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 OLLIE M. JAMES 
 
 (Late a Senator from Kentucky) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE SENATE 
 
 AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 February 2, 1919 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February 23, 1919 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 1920 
 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Pretlyman, D. D 5 
 
 Memorial addresses of — 
 
 Mr. J. C. W. Beckham, of Kentucky 11 
 
 Mr. John \V. Weeks, of Massachusetts 19 
 
 Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas 22 
 
 Mr. William S. Kenyon, of Iowa 26 
 
 Mr. Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado 33 
 
 Mr. James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois 37 
 
 Mr. George B. Martin, of Kentucky 45 
 
 Proceedings in the House of Representatives 51 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Coudcn, D. D 51,55 
 
 Memorial addresses of — 
 
 Mr. Ben Johnson, of Kentucky 57 
 
 Mr. Joseph W. Fordncy, of Michigan 60 
 
 Mr. A. B. Rouse, of Kentucky . 67 
 
 Mr. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama 71 
 
 Mr. David H. Kincheloe, of Kentucky 81 
 
 Mr. Martin B. Madden, of Illinois 87 
 
 Mr. Swagar Sherlcy, of Kentucky 91 
 
 Mr. Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky 96 
 
 Mr. Richard W. Austin, of Tennessee 103 
 
 Mr. J. Campbell Cantrill, of Kentucky 105 
 
 Mr. John W. Langley, of Kentucky 100 
 
 Mr. William J. Fields, of Kentucky 112 
 
 Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri 116 
 
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HON. OLLIE M.JAMES 
 
DEATH OF HON. OLLIE M. JAMES 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Wednesday, August 28, 1918. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty (iod, in the pursuit of the ideals upon which 
 we have founded a Government and in following the lines 
 of life laid down for us by our fathers we have been called 
 to make a complete surrender of ourselves, of our in- 
 terests, of our powers in furtherance of our great spiritual 
 democracy. We pray that Thy blessing may be upon us 
 as we enter more and more into a world conflict. As we 
 lay our fortunes, as we send our boys, as we give our lives 
 to the interests of humanity do Thou, O God of us all, 
 smile upon us, give us success, and bring us to speedy 
 victorj'. 
 
 Again and again we arc called upon to mourn the loss 
 of one of our leaders and master spirits. To-day the news 
 reaches us of the death of the senior Senator from Ken- 
 tucky. This great man so lately stood among us in 
 strength and glorj- of young manhood, endowed with 
 splendid (jualities of leadership, strong in his friendships, 
 loyal to the country, and devoted to the highest ideals of 
 our national life. In Thy providence his spirit has been 
 called back to God who gave it. 
 
 We thank Thee for all the service he rendered to our 
 Government and for the devotion which he manifested in 
 the well-being of humanity. Let Thy mcrcj' be with those 
 who constitute the inner circle of his family and friends, 
 and enable us to perpetuate in our lives all that was best 
 in his. 
 
 For Christ's sake. .\men. 
 
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 Mr. Beckham. Mr. President, it is my sad duty to an- 
 nounce to the Senate the death of my distinguished col- 
 league, Hon. Olue M. James, which occurred at the Johns 
 Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore this morning about 6.30, 
 and while it has not been unexpected for some time it 
 comes as a great shock to all of us and to all who knew 
 him. I am sure, Mr. President, that in my State there is 
 universal and jjrofound sorrow, and I feel equally sure 
 that here in this body among the Members who have asso- 
 ciated with him for nearly six years there is also the deep- 
 est sorrow. We shall miss his genial, generous character, 
 and among all of the losses which our body has sustained 
 in the present Congress none, I am sure, will be felt more 
 than that of Senator James. 
 
 It is unfortunate, Mr. President, it seems to us, that we 
 can not understand the Divine purpose when a j'oung man 
 of his age, in the very prime of his manhood, and at a 
 time when his splendid abilities and services were most 
 useful to his State and to the Nation, should be taken 
 away. 
 
 But it is not now the time to pay full and proper tribute 
 to his character and life. Upon another occasion later on 
 those of us who knew him so well, who loved and ad- 
 mired him, will have the opportunity of doing so. 
 
 I send to the desk, Mr. President, resolutions which I 
 ask may be read and adopted. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Secretary will read the 
 resolutions. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 294) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
 follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Ollie M. James, late a Senator from the 
 State of Kentucky. 
 
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 Resolved, That a committee of 15 Senators be appointed by the 
 President pro tempore to take order for superintending the 
 funeral of Mr. James, to be held in the city of Marion, Ky. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives. 
 
 Under the second resolution the President pro tempore 
 appointed Mr. Beckham, Mr. Simmons, Mr. Williams, Mr. 
 Smith of Arizona, l\Ir. Pomerene, Mr. Pittman, Mr. Under- 
 wood. Mr. Kendrick, Mr. Penrose, Mr. Borah, Mr. Weeks, 
 Mr. Kcnyon, Mr. Fall, Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Harding as the 
 connnittcc on the part of the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Pittman. Mr. President, this was the day which had 
 been agreed to by the Senate for holding memorial exer- 
 cises in respect to the memorj' of the late Senator from 
 Nevada, Francis G. Newlands. I, as does every Member 
 of the Senate, concur in the sentiments expressed by the 
 Senator from Kentuckj' relative to our beloved friend, 
 and, of course, in the circumstances it is fit and proper 
 that this body shall adjourn in accordance with custom, 
 and I have been informed by the Senator from Kentucky 
 that he is about to make such a motion. I know that the 
 action proposed by the Senator from Kentucky will meet 
 witii the entire approval of the family of the late Senator 
 and that this custom of the Senate is thoroughly under- 
 stood. But before action is taken upon that motion, out 
 of respect to the late Senator James, I give notice that on 
 Monday morning, immediately after the Senate convenes, 
 the memorial exercises in respect to the memory of the 
 late Senator Francis Griffith Newlands will be held by 
 unanimous consent. 
 
 Mr. Beckham. Mr. President, as a further mark of re- 
 spect to the memory of Senator James I move that the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. President: It is a sad and solemn occasion when- 
 ever we are gathered here to pay tributes of respect and 
 regard to the mcmorj' of one of our departed comrades in 
 the membership of this body. 
 
 In the strenuous and feverish times of the last few years, 
 engaged as we have been in the most arduous and im- 
 portant work, and going out of one session of Congress 
 into another without rest or relaxation, we have fre- 
 quently, far too frequently it seems to us, been reminded 
 of how slight is our hold upon this life, and have been 
 called upon to pause in our work and contemplate in 
 grief and sorrow the earthly separation from us of one 
 of our coworkers in the Senate. Death, which has been 
 in these recent years more unsparing and rapacious than 
 ever before throughout the world, has not overlooked the 
 Members of the Senate in its world-wide harvest, and we 
 have severely felt its heavy hand many times upon some 
 of our most useful and conspicuous associates here. 
 
 Since I entered the Senate, Mr. President, a little over 
 three years ago, of the 96 Members at that time 15 have 
 passed away, and I have no doubt that this unusual and 
 excessive mortality is in a large measure due to the 
 extraordinary and tremendous amount of work that has 
 fallen upon tlie Members of Congress in these troublous 
 and eventful years of sorrow and death. 
 
 When I came here in December, 1915, my late colleague 
 from Kentucky, Ollie M. James, who had been a Member 
 of the Senate since March 4, 1913, was one of the most 
 striking and pojjular figures in Congress. Of giant phy- 
 sique, big of body as well as of mind, in the very flush 
 
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 and prime of a useful and distinguished life, full of zeal 
 and enthusiasm in the public service, for which he was 
 so well equipped, he seemed to be the very picture of 
 vigorous and robust health; and one who saw him in those 
 days could well believe that the ravages of time and old 
 age alone could conquer such a specimen of manhood, and 
 that there stretched before his ambitious and patriotic 
 vision the promise of many more years of valuable serv- 
 ice to his countrj'. His strength and vitality seemed to be 
 irrepressible; he loved life and his fellow men with boyish 
 enthusiasm; and it never occurred to one who saw him 
 then that the scythe of the great reaper could be so near 
 him. 
 
 But, alas, Mr. President, death is still, as it ever has been, 
 cruel and remorseless in the victims it selects It still 
 loves a shining mark. It spares neither the young nor the 
 old, the weak nor the strong; it strikes down without con- 
 cern either the exalted or the lowly. The door of the 
 greatest deliberative and most dignified body on earth 
 can not any more bar its entrance than can the door of the 
 humblest cottage in the land. And now w^e find that our 
 friend, in the flower of liis manhood, like a strong young 
 oak in the forest singled out by the fierce storm in its 
 destructive course, laid low in his earthly career; and we 
 are assembled here to-day as his colleagues to render to 
 his memorj' in some degree the testimonials of our respect, 
 our admiration, and our affection for his many generous 
 and noble qualities of heart and mind. 
 
 As one who knew him intimatelj' and well almost since 
 his boyhood days, I feel that it is impossible to express in 
 the necessarily limited time of this occasion all that might 
 be said of him and of his remarkably successful and bril- 
 liant career in the public affairs of his State and of his 
 countrj-. However, I may be permitted to give briefly 
 some of the leading and important events in his 
 
 biography. 
 
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Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentlcky 
 
 Ollie M. James was born in Crittenden County, Ky., 
 July 27, 1871. His father, Judge L. H. James, a leading 
 lawyer and a highly respected citizen of that county, 
 still lives at a venerable and honorable old age, and bears 
 in his heart with Christian fortitude and patience the 
 deep sorrow of the untimely end of his distinguished 
 son, in whose remarkable and creditable success he took 
 so much pardonable pride and joy. Senator James's good 
 mother, to whom he was so devoted, preceded him to the 
 grave less than a year, and was spared the grief which 
 came to the surviving members of his family when he 
 joined her on the other side. 
 
 He was educated in the public schools of his county, 
 and. although he was never a profound student, he early 
 manifested tliat quickness of intellect and breadth of 
 mind which made up to a large extent what he lacked in 
 the opportunities of collegiate training and higher educa- 
 tion. In 1887 he was a page in the Kentucky House of Rep- 
 resentatives, and it was there that he probably acquired 
 that intense interest in political questions which was the 
 guiding factor in his life aftei^wards. 
 
 He studied law with his father and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1891. .\lthough his practice of the profession was 
 frequently interrupted by his activity in campaigns and 
 his participation in political affairs, he demonstrated a 
 broad and keen comprehension of the fundamental prin- 
 ciples of the law, and with his natural gift and love of 
 orator}' he became a most effective and successful advo- 
 cate before juries. 
 
 In 1890 he was a delegate to the Democratic national 
 convention in Chicago, and became an ardent and elo- 
 quent champion of the nominee of that convention, Hon. 
 W. J. Br^-an, and of the principles for which he stood. 
 In 1901 and each succeeding four years thereafter he was 
 a delegate from the Stale at large to the Democratic 
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 national conventions, where he always attracted consid- 
 erable attention, and at the convention in Baltimore in 
 1912 and the one in St. Louis in 1916 he was selected as 
 permanent chairman. He therefore enjoyed the distinc- 
 tion of presiding over the two conventions that nomi- 
 nated Woodrow Wilson for the Pi-esidenc}'; and it is 
 Avell known with what a high degree of confidence and 
 esteem he was held by President Wilson. His relations 
 with the White House were so close and cordial that he 
 was often regarded as a spokesman of the President, and 
 he never faltered in his loyalty to him nor to the policies 
 for which the President stood. 
 
 His ambition as a boy and as a young man was always 
 directed to a seat in Congress. He never sought nor held 
 any other office, and in 1902 he was elected to Congress 
 from his district, beginning his service in the Fifty-eighth 
 Congress March 4, 1903. He served in the House with 
 credit and distinction for 10 jears, leaving it March 4, 
 1913, to enter the Senate, to which he had been elected by 
 the General Assembly of Kentucky. His term, therefore, 
 will expire on next March 4. But less than a month before 
 his death last summer he had been renominated in the 
 State Democratic primary, and had he lived would un- 
 doubtedly have been reelected in the November election 
 for another term. 
 
 Senator James was one of the most popular and vigor- 
 ous speakers of his day. He possessed natural talents as 
 an orator. His striking appearance, his splendid voice, 
 and his great skill in clothing his ideas in forceful words 
 and sentences gave him a wonderful hold upon his audi- 
 ences; and in the later years of his life no political speaker 
 in the country had more demands upon his time for 
 speaking appointments than he had. Upon the stump, 
 the platform, in convention halls, and upon the floors of 
 Congress he always commanded the most attentive hear- 
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Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentucky 
 
 ing. He was never tiresome and always exhibited the 
 happy and rare faculty of know ing when to quit. He had 
 an instinctive knowledge of the psychologj' of audiences. 
 He seemed to know when to speak, what to say, and the 
 proper time to close. 
 
 I recall in a national convention some years ago where 
 he demonstrated this unusual power over an assemblage. 
 The convention had been in session nearly a week. Upon 
 tliis occasion it was verj' late in the night and the conven- 
 tion was impatient in its long waiting for the report of the 
 committee on resolutions. The delegates and the many 
 thousands of visitors were exceedingly weary and restless. 
 Many speakers, some of them of first-class oratorical at- 
 tainments and reputations, made numerous and futile 
 efforts to entertain them; but the tired crowd would not 
 hear the speakers and with jocular and good-natured in- 
 terruptions drove them from the platform. Finally Ollie 
 James was induced to try. It was a dangerous experiment 
 for a speaker with a crowd in such a humor. But as soon 
 as he stood upon the platform before them they became 
 at once quiet and attentive. His massive form, the stirring 
 tones of his great voice, and his well-rounded sentences 
 soon captured the audience and they listened and cheered 
 him repeatedly. He made an appropriate speech for the 
 occasion and did not sacrifice his triumph by speaking too 
 long. 
 
 He was very skillful and successful in joint debates, and 
 even in early days before he came to Congress he dared 
 sometimes to challenge and meet in debate some of the 
 veterans of the hustings and frequently bore off the hon- 
 ors of the encounters. He proved himself a ready and 
 forceful debater in Congress, and in parly controversies 
 he was always regarded by his parly associates as one of 
 their mosl effective pieces of artillery. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 He was a Democrat of the strict and regular school, be- 
 lieving with profound faith in the principles of his party; 
 and although he was a partisan he always fought fairly 
 and chivalrously and was esteemed and admired by his 
 Republican associates as well as by his Democratic 
 friends. He was absolutely loyal to the principles in 
 which he believed and never failed in his championship 
 of them. His ideas and views upon public questions were 
 essentially democratic, and all his sympathies were en- 
 tirely with the masses of the people, and throughout his 
 public career he never failed in his support of those 
 measures which he believed would bring the greatest good 
 to the largest number of the people. 
 
 In his five years' service here in the Senate he won 
 many friends, and the sincerity and fearlessness of his 
 views were recognized by all. He rarel}^ spoke on the floor 
 of the Senate, but when he did he was sure of the most 
 respectful and considerate attention. His last speech in 
 the Senate was made just about one year ago, and it was a 
 strong and ringing defense of the war policies of the ad- 
 ministration. He had about reached the zenith of his 
 power and manhood. He was still a young man, with a 
 future before him full of hope and promise. He sought 
 to serve his constituents to the fullest extent, and I believe, 
 Mr. President, that his earnest efforts to serve his people 
 in the great multitude of demands made upon his time 
 and energies under war conditions had much to do with 
 the breaking down of his health. Senators are familiar 
 with the vast increase of work upon us since our country 
 entered the war, and how difficult, if not impossible, it has 
 been to meet every request or demand upon our time. 
 The burden has been very hea^'y, and my late colleague 
 in his conscientious efforts to meet his part of it, even with 
 his strong constitution, sacrificed his health and his life. 
 
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Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentucky 
 
 Not only in his public life was he successful but also in 
 his private life, and in his home he was most contented 
 and happy. Married in 1903 to Miss Ruth Thomas, of 
 Kentucky, a most lovely and admirable young lady, he 
 had enshrined her as the idol of liis heart and had gal- 
 lantly laid at her feet the triumphs and victories which he 
 had achieved. In the sorrow and bereavement which 
 have come upon her the hearts of all who knew this happy 
 couple have been deeply touched. With so much to live 
 for, it is dinicult for us, with our limited and finite knowl- 
 edge, to understand the ways of Providence in striking 
 him down at such a time. 
 
 When he last spoke in the Senate, on the occasion to 
 which I have referred, he acquitted himself well and ably, 
 but those who sat near him could see that the stalwart 
 frame was not what it had been and that serious illness 
 was upon him. After that day he was never able again 
 to take part in the work of the Senate. He was soon con- 
 fined to his bed, and all tliat medical science and the 
 tender ministrations of his devoted wife and of friends 
 could do was done to relieve and restore him. He lin- 
 gered for some months, bearing his sufferings patiently 
 and heroically, until at last on August 28, 1918, in the hos- 
 pital at Baltimore, he breathed his last and gave up his 
 spirit to his God. 
 
 He was onlj' 47 years of age, but in that brief span he 
 had made a name for himself, a name associated with an 
 honorable and brilliant public service, and a name cher- 
 ished and loved by tlie people of his native State and by 
 many thousands of others who had come to know and ad- 
 mire him. Kentucky, Mr. President, was proud of Ollie 
 James, and in the j'ears to come our people will continue 
 to honor his memory and to count him among that bright 
 galaxy of stalcsnun lliat our Slate has given to the Na- 
 
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 tion. They will always remember him as a brave and 
 eloquent leader, as a faithful and conscientious public 
 servant, and as a man who never failed through fear or 
 favor to do what he considered his duty. To his sorrow- 
 stricken widow and to the other members of his good 
 family who have been so grievously afflicted we shall 
 always bear the deepest and most heartfelt sympathy. 
 
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Address of Mr. Weeks, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: Cerlainly not within recent years, if 
 ever, has the Senate met to pay its tribute of respect to the 
 memory of two such distinguished men as Senator Stone 
 and Senator James. When I listened a few moments ago 
 to the eloquent and just tribute which the senior Senator 
 from Missouri [Mr. Reed] paid to his late colleague I 
 could not help thinking how justly practically everything 
 he said would apply to that other great Democrat in whose 
 memory we have met. I am gratified to have the oppor- 
 tunity to say a brief word relating to his service, for I am 
 proud to think that I was included among his personal 
 friends. 
 
 Senator James entered the House of Representatives at 
 the beginning of the Fiftj'-eighth Congress, one term be- 
 fore 1 became a Member of that body, and thereafter until 
 his death we served together continuously in the House 
 and later in the Senate, so that I came to know him and 
 his policies verj' well. He was one of the most consistent 
 party men I have ever known, a fact I mention because it 
 is not altogether usual in modern times and is one which 
 has mj' general approval. A government conducted by 
 two great political parties, in my opinion, has a more 
 stable structure and produces more beneficial results to its 
 citizens than any other method which may be followed. 
 A failure to govern by parlies in the final analysis means 
 personal government, which may be good or bad; but it 
 is quite certain to lack regularity and stability. Good 
 government or good business can only result by following 
 a well-defined policy. An illustration of Senator James's 
 views on this question and his recognition of it happened 
 in a conversation he had with me shortly after we became 
 Members of the Senate. He approached me with a propo- 
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 sition that wc pair on all matters of legislation. I as- 
 sented, and then asked him why he had made that pro- 
 jjosal to me. His reply, I think, was characteristic. He 
 replied : 
 
 You are a consistent Republican on party measures and I am 
 a consistent Democrat. Ttierefore it is a fair arrangement. 
 
 Of all the men I have known in Congress I can not think 
 of one who had a more dominating personalitj'. His 
 record as a party man in the councils of his party clearly 
 justifies this statement. Kentucky has been represented 
 by a large number of men of national importance, many 
 gifted orators, and, considering its population, has had 
 an almost unequaled number of men prominent in na- 
 tional politics. This fact makes it all the more remark- 
 able that Senator James was the chairman of his State 
 delegation at a national convention when he was but 25 
 years of age, and from that time — 1896 — to the last na- 
 tional convention of the Democratic Party no man in his 
 party occupied a more prominent or influential position 
 than did he. 
 
 I never had tlie pleasure of hearing him in a political 
 campaign, but the testimonj' from his State is universal — 
 and that might be extended to include the entire countrj' — 
 that no man in his daj' — and this is extreme praise when 
 you think of the gifted men who have been active in Ken- 
 tucky during the last 25 years — exerted a larger influence 
 on the stump than he. His ver^' presence was one of 
 authority and dominating influence. Not only was this 
 true in his State and in national party councils but it 
 was true in the Senate. His ability was recognized on 
 both sides of the Chamber. Although very partisan in 
 his activities, he never failed to be fair in his relations 
 with his political opponents. Indeed, he maj'be described 
 as a square man in his dealings with friend and foe alike. 
 He struck hard, but never below the belt. 
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AnDiu:ss of Mk. Weeks, of Massachisetts 
 
 His passing at the early age of 47 has removed from the 
 stage of national affairs a man who would have been a 
 leading figure in this country in some capacity for a gen- 
 eration. If my information is correct, he was impreg- 
 nable in his political position in Kentuckj'; and his return 
 to the Senate — in fact, his continued returns — would have 
 added more and more to Iiis influence and importance as 
 a political leader. 
 
 The country can ill afford to spare any man who has 
 aptitude for public service, well-defined conviction, and a 
 courage to stand by them. It would much better have 
 among its public servants men who are wrong in many 
 of their conclusions than to have in their place time- 
 servers who base their actions on passing whims and 
 whose main purpose is to maintain and augment their 
 own political importance. 
 
 I assume from its past history that Kentucky will con- 
 tinue to be brilliantly represented in the Senate, but I am 
 confident that it will be many days before that State will 
 send to Washington a man who will exert a more impor- 
 tant influence than did Senator James or a man who will 
 be more jealous of the interests of the people of his State. 
 To secure his interest and his effective aid it was only 
 neccssan," to be a resident of Kentucky or even to have 
 been by birth a Kcntuckian. This undoubtedly was a 
 characteristic which had much to do with the strong hold 
 he had and maintained over the people of his State. 
 
 I pay Senator James this brief tribute with great pleas- 
 ure, and notwithstanding the fact that wc were antago- 
 nistic in our views on many important public questions I 
 most sincerely regret that the career of this remarkable 
 man has ended. 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 Mr. President : Formerly the membership of the Senate 
 was composed largely of elderly men. During recent years 
 that rule seems to have been modified and manj' compara- 
 tively j'oung men have entered this body. Notwithstand- 
 ing this fact, the death rate among Senators appears to be 
 increasing. 
 
 Since March 4, 1913, if my memory is accurate, 2.'5 Sen- 
 ators and ex-Senators have died, 9 of them having re- 
 turned to private life. 
 
 The roll of Senators who have died within tliis period of 
 less than six years is not confined to the feetle and the 
 aged; it embraces also many who have been stricken in 
 the prime and vigor of manhood. The high death rate 
 among Senators may be accounted for in part by the fact 
 that many have entered the Senate at advanced ages and 
 after arduous labors elsewhere have reduced their vitality. 
 This does not account for the increasing mortality in our 
 membersliip. Congressional duties have multiplied in 
 number and increased in importance during the last dec- 
 ade. The outbreak of the war and its progress brought 
 many new problems of vital importance to the Nation 
 and to the world, and also created new labors of a quasi 
 official nature sufficient in number to overwhelm the most 
 vigorous Congressman. The physical and mental strain 
 incident to labors in Congress during the war now closing 
 accounts for the loss of some of our ablest and most in- 
 fluential Members. 
 
 The Senator from New Hampshire, Mr. Gallinger, 
 passed away at the ripe age of 81 years, retaining his 
 mental vigor and comprehensive grasp of public questions 
 
 until the end. 
 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 Senator Stone died at an advanced age after long pub- 
 lic service. Senator James died in the prime of life, at 
 the high noon of his usefulness and influence. Prolonged 
 service in the House of Representatives familiarized him 
 with the details of national legislative procedure and 
 afforded him with accurate knowledge of the many 
 difficult problems connected with the progress of 
 our countn'. When Senator James began his career in 
 this Chamber he enjoyed, in addition to this knowledge 
 of legislative problems and procedure, an intimate friend- 
 ship with many Members in both Houses of Congress 
 which contributed to his influence here. 
 
 It may be said that some of the most striking character- 
 istics of his public service are epitomized in the phrases 
 " Party loyalty " and " Responsiveness to the will of the 
 people." 
 
 Senator James was a partisan; passionately, but not 
 blindl}% attached to the Democratic Party. His partisan- 
 ship was frank and aggressive. He was recognized 
 throughout the Nation during the present administration 
 as a powerful factor in its councils. 
 
 He believed that virile political organizations are indis- 
 pensable to the proper administration of government 
 under our Constitution. He supported the platforms 
 and nominees of his political party with unhesitating 
 fidelity. During 15 years of intimate association with 
 him in the House of Representatives and in the Senate I 
 never knew him to expressly or impliedly repudiate a 
 platform declaration to which he was committed or to 
 fail to champion, when occasion arose, the administration 
 or organization with which he was allied. Senators 
 present will recall his eloquence and impetuosity in 
 debate. His striking personality, forceful manners, and 
 fluency of speech gave him a degree of power on the 
 platform equal to that of any speaker who has appeared 
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 during this generation. He was, perhaps, with the excep- 
 tion of Mr. Bryan and the late former President Roose- 
 velt, the most popular campaign orator of his day. 
 
 Notwithstanding the marked attachment which Mr. 
 James alwaj's manifested to the Democratic Party, his 
 attitude on public questions was marked by a responsive- 
 ness to the will of the people rarel}' evinced by men in 
 public life. He was not ashamed to avow his readiness 
 to effectuate the public desire in legislation. He believed 
 that the people are the source of all political power 
 under our form of government and that they can be 
 safely trusted to govern. In political debates, both here 
 and when speaking from the stump, he frequently 
 appealed to public opinion as the supreme political tri- 
 bunal. This practice was not the outgrowth of demagogy 
 or of political cowardice. It was the natural development 
 of an abiding faith in the integrity and intelligence of the 
 people. 
 
 In spite of partisan views and utterances. Senator James 
 enjoyed many intimate friendships — friendships of the 
 enduring kind, not to be accounted for by the simple rules 
 alleged to govern human relationship but having their 
 origin and growth in the indefinable but nevertheless 
 powerful laws of human nature. One of the most valua- 
 ble compensations of service in Congress is the associa- 
 tions Members enjoy with one another and the lasting 
 friendships thus formed. Neither politics, religion, nor 
 similarity of habits form a standard by which our friend- 
 ships are established or maintained. This fact, unimpor- 
 tant as it may appear when first suggested, is of tremen- 
 dous importance in giving elasticity to our social and 
 political institutions. It enables us to witness the passing 
 of political control from one party to another with calm 
 assurance that the fundamentals underlying our civiliza- 
 tion will be preserved and safeguarded, because we know 
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Address of Mr. Robinson, of Arkansas 
 
 that llu' palriotic purposes of American citizenship are not 
 nionoiK)lizcd by any one political party. 
 
 Mr. President, it is a pathetic fact that we are so busy 
 here with present and prospective duties that when a 
 Senator dies his prominence is quickly forgotten, indeed 
 rarely recalled. 
 
 When a leader in the Senate falls another advances 
 almost unnoticed to take his place. Our proneness to 
 forget Members who have passed beyond is due in no part 
 to lack of appreciation for their virtues. It is occasioned 
 by the responsibilities of public duty — constantly chang- 
 ing; always pressing. 
 
 The memory of Ollie James will be perpetuated here, 
 where he toiled so effectively for the preservation of the 
 people's liberties. He will not be forgotten. The Nation 
 will remember him for his unhesitating loyalty when it 
 summoned American manhood to the defense of civiliza- 
 tion. 
 
 Kentucky will gratefully preserve his name and fame. 
 Kcntuckians honored him while he lived — honored and 
 loved him. They love his memory. That love is as tender 
 as the starlight of a Kentucky night, yet as warm as the 
 sunlight of a summer day uj)on Kentucky fields and hills. 
 
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Address of Mb. Kenyon, of Iowa 
 
 Mr. President: Out of the aftection which I bore for 
 Ollie James I could pay tribute at considerable length to 
 his splendid qualities as a man, as a citizen, and as a legis- 
 lator, but the hour is growing late, and I shall abbreviate 
 considerably the remarks I had intended to make upon 
 this occasion. 
 
 Taking the oath of office by a Senator is always an in- 
 teresting event. I can well remember — it seems but a few 
 weeks ago, though, in fact, it was nearly six years — a 
 powerful physical giant coming down the center aisle, 
 standing at the Vice President's desk, and taking the oath 
 as the new Senator from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 I had known of him and of his career, but had no per- 
 sonal acquaintance. He impressed me at that time as a 
 thoughtful, earnest, determined, courageous man, and a 
 fine specimen of American manhood. I came to know 
 him well and intimately during his term, and the impres- 
 sion made on that day became more fixed. 
 
 While we differed in our adherence to political parties, 
 I have seldom found myself out of harmony with his 
 views on any question that related to the average everj'- 
 day folks, and the news of his death brought to me the 
 shock of a great personal bereavement. Such a man, as 
 the Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Weeks] has said, the 
 country could ill afford to lose, especially in these trouble- 
 some times. 
 
 Kentucky has given many eminent men to the Nation. 
 It has been a land where oratory has flourished. The in- 
 tense struggles of the Civil War produced in its subse- 
 quent history a rugged kind of character; a self-confidence 
 and determination to stand for the right; a noble type of 
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Address of Mh. Kenyon, of Iowa 
 
 honor and chivalry. A wonderful historj' is that of Ken- 
 tucky, not only subsequent to but before the Civil War. 
 
 From a log cabin of Kentucky came the greatest of all 
 Americans, Abraham Lincoln; likewise from that State 
 came the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. 
 To-da)' there presides over the House of Representatives 
 one of the most brilliant sons of the Nation, proud of old 
 Kentucky as his birthplace. Champ Clark. Henry Clay 
 was a son of Kentucky, and likewise our departed and 
 beloved Ollie James. 
 
 He had a liking and an aptitude for politics. Starting as 
 a page in the Legislature of Kentucky, his rise was rapid, 
 until at last his ambition for a seat in this body was grati- 
 fied; and who can tell, had he lived, but that higher honors 
 would have awaited him? Certainly he would have been 
 one of the most prominent candidates for President before 
 the next Democratic national convention. 
 
 Probably no more interesting event ever occurred in his 
 life than the reception given him by his home folks after 
 his election in 1912; for, after all, it is the opinion of the 
 folks at home, who know a man in his everj'day life, who 
 see him as he walks among them and communes with 
 them that really counts. 
 
 It is not always true that the prophet is not without 
 honor save in his own country and among his own people. 
 At least, if that may be true of prophets, it is not true 
 of men with red corpuscles in their veins. It was not true 
 of Ollie James. I have copies of some telegrams that were 
 sent to Senator-elect James at that time and read at that 
 banquet. One, from Chanq) Clark, reads as follows: 
 
 Washington, D. C, January 19, 1012. 
 Ollie M. James, Marion, Ki;.: 
 
 The noblest Roman of fhcm all, hearty greetings. Next to an 
 ex-Kcntuckian, whom I will not mention for the sake of modesty, 
 I would rather you, another Kentuckian, were shown the straight 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 and narrow path to the White House. If, later on, 1 am shown 
 that path, I in turn would be happy to have 100,000 Missourians 
 shown that majority for Ollie James; that would be about the 
 right figure. Your fellow townsmen no doubt will drink to this 
 sentiment with their ayes at the banquet to be tendered you to- 
 night. 
 
 Champ Clark. 
 
 Another message on the same occasion: 
 
 Washington, D. C, January 19, 1012. 
 Hon. Ollie M. James, 
 
 Senator-elect, Marion, Ky.: 
 If your home folks think as well of you as we standpat Repub- 
 licans do, it is jug-full and then some. Wish I could gaze upon 
 your big, broad, good-natured face to-night and drink to your 
 health and happiness. As I chew the end of my pantello and 
 imagine ■wreaths of smoke curling upward I can not help medi- 
 tating on the fact that the Democratic Party is more obnoxious 
 to me than ever; for you are a shining light of that party and it 
 does not deserve such good fortune. 
 
 Joseph G. Cannon. 
 
 And another: 
 
 Lincoln, Nebr., January in, 1912. 
 Senator-elect Ollie M. James, 
 
 Marion, Ky.: 
 Remember 1916. If you are not the standard bearer of our 
 party that year I will be greatly disappointed, for Democracy 
 needs just such men as you to succeed the Democratic nominee 
 we intend to elect next November, one term being enough for 
 any good Democrat, even if he is defeated after two times in the 
 running like some I know of. 
 
 My congratulations on the enthusiastic reception I feel reason- 
 ably certain your own townsmen are according to you to-night. 
 
 William J. Bryan. 
 
 Mr. President, in order to be a leader one must inspire 
 men. Ollie James did that. He was a master of great 
 assemblies. Probably never in the history of the Nation 
 has one man, save Brj'an, exerted more influence in the 
 various national conventions of his party than he. In 
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Addrkss or Mh. Kenyon, of Iowa 
 
 1912 and 191G he was permanent chairman of the Demo- 
 cratic national convention. It will be difTicult, I think, to 
 find, though it may be possible, that the same man has 
 twice ia succession presided over a national convention of 
 either party. His speech as permanent chairman of the 
 St. Louis convention in 1916 is one of the masterpieces of 
 political orator}-. He had been a great lover and follower 
 of Brj'an; also of Champ Clark, whom he earnestly de- 
 sired to see nominated in 1912. When Woodrow Wilson 
 succeeded and became President he became his stanch 
 defender; and no man ever luul a better one. His speech, 
 hereinbefore referred to, at the Democratic national con- 
 vention was a wonderful tribute to the President, and it 
 came from the depths of his heart. 
 
 His ability as an orator would be conceded by all who 
 ever heard him. The old-fashioned, llowei-y sentences 
 seemed to flow naturally from his lips. The pathos of his 
 soul gripped the heartstrings of liis hearers. Tested by 
 the ability to move and convince people, Ollie James was 
 one of America's great orators, and certain!}' stood among 
 the leaders as a political campaigner. 
 
 He was true to the common folks. He loved them, not 
 for politics' sake, but because he had known them and 
 been raised in the hard school of adversity. He was a 
 true representative of the cverj-day, average citizen of the 
 Nation, and he was willing to fight in legislation and 
 everj'where else for anjone whom he thought was the 
 under dog in the fight. And Oi.lie James was a real fighter 
 in the cause he espoused. 
 
 No one would claim that he was not an intense political 
 partisan, but he was fair. I think it would be diflicull to 
 have convinced him that the Democratic Party ever made 
 a mistake; bu' at the same lime he could see good in the 
 opposition. Members of tliis body will not forget his con- 
 test with Senator Camden on liie fioor. The ship-purchase 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 bill was under discussion. I shall always remember with 
 what dramatic jjower he hurled these closing words of his 
 very remarkable speech: 
 
 But, Mr. President, above everything, if this bill must go down, 
 if this great constructive measure must fail, if this must be the 
 first defeat for the greatest President who has occupied that chair 
 in 50 years, if he must fail and above his body the v^'ild shouts of 
 a triumphant Republican Party shall rise, I do pray God that I 
 may be spared the humiliation of reaching down to pull from his 
 body a dagger bearing the impress of the hand of a Kentucky 
 Senator. 
 
 I have seen him swaj' great audiences and arouse them 
 to fighting mood. He could rally his own partj' forces. 
 His very appearance inspired confidence. They knew he 
 could always take care of himself — in repartee, in humor, 
 or in sledge-hammer blows. Intense partisans want their 
 champion to flay the other fellow. Thej' were sure not 
 to be disappointed when this son of Kentucky got into full 
 action. 
 
 He was always anxious in his legislative work to repre- 
 sent the people of his State, although Ollie James realized 
 that a United States Senator, while accredited to a State, 
 should represent the entire Nation; and he was a big, 
 broad American, hemmed in by no local influences. I 
 have talked with him frequently on the prohibition ques- 
 tion. We differed radically; but when things commenced 
 to be going dry pretty fast in the countiy he said to me one 
 day that while he did not believe in prohibition if the peo- 
 ple of Kentucky got around to where thej' wanted it he 
 should be for it. He believed in the people, and the people 
 believed in him. That was the secret of his strength, and 
 that made him the idol of Kentucky Democracy. 
 
 The night of the discussion over the war some of us 
 
 talked with him and urged him to make a speech. We 
 
 had had speeches through the day — not much fire in 
 
 them — and some of us wanted him to make a speech that 
 
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Aduress of Mh. Kenyox, of Iowa 
 
 would stir up enthusiasm. He did, in a speech glowing 
 with patriotism and fiery invective against the enemies of 
 America. His father had been a Union soldier, and Ollie 
 James loved this country as a man loves his mother. 
 
 I never dreamed but that Ollie James had many years 
 of service left to his countiy. His splendid physique 
 seemed to insure him long life; but the reaper, death, so 
 busy in this body, had marked him for its own. It had not 
 seemed possible that Ollie James could die. His physical 
 power seemed proof against death, but the cord of life 
 snaps so easily. Truly — 
 
 The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, 
 
 Be scattered around, and together be laid; 
 
 And the old and the young, and the low and the high. 
 
 Shall moulder to dust, and together shall lie. 
 
 Thus it has ever been; thus it will ever be. And so the 
 great soul winged its flight to those mysterious, unknown 
 realms. It was as if the strong oak of the forest had fallen 
 before its time, and with its fall fell the hopes and aspira- 
 tions of his friends for j'et greater honors for him. For 
 Ollie James bound to him friends with hoops of steel — 
 not merely everyday friends but the kind who will go 
 through stress and trouble and fight for him. 
 
 It was not so much as a politician and statesman that 
 one was drawn to Ollie James, but it was that something 
 about him that made one feel he was an unusual kind of 
 friend; that he was a brother man, a heart man. He 
 needed a large bodj' to hold his great heart. No one was 
 ever turned from him when needing help, no poor soul 
 without encouragement. 
 
 Brave, generous, noble-hearted Ollie James! We will 
 not see your like again. Sad to us that you should be 
 called to leave this Senate before the full fruition of your 
 life work; and yet such spirits as yours live on in the 
 hearts of those they have befriended. The best epitaph 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 that can be written of any man is that men and women 
 and children are a little happier because he has lived; 
 that the world is a little better for his life. That could 
 truly be written above the grave of Ollie James. That 
 is enough to say of anyone. 
 
 As Sunday after Sunday we are meeting here to paj' our 
 humble tribute to those who have preceded us on " the 
 long, long trail a-winding," may we not gather a better 
 inspiration for our own lives; a firmer resolve so to live 
 and to act toward one another that we shall be of those 
 who are missed by humanity when the great summons 
 shall come? It is not far away for any of us. 
 
 'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis tlie draught of a breath. 
 From the blossom of health to tlie paleness of death. 
 From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud — 
 O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
 
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Address of Mk. Thomas, of Colorado 
 
 Mr. President: I, first met Oi-lie James at the Chicago 
 convention of 1896. He was a large, ungainly giant of 
 a young man, ill-attired, and very self-conscious. The 
 Kentucky delegation occupied seats directly in front of 
 that to which I belonged. Mr. James had been chosen 
 chairman of the delegation, a notable distinction for a 
 young and inexperienced leader. It had been instructed 
 to vote as a unit, the majority at all times to determine 
 what that vote should be. The delegation was a very 
 turbulent one. Free coinage of silver was the issue. It 
 had enthusiastic friends and a few determined enemies in 
 Kentucky, and both sides were represented in the delega- 
 tion, with silver in the majority. The minority, led by 
 the redoubtable Col. Halderman, never failed to assert 
 itself as occasion required — protesting, denouncing, and 
 defiant. But the chairman, always self-controlled, polled 
 his delegation, announced the rule, and cast the vote, un- 
 perturbed by the outcries of his outraged but helpless col- 
 leagues. Our acquaintance, beginning amid such dra- 
 matic environment, soon ripened into a close friendship, 
 which continued without interruption to the end. I visited 
 Washington frequently during Senator James's career as a 
 Member of the House, when he always made me welcome. 
 He entered the Senate very shortly after I did, and from 
 that time onward our relations were very close indeed. 
 
 Senator James was an old-fashioned, uncompromising 
 Democrat. His party faith was to him a sort of religion. 
 Democracy was the only true gospel, and Jefferson and 
 Jackson its great apostles. What his party did was right; 
 what others did was wrong. Party disloyalty was high 
 treason. The candidate having been chosen and the plat- 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator James 
 
 form announced, cverj' man should fall into line and obey 
 the orders of the high command. To do otherwise at any 
 time or under any circumstances was to him untliinkable. 
 Honest, straightforward, and courageous himself, he 
 could neither understand nor forgive in any man the of- 
 fense of repudiating his party platform or opposing his 
 party nominees, whatever the reasons. To him these were 
 anathema. 
 
 But such things mattered not at all in his daily inter- 
 course with men. His friends were many and were of all 
 political creeds. These he bound to him with hooks of 
 steel. And he was a welcome guest and companion every- 
 where, for he was kindlj', lovable, brilliant, and enter- 
 taining. 
 
 Senator James was gifted beyond most men of his gen- 
 eration with the great power of persuasive eloquence. He 
 was a man of fine attainments. Nature had endowed him 
 with a commanding presence, a great voice rich in tones 
 of harmony, and a marvelous faculty of expression. He 
 was not a student, yet one of the best educated men of his 
 time. He possessed fine intellectual faculties. His active 
 mind easily absorbed and always retained information. 
 His knowledge of men and of events, of political history, 
 and of current affairs was remarkable for one who ap- 
 parently devoted so little time to their contemplation. 
 
 When I returned to Washington a year ago after a 
 somewhat extended illness one of the first of my col- 
 leagues to welcome me was Senator James. He was 
 apparently in perfect health. I congratulated him upon 
 his immunitjf from the ills and humors to which less 
 rugged mortals were subject. To my great surprise he 
 replied that he was far from well, and had for some time 
 been in the care of his physician. It was ditficult to 
 believe him. But shortly afterwards his ver^^ dear friend, 
 the late Senator Hughes, passed away. From the shock 
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AuuKKss OF Mu. Thomas, of Colxjkado 
 
 of this great grief he never fully recovered, and I have 
 no doubt tliat it hastened the development of his malady. 
 A few days afterwards he addressed the Senate upon the 
 conduct of the war by way of reply to a speech of the 
 senior Senator from Oregon upon the same subject. This 
 address was characterized by all the earnestness and 
 eloquence of the man. No listener could have suspected 
 the speaker of illness, nor yet of waning physical or men- 
 tal vigor. But he sustained himself to the close of his 
 speech only by the most painful and prodigious effort, 
 and retired to the cloakroom completely exhausted. He 
 appeared in the Senate Chamber only two or three times 
 thereafter. 
 
 He died at a critical moment in public affairs. The 
 allied advance was in full swing, but the German power 
 was as yet unimpaired. New armies were gathering in 
 America and the Nation was preparing for its mightiest 
 effort. His services and his influence were needed as they 
 never had been. 
 
 The grim summons could not have come more inop- 
 portunely for him nor for his countrj-. But matters like 
 these lie beyond the power of human regulation and must 
 be borne because they can not be avoided. And since 
 man is ordained to die, the life of no single individual, 
 however exalted, is indispensable to the welfare of the 
 race. Society adjusts itself to the inevitable, and the 
 inexorable processes of time are seemingly undisturbed 
 by the tragedies of life or the needs of statecraft. 
 
 He was a typical son of Kentucky. There he was born 
 and there he alwaj's lived. For him there was not other 
 landscape so green, no skies nor sunshine so winsome, 
 no people .so lovable. His was the one countrj' of the 
 earth, and Kentucky the fairest jewel in her crown of 
 Commonwealths. He loved her with the same passionate 
 devotion which the Frenchman lavishes upon the land of 
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Memorial Addresses : Senator James 
 
 the tricolor and the lilies. And she returned his aflTection 
 by crowning him with her highest honors. He served her 
 well, added his name to the long and shining list of her 
 illustrious sons, and sleeps peacefully in the sheltering 
 embrace of her generous bosom. May the grass upon his 
 grave be green while time endures. 
 
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Address ok Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. President: What an interesting exception we have 
 lately made, sir, when the Members of this body and our 
 colleagues of the House adopted the holy Sabbath as the 
 day when men shall assemble in Congress to speak there 
 the feelings of the heart as to one who is dead. Yet, 
 sir, if there is anything that can suggest to the mind that 
 there is no deatli, it must bo tributes such as we have 
 heard falling from the lips of those who speak only as the 
 heart feelcth. If, sir, there were death in the sense we are 
 sometimes taught to appreciate that word, men could not 
 live in the souls of those who love them as though they 
 were an inspired spirit breathing its own incense of 
 bcautj' and fragrance of life — aye, to the last moment of 
 memor\'. That we should on the Sabbath turn our wor- 
 ship a little while to those who personified in their exist- 
 ence that which is meant by religion is a beauteous adop- 
 tion on the part of these, sir, who represent this assembly. 
 
 Yet, sir, our meeting here speaks the fact that great 
 men, great in merit of mind, in character of life, in virtue 
 of public integrity have died. Truly, sir. 
 
 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 
 .\nd all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 
 
 Await alike the inevitable hour. 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
 I heard the Senator from Iowa [Mr. Kenyon], Repub- 
 lican so called in the political division, and the eminent 
 Senator the colleague of Senator James, Senator Beck- 
 ham, Democrat, each pour out his tribute to the splendid 
 State that gave birth to these two great men whose char- 
 acteristics we commemorate this day — Senator Stone, of 
 Missouri, and Senator James, of Kentucky. Sometimes, 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 sir, I am moved to the fact that as there is a certain soil 
 which may produce a celestial bloom in floral growth and 
 others that impart massive strength to forest tree, so, too, 
 sir, there are certain places in regions of earth that pro- 
 duce men in different flavor and varying standards from 
 that which cometh up from other soil. 
 
 Kentucky! Her every mountain preaches strength and 
 presents something of a titanic aspect. Her hills huddle 
 themselves together in something of glory, the furze of 
 autumn and the flowers of spring sparkle in original 
 beauty. In Kentucky every stream ripples through a 
 sacred soil, while the shimmering light dimpling on her 
 grasses makes radiant that which the world apostro- 
 phizes as the blue grass of Kentucky. 
 
 Natural, indeed, that from such a State there should 
 come forth such spirits that embody within themselves 
 elements something apart, indeed wholly different, from 
 that which may be possessed by men elsewhere. Though 
 we will not say of all that they were in all superior in 
 their primal endowments, yet, sir, by comparison they 
 were never failing in their virtues. Kentucky! There 
 was Clay, Crittenden, Marshall, Beck, and now James. 
 How their names loom before us and rise as something 
 ascending to the mountain steps and presenting to us 
 truly the visages of greatness. 
 
 What a startling partiality this great State presents, 
 where there seems to come nothing from her but that 
 which shall be called wonderful ! 
 
 Mr. President, 1 am not a qualified witness to the virtues 
 of the noble dead we celebrate. My contribution can not 
 be regarded impartial. I can not speak of the statesman 
 Ollie M. James in the abstract analysis that these distin- 
 guished gentlemen have framed and clothed him. I knew 
 him intimately as a close, dear, personal friend; as such 
 I loved him. In the House the distinguished Member from 
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AoimEss OF Mh. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 Alabama, Hon. Thomas Heflin, was probably the closest, 
 apart from members of the delegation of Kentucky, of any 
 of his colleagues in that branch. The eminent Senator 
 from Colorado, Mr. Thomas, in his epic contribution but 
 a moment past referred to the closeness that Senator 
 James bore to Senator Hughes, of New Jersey. Pardon me 
 if I add, sir, that early conditions of acquaintance drew me 
 within that circle as one of the few to whom I think 
 Senator James came with those little personal matters 
 which mark the man as human, apart from the official 
 and the statesman. I therefore knew him, sir, as a man, 
 as did many of you who sit about me on this sacred oc- 
 casion. He learned through the vicissitudes of life and 
 the arduous struggles of one who had to combat all ob- 
 stacles from men to feel that only within himself was 
 there the true resource of conquest and victorj'. He had 
 not the aspirations to acquire riches with which he might 
 purchase immunity from the world's struggles and ex- 
 emptions from its burdens or its miseries. He sought not 
 that social exclusiveness that might look with disdain 
 upon his fellow men in lesser spheres of life. Nor, sir, 
 did he strive for heights of renown in that thing which 
 we call statesmanship in office that he might glorify him- 
 self in something of magnificence above his fellows. 
 
 To him ever was the single object in whatever avenue 
 he thought and whatever path he walked that all his ef- 
 forts might lead to the aid of his fellow men. He recog- 
 nized that all to be done and achieved was within him. 
 His creed was that of Henley: 
 
 It matters not how straiglit the gate. 
 
 How charged with punishment the scroll; 
 
 I am the master of my fate, 
 I am the captain of my soul. 
 
 This text, sir, guided him. This it may have been that 
 charmed and allured him to toil and undertaking, and by 
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Memoriai. Addresses: Senator James 
 
 that standard he achieved. That measure, sir, he applied 
 to all those about him. He ever felt that men should be 
 natural and true to themselves as men. That men should 
 look within themselves to find their standards and from 
 such behold what should be the guide of their conduct. 
 There was not a man he knew, however humble, to whom 
 he would not extend his hand. There was not one in dis- 
 tress who could not look to him for refuge. He did not 
 know how not to be a friend. 
 
 Can we forget an instance here in this body, when an 
 humble Armenian whom no one knew, who seemed to 
 have been friendless in the invention that he thought he 
 had conceived that could contribute something of welfare 
 to our Nation? There were few who had confidence in the 
 invention; but Senator James, as chairman then of the 
 Committee on Patents, though smirked at and smiled at 
 by those of his beloved friends who understood his cre- 
 dulity and how easily he was impressed with any cry of 
 distress from any quarter — nevertheless, sir, was found 
 here pressing the claim of that obscure man for a hear- 
 ing. This man was so situated that he could contribute to 
 Senator James nothing personally or politically. Senator 
 James did not know whether his petitioner could con- 
 tribute anything of material benefit to the Government, 
 but the advocacy by Senator James was an evidence, sir, 
 of a nature so boundless in all its generosity, so large in 
 all its sacrifices, so gentle in its mercies, that he could turn 
 his great office and solicit at the hands of liis legislative 
 comrades the highest service to be given to any mankind. 
 This he would have done anywhere for anyone, however 
 high or low the pleading mortal who asked for a hearing. 
 I saw' nothing in all his life to me so significant of the gen- 
 erous soul that beat through all his life as this exhibition 
 he gave us of his solicitude in behalf of a helpless man, 
 without means and w^ithout influence. 
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Address of Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. President, it was as a statesman that these liis col- 
 leagues could well turn their attention and address their 
 tribute. They have done so with beauty and power. Ken- 
 tucky, sir, was a State which was cradled in all the swing- 
 ing flame that swirled to and fro in the awful strife be- 
 tween the States of this Union. 
 
 There was not a village within her precincts that was 
 not accursed with the difl"erences by which brothers often- 
 times faced each other with frowns, and not infrequently 
 with swords, on the battle field. Kentucky was removed 
 in a great degree from many of the extended questions 
 and widening problems that agitated and agonized the 
 general land — particularly in the great West, in which I 
 live. Yet it is interesting to observe that when Mr. James 
 came into public life from Kentucky he extended his mind 
 into the broad area of the needs of all humankind. He 
 declined to be narrowed to the inere demands of his dear 
 hills and sweet valleys, and while as the distinguished 
 Senators who have just addressed us have imparted to him 
 the attribute of faithful party afliliation, he was a Demo- 
 crat who aspired only that he might represent the princi- 
 ples of the great democracy of man as he understood it. 
 Mr. President, let justice be done to him, and that is to 
 say that it was ever the great breadth and sweep of his 
 whole countiy that engaged his attention and solicited his 
 services and to wliich he dedicated his daily life. 
 
 There was never a grievance in any part of America 
 that was not his. There was not a wrong done in a State 
 that he did not feel. There was not a sufl^ering of human- 
 kind in the circle of this whole Republic that it was not 
 his trust to remedy. There was not misery about him 
 even of the humblest of mankind that did not beat against 
 his heart and surge in every vein of his existence. For the 
 removing of all this he was a statesman; it was to remedy 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 the wrongs of his country; it was to do justice to his fellow 
 men he spoke, he served, he lived. 
 
 Sir, it is said he was an orator. Yes; and truly Senators 
 may refer to the conventions in which he exhibited such 
 marvelous skill and the display of such talent, readily to 
 be envied by any mortal. But I beseech you for a second 
 to dwell on one passing thought. Senator James was 
 truly the follower and supporter of Hon. Champ Clark, 
 of Missouri, for the Presidency. He presided over the 
 convention at Baltimore City with all the solicitude that 
 a friend could have. Yet so impartial and so just was 
 he there that he commended himself to the followers of 
 the successful rival of Mr. Clark, Mr. Wilson; and four 
 years thereafter he was seen to be the chairman of the 
 convention -that was known to be for the then successful 
 President, Woodrow Wilson. So just was he in all his 
 rulings, so impartial in all his career, so manifestly true 
 to all that there was confided to him there was no one to 
 lift a voice against his elevation to the same authorit5\ It 
 was not to men as persons he rendered his devotion but 
 to principle, and whoever carried the colors of that prin- 
 ciple of right and justice such it was under whom he 
 marched and for that principle he drew his sword and 
 blew his golden trumpet. 
 
 Thus it was he became such an orator. He spoke from 
 his heart. He echoed from his soul. He cried out to 
 mankind, and, sir, he suffered the wrongs he abjured and 
 condemned when suffered by others. He felt hurt in the 
 pains wounding others, and he lived the hopes that he 
 prayed for in behalf of his neighbors and his fellow citi- 
 zens. Sir, thus it was that he was the manner of man we 
 have listened to. Forty-seven years of age, hardly, sir, at 
 the threshold of what begins a public career of greatness 
 
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Address ok Mm. Lkwis. oi Ii.i.inois 
 
 to other men when he was summoned to celestial service. 
 Truly, as Byron described Sheridan : 
 
 Fruits of a genial morn, nnd glorious noon, 
 Thie deathless part of him who died too soon. 
 
 But, Mr. President, I decline to bear that solemn sadness 
 that pervades many of my friends who have spoken so 
 beautifully of the departed one. I have seen a candle 
 burn down to its socket. I have seen its light go out. I 
 have seen a little remnant of oil thai marked where once 
 a living flame burned and glowed, and I was saddened. 
 
 I have seen men come to public life akin to that 
 candle and burn their lives out so long and so low that 
 none could see the reflection of the flame where once they 
 flashed, nor behold the beauty which was woven by their 
 threads of silken sweetness. 
 
 Here was a man who througli his gifts and by the per- 
 mission oT Heaven was allowed to climb the mountains 
 of greatness as high as men can usually ascend, and just 
 at the pinnacle — indeed, at the top — with the glowing sun 
 of success radiating about his head, he is beckoned to and 
 ascends heavenward, carrj'ing with him, sir, the aureole 
 of his reputation, the love of everj- friend, the admiration 
 of man, and the fresh memory of his splendid achieve- 
 ments to praise before the world. This is the pride of 
 Kentucky; it is the glory of the United States Senate. As 
 such this Senator becomes the idol of his State and the 
 example to ambition to emulate as a standard of a 
 Christian and a famous man. What could Heaven give 
 man greater than this to transcend to his family, to 
 transmit to his generation, and to establish him in praise 
 and in commemoration in ages that shall remember him? 
 
 Sir, that 1 mourn my friend it is true; that I deplore his 
 loss, yes; because I saw the sweet and gentle life which he 
 lived among those who love*! liim; but, sir, I can not but 
 
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 say that as death must come and as there must be the 
 end of the journey to us all, I would to Heaven that those 
 I love could have so sweet a fate, that when they go out 
 they could go in such a golden glow as gleamed upon his 
 existence and lighted his way to Heaven; for of him we 
 may say: "A great tree has fallen in the forest, and with 
 its crash the gates of Heaven opened and angels came 
 forth proclaiming to the Master, ' There cometh one to us 
 whom we now receive for that we loved him long and 
 dearly.' " 
 
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Address of Mr. Martin, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. President: The associates and colleagues in this 
 body of him whose niemor)' we have here gathered to 
 honor have so feelingly paid him tribute and have with 
 rare and choice expression so accurately portrayed those 
 well-known outstanding traits, attainments, and charac- 
 teristics which gave to Oi.i.iE M. James his fame and en- 
 deared him to his friends that I feel as impotent to add 
 anything to their eulogies as I am powerless to do justice 
 to the life and character of this most remarkable man. 
 
 Yet I avail myself of the privilege of this memorial 
 occasion to recall to the Senate some incidents of his 
 career, showing what manner of man he was, and for 
 Kentucky, in mourning for her gifted son, to lay upon his 
 grave a well-deserved wreath of kindly memories. 
 
 From the beginning of his political history until its close 
 by death at Johns Hopkins Hospital on the 28th day of 
 August last. Senator Oli.ie M. James was constantly and 
 conspicuously in the public eye — first in his congressional 
 district; then in his native State; and. finally, as a figure 
 of national reno^\Ti. 
 
 For 15 years he was the undisputed, unquestioned, 
 recognized leader of his State's Democracy. His leader- 
 ship was founded upon his own power, bis unique per- 
 sonality, his unparalleled popularity. He ignored machine 
 politicians and the methods of machine politics and was 
 never embroiled in the factional differences which so 
 often divided his party in the State. He was indifferent 
 as to whether the party organization was under the con- 
 trol of friend or foe. With the consciousness of bis power 
 and of his predominating influence with the masses, who 
 recognized in him an aggressive exponent of the prin- 
 
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 ciples in which they inherently believed, he was content 
 to trust his political fate and fortunes to their keeping. 
 
 Early in his career politicians found that he was too 
 strong to be stayed; aspiring ones knew that when he 
 wanted place he got it. They dared not oppose him, and 
 practically without interference he was returned time 
 after time to the National House of Representatives, then 
 elected to the Senate by the general assembly, and again, 
 while in the very throes of death, was chosen, with the 
 certainty of election, as the nominee of his party for the 
 term beginning March 4 next. During his first term in 
 Congress, when in his 32d year, he look a commanding 
 place; he was well informed on principles of government 
 as well as those of his party whose tenets and faith he 
 advocated and defended valorously on all occasions. 
 
 In legislative action he was guided by and strictly ad- 
 hered to what he considered the limitations of the Consti- 
 tution and alwaj's stoutly defended his conception of the 
 Democratic doctrine of States' rights. Consistently with 
 his belief, he opposed vigorously Federal legislation on 
 both the liquor question and woman suffrage; he regarded 
 such action as an invasion of State sovereignty. Despite 
 the entreaties and persuasion of close political and per- 
 sonal friends, steadfastly and courageously he maintained 
 his convictions on these subjects. 
 
 While he revered and defended the mandates of the 
 Constitution, he was not reactionary', and had no patience 
 with those who shielded such tendencies behind abstruse 
 technicalities of constitutional construction. 
 
 This is shown by a speech he made in the Sixty-first 
 Congress, defending a bill restricting gambling on cotton 
 futures, in which he said: 
 
 I have been here a number of years now and during that time I 
 have seen many a knight of the Constilution come galloping into 
 the lists gallantly, bearing himself with skill and ease, but I have 
 
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Addkess or ALt. Mahtin, of Kkntlcky 
 
 during my service here seen not one of these kniglits of the Con- 
 stitution, with visor down and lance at rest, come into the lists to 
 do battle for the man who sows the grain or reaps tlie harvest or 
 digs the ditcli. 
 
 Mr. President, there are preserved in the records of the 
 House and Senate as a monument to his talent and genius, 
 as evidence of his patriotic solicitude for the welfare of 
 his native land, numberless utterances, profound in 
 thought, striking in style, eloquent in appeal. The last of 
 these was made on this floor one year ago in this month, 
 when, sensing the hideous magnitude of the war's mean- 
 ing to the United States, and quickly realizing the burden 
 that was to rest upon the shoulders of the President, he 
 plead for support of his policies and decried criticism, 
 then so prevalent, of the conduct of the war; he reminded 
 the country that there were in the days of the American 
 Revolution men who tried to displace George Washing- 
 ton, though he afterwards waved in triumph the con- 
 quered sword of Cornwallis; that there were critics in 
 Lincoln's Ume whose policies, if adopted, would have 
 ended in disruption of the Union instead of a triumphal 
 march of the American Army down Pennsylvania Avenue. 
 With confidence that Woodrow Wilson, if unheckled and 
 unannoyed, would measure up to his great task, he pre- 
 dicted in that speech that — 
 
 The time will come in the providence of God when our victori- 
 ous Army, with America back of it, will come back home in 
 triumph and march down this same great avenue, panoplied with 
 flowers and love and tears and pride of all America in review 
 before Woodrow Wilson, the man whom not only America but all 
 the civilized world trusts. Liberty will be safe and Americanism 
 will be secure. 
 
 His judgment was justified, his prediction has come 
 true. Before the snows of a single winter liad fallen on 
 
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 his new-made grave the armistice was signed. Peace had 
 come. 
 
 The war drum throbs no longer; the battle flags are furled. 
 
 That victorious Army is coming home, and before this 
 month shall have passed will march triumphantly down 
 this avenue in review before the President of this great 
 Republic, whom, in the eventful and crucial days of 
 preparation for war, when he was beset by pacifists, pro- 
 Germans, and critics, Ollie M. James, with unsurpassed 
 patriotism, supported, defended, upheld, and encouraged. 
 
 Mr. President, no tribute to Ollie M. James would be 
 complete, no history of him could do his memory justice 
 that did not give emphasis to his honor, his honesty, and 
 his intensely keen sense of the obligations of a Senator 
 and public servant. 
 
 During the last year of his life his services were sought 
 in two important legal cases from which he would have 
 derived a fabulous sum — much more than lawj^ers of 
 acknowledged ability could earn in a lifetime. Yet he 
 refused to accept employment in either of them, for he 
 believed that it was not his legal ability which the liti- 
 gants sought, but an expected advantage because of his 
 political prominence. In the summer of 1917 he had a 
 contract with the Northwestern Chautauqua Association, 
 by the terms of which he was to receive the sum of 
 $10,000 as a platform speaker for that association during 
 the summer of that year. Conceiving that duty required 
 his attendance upon the extra session of Congress which 
 was called, he canceled this conflicting engagement and 
 devoted himself to his congressional labors. 
 
 His intellect, Mr. President, was one of marvelous native 
 
 power; his natural talents he developed and enriched by 
 
 attentive alertness to his surroundings and by embracing 
 
 the unusual opportunities which he had of learning from 
 
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Address of Mh. Martin, of Kentucky 
 
 the many sources open to him in public life. Ho was most 
 noted for his gift of oratory; but he did not owe his tri- 
 umphs so nmeh to this as he did to an extraordinary 
 mind, to steady work, and the impression he made on 
 others that he was a man of ability. He was wonderfully 
 adept in his power to engage and hold the attention of 
 great throngs, and to this was due largely his great success 
 in presiding over, witli masterly control, two great tur- 
 bulent Democratic national conventions. His oratory was 
 not the construction of phraseolog}' into the "business" 
 style, but as a speechmaker he was distinctly southern, a 
 master of flowcrj' language, with the taste and tact not to 
 employ it beyond effective limit. Old-fashioned it may be, 
 but in the case of Ollie M. James no man can say that he 
 ever listened to one of his speeches all the waj' through 
 and never got a single thrill out of it. 
 
 Mr. President, Ollie James was a brave fighter who 
 never lost a battle and never surrendered except to the 
 final foe; he was, above all, a man and a gentleman, in 
 whose soul burned brightlj' the light of chivalric courtesy 
 and heartfelt consideration for others. 
 
 These qualities, to Kcnluckians, who hate a coward and 
 to whom it means something sacred to be a gentleman, 
 appealed with such compelling force as to make of him 
 the idol of his people, the most popular and admired man 
 of his day. 
 
 The late distinguished Senator from Kentucky, Mr. 
 President, has yielded the floor, never again to be heard 
 in this Chamber. Kentucky is proud of his record here. 
 The Nation will never forget him. We who knew him 
 personally will always hold his memory in sacred and 
 deep affection. * 
 
 As a part of my remarks. Mr. President, I desire to read 
 into the Record the resolutions upon the death of Senator 
 
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 James adopted by the Democratic State central and ex- 
 ecutive committees of Kentucky: 
 
 In the death of Senator Ollie M. James democracy has lost a 
 great and gifted champion, the Senate an acknowledged leader of 
 approved skill, the President of the United States a chosen cham- 
 pion and sponsor, and the people of Kentucky an idol son, whom 
 she regarded, not without cause, with pride and affection. 
 
 Stricken in the meridian of his splendid manhood, his short 
 life was crowded with splendid achievement. For 20 years a 
 representative of the State in every national convention, twice he 
 was chosen to preside over deliberations called to select his 
 party's champion for the highest office in the civilized world. For 
 five successive terms, without opposition, he represented his dis- 
 trict in the Federal Congress, and upon his voluntary retirement 
 from that post of honor he accepted a higher and more coveted 
 position. From the hour of his appearance in the Senate of the 
 United States he served with that distinction for which his ripened 
 experience and brilliant talents so well fitted him. 
 
 His death at this hour is regretted not by a party alone, but by 
 a Commonwealth and by a Nation. 
 
 Loyal, ardent, patriotic, brilliant orator, accomplished states- 
 man, " though dead he still speaketh." His memory will be en- 
 shrined in the hearts of Kentuckians long after monuments of 
 bronze or marble erected above his ashes shall have ceased to 
 defy " the wasting tooth of time." 
 
 Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the mem- 
 ory of the late distinguished Senator from Missouri (Mr. 
 Stone) and to the memory of the late distinguished Sen- 
 ator from Kentucky (Mr. James) I move that the Senate 
 do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 3 
 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Monday, Februarj^ 3, 1919, at 12 o'clock 
 meridian. . 
 
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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 
 
 Wednesday, August 28, 1918. 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Hcnrj' N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Our Father in Heaven, we thank Thee that the Ameri- 
 can Army in France has for its commander in chief not 
 only a brave, gallant, and efTicicnt soldier, but a Christian 
 gentleman, whose faith in God is unbounded, as disclosed 
 in the incomparable life, character, and precepts of His 
 Son Jesus Christ, who represents the Father in the con- 
 crete and man at his best. 
 
 The words which come from Gen. Pershing to the peo- 
 ple of America are altogether reassuring: 
 
 " The invisible, unconquerable force let loose by the 
 prayers, hopes, and ideals of Christian America is incal- 
 culable, and furnishes the soul and the motive for the 
 military body and its cooperation; it steadies us to resist 
 manfully the temptations which assail us in the extraordi- 
 narj' conditions in which we find ourselves." 
 
 God be witli him, his soldiers, and their associates, and 
 grant them a speedy victorj' for the world. 
 
 Our Father, again we are called upon to mourn the loss 
 of one of the congressional family. We knew him on the 
 floor of this House — a strong, efficient, wise man. We 
 have known him as a Senator, full of enthusiasm, strength, 
 and potency. Comfort us and be especially with his 
 widow and tliose who are near and dear to him, and bring 
 us at last into one of those many mansions prepared by 
 the Saviour for Thy children. Amen. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 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 lieard witli profound sorrow of 
 the deatli of the Hon. Ollie M. James, late a Senator from tlie 
 State of Kentucliy. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 15 Senators be appointed by the 
 President pro tempore to take order for superintending the 
 funeral of Mr. James, to be held in the city of Marion, Ky. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol- 
 lowing resolutions which I send to the desk and ask to 
 have read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Ollie M. James, a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
 Senator. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 16 Members be appointed upon 
 the part of the House to join the committee appointed on the part 
 of the Senate to attend the funeral. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
 tions. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker. The Chair announces the following com- 
 mittee, which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky, Mr. Helm, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 
 Cantrill. Mr. Fields, Mr. Rouse, Mr. Kincheloe, Mr. Gar- 
 rett of Tennessee. Mr. Heflin, Mr. Harrison of Mississippi, 
 
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Proceedings in the Hoi sk of Hei-kesentatives 
 
 Mr. Langley, Mr. Cannon, Mr. Kahn, Mr. Dyer, Mr. Camp- 
 bell of Kansas, and Mr. Walsh. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol- 
 lowing resolution which I send to the desk and ask to 
 have read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That as a furtlifr mark of respect the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
 tion. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to; accordingly 
 at 12 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m. the House adjourned 
 until to-morrow, Thursday, August 29, 1918, at 12 o'clock 
 noon. 
 
 Wednesday, January 29, 1919. 
 
 Mr. Eagan. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 Sunday, Fcbruarj' 23, be set aside to hold memorial exer- 
 cises on the life, character, and public services of the Hon. 
 William Hughes, late Senator from the State of New Jer- 
 sey. 
 
 Mr. Barkley. Mr. Speaker, I make the same request on 
 the same date for memorial exercises on the late Senator 
 Ollie James, of Kentucky. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from New Jersey asks 
 unanimous consent that February 23 be set aside for hold- 
 ing memorial exercises on the late Senator Hughes, of 
 New Jersey, and the gentleman from Kentucky |Mr. 
 Bnrklcy] makes the same request touching the late Sen- 
 ator James, of Kentucky. Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 Monday, February 3, 1910. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
 ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
 lowing resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate assembles as a mark of respect to the 
 memory of Hon. Ollie M. James, late a Senator from the State of 
 Kentucky, in pursuance of an order heretofore made, to enable 
 his associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and dis- 
 tinguished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate again expresses its profound sorrow 
 at the death of the late Senator from Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary transmit a copy of these resolu- 
 tions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Friday, February 21, 1919. 
 
 The Speaker. Before beginning that the Chair desig- 
 nates the gentleman from Kentucky [Mr. Sherley] to pre- 
 side next Sunday, and when thej' come to the eulogies on 
 the Senator from Wisconsin the Chair will ask the gentle- 
 man from Kentucky to invite Mr. Cooper of Wisconsin to 
 preside, and when they come to the Senator from New 
 Jersey to invite Mr. Egan to preside. 
 
 Mr. Mann. Is next Sunday set aside for eulogies? 
 
 The Speaker. Next Sunday is set aside for eulogies upon 
 three. 
 
 StiNDAY, February 23, 1919. 
 
 The House met at 11 o'clock a. m., and was called to 
 order by Mr. Sherley as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prajer: 
 
 Thou Great Father Soul, in whom we live and move 
 and have our being, we bless Thee for the deep moral and 
 spiritual excellence resident in the heart of man, which 
 
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Proceedings in the House of Rephesentatives 
 
 moves him to deeds of self-sacrifice in behalf of others, 
 liberty, truth, right, justice, which excite in his fellows 
 admiration, gratitude, praise. 
 
 We are here to-day in memorj' of three men who died 
 in the harness, striving for tlie l)elternicnt of tlie American 
 citizen as Senators of the National Congress. Long may 
 their works live in the heart of the true American to in- 
 spire those who shall come after them, that the American 
 institutions may live an ensample to all mankind. 
 
 Comfort, we beseech Thee, all to whom they were near- 
 est and dearest, by the angels of faith, hope, love, in the 
 overruling providence of the living God, who hath decreed 
 that life is stronger than death and love shall never die. 
 
 " Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, be- 
 lieve also in me." 
 
 "In mj' Father's house are many mansions; if it were 
 not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for 
 you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, 1 will come 
 again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there 
 ye may be also." 
 
 Amen. 
 
 Mr. Sherley took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will read the 
 special order. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Barkley, by unanimous consent, 
 Ordered, Tliat .Sunday, February 23, 1919, be set apart for ad- 
 dresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 Ollie M. James, late a Senator from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, 1 offer the 
 resolutions which I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved. That the business of the House be now suspended 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 Hon. Ollie M. James, late a Senator of the United States from the 
 State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
 of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
 career, the House, at the conclusion of 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 resolutions were agreed to. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Of those who speak of Ollie James upon 
 this occasion I knew him longer. When he was only thir- 
 teen or fourteen years of age he went to Frankfort as a 
 page in the Kentuckj' Legislature, of which body I was then 
 a member. Well do I recall him as a rollicking boy, in 
 knee pants. There, away from the care of father and the 
 watchful solicitude of mother, one miglit have feared for 
 him lest the seeds of vice be sown in his young mind. But, 
 even then, all his thoughts, as evidenced by his conversa- 
 tions and acts, turned not to youthful frivolities, but to the 
 more serious problems of life. Of evenings my room at 
 the hotel was his customary' place. Manj-, many times 
 I found him closely engaged in studying and asking ques- 
 tions full of thought about pending legislative measures, 
 although he was but little more than in his teens. At that 
 time the opposition to corporate greed, which later was 
 developed into real issue by the lamented Goebel, found 
 serious public expression in Kentucky. I noticed the 
 trend of the thoughts of this mere boy; and, as time went 
 by, I saw the development of his mind. Then, after only 
 a few j'ears, although not .yet a man, I saw his mind and 
 heart in their molding. Before he had reached man's 
 full estate I introduced him to a public audience in the 
 courthouse at Bardstown, Ky., the place of my residence, 
 and there heard him make a speech wliich presaged the 
 orator and statesman to which he grew. Nearly twenty- 
 five years later I introduced him for a speech to another 
 audience at the same place. On this occasion his well- 
 recognized statesmanship and his fame as an orator pre- 
 
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 ceded him and filled the town with people, whose faith- 
 ful champion he ever was. No greater speech has ever 
 been made on the hustings than was his of that day. Our 
 country was all but in the throes of a terrible war with 
 the most powerful, the most ambitious, the most savage 
 autocrat that ever came into this world in human form. 
 
 Such a word picture of Belgium's horrors; such a vivid 
 description of the destruction of France bj' the German 
 hordes then almost at the gates of. Paris; such a detail of 
 danger to the existence of Great Britain; such a placing 
 before the minds of others of the pending menace to our 
 own countrj' and the world no man before or since has 
 presented. His audience knew real intellectual effort 
 when it came along. Bardstown, Ky., where he made that 
 speech, is not the easiest place to be found in the world 
 for a speech. Long before Kentucky was admitted to the 
 Union she was known as the "Athens of the West." 
 
 There Jesuits, the best educated of educators in the 
 woi'ld, found their way before the Indian had gone; there 
 in the wilderness they erected a gi-eat college; there was 
 established the first Catholic bishopric cast of the Alle- 
 gheny Mountains, extending from New Orleans to 
 Montreal and from the upper Ohio River to the Pacific. 
 There hung the paintings of such masters as Rubens and 
 Van Dyck, the gifts of Louis Philippe, King of the French; 
 there, where Foster composed and set to music the soul- 
 stirring strains of "My Old Kentucky Home"; there, 
 where the gifted S. S. Prentice met more than an equal in 
 the renowned Ben Hardin ; there, where John Rowan, am- 
 bassador to Italy, United States Senator, lawyer, and 
 statesman, had left his impress; there, whei'e Charles A. 
 Wickliffe, Cabinet otTicer and profound lawyer, spent his 
 life; there, where William R. Grigsby, eminent jurist, set 
 a high standard for expression of thought — it was there 
 
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Adohkss of Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky 
 
 that Oi,LiE James made one of the most impressive and 
 patriotic speeches of this generation. 
 
 I have heard men speak of Ollie J.\mes having climhed 
 the ladder of fame to ahiiost the topmost rung. Ollu-: 
 James never had to climb. He simply rose from year to 
 3'ear as occasion came for an uncovering of his wonderful 
 gifts. To him nature was most prodigal, indeed, in her 
 generosity, lie was given size that hrouglit attention; a 
 personality most pleasing; a voice heavy and strong, yet 
 musical; a manner most engaging and prepossessing; 
 always gentle and kind; ever charitable; never envious 
 nor detractive; and, still more, an intellcctualit>' that 
 challenged the admiration of all. 
 
 In the connnon acceptation of the word Ollie James 
 is dead. That of him which was only clay is dead; but as 
 long as Americans may be able to read his mental 
 achievements will live. 
 
 We are taught that in the beginning God molded a 
 form out of clay, a form which became that of man. 
 But, when it had been so molded, it was inanimate. It 
 could neither move, speak, think, nor in any way acknowl- 
 edge even its own Creator. 
 
 God leaned over that form of clay and breathed into it. 
 Then it arose, endowed with the Heavenly attributes of 
 justice, charity, mercy, and the other qualities so gener- 
 ously given Ollie James. 
 
 That form of clay has been given back to earth whence 
 it was taken. But those splendid endowments will sur- 
 vive on earth; while that soul, given of God, has but been 
 taken back to God. 
 
 With the " golden rule " as the test, his sojourn here 
 was most beautiful, indeed. Those who shared his gen- 
 erosity and received his charity are countless; while no 
 one can be found whom he ever wronged. Such as Ollie 
 James live always. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 
 
 Mr. Speaker : The State of Kentucky has no bronze or 
 marble in Statuary Hall, but her sons need no monument 
 to perpetuate their fame. We of the Northwest owe to the 
 Pioneer State a debt of historical and political magnitude 
 that we can never repay. Had it not been for the daring 
 of Daniel Boone and David Harrod and George Rogers 
 Clark, and men of their kind, the Northwest territorj' 
 would in all probability now be a part of Canada, and wc 
 of Michigan and Ohio, and Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, 
 and Minnesota would be going with the members from 
 Ontario and Manitoba to sessions of the Dominion Par- 
 liament at Ottawa, instead of coming to Washington to 
 the Congress of the United States. There is no page of our 
 historj- brighter than the story of the first of our bursting 
 buds of empire, the first chapter of the Winning of the 
 West. Before the Revolution the sons of Virginia began 
 going over the top of the forest-darkened Alleghenies in 
 a stream of home builders, whose progress has never 
 stopped. God made the North Temperate Zone for the 
 home of the white race, and he put Kentucky in the center 
 of it. Forest and prairie, river and rock, soil of eternal 
 fertility', climate mild yet bracing, its landscape and its 
 people pure American, and wc, the neighbors of Kentucky, 
 are proud of every minute of her history. It was the men 
 of Kentucky, headed by George Rogers Clark, who waded 
 through miles of icy spring floods, surprised and de- 
 feated the British forces under Hamilton at Vincenncs, 
 sent him a prisoner to Virginia, and dealt the death blow 
 to British dominion south and west of the Great Lakes. If 
 Kentucky had done no more than that her place in the 
 history of American independence and American develop- 
 ment would be forever secure. 
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Address ok Mr. Fokdney, ok Michigan 
 
 But every student of our early days must realize that 
 while the Revolution passed the bill, the War of 1812 was 
 a motion to reconsider; and it was not until Andrew Jack- 
 son and his riflemen from Kentucky and Tennessee 
 mowed down Pakenham and his British regulars at New 
 Orleans that the motion to reconsider was laid on the 
 table. Again all glorj' to the wild men of the blue grass. 
 
 I love to think of the Battle of New Orleans, because its 
 diplomacy and its shooting were so characteristic of Amer- 
 icans. Pakenham, scorning the backwoods general and 
 disdaining ordinary courtesy, wrote: 
 
 Jackson, surrender New Orleans! 
 
 Jackson wrote back : 
 
 Pakenham, come and take il. 
 
 Pakenham wrote : 
 
 Jackson, I expect to take my breakfast in New Orleans Sunday 
 morning. 
 
 Jackson responded : 
 
 Pakenham, if you do, you will take your supper in hell Sunday 
 night. 
 
 And the tradition of all good Kentuckians is that the 
 Kentucky riflemen were in the front rank that fired the 
 fatal first volley which blasted Wellington's veterans like 
 chaff in a blaze. That was American diplomacy and 
 American shooting, both straight and to the point. It was 
 that battle, the ending of the War of 1812, which made 
 possible the treaty that put the United States of America 
 beyond the experimental stage, and made permanent our 
 dominion from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Because in the 
 negotiations about Oregon and Texas later Great Britain 
 dealt with a nation she could not fail to respect. 
 
 Meantime from the limestone soil of Kentucky there 
 was springing up a race of giants, sons of those long 
 
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 Scotch-Irishmen, improving the breed with everj' genera- 
 tion. In 1808, 16 years after Kentucky was admitted to 
 the Union, was born a boy destined to lead the South in 
 the great Civil War, and a year later there saw the light in 
 that State the boy who, as sixteenth President of the 
 United States, was to do more than any other man to save 
 the Union and live to see our Nation presers'ed. It is a 
 remarkable fact that Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lin- 
 coln were born within a year of each other in the same 
 State, which about half a century later furnished to each 
 Army, the South and the North, thousands of its best sons, 
 and which again became, as it had been once before, the 
 dark and bloody ground. 
 
 Into this State, with this histoiy, with these inspirations, 
 there was born in 1871 the man whose memon,' we honor 
 to-day; the son of a lawyer, who at the age of 20 was ad- 
 mitted to the bai% and whose personal qualities brought 
 him almost at once into prominence. Other speakers here 
 to-day will give the details of his early life. He was 
 chosen a delegate to Democratic national conventions for 
 20 years, beginning when only 25 years of age, in 1896, and 
 in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1916. He was permanent 
 chairman of the conventions of 1912 and 1916. For 10 
 years he was a Member of this House; and beginning 
 March 4, 1913, was one of the Senators from his State, an 
 honored member of the illustrious company of great men 
 who have held that office, of whom Henry Clay and John 
 G. Carlisle are only two of many who might be recalled. 
 
 Perhaps Senator James attained his greatest promi- 
 nence in 1912, when he was permanent chairman of the 
 Baltimore national convention, which nominated Wood- 
 row Wilson for his first presidential term; and later was 
 chairman of the committee that formally notified him of 
 his nomination. In his speech as permanent chairman 
 Mr. James said : 
 
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Address of Mr. Fordney, of Michigan 
 
 The Civil War is over, and that flag — the brightest, dearest 
 colors ever knit together in a banner of the free — waves above a 
 united people, where it is loved by every heart and would be 
 defended by every hand. And coming from the South as I do, 
 I can say that if Abraham Lincoln were alive tliis night there is 
 not a foot of soil under Dixie's sky upon which he might not 
 pitch his tent and pillow his head upon a Confederate soldier's 
 knee, and sleep in safety there. 
 
 That this is one united country has been shown again, 
 more gloriously than anyone could have dreamed seven 
 years ago, by the historj' of the great war since April, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, for many j'ears the joint sessions of the 
 Senate and House were held only once in four years, to 
 count the electoral votes for President. But in the last six 
 years there have been many joint sessions; and everj' time 
 I see the Members of the Senate march into this Hall and 
 take their places in the front rows reserved for them I 
 think of the power and greatness of the States they repre- 
 sent. Why, such has been the increase in the efficiency of 
 men in war that if the troops raised from the little State 
 of Rhode Island, with their rifles, machine guns, and held 
 artillerj', could be turned upon the Persian hosts that 
 thronged the field of Marathon, there would be no battle, 
 but only a massacre of the barbarians. In the small State 
 of Delaware there was made last year enough of high ex- 
 plosive to have destroyed all the armies of all the wars of 
 antiquity. And the advance that has been made in meth- 
 ods of destruction has been equaled in the arts of con- 
 struction and production as well. To be a Senator now 
 from one of the States of this Union is a prouder privi- 
 lege, a far worthier place in the procession of human 
 progress, than to have been any tyrant or monarch of old. 
 Our dead friend was chosen by his State to be one of her 
 Senators. It is honor enough for any man. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, when one gels to talking about Kentucky 
 he never knows when to stop. Her pioneers, her warriors, 
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 her statesmen are an insi)iring topic. The great Speaker 
 of this House is one of her illustrious sons. In literature 
 and song, as well as in sterner things, Kentucky has an im- 
 mortal place. Who does not love Stephen C. Foster's 
 " Old Kentucky Home " and " ' Way Down Upon the 
 Suwannee River " ? 
 
 It was Kentucky's heroes in the Mexican War who called 
 forth from Theodore O'Hara, one of her own people, what 
 is prohably the most perfect memorial poem ever written 
 in any language, and which will be repeated over soldiers' 
 graves as long as the English language is spoken. And 
 with that immortal poem I close this eulogy: 
 
 THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. 
 
 The mufiled drum's sad roll has beat 
 
 The soldier's last tattoo; 
 No more on life's parade shall meet 
 
 That brave and fallen few. 
 On fame's eternal camping ground 
 
 Their silent tents are spread, 
 And glory guards, with solemn round, 
 
 The bivouac of the dead. 
 
 No rumor of the foe's advance 
 
 Now swells upon the wind; 
 No troubled thought at midnight haunts 
 
 Of loved ones left behind; 
 No vision of the morrow's strife 
 
 The warrior's dream alarms; 
 No braying horn nor screaming fife 
 
 At dawn shall call to arms. 
 
 Their shivered swords are red with rust; 
 
 Their plumed heads are bowed; 
 Their haughty banner, trailed in dust, 
 
 Is now their martial shroud. 
 And plenteous funeral tears have washed 
 
 The red stains from each brow. 
 And the proud forms, by battle gashed, 
 
 Are free from anguish now. 
 
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Ar)i)Hi:ss or Mr. Fokdney, of Michigan 
 
 The neighing troop, the Hashing blade, 
 
 The bugle's stirring bhisl, 
 The charge, the dreadful cannonade. 
 
 The din and shout are past; 
 Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal. 
 
 Shall thrill with fierce delight 
 Those breasts that never more may feel 
 
 The rapture of the fight. 
 
 Like the fierce northern hurricane 
 
 That sweeps his great plateau. 
 Flushed with the triumph yet to gain, 
 
 Came down the serried foe. 
 Who heard the thunder of the fray 
 
 Break o'er the field beneath, 
 Knew well the watchword of that day 
 
 Was " victory or death." 
 
 Long had the doubtful conflict raged 
 
 O'er all that stricken plain. 
 For never fiercer fight had waged 
 
 The vengeful blood of Spain; 
 And still the storm of battle blew. 
 
 Still swelled the gory tide. 
 Not long, our stout old chieftain knew, 
 
 Such odds his strength could bide. 
 
 'Twas in that hour his stern command 
 
 Called to a martyr's grave 
 The flower of his beloved land. 
 
 The Nation's flag to save. 
 By rivers of their fathers' gore 
 
 His first-born laurels grew, 
 And well he deemed the sons would pour 
 
 Their lives for glory, too. 
 
 Full many a norther's breath has swept 
 
 O'er .\ngostura's plain. 
 And long the pitying skv has wept 
 
 Above its moldered slain. 
 
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 The raven's scream, or eagle's flight, 
 
 Or shepherd's pensive lay. 
 Alone awakes each sullen height 
 
 That frowned o'er that dread fray. 
 
 Sons of the dark and bloody ground, 
 
 Ye must not slumber there. 
 Where stranger steps and tongues resound 
 
 Along the heedless air. -^ 
 
 Your own proud land's heroic soil 
 
 Shall be your filter grave; 
 She claims from war his richest spoil — 
 
 The ashes of her brave. 
 
 Thus 'neath their parent turf they rest, 
 
 Far from the gory field. 
 Borne to a Spartan mother's breast 
 
 On many a bloody shield; 
 The sunshine of their native sky 
 
 Smiles sadly on them here. 
 And kindred eyes and hearts watch by 
 
 The heroes* sepulcher. 
 
 Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! 
 
 Dear as the blood ye gave; 
 No impious footstep here shall tread 
 
 The herbage of your grave; 
 Nor shall your story be forgot. 
 
 While fame her record keeps. 
 Or honor points the hallowed spot 
 
 Where valor proudly sleeps. 
 
 Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone 
 
 In deathless song shall tell. 
 When many a vanished age hath flown. 
 
 The story how ye fell; 
 Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, 
 
 Nor time's remorseless doom, 
 Shall dim one ray of glory's light 
 
 That gilds your deathless tomb. 
 
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Address of Mr. Rouse, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr, Speaker: The great sovereign Slate of Kentucky 
 has been represented in the Senate of the United States 
 by 44 of her citizens, Ollie M. James being the 
 forty-second Senator. To John J. Crittenden belongs the 
 honor of the longest years of service, he having served 18 
 years. Joseph C. S. Blackburn served 17 years and Henry 
 Clay served 15 years. The remarkable part of the sena- 
 torial history is that the service of two of the ablest states- 
 men, Henry Clay and John J. Crittenden, extended over 
 the same period of j-ears, but not at the same time. It was 
 44 years from the time each entered the Senate until his 
 last term expired. Eight of these men so honored served 
 less than one year, and one was expelled. 
 
 Ollie M. James was born in Crittenden County, Ky., on 
 July 27, 1871. From the beginning his career was notable 
 though humble, and with only the education that he 
 acquired from the common and academic .schools of his 
 county he rose in a very short period of time from a page 
 in the Kentucky House of Representatives to the highest 
 position in the gift of the people of his native State, and 
 this he accomplished without the means of a political 
 machine but with the confidence of the people. 
 
 He was a firm believer in the principles of the Demo- 
 cratic Party in its best and broadest definition. He always 
 believed and declared in the supremacy of the people. 
 When at the age of 25 he was elected a delegate to the 
 Democratic convention in Chicago which nominated Mr. 
 Brj'an and afterwards campaigned for the nominee, his 
 devoted friend and admirer, in many of the States. He 
 was a delegate from the State at large to the Democratic 
 convention held in Kansas City in 1900, to the SI. Louis 
 convention in 1904, the Denver convention in 1908, to 
 
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 the Baltimore convention in 1912, and to the St. Louis 
 convention in 1916. At the conventions of 1900, 1904, and 
 1908 he was elected chairman of his State delegation. 
 He was defeated for the chairmanship of liis State dele- 
 gation in 1912, but was elected permanent chairman of 
 the national convention a month later, which was a higher 
 honor and one sought by many of the able men of the 
 party. His fairness and ability were so demonstrated that 
 at the convention of 1916 the President insisted that he be 
 made the permanent chairman of the convention, which 
 was done by acclamation, and which convention renomi- 
 nated Mr. Wilson for his second term. 
 
 Well do some of us remember the happenings of the 
 State convention held in Louisville in June, 1912, when 
 Senator James resorted to the unusual. He made one of 
 his able speeches and concluded by placing himself in 
 nomination for the chairmanship of the convention. He 
 was defeated in this ambition, and it was with great 
 regret that some of us were compelled, for the sake of 
 party organization, to cast our votes against the beloved 
 Senator. However, though defeated for the chairman- 
 ship of his State convention, he was chosen a delegate to 
 the national convention at Baltimore, and it was here 
 that he was elected by acclamation permanent chairman 
 of the great convention which gave to the people Wood- 
 row Wilson. James was one of the leaders of Speaker 
 Champ Clark for the Democratic nomination in Balti- 
 more in 1912, but after his candidate was defeated he 
 supported the nominee of his party, and was at once the 
 leader and spokesman of Mr. Wilson, and soon became 
 the mouthpiece of the present administration in the 
 Senate of the United States. His last speech made in the 
 Senate, a little more than a year ago, was a masterpiece 
 in defense of the President and his policies in the conduct 
 of the war. 
 
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Addiiess of Mr. House, of Kentucky 
 
 Ollie James rendered more distinguished service to the 
 party which he loved and gave more time to the success 
 of liis party in the State and Nation than any other pub- 
 lic man during our time. He took a leading part in the 
 last six Democratic conventions, was the foremost man 
 to enunciate the principles of the party, and with his 
 towering figure and wonderful voice was seen and heard 
 in a majority of the States of the Union during the cam- 
 paigns, both State and national, during llie past 2.') years. 
 
 He was elected to each Congress from the Fifty-eighth to 
 the Sixtj'-second, inclusive, and left the House to enter the 
 Senate, where many of his friends predicted that he would 
 be when the death angel called him to his final reward. 
 He was a conscientious legislator of the Congress, a power- 
 ful debater, and one who possessed the oratorical ability 
 to meet any speaker of his day. He was a giant in phy- 
 sique and possessed a striking personality, always attract- 
 ing attention, no matter what the gathering. At all Demo- 
 cratic meetings in the State and Nation he was one of the 
 most prominent figures and wielded a powerful influ- 
 ence. The public knew Ollie .Iames as an orator and 
 statesman. As a speaker in a political campaign he had 
 no superior and but verj' few equals. No person in 
 public life of the age of Ollie J.xmes, in Kentucky or else- 
 where, has ever contributed to the history of his State a 
 more distinguished career, not having reached the age of 
 50. He had served five terms in the House of Representa- 
 tives and bad been chairman of two Democratic na- 
 tional conventions and was rounding out a term in the 
 United States Senate and renominated by a tremendous 
 majority for a second term, receiving the indorsement of 
 the people as no other candidate ever received in Ken- 
 tucky, and this renomination was tendered him while he 
 was near the end of his career and on his deathbed in the 
 hos|)ilal in Baltimore. 
 
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 His attention to his duty, his fidelity to his trusts, his 
 ability and his integrity made a deep and lasting impres- 
 sion upon those he served, and the announcement of his 
 passing away brought from the people throughout the 
 entire countrj' the deepest regret and expressions of heart- 
 felt sympathy such as has been rendered to but few who 
 preceded him to the great beyond. 
 
 No one of his acquaintances could accuse the Senator of 
 being a politician; so far as I knew, he made no attempt 
 to build for himself a political organization, always rely- 
 ing upon the people, and his faith was never misplaced. 
 He was a power in the Democratic Partj' and used his in- 
 fluence freely and ably in all the campaigns. However, 
 his purpose was solely for the good of the party he loved 
 and of the policies for which it stood and in which he was 
 a firm believer. 
 
 Senator James passed awaj^ at Johns Hopkins Hospital 
 in Baltimore on the morning of the 28th of last August, 
 where he had made a brave and hard fight against a dis- 
 ease that had claimed him as one of its victims, and only 
 surrendered when his feeble nature was overcome by the 
 inevitable. The familiar figure of Kentucky's Democratic 
 giant will for many years be missed among those who 
 loved the party and the people. 
 
 To be admired is an honor which many public men ex- 
 perience, but to be loved and 'admired by nearly all of 
 one's acquaintances is an honor and distinction that but 
 few men attain. Our friend was one of the rare creatures 
 of God who could claim this distinction. 
 
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Address of Mr. Heflin, of Alabama 
 
 Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House : The life of 
 an able and faithful public servant is an inspiration and 
 help to the youth of the countn,' and a blessing to his race. 
 The most interesting and helpful history is that which 
 tells the story of success achieved in spite of hardships and 
 hindrances born of ill fortune. The greatest intellects and 
 benefactors of the race have come from the moderately 
 well-to-do and from the ranks of the world's struggling 
 poor. These, by their example, inspire and encourage 
 those who purpose in their hearts to succeed in spile of 
 adverse circumstances. 
 
 The House of Representatives is assembled to-day to 
 pay a tribute of love and reverence to the memorj' of a 
 truly great American, born in Kentucky amidst the hard- 
 ships and privations of the reconstruction period that fol- 
 lowed the War between the Slates. His parents were poor 
 in the things that make up the sum of this world's goods. 
 His father was a Union soldier and his mother had four 
 brothers in the Confederate Army. At the end of the war 
 his father, like many other soldiers on both sides, had to 
 start life over again amidst hard and Irj'ing circumstances. 
 
 Ollie James as a boy worked upon the farm and cut 
 wood and made fires and did other work about the home. 
 During spare time he worked for neighbors needing help, 
 making a little money whenever he could. He told me of 
 one of his first experiences, that of carrj'ing brick up a 
 ladder to the workmen on a building for 10 cents a day. 
 He was appointed to the position of page in the Kentucky 
 Legislature when a youth of 14. He was educated in the 
 common schools of Crittenden County and the high school 
 at Marion. He studied law with his father, who had be- 
 come a si)lendid lawyer, and was admitlcd to the bar 
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 when 20 years old. It was not long until he was recog- 
 nized as one of the ablest and best young lawyers in Ken- 
 tucky. Older lawyers who knew him in those days told 
 me that he acquainted himself with the law and with 
 everj' detail of his case and presented it to court and jun,- 
 in such masterful fashion that he soon became one of, if 
 not the greatest, trial la%vyers in the State. 
 
 Ollie James was born for public service. When 29 
 years old he was elected chairman of the Democratic 
 State convention of Kentucky, and every four years, from 
 1896 to 1916, he was elected a delegate from the State at 
 large to the national Democratic convention. In 1912 he 
 was elected chairman of the national Democratic conven- 
 tion at Baltimore, and he presided over its deliberations 
 when Woodrow Wilson was nominated for the ofBce of 
 President. His speech before the convention at Baltimore 
 had so thrilled and electi'ified the delegates and the coun- 
 try that in 1916 he was the unanimous choice of the Presi- 
 dent, the national Democratic committee, and the dele- 
 gates to the national convention, and when the convention 
 assembled at St. Louis he was made its chairman by 
 unanimous vote. His speech on that occasion was the 
 greatest treat and triumph in American oratory' that I 
 have ever witnessed. His speech there was even greater 
 than his great speech at Baltimore. When he left the 
 convention at St. Louis, the idol of Democrats from everj' 
 section, he was acclaimed by all who heard him as the 
 greatest orator in America. Delegates from all over the 
 country told him at St. Louis that he was their choice for 
 President in 1920, and if he had lived I believe that he 
 would have been nominated and elected. 
 
 From his youth he cherished the ambition to be a Mem- 
 ber of Congress, and when 31 years old he was unani- 
 mously elected to the House of Representatives from the 
 largest Democratic district in Kentucky. When I came to 
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Address of Mr. Heflin, of Alabama 
 
 Congress in 1904 he was serving the last half of his first 
 term. Mr. Speaker, the first time that I ever heard him 
 speak in the House I was drawn to him and wonderfully 
 fascinated by his frank manner, his splendid argument, 
 and pleasing elqquence. Before he had served three 
 terms in the House he liad become a leader, a member 
 of the Ways and Means Committee, and the ablest and 
 most powerful debater on either side. He was magnetic, 
 courageous, brilliant, and fascinatingly eloquent, and in 
 his service of 16 years in the House and Senate he was 
 the able and faithful friend of the masses and was always 
 the champion of fair and honest government. The peo- 
 ple — the plain people, as Lincoln used to call them — ^never 
 had a better friend in Congress than Ollie James. He 
 wanted to see everybody have a fair chance in the struggle 
 of life, and no man in my day has done more to bring 
 justice, prosperity, and happiness to the great masses of 
 our people than tliis big-hearted and brilliant son of Ken- 
 tucky. At the age of 41 he was elected to the United States 
 Senate from the great State of Kentucky — a State that 
 points with pride to her illustrious Senators, Clay, Bibb, 
 Crittenden, Beck, Carlisle, and Blackburn — great men, all 
 of them, but none greater than he. Mr. Speaker, I do not 
 believe that Kentucky ever elected a United States Senator 
 so greatly esteemed and dearly loved by the people of all 
 classes as was her big, brave, and brilliant son, Ollie 
 James. He loved Kentucky. Every throb of his big heart 
 beat loj'al to her. He recounted with pride her loves, tra- 
 ditions, and patriotic incidents and illustrated in his own 
 great life and cliaracter the magnificent and enduring 
 qualities of her people. 
 
 In the debates in the House and in his speeches on the 
 
 hustings he had already made a national reputation, and 
 
 when he took his seat in the Senate Kentucky had in him 
 
 the ablest and most popular Democrat in tlial distin- 
 
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 guished body. During the first year of his service in the 
 Senate he became the mouthpiece of the Wilson admin- 
 istration, and from tliat time on until stricken down with 
 illness the President leaned on his strong arm for support. 
 In Februaiy, 1918, when German propaganda was ram- 
 pant in our country and thoughtless critics in high places 
 were attacking and belittling our Militai-y Establishment, 
 Senator James arose and in a brilliant and powerful 
 speech arraigned a Senator in terrific fashion for certain 
 unwarranted criticism that he had made. It was a great 
 speech — his last speech — and made in support of the ad- 
 ministration and in the interest of his countrj^ and hu- 
 manity. He silenced the thoughtless critics, and from that 
 day on till the end of the war no one else over there dared 
 to attack the country or the country's program for the 
 prosecution of the war. For 16 years he had been the 
 pride and idol of the Democrats of Kentuckj', and at the 
 time of his death he was the pride and idol of the democ- 
 racy of America. His great qualities of mind and heart 
 made him the ideal public servant and won for him the 
 admiration and love of the American people. Like Lin- 
 coln, he sympathized with the poor and unfortunate, and, 
 like Clay, he pleaded their cause on the hustings and in 
 the House and Senate of the United States. In present- 
 ing the doctrine of his party of equal rights to all and 
 special privileges to none I have seen him sway the mul- 
 titude by the power of his great eloquence and convincing 
 logic. I have seen the House and Senate thrilled and 
 stirred by his wonderful speech, and I have seen President 
 Wilson sit pleased and charmed under the spell of his 
 mighty eloquence. His speeches reflected the splendid 
 genius and brilliancy of his big brain and the sympathy 
 and love of his big, brave heart. In the stormy days of 
 1910 and 1912 no one man contributed quite so much as 
 he toward electing a Democratic House and Senate and 
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Address of Mr. Hefi.in, of Alabama 
 
 a Democratic President. He was in deed and in truth a 
 great leader of men and a man of the people, one that 
 they loved, honored, and trusted. He was the friend of 
 ever}' honest man and the foe of everj' crook. He loved 
 his countrj' and gave the best years of his life to her serv- 
 ice. He was a terror to tiiosc who would use public oflice 
 to pillage and plunder the people. His ideal government 
 is found in these words that he used to quote from 
 Christy's proverbs : " That is the best government in 
 which an injury- to one is the concern of all." In his* 
 ideal government the welfare of the citizen is the highest 
 concern of all. He fought governmental favoritism and 
 special privilege, and to the day of his death contributed 
 to good government and the welfare of our people. In 
 pleading for the perpetuity of the Republic he said : " The 
 Government must be so fair and square and just to all 
 its people that everj- heart will love it and everj' hand 
 defend it." I never knew a man witli a keener sense of 
 justice or one who would do and dare more to see justice 
 done in all the walks of life. Mirabeau rendered signal 
 service to his country when in the French Assembly. He 
 defied a proud and haughty nobility and denounced a 
 powerful and unscrupulous clerg}', and with the battle- 
 ax of truth broke down the idols that corruption had 
 erected in the temple of liberty. In 1910, when the agents 
 of special privilege infested the Capital and a Cabinet 
 officer was aiding predatory interests in robbing the 
 Government of its coal lands in the West, Ollie James 
 preached a crusade against the evil and with the battle-ax 
 of truth drove Ballinger from the Cabinet, prevented the 
 plunder of the Government's coal fields, and prepared the 
 way for the coming of Woodrow Wilson and the regenera- 
 tion of the Federal Government. He helped to frame and 
 pass the great constructive measures that now adorn the 
 
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 statutes of our country and bless and benefit the American 
 people. 
 
 When the war with Gcrnianj' threatened and his countiy 
 called this brilliant son of Kentucky was at the forefront, 
 with head erect and the light of perfect loyalty upon his 
 face — a 100 per cent American. He was for his country in 
 heart, mind, and purpose. His last speech in the Senate 
 was in defense of Americanism and in behalf of human 
 liberty. In that great speech he predicted the overthrow of 
 Germany and the triumph of American arms. He said that 
 our troops would return victorious and amidst the ap- 
 plause of a happy Nation march in triumph down Penn- 
 sylvania Avenue. The war ended as he said it would, and 
 our brave boys are going to march down Pennsylvania 
 Avenue, as he predicted. The pity is that he could not 
 live to witness the victory achieved, the home-coming of 
 our boys, and the triumphant march of the American 
 Army. But he has passed from the scene of a busy, 
 brilliant life. He lived up to the full measure of duty and 
 destiny, and at the noontime of life, in the midst of an 
 active, successful, and useful career, he fell asleep, with 
 the blessings and benedictions of the Nation upon him. 
 He was an able, courageous, and conscientious public 
 servant. He devoted his whole time and attention to the 
 duties of his high office. The prosperity and happiness 
 of Kentucky and America constituted the great end and 
 aim of his public career, and no man in my knowledge has 
 contributed more to the strength and glorj' of his State 
 and Nation than he did during his service in the Amer- 
 ican Congress. Besides being a great patriot, a great 
 Democrat, and a great orator and statesman, he was a 
 commanding figure, a unique and picturesque character. 
 
 He was a man of great personal magnetism and was 
 wonderfully blessed with a fine sense of humor. All in 
 all, I have never known a more attractive and pleasing 
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Addrkss of Mr. Mkfi.in, of Alabama 
 
 personaliU' or a better, braver man. There was nothing 
 mean nor little in his life. He was the essence of sincerity 
 and the soul of honor. Truly can it be said of him, to 
 know him was to love him. His big heart was a veritable 
 treasure house of the noblest traits and sentiments of the 
 human heart. He was an optimist and always looked 
 upon the bright side of life. To him every cloud liad a 
 silver lining. He was of a genial and happy disposition. 
 Life was beautiful to him. He loved it and enjoyed it to 
 the full. 
 
 He possessed a big, generous, and sympathetic heart, 
 and no one in distress ever called on him in vain. If all 
 those for whom he has done some act of kindness since 
 he has been in public life in Washington could speak 
 to-day a multitude of witnesses would rise up and bear 
 testimonj' to the generositj' and goodness of his big and 
 loving heart. 
 
 Three years ago on Christmas eve day late in the after- 
 noon he walked down Pennsylvania Avenue. Close up 
 by a show window where "Santa Claus" and Christmas 
 toys of eveiy kind were displayed were three little boys 
 whose dress and general appearance told the story of 
 their poor surroundings. The Senator from Kentucky 
 stopped and for a moment looked on with keen interest 
 as the three little boys talked about "Sandy Claus" and 
 the toys in the window. 
 
 He could remain silent no longer. The memory of 
 Christmas eve night in his boyhood days came vividly 
 back to him, and he said, " Boys, old ' Santa Claus ' will 
 be coming to see you to-night, will he not? " They looked 
 up quickly and shook lluir luads. He then said, " Do you 
 see anything in llie window that you would like to have? " 
 And they all answered quickly and with enthusiasm, " Yes, 
 sir." And he said, " Well, lets go in and see what they 
 have got." They followed, and their little faces were 
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 wreathed with smiles of perfect joy. He told them to 
 select the toys that they wanted. They did so, and 
 thanked him from the depths of their grateful, happy 
 hearts, and then went running home. 
 
 This is only one of the many kindly and beautiful 
 things that this big and noble hearted man did in his day. 
 He loved and honored his father and mother and was 
 warmly devoted to his brother and sisters. For 14 years 
 of happy, uninterrupted friendship 1 shared his love and 
 blessed comradeship, and he was mj' most intimate and 
 best loved friend. During the fatal illness that took him 
 away I visited him at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Bal- 
 timore twice a week as long as the physicians would per- 
 mit anyone to visit him. He was cheerful and brave to the 
 last. The summons came in August, 1918, and Kentucky's 
 big brave son fell asleep as sweetly and as peacefully as 
 a little babe in its mother's arms. His devoted brother 
 Edgar had watched him and ministered to him till the 
 end came. Mr. Speaker, during his long illness the con- 
 stant and tender devotion and watchful care of his loving 
 wife was one of the most beautiful and sublime things 
 that I have ever witnessed. She who had been the pride 
 and idol of his heart, his inspiration and joy in health, 
 and had made his home and life supremely happy was 
 now his good angel, keeping vigil at his bedside, speaking 
 words of cheer, praying for his recovery, and blessing him 
 with her love. Happy pair! God never blessed a woman 
 with a better husband or a husband with a better wife, 
 and I know that up yonder, where God's angels' faces 
 smile, she will see again this princely man that she has 
 loved long since but lost a while. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the Bible tells us that in the midst of life 
 we are in death, and this is true. " The finger of the de- 
 stroying angel is at every latchstring. His foot tracks are 
 in every path." 
 
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Address of Mr. Heflin, of Alabama 
 
 I have seen a rosebud in its freshness and beauty burst- 
 ing into bloom. Then in all its beauty and glory I have 
 seen the full-blown rose basking in the sun and filling the 
 air with its fragrance. And just as I was praising its 
 beauty and enjoying its perfume a gust of wind came. I 
 looked again and the rose was gone. I have seen the 
 meadow, the field, and wood, with carpet of green and 
 buds and blossoms and leafy foliage, stripped of their 
 beauty and verdure in a single night. And I said the rose 
 is like the charm and glory of a beautiful life — just as we 
 bask in its sunshine and arc happiest in its presence death 
 calls and the adored one is gone. The buds and blossoms 
 and leafy foliage that bless and adorn the earth every 
 year are like youth, middle life, and old age. Once a 
 year nature sends the frost god to call the buds and blos- 
 soms and leaves back to mother earth, and every year 
 death invades the ranks of our friends and loved ones, and 
 from the plains of youth, middle life, and old age God 
 calls His children home. There are broken links in the 
 chain of every family circle, and death has placed crepe 
 on the doorpost of every home. No one escapes his sad 
 visitation. The old and the young, the high and the low, 
 the rich and the poor must all pass muster at the portals 
 of death. Is death the end of our earthly joys and the 
 final end of us, or is it God's gateway through which we 
 pass into another state of existence, where, freed from the 
 ills of the flesh, we shall enter upon the joys of the life 
 eternal? Is death a thing to be dreaded? Is it the enemy 
 of mankind, or is it, as Plutarch said, " God's greatest gift 
 to man " ? At the entrance upon the journey of life is the 
 glorious awakening at the luminous dawn. At the other 
 end is the sunset and the gloaming, where twilight deepens 
 into darkness and we sleep through the night of transi- 
 tion. Death is but the castle at the end of the road where 
 we pause for a moment to shake off the raiment of the 
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 mortal and put on the robes of immortality. In the time 
 that is to come we shall know and understand. 
 
 O, blindness to the future kindly given, 
 
 That each may fill the circle marked by heaven. 
 
 I believe in the resurrection of the dead, as he did, and 
 in the life beyond the grave. My friend Ollie James is not 
 dead. He has passed into the higher life, and we shall 
 meet again. He was a distinct blessing to his day and 
 generation, and the world is better and brighter because 
 he has lived. America has lost one of her ablest and 
 most faithful sons. Peace to his ashes. God rest his great 
 soul. 
 
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Address of Mr. Kincheloe, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives: When the immortal spirit of Oli.ie James, at 
 the Johns Hopkins Hospital the latter part of August, 
 1918, winged its flight back to the God who gave it, one of 
 the most brilliant stars that ever shed its luster upon the 
 intellectual firmament of Kentucky went out. 
 
 Prodigious of stature, endowed with a brilliant mind, 
 unexcelled oratorical powers, and a magnificent voice, he, 
 like Saul, towered above his brethren. 
 
 He was born in Crittenden County, Ky., maintained his 
 residence there through life, and his remains were in- 
 terred beneath a wilderness of flowers in the beautiful 
 little cemetery in the suburbs of Marion. 
 
 He was admitted to the bar in early manhood and prac- 
 ticed law extensively for many years, participating in 
 some of the most important and sensational cases ever 
 tried in Kentucky, notable among which was the cele- 
 brated contest case of Gov. William Goebel for governor 
 of the State of Kentucky. 
 
 When a mere youth he became interested in politics and 
 arose with unparalleled rapidity to distinction in the 
 councils of his party by the force of his own genius. He 
 was always a partisan Democrat, believing in the cardinal 
 principles of the Democratic Party, but at the same time 
 he was always fair and courteous to a political adversary. 
 
 He was a delegate to the Democratic national conven- 
 tion in 1896 and a delegate from the State at large from 
 Kentucky to every Democratic national convention since 
 that time. He was elected permanent chairman of the 
 Democratic national convention in 1912 at Baltimore, 
 which nominated Woodrow Wilson for President, and 
 
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 was unanimously elected again permanent chairman of 
 the Democratic national convention at St. Louis in 1916, 
 which renominated President Wilson, and was selected hy 
 both of the conventions to deliver the speeches of notifica- 
 tion of his nomination and renomination. These two 
 honors which came to him are without a parallel in the 
 political history of this Republic. The speeches which 
 he made at those two conventions are political master- 
 pieces and electrified and aroused the delegates of both 
 conventions. 
 
 At the age of 31, in 1902, he was elected a Member of 
 Congress from the first congressional district of Kentucky 
 and served in this capacity for 10 years. He arose to 
 prominence almost immediately after beginning his serv- 
 ice, was for several years a member of the Ways and 
 Means Committee, and was one of the ablest leaders on 
 the Democratic side. 
 
 In a State-wide primary in July, 1911, he was nominated 
 by the Democratic Party of Kentucky for United States 
 Senator and was elected by the Kentucky Legislature to 
 this exalted position the following January. Like in the 
 House, he arose immediately to distinction in the Federal 
 Senate. No Senator was more in the confidence of our 
 great President than he, and the President had no more 
 able champion and defender of his administration than 
 Ollie James. 
 
 It was my good fortune to know Ollie James intimately, 
 having lived within half a square of him here in Wash- 
 ington ever since 1 have been in Congress. Every impulse 
 of his being was in sympathy with struggling humanity. 
 He had a heart that was capacitated for an ocean of 
 human love and for human sympathy, as boundless as the 
 fathomless depth of space. His motto always was that the 
 helpless are the ones that need help, and he was continu- 
 
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Address of Mr. Kincheloe. of Kentucky 
 
 ally exerting his best endeavors to alleviate the sufferings 
 of those who needed it. I never knew a public servant 
 more diligent, proficient, and faithful in serving his con- 
 stituents. Ever}- constituent, however humble, could al- 
 ways get an audience with him, and his plea was patiently 
 heard. He not only rendered service to those who needed 
 it, but he did it in a quiet and unassuming way and with- 
 out the flare of trumpets. As an evidence of his sympathy 
 for those in distress the following incident occurred here 
 in Washington. It was never told by Senator James, but 
 by his secretarj', Mr. Vernon Richardson, who witnessed 
 it. About three years ago Mrs. James visited her good 
 friends Mr. and Mrs. Post Wheeler, at Tokyo, Japan. On 
 one Sunday morning she was to meet them in Philadelphia 
 to start on their trip, and Senator James accompanied her 
 as far as Philadelphia on that day. When they arrived at 
 the Union Station here in Washington he saw a lady in 
 mourning sitting in the depot sobbing and apparently in 
 distress. He approached her and asked her the trouble. 
 She replied that she had recently lost her husband and 
 that she was just returning from Lynchburg, Va., where 
 she buried her only daughter, on her way to her home at 
 Jersey City, and on arriving at the station she had lost the 
 balance of her ticket to Jersey City and her pocketbook 
 containing '?6, which was the last cent she had. Senator 
 James, without telling anyone, went to the ticket agent and 
 bought her a ticket to Jersey City and gave it to her, to- 
 gether with a $10 bill. When he did this the good woman 
 asked him who it was that was bestowing this great favor 
 upon her, and he replied as he bade her good-by, " It is 
 just a sympatlietic friend," and the good woman never 
 knew who it was. 
 
 No man was ever more strongly attached to his friends. 
 It was well known, not only in Washington but through- 
 
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 out the country, that he and my good friend Congressman 
 J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, were not only devoted to 
 each other but were at times inseparable. Miss Julia 
 O'Donaghue, of Philadelphia, a sister of Mrs. Nancy 
 Doyle, of Washington, who is a veiy dear friend of Mrs. 
 James, expressed very aptly the devotion of Senator 
 James and Congressman Heflin in the beautiful poem 
 which she wrote, entitled " My Comrade," and dedicated 
 it to the mcmoi-y of Senator James, which poem is as 
 follows : 
 
 Last night, as in a sepulchcr of thought 
 
 I paced in silent anguish my lone room, 
 
 Bemoaning my friend Ollie; he that fought 
 
 To conquer the inevitable doom 
 
 That waits on man; he, the proud statesman, bold, 
 
 And of gigantic structure, tow'ring height. 
 
 Cut olT ere his bright gems of thought were told 
 
 To man from that rare intellect of might; 
 
 Dismembcr'd in the zenith of his prime 
 
 And at a crisis when his word might sway 
 
 The hand of tyranny, dissolving crime, 
 
 The grief in fields of wretchedness allay, 
 
 I asked why death should claim him for its own 
 
 And chill a heart all generous and true. 
 
 Thus, while I catechized the great unknown, 
 
 A spirit presence closely to me drew. 
 
 I shuddcr'd not, but wept with joy. 'Twas he. 
 
 We met; ah, not in fear but ecstasy. 
 
 Then, slowly, and with deep and res'nant tone, 
 
 He spoke: "My Comrade, you whom I have known — 
 
 Friend of all friends — oh, do not for me grieve. 
 
 Draw near and hearken to me and believe, 
 
 Death cut the branches of a withered tree 
 
 That it might bloom in immortality. 
 
 When I embark'd from out my shattered urn, 
 
 I claimed one great request, that I return 
 
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Address of Mr. Kincheloe, of Kentucky 
 
 To clasp your hand and speak one word with you. 
 
 My time is brief; my words, they must be few. 
 
 There is not a dissev'rance of true souls, 
 
 Each renders unto each the love it holds. 
 
 Great is my love for you, dear Comrade. Trust 
 
 That in th' celestial regions of the just 
 
 My spirit feels your invocation sent 
 
 For justice and your country's betterment. 
 
 Submerg'd in darkness are the pow'rs of state. 
 
 Soon shall His hand — the great, just Potentate — 
 
 Quell the grave madness that o'ershadows earth. 
 
 All shall be changed, as in the bow'r of mirth 
 
 Man shall abide with man in faith and peace. 
 
 Wars amid pestilence forever cease. 
 
 I can not tell thee more. I must away. 
 
 Adieu! The spirit mandate I obey. 
 
 When next we meet — ah, not in life's abyss — 
 
 We'll quaff the chalice of eternal bliss. 
 
 This beautiful poem aptly expresses the fideHty of this 
 great man not only to Tom Heflin hut to all of his legion 
 of friends. 
 
 I was at his hedside several times in the beginning of 
 his last illness and saw him at the hospital in Baltimore 
 shortly before the end. He suffered intensely, but was 
 always cheerful and faced the inevitable in the same 
 spirit in which he faced the problems of life — coolly and 
 bravely. 
 
 He was one of the most cpideictic and panegyric orators 
 of his time. On the political hustings he could arouse the 
 enthusiasm of his audiences as no other man. He was 
 one of the ablest champions of the principles of the Dem- 
 ocratic Party that this Nation had. Struggling humanity 
 never had a more devoted and competent leader. 
 
 I have often thought since his death tliat his old father, 
 stooped with the load of years and bending under the 
 burden of sorrow and grief, should take some consolation 
 
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 in the fact that his life was spared long enough to see his 
 boy reach the exalted position in life which he did. The 
 pages of Kentucky and American history will be made 
 brighter by the endeavors of Ollie James. 
 
 I shall cherish his memory and the intimate associations 
 with him in the sentiment of the poet when he said : 
 
 Long, long be my heart with such memories filled, 
 Like a vase in which roses have long been distilled; 
 You may shatter, you may break the vase if you will, 
 But the scent of the roses will hang around it still. 
 
 His life was a benediction to all of those who were for- 
 tunate enough to possess his friendship and enjoy his 
 association. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky took the chair as Speaker pro 
 tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Madden, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Ollie James was a great American. His 
 name is known from ocean to ocean. He was a great 
 Democrat; but while a great Democrat and advocating 
 Democratic policies he was still a greater American. His 
 political beliefs were based on fundamentals, but his 
 Americanism was based on the heart that believed that no 
 men in all the world were such friends to humanity as 
 Americans. 
 
 It was my privilege to know Senator James long before 
 he dreamed of becoming a Senator. We came here to- 
 gether, I think, and served together during his service in 
 the House. 
 
 Notice that Ollie James was going to speak always 
 brought an audience to the floor. Sometimes — in fact, 
 frequently — it happens that notice that a certain Member 
 is going to speak clears the House of all but those who are 
 ashamed to go, but Ollie James was always an attraction 
 as an orator. He was clean of habit; he had a logical 
 mind; he was a good speaker, a profound reasoner, and 
 he had the ability to express his thoughts more forcibly 
 than any other man with whom I have associated during 
 my term in this House. 
 
 He was physically and mentally great. His mentality 
 was not less great than his physical powers. He was a 
 man of simple habits. His treatment of all questions was 
 frank. He was truthful in his dealings with men. His 
 integrity was well understood everj'where. He had a 
 model character, of which everyone who knew him was 
 proud. He lived a life that everyone could afford to emu- 
 late. He had a great record as a public servant. That 
 record will stand in histor\' for all time to come. It will 
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 be an inspiration in the future for those who are to act 
 upon questions similar to those involved in the activities 
 that Senator James was called upon to indulge in. 
 
 Senator James was a true lover of America and her in- 
 stitutions. He was devoted to everything that bore the 
 name "America." He believed that the word "Ameri- 
 can " should mean more as the result of our participation 
 in this war than it ever meant before. He wanted to see 
 the American flag respected in every land and upon every 
 sea, and he wanted America to give all she had and all 
 that she was to preserve her honor. He wanted the insti- 
 tutions of America to be preserved and protected. He 
 wanted them handed down without stain to the genera- 
 tions that are to people this continent in the ages to come. 
 He believed in the kind of patriotism that loves the coun- 
 try; that is loyal to the well-being of the country. He be- 
 lieved that patriotism should be as strong as the love of a 
 son for mother; that we should make any sacrifice for the 
 Nation that gave us birth and which we have the honor to 
 serve without hope of reward. His was a public life de- 
 voted to America's cause. His life was inspired by a de- 
 sire to do the thing that would best promote the welfare 
 of our country and our people. He was not only willing 
 to have the country make any sacrifice to that end, but 
 was willing to make any sacrifice himself for his country. 
 I have always had the greatest admiration for the Ameri- 
 canisin of Senator James as exemplified in word and deed. 
 
 No man in the history of my experience was better 
 qualified to express his beliefs in the spoken language 
 than was Ollie James. No audience could listen to him 
 without being convinced of his sincerity. No audience 
 could sit at the feet of such an orator without being 
 inspired by his eloquence. 
 
 Ollie James, like other boys who started without hope 
 of success, is but another evidence that America is the 
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Address of Mh. Madden, of Illinois 
 
 land of opportunity; that here, and here alone, such a 
 thing as the success achieved by Ollie James and men of 
 his ability and eloquence is possible, because here alone 
 the people rule. Here the power comes up from the peo- 
 ple to the State, and while the people elect men to ofiice for 
 a temporary' period and give them power the people them- 
 selves always remain the governing authority, and it is 
 because men rise from poverty and obscurity and can 
 understand the trend of the thought of the people with 
 whom they associate that they reach the high places in 
 the life of our Government. In no other land can such a 
 thing be possible, because in other lands the rights of the 
 people heretofore have come down from the State to the 
 people. Ollie James realized that in other lands they de- 
 pend upon the sword and the cannon for the maintenance 
 of the government, while here in America he realized full 
 well, and practiced what he realized, that our Government 
 is maintained by the citizen's respect for the law. Ollie 
 James was not only a good lawmaker, but he understood 
 how these laws should be enforced. He understood that 
 laws should not be oppressive. He knew how to sym- 
 pathize with the common mass. His mind met the mind 
 of the common man. 
 
 He was a great man. He was simple, as all great men 
 arc. It is only the man who thinks himself great and re- 
 fuses to come into contact with the masses, lest they might 
 undersand that he is not so, who fails to understand the 
 masses. Ollie James was not one of these. He under- 
 stood them as few men do. His record, his life, the words 
 that he had uttered, will live to in.spire those who are yet 
 to follow. 1 am proud to have known iiim, to have under- 
 stood him, to have been |)erinitled to associate with him, 
 to have loved him, as I did, for his integrity of purpose, 
 for his honesty, for his high character, for his American- 
 
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 ism, for his devotion to his country's cause, for his un- 
 selfishness, for his sacrifice in behalf of others. 
 
 I believe, too, that this is not the end of life; that we are 
 yet to meet in another place. I believe that when the soul 
 is separated from the clay of the body it moves onward 
 to perform other and more important functions, and that 
 we who have been proud in days gone by to have asso- 
 ciated with Ollie James and to have participated with 
 him in the work of government will meet again to sep- 
 arate no more forever. 
 
 Mr. ELincheloe took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sherley, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House: Kentucky 
 has always been a State made up of men of marked char- 
 acteristics. Their faults and their virtues are obvious, 
 outstanding, and of their virtues the greatest lies in their 
 individuality, an individuality that makes them act from 
 a free, untrammeled standpoint, and as a result Kentucky 
 has been the forum ever since it was a part of this great 
 Union, a forum for the settlement of the great issues that 
 have vexed the people of this Nation. And it is a forum 
 where they settle issues in a forensic way. There are 
 fought out before the people the issues of the day and of 
 the time. Flowing from this habit, during Kentucky's 
 entire history there have always arisen great leaders, 
 great orators, but, even more than orators, great debaters, 
 men who were able to present their view of those 
 questions. 
 
 For 25 years in Kentucky's recent history one man stood 
 out foremost as the orator and debater of Kentucky in the 
 highest sense of those terms. Ollie .James came into 
 prominence in Kentucky before he held olTice. He was a 
 power in political conventions before he was old enough 
 to vote. He helped to influence and determine party com- 
 plexion, party platform, long before he spoke with the 
 advantage of position and of the j)owcr that flows from 
 position. 
 
 In 189G he became a national figure as he had been a 
 State figure for many years before. No one who attended 
 that memorable Democratic convention in Chicago, who 
 remembers the stormy scenes, who knows, as all of us who 
 have had some part in public life know, that underneath 
 the speech making, underneath the routine of the conven- 
 tion is being done much of (he great work that determines 
 
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 the result of a convention, can forget the figure of Ollie 
 James, his heroic size, his determination, his zeal. His 
 was the zeal of a crusader for a cause that he believed in 
 and for a man that he believed in, and that made him one 
 of the dominating figures of that remarkable convention. 
 From 1896 on there was no great national scene of his 
 party in which he was not a prominent, and frequently 
 the most prominent, figure. In the four succeeding con- 
 ventions he had a leading part and in the past two was 
 chosen permanent chairman, and as such delivered 
 speeches that will live as models of convention eloquence. 
 
 Ollie James and I came into public national life to- 
 gether in the Fifty-eighth Congress, he representing a 
 rural constituency, I a city one, with the necessary differ- 
 ences of local viewpoints that grow out of different en- 
 vironments, but during all of these years that service only 
 brought us closer together, and to-day I feel like speaking 
 of him, not so much as a statesman — others can more 
 splendidly portray his achievements than I — but as a 
 friend. I saw his growth. 
 
 Men who come into public life, particularly into the 
 Congress of the United States, either grow very much or 
 they deteriorate verj' much. No man stands still in the 
 Congress of the United States. The forces that here meet 
 and contend are too dynamic for men to remain in fixed 
 positions. Either they are moved forward to broader, 
 bigger, deeper things, or they fall back into obscurity 
 from which by chance they may have come. From the 
 hour that he came here he was an influence — an orator, 
 yes; but I think of Ollie not as an orator as we usually use 
 that term, but as a debater. I know no man who had a 
 more ready adaptability to meet an issue as it might be 
 presented on the moment; and no man had more capacity 
 to sum up, at the end of a debate, and present the real 
 factors that should determine judgment. 
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Address of Mr. Sherley, of Kentucky 
 
 And so he grew constantly here, broadening his view- 
 point. He was always sympathetic, always in touch with 
 the real aspirations of the people of the country, the every- 
 day sort of folk. As his horizon broadened, as his oppor- 
 tunity grew, so grew his knowledge of need and of cause 
 and of complex conditions that confront men who really 
 endeavor to solve the problems of a great empire like this. 
 
 Placed always on important committees, he never 
 needed them. They were simply a medium for him, but 
 not a necessity to him. The House of Representatives and 
 the Committee of the Whole were his forum. Here he 
 could command an audience and a result, not because he 
 spoke as a member of some committee having the matter 
 in charge, but because he brought to the consideration of 
 the question judgment and thought and information that 
 were of value to the House. 
 
 It was inevitable from the beginning that he should go 
 from here to the Senate. It was inevitable that Kentucky 
 should give to him the highest honor that she could. And 
 from the very day he sought her favor, not for himself, 
 but in order that he might serve her, she never faltered in 
 her loyalty to him. When Ollie James offered himself for 
 the Senate no one ever questioned that he would be nomi- 
 nated, no one ever questioned that he would be elected. 
 Yet the Slate is one of doubtful political allegiance. 
 
 As a Senator he immediately took first rank, and on 
 many occasions proved himself there, as he had so often 
 in the House, the peer of all his opponents. He became 
 the foremost champion of the administration, but he was 
 more than this. He was the champion of his country, in 
 a sense broader than a mere party champion, and in her 
 days of stress his voice was ever raised to fan into whiter 
 heat the flame of the people's patriotism. An American 
 whose devotion to country had no qualifying factor, his 
 love of the right, his sympathy for the weak and op- 
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 pressed, caused him literally to dedicate himself to the 
 furtherance and success of a war that he knew was waged 
 only for righteousness' sake. His fine scorn of those who 
 sought to temporize with great fundamental issues, 
 through fear of political results, burst forth again and 
 again in words of scathing denunciation. 
 
 It was in the midst of this intense activity that illness 
 overtook him. He chafed at an enforced idleness that de- 
 nied him the opportunity of further service when service 
 meant so much. Kentucky followed day by day the news 
 of his health, hoping and praying for his recovery. Had 
 he been spared how gladly she would have given him 
 again to the service of his country. He could have con- 
 tinued as a Senator of the United States as long as he de- 
 sired, and he would have continued adding to his fame 
 and to the fame of his State if the end had not come so 
 suddenly and so tragically for him and for us. 
 
 No man ever gave more generously of himself than he 
 did. Few except those who knew him intimately knew to 
 what extent he gave of his vitality, of his time, of his 
 thought, to help those who were his friends and those 
 whose cause he believed in. Perhaps beyond any other 
 man whom I can recall he has lifted his voice on behalf 
 of his party and his party's candidates, not only at home, 
 not only where it might be thought to be worth while to 
 himself, but everywhere, at any time that he thought he 
 might be of real service. The day was never too disagree- 
 able, the journey never too long or difficult, and nothing 
 caused him to refuse. It was because of that continuous 
 outpouring of himself, that giving of all that was in him, 
 that perhaps the end came when it did come. 
 
 He died while yet a young man. And yet length of life 
 
 is not all. We like to think of men living their full span 
 
 of life, their threescore years and ten. And yet when men 
 
 are judged they are not judged by length of life, but by 
 
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Address of Mr. Sherley, of Kenticky 
 
 achievement. Ollie James compressed within the forty- 
 odd years of his life more of service to humanity, more of 
 achievement for his country, more that makes life worth 
 while, than is given to many men who live twice that long. 
 To those of us who knew him and loved him his loss 
 means something more than the passing of a great na- 
 tional figure. It means something more than a realization 
 that it is diflicult to fill his place and to carry on his work. 
 It means the loss of the sympathy, the friendship, and the 
 personal help that will always be to us the most cherished 
 memory of a splendid, loving friend, a man of noble heart. 
 
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Address of Mr. Barkley, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Death claimed a shining mark when 
 Ollie M. James crossed the silent river which divides us 
 from the broad eternity that stretches out beyond. If one 
 short year ago I had been asked to name those public 
 men whose careers would be prematurely shortened in 
 the next 12 months his name would have been absent 
 from the list. So strong and vigorous he appeared, so 
 full of life and boj'ish zest he was, so sure of long tenure 
 of office and distinguished service he had a right to feel, 
 that we never associated him with thoughts of death. 
 
 Yet it but illustrates the truth, which is as old as hu- 
 manity, that — 
 
 The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. 
 All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 
 
 Await alike the inevitable hour; 
 
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 
 
 The death of no man in recent years has produced more 
 genuine and universal sorrow in Kentucky than that of 
 Senator James. When the sad news, not wholly unex- 
 pected, was flashed across the wires to the people of 
 Kentucky men and women of all shades of political belief 
 paused to mourn the loss of their most distinguished 
 public servant. The rich, the poor, the ignorant, and the 
 lettered alike mingled their tears in a grief which all 
 men felt but none could express. The banker, the mer- 
 chant, the professions, the plowman, the fireman in his 
 cab, the blacksmith at his anvil, the carpenter at his 
 bench, the schoolboy at his desk, the mother whose son 
 had gone to figh't and die for the land he loved and 
 honored, all turned their thoughts to the stalwart and 
 familiar figure now fallen and to be seen no more. 
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Address of Mr. Barkley, of Kentucky 
 
 I shall not attempt to review at length his public career. 
 That is the task of the historian, who by the nature of his 
 calling and equipments can do fuller and more complete 
 justice to the subject. But I can not refrain from reciting 
 a few of the characteristics which made Oli.ie James one 
 of the most beloved and popular men of his time. 
 
 I am not old enough to recall the time when he was not 
 a commanding figure in the politics of Kentucky. When 
 the great Byran campaign of 1896 was gathering force 
 and strength, though but 25 years of age, Ollie James had 
 been chairman of the Kentucky delegation at the con- 
 vention which nominated him. Mr. Bryan once told me 
 that one of the impressive things which he always re- 
 membered about that convention was the massive figure 
 of Ollie James leading the Kentucky delegation in start- 
 ing the famous " march of States," which had much to do 
 with the Nebraskan's nomination for President. It was 
 entirely fitting that Mr. Bryan should remember this in- 
 cident, for from that day forward he had no more loj'al 
 or devoted follower than the man from Marion. 
 
 The first time I ever saw Mr. James was during this 
 famous campaign. I can never forget the impression he 
 made on my boyish mind. It was on a train, and he had 
 been somewhere to make a Democratic speech. I thought 
 I had never seen a man so large or one who filled so com- 
 pletely my ideas of what a Congressman ought to look 
 like. At that time he had never held a public office. But 
 it was inevitable that sooner or later he would enter pub- 
 lic life, for he was fitted by nature, equipment, and in- 
 clination for tlic political leadership which he afterwards 
 enjoyed. 
 
 In 1902 he was elected from the first congressional 
 district of Kentucky, known as the Gibraltar district on 
 account of its great Democratic majority, to a seat in the 
 House of Representatives of the United States. By rea- 
 
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 son of his great size, wliich always made him a central 
 figure, his magnificent voice, his powers of keen and 
 quick repartee, he soon become recognized as one of the 
 leading debaters in Congress. His support was welcomed 
 bj^ those with whom he agreed and feared by those whom 
 he opposed. During the 10 years of his service in the 
 House his personality was so impressed upon the people 
 of Kentucky and his ability was so universally recognized 
 that he was elected to the Senate practically without op- 
 position, and while his service in the House had been 
 marked by a constant growth in experience and broaden- 
 ing of vision I think it may be truthfully said that liis 
 greatest services to democracy and to the Nation were 
 rendered as a Member of the United States Senate. 
 
 In the Democratic convention which met in Baltimore 
 in 1912 Mr. James favored the nomination of Champ 
 Clark for President. He had been largely instrumental 
 in swinging Kentucky into line for Speaker Clark. While 
 this was well known by all the opposing candidates, such 
 was the esteem in which he was held by them that he was 
 made the permanent chairman of the convention. This 
 convention ultimately nominated Woodrow Wilson for 
 President, and from that time until the day of his death 
 no President and no administration ever received more 
 constant or unswerving support Uian President Wilson 
 received from Ollie James. He became not only his 
 trusted spokesman on the floor of the Senate but his ad- 
 viser in many matters of which the public did not always 
 hear, and his advice and counsel were always held in 
 great esteem by the President. 
 
 His last public appearance in the Senate was in response 
 to what he believed to be his duty, when the President and 
 the whole Government were viciously attacked in regard 
 to the conduct of the war, around which revolved our 
 hopes as a Nation, if not the welfare of civilization itself. 
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Address of Mr. Bahkley, ok Kenticky 
 
 While others might seek to destroy the people's confldence 
 in their chosen leaders in a great crisis, he chose to hold 
 aloft the banner of his country. While others might seek 
 for selOsh and political purposes to tear down the mirac- 
 idous achievements of a peace-loving Nation called to 
 arms, he chose to uphold the President in his great task 
 as leader of a free Nation and Commander in Chief of its 
 Army and Na^•>'. This speech was one of the greatest of 
 his career. It revealed him more clearly than ever, not 
 as a politician, nor as a self-seeker after the plaudits of 
 the moment, but as a statesman, a patriot of vision and 
 imagination in whose heart burned the fires of devotion 
 to the ideals for which millions were ready to die. 
 
 During the nearly 16 years in which Ollie James was a 
 Member of the House and Senate he never forgot whom 
 lie was sent here to serve. He knew that he was elected 
 by the people to represent them and their interests. He 
 knew that the people had confidence in him, and he knew, 
 as all men knew, that he would never knowingly violate 
 that confidence nor betray their interests. Neither the 
 temptations of wealth nor the seductive voice of flattery 
 could wean him from his interest in the common man; 
 and I have seen his indignation rise like a menacing storm 
 when he discovered the sti'ong and powerful seeking to 
 fasten some form of injustice upon the poor and the weak. 
 It is not strange that he was the idol of the rank and file 
 of his party in Kentucky and the Nation. He was their 
 friend. He represented them whenever they needed a 
 spokesman or defender. 
 
 He looked beyond the domes of capitols, beyond the 
 surging pit of selfish, grasping greed, which sought special 
 favors not enjoyed by all, and saw the force and caught 
 the inspiration of what President Wilson so recently 
 described as "The strong tide running in the hearts of 
 
 men." 
 
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 Kentucky has throughout her history been known as the 
 home of statesmen and orators. Not only has she sent to 
 the forimi of national life a long and illustrious list of 
 great men; she has poured her rich blood into everj' State 
 of the Union. History, tradition, and romance have 
 mingled to make the true Kentuckian a little different 
 from other tj'pes of men. Mental and physical courage, 
 chivalry, a strong sense of justice, pride in ancestry, and 
 love of native land have combined to form in that fair 
 State the nearest approximation of the typical man. His- 
 torians have wondered at and sought to explain the mys- 
 lerj' which seems to be fused from soil and air and stream 
 and sky into the men and women of our State. But we 
 need not tarry long in attempting to analyze it. The in- 
 spiration of such a history, of such romantic traditions, of 
 such sacrifices, of such devotion to the highest ideals of 
 our race, of such beauty of face and character and land- 
 scape, sweeps us on and up toward the goal of human 
 perfection. The life stories of her great men and women 
 accumulate to enrich the experience and inspire the hopes 
 of each succeeding generation; and each generation adds 
 its towering figure to shed light upon the groping footsteps 
 of the next. Such a figure was Ollie James. 
 
 Among all the names which have made Kentucky a 
 household word throughout the Nation none could catch 
 with more unerring judgment the throbbing heart of the 
 masses. He knew the people, because he had grown up 
 with them and had endured with them and shared their 
 hardships. His heart was big and full in sympathy with 
 them. 
 
 And this trait, Mr. Speaker, is one that lingers in our 
 memory when we think of Mr. James. We can not forget 
 his bigness of heart. In his sympathies he was as tender 
 as a woman. He never became calloused to the griefs 
 and sorrows of humanity. I stood with him once at 
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Address of Mr. Barkley. of Kenticky 
 
 the railroad station in Lexington when a poor woman 
 alighted from the train in mourning and in tears. Senator 
 James looked on for a moment, then turned to me, with 
 tears in his own eyes, and said, " Isn't it terrible to see a 
 woman weep like that?" This touch of humanity soft- 
 ened and sweetened his outlook upon life and drew to him 
 a host of devoted and admiring friends. 
 
 So, whether we measure hini as statesman, as lawj'er, as 
 citizen, as son, brother, husband, or friend, he measured 
 up to the full stature of greatness. His name will be en- 
 twined in the deepening memory of the people of his na- 
 tive State; and when men foregather to dwell upon the 
 richness and fragrance of our historic men and traditions 
 their minds will turn to the name of Ollie James. He will 
 be missed in the Senate; he will be missed in Washington, 
 where even,' man, woman, and child knew him by sight; 
 he will be missed in national conventions, where liis voice 
 and figure inspired the enthusiasm of delegates; he will 
 be missed on the stump in Kentucky and throughout the 
 Nation; he will be missed in the councils of his party, 
 where his judgment and wisdom were acknowledged. 
 He will be missed in the great Gibraltar district of west 
 Kcntuckj', which he honored and which delighted to 
 honor him. He will be missed in many a courthouse in 
 Kentucky, where anxious and enthusiastic crowds surged 
 and clamored to hear his voice. He will be missed in the 
 hearts of all who knew and loved him. We honor his 
 memory, and thus we honor ourselves. We honor him 
 as statesman, as citizen, as friend. We honor him for 
 his great gifts of mind; l)ut we honor him more for his 
 great gifts of heart. We honor him for his work as legis- 
 lator and orator; but we honor him more for the knowl- 
 edge that he held firm to the principles instilled into his 
 heart at his mother's knee, which made him incorruptible 
 in ever>' relationship of life. We honor him as public 
 
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 servant and as man. Nature will soon carpet his grave 
 with green and loving hands will journey there to lay 
 sweet flowers upon it. But in our hearts his niemorj' will 
 live forever fresh and sweet, until the trumpets shall call 
 us to the shores of that land beyond the stars. 
 
 A man, 
 
 Too little to count in the plan, 
 
 I do my destiny day by day, 
 
 I live my life and I go my way, 
 
 And what does it matter? And yet — and yet — 
 
 The child or the deed which I beget 
 
 May alter the course of human history. 
 
 A man? Ah, yes; but a mystery. 
 
 A man, 
 
 A being of briefest span. 
 
 Just one of the myriad millions spawned 
 
 Who have fluttered a moment and swept beyond 
 
 Into seeming nothingness. Yet, ah, yet. 
 
 Some word I may utter and half forget 
 
 May echo along to eternity's portal. 
 
 A man? But perhaps an immortal. 
 
 A man. 
 
 Whose race, since time began. 
 
 Nadir to zenith and brink to brink, 
 
 Is hardly more than the hasty wink 
 
 Of a deity's eyelid. And yet — and yet — 
 
 In this infinitesimal self is set 
 
 This boundless thought we have called infinity. 
 
 A man? But why not a divinity? 
 
 And as we think about the passing of Senator James at 
 the noontide of his life we can but recall that beautiful 
 stanza in the poem " Crossing the Bar " : 
 
 Twilight and evening bell, 
 
 And after that the dark! 
 And may there be no sadness of farewell 
 
 ^^^len I embark; 
 For tho' from out this bourne of time and place 
 
 The flood may bear me far, 
 I hope to see my Pilot face to face 
 
 When I have crost the bar. 
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Address of Mk. Aistin, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker : We are here to eulogize one of Kentucky's 
 great sons, Ollie M. James, for 10 years an active, useful, 
 and influential Democratic leader in this House until a 
 grateful people rewarded him by an election to the United 
 States Senate, where he won by zeal, ability, and worth 
 high rank as a leader among leaders. 
 
 Those of us who observed his conduct as a Member of 
 the House of Representatives willinglj' bear testimony to 
 his unceasing devotion to the interests of his constituents, 
 his usefulness in promoting beneficial legislation for the 
 Nation, and his influence and power as a popular leader. 
 
 In debate he was able, eloquent, and convincing; a 
 strong partisan, but a fair and manly opponent; a political 
 gladiator, who fought in the open, scorning to take an un- 
 fair advantage and never asking for quarter; a believer in 
 everj'thing Democracy stood for, but, above party fealty, 
 he was first, last, and all the time an American. He was 
 genial, whole-souled, and generous. He was as true as 
 steel to his friends, and they were countless in both politi- 
 cal parties. His fame was not confined to his beloved 
 State, for he was known and admired throughout the Re- 
 public. His eloquent voice was heard North and South in 
 national campaigns, and his attendance for years at 
 Democratic national conventions brouglit him in touch 
 with the leaders of his i)arfy from every State in the 
 Union. 
 
 In and out of Congress his political advice was sought 
 and followed, and his death was a great loss to the party 
 he delighted to honor and to serve. 
 
 lie- was the idol of the Kentucky Democracy, and his 
 hold upon the loyalty and affections of the people was 
 never broken. The people believed in him. They had 
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 reasons for trusting him. They had unwavering confi- 
 dence in his sincerity, his honesty, his courage, and his 
 leadership. They followed him with the same fidelity, 
 loyalty, and enthusiasm as the people of Kentucky had in 
 former years followed their great " Harry of the West " — 
 Henry Clay. 
 
 In everj' position of trust and responsibility, in private 
 and public life, Senator James did his duty — his full duty. 
 His career was one of usefulness — unselfishness — and liis 
 busy life full of private and public deeds which will be 
 remembered and cherished. 
 
 We were from adjoining sister States, which have much 
 in common, and during our joint service in this body were 
 personal friends. While we were not in political accord, 
 I admired Senator James for his many noble qualities; for 
 his open, frank, manly methods; for alwajs having the 
 courage of his convictions; for his great ability; for his 
 untiring work for his district and State; for his fair and 
 courteous conduct toward his political opponents; for his 
 fealty to party pledges; for his loyalty to the Republic, and 
 for his love for and tenderness to his devoted wife. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, a Tennessee friend offers this brief but 
 heartfelt tribute of respect to the memory of Ollie M. 
 James, the brave, generous, and knightly son Kentucky 
 gave the Republic, to whose interest he was ever loyal and 
 devoted. 
 
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Address of Mr. Cantrill, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker: When the angel of death took the hand 
 of Ollie James to lead him into the great unknown the 
 State of Kentucky bade farewell to her most illustrious 
 and beloved son and our Nation lost one of her noblest 
 and most patriotic servants. 
 
 No word spoken here to-day can add anything to tlie 
 fame of Ollie M. James, of Kentucky. His place is secure 
 in the historj' of our Nation and his meniorj' will be 
 forever cherished in the hearts of our countrj-men. 
 
 That death loves a shining mark is forcibly illustrated 
 in the early passing of Senator James. Struck down by 
 disease and death at the age of 47, yet he had attained a 
 reputation of national scope and was beloved and trusted 
 by millions of his fellow citizens throughout the length 
 and breadth of our great Republic. To be known, hon- 
 ored, and loved so universally at such an age could mean 
 but one thing, and that was that he was a man of unusual 
 ability and of great force of character. To be loved as 
 Senator James was loved by the American people means 
 that he had in his big heart love of the noblest type for 
 his country and for humanitj\ No man can be genuinely 
 loved by his people unless the people know and realize his 
 genuine love for them and their interests. In my opinion, 
 the greatest trait in the character of Senator James was 
 his love for his fellow men and his earnest desire at all 
 times to help them onward and upward. 
 
 During the last year of his life I have seen him drag 
 himself to the departments here at Washington to speak 
 a word for his friends in trouble — time after time — -when 
 it was evident that deadly disease had fastened on him 
 and that his prime duty was to himself. Yet, in disease, 
 he forgot himself, and was always ready and anxious to 
 
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 help others. His heart was so big that there was always 
 a place for the one in trouble, whether friend or stranger. 
 Well do I remember seeing the tears stream down his 
 cheeks when appealing for help for one who had been 
 his loyal friend. Kind of heart as a child yet possessing 
 the courage of a lion to defend his convictions against all 
 comers — and with what great eloquence did he speak 
 his thoughts and convictions. His was the eloquence 
 which swept all before it and brought multitudes to their 
 feet as he pleaded his cause with logic and power of 
 speech that could not be resisted. And be it said always 
 that his power as an orator was used in protecting the 
 interests of the great common people of his country, who 
 by the millions looked to him as their champion in times 
 of stress. 
 
 No man in the American Congress during the last 10 
 years could hold the attention of his colleagues or of the 
 country by his spoken word and magnetic power as closely 
 as did Senator James. Read his speeches during his terms 
 in the House of Representatives and his term in the Senate 
 and you will always find an earnest and eloquent plea for 
 the oppressed or a patriotic appeal for the safety and 
 betterment of his country. His mind and heart were too 
 big for litUe things, and when he spoke the Nation lis- 
 tened. During his service in the House and Senate Sena- 
 tor James was ever recognized as the spokesman of his 
 party when great questions of partj' policy were debated, 
 and when his countrj' was assailed party friend and party 
 foe alike looked to him as their leader to voice their senti- 
 ments with his characteristic force and natural eloquence, 
 and never once in his career as a public servant did he 
 fail those who believed in liim. 
 
 When Ollie James died the poor and oppressed of the 
 land lost their greatest champion. When he passed over 
 the river thousands of homes in this great land of ours 
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Address of Mr. Cantrill, of Kentucky 
 
 felt that a personal loss had befallen them, and the fu- 
 neral train as it sped to his home in Kentucky was met at 
 everj' station by hundreds and thousands with tears and 
 sympathy. At one station hundreds of miles away from 
 his old home a working woman crowded her way through 
 the crowd and, placing a small coin in the hands of one 
 of the Senator's friends, requested that he buy a flower 
 and. place it on the grave when the body of the great 
 statesman was laid away in the soil that gave him birth. 
 A tribute like this from a working woman in a distant 
 Stale would have been prized by Senator James more than 
 tributes from kings and potentates, and this humble 
 woman's tribute to his memorj* was more eloquent and 
 spoke in greater volume for his great career as a states- 
 man and champion of human rights than we can speak 
 here to-day. 
 
 During the ten years that Ollie James served in the 
 House of Representatives and his six years in the Senate he 
 was assigned to the highest places of leadership and states- 
 manship, and never a single time did he fail to measure 
 up to the expectations of his friends and of the patriotic 
 citizens of his countrj". As he lay on his sick bed he was 
 given an overwhelming vote of confidence by his party 
 in Kentucky for its leadership for another six years in 
 the Senate. What a calamity for his native State and his 
 countrj' that death did not permit him to carry out the 
 wishes of his friends and admirers. 
 
 Shortly after the election in 1916 I called a conference 
 of some of his friends at Louisville, at which Senator 
 James was present, and suggested that wc form an or- 
 ganization to present his name at the proper time to the 
 country as a candidate for President in 1920. The plan 
 was rejected by Senator James over the protest of his 
 friends, but I believed then, and believe now, that had he 
 permitted us to have carried out our plans that in the next 
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 election, had he lived, he would have been looked on with 
 favor as the standard bearer of our party. Having been 
 the spokesman of his party in the last two national con- 
 ventions, where is the man in the Nation to-day who could 
 have had a greater claim to the confidence and love and 
 trust of the American people? 
 
 All who knew Senator James loved and trusted him. 
 That love was never betrayed and that trust was never 
 misplaced. Beginning early in life a public career, as the 
 years swiftly passed new honors were rapidly conferred 
 on him, and rapidly his fame grew from that of the idol of 
 his party in his native State to the trusted leader and 
 spokesman of his party in the Nation. 
 
 We are proud that Kentucky gave him to the Nation. 
 His last speech was a wonderful oration, defending the 
 honor of his country and worthy of the greatest traditions 
 of that glorious flag of our beloved country. 
 
 The body of Ollie M. James lies in the soil of the country 
 in the old Kentucky home which gave him birth, but 
 his spirit moves on, inspiring those left behind to higher 
 and nobler things. The great and honorable career of 
 Senator Ollie M. James will be an incentive to Ken- 
 tuckians and Americans yet unborn to labor for the 
 highest ideals of democracy and the betterment of hu- 
 manity. The devoted wife and the idolizing father and 
 brother and sister left behind have the deepest sympathy 
 of all who knew and loved Ollie James, and if on this 
 occasion they could speak millions of loyal, patriotic 
 American citizens would wish them Godspeed. 
 
 [108] 
 
Address of Mr. Langley, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In the passing of Ollie James Kentucky 
 lost one of its greatest men, his political opponents one of 
 their most dangerous antagonists, and the countrj' one of 
 its most faithful and efficient puhlic servants. It was my 
 pleasure to have known him from our boyhood. He was 
 a page in the General Assembly of Kentucky when I was 
 dubbed the " kid " of that body, having barely reached 
 the constitutional age of eligibility, and a strong friend- 
 ship grew up between us then that continued uninter- 
 rupted until his death. Many years afterwards, when I 
 was a candidate for the lower House of Congress and he 
 for the Senate we met in joint debate in one of the moun- 
 tain towns of my district. In my reply to his speech I con- 
 tended that he was too fat to make an efficient page and 
 at the same time admitted that I was too young to make 
 an efficient member of the legislature. This humorous 
 reference to his abnormal size was enjoyed by no one in 
 the audience more than by himself, which illustrated his 
 genial, jolly temperament — a characteristic which fol- 
 lowed him throughout his life and endeared him to so 
 many people. 
 
 It seems but a little while ago when I saw an overgrown 
 country boy of magnificent proportions toddling up and 
 down the aisles of the old assembly hall at Frankfort, and 
 yet when I take a retrospect of all the busy years that have 
 followed I realize how. rapidly the wheels of Time are 
 turning. I recall that even while Ollie James was a page 
 he displayed those qualities that afterwards made him a 
 leader of men. He organized the pages into a debating 
 society, or rather into an organization patterned after 
 that of tlie house. Ollie was, of course, elected speaker, 
 and he ruled like a real czar. I recall that one of the boys 
 
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 rcinarkod tliat he was not only speaker but floor leader as 
 well. I only mention these incidents in the hope that I 
 may, by reason of this personal acquaintance, shed a side- 
 light upon some phases of his life and character that his 
 other eulogists may not have had the opportunity of learn- 
 ing. I served with him for many years in Congress and 
 we always worked in harmony for the best interests of 
 Kentuck}' in all local matters. We differed very radically 
 along political lines, but we never forgot the memories 
 of our early friendship. While he was intensely partisan 
 he had a mentality and a heart in keeping with his mag- 
 nificent physique and the generosity of his nature largely 
 overshadowed the intensitj' of his political tendencies. 
 
 As a Member of the lower House 1 do not know quite so 
 much of his service in the Senate except that it was of a 
 most conspicuous character, commanding the attention of 
 the entire country. He told me once in private conversa- 
 tion that he declined the nomination for the Vice Presi- 
 dencj' and refused to permit the use of his name for the 
 presidential nomination. I believe, however, that had he 
 lived he would have been named by his part}' as its can- 
 didate for the Presidency. 
 
 I am sure I shall be pardoned for another personal 
 reminiscence. Mrs. Langley and I made a trip with Sen- 
 ator and Mrs. James to the Hawaiian Islands some years 
 ago. While I knew his power as an orator, politician, and 
 statesman, 1 had not had an earlier opportunity to know 
 so much of the personal side of his home life. His gal- 
 lantry and devotion to Mrs. James, one of Kentucky's most 
 beautiful women, will be one of my lasting memories of 
 him. To the end of his life he bore an outward geniality 
 seeming to seek to dispel the fear of his friends as to the 
 seriousness of his illness, and it may be truly said of him 
 that he heeded that admonition — 
 
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Address of Mk. Langley, of Kenti cky 
 
 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 
 
 Old Time is still a-flying. 
 And this same flower that smiles to-day 
 
 To-morrow will be dying. 
 
 In closing this brief tribute to my friend I want to say 
 that his taking off, a good many years before his natural 
 time, leaves many people in many walks of life, especially 
 his constituency of the Old Commonwealth and his col- 
 leagues in Congress, deeply giicvcd for the loss of him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Fields, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. Speaker : It is appropriate that we assemble here on 
 this Sabbath day out of respect for and to commemorate 
 the public service of Ollie M. James, late a Senator from 
 Kentucky; but nothing that we can say will add to the 
 splendid record which he made for himself as a public 
 servant and statesman. 
 
 Mr. James was brought up in western Kentucky and first 
 attracted the attention of the State as a page in the Ken- 
 tucky Legislature when a mere lad. 
 
 During the session of the legislature in which he served 
 as a page it was learned that he possessed the ability to 
 speak, and members of that body amused themselves by 
 assembling in the hall of the house of representatives each 
 day, or frequently, 30 minutes before the convening of the 
 session to have him address them, the privilege to do so 
 being granted to him by consent of the members and the 
 house officials. And in those speeches he convinced all 
 who heard him that he possessed natural ability as an 
 orator, that he was full of courage and fairly ablaze with 
 enthusiasm and possessed the qualities of leadership, 
 which elements destined him to be a great man and a 
 great leader among men. 
 
 By the time he had reached the age of 25 he was recog- 
 nized throughout Kentuckj'^ as one of the State's greatest 
 lawyers, its greatest speaker, and as his party's champion. 
 
 At the age of 31 he was nominated by the Democrats of 
 the first congressional district of Kentucky and elected to 
 Congress. His election, however, was not regarded as 
 the victory of the first district alone, but as the victorj' of 
 his party throughout the State, for at that age he had 
 spoken throughout Kentucky from the Mississippi to the 
 Big Sandy and from the Ohio River to the Tennessee line 
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Address of Mr. Fields, of Kenticky 
 
 and was, therefore, acquainkd with the entire State and 
 was idolized by his own party and respected by his po- 
 litical opponents for his ability and courage. 
 
 In Congress he soon became a leader and a national fig- 
 ure. He wielded a dominating influence in the organiza- 
 tion of the Sixty-second Congress and was a leader in 
 the measures enacted during that Congress. He retired 
 from the House at the end of the Sixty-second Congress 
 to enter the United States Senate, where he was again 
 recognized as a leader and where he was from the be- 
 ginning the, champion of the policies and measures of the 
 national administration. 
 
 Time will not permit me to recount or refer to many of 
 his achievements, but it is sufficient to say that the fact 
 that he was chosen to preside over the Democratic na- 
 tional presidential conventions of 1912 and 1916 is conclu- 
 sive of the high esteem in which he was held by his 
 countrj-men. And, Mr. Speaker, I pause here to say that 
 had he lived he in all probability' would have been the 
 nominee of the next presidential convention of his party 
 instead of its presiding ofTiccr, but, alas, the hand of death 
 levied its toll upon him, and the spirit which made him 
 great returned to the God who gave it. 
 
 Ollie M. James was .a man of superior mental and phys- 
 ical strength and stem in his dealings with competing 
 forces, but tender-hearted and sympathetic in his deal- 
 ings with those who needed assistance and apparently 
 never as happy as when administering to the needs of 
 those who were unable to care for themselves. 
 
 He was a hard student of national and international 
 questions, but along with these duties it was remarkable 
 how closely he looked after matters of detail. He was 
 always ready to give such time as was necessarj' to con- 
 stituents and friends whose interests needed his attention 
 in the various departments of the Government, and the 
 
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 success of his friends in matters of that kind always made 
 him happy. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I shall never forget the last time I ever 
 accompanied him on a departmental errand. It was the 
 day before his mother's death, which occurred only a few 
 months before his death. On that occasion I accompanied 
 him to the Department of Justice in the interest of a con- 
 stituent in whom we both were interested. As soon as I 
 met him I observed that he was not normal, but that he 
 was apparently greatly disturbed. I had been with him 
 but a few minutes when he told me that he was greatly 
 worried; said he had dreamed the night before that his 
 mother was dangerously ill, and that the family had wired 
 him to huri-y to her bedside. " The dream," he continued, 
 " woke me, and I could not go to sleep again, as a result of 
 which I had an early breakfast and went to my office 
 earlier than usual, trying all the time to dismiss and for- 
 get the dream that I had had, as I had no word that my 
 mother was ill. But soon after my arrival at the office my 
 wife called me by phone and informed me that she had 
 received a telegram to me from my sister stating that 
 mother was dangerously ill and for me to come at once." 
 He, with Mrs. James, left for Kentucky on the first train at 
 2 o'clock that afternoon. I accompanied them as far as 
 my home town in Kentucky and talked with him a goodly 
 portion of the afternoon and evening, and manj' times 
 during our conversations he referred to his dream of the 
 night previous, wliich seemed to impress him that liis 
 mother would not recover, and that he would not reach 
 her bedside before death laid its claim upon her. I read 
 in the Louisville papers the next evening that a telegram 
 had been delivered to him by the conductor in charge of 
 the train announcing the death of his mother. He was 
 hurrjang to her bedside, but the guardian angel with his 
 
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Address of Mr. Fields, of Kentucky 
 
 " steeds of wind and chariot of fire " preceded him to the 
 old lionie and bade her go before liis arrival. 
 
 He was then in the prime of life, the vigor of manhood, 
 and apparently in the best of health, and little did I think 
 that my next journey to Kentucky would be to accompany 
 his remains to their last resting place. But who can 
 prophesy against death or foretell its coming, even to the 
 strong and vigorous? 
 
 His death, his going, in what seemed to be the middle of 
 an unexcelled career cast a gloom ovfcr the Nation and 
 filled the hearts of the men, women, and cliildren of his 
 native Slate with sorrow and sadness. 
 
 After the funeral train which bore his remains and the 
 funeral parly crossed the Kentucky line at the Big Sandy 
 River it was met by vast crowds at practically every sta- 
 tion, hoping and asking for an opportunity to look once 
 more upon the face of him who until a few hours before 
 had been for many years Kentucky's foremost citizen. 
 There was strong contention from every crowd, from 
 everj'where, that his remains should be interred in the 
 State cemeterj' at Frankfort, that the State might continue 
 to claim all that was left of him. With that contention I 
 did not agree. He had served his State and the Nation, 
 and served them well; but that service having been con- 
 cluded, I felt, and now feel, that it was fitting and proper 
 that his remains be returned to his family and childhood 
 associates, who had first claim upon him, and be laid to 
 rest, as they were, at the feet of his mother, who gave him 
 to the State and the Nation. But it matters not where rest 
 his remains; his memorj' will live in the hearts of the 
 people of Kentucky. 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Senator Ollie M. James was a masterful 
 man. He died while still in the prime of his splendid 
 powers— in the very flower of his years. He was a typi- 
 cal Kentuckian and was therefore verj' popular in Ken- 
 tucky — his native State. Since Henry Clay, John J. Crit- 
 tenden, John C. Breckinridge, and John G. Carlisle, he ■ 
 was probably the most popular man in Kentucky. Yet 
 j'oung as he was, his fame breaking over State lines made 
 him a popular national figure. He served in both House 
 and Senate and stood in the front rank in both. I heard 
 an old farmer say once that no man can be truly denomi- 
 nated popular until he was generally called by his Chris- 
 tian name. If that be the correct test, Senator James was 
 certainly one of the most popular men betwixt the two 
 seas which wash our shores. He was rarely spoken of as 
 Senator James or even as Mr. James. He was known and 
 talked about as " Ollie " James all over the land. Fre- 
 quently people left off the James and discoursed about 
 and quoted " Ollie." The name " Ollie " seems to have 
 differentiated him from all his fellows. On account of 
 his vast bulk he was known by sight to eveiybody in 
 Washington. As he walked the streets of the finest Capi- 
 tal in the world even the urchins would say to each other, 
 " There goes Ollie James ! " or " There goes Ollie ! " In a 
 certain sense he had become a sort of national institution. 
 House and Senate guides say that nearly all the visitors 
 and sightseers asked to have Ollie James pointed out to 
 them. 
 
 Being born a Kentuckian myself, and most of my 
 mother's people having lived and being buried in his con- 
 gressional district, when he came into the House I culti- 
 vated him and we became fast friends, and I greatly en- 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missofri 
 
 joyed his companionship and highly prized his friendship. 
 His friendships were not lukewarm but intense and 
 enduring. He was simple as a child and he remained 
 to the end a big-hearted boy, although a great Represent- 
 ative and a great Senator. 
 
 I am inclined to believe tliat his unusual stature and 
 physical niassivcness were valuable assets in his political 
 career. 
 
 He was a strong debater and participated in many hot 
 verbal contests in both branches of Congress. He was 
 neither timid nor half-hearted. There was no trouble to 
 discover on which side he was on. He was either wholly 
 for a proposition or wholly against. He was an enthusiast 
 as to both men and things. He was exceedingly in love 
 with the noblest of quadrupeds and " the sport of kings." 
 He knew the running record of every horse in America 
 worthy of mention. If he had been rich, he would un- 
 doubtedly have owned the finest string of horses in Ken- 
 tucky, which is sajing a great deal, as Kentucky is the 
 home of the running horse, and has been always. Next to 
 a splendid man or a beautiful woman Kentuckians love a 
 fine horse most of all animated nature. In love and affec- 
 tion for a horse Kentuckians rival the Bedouins of the 
 desert. That love and affection for the horse remain with 
 Kentuckians who expatriate themselves wherever their 
 feet may wander or under whatever stars they pitch their 
 tents. 
 
 I have already stated that Senator James was a strong 
 debater. He was also a most successful stump speaker, 
 as stump speaking is still a favorite recreation in Ken- 
 tucky. No State in the Union can show a longer roster 
 of distinguished stumpers than Kentucky. Of these John C. 
 Breckinridge, Mason Brown, Hcnrj' Clay, Cassius i\I. Clay, 
 Richard H. Alcnifee, Thomas F. Mar.shall, Edward Mar- 
 shall, Humphrey Mar.shall, John J. Crittenden. John Pope, 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator James 
 
 Archibald Dixon, William C. P. Breckinridge, J. Proctor 
 Knott, John Marshall Harlan, John W. Stevenson, James 
 B. Beck, John S. Williams, Roger Hanson, Elijah Hise, 
 Thomas L. Jones, Leslie Combs, and James A. McKenzie 
 are among the most conspicuous. 
 
 In one field of oratory Ollie James was supreme — the 
 national convention. There is only one noisier place on 
 earth than a national convention — that is a boiler factorj*. 
 His Brobdingnagian size and his lion's roar compelled 
 botli silence and attention. He spoke in sweeping, all- 
 embracing sentences which aroused the convention to 
 wildest enthusiasm, which was largely a personal tribute 
 to the mighty Kentuckian. He enjoyed national conven- 
 tions to the full and was permanent chairman of two of 
 them — an exceptional honor and compliment to any man. 
 It was no more than he richly deserved, for a more 
 thoroughgoing or a more enthusiastic Democrat never 
 lived. He made no apologj' for being a partisan, but 
 above and beyond all things he was an American, and 
 love of country was his master passion. He could see no 
 incompatibility in both a partisan and a patriot. He was 
 honest in both and gloried in them. Kentucky has lost a 
 noble son; the Nation a great citizen. 
 
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FROCEEDINr.S IN THE IIOTSE OF ReI'KESENTATIVES 
 
 Mr. Fields. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 my colleague [Mr. Langlcy], who is inevitably detained, 
 may have unanimous consent to extend his remarks in 
 the Record upon the life of Senator James. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman asks that his 
 colleague [Mr. Langley] be permitted to extend his re- 
 marks in the Record on the life of Senator James. Is there 
 objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, several of the 
 friends of Senator James who wish to pay tribute to his 
 memor)' are unavoidably absent at this moment; there- 
 fore I ask leave that they may be permitted to extend their 
 remarks in the Record. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. \S'ithout objection, the re- 
 quest of the gentleman will be granted. 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Adjournment 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the order 
 heretofore entered, the Chair declares the House ad- 
 journed until to-morrow at 11 a. m. 
 
 Accordingly (at 3 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, Februarj' 24, 
 1919, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
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