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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 J. FRED. C. TALBOTT 
 
 (Late a Representative from Maryland) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February- 16, 1919 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 October 7, 1918 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 1919 
 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Proceedings in the House 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 5,9 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Isaac R. Sherwood, of Ohio 11 
 
 Mr. Champ Clark, of Missouri 16 
 
 Mr. Lemuel P. Padgett, of Tennessee 19 
 
 Mr. Charles P. Coady, of Maryland 24 
 
 Mr. Frederick N. Zihlman, of Maryland 26 
 
 Mr. CarvilleD. Benson, of Maryland 3I 
 
 Mr. J. Charles Linthicum, of Maryland 34 
 
 Mr. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama 42 
 
 Mr. Sidney E. Mudd, of Maryland 43 
 
 Funeral sermon by Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving, D. D., of Bal- 
 timore „Q 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 47 
 
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HON. J. FRED C-TALBOTT 
 
DEATH OF HON. J. FRED. C. TALBOTT 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 
 Monday, October 7, 1918. 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Coudcn, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Almighty and evei-living God, whose goodness stands 
 approved, so move upon the hearts of Thy children that 
 the grief and sorrow which they have brought upon them- 
 selves may be removed; tliat the peace which all true men 
 are praying for and compelled to fight for may come in 
 liberty, justice, and righteousness; that the world may be 
 free from the sin and iniquity which follow in the wake 
 of war. 
 
 We stand before Thee our Father, with bowed heads 
 and sorrowing hearts because of the removal of a Member 
 of this House, who from his early manhood lived to his 
 convictions — a faithful and gallant soldier, fighting for 
 what he believed to be right, and when the war was over 
 accepted as gallantly its conclusions and gave himself to 
 restoring the Government of the United States in his State 
 and in the affairs of the Nation. 
 
 Wise in his counsels, clear in his judgments, he won the 
 respect and favor of all who knew him. 
 
 Comfort us and his kinsfolk with the everlasting prom- 
 ises of the inmiortality of the soul. 
 
 Fare thee well, old friend, until we meet again, where 
 wars and sorrows never enter. 
 
 And everlasting praise be Thine, in the name of Him 
 who died that we might live. Amen. 
 
 Mr. CoADY. Mr. Speaker, with a heart full of sorrow I 
 rise to inform the House of the death of my colleague, 
 Mr. Talbott, who died at his home in Lutherville, Balti- 
 
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 more County, Md., Saturday afternoon. With the excep- 
 tion of the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Cannon] and the 
 gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Sherwood], Mr. Talbott's 
 service here antedates that of any other Member of the 
 House. He was serving his twelfth term. I think there 
 are only three other Members of the House who have 
 ever had longer service here. He was one of the three 
 former Confederate soldiers on this side of the aisle. Mr. 
 Speaker, my colleague, Mr. Talbott, died a martyr to his 
 duty here. When the naval appropriation bill was before 
 the House for its consideration he sat here day after day, 
 although not a well man, giving the members of his com- 
 mittee the benefit of his advice, counsel, and good judg- 
 ment. I urged him at that time to go away — I saw that 
 he was failing rapidly — but he would not do it. He felt 
 his duty was here and he stayed here. After the bill came 
 back here from the Senate and was sent to conference he 
 was appointed one of the conferees. I again urged him to 
 go away, because I felt he was failing rapidly. He said 
 to me then, " I will not go away; I shall stay here doing 
 my duty until I sign that conference report if it is the last 
 report I ever sign." It was the last report he signed. 
 
 At some future time, Mr. Speaker, I shall ask the House 
 to set aside a day on which his colleagues may address 
 the House on his life and character. He was a splendid 
 man, bright, genial, with a happy disposition, and the best 
 thing I can say of him is that I never heard him speak ill 
 of any man, friend or foe. Mr. Speaker, I offer the fol- 
 lowing resolutions. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolutions. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, Ttiat tlie House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. J. Fred. C. Talbott, a Representative from the 
 State of Maryland. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 26 Members of the House, with 
 such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
 attend the funeral. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
 and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
 out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
 expenses in connection therewith lie i^aid out of tlie contingent 
 fund of the House. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 The question was taken, and the resohitions were unani- 
 mously agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker announced the following committee on the 
 part of the House: Mr. Coady, Mr. Linthicum, Mr. Price, 
 Mr. Mudd, Mr. Zihlman, Mr. Padgett, Mr. Estopinal, Mr. 
 Piiordan, Mr. Hensley, Mr. Connelly of Kansas, Mr. Oliver 
 of Alabama, Mr. Vcnable, Mr. Vinson, Mr. Littlepage, 
 Mr. Wilson of Texas, Mr. Kettner, Mr. Butler, Mr. Brown- 
 ing, Mr. Farr, Mr. Britten, Mr. Kelley of Michigan, Mr. 
 Peters, Mr. Hicks, Mr. McArlhur, Mr. Cannon, and Mr. 
 Gillett. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the additional reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The question was taken, and the motion was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 12 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the 
 House adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, October 8, 
 1918, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Tuesday, October 8, 1918. 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, its enroll- 
 ing clerk, announced that the Senate had passed the fol- 
 lowing resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
 announcement of the death of Hon. J. Fbed. C. Talbott, late a Rep- 
 resentative from the State of Maryland. 
 
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 Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President, to join the committee appointed on the part of the 
 House of Representatives, to attend the funeral of the deceased. 
 
 R^'^olved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to tlie House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the Senate do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 And that under the second resolution the Vice President 
 had appointed as the committee on the part of the Senate 
 Mr. Martin of Virginia, Mr. Bankhead, Mr. Williams, Mr. 
 Underwood, Mr. Saulsbuiy, Mr. Smith of Maryland, Mr. 
 Lodge, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Penrose, Mr. Dillingham, Mr. 
 Gerrj% and Mr. France. 
 
 Friday, January 3, 1919. 
 
 Mr. LiNTHictM. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that Sunday, February 9, 1919, be set aside for addresses 
 on the life, character, and public services of the Hon. J. 
 Frederick C. Tai.bott, late a Representative from the State 
 of Maryland. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Marj'land asks unani- 
 mous consent that Sunday, February 9, 1919, be set aside 
 to memorialize the late Representative Talbott. Is there 
 objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Friday, January 10, 1919. 
 
 Mr. Mann. Mr. Speaker, Sunday, February 9, 1919, has 
 heretofore been set aside for exercises in commemoration 
 of the late Representative Talbott, of Maryland. By 
 authority of two gentlemen from Maryland — Mr. Linthi- 
 cum, who had the day set aside, and Mr. Benson, who is 
 the successor of Mr. Talbott — I ask unanimous consent 
 that the order setting aside February 9 be changed to 
 February 16, on which to hold the exercises upon the life, 
 character, and public services of Mr. Talbott. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Illinois asks unani- 
 mous consent that the memorial services for the late 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 Representative Talbott be changed from the 9th of Febru- 
 arj^ to the 16th of February. Is there objection? 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Sunday, February 16, 1919. 
 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
 order by the Speaker pro tempore [Mr. Butler]. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., oflfered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 Eternal God, our Heavenly Father! 
 
 That God, whicli ever lives and loves. 
 
 One God, one law, one element, 
 
 And one far-ofT divine event, 
 To which the whole creation moves. 
 
 We tliank Thee that the door of the holy of holies is 
 ever open to Thy children, where they can commune with 
 Thee, find inspiration to guide them in the duties of life, 
 consolation for their sorrows, solace for the loss of loved 
 ones, and everlasting hope. 
 
 We meet here to-day in memory of four great men who 
 wrought on the floor of this House for their constituents, 
 their respective States, and the Nation they loved. 
 
 May those who knew them best speak from their hearts, 
 that their records may be left in the archives of the Nation 
 they loved; that others may read and be inspired with 
 patriotism and devotion. 
 
 Comfort those who knew and loved them with the 
 eternal hope that sometime, somewhere, they shall meet 
 them in a land where partings shall be no more and love 
 shall find its own; and everlasting praise be Thine, through 
 Him who demonstrated that life is stronger than death. 
 Amen. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will read the next 
 order. 
 
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 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 On motion of Mr. Mann, by unanimous consent, 
 Ordered, That the order heretofore agreed to, fixing Sunday, 
 February 9, 1919, as a day for addresses upon the life, character, 
 and public services of Hon. Joshua F. C. Talbott, late a Repre- 
 sentative from the State of Maryland, be set aside, and that 
 Sunday, February 16, 1919, be designated for such addresses. 
 
 Mr. COADY. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tions. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
 resolutions. 
 
 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. 
 Joshua F. C. Talbott, late a Member of this House from the State 
 of Maryland. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
 of the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
 career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
 shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The question was taken, and the resolutions were unani- 
 mously agreed to. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Mary- 
 land [Mr. Linthicum] will take the chair. 
 
 Mr. Linthicum took the chair. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Sherwood, of Ohio 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I presume I knew Comrade Talbott as 
 well during my 15 years of service here as any Mem- 
 ber outside of his own State. I knew him as a friend and 
 gentleman of the highest type. I remember a roll call 
 when my so-called dollar-a-day pension bill was pending, 
 when he (being a Confederate soldier) voted " aye." That 
 vote always appealed to me. Another brave Southern 
 soldier, Capt. Lamb, of Richmond, Va., who sei"ved on the 
 staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee, also voted " aye." Mr. Talbott, 
 if he had lived to the end of his term, would have served 
 24 years in this historic Chamber, longer than any Mem- 
 ber who ever represented the State of Maryland. I re- 
 member in 1911 there were but 391 Members of Congress, 
 and of that number only four were Members 20 years 
 before, or in 1891. They were Joseph G. Cannon, of 
 Illinois; Sereno E. Payne, of New York; Gen. Bingham, 
 of Pennsylvania; and John Dalzell, of Pittsburgh. This 
 House of Representatives is a political slaughterhouse, it 
 seems, for new Members. From 1865 to the commence- 
 ment of the Sixty-fifth Congress, a period of 50 years, 5,447 
 had served in this uncertain Chamber and of that number 
 only 22 had served for 20 years. To-day of our whole 
 number of 435 Members we have only present here on this 
 floor three Union soldiers — Col. HoUingsworth, of Ohio; 
 Mr. Osborne, of California; and myself. And there are 
 only two Confederates — Gen. Estopinal, of Louisiana; and 
 Col. Stedman, of North Carolina. An old soldier who 
 served in that war on an occasion of this kind in talking 
 
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 of a depai'ted comrade can not fail to be reminiscent. It 
 seems to be natural. 
 
 I remember one battle of the Civil War — the battle of 
 Franklin, Tenn. — on the 30th of November, 1864 — when 
 there were, all told, about 85,000 men engaged, and there 
 were more generals, more major generals, and lieutenant 
 generals killed in that battle of five hours than in all the 
 great " world's war," where 17,000,000 were engaged. 
 That is a startling statement, but I believe it to be true. 
 This, because modern warfare is mostly at long range. 
 The peculiarities of our Civil War pertain to no other war 
 in all history. It was the only war in all history where 
 the soldiers on the march and around the bivouac fires at 
 night sang patriotic songs of their own composition. That 
 was true both of the North and the South, and the litera- 
 ture of that war is among the best in the English language. 
 In a time like that and amid the intense feeling which pre- 
 vailed both North and South patriotic inspiration rose 
 above the level plane of prose into the higher altitude of 
 inspired song. Hence it is true that with the exception of 
 Lincoln's Gettj'sburg oration, that wonderful storj^ by 
 Edward Everett Hale — A Man Without a Countrj' — one or 
 two orations bj' Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, and one by Henrj' 
 Ward Beecher, the literature of the war is its lyric poetry. 
 On the Southern side it is equally true, with the exception 
 of one or two state papers by Jefferson Davis, some orders 
 to his soldiers by Stonewall Jackson, and Gen. Robert E. 
 Lee's farewell to his army, the literature of the South was 
 its poetry. We had during the Revolutionary War of 
 seven years not a single patriotic song \\Titten during that 
 whole period and none by soldiers. The same in the 
 Mexican War and the same in the War of 1812; but in our 
 Civil War there were over 50 patriotic soldier songs writ- 
 ten in the North and nearly as many in the South. Among 
 the most notable of those songs on the part of the North 
 
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Address or Mn. Siii:h\vood, of Ohio 
 
 was Julia Ward Howe's great lyric poem, The Battle 
 Hymn of the Republic. Sheridan's Ride, by Thomas 
 Buchanan Reade, is probably the most powerful dramatic 
 poem of the war. 
 
 And the most dramatic lyric of the South was Maryland, 
 My Maryland, written by James R. Randall, of Maryland. 
 I remember an incident in connection with that song. I 
 was made the field officer of the day in East Tennessee 
 upon our arrival under Gen. Burnside, and I was selecte.d 
 that night, as the field ofBcer of the day, to locate the 
 picket line around our army at the bend of the Holstein 
 River, 20 miles south of Knoxville. I was just locating 
 the left of the line along a road that ran by the river, and 
 was about to return to camp, when I heard a fine soprano 
 voice singing: 
 
 The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland I 
 His touch is at thy temple door, Maryland! 
 Avenge the patriotic gore 
 That flecked the streets of Baltimore, 
 And be the battle queen of yore, 
 Oh, Maryland, my Maryland. 
 
 I had not heard the voice of a woman in song for over a 
 year. I looked down in the thicket, and there I saw 
 through my field glass a girl at a piano singing, and an 
 officer standing behind her, and I saw, by the turn of his 
 collar, that he was a Confederate officer. Just then one 
 of my pickets fired a shot; then I heard the clang of sabers 
 and the clanking of hoofs, and a band of Confederate 
 scouts rode out into the darkness. I never knew who 
 wrote that song until at Salisbuiy, N. C, after the war. It 
 was printed on a piece of brown paper, and signed by 
 James R. Randall, of Maryland. 
 
 Another song that was sung in the South after the war 
 was written by Father Ryan, of Mobile, who was chaplain 
 of an Alabama regiment, The Conquered Banner. He 
 
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 ■wrote that song at Knoxville, Tenii., in a single hour, the 
 day after Lee surrendered. All the emotions of his heart, 
 all of human sympathy and human sorrow was expressed 
 in that wonderful song. Here is a couplet from it that I 
 remember: 
 
 Furl that banner, for it's weary; 
 Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary. 
 
 Furl it, fold it, it is best. 
 For there's not a man to wave it, 
 And there's no one left to lave it 
 In the blood which heroes gave it. 
 
 Furl it, hide it, let it rest! 
 
 One of the most poetic and beautiful songs of the war 
 was written by Marie La Costa, of Virginia, entitled. Some- 
 body's Darling. It was sung all over the North during the 
 war without its southern origin being known. It seems as 
 if it might be called the universal mother cry of all war- 
 cursed nations. 
 
 There was another peculiarity of our war. None of the 
 antebellum poets, except Whittier, wrote a patriotic war 
 song during the whole war. All the patriotic songs were 
 written by men who were obscure before the war. And 
 another peculiarity of our war is that not a single patriotic 
 song has been written of national import in all the 50 
 years since the war. And here at the close of this great 
 war, a world war for democracy, with the most alluring 
 shibboleth that was ever put before an army, we find not 
 a single poem has been written that will live in historj', 
 during this whole war. 
 
 As to my departed friend, let me say he did his duty 
 well. His record here, for 23 years, shows him standing 
 as a Member devoted to the best ideals. He had the cour- 
 age of his convictions. He stood true to his convictions 
 with absolute fidelity during his whole career. I am proud 
 to do honor to his memory. In September, 1867, at Co- 
 
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Address of Mr. Sherwood, of Ohio 
 
 lumbus. Miss., a band of splendid Southern women, only 
 two years after the war, decorated the graves of Union and 
 Confederate soldiers alike. This act, so patriotic, so cour- 
 ageous at that time, inspired one of the grandest poems of 
 the aftei'-war period, written by a gifted Mississippi poet, 
 Francis Miles Finch. 1 recollect a couplet: 
 
 No more shall the war clouds sever, 
 
 Nor the winding rivers be red. 
 They banish our anger forever, 
 
 When they laurel the graves of our dead. 
 Under the sod and dew 
 
 Waiting the judgment day, 
 Under the lilies the Blue, 
 
 Under the roses the Gray. 
 
 In that quiet cemetery at Cockeyville, in that old grave- 
 yard at the rear of the church, lie the last remains of our 
 departed friend, and his memory will be kept green by 
 those who loved him best. With every coming spring 
 kind hands will strew flowers over his grave, and above 
 the grass under wliich he sleeps the snowy magnolia will 
 diffuse a sweeter balm, and the wild passion flower, wind- 
 ing its sweet tendrils among the waving grasses, will 
 gather tears beneath the stars and shed them in the sun- 
 light. 
 
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Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri 
 
 Mr. Speaker: Our well-beloved friend, J. Fred. C. Tal- 
 BOTT, was a member of what may not be improperly de- 
 nominated " The Old Guard " of the House of Representa- 
 tives. Since Talbott departed there are only two left — Mr. 
 Speaker Cannon and Gen. Sherwood. Long may these 
 two remarkably preserved and able veterans remain as 
 splendid samples of a generation which has passed away. 
 In the last decade Talbott's thoughts were almost entirely 
 of men and things of the past. Not only his thoughts but 
 his conversation and his anecdotes concerned them. He 
 talked most interestingly about the distinguished men 
 who were on the boards when he first entered Congress 
 away back in 1879 and in the years immediately following. 
 
 According to his way of thinking there were giants in 
 those days. Samuel J. Randall, one of his heroes, was 
 Speaker. In the Senate were John T. Morgan, of Ala- 
 bama; Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas; Henry M. 
 Teller, of Colorado; Orville H. Piatt, of Connecticut; 
 Thomas F. Bayard and Eli Saulsburj', of Delaware; John 
 B. Gordon and Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia; David Davis 
 and John A. Logan, of Illinois; Joseph E. MacDonald and 
 Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana; William B. Allison and 
 Samuel J. Kirkwood, of Iowa; John J. Ingalls, of Kansas; 
 James B. Beck, of Kentucky; Hannibal Hamlin and 
 James G. Blaine, of Maine; William Pinkney Whyte, of 
 Maryland; George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts; Thomas W. 
 Ferry and Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan; William 
 Windom, of Minnesota; L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi; 
 Francis M. Cockrell and George G. Vest, of Missouri; John 
 P. Jones, of Nevada; Roscoe Conkling, of New York; 
 Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina; Allen G. Thurman 
 and George H. Pendleton, of Ohio; J. Donald Cameron, 
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 of Pennsylvania; A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island; Wade 
 Hampton, of South Carolina; Isham G. Harris, of Ten- 
 nessee; Richard Coke, of Texas; George F. Edmunds and 
 Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont; and Matthew H. Carpenter, 
 of Wisconsin — with others hardly less distinguished. 
 
 Some of the more celebrated Members of the House in 
 Talbott's first Congress, the Forty-sixth, were James B. 
 Belford, of Colorado; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; 
 Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia; Joseph G. Cannon, 
 William M. Springer, Adlai E. Stevenson, and William R. 
 Morrison, of Illinois; James B. Weaver, of Iowa; James 
 
 A. McKenzie, J. Proctor Knott, John G. Carlisle, J. C. S. 
 Blackburn, of Kentucky; Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana; 
 Thomas B. Reed and William P. Fi-ye, of Maine; George 
 D. Robinson, of Massachusetts; Julius Caesar Burrows, of 
 Michigan; Hernando D. Money and Charles E. Hooker, of 
 Mississippi; Richard Parks Bland, A. H. Buckner, and 
 John F. Phillips, of Missouri; Samuel Sullivan Cox, Fer- 
 nando Wood, Levi P. Morton, Warner Miller, Frank His- 
 cock, and Elbridge G. Lapham, of New York; Benjamin 
 Butterworth, John A. McMahon, Joseph Warren Keifer, 
 Frank H. Hurd, Thomas Ewing, William McKinley, jr., 
 and James A. Garfield, of Ohio; Henry H. Bingham and 
 William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania; Nelson W. Aldrich, of 
 Rhode Island; Robert Love Taylor, Leonidas C. Houk, and 
 Benton McMillan, of Tennessee; John H. Reagan, David 
 
 B. Culberson, and Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; John Ran- 
 dolph Tucker, Joseph E. Johnston, and Eppa Hunton, of 
 Virginia; John E. Kenna, of West Virginia; and Edward 
 S. Bragg, of Wisconsin. 
 
 No wonder our genial friend Talbott liked to talk of 
 these men. They were splendid themes for any conversa- 
 tionalist. He was, essentially a hero worshiper, and the 
 talents and virtues of his friends lost nothing when he 
 discoursed about them. 
 
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 He was a very young Confederate soldier and was fond 
 of relating his war experiences, some of which were highly 
 amusing. 
 
 Had he remained continuously in the House from his 
 first entrance to his final exit, his service would have 
 been 39 years; but his victories were mingled with de- 
 feats, so that he served only 22 years. 
 
 The great problem nearest his heart and to which he 
 devoted his energies was a big navj'. He thought about 
 it, talked about it, and no doubt he dreamed about it. 
 Now that he is gone from among us, it is pleasant to re- 
 member that his last appearance in the House, and that, 
 too, with the seal of death upon his face, was to get the 
 conference report creating a big navy adopted. He had 
 ridden his hobby for nearly four decades; his task was 
 do,ne. So, happy in the achievement of a great work, he 
 fell asleep. Assuredly some battleship should be named 
 the J. Fred. C. Talbott. 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I regret that the poverty of my language 
 will deny to me both the opportunity and the privilege of 
 adequately expressing the deep sense of appreciation of 
 the high character and the warm personal friendship that 
 I entertained for Mr. Talbott. For 12 or 14 years, labor- 
 ing together on the Naval Committee of the House, we 
 were associated very closely and very tenderly, and dur- 
 ing all those years there was naught else for him except 
 the very highest regard and the tenderest feelings. 
 
 I regarded him as a man of high character, noble im- 
 pulses, and lofty aspirations, a man who was intensely 
 devoted to the interests and the welfare and the success 
 of the American Navy. 
 
 He was proud of the history of the Navj'. He had a 
 high esteem for the officers and the men of the Navy, and 
 never at any time did there come to him any thought 
 except the thought of devoting the best efforts, the best 
 aims, and the best purposes of his life to the upbuilding 
 and the stabilizing of the American Navy. And I can 
 truly say that the Navy, and, beyond the Navy^ the country, 
 owes him a deep sense of appreciation for his untiring 
 effort and his unceasing labor for placing the Ameiucan 
 Navy upon the pedestal of respect and confidence and 
 honor which it enjoys to-day in the public esteem, not 
 alone of the American people but of all the world. 
 
 He was also deeply' interested in the Naval Academy at 
 Annapolis, Md. He believed that the Naval Academy was 
 the agency, the instrumentality chosen for the production, 
 for the training, for the development, for the broad and 
 yet deep and fundamental education of the officers of the 
 Navj', who should give the Navy character and who should 
 render it efficient and capable at all times of discharging 
 the duties and meeting the obligations that rested upon it. 
 
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 There is a little coincidence: Mr. Talbott was a Member 
 of Congress in the Forty-seventh, the Forty-eighth, and, I 
 believe, the Forty-ninth Congress. During that time Gen. 
 Washington C. Whitthorne represented in Congress the 
 same congressional district that I have the honor to repre- 
 sent, living in the same town, and Gen. Whitthorne, dur- 
 ing the time that the Democrats had control of the' Con- 
 gress, was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs; 
 and Mr. Talbott served with him as a member of that 
 committee, and he served with me during the years that 
 I have been a member of that committee, both as a mem- 
 ber and as chairman. Out of this there grew an interest 
 and a friendship, a sentiment, if I may so speak, that 
 coupled my thoughts back into the history of the Navy 
 when it was very small. Back in those years the appro- 
 priations for the Navy, all told, were perhaps less than 
 $20,000,000. Mr. Talbott lived in his service to see them 
 grow in the last year to $1,600,000,000 and more in one 
 year. That, of course, was a war period, but he had seen 
 the Navj^ become the pride of the American people, and he 
 had the satisfaction of knowing that during these years he 
 had contributed materially and substantially to its growth 
 and development and entitled to a share of the gratitude 
 and appreciation of the American people. 
 
 Mr. Talbott was a man of a lovable personality. I 
 select my words with care, and I wish to emphasize the 
 expression— a man of a lovable character. There are men 
 who have their strong intellects, who may have great 
 energy, who may have strong points, and yet are repellent 
 in their approach. Mr. Talbott possessed a lovable per- 
 sonality in a degree that drew to him a large circle of 
 friends. It was to me a source of pride and gratification 
 that when I attended his funeral and his burial and saw 
 the great concourse of people gathered, it was one con- 
 stant chorus, one unbroken expression of love and affec- 
 tion that his people manifested and expressed for him. 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Talbott was possessed not only of a lovable per- 
 sonality but he possessed a sweet spirit. Often have I 
 heard liim speak tender sentiments to manifest the sweet 
 spirit that he jjossessed toward his fellow Members and 
 toward his acquaintances. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, it has been said that it is a good thing to 
 be a great man. I want to reverse it. It is a great thing 
 to be a good man. And Mr. Talbott, with his lovable per- 
 sonality, with his sweet spirit, with the other traits of liis 
 character that endeared him not alone to his associates 
 here, but to all who knew him, was a good man. 
 
 He was a man who had a keen sense of humor. He was 
 not what you would call in the ordinary term a humorist; 
 he was not what you would designate as a wit; and yet 
 he had a keen, delicate sense of humor. He did not 
 always look at the somber, serious, disconsolate side of 
 life. 
 
 There was in his disposition and in his temperament 
 that sense of humor that gave a sparkle to his life, that 
 gave a zest and a pleasure to be with him where one could 
 see, in his own life and in the association of his fellows, 
 that which carried with it that light of humor and friend- 
 ship that endears men to each other. 
 
 He was a fine judge of human nature. He had the 
 faculty of sizing up men. It seems that some men have 
 that faculty by intuition to look into and analyze the char- 
 acter and the elements that constitute the composition of 
 human nature. He was a fine judge of human nature as 
 it manifested itself in everyday life. I have already said 
 that he had a strong hold upon his friends. He gripped 
 them to him because his friends saw in him and realized 
 that he was made up of those noble qualities, those essen- 
 tial attributes, that we characterize as the noble attributes 
 of a noble man. And that is why it was that he was, all 
 through these many years, able to keep himself ingrati- 
 
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 ated in the love and the affection of his people, to receive 
 their commendation, and to hold himself close to their 
 hearts. He exercised, by virtue of his intellectual and his 
 noble qualities, a great influence in the communitj' in 
 which he lived. 
 
 That was one of the things that I heard expressed so 
 often when I attended his funeral and his burial. The 
 plain people, not speaking designedly, not testifying in 
 flattery, but expressing the feeling that was uppermost 
 in their hearts, spoke of the great influence that during 
 all these 3'ears he had exercised in the community. And 
 likewise he exercised a great and a lasting influence and 
 made an impression upon the democracy of his State and 
 of his community. 
 
 Greatly beloved, highly honored, and much respected, 
 he reached a ripe old age, full of honors and full of love 
 and respect. Like the corn, he ripened for the shock. The 
 end came. I thought, and I have often thought, of that 
 illustration of the apostle: The seed, the flower, and the 
 fruit We take in our hand the little seed. We can not 
 understand it. It looks simply like an object. We do not 
 know the inherent life that is in it. We may subject it to 
 the microscope, and still we can not see the life in it. 
 You may analyze it, and you can not find the life in it 
 through the chemist. But place it in the ground and let 
 the sunshine and the moisture come on it, and there comes 
 the beautiful growth, full of the flower, radiant and bril- 
 liant in beaut}', and then the rich, full, luscious fruit. 
 And so it is when we place the bodies of our loved ones 
 " earth to earth, ashes to ashes "; not more mysterious, but 
 along the same lines, the providence of God can bring out 
 the flower and the fruition of an eternal life from the 
 crumbling of the clay in the breaking down of the mortal. 
 
 We placed him in the grave in that beautiful country 
 churchyard, where loved ones who had gone before were 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 buried. Alongside of liis loved ones we placed him, on 
 the western slope of the hill, toward the sunset, and on 
 that beautiful afternoon the sun was making it all radiant 
 in beauty, and making the western horizon a vast ex- 
 panse of golden loveliness. The thought came to me that 
 the soughing of the winds amidst the tresses of the trees 
 will lie a requiem — a sweet song over the grave of an 
 honest man; and the rays of light, breaking through the 
 foliage of the forest trees, will shine upon the grave of a 
 man whose life was a blessing to his country, and whose 
 work was a benediction to his people. We laid him 
 away in that thought, looking to the higher, the better, the 
 nobler, the grander life that comes to the just and the 
 pure. 
 
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Address of Mr. Coady, of Maryland 
 
 Ml". Speaker: The first session of the present Congress 
 began on Monday, April 2, 1917, in pursuance of the 
 proclamation of the President. 
 
 Since that day 13 Members of the House of Represent- 
 atives have died, and of all these deaths — an unusually 
 large number — none created more real, genuine sorrow 
 among our Members than that of my colleague, the Hon. 
 Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott, who represented the 
 second Maryland district in this body for over 23 years. 
 
 There are only two Members whose first service here 
 antedates Mr. Talbott's. They are the gentleman from 
 Illinois, former Speaker Cannon, and the gentleman from 
 Ohio, Gen. Sherwood; and only three Members who have 
 to their credit more terms than he had. 
 
 Mr. Talbott had been a Confederate soldier, and his 
 death leaves on this side of the Capitol only two others 
 who followed the Stars and Bars, the gentleman from 
 Louisiana, Gen. Estopinal, and the gentleman from North 
 Carolina, Maj. Stedman. 
 
 Mr. Talbott was born on July 29, 1843, near Lutherville, 
 Md., where he spent the greater part of his life and in 
 which town he died. Early in his life he was elected 
 State's attorney for his county, and almost continuously 
 thereafter he held public office; and all the public places 
 he held, except one, he was elected to fill by the votes of 
 the people. From the very start of his career he assumed 
 a leadership in politics that was never thereafter success- 
 fully challenged, and for a half century he was active in 
 the councils of his party, and for many years he was Mary- 
 land's representative on the Democratic national com- 
 mittee, a highly coveted honor. 
 
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Addrkss of Mr. Coady, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Talbott had been a member of the Naval Affairs 
 Committee of the House for a long time and ranked next 
 to its chairman. He was a big Navy man — the Navy was 
 his hobby — and he never wavered in his support of all 
 measures for its enlargement. To the work of this com- 
 mittee — ^work that he loved — he devoted his time and 
 energ)'. Because of his impaired health he was unable 
 to participate actively in the debates on the various naval 
 appropriation bills, but he was always on the floor when 
 such measures were under consideration, conferring with 
 his colleagues on the committee, and assisting them with 
 his counsel and advice. He was an authority on the Navy 
 and a highly respected one; and he was known and loved 
 by everyone in the service. This love was shown by the 
 presence at his funeral services of three admirals, other 
 naval officers, and a large number of sailors and marines. 
 
 In announcing his death to the House I said I had never 
 heard him speak ill of anyone, and I want to repeat that 
 statement. He was kind, aff"able, and one of the most de- 
 lightful companions I ever met. It was a real treat to be 
 in his company, and I always enjoyed a chat with him. 
 He was bright, always optimistic, and brimful of interest- 
 ing reminiscences. He was loved by his friends, and he 
 had an influence in this body that was remarkable. 
 
 I consider it a privilege to have served with Mr. Talbott. 
 As a Marylander, I am proud of his achievements, and, in 
 common with his other friends, I deeply deplore his death. 
 
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Address of Mr. Zihlman, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It was given to me to know the Hon. J. 
 Fred. C. Talbott intimately only during the late years of 
 his life, which will always be a source of regi'et to me. 
 
 Even before I knew him I had learned to respect and 
 admire his many sterling qualities and to marvel at the 
 place he held in the affections of his people. 
 
 When we consider that he was first elected to public 
 office nearly a half century ago, or, to be exact, 48 years 
 ago, and that he was the acknowledged leader of his party 
 in his county and district at the time of his death, and that 
 his people manifested their love and esteem for him at all 
 times and places, his hold upon their affections seems to 
 me little short of marvelous. 
 
 That section of Maryland where Mr. Talbott was a 
 dominant power for so many years is perhaps the richest 
 section of Maryland. The county where he lived is the 
 largest in population and contains more wealth than any 
 other county in the State. 
 
 Many strong men from an intellectual and political 
 standpoint came forward in that long period, but none 
 ever contended successfully with him for political suprem- 
 acy; and most of those who might have made formid- 
 able competitors in the field of politics became his friends 
 and personal followers when they learned to know the 
 man and admire his many sterling qualities of heart and 
 mind. " Marse Fred." Talbott, as he was known through- 
 out Iiis native State, loved his people and delighted to 
 serve them, and they in turn delighted to honor him, and 
 manifested their affection at every opportunity. 
 
 One of the last official acts of his long and active career 
 was to come liere from his home near Baltimore to try and 
 be of service to the son of one of his neighbors, and a vol- 
 
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Address of Mr. Zihlman, of Maryland 
 
 ume could be written and not hold one-tenth of the acts of 
 kindness and helpfulness performed by this remarkable 
 man during his many years in public life. 
 
 He at all times voted his sentiments and convictions, as 
 a public statesman of the school of thought to which he 
 belonged and was proud to represent; and he told me 
 upon one occasion that his people had never criticized a 
 single vote of his on any important question during his 
 long career in the House of Representatives. 
 
 During the long deadlock over the naval appropriation 
 bill last summer he remained here in Washington as one 
 of the conferees, taxing his failing strength beyond what 
 a man in his condition could expect to endure, because he 
 believed with his country at war it was his duty to remain 
 and assist in every way in facilitating an early and har- 
 monious agreement with the Senate. 
 
 I visited him at his hotel in Atlantic City in August of 
 last year, when he was somewhat improved after the 
 breakdown which followed his work here on the naval 
 bill, and he told me with pardonable pride of his unani- 
 mous nomination by his party for reelection, and that it 
 was his ambition to serve one more term in the National 
 Congress. This ambition was denied him, for he died 
 before the election was held. 
 
 As Mr. Coady has said, Mr. Talbott was what is known 
 as a " big Navy man." He believed we should have as 
 big and as powerful a Navy as the country's interests de- 
 manded, and he worked for that principle in season and 
 out of season, and few of those who heard him will forget 
 the pride in his voice and manner when he took the floor 
 the day before the United States declared war upon the 
 Imperial Government of Germany and said: 
 
 The Navy is ready 1 We are ready to fight at the drop of a hat, 
 and I am going to maintain that position as long as I represent my 
 people, and I do not believe my people will change me as long as 
 I say that. 
 
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 I desire to read in part his address upon that memorable 
 occasion, when the Nation he loved was about to be 
 jjlunged into the black and unfathomable abyss of war, 
 and the branch of the service he loved and had helped to 
 build to its present great strength and power was to be 
 tried in the fire of achievement: 
 
 Mr. Talbott. Mr. Chairman, I had not intended to address the 
 House on this resolution, because every man, woman, and child 
 in tlie congressional district that I represent knows as well as they 
 know that they live that I am for my country and for every right 
 that belongs to it on the land or on the sea. [Applause.] I 
 would not make an address at all, except some gentlemen have 
 addressed the House and have indicated that there is a lack of 
 preparation for this emergency. That is not correct. This Nation 
 to-day is prepared to meet any other naval power on the globe 
 except England. Man for man, gun for gun, ship for ship, we can 
 lick the world; and it is not good taste and it is not patriotism to 
 try to convey to the people of this land that we are not prepared 
 when we are. [Applause.] We are a great deal better prepared 
 than the world knows of, and it is good policy that the world 
 should not know all that we are doing and have been doing in the 
 past. This resolution is going to be adopted, and it is a very 
 serious and a very critical time in the history of this Nation. 
 War is all that Gen. Sherman said it was, and he helped to make 
 it so [laughter], and I would tell him so if he were alive. 
 
 I had a little something to do with it, not very much, but in my 
 humble way I did, and I do not wish to talk about it. What in the 
 world is this Nation to do? What in the world can we do except 
 fight, and we know how? We have got to fight. Now, do not be 
 uneasy, do not be at all uneasy, about the outcome. It is going to 
 cost some money and it is going to cost some lives. Now, this 
 war is not half as vital as some people think. It is not half as 
 dangerous just now as some people think. We had a hearing in 
 the Committee on Naval Affairs where everybody asked questions, 
 although I did not ask many. Admiral Benson, I think, was on 
 the witness stand. I said to him, "Admiral, if this country was to 
 get into trouble and we had to transport an army to the Philip- 
 pines or to Hawaii or to some place, and as admiral of the Navy 
 you would be called upon to see that they got there safely, what is 
 the first thing you would do? " He said, " The first thing I would 
 
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Address of Mr. Zihlman, of Maryland 
 
 do would be to clear the ocean of the enemy's fleet." Now, that 
 is all in a nutshell. [Laughter and applause.] That is the whole 
 case. Now, before the enemy gets here they must clear the ocean 
 of our fleet. For God's sake, let us have a fleet and have one that 
 they never will clear off the ocean. [Applause.] Now, that is all 
 of it. We need not fear invasion. 
 
 We need not fear any power on earth so long as we have a Navy, 
 one that can not be cleared off the sea. It is the duty of our people 
 to see that we have a Navy like that and to maintain it. You know 
 I am the proudest man in this House, and I have the right to be. 
 I introduced in the Forty-seventh Congress the original resolution 
 giving authority to the Naval Affairs Committee to take up the 
 (iuestion of the rehabilitation of the Navy of the United States 
 and had it passed, and introduced an amendment that established 
 the gun factories. I am a Navy man, and I believe a navy is the 
 one safeguard of this Nation [applause], and if you will only have 
 a Navy you can lick the world. [Applause.] Now, I am not going 
 to talk about the resolution. Everybody knows who knows any- 
 thing about me that I am ready to fight at the drop of a hat. 
 [Applause.] And I am ready for my country to fight at the drop 
 of a hat, and I am going to maintain that position as long as I 
 represent my people, and I do not believe my people will ever 
 change me as long as I say that. [Applause.] Now, some gentle- 
 men may for various reasons vote against this resolution. Some 
 people may say " I have got this kind of a constituency or that 
 kind of a constituency." They are all mistaken. Any man who 
 votes here because he has got a constituency of a certain nation- 
 ality and votes to please them makes a mistake. [Applause.] I 
 want him to know that the people who he is voting to please came 
 here to get rid of that kind of a government. [Applause.] That is 
 why they are here. They are not here because they love us so 
 much, but they hated where they came from. [Laughter and ap- 
 plause.] I want to tell you one thing. Do not you think for a 
 moment that by so voting you are going to please them. They will 
 not respect you for that vote. [Applause.] And the people that 
 agree with the President of the United States and me will not 
 respect you. [Applause and laughter.] So you are going to be 
 caught, like the nigger's coon trap, agwine and acomin'. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, it is good for an American to have known 
 and to have enjoyed the friendship of Fred. Talbott. 
 Kindly, fearless; a two-handed fighter, yet filled with 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representatu'e Talbott 
 
 homely philosophy and axioms; rich in the history and 
 rue of the past; alert to his duties and to the needs of the 
 present; clear-eyed and unafraid as to the future; accom- 
 modating and full of good logic and sound and wholesome 
 advice; to know him was to love him and to cherish his 
 suggestions and respect his full judgment. 
 
 To have lived, to have been honored by a loyal, pa- 
 triotic people for so long a period is a great achievement. 
 To have held their love to the end of his long life is a 
 testimonial to his strong and lovable character, breadth of 
 mind, and innate goodness of heart. 
 
 Happy is he who knows that he will go to his last rest- 
 ing place when the day comes with as rich a heritage of 
 love and esteem as was given to Fred. Talbott by the peo- 
 ple who knew and trusted him. 
 
 And when the twilight hour drew near, 
 
 He stood beside the silent sea; 
 And in his heart there was no fear 
 
 Of all its dread immensity. 
 
 He waited there in perfect faith. 
 And while the fading day grew dim. 
 The boatman's hail, the voyage of death. 
 Meant only going home to him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Benson, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Speaker: No one appreciates more than I do my 
 inability to say anything that would add to the high 
 esteem in Nvhicli we all hold the memory of the late Hon. 
 J. Fred. C. Talbott. 
 
 My first recollection of Mr. Talbott goes back to the 
 days when he was bitterly opposed in the primaries, when 
 my father was opposed to him on one occasion. There 
 was a paper published in our county — the name of which 
 I have forgotten — and it came to our home. I, then a boy 
 of 10 or 12 years of age, had been reading this paper, 
 and had formed a very unfavorable and unfair opinion of 
 him based upon what that paper contained. 
 
 About that time, upon leaving my fatlier's office one 
 day, I met Mr. T.\lbott on his way to Calvert Station in 
 Baltimore and walked with him about two squares; and 
 from that day until his death we were friends. As a boy 
 I was impressed by his wonderful kindliness, his keen 
 sense of humor, and his friendly treatment of me, the son 
 of his principal opponent. 
 
 My relations with Mr. Talbott were very intimate. I 
 know that he would have made a brilliant success as a 
 lawj^er and that his sound business judgment would have 
 brought him success in any field of endeavor that he might 
 have chosen. But, as we all know, he chose for his life 
 work to represent his people in this body. He lived 
 tlirougli two of the most important periods in the histoi'y 
 of the American people. He served as a Confederate 
 soldier when a youth. At the close of the Civil War he 
 returned and took up his work among his own people. 
 Big as his heart was, and as much inclined as he was to 
 stand by his friends as individuals, I know that the real 
 love of Mr. Talbott was for his country and for the great 
 party with which he was allied. A goodly share of his 
 
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 love was for his people at home. Mr. Talbott loved the 
 people of Maryland. He loved more people than any man 
 I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, and I sincerely 
 believe there were many, many people, great and small, 
 who loved him — and they had abundant reason for so 
 doing. 
 
 Upon one occasion we were returning from Manchester, 
 in Carroll County, Md., in an automobile with former 
 Representative Henry, of Texas, and Mr. Talbott said to 
 Mr. Henry: " Bob, you live a long way from your constit- 
 uents, and it has some advantages; you are not bothered 
 by them at all; it is too hard for them to reach you. But, 
 while I live within an hour's ride of my constituents, it 
 has its advantages; and one big advantage is that rarely a 
 day goes over my head that I do not have the opportunity 
 of making some poor fellow feel happier." We all know 
 that to be true; and when a man is inspired by such feel- 
 ings — love of country, love of State, love for his people — 
 an intelligent man, a humane man — one can readily 
 understand why he possessed such a great influence in 
 national affairs. 
 
 The Baltimore Sun in an editorial published a short 
 time prior to his death paid Mr. T.\lbott the following 
 tribute : 
 
 Mr. Talbott's very serious illness will bring not merely passing 
 regret but genuine grief to a larger number of Marylandcrs than 
 would a similar illness of almost any other man in the State. The 
 second district Congressman has not always been enlightened in 
 his politics, but he has always been unexceptionable in his human 
 sympathy. To the whole of Baltimore County he has been really 
 a friend and neighbor, helpful, thoughtful, kindly. These quali- 
 ties in him were inherent; they were not the result of calculating 
 political sagacity, and his success in political life was largely due 
 to the fact that there was no sham or pretense about him. His 
 fine humanity won for him the absolute devotion of his constitu- 
 ents and his followers; it won for him the affection and respect 
 of his fellow Congressmen. Their unfeigned sorrow at this time 
 is a splendid tribute to him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Benson, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Talbott had the confidence, esteem, and friendship 
 of Pi-esident Wilson. During his last illness the President 
 wrote Mr. Talbott as follows: 
 
 My Dear Mr. Talbott : I need not tell you how distressed I have 
 been, along with all your friends, at your illness, but I send you 
 this note of genuine sympathy with the hope that it may cheer 
 you a little to linow how anxiously and affectionately your friends 
 are awaiting for your recovery. 
 
 Cordially and sincerely, yours, 
 
 WooDROW Wilson. 
 
 No reference to Mr. Talbott would be complete that did 
 not call attention to his foresight as to the needs of the 
 Nation when, more than 20 years ago, he began the ad- 
 vocacy of and constantly fought for a large and effective 
 Navy. He told me last spring, when he was quite ill, 
 that no matter what anyone said to him he was going to 
 sign the conference report on the naval appropriation bill 
 if it killed him. He did sign it, and 1 believe the work he 
 did in that committee for his country and for the Navy 
 and for us all, at a time when his health was seriously 
 impaired, unquestionably helped shorten his days. I be- 
 lieve that he felt his work was largely done, and could he 
 have lived to see the present war successfully concluded 
 he would have considered his work finished. 
 
 Mr. Talbott held the affection and esteem of his con- 
 stituents through all the years of his public life; he won 
 and retained their loyalty and confidence to the end. No 
 one could have had more sincere friends among the Mem- 
 bers of Congress than he. To mention his name to a 
 Member is but to bring forth the most sincere expression 
 of esteem and friendship. He lived a long and useful life 
 in the service of his counti-y, respected, honored, and loved 
 by his constituents and associates. 
 
 At this point Mr. Coady took the chair. 
 
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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Speaker : " Hon. Joshua Frederick Cockey Talbott," 
 as historians will know him; "Uncle Fred.," as his friends 
 knew him; "Marse Fred.," as he was affectionately called 
 by his colored admirers; and "Just for Congress Talbott," 
 as his political friends were wont jokingly to speak of him, 
 has passed to the great beyond. 
 
 Born on the 29th of July, 1843, educated in the public 
 schools of his native State, he was truly a product of 
 Maryland in every sense. He reflected it in his daily life, 
 in his intercourse with the people, and in his work in Con- 
 gress. Ever alert to the welfare of the countiy, he was 
 particularly animated and interested when the interests of 
 Maryland were concerned. Though a great admirer of 
 the people of all sections of our country, having a broad 
 and comprehensive vision, a man who stood steadfastly 
 for the Union, and a friend of the man in blue, yet he felt 
 that the interests of Maryland iind her people were largely 
 wrapped up with the Southland; that her love and friend- 
 ship were a part of its very fabric and foundation; that 
 the beauty and glory of its histoiy and the mandates of 
 its traditions should be the admiration of all. The well- 
 groomed or the tattered form of the man in gray — the 
 man of the lost cause — needed but to approach Mr. Tal- 
 bott when he became the personification of kindness and 
 hospitality itself. Not alone did he talk for the South, 
 but he fought for her; he was willing to lay down his 
 life for the cause. 
 
 In 1864, at the age of 21, he joined the Second Mary- 
 land (Confederate) Cavalry and served to the close of 
 the war. He was so genial, lovable, humorous, and gener- 
 ous that he made friends in every walk of life and in 
 every line of endeavor he traversed. In the army he was 
 
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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 
 
 the life of his company and the pal of the boys; as John 
 "Williams — his barber in the Capitol barber shop — who 
 was a body guard in the Confederate Army, tells us, when 
 he saw him at Petersburg, Va., " He was here and there 
 and everywhere making fun for the boys, and singing 
 Maryland, My Maryland." He was a boy among the boys 
 until his very death, and a tower of strength and action 
 among the men who make business and mold history. 
 
 If I should be asked what contributed most to Mr. 
 Talbott's success in business and public life I should say 
 it was his high regard for his word. A promise once made 
 by him was worth more than a bond with a hundred 
 golden seals. He made few congressional speeches, but 
 his word to support a measure carried with it not alone 
 his vote but his active influence as well. He was a plain 
 man, devoid of hypocrisy and deceit; he did not pretend to 
 be what he was not, nor to favor a measure or proposi- 
 tion when he was opposed to it. He never tried to balance 
 himself on the stilts of neutrality, but rather to adopt that 
 scriptural injunction, " He who is not with me is against 
 me." When he took a position he remained put, and all 
 the king's horses and all the king's men could not move 
 him from it. 
 
 I shall always consider it a precious heritage that I was 
 his colleague in Congi'css for more than seven years. I 
 was with him when the glory of the Democratic victoiy 
 and control of the House shone upon his countenance as 
 we organized for the extra session in 1911, when Mr. Tal- 
 BOTT, strong and vigorous, swore in Hon. Champ Clark as 
 Speaker, as he did at each succeeding Congress, being 
 dean of the Democrats. I was with him when he returned 
 from his greatest sadness, the funeral of his wife, Laura 
 Cockey Talbott. She was the playmate of his boyhood, 
 his sweetheart of youth, and his dearest companion and 
 wife for more than 44 years — the pride and glory of his 
 young ambition, the sweet ornament of his mature fame, 
 
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 and the best love of bis ripened age. From tbis time on 
 one coiild see that, though Mr. Talbott was trj'ing to be his 
 former self, there was a gnawing sadness, a lonesome- 
 ness beyond repair. 
 
 I was with him when the war in Europe broke out, in 
 August, 1914. I can see his grave face and apprehension, 
 but never did he have the least fear that Germany could 
 cope with the American Navy. If he had been a fetish 
 worshiper the American Na\^ would have been his god. 
 
 I was with him when America declared war, in April, 
 1917, and I beheld in him the old war horse of former 
 days. I can well imagine what he was thinking as he 
 looked back through the corridor of time, some 50 years, 
 to Civil War days. " Oh," thought he, " how I would like 
 to have the strength and vigor of those days when my 
 horse and I swam the Potomac and I fought with Harry 
 Gilmour's men. To-day I should have a chance to fight a 
 real enemy and not my countrymen." 
 
 I was with him during the succeeding months of his 
 life while Congress voted billions of dollars and provided 
 the mobilization of millions of men, while he, as a mem- . 
 ber of the Naval Affairs Committee, labored day after day 
 with energy and zeal, though his form bent lower each day 
 under the strain and his eyes began to lose their luster of 
 former years. 
 
 The great naval bill appropriating more than a billion 
 and a half dollars had been passed by both Houses; it was 
 in conference. Mr. Talbott, worked down to weakness 
 itself, often tottering to the Capitol on the arm of a page 
 or sometimes on that of a colleague, refused to leave for a 
 I'est until the bill was finally passed. He then took a vaca- 
 tion; but the damage had been wrought. "Greater love 
 hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for 
 his friend." 
 
 The last time I saw him he was surrounded by his 
 friends at a gathering in his district where he was the 
 
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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 
 
 central figure of 5,000 of his people. 1 had spoken in his 
 stead, and was to leave the following day for the battle 
 fields of Europe. I took his hand; he clasped mine in both 
 of his, saying, " See all you can, but don't risk unneces- 
 sarily, and come back safe; we will all be glad to welcome 
 you home." Thus I left him in the mellow sunset of a 
 well-spent life. Though it was not accorded me to see 
 him again, I shall profit by the years I spent with him as 
 his colleague, his friend, and his great admirer. 
 
 He was a friend of truth, of soul sincere; 
 
 In action faitliful, and in lienor clear; 
 
 Who broke no promises, served no private ends, 
 
 Sought no title, and forsook no friends. 
 
 On the 8th day of October, just two days before I 
 reached America again, he was laid to rest in his native 
 county, surrounded by hundreds of his friends, commit- 
 tees of the Senate and House of Representatives, admirals 
 of the Navy, and amid the firing of a salute by sailors of 
 the Nav5% and the sounding of taps. Did he know he 
 would soon leave us? I believe he did. One afternoon 
 he came to my office and saw my wife, who was his 
 staunch friend. As he handed her his autographed pic- 
 ture he said : " Here is something I want you to have." 
 This hangs conspicuously in our home to-day. 
 
 He had reached that time of life when the souls of the 
 great and small alike beat at the bars of the cage of life 
 in an effort to catch a glimpse of the great beyond, to hear 
 a whisper of those who have gone, to feel the faintest 
 spiritual " touch of a vanished hand," the faint " sound of 
 a voice that is still." 
 
 Mr. Talbott, a great success as a lawyer, early took up a 
 political career and was a well-known figure at State and 
 national conventions for many years. He was first elected 
 to the Forty-sixtli Congress, and, with few interruptions, 
 remained in this body until the time of his death. His 
 
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 great work was upon the Naval Affairs Committee. He 
 saw the vision long before most men beheld it, and stood 
 always for a big Navy. He believed America should be in 
 position to protect herself, and refused to rely upon the 
 protection of another. He preached " big Navy " in sea- 
 son and out, and on several occasions prevented the House 
 by his vote and silent work from cutting down its naval 
 program. I am glad that it was granted him to see the 
 great wisdom of his decision, to realize the appreciation 
 of the people for his work. It can be adequately esti- 
 mated just how much his sei-vices meant to the Navy and 
 thereby the safety of the American home and the suc- 
 cess of the war. It is a delicate and touching tribute that 
 a destroyer will bear the name Talbott. 
 
 A man who can continue as leader for the many years 
 Mr. Talbott did and be returned to Congress during 40 
 years has a testimonial which needs no elaboration. Kip- 
 ling has expressed the thought most admirably: 
 
 Old Nlnevah town has nothing to give 
 For the place where a man's own folks live; 
 He might have been that, or he may be this. 
 But they love him or hate him for what he is. 
 
 Maryland is proud to have contributed many great men 
 to the American Government and is proud to have added 
 another to the list of her distinguished men. This man 
 of practical ideas, dreamer of great dreams, a man to 
 whom principle was the correct thing in life, a fighter 
 who loved a fight and believed in the justness of his cause, 
 a devoted husband, a loyal friend, and a patriot who was 
 an American through and through. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to extend in the 
 Record by printing the funeral sermon on Mr. Talbott de- 
 livered by Rev. Dr. Arthur B. Kinsolving, St. Paul's Prot- 
 estant Episcopal Church, Baltimore. 
 
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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Is there objection to the re- 
 quest of the gentleman from Maryland? [After a pause.] 
 The Chair hears none. 
 
 [At this point Mr. Butler resumed the chair.] 
 Mr. Linthicum. Mr. Speaker, under the leave granted to 
 me to extend my remarks I include the following sermon 
 by Rev. Arthur B. Kinsolving, D. D., on the occasion of 
 the funeral of the Hon. J. Frederick C. Talbott: 
 
 We have assembled in this home on this beautiful autumn day to 
 lay to rest with the church's old words of faith and hope one of 
 the best-loved public men that Maryland has had for many years. 
 This vast concourse of people, comprising as it does a distin- 
 guished deputation from the Congress of the Nation, of the citizen- 
 ship of Baltimore, and the community around, bears witness of 
 itself to the affectionate esteem in which our departed friend was 
 held. I can not forbear adding to the ritual of the church some 
 words of appreciation of our friend. I do this with some hesita- 
 tion, because I speak in the presence of many who were far more 
 intimately associated with him than I. Yet I feel confident that 
 what I shall say of the sterling traits of his character and service 
 will find an echo in your own hearts and minds. 
 
 Mr. Talbott dies at the close of a very remarkable career and 
 at a time when his services to the Nation compel the tribute of 
 our gratitude. 
 
 As a young man he caught the spirit of chivalry pulsing in the 
 souls of so many youths in this State and cast in his lot with the 
 Southern Confederacy, making an honorable record as a member 
 of Gilmour's cavalry. To the end of his life he looked back upon 
 this service with unfeigned satisfaction, and at all reunions of his 
 comrades was a central figure. 
 
 He held his friendships throughout life by his strong and un- 
 changing loyalty. Fred. Talbott did not forget. In the rough and 
 tumble of a long political career he had many strenuous and hard 
 fights. After the battle was over there was no bitterness in his 
 soul; he accepted his few defeats with equanimity, which only a 
 strong man possesses, and soon retrieved himself in large measure 
 by this very spirit. As life wore on the acerbities of earlier 
 political strife abated, and it is quite remarkable how his circle of 
 friends widened with the years and how many former opponents 
 came to appreciate the man at his true worth. 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Representatr-e Talbott 
 
 Mr. Talbott was a true servant of the people in this State. He 
 was unsparing of himself in this service and absolutely unwearied 
 in his attention to every detail of his duties as a Congressman. 
 Indeed, he came to his death perhaps a little before his time be- 
 cause he left his bed a few days ago to go to Washington to keep 
 an appointment in the interest of a young man whom he had 
 promised to help. Several years ago, while traveling in New 
 England with a Congressman from Texas, I believe, his companion 
 said to him, " I should think it would be very awkward, Talbott, 
 for you to live while in Congress right in the midst of the people 
 you represent and to be forever accessible to their requests for 
 patronage and help." Talbott turned instantly and said, " On the 
 contrary, one of the joys of my life has been to know that every 
 morning I would find on my desk some opportunity to serve my 
 people, and perhaps during the day receive several of them at my 
 office. This I conceive to be one of the greatest joys of a man's 
 life — to live among the people whom he serves and to be in touch 
 with their needs." 
 
 His most conspicuous national service was the work he was 
 permitted to do as ranking member of the Naval Affairs Commit- 
 tee. From the beginning he stood stanchly against those who 
 clamored for a little Navy and in favor of the most liberal naval 
 program which this country could afford. His services here are 
 valuable beyond all estimation. The justification of his foresight 
 has already been written in these pages of recent history when our 
 American Navy has rendered such conspicuous service in this war 
 for civilization and freedom. It is most fitting that one of the 
 vessels now building should bear the name of the man who has 
 labored so valiantly for our greater naval program. 
 
 And this reminds me to speak of what is, perhaps, the crowning 
 honor and distinction of his life as a public servant, for he has 
 served in Congress for a longer period than almost any other 
 Member. Though he has had unusual opportunities in his con- 
 spicuous position to further his own interests, Mr. Talbott, I am 
 assured by those who know best, dies a poor man. In this respect 
 he is an example to all men. His ideal was not gain but service. 
 He had caught the vision of the nobility, the blessedness of service 
 to his fellow men, and to that vision he was true until his strength 
 was gone. 
 
 As to his attitude in religious matters, Mr. T.\lbott seems not to 
 have identified himself with any Christian church. We wish he 
 had. It had been better so; but he was the friend and helper of 
 
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Address of Mr. Linthicum, of Maryland 
 
 all churches. No acrid skepticism blighted this man's soul. He 
 was a believer in our blessed Lord and Savior, and he often ap- 
 peared among the worshipers, and his leanings were in the right 
 direction. Toward the end, as he realized that his days were 
 numbered, this spirit of reverence and trust in God seems to have 
 deepened. We leave him to the mercy and care of the God and 
 Father and Savior of us all. 
 
 Mr. CoADY. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
 my colleagues, Mr. Mudd and Mr. Price, both of whom are 
 unavoidablj' absent to-day, and the gentleman fi'om Ala- 
 bama, Mr. Heflin, be permitted to extend and revise their 
 remarks in the Record; also all other Members of the 
 House who may care to do so. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, it will be 
 so ordered. 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
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Address of Mr. Heflin, of Alabama 
 
 Mr. Speaker : One of the ablest and best-loved Members 
 of this House has answered his last roll call. He has gone 
 to join his friends and loved ones who have entered upon 
 the life everlasting. 
 
 He was loved and honored by the people of Maryland 
 and loved and honored by the membership of this House. 
 " Uncle Fred." Talbott, as we all affectionately called 
 him, was a very remarkable character. His big brain and 
 big heart and genial disposition made him a verj^ attrac- 
 tive man — a leader of men. He was a man of deep con- 
 victions and of fine judgment. He possessed a wonder- 
 fully pleasing personality. He was an able, faithful, and 
 useful Member of this body — a splendid legislator, ren- 
 dering valuable service to his people and to his day and 
 generation. 
 
 He has fallen into that deep and peaceful sleep that 
 awaits us all, and I know that all is well with his big, 
 brave soul. 
 
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Address of Mr. Mudd, of Maryland 
 
 Mr. Speaker: My colleague, the late J. Fred. C. Talbott, 
 was one of those commanding personalities in public and 
 political life who leaves his impress upon the hearts and 
 minds of his contemporaries as well as his achievements 
 upon the record. 
 
 " Fred." Talbott, as he was called familiarly by those 
 who knew him, or " Uncle Fred.," as he was affectionately 
 styled by his intimate friends, was unquestionably one of 
 the most remarkable characters in the politics of the State 
 of Maryland in its entire history. He was remarkable in 
 that his tenure or leasehold upon public favor, and upon 
 his party, extended unbrokenly throughout a period of a 
 half century or more. In that time there were more or 
 less long intervals when it might be said he dominated his 
 party in its State councils, and there is no question but 
 that for many years he was in absolute control of the 
 second congressional district, which so many times hon- 
 ored him with an election to Congress. 
 
 Men came and went upon the political stage in that dis- 
 trict, but " Fred." Talbott continued on in undiminished 
 power until the Master Workman called him to a new 
 field of activity. I have often philosophized upon the 
 unique career in politics of our late friend and have con- 
 cluded that the secret of his success lay in his ability to 
 make new friends. He is credited with having dictated 
 the selection of men for office in Baltimore County, the 
 largest and wealthiest county in Maryland, throughout his 
 political career. This is true to a great extent. There 
 were brief periods when his influence appeared to have 
 waned, but it was impossible to keep him out of power or 
 out of office very long. Whether defeated in his own 
 party for a nomination, or whether defeated at the polls 
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 by candidates of the opposing party, he took sucli defeat 
 with rare good humor and grace and would immediately 
 start in for another fight, never discouraged, but seem- 
 ingly all the more determined to regain the prestige lost 
 temporarily. 
 
 In selecting men for appointive or elective offices in 
 Baltimore County Mr. Talbott had the happy faculty of 
 picking his candidates with rare good judgment, both as 
 to their ability to perform good public service and their 
 value as a political asset to himself and his party. When 
 an officeholder indicated signs of political weakness in his 
 particular locality none were quicker to sense the condi- 
 tions than was Mr. Talbott, who would immediately select 
 from that locality for political preferment another man 
 whose star was in the ascendanc^^ " Fred." T.\lbott kept 
 his hold upon and practically dominated the politics of 
 Baltimore County for many years. His political enemies, 
 both in and out of his party, dubbed him " boss " as a 
 term of approbrium. But " Fred." Talbott had so many 
 friends for whom he had done favors that the term 
 ' boss " to them became a term of affection and in a 
 political sense lost its intended application. He was a 
 boss, if to be a boss is to devote j^ears of service to the 
 selection of candidates for office who he thought would 
 render good service to the State and county, himself re- 
 ceiving the benefit incidentally of the political strength 
 that such appointments brought to him. If his course 
 resulted, as probably it did, in his own aggrandizement, 
 surely the responsibilities it entailed justified all the 
 honors accruing to him thereby. 
 
 Mr. Talbott, of course, could not escape being a target 
 of campaign accusations and charges of almost every 
 nature, none of which were ever proved or left the sem- 
 blance of a stain upon his personal character; for per- 
 sonally he was regarded with great esteem in the county 
 
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Address of Mr. Mudd, of Maryland 
 
 over whose political destiny he presided for so many 
 years and in the congressional district and State where 
 he was such a prominent figure. This was amply at- 
 tested in life and reflected when word came that he had 
 "crossed over the river." I believe there are thousands 
 of people to-day in what came to be known as " Fred. 
 Talbott's district " who could testify that they or some 
 members of their family were the beneficiaries of his 
 kindness in one way or another. The humblest man iii 
 the district could approach him and receive kindly treat- 
 ment ajs well as those most influential. 
 
 It is jjlainly to be seen, therefore, that he was a favorite 
 among the so-called common people, who were the first 
 to rally to his support when he needed it and trustfully to 
 repose their confidence in him to do his bidding. His 
 judgment of human nature seldom erred. 
 
 I had the pleasure of serving with "Fred." Talbott on 
 the Naval Affairs Committee of the House. His attitude 
 toward me was kindly, affectionate, and helpful. He 
 himself had been a member of that committee even before 
 I was born. I knew him as a Member of Congress when 
 I used to come as a boy to the House with my father, who 
 was one of his contemporaries. Mr. TALBorx saw the 
 United States Navy grow from nothingness practically to 
 the splendid Navy we have to-day. And in the work of 
 building up the Navy he took a prominent part. Indeed, 
 some called him " the father of the Navy," and it is a 
 fact that he did share with Secretary Whitney and others 
 in the work of " laying the keel " of the new Navy. I shall 
 miss his wise counsel and his friendly interest in me. 
 
 ADJOURNMENT 
 
 Then, in accordance with the resolution jircviously 
 adopted, the House (at 5 o'clock and 20 minutes p. m.) 
 adjourned until Monday, February 17, 1919, at 11 o'clock 
 a. m. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Monday, October 7, 1918. 
 
 A message from the House of Representatives, bj' G. F. 
 Turner, one of its clerks, communicated to the Senate the 
 intelligence of the death of Hon. J. Fred. C. Talbott, late 
 a Representative from the State of Maryland, and trans- 
 mitted resolutions of the House thereon. 
 
 Mr. Smith of Maryland. Mr. President, I ask that the 
 resolutions just received from the House of Representa- 
 tives be laid before the Senate. 
 
 The Presiding Officer. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. J. Fred. C. Talbott, a Representative of the 
 State of Maryland. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of 16 Members of the House, with 
 such Members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to 
 attend the funeral. 
 
 Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized 
 and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying 
 out the provisions of these resolutions, and that the necessary 
 expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent 
 fund of the House. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Mr. Smith of Maryland. Mr. President, as a mark of re- 
 spect to the distinguished Representative I send the fol- 
 lowing resolutions to the desk and ask for their adoption. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 312) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
 announcement of the death of Hon. J. Fred. C. Talbott, late a 
 Representative from the State of Maryland. 
 
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 Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
 Vice President, to join the committee appointed on the part of 
 the House of Representatives, to attend the funeral of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
 The Vice President, under the second resolution, ap- 
 pointed as the committee on the part of the Senate Mr. 
 Martin of Virginia, Mr. Bankhead, Mr. Williams, Mr. 
 Underwood, Mr. Saulsburj', Mr. Smith of Maryland, Mr. 
 Lodge, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Penrose, Mr. Dillingham, Mr. 
 Gerry, and Mr. France. 
 
 Mr. Smith of Maryland. Mr. President, at a later date I 
 shall ask the Senate to set aside a day for further suitable 
 testimonial in memory of the distinguished Member of the 
 House of Representatives, whom I knew well and inti- 
 mately for very many years and for whom I had the 
 highest regard and esteem. I move as a further mark 
 of respect that the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
 o'clock and 8 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
 Thursday, October 10, 1918, at 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
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