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 61st Congress]. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES l^vr^fjl- 
 
 Sd Session i *. iNO- i-W/ 
 
 CHARLES Q. TIRRELL 
 
 (Late a R-nresentative from Massachusetts) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
 TIVES AND SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
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 Proceedings in the House 
 February 12, 1911 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 February 25, 1911 
 
 COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 1911 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Procc c'dings in the House ^^"*' 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry x\. Couden, D. D jj 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 xMr. Mitchell, of Massachusetts j{ 
 
 Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts 13 
 
 Mr. Parker, of New Jersey 15 
 
 Mr. Weeks, of ^Massachusetts 17 
 
 Mr. Washburn, of Massachusetts .- 21 
 
 Mr. Lawrence, of Massachusetts 23 
 
 Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts 26 
 
 Mr. Hawley, of Oregon og 
 
 Mr. O'Connell, of Massachusetts 33 
 
 Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 3g 
 
 Mr. Sheffield, of Rhode Island 41 
 
 Mr. Howland, of Ohio 44 
 
 Mr. Morgan, of Oklahoma 45 
 
 Mr. Greene, of Massachusetts 47 
 
 iMr. xMondell, of Wyoming qq 
 
 Mr. Higgins, of Connecticut 52 
 
 Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts 54 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate. . -<. 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 53 
 
 Memorial addresses by — ^.. 
 
 Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts (j^ 
 
 Mr. Crane, of .Massachusetts g2 
 
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DEATH OF HON. CHARLES Q. TIRRELL 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 
 December 5, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following reso- 
 lutions relative to the death of my predecessor, Mr. 
 
 TiRRELL. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Massachusetts offers 
 the following resolutions, which the Clerk will report. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House lias heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a Representative 
 from the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit 
 a copy of these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 January 19, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Speaker, I desire to offer the fol- 
 lowing order: 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Ordered, That Sunday, the 12th of February, at 12 o'clock 
 noon, be set apart for addresses on the life, charactei', and public 
 services of the Hon. Charles Qlincy Tirrell, late a Repre- 
 sentative from the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 The order was agreed to. 
 
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 Sunday, February 12, 1911. 
 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
 order by Mr, Greene, Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. HeniT N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Our Father in heaven, we bless Thee for all the dis- 
 closures Thou has made of Thyself, especially for the 
 Gospel, the glad tidings of great joy, which fell from the 
 lips of the Master, inspiring the hearts of men with faith 
 in the eternal goodness of God and the unbroken con- 
 tinuity of life. " Let not your heart he troubled; ye 
 believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house 
 are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told 
 you. I go to prepare a plaee for you." Rlessed words, 
 which lifts the veil, points the way, removes the sting of 
 death, comforts the sad and bereaved heart. 
 
 We are here to-day in memory of two distinguished 
 men, strong in mentality, lofty of purpose, clean in char- 
 acter, called by their fellow citizens lo service in their 
 respective States and in the National Congress, who in 
 ever}' station of life acquitted themselves with credit and 
 honor. They have passed on into one of the Father's 
 many mansions. May the record of their lives be an 
 insi)iration to us and to those who come after us, and 
 i^ranl that Iheii- h)ved ones may go forward with perfect 
 r-iilh in — 
 
 That God, which ever lives and loves, 
 
 One God, one law, one element, 
 
 And one far-ofl', divine event, 
 To wfueh tlie wlutle creation moves. . 
 
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Proceedings ln the House 
 
 The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read 
 and approved. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will read the 
 special order. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Mitcliell, by unanimous consent, 
 
 Ordered, Tliat Sunday, the 12tli of February, at 12 o'clock, be 
 
 set apart for addresses on the life, character, and public services 
 
 of the Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a Representative from 
 
 the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 On motion of Mr. Taylor of Colorado, by unanimous consent, 
 Ordered, That on Sunday, February 12, 1911, the delivery of 
 
 eulogies on the life, character, and public services of the Hon. 
 
 Charles James Hughes, Jr., late a Senator of the United States 
 
 from Colorado, shall be in order. 
 
 Mr. MrrcHELL. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tions, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
 Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a Member of this House from 
 the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 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. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Mitchell, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is my melancholy privilege to supple- 
 ment the resolutions just offered with a brief summary 
 of the life, the character, and the public services of my 
 predecessor. 
 
 Charles Qi incy Tirrell was born in Sharon, Mass., 
 December 10, 1844, of a distinguished family of New 
 England, so rich in names that illumine the pages of the 
 Nation's history. ^Yhile a mere lad, with his parents, he 
 moved from his natal town to Westfield. In 4862 he 
 entered Dartmouth College, and graduated from that 
 institution in 1866. He started his career in the world's 
 activities, as did many of our American statesmen, by 
 leaching school. He was principal of Peacham Academy, 
 at Peacham, Vt., for one year, and the following two 
 years the principal of the high school at St. Johnsbury, 
 Vt. But his ambition ran in a different line and he began 
 the sludy of h»w, whicli was to be his life work, in the 
 office of Richard H. Dana, jr., and in August, 1870, he 
 was a(hnitled to the Suffolk bar in Boston. He opened 
 Mn oflice in that city at once, and here successfully fol- 
 U)wed his iJiolCssion lo Ihc lime ol" his death. At the 
 bar he won a place and a name for himself as an active, 
 an upright, and a high-minded practitioner. He Irit'd 
 nuiny important cases, and be acted as Irustee of a large- 
 number of estates, including some of considerable niag- 
 
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Address of Mr. Mitchell, of Massachusetts 
 
 nitude and diverse character. His entire career at the 
 bar was marked by a degree of fidelity, of strict integrity, 
 rigid honesty, and thoroughness that made him honored 
 and respected by his brother members, and sought after 
 and trusted by those who had confided their atfairs to 
 him. This upright man never betrayed any trust or did 
 aught but bring honor, luster, and distinction to the bar 
 of which he was an honored member. 
 
 In 1873 he married Mai'j^ E. HoUis, of Natick, and at 
 once removed to that town. Here it was that he lived the 
 balance of his life. He became identified with cvei-y 
 interest of the town that tended to the advancement and 
 the betterment of the institutions, the industries, and the 
 individuals that go to make this splendid, typical, pro- 
 gressive New England town. He had come to the town 
 with some experience in public affairs. From his earliest 
 manhood he had shown a lively interest in such matters, 
 and in 1869, while a resident of the town of Weymouth, 
 he had been elected a member of the school board and 
 had served up to the time of his removal to Natick. 
 Espousing the cause of the Republican Party with which 
 he had identified himself on attaining his majority, and in 
 w^hich party he came in the fullness of time to occupy a 
 prominent part, in 1871 he was elected to the general 
 court. So active was the interest which he manifested 
 in public questions that in 1880 he was elected to the 
 Massachusetts Senate, and served two terms in that body. 
 He played a prominent part in the upper chamber, his 
 training, his experience, and his great zeal and industry 
 making him a valuable member of the important com- 
 mittees to which he had been assigned. In 1888 he was a 
 presidential elector. His interest in town affairs never 
 flagged, and for many j^ears he was the honored mod- 
 erator of the Natick town meetings, being frequently 
 unanimously chosen. 
 
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 One phase of his interest in puhlic fj^iestions was his 
 lifelong devotion to the cause of temperance. He always 
 helieved that this moral question was so closely related 
 to the puhlic welfare that this energetic man took more 
 than a passive interest in this question, and actively 
 identified liimself with the Grand Temple of Honor and 
 Temperance and witli the Massachusetts Total Absti- 
 nence Society. He held ofTice in both of these organiza- 
 tions. His heart was in tlie work, and tlie friends of the 
 temperance movement mourn his loss and find it hard 
 to fill his place. 
 
 He was also actively interested in the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, and step by step advanced to the 
 highest position in the State organization, and later was 
 its representative to the sovereign grand lodge. 
 
 It was a remarkable trait in the character of Mr. Tir- 
 rell that he was never content to stay in the ranks. His 
 untiring energy, his close application to the work at hand, 
 his sincerity, and his real worth all combined to make 
 and to mark him for leadership in many branches of 
 human effort. 
 
 The attention of the citizens of the splendid fourth 
 district in Massachusetts was more and more being 
 attracted to Charles Qi incy Tirrell, educator, lawyer, 
 business man, and public servant, and in 1900 he was 
 signally honored by being chosen to membership in the 
 Fifty-seventh Congress. From thnl time to the Sabbath 
 morning, July 31, 1910, when the messenger of death sum- 
 moned him to his reward, he gave the best that was in 
 him to his district, to his State, to his Nation, and to 
 mankind. 
 
 It is not my province to dwell at any length upon the 
 services of my predecessor in this body. His colleagues 
 and associates of years are here assembled to attest by 
 presence and by voice the nature and tlie value of those 
 
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Address of Mr. Mitchell, of Massachusetts 
 
 services. He had entered upon his membership in this 
 body with wide experience and training in business and 
 in politics and with an aptitude and a love of State and 
 Nation that well qualified him to take his place here. 
 
 He represented a constituency unsurpassed in our fair 
 land. Many elements entered into its composition. Its 
 toiling thousands in factory and in mill, its skilled arti- 
 sans, its sturdy farmers exacting from hard rugged soil 
 with burdensome labor nature's diversified products, its 
 busy merchants, its educators, and captains of industry, 
 all the ramified branches and varied activities that go to 
 make an agricultiual and manufacturing district were 
 represented by him. 
 
 Aye, more! He represented the high ideals, the best 
 traditions, the patriotic spirit of a people that from the 
 very beginning of the establishment of this Republic had 
 made their impress and given an impetus, aye, led the 
 way to the building of the Nation. This son of old Middle- 
 sex, rich in its history, proud of its heritage, came as its 
 accredited Representative to the Nation's capital. 
 
 No district in the grand old Commonwealth has within 
 its confines more to inspire, to ennoble, and to uplift the 
 citizen, the legislator, the Representative to lofty, to 
 unselfish, and to patriotic service. The past appealed 
 and the present and future beckoned him on to high 
 endeavor. With such ideals and a fitting conception of 
 the dignit3% the duty, and the responsibility of the high 
 office, he took his place here. No obstacle was placed in 
 his way by the people of his district during his many 
 years of service. 
 
 As the campaign was opening, for the recent elections 
 Mr. TiRRELL, somewhat impaired in health by strict atten- 
 tion to duties and by the infirmities incident to age, volun- 
 tarily relinquished his candidacy for nomination and 
 informed his congressional committee that he would not 
 
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 again be a candidate for office. His life work had been 
 finished. On the day following the announcement that 
 he had retired forever from political life he quietly, in 
 the presence of his famih', passed out of this world. 
 What a happy ending to the life of one who had never 
 known an idle or a wasted day! 
 
 And death is beautiful as feet of friend 
 Coming with welcome at our journey's end. 
 
 Charles Quincy Tirrell, loving husband, dutiful 
 father, good citizen, honest and faithful public servant. 
 Christian gentleman, had passed beyond to — 
 
 That undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler 
 returns. 
 
 At a time when the fierce light of publicity beat down 
 upon every public man, Charles Quincy Tirrell exposed 
 to the world a spotless character, a clean heart, a perfect 
 record, and an unblemished reputation. 
 
 Small wonder it was that the people of his district — 
 the laboring man, the old soldier, the farmer, the devoted 
 wife, the only son — all joined in mourning his departure 
 and in paying tribute to the memory of this good man. 
 
 The greatest and best and most enduring monument 
 to Charles Quincy Tirrell is erected upon the founda- 
 tion laid by himself, of industry, of truth, of integrity, and 
 Christianity. His life of great usefulness has ended, and 
 he has passed beyond to a better home and resting place; 
 but as long as the great Republic endures, in the annals of 
 this House will be recorded the life, the work, the achieve- 
 ments, and the usefulness of this true, loyal, and patriotic 
 American, here to be ail incentive and an inspiration to 
 noble endeavor and lofty eifort to all his countrynien 
 whom he loved so well and served so faithfully and 
 lovallv. 
 
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Address of Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I knew Mr, Tirrell man}- years before 
 he came to Congress, but our acquaintance had been 
 very slight and had given me no insight at all into his 
 real qualities and abilities. He was so modest and unas- 
 suming in manner and appearance that it required time 
 to appreciate him, and 1 am confident that those who 
 never had occasion to go below the surface underesti- 
 mated him. When, however, you were brought into inti- 
 mate contact with him and saw his mental machinery in 
 action you discovered that it was an engine of unusual 
 power and precision. His mind was clear, straightfor- 
 ward, and penetrating; he was businesslike and methodi- 
 cal. He gave to his work unflagging industry, and his 
 opinions always deserved, and, in this House, always 
 received, respect. 1 am sure the members of his com- 
 mittee will testify that he was a most valuable colleague, 
 for it was in such careful, painstaking legal work that his 
 qualities would be most useful and effective. But he was 
 a clear and forcible speaker, his manner was vigorous 
 and engaging, and in the running debate of the House he 
 was w^ell qualified to hold his own against all comers. 
 He was a most kindly, warm-hearted, obliging friend, 
 always glad to do a service, and with a cordial and 
 amiable manner that endeared him to all who knew him 
 well. The suggestion of my colleague, that he graduated 
 from Dartmouth, suggested to my mind the queiy. How 
 many of the Massachusetts delegation \vere college grad- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 uates? And 1 think there are 10 of the 14 in this Con- 
 gress — three from Harvard, two from Amherst, two from 
 Dartmouth, one from Boston College, one from West 
 Point, and one from Annapolis — ^which would seem to 
 indicate that in Massachusetts at least the value of higher 
 education is appreciated and does not carry with it any 
 tinge of unpopularity. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell is the seventh Member of Congress from 
 Massachusetts in whose memorial services in this Cham- 
 ber I have participated since I came here, and it brings 
 home again to-day the sad uncertainty of friendships 
 and associations, and " what shadows we are and what 
 shadows we pursue." 
 
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Address of Mr. Parker, of New Jersey 
 
 Mr. Speaker: My knowledge of Charles Quincy Tir- 
 REix was close, because he was the ranking member of 
 the committee of which I have the honor to be chairman. 
 To his subcommittee was referred the whole category 
 of bills relating to the jurisdiction, practice, and pro- 
 cedure of United States courts. In presiding over that 
 subcommittee, composed of one-third of the main com- 
 mittee, he was untiring, earnest, and devoted. The House 
 will remember the care that he gave to the amendments 
 to the bankruptcy act, perhaps the last matter that he 
 brought prominently before the House, and in which, 
 because of my absence, he took charge of all proceedings 
 on a calendar Wednesday during the entire day. His 
 mind, as has been stated, was systematic, careful, and 
 accurate. His thoughts and opinions were his own. He 
 would support them by reasons, but he gave way to no 
 one else when he had once made up his mind. Quiet, 
 seemingh' timid as he was, he carried with him that 
 greatest of all possessions, a mind of his own. 
 
 It was sad that just as he came to possession of 
 real control — in the committee and in the House — his 
 health had so broken that it could be seen at all times 
 that he did not feel confident about himself. He had had 
 some sort of an attack a year before of which he told 
 no one. The fear of another hung over him, so that he 
 had made up his mind to retire from public life and go 
 back to and live quietly with those he loved in his ow^n 
 home. He had written a letter stating this as his deter- 
 
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 mination, and I think it was only the next day that the 
 stroke fell upon him; a stroke that was a surprise to all 
 his friends and a surprise to his people. 
 
 I need only add that when I heard the news and went 
 to his funeral I found everj- ofiice and ever}- shop closed. 
 The people of the whole town turned out, some in pro- 
 cession and some at the house, to do honor to the citizen 
 and friend that they had lost. 
 
 In the newspaper of that town on the next Friday (the 
 Natick Bulletin, Aug. 5, 1910) appeared a short article 
 with reference to him that I think may well go into the 
 Record: 
 
 In the death of Congressman Tiruell the Nation loses an 
 honest and painstaking public servant, the State an able defender 
 of its rights, and the town of Natick a friend who ever had its 
 best interests at heart and who, next to Henry ^Yilson, was its 
 most distinguished citizen. 
 
 We doubt if the real greatness of Charles Q. Tihrell was 
 generally know-n, even to his own townsmen. His was not the 
 greatness which looks for public applause, but of the kind which 
 comes from honest service well performed. He loved public 
 life not because of the personal prestige which came, but because 
 he could render a service to his fellow men, and ho devoted his 
 whole energies in their behalf. He was a man of the people, 
 and the humblest received from him the same consideration as 
 the wealthiest, and he was a willing helper in every just cause. 
 
 His was a simple Ufe and cared but little for display, and the 
 simple but impressive obsequies were in accordance with what 
 was believed to be his wishes. 
 
 hi the common acceptance of tiie term he may not have been 
 a great man, but in faithfulness of public service, loyalty to his 
 State, and his interest and devotion to his town and his friends, 
 no man stands higher in the estimation of the people; and the 
 best eulogy that can be pronounced upon him is thai his was the 
 greatness which conies from duty well performed and the good- 
 ness which comes from a life devoted to the best interests of 
 humanity. 
 
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Address of Mr. Weeks, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In recent years Massachusetts has been 
 represented in the House of Representatives by 11 Repub- 
 licans and 3 Democrats. Of the 11 Republicans who were 
 serving at the beginning of the Fifty-ninth Congress 8 are 
 still here and have been elected to the next Congress, an 
 indication, I think, of the consistency of the average Mas- 
 sachusetts constituency, and possibly of the confidence 
 which their constituents have in these Representatives as 
 individuals. The vacancies caused in the three cases in 
 which changes have taken place have been due not to the 
 retirement or defeat but to the death of the sitting Mem- 
 ber. Hon. Rockwood Hoar, of the third district, died on 
 the 1st day of November, 1906; Hon. William C. Lovering, 
 of the fourteenth district, died on the 4th day of Febru- 
 ary, 1910; and Hon. Charles Q. Tirrell, whose memory 
 Ave now officially mourn, and who was serving his fifth 
 term in Congress, died suddenly on the 31st day of 
 July, 1910. 
 
 Service in Congress is of two kinds. First, there is the 
 service which represents the direct interests of one's con- 
 stituents, which includes the multitudinous duties relating 
 to the different occupations of the residents of a congres- 
 sional district. It involves a large correspondence, fre- 
 quently as many as 50 letters a day, many of which are of 
 such character that they necessitate visiting a department, 
 or making elaborate inquiry, before a reply can be made; 
 the attention to the wishes of one's constituents in the 
 many varieties of legislation which are pending; the spe- 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 cial care of those wlio are interested in pension legisla- 
 tion; questions relating to post offices and the postal 
 service; and an endless number of similar matters or 
 matters of smaller moment, all of which need much 
 attention, and in some districts require substantially all 
 of the Member's time. 
 
 Secondly, there are the matters of large public impor- 
 tance, like general appropriation bills, legislation relating 
 to the subjects which arc treated in national platforms, 
 consideration of the recommendations of the administra- 
 tion, not only the Executive, but the different depart- 
 ments; legislation relating to our military establishment, 
 and many other similar questions which affect the whole 
 country rather than one's congressional district. Occa- 
 sionally these questions bring one into conflict between 
 what seems to be a general requirement and a local 
 necessity, but, in any case, it becomes necessary for a 
 Member of Congress to not only be a special representa- 
 tive of the 200,000 or more people who are responsible for 
 sending him to Washington, but also, if he is going to 
 reach a position of influence, he must, to a greater or less 
 extent, specialize, which means that he devotes much of 
 his time to the work connected with the important com- 
 mittees of which he may be a member, so that he becomes 
 familiar with, and even a specialist in, that particular 
 work. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell fdled both of these requirements. Very 
 few men in Congress with whose work 1 have been 
 familiar have given more detailed attention to the needs 
 of their districts than lie did. One Mem])er can never 
 know just what another is busying himself about, but 1 
 had sufficient knowledge of his work to feel convinced 
 that the slightest request of those whom he represented 
 was given his personal attention, so that, as a direct per- 
 sonal representative, he should have been most satis- 
 
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Address of Mr. Weeks, of Massachusetts 
 
 factory to the people of his district. In addition to that, 
 however, he found time to devote to matters of impor- 
 tance not relating to his district. He served for many 
 years on the Committee on Claims, a committee to which 
 is sent a large niimher of bills, all of which require 
 minute investigation before one can be confident that he 
 is in a position to properly protect the Government and 
 at the same time to do justice to the applicant. It is, in 
 a sense, a thankless service, for, while it does not ordi- 
 narily bring a Member into prominence, it requires as 
 much detailed work as a membership in almost any com- 
 mittee in the House — work which must be performed by 
 men who are conscientious, clear-headed, and who have 
 a judicial temperament. 
 
 I feel sure that Mr. Tirrell filled these requirements 
 in his service on this committee. He was also associ- 
 ated, for many years, with a more important commit- 
 tee — in fact, one of the most important in the House — • 
 the Judiciary. To this committee, also, there is sent a 
 large volume of legislation, much of which affects the 
 most important interests, to which must be brought not 
 only tireless industry but a legal knowledge of the first 
 order. It is the kind of service for wliich a lawyer hav- 
 ing a large general practice would be qualified. Mr. 
 Tirrell's whole practice had been, not of a specialized 
 order but in connection with business matters of a varied 
 character, so that he was naturally familiar with very 
 many of the questions which came before the Judiciary 
 Committee, and this familiarity made him at once a 
 useful member. It is with these things that those of us 
 now serving in Congress are most familiar, and to which 
 we can testify from our own knowledge, but for many 
 years before he came to Washington he had seen varied 
 service, political and otherwise. He had served in our 
 State legislature, both as a representative and senator, 
 
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 and, as a lawyer, had been connected with many impor- 
 tant matters, representing large interests as an adviser 
 and in the courts. All of this training which he had 
 before he came to Congress was of value to him here, 
 and was undoubtedly the reason why he served so long 
 and so largely to the satisfaction of the people of Mas- 
 sachusetts, and especially of his own district. Members 
 of the House will readily recall that he was a most 
 approachable man, ready to accommodate himself to 
 conditions as they arose, firm in his political faith, an 
 ardent advocate of the protection policy, prepared at a 
 moment's notice to defend this faith, and especially the 
 value of this policy to the various interests in his dis- 
 trict; and such was his devotion to duty that he worked 
 diligently in his congressional service long after it was 
 apparent to those in close touch with him that he should 
 have given up his active duties and taken a long rest. 
 Always a comparatively frail man, in the last months of 
 his service here it was noticeable that his physical ener- 
 gies were overtaxed, but this did not deter him during 
 the session of Congress, when he was able to be present, 
 from performing his usual duties. The last time I saw 
 him was at a meeting of one of the political clubs in 
 Massachusetts, during the month of July, and 1 felt then 
 that, unless he was willing to give up his active work 
 and attempt to rebuild his health, he would not be long 
 able to continue his service. NotwithstancUng this feeling, 
 however, 1 N\'as greatly shocked to receive, while making 
 a trip through the West, a telegram slating that he had 
 passed away. I received this news with the feeling that 
 his party had lost a trusted adviser, that those innnedi- 
 ately associated with him had k)st a good friend, and 
 his constituents a Representative^ whom, in most respects, 
 it would be (Hlheull to replace. 
 
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Address of Mr. Washburn, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr, Speaker: I regret that my engagements have been 
 such that I have been unable to make any preparation 
 for the services of this day. What I say will be suggested 
 by the inspiration of the moment and single reflection 
 of my estimate of the character of our departed friend. 
 
 But, Mr. Speaker, the mere fact that a few of his more 
 intimate associates are gathered to-day in this historic 
 Chamber is in itself a somewhat impressive tribute to 
 his memory — in this Chamber which for upward of 50 
 years has been the center of the political activities of this 
 country during a most wonderful epoch in its history, 
 and during which time a far greater number of its mem- 
 bership have passed " to that mysterious realm " than 
 are now living. 
 
 My intimate acquaintance with Mr. Tirrell began with 
 my service in this House. I have noted with interest that 
 he was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and the mere 
 mention of that name recalls to us the greatest and most 
 distinguished of her sons who served in both branches of 
 the Congress where he Vx'on imperishable fame, and who 
 made the name of his college immortal by his champion- 
 ship of her cause in the Supreme Court of the United 
 States. And I am reminded now that no more discrim- 
 inating estimate of his character and ability has ever 
 been made than that by our distinguished colleague, 
 Mr. McCall. 
 
 It has been said by some one, Mr. Speaker, that " genius 
 consists in an infinite capacity for taking pains." If 
 that be true, I think we may justly say that our departed 
 friend had some of the attributes of true genius, because 
 I should say that the quality that most impressed those 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 of us who knew him was the careful, diligent, and pains- 
 taking consideration which he gave to every question, 
 large or small, upon which it was his duty to pass. Cour- 
 teous, obliging, of a friendly disposition, he had endeared 
 himself, and justly, to his associates, and yet his desire 
 to harmonize his views with those of his party never pre- 
 vented him from standing firmly for what he believed to 
 be right, and on more than one occasion led him to dis- 
 agree radically with friends whose opinions he highly 
 valued. 
 
 I suppose, Mr. Speaker, that in estimating a man's 
 character we may justly ascribe the greatest praise to 
 that character which is so well rounded as to adequately 
 and completely respond to the varied duties which every 
 man in this world is obliged to face, and my acquaintance 
 with our friend leads me without hesitation to say that 
 he was always loyal to his country, to his church, and 
 to his family, and that he never failed in performing to 
 the fullness of his ability the exacting requirements 
 imposed in all of these relations, 
 
 Mr. Tirrell represented, Mr. Speaker, a Massachusetts 
 district rich in historic associations. It was there that 
 Eliot labored among the Indians, and it was in that 
 immediate vicinity that much of the earliest history of 
 New England was made. Our friend never failed to 
 appreciate and to be proud of that fact, and he was 
 equally alive to his responsibilities as a representative 
 of the later development of our industrial activities 
 which have entirely transformed the character and the 
 occupations of our New England people. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I regard it as a privilege to be permitted 
 to say these few words as a modest tribute to our departed 
 friend, whose memory I am sure we shall always carry 
 with us as one of the most grateful we have had in con- 
 nection with our service in this House. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lawrence, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker : For the second time during the Sixty-first 
 Congress the Members of the Massachusetts delegation 
 have been saddened by the loss of a beloved and respected 
 associate. It seems but a few days ago that we were 
 gathered together in this Hall to pay tribute to the life and 
 character of William C. Lovering, and now, death having 
 again invaded our ranks, we have met to give expression 
 to our sincere sorrow at the passing from us of another 
 friend and colleague — Charles Q. Tirrell. Both were 
 true and tried sons of Massachusetts. Both had success- 
 fully stood that most trying of all tests, the test of service. 
 Many years of earnest and patriotic effort had won wide 
 recognition and generous appreciation. Throughout our 
 Commonwealth there is regret, deep and genuine, at the 
 loss of these two faithful public servants. 
 
 During the sad exercises held in honor of Mr. Lovering, 
 one of the most thoughtful addresses was made by the 
 man who was so soon to follow him. Let me quote a few 
 sentences. Mr. Tirrell, in speaking of Mr. Lovering, said : 
 
 He was not easily discouraged. He did not drop a matter 
 because the majority were against him. He returned again and 
 again to the charge. If his original proposition was voted down, 
 again it would appear, perhaps in a changed or modified form, 
 and be pushed forward with enthusiasm. If defeated, it did not 
 discourage him, but stimulated him to renewed effort under 
 different conditions. He had been taught the valuable lesson of 
 patience and of untiring work. 
 
 Well may these words be spoken of him who uttered 
 them. Charles Q. Tirrell had indeed been taught the 
 
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 valuable lesson of patience and untiring work. He was 
 simply indefatigable in attention to his legislative duties 
 and to the needs of his congressional district. He never 
 spared himself, not even when his health became 
 impaired and unremitting labor brought pain and exhaus- 
 tion. He, too, was not easily discouraged, and he rarely 
 met with defeat. Mr. Tirrell was a man who not only 
 worked, but who accomplished results. And his whole 
 record in Congress will be remembered because of things 
 done. 
 
 I suppose his best work was done in the Committee on 
 the Judiciary. There his fine legal mind and his long and 
 varied experience counted for much. One thing can not 
 be said loo often, that in grappling with difficult and 
 perplexing problems within the jurisdiction of that com- 
 mittee he never thought for an instant of political con- 
 sequences. He did what seemed to him to be right, and 
 was apparently indifferent to the results upon his political 
 fortunes. His courage was recognized by his associates 
 upon the committee and in the House, and he was always 
 held in high honor therefor. 
 
 1 shall not attempt to-day to speak in detail of the life 
 and public services of our friend. That has been done 
 effectively by his successor and by other Members of the 
 House especially qualified to bear testimony to the use- 
 fulness of that life and to the high quality of that service 
 by many years of intimate companionship and by ties of 
 a common service. There is really little occasion for me 
 to say anything. And yet 1 would not let this occasion 
 pass without speaking of my admiration for his many 
 fine qualities of mind and heart, of my affection for him, 
 and of my sorrow that he should have been taken from us. 
 Some one has said that " the making of friends who are 
 real friends is the best token of a man's success in life." 
 Then, indeed, was Charles Tirrell's life successful in 
 
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Address of Mr. Lawrence, of Massachtsetts 
 
 large measure. Friends he had here and at home, who 
 rejoiced in his achievements and who welcomed every 
 opportunit}' to show that the}^ were real friends. 
 
 Who knows the joys of friendship? 
 
 The trust, security, and mutual tenderness, 
 
 The double joys, where each is glad for both? 
 
 Friendship our only wealth, our last retreat and strength, 
 
 Secure against ill fortune and the world. 
 
 Our friend has gone, but we can even now^ rejoice in 
 the memories he has left. A life characterized by devo- 
 tion to duty can not fail to be an inspiration during the 
 coming years. 
 
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Address of Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I should speak to-day with very great 
 reluctance if I did not feel that the imperfection and 
 inadequacy of any tribute that I may pay to my col- 
 league were not so well supplemented by the eloquent 
 words which have been spoken by the gentlemen who 
 have preceded me. What I shall say will be only the 
 unstudied word that one friend speaks of another, I 
 knew Mr. Tirrell many years before he came to Con- 
 gress. I knew very well his habits of patient industry, 
 of careful preparation in any matter of which he had 
 charge, and I knew his high talent as a lawyer. My col- 
 league, Mr. Washburn, has spoken of a very good defi- 
 nition of genius, that it is the quality of taking infinite 
 pains. Mr. Tirrell certainly had that quality in a very 
 high degree. He was one of the trustees of an impor- 
 tant savings bank in Massachusetts, a position that could 
 have no pecuniary attraction for anyone, but which 
 required especially a talent for business and a devotion 
 to the interests intrusted to him, a painstaking care for 
 many details, and a willingness to look after the small 
 savings of working people. He was willing to do such 
 things as that, requiring his own gratuitous devotion to 
 the good of others. He had the spirit of service. When 
 he came to the House of Representatives he served with 
 great ability and labor upon one of the most undesirable 
 committees of this House, as committees go — the Com- 
 mittee on Claims. I was impressed with the careful way 
 in which he would study the merits, the dry details of 
 the claims that were referred to him, and how judicial 
 and thoughtful his decision would finally be. 1 know 
 especially of one claim which had been pending for many 
 
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 years, a very just claim, which he unraveled, the merits 
 of which he disclosed, and which was finally passed by 
 both Houses of Congress. His notable service here was 
 rendered upon the Committee on the Judiciary, where 
 he exerted an important and beneficent influence upon 
 the character of our laws. 
 
 He was always a man of delicate health, and especially 
 so while he was a Member of this House. It is remark- 
 able that under such circumstances he should have been 
 able to accomplish so much. Some of his speeches made 
 here were models of argument upon the questions he 
 discussed. 
 
 He was a man who stood well with both sides of the 
 House. While he was a strong Republican, he had none 
 of the qualities of a narrow partisan. 1 remember in one 
 of his campaigns, on account of some division among his 
 antagonists, no nomination was made and he received 
 the vote of the great mass of the voters of his district 
 without distinction of party. He was a man for whom a 
 political antagonist under such circumstances might 
 easil}^ vote. 
 
 He had a charming personality, and the personal quality 
 that I think of more than any other was his gaiety of spirit. 
 He was always good-natured; he always appeared to be 
 unruffled, even when the jest concerned himself. He took 
 a great interest in sports. I believe the day before he died 
 he attended with his son an athletic contest. He kept 
 vip his interest in all the walks and departments of 
 life. 
 
 His passing was a great loss to the delegation. His 
 industry, his patience, his ability, his fine companionship 
 we all appreciated, and it was with very deep sorrow that 
 we all learned that he was no more and that we should 
 not again see him in this Hall and in the charming circle 
 of his home. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 Mr. Speaker: On the tide of passing vpars we meet 
 countless multitudes of people as ships that pass in the 
 night. We see a dim form and outline. We know noth- 
 ing of their content or of their characteristics as they 
 drift from our vision, probably never to be thought of 
 again. But among the multitudes that come and go there 
 occasionally crosses our course some one who attracts 
 us, and finding characteristic qualities that are admirable 
 we draw closer to them as bound on a similar voyage and 
 acquaint ourselves with the qualities that have attracted 
 us to them. 
 
 I knew Hon. Charles Q. Tirrell as a member of the 
 Committee on Claims, a most exacting committee, whose 
 duties are difficult satisfactorily to perform. To that 
 body of men are referred the bills introduced by the 
 Members in this House or by the other branch of this 
 legislative body seeking to have justice done to indi- 
 viduals, communities, or to organizations. Ex parte evi- 
 dence is largely the kind of evidence submitted. It is 
 the custom of the committee to seek such information 
 and evidence as may be available anywhere or in the 
 departments of the Government, but largely the evidence 
 is ex parte. To weigh the evidence submitted and inquire 
 thoroughly into the propositions made, to do justice to all 
 claimants who present their claims to the consideration 
 of a great Government, is not an easy task. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell, the ranking member of the committee, 
 chairman of one of its su])conunittces, was painstaking 
 and indefatigable in labor. Faithful in the conunittee 
 room, thoroughly acquainted with every bill referred to 
 his subcommittee, diligent and careful in the examina- 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 tion of all the papers submitted, he endeavored to do that 
 which was right between the Government and its citizens. 
 Service on that committee is difficult in another way. 
 People, claimants, confident of the justice of their claims, 
 present themselves before it and appeal to the sympa- 
 thies and to the tender-heartedness of the members. No 
 one could ever have said that Mr. Tirrell was without 
 sympathy, and at heart he was one of the kindest of men, 
 but it became necessaiy several times for him to take a 
 position contrary to some claimant's contention, a ver\^ 
 painful thing for him to do, but with gentleness equal to 
 that of a woman and with a justice as great as that of 
 Solomon's he explained to them the reason for his action. 
 It takes a man of considerable strength of character and 
 manly fiber to do the right thing at all times and in the 
 right way. In the four years' service of Mr. Tirrell on 
 that committee I can not recall an untactful word, an 
 unkind sentence, or any statement that left a sting. In 
 thinking of him I think of the advice that Polonius gave 
 to Laertes: 
 
 Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
 
 Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 
 
 Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
 
 The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
 
 Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
 
 But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
 
 Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware 
 
 Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, 
 
 Bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. 
 
 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 
 
 Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 
 
 This above all — To thine own self be true; 
 And it must follow, as the night the day. 
 Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 In the death of this distinguished Memher from Massa- 
 chusetts the public has lost a faithful and effective soldier 
 of the common good. If all of his acts were taken and 
 written down, I think those who loved him most and 
 knew him best would have little cause to grieve — so 
 clean his life, so clear his purpose, so just his motives and 
 his action. 
 
 On this day, hallowed by the birth of the greatest 
 American ever born under the flag, it may not be inappro- 
 priate to step aside for a minute and speak a word con- 
 cerning American character. Worthy human character 
 is everywhere the greatest purely human thing in the 
 world. And when — 
 
 The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
 The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
 Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; 
 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded. 
 Leave not a rack behind — 
 
 worthy men and women shall shine in fadeless immor- 
 tality. 
 
 In his Ethics of the Dust, Mr. Ruskin uses this illustra- 
 tion: Go near a manufacturing town; take from the hill- 
 side or from the pathway a handful of the common earth. 
 It will be composed of sand, of clay, or soot, and of water, 
 a mass that mars and disfigures everything it touches. 
 Separate these four elements. Taking the clay first, give 
 it a little training, a little development, a little oppor- 
 tunity, and it becomes the common brick from which we 
 build houses. With a yet higher development, a little 
 greater opportunity, it becomes the porcelain, and with 
 still further development it passes into the finer chinas, 
 and on through subsequent stages of development, if it 
 has ils opportunity and will submit to the tests, until it 
 finally becomes a sapphire, blue as heaven's arch and 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 symbol of truth and faith. The sand will make such 
 glass as this [indicating the skylight], or common glass, 
 or glass worth more than its own weight in gold; but in 
 its highest form and with its greatest opportunity for 
 development it becomes the opal, lit with iridescent fires. 
 The black soot, marring and soiling everything it touches, 
 if given its full opportunity of development, becomes the 
 white diamond, fit to adorn the brow of beauty or the 
 hand of power. And so this marring and distasteful 
 mass, taken from the hillside, if allowed to develop, be- 
 comes a diamond, an opal, a sapphire, set about a star of 
 snow. 
 
 America is the conflux of all the races. Each race has 
 brought its several aptitudes to this country, and out of 
 the opportunities here afforded there have been developed 
 from time to time men and women of such character, at- 
 tainments, and services as to become the admiration of 
 the world. Down in the cabin on the hillside of the Alie- 
 ghenies and up in a place in Massachusetts, on their sev- 
 eral days of birth, were born little handfuls of human 
 clay. No one stood by those cradles to presage the de- 
 velopment that would come. Out of adversity, out of 
 seeming impossibilities, out of very opposition itself, Lin- 
 coln rose by the refinements that he submitted to and 
 from the development that he sought, as did the elements 
 of this handful of earth of which I have spoken, to be 
 The Great American, " The foremost men in all the tide 
 of time ; " and the man in whose solemn memory we hold 
 this service to-day, by similar means, by purity of devo- 
 tion and purity of heart and integrity of purpose, rose in 
 your heart and in mine and in the hearts of his constitu- 
 ents to a high and holy place, because he worthily did his 
 work and faithfully availed himself of his opportunities. 
 
 But he has concluded his work. We have missed him 
 seriously in the Committee on Claims. We have lacked 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 many limes the soundness of his judgment and the so- 
 briety of his reasoning. With his departure the Govern- 
 ment and the people have suffered a distinct loss. But 
 that which is our loss is the gain of some other world. 
 
 Man, as it was said once before in the halls of Congress, 
 is the center of a circle w^hose fatal circumference he can 
 not pass. Within its confines he is omnipotent, but out- 
 side of it he perishes, and if anj^ human life, even the 
 longest and most fortunate, is not supplemented here- 
 after by a fuller life, then w^e are of all creatures the most 
 miserable, and those who fear to die should dread to live, 
 for life would be a tragedy more dark and inexplicable 
 than death. 
 
 What a piece of work is man! 
 
 How noble in reason! 
 
 How infinite in faculty! 
 
 In form and moving, how express and admirable! 
 
 In action, how like an angel! 
 
 In apprehension, how like a god! 
 
 The beauty of the world. 
 
 Such men as he whose solemn memory we commemo- 
 rate to-day lead us in the words of the great singer to 
 this : 
 
 There is a God who lives and loves. 
 
 One God, one law, one element; 
 
 And one far-off divine event, 
 To which the whole creation moves. 
 
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Address of Mr. O'Connell, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Once again the Sixty-first Congress is 
 called upon to pay honor to the memory of a Representa- 
 tive in this House from the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts. The loss of two Congressmen within a year 
 brings us rather abruptly to the fullest realization of the 
 uncertainty of this life. The death of Mr. Lovering, who 
 represented the fourteenth district, left a big gap in the 
 Massachusetts delegation, for as the Nestor of this group 
 of men, with his years of practical wisdom and wide 
 experience, he greatly strengthened and dignified the 
 position of the Old Bay State in this council chamber of 
 the Nation. Mr. Lovering's death was comparatively 
 sudden, although his advanced years might have justi- 
 fied a fear that his remaining years might be few. But 
 the unlooked-for summons of Mr. Tirrell was a real 
 shock, taking him from us, as it did, in the fullness of his 
 matured wisdom and years, when we all felt that there 
 were yet before him many years of honor and important 
 advanced work. His loss to Massachusetts was acknowl- 
 edged on all sides by the sincere evidences of sorrow 
 everj^where displayed in his district when it became 
 known that he had passed away. We mourn him as a 
 colleague, but I also mourn him as a friend. 
 
 He was a man who had won my respect and confidence, 
 merited, I believe, in the fullest degree. Mr. Tirrell was 
 my senior by many years, and when I came to the bar in 
 Boston to practice law he was then one of the best known 
 trial lawyers, and engaged in a very large practice. 
 
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 Among his best clients was a large corporation, much 
 of the business of which was with small contractors and 
 builders. Some of these were careless and improvident, 
 and among them one who became a client of mine. A 
 dispute arose between my client and that of Mr. Tirrell. 
 The directors of the corporation were men of very little 
 sentiment and were accustomed to exacting their pound 
 of flesh regardless of consequences. It seemed to me that 
 my client was right, although from the standpoint of the 
 corporation he had no rights at all. Long litigation 
 would be necessary before my client could prevail, en- 
 tailing large expenditures for experts and the cost of the 
 protracted hearings. This naturally left him at a tremen- 
 dous disadvantage, for his wealth consisted practically 
 of a very large family, all of tender years. Good ethics 
 and morals, aside from the equity of the question in- 
 volved, convinced me that the corporation would do a 
 grievous wrong in resisting my client's claim. I called 
 upon Mr. Tirrell and discussed the question with frank- 
 ness. My appeal to him for simple justice impressed him, 
 and in a few days he wrote me stating that his clients 
 had accepted my view, and a speedy settlement followed. 
 This in itself was commendable, but, of course, not alto- 
 gether extraordinary; but when I ascertained some 
 months later that Mr. Tirrell had been unanimously 
 overruled by tlie directors of his client, who insisted on 
 taking advantage of the policy of might over right to 
 defeat the ends of justice, despite Mr. Tirrell's advice, 
 only to be told by him that he would no longer represent 
 them if they pursued such tactics, then, indeed, did my 
 admiration for the man assert itself, and for 11 years 
 since that time I have continued to honor and respect 
 him as a lawyer, gentleman, and high public official. 
 Further, 1 believe it was such sterling characteristics that 
 endeared him to the many friends in all ranks of life 
 
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Address of Mr. O'Connell, of Massachusetts 
 
 who knew him, and who became his loyal, steadfast sup- 
 porters in public life. Like his colleague, Mr. Lovering, 
 he had differed with the leaders of the Republican Party 
 in Massachusetts on matters of policy and party action. 
 This aroused angry feelings on the part of powerful in- 
 terests in his district, who would have retired Mr. Tirrell 
 to private life to replace him with some one who would 
 bow the supple knee to them and their wishes. But the 
 people of his district knew him best, and continued him 
 here in Congress for six terms. His splendid courage and 
 indefatigable efforts in behalf of his district combined 
 to make this possible; but inasmuch as his successor to 
 fill the unexpired term is a Democrat and his successor 
 elected as a Republican by less than 100 votes, we are 
 forced to the conclusion that our late colleague was a 
 man who had peculiarly w^on his way into the hearts of 
 his constituents in a remarkable degree. 
 
 Massachusetts has always applauded courage and per- 
 sonal independence, and we may easily believe it was Mr. 
 Tirrell's enemies in high political circles caused by his 
 courageous independence that made him so popular with 
 the voters of the fourth district. A rather strange coinci- 
 dence is noticeable in connection with the political situa- 
 tion in the districts represented by our late colleagues, 
 Mr. Lovering and Mr. Tirrell. Both were men of mature 
 years; both came to Congress after brief service in the 
 Massachusetts Senate. Both were schooled in the world 
 of business — Mr. Lovering as a cotton manufacturer; Mr. 
 Tirrell in connection with wood-pulp and banking inter- 
 ests, which engaged his attention besides the law. Both 
 differed with their party leaders and were constantly 
 harassed for this reason, but in each case their districts 
 stood solidly behind them. Both represented supposedly 
 Republican strongholds, yet each was succeeded by a 
 Democrat — Mr. Foss, a Democrat, succeeding Mr. Lover- 
 
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 ing, while Mr, Mitchell, a Democrat, succeeds Mr. Tirrell. 
 And to make the coincidence stronger, we find a Repub- 
 lican successor to Mr. Foss by only 41 votes, while the 
 Republican successor to Mr. Mitchell wins by less than 100 
 votes. This striking difference in the vote for our late 
 colleagues and their successors illustrates more strongly 
 than words can tell the splendid opinion entertained of 
 both Mr. Lovering and Mr. Tirrell by those who knew 
 them best. No Democrat had ever succeeded in defeat- 
 ing either, and a majority of thousands successively 
 reelected each of them. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell had won his spurs as a la^^yer before the 
 most exacting bar in the countrj% viz, the Boston bar. He 
 understood men in a remarkable degree. Not in any 
 sense magnetic — denied those physical attributes which 
 often attract a following to a man in public life— rather 
 small in stature, he nevertheless enjoyed the warm affec- 
 tion of a multitude of friends, chiefly, I believe, because 
 of his deep understanding of his fellow-men's ideas, 
 hopes, and thoughts. No man can attain high office in 
 our large fraternal organizations unless he clearly com- 
 prehends and practices the cardinal virtues on which 
 these great orders are built and organized. His high 
 rank in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows as past 
 grand master of the grand lodge at once carries convic- 
 tion that he was a man among men, honored and re- 
 spected in a large field where fickle public opinion and 
 unreasoning public passion play no part. His ripe ex- 
 perience in law and business, amplified and completed 
 by his activity in the fraternal society life of this country, 
 stamped Mr. Tirrell as one decidedly fit and equipped 
 to enter duties as a Member of Congress from the Com- 
 mon wealtli of Massacluisetts. It is needless to refer to 
 the industry, care, thought, and indefatigable work which 
 he brought to his official position in this great body. 
 
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Address of Mr. O'Connell, of Massachusetts 
 
 His district was regarded and cared for with a zeal and 
 thoroughness that won respect and gratitude from men 
 of both political parties in all the cities and towns of the 
 district. Massachusetts and the ideals of her people had 
 in Charles Quincy Tirrell a Representative worthy of 
 her best traditions and highest aspirations. She always 
 demands honest, progressive legislation. He labored 
 honestly and well in private and public life. His years 
 were filled with industry and intelligent effort. He en- 
 joyed his work and labored well to bring forth the best 
 that was possible. How apt it is at this time in connec- 
 tion with his sincere purposes and life attainments to re- 
 call the beautiful thought of Kipling, an author of whom 
 he was very fond : 
 
 When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted 
 
 and dried, 
 When the oldest colors are faded, and the youngest critic has 
 
 died. 
 We shall rest, and faith we shall need it, lie down for an aeon 
 
 or two. 
 Till the Master of all good workmen shall put us to work anew. 
 
 And those who are good shall be happy, they shall sit in a 
 
 golden chair, 
 They shall splash at a ten-league canvas, with brushes of comet's 
 
 hair; 
 They shall find real saints to draw from, Magdalene, Peter, and 
 
 Paul, 
 They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all. 
 
 And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall 
 
 blame; 
 And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for 
 
 fame; 
 But each for the joy of working — and each in his separate sphere 
 Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of Things as they 
 
 are. 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: My remarks on the life and character of 
 the late Charles Q. Tirrell will be very brief, as my 
 acquaintance with him was not of long duration. Al- 
 though short, that acquaintance so left its impress upon 
 me that I am unwilling to let this occasion pass without 
 a word of testimony to his sterling character. 
 
 I first met Mr. Tirrell in one of the courts of my home 
 city of New Haven, where he appeared as counsel in a 
 case where I assisted in representing the opposite side. 
 It was one of those chance meetings where neither of us 
 thought of ever seeing the other again, so that it was 
 something of a surprise when we next met each other on 
 the floor of this Chamber at the opening of the Sixty-first 
 Congress. The fact that we represented adjoining States 
 gave us a neighborly feeling, which was added to by the 
 fact that our names were called next to each other in the 
 alphabetical roll of the House. These apparently unim- 
 portant things first brought us together, and the result 
 was the beginning of a friendship which lasted till his 
 death. 
 
 At the end of the extra session of this Congress we were 
 both assigned to the Committee on Claims. If there is 
 any committee in this House that thoroughly tests and 
 tries the honesty, industry, and patience of a Member of 
 Congress it is surely the Committee on Chums. To the 
 conscientious member of that coimnittee it means much 
 hard, grinding work, as well as continual annoyance, 
 while trying to find the facts and equities in the endless 
 number of claims presented for consideration. The 
 usual reward of such work on that committee is the scoffs 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 of the House for most of the claims found to be just and 
 the ill will of the individual Members introducing the 
 bills for those not favorably reported. Through such a 
 test for many months I saw Mr. Tirrell go, but he turned 
 not to the right hand or to the left. If he believed a claim 
 was without equity or justice, no maudlin sentiment, no 
 plea of poverty, however much he might sympathize, no 
 courtesy for a fellow Member, though he was of a kindly 
 nature and disposed to be obliging, could sway him one 
 hair's breadth from what he believed to be right and just 
 both to the claimant and to the Treasury of the United 
 States. On the other hand, after sifting the facts and 
 arriving at the conclusion that a claim was honest and 
 just, though Members might scoff, though he knew he was 
 to receive condemnation instead of credit for his action, 
 he went on in the even tenor of his way, insisting that the 
 United States ought to pay its just debts the same as any 
 other debtor. 
 
 Such was his work on that committee, and it was but 
 an example of the honest, conscientious, thorough work 
 that he did as a public servant. As one who to a limited 
 extent worked with him, I am glad to bring this small 
 tribute to his memory on this occasion. 
 
 As to his earlier life and home life I know but little 
 and will attempt to say nothing. However, on those 
 points I have a letter from a mutual friend and brother 
 lawyer. Prof. George E. Beers, of my home city, who 
 knew Mr. Tirrell from boyhood; and as it bears a very 
 sincere and gracious tribute of one friend to another, I 
 wish to insert it here and have it printed as a part of my 
 remarks : 
 
 New Haven, Conn., February 10, 1911. 
 Hon. John Q. Tilson, 
 
 House of Bepresentatives, Washington, D. C. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Tilson: I have learned with much interest that 
 you are to say a few words at the memorial service to be held in 
 
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 honor of your distinguished colleague, the late Hon. Charles Q. 
 Tirrell, of Massachusetts. 
 
 I am quite sure that I had the pleasure and honor of intro- 
 ducing you to each other in this city a good many years ago, 
 when Mr. Tirrell and I were engaged in the trial of a case upon 
 which you were one of the counsel upon the other side. This 
 was long before you became a Member of the House, and I think 
 some time before Mr. Tirrell became a Member, but after he 
 had been a member of the General Court and of the State Senate 
 of Massachusetts. 
 
 My acquaintance with Mr. Tirrell began during my boyhood 
 in Natick, Mr. Tirrell's home town, where our family and his 
 were neighbors, living upon the same street. He had then 
 recently entered public life and was an active and influential 
 practitioner at the Boston bar. He was one of the leading citi- 
 zens of the section in which he lived, interested in all worthy 
 public enterprises, and one who enjoyed the respect and con- 
 fidence of the whole community. Such was my impression of 
 him when I was a boy. Later I was associated with him in 
 occasional professional matters, and on closer view I found him 
 the same as in former years, except that, of course, he had grown 
 and developed, by contact with a larger world, in which he was 
 playing so active and distinguished a part. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell was a delightful man in his family and social rela- 
 tions, and was particularly interested in the then struggling 
 church — St. Paul's — of which he was a member, contributing 
 liberally of his own means and working earnestly not only in 
 the manner usual to laymen, but in the way of acting as lay 
 reader in the church as his services were required. 
 
 I feel that Massachusetts and the country at large have lost a 
 most valuable public servant and the community of which he 
 was a part one of its best and most valued members. 
 Yours, very sincerely, 
 
 George E. Beers. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sheffield, of Rhode Island 
 
 Mr. Speaker: As one of those who knew Mr. Tirrell 
 only during the Sixty-first Congress, I wish to add a few 
 words in appreciation of his ability and service to his 
 district and the Nation, and of the loss sustained by his 
 friends in his death. 
 
 There are many of his associates who can better tell 
 of his 10 years of faithful work in this Hall and in the 
 committees of the House. When I first met him he had 
 acquired a recognized position upon some of the leading 
 committees and a wide acquaintance in both branches 
 of Congress. From his long service he was the ranking 
 member of both the Judiciary Committee and the Com- 
 mittee on Claims, on both of which committees he was 
 an indefatigable worker and an influential member. He 
 was chairman of subcommittee No. 1 of the Judiciary 
 Committee, and thus 1 came to know Mr. Tirrell well 
 and to appreciate his uniform courtesy toward all. He 
 did much to influence the legislation that came from his 
 two committees and passed the House. 
 
 He was especially kind to younger Members who »had 
 not had his experience, and he was always interested in 
 assisting them in the performance of their duties and to 
 a wider acquaintance with the problems of legislation. 
 
 Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, born in Sharon, Mass., 
 December 10, 1844, was graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in the class of 1866. That college has always had a 
 record for the number and character of its graduates who 
 have entered public life. Hardly any educational insti- 
 tution and certainly no small college has sent so many 
 men to public service and to both branches of Congress. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 Mr. Tirrell was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts 
 in 1870, after studying in the office of Richard H. Dana, 
 jr., and established himself in the practice of law at the 
 Suffolk County bar. There his fellow citizens early ap- 
 preciated those enduring qualities of heart and mind 
 which made him so beloved a public servant; a ready 
 smile for all that knew him; an earnest effort to assist 
 all that had any claim upon his time and devoted and 
 disinterested service for his constituency. He served in 
 both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature, and on 
 March 4, 1901, became a Member of this House. 
 
 Here he devoted himself with diligence to the needs 
 of his district. He fought for and obtained the extension 
 of the free rural mail deliver^' in his district. He was 
 not looking always to exploit himself, but only for what 
 was best for his State and the whole country. He was 
 a strong temperance man, advocating what he believed 
 was for the best interest of the countrj^ in the abolition of 
 the canteen and other legislation to promote the welfare 
 of the people. From his knowledge of the law, his fair- 
 mindedness, his earnest advocacy of measures which he 
 believed for the general welfare, he became well liked 
 by his associates and of much influence in national legis- 
 lation. As a member of leading committees, requiring 
 much work in studying the questions involved and pro- 
 moting the consideration of such measures as were en- 
 titled to be acted upon by the House, he was at his best. 
 He did not hesitate upon the floor of the House to empha- 
 size his views and with courtesy and ability to present 
 his arguments in defense of his position. 
 
 In many ways Mr. Tirrell was an ideal legislator, dili- 
 gent in investigation, cautious in coming to a conclusion, 
 ardent and forceful in expressing his conclusions. He 
 was ever vigilant in protecting the interests of his district 
 and each citizen of it. He was broad and tolerant in his 
 
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Address of Mr. Sheffield, of Rhode Island 
 
 views of national matters and patriotic in his advocacy 
 of policies affecting the v^^hole country. 
 
 But it was chiefly as a friend and in the closer relations 
 of his family that his loss will be lastingly felt. No man 
 could meet him day by day and not enjoy his bright and 
 keen comment on everything that was taking place and 
 not appreciate his many acts of courtesy and kindness. 
 
 He was most happy in his family life. Few men took 
 such pleasure as he did in being with his family, riding 
 about and enjoying the country and meeting with them, 
 their friends. He will be missed in the family circle as 
 few are missed. 
 
 The test of manhood is the faithful performance of 
 duty in every relation of life, not in striving after noto- 
 riety, but in the quiet and conscientious doing of every 
 act. Such a one was our deceased friend. He was an 
 intelligent and devoted legislator, and his death was a 
 distinct loss to this countrj\ 
 
 He was an honest and faithful friend, and as such we 
 mourn his death to-day. 
 
 To see the vacant chair and think 
 How good, how kind, and he is gone — 
 That friend of mine who lives in God. 
 
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Address of Mr. Rowland, of Ohio 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I come to-day with no formal words of 
 eulogy, but simply as a friend to pay my tribute to the 
 colleague who has gone. I had no acquaintance with Mr. 
 TiRRELL during the early years of his career, and it was 
 not until the Sixtieth Congress that I had the privilege of 
 placing him on my list of friends. 
 
 On occasions of this character there is nothing that we 
 can do, there is little that we can say to lessen the sorrow 
 or soften the blow. Words — weak, halting words — yet 
 they come from the hearts of friends. 
 
 It is entirely fitting that his colleagues from Massachu- 
 setts, that his colleagues from New England, should here 
 to-day speak earnest, sincere words of eulogy and give 
 us the biography of his earlier days. His services in this 
 House, however, were of such a character that the Nation 
 claims him as one of her illustrious sons, and the eloquent 
 words just spoken by the distinguished gentleman from 
 Oregon [Mr. Hawley] demonstrate the fact that his per- 
 sonality, his conspicuous public service, will be gratefully 
 remembered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and I, from 
 the Middle West, from Ohio, join with my colleagues from 
 Massachusetts — Ohio joins with Massachusetts — in mourn- 
 ing for our mutual loss. 
 
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Address of Mr. Morgan, of Oklahoma 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I regret that I have not had the time to 
 make adequate preparation to speak on this occasion. I 
 am not, however, willing that this hour should pass with- 
 out saying a few words to indicate my high appreciation 
 of the noble character of Charles Quincy Tirrell, whose 
 memory by these memorial services we honor to-day. 
 My personal acquaintance with the deceased did not ex- 
 tend over a long period of time, I did not know him prior 
 to the convening of the Sixty-first Congress. I was never 
 intimate with him as others no doubt were. I did, how- 
 ever, know him well enough to become sincerely attached 
 to him, to form a high opinion of his character, to ap- 
 preciate his many manly virtues, and to admire him as a 
 man possessing many of the most sterling qualities of 
 mind and heart. He possessed those attributes, charac- 
 teristics, and qualifications which made him an ideal Rep- 
 resentative in Congress. 
 
 I mean to pay him the very highest compliment in say- 
 ing that he was an honest man. Not honest merely in his 
 business transactions, but honest in his convictions, hon- 
 est in his work, honest in discharging his public duties as 
 a Representative of the people. The constituency he rep- 
 resented in this House was fortunate in having a Repre- 
 sentative who performed his duties so honestly and 
 conscientiously. 
 
 Every Member here, I trust, fully appreciates the very 
 high honor that membership in this House confers. Many 
 of us, no doubt, feel our inability to meet, as we would 
 like, all the requirements of the position we occupy. Do 
 the best we may, we can not fully meet all the demands of 
 the high position we hold. But we may all well follow 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 the splendid example set by our deceased associate, in 
 honestly and faithfully discharging our duties and in 
 giving our constituents and our country the very best 
 that is within us. 
 
 Charles Quincy Tirrell as a Representative in Con- 
 gress displayed great industrj\ In the Congress of the 
 United States, as elsewhere, industry is the golden key 
 that unlocks the door to success. Our deceased associate 
 was diligent in his work, careful and painstaking in his 
 attention to business, persistent in his efforts, and perse- 
 vering, conscientious, and brave in the discharge of every 
 duty devolving upon him. 
 
 Our deceased associate was not a man w^ho was dis- 
 posed to display ostentatiously his own ability or to un- 
 duly magnify his own acquirements or to place an exag- 
 gerated importance upon his own views and opinions. 
 He was modest, unassuming, unobtrusive, and reserved in 
 his disposition. He had a high regard for the views and 
 opinions of others. In presenting fearlessly what he 
 thought was right he always had due regard for the rights 
 of others. He always presented his own views in such 
 a manner as not to offend others. 
 
 Charles Quincy Tirrell was a man with high ideals of 
 manhood and citizenship. He was attached to the free 
 institutions of our country. He was patriotic in his im- 
 pulses, and gave to his constituents at home and to the 
 country at large the highest service of which he was 
 capable. He did his full duty as a private citizen and 
 as a public official, and left behind him an example we 
 may all well follow, a life we may all imitate, a character 
 we may all admire, and a record of public service that 
 will long perpetuate his fair name, his noble character, 
 and his splendid achievements. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Greene, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I recall to my recollection the pleasant 
 association that it was my privilege to enjoy with the late 
 Hon. Charles Q. Tirrell during his membership in the 
 House of Representatives. I had known him for several 
 years previously, but our friendship was very largely in- 
 creased and strongly cemented because of our intimacy 
 during the last 10 years, and I pay this tribute to his 
 memory as my late colleague, which a long-established 
 custom demands, with a feeling of sadness because of his 
 departure, but also with a feeling of high appreciation 
 of his public services and record. Mr. Tirrell was a 
 student and lover of literature. He attended Dartmouth 
 College and graduated with honors. His roommate was 
 the Hon. Henry C. Ide, of Vermont, formerly commis- 
 sioner at Samoa and Governor General of the Philippine 
 Islands, and who afterwards was appointed envoy ex- 
 traordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Kingdom 
 of Spain. They continued to be intimate friends and fre- 
 quently spent considerable time together in Washington. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation from college Mr. Tir- 
 rell taught school in Peacham, Vt., and afterwards was 
 principal of the high school in St. Johnsbury, Vt. He 
 studied law in the office of the late Richard H. Dana, Esq., 
 5 very prominent attorney, at Boston, Mass. At that time 
 young men adopted this method of preparing for the prac- 
 tice of law more frequently than by attending a university 
 or law school. He was admitted to the bar in 1870, and 
 was elected a member of the Massachusetts Legislature 
 from the town of Weymouth. Three years later he was 
 married, and removed to the town of Natick, Mass. He 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 was also twice elected to the senate from the district of 
 which the town of Natick was a part. He was a presi- 
 dential elector in 1888 upon the Republican ticket and 
 cast his vote for the election of Benjamin Harrison for 
 President. He was a good debater and was an active cam- 
 paigner, expounding the principles of the Republican 
 Party and defending its policies. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell was a member of the Masonic fraternity, 
 and was a very prominent member of the Independent 
 Order of Odd Fellows, in which order he had enjoyed the 
 honor of being the grand master for the State of Massa- 
 chusetts. He was an ardent advocate of temperance, and 
 held the office of grand worthy templar of the Temple of 
 Honor of the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 In 1900 he was elected to represent the fourth con- 
 gressional district of Massachusetts, and has been re- 
 elected every two years thereafter. The district contains 
 3 cities and 41 towns, and has many diversified interests. 
 The Rural Free Delivery Service particularly engaged 
 Mr. Tirrell's attention, and he was especially active in 
 securing the advantages of this service in all parts of the 
 district. The watch industry of Waltham, one of the most 
 important in the State, was of especial interest to him. 
 He familiarized himself with all the details of the busi- 
 ness, and he eloquently replied to some of the attacks 
 made upon the industry by those who opposed the policy 
 of protection of American industries and American labor. 
 Mr, Tirrell was a prominent member of the Committ^ 
 on the Judiciary, one of the most important in the House 
 of Representatives. His long experience at the bar and 
 great ability as a pleader was the reason of his being 
 called upon to investigate many complicated legal propo- 
 sitions which were constantly arising. 
 
 He was also on the Committee on Claims. This com- 
 mittee has many complex problems to consider, and Mr. 
 
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Address of Mr. Greene, of Massachusetts 
 
 Tirrell's service was greatly appreciated. He had also 
 rendered some service on the Committees on Education 
 and Irrigation of Arid Lands. 
 
 Mr. TiRRELL actively opposed the appropriations for 
 the maintenance of the canteen in the national soldiers' 
 homes, and, finally, after a few years' struggle, he was re- 
 warded by the support of a large number of his colleagues, 
 and the appropriation was stricken from the sundrj^ civil 
 bill. Also he strongly opposed the reenactment of the 
 legislation restoring the canteen whenever it was pre- 
 sented during his membership in the House. 
 
 In addition to his activities in public life, Mr. Tirrell 
 was engaged in the organization of several savings banks 
 and business corporations, and was eminently successful 
 in his connection with many business enterprises. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell and I were warm personal friends. During 
 the second session of the Sixty-first Congress he did not 
 enjoy good health, but notwithstanding his disabilities he 
 rendered faithful attention to his duties. His friends 
 hoped that rest and relaxation from his official work 
 would result in the restoration of his accustomed vigor, 
 but it seems to have been ordained otherwise. During 
 the last few weeks of his life his spirits were buoyant, and 
 he was active up to the day of his death. His last act was 
 to dictate a letter to his campaign manager announcing 
 his determination not to be a candidate for renomination 
 to Congress. This was only the night before he passed 
 away. 
 
 My deceased colleague left behind him a record in 
 public and private life which must afford great satisfac- 
 tion to his family and friends. 
 
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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. Speaker : I had not contemplated participating ex- 
 cept as an interested listener in the exercises in honor of 
 the memor>^ of our late colleague, Mr. Tirrell, but as I 
 have listened to the remarks of the gentlemen who have 
 preceded me, I have noted that no one has spoken for 
 or on behalf of the Intermountain West, a region which is 
 under great and lasting obligation to Mr. Tirrell. There- 
 fore I feel it a duty, as well as a high privilege, to speak 
 very briefly in the name of the West. 
 
 It is unfortunate for us in many ways that our duties 
 here are so engrossing in their character and command 
 so large a proportion of our time that it is impossible for 
 us to become intimately acquainted with all of our col- 
 leagues. It is only the fortune of social intercourse, 
 mutual interest, or committee assignment that brings us 
 into that close contact by which we acquire a familiar ac- 
 quaintance and true knowledge of the character of our 
 colleagues. It was my good fortune to serve a number of 
 years with Mr. Tirrell on the Committee on Irrigation of 
 Arid Lands. We had under consideration measures of 
 vast and far-reaching importance, the character of which 
 was entirely novel to the industries, the aims, and aspira- 
 tions of his constituents. We proposed the use of certain 
 Federal income for the reclamation of lands in the far 
 West, and tliercforc even the theater of proposed opera- 
 tion was 2,000 to 3,000 miles from the boundary of Mr. 
 Tirrell's district, and the character of the legislation, pro- 
 posing, as it did, a departure from past practice and vast 
 expenditures, was calculated to arouse the hostility, at 
 
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Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 
 
 least not to arouse the enthusiasm, of a man from a far- 
 distant section of the country, one who was naturally 
 conservative in his views. In the consideration of this 
 measure, however, in the hearings held before the com- 
 mittee, Mr. TiRRELL was patient, attentive, and sym- 
 pathetic, with the result that he became, first, a believer 
 in the plan proposed, and then an enthusiastic advocate 
 of it, and by reason of his locality and of the confidence 
 which the Members from his part of the Union had in his 
 judgment he was exceedingly useful and helpful in secur- 
 ing the passage of the national irrigation law. So, Mr. 
 Speaker, I bring to these services the tribute of the West 
 to the memory of a man of broad views, of broad sym- 
 pathy, a man who in all his service here had but one 
 thought, and that the best interest of all the people under 
 the flag. 
 
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Address of Mr. Higgins, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I can only speak of our late colleague 
 from an association with him as a Member of this House. 
 I first met him upon the convening of the Fifty-ninth Con- 
 gress, and that acquaintance, then formed, continued up 
 to the time of the termination of his service in this body 
 by death. It was my privilege to come into intimate 
 association with him through our both being members of 
 the Judiciary Committee. He showed in his service on 
 that committee, as in the House, the courage, persistence, 
 and fidelity which must have characterized his life before 
 his service here. He was never afraid to meet any ques- 
 tion which arose in the deliberation of that great law 
 committee of this House, and however troublesome it 
 might appear he did not dodge the issue nor waver in his 
 conception of what he believed was wise and constitu- 
 tional legislation. He considered the great questions 
 pending before that committee as a trained lawyer and 
 mindful of his oath as a Representative; he decided them 
 as a judge, prompted only by motives of right and justice. 
 
 It is a melancholy fact that we too rarely realize the 
 physical disabilities that our colleagues are laboring un- 
 der. Many times Mr. Tirrell attended committee meet- 
 ings and to his other duties when many less courageous 
 would have given thought only to the conserving of their 
 strength. 
 
 He valued highly his membership in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives for what it enabled him to do for others, and 
 he had a high conception of his public duties, which he 
 ever faithfully discharged. 
 
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Address of Mr. Higgins, of Connecticut 
 
 In my attendance upon his funeral services the evident 
 esteem and affection in which he was held by his own 
 people of the typical Massachusetts town of Natick was 
 apparent on all sides. Business was suspended, the 
 church was thronged, and the town that he loved to labor 
 for and the district that he had so well served in this 
 House for nearly 10 years gave marked appreciation of 
 his public labors and worth. 
 
 He was ever kindly and considerate. He realized to the 
 fullest extent his obligations to the House of Representa- 
 tives as its servant upon its different committees. In 
 some measure I came to know of his home life in Wash- 
 ington. This was characterized by those qualities which 
 those of us who knew him best were confident that he 
 brought to the home circle. He was a devoted husband 
 and father. Massachusetts and the Nation have lost an 
 honest, able, and conscientious public servant, whose in- 
 fluence will continue to be felt, as it always was exerted 
 on the side of truth and right. 
 
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Address of Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I knew Charles Q. Tirrell for many 
 years, and for the 10 years of his membership in this 
 House was intimately acquainted with him. 
 
 Other gentlemen have reviewed his life in great detail 
 and have paid his memory the well-deserved tributes that 
 his life won; and I shall only endeavor, in a very gen- 
 eral way, to add my tribute to the man as I was privileged 
 to know him, and to his character, which was known to 
 all. 
 
 With a fine educational qualification Mr. Tirrell came 
 to this House after an apprenticeship in the Massachu- 
 setts State Legislature; and a long term of service at the 
 bar of that State, in the course of which he filled many 
 positions of trust, and filled them all well. His record 
 of achievement prior to becoming a Member of this House 
 was notable, and his reputation as a man of capability, 
 fairness, and unswerving honesty was well deserved. 
 
 On assuming his duties as a Member of the National 
 Legislature the traits that had made him successful in 
 his private life began at once to have their effect on his 
 career here. If there was one thing more than another 
 which marked him for success, and assured his firm hold 
 upon the aifections of his constituents and fellow Mem- 
 bers of this House I am confident it was his infinite ca- 
 pacity for taking pains, to which was coupled that un- 
 movablc honesty of purpose and fearlessness of the opin- 
 ions of others, so long as he felt himself in the right, which 
 marked his course in his profession. 
 
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Address of Mr. Roberts, of Massachusetts 
 
 In his service on the Committee on the Judiciary and 
 on Claims these characteristics had wide scope and his 
 work on both these committees was a real pleasure to 
 him. The knowledge that to Mr. Tirrell was intrusted 
 any particular measure was an assurance to those inter- 
 ested that an unusual degree of painstaking care would 
 be given to that measure in committee. 
 
 Sometimes at variance with popular feeling and party 
 alignment, pressure never affected him, unless it could 
 be shown that his stand was in error, and then, as all 
 broad-minded men are wont to do, he saw his mistake 
 and was equally firm in his defense of the new and cor- 
 rect position. 
 
 Such traits as these could not but endear any man to 
 those intimately associated with him, and when these un- 
 usually well-developed attributes are added to a person- 
 ality as sweet as was that of Mr. Tirrell's the combina- 
 tion makes in a man such a one as we seek often to have 
 for a friend and seldom find. 
 
 His sudden death at the very height of his ability and 
 in the midst of his career makes a gap in the Massachu- 
 setts delegation that those of us who are left behind find it 
 hard to overcome; and what is sadder far to the individ- 
 ual comes a break in the circle of friends whom we hold 
 dear that nothing can mend. 
 
 His life was an open book. His virtues writ large, and 
 his failings so small as not to be visible. His statesman- 
 ship was of the highest and noblest type, and his life must 
 serve as an inspiration to those of us to whom the carry- 
 ing on of his work is left; while to those who will come 
 in the future, and looking over the former membership 
 of this House shall seek one from whose work they may 
 draw that idea of faithful service which will serve as a 
 standard to them, Charles Q. Tirrell will be an ideal. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 December 6, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, I ask that the resolutions of 
 the House of Representatives announcing the death of the 
 late Representative Tirrell be laid before the Senate. 
 
 The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions of the House of Representatives, which will 
 be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 In the House of Representatives, 
 
 December 5, 1910. 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a Representative 
 from the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a 
 copy of these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. I otfer the following resolutions and ask for 
 their adoption. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolution will be read. 
 
 The resolutions were read and unanimously agreed to 
 as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
 announcement of the death of Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late 
 a Representative from the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Mr. Hale. My motion to adjourn is, of course, pending. 
 I withdraw the motion in order that the Senator from 
 Massachusetts may offer a resolution of adjournment. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. I submit the following resolution and ask for 
 its adoption. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolution will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 those Representatives whose deaths have been announced the 
 Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The Vice President. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolution submitted by the Senator from Massachusetts. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Wednesday, December 7, 1910, at 12 o'clock 
 meridian. 
 
 February 22, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that on 
 Saturday, the 25th, at 5 o'clock, I shall ask the Senate to 
 consider resolutions commemorative of the life and char- 
 acter of Hon. William C. Lovering and Hon. Charles Q. 
 TiRRELL, late Members of the House of Representatives 
 from Massachusetts. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Tirrell 
 
 Saturday, February 25, 1911. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to 
 come, we rejoice that we. Thy children, though we seem 
 but creatures of a day, yet share Thine eternity. Because 
 Thou livest, we live; and because Thy years have no end, 
 therefore are we without beginning of days or end of life. 
 As we this day commemorate those who have labored 
 with us for the common good, deepen in us, we beseech 
 Thee, the assurance of Thy grace, and quicken in us the 
 hope of life eternal. Grant, we implore Thee, that neither 
 life nor death may separate us from Thee, in whom we 
 live, move, and have our being. 
 
 And so may God, our Father, who hath loved us and 
 hath given us eternal comfort and good hope through 
 grace, comfort our hearts and establish them in every 
 good work and word. Amen. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before 
 the Senate the resolutions of the House of Representa- 
 tives on the death of Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late 
 a Representative from the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Curtis in the chair). The 
 Chair lays before the Senate resolutions of the House of 
 Representatives, which will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 In the House of Representatives, 
 
 February 12, 1911. 
 
 Eesolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
 Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a Member of this House from the 
 State of Massachusetts. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 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. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, I offer the following resolu- 
 tions and ask for their adoption. 
 
 The resolutions were read, considered by unanimous 
 consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate expresses its profound sorrow on 
 account of the death of the Hon. Charles Quincy Tirrell, late a 
 Member of the House of Representatives from the State of Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended in 
 order that fitting tributes may be paid his high character and dis- 
 tinguished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these res- 
 olutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of 
 the deceased. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: Charles Quincy Tirrell, whose mem- 
 ory we commemorate here to-day, was born in Sharon, 
 Mass., December 10, 1844. His parents were the familiar, 
 sturdy type of the time, and while their son was still a 
 young boy they moved from Sharon to Westfield. From 
 all accounts he was the usual normal boy, participating 
 in the sports of his playmates and doing generally what 
 boys of that age and generation did for recreation and 
 pleasure. He attended the public schools and entered 
 Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in the class 
 of 1866, one year after the close of the Civil War. After 
 graduation from college his first employment was as a 
 school-teacher. He was principal of Peacham Academy, 
 at Peacham, Vt., for one year, and for the next two years 
 he was principal of the high school at St. Johnsbury, in 
 the same State. 
 
 In the three years that he was engaged in teaching he 
 found time to take up the study of the law, and finally, 
 giving up his position as teacher, he went to Boston and 
 entered the law office of R. H. Dana, jr., distinguished 
 lawyer and jurist, and in 1870 was admitted to practice 
 before the Sufi'olk County bar. 
 
 He was a resident of Weymouth during the first year 
 or two of his law work, and in 1872 was elected to the 
 general court from that town. In 1873 he married Miss 
 Mary F. Hollis, of Natick, to which place he removed, and 
 it was here that he made his home up to the time of his 
 death. 
 
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Address of Mr, Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 In 1881 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate and 
 was reelected the following year. He served as a presi- 
 dential elector for his district in 1888. He entered the 
 House in 1900 as a Member of the Fifty-seventh Congress, 
 and was reelected to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and 
 Sixtieth Congresses, his service ending with his death 
 on July 31, 1910. 
 
 It will be seen from this record of Mr. Tirrell's service 
 that he was always deeply interested in public affairs, and 
 as early as 1869, while residing in Weymouth, he was a 
 member of the school board and continued a member until 
 his removal to Natick. In his home town he was always 
 foremost in any movement of a public nature, and for 
 many years he served as moderator of the town meetings. 
 
 He was a leader in Masonic and temperance organiza- 
 tions, and reached in time the highest office in the State 
 body of Odd Fellows, 
 
 In business Mr. Tirrell was active in banking and in 
 the law, and was conspicuously successful in both. He 
 was a quiet, painstaking, and methodical worker. 
 Whether as a teacher, banker, or lawyer, he was always 
 trusted and relied upon, and when he entered upon his 
 service here in Washington it was his careful and assidu- 
 ous application to his duties which made him of such 
 value to his district, his State, and the Nation. His 
 committee assignments were varied and important, 
 but he could always be counted upon to do his work 
 thoroughly and with an eye single to the best interests 
 of the Government. 
 
 He was an upright, high-minded man, and his death 
 was a lo^s to his State and to the House of Representa- 
 tives. I knew Mr. Tirrell first in 1881, when he was 
 serving as a member of the State senate, and our friend- 
 ship remained unbroken until his death. To me his 
 death is not only a public loss but a personal sorrow. 
 
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Address of Mr. Crane, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: It was my good fortune to know 
 Charles Q. Tirrell for many years. A native of the Old 
 Bay State, he spent his entire life there, with the excep- 
 tion of the period of his course at Dartmouth College and 
 three years during which he taught at Peacham and St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt. I had known him as an able and high- 
 minded lawyer before he came to Congress 10 years ago. 
 He took a special interest in all questions pertaining to 
 the welfare of the town of Natick, which was his home 
 after his marriage in 1873, and his devotion to the work of 
 upbuilding the community was recognized by his people, 
 his popularity at home being attested by the fact that he 
 was chosen as moderator of the town meetings year after 
 year. 
 
 Mr. Tirrell was an ardent advocate of the temperance 
 cause, and his attitude toward this subject was shown 
 in the stand he always took in the Halls of Congress when- 
 ever that cause was under consideration. 
 
 He served a year in the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
 resentatives and two years as State senator. In 1888 he 
 was a presidential elector. His service in the National 
 House of Representatives continued through almost five 
 terms. In all of his public life he was actuated by a 
 desire not merely to serve his constituents with fidelity, 
 but at all times to do what seemed to him to be right and 
 in accord with his own conscience and judgment. He 
 studied all public questions with a desire to understand 
 them thoroughly before taking action. It was this faculty 
 which made him so valuable a committee worker in tlie 
 
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Address of Mr. Crane, of Massachusetts 
 
 House of Representatives, and his membership upon the 
 important Committee on the Judiciary afforded him a 
 large field for the exercise of his legal talents and knowl- 
 edge. He took full advantage of the opportunity thus 
 offered and was exceedingly helpful in the investigation 
 of many important measures with which that committee 
 was called upon to deal. His devotion to his duties in 
 Washington was especially noteworthy during the last 
 year or two of his life here, for in spite of poor health 
 which came upon him he continued his attendance upon 
 his committees and the House and gave his strength to the 
 work in hand. In fact, he was never physically strong, 
 but the determination and strength of character which 
 he possessed made it possible for him to accomplish 
 much. He will always be remembered as a helpful, 
 earnest worker, not only for his town and community, 
 but for his Commonwealth and for his country. 
 
 The uncertainty of life is brought home to us to-day 
 when we recall that on June 5, 1910, Charles Q. Tirrell 
 delivered an address in the House of Representatives 
 upon the life and character of William C. Lovering, who 
 died February 4, 1910, and that we are now met to express 
 our appreciation of the service of Mr. Tirrell, who passed 
 away July 31 last, only about seven weeks after he had 
 spoken in the historic hall at the other end of the Capitol 
 of the work of his colleague. 
 
 Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect 
 to the memory of Mr. Lovering and Mr. Tirrell, late 
 members of the House of Representatives, I move that the 
 Senate adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 5 
 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned 
 until Monday, February 27, 1911, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
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