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 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHIVELY 
 
 (Late a Senator from Indiana) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS 
 SECOND SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 February 18, 1917 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February 18, 1917 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
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 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Prettymnn, D. D 6 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. John W. Kern, of Indiana 11,34 
 
 Mr. Knute Nelson, of Minnesota-. 18 
 
 Mr. William .1. Stone, of Missouri __ 22 
 
 Mr. Reed Smoot, of Utah 24 
 
 Mr. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi 27 
 
 Mr. James E. Watson, of Indiana 29 
 
 Proceedings in the House 35 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 36,37 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Henry A. Barnhart, of Indiana 41 
 
 Mr._ William E. Cox, of Indiana 48 
 
 Mr. Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana 55 
 
 Mr. John A. M. Adair, of Indiana 63 
 
 Mr. William R. Wood, of Indiana 66 
 
 Mr. William A. Cullop, of Indiana 68 
 
 Mr. Cyrus Cline, of Indiana 70 
 
 Mr. Charles Lieb, of Indiana 74 
 
 Mr. Finly H. Gray, of Indiana 78 
 
 Mr. Martin A. Morrison, of Indiana 80 
 
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HON. BENJ-i^J^IN K SHIVELY 
 
DEATH OF HON. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHIVELY 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Tlesday, March H, 1916. 
 
 Mr. Kern. Mr. President, the saddest dutj' of my official 
 life now devolves upon me. It is to convey to the Senate 
 the sad intelligence of the death of that distinguished 
 Member of this body, my colleague, the Hon. Benjamin F. 
 Shively. of Indiana. 
 
 At another time 1 shall have occasion to say more 
 regarding the life and character of the deceased. At pres- 
 ent I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk and ask 
 that they may be adopted. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretary- will read the resolu- 
 tions. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 129) were read and unani- 
 mously agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, late 
 a Senator from the State of Indiana. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of the 
 late Senator. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
 removed from Washington to South Bend, Ind., for burial in charge 
 of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, who shall 
 have full power to carry these resolutions into effect. 
 
 Resolved, Tliat the Secretary comnuinicale these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives. 
 
 The Vice President, in compliance witli the provision of 
 the second resolution, appointed Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith of 
 
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 Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clapp, Mr. Johnson of Maine, 
 Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Swanson, Mr. James, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. 
 Martins of New Jersey, Mr. Phelan, and Mr. Smith of 
 Georgia the committee on the part of the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Kern. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to 
 the memory of Senator Shi\-ely I move that the Senate do 
 now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 4 
 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Wednesday, March 15, 1916, at 12 o'clock 
 meridian. 
 
 Wednesday, March 15, 191G. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, we come to this sacred moment of our 
 day's work when in thought and aspiration we touch the 
 boundaries of the great unseen and the eternal world and 
 lift our hearts to the Father of our spirits. We remem- 
 ber in this moment one who has been called from the 
 scenes of his earthly career into the great beyond, rever- 
 enced and respected by all who knew him, while those 
 who came within the charmed circle of his personal influ- 
 ence held him in affection and friendship. 
 
 We bless Thee to-day for the high ideals that have been 
 maintained in tliis honorable body through all its history, 
 and by every man who closing his record here has left 
 behind him the achievement of these ideals in his per- 
 sonal life and character. 
 
 Grant, we pray, to send to us to-day the influence and 
 ministry that should come to us in an hour like this, re- 
 membering that we are passing along the same journey, 
 serving the same great country, aspiring to the same high 
 ideals. And wc pray that Thou wilt lay Thy hand upon 
 the heart and mind of every one of his colleagues reniain- 
 
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 ing here in active service, inspiring them to the reconsc- 
 cration of their lives to the interests of their country and 
 to the honor and glory of the name of the God of our 
 fathers. 
 
 Hear us in this our prayer. Chasten us with Thy holy 
 spirit of truth. For Christ's sake. Amen. 
 
 The Vice President. The Chair feels constrained to an- 
 nounce that last evening the Chair endeavored to secure a 
 definite statement that the Senators named would attend 
 the funeral of Senator Shin-ely. Owing to the sudden- 
 ness of the death and the engagements of Senators, it was 
 difficult to procure the promise of Senators who were old- 
 time friends of Senator Shively, and the Chair, without 
 succeeding in getting definite promises, appointed the 
 committee. 
 
 The Chair understands that the train will leave at 6.1') 
 to-morrow night, and that the funeral will not take place 
 until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the city of South 
 Bend. If, therefore, any of the Senators named by reason 
 of any cause can not attend, the Chair would like to be 
 notified as soon as possible in order that the committee 
 may be filled up. 
 
 So long has been the personal friendship of the de- 
 ceased Senator and the Vice President that the Chair will 
 feel it his duty, as but a decent mark of courtesy for many 
 years of personal friendship, that he should attend the 
 funeral. 
 
 The Senate will receive a message from the House of 
 Representatives. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by D. K. 
 Hempstead, its enrolling clerk, transmitted to the Senate 
 resolutions of the House on the death of Hon. Benjamin 
 F. Shi\-ely, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 Thursday, March iG, 1916. 
 The Presiding Officer. If the Senate will indulge the 
 Chair, the Vice President has asked the occupant of the 
 chair to announce the appointment of the following com- 
 mittee to attend the funeral of the late Senator Shively : 
 Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith of Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Mollis, 
 Mr. Johnson of Maine, Mr. Poindexter, Mr. Sterling, Mr. 
 Thompson, Mr. Ashurst, and Mr. Page. 
 
 Saturday. April 1, 1916. 
 
 The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate a 
 note of thanks from Mrs. Shively addressed to the Senate 
 of the United States, which will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the note, as follows : 
 
 To the Senate of the United States: 
 
 Mrs. Shively and the members of her family desire to express 
 their deep appreciation of your sympathy and extend to you their 
 most grateful thanks for a beautiful floral wreath. 
 
 Thursday, January 11, 1917. 
 Mr. Kern. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that on 
 Saturday, the 17th day of February, 1917, immediately 
 after the routine morning business, the Senate will be 
 asked to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
 life, character, and public services of Senator Benjamin 
 F. Shively, of Indiana; of Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
 Maine; and of Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 
 Tuesday, February 15, 1917. 
 Mr. Robinson. Mr. President, some days ago the Senator 
 from Indiana [Mr. Kern] gave notice that on Saturday, the 
 17th day of February, 1917, immediately after the routine 
 morning business, he would ask the Senate to consider 
 resolutions in commemoration of the life, character, and 
 public sei-vices of the late Senator Benjamin F. Shively, 
 of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of Maine; 
 and of the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. A 
 
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 conference has been held by Senators from the States of 
 Indiana, Maine, and Arkansas, and, at the suggestion of 
 the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] and other Senators, 
 and for the convenience of Senators I submit a request for 
 unanimous consent, as follows: 
 
 That the Senate convene on Sunday, February 18, 1917, at 11 
 o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
 life, character, and public services of the late Senator Benjamin 
 F. Shivelv, of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
 Maine; and the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Beckham in the chair). Is 
 there objection to the unanimous-consent agreement? 
 The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 
 
 Sunday, February 18, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Kern. Mr. President, in pursuance of the notice 
 heretofore given, I offer the resolutions which I send to 
 the desk. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shivelv, late a Senator from 
 the State of Indiana. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
 ceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his 
 associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and distin- 
 guished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. President: When it was announced in the Senate 
 on the afternoon of the 14th of March last that the dis- 
 tinguished senior Senator from Indiana had passed out of 
 life in Providence Hospital in this city but a few moments 
 before, there was sorrow, sincere and profound, on both 
 sides of the Chamber. While all realized the loss of one 
 of their ablest and most honored associates, there were 
 verj- many Senators who mourned the loss of a friend 
 for whom they entertained feelings of the most affection- 
 ate regard. 
 
 The sad intelligence was not unexpected here in Wash- 
 ington, for all were familiar with the brave and heroic 
 fight for life he had been making for more than a year, 
 and many had been witnesses to the dreadful suffering 
 he had endured and the matchless fortitude with which 
 he had so long fought the losing battle. 
 
 And when the message announcing the end of this 
 honorable and useful life was flashed across the moun- 
 tains to the great Commonwealth whose Senator he was 
 the expressions of sorrow were universal, and from the 
 lake to the river there came up from the people — men and 
 women of all parties — the strongest manifestations of 
 their deep appreciation of the splendid sei-vices rendered 
 by their great Senator, who for so many years and with 
 such great ability and rare fidelity had represented them 
 first in one and then the other branch of the National 
 Congress. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 He was born in Indiana — born and brought up on an 
 Indiana farm — and until he attained his majority his life 
 was spent in the midst of the good countrj^ people of his 
 section, working on the farm in the summer, first attend- 
 ing and then teaching in the common schools in the winter. 
 He knew the nature of their joys and the depth of their 
 sorrows, and bj^ this experience he had first-hand knowl- 
 edge of the aims and purposes, the needs and desires, the 
 hopes and aspirations of the great body of the people 
 whom he was afterwards to serve with such distinction, 
 and it was this knowledge thus acquired which made of 
 him such an effective champion of popular rights. 
 
 He loved his native State and in return her people hon- 
 ored him and ungrudgingly gave to him the highest proof 
 of their confidence and esteem, so that when the end 
 came there was universal sorrow throughout the State, for 
 one of her best-loved and most distinguished sons was 
 " gone forever and ever by " and the face and figure so 
 well known of all were never more to be seen amongst 
 men. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Shively was born in St. Joseph 
 Countj', Ind., on the 20th day of March, 1857. He never 
 resided elsewhere, and his body rests in the soil of his 
 native county within a few miles of the place of his birth. 
 
 His father. Rev. Joel Shively, was a minister of the Gos- 
 pel, his mother a devoted Christian woman, so that he 
 was brought up under the influence and within the envi- 
 ronment of a Christian home. His youthful experiences 
 were those of the average farm lad in the Central West, 
 working on the farm in the summer and attending the 
 common schools in the winter until his eighteenth year, 
 when he became a teacher in the schools which he had 
 attended as a pupil, and continued to teach in the winter 
 seasons for several years, until 1880, when he engaged in 
 
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Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 
 
 journalistic work until 1884, in the meanwhile giving 
 some time to the study of law. 
 
 His entrj' into the political field was under circum- 
 stances somewhat remarkable. In 1884, the year of the 
 great Cleveland-Blaine campaign, Hon. William H. Cal- 
 kins, who had represented the South Bend district in 
 Congress for several terms, received the Republican 
 nomination for governor of Indiana, and resigned his 
 seat in Congress. 
 
 For the long term the Democrats of the district had 
 nominated Hon. George Ford, a very able lawyer, of South 
 Bend, now the judge of the superior court of that county. 
 After the resignation of Mr. Calkins it became necessary 
 to nominate a candidate to fill out his unexpired term. 
 As St. Joseph County was the home of Mr. Ford, already 
 nominated for the long term, the nomination for the short 
 term would in the natural course of politics have been 
 given to a citizen of some other county, for there were 
 several counties in the district, and in all of them were 
 men of such ability and distinction as to have made 
 creditable and formidable candidates. But the attention 
 of many had been attracted by the journalistic work of 
 young Shively, who since his majority had affiliated with 
 the organization known as the Greenback Party — being 
 made up in Indiana of men of character and ability, who 
 believed with many men of both of the old political 
 parties in the quantitative theory of money, and many of 
 whose views as to the proper status of the greenback under 
 the law were afterw-ards approved and vindicated by the 
 Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 As young Shively's sympathies in the presidential cam- 
 paign were known to be with Cleveland as against Blaine, 
 and he had shown much ability in his newspaper work, 
 the party leaders concluded that it would be the part of 
 
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 wisdom to enlist his active service in the campaign, and 
 the nomination was tendered him and accepted, and after 
 a brilliant and aggressive canvass he was elected and 
 served out the unexpired term, which ran from December, 
 1884, until March, 1885. He was the youngest Member 
 of Congress, but by his manly bearing, modest demeanor, 
 and the ability shown in committee and on the floor 
 he won the confidence and regard of all, and a career 
 of great usefulness was predicted for him by many party 
 leaders. 
 
 At the end of this short term he entered the law depart- 
 ment of the University of Michigan to continue his prep- 
 aration for the legal profession and pursued his studies 
 so energetically and successful!}' that he was graduated 
 with the degree of bachelor of laws during the next year. 
 
 The district was normally Republican by considerable 
 majorit}', and prior to 1884 had been represented by a 
 Republican for many years; so in 1886 the Republicans 
 resolved to redeem it if possible and named as their 
 congressional candidate their strongest man. Gen. Jasper 
 Packard, a gallant Union soldier, a skilled debater, and 
 seasoned politician. 
 
 Mr. Shively's record, during the short term he had 
 served, was so satisfactoiy that he was given the Demo- 
 cratic nomination without opposition. A series of joint 
 debates was arranged, and a most interesting campaign 
 inaugurated. Great crowds greeted the candidates at 
 these joint meetings, and intense interest was manifested. 
 Young Shively' more than met the expectations of his 
 friends, and was hailed everywhere as the champion of 
 the young Democracy of the State. Although the Repub- 
 lican State ticket carried the district, he was elected by 
 more than a thousand majority', and his reputation as 
 an orator and debater was firmlv established. 
 
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Address of Mr. Ivern, of Indiana 
 
 He was reelected in 1888 and 1890, and though the 
 unanimous choice of the party in 1892, declined the nomi- 
 nation that he might engage in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 It was while serving his third term in Congress that 
 he married Miss Laura Jenks, daughter of Hon. George 
 A. Jenks, a distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania, who 
 was Solicitor General of the United States during the 
 first Cleveland administration. Three children were born 
 of this union, George J., John J., and i\Iary M., all of whom 
 are living and giving promise of lives of usefulness. 
 Senator Shively was tenderly devoted to his family and 
 home. 
 
 In 1896 the Democratic Party of Indiana, by a well- 
 nigh unanimous vote, gave to Mr. Shively the nomination 
 for governor of the State. It was a most exciting contest. 
 From the time that Bryan made his great convention 
 speech at Chicago there was not a day that was not full 
 of dramatic interest in the Indiana campaign. Shively 
 was at his best. His oratory was second only to that 
 of Bryan, and under the inspiring leadership of these two 
 young champions of popular rights there was such a 
 rallying of the hosts as has never been witnessed since. 
 
 Shively was at the veiy forefront of the battle every 
 day. Handsome in person, commanding in presence, with 
 rich and resonant voice, and genuine orator}^ born of deep 
 conviction, he sounded the trumpet call, and the very 
 earth was trembling for weeks beneath the tread of the 
 marching hosts of the people. 
 
 He went down in defeat, but it was an honorable, if 
 not glorious, defeat. His splendid leadership was every- 
 where acknowledged, and he was given the complimen- 
 tary- vote of his party for United States Senator, while it 
 was in the minority, and in 1909, when, for the first time 
 
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 since 1893, it had the opportunity to confer the honor, it 
 nominated and elected him to the position which he 
 filled so honorably and with such distinguished ability 
 to the hour of his death. 
 
 Senator Shively's great ability as an orator was recog- 
 nized throughout the Union, and in every campaign there 
 were demands for him in all the debatable States, and 
 from New England to the Pacific coast he had been a 
 commanding figure in the field of campaign oratorj'. 
 
 His record in both Houses of Congress was an enviable 
 one. Whether in the committee room, in the executive 
 departments, in legislative work upon the floor, or in the 
 party councils, he was always strong and effective. He 
 rose to membership on the Ways and Means Committee 
 of the House at a time when the tariff question was para- 
 mount and became at once conspicuous and influential in 
 shaping the tariff policy of his part}', and his addresses in 
 both Houses on that subject were equal to the best ever 
 delivered by any of the great party leaders. 
 
 In the Senate he served with great distinction on the 
 Finance Committee and that on Foreign Relations and 
 was chairman of the important and busy Committee on 
 Pensions. During the long illness of Senator Stone he 
 was acting chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela- 
 tions and at a time when questions of great international 
 importance were perplexing the President and the coun- 
 try'. He proved himself equal to the great work and 
 commanded the confidence and admiration of the Presi- 
 dent and the Secretaiy of State, both of whom frequently 
 sought his counsel and prized highly the ver>' important 
 service he rendered them. 
 
 I came to the Senate in 1911 without legislative experi- 
 ence and at once sought the advice and aid of my dis- 
 tinguished colleague. He gave me both ungrudgingly and 
 unselfishly, and our relations up to the day of his death 
 
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Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 
 
 were of the most cordial character. He was deeply solic- 
 itous that there should be harmony of action between us, 
 and on all important questions we conferred fully, so 
 that, if possible, we might act and vote in agreement. 
 As a result we kept in perfect accord, our only division 
 of opinion being on the literacy test of the immigration 
 bill, and, as we conscientiously differed on this point, 
 tliere was not the slightest friction. 
 
 In the recommendations we were called upon to make 
 for appointments to ofiice he was generous to a fault, 
 and, although we had scores of friends, applicants for 
 the same positions, we never had the slightest difficult^' in 
 arriving at a satisfactory result. 
 
 It was at Senator Shively's suggestion that I was made 
 a member of the Finance Committee of the Senate within 
 two months after I became a Member of this body, and it 
 was on his motion two years later that I was made chair- 
 man of the majoritj' conference. 
 
 He was a man of great heart and noble impulses, a 
 statesman of profound learning and exalted patriotism, 
 and he has been and will be sadly missed in the councils 
 of the Nation. 
 
 He was my friend, and I shall never cease to honor his 
 memorj'. May he rest in peace. 
 
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Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 
 
 Mr. President: Indiana is one of the great States carved 
 out of the " territoi-y northwest of the Ohio River." It 
 was given a Territorial government in 1800, and became 
 a State in 1816. Barring a few scattered French hamlets, 
 most of the pioneer settlers of Indiana came from two 
 sources, the earliest — and perhaps the greatest number — 
 came from the States south of the Ohio River, and among 
 this class was the family of Abraham Lincoln. This im- 
 migration was supplemented by a considerable number 
 from the Eastern and Northeastern States. Tliis double 
 source of immigration led to a slight cleavage on the ques- 
 tion of slavery at an early period in the history of the 
 State, for, although the ordinance of 1787 had prohibited 
 the " institution," yet an effort, which had no great 
 strength and soon collapsed, was made for its retention. 
 This double ethnic source from which the population of 
 the State has sprung has no doubt, to some extent, led to 
 the many hot and close political controversies wliich have 
 prevailed, so that, politically speaking and from a party 
 standpoint, the State has for upward of three-quarters of 
 a century been regarded as a so-called " close State." 
 The result of this political contention, ever recurring, has 
 been to breed from time to time a large number of able 
 statesmen and versatile and eloquent orators in both of 
 the great political parties. The political battles have 
 always been strenuous and acute, and have called for and 
 produced aggressive and militant leaders on both sides. 
 There has not been much room, as a rule, for such politi- 
 cal leaders as are sometimes called " political accidents." 
 To become a political leader in such a State and under 
 
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AnnRESs of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 
 
 such conditions real and substantial ability and energy 
 are required. Mere ancestry or wealth is of little conse- 
 quence. 
 
 The fact that our late colleague. Senator Shively, be- 
 came one of the leaders of his party in the State of liis 
 birth, and the State which he so ably represented in this 
 body, is ample proof of his integrity, his ability, and his 
 qualifications as a leader. He could not have attained 
 the prominence and leadersliip that was his without 
 ability of a high order. He was not born in the lap of 
 luxury and had no strong friends at court to give him a 
 start in life. By his own efforts, and without help from 
 outside sources, he managed to secure a fair education, 
 and was admitted to the bar as a practicing lawj'er. Dur- 
 ing his earlier years, while he was engaged in securing his 
 education, he taught school, worked on the farm, and did 
 other strenuous manual labor. Among other work in 
 which he had been engaged in those earlier years, he in- 
 formed me that during one season he operated a thrashing 
 machine among the farmers of Wabasha County, Minn., 
 and he seemed highly pleased with his experience in that 
 line of activity. 
 
 Most of the bright, brainy, and active young men in the 
 State of Indiana naturally turned to politics, and this was 
 the case with Senator Shively. At the early age of 26, 
 in 1883, he was elected a Member of the Forty-eighth Con- 
 gress and was reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and 
 Fiftj'-second Congresses. It was my fortune to be an 
 associate of his and to serve with him in the Forty-eighth 
 and Fiftieth Congresses. He was one of the youngest but 
 most active Members of that body. Few Members, if any, 
 were more prominent than he when serving their first 
 term. During that early period of our service we boarded 
 at the same hotel, when I became intimately acquainted 
 with him not only officially but socially, and I found him 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator SHn^LY 
 
 to be a most genial, warm-hearted, and sympathetic com- 
 panion. 
 
 He was veiy industrious and attentive to public busi- 
 ness, and during the latter part of his service in the House 
 he ranked among the more prominent Members of that 
 body. During the Fifty-first Congress he was a member 
 of the Committee on Banking and Currency and the Com- 
 mittee on Indian Affairs, both very important commi.ttees; 
 and during the Fifty-second Congress he was a prominent 
 member of the Committee on Ways and Means. 
 
 On leaving Congress he resumed the practice of law. 
 But his ability as a political leader and speaker soon 
 brought him again into the political field, and in 1896 he 
 became the candidate of his partj' for the governorship. 
 While he failed to be elected, he nevertheless polled his 
 full party vote. After an interregnum of 13 years, during 
 wliich time he was busy in his profession as a lawj'er, 
 though not inactive in politics, his party in 1909 elected 
 him a Member of the Senate, and in 1914 reelected him 
 for a second term of six years, but it was not his fate to 
 be permitted to serve out his second term. He passed 
 away from this life, after a lingering illness, on the 14th 
 day of March, 1916, during the early part of the first 
 month of the second j^ear of his last term, in the 58th year 
 of his age, mourned and missed by his family, liis State, 
 his party, and his associates in tliis body. 
 
 Senator SHn-ELY was a member of many of the im- 
 portant committees of this body, the most notable of 
 which were the Committees on Finance, Foreign Rela- 
 tions, and Pensions. He was chairman of the Committee 
 on Pensions, and the next in rank to the chairman of the 
 Committee on Foreign Relations and occasionally acted 
 as chairman of that committee. His ser\ice in the Senate 
 was marked by the same industry and energy that had 
 characterized him in the House of Representatives. He 
 
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AnoRESs OF Mh. Nelson, of Minnesota 
 
 was serious, conscientious, painstaking, and thorough in 
 his work and was a disbeliever in mere perfunctory serv- 
 ice. While not an orator in the common acceptation of 
 the term, he was nevertheless a good and ready debater, 
 who could give and take blows. 
 
 While it was not my privilege to hear him on the stump, 
 from what I know of him I can well imagine that he was 
 a strong and effective campaign speaker, whose words, 
 coming from an honest and sincere heart and delivered 
 without any flourish or blare, went home to the heads and 
 hearts of his hearers. It is the man back of the word that 
 makes the word effective and impressive. It seemed to 
 me as though his early struggles had given a color and 
 tone to the entire make-up of his life. There was some- 
 thing intensely human and sympathetic about him. 
 Here in the Senate, as among his neighbors at home, he 
 was always the plain, bluff Ben Shively, vvithout any 
 frills and without an eye on the reporters' gallery. He 
 seemed to be as proud of the fact that he had once run a 
 thrashing machine in Minnesota as of the fact that he was 
 one of the political leaders of his State and a prominent 
 Member of this body. 
 
 He was a man of high character, honest, fearless, and 
 brave — a man in whom his party had implicit confidence, 
 and a man whom we all could trust. " Ben Shively's " 
 word was current and good among all who knew him, 
 here and in Indiana. That State has furnished our coun- 
 try Math a number of great statesmen, ranking with the 
 foremost in the entire Nation. While the deceased Sena- 
 tor could not perhaps be rated with the foremost of these, 
 he was, nevertheless, near them, and as near the heart of 
 the people of his State as any of them, typical of the 
 brawn and brain, the soul and the heart, of the great body 
 of the people of his State. Friend and brother, we bid 
 thee a sorrowful and final farewell! 
 
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Address of Mr. Stone, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. President: My affection for Benjamin F. Shively 
 was so deep and personal and my bereavement at his 
 sad, untimely end is so poignant that I would prefer to sit 
 silent to-day. I say this because when I stand at the grave 
 of one I loved and whose memorj' is very dear to me 
 mere words become as sounding brass, empty and com- 
 fortless. At such a time, except for the hope we have 
 about things shadowed in the mysteries of the great be- 
 yond, there is little in speech to soothe or inspire. True, 
 this beautiful hope to which we cling does soften the 
 blow, and there is inspiration in the example of a great 
 life, but the profound regret which grips the heart goes 
 on to the end with little surcease of sorrow. When I 
 stand in the presence of beloved dead my heart calls more 
 for meditation and the tribute of silence than for public 
 utterance. And yet, in the circmnstances of this ceremony 
 I feel constrained to join with others here and speak a 
 gentle word or two about my friend who is gone. 
 
 Mr. Shively was a man of high ideals. There was noth- 
 ing small, much less mean, about him. He was in- 
 capable of littleness. He was kindly, but firm; genial, 
 but not fulsome; frank, but reserved; loyal, but not boast- 
 ful; clean in mind and heart, but human and considerate; 
 fearless as any knight who ever poised a spear, yet gentle 
 as a woman; intellectual in a high degree, endowed wth 
 great powers of analysis and with comprehensive mental 
 scope, he was modest and unpretentious. In the full 
 vigor of his strength, before the wasting came, he stood 
 as a king among men and made a superb and pleasing 
 picture to look upon. I shall not say that we may not 
 
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Address of Mr. Stone, of Missouri 
 
 see his like again, but this I do say, that all in all there 
 never lived a more manly man. 
 
 His public life, although cut short by fate with seem- 
 ing cruelty, covered many years of distinguished service. 
 He was a marvel of studious industry and profoundly 
 conscientious in all he did. When he was at the helm 
 we knew the pilot was fit to steer the ship. His work will 
 stand as a shining monument to his fine intellect, his 
 patient toil, and his stainless patriotism. 
 
 But he is gone. Never again will we feel the pressure 
 of his hand or behold the flash of his eye or the smile 
 upon his lips. He has gone from the transitory scenes of 
 mortal life into a sphere of nobler activities. He has trod 
 the unlit path that most men dread and passed on through 
 the gateway leading into the light beyond. Of one thing 
 I am sure— that no man ever entered upon this starless 
 pathway with braver heart, and few have better deserved 
 the welcoming song of the Angelic Choir as they stepped 
 from the darkness into the sweet sunshine of the eternal 
 Summer Land. And thus I part from dear " Old Ben " 
 with this salutation — Hail and farewell! 
 
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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: To all those who enjoyed the privilege 
 of knowing the late Benjamin F. Shively, a Senator from 
 the great State of Indiana, the best tribute to his memory 
 is an unblemished narrative faithfully describing his rare 
 qualities of character and intellect, as has been done so 
 splendidh' by the speakers preceding me. They have por- 
 trayed him as he was in life, yet his own works speak more 
 eloquently for him than words of mine can do. I served 
 with him for a number of years on the Committee on Pen- 
 sions of the Senate and learned of his sympathy and 
 friendship for all those who offered their lives for the 
 preservation of the Union. He never failed to speak or 
 vote for a proper recognition by the Government of the 
 services of the veterans of the Civil War. 
 
 His eloquence, his energ)', his personal magnetism, and 
 honesty made him a leading and interesting figure upon 
 this floor. To my mind the most marked characteristic 
 of this worthy man may be summed up in the simple 
 expression, " He was an honest man." By honesty I mean 
 more than a sense of obligation designated as commercial 
 honor; I mean more than a mere sense of duty to obey law 
 and to discharge legal obligations. That is superficial 
 honesty; that is honesty which springs of policy, and may 
 be forced by intellectual recognition of its advantages. 
 Beal honesty is a gift of God worked out in those infinite 
 processes which compose the law of heredity, and under 
 all circumstances, under all environments they will work 
 out true results. Benjamin F. Shively was a man of such 
 honesty; a man inherently honest, as every man who 
 knew him must testify. In his public life no person 
 would have dared by any form of allurement even in the 
 remotest degree to attempt to influence him in tlie dis- 
 charge of his public service. 
 
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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 He was called to the bej'ond in the prime of life, leaving 
 many dear friends who were grieved by the loss of one of 
 the best and most loyal friends, one of the most genial of 
 our distinguished public men. He left to his family more 
 than a princely fortune could bring, because he left be- 
 hind what all right-thinking men must admit was a suc- 
 cessful life, such as thousands of American boys com- 
 pelled to relj' upon their own resources can look to as 
 a model, and demonstrating the fact that fortune and 
 business success are open to all in this our beloved 
 America, and may be achieved without wronging a single 
 soul. 
 
 Our hearts go out in sympathy to the immediate family 
 and relatives of the late Senator. May the Lord be their 
 comfort ! It is but natural that they should feel the pangs 
 of parting, yet thei-e is solace in the knowledge that he was 
 a child of God, and that though he has passed out of view 
 for a short time he still lives and is but waiting for his 
 loved ones to rejoin him under more favorable conditions. 
 Let us rejoice in the thought thus expressed by a poet: 
 
 There is no death ! The heavens may fall. 
 
 The flowers fade and pass away, 
 They only wait through wintry hours 
 
 The coming of the May. 
 There is no death ! An angel form 
 
 Walks o'er the earth with silent tread. 
 He bears our best loved ones away, 
 
 And then we call them " dead." 
 
 Born into that undying life, 
 
 They leave us but to come again. 
 With joy we welcome them the same, 
 
 Except in sin and pain. 
 
 And ever near us, though unseen, 
 
 The dear immortal spirits tread. 
 For all the boundless universe 
 
 Is life — there are no dead. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shivei,y 
 
 There is no greater tribute I can pay him than to remind 
 those who loved him that he was an afTectionate father, a 
 devoted husband, a faithful friend, a fearless and con- 
 scientious public servant. In short, a remarkable national 
 character and a good man. 
 
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Address of Mr. Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 Ml-. President: For one reason at any rate, I Avould 
 prefer to have gone to that "bourn whence no traveler 
 returns" before Senator Shively went. I would have had 
 a nobler eulogist in him than he has in me. 
 
 I shall speak to-day only of the salient and essentially 
 chief character-making element that went to the make-up 
 of the man. 
 
 This prevailing characteristic was utter personal unsel- 
 fishness. He loved honor much, honors somewhat, money 
 not at all. He dwelt, in thought, less upon his private 
 affairs than upon the public business— the res publica, the 
 Republic. It was his thought, his study, his conversation, 
 almost his life. This unselfishness kept his purse empty, 
 but it made his character noble, and kept him unstained 
 in motive. 
 
 If he did not " love his enemies " — a hard saying of the 
 gentle Nazarene — he at least loved his friends and served 
 them better than he loved and served himself. 
 
 It was said of the French noblesse of the ancient regime 
 that they had proved in a thousand ways and in a thou- 
 sand places that they " knew how to die like gentlemen," 
 but never that they " knew how to live like men." Ben 
 Shively proved that he knew how to do both — he did 
 both. 
 
 From that part of the duration of things which we call 
 Time, and in which we live here, many loving hands are 
 extended unavailingly to him where he stands in that 
 other part of it, known as Eternity — my own hand — I, 
 sorrowing, among them. 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 Some day he and the other fi-iends who have "crossed 
 over the river" will beckon us over, and we, obeying 
 their call, with vague dread of things unseen and there- 
 fore unknown, will go; and the handclasps will come, 
 the spirit of them to endure forever. 
 
 Until then may the grace of God make us more like him 
 in this— that we may be less selfish, live and think less 
 self-centered, and be therefore better fitted to invoke, in a 
 spirit resigned to life and death alike, the final blessing 
 upon him of the Church Universal. Requiescat in pace. 
 
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Address of Mr. Watson, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. President: I have not committed to paper any re- 
 marks for this occasion, because my observations will be 
 personal rather than general. 
 
 The traits and characteristics of this noble son of In- 
 diana have been so clearly set forth by those who have 
 preceded me that but for the fact tliat I am his successor 
 I should wholly refrain from speech on this occasion. 
 
 INIr. President, as the Senator from Missouri [Mr. Stone] 
 so feelingly said but a few moments ago, " Senator 
 Shively is gone." "We all realize the full significance 
 of this fact. We know that our pleasing words do not 
 reach his waiting ears; we know that he is as far beyond 
 the reach of our short arms as are the stars that shine 
 above us in the sky at night; we know that he sleeps now 
 in the cold and narrow house, indifferent alike to the 
 careless shallows and the tragic deeps of human life; 
 and therefore it is for the living and not the dead that 
 these exercises are of surpassing moment. 
 
 At his bier all tongues were silent, save those of praise; 
 all lips were mute, save those of love; that were sufficient 
 eulogy for his gentle soul; and unless by reciting the 
 traits of character he so splendidly exemplified and which 
 we so highly praise wherever manifested, we ourselves 
 are impressed with the necessity of embodying those 
 same virtues in our lives and characters, then these exer- 
 cises are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. 
 
 Born, as the senior Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] 
 has said, in 1857, he was 8 years old at the close of the 
 Civil War; hence the fierceness of that great strife must 
 have impressed itself upon his plastic mind. I am led 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shivi 
 
 to this belief because Senator Shively was a natural poli- 
 tician. He had great aptitude for the discussion of public 
 questions and an uncommon desire to engage in public 
 debate. This inclination was doubtless greatly increased 
 by reason of the long struggle over reconstruction that 
 followed the Civil War. His boyhood was lived in that 
 atmosphere, and his young manhood was developed under 
 these conditions. First in the common school, then in the 
 college at Valparaiso, then as a school-teacher, and after- 
 wards in the law school at Ann Arbor, he constantly devel- 
 oped the natural tendency of his mind for public debate, 
 until even in those earlier days he became a master of 
 forensic speech. 
 
 I well recall the first time I ever heard of him. I was in 
 college, and it was in 1884. Maj. William H. Calkins was 
 nominated that year by the Republican Party for the 
 governorship of Indiana. Being at that time a Member 
 of the other branch of Congress, his nomination created 
 a vacancy. Mr. Shively, then but 26 years of age, or only 
 one year over the required constitutional limit, was nomi- 
 nated by the Democrats as their candidate in the succeed- 
 ing cojitest. He conducted that campaign with such skill, 
 such ability, and such assiduity and displayed such re- 
 markable characteristics as a debater and a public speaker 
 that he won in that memorable contest, although the dis- 
 trict was normally Republican, and I can well remember 
 that the victoi*y achieved under those circumstances 
 presaged the overthrow of the Republican Party at the 
 final election. 
 
 He was reelected to the Fiftieth. Fifty-first, and Fifty- 
 second Congresses; and although he entered that body at 
 the age of 26, he took a leading part from the beginning, 
 and an examination of the Record will disclose that Rep- 
 resentative Shively was prominent in all the debates 
 relating to the protective tariff" system and the Reed rules. 
 
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Address of Mr. Watson, of Indiana 
 
 which were then lor the first time being practiced by the 
 House. It was in this body that he made for himself a 
 reputation as a tariff debater and a foremost champion 
 of free trade, and 1 believe him to be the ablest exponent 
 of that doctrine that Indiana has produced for many 
 years. 
 
 In 1892 he declined a renomination, althougii unani- 
 mously tendered him, and, as he aftei-wards said to me, 
 " because of the irksomeness of the task of being a Mem- 
 ber of Congress " and " because it destroyed systematic 
 reading," for if there was anything of which Senator 
 Shh-ely was passionately fond it was systematic reading. 
 He was by nature a scholar. He roamed at lai'ge in all the 
 fields of literature; he plucked its choicest flowers, and in 
 the ample recesses of his memoi"y stored them away to 
 bring them forth on future occasions to please and charm, 
 for he was ever an omniverous reader. 
 
 But his people were not content to permit him to re- 
 main in quietude, and in 1896 brought him forth to be- 
 come Jhe candidate of his party for the governorship of 
 Indiana. Being myself in Congress at that time, I remem- 
 ber that I heard him with great interest in that campaign. 
 He was a superb man physically, with a splendid head, 
 well poised on broad shoulders. He was blessed with a 
 resonant and resounding voice, rich and mellifluous. He 
 had an ample vocabulaiy not only of Anglo-Saxon words 
 but also of Latin derivatives, and the cogency of his 
 thought, clothed in beautiful language, made him a most 
 formidable antagonist in any campaign. 
 
 1 recall that in 1896, in advocating the free-silver doc- 
 trine of that year, he was, in my judgment, as Senator 
 Kern has so well said, the foremost champion in the State 
 of Indiana of that cause. He was defeated in that cam- 
 paign, but defeat did not dishearten him. In fact, no con- 
 tingency ever appalled him, for he was a man not only of 
 
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 titanic mold but of indomitable will, and I did not know 
 him to be discouraged at any time, even in tlie midst of 
 failing health and waning power. 
 
 In 1903 he was the caucus nominee of his party in the 
 legislature for the United States senatorship, being pitted 
 in that contest against Senator Albert J. Beveridge, then a 
 candidate for reelection. In 1905 he was again the caucus 
 nominee of the Democratic Party for the senatorship, that 
 race being against Charles Warren Fairbanks, then a 
 candidate for reelection. In both of these contests he was 
 beaten, but his consent to become a candidate showed 
 first his fealty to his party, and secondly, his willingness 
 to sacrifice himself even in a fruitless contest. 
 
 In 1909 he was elected to the United States Senate. Of 
 his service here you have already heard, and all of you 
 are more familiar with it than am I, and of that I shall 
 not speak. 
 
 My intimate acquaintance with Senator Shively began 
 when I was elected a member of the board of trustees of 
 the State University of Indiana, of v.'hich body he was 
 president for many years. For six years I retained mem- 
 bership, afterwards resigning because of the pressure of 
 other duties, but in that six years I learned to know the 
 man intimately, to take his intellectual and moral measure, 
 to assess his real value, and it was at that time that I came 
 to the conclusion that he was indeed a masterful man, 
 intellectually and morally — a man of the loftiest ideals, 
 a man of the purest life, a man of the finest and most 
 enviable traits of character. I have known him on many 
 an occasion to read through the night propped up in bed. 
 He was a passionate lover of history and of fiction and of 
 poetry, and many nights down in the university town of 
 Bloomington I have sat with him and discussed all the 
 questions that men discuss on occasions of that character. 
 He was a most interesting conversationalist; lie told a 
 
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Address of Mr. Watson, of Indiana 
 
 storj' well and liked one; and yet his conversation was 
 not by any means of a frivolous nature, except on rare 
 occasions when men drop into the frivolous naturally, 
 but his talk was rather of politics and of political opin- 
 ions and of the movement of nations and the true ideals of 
 life. 
 
 The one thing which always impressed me as being 
 Senator Shively's dominant idea in the realm of politics 
 was his firm belief in the equality of men. He never wav- 
 ered in his adherence to the fundamental doctrine of the 
 Declaration of Independence, that all men are created 
 equal, and he was never so eloquent and never so power- 
 ful as when he was expounding that doctrine to the people 
 or even to an individual. The finest speech I ever heard 
 him make was on the occasion of the celebration of a 
 great fraternal order. It was there that he connected in 
 a marked manner the material interests of life with the 
 sentiments that warm the heart and exalt the soul, and 
 showed that the man, intellectually and morally, was a 
 type of orator and of statesman that might well be envied 
 by any man. 
 
 So he lived and so he died. Only on one occasion, as I 
 recall, was there any conversation between us about the 
 future, but I remember that at one time, along about the 
 midnight hour, while he was in waning health, he said to 
 me, " What is the difference what becomes of any one 
 man? We come here, play our little part on the stage, 
 and pass away, and that is all." I said to him, " But is 
 that all? " And I vividly remember that he turned to me 
 and said, " Well, if I did not believe in a future, or, rather, 
 in a continued existence, I should be of all men most 
 miserable." 
 
 Thus he lived in that hope of another world, and he 
 died in the belief of immortality; and well may we say 
 on this occasion, my friends, that Senator Shively's life 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 was a model for any young man desiring to come into suc- 
 cess in our American Republic, for the elements so mixed 
 in him that all the world might stand up and say of him, 
 " Intellectually and morally, this was a man." 
 
 Mr. Ivern. Mr. President, it is greatly to be regretted 
 that the distinguished Senator from Arizona [Mr. Smith], 
 who was to have delivered an address on this occasion, 
 is by reason of ill health prevented from taking part in 
 these exercises. 
 
 The bond of friendsliip which attached Senators Smith 
 and Shively to each other was as strong as that which 
 bound Damon to Pythias, or Jonathan to David. It had 
 existed for more than a quarter of a century and in- 
 creased in strength as the years passed by, so that when 
 Senator Shively died the grief of Senator Smith was as if 
 his own brother had passed away. His regret at not being 
 able to be here to-day, to pay a tribute of respect to the 
 memorj' of his dead friend, is only equaled by that of his 
 fellow Senators, who know of the intimate personal rela- 
 tions to which I have referred. 
 
 The Vice President. Without objection, the resolutions 
 heretofore presented by the Senator from Indiana will be 
 unanimously adopted. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 Tuesday, March U, 1916. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
 ing resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, late 
 a .Senator from the State of Indiana. 
 
 Resolved, That a commitlee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of the 
 late Senator. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
 removed from Washington to South Bend, Ind., for burial, in 
 charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, who 
 shall have full power to carry these resolutions into cfTeci. 
 
 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. 
 
 That in compliance with the foregoing, the Vice Presi- 
 dent had appointed as said committee Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith 
 of Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clapp, Mr. Johnson of 
 Maine, Mi-. Kenyon, Mr. Swanson, Mi-. James. Mr. Suther- 
 land, Mr. Martine of New Jersey, Mr. Phelan, and Mr. 
 Smith of Georgia. 
 
 Mr. Dixox. Mr. Speaker, 1 ask consideration of the fol- 
 lowing resolution. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 House resolution 172 
 
 Resolved, Thai the House has heard with profound sorrow of the 
 death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Indiana. 
 
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 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 20 Members be appointed, on the 
 part of the House, to join the committee appointed on the part of 
 the Senate to attend the funeral. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker. The Chair appoints the following com- 
 mittee. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Mr. Barnhart, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Adair, Mr. Cox, Mr. Cullop, Mr. 
 Cline, Mr. Moss of Indiana, Mr. Ranch, Mr. Gray of Indiana, Mr. 
 Morrison, Mr. Lieb, Mr. Woods of Indiana, Mr. Moores of Indiana, 
 Mr. Igoe, Mr. Treadway, Mr. Austin, Mr. Lafean, Mr. Smith of 
 Michigan, Mr. Dunn, and Mr. Tilson. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the other resolution. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to; accordingly the House (at 
 5 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m.) adjourned until to-mor- 
 row, Wednesday, March 15, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Wednesday, March 15, 1916. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer : 
 
 We come to Thee, O God, our heavenly Father, to renew 
 our faith and confidence in Thee and in the overruling of 
 Thy providence in the affairs of men that our spiritual 
 life may be enlarged. Religion is the life of God in the 
 soul. We pray for that life that our work may be in- 
 creased in the things that make for the eternal good of 
 man. We bless Thee for every true and noble life whose 
 work has added to the sum of human happiness, touched 
 by the death of one who has honored his life by an honor- 
 
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PitOCEEniNGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 able service in tlie chosen field of his endeavors. Comfort 
 his friends and family by the precious promises in the 
 continuity of life that they may look forward with bright 
 hopes and anticipations to a life beyond the confines of 
 earth, where the joys of existence shall be increased and 
 the soul shall find its full fruition in a joyful service in 
 Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Tm-RSDAY. March 16, 1916. 
 
 The Speaker. Five of the members whom the Chair ap- 
 pointed on the committee to attend the funeral of Senator 
 Shively can not go. They are Messrs. Adair, Austin, 
 Gray, Cox, and Treadway. In lieu of those gentlemen 
 the Chair appoints Messrs. Ferris, Bailey, Steele of Iowa, 
 Dyer, and Walsh. 
 
 Thursday, February 8, 1917. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 Sunday, Februarj' 18, be set apart for eulogies on the life 
 and character of the late Senator Shively, of Indiana. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Indiana asks unani- 
 mous consent that Sunday, the 18th of February, 1917, be 
 set apart for eulogies on the life and character of the late 
 Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of Indiana. Is there objec- 
 tion? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. 
 
 Sunday, February 18, 1917. 
 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
 order by Mr. Jacoway as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Infinite Spirit, Father-Soul, Thy blessing be upon us to 
 fit us for the sacred duty of the hour, a time-honored cus- 
 tom, a precious memorial dear to our hearts. Two great 
 men, public servants. Senators of the United States, have 
 been called from labor to refreshment, from earth to 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 heaven. Ours the loss, theirs the gain ; ours the sorrow, 
 theirs the joj'; ours the hope, theirs the reality; ours the 
 struggle, theirs the victorj'. May the unbroken continuity 
 of life which has come down to us out of the past, sung 
 by poets, taught by sages, prophets, and seers, reenforced 
 by the glorious resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, comfort 
 those who knew and admired them and solace those who 
 were bound to them by the ties of love and kinship; that 
 the heart may cease to ache and tears to flow. 
 
 Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; 
 
 Beliind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
 
 Thy fate is the common fate of all, 
 
 Into each life some rain must fall, 
 
 Some days must be dark and dreary. 
 
 So teach us to wait with patience till the veil shall be 
 rent asunder and Thy ways be made plain; and we will 
 ascribe all praise to Thee now and evermore. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Dixon took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
 special order. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 On motion of Mr. Dixon, by unanimous consent. 
 
 Ordered, That Sunday, February 18, 1917, be set apart for 
 addresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 
 
 Mr. Barniiart. Mr. Speaker, I send to the Clerk's desk a 
 resolution, and move its adoption. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
 resolution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 513. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 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 resolution was agreed to. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Rarnhart, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The subject of our tribute to-day, Senator 
 Renjamin Franklin Shively, was a lifelong resident of 
 the congressional district I represent, and I knew him well 
 as friend, citizen, and statesman. And knowing much of 
 his scholastic and realistic inclinations as I do, I beg your 
 indulgence while I give some extracts from Gray's Elegy, 
 which he frequently quoted, as illustrative of his reflective 
 moods and as basis for the panegj'ric to follow : 
 
 The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. 
 The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, 
 The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
 And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
 
 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 
 And all the air a solemn stillness holds, 
 Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 
 And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. 
 
 Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, 
 The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 
 To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 
 .\nd read their history in a nation's eyes — 
 
 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife 
 Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 
 Along the cool scquester'd vale of life 
 They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 
 
 One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill. 
 Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree: 
 Another came; nor yet beside the rill. 
 Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. 
 
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 The next with dirges due in sad array 
 Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. 
 Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay 
 Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 
 
 Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 
 
 Heaven did a recompense as largely send : 
 
 He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear. 
 
 He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. 
 
 No further seek his merits to disclose. 
 Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, 
 (There they alike in trembling hope repose) 
 The bosom of his Father and his God. 
 
 Such, Mr. Speaker, portrays the modest but eventful life 
 of Senator Shively. If we can grasp the marvelous spec- 
 tacle of the onward march of a farmer boy from the de- 
 vout environ of an humble Dunkard home through col- 
 lege, through the law, and through oratoiy to a foremost 
 seat in his Nation's council, we have a graphic picture of 
 the Senator whom we here honor in formal tribute. 
 
 Others will speak of Senator Shively's biography spe- 
 cifically, but I shall only refer to that phase of liis life 
 incidentally and as it weaves into his public career. Like 
 most great men, he started from the farm, where so many 
 fundamentals of strength and character are given to men 
 and women. He was industrious and ambitious, and 
 went from conimon school to college, from college to edi- 
 torial chair, from editorial chair to the law, from the law 
 to the lower House of Congress, and from the House to 
 the Senate. Incidentally he was called to many high 
 positions of leadership in the Democratic Party, having 
 been candidate for governor of his State, chairman of his 
 State delegation in national conventions, and so promi- 
 nent in oratoiy and profound in statesmanship that he 
 was frequently talked of by his party leaders as an avail- 
 able candidate for both the Vice Presidency and the Prcsi- 
 
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Address of Mr. Barnhart, of Indiana 
 
 dency. He voluntarily retired from Congress in 1892 
 after a popular service, and later was three times the 
 nominee of his party for United States Senator, elected 
 twice, and served in that body with national distinction 
 for nearly seven years, having been called hence with 
 more than five years of his second term unexpired. In 
 tliis latter service he was ranking member on the Com- 
 mittee on Foreign Relations, and was frequently and 
 safely consulted by President Wilson on the international 
 troubles which beset our country. 
 
 As an orator Senator Shively had a national reputation, 
 was a foremost speaker in point of popularity in a dozen 
 States of the Union, and in his own State there were re- 
 quests for Shively from the people of every county in 
 every campaign. This popularity was due to two charac- 
 teristics of the man. One was his ripe familiarity with 
 current public questions and his captivatingly eloquent 
 gift of presenting his arguments, and the other was his 
 uniform fairness to the opposition. 
 
 It has been truthfully said of him that in all his life he 
 never conducted a defensive campaign. His campaigns 
 were aggressive. He scorned to misstate the position of 
 his opponents; but having staled fairly the issue, no fact 
 connected with, or consequences following, or conclusion 
 inferable from such position escaped his attention. His 
 knowledge of the .science and philosophy of government 
 was profound. He brought all questions to the test of 
 organic principles, and with masterful analysis exposed 
 the sophisms employed in defense of perverted power. 
 His advocacy, always dignified, vindicated and strength- 
 ened the cause of his political belief by placing it on solid 
 ground and giving the highest and best reasons for its 
 faith. And, furthermore. Mr. Shively always identified 
 himself with the cause. When the candidate of his party 
 he was never known in any speech to make a special ap- 
 
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Memori.\i. Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 peal for votes for himself. He employed all his power to 
 advance the cause he represented and took his chances 
 with the humblest man on the ticket. If he led his ticket, 
 the fact was due to his engaging personality and the con- 
 fidence he inspired by his freedom from personal offen- 
 siveness in the discussion of public questions, and not to 
 any effort by himself not common to the interests of all 
 his associates. 
 
 These admirable qualities of superior talent in both 
 knowledge and argument were not alone the all of Sena- 
 tor Shively's power. His towering physique, his classi- 
 cal face, and his keen and penetrating eyes combined to 
 make him a striking and impressive man, and, as his ac- 
 quaintanceship grew, his rugged honesty and his sterling 
 devotion to the cause of the masses gave him a public 
 confidence that developed nation-wide proportions. 
 
 But in all of his illustrious political career Senator 
 Shh'ELY never approved so-called machine politics. In- 
 stead, it was ever his concern that the sentiments of the 
 rank and file should prevail. And so his leadership was 
 never dictatorial nor mechanical. On the contrary, his 
 power was in his genius to analyze the situation — discern 
 the true condition of public opinion and then serve it. Of 
 course, this ability and his poise served him well to make 
 him a natural leader. Without being presumptuous or 
 demonstrative, his political bearing was at all times dig- 
 nified and commanding. He was retiring rather than 
 vain, and this was admirable to all who realize that 
 vanity is generally the attribute of those who drift along 
 the surface, for those who are profound are, as a rule, 
 modest and unpretentious. 
 
 Senator Shively was devoted to statesmanship and the 
 political economy of his countrj'. He never tired of delv- 
 ing into history and biography for inspiration and into 
 philosophy and tradition for his faith. He was painstak- 
 
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Address of Mr. Barnhart, of Indiana 
 
 ing and deliberate in the consideration of every problem 
 that confronted him, and this analytical digest of pending 
 questions always gave him mastery in championing con- 
 structive issues and benevolent policies. And not only 
 was he a thinker and an orator of rare gift, but as a writer 
 he was captivating as well. His sentences were faultlessly 
 constructed and yet revealed no labored efTt'ort to detract 
 from their elegant diction and captivating logic. Like the 
 philosophers and orators of historic fame, the products of 
 his resourceful mind and heart were masterpieces of com- 
 posite English and wisdom. 
 
 Personally Senator Siiively was always the center of 
 attraction in any assembly of people. Versatile in his 
 intellectual accomplishments, amiable in presence, and 
 generous to a fault, he easily adjusted himself to any en- 
 viron. This made for a personal following as wide as his 
 acquaintanceship. But he did not have multitudes of 
 confidential associates. Instead, he confined close per- 
 sonal relations to a very few men, and it was often said 
 of him that his most intimate and helpful friends were his 
 books. Among the few who knew him best was Hon. 
 John B. Stoll, one of Indiana's most illustrious journalists, 
 and in a recent observation on Senator Shively's person- 
 ality he described him as one as to whose generositj' there 
 could be no diversity of opinion. He was big hearted, 
 kindly, and self-sacrificing. Had he been a Colossus, no 
 want brought to his attention would have been turned 
 away unsatisfied. Often did he amplify the adage that it 
 is more blessed to give than to receive. The warmth 
 with which his friends always rallied around him strik- 
 ingly attested his intrcnchment in their admiration and 
 devotion. And the popular esteem in which he was held 
 in his home city was strongly exemplified on the daj' of 
 his funeral, when thousands of his acquaintances lined 
 the streets of South Bend in solemn mien, which bespoke 
 
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Memoriai. Addkesses: Senator Shively 
 
 their pride in an illustrious and beloved fellow citizen, 
 and their sorrow incident to his eternal leave-taking. 
 
 Was he inspired? Yes; by the help of a devoted, ac- 
 complished wife and the divine endowment of two manly 
 sons and a dutiful daughter. I believe the best impulses 
 of any man's life radiate around his family circle and gain 
 strength and character in his home. And at no time did 
 Senator Shively's parental courage more richly bless his 
 family than in his declining days, when his cheerfulness 
 and resignation made liim the same soulful companion 
 that characterized the most thrilling triumphs of his re- 
 markable career. He played well the part of a patriotic 
 genius; he served well his country's call. 
 
 But for Frank Shively, as we so familiarly knew him, 
 life's pilgrimage is ended, and the mystery of life and 
 death is as complex to us who are left as when time began 
 and the stars sang together in paeans of praise to the 
 Omnipotent. And those of us who have suft'ered the pangs 
 of unspeakable sorrow when death's messenger has ruth- 
 lessly called our loved ones from us can only know that 
 they are in Iheir eternal home where, and only where, the 
 mysterj' is unfolded, a mystei-y that neither philosophy 
 nor science solves, a mystery wliich only the consolation 
 of a religious faith can in any degree clarify. We can 
 explain by natural and scientific research almost anything 
 but the problem of human life and the possibilities and 
 probabilities of the hereafter. And these are comprehen- 
 sible only by those blessed bj'^ the comforts of a living 
 faith in Him who doeth all things well. 
 
 Here on earth we may accomplish much, and it is our 
 duty to give all the assistance we can to the world's work. 
 Personal satisfaction and consolation teach us all that 
 such is our mission. And unless we contribute our share 
 to the discharge of life's real resiDonsibilities, watchman, 
 what of the night? After we have accumulated wealth. 
 
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Address of Mr. Barnhart, or Indiana 
 
 after we have surrounded ourselves with home and family 
 and friends, after we have achieved distinction in scholas- 
 tic and social endeavor, and after we have stood in the 
 leadership of men in social or political power— after all 
 these and probably many more accomplishments there 
 will come a day for all of us when, weaiy of it all, we will 
 lie feverishly and fretfully on a couch that has furnished 
 us refreshing rest in all of the years gone by; we will be 
 surrounded by the family and friends thai have been our 
 mainstay of strength always; we will be attended by the 
 best medical skill our abundance of money can employ; 
 and in the midst of it all when it would naturally be ex- 
 pected that we would continue to depend on these earthly 
 agencies for help, we will turn our backs upon it all and, 
 reaching a palsying hand out into space, we will beseech- 
 ingly implore: 
 
 Lead, kindly Light. 
 
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Address of Mr. Cox, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In the order of nature, which moves with 
 unerring certainty in obedience with fixed laws. Senator 
 Benjamin F. Shively has gone to that repose we call 
 death. In the midst of his labors, while yet a young man, 
 by no means having reached the zenith of his powers, 
 crowned with honors meritoriously bestowed, with a 
 future illumined with lights of promise, this friend and 
 colleague of ours was suddenly stricken by death. Any- 
 thing we may add will not add anything to the fame of 
 our deceased colleague, friend, and coworker that the 
 people of Indiana who honored him most will not now 
 freely record. 
 
 To me this is a solemn occasion to meet my colleagues 
 here upon the floor of the House, the scene of so many 
 activities and victories won by him, in commemoration 
 of his life and death. It was not my pleasure to know 
 him intimately until he became a Member of the Senate. 
 I knew of him prior to that date, but it had not been my 
 pleasure to come in close touch and contact with him. 
 His name was a familiar household word to the citizens 
 of the State of Indiana and to the Nation long before he 
 entered the Senate. He was born on the 20th of March, 
 1857, of poor, humble, yet honorable parents. His road 
 to success in life was by no means an easy one. It was 
 beset with stones, confronted with many difficulties; but 
 possessed of a strong physique, endowed with a keen 
 and piercing intellect, he moved forward, aided by an 
 indomitable will, succeeded in reaching a commanding 
 position in the national councils of the people. He was 
 not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Inured in 
 
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Address or Mu. Cox, of Indiana 
 
 early life to hardship, toil, and drudgeiy, his very sur- 
 roundings furnished the means, the ladder by which he 
 succeeded in making life a success. Left an orphan early 
 in life, he was compelled to depend on his own resources, 
 and resolving to win in the struggle of life he set about 
 to acquire a fundamental education to arm and equip 
 himself for the struggle. 
 
 He was graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal 
 School in Indiana and, later completed a course at our 
 university at Bloomington, Ind. He elected to follow the 
 law as a life profession, and to equip himself in this work 
 he graduated at the law department at Ann Arbor, Mich., 
 with credit and honor to himself and the university as 
 well. 
 
 Senator Shively had not only a brilliant but a pene- 
 trating and analytical mind. While recognized as a sound 
 lawyer by the legal profession of the State, if he had not 
 been caught by the lure of politics and devoted his time 
 and energy to his chosen profession no doubt he would 
 have ranked as one of the leading lawyers of the Nation. 
 He was a student, a historian, as conversant with ancient, 
 medieval, and modern history as a child is with the alpha- 
 bet. He lived among the classics of the past, and through 
 his intimate knowledge of historj' he was able to blend 
 the past, present, and the future into a harmonious whole. 
 
 To him historj', events, and epochs were constantly 
 repeating themselves, and his erudite knowledge of the 
 past to him was a signboard unerringly pointing the way 
 to the future. 
 
 A profound philosopher, able through his strong brain 
 to follow a proposition from its first to its last analysis, 
 and after he dissected, criticized, and analyzed a proposi- 
 tion it was the last say on the subject. Through his keen, 
 penetrating intellect he quickly separated the chaff from 
 the wheat, and when done few there were who dared 
 dispute with him on the finished product of his thought. 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 Senator Shively was in no sense a man that might be 
 called a " trimmer " or " policy man "; in no sense a man 
 willing to follow the lines of least resistance. Never atraid 
 to rush in where angels dared not tread, he traveled 
 along the lines from the known to the unknown; reason- 
 ing from cause to effect, he was able to arrive at certain 
 definite conclusions on a proposition where he applied 
 the genius of his thought. 
 
 Once having made up his mind that he was right, he 
 was as unyielding as the rocks of Gibraltar. No power on 
 earth could shake him in his views or make him yield a 
 solitary point from what he thought to be right. In no 
 sense a follower of public opinion, but always in advance 
 of it, paving the way and molding public opinion himself 
 as he moved onward and forward, always blazing the 
 way, never waiting to have it blazed by others. 
 
 He was a fluent talker, seldom dealt in high-sounding 
 phrases, yet able to hold his audiences spellbound for 
 hours at a time while discussing the most common sub- 
 jects of economic life involving the existence of our 
 country. 
 
 He was elected to Congress in 1887 from the thirteenth 
 Indiana congi-essional district, and voluntarily retired to 
 private life to engage in the practice of law at his home 
 in South Bend, Ind., in 1894; but the memorable cam- 
 paign of 1896 called him to the front, this time as his 
 party's candidate for governor of Indiana. After the 
 most memorable and exciting campaign ever held in the 
 State, barring none except that of 1860, he was defeated 
 by a small majority, not because of any weakness on his 
 part or lack of brilliancy, logic, or argument thrown into 
 the campaign by him, but because the things to which his 
 partj' was pledged went down to defeat. Every child 10 
 years of age who heard his speeches and arguments in 
 
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Address of Mu. Cox, of Indiana 
 
 that campaign will remember him until they reach their 
 threescore and ten, or fourscore if by reason of strength 
 they be permitted to live that long. 
 
 Accepting defeat as magnanimously as he entered the 
 contest, he again retired to the practice of law in his 
 native city, but each campaign thereafter he was found 
 on the hustings taking an active part in behalf of his 
 partj-. 
 
 He was a Democrat in principle, precept, and example. 
 He believed in the Jeffersonian principles of government 
 and never afraid under any and all circumstances to 
 espouse and defend them under any and all circum- 
 stances. Never a pessimist, always an optimist, a be- 
 liever in the future triumph of these principles, and 
 though he lived to see them defeated time and again, yet 
 he firmly believed that time would vindicate them; that 
 they would rise supreme and triumphant as the rule and 
 doctrine not only of our Government but of all the world. 
 
 At the Kansas City convention in 1900 he was offered 
 the nomination for Vice President at the hands of his 
 part>', but declined this proffered honor. 
 
 He reached the goal of his ambition in 1909 when 
 elected by the legislature of the Slate of Indiana to repre- 
 sent the State in the Senate of the United States, and was 
 reelected to this commanding position in 1914. 
 
 Some of the brightest men of our Nation have served 
 our State in the United States Senate since Indiana took 
 her place among the sister States of the Nation. During 
 this time she has had her Lanes, her Whites, her Julians, 
 her Voorhces, her Harrisons, and her Mortons, and a host 
 of others, and along with these intellectual giants stands 
 and will forever stand the name of Ben.) am in F. Shively 
 as a monument of glor>' and an honor to the greatness of 
 the intellectuality of the people of Indiana. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 He soon took front rank in the Senate, meeting veteran 
 legislators of many years' experience in open debate face 
 to face. His opponents quickly learned that he was a foe- 
 man worthy of their steel. Always courteous, both in pri- 
 vate and in public life, never overaggressive but always 
 able to defend himself and his position under any and all 
 circumstances. His early education and training of mind 
 peculiarly fitted him for a public career in life. His broad 
 mind, his wide grasp of things made him master of the 
 situation. He was especially strong on many of the great 
 economic questions of the day, particularly the tariff and 
 financial questions, the two fundamental problems on 
 wliich the economic existence of all governments rest. 
 
 I am not putting it too strongly when 1 say he was a 
 complete master of the tariff question. By nature and 
 training a firm believer in the equal rights of men en- 
 gaged in the struggle of life, and believing that a high 
 protective tariff favored the few as against the many 
 and that it enabled the few to control and monopolize the 
 natural resources of our Nation, to oppress the many for 
 the benefit of the few, he became not only a bitter foe 
 but an implacable enemy of all private monopolies and 
 at the same time an able defender and a nation-wide 
 champion of the rights of the individual man, and when- 
 ever and wherever he assailed this unjust system of taxa- 
 tion, whether in or out of Congress, he tore to shreds and 
 tatters the argument of the advocates of monopoly. Many 
 of his speeches and arguments on this subject will go 
 down in history unanswerable, unassailed, because they 
 were and are logically sound. 
 
 Perhaps the crowning work of his life along this line 
 was exemplified in the enactment of the Underwood 
 tariff law. While it does not bear his name, yet ever\' 
 paragraph, every section, and every schedule in that law 
 bears the impress of his great mind. He firmly believed 
 
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Address of Mr. Cox, of Indiana 
 
 that if this bill was given a chance that it would tear the 
 mask from the face of monopoly and restore equal rights, 
 equal opportunities to every man seeking to acquire and 
 maintain his i-ights. 
 
 He cared nothing about the trappings or the garments 
 by which a proposition was clothed, but was constantly 
 searching for the principle in it, and when he found it, 
 if it squared itself with his ideals of right, he gave it 
 earnest and loyal support. On the other hand, if it did 
 not square itself with his ideals of right, he openly re- 
 pudiated it at every opportunity hailing itself to him so 
 to do. 
 
 While Senator Shively had phenomenal success in life, 
 there was nothing accidental about it. It came to him 
 because he deserved it, because he worked for it, and 
 because he had the ability and courage to possess it. He 
 was elected among many ambitious men; not by any 
 tricks of fate, not by a wheel of fortune, but because he 
 possessed those qualities which make for greatness, brain 
 power, energ>', singleness of purpose, and indomitable 
 courage to carrj- these traits of character into execution. 
 
 There was nothing sentimental about it. His devotion 
 to duty was his creed. Absolute and exact justice to all 
 and everybody alike was to him an obsession. Honesty 
 and loyalt}' were the points by which he ever steered his 
 course; true to his conscience, true to his oath, and true 
 to his obligations to the people who called him to their 
 service, were his guiding stars and the groundworks upon 
 which he built for himself a monument more to he prized 
 and more enduring than the marble slab which marks 
 his final resting place. 
 
 From this memorial exercise let us, the living, learn a 
 new lesson that is as old as sacred historj^ itself. The 
 lesson is, " It is better to go to the house of mourning 
 than to go to the house of feasting; that is the end of all 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 men; and the living will lay it to his heart." A sanctuary 
 of sorrow is a crucible in which to purify the soul. It 
 reminds us that in the midst of life there is death. Let 
 the premature death of Senator Shively be a constant 
 reminder to us of the serious meaning of that heavenly 
 decree, " Man is born to die." Let us bear in mind that 
 our days may be consumed with impotent and helpless 
 grief or our life shrouded with dispiriting gloom, but 
 rather that we may be impelled to make timely prepara- 
 tion for the coming of the inevitable hour in which every 
 man must surrender his own soul to God, who gave it. 
 
 Husband, father, friend: 
 Farewell. • * * 
 All our hearts are buried with you. 
 All our thoughts go onward with you. 
 Come not back again to labor. 
 Come not back again to suffer, 
 Where the famine and the fever 
 Wear the heart and waste the body. 
 Soon our tasks will be completed, 
 Soon your footsteps we shall follow. 
 To the isles of the blessed, 
 
 To the land of the hereafter. 
 Mr. Barnhart took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Dixox, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: To-day we turn aside for a brief period 
 from the active and laborious routine of legislation to 
 pay our homage to the life, character, and public service 
 of one of Indiana's most distinguished and illustrious 
 sons, Hon. Benjamin Franklin Shively, late a Senator 
 from the State of Indiana. 
 
 It has been the custom here that those who have died 
 in the congressional service of their countrj' should have 
 accorded them some permanent memorial of the personal 
 regard and esteem felt by those who were associated 
 with them in this service. Civilized nations have always 
 mingled with their sorrow commemoration of the noble 
 qualities of tlie dead. Benjamin F. Shively was born 
 March 20, 1857, in St. Joseph County, Ind. He was the 
 son of Rev. and Mrs. Joel Sliively, natives of Pennsyl- 
 vania, who had emigrated to the West and settled in 
 St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1854. Religiously they were 
 of the Dunkard faith. 
 
 Young Shively's early life was spent upon his father's 
 farm, and dui-ing tlie winter he attended school. He later 
 attended the Nothern Indiana Normal School at Val- 
 paraiso. During the years from 1875 to 1880 he taught 
 school, six terms in all, and then engaged in journalism 
 as the editor of a Greenback and Antimonopoly paper 
 called The New Era. This paper was especially filled 
 with editorials, and the young editor found pleasure in 
 the preparation of strong and vigorous articles in support 
 of Greenback and Antimonopolj^ doctrines and cham- 
 pioned the cause with fervor, zeal, and unusual ability. 
 In 1882 Mr. Shively was the candidate of the Greenback 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 Party for Congress for the Forty-eighth Congress. In 
 that contest William H. Calkins, the Republican candi- 
 date, was elected over his Democratic opponent by 391 
 pluralitj% while Mr. Shively received 1,943 votes. Mr. 
 Calkins was nominated for governor in 1884, during the 
 Forty-eighth Congress, and resigned October 20, 1884, 
 to make that race. 
 
 The Democrats had already nominated Hon. George 
 Ford as their candidate for the Forty-ninth Congress, and 
 a vacancy now existed for the unexpired term of the 
 Forty-eighth Congress. Mr. Shively' having made the 
 race at the preceding election as the candidate of the 
 Greenback Party, both the Republicans and Democrats 
 eagerly reached out for him to become their candidate 
 for the unexpired tei'ni. Being much more in sympathy 
 with the Democrats than the Republicans, he became the 
 candidate of the Democratic Partj' for the unexpired 
 term and with the expected and natural result that both 
 Messrs. Ford and Shively' were elected, the Greenbackers 
 and Democrats supporting each of these candidates and 
 each elected by over 2,000 majority. 
 
 Mr. Shively entered Congress December 1, 1884, and 
 served until March 4, 1885, and was the youngest Member 
 in that Congress, being not quite 28 years of age. The 
 Congressional Director^' of that Congress in its biographi- 
 cal sketch of Mr. Shu-ely, and no doubt the data, at least, 
 was furnished by him, states that he was elected as an 
 Antimonopolist and that he was in 1883 secretarj' of its 
 national organization. 
 
 After his retirement from Congress he entered the law 
 department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 
 and graduated therefrom in 1886 and then began the 
 practice of the law at South Bend, Ind. Mr. Shi\'Ely was 
 nominated as a Democrat in 1886 as candidate for the 
 Fiftieth Congress, and was reelected to the Fifty-first and 
 
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Address ok Mr. Dixon, of Indiana 
 
 Fifty-second Congresses. In the Fiftieth Congress he was 
 a member of the Committees on Indian Affairs and In- 
 dian Depredation Claims. In the following Congress he 
 was continued as a member of the Committee on Indian 
 Affairs and was also a member of the Committee on 
 Banking and Currency. The work of this latter commit- 
 tee was better suited to his taste and line of study. In the 
 bitter contest for Speakership in the Fiftj^-second Con- 
 gress he early espoused the cause of Mr. Crisp, who was 
 elected and assigned him to membership on the Ways 
 and Means Committee. He had given the subject of taxa- 
 tion a special study and was thoroughly equipped for the 
 work of that committee. Early in 1892 Mr. Shively pub- 
 lished a letter to his constituency announcing that he 
 would not again be a candidate and that he expected to 
 retire from public life at the end of that term. He again 
 entered into the practice of his profession, but he was 
 deeply interested in public affairs and continued an 
 active participant in political campaigns and part}- or- 
 ganization. He served as city attorney of South Bend, as 
 also attorney for the city school board. 
 
 In 1892 he was offered a renomination to Congress, and 
 again in 1891, but each time he refused, preferring to re- 
 main in the practice of his chosen profession. In 1896 he 
 was nominated by the Democratic Party as its candidate 
 for governor, and made a vigorous and brilliant cam- 
 paign. The political contest of that year was extremely 
 bitter and stubbornly fought, but Mr. Shively not only 
 endeared himself to the members of his own party but 
 won the admiration and respect of all our people, but, 
 with his party, was defeated by a small majority' in the 
 election. In 1906 he was again nominated for Congress, 
 but was defeated in the election. In 1903 Mr. Shively 
 received the complimentaiy vote of the Democratic mem- 
 bers of the legislature for United States Senator. In 1905 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 he again was the Democratic nominee for the United 
 States Senate, and received the votes of the Democratic 
 members of the Indiana Legislature. 
 
 In 1893 he was selected a trustee of Indiana State 
 University, and remained trustee continuously thereafter 
 until his death, being president of the board at that time. 
 
 In 1909 he was selected by the caucus of Democratic 
 members of the legislature on the twentieth ballot as their 
 candidate for United States Senator, and later was elected 
 by the legislature and took his seat March 4, 1909. In 
 1914 he was reelected to the Senate by the popular vote, 
 and was the first Senator from Indiana to be elected under 
 the law for the election of Senators by the direct vote of 
 the people. This election by popular vote was adjudged 
 bj' him as the proudest event of his political life. During 
 his service in the Senate he was a member of the Census 
 Committee, chairman of the Pension Committee, mem- 
 ber of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and also 
 member of the Committee on Finance. 
 
 As chairman of the Pension Committee he enthroned 
 himself in the affections of the old soldiers of the country 
 by his broad-minded, generous, and loyal service. No sol- 
 dier ever had a firmer friend. 
 
 He was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- 
 mittee during the period of our complications and trouble 
 with Mexico and was the close adviser and confidant of 
 the President during that period and was the spokesman 
 of the administration on that subject upon the floor of 
 the Senate. 
 
 When the Underwood bill was sent to the Senate 
 Mr. Shively, in committee, on the floor of the Senate, and 
 in the conference meeting, was active and vigorous in up- 
 holding the principles upon which said bill was con- 
 structed. While not fully agreeing with all its many 
 minor items, he was steadfast, earnest, and sincere in its 
 
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Address of Mr. Dixon, of Indiana 
 
 support and passage. From the beginning of his public 
 career he made a specialty of the study of the tariff, and 
 he became one of the recognized authorities on that sub- 
 ject. There is hardly a place in Indiana where he has not 
 discussed this question, and always with clearness and 
 ability, and our people have marveled at the wide range 
 of his information and admired his ability to present the 
 same with such force and effectiveness. He was possessed 
 of a strong mentality which enabled him to readily grasp 
 and solve great problems. 
 
 Senator Shhtly was sworn in at the beginning of the 
 Sixty-fourth Congress but never returned to the Senate 
 Chamber. The disease that finally terminated his career 
 had been making steady inroad on his vitality and was 
 regarded as necessarily a fatal one. No man made a more 
 determined fight for life, and up to within a few weeks of 
 his death he talked about work he would do when he re- 
 gained his strength and health. When death finally ended 
 his sufferings on March 14, 1916, and the sad news was 
 flashed over the wires, there were countless deeply sad- 
 dened firesides in the State that gave him birth and that 
 had repeatedly showered high honors upon him. 
 
 On June 19, 1889, he was married to Miss Emma Laura 
 Jenks, the accomplished daughter of Hon. George L. 
 Jenks, Solicitor General under President Cleveland. The 
 devoted widow and three children survive him. 
 
 Mr. Shut.i.y was endowed by nature with all the charms 
 of a fine physical presence and with an intellectuality of 
 the highest order. He was tall and graceful, with a hand- 
 some face, an engaging countenance, a commanding and 
 attractive address, and an orator whose messages were 
 listened to attentively, and whose clear and persuasive 
 logic enabled him to appeal to the judgment of his hear- 
 ers. His speeches appealed to the judgment and not to 
 the emotions. He dwelt in facts rather than fancies and 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 in reason rather than in high-sounding phrases. He was 
 one of the most forceful, pleasing, and magnetic speakers 
 who ever graced the political forum of our State. He was 
 always serious in his speeches, seldom, if ever, relieving 
 the same by humor or anecdote, but they always bristled 
 with facts and figures. 
 
 He was loyal to his friends, steadfast in his friendships. 
 At times subjected to bitter and unjust criticism himself, 
 he never deserted a friend who was himself under fire 
 when he felt that the fire was unfair and unjust, even 
 though his loyalty might bring to himself added criticism. 
 He knew that the penalty of public life was criticism and 
 ingratitude, but he bore them bravely. When political 
 friends sought his aid for preferment and place, he sought 
 to give to each unprejudiced and friendly consideration. 
 When one would seek to improve his own chances by the 
 repetition of rumors or reflections against other candi- 
 dates, that man invariably ruined his own chances for the 
 place. Dealing with others on a high plane of fairness 
 and justice he had no patience with those who adopted 
 a different course. He was slow to make a promise, but 
 when once made it was fulfilled if he had the power to 
 make it good. 
 
 Although a partisan in politics and holding firmly to the 
 principles of his party, he was free from narrow partisan- 
 ship and liberal and generous in granting to those with 
 whom he differed the belief that their judgments were 
 equally sincere and honest as his own. He was not one 
 who was inclined to find fault with those with whom he 
 differed. 
 
 He was a politician in the highest and broadest sense of 
 that term. A politician does not mean in its proper sense 
 one whose aims and ambitions are solely selfish and who 
 seeks only his own advancement without regard to means 
 or method employed, but rather one who has an intense 
 
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Address of Mr. Dixon, of Indiana 
 
 interest in public affairs, fixed ideas as to politics and 
 principles, ability to command respect and win the confi- 
 dence of men, and who seeks power and place in the hope 
 that he can be of larger serNice to his fellow man. With 
 no thought other than the public good, with no ambition 
 but to faithfully perform his dutj% then the politician be- 
 comes the safe legislator and statesman, and such was the 
 man, the politician, and statesman, Benjamin F. Shively. 
 
 In every relation of life he did his duty as an enlight- 
 ened judgment dictated and as a quickened conscience ap- 
 proved. In all his life, whatever position he occupied, as 
 a teacher, a journalist, a la\\7er, or a public ofTicial, never 
 was the integrity of his conduct or the puritj^ of his mo- 
 tives questioned. He did not speak often in the Senate, 
 but when he did he prepared his speeches with infinite 
 care, study, and thought; his words were well chosen, his 
 sentences carefully balanced, and his diction was perfect. 
 
 Mr. Shively was never sensational or spectacular, 
 neither was he vain or egotistical. He never spoke for 
 the purpose of self-glory nor for the purpose of appearing 
 in the public limelight. He never advertised himself nor 
 posed and played for the galleries. He was modest and 
 unassuming and had the complete confidence and respect 
 of his colleagues. He was respected for his abilities and 
 honored for his services. With dignity and with modesty 
 he performed his labors, doing great things, but " unher- 
 alded and unsung" by himself. In the committee room, 
 where the real work of Congress is done, he made his great 
 impression on legislation. 
 
 Indiana has produced many distinguished men, and is 
 proud of their records and achievements; she has had 
 many illustrious public men and statesmen; she has given 
 to the service of the Nation men whose services have not 
 only honored them but reflected honor upon the State; 
 she has given to the Senate Hendricks and Morton, Mc- 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 Donald and Turpie, Harrison and Voorhees, and now 
 Shively is added to the list of our departed Senators 
 whose sei'vices have shed a luster on our State and left 
 their impress upon the Nation. 
 
 It is impossible to state in formal phrase the many 
 noble qualities of his heart and mind. He had no malice 
 in his heart, no envy in his thoughts, and was always the 
 same, always a gentleman in manner and in speech. I 
 was a member of the committee appointed to attend his 
 funeral, and I know the sincere grief felt by the people 
 of his city and his State. The day of his funeral all busi- 
 ness was suspended in everj' avenue of trade, and all 
 sought to pay their last tribute to their departed friend 
 and neighbor. As they honored him in life, they honored 
 his memory after death by breathing the tendcrest and 
 most loving sentiments of affection and love. 
 
 Heaven portions it thus — the old mystery dim — 
 It is midnight to us; it is morning to him. 
 
 These were the words written of a friend by Indiana's 
 most gifted and beloved poet, James Whitcomb Riley. 
 
 Mr. Dixon resumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Adair, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: We are here to-day in compliance with a 
 commendable and well-observed rule of tliis House to pay 
 tribute to the life, character, and public service of Hon. 
 Benjamin F. Shively, late a United States Senator from 
 Indiana. 
 
 I learned to know Senator Shively more than 30 years 
 ago, when he first served as a Member of this House. 
 I was a young man at that time, interested to some extent 
 in the legislation of the country, and was a great admirer 
 of Senator Shively and the course he pursued as a Mem- 
 ber of Congress. I watched him with much interest, ad- 
 mired the work he did here, and was indeed sori-y when 
 he decided not to be a candidate for reelection. I felt at 
 that time that his services were needed in this body and 
 that it was a loss to our State and to our Nation to have 
 him retire from Congress. After leaving this body I met 
 him occasionally, but my close acquaintance with him 
 began in 1896, when he was a candidate for governor of 
 our State. It was my pleasure and privilege to be with 
 him considerably during that campaign. I spoke from 
 the same platform with him at a number of places in the 
 congressional district I have the honor to represent, and 
 it was then I learned his true worth and his remarkable 
 ability. In my humble opinion the most remarkable 
 speeches ever made in the State of Indiana were made 
 by Senator Shively in the campaign of 1896. I heard it 
 said during that campaign that his speeches were too 
 deep, or, to use the common phrase, that he shot over the 
 heads of his audiences. But the consensus of opinion was 
 that the speeches made by him upon the issues of that 
 
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 campaign and upon the great questions confronting the 
 American people at that time were the soundest and most 
 convincing of any delivered in the State. He held the 
 attention and won the admiration of all who heard him. 
 After that campaign I met him many times, and our 
 friendship ripened and grew as the years passed by. It 
 was a deserved recognition when Indiana saw fit to send 
 him to the Senate of the United States. When he was 
 chosen to that position I knew he would do credit to him- 
 self, to his party, and to the State of Indiana. He came 
 to that body not as strong physically as he might have 
 been, not as able as he had been in the past to render 
 hard, arduous service; yet he contributed his part in the 
 consideration of the great problems coming before Con- 
 gress. He had been a Member of that body only a few 
 weeks until you could hear it remarked among the mem- 
 bership of the Senate that he was one of the most intel- 
 lectual men of that body and the kind of a man who 
 would have been chosen to do the most difficult task that 
 could have been assigned to any Member of the United 
 States Senate. 
 
 He served his first term and the people of Indiana said, 
 "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," and by 
 popular vote of the people sent him back to that body for 
 another six years. At the beginning of his second term 
 his health was so undermined thai he was not able physi- 
 cally to meet the task before him. 
 
 It is a fine thing to see a man battling against tremen- 
 dous adversities of life. It is an inspiration to see a great 
 soul endeavoring to overcome the moral and physical 
 difficulties of the world. But to observe at close hand a 
 man fighting for his life against such transcendent ob- 
 stacles with supreme cheerfulness and rare courage will 
 perhaps leave to you and to me a stimulus for the public 
 good, a contribution to our official standards, greater than 
 any forensic triumphs that may resound through this Hall. 
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AnnRKss or Mr. An.MR, of Indiana 
 
 Eloquence may be sometimes preserved by the records 
 of this House; wit may here and there leave a shaft to be 
 seen in" after years; reason and exposition may cleave the 
 clouds of our doubts; but I suspect I voice the inner con- 
 science of the membership of the House when I observe 
 that you and I are most helped in the discharge of our 
 public duties by contact with a clean, lofty soul standing 
 firm amidst racking pain and lowering clouds that gather 
 about the end of the journey and knowing no hypocrisy 
 and no cant. One may consider himself fortunate whose 
 privilege it has been to serve and associate with such a 
 character. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the future historian who writes the history 
 of our Nation and of our lawmaking bodies will give a 
 high place to the statesmanship and ability of Senator 
 Shively. In his death the wife and children have lost a 
 loving and faithful father, I have lost a good and true 
 friend, the State of Indiana an able, faithful, and con- 
 scientious representative, and the Nation a statesman 
 worth while. 
 
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Address of Mr. Wood, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Plutarch has told us that — 
 
 Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate 
 the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be 
 numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner 
 life. 
 
 It occurs to me that these words have a peculiarly 
 fitting application in considering the passing away of 
 Senator Shively. He was sick for a long time. Coura- 
 geously did he battle against the ravages of disease. By 
 his sheer indomitable spirit was his life prolonged. He 
 did not surrender. He fell fighting that mysterious foe 
 we call death. Though a sufferer long, he was not weary 
 of this life, and the fact that he was not weaiy of this 
 life is the best evidence of his being prepared for the 
 life hereafter. For it has been said that " a man is 
 not quite ready for another world who is altogether tired 
 of this." Therefore, I am of the opinion that if Senator 
 Shively could speak to us to-day he would say, " Lament 
 not and mourn not, but rejoice that I am enjoying the 
 heritage of a diviner life." 
 
 If there was any one evil that Senator Shively detested 
 above another, it was sham or hypocrisy, and he possessed 
 a rare faculty for detecting it. He religiously abstained 
 from its practice throughout his life. Now that he is dead 
 his friends will not do his memory the injustice of in- 
 dulging it through the use of fulsome flattery. In life he 
 made no attempt to make himself appear what he was 
 not, and in passing he left a fame that needs no superficial 
 laudation. He believed, like Warwick believed, that— 
 
 Hypocrisy desires to appear, rather than to be, good; honesty, 
 to be good rather than seem so. Fools purchase reputation by 
 the sale of desert; wise men seek desert even at the hazard of 
 reputation. 
 
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Address of Mk. Wood, of Indiana 
 
 In consequence he was without ostentation, which is 
 said to he the signal flag of hypocrisj'. 
 
 He was not a self-advertiser. He shrank from it as he 
 would from a plague. It was hard indeed for a news- 
 paper man to get anything from him that seemed to be 
 in praise of himself or his accomplishment. He was 
 content to be judged hy his works rather than by words 
 used to advertise iiis works, and light well did his works 
 speak for themselves. They have made for him a place 
 that is secure in the annals of the State that so signally 
 honored him and in the Nation he served so long and well. 
 
 He loved his friends and his friends loved him. He 
 made fiiendships by the giving of friendship. His friend- 
 ship was not " like the shadow of the morning, decreasing 
 every hour," but it was " like the shadow of the evening, 
 which strengthens with the setting sun of life." His was 
 the friendship that is characteristic of broad minds. It 
 overlooked the faults and frailties of his fellow men and 
 remembered only their virtues. In turn he learned his 
 virtues from his friends who loved him and who buried 
 his faults in the sand. He was indeed an exemplar of 
 Socrates, who said: 
 
 Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them 
 sensible tokens of your love. It is well worth while to learn how 
 to win the licart of a man the right way. Force is of no use to 
 make or preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught 
 nor tamed but by kindness and pleasure. Excite them by your 
 civilities and show them that you desire nothing more than their 
 satisfaction; oljli^e with all your soul that friend who has made 
 you a present of his own. 
 
 The most precious jewels that we can possess in tliis 
 life of trial arc love and friendship. These were pos- 
 sessed by Senator Shivei.y, and he gave of them as freely 
 as he received. 
 
 Peace to liis ashes. 
 
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Address of Mr. Cullop, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker : It is said that death loves a shining mark. 
 When death laid its cold and icy hand on Benjamin F. 
 Shively it captured a shining niarlv. I first met Senator 
 Shively in the notahle campaign of 1896, when he was the 
 candidate of the Democratic Party for governor, waging 
 one of tlie most active and able canvasses ever made in 
 that State for a great office. 
 
 He was a striking figure; tall, erect, large in stature, 
 with a handsome face, of distinguished appearance, he 
 attracted the audiences before whom he spoke and 
 created enthusiasm not alone by the manner in which 
 he spoke but by the unanswerable logic, the clear and 
 convincing arguments he made before the people. 
 
 The campaign of 1896 was one of the bitterest, perhaps, 
 we have had in Indiana, a State of bitter political con- 
 tests, and during my recollection of political campaigns 
 in that State I never knew a candidate for governor who 
 bore himself more nobly and with more grandeur than 
 Benjamin F. Shively did in that great contest. Defeated 
 as he was by a small majority, yet he came out of the 
 contest stronger with the people of Indiana than he had 
 ever been before. He was elected four times to a seat 
 in the National House of Representatives and twice a 
 United States Senator from Indiana. These marks of 
 distinction and of honor were not given to him by political 
 intrigue but were given to him upon his merit. He was 
 not the creature of machine politics; he was too independ- 
 ent for that; but all the honors he received he won by 
 his merit. He was strong with the people. They believed 
 in him. He had their confidence, and, best of all, be it 
 
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Apdkess or Mr. Cixlop, of Indiana 
 
 said, he never betrayed it. Tliis was the source of his 
 strength. This was why he hehl the confidence of the 
 people and why they rallied around his standard and bore 
 it bravely to victorj'. In him they had a friend upon 
 whom they could rely, a strong and sturdy advocate of 
 every cause for the advancement of their welfare. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, because of the evenly divided sentiment in 
 politics in Indiana it has been blessed in the United States 
 Senate by some of the greatest minds that have adorned 
 tliat great legislative body. Men famed for their ability, 
 their eloquence and statesmanship, men who have shaped 
 legislation and molded public opinion, men who have 
 fashioned the destiny of this great Republic; and when 
 impartial history is written of the great work these men 
 have performed Senator Shively will take high rank 
 because of his splendid services, his great ability, and 
 his unswerving fidelity to the cause of the people, 
 
 Indiana has been signally fortunate in the great men 
 in the last half century who have represented it in the 
 United States Senate, the greatest lawmaking body in 
 all the world. The people of Indiana are proud of these 
 great men and their splendid achievements. It is one 
 of tlie richest legacies they possess, and they are proud 
 of the fact that Benjamin F. Shivelv took high rank 
 among these great statesmen, proud of the fact that he 
 performed his duty in keeping with the other illustrious 
 men who had been commissioned to represent that State 
 in the National Congress and raised higher the standard 
 of American statesmanship. We mourn his death, the 
 loss of his wise counsel, and his genial association. We 
 realize the value of his public service, of his great abili- 
 ties, and how he labored to promote the welfare of the 
 people. These redound to his honor and enshrine his 
 name in the affections of a grateful public. 
 
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Address of Mr. Cline, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I court the opportunity to speak very 
 briefly of the subject of this occasion. I knew Benjamin 
 Franklin Shively for many years. He was a finished 
 specimen of American citizenship, a patriot and a states- 
 man. He was a wise, courageous, and capable man. He 
 had many superior qualities, chiefest among which was 
 his unflinching integrity. You and I, as the years creep 
 over us, come more and more to place a high estimate 
 on the man who trusts in other men, who believes that 
 the essential elements that come into correct living are 
 made so by such a devotion to them that they become our 
 ideals. I like a man who has faith in his fellows, who is 
 the antithesis of he who doubts, mistrusts, and suspicions. 
 Such a man has lost the value of living, in that he has 
 himself written early across his life the word " failure." 
 Two of the great words in the English tongue are faith 
 and hope. In both of these symbols Ben Shively lived 
 and wrought a useful life. May I say, without formality, 
 that Senator Shin-ely was on common giound with In- 
 diana's greatest statesmen. There is one essential par- 
 ticular that adds luster to his integrity and his name and 
 leaves untarnished his political career — he died a poor 
 man. In that particular, strange as it may appear, he has 
 a place with all of Indiana's prominent men once in pub- 
 lic life. It is a singular coincidence that Hendricks, 
 McDonald, Vooi-hees, and Turpic were all men in very 
 moderate circumstances. That fact alone is a fine herit- 
 age to the youth of that great State. He was like these 
 splendid men in another way. He was the peer of that 
 galaxy of profound thinkers of the State of whom the 
 people are justly proud. 
 
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ADD1U2SS 01 Mr. Cline, of Indian/ 
 
 Senator Shively was not an offensive partisan, though 
 long an active and consistent supporter of his party. 
 His <levotion to it is shown in the fact that in the days 
 when it met with the greatest reverses he submitted to its 
 call when a candidacy' on the State ticket was absolutely 
 hopeless. 
 
 Year in and year out he traveled back and forth across 
 the State, detailing before great audiences the principles 
 of the political faith in which he believed without the 
 hope of any reward except the patriotic duty well dis- 
 charged. His ability and fairness in discussion won for 
 him friends by the thousands. In 1908, when his party 
 came to power in Indiana, he was readily chosen as its 
 representative in the United States Senate. I need not 
 relate to you the story of his successes. It is familiar to 
 all. It is full of glory. When the Democratic Party came 
 into power in 1912 the President of the United States 
 found in him a safe counselor. In 1914, when he sought 
 reelection at the hands of the people of his State, his popu- 
 larity and abilitj' were shown by the fact that though un- 
 opposed for renomination he ran many thousands ahead 
 of his ticket both at the primary and in the election. 
 
 He was recognized all over Indiana and throughout the 
 countrj' as an authority on the subject of national taxation. 
 Probably no contemporaiy in Congress has given so much 
 time and study to that subject as had Senator Shivelv. 
 Let me quote a paragraph from one of his speeches to 
 show the breadth of thought and strong patriotism of this 
 raian: 
 
 The solution of our problems does not lie alone in writing the 
 rates of duty a little higher or a little lower, or in writing no rates 
 at all, but in the coordination, control, and equitable distribution 
 of all those commingling agencies of our production and distribu- 
 tion, in all of which every man must contribute under law an 
 untiring service to produce and distribute the material good won 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 by such study, such devotion, such patriotism to the myriads 
 " who have sprung from the earth's bosom in this summer of 
 political liberty." 
 
 Senator Shively was also a warm advocate of legisla- 
 tion in the interest of labor. When the pi'oposition arose 
 concerning the addition of a new member to the Presi- 
 dent's Cabinet to represent labor, he deliver an able 
 speech on the bill on February 26, 1913, to establish a De- 
 partment of Labor. I select one paragraph of that speech 
 to show the breadth of thought on this important subject: 
 
 The American Declaration of Independence was an uneiualified 
 challenge to the whole political doctrine and philosophy of Aris- 
 totle. That some of those who subscribed to that instrument were 
 not entirely free from the spirit of caste we can easily believe. 
 Yet it was issued at a time when then existing institutions and 
 dogmas were under the white heat of a remorseless intellectual 
 and moral inquisition, and many cherished idols of power were 
 being cast down and melted away in the flame of a revolution 
 that signalized a new conception of the true form and functions 
 of government. It is easily conceivable that in the fervor and 
 enthusiasm of that revolution the sponsors of the great declaration 
 regarded the humblest toiler in the Colonies as of more value to 
 society than the whole tribe of titled parasites bred at princely 
 courts of kingly power. 
 
 In every field of legislation he was a thorough student. 
 He was a man of great value to the country at large. I 
 have often admired him for his large-heartedness and 
 sturdy character. He was a man of lofty purposes and 
 high ideals. He was so well regarded by his party that 
 in the St. Louis convention in 1908 he could have had the 
 vice presidential nomination had he desired it. He was, 
 in the largest sense, a patriot, and his service was always 
 an unselfish one. In his death Indiana lost one of her 
 foremost citizens and the counti^y a man of the highest 
 honor. He was a man of courage. Fortune never smiled 
 upon him. What he was he accomplished through his 
 
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Address oi' Mr. Cline, of Indiana 
 
 own efforts and his resolution to conquer whatever ob- 
 stacles challenged his success. I can not help but speak 
 the word of Sarah K. Bolton, so applicable to the life and 
 character of the distinguished Senator: 
 
 I like the man who faces what he must 
 
 With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; 
 
 Who fights the daily battle without fear; 
 
 Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust 
 
 That God is God; that somehow, true and just, 
 
 His plans work out; for mortals not a tear 
 
 Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear. 
 
 Falls from his grasp; better, with love, a crust 
 
 Than living in dishonor; envies not 
 
 Nor loses faith in man, but does his best 
 
 Nor ever mourns over his humbler lot. 
 
 But with a smile and words of hope gives zest 
 
 To every toiler; he alone is great 
 
 Who by life heroic conquers fate. 
 
Address of Mr. Lieb, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: When Benjamin Franklin Shively died, 
 full of years of public service, there was lost to this 
 country one of the ablest statesmen of all times. Pos- 
 sessed with a great mind that encompassed and illumined 
 every subject he touched. Senator Shively ranked high 
 in the annals of American statecraft. As a student, as a 
 teacher, as an editor, as a lawyer, as a Member of the 
 House of Representatives, as a Member of the Senate, 
 as a man among men, he gave all who came in contact 
 with him through each step of his career the same im- 
 pression of indomitable character, courage, and ability. 
 He was not a leader of men in the usual acceptance of 
 the term; he was more than that; he was the diviner of 
 ways, the solver of difficulties, the meeter of trj'ing sit- 
 uations, the one man who was equal to every emergency. 
 
 The sad intelligence of the death of Senator Shively, 
 while not unexpected, owing to his long and brave fight 
 for life, came as a shock to the Nation. It seemed almost 
 impossible to think he had passed into the — 
 
 Sinless, stirless rest, 
 
 That change which never changes. 
 
 Taken by the hand of death from his seat in the Upper 
 Body of Congress, his colleagues were moved as men are 
 seldom moved. 
 
 Among the membership of the Senate not one of his 
 colleagues could boast of service in Congress prior to 
 the term when he first served in the House of Representa- 
 tives in 1884. It was an unusual commentary that he 
 should be the youngest Member of Congress upon his 
 ascension to statesmanship in Washington and that he 
 
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Address of Mr. Lieb, or Indian/ 
 
 should be the oldest in the point of priority of service 
 among his colleagues of his own political party in the 
 Senate at his death. It was the Forty-eighth Congress 
 when Senator Shively was elected to the House of Rep- 
 resentatives. In this same House of Representatives 
 Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, and Knutc Nelson, of Min- 
 nesota, like Senator Shively, were serving their first terms 
 in the Lower Body of Congress. While 33 otlier Senators 
 of the Sixty-fourth Congress had previously held seats 
 in the House of Representatives, none of them had served 
 prior to the Fortj-ninth Congress. 
 
 Some of my colleagues have spoken before me and have 
 touched upon the splendid traits of the late Senator's 
 character and life. Every word of tribute that has been 
 uttered voices my sentiments. The esteem I had for 
 Senator Shively grew more pronounced through the ad- 
 vancing years of the acquaintanceship I had with him. 
 I speak not in extolling a man whom I knew only through 
 association in the National Capitol, but through an asso- 
 ciation dating back to the early eighties, when the young 
 and resourceful man began to make his mark as a Demo- 
 crat and as an orator. I first met him in Indianapolis at 
 a political gathering. From then until his death, a period 
 of more than 30 years, I came in contact with him often. 
 
 On the occasion of one of his last speeches before his 
 election to the United States Senate I had the pleasure of 
 introducing him to an audience at Rockport, my home 
 cit>\ This was during the campaign of 1908. I will never 
 forget the impression he made in discussing the tarifl" 
 issue. It was the most wonderful exposition on this sub- 
 ject that I had ever heard. Eloquent in his oratory, but 
 simple in his explanation of the principles of this great 
 question, he held his audience in breathless attention. 
 Senator Shively had all his life specialized on tariff and 
 taxation, and at the time of his death there was a popular 
 belief in Washington that he had few equals in knowledge 
 of the taritf. 
 
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 Anyone well acquainted with Senator Shively could not 
 help but be impressed with his retiring manners. 
 
 He was a man wlio studiously shunned the embellish- 
 ments of life. He cared nothing for the glory of a per- 
 sonal victory. As long as he won, he was satisfied. To 
 gloat over a triumph over his political adversaries or to 
 get out and hurrah over his political successes was not a 
 trait in his character. Simplicity was always a craving 
 in him. One of his friends remarked at his funeral, when 
 others had noticed the simplicity of the rites: 
 
 Why, lie wouldn't even let us celebrate his election to the Senate. 
 We wanted to get up a big jollification, but Frank vetoed it firmly. 
 He simply would not do an ostentatious thing. He loved the quiet 
 of close communion with his friends. 
 
 I always found Senator Shively to be a man easy to 
 approach. He never refused an audience unless circum- 
 stances made it impossible. Even when his health failed 
 him almost completely he received his friends in his oflice 
 in the Capitol ready as ever to give his ear to whatever 
 might be brought to his attention. I visited him several 
 times when he was too fatigued to sit at his office desk. 
 But each time he lay on his couch and evidenced his 
 usual interest in the affairs that had come up, even though 
 pain was viritten on the contours of liis face when he 
 talked and listened. I was a visitor at his bedside in the 
 hospital a short time before his death, and in his greatly 
 weakened condition he evidenced a surprising interest in 
 the prevailing topics of the day. Until the very last he was 
 keenly alert to the wants and needs of his constituency. 
 
 It is in the community in which a man has made his 
 home that one gets a true insight into his character and 
 esteem in which he is to be most critically observed. 
 While I knew Senator Shively well enough to judge his 
 many worthy traits through and through, I perhaps never 
 appreciated more fully the high regard in which he was 
 
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Address of Mr. Lieb, of Indian/ 
 
 generally held than on the sad occasion when his body 
 was borne through the streets of South Bend. It seemed 
 as though the whole city had turned out. 
 
 South Bend is a large manufacturing city, and I judged 
 from the faces and dress of the throngs that lined the 
 streets and visited the Shively home that workingmen 
 from the factories had joined with the bankers, the trades- 
 men, the professional men, and men in all walks of life 
 in paying tribute to the fellow townsman they had all 
 loved. Here, then, was a man who had gained eminence 
 by no fluke. His ovm people had been sincere in their 
 suffrage to him in his many battles of campaign, red fire, 
 and oratory, and in the harbor of the final refuge he was 
 borne through silent avenues of a grieving people. 
 
 No wealth had been left behind this son of Indiana soil, 
 but what is more greatly cherished — a good name — was 
 bequeathed to a people who had thrilled in the thought 
 of this priceless legacy. 
 
 The life of Senator Shively was great in years and 
 great in achievements. His work in this mundane sphere 
 of action has ended. He will be missed by his colleagues 
 and by his countrymen, but the greatest loss will be to 
 his fond and noble wife and children, to whom he was 
 a devoted husband and a loving father. May they have 
 comfort in his honorable and successful life. 
 
Address of Mr. Gray, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Time is a great analyzer of facts. Time is 
 a great demonstrator of truth. Time is a great vindicator 
 of principles and policies and men. Time will tell. In 
 the great final analysis time will weigh and consider and 
 determine the right and the true worth and merit of men. 
 When time has weighed and deci-eed its estimate of great 
 national policies and public men it will place the name of 
 Benjamin F. Shively among the great men of the State 
 he honored by his representation and among the great 
 leaders in the Nation he served. 
 
 Men build great monuments and raise enduring marble 
 shafts to hold up their names after death. They erect 
 great buildings, structures, and imposing statuary to hold 
 up their names after death. Men climb to dizzy lieights 
 and chisel their names upon some high rock or lofty crag 
 to hold up their names after death. 
 
 But in time the monument and enduring shaft will 
 crumble away. In time the great building, structure, or 
 imposing statuary will fall to the earth. In time the ele- 
 ments will erase the name chiseled in the high rock or 
 overhanging crag. In time eveiy vestige, trace, and evi- 
 dence of the efforts of men in a material and physical 
 way to perpetuate their names will be obliterated from 
 the earth. 
 
 But Benjamin F. Shively has built his monument in the 
 great principles and policies of government for which he 
 has stood and defended and promoted by his abilitj' as a 
 statesman and an orator of the highest rank. 
 
 There are some men who have obtained high rank, 
 distinction, and national reputation because their names 
 
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Address of Mh. Gray, of Indiana 
 
 have been linked or associated with great and important 
 acts of legislation in Congress, when the real labors by 
 which the legislation has been framed and enacted into 
 law have been performed by others. Many times men 
 thus take credit and obtain fame by reason of their place 
 and position in the enactment of great legislative meas- 
 ures, and not by virtue of performing greater duties or 
 more able services than others. But the honor, credit, 
 and distinction won by Benjamin F. Shivelv has been 
 won by sheer force of his abilities as a statesman, his 
 falents as an orator, and his zeal and indefatigable indus- 
 try in the study of public questions, and his advocacy on 
 the floor of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
 where he has served the people of his countrj'. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I regret that circumstances have denied me 
 an opportunity to express my full appreciation and to 
 speak at greater length on the life and services of Ben- 
 jamin F. Shively, late Senator from Indiana, but I could 
 not refrain from speaking these few words in honor of 
 his memory. 
 
Address of Mr. Morrison, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The people of the State of Indiana had 
 through many years of his political and official public life 
 come to know intimately and to hold in highest esteem the 
 man whose memory we are met to-day to honor, the late 
 Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of Indiana. 
 
 Born and reared in St. Joseph Countj', Ind., he resided 
 in that county during all of his eventful and honorable 
 life. He was long the most distinguished citizen of the 
 city of South Bend, was an honor to the city, and was 
 honored highly by all its people. 
 
 His was a strong, active, and analytical mind. He was 
 ever a thorough student. He acquired a thorough knowl- 
 edge of the facts in every case and a clear grasp of the 
 principles involved. He traced much of the unorthodox 
 teachings of political adventurers to " intellectual sloth," 
 rather than to a deliberate purpose to sacrifice correct 
 principles for temporary convenience or personal ad- 
 vantage. In his own life intellectual sloth was never for 
 a moment tolerated. 
 
 Senator Shively was elected to represent his district in 
 the Forty-eighth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second 
 Congresses, at the end of which service he voluntarily 
 retired from public life and to the practice of his chosen 
 profession — the law. By that time he had gained a repu- 
 tation for high character and great ability that made it 
 impossible for him to live a retired and quiet life, free 
 from active participation in political and other forms of 
 public activity and service. His partj' made insistent and 
 incessant demands upon him. It desired the benefit of 
 his learning, ability, and sound judgment, and it never 
 appealed to him in vain. 
 
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 In times of public agitation and resulting political and 
 social unrest Senator Shively did not seek to avoid proJj- 
 Icms by denying their existence, nor by misstating their 
 terms, nor by minimizing their importance, nor yet by 
 attempting to sense out the trend of public thought and 
 following the line of least resistance. It has not been 
 my privilege to enjoy the triendship and to receive the 
 helpful advice of any man who had a broader, deeper, 
 or more accurate knowledge of American history or the 
 fundamental principles of the American Government. 
 He believed in our institutions. He knew them with the 
 thoroughness that spares no labor and overlooks no de- 
 tail, and was ever ready to give a reason for the faith 
 that was in him. Like the founders of the Republic, he 
 knew the centuries of human liistor>' out of which came 
 the almost superhuman wisdom with which the fathers 
 framed the Constitution and established the elementary 
 powers, purposes, and activities of the Central Govern- 
 ment of our people, exercising in full and exclusive sov- 
 ereignty the pov.ers, and performing eflfectively the duties 
 cast upon it by the fundamental law of the land. He 
 knew the division of powers and duties that necessarily 
 results from our dual form of government, believed in it 
 with all his mind and heart, and refused in times of peace 
 and tranquillity' or in times of excitement or in response 
 to the dangers of political storm or stress to forget that 
 there is a dividing line or to change his mind as to just 
 where it lies. 
 
 To him who has not studied the history of the past all 
 suggested changes in the organic or statute law of the 
 Nation or of the Slate are equally novel. Thej' are as 
 novel to their proponents as they are to other persons, if 
 all are alike unfamiliar with fact, the times, and the cir- 
 cumstances of their prior presentations, discussions, trials, 
 and successes or failures. To Senator Shively most of 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 
 
 them were ancient liistory, and to him history furnished 
 irrefutable evidence of the degree of merit or demerit 
 that must at last be credited to each of them by en- 
 lightened public opinion. This element of his intellectual 
 equipment enabled him to maintain a steadfast position 
 in all circumstances and to pursue a straight course 
 through every maze of conflicting interests and ill-consid- 
 ered opinions of men. Everj^ student of public questions 
 in Indiana gave great weight to Senator Shively's delib- 
 erate and final judgment. They learned only of his last 
 and best thought, for he was accustomed to investigate, 
 learn, weigh, and consider before he undertook to discuss 
 a public question. He did not seek men out and attempt 
 to impress his opinions upon them. They had learned to 
 seek him out that they might have the benefit of his abilitj', 
 scholarship, and sound judgment. 
 
 Senator Shively was truly great as an advocate of his 
 views upon public questions. He spoke without manu- 
 script or notes, but not without preparation. The speech 
 as it fell from his lips was ready for publication, and 
 needed not to be edited or revised. 
 
 He did not seek to impress men with his eloquence. He 
 sought only to enlighten their minds and move their wills. 
 When he was at his strongest and best his hearers sat in 
 solemn silence and he i-ead the verdict of their approval 
 in the stillness of their rapt attention, rather than in their 
 rounds of thunderous applause. 
 
 His service in the Senate of the United States came at a 
 time when his ability, character, characteristics, and his 
 intellectual attainments and habits gave to him peculiar 
 fitness to meet the exact duties that were immediately cast 
 upon him. So long as his physical strength would permit 
 he was a trusted and safe adviser to the President in the 
 decision of those first questions growing out of our foreign 
 complications, the correct decision of which has made 
 
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 possible the correct and unimpeachable record which the 
 President has made in the establishment and maintenance 
 of his foreign policy. 
 
 To us his death seemed untimely and his brethren can 
 not but mourn. And yet it is not for us to judge of the 
 times and the seasons. We can not know what his full 
 mission was or when he had completed his allotted task. 
 We only know that his ability was great, his attainments 
 were high, he was faithful to every trust, and rendered a 
 public service worthy of the great man he truly was. 
 
 His character, attainments, record, and liigh achieve- 
 ments make it impossible to write the history of his State 
 or country without paying homage to his name. To wife, 
 daughter, and sons he left a precious heritage of blessed 
 memories and of public honors and gratitude the value 
 and consolation of which they alone can ever know. 
 
 We who have known him best and to whom his friend- 
 ship was dearest and most helpful shall ever think of him 
 as one of the greatest of the great men Indiana has given 
 to our national life. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. According to the terms of 
 the resolution heretofore adopted, the House will now 
 stand adjourned. 
 
 Thereupon (at 3 o'clock p. m.) the House adjourned 
 until to-morrow, Monday, February 19, 1917, at 12 o'clock 
 noon.