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MEMORIAL 
 
 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE 
 
 UPON THE DEATH OF 
 
 EDWIN W. SMILEY, 
 
 LATE CHIEF CLERK OF THE SENATE 
 
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 RESOLUTION. 
 
 In the Senate, 
 February 7, 1905. 
 Resolved, (If tke House of Representatives concur), That one thou- 
 sand (1,000) copies of the memorial services held in honor of Edwin 
 W. Smiley, late Chief Clerli of the Senate, be printed for the use of 
 the Senate. 
 
 FRANK A. JUDD, 
 Chief Clerk of the Senate. 
 The foregoing resolution concurred in February 8, 1905. 
 
 THOMAS H. GARVIN, 
 Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Approved— The 14th day of February, A. D. 1905. 
 
 SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SENATE 
 
 UPOK THK DEATH OF 
 
 EDWIN W. SMILEY. 
 
 In the Senate, 
 Tuesday, January 24, 1905. 
 
 On motion of Senator Shepard, the following resolution was twice 
 read, considered and agreed to, viz: 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of nine members of the Senate be ap- 
 pointed to draft suitable resolutions and prepare a programme for 
 memorial exercises on the death of the late Senator John T. Harrison, 
 of Philadelphia, who died on December eighteenth, one thousand nine 
 hundred and three; of the late Senator Alexander E. Patton, who died 
 September fifth, one thousand nine hundred and four, and upon the 
 late Edwin W. Smiley, Chief Clerk, who died September seventh, one 
 thousand nine hundred and four, and that a special meeting of the 
 Senate be held Tuesday, February seventh, one thousand nine hundred 
 and five, at two o'clock post meridian, to which said resolutions be 
 submitted and the programme carried out. 
 
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MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESSES. 
 
 In the Senate, 
 Tuesday, February 7, 1905. 
 
 Afternoon Session. 
 
 Pursuant to adjournment the Senate was called to order 
 at two o'clock P. M., Lieutenant Governor Brown in the 
 Chair. 
 
 The PRESIDENT. The session this afternoon is held for 
 the purpose of doing honor to the late Edwin W. Smiley, 
 Chief Clerk of the Senate. 
 
 PRAYER. 
 
 Prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Reverend J. Wesley 
 Sullivan, as follows : 
 
 O, Lord, our God, Thou dost lead us in marvelous and 
 wonderful ways, and at this time Thou dost bring us into 
 the face of death for those whose hands used to grasp at ours 
 and whose faces used to look into our own are now silent in 
 the grave beneath the winter snow. In Thy providence they 
 have been taken away from us. They have gone down the 
 valley, the deep, dark valley, we shall see their faces no more 
 until we pass down the valley, the deep, dark valley and meet 
 them on the other shore. 
 
 Thou art teaching us that in the midst of life we are in 
 death, and though we may realize the activity of life and 
 there may be no indication of our weakness or of the death 
 that awaits us, nevertheless, O God, we realize by these les- 
 sons that we are passing away and sooner or later we must 
 stand in Thy presence at the bar of judgment to render to 
 Thee an account of our stewardship, for we realize that the 
 places that now know us shall soon know us no more for- 
 ever. 
 
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MEMORIAL SERVICES. 
 
 Our desire and our prayer is that when Thy messenger 
 shall come to us that we may be ready; forbid that any of us 
 should put off this great question, the preparation for the 
 life that is beyond, and that death should meet us unprepared 
 for this great change, help us by Thy grace and by Thy sus- 
 taining power to so live that we may have no fear, and we 
 pray especially for the homes where death has come, where 
 there are the widows and the beloved children, those who at 
 this time look to this service being held here in memory of 
 their beloved who have left them, we ask Thee that in their 
 hearts of sorrow and bereavement may come Thy special 
 blessing and comfort. 
 
 Bless us now, lead them and us by Thy presence so that 
 when we are taken from this earthly home we may all go to 
 that home not made by hands eternal in the heavens. 
 
 We ask it for Christ's sake, Amen. 
 
 Mr. CUMINGS. Mr. President, as a member of the com- 
 mittee to prepare resolutions relative to the death of the late 
 Edwin W. Smiley, Chief Clerk of the Senate, I offer the 
 following resolutions : 
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 Whereas, Edwin Wilson Smiley, late Chief Clerk of the 
 Senate of Pennsylvania, was removed from us by death on the 
 seventh day of September, one thousand nine hundred and 
 four, after having served this body in various official capaci- 
 ties for a period of nearly twenty-five years — ten years of that 
 time as its Chief Clerk, and 
 
 Whereas, It is eminently fit and becoming that this Senate 
 should give formal record of official service and its regret 
 that this service has l)een terminated by death ; therefore. 
 
 Resolved, That this Senate express its recognition of the 
 singular ability, industry and fidelity which characterized 
 Edwin Wilson Smiley's long official connection with this 
 body ; its obligation to him especially for the valuable and 
 efficient service rendered by him as its Chief Clerk, to which 
 office he brought a knowledge of parlianientary law and of 
 the precedents of the Senate which was invaluable; and its 
 
EDWIN W. SMILEY. 
 
 deep and lasting appreciation of the uniform courtesy and 
 spirit of helpfulness which he displayed to all the members of 
 the Senate, and that in his death the Senate has suffered a 
 great personal as well as a great official loss, and that while 
 we bow with humble submission to the Divine Decree which 
 has removed him from the scene of his earthly labors, we 
 cherish his memory as that of an able and faithful servant of 
 the State, a loyal and helpful friend, and an upright and 
 worthy man, and 
 
 Resolved, That the sympathy of the members of this Senate 
 is hereby extended to his widow and children, in the great 
 loss which has come to them through his death ; and 
 
 Resolved, That these preambles and resolutions be entered 
 upon the Journal of the Senate and that an engrossed copy 
 thereof be furnished to his family. 
 
 JESSE S. SHEPARD, 
 EDWIN A. IRVIN, 
 J. K. P. HALL, 
 J. HENRY COCHRAN, 
 H. H. CUMLNGS, 
 JOHN M. SCOTT, 
 J. A. STOBER, 
 CYRUS E. WOODS, 
 JOHN S. FISHER. 
 WILLIAM C. SPROUL, 
 President pro tempore, 
 
 Committee. 
 
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 ADDRESSES. 
 
 Mr. CUMINGS. Mr. President, we meet to-day to pay 
 our tribute of honor to the memory of three men, our late 
 associates in this chamber, who won by their abilities our 
 admiration, by their generous and manly qualities our sincere 
 regard and affection, and by their honest and faithful devotion 
 to duty our confidence and esteem. Patton, Harrison, Smi- 
 ley, each deserving our praise ; each, with a record of much 
 achievement behind him, and with a promise of great useful- 
 ness yet to come, has answered the final call from labor to 
 reward. We cannot understand the inscrutable design of a 
 Providence that removed from us such men ; we cannot tell 
 how or why, but in humble and trusting faith in Him that 
 doeth all things well, we know it must be better so. In my 
 remarks I shall address myself particularly to the life and 
 character of the one who for many years was my acquaintance 
 and friend. Edwin Wilson Smiley, for more than twenty 
 years an officer of this body, and for the last ten years of his 
 life its Chief Clerk, was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, Sep- 
 tember twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, 
 and died at his home, Franklin, from apoplexy September 
 seventh, one thousand nine hundred and five. For two years 
 before his death his health was impaired, and an attack of 
 Lagrippe last winter left him very weak, physically, and his 
 recovery was very slow. Against the advice of his physician, 
 he attended the funeral of his friend and mentor, Senator M. 
 S. Quay, at Beaver. The exposure to which he was sub- 
 jected at that time caused an almost total collapse, and soon 
 after he suft'ered a stroke of apoplexy. From this he partially 
 recovered, but in August he suffered a second stroke, and 
 three weeks later a third, which three days afterwards termi- 
 nated his life. 
 
 Mr. Smiley's ancestors were Scotch-Irish, that earnest, vig- 
 orous, aggressive, brainy race, which, according to its num- 
 bers, has probably contributed more to the material progress 
 and moral development of our conglomerate American 
 
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 people than any other. It was they who settled our early 
 Pennsylvania frontier, and peopled our State beyond the 
 Alleghenies. Born fighters as they were, they eagerly ac- 
 cepted the challenge of our mountainous wildernesses to 
 come and take them, and from the none too fertile soil, 
 and their hidden treasures of coal, oil and iron and other 
 minerals wrought out the wealth of Western Pennsylvania. 
 In the vanguard of the emigration of this race to Penn- 
 sylvania were the Smileys ; one of them, John Smiley, E. W. 
 Smiley's great-uncle, was a member of the first Legislature 
 of this State, which sat in Philadelphia in June, one thousand 
 seven hundred and seventy-six, and contributed greatly to 
 the patriotic stand for independence which Pennsylvania 
 finally assumed. Ilis great-grandfather was a soldier of the 
 Revolution. His parents were John H. and Nancy Smiley, 
 and his paternal grandfather, Thomas Smiley, was one of 
 tlie pioneers of Franklin, and a soldier of the war of one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and twelve. 
 
 E. W. Smiley was educated in the common schools of 
 Franklin, completing his studies in the old Franklin Acad- 
 emy, from which he was graduated when he was fourteen 
 years of age. Upon the completion of his school life he was 
 apprenticed to the trade of printer on the .Vmerican Citizen, 
 published in Franklin, and from that time until one thousand 
 eight hundred and ninety-nine he was connected in some 
 capacity with the printing trade — as apprentice, printer, fore- 
 man, pressman, managing editor, being among the few of 
 the old class, all-round printers living to-day. After master- 
 ing his trade. Mr. Smiley found his health failing, and he 
 decided that it would be necessary for him to engage in other 
 pursuits. With this purpose he entered the Poughkeepsie 
 Business College, taking a year's course, and then returned 
 to Franklin. For the benefits to be derived from out-door 
 w^ork, he secured employment in the engineering corps, stak- 
 ing out the right of way for the Jamestown and Franklin Rail- 
 road. At the completion of the road he engaged with a 
 partner in the coal business, and, after four years, finding his 
 health restored, he again entered journalism, securing employ- 
 ment on the American Citizen, then owned by Alexander 
 
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 AicDowell, at present Clerk of the House of Representatives, 
 at Washington, D. C. 
 
 In 1869 he accepted a flattering offer to act as editor of 
 the Republican, published at Tionesta, Pennsylvania, and a 
 year later, wdth his brothers, purchased the American Citizen, 
 and became its editor — thus realizing an ambition that 
 he had felt while learning the printer's trade, and which he 
 never relinquished until his object was accompHshed. The 
 tenacity of the man is illustrated in this dogged perseverance, 
 and ultimate success. With little capital, except his deter- 
 mination to win, and inherent ability, strengthened by a com- 
 plete mastery of all the details of his business, and handi- 
 capped by periods of ill health he entered upon and carried 
 forward his new duties with a self-confidence and energy that 
 was remarkable. In 1884 his business had increased to a 
 point where he was able to absorb a rival newspaper. The 
 Independent Press, and thereafter the two papers were one, 
 and known as the Citizen-Press, which he edited and pub- 
 lished until his retirement from journalism in 1899. 
 
 Mr. Smiley was always an ardent Republican and his vig- 
 orous editorials contributed much to the success of his party 
 within the range of their circulation. As a politician he was 
 characterized by breadth of comprehension of existing condi- 
 tions, clear perception of political issues, and unusual insight 
 into the trend of popular feeling. He was conciliatory in 
 disposition, skilful in harmonizing dilYerences and of sound 
 judgment as to the best methods of accomplishing political 
 results. For thirty years he was a potent factor in the ])oli- 
 tics of his county and district, serving, during most of the 
 time, from one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five to 
 one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, as the Republi- 
 can county chairman of Venango county. 
 
 In one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six Mr. Smiley 
 was elected as a transcribing clerk in the Senate, followed 
 in turn by the more responsible position in the Senate of 
 Reading Clerk, Journal Clerk, and in one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety-one, of Chief Clerk of the Senate. Hi:^ 
 training as a newspaper man, his facility as a writer, his 
 industry as a student, his thoroughness in details, together 
 
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 with a certain natural aptness in matters of parliamentary 
 procedure, well fitted him for these various places, and 
 especially for that of Chief Clerk of the Senate, a position 
 which he held so long and so ably. His rare knowledge 
 of parliamentary practice, precedents and decisions made his 
 opinion most helpful to the presiding officers under whom 
 he served. His affability and helpfulness of disposition, his 
 willingness to aid those of less experience in the technicalities 
 of parliamentary rules and usages, made him very helpful 
 to many members of the Senate, and in fact to the members 
 and employes of both Houses of the Legislature. 
 
 Mr. Smiley was a private in Company F, Fifty-eighth Inde- 
 pendent Militia, enlisting in July, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and sixty-three, and discharged the same year on ac- 
 count of the mustering out of his regiment. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Grand Army of the Rejrablic, and gave liberally to 
 its support and its charities, but refused to wear its uniform 
 or appear with it on parade, giving as the reason that he 
 had never been under fire. He was a life-long member of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, and a long time member of 
 the board of trustees of his church, where his executive ability 
 vvas most helpful. He was deeply and tenderly devoted to 
 his fam.ily, and few homes were happier. 
 
 In all the relations of life Mr. Smiley was a faithful, manly 
 man, loyal to his party, to his church, to his family, and to 
 his friends; attentive to duty, tender hearted, affectionate, 
 liberal according to his means, seeking to do the right as it 
 was given him to see the right. He did not wear his heart 
 upon his sleeve, nor did he parade his finer qualities; only 
 to those who enjoyed his inner confidence was it given to 
 see the best that was in the man, but to such his memory will 
 ever be precious, not more for his abilities and his successes, 
 than for the singular loyalty, sweetness and lovableness of his 
 nature. 
 
 Mr. BOLARD. Mr. President and Fellow Senators, T 
 wish to add, to what has already been said, my tribute to the 
 life^ and character of the Honorable Edwin W. Smiley, late 
 Chief Clerk of the Senate, in whose memory we meet this 
 day to commemorate. He was a man of more than ordinary 
 
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 ability in the profession of his choice. He was a friend who 
 could be relied upon under all circumstances. I have been 
 personally acquainted with Mr. Smiley for over twenty years 
 (as his district adjoins my own), and I have always esteemed 
 him for his many noble virtues, and pure Christian character, 
 which was manifested in his home and private life, and his 
 general personal qualities which endeared him to all who 
 knew him. We all know his public life was without spot 
 or blemish. 
 
 We mourn his loss to-day, but we do appreciate his noble 
 life work, and I hope that all of us have, and will be benefited 
 and stimulated to higher deeds and nobler purposes, such as 
 were manifested in the life and character of the departed. 
 
 With my friend. Senator Cumings, I attended his funeral 
 obsequies and assisted in paying our last tribute of respect 
 to his memory. May he rest in peace. 
 
 Mr. WHITE. Mr. President, I wish to add my tribute 
 to the memory of our deceased associates. 
 
 W^ith Senators Harrison and Patton my acquaintance be- 
 gan in the session of one thousand nine hundred and three, 
 and during that session our relations were of the most pleas- 
 ant character and no one can hold their memory in higher 
 esteem than I. 
 
 W^ith Mr. Smiley my acquaintance dated back over a period 
 of more than thirty years. We first met at Franklin in one 
 thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and our- friendship 
 continued since that time. He was my personal friend and 
 was at all times ready and willing to serve in that friendship 
 as best he could. 
 
 In addition, we were graduates of the same educational 
 institution and served together in the United States service 
 in one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three. In political 
 life in coming to the Senate in one thousand eight hundred 
 and ninety-five, Mr. Smiley was Chief Clerk and I can never 
 forget the courtesies and kindness which he extended to me 
 personally, as well as to all other Senators, nor his willingness 
 to give the advice which by his long service he was competent 
 to do when it was requested by any one, but more especially 
 new members. 
 
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 During the session of one thousand nine hundred and three 
 it was evident that his health was faihng and it was pain- 
 fully apparent the last time I met him, which was at the 
 funeral of the late lamented Senator Quay, that the end of 
 his earthly career was approaching. 
 
 But notwithstanding his failing health, he was always 
 ready and anxious to meet and fulfil his duties. 
 
 "As man may, he fought his fight, 
 Proved his truth by his endeavor; 
 Let him sleep in solemn night, 
 Sleep forever and forever. 
 
 Leave him to God's watching eye; 
 Trust him to the hand that made him. 
 Mortal love weeps idly by; 
 God alone has power to aid him." 
 
 Mr. STOBER. Mr. President, I do not intend to ofifer 
 extended remarks on the death of Chief Clerk Edwin W. 
 Smiley. Nor do I intend to eulogize or extol his virtues. 
 It is common and customary to pass enconiums upon the 
 dead. When a man like Edwin W. Smiley dies, public praise 
 is not necessary. The deeds accomplished while living have 
 made great his name. Honored and revered be his memory. 
 Among the hills and valleys of Venango county, spouting 
 forth the oil to lubricate the wheels, and lighting the marts of 
 industry the world over, is nestled the busy, prosperous and 
 happy city of Franklin, and on the shade embowered banks 
 of the Allegheny river, modestly stands a vine clad home, 
 from whence came the subject of this sketch. There Edwin 
 Wilson Smiley was engaged in his life work, in the weekly 
 issues of the "Citizen-Press," framing and moulding the 
 sentiments of his great county, always for the good of his 
 people, and the Commonwealth at large. 
 
 In one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven he was 
 elected Reading Clerk of the ^Senate of Pennsylvania, at 
 which time my acquaintance with him began. In one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and eighty-three he was elected Journal 
 Clerk and in one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, the 
 Senators, recognizing his executive ability, elected him as 
 Chief Clerk, since which time upon the assembling of each 
 
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 succeeding Legislature, he was re-elected without opposi- 
 tion; a testimony to his ability and worth that was manifest 
 to every Senator on this floor. 
 
 Since the time of his election niany Senators have preceded 
 him to that Senate Celestial, and Clerk Smiley may now be 
 calling the roll of the score or more of Senators who faith- 
 fully and truly attended to their earthly duties while living. 
 No absentees. All of them present. The great and the 
 humble, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak, 
 the learned and the ignorant, reply, as with one voice, that 
 humility and resignation, purity, order and peace, faith, hope 
 and charit}' are the greatest blessings upon earth, and we. 
 raising our eyes from time to time to eternity, from the visible 
 creation, marvelous, beautiful, and glorious as it is. to the in- 
 visible creation of angels and seraphs, from the footstool of 
 God, to the throne of God himself, we repeat the greatest of 
 these is charity. Edwin W. Smiley was charitable, he was 
 generous, he was kind. It was his pleasure to instruct every 
 new Senator as to the duties of his station, to assist him in 
 mastering the intricacies of parliamentary proceedings. To 
 meet him w^as to love him. But he is dead. 
 
 "And is he dead, whose glorious mind lifts thine on high? 
 To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." 
 
 For a quarter of a century or more he had been before the 
 footlights in the great drama of life, but he has passed out- 
 ward and upward, beyond the range of earthly vision, and 
 reach of earthly voice, and we say that he is dead. And yet 
 there are no dead. 
 
 Bryant says : 
 
 "As the long train of ages glide away the sons of men 
 
 The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes 
 In full strength of years, matron and maid. 
 
 And the sweet babe, and the gray-headed man, 
 Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, 
 
 By those, who in their turn shall follow them. 
 So live that when thy summons comes *o join 
 
 The innumerable caravan, that moves 
 To that mysterious realm, where each shall lake 
 
 His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
 
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 Then go, not like the quarry slave at night 
 Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed 
 
 By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 
 
 Two years since I delivered a short tribute in this chamber 
 to the memory of Senator Kemmerer wherein I quoted a 
 stanza from Burleigh ; at the close Clerk Smiley left his scat 
 and came to me and said: "At my death I would wish for 
 nothing nicer to be said of me." I now repeat it : 
 
 "As the bird to its sheltering nest 
 
 When the storm in the hills is abroad, 
 So his spirit hath flown from this world of unrest 
 To repose on the bosom of God." 
 
 At the opening of the present session when I remembered 
 that Senator Harrison's and Senator Patton's seats would be 
 occupied by others, and that there was one from whom we 
 parted at the last session who would not extend a cordial 
 greeting and from whose lips would not be heard the usual 
 words of welcome, but that his body was peacefully resting 
 in its long and narrow bed in his beloved home, and his spirit 
 had passed to the great beyond, I doubted for a moment the 
 aspiration of youth that 
 
 "Higher, higher will we climb, 
 
 Up the mount of glory, 
 That our names may live through time 
 
 In our country's story; 
 For what is life? with ills encompassed round. 
 Amidst our hopes, fate strikes the sudden wound. 
 And man becomes fearful of himself. For what is man?" 
 
 Young says : 
 "A frail child of dust! helpless immortal! insect infinite! 
 A worm! a God! I tremble at myself, 
 And in myself am lost! at home a stranger. 
 Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, 
 And wondering at her own! how reason reels: 
 0, what a miracle to man is man. 
 Triumphantly distressed! what joy, what dread! 
 Alternately transported, and alarmed! 
 What can preserve my life, or what destroy? 
 An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; 
 Legions of angels can't confine me there." 
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 And now in conclusion. Let these deaths remind us all 
 that they, Harrison, Patton, Smiley, have passed on as the 
 advance guard of this body; that we are only temporary so- 
 journers here, that our eternal abiding place is in the heavens; 
 that soon we go to solve the great mystery. 
 
 A voice from heaven hath proclaimed : 
 
 "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from hence- 
 forth ; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their 
 labours, and their works do follow them." 
 
 The PRESIDENT (Lieutenant Governor Brown). The 
 Chair can scarcely add anything to the eloquence to which 
 I have listened here in memory of the late lamented Chief 
 Clerk. Li every county of our Commonwealth there are men 
 to-day who remember with grateful hearts the favors which 
 he did them. 
 
 When I first came as a Senator to this hall, having a very 
 limited knowledge of parliamentary law I found him always 
 ready and with a kindly disposition almost unequalled to 
 lend a helping hand to every Senator, and always leading 
 them in the path of rectitude and honor and right. 
 
 When first called to the position which I occupy to-day 
 and knowing very little about parliamentary law, I went to 
 Mr. Smiley and said to him: "I must lean upon you and de- 
 pend upon you to a great extent, and I know you will always 
 be true and fair with me." He thanked me for the compli- 
 ment, and I will say to you to-day that indeed he was always 
 fair, and whatever success it was mine to have in this Senate 
 two years ago belonged very largely to Edwin W. Smiley, 
 and I will say further that he always tried his best to preserve 
 the dignity of the Senate of Pennsylvania. It was a dear 
 thing to him. Hundreds of times I have heard him say. 
 "Well, Brown, that is not in accordance with the dignity of 
 the Senate of Pennsjdvania." 
 
 He was especially anxious that the dignity of the Senate 
 should be observed, and while there may be Chief Clerks 
 yet to come who will perform their duties in this magnificent 
 pile that has been erected for the use of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives and Senate of Pennsylvania, there never will come 
 another who will more faithfully perform the sacred duties 
 
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 of the Chief Clerk of the Senate than he whose name to-day 
 is inscribed upon the marble shaft away out there in Venango 
 county. 
 
 The PRESIDENT. The question is on the adoption of 
 the Resolutions offered relative to the late Edwin W. Smiley, 
 Chief Clerk of the Senate. 
 The question being, 
 Will the Senate agree to the resolutions? 
 They were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 ADJOURNMENT. 
 
 Mr. SHEPARD. Mr. President, I move that the Senate 
 do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. SPROUL. Mr. President, I second the motion. 
 The question being, 
 
 Will the Senate agree to the motion? 
 It was agreed to. 
 
 Whereupon, 
 At three thirty o'clock post meridian the Senate was ad- 
 journed by Lieutenant Governor Brown until eleven 
 o'clock ante meridian Wednesday, February eighth. Anno 
 Domini one thousand nine hundred and five. 
 
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