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64th Congress) 
 2d Session ) 
 
 SENATE 
 
 /Document 
 I No. 649 
 
 WILLIAM O'CONNELL BRADLEY 
 
 (Late a Senator from Kentucky) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 3Sb 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 June 24, 1916 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 May 25, 1914 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 1917 
 

 D. of D. 
 FEB 19 1918 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Page 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Pretty man, D. D 5 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Ollie M. James, of Kentucky 9 
 
 Mr. Charles E. Townsend, of Michigan 15 
 
 Mr. John D. Works, of California 17 
 
 Mr. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi 18 
 
 Mr. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming 20 
 
 Mr. John W. Kern, of Indiana 24 
 
 Mr. Knute Nelson, of Minnesota 27 
 
 Mr. James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois 30 
 
 Mr. Lee S. Overman, of North Carolina 37 
 
 Mr. Reed Smoot, of Utah 39 
 
 Mr. J. C. W. Beckham, of Kentucky 43 
 
 Proceedings in the House 51 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 51 
 
 Eulogy by Mr. C. Lee Cook 47 
 
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 HON. WILLIAM O BRADLEY 
 
Death of Hon. William O'Connell Bradley 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Monday, May 25, 19U. 
 
 The Senate met at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, from everlasting to everlasting Thou art 
 God. A thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday 
 when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou dost 
 not count the short span of our human existence as the 
 measure of Thy purpose in human life. 
 
 We come to Thee this morning with sad hearts because 
 another one of the sweet ties of human friendship has 
 been broken. A man respected and loved among us has 
 been called to the great beyond. 
 
 We thank Thee for those qualities of heart and mind 
 that made him a high and patriotic statesman, a devoted 
 friend, a lover of little children, honored by his State, 
 respected by his fellow citizens, loved by those who knew 
 
 him best. 
 
 The mystery of life is again presented to us. We ask, 
 Who is sufficient for these things? We turn our faces to 
 Thee O God of grace, and pray that Thou wilt still lead 
 
 us on. 
 
 We commit to Thee with our sympathy and love that 
 inner circle of friends of the dead Senator, whose hearts 
 are too tender at this hour even for the touch of human 
 sympathy, and pray that they may feel the healing touch 
 of the great sympathizing Divine friend. For Christ s 
 sake. Amen. 
 
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 Mr. James. Mr. President, it becomes my sad and pain- 
 ful duty to announce to the Senate the death of my dis- 
 tinguished colleague, Senator Bradley, who passed away 
 at 9.45 o'clock last Saturday night in this city. 
 
 He came to this Chamber with the greatest honor that 
 his native State could bestow upon him. He had the dis- 
 tinction of being the only member of his party who was 
 ever honored with the governorship and the senatorship 
 of the great State of Kentucky. 
 
 He was one of the most genial of men and a prince 
 among his fellows. He was a distinguished lawyer, a 
 great orator, and a profound statesman. His followers in 
 Kentucky idolized him, and they will love his memory as 
 they loved him during his life. He will be greatly missed 
 by his colleagues in this Chamber, as he will be mourned 
 by his thousands of followers and friends in his beloved 
 State. At some future time I shall ask the Senate to set 
 apart a day to pay tribute to his memory and to his dis- 
 tinguished services to his State and to his country. 
 
 I send to the Secretary's desk the following resolutions 
 and ask that they be read. 
 
 The Presiding Officer. The Secretary will read the reso- 
 lutions offered by the Senator from Kentucky. 
 
 The Assistant Secretary (Henry M. Rose) read the reso- 
 lutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of the Hon. William O. Bradley, late a 
 Senator from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 14 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President to take order for arranging the funeral of Mr. 
 Bradley. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be re- 
 moved from his late home in this city to Frankfort, Ky., for burial 
 in charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, who 
 shall have power to carry these resolutions into effect. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to 
 the House of Bepresentatives. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 The Presiding Officer. The question is on agreeing to 
 the resolutions. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 The Presiding Officer. The Chair appoints as members 
 of the committee provided for in the second resolution the 
 Senator from Kentucky, Mr. James; the senior Senator 
 from New Hampshire, Mr. Gallinger; the junior Senator 
 from Wyoming, Mr. Warren; the junior Senator from 
 North Carolina, Mr. Overman; the senior Senator from 
 Utah, Mr. Smoot; the senior Senator from Indiana, Mr. 
 Shively; the senior Senator from New York, Mr. Root; 
 the junior Senator from Indiana, Mr. Kern; the senior 
 Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Martine; the junior Senator 
 from Washington, Mr. Poindexter; the junior Senator 
 from New York, Mr. O'Gorman; the senior Senator from 
 New Mexico, Mr. Fall; the junior Senator from Arizona, 
 Mr. Smith; and the junior Senator from New Jersey, Mr. 
 
 Hughes. 
 
 Mr. James. Mr. President, I move as a further mark of 
 respect to the memory of the distinguished Senator that 
 the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 11 
 o'clock and 7 minutes a. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 to-morrow, Tuesday, May 26, 1914, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 Monday, May 29, 1916. 
 
 Mr. James. I desire to give the following notice, which I 
 send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretary will read the notice. 
 
 The Secretary. The Senator from Kentucky gives the 
 following notice : 
 
 That on Saturday, June 24, 1916, immediately upon the conclu- 
 sion of the routine morning business, he will ask that the business 
 of the Senate may be suspended that fitting tribute may be paid 
 to the life and character of the Hon. William 0. Bradley, late a 
 Senator from the State of Kentucky. 
 
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 Saturday, June 24, 1916. 
 
 Mr. James. Mr. President, in accordance with the notice 
 heretofore given, I send to the desk the following resolu- 
 tions and ask that they may be read and adopted. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The resolutions were read, considered by unanimous 
 consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sorrow of the 
 death of the Hon. William 0. Bradley, late a Senator from the 
 State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
 ceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his 
 associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and distin- 
 guished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof 
 to the family of the deceased. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. James, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. President: William O'Connell Bradley was born 
 near Lancaster, Ky., in Garrard County, March 18, 1847. 
 He departed this life on May 23, 1914, in the city of Wash- 
 ington. His father was Robert Bradley, one of Kentucky's 
 most brilliant lawyers, and his mother was Ellen Totten 
 Bradley. 
 
 Senator Bradley was educated in the public and private 
 schools of the community, but he never had the advan- 
 tages of a college education. When he was 14 years of 
 age he twice ran away from home and joined the Union 
 Army, but each time because of his youth he was taken 
 from the Army by his father. In 1861 he served as a page 
 in the Kentucky Legislature. 
 
 In 1865, when he was only 18 years of age, he was given 
 a license to practice law by special act of the Kentucky 
 Legislature. The bill provided that he might be licensed 
 if found competent by two circuit judges. An examina- 
 tion was held, and he was found competent and admitted 
 to the bar to practice law. He quickly took high rank as 
 a lawyer in our State and became very active in the prac- 
 tice of law in both State and Federal courts, the United 
 States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court 
 of the United States. 
 
 At the age of 20 years Senator Bradley was married to 
 Miss Margaret Robertson Duncan, of Lancaster, Ky. 
 
 In 1870' he was elected county attorney in Garrard 
 County. This was considered a very great political tri- 
 
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 umph for a young man of Republican faith, for the county 
 was overwhelmingly Democratic. He was the nominee 
 of the Republican Party for Congress in the eighth con- 
 gressional district of Kentucky in 1872 and 1876, and in 
 both campaigns, which were heated and fiercely con- 
 tested, he made creditable races. The district, however, 
 was largely Democratic, and while he reduced somewhat 
 the Democratic majority, he was unable to win. In these 
 campaigns he demonstrated great power as an orator, 
 great ability as a debater, and won for himself a State- 
 wide reputation. 
 
 In 1879 he was nominated for attorney general by his 
 party in Kentucky, but on account of ill health declined it. 
 In 1887 he received the Republican nomination for gov- 
 ernor of Kentucky, while Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, 
 the great Confederate general, was the nominee of the 
 Democratic Party. This race for governor between Sen- 
 ator Bradley and Gen. Buckner attracted national atten- 
 tion, and although Gen. Buckner won the race it was by a 
 greatly reduced Democratic majority. In 1895 Senator 
 Bradley again received the Republican nomination for 
 governor, and after a remarkably brilliant campaign was 
 elected by a majority of 8,912, carrying with him to victory 
 all of his associates upon the State ticket. He served the 
 State as governor for four years. 
 
 Four times Senator Bradley was nominated for United 
 States Senator and voted for in the Kentucky Legislature 
 by the Republican Party, but his party was in the 
 minority. During these contests it was the highest honor 
 that could be accorded to one of its members to be selected 
 as the candidate of the Republican Party in Kentucky for 
 United States Senator. In 1908 he was finally elected 
 United States Senator for a term of six years. 
 
 Senator Bradley was seven times selected by his party 
 as a delegate at large to the Republican national conven- 
 
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Address of Mr. James, of Kentucky 
 
 tion. He made the speech for Kentucky seconding the 
 nomination of Gen. Grant for President in 1880. His 
 friends have always claimed for this speech that it was 
 one of his greatest efforts. It was a very eloquent and 
 stirring speech. He was one of the " immortal 306 " who 
 voted for Grant first to last, and he often referred to that 
 fact with pride. 
 
 In 1884 he was the leader on behalf of the South in its 
 efforts to defeat the reduction in the representation of 
 the Southern States in the national convention. At the 
 Republican national convention in 1904 he made a speech 
 seconding the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt for 
 President. 
 
 Senator Bradley was three times elected a member of 
 the Republican national committee from Kentucky. The 
 State delegation was instructed for him for President in 
 1896, and he was many times voted for in the Republican 
 national conventions for Vice President. 
 
 In 1889 President Harrison appointed him minister 
 to Korea, but he declined the appointment. President 
 Arthur appointed him to conduct the prosecution on the 
 part of the Government in the case of the star-route con- 
 tractors, but he also declined that appointment. 
 
 Senator Bradley was often honored by his party in the 
 national conventions by being elected chairman of the 
 Kentucky delegations and serving in other very important 
 posts and positions. 
 
 Kentucky was more generous to Senator Bradley than 
 it has ever been to any other Republican in its history. 
 He was the only Republican who was ever elected in Ken- 
 tucky as governor and United States Senator. He was 
 truly the father of the Republican Party in our State, its 
 best beloved leader, greatest orator, and most splendid 
 debater. 
 
 He had more joint debates with Democrats in Kentucky 
 than any other Republican who ever lived in our State. 
 
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 His party was proud of him and always gathered with 
 confidence to hear him in debate with any of the leading 
 Democrats of the State, for they felt certain they had a 
 champion worthy of any foe, and in this they were never 
 disappointed. He lifted the Republican Party in Ken- 
 tucky from almost hopeless minority to victory in the 
 State. 
 
 As a- lawyer Senator Bradley ranked with the very first 
 in the whole country. He was engaged in many of the 
 great legal battles in our State. Before a jury in advocacy 
 of a cause he was wonderfully magnetic and powerful. 
 In other addresses upon various subjects he displayed 
 great learning and brilliancy. 
 
 His address in dedication of the Kentucky monument 
 on the Chickamauga battle field in 1899 will take rank 
 with the world's great orations. What a wide contrast 
 there was between that speech, breathing the sweet elo- 
 quence of a reunited country and paying tribute alike to 
 the heroes of the two contending armies, and his fiery 
 eloquence which stirred the Republican national conven- 
 tion in 1880 as he pleaded for Grant's renomination for a 
 third term! How the years had mellowed and softened 
 him! Pleading for Grant's renomination, he said: 
 
 He gave voice and strength to the proclamation which struck 
 the shackles from 4,000,000 of fellow creatures. The merciless 
 slave driver tremblingly read it by the flash of his victorious 
 cannon. He pinned it on the breast of murderous treason with a 
 million loyal bayonets. 
 
 But in his great dedication speech at Chickamauga 19 
 years later he used the words: 
 
 It is equally true that those who were fortunately defeated were 
 inspired by sincere devotion to principles conscientiously believed 
 to be just; that they fought with valor equaled alone by those who 
 opposed them, but never surpassed, and their heroic suffering and 
 bravery entitle them to the admiration of all mankind. 
 
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Address of Mr. James, of Kentucky 
 
 And it was Senator Bradley's hand that wrote the in- 
 scription on that monument: 
 
 As we are united in life, and they united in death, let one 
 monument perpetuate their deeds, and one people, forgetful of all 
 asperities, forever hold in grateful remembrance all the glories of 
 that terrible conflict which made all men free and retained every 
 star on the Nation's flag. 
 
 Here is a concrete example of how time wrought its 
 glorious work of reuniting a once estranged people. 
 Time, with its noiseless march through the passing years, 
 teaches the eloquent tongue that thrilled the thousands 
 assembled in national convention with martial eloquence 
 to charm a multitude in generously just tribute to the men 
 who wore the gray, who fought and fell for a lost cause, 
 as well as those who fought in triumph for a glorious Re- 
 public, according to each the same sincerity, bestowing 
 upon all the same tribute of heroism. It was the same 
 spirit and tolerance of men upon both sides of that awful 
 struggle — remembered now only to recount the deeds of 
 heroism of the bravest armies that ever clashed upon 
 field of glory. 
 
 The sons of soldiers dead, the sons of soldiers living, 
 caught the fine spirit of which Senator Bradley's elo- 
 quence is but a type, and now we vie with each other in 
 paying tribute to men of both the South and the North 
 who followed the standards of opposing armies and 
 pointing with devotion and love to the dearest colors 
 ever knit together in a banner of the free, waving above 
 a happy and reunited people bound together in patriotic 
 love with bands stronger than steel. 
 
 Senator Bradley easily ranked as the South's greatest 
 Republican. He numbered his friends among the men 
 of all parties. In the discharge of his official duties he 
 willingly served all the people. He was nonpartisan in 
 his service to the people of Kentucky. No one ever 
 
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 claimed Kentucky as his home who did not find him a 
 willing aid and of great assistance. He was good-natured, 
 kind-hearted, and a wonderful entertainer. He was proud 
 of Kentucky's hospitality and always sought to emulate it. 
 In his death Kentucky lost one of her greatest citizens. 
 He had rendered distinguished and signal service to the 
 whole people. His party lost its greatest leader, and they 
 may truly say, " Ulysses has gone and left behind him 
 none strong enough to bend his bow." 
 
 Here in the Senate there were few men who ever served 
 who had the warm affection that was accorded Senator 
 Bradley. His colleagues will long remember him affec- 
 tionately. 
 
 His name will live in Kentucky, and his deeds will form 
 a part of its history. His friends were legion, and while 
 death comes to us all, it could not have touched a citizen 
 of Kentucky and caused more sorrow and tears than were 
 occasioned when Senator Bradley was summoned to the 
 court of God. Truly we may say, " Pale Death knocks 
 with impartial foot at the cottages of the poor and at the 
 towers of kings." 
 
 He is greatly missed and will be long loved and remem- 
 bered in thousands of Kentucky homes. 
 
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Address of Mr. Townsend, of Michigan 
 
 Mr. President: Sometimes when I reflect upon the 
 slight attention given by Senators to memorials of their 
 departed colleagues I am impressed by the thought that 
 it might be well to discontinue the practice of setting 
 apart a day for memorializing deceased Congressmen; 
 but when, upon more mature reflection, I recall that the 
 custom is founded upon one of the deepest sentiments of 
 life, I offer no protest, for I then believe that while post- 
 mortem eulogies can not affect the dead, they can and 
 do help the living. On such occasions the mind recalls 
 only good; and in the midst of the sometimes bitter and 
 strenuous strife of public life it is well for Congressmen 
 and for the country to formally pause and consider death, 
 the twin mystery of life. 
 
 I do not know how it seems to you, Senators, but I am 
 convinced that the benefits from public and private life 
 are lessened and fall far short of their possibilities for 
 good because of the failure to grasp and understand the 
 truths that love, not hate; kindness, not bitterness; sym- 
 pathy, not indifference, are the essential qualities of true 
 greatness, and therefore of highest usefulness. The lon- 
 gevity of real congressional service is not measured by 
 the number of Congresses of which a man was a Member, 
 but by the influence for good which he exerted while in 
 Congress. It is true, of course, that long public service 
 under a democracy implies exceptionally good service, 
 but it is not conclusive proof of that fact. The man who, 
 in a single term, inspired his associates and constituents 
 to better thought and living will be found in the trial 
 balance to have done more for his country and his 
 countrymen than has he of many terms, whose legislative 
 record includes only numerous abstract, technical enact- 
 ments and many brilliant and bitter speeches. This is an 
 
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 occasion when men stop for a moment at least and take 
 account of stock. 
 
 I saw the late Senator William 0. Bradley for the first 
 time at the Republican national convention in Chicago in 
 1888. I did not meet him there, but I heard him speak, 
 and I was impressed with his apparent mental strength 
 and virility. He was then in the very prime of his vigor- 
 ous manhood. He was called before the convention and 
 before gatherings in the hotels, and he always was equal 
 to the occasion and inspired his hearers with enthusiasm. 
 I did not see him again until he came to the Senate, and 
 I did not meet him formally until I entered this body on 
 March 4, 1911. 
 
 Soon after coming here I became personally and well 
 acquainted with him, for he was a kindly, lovable man, 
 and attracted men to him. He loved his friends, and they 
 were loyal and true to him. This fact is proven by the 
 many positions of public trust which he, a Republican, 
 held in the Democratic State of Kentucky. I knew him as 
 a gentle soul, who saw the good and ignored the bad; and 
 yet, being somewhat familiar with his life history, I know 
 that his had been a strenuous career. At times his soul 
 was stirred to its very depths over matters of right and 
 wrong, and he pursued in unlimited degree the courage of 
 his convictions. Up until the last years of his life he was 
 an antagonist whom no wise man voluntarily courted. 
 
 He had been in the Senate two years when I entered it, 
 and I shall not forget his uniform kindness to me. He was 
 my friend, as I was his; and I am grateful for the invita- 
 tion to pay my brief tribute of respect to his memory. 
 
 During nearly all the time of his service in the Senate 
 he was a great sufferer from physical sickness; but his 
 heart was always well, and his love and generosity are 
 somewhat of the compensation which has come to me for 
 service in the United States Senate. 
 
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Address of Mr. Works, of California 
 
 Mr. President: I am not going to deliver a formal or 
 prepared eulogy upon the life and services of Senator 
 Bradley. I only want to say a very few words of kindly 
 sympathy for the memory of one whom I respected and 
 admired as a man and loved and esteemed as a friend. 
 
 I did not know Senator Bradley personally until I came 
 to the Senate and found him here. In his earlier life and 
 mine we had lived in adjoining States, and I had known 
 much of his valuable services to his State and his country. 
 When I met him here I was from the beginning drawn 
 to him by his kindly, genial, and generous disposition. 
 From the first of my acquaintance with him he was 
 afflicted with a disease that he understood to be incurable. 
 He was waiting for the end, realizing that it was near; 
 but through it all he was cheerful and patient to a degree. 
 This high qualification of his character excited my most 
 profound sympathy and admiration. It is these great 
 qualities of his that have endeared him to thousands of 
 the American people, not only in his State of Kentucky, 
 but all over the country, and particularly here in the 
 Senate Chamber. They are qualities that will keep his 
 memory green in their minds and hearts for all the years 
 to come. 
 
 His was a character to be emulated. It was a great 
 example to others. It gives me great pleasure to have 
 this opportunity to say these few words in commemora- 
 tion of his life and as a token of my high esteem for 
 him as a man and a friend. 
 
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Address of Mr. Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 Mr. President: I shall not dwell upon the date or mo- 
 ment of birth or death nor on the life opportunities of 
 Gov. Bradley, later a Member of this body from the great 
 State of Kentucky, nor upon how he availed himself of 
 those opportunities. Those things will be found, in a 
 general way, in the Congressional Directory, and have 
 been, or will be, presented more specifically and inter- 
 estingly by others. 
 
 I never knew Gov. Bradley until he and I met as United 
 States Senators upon this floor. My experience and 
 training and environment had been such that I had 
 always entertained, and then entertained, a very stubborn 
 prejudice against southern white Republicans. That 
 prejudice was dissipated as snow melts under sunshine, 
 so far as he was concerned, as soon as I was brought into 
 intimate personal contact with Senator Bradley. 
 
 He was one of the most human men I ever knew — large 
 hearted, unstinted in hospitality, sunny in temperament, 
 with good hard sense, a proper sense of proportion, and 
 consequently a lively sense of humor. Genialness was 
 one of his most marked traits. 
 
 During our service here together he tied himself to me 
 by very many acts of kindness and by very many kindly 
 words. He " had friends " because he " showed himself 
 friendly," and in that respect heeded the express words 
 of wisdom of the wise King of the Jews. 
 
 It affords me pleasure to express my high idea of the 
 man; his frankness; his courage of conviction; his open- 
 hearted ways; his sturdy consistency of purpose. 
 
 He was not " of my tribe " politically, but he was a 
 splendid and true member of his tribe, thoroughly Amer- 
 
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Address of Mr. Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 ican and thoroughly loyal to his own ideals. I sincerely 
 grieved when he passed through " the valley of the 
 shadow of death " into the great unknown. A friend had 
 gone, and we do not make and hold many. 
 
 We can all place our wreaths, with honor to ourselves, 
 upon his grave and mingle our regrets with the regrets of 
 those who knew him best and loved him best. 
 
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Address of Mr. Warren, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. President: Perhaps the most accurate measure of 
 the personality and character of a public man is found 
 in the opinion of him held by his political opponents or 
 adversaries. In the rough-and-tumble game of politics, 
 in the no-quarter features of political warfare, especially 
 as carried on in the so-called border States occupying the 
 line which once separated the North from the South, the 
 man who can go through a political campaign and retain 
 the personal friendship of his political foes is an unusual 
 character. The man who can battle politically for a life- 
 time and go down to his grave beloved personally, alike 
 by political friend and foe, is a marvel. 
 
 Such a man was our former beloved colleague, William 
 O'Connell Bradley, who died in this city at his post of 
 duty on Saturday evening, May 23, 1914, and to whose 
 memory we to-day devote this session of the United States 
 Senate. 
 
 I shall speak briefly of the political incidents of our 
 friend's career, as they bear out that trait of his character 
 to which I have alluded — the capacity to make and hold 
 personal friends regardless of political differences. 
 
 As we have been told, he was the only Republican who 
 ever served both as governor of Kentucky and as a United 
 States Senator from that State. 
 
 Before he became of voting age he was fighting in the 
 political battles which always are waged furiously in 
 Kentucky. Before he was 21 years of age he was admitted 
 to practice law, and at the age of 23 was elected county 
 attorney of Garrard County. At the age of 25 he was 
 Republican elector for the eighth congressional district 
 and a little later ran for Congress as a Republican, but 
 
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Address of Mr. Warren, of Wyoming 
 
 was defeated. He again made an unsuccessful race for 
 Congress in 1876. He was four times chosen Republican 
 national committeeman for Kentucky, and went as dele- 
 gate at large from Kentucky to five Republican national 
 conventions. Four times he was chosen as the Republican 
 caucus nominee for United States Senator. His first race 
 for governor was made against Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck- 
 ner, in 1887, when he was defeated by 17,000 majority, the 
 preceding Democratic majority in the gubernatorial elec- 
 tion having been 47,000. He declined an appointment by 
 President Harrison as United States minister to Korea 
 and an appointment by President Arthur as special at- 
 torney to prosecute the noted " star-route " cases. 
 
 He was not in politics for appointive places but for the 
 thrill of the campaign and the contest at the polls. 
 
 He finally won success in his political warfare, and was 
 elected governor of Kentucky in 1895 over Gen. P. Watt 
 Hardin, whom he defeated by 9,000 majority. He served 
 as governor for four years. In February, 1908, he was 
 elected to the United States Senate, and just prior to his 
 death had announced that, on account of ill health, he 
 would not be a candidate for reelection. 
 
 He was a noted political campaigner, and his services 
 on the stump extended beyond the limits of his own State 
 in many national campaigns. The late Senator Thomas 
 H. Garter, of Montana, once said that he considered Sen- 
 ator Bradley the best campaign orator he had ever heard. 
 Loyalty to his friends was one of his predominating quali- 
 ties; and he was one of the famous 306 delegates who 
 voted for 37 ballots for Gen. U. S. Grant for a third term 
 in the Republican national convention held in Chicago 
 in 1880. 
 
 In our personal association with Senator Bradley dur- 
 ing the five years and two months he was with us in this 
 body we who served with him recall the predominating 
 traits of his character — adherence to principle, loyalty to 
 
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 friends, generous and genial treatment of his colleagues, 
 regardless of party. 
 
 For every employee of the Capitol, no matter how 
 humble his position, he invariably had a cheering word 
 of salutation and a friendly smile. 
 
 He was generous, not for the rewards of generosity, but 
 because that was a fundamental trait of his being. Fail- 
 ing in one instance in getting a claim through Congress 
 for a constituent, he paid the claim himself. 
 
 And so he lived his life — adamantine in devotion to 
 what he considered the correct principles of government, 
 gentle and yielding in his touch with humanity. 
 
 His political opponents spoke of him in kindly terms. 
 
 His Kentucky colleague in the Senate — he himself an 
 orator of fame — once said of him: 
 
 He was one of the most genial of men, and he was a prince 
 among his fellows. He was a distinguished lawyer, a great orator, 
 and a profound statesman. His followers in Kentucky idolized 
 him, and they will love his memory as they loved him in his life. 
 
 Another of his Kentucky colleagues — Hon. Swagar Sher- 
 ley — said : 
 
 He was the most distinguished Republican of Kentucky. While 
 a pronounced partisan, his partisanship was secondary to his 
 loyalty to his State. A more intensely loyal Kentuckian I never 
 knew. He always had the respect of his opponents and the genu- 
 ine affection of those fortunate enough to personally know him. 
 He rendered conspicuous service to his State and country, and his 
 death brings sorrow to all Kentuckians. 
 
 The Courier-Journal of Louisville, which in a score of 
 hard-fought political campaigns had employed the genius- 
 tipped pen of its talented editor, Henry Watterson, to 
 oppose him, had this tribute to make when his battles 
 were ended: 
 
 William O'Connell Bradley was the most affectionate and the 
 kindliest of men in his familiar intercourse. He was sprung from 
 
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Address of Mr. Warren, of Wyoming 
 
 a branch of that great line which gave Ireland its mightiest orator, 
 and he possessed many of the characteristics of that extraordinary 
 man. Certainly in persuasive powers no Kentuckian of his time 
 could approach him before an audience of Kentuckians. He had 
 eloquence and humor and common sense. That he became gov- 
 ernor and Senator — the two most coveted gifts the people have to 
 bestow — in a State where his party was in a woeful minority at- 
 tests his genius and resources as a party leader. His fidelity to his 
 personal associates, his political following, and his public duty 
 were conspicuous and constant. He lived through trying times 
 and shone undimmed to the last. The Courier-Journal, which en- 
 tertains for his talents admiration and for his personality hearty 
 good will, tenders his family the assurance of its profound sym- 
 pathy and sorrow. 
 
 On that spring day in his home city of Frankfort, as I 
 looked across the open grave of our friend in the beauti- 
 ful cemetery where his body was being laid at rest, I saw 
 the thoughtful faces of many of Kentucky's public men — 
 the governor, once our colleague here, and all of the State, 
 county, and city officials. I saw the grief-stricken faces 
 of his family and close friends and the solemn, respectful 
 faces of hundreds of citizens who had gathered to pay him 
 the last token of reverence and respect. 
 
 As I saw this great gathering of officials, relatives, 
 friends, and neighbors, and witnessed the sincere mani- 
 festations of sorrow over the death of our colleague, I felt 
 the conviction that he had not lived in vain; that he had 
 played well his part in the wonderful drama of life; and 
 that although the forum, the hustings, and the legislative 
 halls would know him in the flesh no more forever, his 
 memory would not fade nor his influence perish, and that 
 his long fight for the principles of government in which 
 he believed would prove an inspiration for his country- 
 men to follow for years to come. 
 
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Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. President: No man has lived in vain who, by 
 reason of fine impulses and noble deeds, has been able to 
 attach to himself a great body of friends, who have borne 
 him such affection in life that they continue to cherish 
 and honor his memory long after he has " gone forever 
 and ever by." Where a man so lives after death in the 
 memory of those who knew him best that they never tire 
 of recounting his noble traits and generous acts there is 
 proof positive of that nobility of soul which above all 
 other things attests true greatness. 
 
 William O. Bradley was blessed and cheered by the 
 friendship of the best men and women in the land. Not 
 only did the people of his own beloved Commonwealth 
 delight in honoring him, but in him there were such rare 
 qualities of head and heart that wherever he went he 
 gathered to himself friends in every walk of life who gave 
 him generously of their affection, and who now delight to 
 honor his memory. Kentucky and Indiana are sister 
 States. We of Indiana have always been proud of the 
 kinship which has brought the two Commonwealths into 
 commercial, political, and personal relationship of the 
 most intimate character, and it was doubtless by reason 
 of this relationship that I became very familiar with the 
 high reputation of William 0. Bradley long before I had 
 the pleasure of personal acquaintance; for his fame as a 
 lawyer of ability and orator of great eloquence and power 
 extended throughout the Middle West long before the 
 people of Kentucky bestowed upon him the great honors 
 which brought him prominently before the people of the 
 entire country. 
 
 When the announcement was made in 1895 that the 
 splendid Democratic Commonwealth of Kentucky had for 
 
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Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 
 
 the first time in her history chosen a Republican governor, 
 the attention of the Nation was challenged, and it became 
 a matter of common inquiry amongst men of all parties 
 as to what manner of man it was who had thus been able 
 to induce the people of that rock-ribbed Democratic State 
 to ignore traditions, cast party differences to the winds, 
 and bestow the greatest honor in their gift upon a stal- 
 wart Republican leader, who in all the fierce political 
 struggles in which he had engaged had fearlessly pro- 
 claimed his party faith, and on those battle fields had 
 never shown sign of yielding, but had always promptly 
 returned a blow for every one he had ever received. 
 
 It was learned then that it was because of his splendid 
 courage and knightly qualities thus manifested that the 
 brave and chivalrous people of his State came to respect 
 and admire him as one of Kentucky's true sons; that 
 while he differed from the majority on questions of gov- 
 ernmental policy, he was a man of high ideals, infinite 
 courage, and possessed all those splendid qualities of 
 head and heart which cause the name " Kentuckian " to 
 be honored in every land beneath the sun. 
 
 And so when he came to this body his fame had pre- 
 ceded him. Much was expected of him, and he measured 
 up fully to the hopes of his friends. In his discussion of 
 public questions he commanded the attention of both 
 sides of the Chamber, and by his fidelity to duty under all 
 circumstances won the confidence of the country. 
 
 But it was because of his great heart, his sympathetic 
 nature, his gentleness of spirit, that his comrades here so 
 loved him that in his death each felt that he had suffered 
 a distinct personal loss. 
 
 I came to know him well and to love him greatly. 
 
 We lived at the same hotel here in Washington, and, 
 seeing him and conversing with him almost every day, I 
 had opportunity to know of the greatness of his heart and 
 
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 the whiteness of his soul, his faithfulness to public duty, 
 and the great love he bore to his fellow men, manifested 
 every day of his life. 
 
 I witnessed the fortitude and cheerfulness with which 
 he bore the suffering which disease brought to him in the 
 last years of life. Without a murmur of complaint he 
 proceeded to the last in the discharge of his public duties 
 like the hero that he was. 
 
 Mr. President, Kentucky has given to the Nation many 
 great men. She can justly boast of the illustrious names 
 of her distinguished sons who have represented her in 
 this body, for those of Clay, Crittenden, Breckinridge, 
 Beck, and Carlisle illumine the history of the Republic; 
 but, sir, Kentucky never gave to her country a son who 
 possessed finer courage, more exalted patriotism, greater 
 heart, or whiter soul than William CTConnell Bradley. 
 Peace to his memory! 
 
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Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 
 
 Mr. President: During the immediate period preceding 
 the Revolutionary War and during the continuance of 
 that struggle many of the frontiersmen and backwoods- 
 men dwelling in the eastern slopes and valleys of the 
 Allegheny Mountains pressed westward over and across 
 the mountains and made the first settlements in the future 
 State of Kentucky. They trekked through Cumberland 
 Gap and other less notable passes. They were to a large 
 extent of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and were a brave, virile, 
 and aggressive — though to some extent unlettered — peo- 
 ple, but better qualified than any other class to cope with 
 the Indians and to subdue the wilderness. They were 
 followed and, to some extent, interspersed with people 
 from the eastern plains and the tidewater lands, who 
 were chiefly of English stock, and who were rather more 
 cultured and occupied a higher social plane than the 
 backwoodsmen. In course of time these two elements 
 blended and assimilated into a homogeneous people, con- 
 stituting one of the best types of American citizenship, 
 the cradle and nursery of great statesmen, great judges, 
 and great warriors, who have left their permanent and 
 enduring impress on the life of our Nation. 
 
 It is a most remarkable fact that while the colonists on 
 the east of the Allegheny Mountains were engaged in their 
 struggle for independence these pioneers of Kentucky, 
 with those of Tennessee, were engaged in the no less 
 bloody task of adding an empire to the future Republic, 
 and ridding it, to a great extent, of the incubus of the 
 savage aborigines. In their zeal for exploration, settle- 
 ment, and conquest, under the leadership of that great 
 Virginian, George Rogers Clark, they pressed across the 
 Ohio and seized and occupied the Illinois and Wabash 
 country, thereby laying the foundation for securing, by 
 
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 the final treaty of peace with England, the vast domain 
 bounded on the west by the Mississippi River and on the 
 north by the Great Lakes, an empire then scarcely known 
 to the people dwelling on the east side of the Allegheny 
 Mountains. 
 
 Eight years after the close of the Revolutionary War 
 and two years after the adoption of the Federal Constitu- 
 tion, Kentucky, without any preliminary Territorial gov- 
 ernment, was, in 1791, admitted into the Union, being the 
 first addition to the original thirteen States. From the 
 time of her admission into the Union, Kentucky assumed 
 a leading part among the sisterhood of States by reason 
 of the fact that so many of her sons were gifted with a 
 high order of talents for the management of public 
 affairs. Her statesmen were among the leaders of the 
 country and oftentimes exercised a controlling influence 
 in the affairs of government. Not the least among the 
 galaxy of her statesmen was our late departed colleague, 
 William O. Bradley, who departed this life on the 23d 
 of May, 1914, in the sixty-eighth year of his age and the 
 last year of his term. He was a native son of Kentucky, 
 descended from an intellectual, virile, and aggressive 
 ancestry among the pioneers. 
 
 Without the advantages of a higher or college educa- 
 tion, his native intellectual abilities and energy were 
 nevertheless such that at an early age he attained a lead- 
 ing place at the bar among the many able and prominent 
 men of the profession. He was well versed in the funda- 
 mental principles of law, and was an able and successful 
 trial lawyer, especially effective in his arguments before 
 juries. His ability and reputation as a lawyer brought 
 him an extensive practice in both the State and Federal 
 courts. And to this work, when not engaged in the public 
 service, he chiefly gave his attention. Though a thorough- 
 going Republican in a State normally Democratic, yet he 
 had many friends and admirers among the Democrats, 
 
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Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 
 
 so that at every election at which he was a candidate he 
 always polled a considerably greater vote than the normal 
 vote of his party. 
 
 In 1895 he was elected governor of his State by a plu- 
 rality of nearly 9,000, in which office he served with high 
 credit and ability, and in February, 1908, he was elected 
 to the United States Senate by the legislature. As a Mem- 
 ber of the Senate he proved to be very industrious and 
 attentive to public business and a most excellent, ready, 
 and effective debater, always good-natured, and always 
 ready to take and give blows. He was genial, kind- 
 hearted, and loyal to his friends. Sunshine and good will 
 beamed from his countenance and were a part of his 
 nature. The humble and the lowly could always have his 
 attention and his help, and hence he was always near and 
 dear to the popular heart. He was opposed to ostentation 
 and display. He never had his eyes set on the galleries 
 when he was addressing the Senate, but, rather, aimed to 
 make his case plain and to enlighten and instruct his col- 
 leagues. Senator Bradley was a man who had grown into 
 public favor through his native ability, his energy, his per- 
 severance, and his loyalty. He never sailed under false or 
 sham colors. What he believed in he advocated openly 
 and aboveboard. Guile and dishonesty were foreign to 
 his nature. His public life and his public service, though 
 varied and highly valuable, were, after all, but the outer 
 shell of the noble soul and the brave heart that were his. 
 He was a typical son of Kentucky, a sample of its bravest 
 and best. In the words of the poet, he had a love for his 
 country and his State as though they were his daughters, 
 ready to smoke the pipes of peace or to hurl the toma- 
 hawks of war, hatred of shams and innovations, pride 
 in our common country and her Stripes and Stars. His 
 mortal remains are buried in the soil of Kentucky, but 
 that immortality of the soul that was his abides with us 
 as a " pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." 
 
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Address of Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. President: I was requested by the distinguished 
 senior Senator from Kentucky, Mr. James, to add a word 
 to these ceremonies. I gladly accept the invitation and 
 avail myself of the privilege. 
 
 This is what is termed the proceedings of obituary. 
 The world at large usually regards such as a mere form. 
 Generally it is esteemed throughout the country that these 
 are encomiums by courtesy, not by desert. 
 
 I am sure that I, in common with thousands of others 
 who had occasion to read of the proceedings of obituary 
 in this body and in the other House, had concluded they 
 were mere matters of form; that some one had to comply 
 with them; that invariably some hollow expression was 
 indulged as a mere ceremonial performance. 
 
 It was not until it fell to my experience to observe the 
 tender associations which are woven in the public service 
 that I realized how false was that standard which the 
 public had applied concerning the private estimate we 
 public men have of those who serve with us as public 
 agents. We know the man; the public know the official. 
 We know the character; the public know the reputation. 
 
 Mr. President, I have the advantage of the eminent Sen- 
 ator from Mississippi, who distinguishes his State by the 
 brilliant services he renders in this body, Senator Wil- 
 liams, in that I, though a southerner, came into this body 
 without any prejudice whatever against the white Re- 
 publicans of the South, as the Senator concedes was his 
 conviction. I had lived in the North and in the West so 
 long that I had been divorced from such sentiments if 
 ever they possessed me. 
 
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Address of Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 I likewise had the advantage of the eminent leader of 
 the majority, Senator Kern, of Indiana, who, having had 
 a long personal acquaintance with the distinguished de- 
 ceased previous to his service here, was naturally preju- 
 diced in his favor. Such is the effect of personal associa- 
 tion, which ever weaves a kindly regard because of its 
 confidences. 
 
 I did not know the distinguished Senator from Ken- 
 tucky before I came to serve in this body. I have no 
 memory that I had ever beheld him, however much I 
 had heard of him. It was here in this body where I made 
 the first acquaintance. It was the close touch with him 
 as a Senator that enabled me to form an estimate that I 
 am delighted to express upon this occasion. This oppor- 
 tunity, which though solemn in its aspect, could give glad- 
 ness to those who are privileged to participate, in that it 
 enables them to do justice to a departed noble man. 
 
 Mr. President, we live in an interesting hour. The old 
 world is dying around us. Civilization is shattered. Cre- 
 ation seems confused. Heroes of the earth are being 
 buried, but we have not time to mark their passing. 
 Kings are being dethroned, Emperors shaken from their 
 seats, but we are removed from the cataclysm. The emi- 
 nent soldier of Britain, Lord Kitchener, sank to his grave 
 through the surging waves without more than an echo 
 through the world. We were too busy; affairs of the life 
 or death of nations possess us. 
 
 My mind reverts to the summer of 1898, when I was a 
 Member of the House of Representatives. The Spanish- 
 American War was on and the world disturbed with 
 martial disorder. In Europe, Bismarck passed out, but 
 America had little time to note the great loss to Germany. 
 Within five days after, Gladstone, of England, breathed 
 his last salutation to earthly glory, but America had con- 
 cerns so serious she neglected in her public Houses to pay 
 
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 her tribute to the statesman of British liberty and consti- 
 tutional justice. 
 
 Here in America at the same period the distinguished 
 Republican Party and America itself lost an eminent citi- 
 zen and statesman in James G. Blaine; and yet we did 
 not pause to note the loss or pay tribute to the acknowl- 
 edged virtues; so busy were we with things that concerned 
 us so closely in our national destiny, we neglected the 
 duty to those at a distance. 
 
 My mind adverts at this moment to a passage of Lecky. 
 I think it is in his History of European Morals. Descant- 
 ing upon that temper of mind of man which regards 
 things at a distance of no concern to him, the writer 
 invites attention to one who sits upon a river bank and 
 says, " Behold." Of more concern to him are the dead 
 leaves that float upon the stream than the thousands that 
 are dying of hunger on the Ganges. 
 
 Mr. President, we are some distance removed from these 
 falling worlds, these dying kings, these dethroned em- 
 perors, these crumbling empires. With those, sir, we do 
 not concern ourselves more than we would with that 
 which in a panorama attracts the gaze some time and, like 
 a picture removed, passes from the vision. 
 
 Here, however, in this assemblage the single death of 
 one unit of our organization shocks the soul and awakens 
 our sentiment. We bemoan the loss. Why? Because in 
 that particular loss we note the loss of a man. Creation 
 may build empires, my brother Senators, civilization may 
 establish kingdoms, and upon both may rear rulers whom 
 we call kings or emperors. With scepter they may sway 
 their dominion with the power of life and death. But, 
 after all, Heaven's noblest creation, as we know, is a man, 
 and when thrown close enough to see the emotions in 
 one of our brothers we attest that God's noblest creation 
 is an honest man; then we stand in reverence; we are 
 
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Address of Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 glad to bow in worship; we pay him tribute because we 
 feel that, after all, life's great compact with civilization 
 has been executed and exhibited to earth; a man standing 
 square before his fellows and just before his God. 
 
 How do we test such a one, Mr. President? We test 
 him, sir, by his acts as we see them. We are remitted to 
 the great Scripture law proclaiming that by the fruits 
 of a tree ye shall know it. We behold this branch of 
 civilization and see what it blooms and what it ripens, 
 and by that we test, condemn, or praise it. 
 
 When I first came to the acquaintance of Senator 
 Bradley I was new in this body. Like all men who come 
 here I had timidity, I had hesitancy, and with whatever 
 audacity or courage we might be possessed we quail 
 in the presence of our first undertaking. This is the 
 most critical legislative body in the English-speaking 
 world. It fell to my lot to engage in a debate with one of 
 our eminent colleagues on the other side, carrying with it, 
 of course, those partisan differences which are so natural 
 to conflicts arising on both sides of this Chamber. It was 
 at the conclusion of this that Senator Bradley, to whom 
 I had never spoken, came over to greet me with a kindly 
 message, reminding me that he knew some of my relations 
 in Kentucky. He told me that he had done me the compli- 
 ment to observe my public course, and he approved some 
 of the things upon which much difference had been ex- 
 pressed. He gave me counsel and friendly encourage- 
 ment. 
 
 You can readily understand, Mr. President, how close 
 that man at once became to me. That which Senator Nel- 
 son, of Minnesota, has just exquisitely expressed appealed 
 to me — the man in his nature, that quality which the dis- 
 tinguished Senator from Minnesota adverted to, the cour- 
 age and the generosity of the nature within him. Those 
 were the virtues which the Senator from Kentucky, his 
 
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 eminent colleague, correctly adverted to. That courage 
 that was admired in conflict, that justice that was ever 
 perceived to prove itself in every fprm of life, that attri- 
 bute of kindness, of goodness, that expression of char- 
 acter that wanted to serve another, awakened in me a 
 desire to know the man more fully. Thereafter from time 
 to time it fell to me to engage with him in personal con- 
 versation and official contact. Day after day, on occa- 
 sion upon occasion, I learned thus to know him. What 
 attracted me most, and here I delight to speak of it, was 
 the want of cant in the man, the absence of hypocrisy. 
 He was a noble soul in his speech; in his political debates 
 I recall his assault upon the policy of Democracy upon a 
 tariff question, then his oration upon foreign relations. 
 Standing at his desk, he proclaimed his impeachment. 
 He made no apologies. He sought in no wise to qualify 
 his views to cultivate favor of the undecided. He differed 
 from his colleagues, he assailed with virulence, denounced 
 with vigor, and reached his conclusions with confidence. 
 He hurled them against his political antagonist like a 
 warrior, and then afterwards met his adversary in private 
 affairs as a friend. It was such quality as that, sir, that 
 attracted me to the nobility of his nature. 
 
 If it be true, as Senator Warren, of Wyoming, asserted 
 here, and Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, that these were 
 the signal elements that went to make up the Kentucky 
 character, I send my praise to so glorious a Common- 
 wealth that should have signalized her existence by so 
 splendid an example. 
 
 Sir, I therefore praise where I saw the desert; and 
 while we all sorrow at a death, if it affords an oppor- 
 tunity to certify to those who loved him the esteem in 
 which he was held by his opponents, his antagonists, what 
 must be their conclusions concerning those who worship 
 at the shrine of his capacity, where eloquence flashed 
 from intellect and logic converted by its wisdom? 
 
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Address of Mr. Lewis, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. President, there was one other feature to the man 
 that attracted me. I do not know whether his colleagues 
 had occasion to observe it. It was his interesting form 
 of religion. He bore no outward pretense. He was not a 
 Pharisee, who robed himself in the garb of a professed 
 virtue. He was but a man realizing that duty was to be 
 kindly to his fellow men. After all that is the real test 
 of a Christian, the fulfillment, if I recall, of James, in his 
 Epistle — the kindness to the bowed widow, the service to 
 the deserted child, keeping oneself unspotted with the 
 cruelties of the world. This was to him, as it was to the 
 great apostle, " religion pure and undefined." 
 
 I am not aware that he professed the creed of church, 
 but, Mr. President, there rises to my mind a legend you 
 may permit me to suggest as expressive of his faith — the 
 definition of his religion: 
 
 Sir John Lubbock was not known as a man of Christian 
 pretensions. He was one who had no church creed, but 
 he tried to live the life of a fellow man. He had given 
 bread to the hungry. He had lifted the fallen. He had 
 sought to console misery. He dreamed that he died and 
 went to heaven. He reached the gates of heaven, and at 
 the outer portal he was notified to behold. He did. He 
 saw the followers of the churches sitting beneath their 
 banners. At the right was the golden cross, and there 
 were assembled the Catholics. They sat in the gleaming 
 beauty of the Madonna. In a white-surpliced choir sat 
 the Methodists, and by the crystal fount the Baptists. The 
 watcher at the gate accosted Sir John, saying, "What is 
 your religion, and where will you sit? " Sir John re- 
 sponded, saying, " I know not church. I know duty. I 
 have given bread to the hungry, I have lifted the fallen, 
 I have spoken kindly to those who suffered, I have buried 
 the dead, I have tried to live by that which a man should 
 live by — some duty to his fellow men." Just then the 
 
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 Master, hearing all, said to Sir John, "Ah, it is you. We 
 know much of you up here. We have heard much of you 
 and your deeds. Come in, and sit you down wherever you 
 please." So of that manner of man was this man, Senator 
 Bradley. Let us believe that by the test of his manly life, 
 by the nobility of his soul, by his deeds of goodness, he, 
 too, heard from his Master the summons at the gate, say- 
 ing, " Come in; come in; and sit you down wherever you 
 please." There may he repose with his Father and his 
 God. 
 
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Address of Mr. Overman, of North Carolina 
 
 Mr. President: Until I came to the Senate this morning 
 I did not know that I was expected to make any remarks 
 on this occasion. I have, therefore, no prepared address, 
 but I could not sit silent without saying just a word in 
 memory of my deceased friend, without laying at least a 
 simple little wild flower upon the tablet to his memory. 
 
 He was my friend. I was his friend. I think every 
 Senator upon this floor was his friend. I doubt whether 
 any man who sat here with him had more personal friends 
 than had Senator Bradley. 
 
 Some time ago, Mr. President, I purchased 10 volumes 
 of a book entitled " Choice Selections of Southern Liter- 
 ature." Sitting in my library one afternoon looking over 
 those volumes, I saw under the head of " Choice Epitaphs 
 and Inscriptions" — and I may say in passing that these 
 selections were by Dr. Alderman, president of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, and one of the leading educators of 
 the South — a sentiment uttered by Senator Bradley. On 
 the battle field of Chickamauga stands a magnificent 
 monument erected not to the Confederate dead, not to the 
 Union dead, but to the heroes both of the Union side and 
 of the Confederate side. An inscription is placed upon 
 that monument, a short extract taken from the inaugural 
 message of Senator Bradley to the Kentucky Legislature, 
 urging that an appropriation be made for the purpose of 
 erecting the monument. It is there in marble that will 
 live longer than what we may say here, probably, and it 
 shows Senator Bradley's breadth of character, his love 
 for his fellow men, his patriotism, and his statesmanship. 
 I quote that inscription, as follows: 
 
 As we are united in life, and they united in death, let one 
 monument perpetuate their deeds, and one people, forgetful of 
 
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 all asperities, forever hold in grateful remembrance all the glories 
 of that terrible conflict which made all men free and retained 
 every star on the Nation's flag. 
 
 Kentucky was divided in the Civil War. Many of her 
 sons fought in the northern army and many in the south- 
 ern; and there were no braver soldiers on either side. 
 Senator Bradley cast his fortunes with the side of the 
 North, 
 
 Senator Bradley was great of soul. He was full of 
 music, poetry, and song. I have noticed him when at 
 times he would wander from the Republican cloakroom 
 into the Democratic cloakroom, wdiere he w T as always a 
 welcome visitor. He invariably enlivened us with his 
 humor, his delightful anecdotes, and his very interesting 
 reminiscences. He was a man of humor, of wit, and of 
 true eloquence. I have heard him at times upon the floor 
 when he showed that he was an orator equal to any in 
 this Chamber. I judge that not only by his eloquence, but 
 by his logic and the systematic w 7 ay in which he always 
 had his subject arranged. He always commanded the 
 closest attention of the Senate. 
 
 I say, Mr. President, that I loved him because he was 
 close to me. We were associated together frequently. I 
 served upon committees with him. I remember the de- 
 lightful entertainments, in old Kentucky style, which he 
 occasionally gave to his friends, and I was always one of 
 his guests. They were indeed feasts of reason and joy to 
 the hearts of all. He loved his friends. He loved little 
 children. He loved the people of his State, and served 
 them faithfully and well. He passes into the great beyond 
 beloved by all his colleagues, and his people greatly mourn 
 his sad departure. I trust that when he passed over the 
 river he met his " Pilot face to face." 
 
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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: The Senate of the United States to-day 
 pays tribute to the memory of one of Kentucky's noblest 
 and most gifted sons, the late Senator William O'Connell 
 Bradley, of whom it may well be said, in the words of 
 Byron : 
 
 Thy days are done; thy fame begun; 
 
 Thy country's strains record 
 The triumphs of her chosen son. 
 
 • No history of Kentucky will be true to the facts unless 
 the life and character of Senator William O. Bradley 
 play an important part. In every sphere of public and 
 private activity the luster of nobility of character and 
 force possessed by this remarkable American entered. 
 
 He was born near Lancaster, Ky., March 18, 1847, the 
 only son of Robert M. and Ellen Totten Bradley. His 
 father was one of Kentucky's greatest lawyers. The Civil 
 War wrecked the father financially, and the son at the 
 age of 14 ceased to attend school and ran away from 
 home, joined the Union Army, first as recruiting officer 
 in Pulaski County, and later as a private soldier at Louis- 
 ville; but on account of his youthfulness he was taken 
 from the Army by his father on each occasion. He en- 
 tered the law office of his distinguished father and became 
 so well qualified to practice that at the age of 18, by special 
 act of the General Assembly of Kentucky, he was licensed 
 to practice before the courts of Kentucky, and rapidly rose 
 in the profession until he was foremost among the leading 
 lawyers of that great State. 
 
 He entered politics in 1869, and the following year was 
 elected prosecuting attorney. In 1884 President Arthur 
 selected him to prosecute the " star-route " cases, but it is 
 said that the Attorney General denied a full prosecution 
 and he withdrew from the case. He was the first Re- 
 
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 publican ever elected governor of Kentucky. He was a 
 familiar figure in every Republican national convention 
 for a quarter of a century. In February, 1908, he was 
 elected to the United States Senate for the term ending 
 March 3, 1915. 
 
 He received the degree of LL. D. from the Kentucky 
 University. He was renowned from one end of the coun- 
 try to the other as an orator of marked ability. Many 
 honors were conferred upon him by the people of Ken- 
 tucky; indeed, so numerous were they that it would be- 
 come tiresome for me to mention them all. 
 
 Few Kentuckians ever lived a life so filled to the brim 
 with public honors as was his, or perhaps gained a higher 
 place in the esteem of their fellow citizens. These honors 
 were not attained by accident of birth, but by his elo- 
 quence, his logic, his energy, his personal magnetism and 
 unquestionable honesty. His knowledge of our country's 
 needs, his broad, dispassionate view of all public ques- 
 tions, his conservatism, and his rare legal ability did much 
 for the Nation and won for him a place among the great 
 men of our times. 
 
 I count as one of the great pleasures of my life the 
 acquaintance and friendship of Senator Bradley. How I 
 enjoyed his association, how he enjoyed his visits to my 
 home, how my children looked forward to his coming to 
 spend the evening with them. The hours so spent were 
 ones never to be forgotten. He never tired of singing the 
 praises of the splendid qualities and noble characteristics 
 of the people of the South, and would always remind my 
 children that their grandfather, Abraham Owen Smoot, 
 was born in the blue-grass country of Kentucky, in sweet 
 Owen County, a country God always smiles upon. 
 
 It was next to impossible for anyone to resist the charm 
 of his old-time manners, plainly visible in their exquisite 
 taste and homely kindliness, showing no distinction of 
 
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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 social caste or of age. He was free and generous to a 
 fault. He never was so happy as when he was making 
 others happy. There was something inspiring about the 
 friendship he bore for those who were near to him. He 
 possessed the gift of a perfect hospitality, and I doubt 
 whether a man ever lived who exercised it with more 
 graciousness. This can be testified to by nearly every 
 Senator who occupied a seat in this body during the short 
 service of Senator Bradley in the Senate. In addition to 
 the happy gift as a matchless host he possessed the happy 
 faculty of telling a story in such a way that gave his 
 hearers a lasting impression of the point he wished to 
 illustrate. Many of his stories were based upon great 
 events in the history of our country. I suggested to him 
 a short time before his death that he should select and 
 have published his best stories, as I was confident they 
 would prove a great benefit to the American people. I 
 suggested this same thing to the late Senator Taylor, of 
 Tennessee, only one week before his death. Senators 
 Bradley and Taylor were among the most gifted story 
 tellers of our country. 
 
 A man may possess all the gifts and qualifications that 
 Senator Bradley possessed and still not be personally 
 popular with the masses. Not so in his case. No man 
 was easier to approach, and at all times he was willing 
 to plact himself upon a par with the humblest of his con- 
 stituents with whom he came in contact. He was the idol 
 of a large portion of the people of Kentucky. There was 
 one political virtue which he always adhered to, and that 
 was gratitude to his friends. He never used a man to fur- 
 ther his ambitions and then sacrificed him when occasion 
 demanded it. He was true to those who served him. In 
 most of the political contests in Kentucky he was the 
 center of the battle and the enemy always directed their 
 criticisms toward him. Defeat never dismayed nor did 
 
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 reverses discourage him. He was a faithful friend, a 
 brilliant lawyer, a fearless and painstaking public servant. 
 Thus he lived and thus he died. God was good to him in 
 giving him a combination of virtues and talents seldom 
 given to man, and rarely when given do they work in 
 harmony as in the life of Senator Bradley. 
 
 He was no demagogue, but at all times a loyal advocate 
 and an outspoken champion of the principles for which 
 he stood. No selfish ambition ever kept him silent or 
 made him swerve from his duty to his people. His hon- 
 esty was known, admired, and esteemed throughout the 
 length and breadth of the country 7 . He was earnest, dili- 
 gent, and faithful to every trust reposed in him. His clean 
 life and character, without a stain, are his best monument. 
 
 Upon his deathbed and during the last two hours of his 
 life he exerted all the power at his command in delivering 
 a speech upon national questions as if he were standing in 
 his place in the Senate Chamber. His last words spoken 
 in this life were delivered as if answering an interruption 
 by a fellow Senator, as follows : " I can not yield to the 
 Senator; my time is limited." No further word was said; 
 no further struggle for life ensued. Senator Bradley was 
 dead. 
 
 His life's work is over, his remains rest beneath the sod 
 of his beloved Kentucky. He is not dead, but sleepeth, his 
 soul having passed on to paradise, to continue his work 
 in connection with his Maker, for — 
 
 Death 's but a path that must be trod 
 Tf man would ever pass to God. 
 
 I feel assured from his private life and public career 
 that Senator Bradley, so true, so patriotic, so honorable, 
 has passed into a brighter and happier existence in the 
 great beyond. 
 
 In the silence of the receding world he heard the great waves 
 breaking on a farther shore and felt upon his wasted brow the 
 
 breath of the eternal morning. 
 
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Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentucky 
 
 Mr. President : Since I came to the Senate some months 
 ago as a successor to the late Senator Bradley I have 
 heard many Senators who served with him speak of him 
 in terms of kindness and of pleasant recollection of his 
 genial and attractive personality. His popularity as a 
 Member of the Senate seems to have been well established 
 and his death brought genuine sorrow to his associates 
 here, as it did to his many friends and admirers in Ken- 
 tucky. This has not been surprising to me, for in an 
 acquaintance with him of about 20 years I came to know 
 him well and to appreciate not only his ability as a leader 
 of men, but also the charm of manner and personal mag- 
 netism by which he bound people to him in devoted friend- 
 ship and achieved remarkable success in his political and 
 professional life. 
 
 He was a natural leader; his influence over his followers 
 was extraordinary, and those who opposed him always 
 knew that they had a foeman worthy of their steel. Upon 
 the stump or at the bar he possessed a forcible and per- 
 suasive style of oratory. As a debater he was ready, 
 quick, and formidable. But at the same time he was 
 courteous and fair to his opponents. 
 
 It was chiefly through his skillful leadership and power 
 as an orator that his party won its first victory in Ken- 
 tucky. In the year of 1895 he was the nominee of his 
 party for governor. He saw with keen delight the division 
 and dissension within the ranks of the Democratic Party; 
 he played upon and aggravated those differences with a 
 master's hand; and through the divided sea of Democracy 
 he led his minority forces toward the promised land of 
 victory with an adroitness and skill that even his oppo- 
 nents had to admire. 
 
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 Owing to unusual conditions prevailing in the State at 
 that time, his four years' service in that office was not, in 
 my opinion, congenial or agreeable to him. Of an impul- 
 sive and generous nature, he did not possess that quality 
 of patience nor that poise of temperament so essential to 
 one in a high executive position. He was better equipped 
 for service in a legislative assembly than in the office of 
 governor, just as he was far more successful as an advo- 
 cate at the bar than he would have been as a judge on the 
 bench. He found, I imagine, his most congenial service 
 in the Senate, where he is so kindly and pleasantly remem- 
 bered by those who served with him. 
 
 My acquaintance and relations with Senator Bradley 
 for 20 years were unique and peculiar. During that tur- 
 bulent period of political conditions in Kentucky he and 
 I were always on opposite sides. While he was governor, 
 and I was a member of the legislature, and at one session 
 speaker of the house, I was not in accord with his admin- 
 istration; and then when I was governor, after him, I 
 never heard of his giving expression to any extravagant 
 praises of my administration. In the session of the gen- 
 eral assembly of 1908 he and I were the opposing can- 
 didates of our respective parties for the United States 
 senatorship, and he was elected. 
 
 Our political differences were wide and fundamental. 
 We differed upon those issues which divided the two great 
 political parties, and we differed also upon those issues 
 which in recent years in our State have caused divisions 
 within each party. Sometimes in the heat of one of those 
 overheated campaigns which we occasionally have in Ken- 
 tucky he and I may have said things about each other a 
 little harsher than we would have said in calmer moments. 
 
 And yet, Mr. President, with all of these political differ- 
 ences and rivalries between us, we always preserved 
 the most cordial and friendly personal relations. The 
 
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Address of Mr. Beckham, of Kentucky 
 
 intensity of campaign contests between us may have, at 
 times, temporarily strained, but they never broke, those 
 relations between us. I always found him a courteous 
 and knightly antagonist. He was a manly and courageous 
 fighter. He knew well how to deal blows and he knew 
 equally well how to receive them. In his home, where I 
 was sometimes a guest, he was a genial and hospitable 
 host. 
 
 In the many discouraging and disappointing features 
 of political life it is always refreshing to one who takes 
 an active part in it to meet on terms of generous consid- 
 eration and of mutual respect those who differ with him 
 and who recognize the wise and salutary principle that 
 the weapons of political warfare shall be laid aside in all 
 other relations among men. The line that divides political 
 parties in their differing ideas of governmental policies 
 should never appear in the social affairs of the people or 
 in their broader responsibilities and obligations as citizens 
 of this Republic. Firmness of conviction is not dimin- 
 ished by a due respect for the opinion of those who differ 
 with us. 
 
 It is to the great credit and honor of the United States 
 Senate that in no other body of men on earth is that prin- 
 ciple of respect for the opinions of others more constantly 
 regarded and practiced. The aisle which divides this 
 Chamber is not like the international boundary line be- 
 tween two unfriendly nations. It simply represents cer- 
 tain, or sometimes uncertain, differences of opinion be- 
 tween us as to what is the best for our common country, 
 all of us equally interested in its welfare and in the 
 prosperity and happiness of its one hundred millions of 
 people. 
 
 Senator Bradley had the proper conception of this idea 
 in his public career, and it was illustrated in the fact that 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Senator Bradley 
 
 his death was deeply mourned upon both sides of this 
 Chamber, regardless of political divisions. 
 
 In his death the State of Kentucky lost one of its most 
 interesting and forceful leaders of the past generation, 
 and the many thousands of his friends and admirers there 
 join with us to-day in paying tribute to his memory. 
 
 Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the mem- 
 ory of the late Senator Bradley, I move that the Senate 
 adjourn. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Sterling in the chair). The 
 question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from 
 Kentucky. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 1 
 o'clock and 53 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 Monday, June 26, at 12 o'clock m. 
 
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Eulogy by Mr. C. Lee Cook 
 
 Thursday, June 29, 1916. 
 
 Mr. Smoot. I have been requested by a number of Sen- 
 ators to ask unanimous consent that a eulogy of the late 
 Senator William O. Bradley, by his lifelong friend, Mr. 
 C. Lee Cook, be printed in the Record. It consists of only 
 a very few pages, and if there is no objection I should like 
 to have it printed. 
 
 The Vice President. Without objection, it is so ordered. 
 
 The address is as follows : 
 
 EULOGY OF SENATOR WILLIAM O'CONNELL BRADLEY, BY HIS 
 FRIEND, MR. C. LEE COOK 
 
 The death of Senator Bradley has removed from our 
 midst a distinguished and picturesque man. He was 
 among the last of that heroic type made by the destiny 
 of the Civil War. Although but a boy when the conflict 
 began, the fire of patriotism so burned in his young heart 
 that he ran away from home twice to enlist on the side 
 of the Union. In the trying days following the end of 
 that strife he was always an ardent adherent of the jus- 
 tice of his country's cause; yet in the full maturity of 
 his brilliant forensic ability, when the Union had no need 
 of vindication, when the bristling armor of her military 
 forces lay rusting beneath the work of peace, he, with a 
 love and loyalty not surpassed, raised his eloquence to 
 heal the wounds of a prostrate South, to revive her broken 
 spirit, and to help build back her system and her enter- 
 prise and reclaim the waste of her fields and the ruin of 
 her cities. And, sir, what is more, he did a great work 
 toward readjustment of public sentiment at the North 
 toward, indeed, the true glory of a reunited country. 
 
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 Sir, he was well fitted for his course in life; God gave 
 him great gifts — a superior and commanding intellect, a 
 high resolve, an inflexible will, and an eloquence that has 
 not often been surpassed in the forum of our country. 
 This is the more extraordinary since he never received a 
 collegiate training. All the formal instruction he ever 
 had was in the country schools of Kentucky. Neither had 
 he the privilege of the classroom in the study of law. Yet 
 with this handicap he became the equal of almost every 
 lawyer of his State, and he had many an occasion to prove 
 that eminence. His fidelity to a client, his recognition 
 of the importance of thoroughly preparing a case, his 
 knowledge of the law, his aptitude in applying the law to 
 intricate circumstances, his adroitness in examining wit- 
 nesses, his extraordinary powers of analysis in law and 
 fact, his constructive attainments, and his brilliant appeal 
 made him preeminent at the bar. He won a large fortune 
 by his profession, but gave it away in the service of others. 
 
 He was a man of very engaging personality. His spirit 
 seemed to be a flame that lighted all around him, that 
 gave him remarkable capacity for leadership among men. 
 With this unusual qualification he raised the Republican 
 Party from a secondary place to a majority of the suffrage 
 in Democratic Kentucky, and was thus elected governor 
 in 1895. 
 
 Though he was not in the strictest sense a scholar, for 
 neither chance nor his rugged nature fitted him for that 
 quiet eminence of the inner school, he yet had a fine re- 
 gard for the refinements of scholarship. He was a man 
 fully conscious of his great talents, yet he never insulted 
 Providence by disdaining the mental limitations of any 
 man. If, though, one first cast contempt upon him, his 
 tongue became a Damascus blade that seldom met a con- 
 queror. No one ever entertained a nobler view of the 
 office of friendship than did Senator Bradley. When 
 
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 once he found in an acquaintance the acceptable virtues 
 of manhood, neither race, religion, nor politics could assail 
 in the feeblest voice a just estimation nor prevent the rais- 
 ing of the true spirit of fellowship toward such a one. 
 His heart was as tender as that of a mother to her infant. 
 His sympathies were as broad as life's field of hope, of 
 joy, of misery, and of strife; worthily he did what he could 
 to secure its happiness, brighten its shadows, assuage its 
 pangs, and ameliorate its conditions. 
 
 While Senator Bradley was not a close adherent to 
 religious formalism, in his heart was a profound reverence 
 for the infinite and divine. He was an intense and pious 
 student of the Bible, and on one occasion when I called 
 upon him unannounced I found him, with tears in his 
 eyes, deep in the pages of that sacred book. 
 
 Knowing, as I did, this great departed man, being hon- 
 ored by him with a most intimate relationship, and enjoy- 
 ing the inner privileges of confidence, though on almost 
 every political question our opinions differed, I can say 
 that richly he deserved the tribute, " His life was gentle, 
 and the elements so mix'd in him, that Nature might stand 
 up and say to all the world, ' This was a man ! ' " 
 
 Sir, 'twill be some time before we shall see his like again. 
 
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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 
 
 Monday, May 25, 19U. 
 The House met at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 God of the universe, Father of all souls, dispenser of 
 all good, strengthen our faith, encourage our hopes, and 
 bring us closer to Thee, that with clear minds, warm 
 hearts, and ready hands we may push forward in every 
 good work and departing leave the world a little better 
 that we have lived and wrought. Freely we have received, 
 freely may we give. 
 
 Admonished, bj r the death of one of the congressional 
 household, of the brief tenor of life, to work while it is 
 yet day, for the night cometh when no man can work; 
 comfort, we beseech Thee, the colleagues, friends, and 
 bereaved family by the blessed hope of the life immortal 
 and prepare us all for the change inevitable, that we may 
 be ready when the summons comes to go forward to what- 
 ever awaits us in the dispensation of Thy providence. In 
 the spirit of Him who said, " I am the resurrection and the 
 life." Amen. 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Tulley, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
 ing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
 found sorrow of the death of Hon. William O. Bradley, late a 
 Senator from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 14 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President to take order for arranging the funeral of Mr. 
 Bradley. 
 
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 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
 removed from his late home in this city to Frankfort, Ky., for 
 burial, in charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the commit- 
 tee, who shall have power to carry these resolutions into effect. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these proceedings to 
 the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased Senator the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 That in compliance with the foregoing the Presiding 
 Officer had appointed as said committee Mr. James, Mr. 
 Gallinger, Mr. Warren, Mr. Overman, Mr. Smoot, Mr. 
 Shively, Mr. Root, Mr. Kern, Mr. Martine of New Jersey, 
 Mr. Poindexter, Mr. O'Gorman, Mr. Fall, Mr. Smith of 
 Arizona, and Mr. Hughes. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous 
 consent for the present consideration of a resolution which 
 I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Kentucky asks unani- 
 mous consent for the present consideration of a resolution 
 which the Clerk will report. It does not require unani- 
 mous consent. 
 
 Mr. Johnson of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, I move the adop- 
 tion of the resolution. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution No. 526 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of the Hon. William O. Bradley, a Senator of the United 
 States from the State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
 Senator. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 16 Members be appointed on the 
 part of the House to join the committee appointed on the part of 
 the Senate to attend the funeral. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the reso- 
 lution. 
 
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Proceedings in the House of Representatives 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker. The Chair appoints the following com- 
 mittee on the part of the House to attend the funeral : Mr. 
 Johnson of Kentucky, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Sherley, Mr. Helm, 
 Mr. Thomas, Mr. Cantrill, Mr. Fields, Mr. Rouse, Mr. Bark- 
 ley, Mr. Langley, Mr. Austin, Mr. Kahn, Mr. Green of Iowa, 
 Mr. J. M. C. Smith, Mr. Switzer, and Mr. Johnson of Wash- 
 ington. The Clerk will report the next resolution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to ; accordingly 
 (at 12 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned, 
 under the order previously made, until to-morrow, Tues- 
 day, May 26, 1914, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 Tuesday, June 27, 1916. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
 ing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sorrow of the 
 death of the Hon. William 0. Bradley, late a Senator from the 
 State of Kentucky. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
 ceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his 
 associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and distin- 
 guished public services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof 
 to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
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