answered 
 simply by his dignified silence, knowing full well that his 
 people trusted him always and believed him honest. He 
 was ever fond of quoting what Gayarre handed down as 
 emanating from the first American governor of Louisiana, 
 W. C. C. Claiborne : 
 
 The lie of the day gives me no concern. Neglected calumny 
 
 soon expires. Notice it, and you gratify your calumniators; 
 
 prosecute it, and it acquires consequence; punish it, and you 
 enlist in its favor the public sympathy. 
 
 In Senator McEnery were the precepts of true justice 
 so defined by Justinian, that constant and perpetual dis- 
 position to render every man his due. He never made a 
 promise but that he kept it; never was a trust reposed in 
 him that he betrayed. The Delphic oracle had no stand- 
 ing among his ideals, and double tongue was never a sub- 
 terfuge of this frank, bold man. 
 
 As a companion Senator McEnery was to the last most 
 attractive. Many an evening have I visited him in the 
 modest quarters were he resided in Washington, and 
 after dinner, while enjoying a cigar, he frequently became 
 reminiscent, and gazing into " that world of memory 
 in which the distant seems to grow clear and the near to 
 fade," he loved to speak of antebellum days in Louisiana 
 and was most entertaining upon that subject, while few 
 if any could recite or depict more vividly the true history 
 of reconstruction. Seldom did he wish to dwell much 
 upon matters that did not pertain to Louisiana, her peo- 
 ple, and what had happened or was still happening there; 
 and not in the sad sense which Scott intended, but as an 
 emblem of the State he loved, his heart found solace in 
 the literal meaning of the words: 
 
 Oh, lady, twine no wreath for me. 
 Or twine it of the cypress tree. 
 
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 Truly he was Louisiana's "grand old man." We loved 
 Senator McEnery living; v^'e mourn him dead. We re- 
 garded him with that devotion which Cicero so loved to 
 laud in " De Amicitia " — friendship, exalted friendship, 
 the love of man for man. Hosts of Louisianians there are 
 still loving him for the memories of long ago when in the 
 pride of his young manhood, and more who knew and 
 revered him in the grandeur of his old age, and who now, 
 that he dwells in the land "beyond the turmoil of re- 
 nown," shall revere him as one who while he stopped 
 here made the world better for his staj'. His name will 
 not perish in the grave of his bodj'. 
 
 A soldier, but " one who never turned his back to an 
 enemy, and who knelt to none save God; " a citizen whose 
 services to his people in the dark era of the seventies will 
 not yield in splendor to those of N. B. Forrest; a governor 
 whose administration took up the cord of prosperity 
 where broken and put asunder for two decades, and 
 united the ends in lasting strength; a justice of the 
 supreme court of his State who held the scales so evenly 
 as to demonstrate to all that his sole motive was that jus- 
 tice be done, the united interest of the people preserved, 
 and confidence in the court maintained, until the motto of 
 Louisiana was not more a guide for him than he for it; a 
 Senator of the United States whose three terms of service 
 saw him as faithful to his people on the morning of June 
 28, 1910, as the youth of 18 in 1856 and the soldier of 23 in 
 1861. From the beginning to the end he served well. 
 
 If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cokl and 
 pulseless heart of the buried acorn and makes it burst forth from 
 its prison walls, will He leave negligent the soul of man who was 
 made in the image of his Creator? If He stoops to give lo the 
 rosebush, whose withered blossoms float upon the autumn breeze, 
 the sweet assurance of another springtime, will He withhold the 
 words of hope from the souls of men when the frosts of winter 
 
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Address of Mk. Wickliffe, of Lolisiana 
 
 conu'? If matter, mute and inanimate, thougli clianged by tlie 
 force of nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the 
 spirit of man suffer annihilation after it has paid a brief visit 
 like a royal guest to this tenement of clay? Rather let us believe 
 that He, who wastes not the raindrop, the blade of grass, nor the 
 evening's sighing zephyr, but makes them all to carry out His 
 eternal plans, has given immortality to the mortal and gathered 
 to himself the generous spirit of our friend. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
 lutions heretofore adopted, as a further mark of respect 
 to the late Senator Dolliver and the late Senator McEnery, 
 the House will adjourn. 
 
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