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HON-WEUDON B. HEPBURN 
 
WELDON BRINTON HEYBURN 
 
 (Late a Senator from Idaho) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 
 
 AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate Proceedings in the House 
 
 March 1, 1913 February 23, 1913 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
 WASfflNGTON 
 1914 
 

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 5, 9 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Borah, of Idaho 11 
 
 Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 15 
 
 Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 20 
 
 Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 22 
 
 Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 27 
 
 Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 30 
 
 Mr. Burton, of Ohio 34 
 
 Mr. Jones, of Washington 36 
 
 Mr. Root, of New York 40 
 
 Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 42 
 
 Mr. Myers, of Montana 46 
 
 Mr. Pomerene, of Ohio 49 
 
 Mr. Brady, of Idaho 51 
 
 Proceedings in the House 57 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 58 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. French, of Idaho 61 
 
 Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 80 
 
 Mr. Kahn, of California 83 
 
 Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 85 
 
 Mr. Howell, of Utah 89 
 
 Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 93 
 
 Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 96 
 
 Mr. La Follette, of Washington 99 
 
 Death of Senator Heyburn 105 
 
 Funeral services 106 
 
 Proclamation by the Governor of Idaho 113 
 
 Resolution of the Idaho Legislature 114 
 
 Idaho memorial services 115 
 
 Tributes 118 
 
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DEATH OF HON. WELDON BRINTON HEYBURN 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Monday, December 2, 1912. 
 
 The first Monday in December being the day prescribed 
 by the Constitution of the United States for the annual 
 meeting of Congress, the third session of the Sixty-second 
 Congress commenced on this day. 
 
 The Senate assembled in its Chamber at the Capitol. 
 
 Augustus O. Bacon, a Senator from the State of Georgia, 
 took the chair as President pro tempore under the order 
 of the Senate of August 17, 1912. 
 
 The President pro tempore called the Senate to order 
 at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 prayer 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose presence 
 we now stand, we are come together in Thy name and to 
 do Thy will. At the opening of this session of Congress 
 we invoke Thy blessing. Without Thee we can do noth- 
 ing. Until Thou dost bless us, our highest wisdom is but 
 folly and our utmost strength but utter weakness. Bestow 
 upon us, therefore, we humbly pray Thee, wisdom and 
 strength from above, that so we may glorify Thee, accom- 
 plishing that which Thou givest us to do. 
 
 We come before Thee, our Father, with a deepened 
 sense of our dependence upon Thee. Thou hast made 
 us to know how frail we are. Thou hast showed us that 
 the way of man is not in himself alone, and that it is not 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator Heyburn 
 
 in us who walk to direct our steps. Thou hast called 
 from his earthly labors Thy servant, the Vice President of 
 our Nation. While we thought it was still day Thou didst 
 cause the sun of his life to go down, bringing the night, 
 when no man can work. We murmur not nor repine, 
 our Father, knowing that alike the day and the night are 
 Thine. Thou hast taken from our side fellow laborers 
 and companions, leaving in this Senate empty seats and 
 in our hearts loneliness and sorrow. We can not forget 
 them, our Father, though in the flesh we behold their 
 faces no more. Thou hast removed from his post of duty 
 an officer of this body and hast made us to know that in 
 the midst of life we are in death. Comfort our hearts, 
 we beseech Thee, for all our sorrows, and keep us ever- 
 more in Thy love, and though Thou feed us with the 
 bread of adversity and give us to drink of the water of 
 affliction, yet take not from us Thy holy spirit. 
 
 We pray Thee to bless the President of the United 
 States. Uphold him by Thy power, watch over him by 
 Thy providence, guide him by Thy wisdom, and strengthen 
 him with Thy heavenly grace. Bless him who shall pre- 
 side over this Senate, bestowing upon him all things as 
 shall seem good unto Thee. For all who are in authority 
 we pray that they may serve Thee with singleness of pur- 
 pose, for the good of this people and for Thy glory. 
 
 So, our Father, may this session of Congress, begun in 
 Thy name, be continued in Thy fear and ended to Thine 
 honor. Grant us so to labor that by our deliberations "we 
 may hasten the time when Thy kingdom shall come and 
 Thy will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. 
 
 In the name which is above every name, hear our 
 prayer. Amen. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 DEATH OF SENATOR WELDON B. HEYBURN 
 
 Mr. Borah. Mr. President, it becomes my sad duty to 
 announce to the Senate the death of my late colleague, 
 Hon. W. B. Heyburn. To those who witnessed his sin- 
 gular devotion to duty in the closing hours of the last ses- 
 sion under conditions which all realized imperiled his 
 life, the news of his death came as no surprise. One less 
 determined to perform faithfully the obligations of his 
 high office, one less mindful of the responsibilities which 
 rest upon us here, would have yielded to the solicitation 
 of friends and sought the rest and recuperation which he 
 so much needed. But understanding perfectly the forfeit 
 which he might be called upon to pay, he nevertheless 
 met without hesitancy and with spirit and purpose the 
 exacting duties of that trying session. With equal forti- 
 tude and courage he paid the forfeit when the time came 
 to do so. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was a remarkable man, a strong, 
 sturdy, self-reliant, dominant figure. But this is not the 
 time nor the appropriate occasion for extended remarks; 
 upon some other occasion I shall ask the Senate to set 
 aside a day upon which his colleagues may pay tribute 
 to his work and worth as a man and as a legislator. 
 
 I offer the following resolutions and ask for their 
 adoption. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Secretary will read the 
 resolutions sent to the desk by the Senator from Idaho. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Bes. 391) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator 
 from the State of Idaho. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
 resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of 
 the deceased. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Mr. CuLLOM. Mr. President, I desire as a further mark 
 of respect to offer the following resolution, and I ask for 
 its present consideration. 
 
 The resolution (S. Res. 393) was read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the late Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman and the late 
 Senators Weldon Brinton Heyburn and Isidor Rayner, whose 
 deaths have just been announced, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Thereupon the Senate (at 12 o'clock and 22 minutes 
 p. m.) adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 
 1912, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 Thursday, December 5, 1912. 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
 South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
 tions of the House on the death of Hon. Weldon Brinton 
 Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 
 
 Friday, February 7. 1913. 
 Mr. Borah. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that 
 on Saturday, March 1, 1913, after the conclusion of the 
 routine morning business, I shall ask the Senate to con- 
 sider resolutions commemorative of the character and 
 services of my late colleague, Weldon B. Heyburn. 
 
 Monday, February 2i, 1913. 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
 South, its Chief Clerk, transmitted to the Senate resolu- 
 tions of the House of Representatives on the life and 
 public services of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late 
 a Senator from the State of Idaho. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Saturday, March 1, 1913. 
 The Senate met at 10 o'clock a. m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we thank Thee 
 for the gracious Providence which brings us to this day 
 of solemn and reverent memorj'. As we recall the life 
 and public service of him whom we this day commemo- 
 rate, we pray Thee to inspire our minds and to give 
 utterance to our lips that we may fitly honor the life 
 which Thou hast called to Thy nearer presence and to 
 Thy higher service. 
 
 We pray Thee, our Father, to comfort those that mourn. 
 Uphold them by Thy heavenly grace and grant that 
 neither height of remembered joys nor the depth of 
 sorrows that can not be forgotten, nor the present with 
 its burdens nor the future wdth its loneliness, may be able 
 to separate them from the love of God which is in Christ 
 Jesus our Lord. 
 
 In the name of Him who abolished death and brought 
 life and immortality to light, hear Thou our prayer. 
 Amen. 
 
 Mr. Gallinger took the chair as President pro tempore 
 under the previous order of the Senate. 
 
 The Secretary proceeded to read the Journal of yester- 
 day's proceedings, when, on request of Mr. Smoot and by 
 unanimous consent, the further reading was dispensed 
 with and the Journal was approved. 
 
 Mr. Borah. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which 
 I send to the desk, and ask for their adoption. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Page in the chair). The 
 Senator from Idaho offers resolutions, which the Secre- 
 tary will read. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 489) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from 
 the State of Idaho. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
 ceased 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 these resolutions 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. Borah, of Idaho 
 
 Mr. President: The time during which we are per- 
 mitted to detain the Senate will not allow even a brief 
 outline of the active and crowded career of our late col- 
 league. We can do no more than pay the brief but sin- 
 cere tribute of friends and pass on to the duties which 
 crowd upon us in the closing hours of the session. In less 
 hurried hours some one will render a full and true esti- 
 mate of his work and seek to give adequate honor and 
 praise for his public services. When time shall have re- 
 vealed more fully the value of his efforts here and dis- 
 closed with finer perspective the sturdy outlines of his 
 strong and dominant character, a more dispassionate yet 
 truer measure will be taken and he will assume the place 
 to which he is justly entitled among the virile and forceful 
 figures of the Senate. 
 
 We are most impressed now with the thought that he 
 was stricken while yet in the zenith of his intellectual 
 powers and at a time when his lips still held the language 
 of conflict, when his hopes were still high and his ambi- 
 tions aroused for greater work. While those who watched 
 him here day after day marked his physical decline, he 
 proudly ignored the insidious encroachment of the per- 
 sistent malady and fell at a time when he was merely 
 waiting to take up again his work and when his whole 
 intellectual being was tense and ready for the obligations 
 resting upon all who serve here. While the unannounced 
 messenger was waiting about to call him he was planning 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 and thinking of work far ahead and anxiously surveying 
 the future for duties yet to be met and faithfully dis- 
 charged. While eager and braced for the things which 
 ought to be done, and which we are fitted to do, the sum- 
 mons comes. " Behold, He taketh away, who can hinder 
 Him." 
 
 Born in comparatively humble station, surrounded 
 from birth by the influences and environments of a de- 
 vout and cultured home, reared amid the plainness and 
 excellence of that old Quaker family life, the sanctity 
 and simplicity of which no language can unduly praise, 
 he started upon his career dowered with the most valu- 
 able of all estates — a character open, candid, and sturdy, 
 a mind original and independent, and, above all, a broad, 
 wholesome conception of the true relations and responsi- 
 bilities of life, inculcated nowhere so well as in that school 
 over which presides a devoted and God-fearing mother. 
 No one had a more beautiful conception of home life, a 
 truer, kindlier, broader view of all things which make for 
 its happiness and worth. These views and ideals were 
 among the noble inheritances from his boyhood days. 
 
 He had an individuality peculiar and surprising. His 
 mental traits were exceptional. The dominant features 
 of his character were energy, industry, and courage. He 
 was one of the hard-working men of this body, strong in 
 debate, faithful and efTicient in the less attractive but 
 more effective work of the committee. We shall seldom 
 witness a more complete sacrifice of comfort and health, 
 a more pointed and direct sacrifice of life to public duties, 
 than we witnessed upon his part for the last several years 
 of his service. All understood this, but if the thought ever 
 occurred to him that he was making such a sacrifice he 
 made no mention of it to his colleagues or his friends. 
 Faithfully, untiringly, efficiently he did his full duty and 
 
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Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 
 
 met every demand of this arduous service, even until the 
 last hour. 
 
 I can not review here the vast work of Senator Hey- 
 BURN as a legislator. There was no measure in which he 
 did not take an interest. His activities covered the whole 
 field of legislation. His knowledge of details, the status, 
 terms, and provisions of all measures was tremendous. 
 But it is probable that the one legislative measure with 
 which his name will be most conspicuously associated 
 is that of the pure-food law. It was a most difficult meas- 
 ure to bring into effective form and and it was an extraor- 
 dinary task to secure its passage through Congress. 
 There was and there had been for years a strong oppo- 
 sition to it. But with tireless effort and exceptional 
 determination he whipped a great principle into a prac- 
 ticable, workable measure, and finally secured its enact- 
 ment into law. It is a monumental piece of work. Its 
 benefit and general good can hardly be overestimated. 
 It is a lasting tribute to his efficiency, energy, and courage 
 as a legislator. It has already been of incalculable benefit 
 to the country and will continue to be a widespreading 
 and permanent blessing to mankind. It is that kind of a 
 monument to public service which time will not destroy 
 nor gratitude soon forget. The State of Idaho takes 
 great pride in his work for this great and beneficent 
 measure. 
 
 Mr. President, Addison, the essayist, tells us in his rich, 
 rare old way that once, while visiting a famous art gal- 
 lery, he observed while there an old man creeping up 
 and down, here and there, from one painting to another, 
 retouching one and all with inimitable skill. So slight 
 was the touch that it seemed scarcely to leave an effect. 
 Continuously and incessantly he labored until through 
 ceaseless effort he wore off every disagreeable gloss, 
 added to all a deeper, richer hue, an infinite mellow- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 ness and charm, until all the paintings seemed more 
 beautiful than when they came from the hands of the 
 masters. The old man was Father Time. Standing near 
 to a life that is closed, there appears in spite of all some 
 of that roughness and harshness born of severe and ear- 
 nest battle. But time smooths off the rough edges, har- 
 monizes and mellows until the tempestuous struggle be- 
 comes at last a splendid and heroic poem of passion and 
 duty. The difference of view, the conflict of opinion, the 
 harsh clash of convictions will fade and forever disap- 
 pear, and our late colleague will be remembered by one 
 and all as an earnest, loyal, gifted, heroic man. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: The seventeenth century among the 
 English-speaking people was a period of profound unrest, 
 both in politics and in religion. It brought in its train a 
 great civil war, the Puritan migration to America, and a 
 spirit of religious revolt which left no creed unexamined, 
 no forms and ceremonies, however hallowed by time and 
 association, unquestioned, and which engendered innu- 
 merable sects. England and Scotland had broken from 
 Rome a century before at the time of the Reformation. 
 They had escaped the wars of religion which had rent 
 France asunder, and the Thirty Years' War which had 
 devastated and ruined Germany. The religious move- 
 ment in seventeenth-century England entered upon a new 
 field; it set Protestant against Protestant; it struck at the 
 ecclesiastical hierarchy, assailed the union of church and 
 state, drove some men back to the ancient faith of their 
 ancestors, and at the other extreme found expression in 
 dangerous fighting fanatics like the Fifth Monarchy Men. 
 
 Among the sects which then sprang into life was one 
 which at its birth was regarded by the members of the 
 powerful and dominant churches as among the worst 
 examples of uncurbed fanaticism. Its founder was a 
 laboring man, so ignorant that he could not express him- 
 self clearh' when he wrote his own language, so energetic 
 and with such strength of conviction that as he wandered 
 over England with his immovable hat and leather 
 breeches he gathered followers in everj' town and hamlet. 
 So strange, so violent, so effective was he that even Roger 
 Williams, the apostle of freedom of conscience, could not 
 abide the doctrines of George Fox. The Old World and 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 the New World alike beheld with horror the disciples of 
 this strange teacher rushing naked through the streets and 
 into churches, breaking glass and crying out that it was 
 done as a sign to a perverse generation. Under the guid- 
 ance of Barclay and Penn the extravagances were soft- 
 ened and gradually a sect emerged which, by its numbers 
 and character, played an important part both in England 
 and in America. Stripped of the external and unessential 
 peculiarities like the refusal to remove the hat, the misuse 
 of the pronoun of the second person singular, and the 
 like, it became perceptible even then, as it is very appar- 
 ent now, that these people, called Friends among them- 
 selves and Quakers by a deriding world, stood for a great 
 and noble principle and cherished a very simple and beau- 
 tiful faith. They held that all men were equal in the 
 sight of God, that every man was a priest and every 
 woman a priestess when they approached the throne of 
 the Most High, and that no ceremonies or titles conferred 
 by human beings could invest anyone with the right to 
 stand between man and his Maker. Their faith was very 
 pure, very austere, very spiritual, possibly too bright and 
 good for human nature's daily food. Perhaps it is for 
 this reason that the sect has diminished in numbers; per- 
 haps it is because their work, a very great work, has been 
 done. But the conception of a free church in a free State, 
 first established in Pennsylvania, now common to the 
 United States, and at last making its way in Europe, is a 
 monument to the doctrines of the Friends which will 
 neither fade nor pass away. As the years went on the 
 Quakers, as they were usually called, rose steadily in im- 
 portance and in public estimation. The sobriety of their 
 conduct and manners, their diligence and success in busi- 
 ness, the purity and honesty of their daily lives, their love 
 of peace, their steady opposition to slavery and to oppres- 
 sion, and their charity ever open armed to the poor and 
 
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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 downtrodden, won the respect and admiration of every 
 community where their modest meetinghouses were seen. 
 
 But behind the fair and pleasant exterior, behind the 
 place which they had won for themselves, lay the quali- 
 ties of character upon which the whole structure rested. 
 The very existence of the sect implied mental and moral 
 qualities of unusual force. At the outset they had contin- 
 ually to face contumely, opprobrium, and a persecution 
 reaching to scourgings, prison, and death. They were in 
 opposition to the world and the world's ways and became 
 indifferent to the censure of a hostile public opinion. 
 They were bound by their tenets to nonresistance and for 
 them were necessary the fortitude and courage which 
 meet the scorn of society, physical suffering, and even 
 death, not with blood warmed by the heady currents of 
 the fight, but cold, unstirred, and chilled by the ridicule 
 and the contempt too often felt for those who will not 
 fight or return blow for blow. 
 
 They had only one guide, their own conscience; only one 
 monitor, the inner voice, which told them what was right. 
 Strong men and women these, and, like the strongly 
 marked everywhere, they transmitted these qualities 
 through succeeding generations to their descendants. The 
 outward forms of dress and speech might disappear, but 
 the fearlessness, the independence of thought, the readi- 
 ness to defy the world for a belief, the unswerving loy- 
 alty to principle, were sure to remain. These character- 
 istics all came out in their descendants. Those who laid 
 aside the ancestral doctrine of nonresistance were among 
 the hardest and bravest fighters in the armies of the 
 United States during the Civil War, and, whether in peace 
 or war, no people can be found who will battle more 
 strenuously for what they believe to be right than the 
 men and women of Quaker ancestry. 
 
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Memorlu. .\r>DRESSES: Senator Hetburn 
 
 It may seem, sir, as if I were not speaking at all of the 
 distinguished Senator whose death we lament to-day, 
 and yet every word that I have uttered relates to him, 
 for in trying to depict the qualities of the people whom 
 William Penn led over here into the wilderness I have 
 been explaining and describing Senator HE"i"BrR>'. He 
 was of an old. long-estabUshed family in Pennsylvania. 
 The blood of the men and women who 200 years before 
 had unshrinkingly faced social ostracism, persecution, 
 and death ran uncomipted in his veins. He feared noth- 
 ing, so far as I could see. You might question his opin- 
 ion; you could never doubt his courage. His abilities were 
 of a high order. He was a good lawyer, a %'igorous de- 
 bater, ready and apt in retort. He had a large command 
 of language, and his sentences fell from his Ups well 
 framed, strong, and clear. His industry was untiring, and 
 he strove, to his o^-n injurj'. but from a high sense of 
 duty, to follow eveni" measure which came before the 
 Senate. 
 
 Yet it is not of his abilities nor of his worth as a lawyer 
 and Senator that I think first as \\ith sadness I try to 
 recall him to-day. It is his character and his moral qual- 
 ities which come most sharply to my mind, and which in 
 his life made a deep impression upon me. I confess 
 when I first met him here I was often exasperated by 
 what seemed to me an almost perverse spirit of opposi- 
 tion, but as I came to know him better I learned to recog- 
 nize his courage, his high principles, his loyalty to his 
 beliefs, and his faithfulness to duty as he saw it, a fidelity 
 which never faltered or grew pale. I learned, too, that, 
 hard fighter as he was, no resentment ever lurked in 
 his memory when the battle was over, and that under- 
 neath the combativeness was one of the kindest and 
 most generous hearts that ever beat As he cheerfully 
 faced criticism and attack for what he believed to be 
 
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AiiM>R< OF Mil Lodge, of MAS&jwcHrsETTS 
 
 right so did be meet the comifig of :> - : 7-r :-d 
 of fate knocked at the 6oar. H' " ' - 
 
 did not Bincb; be did not retreai 
 his back on eifber Meiid or eaaaacj, and v. 
 high ^irit and unwavering courage be went &:: 
 voik and stood bis gromid in tbe d rhalTB and . 
 mittee. As I vatcbedbiin in dioselastdays, oft<ri z 
 
 him to seek rest and give himself nxwe care, aL _ 
 vain to a man of diat nature; as I sav hira so calmly 
 readv for the final sommoDS, &vwmng's ^cat lines '^-z: 
 recurring to my mind: 
 
 Fear dorth?— 4o fed Oe f og ia aj throat. 
 
 The aast m lar face. 
 IThcB tte saovsbe^B, zmA fkcMaati 
 
 I » aeanng tke ^aee. 
 Tbe p<nrer of flie n^U, &e press off 
 
 The post xd Oe foe: 
 IFhexe ke itiaitr, the Arck Fear ia a viaUe f « 
 
 Yet tbe stroag maat wmaA go: 
 For tbe jaanej is done aad &e 
 
 Aad Ae barriers fall, 
 Tboi«h a faatfle's to 1^ ere Ae gtrJoa be gWHi i, 
 
 Tbe remard oi it alL 
 
 Tbe best a^ Oe lad! 
 I ■iMfci bale fbaft deaA bi l l iff J aj ejres a^ forebore. 
 
 Aad bade Me creep past. 
 Ko! let lae taste tbe -vbole of it, fare Eke hj peers 
 
 Tbe beroes ^ old. 
 Bear tte teaat, ia a »»iimto- pay glad Ef e's arrears 
 
 (^ paa. darkness aad eoid. 
 For saddea tbe want tms Oe best to tte 1 
 
 Aad tbe deaKatsr' i^e. tbe be« d^a k» tbit rave;, 
 
 Shan dwindle, AaB kiead, 
 ShaD '■iMiy . ^aSi becrrr? £rs$ a peace oat of 
 
 a a • • 
 
 Aad wiSi God be tbe rest! 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. President: Senator Heyburn was a man of affirma- 
 tive and positive characteristics. Although of Quaker 
 stock, his mind and inclinations were essentially aggres- 
 sive — always tolerant of the views of others, he yet formed 
 his own opinions and held to them with a consistent and 
 unusual tenacity. One of the kindest and most lovable 
 of men, he never thought of swerving upon any public 
 question by reason of any friendly or personal motives. 
 If one virtue above others was a part of his nature, it was 
 that of an intense and militant patriotism. He had no 
 sympathy with what he considered the assaults of these 
 later times upon the established order of the Government. 
 He believed that the system of government devised and 
 put into operation by the fathers was the work of wise 
 and patriotic men, and that it had been fully tested and 
 proven by the hundred years and more of successful op- 
 eration, withstanding all the shock and strain of war and 
 the more insidious but even more dangerous attacks in 
 times of peace. He believed in the efficiency of the Con- 
 stitution to meet all the requirements of our governmental 
 life, and as a safe, sure, and stable foundation of our re- 
 publican system, and if he had any one fear about the 
 future of his country, it was that demands for amendment 
 to the Constitution to meet immediate popular wishes 
 would so weaken that foundation as to endanger the 
 whole superstructure. In his discussion of public ques- 
 tions he was always fearless, frank, and entirely inde- 
 pendent; appreciating, as all men do, present approval, 
 he never bent his views to meet that approval, but held 
 his course direct and unwavering and with full confidence 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 
 
 in the verdict of the future. While Senator Heyburn was 
 wholly American and gloried in our national growth and 
 greatness, and believed in the full power and strength of 
 the General Government, at the same time he was exceed- 
 ingly jealous of what he considered the rights of his State, 
 and year after year, in his place on this floor, he resisted 
 to the end certain general policies which he believed re- 
 tarded her development and which in their operation he 
 thought bore oppressively upon the citizens of the public- 
 land States; year after year he waged a losing tight, yet 
 year by year began the fight anew. He was always direct, 
 bold, and aggressive, and while his cause might be un- 
 successful, it gathered both strength and respect by the 
 vigor and honesty of his advocacy. All in all. Senator 
 Heyburn was a man of the highest type of American citi- 
 zenship, faithful to his public and private duties and re- 
 sponsibilities, assuming and attempting the duties of each 
 day as each day came and accepting with a calm philoso- 
 phy the result of each day's work, whatever that result 
 might be, his temper as unruffled under defeat as in suc- 
 cess, and he was entirely without malice or ill will toward 
 an opponent, no matter how earnest or fierce the struggle. 
 In private life he was a delightful companion, and his 
 public services were of inestimable value. He occupied 
 a place on the floor of this Chamber that will not soon 
 be filled, and we as his colleagues have, in his death, suf- 
 fered a loss that is well-nigh irreparable. He died as he 
 had lived, in the front of the fray, and as he himself de- 
 sired, as often expressed to his friends, in the full measure 
 of his mental strength. He will be ever held in loving 
 remembrance by his colleagues here, and his work written 
 upon our statute books will ever be a fitting memorial of 
 his public service. 
 
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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 
 
 Mr. President: In the closing hours of the second ses- 
 sion of this Congress, and while in the shadow of death. 
 Senator Heyburn was cautioned concerning the great 
 danger to his health if he persisted in his efforts on the 
 floor of the Senate, and he was importuned to take at 
 least a little rest. His answer was characteristic of the 
 man. Though suffering greatly, with a smile of genial 
 complacency he said : " Well, I do not know but that I 
 am ready to die. I have seen much of life, have prob- 
 ably had my share of it, and I know of no better time to 
 meet death than when one is in the performance of a duty 
 which he owes to his country." These words were uttered 
 in no spirit of bravado, for such spirit was most foreign 
 to his nature. They were spoken in the very presence of 
 the grim reaper by one who looked into the face of death 
 with calm, level eyes that knew no fear. They were 
 spoken while artificial stimulants were being adminis- 
 tered to his laboring heart that he might finish that day's 
 work; that he might give to the Senate words of great 
 import; that he might sow the seeds of wise thoughts, 
 trusting to Providence that they might fall on fertile soil 
 and bring forth their harvest of good. 
 
 In listening to his words on this floor, always profound 
 and ringing true to his convictions, we could not but be 
 impressed with his seeming indifference to what many 
 claimed to be public sentiment. But duty to him was to 
 give the public the benefit of a judgment founded upon 
 studious research, accurate reasoning, and calm delibera- 
 tion. His political creed was that he who stands for right, 
 according to his own conviction, uninfluenced by the effect 
 of that stand on his own political destiny, will in the long 
 
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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 
 
 run far better represent his people than he who caters 
 to their every changing mood. He might sometimes be 
 less popular, but he would always be much safer. With 
 him duty and judgment went hand in hand, and neither 
 individual interest nor popular clamor could ever disunite 
 them. He knew that his every act and every utterance 
 were dictated by his love of his fellow men. He was too 
 candid to ever flatter and too honest to ever temporize 
 with error. Without fear or favor, he conformed his vote 
 and his efforts in debate to a judgment fortified by study 
 and guided by devotion. 
 
 With a great, deep, and loyal heart Senator Heyburn 
 loved the people of his own State and the people of this 
 Nation; loved them so well and sincerely that it never oc- 
 curred to him that any one of them could ever doubt his 
 fidelity, and this may account to some extent for a seem- 
 ing indifference to public sentiment. No man was ever 
 more devoted to their real welfare than he. To that in- 
 terest he gave a mind of great penetration and powerful 
 analysis. He was most studious and painstaking in his 
 research, and was always master of the subject in hand. 
 He was a great student, reading every night long past the 
 midnight hour. Those who were ignorant of that habit 
 might well wonder at his almost inexhaustible fund of 
 information on every important occasion. The under- 
 mining of his physical health by these long hours of studi- 
 ous labor was his own loss and little reckoned by him — 
 the benefit of that labor inured to his country's welfare, a 
 cause of supremest moment to him. Those of us who 
 were near him on the last evening of the session, when 
 he was speaking so earnestly and prophetically for the 
 people of the country, and knew that while his lips were 
 uttering words of patriotic eloquence for his party and 
 his countrj-^ his heart was struggling with faltering and 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 uneven throb, can never forget the sturdy grandeur of his 
 nature — his faithfulness to the very end. 
 
 His virtues were many, but were I called upon to des- 
 ignate the one that seemed to glow with brighter luster 
 than any other, I should speak the word patriotism. So 
 deeply did he love his country, so devotedly did he love 
 the men who had battled to save the Union, that many 
 have thought he must have hated those who had bat- 
 tled to destroy it; with such depth of patriotism did he 
 cherish the memory of those who had died to uphold the 
 Union cause that many may have thought there was a 
 lingering bitterness in his heart toward those who had 
 laid down devoted lives on the altar of a lost cause; so 
 jealous was he lest the flag of a reunited country might 
 not receive the homage due from all the people, that 
 many may have thought that he doubted the devotion of 
 every section to that flag. But those who had the great 
 privilege of his friendship, and with it the opportunity to 
 know him well, knew that no American citizen. North or 
 South, was, or ever could be, without the portals of his 
 great generous heart. 
 
 Mr. President, we can know but little of each other 
 even under conditions of greatest intimacy. In our world 
 of social, business, and political relations, we mingle with 
 men who can never know us and whom we can never 
 know. Our real world is within ourselves, and that world 
 is ever sacred in its secrecy. Across its portals none 
 other may ever step. There is but one key that can un- 
 lock even the vestibule to this inner world of self, the key 
 of confidential friendship, and even from this position 
 of vantage we can catch but the imperfect reflection of 
 the true divinity of the soul, the twilight that but faintly 
 heralds the glow of the real day. Sometimes I think it 
 strange that the noblest impulses of the human heart, 
 all that is purest and best, all that is truly sublime in 
 
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Address of Mr. McCumber, of North Dakota 
 
 our natures, persistently veils itself in secrecy and intui- 
 tively recoils from publicity. And so it required this 
 close, intimate friendship to understand the real, noble, 
 generous character of Senator Heyburn. In the forum 
 of debate he was firm and unyielding, a warrior to be 
 feared, and yet a warrior always to be respected. But 
 away from the line of battle, surrounded by friends and 
 family, he was the very soul of gentleness, courtesy, gra- 
 ciousness, kindliness, and charity. 
 
 On the 20th day of October we laid his body in the tomb 
 to return its substance to the earth that gave it, there for- 
 ever to rest. To-day we enshrine his noble virtues in our 
 hearts, there forever to live. 
 
 Touched by our grief and inspired by our affection we 
 seek to build a monument to his memory, not at his tomb, 
 but in our hearts, and for its structure we draw from the 
 depths of our natures the noblest and best of our im- 
 pulses. His eyes can never behold the beauty of that 
 structure, but the eyes of our own souls shall see it and 
 our characters shall be ennobled by it. 
 
 The qualities which we most regard in ourselves are 
 those which we most cherish in others. Therefore, in 
 paying our tribute to the noble dead we quicken into 
 greater life the particular virtues which we praise. In 
 these services we can not benefit the dead. He neither 
 needs nor heeds our eulogies. But we can and do uncon- 
 sciously benefit ourselves, and through ourselves, the 
 world at large, by directing our thoughts toward those 
 lofty heights of character which we extol in our friend, 
 who has forever passed from our sight. 
 
 As the volume which contains this day's memorial 
 service to Senator Heyburn is closed, it will never be 
 opened again except for a brief period by those who knew 
 him and loved him. For to really know him was to truly 
 love him. But the thoughts and impulses of this day, 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator Heyburn 
 
 combined with the memory of his life, the impression he 
 made upon the consciousness of all who knew him, of 
 all who heard his words of wisdom and earnest elo- 
 quence, will be builded and cemented into a monument 
 to his name and character that will endure with each of 
 us so long as our own lives shall last; and as no force is 
 ever lost to the world, so the subtle influence of a noble 
 character, leaving its magnetic impress even on the stub- 
 born law of heredity, and gently, but none the less surely, 
 working a change in the course of its current, will be an 
 undying influence that will be reflected and re-reflected 
 down the ages. No lineal descendant will ever bear the 
 name of Senator Heyburn, but unnumbered hosts shall 
 bear the impress of his character. 
 
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Address of Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 
 
 Mr. President : During the period of my service in this 
 body I recall no associate who at all times and under all 
 circumstances manifested a higher conception of the du- 
 ties and the obligations of a Senator of the United States 
 than did Weldon B. Heyburn. He never limited the ap- 
 plication of his great powers to questions which were of 
 special interest to the people of his own State or to those 
 residing in that section of the country from which he 
 came, but from the day he entered the Senate until death 
 claimed him he lived in the consciousness of the fact that 
 he was a Senator of the United States in the proudest and 
 broadest sense, and that as such he was required to scru- 
 tinize every measure affecting the public interest; to ad- 
 vance those which would serve the public good and to 
 stamp with condemnation those which appeared doubtful 
 or that might be mischievous. In the discharge of these 
 duties he exhibited an industry almost incredible, and a 
 degree of application found rarely, and only in men of 
 great power, of trained intellects, and those who are nat- 
 urally masterful. 
 
 He was a tireless, intelligent worker. The statement 
 would hardly seem believable, if the Congressional Rec- 
 ord did not disclose the fact, that during the second ses- 
 sion of the present Congress he engaged in debates on the 
 floor of the Senate which involved a discussion of nearly 
 150 diff"erent subjects of legislation. All this he did in 
 addition to the routine work of a Senator, in addition to 
 the heavy demands upon his time and strength in the dis- 
 charge of his duties as a member of important commit- 
 tees, and at a time, too, when he was suflfering an impair- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 ment of health which would have driven an ordinary man 
 into retirement. 
 
 His power and influence, as it seems to me, resulted 
 from his convictions, which were those of a man whose 
 judgment was based upon the eternal principle of the 
 fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man — princi- 
 ples which found expression in a lofty and intense type of 
 patriotism, a profound love of liberty under law, and a 
 respect and reverence for that system of law under which 
 the liberties of the people of this country have been devel- 
 oped and maintained. 
 
 Grounded in these doctrines, it was natural that he 
 should adopt the law as his profession, into the study and 
 practice of which he carried not only the endowments of 
 a talented intellect but an industrious application, coupled 
 with a marvelous capacity for labor which recognized 
 neither length of hours nor the limitations of physical en- 
 durance. The effect of this thorough preparation was 
 evidenced always by his clear conception of the issues 
 arising in every controversy, his ability to grasp facts rele- 
 vant thereto, his knowledge of the law, and his keen sense 
 of the moral as well as the legal principles involved. 
 
 Mr. Heyburn entered this body in the fullness of all his 
 powers. He was a ripe lawyer, a clear thinker, a skilled, 
 forceful debater, ever ready and resourceful, and he never 
 advanced a proposition without being well fortified to 
 maintain it. He was a splendid advocate, a dangerous 
 adversary, but an honorable foeman. He was fearless for 
 the right as he understood it, and he early won and held 
 to the last a secure place among those men depended 
 upon as leaders. 
 
 Among all those with whom I have associated in this 
 body no man has impressed me as possessing a more un- 
 flinching devotion to the principles he espoused or a finer 
 courage in maintaining them. In the best and highest 
 
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Address of Mr. Dillingham, of Vermont 
 
 sense Weldon B. Heyburn was a fighter who knew no fear. 
 To him it mattered not whether he stood alone doing bat- 
 tle for his convictions or surrounded by hosts of friends 
 and supporters; in either event he delivered himself in 
 the full strength of vigorous speech. That he was facing 
 a hostile press or antagonizing powerful elements in the 
 political life of the Nation made no difference to him. 
 He published to the world his unshaken belief, and he 
 sought only the approval of a good conscience as a reward. 
 
 As chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elec- 
 tions, of which he was an able and an honored member, 
 I became more intimately acquainted with him than might 
 otherwise have been possible, and that acquaintance 
 ripened into a friendship which to me was a great satis- 
 faction. My admiration both for his ability and charac- 
 ter grew with the months, and my affection for him as a 
 man steadily increased as I more and more realized the 
 kindness of his heart and the gentleness of his spirit. 
 
 During the last session of the Congress I felt anxious 
 because of the disturbing condition of his health, and, 
 appreciating his critical situation, pleaded with him to 
 abandon all public duties and seek a restoration through 
 a long period of relaxation. His reply was characteristic 
 of the man. He said he did not desire to live unless he 
 could do a man's work; that he preferred to fight the bat- 
 tle to the end, whether the contest was long or short, and 
 when his work was done to go hence. In this dauntless 
 spirit he met all the issues of life, and so it was that week 
 after week and month after month he strove mightily, 
 although in constant pain and imminent danger, and 
 when he had indeed performed a man's work to the verj' 
 last he went hence, leaving a record of faithfulness and 
 achievement well worthy the emulation of all. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: It is with something more than a feel- 
 ing of perfunctory interest that I rise to add a brief 
 tribute of respect to the memory of Weldon Brinton 
 Heyburn, for he was not only an honored colleague, but 
 a warm personal friend, for whom I entertained a very 
 real affection. 
 
 During the eight years we served together in this Sen- 
 ate the work in which we were both engaged brought us 
 into close relations and constant association. My respect 
 for his many admirable qualities, for his rugged but ex- 
 alted conception of public duty, for the simple dignity of 
 his everyday bearing, increased as the years of our ac- 
 quaintance lengthened. 
 
 He was of Quaker ancestry, and there was something 
 very fine and inspiring in the stanch but never demon- 
 strative affection in which he held the people of that 
 faith. He was born in Delaware County, Pa., in the year 
 1852, and was, therefore, at the time of his death, only 
 60 years of age, in the full possession of all his mental 
 faculties, cultivated by habits of studious application 
 and sharpened by the varied experiences of a busy life. 
 With an unusually strong and massive body and a mind 
 keen, forceful, and untiring, intellectual work, however 
 laborious or exacting, was with him always a delight and 
 never a burden. Had it not been for the disease which so 
 cruelly fastened itself upon him, but to which he never 
 bowed in submission or ceased to regard other than in 
 the light of an intrusive and impertinent interruption of 
 his labors, to be treated with imperious contempt, he 
 would have been spared for many years of useful public 
 service. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 
 
 If I were asked to name his most conspicuous charac- 
 teristic, I should say it was courage — physical as well as 
 moral. Many men, indeed, most men, can upon occasion, 
 by a conscious effort of the will, meet a great peril with 
 no outward manifestation of fear, but those who habit- 
 ually and as a matter of course face every problem, how- 
 ever grave or threatening, without a shrinking of the soul 
 or of the flesh are rare indeed. Senator Heyburn was 
 one of these unusual individuals from whose mental and 
 moral equipment the element of cowardice had been 
 wholly omitted. He was, moreover, intensely in earnest 
 and intensely sincere. There was never about anything 
 he said or did the slightest suggestion of the hypocrite 
 or the timeserver. During the 10 years of his service in 
 this body he met every question in a spirit of perfect can- 
 dor and of utter disregard for every consideration save 
 the intrinsic merits of the proposition. I firmly believe 
 that in all that time it never occurred to him to consider 
 the effect which his words or his vote might have upon his 
 own political fortunes. Opportunism was no part of his 
 political creed. Convinced of the rightfulness of any po- 
 sition he assumed, he stood for it unswervingly, without 
 the slightest concern for the strength of the opposition 
 or the odds against which he contended. If others agreed 
 with him, he pursued his way, it is true, with greater sat- 
 isfaction, but if nobody agreed with him he pursued his 
 way nevertheless. The fact that he stood quite alone dis- 
 turbed him not in the least. He was unmoved by the 
 fiercest opposition; the semblance of a threat only added 
 to the intensity of his contention. The question of the 
 popularity or unpopularity of his views never entered 
 into his calculations. 
 
 When I search the gallery of my memory for its most 
 familiar picture of him, it is always to behold him stand- 
 ing in his place, militant and earnest, vigorously pressing 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 some legislation which he believed to be necessary and 
 wise, or grimly opposing something which he believed to 
 be wrong. Fearless and independent, with his strong, 
 sturdy frame, his deep chest, his large, splendidly shaped 
 head, he was always a picturesque and interesting figure 
 in debate, facing its stormiest phases like some gallant, 
 self-reliant sea captain, clear-eyed and unafraid, driving 
 by the force of his strong will through the fury of a wind- 
 swept sea. 
 
 It was in this same mood that he took up the gage of 
 battle with his last unconquerable antagonist, with a per- 
 fect knowledge that he was unconquerable. About that 
 he never for one moment deceived himself. He under- 
 stood clearly the gravity of his own case. But never for 
 a single instant did he cry out or beg for quarter. With 
 his back to the wall, he fought doggedly, unflinchingly, 
 albeit hopelessly, with the same unyielding spirit that he 
 would have made a losing fight for a great principle in 
 which he believed or as he would have contended, though 
 himself naked, with an armor-clad adversary. Day by 
 day the poor mortal body weakened, but the heroic soul 
 never whined or faltered. One day, as he stood at his 
 desk addressing the Senate, he distinctly felt the breaking 
 of a small artery in the frontal lobe of the brain. There 
 followed an inrush of overwhelming sickness; one of his 
 eyes was filled with a quick suffusion of blood; there was 
 a momentary hesitation in his speech — long enough for 
 those who sat near him to realize that something was 
 dreadfully amiss — and then, with a superb effort of his 
 wonderful will, he lifted the fainting soul to its task and 
 completed his remarks and then walked from the Cham- 
 ber without a word to anyone. The next day I saw him, 
 and observing the darkened eye and drooping lid, I said: 
 "What is the matter. Senator?" Without a trace of 
 apprehension in his voice, as though he had been speak- 
 
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Address of Mr. Sutherland, of Utah 
 
 ing of another, he replied : "A small blood vessel has been 
 ruptured, forming a clot on the brain in such a way as to 
 render one of my eyes temporarily blind. The doctor 
 says that sight will return as the clot is gradually ab- 
 sorbed." For more than a year, while the inexorable 
 fingers of death slowly but surely tightened about his 
 heart, he quietly continued to discharge the daily duties 
 of his place with a courage whose pathos appealed to 
 everyone but himself. But finally the flesh, having grown 
 weary of the struggle, gave up the unequal fight, which 
 the brave, unconquerable spirit refused to do until the 
 very end. 
 
 By those who knew him here he will be sadly missed. 
 In the busy hours of the closing days of the session we 
 pause only long enough to pay him the simple and inade- 
 quate tribute of a few words of affection and appreciation, 
 and then resume our efforts to solve the problems of the 
 living, leaving the mystery of the dead — if, indeed, there 
 be any — to be unraveled in the good time and the good 
 way of Him whose mystery it is. And this, if he could 
 speak to us, would be what our late colleague would have 
 us do, for he who lived by the gospel of work least of all 
 men would have the necessary work of the world halted 
 for long sorrowing over one whose worldly tasks have 
 ended forevermore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Burton, of Ohio 
 
 Mr. President: Weldon B. Heyburn was a person of 
 unique and powerful personality. A man's characteris- 
 tics are derived in part from inheritance and in part from 
 environment. Senator Heyburn's will power, his strength, 
 and independence were such that he must have come of a 
 sturdy ancestry, but there were more clearly visible indi- 
 cations of the effect of his environment. 
 
 For very nearly 30 years he was a resident of one of the 
 newer and more progressive States of the Union, and 
 shared the hardships, struggles, and trials which belong 
 to the settlers in a new country, where fertile valleys and 
 great areas of desert fields and scattered rocks were 
 strangely mingled. 
 
 He was always in sympathy with the pioneers; in fact, 
 he was one of them; that army always advancing, never 
 disbanding, shrinking from no obstacles, marching over 
 mountains and valleys, making glad the waste places of 
 the earth, digging treasures from the sides of the moun- 
 tains, establishing new communities and Commonwealths, 
 always building better than they knew and on a grander 
 scale than they knew. 
 
 He was faithful to the people of his State. His sym- 
 pathies went out for the struggling miner, for the pros- 
 pector who went forth to seek new mines in the bowels 
 of the earth. 
 
 He was at times seemingly lacking in tolerance toward 
 those who took different views with relation to the settle- 
 ment of that new country and the utilization of its re- 
 sources, a disposition which may be readily explained by 
 the fact that he realized the difficulties of his fellow citi- 
 zens who were engaged in the development of that new 
 
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Address of Mr. Burton, of Ohio 
 
 area, and his feelings on their behalf were verj' much 
 aroused. No one could know him without recognizing 
 the strength of his will, his courage, his independence. 
 
 There has probably never been a manifestation in this 
 Chamber of more resolution than that which he showed 
 in the last few months of his life, when, with the death 
 warrant already written, he was unwilling to turn aside 
 for rest, but continued in the performance of his duties 
 to the end. It has been said that his courage and his inde- 
 pendence were his leading characteristics. He sought no 
 favors. He did not desire that thrift which follows fawn- 
 ing. His opinions were never the echoes of the voice of 
 any leader, however eloquent or logical that voice might 
 be. He was no registering machine to write down the 
 behests of others. He could not change his opinions to 
 conform to the views of those who might furnish him with 
 great support in the way of votes. He stood too erect ever 
 to bend his ear to the ground and listen to the whispers 
 which speak of popularity and popular support. So he 
 stood among us as a splendid figure, one who sought to 
 serve his country in accordance with his ideals of patriot- 
 ism and of independence. He had his faults, but they 
 were eclipsed by noble qualities. 
 
 I am painfully conscious, Mr. President, of my inability, 
 certainly in a few brief minutes, to do justice to his mem- 
 ory, but of this we may all be sure, that though his life 
 was cut short he left a noble heritage in his patriotism, 
 which his State and the Nation will cherish in the years 
 to come. 
 
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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 
 
 Mr. President: Poets and orators have sung the praises 
 of men who have bravely died in battle amid the boom- 
 ing of cannon, the thrilling strains of martial music, and 
 the trampling of armed hosts. Our blood has bounded 
 through our veins and we have thrilled at the story of 
 some mighty deadly conflict in which had been shown 
 the courage and fortitude that lead to death and the 
 grave. Poets' flame and orators' fire, however, can not 
 portray the sublime courage that controls the man who, 
 knowing that if he continues his work, the messenger 
 may summon him at any moment to that undiscovered 
 bourn whence there is no return, nevertheless, with calm 
 fortitude and cheerful demeanor continues to discharge 
 the duties which he feels he must perform. This is a 
 courage beyond the power of tongue or pen to portray. 
 
 This was the courage displayed by Weldon Brinton 
 Heyburn prior to his death. For a year or two his col- 
 leagues knew that the dreaded messenger was hovering 
 near. He knew it, too, and was listening for the sum- 
 mons. He talked of it calmly and without fear. He ac- 
 cepted it as something that could not be avoided. He 
 wanted to do as much as possible ere the message came, 
 not realizing or not heeding that his labors were but beck- 
 onings to the end. The messenger came, the battle was 
 fought, the last earthly contest was over, and with his 
 face to the foe before whom all must fall he went bravely 
 beyond the veil. 
 
 In his death this Chamber lost one of its strongest char- 
 acters. He was a man of powerful intellect and match- 
 less moral courage. He was intellectually pugnacious 
 
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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 
 
 and delighted in controversy. His wide learning, broad 
 experience, long training at the bar, of which he was a 
 leading member, and his ready command of language 
 made him a most formidable antagonist in debate. He 
 was calm, ready, and self-possessed, ever serious, often- 
 times unconsciously witty, and always earnest and sincere. 
 
 He seemed to disregard utterly public opinion. He 
 boldly, even defiantly, expressed views upon great ques- 
 tions which were against public sentiment. He assumed 
 that he was better able with his study, investigation, and 
 knowledge of the situation here to decide what should be 
 done than anyone else, and he never shirked responsi- 
 bility and boldly stated his position. Local opposition 
 and local sentiment were overcome by the power of his 
 intellect, dauntless courage, and overmastering spirit. 
 
 In the State convention of his party he boldly de- 
 nounced what to him was heresy in its platform, and 
 when the legislature met to select his successor, his pres- 
 ence dissipated the gathering storm of opposition as the 
 rising sun dispels the scattering mists of the morning. 
 
 While he took his position upon all questions boldly 
 and expressed his views with candor and positiveness, he 
 conceded to his opponents the same honesty of purpose 
 and liberty of conscience that he demanded for himself. 
 He met all questions fearlessly and maintained his posi- 
 tion openly. He could not veil his defense or conceal his 
 attacks. His attacks were daring, his defense open. He 
 could not be dislodged from a conclusion once reached, 
 and it seemed sometimes as if he would not see the error 
 of his position. 
 
 He was an intense partisan. His party loyalty was a 
 part of his patriotism. When his party spoke through 
 its majority he bowed to its decree, even if he did not 
 agree with its judgment. An intense partisan himself, he 
 respected partisanship in others. That parties are neces- 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator Heyburn 
 
 sary to make representative government a success he 
 strongly believed. If some declaration in his party plat- 
 form did not meet with his approval he nevertheless re- 
 mained with the party, believing that in unity there is suc- 
 cess, in dissension defeat. He sought to work out differ- 
 ences within the party by reversing its decrees within 
 itself rather than through defeat. 
 
 While not in harmony with the sentiment of the day, 
 no man was more intensely patriotic, no man was more 
 earnestly devoted to the welfare of the people and his 
 Government than Weldon Brinton Heyburn. Denounc- 
 ing mercilessly what he considered the heresies of the 
 day, he was just as confident that what he advocated was 
 for the people's welfare as the most ardent advocate of 
 other policies and methods. If we did not approve his 
 position, we were forced to admire the courage, sincerity, 
 and ability with which he maintained it. He was of in- 
 corruptible honesty, and the people's good was his sole 
 aim. Better far a man like this in legislative halls, though 
 mistaken, than the cowardly sycophant sometimes right. 
 
 With all his domineering, masterful, combative disposi- 
 tion there was a sweeter nature that " peeped out ever 
 and anon," all the brighter because of the rough, rugged 
 surroundings. Oftentimes have I seen him in committee 
 apparently taking a determined stand against some meas- 
 ure in which a fellow member was interested, and after 
 expressing his views in his usual vigorous fashion, say, 
 "But I will not carry my opposition further; I simply 
 wanted to make my position clear." Within his strong, 
 rugged nature there was a heart as gentle and tender as a 
 child's. 
 
 He did not depend upon his abilities alone while a 
 Member of this body. He was a hard worker both in 
 committee and on the floor of the Senate. He attended 
 the meetings of the Senate very regularly and followed 
 
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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 
 
 its proceedings with great care. He was always at com- 
 mittee meetings and took an active part in their delibera- 
 tions, and the work of the committees and subcommittees 
 of which he was chairman was looked after with the 
 greatest fidelity and marked ability. An examination of 
 the Congressional Index will show the amazing range of 
 his activities and the tremendous labor he must have put 
 forth. 
 
 The life of a Senator who conscientiously discharges the 
 duties devolving upon him as the representative of his 
 State and Nation is a most exacting one. It requires close 
 study, long hours, and hard work. In addition to the gen- 
 eral legislative work, Senators from the West have many 
 matters of local concern that require much time, study, 
 and preparation. And so it was that the burdens upon 
 Mr. Heyburn were very great; they were too much even 
 for his great mental and physical strength, and his col- 
 leagues saw the end coming long before it came. He lit- 
 erally worked himself to death for his State and Nation. 
 
 What a brave fight he made! With the same dauntless 
 courage with which he faced the problems of his legis- 
 lative career he faced the grim reaper. By the very force 
 of his indomitable will he seemed to stay death's hand. 
 Face to face he yielded inch by inch, but was finally over- 
 come by the foe that knows no defeat. 
 
 Mr. President, no knight in olden times ever faced death 
 in defense of his lady love more calmly, no soldier ever 
 marched more courageously to battle, no martyr ever 
 faced the stake with greater heroism than did this man 
 meet the summons of the grim reaper to the voyage 
 whither all must go; whence none return. Brave in life's 
 battles, bravely he died. Peace to his ashes, joy to his 
 soul. 
 
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Address of Mr. Root, of New York 
 
 Mr. President: No one could have sat in this Chamber 
 as the colleague of Senator Heyburn without receiving 
 and retaining a deep impression of a very strong and dis- 
 tinctively individual character. He merited the descrip- 
 tion by which the Norse sagas so often carried a meaning 
 of high praise when they declared one to be " not an 
 everyday man." Even the traditional attitude and senti- 
 ment of formal eulogy can not make it natural or suitable 
 to couple his memorj' with perfunctorj' expression. 
 
 He had a strong and active intelligence, well informed, 
 thoroughly trained, utilized through enormous and untir- 
 ing industry, and made effective through unusual facility 
 of expression. His work as chairman of the Joint Com- 
 mittee on the Revision of the Laws was painstaking, accu- 
 rate, and of permanent value. His attention to the busi- 
 ness of the Senate was unremitting, and he was always 
 watchful and alert to detect bad measures and prevent 
 their passage, while his own advocacy of legislation was 
 always upon the ground of what he believed to be the 
 public advantage. The wide range of his interest in pub- 
 lic affairs included every department of government, and 
 in every direction he made valuable and effective contri- 
 butions to our discussions. His great power was chiefly 
 derived from his exceptional qualities of character. I 
 think the underlying quality on which all the others rested 
 was a capacity for loyal self-devotion to ideals. For 
 whatever cause he espoused he was instinctively and un- 
 hesitatingly ready to fight a I'outrance, and to the parti- 
 sanship of his cause he brought inflexible resolution and 
 clear, high courage. His face once set, he never turned 
 
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Address of Mr. Root, of New York 
 
 to the right hand or to the left; he never wavered or hesi- 
 tated or questioned or doubted. His conclusions were 
 convictions. Throughout his arguments, always dignified 
 and courteous and full of relevant and cogent matter, 
 there sounded always the suggestion of a battle cry. He 
 would have gone to the stake singing triumphal hymns. 
 He would have led forlorn hopes. He would have sought 
 death in battle with supreme joy. As became his char- 
 acter, he had a great capacity for wrath. His temper was 
 sudden, easily moved, swift to expression. In conflict it 
 would flare out at times like some great furnace, seen 
 from afar, blazing for an instant on the night. But there 
 never was a sweeter temper. He was gentle and kindly 
 and considerate toward all the world. He had no shade 
 of the morose or sullen, of spite or revengefulness. He 
 harbored no resentments. He had ineradicable preju- 
 dices, but no hatreds. He had many conflicts, but no en- 
 mities, and I doubt if he had any real enemies. Certainly 
 he had none here. His ingenuous sincerity, the whole- 
 heartedness of his devotion to the truth as he felt it, the 
 transparent unselfishness of his motives, the kindliness of 
 his judgments, inspired us all with respect and admiration 
 for his character. His verj' foibles endeared him to us. 
 We had affection for him. We truly grieve for his un- 
 timely death, and it is a sad satisfaction to do honor to 
 his memory. 
 
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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. President: I have been requested by the senior 
 Senator from Idaho to say something on this occasion, 
 because he thought that I understood the late Senator 
 Heyburn somewhat better than did my brother Senators 
 from the South, and I have accepted the trust and shall 
 try to be just to his memory. 
 
 I came to this body prejudiced against him because of 
 my preconceived idea that he was hostile in sentiment 
 toward the people of my section of the Union; and some 
 of his remarks and votes on certain questions shortly 
 after my arrival here were calculated to make me believe 
 that the general impression concerning his character in 
 this respect was correct; but for more than a year before 
 his death I had become satisfied that this view was based 
 on a wrong conception of his feelings. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was not a hater of the southern peo- 
 ple, and no one here was more ready than he to vote for 
 measures to relieve their necessities from the Government 
 purse when an emergency arose with which they were 
 unable to cope unaided and which called for immediate 
 relief. 
 
 True, he wished to be satisfied that the necessity ex- 
 isted, but it was his habit to always insist on a proper 
 explanation for a demand for expenditures of public 
 money for unusual purposes. 
 
 But when the reason for it was made clear to his mind 
 he cheerfully and ungrudgingly voted for all that was 
 asked for the relief of the southern people. 
 
 He always objected to the expenditure of public money 
 for the purpose of commemorating in any way the valor 
 
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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 of Confederate soldiers or sailors or to the return of cap- 
 tured Confederate flags, and even to the return of cap- 
 tured bonds that had been issued during the Civil War 
 by any of the States composing the Southern Confed- 
 eracy; and this was why he acquired the reputation of 
 being hostile to the South, a reputation that has outlived 
 his life. 
 
 But his course in these matters was not due to any dis- 
 like of the southern people as such, but to his intense con- 
 viction not only that the cause for which they fought was 
 wrong but that he could not vote for such measures with- 
 out seeming to condone to some extent the action of the 
 South in seceding from the Federal Union. 
 
 In my opinion his view of those questions was too nar- 
 row and his judgment warped by his feelings, and I think 
 he could have well afforded to look at them from the 
 standpoint of others who were just as decided in their 
 convictions of the wrong of secession as himself, but who 
 considered that the time had come when they could show 
 this consideration to their southern brethren, now as 
 loyal citizens of a common country as themselves, with- 
 out in the slightest degree detracting from their own 
 sense of loyalty to the cause of the Union during the 
 Civil War. 
 
 But Senator Heyburn thought otherwise as regarded 
 himself, and it was his own conclusion that always con- 
 trolled his individual action. 
 
 I have heard him declare on the floor of the Senate that 
 his feeling was not in any sense personal, not dictated by 
 dislike of southerners, but by dislike of the cause for 
 which they fought, and that he fully recognized the sin- 
 cerity of their position in that regard; and I am sure that 
 he spoke his true sentiments, for he was too honest and 
 courageous to speak otherwise. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 I feel that on this question I have been just to Senator 
 Heyburn, and as a southerner and ex-Confederate soldier 
 I wish to go on record as protesting against what I con- 
 sider to be a general misconception of his character in this 
 regard — a misconception shared by myself until I had 
 opportunities for better understanding him. 
 
 And now that he is dead I am glad to be able to pay 
 tribute to some characteristics of Senator Heyburn that I 
 unreservedly admired and for which I gave him unstinted 
 credit while he was alive. 
 
 In my experience in tliis body I have not met a Member 
 who, in my opinion, felt a stronger obligation resting on 
 him to thoroughly inform himself on measures before he 
 voted on them. 
 
 I became first impressed with his desire for investiga- 
 tion through my observation of him as a member of the 
 Committee on Public Lands, in which we served together; 
 but it seemed almost impossible for a measure to come 
 before the Senate that his alert and inquiring mind did 
 not prompt him to take part in its consideration. 
 
 I believe that in this he overtaxed himself, for I am con- 
 vinced that no Senator can fully investigate all questions, 
 even those of importance, without impairment of his 
 physical health; but necessarily he must trust in some 
 matters to the investigation of the committees having 
 them directly in charge. 
 
 I believe that Senator Heyburn's habit in this regard 
 hastened his end. 
 
 But he never spared himself while contending for what 
 he thought was right or against what he thought was 
 wrong. 
 
 I often watched him last year, continuing to debate 
 while scarcely able to stand, fearing that he would fall 
 and die in the midst of his argument, yet thinking it quite 
 
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Address of Mr. Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 possible that he would prefer to meet death in that par- 
 ticular way. 
 
 I admired him because he was always true to his con- 
 victions — a quality possessed by him in as high a degree 
 as by any Member of this body. 
 
 I well remember that in our last conversation, just 
 before the close of the last session, when I made some 
 allusion to this trait of his character, he answered with a 
 look and emphasis that left no doubt in my mind of his 
 sincerity : 
 
 Senator, when the time comes that I can't vote my convictions 
 in the United States Senate, I am ready to quit it forever. 
 
 I admired him for his intense Americanism, his pride 
 in the greatness of his country, and his zealous desire to 
 maintain and increase her greatness. 
 
 These were the qualities of Senator Heyburn that com- 
 manded my respect — honesty, industry, conscientiousness, 
 courage, and patriotism — qualities which I trust that we 
 who have survived him may always wish to emulate. 
 
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Address of Mr. Myers, of Montana 
 
 Mr. President: It is a melancholy pleasure for me upon 
 this sad occasion to say a few words of tribute and praise 
 to the sturdy worth and many good qualities of our de- 
 parted associate, Senator Heyburn, and to lay a wreath 
 of kindly remembrance at the shrine of his memory. I 
 said many good words of him during my acquaintance 
 with him in the course of his lifetime, and now it is with 
 heartfelt reverence and genuine esteem that I pause in 
 the busy course of life to revere his memory with some 
 words of praise. 
 
 Although I live in a State adjoining the State of Senator 
 Heyburn's last residence, I never knew him personally 
 until I entered this body and here met him. When I met 
 him here his greeting to me was most kindly and cordial, 
 and instantly impressed me as coming from a good- 
 hearted man of kindly instincts. My relations with him 
 during the remainder of his life were most cordial and 
 pleasant, and to me will ever be a pleasant memory. Be- 
 neath a rugged exterior he possessed a sublime devotion 
 to duty, a heroic adherence to principle, a heart as warm 
 as the gentle sunshine of spring, and a disposition as ten- 
 der as the first blossoms of the flower garden. 
 
 During our entire acquaintance he was always most 
 kindly and cordial to me. In many ways and upon a 
 number of occasions he was helpful to me. I enjoyed 
 courtesies at his hands that were beneficial to me and 
 which I much appreciated. In all of our relations I found 
 him ever of a helpful disposition. I never approached 
 him in any matter but what he evinced a strong desire to 
 be helpful to me. When he could not fully agree with 
 
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Address of Mr. Myers, of Montana 
 
 me he was not disposed to be obstructive, but carefully 
 explained his views and always suggested from his re- 
 sourceful mind some course that would obviate his objec- 
 tions and at the same time answer my purposes. He 
 ever extended a helping hand to assist me over the rocky 
 obstacles of legislative life, and many beneficial ideas I 
 owe to his helpful suggestions. To me all of these things 
 betokened a lovable disposition. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was as fearless a man as I ever knew. 
 His fearlessness always elicited my unbounded admira- 
 tion. I believe he was absolutely fearless — as much so as 
 any man could be. He seemed to take no reckoning of 
 consequences. He stood absolutely firm for what he be- 
 lieved to be right, utterly regardless of what the conse- 
 quences might be to him politically or otherwise. I do 
 not believe the history of this country has revealed in 
 public life a more fearless character than he. He cared 
 nothing for public opinion. He cared nothing for enmi- 
 ties, opposition, criticism, or stricture. Evidently he had 
 but one guide, and that was the right. I do not believe 
 it would be possible for any human being to adhere more 
 strictly to his ideas of the right. In this I believe his 
 career sets an opportune and a beneficial example to the 
 public men of the day and to the youth of our land. He 
 knew neither friend nor foe in his devotion to right. His 
 adherence to the right as he saw it was as immovable as 
 the everlasting mountains, as solid as the Rock of Ages. 
 His frankness, too, was unusual. He never hesitated to 
 express himself on any subject that concerned him, his 
 constituents, or the people of this countrj'. So prominent 
 were these splendid qualities in his character that they 
 stand in bold relief to the average make-up of mankind 
 and tower above that average like the lofty mountain 
 peak, that pierces the skies, towers above the hills. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Men of the character of Senator Heyburn are needed 
 in this world. They are the men who accomplish things. 
 They are the men who stand for ideals. They are the 
 men who defend to the last what they believe to be right 
 and never know what it is to retreat. We shall miss him 
 here. His constituents will miss him. The world will 
 miss him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Pomerene, of Ohio 
 
 Mr. President: I would be doing violence to my feel- 
 ings if I were to sit in silence and fail to add a word to 
 the tributes to our departed friend. It was a privilege to 
 have known him. His character was as rugged as the 
 mountains of his adopted State. The first six months I 
 was a Member of the Senate my acquaintance with him 
 was only casual. I had seen him upon the floor engaged 
 in the debates and business of the Senate; I witnessed his 
 combativeness, and I confess I did not then quite under- 
 stand him; but it fell to my lot to be associated with him 
 closely for a number of weeks in some important com- 
 mittee work, and I then, for the first time, learned to know 
 the real Senator Heybirn as he was known to his family 
 and his most intimate friends. During that time I saw 
 him and labored with him every hour of the day. 
 
 He perhaps would impress one as being a man of strong 
 biases, and he was; but beyond that, and more than that, it 
 seemed to me that the ruling passion in his work was to 
 seek and to know the truth. During that investigation in 
 a distant city, if you had heard him examine the witnesses, 
 who perhaps had taken one side or the other of the con- 
 troversy, and you were to witness the force and directness 
 of his questions, it would occur to you that he was there in 
 a partisan capacity, rather than as a judge; but if this ele- 
 ment seemed to appear upon the surface, and you fol- 
 lowed him through the entire course of the examination, 
 you would find that he was eager to know the truth and 
 the truth only. 
 
 His was one of those peculiar minds that always hewed 
 to the line and was willing to let the chips fall where they 
 might. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Mr. President, I can not conceive of Senator Heyburn 
 bending to every breeze. He always stood foursquare to 
 all the winds that blew. He thought his thoughts and 
 spoke his own words, not other people's. He believed 
 that he was here in this Chamber commissioned to do a 
 certain work. He performed it according to the light that 
 was given to him. It was not necessary that he get his ear 
 to the ground in order that he might know what his own 
 views were or how he should vote. No one who ever 
 knew Senator Heyburn would charge him with that char- 
 acteristic. 
 
 Mr. President, in the time I was thus intimately asso- 
 ciated with him 1 learned to love him. I know I was his 
 friend, and I believe that he was mine. I remember after 
 he was stricken I stepped up to him one day and tried to 
 persuade him to leave the Chamber, to go and seek the 
 rest he needed; but no, he would not go. He felt that if 
 his time had come there was no better place to pass 
 away than at the post of duty. 
 
 Mr. President, he was a man of high ideals. He was an 
 intellectual giant; he had the genius of industry; he was 
 the peer of any man in the Senate. He was one of those 
 men of whom Kipling wrote — 
 
 He walked with kings, nor lost the common touch. 
 
 I shall always remember him with a deep feeling of 
 affection, knowing that when he passed away we lost a 
 truly patriotic citizen and Senator. Peace to his ashes. 
 
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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 
 
 Mr. President: In the death of Weldon Brinton Hey- 
 BURN the State of Idaho has lost a distinguished citizen 
 and representative and the Nation a brilliant and useful 
 legislator. I wish that it were in my power to speak of 
 him on this occasion from the intimate knowledge which 
 some of you possess by reason of your long association 
 with him in this Chamber. It was my privilege, however, 
 to know him well through years of pleasant association, 
 incident to service in the ranks of the same political 
 part}', in the upbuilding of our State and through the 
 record of his achievements in the United States Senate. 
 
 I knew him as a citizen, as a party leader, and as a 
 representative of a sovereign State. He was a large virile 
 figure in the political and governmental activities of his 
 time, a man whose great talents were early appreciated 
 by the party leaders and the people of Idaho. 
 
 From the time he became a resident of Idaho until his 
 death he played an important part in the history of the 
 State. The brilliant legal powers which he possessed 
 gained for him an early recognition, and his attainments 
 in his profession commanded admiration wherever he 
 practiced, whether in the State and supreme courts of 
 the Northwest, in the United States district and circuit 
 courts, or in the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 When the Territory of Idaho was about to hold its con- 
 stitutional convention Mr. Heyburn was chosen a dele- 
 gate, and his colleagues, recognizing his legal attain- 
 ments, made him chairman of the committee on the 
 judiciary. 
 
 It was, however, in the party campaigns and political 
 struggles that I came to know him in a more intimate and 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator Heyburn 
 
 personal way and to recognize his sterling worth in both 
 private and public life. 
 
 During the early years of his first term I watched his 
 growth with the keenest pleasure. It was a source of 
 great satisfaction to note how his personality became the 
 moving force in a great and brilliant senatorial career. 
 
 These memories of my pleasant association with him 
 come back to me with such clearness that it is difficult for 
 me to realize that he has passed away. Knowing him as 
 I did, and being so familiar with the great record he 
 made in this body, I appreciate the responsibility of being 
 his successor. He set a standard of legislative workman- 
 ship which few have excelled, and I am glad to be privi- 
 leged to pay tribute to his great accomplishments. 
 
 I could not agree with him upon all public questions, 
 nor could many of you, yet, however keenly we may have 
 felt his opposition, we recognized that his attitude was 
 taken conscientiously. The calm certainty with which he 
 followed his own ideas and the clear thought with which 
 he reflected upon current problems made him a man of 
 great force. Neither in this Chamber nor in the country 
 at large was there ever any uncertainty as to his position 
 upon great public questions. He stood for his political 
 convictions even if he stood alone. A stanch supporter 
 of government and a loyal party man withal, he did not 
 hesitate to stand apart from the majority opinion. 
 
 He had an uncommon power to resist those persuasions 
 which are purely personal or partisan and to hold his own 
 opinions undaunted by the disagreements or the misun- 
 derstandings of those who opposed him. He fought hard, 
 sometimes relentlessly hard, but he was as relentless in 
 putting aside the possible effect of his course upon his 
 own political fortunes as he was persistent in combating 
 those who for the moment stood against him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 
 
 Yet it can be truly said that no bitterness bred of debate 
 ever followed him to his home. Those who knew him out 
 of the storm of debate or in the quiet of his own home 
 knew that warm kindness and generous tolerance marked 
 his every discussion. He was away from the battle field, 
 his armor was off, he was no longer the fighter, but merely 
 the gentle, considerate man. 
 
 To-day, when political beliefs are numerous and party 
 lines confused, when the functions and methods of govern- 
 ment are uncertain and formative, it requires a large 
 catholicity of mind to appreciate fully the service of all 
 those who play a vigorous part. More difficult still is it to 
 estimate fairly those whose function it has been to ap- 
 proach public questions from a special angle. The radi- 
 cal who stands for a new truth that other men do not see 
 and the conservative who defends a time-honored belief 
 from which other men have departed are rarely under- 
 stood by the popular mind. Yet these two opposing 
 minds, by their persistent, honest effort, form a balance 
 which is essential to the deliberations of this legislative 
 body, which is reflected in the thought of the American 
 people. Only when all men can see the whole truth can 
 we do without these men of extreme view, and that time 
 does not seem destined to come. 
 
 For myself I may say that I am committed to progres- 
 sive policies, but I can not and do not set aside my appre- 
 ciation and respect for those men who have been and are 
 striving to preserve the fundamental principles of our 
 governmental structure. Among the stanchest defenders 
 of conservative Republicanism was Weldon Brinton Hey- 
 BURN. Who is there among those who have been his col- 
 leagues in the years of his membership here that can fail 
 to comprehend his earnest interest in representative gov- 
 ernment and constitutional procedure? 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Senator Heyburn was not undemocratic in the true 
 sense of the word. He was always concerned with the 
 good of the people of the State and Nation. He stood 
 upon the side of those hard-working men and women who 
 are trj'ing to build a great American Commonwealth, the 
 State of Idaho. He was responsible for many laws touch- 
 ing the farming, mining, and business interests of the 
 West. He stood for the true conservation of the people's 
 interests and for the policies which conserve our natural 
 resources and popular rights in the gifts of nature, and 
 favored proper administration of all laws without impos- 
 ing any undue burden upon those men of the pioneer 
 spirit, who are responsible for the turning of the unin- 
 habited places into homesteads for American man and 
 woman. 
 
 He has stood by the homesteader as against the specula- 
 tive exploiter of lands; he has been with the irrigationist, 
 eagerly seeking the opportunity of tilling the soil that only 
 waits for water, as against the "sleeper" and the land 
 speculator, who want water without effort, not that they 
 may reap the farm products, but that they may reap from 
 land values which they have not helped to create. As he 
 served the people of the State conscientiously, so he served 
 the Nation. 
 
 The democratic feeling of our leaders is known by the 
 consideration they give to their fellow men in the bills 
 they make into laws rather than by any words they may 
 coin to gain political favor. After years of failure to leg- 
 islate, his persistent energy and comprehensive mind gave 
 the American people the first law, with administrative 
 restrictions, to guarantee that sooner or later every person 
 in the United States will be completely protected against 
 adulterated foods and drugs. Only a few days ago Dr. 
 Wiley, in a public address at Boise, declared that the State 
 of Idaho should erect a monument to Senator Heyburn 
 
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Address of Mr. Brady, of Idaho 
 
 for the great good he had done in giving the Nation such 
 splendid pure-food legislation. No man can rear a 
 greater monument as an evidence of his desire to protect 
 the masses than Senator Heyburn has built for himself in 
 his work as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, 
 which had charge of the pure-food legislation of the 
 Senate. 
 
 That he was not in favor of the devices for popular par- 
 ticipation in government which some of us advocate is not 
 proof positive that he lacked faith in the rank and file of 
 men. He believed in the right of men to govern them- 
 selves, but he was convinced that in the present circum- 
 stances of life conditions do not guarantee them sufficient 
 knowledge and experience to enable them to participate 
 successfully in the details of legislative, administrative, 
 and judicial decision. The confidence that he had in his 
 own sense of duty and the convictions of his own mag- 
 nificent mind bred no distrust in delegated power, and he 
 generously extended the same faith to other political 
 leaders. 
 
 He failed to appreciate those great popular ideas of 
 initiative government which the twentieth century has 
 contributed to American political life. His feeling for 
 other men and women was of the old-fashioned sort, 
 which showed a courteous consideration by fighting im- 
 personally for right and against wrong. A principle cov- 
 ered all humanity with him. 
 
 He was a man of massive mind. A constitutional law- 
 yer of unusual ability, steeped in the spirit of the constitu- 
 tional principles, his political beliefs were of the older 
 school. He never at any time became a reactionary; he 
 had always been a constitutional devotee. 
 
 No great and complicated question of legislation ever 
 came up in this body but he had the mind to grasp its ap- 
 plication, the tireless energy to pursue its details, and the 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 endurance to watch it through every turn of debate. The 
 history of legislative debate during the past 10 years in 
 this Chamber can not be separated from the record of his 
 participation in it. The principles he advocated were car- 
 ried into effect in the bill dealing with pure foods and 
 drugs. Twice his vote delivered the Territories of Ari- 
 zona and New Mexico from the jeopardy of joint State- 
 hood. He it was who guided the Philippine tariff laws 
 through the committee and on the floor. To him it was 
 given to oppose the enactment of the reciprocity treaty 
 with Canada. He was in active charge of the Joint Com- 
 mittee on the Revision of the Laws of the United States, 
 completing as his special part the penal code and the first 
 sixteen chapters of the judiciary, which was adopted by 
 Congress. 
 
 He worked with the same tireless energy whether the 
 problem was of great or minor importance, and strove 
 always to a conscientious disposition of any question that 
 came before him, regardless of its nature. 
 
 It is a privilege, indeed, to speak these personal views of 
 a man in whom my State took such great pride. In the 
 hush of sharp and incisive debate which death puts upon 
 this Chamber, it is a privilege to pay just measure and 
 tribute to a great man who has wrought among us so 
 vigorously that we can not even now gain a full view of 
 his character and works. 
 
 He was one great man who regarded his prerogatives as 
 a public trust, a chosen man who used in full sense of duty 
 the bestowal of power which came to his hand, a man of 
 public spirit and great mental caliber, of inexhaustible 
 energy, of austere conscience, of dauntless courage. Such 
 a man was Weldon Brinton Heyburn. 
 
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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 
 
 Monday, December 2, 1912. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate has heard with pro- 
 found sorrow the announcement of the death of the Hon. 
 Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State 
 of Idaho. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Mr. Cannon. Mr. Speaker, I move you, sir, that out of 
 regard for the memory of the late Vice President, James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, and the memorj' of the Members of 
 this House and of the Senate who have departed this life 
 since the adjournment of the last session of Congress this 
 House do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 1 o'clock 
 and 8 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to- 
 morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Wednesday, December 4, 1912. 
 Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tion and move its adoption. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 730 
 
 Resolved, That the House of Representatives has heard with 
 profound sorrow of the deatli of the Hon. Weldon Brinton Hey- 
 burn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 
 
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IVIemorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be directed to communicate these reso- 
 lutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of 
 the deceased Senator. 
 
 The question was taken, and the resolution was unani- 
 mously agreed to. 
 
 Thursday January 23, 1913. 
 
 Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the present consideration of the order which I send to the 
 desk and ask to have read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Ordered, That Sunday, the 23d day of February, 1913, be set 
 apart for addresses on the life, character, and public services of 
 Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of 
 Idaho. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the order. 
 The order was agreed to. 
 
 Sunday, February 23. 1913. 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the 
 end of the earth will I cry unto Thee when my heart is 
 overwhelmed; lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 
 For Thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower 
 from the enenij'. I will abide in Thy tabernacle forever; 
 I will trust in the covert of Thy wings. 
 
 From time immemorial, God our Father, men's 
 hearts have turned instinctively to Thee in great crises 
 for help, in sorrow and grief for comfort, in every con- 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 tingency for inspiration and guidance; so our hearts turn 
 to Thee as we assemble in memory of men who by faith- 
 ful servnce in State and Nation gained for themselves the 
 respect and confidence of the people, wrought well among 
 us, left the impress of their personality upon our minds, 
 and made a place for themselves in our hearts which 
 time nor space can erase. " For we know that if our 
 earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a 
 building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal 
 in the heavens." 
 
 " We leave this and straightway enter another palace 
 of the King more grand and beautiful." 
 
 We mourn their going, but not without hope. We are 
 cast down but not overwhelmed, dismayed but not 
 confounded. 
 
 For the love of God is broader 
 
 Than the measures of man's mind. 
 
 And the heart of the Eternal 
 Is most wonderfully kind. 
 
 Enter Thou, O God our Father, into the desolate homes 
 and bind up the bruised and broken hearts with the oil 
 of Thy love, that they may look through their tears to the 
 rainbow of hope and follow on without fear and doubting 
 into that realm where all mysteries shall be solved, all 
 sorrows melted into joy, soul touch soul in an everlasting 
 communion, and eons of praise we will ever give to Thee, 
 in the spirit of the Lord Christ. Amen. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the order in rela- 
 tion to the late Senator Heyburn. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. French, by unanimous consent. 
 Ordered, That Sunday, February 23, 1913, be set apart for ad- 
 dresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. Wel- 
 DON Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State of Idaho. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Mr. French. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tion. 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 863 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended in 
 order that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory 
 of Hon. Weldon Brinton Heyburn, late a Senator from the State 
 of Idaho. 
 
 Resolved, That as a special mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career 
 the House, at the conclusion of these memorial exercises to-day, 
 shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is with mingled emotions that I partici- 
 pate in the memorial exercises that to-day have brought 
 us together. I participate as a friend of many years of 
 him whom we recall at this hour, and I view the one 
 whose memory we cherish not only as a friend but as a 
 citizen of the State that he represented with such distin- 
 guished ability and as a modest colaborer in many of the 
 undertakings in which he gave so largely of his life and 
 genius. 
 
 Ordinarily we have but passing interest in the personal 
 details of the lives of men. They were all born; they all 
 have had experiences somewhat in common ; they all have 
 died, or must meet that end. Here and there a man 
 stands out, however, so conspicuously as a national char- 
 acter that we crave to look beyond. To say that he was 
 born, that he lived and died, tells nothing. To recall the 
 achievements of his life tells not enough. We crave to 
 know something of the personal side of the life that did 
 great things, that we may measure better the achieve- 
 ments attained, that we may discern more clearly the pur- 
 pose and impulses that inspired action, and that we may 
 have at once a truer measure of the causes that have con- 
 tributed to events that are momentous. 
 
 A LIFE SKETCH 
 
 In speaking of the life and service of Senator Heyburn 
 I shall try to give such personal facts connected with his 
 life as had bearing upon the problems that he had to meet 
 and the way in which he met them. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Heyburn 
 
 Weldon Brinton Heyburn was born May 23, 1852, in 
 Delaware County, Pa., at the homestead of his paternal 
 ancestors — the home of his great-grandfather, his grand- 
 father, and his father. He was of English ancestry on 
 both sides of his family. His mother was Sarah Gilpin, 
 the daughter of John Dickinson Gilpin, the twentieth gen- 
 eration in direct descent from Sir Richard de Gilpin, who 
 was knighted by King John in 1206, and which line in- 
 cludes the Washington and West families in England and 
 America. He was of Quaker ancestry on both sides of his 
 family. 
 
 His mother was a Puritan of the Puritans, who never 
 failed to stand for truth or righteousness, and who never 
 consented to the slightest infringement of the moral law. 
 She was liberally educated, widely read, and kept up her 
 reading and study throughout her life. At the age of 80 
 years she recited long poems and discussed questions of 
 history, science, and art with a clear mind. 
 
 The Senator inherited mental and physical traits from 
 both parents. He received an academic education in the 
 public schools and under private tutors. 
 
 He spent his boyhood upon his father's farms and was 
 associated in business with his father, John Brinton Hey- 
 burn, who was a large landowner in Chester and Dela- 
 ware Counties, Pa., and who, during the latter part of his 
 life, was chairman of the board of county commissioners 
 of Delaware County. 
 
 Mr. Heyburn was admitted to the bar in the spring of 
 1876, and immediately entered upon the work of his pro- 
 fession. After practicing law for more than two years in 
 Pennsylvania he heeded the call of the West, and moved 
 to Leadville, Colo., where he engaged in practice from 
 1878 until 1882. Upon the development of the mining in- 
 terests in the then Territory of Idaho, in the winter of 
 
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 1883, he went to the Coeur d'Alene mining country in 
 Shoshone County, where he resumed the practice of law. 
 
 He participated actively in the conversion of the Terri- 
 tory into the State of Idaho, was a member of the consti- 
 tutional convention, and chairman of the judiciarj' com- 
 mittee of that body. He was a member of the Republican 
 national conventions of 1888, 1892, 1900, and 1904, and 
 was a member of the Republican national committee from 
 1904 to 1908. 
 
 In 1898 Mr. Heyburn was unanimously nominated as the 
 Republican candidate for Congress, but was defeated by 
 the combined Democrat, Populist, and free-silver ad- 
 herents. 
 
 He married Gheretein Yeatman, daughter of John 
 Marshall and Lavinia Passmore Yeatman, of Chester 
 County, Pa. 
 
 In 1903 Mr. Heyburn was elected to the United States 
 Senate and continued a Member of that body until his 
 death, on October 17, 1912. 
 
 PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICES 
 
 The bare recital of events such as I have enumerated 
 tell only part, and that but vaguely, of the life work of 
 Senator Heyburn. 
 
 As a lawyer his greatest successes came after he located 
 in Idaho. He was strong, forceful, and abounding in re- 
 source, a tireless worker, and though younger than Judge 
 Claggett, Frank Ganahl, Albert Hagan, Judge McBride, 
 and Judge Mayhew, who made the bar of Shoshone 
 County in those early days so conspicuous in strength and 
 ability, it was but a short time before the late Senator 
 forced himself into the front rank with those distinguished 
 men and was able to cope with them, singly or in groups, 
 as frequently happened, most successfully. 
 
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 During the period of his actual practice in the Coeur 
 d'AIene region he was identified on one side or the other 
 with all the important mining litigation and was unusually 
 successful. In 1900 he edited and published Idaho Laws 
 and Decisions, Annotated and Digested. 
 
 Aside from Senator Heyburn's influence upon mining 
 law and his remarkable success as a practitioner, prob- 
 ably the most notable work that he performed prior to his 
 entrance into the Senate was as a member of the constitu- 
 tional convention of the State of Idaho in 1889. That was 
 a convention made up of men of unusual abilitj'. It in- 
 cluded such men as William H. Claggett, one of the most 
 notable characters of the Northwest; William J. McCon- 
 nell, twice governor of Idaho and one time Senator of 
 the United States; James H. Realty, later a United States 
 district judge for nearly 20 years; numerous men who 
 have performed distinguished public services, and other 
 men of great ability who have preferred private life. 
 
 Mr. Claggett was president of the constitutional conven- 
 tion and Mr. Heyburn was chairman of the committee 
 on judiciary, and from the advantage of this position and 
 from his own great ability he shaped in large degree the 
 fundamental law of the Commonwealth of Idaho. 
 
 AS senator 
 
 Upon entering the Senate March 4, 1903, he was assigned 
 to the chairmanship of the Committee on Manufactures, 
 which chairmanship he held continuously. He was also 
 a niember of the Committees on Finance, Philippines, 
 Conservation, Immigration, Mines and Mining, Privileges 
 and Elections, Public Buildings and Grounds, and Public 
 Lands. 
 
 Amid his new responsibilities Senator Heyburn was 
 most industrious, as was his habit of life, and he expressed 
 his ideas upon a great variety of subject matters that the 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 Senate was called upon to consider, and participated in 
 debate to a far greater extent than is usual among Mem- 
 bers of the Senate. Few men were his equal in the mat- 
 ter of information upon so wide a variety of subjects, and 
 few men have had so large a part in the shaping and 
 determining of legislation touching great problems. 
 
 As a member of the Committee on the Philippines he 
 drew and reported the Philippine tariff bill which is the 
 present law. 
 
 On the statehood question, involving the admission of 
 Arizona and New Mexico, Senator Heyburn stood for 
 separate statehood, and on two occasions his influence 
 defined the policy of the Senate that the States should be 
 admitted separately and not as one. 
 
 On the long and short haul clause of the act looking to 
 the regulation of transportation rates. Senator Heyburn 
 vigorously contended that no greater charge should be 
 made for a short haul than for a long one. 
 
 He was made chairman of the joint committee of the 
 two Houses of Congress to revise and codify the laws of 
 the United States. From this committee he reported and 
 succeeded in passing, first, the Criminal Code of the 
 United States and, second, the Judiciary Title, both of 
 which are now in force. 
 
 Mr. Heyburn opposed the Canadian reciprocity treaty. 
 
 He stood for liberal pensions for Union soldiers. 
 
 He opposed the making of what were termed peace 
 treaties with Great Britain and France, on the broad prin- 
 ciples expressed by President Washington against form- 
 ing entangling alliances with other nations. 
 
 He consistently stood for the protective tariff policy of 
 the Republican Partj% insisting upon tariff duties that 
 would give a margin of protection sufficient to insure the 
 markets of our own countrj' to our own people and the 
 
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 employment of labor at better wages and under better 
 conditions than those that prevail abroad. 
 
 Probably, however, the work that Senator Heyburn per- 
 formed that will stand out as a monument to him more 
 distinctly than any other specific work was that in behalf 
 of the pure food and drug act of 1906. 
 
 To have been a Member of Congress and to have sup- 
 ported the measure is credit enough to ascribe to most 
 Members of either House or Senate. Senator Heyburn's 
 relation to the bill was far more responsible than that. 
 Mindful of the splendid efforts put forth by able and 
 earnest men and women in private and public life, and 
 manifested in unusual degree by several Members of the 
 House of Representatives, I think I do not overestimate 
 the work accomplished by Senator Heyburn when I say 
 that if it had not been for his services the measure would 
 not have passed the Senate of the United States at the time 
 that it did, and while public sentiment was crystallizing in 
 favor of the legislation, it is not likely that the measure 
 would have been passed until possibly a year or two years 
 of time had elapsed, within which the public conscience 
 would have been more definitely aroused upon the impor- 
 tance of the legislation. 
 
 The legislation long had been pending and no conclu- 
 sion had been reached. Senator Heyburn pressed the 
 measure during the Fifty-eighth Congress, but was unable 
 to obtain a final vote. During the interval between the 
 Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses Senator Heyburn 
 gave careful consideration to the question and completely 
 revised the measure which had been formerly proposed 
 eliminating the principles of the establishment of stand- 
 ards by legislation, as well as the provisions for the estab- 
 lishment of a board to fix arbitrary standards that would 
 be binding upon the courts, leaving the violation of the 
 general rules laid down in the act to be determined by the 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 courts. These principles were carried through and 
 adopted in the final passage of the bill which he drew and 
 which became a law, and which the country over is con- 
 ceded to be one of the most important pieces of legislation 
 ever enacted by Congress. 
 
 This it was that led Dr. Harvey W. Wiley to say in com- 
 menting upon the author of the measure : 
 
 I want to see the State of Idaho erect a monument to the 
 memory of Senator Heyburn, that able representative from the 
 Gem State, who, after one of the greatest and hardest fights ever 
 made in the United States Senate, secured the passage of the pure- 
 food bill and who, after the bill had been passed, was the bul- 
 wark around which centered the storm for its enforcement. I 
 want to see engraved beneath that monument the inscription, " His 
 greatest work for humanity was securing the passage of the na- 
 tional pure-food law." 
 
 CONVICTIONS 
 
 I have called attention to concrete instances of public 
 service performed by Senator Heyburn. May I say, how- 
 ever, that possibly quite as important as this was the 
 position that he took upon certain fundamental principles 
 of government and society? 
 
 Senator Heyburn was born of Quaker parentage and, 
 as is well known, the Quakers were despised for many 
 years by people in the early Colonies to a degree almost 
 unparalleled in American history. 
 
 Undoubtedly the influence of an organization such as 
 the Quakers and the attitude of the world toward the 
 members of that sect contributed in no little degree to 
 Weldon B. Heyburn's strength of character and, probably 
 in large measure, modified his attitude toward the definite 
 organizations through which are determined the wishes 
 of society. 
 
 The period during which Senator Heyburn was born is 
 also of interest in calling attention to the influences that 
 
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 helped to shape his early life. Senator Heyburn was but 
 a boy throughout the crisis of the Civil War, at the im- 
 pressionable age that would be influenced in greater de- 
 gree than probably any other by environment, by discus- 
 sion, and by the trend of thought among older folks, 
 which, without their being aware of the fact, was making 
 a deep impression upon the earnest young member of 
 the family. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was loyal to the Union. He had ab- 
 solutely no patience with the causes that led up to the 
 Civil War and was, in fact, bitter toward every move- 
 ment that looked to the perpetuation of even the memory 
 of that unfortunate crisis in American history. Doubt- 
 less his attitude appeals to most people as that of an ex- 
 tremist, and yet I find probably the cause for that ex- 
 treme position in the intense years filled with the throes 
 of war, with all its suffering and death and sorrow, 
 through which the boy Weldon developed from child- 
 hood to young manhood's years. The Battle of Gettys- 
 burg, upon which the fate of the Nation in large part 
 hung, and one of the greatest engagements of the world's 
 history, was fought not many miles from the boyhood 
 home of Senator Heyburn. 
 
 An impression was written upon his very character 
 that nothing could efface, and that made him as intolerant 
 toward the memory of the movement that looked to the 
 breaking asunder of our Nation as were those who fought 
 for the Nation's integrity uncompromising and intolerant 
 in their position 50 years ago. 
 
 How intense was Senator Heyburn's feeling in the mat- 
 ter of the Civil War and his judgment of the tremendous 
 consequences that were dependent upon the outcome of 
 the issue between the North and the South may be gath- 
 ered from his words in the course of the debate in the 
 Senate of the United States during the time the service 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 pension bill was being considered. Speaking of the sol- 
 diers of that great war, Senator Heyburn said: 
 
 There was never in the history of the world the performance of 
 men that accomplished such great good as was accomplished by 
 those men. Other soldiers have kept the thrones for kings. 
 Other soldiers have been able to turn the tide of one monarchy 
 against another. Other soldiers have been able to seize new 
 countries and subjugate them. 
 
 But this was a soldiery that stood for the preservation of a 
 country that stood then and stands now on a higher plane of 
 civilization than any other country in the world. It may be 
 worth while to save a monarchy and yield your life for it. It 
 may be worth while to keep some petty king upon the throne and 
 even sacrifice your life or your welfare for him. But it is count- 
 less times greater to offer your life and make the sacrifice to 
 maintain the Republic of the United States — the only Republic 
 that was known in that day or has been known since that is 
 worthy of the name. 
 
 It has been said that Senator Heyburn belonged to an 
 old school. It has been said that his sympathies were 
 entirely out of touch with the present and that they were 
 more in harmony with a period a half century or a cen- 
 tury ago. 
 
 Senator Heyburn believed in making progress slowly 
 and with due respect to the experiences of the past. He 
 believed in the Biblical injunction, "Remove not the an- 
 cient landmarks which thy fathers have set." He was 
 not a man who could be swept oft" his feet by the tide of 
 public sentiment or by the passing whim of an excited 
 day. He was a man not averse to new thought or new 
 ideas, but one who preferred to think carefully and well 
 upon the proposed plans before attempting to revolution- 
 ize government and place into actual practice policies 
 hitherto untried. 
 
 I believe that had Senator Heyburn lived at the time 
 the American Government was born he would have par- 
 ticipated in the shaping of its fundamental principles. I 
 
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 believe he would not have been found working in har- 
 mony with Jefferson or Madison, but would rather have 
 been found working shoulder to shoulder with Hamilton, 
 with the Adamses, with Hancock, with that body of noble 
 men who felt that republican government was an experi- 
 ment, and who, while thoroughly in sympathy with the 
 idea of American independence, believed that this Gov- 
 ernment would do well to maintain such a form as would 
 insure stability, eliminating, however, the idea of per- 
 petual kingship. 
 
 Had Senator Heyburn lived 50 years ago, and during 
 the period that immediately preceded the great Civil 
 War, I have no doubt that in that period he would have 
 been identified with the elements throughout the United 
 States who felt that the institution of slavery was wrong; 
 that the system should be abolished; and that the Govern- 
 ment of the United States should be maintained in its 
 integrity. 
 
 A CONSERVATIVE 
 
 Senator Heyburn, with relation to the problems that 
 have confronted our country during the last 20 years, was 
 distinctively a conservative. On the question of election 
 of Senators he was entirely out of sympathy with the 
 movement that has been waxing and waning for three- 
 quarters of a century, until in recent years it culminated 
 with overwhelming power in a demand that could not be 
 disregarded that the Congress of the United States recog- 
 nize the deep feeling of the American people that this 
 modification be made in our fundamental law. He was 
 one of those who, in the Senate of the United States, 
 opposed the amendment. 
 
 Senator Heyburn had no patience with the demand for 
 more direct expression of the people through the direct 
 primary, the initiative, referendum, and recall, and he 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 felt that these innovations would produce evil rather than 
 good if given a place in our system of Government. 
 
 He was a strong believer in the Federal Government, 
 but believed with deep earnestness that the State should 
 leave to private initiative everything that does not need 
 to be taken over by organized society or controlled by it, 
 as a result of experience that urged that government 
 management or control is for the unquestioned public 
 good. 
 
 Senator Heyburn favored the passage of the pure food 
 and drug act. On the other hand, he bitterly opposed the 
 passage of the act creating the Children's Bureau. Both 
 are the same in principle, yet he condemned the latter as 
 paternalistic. Probably the pure food and drug act may 
 be regarded as the extreme to which he would permit him- 
 self to go, and that while the Children's Bureau measure 
 was similar so far as principle is concerned the problems 
 with which it has to do were regarded by him as questions 
 that should be handled through the home or by local 
 instrumentalities within the State. 
 
 On the question of conservation Senator Heyburn took 
 a position that has been earnestly applauded and vigor- 
 ously condemned. He always maintained with great sin- 
 cerity the necessity of conservation of the country's nat- 
 ural resources, but he urged that the first natural resource 
 to be conserved is opportunity for a citizen to engage in 
 productive enterprise, having such material as land, tim- 
 ber, power, and water sites, and so forth, as his capital 
 and basis of operation. He opposed the accumulation 
 of vast areas of public land by individuals or corpora- 
 tions. He favored a general and specific plan that would 
 result in the population of the country by actual bona fide 
 settlers. He believed that it is not only the right but the 
 duty of each generation to participate in the use and en- 
 joyment of natural resources, and further believed that 
 
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 the neglect or failure on the part of the people to do so is 
 the failure of duty on their part toward the growth and 
 greatness of our country. He vigorously opposed the 
 comprehensive policy that has application at present in 
 part and the extension of which is earnestly urged looking 
 to more complete Federal management and control of the 
 natural resources of the country. He believed that the 
 policies that have been followed by our Nation for the past 
 50 years justify the wisdom of those who had part in their 
 shaping, and he would have applied these policies to the 
 great questions of the day and continued them through 
 the years to come. 
 
 PARTY AFFILIATION 
 
 Senator Heyburn was a Republican — ardent, devout in 
 his convictions, earnest in the defense of that which he 
 conceived to be the basic principles of the party to which 
 he belonged. 
 
 Repeatedly during the last year it was my privilege to 
 talk over with him some of the matters that concern our 
 Nation and with which the Republican Party has had to 
 do. Senator Heyburn believed that the Republican Party 
 has accomplished only part of its great mission. He be- 
 lieved it has more to do, but he did not believe in tem- 
 porizing. He did not believe in embodying and incor- 
 porating as a part of the Republican platform principles 
 that are of popular interest with which he was not in 
 sympathy. True, he believed that this would mean defeat 
 for the Republican Party, if failure to carrj' an election in 
 a given year means defeat, but he felt that in the end 
 the wisdom of the party whose principles he had espoused 
 would prevail. He believed his party would need to go 
 through the purging of fire that it might be made better 
 and stronger and more able to carry on the work to which 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 it was dedicated by the immortal Lincoln and his noble 
 coworkers who outlined the principles for which it has 
 stood for one-half a century and more. 
 
 OFFICIAL RESPONSIBILITY 
 
 Senator Heyburn believed that every public official 
 should take seriously the office and the responsibilities of 
 office that are committed to his trust. He believed that 
 the people intend when they elect a man to public office 
 to clothe that man with power to act for them. He 
 believed in the right of petition by the people, but he 
 believed that the right to petition should mean no more 
 than the expression of the views of the people upon a sub- 
 ject in which they might be interested for the guidance of 
 the public official. He believed that the public official is 
 bound by the very obligation of his office to exercise his 
 own judgment in the matter upon which the people have 
 petitioned in the final determination of the problem. 
 
 I do not know that he felt this responsibility more 
 keenly because he was a Member of the Senate than he 
 would have felt it if he had been a Member of the popular 
 branch of our National Congress. It may be that recog- 
 nizing that the Members of the House are elected every 
 two years and are supposed to represent not the State, 
 but the people from whom they come, he would have 
 conceded the right and maybe the duty of the Members 
 to act in harmony as nearly as they can with the senti- 
 ment of those who have given to them the commission 
 to serve them. I think that, with respect to the Senate, 
 he never for one moment entertained a doubt as to the 
 responsibility of a Senator. 
 
 He did not assume that any constituent who was a pe- 
 titioner could not handle the same problem with perfect 
 confidence and wisdom if intrusted with the responsi- 
 
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 bility of meeting the problem, but he did believe that the 
 one to whom that responsibility was given should give of 
 his time and his talents in far greater degree than is 
 asked or even permitted to the average citizen in con- 
 sidering the important problems of the day. 
 
 The question of degree to which a member of a legis- 
 lative body should be responsive to popular will has been 
 one to which the best minds of our country have given 
 attention since the day the Constitution was adopted. 
 There has been no definite course to which the members 
 of legislative bodies could feel themselves committed. 
 Here and there an individual has resigned when he found 
 himself out of harmony with the people who had given 
 him a commission to represent them. Possibly more fre- 
 quently members of legislative bodies have bowed to the 
 wish of their constituents and have regarded it as their 
 highest duty to obey that wish regardless of their personal 
 desire, feeling that their desire personally represented no 
 more than an individual wish of any citizen who had 
 exercised his franchise in helping to choose a Representa- 
 tive or a Senator. 
 
 Again there have been, so long as we have had a Re- 
 public, a few men who have stood out for the doctrine 
 that when a commission has been given it has carried 
 with it full responsibility, so far as judgment is concerned 
 upon public questions, throughout the term of service 
 to which the member has been chosen. Senator Hey- 
 burn, probably more than any other man in the last 20 
 years, stood for this policy. It made him enemies; it 
 made him friends; it caused detractors to rise up; and it 
 produced admirers. 
 
 CHARACTERISTICS 
 
 If there were one characteristic that more than any other 
 could be said to be distinctively that of Senator Heyburn, 
 
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 I believe that the characteristic of candor and frankness 
 would probably be the one defined. No one needed to 
 wait long to ascertain the position of Senator Heyburn 
 upon any public question. No one needed to hesitate to 
 raise a question with him for discussion because he did 
 not believe with Senator Heyburn. I recall that during 
 the first two or three years of Senator Heyburn's service 
 in the Senate a problem was being considered by the Mem- 
 bers of the delegation from Idaho that did not appeal to 
 all of us in the same way. It was at the time when Sena- 
 tor Dubois was the colleague of Senator Heyburn. I re- 
 call that one of the prominent citizens of Idaho made a 
 special trip to Washington in the interest of the measure; 
 I recall that with me he made his visit to Senator Hey- 
 burn and that in my presence he talked over with the 
 Senator his attitude upon the problem. Senator Dubois 
 had not been able to see the question as Senator Heyburn 
 did, and I recall that just as my friend and I were about 
 to leave Senator Heyburn's office my friend said to the 
 Senator, " If you like, I will go over and talk to Senator 
 Dubois and come back and let you know just what his 
 attitude is." Senator Heyburn, in all kindliness of man- 
 ner and intention, very promptly said in reply, " Senator 
 Dubois and I may not agree upon this problem, but we are 
 able to talk the matter over." In other words, he did not 
 want a go-between. The same idea was characteristic of 
 Senator Heyburn's relation with myself, and, I believe, 
 with all the Members of the Senate and the House, and, in 
 fact, with all men with whom he had to deal. More than 
 this, Senator Heyburn admired candor in other people. 
 
 When he was elected to the Senate in 1903 there were 
 several strong men contending for the honor. One of 
 these men was the late Hon. George L. Shoup, himself a 
 Senator from Idaho for 10 years. After Senator Heyburn 
 was chosen he sent a telegram to Hon. Addison T. Smith, 
 
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 who had been with Senator Shoup during his service in 
 the Senate, tendering him the position of secretary. Mr. 
 Smith promptly replied that he could not accept the posi- 
 tion, for he had not been favorable to the election of Mr. 
 Heyburn as Senator, but, on the other hand, had sup- 
 ported Senator Shoup. Senator Heyburn replied that if 
 he had not supported Senator Shoup, having been asso- 
 ciated with him for so long a time, he would not now be 
 soliciting his services. Mr. Smith accepted the position 
 and at the close of nearly 10 years of intimate association 
 with Senator Heyburn spoke of him as follows: 
 
 No man in public life in recent years has been so misunderstood 
 and misrepresented. He never received proper credit for the 
 splendid work he has done for the State and Nation, as he was 
 always adverse to exploiting his accomplishments through the 
 newspapers. The consciousness of duty well performed was his 
 reward for his arduous labors. Those who were not acquainted 
 with him, and many of those who only saw him occasionally, 
 were of the opinion that he was of an austere and imperious dis- 
 position. This was a natural assumption, because of his aggres- 
 siveness in debate or when contending for his views on public 
 questions, but to those who knew him best he appeared in his true 
 character. He was generous to a fault, kind and considerate, true 
 to his friends, and loyal and devoted to his family. In fact, I 
 never knew a man who was more interested in his relatives and 
 the friends of his early life and those who endured with him the 
 hardships incident to pioneer days in the Coeur d'Alenes. He 
 was a most congenial and lovable companion, and while he was 
 intensely devoted to his work he always found time to cultivate 
 the amenities of life. 
 
 The Senator was most devoted to his State and to what he be- 
 lieved to be for the best interest of the people. 
 
 Few men in public life were so well informed generally 
 as was Senator Heyburn. His mind was a veritable store- 
 house, and while he appeared at all times to have pre- 
 pared his addresses with much care, I am satisfied that the 
 language that he used in delivering almost every address 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 that he made was spontaneous and the facts that he 
 brought out were selected from those that had been stored 
 in his memory through his years of experience. 
 
 Upon one occasion he was to deliver a notable address 
 in the capital city of the State that he represented. His 
 secretary, Mr. Smith, observed that the Senator was en- 
 grossed in other matters and was letting the days and, 
 finally, the hours pass by without apparent preparation 
 for the address. He finally reminded the Senator of the 
 engagement that he had assumed. Senator Heyburn 
 turned to him and said, " Why, Addison, I have been pre- 
 paring that speech for 20 years." 
 
 As an orator Senator Heyburn must take high rank. 
 From the numerous discussions in which he expressed his 
 sentiments during the running debates in the Senate, no 
 adequate idea can be had of his power. True, even in 
 fragmentary and running debate his sentences were ele- 
 gant, his words well chosen, and his illustrations apt and 
 drawn from a vast field of experience or from extensive 
 reading. 
 
 His occasional addresses, however, told of his strength 
 as an orator and lift him at once into that high plane of 
 public speakers who have contributed to the reputation of 
 our greatest legislative body and give him a place among 
 the men capable of expressing the profoundest truth in 
 perfect diction. 
 
 While Senator Heyburn belonged to a family that had 
 given great names to England and America, this fact was 
 not for him to boast, but rather it was a matter for him to 
 carry within his family as a circumstance of great pride 
 and yet not a circumstance that would help him unless he 
 measured up to the responsibilities that a member of that 
 family should assume. In fact. Senator Heyburn believed 
 that there is a responsibility to be borne by every indi- 
 vidual and that too much prestige and encouragement 
 
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 from home may blight an otherwise successful life. In 
 speaking with Senator Heyburn one time I recall that the 
 Senator expressed to me the idea that it is questionable 
 whether or not wealth bequeathed by a parent to a child 
 does not constitute a curse rather than a blessing. It was 
 his idea that the young man or the young woman should 
 be self-reliant and, regardless of the influence or wealth 
 of his parents, himself assume the responsibilities that life 
 presents. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was one of the most versatile men I 
 ever knew. He was a great lover of nature, and those who 
 had occasion to be with him during his moments of recrea- 
 tion found him one of the most delightful companions that 
 could be chosen for a fishing excursion, a few days in the 
 mountains, or in the varied modes of recreation available 
 to the people of the mountain region surrounding his 
 home. 
 
 Again, Senator Heyburn was a man who did not know 
 what it was to be afraid. This thought applies not only 
 to his attitude in public life upon questions of statecraft, 
 but applies as well to his personal attitude as he met the 
 problems that oftentimes present themselves to a strong 
 man. 
 
 I have been told that at one time during labor difficulties 
 near his home when he was warned not to appear because 
 of his attitude toward those who felt themselves aggrieved, 
 he refused to heed the warning, but in a public address 
 upheld constituted authority and warned those who had 
 challenged him that though for a time they might gain 
 control, law and order would be restored and justice 
 meted out to every one of them. 
 
 IN CONCLUSION 
 
 The last days of Senator Heyburn were fitting to the 
 active life that he had led, for most of the time his mind 
 
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Address of Mr. French, of Idaho 
 
 was clear, and one of his last sentences was with relation 
 to his work in the Senate — " I am worn out, but I am worn 
 out in the service of a great cause" — and as a parting 
 testimony of the conviction of his own soul upon the ever- 
 living inspiration of the ages, he expressed a clear faith 
 and hope in God. 
 
 Finally, then, with the candor with which we all view 
 the lives of those whose race has been run, recognizing 
 traits of character that are variously esteemed, recogniz- 
 ing positions upon public questions taken by Senator Hey- 
 BURN that were not in harmony with the hopes of his most 
 earnest friends, recognizing that possibly he was not in 
 sympathy with the public opinion prevailing during the 
 last few years of his life, yet recognizing, on the other 
 hand, his strength of character, his honesty of purpose, 
 his fidelity to duty as he saw duty, the fearlessness with 
 which he met and contended with the influences that in 
 one way or another sought to impress themselves upon 
 the tasks with which he had to do, as we recall the mem- 
 ory of one with whom we may or may not have been in 
 accord, we can not fail at this hour to pay to him the great 
 tribute that was paid to another in the words, " Here was 
 a man." 
 
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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It was my good fortune to meet Senator 
 Heyburn soon after his election to the Senate in 1903 and 
 the acquaintance then formed ripened into a friendship 
 which continued to grow and strengthen as time passed. 
 
 Of the many virtues which Senator Heyburn possessed 
 the one which most impressed me, and in my opinion 
 was his most striking characteristic, was his unfailing 
 moral courage. He possessed in an unusual degree the 
 courage of his convictions. 
 
 It has been my experience that the most common and 
 besetting fault of many good men is the disposition, in 
 the face of opposition, in the presence of criticism, in the 
 interest of harmony, to compromise their views, to waive 
 their convictions. 
 
 How few, even of the best of men, can be depended 
 upon at all times and under all circumstances to stand 
 boldly for what they believe to be the right, to stand by 
 and defend an unpopular cause, to voice an unpopular 
 truth, to expose the fallacy of a popular fad, to rebuke 
 forgetfulness of principle. 
 
 I do not mean to be understood as holding the opinion 
 that there is lack of loyalty or steadfastness in the world 
 to-day; if the occasion demanded there would be no lack 
 of martyrs to any good cause. At the last ditch and in 
 the final stand for principle men will be found as true 
 and as faithful to-day as ever in the tide of time. In fact, 
 believing as I do that the world grows steadily better, I 
 am of the opinion that in any crucial test for a principle 
 mankind is generally far more dependable now than in 
 former days. 
 
 What we do lack is an appreciation of the importance 
 of voicing our protest at all times against harmful ten- 
 dencies, against indifference, against that denial of truth 
 
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 or of a cause which is involved in ignoring it. We are too 
 prone to stand silently or idly by while truth is flaunted 
 or ignored. 
 
 Of all the men I now recall whom I have known, he in 
 whose memory we are gathered to-day was most free 
 from this fault and weakness. His devotion to those prin- 
 ciples in which he believed — his loyalty to every cause he 
 espoused or cherished — was so intense, so earnest, so un- 
 wavering, that he never hesitated to boldly and bluntly 
 declare his position and express his convictions, utterly 
 regardless of the effect such declaration might have on 
 his fortune or his reputation. 
 
 This characteristic of our departed friend was the more 
 noticeable in view of the fact that he possessed a heart 
 overflowing with kindness; that he was tolerant of the 
 views and opinions of others; that he was considerate of 
 the feelings of those who differed from him. His ruling 
 passion, however, was intensity of conviction. Those 
 principles and policies which his judgment approved he 
 believed in with all the fervor and devotion of a cru- 
 sader, and to him an attitude of indifference, or of easy 
 tolerance, in the presence of an attack upon them, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, or even by analogy or inference, was 
 unthinkable. 
 
 He was a loyal knight, with ever-ready lance, quick not 
 only to repel attack on those things he held sacred but 
 to carry the warfare into the enemy's camp. In his opin- 
 ion no good soldier of a cause had performed his duty 
 by merely holding steadfastly his position; there was the 
 duty of countercharge, with a view, if possible, of dis- 
 lodging the opposition from its position. 
 
 Holding these views of his duty and possessing the 
 courage necessary' to live up to them, it was inevitable 
 that in his political career and in the performance of liis 
 ofRcial duties he should have run counter to the views 
 
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 of many men and have had sharp and pointed differences 
 with them, and yet so apparent was his sincerity', so man- 
 ifest the honesty of his purpose, so free from malice or 
 unkindliness were the blows he delivered, the home 
 thrusts he gave, that he disarmed hostile criticism and 
 often made of those with whom he most differed his 
 warmest friends. 
 
 The lives of men whose lives are conspicuously worth 
 while are valuable to us to the extent that we take to 
 heart the truths which such lives emphasize. The life 
 of our departed friend and colleague was useful and val- 
 uable in many ways. His influence for good was exerted 
 over a wide field, embraced many subjects, was helpful 
 to many people, but, in my opinion, that influence was 
 most potent, will be most permanent, in its emphasis of 
 the importance of deep and steadfast conviction and un- 
 failing courage in defense and support of such convic- 
 tion. His example reminds us that it is as much our duty 
 to utter the note of warning, to challenge the false step or 
 dangerous tendency, where to do so is neither popular 
 nor palatable and can have no immediate effect, as to do 
 so when such action is popular and likely to be promptly 
 effective. In fact, in the former case the duty is the 
 more imperative and its performance the more meri- 
 torious because of the courage required in its fulfillment. 
 
 In the passing of Senator Heyburn every good cause 
 lost a fearless champion, and we who knew him lost a 
 faithful friend. The great Northwest country, where he 
 lived so long and whose interests he so courageously and 
 effectively supported and defended, sincerely mourns 
 him. He passed away in the full flower of his usefulness, 
 and yet his life was peculiarly complete, and when the 
 summons came he left us the blessed memory of a life of 
 great and lasting usefulness and of a character rich in all 
 the manly virtues. 
 
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Address of Mr. Kahn, of California 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Weldon Brinton Heyburn was one of the 
 striking characters of the United States Senate. His early 
 education eminently qualified him for a seat in that body. 
 He was one of the best-informed men that I ever met. As 
 a lawyer in the West he occupied a preeminent position. 
 For over 30 years he practiced in the courts of his own 
 State of Idaho, as well as in tlie Federal courts of nearly 
 all of the Western Commonwealths. At heart he was a 
 most kindly, courteous gentleman. He took an active 
 part in the councils of his party. He was a thoroughly 
 intense partisan, but was always fair in dealing with his 
 political opponents. He had pronounced views upon all 
 great public questions and always had the courage to ex- 
 press them. The matter of retaining popularity with the 
 masses did not swerve him from what he considered to 
 be the path of duty. There was no demagogy in his entire 
 make-up. He never weighed the effect of his utterances 
 on questions of the day upon his own fortunes. He was 
 not what politicians call a "trimmer." Everyone knew 
 where he stood on those subjects that were of absorbing 
 interest to the American people, and even though one 
 might not agree with him in his position, one always ad- 
 mired his courage in his fight for what he deemed the 
 right. And once having made up his mind as to what he 
 believed to be the right course to pursue, he steadfastly 
 followed that course regardless of the attacks that were 
 made upon him by his opponents. He was an indefati- 
 gable worker. He was just the kind of man that is 
 needed in our public life. He was a forceful speaker, a 
 ready debater. He was outspoken and blunt, at times 
 almost to the point of brusqueness. Fearless, honest, 
 
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 faithful, and straightforward, he never hesitated to tell 
 the truth, even though the telling thereof may have had 
 occasion to cause temporary' wounds. He took an active 
 part in the debates of the Senate and helped to frame 
 some of the most important laws that have been enacted 
 during the last decade. His was a rugged physique, and 
 I believed that he would enjoy many years of usefulness 
 in the Senate; but it was not to be. He was stricken some 
 months before he passed away, and when the end came it 
 was not altogether a surprise to his near friends. He 
 has gone to his reward; but in his adopted State of Idaho 
 there are dozens of young men who will always revere 
 his memory; they looked up to Senator Heyburn as a true 
 leader whom they might well follow. He was always 
 ready to extend a helping hand to the struggling, ambi- 
 tious j'outh of his State. They could always turn to him 
 for counsel and advice; he inspired them with the cour- 
 age to dare maintain the right. We join with them and 
 with all who were permitted to know him in this life in 
 expressing our appreciation of his worth as a legislator, 
 his patriotism as a citizen, and his straightforward hon- 
 esty as a man. 
 
 At this point Mr. French assumed the chair as Speaker 
 pro tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The numerous melancholy occasions of 
 this nature during the Sixty-second Congress have 
 brought very vividly before us the truths not only as to 
 the fleeting existence which is common to all mankind, 
 but also that the struggles and stress of active public life 
 do seriously impair the vitality and diminish the length 
 of days of even the most robust of our colleagues. Per- 
 haps as notable example of this is to be found in the life 
 and departure of the man whose memory we honor by 
 these exercises. His Quaker ancestry had transmitted to 
 him that strength of mind and body which has so distin- 
 guished that splendid people wherever they may be 
 found, and to the limit of his superb powers had he util- 
 ized the virtues, the character, the vigor, and the ability 
 with which he had been so plentifully endowed. As has 
 been the case with multitudes of American youth, from 
 a restless spirit of adventure and a desire for personal 
 advancement, young Heyburn sought the West with its 
 hardships, its freedom for growth and action, its oppor- 
 tunities for development of the greatest, best, and most 
 which was within him. He entered into the spirit and 
 life of those frontier days, and with his sound legal train- 
 ing, his strength of personality, and undaunted courage 
 and perseverance, soon had a large share in the forma- 
 tion of the career and character of the vigorous young 
 Commonwealth where he had chanced his fortunes and 
 established his western home. The strong, practical, and 
 capable men who associated with him early recognized 
 and appreciated his usefulness and capacity, and at the 
 age of 51 he was elected to represent his State in the Sen- 
 
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 ate of the United States. There he speedily became a 
 conspicuous, forceful, and thoroughly capable figure, with 
 a faculty for useful and practical industry and a marked 
 ability for an effective presentation of his views upon the 
 great diversity of public questions upon which we are 
 all compelled to pass in our work as legislative represent- 
 atives of a great people. Early in his senatorial career 
 Senator Heyburn attracted attention by his most efficient 
 work as chairman of the then comparatively insignificant 
 Committee on Manufactures, but which had jurisdiction 
 of legislation concerning pure food and drugs, which 
 under his guidance was so soon to benefit the health and 
 pockets of the American people. 
 
 There was a general realization throughout the country 
 that some proper and adequate laws should be passed by 
 Congress regulating and controlling the commerce of the 
 necessities for our people, so that they should be pro- 
 tected as much as possible from fraud and deception, 
 and so that the States could safely follow in such paths 
 the wise and salutary rules laid down by Congress. Nat- 
 urally there were strenuous objections to any such legis- 
 lation, not from those who did not desire any such regu- 
 lation, but from a great body of reputable and prudent 
 business men, who had apprehension as to the effect of 
 such a new departure upon their affairs conducted along 
 lines entirely praiseworthy and in a safe and legitimate 
 way. So it did require much courage, skill, persistence, 
 and industry to overcome these obstacles and bring suc- 
 cess to such a tremendously important task. Senator 
 Heyburn contributed a very large share toward it, and 
 if he had performed no other public service for the Amer- 
 ican people they should ever be grateful to him for his 
 labors at a critical time toward that legislation which has 
 been so salutary and which has exerted so beneficial an 
 influence among the States and throughout the countiy. 
 
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Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 
 
 He was the special champion of his people and State 
 and section of the country against that policy of conser- 
 vation of the natural resources of the West which he 
 conceived could only result in their injury and prevent 
 proper and adequate development. This contest was con- 
 stant and prolonged and enlisted all of the powerful re- 
 sources of his rugged and forceful nature and all of the 
 capabilities which so distinguished him among his com- 
 peers. His great wealth of information, his profound 
 knowledge of legal principles, his long and varied expe- 
 rience among his people and in the development of his 
 splendid young State, his strong and logical intellect and 
 superb powers for the presentation of his views, gave 
 him an influence in the discussion of these subjects such 
 as had few of his colleagues. His industry and devotion 
 to his people and their interests, the incessant demand 
 upon him to care for them as adequately as he thought 
 was required of him, drew heavily upon liis vital forces. 
 
 He would not rest when the contest was on concerning 
 public matters before Congress or the departments 
 strongly affecting his constituents. This devotion and 
 this persistence and unwearying zeal for those whom he 
 represented and whose welfare was so dear to him weak- 
 ened even his rugged frame and reduced even his won- 
 derful reserves. No one can estimate how much such 
 labors assisted toward shortening his days and hastening 
 the inevitable end. 
 
 Unless one had a chance to know him well, there could 
 never be discerned or appreciated the great wealth of 
 sentiment or the keenest human sympathies and kindli- 
 ness in his nature. It was my privilege to meet him a 
 number of times during one of the few vacations he had 
 while in public life. He was traveling in Europe with 
 his family and had cast aside the many cares of his high 
 office and was enjoying as a boy the scenes and impres- 
 
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 sions which the Old World made upon him, whose nature 
 was so typical of the American West. I especially recall 
 his delight in his touring of England and Scotland, whose 
 history and poetry and romance had long been so familiar 
 to him and which had filled such a part in his own 
 heredity, experience, and culture. Then became revealed 
 to us who were with him that extensive reading and rare 
 appreciation of the beauties of nature and literature 
 which we soon realized that he possessed. We came to 
 know from such intimacy what a strong, true, loyal, and 
 devoted soul he had and what a sure and firm foundation 
 was his for his unremitting labors for his people and for 
 his country. He had the courage to stand upright and 
 proclaim the faith that was in him and of which he was 
 ever proud at a time when real men were sorely needed. 
 "The deepest hunger of a faithful soul is true faithful- 
 ness." 
 
 His departure is sincerely mourned as a national loss 
 among those who were associated with him, and those 
 who knew him best will ever cherish his memory as of a 
 loyal and delightful friend, a wise and prudent associate, 
 and a patriotic and devoted servant of his people and 
 lover of his country. 
 
 No man better exemplified the truth of the poet — 
 
 The valiant never taste of death but once. 
 
 Of all the wonders that I have heard 
 
 It seems to me most strange that men should fear. 
 
 Seeing that death, a necessary end. 
 
 Will come to him, when it will come. 
 
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Address of Mr. Howell, of Utah 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It was after my election as a Member of 
 the House of Representatives that I was privileged for the 
 first time to visit Washington and behold this splendid 
 edifice, this imposing Capitol of the Nation. Grand and 
 glorious as it impressed me then, its magnificence and 
 glory have constantly grown upon me. So, too, my serv- 
 ice in Congress has profoundly impressed upon me more 
 and more as the years flit by the high character, industry, 
 devotion, and patriotism of the great men chosen by a 
 free people to bear the responsibility and discharge the 
 arduous, perplexing, and important duties of government. 
 , In these days, when the freedom of the press attains its 
 fullest publicity, prominent men in public life are known 
 to the mass of the people in the light of their character 
 and service as set forth in the press and periodicals of 
 the time; but from the very nature of the intimate asso- 
 ciation of its membership, of their collaboration together 
 for the public weal, the Senate or House becomes the 
 truest and most perfect judge of the ability, character, 
 and worth of its Member. No weak or unworthy man can 
 rise and long maintain commanding influence in either 
 body. And so the time-honored custom of setting apart 
 a day for paying befitting tribute to the memory of our 
 comrades whose life mission is ended is most beautiful 
 and admirable. In the j^ears to come, after the keen sor- 
 row of parting with our friends has mellowed to a fond 
 recollection of all that they were when they were taber- 
 nacled in the flesh, to read what is said to-day will awaken 
 long-buried memories and inspire new courage to press 
 forward in honorable effort to "make our lives sublime." 
 We are assembled on such an occasion to-day, and I im- 
 prove the opportunity to voice a simple, homely tribute 
 
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 to the memory of Weldon Brinton Heyburn, Idaho's dis- 
 tinguished Senator, the Republic's honored son. He en- 
 tered the Senate at the same time I became a Member 
 of the House. While our duties here did not throw us 
 into the closest association, having local interests in com- 
 mon I came to know him well and to admire and honor 
 him. His earthly probation extended over but little more 
 than 60 years, but on the 17th day of October, 1912, when 
 he was called away, his earthly record measures up to 
 the fullness of a well-spent life. Time will not permit 
 nor is it necessary for me to recount his distinguished 
 public services. They are recorded in the history of his 
 State and in the annals of the Senate and his country. 
 Suffice it to say that he took an active and leading part 
 in all the great questions before the country in the last 
 decade. At the close of his first term in the Senate, for . 
 the information of his people, a complete record of his 
 industry, achievement, and his attitude on all public ques- 
 tions was compiled. 
 
 This record is replete with the evidences of his great 
 industrj' and his statesmanlike grasp and his ability to 
 elucidate grave public questions. Upon this record he 
 again sought a commission as Senator and was trium- 
 phantly elected. This was strikingly characteristic of the 
 man. He was bold and strong and frank, and disdained 
 to espouse or support any cause against his convictions 
 merely to thereby court public favor. He believed in 
 clear-cut issues and an honest declaration of policies and 
 purposes. He loved his State and country to such an 
 extent that patriotism was a passion with him. He hated 
 fraud, pretense, and dishonesty in every relation of life. 
 His championship of the pure food and drugs act and its 
 passage under his leadership through the Senate is typical 
 of the man and exemplifies his intense aversion to deceit, 
 fraud, and dishonesty in commercial affairs. He sprang 
 
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Address of Mr. Howell, of Utah 
 
 from forbears who for generations had inherited a love 
 of freedom and an orderly adherence to laws and institu- 
 tions designed to secure this great boon. He was firmly 
 set in his convictions, and did not easily sway with the 
 winds of every new doctrine. He venerated the true and 
 proven wisdom of the past, and in adopting new and 
 untried experiments affecting the fundamental princi- 
 ples of our Government he adhered to the well-known, 
 salutary maxim, "Make haste slowly." He was able in 
 debate, wise in counsel, devoted to the best interests of 
 his State and countr3% and supremely endowed for most 
 valuable service in the high council of the Senate. Who 
 can properly estimate the value of such a life? Who can 
 fully appreciate the enduring light shed forth by his 
 work? Such men are the salt of the earth, the pillars of 
 the temple of liberty, the torches which light the pathway 
 of liberty. I do not agree with the great poet in the doc- 
 trine that "the evil that men do lives after them; the 
 good is oft interred with their bones." I am led rather 
 to cherish the thought that the good that men do shall 
 survive, the evil shall perish. The qualities of virtue, 
 honesty, duty, patriotism, unselfish devotion to man, coun- 
 try, and God bear within them the seeds of their own 
 preservation and reproduction. Noble spirits have left 
 their impress upon the world. We have them with us in 
 this day and time, and in the future they will come to us 
 and assume their rightful place of leadership among the 
 children of men, and progress and liberty will continue 
 to go forward hand in hand. 
 
 Senator Heyburn profoundly realized the nature of his 
 sojourn here. He was fully impressed that — 
 
 Life is real! life is earnest! 
 
 And the grave is not its goal! 
 Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 
 
 Was not spoken of the soul. 
 
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 Memorial ceremonies naturally lead to the contempla- 
 tion of the brief span of life here, with all its vicissitudes 
 and the limitless eternity on either side. I rejoice in the 
 firm faith that "he is not dead; he has risen to a higher 
 and more enduring sphere of activity and usefulness." 
 "The glory of God is intelligence." That degree of intel- 
 ligence to which he has attained is but symbolical of a 
 future of eternal progress and development. His mission 
 here is completed. He rests from his labors, and his 
 works do follow him. 
 
 "This pleasing hope, this fond desire, this longing after 
 immortality" is well expressed in this simple prayer to 
 our heavenlj' Father: 
 
 When at last when I've completed 
 
 All Thou sent me forth to do. 
 With Thy mutual approbation 
 
 Let me come and dwell with You. 
 
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Addeiess of Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I have not frequently come in personal 
 contact with Senator Heyburn, but I have watched with 
 growing interest his many activities as well as his utter- 
 ances on the floor of the Senate. To me there was some- 
 thing unusually attractive in his rugged manhood, his 
 extraordinary abilitj', his eloquence, and readiness at rep- 
 artee. To a still greater degree was my admiration chal- 
 lenged, however, by something which I prize more highly 
 than all these. It is that quality which distinguishes a 
 real man from a mental weakling, namely, courage of 
 conviction. In the case of Senator Heyburn this term im- 
 plied not only unswerving loyalty to the ideals and tra- 
 ditions of the Republic, but also the bold and fearless 
 expression, irrespective of consequences, of his honest 
 opinions. This quality caused his friends to admire, his 
 foes to fear him, but insured him the respect of friend 
 and foe alike. It is an attribute of character which, judg- 
 ing from practical experience, seems to have become 
 sufficiently rare in these days of popular unrest to merit 
 special mention wherever we see a manifestation of it. 
 Men in public life can appreciate even more than those 
 in private life its incomparable significance and value. 
 It means that we speak and vote in accordance with our 
 convictions. It means for us to take our political life in 
 our hand and defend, by voice and vote, what we honestly 
 believe to be right. No matter whether it leads to greater 
 popularity or to political self-effacement, there must be 
 no compromise with what is repulsive to our hearts and 
 minds, and our advocacy of what to our conscience is 
 right and the resistance to what seems to us wrong must 
 be more than passive. It must be active. Fortunately 
 
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 for our country, there are still many who practice this 
 greatest of all public virtues, but among them our de- 
 parted friend held foremost rank. As a consequence of 
 that noble trait it was quite natural that his public career 
 should have been encouraged by strong friendships and, 
 on the other hand, beset by strong antagonisms; but, as I 
 said before, friend and foe alike readily recognized and 
 respected his mental honesty, his integrity of character, 
 and his manly courage. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was a Republican. He believed in 
 the high mission of his party to forever be an instrument 
 of the people for sane progress and reform. He was a 
 " standpatter " when asked to go wrong and a progressive 
 when progress was in the right direction. He sincerely 
 believed in representative government under the Con- 
 stitution, and could not make up his mind to consent to 
 political experiments where popular rule, under existing 
 forms, had been such a phenomenal success. The con- 
 servatism of his nature rebelled against risking a leap 
 into the dark — ^and this is what, to his mind, unbridled 
 majority rule signified — at a time when the country en- 
 joyed the blessings of unparalleled prosperity, when, con- 
 sequently, there was no valid excuse for untried innova- 
 tions in government, and when further progress along 
 sane and safe lines and along the pathway of constitu- 
 tional rule was the watchword of his party under a 
 President who, in faithful performance and honest en- 
 forcement of the laws of the land, has not had a superior 
 in the annals of American history. While the political 
 storms raged all about him, Senatur Heyburn stood firm, 
 anchored to the solid rock of good judgment and honest 
 conviction, and it is my earnest belief that, had he been 
 permitted to stay among us but a few years longer, he 
 would have lived to see his judgment vindicated. 
 
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Address of Mr. Bartholdt, of Missouri 
 
 For reasons inscrutable to all save Providence he was 
 taken from us in the prime of manhood and while great 
 questions of concern to his constituents, to his State, and 
 country were calling for his cooperation and for the ex- 
 ercise of his indomitable energy and rare intellect. In 
 mute grief those to whom he was nearest and dearest as 
 well as all his contemporaries and colaborers must bow 
 to the inevitable. His untimely death was an irreparable 
 loss to both the State of Idaho, which he so ably repre- 
 sented here, and to the Nation and will be mourned by 
 all. He was a great citizen, a great lawyer, and a great 
 legislator, but his most fitting epitaph would be: " He was 
 a man." 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 Mr. Speaker : A man who rises to distinction above the 
 high average of unusual ability to be found in the House 
 and Senate does so by reason of some exceptional value 
 as a public servant and as a man, and this question of 
 the value of the man in the public service is a question 
 I desire to discuss briefly in connection with Senator 
 Heyburn, whose memory we revere in the ceremonies of 
 to-day. Congress legislates upon information and opin- 
 ion. Upon the sufficiency of the information and the 
 soundness of the opinion derived therefrom depends the 
 value of the legislation which may be enacted. Legis- 
 lators seldom build better than they know. While it may 
 appear that some former legislative body did an un- 
 usually wise thing that survived through the ages, it is 
 not because they had any unusual understanding of the 
 times to come, but because the conditions under which 
 they legislated were continued to or repeated in a later 
 time. Therefore I repeat that upon the sufficiency of in- 
 formation and the soundness of judgment the value of 
 legislation depends. A man who comes into either House 
 and by industry in the ascertainment of facts, honesty in 
 their statement, and care in their interpretation does the 
 public a useful service and becomes a distinguished man. 
 
 To illustrate what I have in mind : Savonarola at the 
 lime of the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, in Flor- 
 ence, and the expulsion of his son Piero, found the city 
 without a government and the citizens unable to found a 
 government for themselves. He did not as a creator man- 
 ufacture a government out of hand for the Florentines, 
 but from a great knowledge of the governments of his 
 time he decided that the government of Venice, with suit- 
 
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Address of Mr. HA^vLEY, of Oregon 
 
 able changes, would be best adapted to Florence. This 
 he advocated in public addresses, and following his sug- 
 gestions and his leadership the people of Florence estab- 
 lished a government modeled upon that of Venice. The 
 government so organized is said by the historians without 
 exception to be the best government the Florentines ever 
 had. Simply because he had adequate information and 
 the soundness of interpretation at a critical time in his 
 state's history Savonarola rendered his people a great 
 
 service. 
 
 There gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 a body of men 
 who were charged with the duty of framing a Consti- 
 tution for the government of a people recently free. The 
 English historians say the colonists of this country had 
 been buying more law books than the citizens of England 
 had been buying, and they had been buying histories and 
 other books on political affairs. When that body of 
 men came together they did not strike out at white heat 
 a new thing, but out of an adequacy of information and 
 soundness of judgment upon the events history had re- 
 corded of man's endeavors to govern himself they organ- 
 ized the best government that could have been instituted 
 for our country. 
 
 What I have in mind in considering the public services 
 of Senator Heyburn is the importance of adequate infor- 
 mation and of sound opinion derived therefrom. The 
 encyclopedic character of Ms information, both as to the 
 law and the facts relating to subjects pending before the 
 Senate, was universally conceded. When he arose to 
 speak it was with the fullness of information, and when 
 he presented a case it was with a wealth of illustration, 
 so that not only his supporters but his opponents profited 
 by his industry, his care, his painstaking labor, which 
 led to fame. 
 
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 Falstaff says of himself: 
 
 I am not only witty, but am the cause of wit in other men. 
 
 So Senator Heyburn himself was not only industrious, 
 but was the cause of industry in other men; not only pos- 
 sessed of a great fund of knowledge, but caused other 
 men to be similarly possessed; was not only himself a 
 statesman, but, because he was a statesman, he led others 
 to statesmanlike emulation. Not only was he an effective 
 public servant, but by faithful service and by information 
 and soundness of opinion he led others to such industry 
 as would make them more effective and faithful public 
 servants. 
 
 He lived but 60 years, and he served his country use- 
 fully, effectively, honorably, and courageously. " That 
 life is long which answers life's great end." And when 
 he died some great causes lost a great champion. 
 
 Ah, who that gallant spirit shall resume, 
 
 Leap from Eurota's banks, and call us from the tomb. 
 
 If Senator Heyburn knew the matters of the spirit as 
 well as he knew the matters relating to his public duties 
 and private obligations, then for him " the morn in russet 
 mantle clad, walks on the dews of Heaven's high hills." 
 Let us so hope. 
 
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Address of Mr. La Follette, of Washington 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The late Senator Weldon B. Heyburn, of 
 Idaho, was to me one of the most unique characters in 
 American political life. My personal acquaintance with 
 him was brief, dating only from the beginning of the short 
 session of the Sixty-first Congress. He was what was 
 known as an "old-line" Republican, while 1 had been 
 elected to the Sixty-second Congress as a Progressive 
 Republican. 
 
 I came to Washington in the early days of December, 
 1911, and occupied my time during the short session of 
 the Sixty-first Congress about evenly between the House 
 and Senate, familiarizing myself with men, measures, and 
 methods of procedure. 
 
 Senator Heyburn had been in the public eye in the 
 neighboring State of Idaho for many years, and after 
 entering the United States Senate had become a national 
 figure, but I confess that, as a Progressive Republican, I 
 came to Washington somewhat prejudiced against his 
 political attitude and activities. During the closing days 
 of the Sixty-first Congress, however, I found myself ob- 
 serving and studying him more closely. More and more 
 was I impressed with his industry and perseverance, his 
 intimate knowledge of all measures that came before the 
 Senate, his terse commendations of those he considered 
 meritorious and his scathing denunciation of those he 
 regarded wrong or ill-advised. 
 
 It mattered not to him whether the measure he dis- 
 approved was championed by his political friends and col- 
 leagues, his position never swayed. Long before the end 
 of the Sixty-first Congress there sprung up within my 
 inner consciousness an admiration for the man. His inti- 
 
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 mate knowledge of all legislation coming before the Sen- 
 ate, his careful analysis of every proposal, his quick per- 
 ception, his energetic protests, his keen and logical thrusts 
 at his adversaries in debate, excited my admiration and 
 wonder, and I could not help feeling when he died that 
 the country had suffered the loss of one of its most pains- 
 taking and industrious public men — a statesman, indeed — 
 and one who had probably checked as much unwise and 
 ill-considered legislation as any man of equal service who 
 ever sat in Congress. 
 
 Senator Heyburn's interest in public questions was so 
 unceasing and his capacity for work so inordinate that 
 but little, if any, legislation ever passed the Senate during 
 his period of service without either his earnest assistance 
 or his vigorous opposition. His unflinching courage and 
 his indomitable zeal have earned for him a lasting place 
 in America's political history. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, when the wires carried the intelligence 
 that death had brought to an end the career of Senator 
 Heyburn his home State of Idaho felt it had sustained a 
 great loss, and this feeling was shared by the Nation. 
 
 The press of the country, engaged as it was in a bitter 
 political struggle, did not fail to give a full meed of praise 
 and a calm judgment of mankind on the life and work of 
 a great man, and I will insert in this brief tribute a few of 
 the many expressions of the press of the country, some 
 of his home State and some of other States of the Nation. 
 
 The Idaho Statesman, on October 18, 1912, said : 
 
 When one who has been a tried and true friend dies, the loss 
 is not expressible in badges or in tears. We may not have agreed 
 with him in all things, but we could always depend upon him as 
 a friend, never faltering in his loyalty for us nor in his duty 
 to us. 
 
 The State of Idaho has just lost such a friend in the death of 
 Senator Heyburn. Many of the people he represented so long 
 
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Address of Mr. La Follette, of Washington 
 
 in public place have not always agreed with him, but they knew 
 he could be depended upon to fight for his State, and he always 
 did it. 
 
 Senator Heyburn was a " standpatter " because he was never 
 vacillating. He could no more indorse irrational or radical ideas, 
 paraded under any guise, than he could abandon his position 
 for fear the crowd might not applaud him. He was conserva- 
 tive in all things, some say ultraconservative, because it was 
 the surest guaranty of safety, in his opinion; and time generally 
 vindicated his judgment. Because of his strict adherence to con- 
 stitutional forms, because of his allegiance to the traditions of 
 our fathers, the Senator encountered many foes who might not 
 otherwise have been pitted against him; but they ever found him 
 equal to their most skilled attack and challenging their best 
 defense. 
 
 The keynote of Weldon Brinton Heyburn's life work was 
 " courage "; the pattern woven in the fabric of his official career 
 was " firmness "; the lesson he leaves us is their application. 
 
 The Salt Lake Herald-Republican said: 
 
 Senator Heyburn was a statesman of high ideals, unflinching 
 courage, and steadfast in his adherence to the principles of the 
 Republican Party. He took high rank in the Senate and wielded 
 a powerful influence. 
 
 The New York Tribune said : 
 
 The State of Idaho can easily elect a successor to Weldon B. 
 Heyburn, but no one can really replace him in the United States 
 Senate. His position in that body was unique. He delighted to 
 be classified as a " standpatter." He was really a " standpatter " 
 who bent backward. It will be impossible to find another man 
 who will play the part of ultraconservative with the unction, the 
 sincerity, and effectiveness which Mr. Heyburn always displayed 
 and which finally made him one of the institutions of the Senate. 
 He was himself institutional in character, rooted in convictions 
 and prejudices which never could be shaken by any mere dis- 
 turbances of the outer crust of politics. 
 
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 He remained patriarchal in his ideas, just as if the patriarchal 
 age was a thing of yesterday. When the Senate was discussing 
 an eight-hour law for Federal employees, he quoted the com- 
 mandment, "Six days shalt thou labor"; and said that, in his 
 opinion, a day meant the space between sunrise and sunset. Not 
 in a spirit of humorous exaggeration, but in one of downright 
 seriousness, he contended that it was a neglect of the biblical 
 injunction to call eight hours a day for working purposes. He 
 was willing himself to work from candlelight to candlelight, and 
 wanted everybody else to live up to the ancient pastoral standard. 
 
 In tariff legislation he held that a higher duty was always 
 preferable to a lower duty, and no duty could be put too high to 
 please him. He never realized that the Civil War was over, and 
 felt it a duty to rasp the sensibilities of his southern colleagues 
 whenever anything was proposed which even squinted at a con- 
 donation of secession or official recognition as such of former par- 
 ticipants in the war against the Union. He was uncomfortably 
 inflexible on that as on all other subjects. 
 
 Yet with all his irreconcilableness he was a useful and popular 
 Senator. He never spared himself, and won his way to the front 
 as a legislator by sheer endurance and capacity. He fought 
 through the pure-food bill and later took the lead in codifying the 
 laws of the United States — a wearying but very important work. 
 He enjoyed the respect of his colleagues because he was positive 
 and earnest in all things — a man who thrived on antagonism, but 
 whose public services were always transparently clear and honest. 
 His extremism never incapacitated him for helpful service or 
 obscured his sterling personal worth. 
 
 The Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune felt that— 
 
 In the death of United States Senator W. B. Heyburn Idaho has 
 lost a great man. He was great in many ways. His absolute fear- 
 lessness, his tremendous steadfastness, were marked characteris- 
 tics. That he lacked tact was one of his failings, but it was a 
 human failing and a forgivable one. As a Senator of the United 
 States, as a statesman and lawmaker, he was far above the average. 
 His deep knowledge of the law made him a looming figure in the 
 greatest legislative body in the world. Big of body, heart, and 
 mind, he stood out prominently among the men in the upper 
 Chamber. 
 
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Address of Mr. La Follette, of Washington 
 
 The Portland Oregonian commented: 
 
 What Heyburn believed he believed with all his heart and 
 mind, so that he invited and sustained the criticisms and attacks 
 of many opponents. But he was an honest man and courageous. 
 If he talked too much, he always talked well. If he hated dis- 
 loyalty, he made manifest his own patriotism by outright word 
 and deed. If he was too prone to deem others wrong, he strove 
 always himself to be right. Idaho will miss Senator Heyburn, 
 and so will the Nation. Likely enough the Senate needed a cor- 
 rective force and an admonitory voice. 
 
 The Hailey (Idaho) Times said of Senator Heyburn: 
 
 An indefatigable worker, no important measure ever secured 
 the attention of the Senate without his voice being heard either 
 in support or opposition to it until illness incapacitated him. 
 Endowed with many qualities of leadership, he immediately upon 
 taking his seat took a front rank in the greatest deliberative body 
 in the world, and he sustained it to the end. 
 
 The Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, a stanch Democratic 
 paper, spoke as follows: 
 
 It is observed that in the tributes being paid to the dead states- 
 man all are impressed by his loyalty and love for this State of his 
 free adoption. And that epitaph is fine enough to rear over the 
 relics of any man. There may have been minds of greater bril- 
 liancy and tongues of more silvery eloquence, but there was none 
 who loved his country more and served his constituency so tire- 
 lessly. He was a man who lived up to his creed, and in his clean 
 record there can be found some useful lessons for those who 
 survive him, and especially for the ambitious young men of his 
 adopted State. 
 
 The Richfield (Idaho) Recorder commented as follows: 
 
 No one ever wondered where he would be found or whether he 
 would be in the same place the next time; everybody knew where 
 he would be — that he would stay. The sublime virtue of stead- 
 fastness was his in the superlative degree. It was a virtue which 
 helped win Idaho a commanding place in the councils of the 
 Nation. 
 
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 The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
 lution previously adopted, the Chair declares the House 
 adjourned until 10.30 o'clock to-morrow morning. 
 
 Accordingly (at 8 o'clock and 28 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, February 24, 
 1913, at 10.30 o'clock a. m. 
 
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Death of Senator Heyburn 
 
 [From the Washington (D. C.) Post, Oct. 18, 1912] 
 
 Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn, of Idaho, died at the Wyo- 
 ming Apartments last night, after a lingering illness. He was 60 
 years old and had been in the Senate nine years. A complication 
 of diseases involving the heart and kidneys caused the Senator's 
 death. He had not been well since last March, when he collapsed 
 after delivering a speech in the Senate on the arbitration treaties 
 in spite of the doctor's warning that the effort might cost him 
 his life. 
 
 Several weeks ago, apparently gaining strength after a serious 
 relapse, the Senator and Mrs. Heyburn made preparations for a 
 trip West. Another relapse followed, however, and since then 
 the patient had been growing steadily weaker. Yesterday the 
 doctors thought he had slightly improved, but death came sud- 
 denly a few minutes before 8 o'clock last night. 
 
 Senator Heyburn recently suffered frequent attacks of heart 
 failure. Warned by his physicians that he must not work so 
 hard, he replied that he knew " no nobler way to die than fight- 
 ing for his convictions." He made a game fight for life up to 
 the last and took frequent short rides in his automobile up until 
 the last two weeks. For the past four days he had been given 
 oxygen in large quantities and spent most of his time sitting in a 
 chair by a window overlooking Connecticut Avenue, where he 
 seemed to breathe easier. Last Monday he called up Philadelphia 
 by telephone and asked his brother Elwood M., two years his 
 junior, to come to Washington. The brother did, and since then 
 the two had many interesting talks of their boyhood days spent 
 near the Germantown battle fleld. 
 
 The Senator was attended by his wife, his brother, Miss M. F. 
 Yeatman, a sister-in-law, and one of his secretaries, Hugh F. 
 Smith, and his last words addressed to them were, " I have lived 
 my life as best I could within the power of human limitation " 
 and " I am worn out in the service of a great cause." 
 
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Funeral Services 
 
 Washington, D. C, October 19, 1912. 
 
 Simple funeral services for the late Senator Weldon Bmnton 
 Heyburn, of Idaho, were held this afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the 
 family home here. The services were conducted by Rev. Ulysses 
 G. B. Pierce, Chaplain of the Senate. The apartment was crowded 
 with friends assembled to pay their last respects, among them 
 several Members of the Senate, various Government officials, and 
 personal friends not in official life. After prayer. Dr. Pierce read 
 a selection from the Psalms and fourteenth chapter of John, and 
 also selections from Lowell's " Elegy on the Death of Dr. Chan- 
 ning," which was particularly appropriate, and from Whittier's 
 "The Eternal Goodness." Having long known Senator Heyburn, 
 Chaplain Pierce paid a personal tribute to him as a man and as a 
 statesman. The services were brief and closed with prayer. 
 There was no music. 
 
 The body of Senator Heyburn was placed in a handsome black 
 broadcloth-covered casket with silver mountings, a duplicate of 
 that in which the late Justice Harlan was buried. It bears a 
 silver plate inscribed: 
 
 " Weldon Brinton Heyburn, May 23, 1852, October 17, 1912." 
 
 The parlor of the Heyburn home, in which the body lay, was 
 literally filled with flowers, the tributes of loving friends. The 
 casket was banked high and the pedestals completely hidden 
 with blooms, while around the room were innumerable set pieces 
 and clusters of flowers. From the Senate was a large cluster of 
 American Beauty roses, orchids, violets, lilies, and white chrys- 
 anthemums. The Republican League of Idaho sent an anchor of 
 white roses, the Idaho Woolgrowers' Association a bank of white 
 roses and white chrysanthemums, and the lead workers of the 
 Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine a wreath of American Beauty roses 
 intermingled with orchids and pink chrysanthemums. 
 
 Accompanying the remains of Senator Heyburn to-morrow will 
 be the widow; the Senator's two brothers, Elwood and William; 
 his sister-in-law, Miss Mary Florence Yeatman; his sister, Mrs. 
 Henry C. Marshall, and her husband; and his two secretaries. 
 Miss Ellen C. Talbot and Hugh F. Smith. 
 
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 The casket was draped with American flags, the first flags to 
 carry stars of Arizona and New Mexico. One of the flags was 
 the identical flag that floated over the United States Senate the 
 night the Senator made his last address in that Chamber. 
 
 To-morrow morning the remains will be taken on an early train 
 to Pennsylvania for burial. 
 
 Vice President Sherman appointed as a committee from the 
 United States Senate to attend the funeral Senators Borah, Gal- 
 linger, Lodge, Bacon, Martin, Warren, McCumber, Bailey, Dilling- 
 ham, Clapp, Clarke of Arkansas, Clark of Wyoming, Smoot, Stone, 
 Oliver, Pomerene, and Paynter. 
 
 [From the Daily Local News, West Chester, Pa., Oct. 21, 1912] 
 
 BURIAL OF SENATOR HEYBURN- — OVER 1,000 PEOPLE WITNESS THE LAST 
 
 RITES AT BIRMINGHAM DELEGATION FROM UNITED STATES SENATE 
 
 AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WERE PRESENT AS HONORARY PALL- 
 BEARERS TOUCHING ADDRESSES AT GRAVE 
 
 Just as the October sun was descending in the west, tinting the 
 trees in the background in their fall foliage with a halo of golden 
 colors, fully 1,000 persons, many of whom were people of note, 
 stood with bowed heads in the historic little Birmingham Ceme- 
 tery and paid silent tribute as the remains of United States Senator 
 Weldon Brinton Heyburn were lowered into the grave. 
 
 In the crowd that stood with uncovered heads were several of 
 his colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives, who 
 had come on a special train from Washington to pay their respects 
 to the dead statesman, and all of them showed the deep feeling 
 they cherished for the man whom they had grown to love even 
 if in some of the battles he had waged for the country's good they 
 had not agreed with his views. 
 
 Long before the funeral procession arrived many teams and 
 automobiles drove into the cemetery, while many, owing to the 
 beautiful day, walked from near-by points, and while waiting for 
 the remains to arrive wended their way through the " little city 
 of the dead " and viewed the graves of relatives and friends long 
 since departed. 
 
 The funeral party arrived in West Chester from Washington on 
 a special train at 1.15. The front coach contained the committee 
 
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 which represented the United States Senate, of which Mr. Hey- 
 BUBN was a member, and consisted of Senator Thomas H. Paynter, 
 of Kentucky; Senator Atlee Pomerene, of Ohio; Senator George T. 
 Oliver, of Pennsylvania; and Senator Bankhead, of Alabama. 
 Congressman R. O. Moon, of Philadelphia, representing the House 
 of Representatives, was also in the party. The committee was in 
 charge of Deputy Sergeant at Arms of the Senate E. L. Cornelius 
 and Acting Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives 
 William D. Nichols. In the other coaches were Mrs. Heyburn; 
 William Heyburn, of Kentucky; Mrs. Wesley Batting, of Montclair, 
 N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Marshall, of Swarthmore, Pa.; Mr. and 
 Mrs. EUwood M. Heyburn, of Swarthmore, Pa., a brother of the 
 late Senator; and many other relatives who were accompanying 
 the remains to their last resting place. 
 
 Arriving in this place the party took cabs and followed the 
 hearse to Birmingham Meeting House. Here Congressman Thomas 
 S. Butler, who was appointed on the committee from the House of 
 Representatives, met the party, and the funeral cortege was 
 formed with the Senators and Congressmen in the lead and the 
 remains, covered with the United States flag sent from the Senate 
 Chamber, the first one made containing the 48 stars, was carried 
 into the little meeting house, which by this time was filled to over- 
 flowing. The casket was placed in the front of the room and at 
 its head was placed a beautiful floral tribute from the United 
 States Senate in the shape of a wreath of roses and smilax on a 
 pedestal. In the gallery at the front of the room the pallbearers 
 and the Representatives from Washington were seated. 
 
 After a short period of silence Henry W. Wilbur, of Swarth- 
 more, a leading member of the Society of Friends, arose and 
 delivered a most beautiful talk on the virtues of the dead man. 
 His remarks, plainly heard all over the room and by those on the 
 outside, were perfect in thought as to the life of usefulness that 
 Senator Heyburn had lived and the great lesson he had taught the 
 living as to the doing of good and charitable acts. Mr. Wilbur's 
 remarks brought tears to the eyes of many by the able manner in 
 which they were delivered. 
 
 The substance of Mr. Wilbur's remarks follows: 
 
 " This large company of friends of Senator Heyburn's early 
 days, their children and their children's children, make words 
 idle and eulogy superfluous. They speak the general respect 
 
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 which the memory of his youth and the service of his manhood 
 have inspired. Yet to quote Whittier: 
 
 " ' It may be my friend might miss, 
 
 " ' In his new sphere of heart and mind, 
 " ' Some token of my hand in this.' 
 
 " Because of this feeling I pay a willing tribute to the departed 
 Senator. Whatever may be said we trust it will reflect his own 
 philosophy of life and the ideals which that philosophy devel- 
 oped, at the same time helping to bring the lesson of his labor 
 home to each one of us. 
 
 " It has been my privilege to watch Senator Heyburn from the 
 gallery many times during the past few years, and this obser- 
 vation has crystallized into certain definite conclusions. At the 
 center of his purpose was the quality of faithfulness. It was 
 rarely that Senator Heyburn was not found in his place as the 
 sessions of the Senate dragged their sometimes weary length along. 
 If others were loitering in the lobby or pursuing their private 
 interests, he was attending to his duties, as he saw them, as the 
 Senator of his adopted State. Seriousness of manner and direct- 
 ness of speech made him hew to the line. Yet his labor brought 
 a general recognition for honesty of purpose, so that some of his 
 best personal friends are those not of his political household of 
 faith. 
 
 " One distinct service which Senator Heyburn performed was 
 to put forever at rest the notion that a man who stands for the 
 established order must be a timeserver and dishonest at heart. 
 No one ever heard our friend assail what he fully believed to be 
 present-day folly or uphold the validity of the old ethical and 
 political standards without feeling that the utterance was that of 
 an honest man saying things, however unwelcome or unpleasant, 
 in which he profoundly believed. 
 
 " This simple lesson has vital value in our time, when the dis- 
 position is to measure worth by prejudice and seeming rather 
 than by the positive performances of the life. It may be in order 
 to say here that the preservation of free government in our coun- 
 try depends upon the recognition of individual worth and an 
 increase in the fundamental faith which men have in their fellow- 
 men. 
 
 " Senator Heyburn was distinctly a man of faith. That faith 
 skipped most of the intricacies of the theological formulas to 
 find its anchorage in the essentials which make up the fiber of a 
 
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 really spiritual religion. His faith in God was the faith of ex- 
 perience, as his faith in men was the product of knowledge and 
 eontact. 
 
 "Just before his eyes closed upon the things of the outward 
 day to open upon the hills of the eternal morning, the Senator 
 expressed to his brother the fullness of his heart. He knew that 
 the body, worn and torn in the public service, was about to be 
 dissolved, but he looked into the future, beyond its mists and its 
 mysteries, with hope and confidence and without fear. Of the 
 first immortality, made up of the stream of helpful influence 
 which a man leaves behind him, our friend had made himself 
 certain. In the second immortality, God's gracious gift of life 
 continuous, he had unshaken confidence. 
 
 " Living in and catching the softer spirit of our time, death to 
 him was not the visitation of an avenging fury, but another evi- 
 dence of the kindness and tender mercy of our heavenly Father. 
 Physical death is as biologically necessary as birth, and really no 
 more mysterious, for the mystery of the cradle is as dense as the 
 mystery of the coffin and both are only wisely met by a philos- 
 ophy of life which considers this life not simply a preparation 
 for death, but a getting ready for more life. In this really Chris- 
 tian and spiritual philosophy Senator Heyburn lived. The placid 
 contour of his face in death is evidence of the internal motives 
 of his life and labor. 
 
 " The last lesson of the hour, that impresses us in the presence 
 of the glory of the outward sunshine and the grandeur of our 
 friend's native hills, is the old lesson of human duty and sym- 
 pathy as they center themselves to meet the demands of human 
 need. It is the lesson so often illustrated of the magnificent way 
 our human nature responds to the extraordinary events of life. 
 In these limes we are always at our best; the selfish and the 
 brutish hide themselves, and the angel of our nature holds the 
 reins. Life at its best is simply life ordinarily as good as it is 
 when the calamity comes, and the extraordinary need impresses 
 itself upon us. 
 
 " Our philosophy of life, the practical gospel we profess, should 
 gradually remold us into the even tenor of the more divine life. 
 In this way we become more and more like our Elder Brother, 
 whose meat and drink was to do the will of the Father who sent 
 ffim." 
 
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 Deborah C. Leeds followed with a touching little talk, as did 
 Dr. Hannah M. Thompson, of Wilmington. 
 
 The casket was then opened and everyone present passed 
 through the room and gazed for the last time on the face of the 
 man who had befriended so many during his life. 
 
 At the grave the services were brief. Henry W. Wilbur deliv- 
 ered the following prayer: 
 
 " Our Father, we thank Thee for Thy great gift of life, with its 
 obligations and its opportunities. Wilt Thou so fill us with Thy 
 spirit that we shall always quit ourselves as becometh children of 
 the light. 
 
 " We thank Thee for the life and labor of our friend who has 
 gone before us to the silent land. For the strength of the hills 
 which was his and the loyal purpose of his heart as son, husband, 
 brother, and statesman we bless Thee. Wilt Thou make the mem- 
 ory of his faithfulness and devotion to duty an impulse for better 
 things to all who knew and loved him. Camp with Thy spirit 
 round about Thy servants, the servants of the people, that they 
 may serve Thee by serving men, standing in their places for the 
 perfection of the free constitutional government left us by the 
 fathers of the Republic. 
 
 " Visit his near and dear ones, we pray Thee, with the minis- 
 tration of Thy divine love, as the supreme comfort in the hour of 
 their extremity. When this good woman who has been our 
 friend's sympathetic helpmate misses the vanished hands, wilt 
 Thou put into her heart an eternal hope which shall ring as a joy 
 bell in her soul forever, until she goes to join the goodly company 
 of the loved but not the lost. 
 
 " Fill us all with an enduring faith and an unshaken confidence, 
 so that when the mists of the evening gather and we can not see 
 we shall look for the lamp of Thy spirit to guide us over the hills 
 into the morning land of God, feeling certain that Thou, the eter- 
 nal shepherd of souls, will lead us all through the green valleys 
 and beside the still waters of an immortal service. And Thine 
 shall be the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. 
 Amen." 
 
 Mrs. Isabell Shortlidge, widow of Joseph Shortlidge, of Con- 
 cordville, then advanced to the edge of the grave on the arm of 
 her son. Prof. Chauncey Shortlidge, and recited a poem. The 
 casket was then lowered into the grave while the near relatives 
 passed to view its last resting place. 
 
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 The active pallbearers, six cousins and nephews of the dead 
 man, were as follows: Harry Heyburn, Brandywine Summit; 
 Frank Heyburn, Philadelphia; Allen Heyburn, Philadelphia; Paul 
 Heyburn, Brandywine Summit; Wayne Marshall, Swarthmore; 
 George Gamble, West Chester. Frank D. Heyburn and W. Allen 
 Heyburn, two of the bearers, are the sons of Hon. George E. Hey- 
 burn, formerly a member of the legislature from Delaware County, 
 and first cousins of the late Senator Heyburn — George E. Heyburn 
 and Senator Heyburn's father being brothers. 
 
 The floral tributes, many and handsome, were conveyed to the 
 cemetery in two wagons, and, after the services, were heaped 
 over the grave. They consisted of the wreath sent by the United 
 States Senate, a beautiful wreath of roses from the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, a large anchor from the Republican Club of Idaho, 
 a ladder with a broken rung from the Bar Association of Idaho, 
 wreaths from Idaho Woolgrowers' Association and lead workers 
 of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine, Wardner, Idaho, a pillow of 
 roses and violets from several employees in Washington, besides 
 numerous other smaller pieces. 
 
 In the huge crowd that assembled at the grave were noticed 
 the following persons who had been friendly with the dead Sen- 
 ator during his life: Judge William Voorhees, New York City; 
 Judge Isaac Johnson, V. Gilpin Robinson, Media; Hon. Richard J. 
 Baldwin, Chadds Ford; I. Gary Carver and family, John Huey, 
 George Huey, A. P. Ingram and wife, Horace Butler, C. Wesley 
 Talbot, Esq., William M. Hayes, Esq., Dr. and Mrs. G. M. Philips, 
 Samuel D. Ramsey, Esq., Harris L. Sproat, Esq., Harvey Darlington 
 and family, Thomas W. Baldwin, Esq., Morris Shields, Alban Har- 
 vey, John Cuncannon, and Thomas Grady (Kennett Square), Mr. 
 and Mrs. Samuel L. Martindale, Edwin S. Darlington, Norman Bar- 
 nard, W. W. Heed, T. Darlington Frame, Casper Darlington, Jesse 
 Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. W. Harry Cochran, James F. Cobourn and 
 wife. Dr. Frank P. Cobourn, Joseph Johnson (Downington), 
 James Garvin (Oxford), Percy Darlington, George Lance (Phila- 
 delphia). 
 
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Proclamation by the Governor of Idaho 
 
 In the death of United States Senator Weldon B. Heyburn the 
 State of Idaho has lost her leading citizen and most honored pub- 
 lic servant, and sorrow has entered every home : Now, I, James H. 
 Hawley, governor of Idaho, voice the universal sentiment of the 
 people of the State in requesting that the date of the funeral of 
 our distinguished fellow citizen — Sunday, October 20, 1912 — be 
 observed as a day of mourning throughout the Commonwealth 
 that he loved so dearly and served with such marked zeal, ability, 
 and unflinching courage. 
 
 May the American flag on all public and private buildings float 
 at half-mast, and in the religious gatherings of the day may the 
 life of the departed statesman be made the theme of patriotic 
 services as a token of the esteem and love in which Weldon B. 
 Heyburn was held by his fellow citizens. His memory will be 
 cherished for the ages, for — 
 
 His life was gentle, and the elements 
 
 So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up 
 
 And say to all the world, " This was a man 1 " 
 
 Done at the capitol at Boise, Idaho, this 19th day of October, 
 A. D. 1912. 
 
 James H. Hawley, 
 
 Governor of Idaho. 
 By the governor: 
 
 W. L. GiFFORD, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
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Concurrent Resolution of the Idaho Legislature 
 
 Whereas Almighty God in His infinite wisdom has removed from 
 the ranks of earthly endeavor Hon. Weldon B. Heyburn, a stal- 
 wart in the higher ideals and principles of civic life and the 
 better human achievements; and 
 
 Whereas his death has caused a great loss to the Commonwealth 
 of Idaho and to the Federal Government and to his family and 
 friends: Now, therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved by the senate (the house of representatives concur- 
 ring), That as a token of the keen appreciation for services ren- 
 dered in behalf of the State of Idaho and the Federal Government 
 that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the 
 journals of both houses and that a copy suitably engrossed be 
 sent to his widow. 
 
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 [From the Idaho Statesman, Boise, March 3, 1913] 
 
 MEMORIAL HELD FOR SENATOR HEYBURN ^DECEASED SOLON EULOGIZED 
 
 IN ADDRESS UPON CHARACTER DISPLAYED BY HIM A CONSCIENTIOUS 
 
 WORKER HAD THE COURAGE OF HIS CONVICTIONS AND FEARED NOT 
 
 POPULAR CLAMOR 
 
 The character of the late Senator Heyburn formed the theme 
 of the eulogies paid to his memory at the memorial exercises held 
 in the Pinney Theater yesterday afternoon. The theater was well 
 filled with members of the legislature and many friends of the 
 former senior Senator from this State attended the exercises. 
 Lieut. Gov. Taylor presided during the afternoon and addresses 
 were made by A. A. Fraser and Judge J. H. Richards. Glowing 
 tributes were given to the memory of Senator Heyburn, in which 
 he was characterized as a man who did not care for popularity, 
 but rather secured his joy from his work by believing that the 
 things which he advocated were right. 
 
 A. A. Fraser, the first speaker to pay tribute to the work of Sen- 
 ator Heyburn during the time he represented this State in the 
 upper House of Congress, began his address by referring to the 
 legal attainments of the deceased Senator and his standing among 
 the members of the bar of this and other States in the Northwest. 
 He referred to the great works performed by Senator Heyburn 
 for the benefit of the Nation and the State. The speaker said 
 although he was not a popular man in the accepted sense of the 
 word, that he was a man who had the courage of his convictions 
 and would not stop because he thought that some one might be 
 offended by his telling the truth about matters of legislation or 
 sounding warnings concerning the unstability of the theories ad- 
 vocated by those who wished to secure the attention of the public 
 ear through demagogic utterances. 
 
 Mr. Fraser during his eulogy referred to the painstaking man- 
 ner in which the late Senator did the work which was assigned to 
 him without fear that the position taken or the opinion reached by 
 him would not be popular with the great masses. He referred 
 
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 to the widow of the late Senator and the great regard he had for 
 his home. 
 
 Judge J. H. Richards, in speaking of the late Senator, stated 
 that he thought that he developed his rugged character from his 
 early associations on the farm and in the placer mining camps 
 of the North. He recalled various incidents in the life of the late 
 Senator with which he had personal contact. In speaking of 
 Senator Heyburn, Judge Richards said: 
 
 "Although the great majoritj' did not agree with him in all 
 things, yet there were qualities in his character which were ad- 
 mired by all people. Senator Heyburn would have risen to prom- 
 inence in any race of people or any nation, because he had the 
 courage of his convictions and was not afraid to voice them, even 
 if the entire State turned against him for doing so. 
 
 " He had the qualities which make lor enduring greatness rather 
 than for transitory praise and momentary popularity. It is not 
 the person of Senator Heyburn that we honor here to-day, but it 
 is those qualities which made his character great that we wish to 
 extol for those who are to come after us. These are qualities 
 which we call noble and go to make up the man; these are the 
 qualities which we call true and which made the late Senator 
 brave and true to his convictions. He was the same always, not 
 shifting with the winds of sentiment. 
 
 " It is not the man who always agrees with us that is the safest 
 man for us to follow. It is not the man who rides along on the 
 wave of popularity that does us the most good. The man who 
 has the courage to stand up and tear from our faces the mask of 
 hypocrisy so that we may see ourselves as the world sees us is 
 the man that does the most good for his State and Nation. The 
 man who ia always studying the needs of his country and who 
 warns the people of impending clamors and urges them to guard 
 themselves against certain things is the safe man to listen to in 
 the hour of need. Such a man was Senator Heyburn, who feared 
 nothing and who foretold many of the things which are here and 
 which every indication points to coming. 
 
 " When he was in the Senate he did not feel that he represented 
 a little coterie of citizens in Idaho or anywhere else. He repre- 
 sented the Nation at large, and his opinions and convictions were 
 based upon that theory of representation. When he stood in the 
 Halls of Congress and voiced his opinion upon matters, no man 
 from Idaho needed to be ashamed of him or feel reluctant to 
 
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 admit that Idaho produced men like him. No man was ever con- 
 fronted by a foe more worthy of his steel than Senator Heyburn, 
 whether it was in legal battle, upon the stump, or in the making 
 of laws for the government of the Nation. It mattered not to him 
 whether the whole State of Idaho disagreed with him or not, be- 
 cause he never voiced his opinions until he was satisfied he was 
 right. He did not fear that he would say something unpopular. 
 It takes a man of sterling character to stand out before all and 
 tell the truth concerning matters in this day and age, and Senator 
 Heyburn was one of the few men who had that courage and 
 feared no one. 
 
 " He was an industrious man at all times. He did his work 
 without thought of monetary remuneration, but rather from a 
 love of doing things right. If he attempted to dig a ditch he 
 would not think of how much he was to receive for it, but rather 
 would want to dig a better ditch than had been dug before. 
 
 " When the matter of placing the statue of Robert E. Lee in the 
 Capitol at Washington was before the Senate, Senator Heyburn 
 objected. He did not object upon the ground of the individuality 
 of Lee or upon the ground that any individual was involved. He 
 looked at the matter as a thing affecting the Nation. The rebellion 
 was uppermost in his mind and not the individuals who fought 
 in that great war. What he objected to was the rebellion and not 
 to Lee. In this he showed he was not a man concerned about the 
 popular will. It takes courage for a man, whether it be in poli- 
 tics, religion, or socially, to stand up and state his real convictions 
 upon the matter. 
 
 " If the people understood the motives which were behind Sen- 
 ator Heyburn they would love him better." 
 
 Representative A. H. Conner read the joint memorial of the two 
 houses of the legislature upon the death of Senator Heyburn, 
 and it was adopted by a rising vote. The program of the after- 
 noon was as follows: 
 
 Invocation, senate chaplain, A. B. Wright; music, orchestra; 
 eulogy, Hon. A. A. Fraser; music, orchestra; eulogy, Hon. J. H. 
 Richards; the question on the adoption of the resolution; bene- 
 diction, house chaplain, A. L. Chapman; music; and assembly 
 dissolves. 
 
 Legislative committee on arrangements: George W. Edgington, 
 senator Bonneville and Bingham Counties; A. H. Conner, repre- 
 sentative Bonner County; P. G. Johnston, representative Bingham 
 County. 
 
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Tributes 
 
 Among the many messages of sympathy received by 
 Mrs. Heyburn were the following: 
 
 [Telegram from President Taft] 
 
 Beverly, Mass.. October IS. 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. Taft and I extend to you our heartfelt sympathy in your 
 great sorrow. Senator Heyburn was an able, consistent, cour- 
 ageous statesman and patriot, and I greatly mourn his loss. 
 
 Wm. H. Taft. 
 
 [Telegram from Vice President Sherman] 
 
 Utica, N. Y., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I am shocked and grieved almost beyond expression at Senator 
 Heyburn's taking away. I have long known, with all his intimate 
 friends, that he has stood at his place in the Senate when he 
 should have been in an invalid bed, but his marvelous bravery and 
 indomitable will it seemed could and would withstand the rav- 
 ages of physical disease. Alas, that it could not! In his death 
 his country has lost a truly great and patriotic character, a states- 
 man of broad and liberal views, who in the discharge of weighty 
 and numerous obligations knew neither fear nor fatigue, whose 
 sole rule of action was " My country's best good." He will for 
 long be missed by the associates whose admiration and regard 
 his merits and worth won and held. Personally I had for him 
 the veneration and affection of a parent. That affection will en- 
 dure to you who knew him as no other on earth and to whom 
 this blow is overwhelming. I offer deepest and tenderest sym- 
 pathy, in which Mrs. Sherman joins. 
 
 James S. Sherman. 
 
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 [Telegram from former Vice President Fairbanks] 
 
 Iowa City, Iowa, October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C.: 
 Accept my profound sympathy in your great sorrow. I greatly 
 admired Senator Heyburn — an able, fearless public servant. 
 
 Charles W. Fairbanks. 
 
 [Telegram from former Speaker Cannon] 
 
 Danville, III., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 With deep regret I learn of the death of your distinguished 
 husband. Able, strong, courageous, he lived up to the best tradi- 
 tions of American manhood and served his country well. Accept 
 my sympathy in your great bereavement. 
 
 Joseph G. Cannon. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Borah] 
 
 Cottonwood, Idaho, October 17, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I tender you in your great bereavement my sincere sympathy. 
 The State has indeed lost a great Senator. Anything I can do 
 to help you in your sorrow please let me know. 
 
 William E. Borah. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Lodge] 
 
 Nahant, Mass., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Deeply grieved by news of Senator Heyburn's death. Please 
 accept most heartfelt sympathy from Mrs. Lodge and myself. 
 
 H. C. Lodge. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Dillingham] 
 
 Montpelier, Vt., October 19, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I beg to assure you of my deep sympathy in your great sorrow 
 and to express my regret that, owing to engagements which it is 
 too late to break, I shall not be able to be present at the funeral on 
 
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 Sunday as a member of the Senate committee appointed by the 
 Vice President. 
 
 W. P. Dillingham. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Bacon] 
 
 New York, N. Y., October IS, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington. D. C: 
 I beg to express my profound sympathy and personal sorrow in 
 the death of Senator Heybvrn, for whom I entertained warm per- 
 sonal regard and friendship. His passing away is a distinct loss 
 to the Senate and Nation. 
 
 A. O. Bacon. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Penrose] 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa., October IS, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Accept my sincere sympathy in the great bereavement you have 
 experienced in the death of your distinguished husband. 
 
 Boies Penrose. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Clark, of Wyoming] 
 
 Waterloo, Iowa, October IS, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. Clark and myself join in heartfelt sympathy with you in 
 your great sorrow. The country has suffered an irreparable loss, 
 but Senator Heyburn's works will follow and prove a permanent 
 and inspiring benefit. 
 
 C. D. Clark. 
 [Telegram from Senator Fletcher] 
 
 Jacksonville, Fla., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Let me tender my sincere sympathy. 
 
 Duncan U. Fletcher. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Lea] 
 
 Nashville, Tenn., October IS, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. Lea joins me in deepest sympathy upon the death of your 
 distinguished husband. 
 
 Luke Lea. 
 
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 [Telegram from Senator Massey] 
 
 Reno, Nev.. October 18. 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. Massey and I extend our deepest sympathy in your great 
 bereavement. The State of Idaho and the country have suffered 
 an irreparable loss. 
 
 W. A. Massey. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator McLean] 
 
 Roland Springs, Me., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Please accept deepest sympathy from Mrs. McLean and myself. 
 
 George P. McLean. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Wetmore] 
 
 New York City, N. Y., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 We are greatly grieved at the Senator's death. Wish to offer 
 our deepest sympathy to you. In his death our country loses an 
 upright and fearless representative. My wife sends you her best 
 love. 
 
 Geo. Peabody Wetmore. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator W^atson] 
 
 Fairmont, W. Va., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 The deatli of Senator Heyburn shocics me beyond expression. 
 You have ray most sincere sympatliy. 
 
 C. W. Watson. 
 
 [Telegram from Senator Sanders] 
 
 Chattanooga, Tenn., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I am very much grieved over the death of Senator Heyburn. 
 He was especially beloved to me. 
 
 Newell Sanders. 
 
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 [Cablegram from Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim] 
 
 Paris, France, October 19, 1912. 
 Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 You have our heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim. 
 
 [Telegram from former Senator Ankeny] 
 
 Walla Walla, Wash., October, 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. Ankeny joins in sympathy in your deep atOiction. 
 
 Levi Ankeny. 
 
 [Telegram from Gov. Hawley, of Idaho] 
 
 MoNTPELiER, Idaho, October 17, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I sympathize with your bereavement, which is also the State's. 
 
 James H. Hawley. 
 
 [Telegram from Representative French] 
 
 Portland, Oreo., October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 Mrs. French and I are inexpressibly shocked and grieved be- 
 cause of death of Senator Heyburn. Idaho has lost her fore- 
 most citizen and the Nation one of her ablest statesmen. We ex- 
 tend to you our deepest sympathy in this hour. 
 
 Burton L. French. 
 
 [Telegram from former Gov. Brady] 
 
 Pocatello, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I was shocked and grieved to learn of the passing away of your 
 distinguished husband. In his death the Nation has lost one of its 
 greatest statesmen and Idaho one of her most valued citizens. 
 There is no part of the history of Idaho that can be written with- 
 out giving Senator Heyburn favorable mention for honest and 
 splendid work for the betterment and upbuilding of our State. 
 "Your grief is my grief, and I extend to you in this hour of be- 
 reavement ray most heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 James H. Brady. 
 
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 [Telegram from former Governor and Mrs. Gooding, of Idaho] 
 
 Gooding, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. Gooding joins me in sending you our deepest sympathy in 
 the death of your husband. The State of Idaho and the Nation 
 have lost one of their strongest characters. He always had the 
 courage to fight for those things that he believed were right, and 
 those who knew him best loved him most. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Gooding. 
 
 [Telegram from United States Judge Dietrich] 
 
 PocATELLO, Idaho, October 18, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I learned of death of Senator Heyburn with the deepest sorrow. 
 Please accept my sincere sympathy. The loss to the State is im- 
 measurable. 
 
 F. S. Dietrich. 
 
 (Telegram from Addison T. Smith, secretary to Senator Heyburn] 
 
 Tekoa, Wash., October 17, 1912. 
 Mrs. W. B. Heyburn, 
 
 Washington, D. C: 
 I am greatly shocked to learn of the Senator's death and hasten 
 to extend my most sincere sympathy. Truly a great man has gone 
 whose marvelous intellect and distinguished service to his country 
 have made an impression on the people which time will not efface. 
 Regret I can not be with you in this hour of grief. 
 
 Addison T. Smith. 
 
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