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JAMES P. CLARKE 
 
 ( Late a Senator from Arkansas ) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 
 
 AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS 
 SECOND SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in tlie Senate 
 February 18, 1917 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February 18, 1917 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 1917 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Proceedings in tlie Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Preltyman, D. D 5 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas 13 
 
 Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts 24 
 
 Mr. Nathan P. Bryan, of Florida 29 
 
 Mr. Thomas W. Hardvvick, of Georgia 30 
 
 Mr. Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 32 
 
 Mr. Willard Saulsbury, of Delaware 35 
 
 Mr. William E. Borah, of Idaho 38 
 
 Proceedings in the House 43 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 44 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. William A. Oldfleld, of Arkansas 47 
 
 Mr. Samuel M. Taylor, of Arkansas 51 
 
 Mr. Thaddeus H. Caraway, of Arkansas 56 
 
 Mr. Otis Wingo, of Arkansas 60 
 
 Mr. John N. Tillman, of Arkansas 62 
 
 Mr. William S. Goodwin, of Arkansas 68 
 
 Mr. Henderson M. Jacoway, of Arkansas 74 
 
 Mr. Benjamin G. Humphreys, of Mississippi 82 
 
 Mr. Sam Rayburn, of Texas 86 
 
 Resolutions of the municipality of Calumpit, Bulacan, P. 1_ - 7 
 Resolutions of the municipal board of the city of Manila, 
 
 P. I 8 
 
 Proceedings and resolutions of the municipal council of 
 
 Calauan, P. I 10 
 
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:ES R CLARKE 
 
DEATH OF HON. JAMES P. CLARKE 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Monday, December 4, 1916. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 Almighty God, the representatives of the people have 
 gathered together to give direction to the course of the 
 civil affairs of this great Nation. We recognize Thy good 
 hand that has led us on from the beginning until this day. 
 We acknowledge before Thee first of all our infinite debt 
 of gratitude and would make mention of Thy name, the 
 name of the God of our fathers, which is above every 
 name to us and to the Nation. 
 
 We desire to renew our covenant with Thee to enter 
 into heartiest accord with Thy will and Thy purpose. 
 We praise Thee that Thou dost continue us in brotherly 
 spirit and unity of purpose; that nothing has occurred in 
 this Nation since we last met which has separated brother 
 from brother or our recognition of our common interests 
 or the pursuit of our high ideals. We pray that Thou 
 will continue to us the blessings of the past; that Thou 
 wilt give to us a common purpose, the strength of con- 
 viction and loyalty to the great ideals of our national life. 
 
 We name before Thee in loving memory and in high 
 appreciation one who has departed from us since we last 
 met. We praise Thy name for the high example that he 
 has set, for the service that he has rendered to the coun- 
 try, for the memory that abides to be cherished on 
 through the days of our national life. 
 
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 We pray Thee to equip these men whom Thou dost tliis 
 day call into Thy service of leadership, that they may 
 have wisdom and grace to follow the example of those 
 who have lived high lives and have served Thee humbly 
 and faithfully, so that they may have a part in the future 
 glory of our great Nation. 
 
 Forgive our national sins. Accept our praises for Thy 
 loving-kindness, and bless all the people. For Christ's 
 sake. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Robinson submitted the following resolutions (S. 
 Res. 281), which were read: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the 
 State of Arkansas and President pro tempore of the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The Vice President. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions submitted by the Senator from Arkansas. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, as a further mark of re- 
 spect to the memory of my late colleague, I move that the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 3 
 o'clock and 8 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, December 5, 1916, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
 Tuesday, December 12, 1916. 
 The Vice President presented resolutions adopted by 
 sundry citizens of the municipality of Calumpit, Bulacan, 
 P. I., in mass meeting assembled, on the death of Hon. 
 James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Ar- 
 kansas and President pro tempore of the Senate, which 
 were ordered to lie on the table and to be printed in the 
 Record, as follows : 
 
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 [Translation] 
 
 Calimpit. Bllacan, P. I., 
 
 November 1, 1916. 
 Sir: I have the honor to forward you, inclosed herewith, copy 
 of a resolution of sympathy adopted by the residents of this 
 municipality of Calumpit, Bulacan, upon the death of the Senator 
 from Arkansas, United States, Hon. James P. Clabke, valiant de- 
 fender of Philippine independence, in order that you may advise 
 the American Senate thereof. 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 M. Serrano. 
 The Secretary of the American Senate, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 [Translation] 
 
 MESSAGE OF SYMPATHY 
 
 Calumpit, Bulacan, P. I., 
 
 October 29, 1916. 
 The town of Calumpit voices the regret created throughout the 
 Philippines by the news of the death of Hon. James P. Clarke, 
 Senator from Arkansas, in a mass meeting composed of the resi- 
 dents of said municipality, held on this date at 6 p. m. in the 
 Plaza Rizal, opposite the city hall. After a patriotic address 
 delivered by the municipal president, Mr. Mariano Serrano, upon 
 the death of Hon. James P. Clarke, Senator from Arkansas, it was 
 agreed, in the form of a resolution, to express the sympathy of 
 the town of Calumpit for the death of the Senator, and for which 
 purpose a committee of three was appointed, composed of Messrs. 
 Mariano Serrano, Deogracias Macam, and Sergio Cespedez, to 
 draft and send the message of sympathy. 
 
 RESOLUTION 
 
 Whereas the Manila press, in telegrams received from the United 
 States, has given the sad news of the death in America of 
 Senator James P. Cl.\bke; 
 
 Whereas it is common knowledge that the deceased Senator is the 
 author of the famous amendment called the " Clarke amend- 
 ment," whereby the concession of absolute independence to the 
 Philippines was provided, to take effect in not less than two 
 nor more than four years; 
 
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 Whereas said amendment, while through unprecedented efforts of 
 some enemies to our cause in the United States, was not con- 
 verted into law, was a faithful and unmistakable expression of 
 the sympathies of the illustrious Senator, deceased, with the 
 cause of independence of the Filipino people; 
 
 Whereas in the death of Senator James P. Clarke the Philippine 
 Islands have lost one of their most loyal, enthusiastic, and de- 
 termined supporters of their cause: Therefore the town of 
 Calumpit 
 Resolved, To express, as it hereby does express, the profound 
 
 sorrow with which it has received the news of the death of Hon. 
 
 James P. Clabke, of Arkansas, Member of the United States Senate 
 
 and President pro tempore thereof. 
 
 Resolved further. That the committee appointed forward copies 
 
 of this resolution to the Senate of the United States, to the family 
 
 of the deceased, and to the Manila press, especially to the papers 
 
 El Ideal and Consolidacion, for its publication, as well as to the 
 
 two houses of the Philippine Legislature. 
 
 Mariano Serrano. 
 Deogracias Macam. 
 Sergio C^spedez. 
 
 Saturday, December 16, 1916. 
 
 The Vice President presented resolutions adopted by 
 the municipal board of Manila, Philippine Islands, on 
 the death of Hon. James P. Clarke, late a United States 
 Senator from the State of Arkansas, which were ordered 
 to lie on the table. 
 
 The resolutions and letter of transmittal are as follows: 
 
 City of Manila, Municipal Board, 
 
 November 6, 1916. 
 Sir: I have the honor to send you herewith self-explanatory 
 copy of resolution adopted by the municipal board of the city of 
 Manila, and to request that the same be read in the United States 
 Senate, of which you are the honorable President. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Perfecto del Rosario, 
 
 Secretary. 
 To the President United States Senate, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
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 EXCERPT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE MUNICIPAL BOARD OF THE CITY 
 OF MANILA OF NOVEMBER C, 1016 
 
 Wliereas the Almighty God has seen fit to take to His bosom the 
 pure soul of Hon. James P. Clarke, late United States Senator 
 from the State of Arkansas; 
 
 Whereas the Hon. James P. Clarke during his long life has evi- 
 denced before his countrymen and foreigners the austerity of 
 his conscience by practicing what is right and doing what 
 is just; 
 
 Whereas the Hon. J. P. Clarke moved and tenaciously and 
 heroically defended his very well-known amendment to the 
 then Jones bill; 
 
 Whereas said favorable amendment was the best that could fit 
 the warmest Filipino love for his national independence, at the 
 same time guaranteeing the absolute transfer under firm and 
 sure basis, the actual United States sovereignty over the Philip- 
 pines to the Filipino people within a period of time not less 
 than two nor more than four years; 
 
 Whereas in this country from time immemorial come forth by 
 spontaneous generation the fragrant and delicate flower of 
 gratitude : Therefore be it 
 Resolved by this municipal board, as now it hereby does, to 
 
 manifest its profoundest sorrow for the death of the honorable 
 
 Senator from Arkansas, J. P. Clarke, making its condolence of 
 
 record and sending copies of this resolution to the distinguished 
 
 family of the deceased and to the United States Senate. 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy 
 
 of resolution adopted from the minutes of the municipal board 
 
 on the date above written. 
 
 Dominador Gomez, 
 
 President. 
 City of Manila, Municipal Board, 
 
 November 7, 1916. 
 
 Thursday, January 11, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Kern. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that 
 
 on Saturday, the 17th day of Februarj-. 1917, immediately 
 
 after the routine morning business, the Senate will be 
 
 asked to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
 
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 life, character, and public services of Senator Benjamin 
 F. Shively, of Indiana; of Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
 Maine; and of Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 
 Saturday, January 13, 1917. 
 
 The Presiding OfTicer laid before the Senate a message 
 of condolence from the municipal council of Calauan, 
 Laguna, Philippine Islands, on the death of Hon. James P. 
 Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas, which 
 was referred to the Committee on the Philippines. 
 
 The message and resolutions arc as follows: 
 
 [Translation] 
 
 Municipal Government of Calauan, 
 
 Laguna, P. I. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION HELD 
 BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF CALAUAN AT 7 O'CLOCK ON NOVEM- 
 BER 2, 1916 
 
 Present: Mr. Ramon Linidico, president pro tempore; Mr. Juan 
 Castro, Mr. Laureano Calongcalong, Mr. Simeon Javier, Mr. Brigido 
 Pascual, Mr. Julian Aquino, Mr. Cipriano Malate, Mr. Agustin 
 Mediarito, councilors. 
 
 Absent : Mr. Caspar Fajardo, president. 
 
 Note. — One seat on the council vacant. 
 
 Mr. Ramon Limdico, municipal vice president, acting president 
 in the absence of the incumbent, reported to the council a reso- 
 lution of the municipal president, Mr. Caspar Fajardo, in con- 
 sequence of the sad notice published by the press relative to the 
 death of the Hon. James P. Clarke, Senator from Arkansas, United 
 States of America, who in life defended the early independence 
 of the Philippines. 
 
 On motion of Councilor Brigido Pascual, seconded by all those 
 present, the following was agreed upon : 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. 6i 
 
 Whereas the Hon. James P. Clarke died in Little Rock, Ark., on 
 tlie 1st of the present month of October; 
 
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 Whereas the Hon. James P. Clarke during the discussion of the 
 
 present Jones bill introduced an amendment that conceded 
 
 independence to the Philippines within a period of not more 
 
 than four years or less than two years; 
 
 Whereas in the death of the Hon. James P. Clarke the Philippines 
 
 have lost one of the best defenders of their cause: Therefore 
 
 Resolved, That the municipal council of Calauan, Province of 
 
 Laguna, P. I., express, as it hereby expresses, the profound sorrow 
 
 with which it has received the news of the death of the Hon. 
 
 James P. Clarke, and 
 
 Resolved further. That the municipal secretary of this body be 
 ordered to send a certified copy of this resolution to the Senate 
 of the United Slates of America through the provincial board, as 
 well as to the family of the deceased and to the press. 
 
 I certify that the foregoing resolution is faithfully transcribed. 
 
 Q. P. Tesoro, 
 Municipal Secretary. 
 
 Copy for the Senate of the United States of America, through 
 the provincial board of Laguna, P. I. 
 Office of the Municip.\l Secretary, 
 
 Calauan, La Laguna, P. /. 
 
 [First indorsement] 
 
 The Provincl\l Government of Laguna, 
 
 Santa Cruz, P. L, 
 November 29, 1916. 
 Respectfully forwarded to the Senate of the United States of 
 America. 
 
 By order of the provincial board. 
 
 Casto Mandi, 
 Secretary Provincial Board. 
 
 Thursd.^iy, February 15, 1917. 
 Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, some days ago the Senator 
 from Indiana [Mr. Kern] gave notice that on Saturday, 
 the 17th day of February, 1917, immediately after the 
 routine morning business, he would ask the Senate to 
 consider resolutions in commemoration of the life, char- 
 acter, and public services of the late Senator Benjamin 
 
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 F. Shively, of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, 
 of Maine; and of the late Senator James P. Clarke, of 
 Arkansas. A conference has been held by Senators from 
 the States of Indiana, Maine, and Arkansas, and at the 
 suggestion of the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] and 
 other Senators, and for the convenience of Senators, I 
 submit a request for unanimous consent, as follows: 
 
 That the Senate convene on Sunday, February 18, 1917, at 11 
 o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
 life, character, and public services of the late Senator Benjamin 
 F. Shively, of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
 Maine; and the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Beckham in the chair). Is 
 there objection to the unanimous - consent agreement? 
 The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 
 
 Sunday, February 18, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, pursuant to the notice 
 heretofore given, I offer the resolutions which I send to 
 the desk and ask for their adoption. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the 
 State of Arkansas. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, 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. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. President: The notable career of the late Senator 
 James P. Clarke, of Arkansas, was closed by sudden 
 death on October 1, 1916. Within four months after his 
 demise the legislature of our State adopted a resolution 
 providing for the erection of his statue in Statuary Hall 
 in commemoration of his services to Arkansas and to 
 the Nation. 
 
 Mr. Clarke was horn in Yazoo City, Miss., August 18, 
 1854. He studied in the common schools and other local 
 educational institutions of Mississippi and graduated in 
 law at the University of Virginia in 1878. He entered 
 upon the practice of his profession at Helena, Ark., in 
 the following year. In 1886 his political career began with 
 service in the lower house of the general assembly. In 
 1888 he was elected to the State senate for a term of four 
 years, becoming president pro tempore of that body and 
 ex officio lieutenant governor. In 1892 he was elected at- 
 torney general of Arkansas, and in 1894 governor of that 
 State. Three years later he resumed the practice of law 
 at Little Rock and actively pursued his profession until 
 his election to the United States Senate in 1902. His serv- 
 ice in this body began March 4, 1903, and his influential 
 activities here continued until his death. 
 
 The action of the General Assembly of Arkansas in 
 authorizing the statue of Senator Clarke to be placed in 
 our National Hall of Fame within so short a time follow- 
 ing his departure is an unusual tribute. Considered in 
 connection with the fact that he had many personal an- 
 tagonisms and political controversies, the enmities of 
 
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 which must have survived him, this tribute to his charac- 
 ter and services is the more pronounced. Tliis honor was 
 prompted by appreciation of the personal integrity and 
 marked ability which characterized the private and pub- 
 lic career of Senator Clarke rather than by affection and 
 gratitude. There are other names associated with the 
 progress of Arkansas that thrill her people with loving 
 memories. Gen. Patrick Cleburne ranks with Jeb Stuart, 
 Bedford Forrest, and Stonewall Jackson in courage and 
 daring. The songs of Albert Pike, his chivalric, knightly 
 character and striking personality, render him immortal. 
 Augustus H. Garland was among the Nation's greatest 
 lawyers and statesmen. James K. Jones led his party for 
 many years with courage, fidelity, and distinction. U. M. 
 Rose was for the lifetime of a generation the most cul- 
 tured man at the American bar. His knowledge of liter- 
 ature and art was not greater than his comprehension of 
 the principles of justice and equity, which form the basis 
 of our social, industrial, and political system. Any two 
 of these are worthy of places in Statuary Hall, and it has 
 been the difficulty of choosing among them that has kept 
 vacant one of the niches reserved for Arkansas. Any man 
 who pursues a long political career must incur enmities. 
 One who is always aggressive and uncompromising natu- 
 rally accumulates many political enemies. This was the 
 case with Senator Clarke. Yet so highly is his memory 
 esteemed in Arkansas that the legislature has already 
 voted the resolution according him a place among the 
 Nation's immortals. 
 
 personal habits 
 
 One of the secrets of the success which attended the 
 efforts of Senator Clarke is found in his personal habits. 
 They were in every respect above reproach and criticism. 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 Notwithstanding his impulsive nature, he never dissipated 
 and never indulged in excesses in any form. He abstained 
 from the use of alcohol and tobacco, was systematic in his 
 labors, and regular in his hours of work and recreation. 
 His exercise consisted almost entirely of walking. He 
 never engaged in sports or pastimes. Had he done so, in 
 all probability he would still survive. He lived in a state 
 of almost constant tension. His amusements were limited 
 to the pleasantries of conversations with intimate asso- 
 ciates. He rarely attended theaters, never read poetrj', 
 and found little pleasure in music. His greatest delight 
 came from his knowledge and study of the peculiarities 
 and personal traits of prominent men. Senator Clarke 
 read comparatively few books. In speeches he rarely 
 quoted any one; yet he possessed the greatest fund of 
 valuable information and the smallest amount of useless 
 knowledge of any man I have ever known. The sources 
 of his knowledge, its accuracy and thoroughness, were 
 sometimes subjects of amazement to his friends. 
 
 CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS PUBLIC SERVICE 
 
 It is not practicable to review on this occasion the de- 
 tails of his public service. It is my good fortune to have 
 known him all my life and to be familiar with the main- 
 springs of both his public and private conduct. They 
 were integrity, courage, absolute independence, and con- 
 sequent masterful will power. His public career was 
 long. There was never an hour of it when his character 
 and conduct were not under the scrutiny of friends and 
 enemies, notwithstanding his detestation of notoriety; 
 yet he was never suspected of dishonestj' or of willful 
 disloyalty' to the public interests. He was always observed 
 and frequently assailed, but never was his personal or 
 official integrity impeached or questioned. He once said 
 to me : " I have some confidences but no secrets." 
 
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 Physical and moral courage were equally distinctive 
 traits of this remarkable man. His physical courage was 
 primitive, at times almost savage. Until late in life his 
 habit was to invite conflict, never to avoid it. He had 
 many personal encounters. The readiness with which he 
 avenged an insult and the relentlessness with which he 
 pursued an enemy were perhaps the least admirable traits 
 of his otherwise marvelous character. 
 
 It is not often that moral and physical courage in equal 
 proportions are combined in a single character, but 
 in Senator Clarke extraordinary physical courage was 
 equaled, if not excelled, by moral courage. He did not 
 fear to take any stand, to advance against any measure 
 which his judgment condemned, or to spring to the sup- 
 port of any principle which his conscience approved. 
 He was the only public man I ever knew whom I regarded 
 as absolutely free from demagoguery and every other 
 form of political pretense or dissimulation. A great man 
 who has served a generation in Congress once said: 
 
 I am as sincere in my public utterances and acts as the exigen- 
 cies of politics will permit. 
 
 He spoke the truth. Next to Senator Clarke, that man 
 approaches as nearly to absolute independence of thought 
 and action in public matters as any man whom I have 
 known. A great newspaper published in Arkansas once 
 said, in substance : 
 
 Whatever one's personal feelings toward him may be, Senator 
 Clabke can not fairly be accused of any form of demagoguery. 
 
 Indeed, he was more likely to choose the unpopular 
 than the popular position. The unqualified independ- 
 ence of Senator Clarke frequently brought him into oppo- 
 sition with his party associates. During the administra- 
 tion of President Roosevelt the Panama Canal legislation 
 was opposed by the Democratic organization in the Sen- 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Ark.vnsas 
 
 ate. Its passage was accomplished, as Mr. Roosevelt has 
 stated, largely through the exertions of Senator Clarke. 
 
 When the so-called Bristow amendment, the joint 
 resolution providing for the election of United States 
 Senators by popular vote, was pending in the Senate 
 many Democratic Senators from Southern States ex- 
 pressed the fear that force bills would result, and sought 
 to modify the amendment so as to deny to the Federal 
 Government control over elections. Senator Clarke de- 
 clared that the preservation of the Government may in 
 the future depend upon its control of the selection of its 
 officers. He voted for the Bristow amendment and 
 against the Bacon amendment giving to the States the 
 power to fix the times, places, and manner of holding 
 elections. The Bristow amendinent became a part of 
 the Constitution. His vote was indispensable to its 
 passage. His contribution last Congress to the defeat of 
 the ship-purchase bill, sti'ongly advocated by the adminis- 
 tration, and its modification during the present Congress 
 to conform in part to his views are familiar history to all 
 Senators. 
 
 His election as President pro tempore of the Senate 
 when the Democrats secured control of the organization 
 in 1913 was an honor which he and the people of our State 
 heartily appreciated. Speaking for the most part to 
 Senators who are familiar with his personality and his 
 services, I deem it not improper to say that this recogni- 
 tion was the tribute of his associates to his unimpeachable 
 integrity and his notable ability, and was in no wise the 
 result of that partiality which sometimes brings unmer- 
 ited favor to men in public life. 
 
 His reelection as President pro tempore of the Senate at 
 a time when his relationship with some of his party col- 
 leagues was strained on account of his opposition to the 
 ship-purchase bill, an administration measure, gives em- 
 
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 phasis to this view and illustrates his ability to impress his 
 personality upon his associates in spite of the opposition 
 which his course inevitably aroused. 
 
 When the Adanison eight-hour bill was voted upon by 
 the Senate, Senator Clarke and one other Democrat voted 
 against the measure. He regarded the bill as a direct en- 
 croachment upon the freedom of contract and as legisla- 
 tion under improper restraint and influences approximat- 
 ing compulsion. It has been stated that he declined to 
 sign the bill as President pro tempore because of his op- 
 position to it. It is true that he vacated the chair and 
 called the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Hughes] to pre- 
 side when the bill was received for signature; but I hap- 
 pen to know that his action in this instance was not 
 prompted by his opposition to the measure but by a de- 
 sire to accord the privilege of signing it to one of his inti- 
 mate personal friends who had been a strong advocate of 
 the bill and whose whole career in Congress had been sig- 
 nalized by a friendly attitude toward legislation in the in- 
 terest of labor. Thei'e is no mistake in the assertion that 
 he was unalterably opposed to the bill, but his failure to 
 sign it was prompted principally by the sentimental con- 
 sideration above stated rather than by sheer obstinacy. 
 
 The Panama Canal bill, the Bristow amendment, the 
 ship-purchase bill, and the eight-hour law are all meas- 
 ures of paramount and far-reaching importance. All 
 forms of political and personal pressure, amounting to 
 almost temporary social and political ostracism, were ex- 
 erted to induce him to yield in every one of these in- 
 stances. In no case did he seriously consider modifying 
 his position except with reference to the ship-purchase 
 bill. In that case, if he did not slightly modify his atti- 
 tude, he was almost persuaded to do so. 
 
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Addhess of Mh. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 philippine independence 
 
 During the last session of Congress, when the Philippine 
 Government bill was under consideration. Senator Clarke 
 offered an amendment providing for independence to the 
 Filipinos within a short, fixed period. Opposition to the 
 amendment was organized and powerful, and the contest 
 was one of the fiercest which I have observed in Congress 
 during 15 years' service. His amendment, in a modified 
 form, passed the Senate, but was defeated in the House 
 of Representatives. Its defeat was a great disappointment 
 to Senator Clarke, who believed in a prompt grant of 
 independence to the Philippines as necessary to preserve 
 amicable relations with certain oriental powers, and to 
 maintain the honor and good faith of the United States as 
 expressed in its traditional policies, its treaties, the Con- 
 stitution, and the Declaration of Independence. 
 
 These instances illustrate his independent grasp of pub- 
 lic questions. They are by no means exhaustive. His 
 views and services were practical rather than theoretical. 
 He never advocated purely idealistic propositions, but in- 
 variably justified his course by considerations of justice 
 and the public interest. 
 
 DOMINATING SPIRIT 
 
 The impatience with which he encountered opposition, 
 his decisive views and aggressive assertion of them, and 
 his dominating spirit are known to every Senator here. 
 His appeal was to the group rather than to the individual 
 or the multitude. His influence with courts, juries, com- 
 mittees, and like organizations was remarkable, and at 
 times astounding. He was almost indifferent to popular 
 opinion. His freedom from all forms of demagogucry, of 
 which I have already spoken, is illustrated by the fact that 
 he never advertised, never appealed to sympathy. 
 
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 Unfriendliness toward newspapers and newspaper men 
 marked his entire public career. He rarely granted inter- 
 views, never explained through the newspapers, and fre- 
 quently provoked unfriendly editorial comment by an in- 
 tolerant manner. Some of the newspapers in our State 
 pursued a persistent policy of antagonizing him and their 
 reporters and correspondents were instructed to " knock " 
 him. He rarely took public notice of unfavorable com- 
 ments, but freely expressed, in a personal way, his resent- 
 ment at this treatment. 
 
 Had he pursued a diftcrent course, had he been con- 
 siderate of the feelings of newspaper reporters and 
 availed himself, as most public men do, of fair and 
 just opportunities for publicity, his unusual attainments 
 and mental powers would have been more generally 
 known and appreciated. 
 
 SOME CLARKE EPIGRAMS 
 
 The power of terse, epigrammatical statement charac- 
 terized Senator Clarke's utterances. I have paraphrased 
 a few of his sentences so striking or original as to merit 
 preservation, as follows: 
 
 The hate squad in political warfare is always on the firing line, 
 brother; it never sleeps nor goes off duty. It is commanded by 
 disappointed oflice seekers. 
 
 There exist no political friendships; they are merely political 
 alliances. 
 
 The ever-increasing details of senatorial labor tend to belittle 
 the office. Under the existing system we exhaust our energy in 
 attention to the trivial and personal requests of our constituents 
 and retain neither the strength nor the disposition to devote our- 
 selves vigorously to the great public issues. 
 
 It is not so much the requests of my constituents which I have 
 refused to grant that have embarrassed my public service as 
 those which I have attempted to grant to the neglect of vital 
 public duties. 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 No one deserves to be a Senator who shirks responsibility by 
 hiding behind a caucus edict. I am anxious to confer with my 
 colleagues and gladly yield to them in nonessentials, but in mat- 
 ters vital to the Nation's welfare I must be true to my own 
 convictions. 
 
 If the people knew the petty jealousies and the selfishness that 
 animate officialdom, their patriotism might be staggered. 
 
 I never placate an enemy. 
 
 While every man owes a portion of his time to the public, a 
 poor man is foolish to pursue politics through the earning period 
 of life, and thus approach its end in regret and poverty. 
 
 The professional politician, like the professional gambler, 
 always loses the big stake if he plays the game long enough. 
 
 One of the important principles of our Government is to mini- 
 mize the influence of selfishness in its actual administration. 
 
 The Constitution is too often invoked to justify as an individual 
 right what the public condemn as a moral wrong. 
 
 The traditional devotion of this Government to liberty requires 
 that we pledge a prompt grant of independence to the Philippine 
 people. 
 
 Nature compensates in part the loss of power that frequently 
 attends old age by inability to realize approaching senility. 
 
 In his last campaign he was exhorted by friends to 
 distribute garden seeds and Government documents as a 
 means of promoting his rcnomination. In the course of 
 a public speech he said substantially: 
 
 I have been told that my candidacy would be more popular if I 
 would send the voters garden seeds and documents. This does 
 not appeal to me as a justification for your favor, but if you view 
 the subject differently you will no doubt be gratified to learn that 
 a carload of Government documents and seed is now on the way 
 to Arkansas. I hope, however, that none of you will be influenced 
 by such means to vote for me. 
 
 On another occasion he said : 
 
 Complaint is made that 1 do not answer letters. I receive a 
 great many communications that in no wise relate to my public 
 duties; letters that concern the private wishes of some of my 
 constituents. I have answered everv letter which I regarded as 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 worthy of an answer, and I inform you now that if I am reelected 
 to the Senate I shall write fewer letters during the next six years 
 than I have written during the last. 
 
 The foregoing are reproduced from memory and are 
 incomplete and inaccurate, but they serve to illustrate and 
 emphasize the unusual character of Senator Clarke's 
 mind and manner. 
 
 C0UR.\GE IN THE FACE OF DEATH 
 
 The extraordinary personal courage of this man did not 
 fail him in the face of death. His intimate associates had 
 known for some months before the end that he expe- 
 rienced physical infirmities which occasioned him anxiety. 
 He was aware of the nature of the malady with which he 
 was afflicted — arteriosclerosis — and knew that it was in- 
 curable. A few months before his death, contemplating 
 the future, he said to me : 
 
 If I could call back ten years, I would propose that we retire 
 from politics and form a partnership for the practice of law; but 
 it is now too late for me to make that change. I am facing 
 the wall. 
 
 His face assumed the rigidness of marble, and he con- 
 cluded with this statement: 
 
 I shall end my career in the Senate, and it will not continue 
 long. One of the principal ambitions of my life in youth was to 
 become a United States Senator. My only regret is that I have 
 been unable to so control my labors as to apply my energies 
 unreservedly to the great problems with which I have been called 
 to deal. 
 
 Three days before his death Senator Clarke was stricken 
 in his office with apoplexy, and while being removed to 
 his home in an automobile a young man of my acquaint- 
 ance passed him on the street. He was sitting upright 
 between two friends. His demeanor was so complacent 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 and unchanged that, although he was dying and could 
 not speak, the young man, mistaking his fortitude for the 
 manifestation of health and vigor, said to me an hour 
 later: "I saw the senior Senator a little while ago. He 
 looked unusually well." Imagine my feelings when I 
 shortly learned that he was being borne to his deathbed. 
 On the following Sunday about noon, surrounded by his 
 familj', he passed resignedly into eternity. 
 
 Senator Clarke was endowed with a great mind and 
 possessed an indomitable spirit. His devotion to duty, 
 his adherence to the public interest, and his indifference 
 to censure which ordinarily deters feeble souls, marked 
 him as an extraordinary man. If he had j-ielded to the 
 promptings of his generous heart and forgiven the wrongs 
 which his manner invited; if he had cultivated more flow- 
 ers and planted fewer trees; if he had known more of 
 charity and less of will, his life would doubtless have been 
 happier, but in all probability his public services would 
 have been less fruitful. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President : The news of the death of Senator Clarke, 
 which came to us last October with the shock of a sur- 
 prise, brought to me not only genuine sorrow but a deep 
 sense of personal loss. I never had known Senator Clarke 
 until he entered the Senate, and I shall not attempt to 
 say anything in regard to his career prior to that time, 
 which can be done much better and with a more perfect 
 knowledge by others. I desire merely to give the impres- 
 sion he made upon me during our years together in the 
 Senate. After we first met in this Chamber our acquaint- 
 ance soon ripened into friendship. Our service upon 
 the Committee on Foreign Relations gave us subjects of 
 a common interest, and this widened to many others, not 
 only those connected with the work of the Senate but to 
 all the matters, great and small, concerning men and 
 things about which friends are wont to talk. Dr. Holmes 
 says that in every one of us there are three men : John as 
 he appears to himself, John as he appears to others, and 
 the real John. But the real man can he discovered, I 
 think, through his acts and words, and through the com- 
 parison and combination of the judgments of others. 
 I can only speak of Senator Clarke as he appeared to 
 me, and my opinion and estimate may vai-y from those 
 of others, but this at least I can say, that my judgment of 
 him was neither casual nor hasty. 
 
 When the wise men of Northumbria gathered, some 
 fourteen hundred years ago, to deliberate on the new 
 Christian faith to which their King Eadwine had pledged 
 himself, an aged ealdorman said : 
 
 So seems the life of man, O King, as a sparrow's flight through 
 the hall where a man is sitting at meat in wintertide with the 
 
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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 ■warm fire lighted on the hearths but the chill rainstorm without. 
 The sparrow flies in at one door and tarries for a moment in the 
 light and heat of the hearth fire, and then, flying forth from the 
 other, vanishes into the wintry darkness whence it came. So 
 tarries for a moment the life of man in our sight. 
 
 To all engaged in active pursuits, still more to those of 
 us in public life, there comes a vision of many men and 
 many faces as we flutter through the warm and lighted 
 hall of life. One blurs into another and they pass like the 
 marching hundreds of a great procession and leave only 
 the impression of multitude behind. In Meissonier's fa- 
 mous picture of the Cuirassiers passing the Emperor at 
 the Battle of Friedland there is an overwhelming sense 
 conveyed of a vast mass of charging cavalrj', of men 
 with uplifted sabers shouting the cr>' of onset, and of 
 crowding horses, wild eyed and with wide, distended nos- 
 trils. And yet 1 believe there are only seven men and 
 horses actually and separately delineated; all the rest is 
 the indication and suggestion of multitude by the art of 
 the painter. So, as we unroll the canvas where life has 
 stored its pictures, we seem to hear in the silence the 
 tones of many voices like the '* sounds of water falling," to 
 see with the eyes of the mind a great gathering of men 
 and women; but as we look closer we discern that mem- 
 ory, like the great artist, has, with cunning hand, given 
 an unescapable effect of numbers, and yet that there are 
 only a few clearly drawn and finished portraits in her gal- 
 lerj'. We soon learn to realize, if we reflect upon it, that 
 this is one of nature's more kindly forms of selection, and 
 that the counterfeit presentments which she leaves, deep 
 graven upon the tablets of memorj-, of those whom we 
 have met in life, after the gates of childhood have closed 
 behind us, are not there by accident. It matters not 
 whether we have loved or hated the original, the portrait 
 is there because its subject possessed qualities which 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 could neither be blurred by a crowd nor overlooked and 
 disregarded through insignificance. 
 
 Senator Clarke was a man who could not be overlooked. 
 One might like or dislike him, but it was impossible to 
 disregard him. He had an arresting personality. For 
 my part, I liked him from the first, and as the years passed 
 my feelings changed from liking to affection, and with the 
 affection was mingled much genuine admiration. He 
 was, of course, an able man. His success in life and the 
 offices he held demonstrated his abilities. But there are 
 many men of ability and industry who are not interesting 
 and who lack the character and qualities which command 
 admiration, even if it is accorded with reluctance. Sena- 
 tor Clarke was interesting. That fact I soon discovered, 
 and I was struck very early in our acquaintance with the 
 alertness of his mind and with his keen sense of humor. 
 His mind worked with really extraordinary rapidity, and 
 when this quickness of comprehension was found in com- 
 bination with humor it is hardly necessary to add that he 
 was a sympathelic companion. He talked extremely 
 well, and that which was best about his talk was that it 
 was all his own, for, so far as my observation went, he 
 almost never indulged in anecdote, which he shunned, I 
 think, because the long-drawn story bored him, and he 
 was bored, it seemed to me, rather easily. It is no doubt 
 an amiable trait to suffer bores gladly, but the man who 
 does not do so — and Senator Clarke did not — is pretty 
 certain never to be tiresome himself. Another quality 
 which made him attractive was his intellectual honestj', 
 whether he was dealing with men or events, and he was 
 singularly free, in forming and expressing his opinions, 
 from the prejudices of either locality or environment, 
 which usually mark the village outlook and the parochial 
 mind. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 With his intellectual honesty went almost necessarily 
 intellectual courage. He never retracted or fell back 
 from his own beliefs or conclusions. His moral courage 
 was on the same plane. I have never seen a man in 
 public life more wholly courageous in all public questions, 
 whether political or otherwise. I do not say this because 
 on several rather conspicuous occasions he voted against 
 his own party. Tliis is not unconmion, and often requires 
 courage, although at times it is due to very different mo- 
 tives and qualities. I have recognized and appreciated 
 his courage when he was against the views I held quite 
 as much as when we were in sympathy. Sometimes it 
 has seemed to me that the position he took was simply 
 perverse, but the courage with which he maintained it 
 was just as clear as in any other case. He never feared to 
 stand alone. Intellectual or political solitude had for 
 him no terrors, although he was by no means a solitary 
 man and liked and depended upon the society of his 
 friends. He had a hatred of base compliance and of 
 timidity, especially moral timidity, and this led him 
 perhaps at times to extremes and to the occasional 
 apparent perversities of judgment of which I have 
 spoken. But however much one might differ from 
 him, it was impossible not to respect him. By force 
 of intelligence and character he came to a high place 
 in the Senate, and no one ever doubted that he was 
 a man of power with whom it was necessarj' to reckon. 
 His death leaves a gap in our public life not easily filled, 
 and has caused a break in the friendship of many of us 
 which will always be remembered with affectionate 
 sorrow. 
 
 I have only attempted to give the merest sketch of Sen- 
 ator Ci.ARKE as he appeared to me. It has, I think, at least 
 this merit, that it is entirely true so far as I saw and knew 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 him, and I know that he would have preferred the truth 
 to be spoken. Oliver Cromwell, when Sir Peter Lely pro- 
 posed to leave out the wart in the portrait, said, " Paint 
 me as I am." This, I am sure, would be Senator Clarke's 
 wish, and this is what I have tried to do, but I am well 
 aware how imperfect any sketch must be. I have sought 
 only to give an impression of the man and to point out 
 his most salient attributes, but the quality for which Sen- 
 ator Clarke commands especial commemoration, the one 
 for which he should long be remembered, was his com- 
 plete courage shown in a time and place and in a mode 
 of life where we are not overburdened or oppressed with 
 that high virtue. He had an intellectual courage which 
 never faltered before the conclusions reached by his rea- 
 son; a moral courage which never shrank from loyalty to 
 his convictions and his sense of duty; a high personal 
 courage to which the fear of any man or any body of men 
 was not only unknown but impossible. It is thus that I 
 have read the character and the qualities, both intellec- 
 tual and moral, of the friend whose death I so deeply and 
 sincerely mourn. 
 
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Address of Mr. Bryan, of Florida 
 
 Mr. President: We remember many of our public men 
 onh' because they were successful in politics. We think 
 of the office, and then, by the association of ideas, figure 
 out who held it at a given time. 
 
 Senator Clarke's life was crowded full of political hon- 
 ors. Yet I always think of him first, and of his office 
 afterwards, if at all. 
 
 His fame will rest not upon the fact that he was 
 governor and United States Senator, but upon his 
 individuality. 
 
 He was well equipped for public life. He had ability; 
 he was industrious; he hated shams; he was mentally 
 honest; he had convictions and the courage thereof. 
 
 He was not provincial, but, on the contrary, compre- 
 hended the rights and interests of the whole country, as 
 to which he was i-emarkably well informed. Moreover, 
 he loved his country and its institutions. 
 
 If Arkansas honored him, he was an honor to Arkansas. 
 If tlie Senate honored him, he was an honor to the Senate. 
 
 In his death Arkansas has lost a distinguished Senator, 
 the Senate has lost one of its leading Members, and the 
 country has lost a real statesman. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hardwick, of Georgia 
 
 Mr. President: Those who knew Senator Clarke best 
 admired him most, respected him most, and loved him 
 best. 
 
 Impetuous as Rupert, he was just as dashing, just as 
 brave. The Harry Hotspur of senatorial debate, he was 
 always a Chesterfield in his manners and in his bearing. 
 Possessing a superb mental equipment, he had also that 
 far more rare and precious gift of the gods — an unflinch- 
 ing courage, both physical and moral, that does not leave 
 a man even in the dark hour that immediately precedes 
 the dawn, that makes him a marked man among his 
 fellows, a leader in Israel. 
 
 It is not my purpose to speak at length or with detail of 
 Senator Clarke's long and distinguished service in this 
 body. Others who have served with him longer may do so 
 more appropriately. If, however, I may be permitted to 
 summarize in a word the one predominant feature of that 
 service, the crowning virtue of his great public career, I 
 should unhesitatingly say it was " independence " — inde- 
 pendence of thought and action, of mind and character. 
 His figure stood out in splendid and startling relief from 
 the drab background of smooth complacency, of easy and 
 frequent surrender of principle and conviction that is so 
 characteristic of modern politics and of modern politi- 
 cians, the greatest and the boldest and the truest and 
 bravest American Senator of recent times, man of his 
 own mind, captain of his own soul, acknowledging no 
 master save the God he worshiped and the great con- 
 stituency whose commission he held. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hardwick, of Georgia 
 
 To my mind he was, first, last, and always, the splendid 
 prototype of the Roman senator in those early days when 
 the glory of the seven-hilled city first began to fill the 
 world, and when chiefest among those glories was the 
 spotless integrity, the profound wisdom, and the lofty 
 patriotism of its senate. 
 
 Senators, we both miss and mourn our erstwhile asso- 
 ciate, our late colleague. His dauntless soul has lifted at 
 last the veil that enshrouds immortality, and the secrets 
 of the beyond are bared to his inquiring mind. No tremor 
 of fear ever challenged his manhood in life, and we may 
 be assured that he went unafraid to meet his Maker and 
 his Judge. His great public services have become a part 
 of the heritage of his countrymen, and the memory of 
 his glorious courage remains with us to cheer us and to 
 inspire us when at times the path grows thorny and the 
 feet begin to falter. 
 
 May God assoil his soul and may we meet him again 
 in that brighter and fairer land where hypocrisy and 
 cowardice are not and where only the true and the pure 
 in heart keep the altar fires alight. 
 
 Senators, I loved him, I miss him, 1 mourn him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 
 
 Mr. President: A great lawyer, an eloquent advocate, 
 a fearless defender of his principles, a man of strong likes 
 and dislikes, James P. Clarke belonged to a class of pub- 
 lic men who have contributed largely to the advancement 
 of the things that most vitally concern the dignity and wel- 
 fare of our country. Others will tell of his remarkable 
 achievements as a citizen of Arkansas. It is sufficient for 
 me to say a few simple words as to my knowledge of the 
 man as a member of tliis body. 
 
 Senator Clarke entered the Senate March 9, 1903, and 
 died October 1, 1916, shortly after he had been elected to 
 a tliird term. As a Senator he was noted for his integrity 
 of character, fearlessness in debate, and independence on 
 the great public questions of the day. Elevated to the 
 high office of President pro tempore of the Senate, he 
 discharged the duties of that position with absolute im- 
 partialit}'. No member of the minority had any reason to 
 fear that he would not be protected in every right that 
 belonged to him or that the rules of the bodj^ would not 
 be administered in a most scrupulous manner. 
 
 Impatient in speech and militant in manner, Senator 
 Clarke took a high rank as a debater, demonstrating his 
 great knowledge of the traditions of the Senate and of the 
 fundamental piinciples of both national and intei-national 
 law. 
 
 Senator Clarke, in common with other Members of 
 the Senate who have been here a long time, was a firm 
 believer in free and unlimited debate, and vigorously op- 
 
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Address of Mr. G.\llinger, of New Hampshire 
 
 posed all attempts at cloture, no matter what form they 
 might take. "This is the only tribunal on earth," said he 
 at one time, " where there is unlimited debate, and there 
 is no question of relevancy here except what is designated 
 in the rules." 
 
 On another occasion the advocates of cloture attempted 
 to take a long step in the accomplishment of their ends 
 by demanding that a Senator must confine his remarks 
 to the question before the Senate. Senator Clarke was 
 quick to voice his objection to such a course, declaring 
 that if the rule were applied that a Senator must confine 
 his remarks to the proposition which the Senate had be- 
 fore it " it would depopulate the Senate and absolutely 
 doom some of us to eternal silence, if we had" to talk 
 directly to questions that are pending." He believed that 
 Senators should be allowed to follow their own methods 
 of debate, and not be required to speak with the knowl- 
 edge that they might be interrupted at any time by an- 
 other Senator in whose opinion their remarks were not 
 relevant to the subject under discussion. 
 
 As President pro tempore Senator Clarke was con- 
 fronted with many situations which would have seriously 
 embarrassed a weaker man, but he met them all with 
 courage, and inexorably applied to each case the rules 
 of the Senate as he interpreted them. He was an expo- 
 nent of the theory that Senators present but not voting 
 should be counted if it was necessaiy to establish the fact 
 that a quorum was present. He many times, while in 
 the chair, put that principle into effect, and unhesitat- 
 ingly announced the presence of a quorum even though 
 it had not been shown by the vote. 
 
 Senator Clarke was a close student of public affairs, 
 particularly those involving legal questions. He spent 
 many hours in the Library of the Senate examining the 
 reports of the Federal courts and the records of previous 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 Congresses for material on which to base his instructive 
 addresses to the Senate, which always commanded the 
 close attention of his colleagues. His death left a gap in 
 the Senate that it is difficult to fill, and he will be missed 
 more and more by those of us who knew the man and 
 appreciated his splendid qualities of heart and mind. 
 
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Address of Mr. SArLsnrRY, of Delaware 
 
 Mr. President: Thirty-five years elapsed between the 
 time I first knew James P. Clarke as a law student at the 
 University of Virginia and the time we renewed our ac- 
 quaintance in the Senate of the United States. Clarke 
 was a young man of 24 and I was a boy of 16 when we first 
 became acquainted. He was recognized then at the uni- 
 versitj' as a strong, able, self-willed, determined man. 
 I was a young boy in the academic department, and natu- 
 rally I felt it a privilege to be acquainted with him and 
 have him take some interest in my welfare. The boys 
 at the university predicted that Clarke's ability would 
 carry him far, and they were not in error. 
 
 Those of us who have had strenuous experience in the 
 political field know that a man who serves in his State 
 house of representatives, thence goes into the State 
 senate, becomes attorney general of his State, is chosen 
 by his people as their governor, and then elected to the 
 United States Senate for three terms not only has great 
 abilitj', determination, and all qualifies that go to make 
 up leadership, but that he has impressed his work and 
 attainments thoroughly upon those who have the oppor- 
 tunity to know him best — the people back home. 
 
 It is doubtless a great satisfaction to a man of Senator 
 Clarke's preeminent ability to have that ability recog- 
 nized in the wider field of national politics, but when your 
 constituents time and again have shown their high appre- 
 ciation, as the people of Arkansas did in the case of Sena- 
 tor Cl.\rke, one can have the double satisfaction of know- 
 ing that back home, where men are weighed in different 
 scales, the constant support and appreciation shown by 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 them leaves no real terrors for a self-reliant, conscientious 
 representative of the people when, perchance, defeat may 
 come to him, and he returns to pass the remainder of his 
 life among them. Kipling has expressed this thought in a 
 way which seems to me as striking as any I have heard : 
 
 Old Nineveh town has nothing to give 
 For the place where a man's own foliis still live; 
 He might have been that or he may be this. 
 But they love him and hate him for what he is. 
 
 I have no doubt from my own knowledge of Senator 
 Clarke that he had his full share of loves and hates, but 
 I have never known a man who was more absolutely self- 
 reliant, willing to meet any contest forced upon him or 
 which he forced upon his antagonists, and, personally, I 
 can not conceive that in any of the stormy episodes of his 
 career he ever gave or asked quarter. Dispositions differ, 
 so that traits like these may seem admirable or not, but 
 no one fails to admire the man of great ability and cour- 
 age grappling with whatever questions may be presented, 
 entering fearlessly into whatever conditions he may have 
 to undergo, and throughout it all exhibiting, as Senator 
 Clarke did, an independence of thought, character, and 
 action which many would be proud to emulate. 
 
 Some time before his last reelection Senator Clarke 
 said to me that he had never been satisfied fully with his 
 career in the Senate, and that he hoped, if reelected, he 
 would be able to devote himself to the larger questions of 
 statesmanship which had been too much in his life inter- 
 fered with by the urgent claims of practical politics. He 
 said to me that he intended during the balance of his 
 political career to take a more active part in considera- 
 tion of questions of wide importance than he had been 
 able to do during his prior terms, and I attribute to this 
 intention the very prominent part he took in the consider- 
 ation of the Philippine bill, where his proposal of early 
 
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Address of Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware 
 
 and certain independence became the storm center of that 
 important measure, around which practically all debate 
 revolved. I approved of Senator Clarke's conception of 
 the right treatment of this matter, and feel sure that this 
 was one of the larger questions affecting the future wel- 
 fare of our country to which he had given most careful 
 consideration and, as usual, regarding which he reached 
 the right conclusion. 
 
 Senator Clarke's powers did not show any signs of fail- 
 ure; his services in this body ended probably at the height 
 of his intellectual powers. He had become a national 
 figure, and achieved that position through intellectual 
 abilitj\ Those of us who lived here on terms of friend- 
 ship with him admired and respected him as one of the 
 great figures in this body. His State honored itself and 
 him in the selection, as one of her Senators, of this man 
 of dominant personality, and those of us who knew him 
 well will long hold him in remembrance, in the highest 
 esteem and regard. 
 
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Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 
 
 Mr. President: It has been said that republics have a 
 tendency to make moral cowards of public men. It may 
 be so, but if so, the man to whose memory we pay tribute 
 to-day was a splendid exception to the rule. This tend- 
 ency did not leave its impress in any way upon his la- 
 bors here. He was one at least who examined all ques- 
 tions upon their merits and followed without anxiety or 
 apology the course pointed out by an untrammelcd con- 
 science and a well-trained mind. Firm in his purposes, 
 fearless in the advocacy of his opinions, he belonged to 
 that splendid breed of men who mold rather than follow 
 public opinion — the only true servants of the people, the 
 real defenders of democracy. Neither prestige, prece- 
 dents, or popular outcry disturbed him in the least when 
 once he had made up his mind as to the justice of a cause 
 or the truth concerning the subject in hand. No man had 
 a keener or more accurate scent for the specious and in- 
 sincere, none more adept and ruthless in striking the mask 
 of patriotism from the face of selfishness and fraud. That 
 confusion of plan, that sudden change of procedure, that 
 drive forward to-day and retreat to-morrow which ever 
 accompany the course of those who consult expediency 
 rather than truth constituted no part of his public service. 
 He did not belong to that class of modern statesmen whose 
 capacity to discern the drift of popular sentiment has 
 been developed at the expense of the higher and nobler 
 faculty of discerning the sound from the unsound, the 
 temporary from the permanent, or that which satisfies the 
 demands of the day from those great truths which con- 
 tribute to the permanent happiness and power of a peo- 
 ple. His independence was the constant admiration of 
 his colleagues, his moral courage was superb. 
 
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Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 
 
 We have all often read how at a time when things 
 seemed going against the plan to formulate a constitution 
 and create a government, Washington uttered these 
 words: 
 
 It is but too probable that no plan that we can propose will be 
 adopted. Perhaps another terrible conflict is to be sustained. If 
 to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how 
 can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to 
 which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand 
 of God. 
 
 Underneath these words it is not diETicult to discern that 
 abiding belief that in the final disposition of things the 
 people will measure up to and approve the best plan that 
 the bravest and best intellects of the age can give, and 
 such a belief is the bedrock foundation upon which the 
 higher faith in popular government is built. These words 
 of Washington ought to be written above everj' legislative 
 hall in our land. Upon any other principle the Republic 
 will ultimately break down. The common mistake which 
 we are all prone to make is in underrating the wisdom and 
 patriotism of the people. Thej^ may not always discern 
 in the first instance the wisest and the best, but they never 
 ultimately reject the truth when the truth is pointed out. 
 Those who do not believe that the people are capable of 
 indorsing and approving the wisest laws and sustaining 
 the most efficient institutions which the best minds and 
 bravest hearts can give them do not really catch the true 
 principles of popular government at all. They have been 
 lured into time-serving paths and missed entirely the 
 larger outlines of the great faith. I can pay no higher 
 tribute to our departed colleague than to say that he 
 walked in manly fashion in the light of these principles. 
 He believed that which was wise would ultimately win, 
 and that though not popular to-day a measure founded 
 in reason and justice would be popular to-morrow. He 
 
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MemorI/VL Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 was willing at all times to wait for vindication in case it 
 was not at hand, and he did not worry about the lateness 
 of its arrival. He believed in the eternal law of right and 
 wrong and by it tested all other laws. If the majority ap- 
 proved he was gratified. If not he was not dismayed. He 
 knew there was something of the reptile in the man who 
 crawls whether at the bidding of a prince or a president, 
 something of the intellectual slave in the man who sur- 
 renders his conscience to the control of others, whether 
 to a king or a multitude. In this body James P. Clarke 
 represented himself. The vole he cast was his vote, and 
 yet there were among our membership no truer man to 
 popular government, no firmer advocate of the just and 
 the humane than this self-reliant and upright Senator. 
 
 Mr. President, a few years ago one of the most attrac- 
 tive men of the South came up into a Northern State and 
 told us of a " new South." No one can forget the thrill of 
 joy which the rich tones of Grady's voice sent to every 
 loyal heart in the land. Old chords were touched by a 
 wizard hand and gave up again the strains of nationality. 
 The music of the Union of the old days when, as Webster 
 tells us, Massachusetts and South Carolina stood about the 
 administration of Washington, drowned for years by the 
 din of civil conflict, rang strong and true again all the 
 way from the plantations of the South to the miner's cabin 
 on the slopes of the western mountains. The brilliant 
 Georgian sounded a note sincere and true. I have no 
 doubt that here and there sleeping in southern bosoms 
 may be found something of the old prejudice which some 
 untoward act might arouse; I have no doubt there are still 
 those in the North who are unable, honestly unable, to free 
 themselves from the strong feelings engendered by the 
 stress and strain of those terrible days. We neither quar- 
 rel with nor criticize those people. But if I mistake not 
 
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Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 
 
 there is not only a new South but a new North — a North 
 wliich has finally torn from its heart the old feeling of 
 suspicion and hate and which has finally come forward to 
 the place where Lincoln stood at the close of the war, a 
 North which realizes deeply and profoundly that the 
 South more than any other part of the country must deal 
 with that peculiar problem of wliich no one can think 
 without a tremor of doubt — a North which no longer 
 boasts of being better prepared to deal with this great 
 problem than those upon whom the greater portion of 
 the burden rests. Senator Clarke represented this era 
 of rehabilitation, this period of a truly reunited and dis- 
 enthralled countrj'. He rose easily, naturally, and with- 
 out ostentation, above locality, above section, and oft- 
 times above party. His vision and his purposes included 
 his whole country, his patriotism in scope and sympathy 
 was commensurate with the Nation as a whole. He re- 
 sented the limitations of prejudice and broke away from 
 all restraints which the past would put upon his truly 
 national spirit. 
 
 It would prolong these remarks too far to enter upon a 
 discussion of the details of his service here, his exceptional 
 ability as a lawyer, his wide and most accurate informa- 
 tion upon all public questions, the dignified and impartial 
 manner in which he presided over this body. I conclude 
 by saying that he was in every sense a great Senator, an 
 honor to the great Stale which he so faithfully repre- 
 sented, and commensurate in integrity and ability to the 
 responsibility attaching to his position in the highest legis- 
 lative body in the country. In these crowded tragic days 
 we do not long reflect about the things that are gone by 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 nor often hark back to our colleagues who have passed on, 
 but everyone who served with him misses from our midst 
 this strong, resolute, indomitable, historic figure. 
 
 The Vice President. Without objection, the resolutions 
 offered by the Senator from Arkansas will be considered 
 as unanimously adopted. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 Monday, December 4, 1916. 
 A message from the Senate, hy Mr. Waldorf, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
 ing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the 
 State of Arkansas and President pro tempore of the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. WiNGO. Mr. Speaker, it is my painful duty to an- 
 nounce the death of the late senior Senator from the State 
 of Arkansas, Mr. James P. Clarke, which occurred at his 
 home in the city of Little Rock, Ark., since the Congress 
 last met. I shall at some future time ask the House to 
 set aside a day upon which we may pay tribute to his 
 memon,\ At this time I offer the following resolution, 
 which I send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 
 The Clerk i-ead as follows: 
 
 House resolution 37C 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. James P. Clarke, late a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Arkansas. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 The Speaker. Ihe question is on agreeing to the reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the remaining reso- 
 lution. 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the deceased the 
 House do now adjourn. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingl}% in accordance with the resolution (at 3 
 o'clock and 7 minutes p. m.), the House adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Tuesday, December 5, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Thursday, February 1, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Oldfiei.d. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that Sunday, February 18, 1917, be set aside for addresses 
 upon the life and character and public services of the Hon. 
 J. P. Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Arkansas asks 
 unanimous consent that Sunday, the 18th of February, be 
 set aside for the purpose of delivering speeches on the life 
 and character of the late Senator Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Tuesday, February 13, 1917. 
 The Speaker. The Chair appoints Mr. Jacoway to pre- 
 side next Sunday at the memorial services on the late 
 Senator Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 
 Sunday, February 18, 1917. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Coudcn, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Infinite Spirit, Father-Soul, Thy blessing be upon us to 
 fit us for the sacred duty of the hour, a time-honored cus- 
 tom, a precious memorial dear to our hearts. Two great 
 men, public servants. Senators of the United States, have 
 been called from labor to refreshment, from earth to 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 heaven. Ours the loss, theirs the gain; ours the sorrow, 
 theirs the joy; ours the hope, theirs the reality; ours the 
 struggle, theirs the victory. May the unbroken continuity 
 of life which has come down to us out of the past, sung by 
 poets, taught by sages, prophets, and seers, reenforced by 
 the glorious resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, comfort 
 those who knew and admired them and solace those who 
 were bound to them by the ties of love and kinship; that 
 the heart may cease to ache and tears to flow. 
 
 Be still, sad tieart ! and cease repining; 
 
 Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
 
 Thy fate is the common fate of all. 
 
 Into each life some rain must fall, 
 Some days must be dark and dreary. 
 
 So teach us to wait with patience till the veil shall be 
 rent asunder and Thy ways be made plain; and we will 
 ascribe all praise to Thee now and evermore. Amen. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
 special order. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Oldfield, by unanimous consent, 
 
 Ordered, That Sunday, February 18, 1917, be set apart for 
 
 addresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 
 James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas. 
 
 Mr. Oldfield. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the 
 resolution which I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Arkan- 
 sas offers a resolution, which the Clerk will report 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 512 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
 James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the State of Arkansas. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
 of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
 shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mk. Oldfield, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: We have, according to a beautiful cus- 
 tom, met this Sabbath Day lor the purpose of paying trib- 
 ute to a colaborer and friend, the Hon. James P. Clarke, 
 late a Senator from the State of Arkansas. 
 
 Senator Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Miss., August 
 18, 1854, and died after a brief illness at his home in Little 
 Rock on October 1, 1916. Senator Clarke received his 
 literary education in the schools of Mississippi and 
 studied law at the University of Virginia, graduating from 
 that institution in 1878. He moved to Arkansas and be- 
 gan the practice of law in 1879. Hence, at Helena, Ark., 
 in 1879, began a most active and conspicuous career. Al- 
 most from the beginning he was appraised one of the fore- 
 most lawyers in his part of the State, and, while he di- 
 \ided his time between politics and the law from the be- 
 ginning, yet he excelled in both fields. There was not a 
 time during his illustrious career that he could not have 
 made many times the salary of any office he held if he had 
 given his whole time to the practice of his profession. 
 And he ran the gamut of politics from the office of repre- 
 sentative in the State legislature to three times a Senator 
 of the United States. He was elected to the house of rep- 
 resentatives of the State legislature in 1886; a member of 
 the State senate in 1888, serving until 1892. He was 
 elected president of the senate in 1891 and ex officio lieu- 
 tenant governor; elected attorney general in 1892; de- 
 clined a renomination, and was elected governor in 1894; 
 he declined a renomination for governor in 1896, prefer- 
 ring to return to his lucrative law practice. He was elected 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 to the United States Senate in 1903 and twice reelected to 
 this high office, and was elected President pro tempore 
 of the Senate in the Sixty-third Congress and reelected at 
 the beginning of the Sixty-fourth Congress, which position 
 he held at the time of his death. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I remember quite well the first time I 
 ever saw Senator Clarke. It was in my home town in 1894, 
 when he was making his first campaign for governor. He 
 was a young man then, only 40 years old. He was cer- 
 tainly a fine specimen of young manhood. Tall, erect, and 
 slender, with perfectly white hair and flashing eyes, he 
 walked up and down the streets calling upon and shak- 
 ing hands with the voters. Needless to say that he made 
 a favorable impression in that campaign and was elected 
 governor of the State. From that time on I gladly gave 
 him my support in his succeeding campaigns. We were 
 always personal and political friends. 
 
 Of course. Senator Clarke could not keep up his law 
 practice after coming to the Senate, yet he was looked 
 upon as one of the best lawyers of our State and a wise 
 counselor, and during the interims of Congress earned a 
 great many splendid fees as a lawyer. Mr. Speaker, very 
 few men have been developed in our public life who could 
 divide their time between politics and the law and at the 
 same time stand at the head in both fields as Senator 
 Clarke so successfully did. At the time of his death 
 there can be no question that he stood in the very front 
 rank among the lawyers of his State, and there can be 
 no question that he stood in the front rank as a lawyer 
 among the great lawyers of the United States Senate. 
 
 Senator Clarke was a man of very simple tastes, true 
 and loyal to his friends, and preferred not to have any- 
 thing whatever to do with his enemies. I have never known 
 a man in public life who could draw a man to him more 
 strongly than Senator Clarke if he desired to do so. He 
 
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Address of Mr. Oldi iei.d, of Arkansas 
 
 was one of the most distinguished-looking men I have 
 ever known, and his mind sparkled and scintillated like 
 a diamond. Brave, honest, and courageous under any and 
 all circumstances, I never knew him to falter when he 
 had a duty to perform. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Senator Clarke was no ordinarj' man; he 
 was a man of great force of character, and brooked no 
 opposition. Neither wealth, power, nor influence could 
 persuade or deter him from the course which he had pre- 
 viously mapped out. He was independent in thought and 
 action, and came nearer doing just as he pleased under 
 any and all circumstances regarding public questions 
 than any man I have ever known in public life. He was 
 always an active man, both in mind and body, and was 
 stricken of a fatal illness during the latter part of Septem- 
 ber, 1916, while at work in his office. Hence it may be 
 truly said that he died in the harness. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the people of Arkansas whom he repre- 
 sented so long and so ably in the United States Senate 
 appreciated his great services to the State and the Nation, 
 as has been recently attested. 
 
 The State legislature, now in session, within the past few 
 days has passed proper resolutions providing for placing 
 his statue in Statuarj' Hall in this building. 
 
 Senator Clarke, possessing a great intellect and pos- 
 sessed of strong will power and determination, made our 
 Republic greater than it had been before, for it is by the 
 lives of such men Ihat States and Nations grow strong 
 and great The poet has expressed this thought most 
 beautifully in the following lines: 
 
 What builds a nation's pillars high, 
 What makes it great and strong? 
 What makes it mighty to defy 
 The foes that 'round it throng? 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 Not gold, but only men can make 
 A nation great and strong; 
 Men, who for truth and honor's sake, 
 Hold still and suffer long. 
 
 Brave men who work while others sleep, 
 Who dare when others sigh; 
 They build a nation's pillars deep 
 And lift it to the sky. 
 
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Address of Mr. Ta^'lor, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker : The formal eulogy seems most unsatisfy- 
 ing and insufficient where the stroke of death has fallen 
 and where a gap in life has been made. It is with pro- 
 found misgivings that I undertake to make a fitting tribute 
 to the character, achievements, and genius of the illustri- 
 ous lawyer and statesman in whose memory these services 
 are held. 
 
 Senator James P. Clarke was born in Mississippi in 
 1854. In 1879 he came to Arkansas. He seemed to like 
 politics. In 1886 he was elected to the Legislature of 
 Arkansas. In 1888 he was elected to the State senate. 
 In 1891 and in 1892 he was president of the senate. 
 
 In 1892 he was the Democratic nominee for attorney 
 general, and was elected. He served as attorney general 
 in 1893 and 1894. In 1894 he was the Democratic nominee 
 for governor, and was elected by a handsome majority. 
 He served Arkansas as governor with distinction and with 
 great credit to the State. In 1902 he was elected to the 
 United States Senate, and again in 1909. He was re- 
 elected in 1914, and was serving his third term at the 
 time of his death. During his last term he served as a 
 member of three of the most important committees, 
 nameh', chairman of the Committee on Commerce, also 
 a member of the Foreign Relations and Militaiy Affairs 
 Committees. 
 
 I have had a personal acquaintance with Senator Clarke 
 for about 30 years. Soon after this acquaintance began 
 he became to me a study. Indeed, he was sui generis — 
 in fact, unlike anyone else that I ever knew. I had great 
 respect for his abilities. He was proud, and he liked a 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 proud, courageous man, although he might have been 
 his political or personal enemy. Respecting himself, he 
 expected to receive the respect of other men; and he was 
 not disappointed. When he made up his mind upon 
 any public question he stood by his convictions; in other 
 words, when he set his hand to the plow he never turned 
 back. 
 
 His death was a sad one. While in his law ofTQce at 
 Little Rock alone he was stricken. It is said that somehow 
 he reached the phone, called up his home, and asked for 
 his son James to come after him with the car. Apoplexy 
 was the cause of his death, his physicians say. 
 
 Senator Clarke stood among the foremost of the great 
 lawyers of his time. A great lawyer is naturally a suc- 
 cessful and constructive statesman. The history of the 
 legislation of the world exemplifies this, and it should 
 occasion no surprise that the Senator's eminence as a 
 lawyer signalized his work as a legislator. 
 
 The people of his State looked upon him as one of 
 America's greatest statesmen. In politics those who ad- 
 mired his exceptional abilities and his stern, unswerving 
 character always stood by him with the greatest fidelity. 
 They believed him capable in any position; they admired 
 his lofty bearing and, although now and then finding fault 
 with him, they did not desert him. Strange to say, he had 
 among his supporters those who were not personally at- 
 tached to him; these voted for and sustained him because 
 they believed him a wise statesman. 
 
 Senator Clarke and myself were always personal 
 friends, but I did not support him in all of his political 
 ambitions. When he defeated Senator Jones I was not 
 his supporter, and he knew it. We talked about it, and on 
 one occasion he said : " Taylor, I know you are for Senator 
 Jones. I know of your friendship and admiration for him, 
 and I do not blame you for not supporting me." The last 
 
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Address of Mr. Taylor, of Arkansas 
 
 time I ever saw the Senator was in Statuary Hall in this 
 Capitol. There we met accidentally and conversed about 
 certain legislation that was then pending before the Rivers 
 and Harbors Committee. He appeared in fine health, and 
 I believe I never saw him in a more delightful mood. 
 
 In my remarks, Mr. Speaker, I may be excused if I tiy 
 to speak truly touching the life, character, and public 
 services of Senator Clarke as I understood him and know 
 about liini. 
 
 Mr. Clarke became a power in the State when he was 
 elected governor. Prior to this he was attorney general 
 and member of the State legislature, as I have stated — 
 positions which gave him access to the opinions of all the 
 clashing interests of the State and into whose citadels he 
 was welcomed and flattered. Each contending interest 
 looked upon him as a man of lofty and independent con- 
 victions, despising cowardice and trimming, yet fully im- 
 bued with ambition and desirous of becoming not only a 
 great man but the greatest man of the State. It is said of 
 Cicero that he was so nervously sensitive to the fluctua- 
 tions of public opinion that he could not decide between 
 Pompey and the aristocracy on the one hand and Caesar 
 and the new democracy on the other. 
 
 This can not be said of Senator Clarke. He cared 
 nothing for the fluctuations of public opinion as presented 
 in the gossip of newsmongers or placarded by speech on 
 the public rostrum. He desired the good opinions of the 
 public, but refused to bend his convictions to their no- 
 tions — to the passions of those who might judge without 
 knowledge and condemn without reason. He really 
 wanted a constituency that would stand behind him like 
 a stone wall, and therefore never modified his course so 
 as to folloAv his backers — they were to follow him, al- 
 though it was hard for his followers at times to see the 
 wisdom of his leadership. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 In his race for the Senate of the United States he was 
 pitted against one of the best-loved and one of the most 
 powerful men of the State, as well as one of the most 
 powerful Members of the United States Senate. Senator 
 James K. Jones must always be classed as one of the 
 leading great men of Arkansas. To beat such a man in 
 the zenith of his popularity and power indicated that for 
 the time being Senator Clarke had gained a great popu- 
 lar following, and was on the billows of popular esteem 
 and affection. 
 
 It may well be said that Gov. Clarke at this time was at 
 the height of his fame in Arkansas and just beginning to 
 ascend the heights of national fame at Washington. He 
 was not an orator, but a rapid-fire speaker of the Gatling- 
 gun order. He knew his facts and was a master of ar- 
 rangement; he studied carefully all the great decisions of 
 the Supreme Court of the United States and relied upon 
 them to carry him through the emergencies of debate. 
 Hardly any man on the floor of the Senate had an equal 
 power with him in brushing aside the little things and 
 seizing the great and essential things. He had a logical 
 mind and used it in making friends of those whose minds 
 ran in the same logical groove. Politically he was a Demo- 
 crat, but at times strained the definition of the word to a 
 near-breaking point. Self-willed in the extreme, he also 
 ran perilously near to harshness in his treatment of his 
 opponents. He seemed to think that he had climbed aloft 
 without the help of certain of his fellows, and that from 
 his high position he could afford to be nonaflfable. In the 
 quiet of his office, I am told, he lamented this character- 
 istic of his temperament and attributed it to some physical 
 affliction rather than the lordly bent of mind that, soaring 
 aloft, brooks no contradiction and spurns all advice. 
 
 He was a close critic of himself and never favored him- 
 self in these moods of self-investigation. He was gen- 
 
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Address of Mr. Taylor, op^ Arkansas 
 
 uinely sorrj' for his want of power properly to consider 
 and relate the little things of life, but no man can have 
 all things at once. Senator Clarke became a great Sena- 
 tor. It is extremely doubtful, however, if he would have 
 ever become so great had his mind been compelled to 
 connote little things or to give them the value they really 
 deserved. He ignored the claims of extreme politeness 
 and fellowship, and set his mind inflexibly on a higher 
 end — an end which he invariably attained. He was a 
 good reasoner and in this regard was seldom excelled by 
 an adversary'. In intensity', fiery earnestness, and rapid- 
 fire delivery he led, and seemingly was the only Senator 
 of whom many of his colleagues appeared genuinely 
 afraid. 
 
 He reached the highest empyrean of successful sena- 
 torial life, died a leading statesman, and was one of the 
 most brilliant and accomplished politicians of his State. 
 In his senatorial life of 14 years he had a very conspicu- 
 ous share in shaping the legislation of the Republic. As 
 a public man his career was brilliant patriotic, and useful, 
 and he died as he had lived, unafraid, uncompromising, 
 stalwart, majestic, and masterful. 
 
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Address of Mr. Caraway, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker : The custom of paying tribute to the dead is 
 as old as recorded historj\ All nations have observed it. 
 In this we but give expression to that longing after life 
 eternal and that hope apd that desire for immortality. In 
 these tributes, whether in spoken words or chiseled stone, 
 we express but the hope that beyond the grave is life, and 
 that those we honor here there live again amid fields 
 elysian, and because we hold that hope we pay homage to 
 those who have gone a little while before. On this Sab- 
 bath day in this famous Chamber of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, in the city of the Nation, we now pay a national 
 tribute to the memory of the late Senator James P. Clarke, 
 of Arkansas. When I say we pay a national tribute, I 
 speak advisedly, for in truth Senator Clarke was a na- 
 tional character. He thought for the Nation and labored 
 for humanity everywhere. In no sense was he sectional 
 or circumscribed bj' the boundaries of that State which 
 honored itself in honoring him. He planned for a Nation 
 and labored for a Nation as wide as the boundaries over 
 which floats the flag of that Nation. He sought no advan- 
 tage for his own State that he did not demand for that of 
 every other State and for all our people. His allegiance 
 was to the Nation as a whole. In many respects Senator 
 Clarke was the most remarkable man who has sat in the 
 Senate of these United States in the lifetime of any now 
 living. Tall and straight in form, direct and clear in 
 speech, he impressed all who knew him or heard him with 
 the honesty of his purpose and courage of his convictions. 
 Neither friend nor foe was left in doubt of his position on 
 any question touching the Nation's welfare. As he sat 
 
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Address of Mr. Caraway, of Arkansas 
 
 daj' by day at his desk in the Senate Chamber, his erect 
 figure, white hair, and strong and striking features, and 
 the dignify of his deportment proclaimed him the Senator 
 ideal. Even the casual observer marked him and instantly 
 and instinctively paid him homage. He ruled the Senate 
 as he did all other bodies of men among whom he sat not 
 by the arts of the politician but by the uprightness of his 
 motives and the clearness of intelligence. Almost upon his 
 first entrance into the Senate he became a member of the 
 steering committee of that body, which had much to do 
 with determining what legislation should be considered. 
 When the Democratic Party came into control he was 
 elected President pro tempore, and was serving in that 
 station at the time of his death. He was one of the greatest 
 parliamentarians in the Senate, and he impressed all with 
 his fairness and profound knowledge of the rules govern- 
 ing that body. He knew neither friend nor foe, section 
 nor partj', as presiding officer. 
 
 He scorned to win favor or preferment by fawning or 
 by appealing to base and mean sentiments. 
 
 Of his life and achievements I shall speak but briefly. 
 I shall leave those for defter hands and more gifted 
 tongues, for those who have known him longer and 
 known him better. The barest sketch must suffice for 
 my purpose. 
 
 James P. Clarke was born in Yazoo City, Miss., in 1854. 
 His parents were poor, but of character and standing. He 
 received a liberal education and took his professional 
 training, that of the law, at the University of Virginia, 
 where he graduated with honor. Immediately after his 
 graduation he located at Helena, Ark., where he literally 
 sprang info honorable place and position. Soon after he 
 located here he married the charming daughter of an old 
 and distinguished family. He served in botii branches 
 of the State legislature and rose to the position of presid- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 ing officer in the senate. Thence he was elected attorney 
 general of the State, and from that office became gov- 
 ernor. In all these positions he shed honor on the citi- 
 zenship of the State and served well their best interests. 
 
 In his first race for the United States Senate he was de- 
 feated, but his defeat left no scars, and in 1902, in a State- 
 wide preferential primary, he was chosen, succeeding that 
 great and much-beloved Senator, James K. Jones. At the 
 expiration of his first term in the Senate he was reelected 
 without opposition, and was again elected for a third 
 term, of which he had served a little less than two years 
 when the summons came. 
 
 From the day he first took his seat as a Senator until 
 his task was done his was the dominating influence in 
 that august body. No legislation of national importance 
 that did not take shape and form from his masterful 
 touch, whether it were tracing the course for the uniting 
 of the turbulent Atlantic to the sun-kissed Pacific by the 
 Panama Canal, or the building of a constitution and a 
 code for the government and civilization of the peoples 
 of the far-away Philippine Islands, his was the fecund 
 brain in which was builded the finished plan. For more 
 than half a century the American people demanded, but 
 demanded in vain, the right to elect their Senators by 
 direct vote of the people. With a stroke of the pen, as it 
 were, he made that an accomplished fact. Wherever men 
 strove for human rights, and human needs cried out for 
 leadership and help, wise men turned to him and turned 
 not in vain. The merest recital of his achievements would 
 require more time than is allotted to me, and I need not 
 enumerate them here; they are writ large in the annals 
 of his countr>''s fame. 
 
 Of him personally I shall speak even more briefly. 
 
 To a friend he always bent a listening ear; to a foe he 
 presented an unyielding front. Strong and just men loved 
 
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Address of Mr. Car.\\vay, of Arkansas 
 
 him and followed him; weak and corrupt ones feared and 
 shunned him. About him ever swirled the turmoil of 
 battle. He feared neither criticism nor defeat; dishonor 
 and cowardice he never knew. Whenever his country 
 needed a champion it found one in him, and with him 
 as champion the weak became strong and the hopeless 
 took heart again. 
 
 Death came to him as he would have wished it should 
 come, while yet his faculties were undimmed, but after 
 his aspirations had been achieved and his ambitions had 
 been gratified. It came not in lingering pain nor yet so 
 suddenly that farewelfs were left unsaid. In his own 
 home, with hands clasped in hands of children and 
 soothed by the ministrations of his noble wife, he fell 
 asleep — 
 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and 
 lies down to pleasant dreams. 
 
 Beyond love or hate, praise or blame, in the city that he 
 loved, literally buried beneath a mass of fragrant flowers 
 laid above him by loving hands, we left him to slumber 
 until — 
 
 Time shall be no more, and the sea shall give up its dead. 
 
 But, oh— 
 
 How many a loving one's blessing went 
 With thee beneath the low green tent 
 Whose curtain never outward swings. 
 
 Nothing we may say here to-day can enhance his fame. 
 His character and his deeds are his fairest epitaph. We 
 seek not in these exercises to add to his virtues, but in 
 praising them to renew our own. 
 
 Like a garland of fair flowers we lay a nation's tribute 
 this day upon his tomb. His life is ended, his career fin- 
 ished, but his memory is en.shrined in his public labors 
 and in the hearts of his friends. 
 
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Address of Mr. Wingo, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In the death of Senator Clarke our State 
 has not only lost a very distinguished citizen, but the 
 United States Senate has lost one of its most powerful 
 Members and this country has lost a man who, I venture 
 to assert, by his thought, his force, and his actions touched 
 and shaped its destiny with an influence equal to that of 
 any man who lived in his day and generation. It has been 
 very well said that whether you liked or disliked Senator 
 Clarke, he compelled both your respect and your atten- 
 tion. His friends relied upon his ability and courage, his 
 enemies respected and feared both. 
 
 To my mind the most striking thing about Senator 
 Clarke was his hatred of all pretense and sham. If there 
 ever was a man in public life who absolutely had the 
 courage of his convictions, who, having conscientiously 
 decided upon a course, then became indifferent to what 
 the public or his critics might say of him, it was Senator 
 Clarke. I say he had the courage to stand alone, and he 
 did that at times, Mr. Speaker, when it seemed almost 
 treason to those who are wont to abjectly kneel at the feet 
 of power; but his actions were the result of the compel- 
 ling force of his convictions and of his loyalty to his sense 
 of duty and what he thought he must do in order to retain 
 his self-respect. I think it is unfortunate for the country 
 that there are not more men of that character and of that 
 courage in both ends of this Capitol. He was intellectu- 
 ally honest, too, Mr. Speaker. James P. Clarke never un- 
 dertook to deceive himself. He never undertook by the 
 devious ways of intellectual gymnastics to make some- 
 thing appear right which intuitively and with that quick 
 decisiveness of his mind he knew was wrong. 
 
 He was one of those men who were exasperated by the 
 little details of public life upon which modern politics and 
 
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Address of Mr. Wingo, of Arkansas 
 
 modern customs in American politics have forced their, 
 representatives in both bodies to devote a good deal of 
 their time and energies, instead of giving their time, their 
 thought, their study, and their patriotic efforts to the 
 bigger and better things for which Senators and Repre- 
 sentatives are supposed to be sent to this Capitol. 
 
 I repeat he not only had the courage of his convictions, 
 but he was willing to stand alone, and that is something 
 that few men are willing to do. I once heard it said that 
 James P. Clarke would rather face a howling mob and 
 chant the requiem of defeat and know that he was right, 
 or believe that he was right, than to hear the plaudits of 
 the multitude and yet have the sickening sense in his heart 
 that he was undeserving of the misguided approval of his 
 fellows. And that was typical of the conception that most 
 men had of Senator Clarke who came in close touch 
 with him. 
 
 With Senator Clarke, as with all great men, as time 
 goes on we will learn to appreciate more his high charac- 
 ter and splendid qualities. Unfortunately for him, and I 
 think unfortunately for the countrj', his seeming indiffer- 
 ence to public approval, his sometimes seeming rudeness 
 to the representatives of the press, was a regrettable thing, 
 whlcli prevented the American people from learning more 
 of his high character and splendid abilities, which they 
 would have learned if he had pursued the course that it is 
 customary for most men in public life to pursue, and that 
 is to court the greatest amount of publicity and the great- 
 est amount of friendly utterances on the part of the repre- 
 sentatives of the press in the Capital of the Nation. But 
 he did not do that. He went his way, and more nearly 
 than any other public man who has ever lived in this 
 Capital, he made you think of these lines: 
 It matters not how straight the gate 
 
 How marked with punishment the scroll; 
 I am the master of my fate, 
 I am the captain of my soul. 
 
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Address of Mr. Tillman, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: From the moment I tirst saw him in the 
 parlor of the old Capitol Hotel in Little Rock, in January, 
 1889, to the hour of his death, I was perhaps as close to 
 Senator Clarke as were any of his contemporaries in the 
 public life of the State. In the September election of 
 1888 we had been elected to membership in the State 
 senate, he from Phillips, I from Washington County. 
 He was a candidate for president of the senate, and had 
 called to solicit my support. I was a fledgling member, 
 barely old enough to satisfy the statutory requirements 
 of the position as to age; he was several years my senior 
 and already prematurely gray, caused by a fever ante- 
 dating by some years the meeting to which I refer. I shall 
 never forget my first impression of this remarkable man. 
 He had the look of an eagle, a magnetic presence, and 
 being young and impressionable I became at once his 
 ardent admirer, friend, and supporter. From the hour of 
 our first conversation, and throughout the years follow- 
 ing, we were personal and political friends, actively coop- 
 erating in numerous public enterprises and exchanging 
 letters and visits at frequent intervals. He failed of elec- 
 tion to the presidency in 1889, but at the succeeding session 
 two years thereafter he was elected, and from that time 
 forward to him political preferment locally and nation- 
 ally was sure and rapid. 
 
 Like most great men he was possessed of marked eccen- 
 tricities. His temper at times was none of the best, and 
 his control of the same not always exceptionally good. 
 He had other peculiarities as well. One day a close 
 friend of some years' standing called him by his given 
 
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Address of Mr. Tillman, of Arkansas 
 
 name. His friend received a sharp rebuke for this indis- 
 cretion and never repeated the offense. Senator Clarke 
 stated to him that he desired his friends, no matter how 
 intimate, to call him Clarke. He cared nothing for titles 
 and preferred to be Clarke of Arkansas, rather than 
 general, governor. Senator, or Mr. President pro tempore 
 of the United States Senate. In no event did he wish to 
 be called James. I imagine that even Mark Antony was 
 not permitted to address the first Caesar as Julius nor did 
 Atticus call Cicero. Marcus Tullius. 
 
 The world is made of little men. but Senator Clarke 
 was not of this type. If a man passed him on the street 
 he would turn to look at him again. His figure was 
 striking, his carriage majestic, his swinging stride and 
 distinguished bearing at once impressed acquaintances or 
 strangers with the knowledge that he was a real man. 
 Imperious? Yes. Impatient of opposition? Certainly. 
 Dominant? Nature made him so. With all that, at least 
 before advancing years and ill health had seriously im- 
 paired his vital forces, he was as sweet as summer to his 
 friends and gi-acefully polite to his enemies. 
 
 He once characterized himself as a good hater, and he 
 was. With him there was no shadow land, no twilight 
 zone, between the people he hated and those he loved. 
 Somewhat as did Pizarro, the Spanish gold hunter, the 
 Senator drew a line on the sand, and bade his friends get 
 on his side of the mark and his enemies on the other. 
 And there he desired them to abide. 
 
 No other man was just as he was. 
 
 Like every virile character he was unique. 
 
 He was as distinct as a snow-crowned mountain peak. 
 
 That he might bind a voter to him he never practiced 
 the pettj' but effective art of insisting upon a relationship, 
 real or possible, to John Smith or to John Smith's wife. 
 He never mentioned his near or remote partiality to 
 
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 any church to tickle the ear of the zealous religionist. He 
 never paraded his lodge membership nor displayed its 
 emblem to make friends more active or to induce his 
 enemies to become less active. 
 
 He v^^as deaf to the jingle of tainted money. 
 
 He flattered no man. 
 
 He was never an opportunist. 
 
 He loved the din of battle. 
 
 He fought his antagonist face to face, " lance to lance 
 and horse to horse." 
 
 Like a white-crested eagle, he scorned prey that had not 
 fallen to his beak and talon. 
 
 His restless soul courted combat and disdained a lower 
 flight. Without consulting a single friend or advising 
 with political associates, he determined to go to the United 
 Stales Senate. He did not lay in wait for an easy mark. 
 He sought out the strongest antagonist he could find. 
 
 In the toui-nament at Ashby Sir Walter Scott, in his 
 incomparable style, causes the Disinherited Knight to ride 
 into the lists. The rule governing the tournament pro- 
 vided that if any knight proposed a conflict he might, if 
 he pleased, select his antagonist by touching his shield 
 with the sharp end of his lance, provided he desired an 
 actual battle; if he wished only a trial of skill, to touch 
 his opponent's shield with the reverse end of his lance. 
 As Ivanhoe entered he was advised to touch Ralph D. 
 Vipont's shield, to touch the Hospitaler's shield — " he has 
 the least sure seat; he is your cheapest bargain." But the 
 young knight struck with the sharp end of his spear the 
 shield of Bois-Guilbert, the strongest of the Norman 
 knights, and thus did Senator Clarke in the political lists. 
 Not waiting for a vacancy, by death or resignation, with- 
 out the backing of wealthy or influential friends, with 
 but a few years of residence in the State, he hurled his 
 challenging spear straight at the shield of Senator James 
 
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Address of Mr. Tillman, of Arkansas 
 
 K. Jones, the strongest and most popular man in the State, 
 the leader of his party in the Nation, a mental and physi- 
 cal giant, and defeated him in a second effort with com- 
 parative ease. Since then he has ranked with the great 
 men of the Nation, and was twice elected President pro 
 tempore of the United States Senate. 
 
 Senator Clarke was a man of remarkable mental en- 
 ergy. He was a master of terse, lucid expression. Each 
 of his sentences rang like a new-made coin of gold. His 
 English was pure and undcfiled. No man ever had diffi- 
 culty in determining his position upon any question, either 
 by the Senator's action or language. In debate his men- 
 tal blows were delivered with the strength that King Rich- 
 ard exhibited when he wielded his two-handed broad- 
 sword, and with the finesse and dexterity displayed by 
 Saladin when he severed the delicate veil with his keen 
 scimitar. 
 
 He left no senatorial survivor who can with propriety 
 and justice assume to be his superior. Few equaled him 
 in courage, in probity, in mentality. 
 
 Last night I stood in Statuarj- Hall on the spot where 
 John Quincy Adams fell in a dying state on February 21, 
 1848. From that point of vantage I looked around upon 
 the circle of statues in this, the Nation's great Valhalla of 
 distinguished dead, and noted among the number brave 
 Sam Houston, of Texas, robed in buckskin. There stood 
 the portly figure of Thomas Benton, of Missouri; yonder 
 the marble form of the scholarly Ingalls, of Kansas. 
 There, within a few feet, stood Washington and Lee, of 
 Virginia. Not far to my right, facing west, was the 
 priestly Marquette, of Wisconsin; and near him the hand- 
 some Senator Kenna, of West Virginia; and I felt that I 
 knew that when our people make provision here for the 
 stately statue of James P. Clarke, of Arkansas, every 
 citizen of our great Commonwealth will hold up his 
 head, supremely proud of him, when looking upon our 
 
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 distinguished fellow citizen in bronze or marble, the ac- 
 knowedged peer of any of his silent associates. 
 
 I last saw him in the Union Station at St. Louis, on the 
 9th of September, 1916, as we were going home from the 
 first session of the Sixty-fourth Congress. He passed out 
 of the station with the same vigorous step that ever char- 
 acterized his walk, never looking better, never happier. 
 He was stricken within a month thereafter in his law 
 oflBce at Little Rock at work among his books. I know 
 that he received the fatal shock with fortitude, and as he 
 hoped to receive it, with his armor on lus back, fighting 
 the grim battle of life. How much better it is to die before 
 the mind becomes eclipsed, the reason beclouded, and the 
 limbs dead and useless. I have long since decided that it 
 is desirable to hurriedly and quietly pass away like this. 
 
 Some time at eve, when the tide is low, 
 
 I shall slip my mooring and sail away, 
 With no response to a friendly hail 
 
 Of kindred craft in a busy bay. 
 In the silent hush of the twilight pale, 
 
 When the night stoops down to embrace the day 
 And voices call in the waters' flow — 
 Some time at eve, when the tide is low, 
 
 I shall slip my mooring and sail away, 
 Through purple shadows that darkly trail, 
 
 O'er the ebbing tide of the unknown sea. 
 I shall fare me away with a dip of sail, 
 And a ripple of waters to tell the tale, 
 
 Of a lonely voyage sailing away 
 
 To mystic isles where at anchor lay 
 The craft of those who have gone before. 
 O'er the unknown sea, to the unknown shore. 
 
 A few who have watched me sail away 
 
 Will miss my craft from the busy bay; 
 Some friendly barks that were anchored near. 
 Some loving souls that my heart held dear. 
 In silent sorrow will drop a tear; 
 
 But I shall have peacefully furled my sail 
 
 In mooring sheltered from storm and gale, 
 And greeted the friends who have gone before, 
 O'er the unknown sea to the unknown shore. 
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Address ok Mr. Tillman, of Arkansas 
 
 Senator Clarke's life was a successful one. He left a 
 fair estate and lived to round out an enviable and a bril- 
 liant career. He died in the season of harvest^ — in the rich, 
 golden autumn, the fairest time of all the year, when the 
 frost deepens the blush on the apple and the snowy cotton 
 turns its white, pure face to the chaste kisses of the south- 
 ern sun; when the meadows are rich with goldenrod; dur- 
 ing the season when God touches with His artist finger the 
 foliage of our glorious forests and paints the leaves as 
 brown as the hazelnut's flinty coat, as yellow as God's 
 noblest metal, and as red as the blood of a Saxon king. 
 
 Senator Clarke's friends have every reason to believe 
 that all is well with his gallant spirit. His public and 
 private life was, we know, impeccable. 
 
 Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death 
 To break the shock blind nature can not shun. 
 
 It can be said of him in truth that — 
 
 He walked the rugged road of right, 
 
 And never for a moment wandered from the way. 
 
 To loiter in alluring shade, 
 
 Or drink the Bacchanalian draught, 
 
 Or pluck the idle flowers that fringe 
 
 The banks wherein temptations wooing tide 
 
 Doth ever surge and flow. 
 
 A long good night to Senator Clarke. 
 
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Address of Mr. Goodwin, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The death of Senator Clarke removed 
 from the Senate one of the most striking figures in 
 American public life. Courageous, quick in apprehen- 
 sion, direct, at all times forceful, possessing a keen, ana- 
 lytical mind, discriminating to a rare degree and with an 
 aptitude for the solution of complex political questions, 
 he easily rose to first rank and then to leadership among 
 the trained veterans in thfe upper branch of the Federal 
 Legislature. 
 
 No one can adequately review in brief compass the 
 varied activities and accomplishments of Senator Clarke; 
 for, indeed, his life was one of strenuous devotion to cer- 
 tain concepts of duty, and once his mind was fixed as to 
 his duty he was immovable. It has been said by those 
 unacquainted with Senator Clarke that party ties and 
 obligations hung loosely on his shoulders. That he mani- 
 fested a rare independence along party lines in their com- 
 mon acceptation his best friend would not gainsay; but an 
 analysis of that independence will disclose that his break- 
 ing away from party ties was largely based upon constitu- 
 tional grounds or upon those matters that pertained to the 
 welfare of the Nation. Hailing from a State where part}' 
 regularity has been a condition precedent to political suc- 
 cess, it took rare courage to be independent of parly action 
 or the decrees of party caucus. 
 
 I have often thought that Senator Clarke did himself a 
 great injustice in not participating oflener in the discus- 
 sion of the public questions upon the floor of the Senate. 
 For, indeed, everything he touched he illumined by his 
 mental alertness and adorned with a grace and an unaf- 
 fected wealth of rare and limpid English. Few men have 
 entered public life better equipped for public service than 
 Senator Clarke. Gifted by nature as few men are; pos- 
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Address of Mn. Goodwin, of Arkansas 
 
 sessed of a prescience that enabled him to read the minds 
 of men and to almost divine the oncoming of the times; 
 second to no man as a lawyer, he stood high as a states- 
 man of first rank, lending always dignity to the Senate and 
 honor to the Commonwealth he represented. His was a 
 stupendous figure. He died, no doubt, as he had wished — 
 at the zenith of a career distinguished for public service. 
 
 With all of his varied accomplishments Senator Clarke 
 doubtless was gi-eatest as a lawyer. I doubt, indeed, if he 
 had a superior at the American bar. It is true his life was 
 devoted largely to statecraft, yet during all of his political 
 career he never abandoned his chosen field of endeavor, 
 but always kept abreast with the evolution of the law 
 and the decisions of the courts. Few men possessed the 
 rare discriminating judgment that characterized Senator 
 Clarke as to the interpretation and the construction of 
 the law or its application to government. A great part 
 of our law — the fundamentals — is inherited from the 
 Roman law, which was transplanted to English soil. At 
 first, of course, there was no general code of law; but cer- 
 tain great principles having been enunciated, these were 
 finally crj'stallized into maxims, and these maxims — the 
 datum posts, signboards, or finger pointers to certain great 
 principles — were adopted, and around these maxims the 
 Roman law gravitated and evolved; and no man can be a 
 great la\\yer unless he thoroughly understands and appre- 
 ciates these datum posts of the law, their justness, and the 
 reason why these maxims have been woven into the fabric 
 of the law. In other words, Mr. Speaker, law in its final 
 analysis is not merely a philosophy but a science, and few 
 men understood better the science, the reason for the 
 great elementaiy underlying principles of the law, than 
 did the late Senator Clarke. And no man can be a states- 
 man, no man can be a lawmaker in the true sense of that 
 term, unless he has an understanding of these great prin- 
 ciples of societj' and their application to the pattern of 
 
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 good government. For, after all, governments are insti- 
 tuted among men not for the sole purpose of manufac- 
 turing the machinery to govern men, but to equalize the 
 burdens of the government; to fashion and to apply 
 justice to all alike, to restrain the strong from over- 
 powering the weak, and to lift the feet of the struggling 
 masses and to place them upon the great tablelands of 
 justice and equity. The crime of all the ages is the his- 
 tory of inequality among men, the favors granted to the 
 few and denied to the many, the inequality of burden 
 borne by the toilers, who by their labor create the wealth 
 of the world but have little to show for their handiwork. 
 
 Let me say, Mr. Speaker, that I believe Senator Clarke 
 was misunderstood by many of his friends and practically 
 by all of his enemies; and he had enemies, as every public 
 man must have who fearlessly discharges his duties and 
 will not become the tool and slave of those who would 
 bend his will. It has been said that he was cold and cared 
 nothing for the masses, that he was an aristocrat, but 
 those who were close to him know that he had a heart for 
 the right, that he was too lofty, too imperious, too inde- 
 pendent to play the demagogue, that he had a hot fervor 
 and a passion for the right, as God gave him the power to 
 see the right, but in his imperious pride he refused to dis- 
 play the heat that warmed his soul. He was devoted to 
 duty, and was an interpreter of the times and of the selfish 
 designs of men, and he never failed to express himself in 
 the plainest and the most emphatic terms in giving expres- 
 sion to his understanding of these elements of selfishness. 
 No, Mr. Speaker, the world will never understand certain 
 types of great men and no man can be great unless he is 
 good, and all good men possess some elements of great- 
 ness. There are those in public life who strive, who toil, 
 who have a vision, and above all possess a passion for the 
 right and their loyalty to the people can not be honestly 
 questioned; but their loyalty is challenged by those who 
 
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Address of Mr. Goodwin, of Ark.\nsa.s 
 
 would profit thcreb}', and for these Senator Clarke had 
 no patience. I know that he had compassion for the poor, 
 for the little man, for the struggling masses, for the man 
 with " slanting brow," who, having been made in the 
 image of his Creator, is destined to serve as a slave at the 
 treadmill of life, while hunger gnaws at the heartstrings 
 of his wife and little children, who shiver in cold while 
 the cotton fields around them are white with the labor of 
 their hands. And the crime of civilization, Mr. Speaker, 
 is for these unfortunates, these burden bearers, to be for- 
 ever denied the privilege of even a vision of happiness. 
 On more than one occasion Senator Clarke talked most 
 feelingly about the pitiful condition of all such unfortu- 
 nates. Indeed, Mr. Speaker, I believe he felt like Amer- 
 ica's greatest poet, Edwin Markham, feels to-day in that 
 most telling and true picture of the toilers entitled " The 
 Man Under the Stone," which is as follows: 
 
 THE MAN UNDER THE STONE 
 
 When I see a workingman with mouths to feed, 
 
 Up, day after day, in the dark before the dawn. 
 
 And coming home, night after night, through the dusk. 
 
 Swinging forward like some fierce silent animal, 
 
 I see a man doomed to roll a huge stone up an endless steep. 
 
 He strains it onward inch by stubborn inch. 
 
 Crouched always in the shadow of the rock. . . . 
 
 See where he crouches, twisted, cramped, misshapen I 
 
 He lifts for their life ; 
 
 The veins knot and darken — 
 
 Blood surges into his face. . . . 
 
 Now he loses — now he wins — 
 
 Now he loses — loses — (God of my soul I) 
 
 He digs his feet into the earth — 
 
 There's a moment of terrified effort. . . . 
 
 Will the huge stone break his hold. 
 
 And crush him as it plunges to the gulf? 
 
 The silent struggle goes on and on. 
 
 Like two contending in a dream. 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Senator Clarke 
 
 Senator Clarke's last great tight was made in behalf of 
 the people of the Philippines when he sought to give them 
 independence within four years, and no American name 
 to-day in the far-oflf Philippines is so sacred as the name 
 of Senator Clarke. He was looked upon as their political 
 savior and as their best American friend, and I pray that 
 the seed sown by him will ripen into a full harvest, and 
 that the 10,000,000 Filipinos whom we hold in subjection, 
 contrary to the spirit of American liberty and American 
 institutions, will be granted their full stature of liberty 
 within the next few years. 
 
 The legislature of our State at its present session most 
 appropriately voted to have the statue of Senator Clarke 
 placed in yonder Statuary Hall with other brilliant Ameri- 
 can compatriots, and, if the sculptor chisels the late Sena- 
 tor as he looked in life, thousands of spectators who annu- 
 ally visit this Hall who never saw Senator Clarke will be 
 attracted by his noble figure, though made of bronze or 
 chiseled in stone. For, indeed, Mr. Speaker, as you know 
 and as we all know, there was no figure among all the 
 great Senators who served with Senator Clarke that 
 equaled him in commanding, physical appearance, and I 
 imagine that he typified the imperious bearing of a mighty 
 and noble Roman senator — rugged, bold, courageous, out- 
 spoken, impatient, nervous and restless over those things 
 which challenged the onward march of the true spirit of 
 justice as interpreted by him. He marshaled all the 
 brilliant forces of his thought, to the end that equity 
 might obtain in the councils of his Nation, fighting always 
 for that conception of duty which he thought should pre- 
 vail. This, indeed, Mr. Speaker, is the rock from which 
 he was hewn, the pit from which he was digged. 
 
 A great oak has fallen in the forest of big men, and we 
 shall not soon look upon his like again. He had his faults, 
 and they were many and sometimes, I thought, most griev- 
 
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Address of Mr. Goodwin, of Arkansas 
 
 ous, but who does not possess a multitude of faults? He 
 likewise had his virtues, and these towered above his 
 faults, his shortcomings, and since his death the universal 
 comment made by Members of tlie House, as well as Mem- 
 bers of the Senate, is that the late Senator Clarke was one 
 of the big Americans of his da^'; and numbers have told 
 me that he was the greatest Senator they have ever known. 
 The historian will write his name high on the scroll of 
 American honor, while his deeds may be found among 
 the archives of his country's history. 
 
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Address of Mr. Jacoway, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. Speaker : On the first day of October last the mes- 
 sage was flashed from one extreme of this counti-y to the 
 other and to the nations of the world that a great and good 
 man had fallen. Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas, 
 lay dead at his home. A citizen most useful, respected, 
 and beloved had laid down the burdens that were his. 
 He had passed from scenes that were transitoi-y and mor- 
 tal to the realm of those activities that are immortal. 
 
 A devoted family was bereft of him who was its head 
 and who to them was a trinity. A sorrow as black as a 
 starless night gathered around and about them and a load 
 as heavy as a huge stone had rolled itself upon their 
 hearts when they realized the awful tragedy that a de- 
 voted husband and father had taken his leave for the last 
 time and bidden them all a final adieu. A host of loyal 
 and devoted admirers of Mr. Clarke received the news of 
 his passing with a grief unfeigned. To them realization 
 came that the State and Nation had sustained a great 
 and continuing loss and that a friend in all the term 
 implies had answered the last call, but who did so with a 
 heart unafraid, a stoicism unequaled, and an intrepid soul 
 unshaken by fear had bowed to and obeyed the man- 
 dates of nature's final decree in equity. When family and 
 friends were brought face to face with the fact that in the 
 life of one they loved the last chapter had been written 
 and the book closed, an agonizing catastrophe threw its 
 shadow across their pathways, and " sorrow rolled like a 
 tempest through their souls." 
 
 senator Clarke's early career 
 
 Mr. Speaker, time forbids the recital of all the powerful 
 factors that went into the making of this man's life. 
 While in most respects it was not different from other 
 
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Address of Mr. Jacoway, of Arkansas 
 
 men's, yet when studied as a whole, and viewed in its 
 entirety, there is found running through the warp and 
 woof of his character those brilliant and golden threads 
 of genius positive and indisputable — the exception that 
 tests the general rule. The compelling force of Senator 
 Clarke's life, like all men of overpowering ability, wrung 
 from the lips of friend and foe alike that tribute that was 
 his and compelled unstinted words of praise of a life that, 
 while erratic in many instances and not regular and com- 
 monplace in its orbit, or in those elements it repelled and 
 attracted, yet was most commonplace in fundamentals, 
 for his was a life builded upon the rock, and his charac- 
 teristics of heart and brain were worked out upon those 
 plans and specifications that went into the making of a 
 man that is true in the sight of his fellows. Senator 
 Clarke was honest; he was courageous — both morally and 
 physically — and but few men who have sat in the Senate 
 of the United States for the past half century were as 
 capable and efTicient as was he. He was one of Arkan- 
 sas's greatest contributions to the world, having for its 
 object its betterment and its uplift In no sense of the 
 word can it be said of Senator Clarke that he was a 
 demagogue. The average political art and artifices of the 
 politician were an absolute stranger to him. To them he 
 had never been introduced, and had he been he would not 
 have stooped to use them to gain a given end. 
 
 Since the Civil War no southern man has been quite so 
 honored as was he. He was graduated at the University 
 of Virginia. He was a native of the State of Mississippi, 
 which he loved to the day of his death, and on many occa- 
 sions delighted to make atfectionate reference to the State 
 of his birth. In 1879 he moved to the State of Arkansas, 
 which period marked the genesis of a brilliant train of 
 political and legal successes. From that day to the day 
 of his death the State of his adoption delighted to do him 
 
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 honor. He served two years in the State legislature, only 
 to be followed by a term of four years in the State senate, 
 of which body he became president pro tempore and ex 
 officio lieutenant governor. At the expiration of his State 
 senatorial term he was chosen attorney general, and two 
 years later he was elected governor. In 1902 he was 
 elected United States Senator, thus realizing that ambition 
 which, as said by him, had been his dream from early boy- 
 hood. In his second race for the United States Senate he 
 defeated one of the noblest and ablest men Arkansas ever 
 sent to the Halls of National Legislation, Senator James K. 
 Jones. In all his public life no scandal was ever associ- 
 ated with Senator Clarke's name and his private life was 
 as clean and pure as a star. 
 
 AS UNITED STATES SENATOR 
 
 As Senator of the United States he looked the part and 
 he acted the part. By visitors in the gallery of the Senate 
 or upon the streets Senator Clarke was pointed out as a 
 celebrity. It may be said of him that he was not a Sena- 
 tor whose magnificent equipment of heart and mind were 
 used solely for the advancement of the State which had so 
 greatly honored him, but he had a sincere interest in the 
 affairs of the whole Nation. He had a transcending 
 ability for affairs of state which served him well and 
 which made him a master in the dischai'ge of his arduous 
 duties as United States Senator. When he thought he was 
 right he never surrendered his position. He was pecul- 
 iarly possessed of that power to think big things and do 
 big things and which gave an unlimited sway to his force- 
 ful, powerful, and dexterous qualities in the forum of the 
 United States Senate, an opportunity which he craved and 
 which early in his senatorial career marked him as a 
 Member of the greatest lawmaking body the world ever 
 saw, with no superiors and few equals. As a member of 
 
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Address of Mr. Jacoway, of Arkansas 
 
 the Judician,' Committee and by virtue of sheer ability 
 he was a commanding, compelling, and respected figure. 
 Especially in questions of constitutional law his advice 
 was eagerly sought and his counsel prevailed. In these 
 capacities he never failed to leave his impress for good 
 upon legislation. As chairman of the great Committee on 
 Commerce he discharged the duties of this position with 
 signal credit to himself and lasting benefit to the country. 
 As presiding officer of the Senate his rulings were fair, 
 and in this capacity his knowledge of parliamentary law 
 and his erudition in general were a marvel. Both sides 
 of this historic Chamber gave him credit for absolute fair- 
 ness. He was also a member of the Committee on Mili- 
 tary' Affairs and Foreign Affairs and other lesser commit- 
 tees. To these committees he carried the same power for 
 good and the same strength of character that marked his 
 labors upon other communities. 
 
 The archives of the Nation that had honored him, and 
 which he in turn honored, bear mute but unanswerable 
 testimony that establishes the fact beyond cavil that in 
 his day and generation he well and ably played his part, 
 had been true to the people of Arkansas who had greatly 
 honored him, and done those things his hands found to do 
 and with a great willingness. That which was accom- 
 plished by him, Mr. Speaker, and the ideals for which he 
 contended, have done much to make this country the one 
 intended by the fathers — 
 
 A land of settled government; 
 A land of old and just renown, 
 Where freedom slowly broadens down 
 From precedent to precedent. 
 
 Yes, if j'ou please, a representative government and, in 
 its broadest sense, where the door of opportunity swings 
 open to all alike, and where, under our institutions, is 
 sought to be underwritten the guaranty that individual 
 worth shall be the test supreme and every man a free man. 
 
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 ARKANSAS S TRIBUTE TO MR. CLARKE 
 
 In a short time after the passing of Senator Clarke the 
 State of Arkansas speedily and with affectionate regard 
 voiced its appreciation of his worth as a man, and as a 
 fitting recognition of his great piihlic service, by the adop- 
 tion of a concurrent resohition providing for the placing 
 of his statue in the Hall of Fame, once the old Hall of 
 Representatives and directly located under the great white 
 Dome of our Nation's Capitol. There his statue will stand 
 for the years to come, to be viewed and admired by the 
 multitudes that yearly find their way to the seat of the 
 Federal Government. In illustrious company will his 
 statue be, and justly so. There also in this historic Cham- 
 ber are to be found the statues of many of the great men 
 this country has produced from its inception and which 
 has made our Nation the marvel of the world. 
 
 There can be seen the statues of Blair and Benton from 
 Missouri; Kirkwood and Harlan, of Iowa; Zeb Vance, of 
 North Carolina; Ethan Allen, of Vermont; Calhoun, of 
 South Carolina; Garfield, of Ohio; Samuel Adams, of 
 Massachusetts; Wisconsin's tribute in the form of the 
 statue of Marquette, who explored the upper Mississippi; 
 the imposing form in bronze of that proud and brave man 
 beloved by the South as a whole, Robert E. Lee, whose for- 
 tune it was to lead the greatest army the world ever saw — 
 that army in gray, which on account of great opposing 
 numbers was compelled, naked and half starving, to lay 
 down their arms at Appomattox to the suffering Grant. 
 Yes, and also in this company is found the likeness of Sam 
 Houston and Stephen F. Austin, of Texas, two great pio- 
 neers that blazed out the way of a great civilization upon 
 our western frontier; to be seen also is the statue of Fulton 
 studying the model of his steamboat; the great Wash- 
 ington, of Virginia, is there, and many more which time 
 and space forbid me to enumerate. Side by side with 
 
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Address of Mr. Jacoway, of Arkansas 
 
 another great Arkansan, too, the chaste, the gentle man, 
 the scholar, the lawyer, author and linguist. Judge U. M. 
 Rose, whose meniorj' to-day is revered by all Arkansans, 
 will stand proudly erect the statue of James P. Clarke, 
 a kindred soul in the midst of these great national Ameri- 
 can characters. 
 
 SENATOR CLARKE AS A HOME MAN 
 
 Senator Clarke was a lover of children. On one occa- 
 sion I saw two boys, one 6 and the other 4 years of age, 
 find their way into his office. The Senator received them 
 graciously. He laid down the affairs of state for their 
 benefit, forgot the contemplation of momentous questions, 
 and for quite a while reveled in the company of these little 
 fellows. Unless invited to do so few people disturbed 
 Senator Clarke in the privacy of his office, but these chil- 
 dren were the exception to the rule and this picture throws 
 a new light on the character of Senator Clarke unknown 
 to some. He made these children feel that his heart beat 
 in unison with their childish hearts. He invited them to 
 climb upon great mail sacks filled with books and in turn 
 he rollicked with them by insisting that they jump in his 
 arms. This performance was repeated a number of times. 
 On another occasion in going with him from his office to 
 the Senate Chamber well do I remember the meeting he 
 had with two other children, 2 and 4 years of age, attended 
 by their nurse. At this particular time he was disturbed by 
 pending legislation regarding the cotton situation and vital 
 to the South especially. On meeting these children he in- 
 quired their names. True to the ever-present tender im- 
 pulses of his heart for children again for a moment he 
 forgot the important questions that were challenging and 
 demanding his best attention and clamoring for successful 
 conclusion and fondling the smaller child for a few min- 
 utes and bending down over and embracing it, and then 
 
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 after shaking hands with the older one he bade them 
 good-by and with a parting injunction and with that char- 
 acteristic swing of his arm, he said : " Gentlemen, I hope 
 our orbits will soon cross again." Also, no man was ever 
 regarded by his own family more as the prince of all men 
 than was Senator Clarke. On one occasion while a guest 
 in his home an opportunity was afforded to judge his life 
 from this angle. I shall never forget the beautiful scene 
 of domestic happiness that was mine to enjoy while there. 
 " His home seemed to be the center of his affection and 
 the fountain of mutual joy." In the sitting room, at the 
 dinner table, he was the embodiment of all those refine- 
 ments that were chivalrous and tender and which go to 
 make the home the universe for those that dwell within it. 
 In a mood brimful of merriment and repartee he was the 
 suitor and courtier to the mother of his children, a cava- 
 lier in conduct toward his gracious daughters, while 
 every word addressed to the son that bore his name and 
 everj' lineament of the Senator's face proved the extent 
 of the depth of that great love which he bore his only boy; 
 while for all of those collectively that were dependent 
 upon him, and which at last go to make up the greatest of 
 our institutions, the American home, there will forever 
 linger with me a picture of domestic happiness that is 
 beautiful to contemplate. 
 
 a born lawyer 
 
 As a lawyer the purity of his ethics was never ques- 
 tioned. He loved his profession and entirely respected 
 it by revering all those things for which it stands and has 
 stood in the world's history. He never profaned this 
 great calling by descending to those methods that were 
 questionable and which is the stock in trade of the petti- 
 fogger. His acts, his words, and his course of action in 
 the pursuit of his chosen profession were always upon the 
 
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Address of Mr. Jac.oway, of Arkansas 
 
 " mountain ranges of the law," and from this viewpoint 
 he respected always true lawyers and in turn commanded 
 respect from them. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, time will not permit me to further com- 
 ment on the pure character of Senator Clarke or to 
 further enumerate here that which he accomplished in 
 the various fields of activities in which he figured and 
 played a part so important. They are safely chronicled 
 on the bright pages of the historj' of his country which he 
 loved, and in which he believed, and which he so well and 
 faithfully served. The historian of the future will pay 
 Senator Clarke that merited tribute that is his and which 
 he so deseiwedly won. No poor words of mine can add 
 additional luster to the life and fame of him who was my 
 friend and of whom I was proud. In his death a distin- 
 guished patriot, an able and pure statesman, and a noble 
 man has gone into the far country. Mr. Speaker, if hon- 
 esty of purpose, cleanliness of deed, thought, and action, 
 a courage to do that which is right because it is right, if 
 character builded on the teachings of Holy Writ have their 
 reward — and they do, for God loves and lives and rules — 
 then when dissolution came to the chivalrous and intrepid 
 spirit of Senator James P. Clarke, and the woi'ld and all 
 it contained was slipping from beneath him, his dying 
 eyes caught a vision of the beautiful scenes of fields 
 elysian, and on "his feverish brow he felt the breath of 
 the morn eternal." 
 
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Address of Mr. Humphreys, of Mississippi 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Senator Clarke was a native of Missis- 
 sippi, and although his lot was cast with a sister State 
 and his name and fame associated with the great name 
 of Arkansas, Mississippi has always claimed him for her 
 own, a son in whom she was well pleased. It was my good 
 fortune, Mr. Speaker, to be thrown in rather more inti- 
 mate association with Senator Clarke than is usual with 
 those who serve here from different States and in the 
 different Houses of Congress. Our legislative purposes 
 were very much the same. There was one great object, 
 the attainment of which inspired us both and brought us 
 into intimate collaboration. That being true, it is hardly 
 necessary, it is in fact mere surplusage, to say that I soon 
 discovered in liim a man of genius and of unusual mental 
 force. 
 
 I believe in raw mentality, if I may use such a crude 
 phrase, he was the equal of any man with whom he 
 came in contact in that great, if not the greatest of all 
 legislative assemblies. That he came, through the choice 
 of his fellows, to be the President pro tempore of the Sen- 
 ate when his party gained control there after 18 years as a 
 minority was no surprise to those who knew him; it was, 
 in fact, as inevitable in the orderly course of natural 
 events as that the sparks fly upward. It was said and 
 has been suggested here to-day that Senator Clarke was 
 not a good party man; that he did not at all times recog- 
 nize the authority of his political organization; that, to 
 use a homely phrase, he was not always politically bridle- 
 wise; and that is probably true. Certain it is that neither 
 in the Senate nor on the stump in Arkansas did he ever 
 " bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift might 
 follow fawning." He never made commerce of lais politi- 
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Address of Mr. Humphreys, of Mississuti 
 
 cal convictions; he never traded or ottered to trade, either 
 here or on the stump, his opinions for votes. Nature had 
 most generously illumined his great mind with the light of 
 reason, and he used that divine attribute as became a man 
 made in the image of his Maker. Caesar says that — 
 
 Cowards die many times before their deaths, 
 The valiant never taste of death but once. 
 
 If that be true, I think we may say with assurance that 
 the first time James P. Clarke ever met the grim reaper 
 was on the first day of last October, when he laid down 
 the burdens of this life. 
 
 Blest and equipped as he thus was, with strong mind 
 and invincible courage, no wonder he succeeded. He lit- 
 erally demanded the lavish favor of the fates, and his 
 rise in his profession and his elevation through progres- 
 sive steps to the highest offices in the gift of his people 
 was as inevitable as it was rapid. 
 
 1 said, Mr. Speaker, I had been intimately associated 
 with him because of a common legislative purpose which 
 animated and inspired us both. The last time I saw Sen- 
 ator Clarke he told me that the great predominant pur- 
 pose of his official life was to secure the passage in the 
 Senate of a bill which had been sent there by the House 
 w'hich would rescue his people from the ravages of the 
 floods of the Mississippi River; and to that purpose, Mr. 
 Speaker, " he was as constant as the northern star, of 
 whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in 
 the firmament." Had he lived 1 think no man will doubt 
 that that legislation would to-day stand upon the statute 
 books. Unfortunately for us all, he was taken from us 
 " like the summer-dried fount when our need was the 
 sorest." 
 
 I have been to the Senate many times this session, and 
 when I have observed the situation there, seen that great 
 measure time and time again set aside for less impor- 
 
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 tant matters, and noted the absence of the great champion 
 upon whom we depended with such confidence and reli- 
 ance, I have almost invohmtarily exclaimed — 
 
 Where, where was Roderick then? 
 
 One blast upon his bugle horn were worth a thousand men. 
 
 Being a Mississippian, and being one who enjoyed the 
 friendship of the distinguished gentleman whose death we 
 lament to-day, I felt, Mr. Speaker, that it was proper that 
 I should pay him this last tribute of my respect. There 
 were few men whom I admired more than Senator 
 Clarke. I was one of those who were favored with his 
 friendship. ,From my first acquaintance witli him down 
 to the day of his death I had many proofs of it. We have 
 heard it stated here to-day, and all of us who knew him 
 realize the fact, that he was not only an aggressive man, 
 a forceful man, a positive man, but sometimes it seemed 
 an overbearing man. a pugnacious man: but, as is com- 
 mon with all who are so blessed with force of character 
 and courage, he had a gentler side. 
 
 A gentleman was telling me last night at the hotel of a 
 trip that he made after adjournment of Congress on a 
 train with Senator Clarke on his way back to Arkansas. 
 This gentleman had never seen any other side than that 
 which I have just referred to. They met on the train — 
 this gentleman had his family with him — in a casual way. 
 It was purely a social meeting, and there for the first time 
 was revealed to him that other side of this great character. 
 There was no battle then in progress; no conflict of wits, 
 no struggle for supremacy, and this gentleman was 
 charmed, he was indeed fascinated, by his genial per- 
 sonality. His little girl was with him, and the Senator 
 was particularly attracted to her. Her cliildish prattle, 
 her unsophisticated innocence, appealed to his great heart 
 which many strong men thought was adamant, and after 
 he had reached his home in Arkansas he wrote this little 
 
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Address of Mr. HiMi'HRiivs, oi Mississippi 
 
 child a letter manifesting the gentleness of that rugged 
 nature which was frequently hidden from other men. 
 
 But this, of course, is the characteristic of all brave 
 souls. I think I can fittingly close this meager tribute to 
 the memory of a man whom I admired and loved by 
 quoting that verse of Bayard Taylor to the soldier who 
 fell in the Crimea — 
 
 Sleep, soldier, still in honored rest 
 
 Your truth and valor wearing; 
 The bravest are the tenderest, 
 
 The loving are the daring. 
 
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Address of Mr. Rayburn, of Texas 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I would not feel like saying anything 
 to-day upon this occasion, as I feel I can not add anything 
 to the tribute that has already been paid to Senator 
 Clarke, if it were not for the fact that my relationship 
 with him for the last three years of his life was so close 
 and so intimate. For the last three years of his life, while 
 Congress was in session — and it was in practically con- 
 tinuous session — I lived at the same hotel with him and 
 sat at the same table with him. I grew to admire his 
 great ability as I have admired the ability of few men in 
 my life, and I can say that I had for him an affection, 
 deep and abiding, such as I have had for few men in all 
 my life. I believe that he gave to me as much friendship 
 and as much of his confidence as it were possible for a 
 man of his age to give to one of my age. 
 
 Senator Clarke was pictured by a great many people, 
 who did not agree with him or who did not like him, as 
 being everything that he was not. Senator Clarke was 
 one of the most human beings I ever knew in my life. As 
 has been said, in the fierce struggles over principles, in 
 the fierce debates, and in the fierce conflicts of wits he 
 knew no favorites; he knew nothing but the guiding star 
 of principle. And that is what should guide men. 
 
 Senator Clarke had the old conception, and therefore 
 the true conception, of a public servant, and that was that 
 a public servant should be a leader of his people and not 
 a follower of his people. He had that supreme confi- 
 dence in the wisdom and in the patriotism of the people to 
 believe that if he were right the people would always 
 linally come to support him in that right. He had a 
 
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Address oi- Mr. Rayburn, of Texas 
 
 supremer confidence, therefore, in the people than the 
 average politician of this day has. 
 
 The thing that drew me closer to Senator Clarke than 
 anything else was, I think, the companionship and the 
 love that he gave to his only son. I knew him after I had 
 heard a great deal of him and of the rough side of his 
 nature — that he was this thing or he was that thing. When 
 I see that a man is capable of a great love, I know it mat- 
 ters not what that man has done; that man can not be 
 wholly a bad man. If Senator Clarke in his life had ever 
 done a bad thing, it would have been a big bad thing. It 
 would not have been a little bad thing. I know from my 
 talks with him ever}- day that his great heart beat in 
 unison and in sympathy with the great masses of the 
 people, not alone of his own beloved State of Arkansas 
 that had done so much to honor him and that he had in 
 turn so signally honored. I know that his heart was with 
 those people, and he tried that his acts might be such that 
 those people would be benefited. 
 
 I am proud that the State of Arkansas has had wisdom 
 and patriotism enough to vote in its legislature to place 
 the statue of that great man out in this Hall of Immortals 
 here, because if they had waited for a hundred years and 
 had searched the annals of the State of Arkansas they 
 would not, in my opinion, have found his like again. 
 
 Senator Cl.\rke was not an old man when he died. 
 Although he had been honored with everj'thing that the 
 State of Arkansas could give him, and had been elevated 
 to the highest office within the gift of the United States 
 Senate, he was a man of only 62 years. I simply wanted 
 to say these words in tribute to the memory of this great 
 and, I know, this good man. I know that in his life he 
 did not know what fear was, and I know that he had a 
 divine confidence in the existence of a Supreme Being and 
 of a life that lies beyond death. I do not know what con- 
 
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 ception he had of the Great Beyond except that; but 
 knowing the man as I did, when the summons came and 
 he knew that he was about to cross the Great River, I 
 know that he was not afraid. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Unless some other gentle- 
 man desires to speak of the life and character of Senator 
 Clarke, this concludes the exercises to-day in behalf of 
 Senator Clarke. 
 
 Mr. Caraway. Mr. Speaker, I should like to ask unani- 
 mous consent that those who have not spoken to-day may 
 be permitted to extend their remarks in the Record. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Ar- 
 kansas asks unanimous consent that those who have not 
 spoken to-day be permitted to extend their remarks in 
 the Record. Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Monday, February 19, 1917. 
 
 A message from the Senate by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
 ing resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. James P. Clarke, late a Senator from the 
 State of Arkansas. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased 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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