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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 A REPRESENTATIVE FROM PENNSYLVANIA, 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE SENATE, 
 
 Fifty-third Congress, Second Session. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS. 
 
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there 
 be printed of the eulogies delivered iu Congress upon the Hon. WILLIAM 
 LILLY, late a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania, eight thou- 
 sand copies; of which number two thousand copies shall be delivered to 
 the Senators and Representatives of the State of Pennsylvania, which 
 shall include fifty copies to be bound in full morocco, to be delivered to 
 the family of the deceased, and of the remaining, two thousand shall be 
 for the use of the Senate and four thousand for the use of the House of 
 Representatives; and the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to have 
 engraved and printed a portrait of the said WILLIAM LILLY to accompany 
 the said eulogies. 
 
 Agreed to in the House of Representatives March 5, 1894. 
 
 Agreed to in the Senate March 20, 1894. 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
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 664 
 
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 U5 
 
 Announcement of death : Page. 
 
 In the House 5 
 
 In the Senate 43 
 
 Address of Mr. Bynum 18 
 
 Mr. Call 54 
 
 Mr. Cameron 45 
 
 Mr. Chandler '. 56 
 
 Mr. Hicks ' 24 
 
 Mr. McDowell 8 
 
 Mr. Mutchler 38 
 
 Mr. Palmer 50 
 
 Mr. Scran ton 34 
 
 Mr. Stone, Chas. W 20 
 
 Mr. Wanger 32 
 
 Mr. Woomer 12 
 
 Mr. Wright 29 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH. 
 
 DECEMBER 21, 1893. 
 
 Mr. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, Pennsylvania 
 and this House are confronted to-day with a twofold grief and 
 loss. Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, a Bepresentative at large from 
 the State of Pennsylvania, died at his home at Mauch Chunk 
 on the 1st day of the present month. Elected to this Con- 
 gress his first term as a representative of five millions of 
 people his career of usefulness in this House had just opened. 
 Honored with public trust and distinguished station which 
 measured years of marked probity and uprightness, familiar 
 with legislative procedure, and understanding the wants of 
 his great people, Pennsylvania looked confidently to his labors 
 and their beneficent results, knowing he would be influenced 
 only by the highest standards and for the good of all. His 
 health was not robust or reliable when he entered upon his 
 duties at the extraordinary session just closed. Gradually he 
 grew weaker and weaker, until the final summons called him 
 to his future home. 
 
 Sitting together in the house of representatives of the State 
 of Pennsylvania during the years 1850 and 1851, we find 
 Charles O'Neill and WILLIAM LILLY earnestly laboring in 
 their young manhood for the best interests of their State. 
 Born in the same year, 1821, we mourn their loss to-day. I 
 offer the resolutions which I send to the desk. 
 
 5 
 
6 Announcement of Death. 
 
 The resolutions were read, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with sincere regret the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, late a Representative of the 
 State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed 
 to communicate these resolutions to the Senate, and send a duly attested 
 copy to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of nine members of the House, with such 
 members of the Senate as may be joined, be appointed to attend the 
 funeral at Mauch Chunk, Pa. 
 
 Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, 
 the House do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were adopted. 
 
 The Speaker appointed as the committee on the part of 
 the House Mr. McDowell, Mr. Page, Mr. Mutchler, Mr. North- 
 way, Mr. Robinson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Curtis of Kansas, 
 Mr. Whiting, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Tate. 
 
 The House then pursuant to the last resolution (at three 
 o'clock p. m.) adjourned. 
 
EULOGIES. 
 
 FEBRUARY 17, 1894. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bailey). The hour of two 
 o'clock having arrived, the Clerk will report the special order. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That Saturday, February 17, 1894, beginning at two o'clock 
 p. m., be set apart for paying tribute to the memory of Hon. WILLIAM 
 LILLY, late a member of the House of Eepresentatives from the State of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Mr. MCDOWELL. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which 
 I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 The resolutions were read, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, late a Representative from 
 the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, in order 
 that tribute be paid to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That, as an additional mark of respect, the House, at the con- 
 ' elusion of these ceremonies, do adjourn. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro teinpore. The question is on the adoption 
 of the resolutions. 
 
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8 Address of Mr. McDowell, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. MCDOWELL, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : Full of years and full of honors, on the 1st 
 day of December, 1893, at his home in Mauch Chunk, Gen. 
 WILLIAM LILLY, a member of this House, passed to his 
 eternal rest. 
 
 Long he had lived and well beyond the threescore years 
 and ten allotted to man and now he is laid to rest amidst 
 the scenes of his labors and achievements. The tears of 
 the poor and lowly that fell upon the casket that held all 
 that was earthly of him who had been their constant friend 
 were eloquent beyond any words we may utter here to-day. 
 They were tears whose spring was in the hearts of those 
 who wept. 
 
 For his charities and benevolences were as boundless as his 
 heart was tender and his impulses sympathetic and humane, 
 and they were never circumscribed within the limits of 
 church, party, or nationality. He who needed his help he 
 regarded as a brother, and to him he played a brother's 
 part. Nor were his good works confined to those within 
 the circle of his daily acquaintances, wide as a long and 
 active life had extended its bounds. There was no disaster 
 by land or sea but those who felt its weight received a 
 message of love and help from WILLIAM LILLY. He so 
 lived that his name and deeds will not be forgotten while 
 gratitude has a home in the human heart. 
 
 The life of General LILLY was typically American typical 
 in its beginnings, its labors, and its achievements. It 
 grandly exemplifies the possibilities that lie before every 
 American citizen, no matter how humble his early condition, 
 if lie enters the field with honest heart and willing h;md and 
 follows no guide save rectitude and honor. These principles 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly, 9 
 
 were the beacon lights that directed his course and won for 
 him in every relation of life the confidence and esteem of his 
 fellows. 
 
 His career was as active as it was useful, yet many-sided 
 and inauy-ideaed ; he never permitted any one pursuit to ab- 
 sorb his attention and his energies, or forgot in the prosecu- 
 tion of his private business aims the duties devolving upon 
 him as a citizen and a patriot. His natural powers of mind 
 and his sound judgment, matured and ripened by the experi- 
 ence gained in the practical affairs of a business career, emi- 
 nently fitted him for the discharge of the public duties that his 
 people placed upon him, and the business man who originated 
 and helped to conduct many of the coal-mining corporations 
 of Schuylkill, Luzerne, and Carbon counties, giving to them, 
 as well as to all home enterprises, his time, efforts, money, 
 and advice, was no less active, prudent, and wise as a servant 
 of the whole people. 
 
 A member of the law-making power of Pennsylvania, he left 
 the impress of a strong mind upon the statute books of the 
 State, while in the constitutional convention of 1873 he as- 
 sisted in framing an organic law that guarantees to every 
 citizen, be he rich or poor, equal and exact justice. Although 
 his term of service in this House was brought to an untimely 
 end in almost its very beginning, those of his colleagues who 
 were thrown into intimate relations with him can well testify 
 to the constant and careful attention, the intelligent interest, 
 and sound judgment which he displayed upon every public 
 question. 
 
 Gen. WILLIAM LILLY was born June 3, 1821, at Penn Yan, 
 Yates County, N. Y. His ancestors fought for freedom in the 
 Eevolutiouary war, and his father was a man prominent in 
 business and public affairs. Removing to Pennsylvania be- 
 fore he had attained the years of manhood, he became an 
 
10 Address of Mr. McDowell, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 employee of one of the early railroads of the State used for 
 the transportation of anthracite coal, both industries being 
 then in their infancy. His first promotion was to the position 
 of conductor, and thence his energy and faithfulness to duty 
 advanced him to a place in the management of the road. 
 His business sagacity convinced him of the possibilities of 
 the coal-mining industry, and he was one of those who first 
 ventured into more extensive operations. His enterprises 
 prospered and increased with time, until at his death he was 
 not only interested in the mining business, but in a number of 
 thriving industries, a large stockholder in some of the leading 
 railroads of his State, and a director of three national banks. 
 
 But, as has been said, the cares of business never so en- 
 grossed his time and attention as to i>reclude his taking part 
 in the public affairs of his section and his State. When a 
 young man, he became interested in the militia soldiery of 
 Pennsylvania, and his activity and popularity may be well 
 estimated from the fact that he had become a colonel before 
 he was of age, and afterwards was the youngest brigadier- 
 general that ever wore a star in that service. In the arena of' 
 politics he was equally successful. Entering the house of 
 representatives of Pennsylvania before he had reached his 
 thirtieth year, so prominent was the part he took in his first 
 session that at the beginning of the second he was made a 
 candidate for speaker and only fell a few votes short of his 
 successful competitor, one of the most able leaders in the 
 house. 
 
 Always a careful student of constitutions and of laws, his 
 practical experience and observation satisfied him that the 
 fundamental law of Pennsylvania needed careful revision. 
 He may truthfully be said to have been the pioneer of the 
 movement that led to such revision, as the adoption of his 
 resolution, offered in the State convention of the Republican 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 1 1 
 
 party in 1869, committed that organization in its favor, and 
 at a subsequent election the people indorsed that action at 
 the polls. Elected a delegate at large to the convention that 
 followed, he was one of the most influential members, and 
 there is scarcely a provision of the present constitution of 
 Pennsylvania that does not bear the impress of his wisdom 
 and statesmanship. In 1892 his party placed him again upon 
 its State ticket as one of the candidates for Congressman at 
 large, and this choice was ratified by the people at the polls 
 by a majority of about seventy thousand votes. 
 
 In his earlier political career, General LILLY acted with the 
 Democratic party, and it was as a representative of that 
 organization that he served in the legislature of his State. 
 But early in the struggle for the Union, a careful considera- 
 tion of the great principles at issue, and the position of the 
 two political parties thereon, led him to the honest, earnest 
 conviction that his place was in the Republican ranks. With 
 him to think and believe was to act, and, severing his rela- 
 tions with the Democratic party, he became a Eepublican, 
 and soon was even more prominent in its counsels than he 
 had been in those of his former political associates. 
 
 So great was the confidence reposed in him by the Repub- 
 lican party that, within six years after he cast his political 
 lot with it, he was second on the list of candidates on the last 
 ballot in its State convention for the gubernatorial nomina- 
 tion, and he had sat as delegate in every important State con- 
 vention since 1863, and was a delegate or alternate to every 
 Republican national convention held in the last twenty-five 
 years. With a record such as this, it needs not to be said 
 that he possessed those qualities which alone make such a 
 career possible. No man can, for fifty years, successfully 
 deceive not only his immediate neighbors and associates, 
 but two great parties and the people of a great common- 
 wealth. 
 
12 Address of Mr. Woomer, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 To live the life and win the honors that WILLIAM LILLY 
 lived and won there must have been within him those sterling 
 qualities that make the true man. And they were his indeed. 
 Manly, faithful, honest, and upright, he was unceasing and 
 unswerving in his devotion to right, and willing and ready to 
 stand up for it, even though he stood alone. A poor boy 
 when he began his career, his honest labor and legitimate 
 enterprise accumulated a vast fortune, not one dollar of 
 which made others poorer. Simple in his tastes and unostenta- 
 tious in his manners, wealth made no change in Ms daily 
 walk and conversation, and the friends of his youth were the 
 friends of his old age. 
 
 Intrusted with responsible public duties, he discharged 
 them faithfully, with credit to himself and acceptability to 
 his people. Plain, unaffected, earnest, and sincere, those who 
 knew him best loved him most. All along his pathway, from 
 the cradle to the grave, good deeds were strewn, and now 
 that he has passed from earth to 
 
 The undiscovered country, from whose bourn 
 No traveler returns 
 
 he has left to the world the record of an unsullied life and 
 the u memory of the just." 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. WOOMER, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: The term of service of Gen. WILLIAM S. 
 LILLY in this House was so short, and, short as it was, so 
 interrupted by absences caused by his ill health, as to give him 
 but few opportunities to form the acquaintance of such of his 
 fellow-members to whom he was not already known before he 
 came here. The privilege therefore of testifying to his worth 
 devolves peculiarly upon those of us who knew him before his 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 13 
 
 entrance into Congress, or who were thrown by circumstances 
 into contact with him during his short stay here. 
 
 As one who had the honor of his acquaintance before his 
 election to this body, and who lived beneath the same roof, 
 and I may say on terms of friendship with him while at 
 Washington, I feel that it would neither be fitting nor just 
 to let this day pass without paying my poor tribute to the 
 memory of the dead, and attempting to say something of the 
 useful and instructive life that has now closed. 
 
 Although the Congressional experience of our deceased 
 friend was very brief, he had passed the scriptural limit of 
 life at the time of his death. Born in 1821, General LILLY 
 removed at an early age from his native State of New York 
 to the Lehigh Valley, the region he afterwards loved so well 
 and aided so materially to develop. 
 
 Although the great anthracite- coal industry, upon which 
 the prosperity of that valley rests, was, at the time of General 
 LILLY'S settlement there, in 1836, confined to what we should 
 now call inconsiderable proportions, its pioneers were already 
 using every effort to effect an entrance in the large cities of 
 the East for their products ten years before they had built at 
 Mauch Chunk the second railway in the United States to haul 
 their coal from the breakers of the mines to market, and at 
 this early day a steam railway constructed for the same pur- 
 poses had just begun to haul the coal to water transportation, 
 whence it was shipped to the New York and Philadelphia 
 markets. 
 
 For a time General LILLY occupied various positions upon 
 this railway, and so began that intimate connection with the 
 vast mining and transportation interests of eastern Pennsyl- 
 vania, which he maintained until his death. From his first 
 pursuit of railroading he naturally turned to the business of 
 mining the coal that filled the hills over which he daily 
 
14 Address of Mr. Woomer, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 traveled, at first as a trusted employee of the great firm of 
 Ario Pardee & Co., and soon as an independent operator he 
 took a leading part in the development of the beautiful valley 
 he had adopted as his home. 
 
 For more than fifty years he devoted his energies to the 
 unlocking of the tremendous, mineral resources of his section 
 and became one of the foremost of those captains of industiy 
 under whose wise guidance the mining camps and country 
 villages of half a century ago have grown into manufac- 
 turing cities that now stretch in an unbroken chain to the 
 Wyoming, the Lehigh, the Lebanon, and the Cumberland 
 valleys, from one end to another of the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Although the important enterprises in which General LILLY 
 was engaged demanded through his long and busy life his 
 closest attention, he was from his early manhood a deep student 
 of social and political problems, and amid the cares of busi- 
 ness never forgot to respond to his duties as a citizen. Thus it 
 happened that although he never sought office, and although 
 his personal inclination rendered him averse to accepting 
 it, he was frequently called by his fellow-citizens to positions 
 of honor and trust. 
 
 Before he had arrived at the age of thirty years, and while 
 his political views were still in accordance with those of the 
 community in which he lived, he was elected to the State leg- 
 islature, and upon his reelection was a prominent candidate 
 for the speakership of the house. The pressing demands of 
 business induced him to decline a second reelection, which his 
 constituents would gladly have given him. But while a mem- 
 ber of the legislature his record was an enviable one. lie 
 served on several important committees, and attained a prom- 
 inence that seldom falls to the lot of a man as young as he 
 was at that time. 
 
 When the crisis of 1801 approached, General LILLY brought 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 15 
 
 to the consideration of the issues involved the ripe study of 
 years, and he followed the progress of events with anxious 
 feelings. After making a number of visits to this city to 
 investigate the real nature of the struggle upon the spot, he 
 shortly after the beginning of the war found himself unable to 
 act any longer with his former political associates, and joined 
 the Eepublican party. This was a step that forever alienated 
 him from the political sympathy of his section of the State; 
 but to a man of his standard of right and wrong this was a 
 small sacrifice to make to principle. 
 
 The Republican party quickly recognized a leader in their 
 new recruit, and from the date of his affiliation with it fre- 
 quently turned to him for assistance and advice. For thirty 
 years he was a prominent figure in the State and national con- 
 ventions of his party, and when, in 18G8, his name was pre- 
 sented by his friends for the gubernatorial nomination, he 
 received the next to the highest vote on the deciding ballot. 
 Undoubtedly, if General LILLY had not been handicapped by 
 his strongly Democratic local environment, the highest honors 
 of the State would long since have been conferred upon him. 
 
 General LILLY was one of the first and foremost men in 
 Pennsylvania to urge the calling of the constitutional conven- 
 tion of 1873. He was a member of that body as a delegate at 
 large, and made an enviable record in its deliberations. It is 
 said that he never missed a roll call during the long sessions 
 of the convention, and he frequently addressed it in support 
 of the principles which he wished to incorporate in the or- 
 ganic law of the State. The ability and conscientiousness 
 with which he performed this important work and the high 
 position he attained among his many colleagues are indica- 
 tions of what the record of General LILLY in the national 
 legislation would have been had not his career here been cut 
 so short. His nomination for Congressman at large in 1892 
 
16 Address of Mr. Woomer, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 was a most popular one, for the many services he had done 
 his party had raised him up hosts of friends in every quarter 
 of the State. 
 
 When Congress assembled last August General LILLY'S 
 friends already feared that his career in these Halls would 
 not be long; his visit to the Capitol to be sworn in at the be- 
 ginning of the session told severely on his constitution, and 
 he was obliged to return home immediately after that cere- 
 mony. For several weeks his condition was such as to give 
 rise to the gravest fears, but there was an astonishing im- 
 provement as the time for the decisive vote upon the financial 
 problem which caused the House to be convened approached. 
 
 Under the stimulus of the important responsibility the sick 
 man rallied, his desire to be present here and record his vote 
 seemed for a time more effectual than the medicine and care 
 of his physicians and nurses, and for some weeks hopes were 
 entertained of his ultimate recovery to health. He himself 
 shared this hope, and was in the midst of preparations for an 
 extended stay at Washington when his fatal illness overtook 
 him. We must all admire, I think, the indomitable energy 
 and the devotion to duty that proved stronger than approach- 
 ing death, and forced our dying friend to concentrate his 
 shattered strength upon one final effort to stand true to his 
 convictions and to the duties imposed upon him. This, the 
 second striking incident of his brief Congressional career, 
 again indicates what might have been expected of him had lie 
 been spared to us. 
 
 It is to men like General LILLY that his adopted State owes 
 the great prosperity that has been hers to men who appre- 
 ciated the natural resources of the State and contributed their 
 talents and capital to developing them. The work of these 
 men has been good. I respect and honor him who makes two 
 blades of grass grow where one grew before, and I see in the 
 life work of men like General LILLY a lasting contribution to 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 17 
 
 the aggregate of human comfort and happiness. In this 
 industrial age it is the men of action, and more particularly 
 the directors of great business enterprises, who stand in the 
 front "rank of progress and represent most truly the spirit of 
 the times; they are at once the product and the support of 
 our modern industrial society, and the foremost place, that in 
 other days was given to the poet or the orator or the warrior, 
 is now properly theirs. 
 
 Such a man was General LILLY, and when we assemble 
 to-day to pay respect to his worth as a public man, we should 
 riot fail to consider his more lasting and, I may say, more 
 important part as a leader in the work that now absorbs the 
 best talent of the nation, and has given to the time and to our 
 country its wonderful material prosperity. General LILLY'S 
 labors were rewarded by the acquisition of a large fortune; 
 but, the possessor of great wealth, he remained a plain, unos- 
 tentatious man, and its ownership distinguished him in noth- 
 ing from his less fortunate neighbors than in the extent of the 
 benefactions it permitted him to make. No friend in need 
 appealed in vain to him for assistance, and he comforted 
 hundreds by his generosity. 
 
 What I have said of the dead has been very inadequate, 
 and, with all respect to other more eloquent speakers, I will 
 say that their words can not do him justice. The best, the 
 most appropriate, memorial of a man of General LILLY'S 
 type is the progress and advance made by the neighborhood 
 in which he spent his life. And his monument is his beauti- 
 ful adopted home, cradled in the wild mountains of America's 
 Switzerland, the mistress of the vast wealth hidden in the 
 surrounding hills. In the upbuilding of that town his was a 
 foremost part, and while it stands, long after brass shall 
 tarnish and marble crumble away, it will be an enduring 
 monument to his memory. 
 H. Mis. 216 2 
 
18 Address of Mr, Bynum, of Indiana, on the 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BYNUM, OF INDIANA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: It was not my pleasure to have bad a long 
 or an intimate acquaintance with General LILLY, and there- 
 fore I am unable to speak of those personal traits of char- 
 acter which usually distinguish a long and successful life. 
 
 The fact that he had a number of near relatives residing in 
 the district I represent led to my acquaintance with him early 
 in the first session of this Congress. Our acquaintance, 
 though too brief to have ripened into a close friendship, was 
 sufficient to enable me to form a judgment as to his great 
 worth as a man and a citizen. 
 
 In his appearance he was impressive by his simplicity; in 
 his manner and address, forcible by his sincerity. He was 
 not a man who would at first attract the attention or make a 
 lasting impression upon those with whom he came in contact. 
 His real character was not upon the surface where it appeared 
 respleudently brilliant at a distance, but would vanish and 
 fade by contact, but was embedded in his heart, where, with a 
 fervor undiminished by time, it gave light and warmth to all 
 who came within the radius of its influence and power. 
 
 The life of the deceased was one in which both young and 
 old may find examples well worthy of emulation. In his long 
 and active career, from the time he entered the service of the 
 Beaver Meadow Railroad Company, when but a youth, to 
 the end of his life, at the age of more than threescore and ten, 
 one trait of character, which may well be termed the key to 
 every successful life, was always prominent in his work. 
 Whatever labor he was called upon to perform, whatever 
 duties were assigned to him, whatever position he was chosen 
 to fill, he did his work, performed his labor, and discharged 
 his duties with the self-same interest, industry, and fidelity. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 19 
 
 This is a sure and certain road, and there is no other 
 avenue, either in public or private life, which leads so quickly 
 to success. 
 
 There is always open a way for advancement to every indi- 
 vidual, however humble his station or exalted his position, if 
 he will but faithfully perform the work and discharge the 
 duties of each successive step as he rises to the goal of his 
 ambition. Opportunities are always open to those prepared 
 and ready to take advantage of them. Upon scanning the 
 history of the life of General LILLY I was impressed with the 
 conviction that his success was largely due to the fact that, 
 while content with the present, he was possessed of a keen 
 foresight and always prepared to take an advanced position 
 at the opportune time. 
 
 It is not my province to recount his many successful 
 achievements or to enumerate the important events of his 
 life, covering an extended public and private career during 
 the most eventful period in our country's history, were I 
 sufficiently informed to do so. This duty properly belonged 
 to and has been well performed by others. 
 
 In paying this tribute to his virtues and to his memory it 
 is not with the hope or expectation that we can contribute 
 anything toward his peace or his happiness. 
 
 These ceremonies, it appears to me, are held not merely as 
 a mark of respect and esteem for the dead, but with a view to 
 impress in some measure the nobler virtues and higher attri- 
 butes of our deceased colleagues upon the minds of the living, 
 and to inspire the youth of the land to emulate the character 
 of those whose lives are worthy and whose positions entitle 
 them to such honorable distinction. 
 
 The life of General LILLY was a well-rounded and, all in 
 all, an exceedingly successful one. By his energy and indus- 
 try he accumulated a magnificent estate. He was called by 
 
20 Address of Mr. C. W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 his people to the discharge of inauy important public posi- 
 tions, all of which he filled ably and honestly, without taint 
 or suspicion. Although he had long since passed the meridian 
 of life and was rapidly descending into the shadow of the 
 evening, when the messenger came to summon him from time 
 to eternity he found him with his armor still on. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the fortunes of this life are varied and vari- 
 able. To some is given great riches; others, by reason of 
 their superior talents, achieve great distinction, while still 
 others acquire great honors. It is not possible for all to be 
 equally favored, but it is within the power of each and every 
 one by his own efforts to achieve for himself a name worth y 
 of being transmitted as a sacred inheritance to his children. 
 General LILLY left to his kindred not only great wealth and a 
 record of high and deserved honors, but the most cherished 
 and valued legacy he transmitted to them was an unsullied 
 name and a spotless character. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CHARLES W. STONE, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : For nearly half a century WILLIAM LILLY 
 was a prominent figure in the business life and political activ- 
 ity of the great State of Pennsylvania, and at his death was 
 one of her Bepresentatives at large on this floor. These facts 
 give to his death a sadness and a significance which affect not 
 only this body of which he was a member, but also the whole 
 State of Pennsylvania, which had honored and trusted him, 
 and render proper the formal testimonials of respect to which 
 this afternoon is devoted. 
 
 Gentlemen who were his associates on this floor have ex- 
 pressed, and will express, in fitting terms their estimate of his 
 Hiaracter as developed in the short time he was permitted to 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 21 
 
 serve with us, arid will voice the general sorrow that his term 
 of usefulness in this body was so brief and so sadly ended. 
 
 I concur in all that may be said of him as a legislator, of 
 his high standards of action, of his fidelity to public duty; 
 but to this I would add my tribute, crude perhaps, but sincere 
 and heartfelt, to the virtues and memory of General LILLY, 
 not simply as an associate in this House, but as a personal 
 friend long before either of us became members of the Ameri- 
 can Congress. 
 
 He was my senior by twenty odd years, and when I first 
 came to know him he had passed the meridian of life, but I 
 knew him long enough and well enough to appreciate his gen- 
 erous, sincere, and lovable qualities. I knew him casually at 
 first, as I would meet him at political assemblies and gatherings, 
 but afterwards more intimately as the participation in different 
 capacities in matters of State concern and administration 
 brought us together. He was always frank and faithful, 
 candid and courteous, honorable, upright, and straightforward. 
 
 He was public-spirited, ready to contribute at all times of 
 his wealth, of his time, of his strength to promote and sustain 
 institutions of charity and movements of public benefit. His 
 private benefactions, his words of cheer and encouragement, 
 the strong helping hand he reached out to the unfortunate and 
 despairing, his acts of wise and generous sympathy, will long 
 keep his memory green in many a grateful heart. 
 
 He was a faithful friend, a kind neighbor, and a loving hus- 
 band. The inmates of his home commanded his affectionate 
 and thoughtful care, and to the associates of his daily life, in 
 business enterprise, in social intercourse, and in movements 
 affecting the welfare and prosperity of the little community 
 in which he lived ho was always considerate, patient, liberal, 
 and kind. 
 
 He was a plain, straightforward, solid man, with nothing 
 
22 Address of Mr. C. W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 of pretense, nothing of superficiality, nothing of ostentation 
 about him. What he said he meant, and what he meant he 
 was very apt to say. His candor and sincerity were beyond 
 possible question. Xo man ever doubted his word, or hesitated 
 to trust him to do what he said he would do. He promised 
 only what he thought he could perform, and he seldom failed 
 to perform all he promised. 
 
 With General LILLY, as has been well said by one who knew 
 him better than any of us, every question had two sides a 
 right side and a wrong side and the effort of his life was to 
 always clearly distinguish the one from the other. He was 
 dull to comprehend considerations of expediency simply; he 
 looked beyond questions of policy to the principle involved, 
 and when that was found, other considerations must yield to it. 
 He sought to know and to do the right, not the politic, thing. 
 
 General LILLY carried into his political life the same con- 
 scientious convictions that characterized him elsewhere. He 
 was a Republican because he believed the principles of that 
 party to be right, and so believing he never wavered in his 
 allegiance, and gave of his time and of his money liberally, 
 zealously, and honorably to promote its success. He was a 
 partisan without bitterness, a patriot without stain. 
 
 In his public life he was honorable in his methods and ear- 
 nest in his purposes. His strength was in action rather than 
 in speech. He made no claim to eloquence, but stated his 
 convictions in a candid, straightforward, intelligent way that 
 commanded respectful attention. In his younger days he was 
 a prominent member of the legislature of his State, and later 
 one of the principal moving powers that brought into being 
 the constitutional convention of 1873. He was a prominent 
 and earnest member of that body, and to him, as much as to 
 any one man, we are indebted for our present State constitu- 
 tion, with its extraordinary merits and marked defects. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 23 
 
 Without recompense or reward or expectation of any he 
 gave liberally of his valuable time and business capacity to 
 the establishment of the hospital for the anthracite regions, 
 and remained its bulwark of defense through all its compli- 
 cations and trials. 
 
 When he entered this House, it was by the largest vote ever 
 cast for a member of this body, receiving five hundred and 
 twelve thousand five hundred and fifty-one votes. He came 
 here, however, broken in health and with the seeds of disease 
 and death already germinating in his system. 
 
 He was unable to give to his duties that careful, painstak- 
 ing, and conscientious attention which always characterized his 
 discharge of every public trust. He was for so short a time 
 a member of this House, and during that short time so much 
 enfeebled in health, that those who only knew him here have 
 but an imperfect conception of the strength and breadth and 
 depth of his character, of the generous and sterling qualities 
 of mind and heart that distinguished him, and of his capac- 
 ity for practical and effective work and usefulness. In the 
 constitutional convention it is recorded of him that he never 
 missed a roll call and was never absent from his post, and with 
 sufficient physical strength he would have displayed the same 
 conscientious fidelity in this body. 
 
 When we separated at the close of the extra session, 
 General LILLY was cheerful, hopeful of restored health, and 
 looking forward to a return here at the regular session 
 strengthened and better able to meet the exacting labors of 
 membership in this body, and was even considering the ad- 
 visability of entering the field as a candidate for reelection. 
 
 In one short month the busy, useful life was ended. 
 Things of earth, its hopes, its aspirations, its cares and its 
 trials, faded away from the view of eyes that opened upon 
 the realities of eternity. The lifeless clay returned to its 
 
24 Address of Mr. Hicks, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 mother earth. The immortal spirit, chastened by something 
 of trial and disappointment, purified by something of suffer- 
 ing, ennobled by much of generous and unselfish effort and 
 achievement, had gone to the great Father of all. 
 
 We mourn for a comrade lost, we grieve for a friend that 
 is gone, but we cherish the memory of a iioble life, full of 
 deeds of kindness, of helpfulness, of generosity, of justice, that 
 shall stand as a challenge and an incentive to inspire the 
 emulation' of those who shall follow. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. HICKS, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: The distinguished citizen in whose memory 
 we hold these impressive services was one [of Pennsylvania's 
 most active and distinguished sons for over a half century of 
 years. As early as 1850 the voice of WILLIAM LILLY was 
 heard in the councils of that great Commonwealth, and from 
 that time until the day of his death his voice was heard and 
 his vote was cast in accordance with his views and convic- 
 tions of the right; and none ever dared to assail his integrity 
 nor impugn his honor or patriotism, and his devotion to what 
 he believed was his duty to his country was one of the 
 marked characteristics of his long, busy, and useful life. 
 
 His history may be briefly told: "He came from the people 
 anil sympathized with them." Early in life he became en- 
 grossed in public affairs, and in the conduct of vast, varied, 
 and extensive business pursuits he was what the world would 
 pronounce a successful man. Yet, notwithstanding these vast 
 interests and responsibilities that necessarily absorbed so 
 much of time, care, thought, and attention, he was thor- 
 oughly domestic in his habits, dressed plainly, lived modestly, 
 and was always accessible to the petition and request of any 
 just cause or of any worthy and deserving poor; his ear was 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 25 
 
 always ready to hear and his hand was always open to give 
 to such causes and charities that commended themselves to 
 his sense of right and of justice, and long after the words 
 spoken here in his honor are forgotten his memory will live in 
 the hearts of those whom he befriended and aided in time of 
 need. 
 
 Contentment to him was better than wealth, and during his 
 busy life he spent the most of his years in the peace and quiet 
 of his own modest home, and to him his family circle exercised 
 the greatest charm, and never was he happier than when met 
 and seen at his own home and by his own hearthstone. His 
 hospitality was of that generous and noble kind that once en- 
 joyed could never be forgotten. His acquaintance was proba- 
 bly the most extensive of any business man in the great State 
 of his adoption, and in all matters of a public nature in which 
 the interests of the entire State was concerned his counsel 
 was always solicited by the leaders of his party, and his ad- 
 vice was respected by public men of all shades of political 
 opinions. 
 
 Commencing his life as a member of the Democratic party, 
 it was during the great struggle for national existence that 
 he allied himself with the Republican party, and ever after- 
 wards he was one of the most trusted and honored leaders of 
 that great organization. He had, however, always been a pro- 
 tectionist, and believed as firmly in that doctrine and policy 
 being for the best iuterests of all the people as he believed in 
 the virtues of religion, the existence of a future state, and the 
 necessity of preparation for its enjoyment; indeed, both as a 
 Democrat and Republican, he advocated and supported a high 
 protective tariff, and in this respect a change of party caused 
 no change in principle or of his belief in the necessity of pro- 
 tection to American industries in order to properly foster and 
 encourage the prosperity of the country and its manufactures. 
 
26 Address of Mr. Hicks, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 Indeed he was a practical man, and knew that the nation 
 that was governed by the most practical ideas must outstrip 
 all competitors, and he felt that he lived to see his theory 
 vindicated by actual fact, and deeply regretted the possible 
 departure by the Government from the course pursued in the 
 past thirty years of progress and national advancement. As 
 a member of the constitutional convention of Pennsylvania he 
 took a leading position among the great men of that body, and 
 was one of its most tireless members in the discharge of duty, 
 and when he became the nominee of his party for the distin- 
 guished position of Congressman at large of his State in J892, 
 so great a hold had he upon the affections of tire people that 
 there was cast for him the highest number of votes that was 
 given any candidate in that eventful year. 
 
 Of his attendance and influence here, Mr. Speaker, on 
 account of his failing health, his social qualities and his 
 presence were comparatively unknown except by his col- 
 leagues and a few who sat near him. Indeed, how many of us 
 frequently know little of each other here, even when in the 
 best of health, unless we are from the same State, or chance 
 to be of the same committee, or reside in the same locality, 
 or be near each other in our seats; how rarely do we know or 
 see much of each other, how isolated we are, and how difficult 
 it is for two busy members of this great body to become well 
 acquainted. We meet here at noontime, and, after a few 
 hours spent in the excitement of debate, in the heat of party 
 struggle, or in the effort to harmonize differences on important 
 political and economic questions, in which we finally meet, 
 attack, divide, and often disagree, again we part, each our 
 own way, enjoying our own convictions, assuming our posi- 
 tion of isolation, and parting, as many of us do, as much of 
 strangers as when we first met; and when the hour of adjourn- 
 ment comes we hasten away and again lose ourselves in our 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 27 
 
 own respective constituencies, each following his own bent 
 and serving his own people. 
 
 A stranger among strangers, it was my pleasure to know 
 General LILLY, and breathe from him the air of pure friend- 
 ship and enjoy his unstinted hospitality, and in many a social 
 converse I learned to love, honor, and respect him and dis- 
 cover in him the charm that bound him to his own people of 
 that beautiful place known as the Switzerland of America 
 beautiful Mauch Chunk; and I discovered that social sweet- 
 ness and gentleness in this good man that can. never die so 
 long as '-memory lives, such a charm as we can never dismiss 
 to the chamber of forgetfulness; and those qualities of head 
 and heart that we admire, prize, and venerate in men so 
 existed in him, and became so embedded not only in my 
 memory, but in the memory of all who enjoyed this honor, 
 that the recollections of them can never be effaced. 
 
 The sorrow we feel for this our late distinguished col- 
 league, friend, and patriot is that sorrow that we refuse to be 
 separated from ; 'tis a wound we feel that we decline to per- 
 mit to be healed; 'tis one of our life's afflictions that tends to 
 sweeten life and will make us the holier and better; and never 
 do weMvish to blot out this beautiful sorrow for our dead, this 
 tnd tender recollection of the friend for whom we mourn 
 We will not accept a consolation that has to be pur- 
 by the forgetfulness of the life, the character, and 
 services of this great and good man, of whom we can 
 
 'Tis thro' the ocean tide of years 
 The memory of the just appears; 
 'Tis thro' the tempest and the gloom 
 The good man's virtues light the tomb. 
 
 Yea, Mr. Speaker, the loveliness of the pure life of our dead 
 friend, now that lie has gone, so softens our grief into tender 
 thought and meditation that we would not desire to root out 
 
30 Address of Mr. Wright, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 preceded his entrance on this floor. His ripened judgment and 
 experience, combined with his sterling virtues, preeminently 
 fitted him, not only to perform the usual legislative duties, but 
 to have obtained national recognition as one of the stalwart 
 types of broad-minded American statesmen, in all that the 
 term implies. 
 
 Sir, it is thus eminently fitting that this representative body 
 of the American people should, in view of the abrupt and final 
 departure of such a man from among us, call a halt in our 
 usual course, not only for the purpose of honoring the dead 
 statesman, but also to benefit ourselves by pointing out and 
 considering his virtues. 
 
 Many lessons may be learned from the life of such a man. 
 The rule which apparently guided his conduct throughout the 
 long years which were given him was a very simple one to 
 do what was just and right. 
 
 His life had passed the allotted term of threescore and 
 ten, and he had achieved not only success in the accumula- 
 tion of material wealth, but, what is not so commonly allied to 
 this, the possession of the confidence, respect, and admiration 
 of all who came in contact with him. His memory will be 
 honored by those who knew him best his townspeople and 
 neighbors; for his good deeds constitute a monument to his 
 virtues which will cause his affectionate remembrance |Q their 
 minds and hearts. 
 
 General LILLY had the good fortune to have been reaf 
 a farm, so often the nursery of unusual mental and plr 
 development and power. His earliest associations were 
 people who earned their living by the honest labor of tl 
 own hands, and it was from the impressions thus made on ^ 
 mind in its plastic state that his sympathies were inspired, 
 and these early impressions had a great influence in the later 
 movements of his life. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 31 
 
 His ancestry was of the best, his forefathers having been 
 farmers in the State of New York prior to the Revolution, in 
 which they assisted to obtain the independence of this coun- 
 try. He removed from New York to Pennsylvania at an early 
 period of his life. 
 
 Although his father, Col. William Lilly, was a man of posi- 
 tion, the friend and associate of many leading men of his day, 
 the son was taught to earn his own living and to perform his 
 duty faithfully in whatever state of life he might be called. 
 
 He possessed great administrative ability, backed by clean 
 instincts, which enabled him to improve the natural business 
 opportunities presented, but the pursuit of wealth was always 
 subordinated to the higher duties of man, and it is not as the 
 millionaire, nor as the astute manager of public affairs, that 
 his name will live the longest, but as the kind neighbor, the 
 public- spirited citizen, and the friend of the poor and needy. 
 
 General LILLY'S life embraced important and critical 
 periods in our national history; his record throughout was 
 upright and loyal. As a citizen ho was broad and benevolent, 
 and as a leading figure in the politics of his State he was dis- 
 tinguished for common sense, practical ideas, and conservative 
 opinions. He was ever the friend and advocate of all the 
 great reform measures that have elevated and purified our 
 Republic, and he worked consistently for what he regarded as 
 the good of the people and the highest welfare of his State. 
 Throughout his long life no breath of suspicion ever assailed 
 his integrity or dimmed the brightness of his honor. 
 
 Naturally endowed with a desire for knowledge and with a 
 taste for the highest results of intellectual effort, he collected 
 a large and well-selected library and was a diligent student 
 as well as a munificent patron of the best types of artistic 
 effort in painting and sculpture. 
 
 His observation of industrial development and his study of 
 
32 Address of Mr. Wanger, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 political economy had caused bis warm espousal of protection 
 to American labor, and in 1881 be was appointed chairman ot 
 the tariff convention at New York. 
 
 He died suddenly. I have a letter, written but three days 
 before, in which he refers to an operation on his eyes, which 
 he feared would detain him from his duties for a few weeks, 
 and asking that he be paired on this floor. But though his 
 death was sudden, it was perhaps better so. Better one 
 pang, one throb, than weeks of pain and- slow decay. He was 
 prepared for death, for his life had been one " that could send 
 a challenge to its end, and when it comes, say, Welcome, 
 friend ! " 
 
 While I may not, in glowing periods or in stately phrase, 
 record this tribute to my departed colleague, yet I may simply 
 state my heartfelt sorrow at his untimely departure from the 
 field of action for which his life had so eminently fitted him. 
 
 He met with ability, dignity, and with clean-hearted and 
 clean-handed integrity the requirements of public life in many 
 trying positions, and he would here undoubtedly have ex- 
 tended his record of never disappointing those who gave him 
 their confidence. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. WANGER, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr SPEAKER: The estimable qualities of him whose death 
 we mourn, and the lessons to be drawn from his useful life and 
 lamented departure from among men have been so graphic- 
 ally brought to our attention by the distinguished gentlemen 
 
 , 
 
 who have preceded me that my duty may be briefly dis- 
 charged. General LILLY was as a giant oak of the forest 
 among men. Among the great forces of nature in Pennsyl- 
 vania, and her sturdy manhood, ho hewed his way from a 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 33 
 
 humble station into a position of prominence in business, in 
 official, and in political life. He was a man who attached 
 himself to every one, however humble, with whom he came in 
 contact; a man whose plain demeanor and blunt speech told 
 of the utter lack of affectation in him and of the absolute 
 sincerity of every word he uttered ; a man in whom you felt, 
 however brief your acquaintance, that so long as you were 
 true to duty and honor you had in him a devoted friend; one 
 who was willing to promote your welfare, and to share 'with 
 you every opportunity for advancement which he enjoyed. 
 He was a man who made his record and has woven it eter- 
 nally, so far as mortal affairs are concerned, into the history 
 of the community and State in which he lived. 
 
 As has been told, in the days of his youth and the maturer 
 years of his early manhood he was an unflinching D.ernocrat 
 Yielding to what he believed to be the dictates of patriotic 
 duty toward his country, he severed his allegiance to that 
 party and joined tbe Eepublicau party, and although the lat- 
 ter party was locally in the minority in the part of the State 
 in which he lived, and he was not without political ambition, 
 he never wavered in his fidelity to that party. 
 
 He was never willing to surrender duty in order that per- 
 sonal advantage might accrue to himself. 
 
 The locality in which he lived was a grand section of the 
 grand State of Pennsylvania, rich in coal and other mineral 
 deposits, and those were great men who made the prosperity 
 of the Lehigh Valley, and enabled the State and the people 
 generally to enjoy the magnificent bounty which Providence 
 had bestowed upon that region ; and while General LILLY 
 himself was in the front rank of the successful men who ele- 
 vated that section and promoted the general prosperity of the 
 citizens there inhabiting, yet there never was a time when 
 success made him at all proud, made him at all evidence any 
 H. Mis. 216 3 
 
34 Address of Mr. Scranton, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 feeling of superiority over anybody less successful than him- 
 self, or made him lose the slightest interest in those around 
 him, no matter how young in years or how humble their sta- 
 tion in life. 
 
 It was one of the elements of his great strength in business 
 and in political life that he had such a keen and lively interest 
 in the young and rising generation, who always felt that his 
 was a hand which would help to elevate them, and when he 
 fell there was a vast number of poor people of the eastern 
 part of Pennsylvania who felt that in his death they had lost 
 a sincere and faithful friend. He has gone from among us. 
 He went almost immediately after he had realized what was 
 said to have been the ambition of his life a seat in this dis- 
 tinguished body. But, although he is gone, the memory of 
 his sterling; virtues lives, and his example incites us all to 
 higher and loftier aspirations toward the performance of our 
 duty to our fellow-men and to this great nation of which it is 
 our rich blessing to be citizens. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. SCRANTON, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: Gen. WILLIAM LILLY was an excellent type 
 of a large class of men developed by every generation of 
 Americans. I allude to the class who, without the advan- 
 tages of inherited wealth or superior educational facilities, 
 forge their way to positions of commanding influence in the 
 social, business, and political channels of life. It has been 
 my good fortune to know something of his career, and of the 
 personal characteristics that made him a forceful factor in 
 that earnest, busy, enterprising valley of the Lehigh, where 
 all the years of his manhood were passed, and with nearly 
 every great developing enterprise of which he *was identi- 
 fied. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 35 
 
 A native of the Empire State, he early in life became a 
 Pennsylvanian. His"fcarlier career very clearly demonstrates 
 that even before he had reached the years of manhood 
 WILLIAM LILLY was possessed of the commendable ambition 
 to occupy a position of influence and power among his fellow- 
 men. In this he was far more successful than most men. 
 
 For more than a quarter of a century he was recognized as 
 one of the most sagacious and successful business men of the 
 Lehigh Valley and the anthracite coal fields. He conceived 
 the plan for his life work, and never hesitated nor faltered 
 until he reached the goal he aimed for. 
 
 Entering upon active life in an humble capacity in the 
 service of the first steam railway in the Lehigh Valley, he 
 climbed steadily and perseveringly to positions of ever- 
 increasing trust and responsibility. Whatever successes in 
 the domain of wealth and honors WILLIAM LILLY achieved 
 were the results of well-directed and intelligent endeavor and 
 of honest methods. 
 
 The people of the community in which he carved out his 
 career early in life recognized 'his splendid natural abilities, 
 his integrity, his manliness, by conferring civic and military 
 honors upon him. He was the youngest man upon whom the 
 military ranks of colonel and brigadier-general were ever con- 
 ferred by a governor of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Before he had attained the age of thirty years his fellow- 
 citizens had twice chosen him to represent them in the halls 
 of the State legislature. Later the people of the State of 
 Pennsylvania sent him as a delegate at large to the conven- 
 tion that framed the present constitution of that Common- 
 wealth. With honor and ability he filled every station in life, 
 public or private, civil or military, to which circumstances or 
 the voice of his fellow-citizens called him. 
 
36 Address of Mr. Scranton, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 The dominant characteristics of WILLIAM LILLY were per- 
 severance, industry, exacting integrity in business affairs, and 
 unflinching adherence to his own convictions. Without the 
 advantages of superior education, he was nevertheless a man 
 of great intelligence and wide knowledge, a close student of 
 political economy, conversant with many branches of the 
 sciences, and a liberal patron of literature and the fine arts. 
 
 That General LILLY was a man true to his convictions of 
 duty, without regard to selfish, personal considerations or 
 consequences, is conspicuously manifested in his political 
 career. Keared under Democratic influences, he adhered 
 steadfastly to his earlier convictions through the stormy 
 period preceding the civil war, and until the first campaign 
 in the great internecine strife had been fought. Then, with 
 characteristic courage and manliness, he publicly abjured his 
 former political associations, and allied himself with the 
 Republican party. This act was prompted by sincere con- 
 victions of duty. In the very prime of life as he then was, 
 ambitious of political preferment, the acknowledged leader of 
 a political party overwhelmingly dominant in his own section 
 of the State, he unhesitatingly sacrificed all prospective polit- 
 ical ambitious to his convictions of duty as a citizen. 
 
 General LILLY was as earnest, as energetic, and as honor- 
 able in his political relations and efforts as he was in his vast 
 business affairs. In whatever he undertook he was earnest 
 to the point of aggressiveness. In his later years he met 
 with disappointments in his political aspirations, but he was 
 far too true to his convictions to permit such reverses to 
 swerve him from the path of duty. To occupy a seat in this 
 House filled the measure of his later ambition. The high 
 regard in which he was held by the masses of his State is 
 attested by the large majority by which he was elected. 
 
 In the Providence of God, he was stricken down by disease 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 37 
 
 soon after his. election, and rallied only sufficiently to be 
 sworn in and for a brief period to participate in the deliber- 
 ations of this body, when he was called to his final rest. 
 
 The life of WILLIAM LILLY is only a repetition of the lives 
 of thousands of other Americans who availed themselves of 
 the opportunities and advantages which our institutions hold 
 out to all alike. He achieved success in life by manly effort. 
 I know of no better type of the self-made American man than 
 WILLIAM LILLY. Some starting in life in as lowly capacity 
 as he did have reached greater eminence, some have achieved 
 greater results and attained a more widespread fame, but 
 none surpass him in nobility of character and true American 
 manhood. 
 
 The nation, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and this 
 House sustain a great loss in the death of WILLIAM LILLY. 
 This Chamber might not have resounded with words of 
 eloquence falling from his lips, for oratory was not one of his 
 gifts, but he would have left the impress of his eminent busi- 
 ness capacity, his sound common sense, and his uncompromis- 
 ing and patriotic devotion to the welfare of the Eepublic upon 
 the records and the work of this House. Had life and health 
 been spared to him he would soon have become conspicuous 
 among us for industrious and intelligent devotion to his duties 
 as a representative of the people. 
 
 He has passed away full of years, leaving behind him the 
 record of a well-rounded and most honorable career. His 
 successes and victories were not those of the soldier or the 
 politician. They were achieved in those fields where the real 
 power and wealth of great nations are developed in the busy 
 channels of industry, where capital and labor combine their 
 forces for the development of nature's riches, causing towns 
 and cities to spring up in the waste places, and prosperity r 
 happiness, and content to abound among the masses. 
 
38 Address of Mr. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 WILLIAM LILLY'S memory will be sacredly cherished by 
 many in the immediate community where he lived for half a 
 century, for he was as generous and kindly hearted as he was 
 just. Many a prosperous man of to-day owes his success 
 largely to the assistance he received from General LILLY in 
 surmounting the rugged places in business life. 
 
 He well deserves the tribute of respect we here bestow upon 
 him. Brave, generous, true, and honorable, no man could fail 
 to honor him who knew him. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. MUTCHLER, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: We are here to day assembled in accordance 
 with a graceful custom to pay a tribute to the memory of a 
 departed representative of the people, to speak of one whose 
 life's work is accomplished, and who has passed beyond the 
 reach of criticism and of praise. Flattery can not reach the 
 dull cold ears, and envy is powerless to vex the quiet heart. 
 We left him in peaceful slumber amid the everlasting hills 
 surrounding the home he loved in the Lehigh Valley. There 
 all that was mortal of WILLIAM LILLY lies in the bosom of 
 
 
 
 Mother Earth, where the wind moans through the trees above 
 his grave, and the sod is bound with frost and covered with 
 snow, waiting for the sure and certain coming of the resur- 
 rection of the spring. 
 
 WILLIAM LILLY came of the good old stock which in the 
 struggle for our national independence left their farms in 
 York State to fight with their countrymen for the cause of 
 liberty. He inherited the spirit of independence and Jove of 
 country, and the courage to stand for what he believed to be 
 right, from an ancestry which, "in the days that tried men's 
 souls," offered all that they had and all that they were for the 
 love of country. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 39 
 
 In 1836 Mr, LILLY'S father became interested in mining 
 coal, and in 1838 he left New York State with his family and 
 came to our beautiful valley of the Lehigh. Our departed 
 friend was then but seventeen years of age, of a bright, 
 active, and cheerful disposition, and with a capacity for 
 making lasting friends. In his old age he retained the friends 
 of his early manhood and often talked with them, when his 
 hair was white, of the old days when he was employed on the 
 Beaver Meadow Railroad, which ran from the coal mines at 
 the upper end of what was then a part of Northampton but 
 is now Carbon County, and carried the coal to Parryville. 
 He rose to the position of conductor, and in a few years his 
 devotion to duty and his reliability were rewarded by promo- 
 tion to a position in the administrative department of the 
 railroad. 
 
 He was clear-headed, careful, and of more than ordinary 
 business sagacity. He was naturally prudent, and his ambi- 
 tion to rise made him save money, and, when he saw the 
 opportunity, to invest it in a coal-land speculation. At the 
 outbreak of the war the development of railroads and the 
 enormous use of anthracite coal for manufacturing and do- 
 mestic purposes made him wealthy. His undertaking had 
 been regarded by many men of judgment and experience as 
 extremely hazardous, but he adhered to it as faithfully as he 
 had to his railroad work, and bided his time. The time came 
 when he was a wealthy man. But wealth did not harden his 
 heart, nor did it deaden the generous impulses of his soul, 
 and, among those with whom he lived, he won a priceless 
 treasure a good name. He was a Democrat then, and was 
 twice sent to the legislature of his State. 
 
 In 1862 he became a Republican, and subsequently an ad- 
 vocate of the doctrine that it was the wisest policy of the 
 Government to protect American industries by high tariff 
 
40 Address of Mr. Mutchler, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 duties. He became distinguished as an ardent protectionist 
 and, with characteristic energy, advocated his views in con- 
 ventions and other public meetings. It gave him fame. It 
 brought him here as Congressman at large. There are many, 
 like myself, who believe he was mistaken in these protection 
 views, but there are none who do not believe him to have 
 been perfectly honest and conscientious in holding them. He 
 did what he believed was his duty. 
 
 For first and last and all the time the radical trend and 
 disposition of this man's mind was to seek for, to discover, 
 and to do his duty in whatever position in life he might be 
 called upon to act. And when he believed he was right 
 there was no swerving him. True as the needle to the pole, 
 firm as the everlasting hills, steadfast as the firmament on 
 high, no cruel dart of criticism, no venom of detraction nor 
 idle reflections of a silly world had power to move him. That 
 which he in his soul believed was right he would do; and 
 his patient continuance in what he believed to be welldoing 
 to the end is a lesson in constancy to conviction we who 
 remain may well take to heart. 
 
 Every man who stands in this Chamber to speak and to act 
 in a representative capacity performs a weighty and solemn 
 duty. His constituents send him here to represent, according 
 to his best judgment, certain political principles. He is here 
 not to represent an individual or a class, but a party a party 
 made up of thousands of individuals holding widely diverging 
 and conflicting views on public questions, and of many classes 
 having various and conflicting interests to be affected by legis- 
 lation. But this line of duty is marked out by certain broad, 
 distinctive, and fundamental party principles, to which, in the 
 main, every individual and every class in the thousands whose 
 votes elect him are agreed upon. And while the persuasive 
 and convincing eloquence of Representatives on this floor 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 41 
 
 compel consideration and command admiration, yet, when at 
 last the final account is made up, it is not what we say here 
 but what we do here, that determines the measure of our faith- 
 fulness in the line of our duty. 
 
 The lesson of WILLIAM: LILLY'S life is the beauty and use- 
 fulness, the satisfying consciousness, and sure success of a 
 life whose aims and ends are modified and directed by de- 
 votion to duty. As we looked upon him but a few weeks 
 ago, lying in the deep, calm sleep which falls upon us all at 
 last, we saw not alone the aged man whose life's span has 
 stretched beyond "threescore years and ten." The boy who, 
 with cheerful heart and willing hands, worked upon his father's 
 farm, lay there. The bright, active young man, who was the 
 pride and hope of the home circle as he went forth day by 
 day to work with patient faithfulness on the Beaver Meadow 
 Eailroad years ago, slept there. 
 
 The active, hopeful young speculator, whose cheerfulness 
 and unfailing steadfastness inspired his partners with the 
 faith to hold on, was there, quiet and still forever. The faith- 
 ful representative of the people in the legislature and in this 
 House, the true husband, the good neighbor and friend, all 
 were there, and the sacred tears of sorrow that fell as he was 
 borne to the grave were hallowed by a thousand memories of 
 his faithfulness in all the relations of his useful and honorable 
 life. And so he passes away. His earthly career has ended 
 as a tale that is told, and it is recorded of him, "He did his 
 duty." So may it be with his colleagues, the members of this 
 House, who, in a few short months or years, must follow him. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore (at three o'clock and eight min- 
 utes p. m.). In accordance with the resolution already adopt- 
 ed, the Chair declares the House adjourned until Monday 
 next at twelve o'clock m. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH. 
 
 DECEMBER 5, 1893. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senatewhas heard with deep. sensibility the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, late a Eepresentative from 
 the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate concur in the resolution of the House of 
 Representatives providing for the appointment of a joint committee to 
 attend the funeral of the deceased at his late residence in the State of 
 Pennsylvania, and that the committee on the part of the Senate, con- 
 sisting of five Senators, be appointed by the Vice-President. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House 
 of Representatives. 
 
 In compliance with the foregoing, the Vice-President ap- 
 pointed Mr. Quay, Mr. Manderson, Mr. Carey, Mr. Smith, and 
 Mr. Kyle as said committee. 
 
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EULOGIES. 
 
 APRIL 28, 1894. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the Senate 
 resolutions from the House of Eepreseutatives, which will be 
 read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions of the House of Eepre- 
 sentatives, as follows: 
 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, February 17, 1894. 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, late a Representative from 
 the State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, in order 
 that tribute he paid to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to communicate these 
 resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That, as an additional mark of respect, the House, at the con- 
 clusion of these ceremonies, do adjourn. 
 
 Mr. CAMERON. Mr. President, I submit the resolutions 
 which I send to the desk and ask their adoption. 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The resolutions will be read. 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. WILLIAM LILLY, late a Representative from the 
 State of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in order 
 
 that fitting tribute be paid to his memory. 
 
 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions submitted by the Senator from Pennsylvania. 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 44 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 45 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CAMERON, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: Gen. WILLIAM LILLY, Congressman at 
 large from the State of Pennsylvania, died suddenly at his 
 residence in Mauch Chunk, Carbon County, Pa., at one o'clock 
 and twenty minutes p. in. on December 1, 1893, in the sev- 
 enty-second year of his age. He was preparing to come to 
 Washington to take his seat at the beginning of this session 
 of Congress. His death, which was a great shock and sur- 
 prise to all his friends, was caused by congestion of the lungs, 
 brought about by a severe cold which he contracted during a 
 visit to Indianapolis since the adjournment of the recent ex- 
 traordinary session on the 3d of November last. He lived 
 only twenty minutes after he was taken seriously ill. His 
 health had been in a precarious condition ever since he was 
 stricken with paralysis a year before. He took the oath of 
 office in the House at the beginning of the extraordinary 
 session called together by the President on the 7th of August 
 last, and on the 6th of September, having served just one 
 month of his term, he was compelled to apply for and received 
 an indefinite leave of absence on account of sickness, and 
 returned to his home. 
 
 General LILLY was born at Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y., 
 June 3, 182.1. He was descended from Kevolutiouary stock, 
 his forefathers having participated in the memorable strug- 
 gle by which American freedom was achieved. His father, 
 Col. William Lilly, left New York with his family in 1838 and 
 settled in Carbon County, in the beautiful and enterprising- 
 valley of the Lehigh, in the State of Pennsylvania. Young 
 LILLY was then but seventeen years old. From that time 
 until the day of his death there have been few people in the 
 
46 Address of Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 State whose lives have been more remarkable than that of 
 General LILLY. His career emphatically demonstrates the 
 fact that a young man, no matter how poor he may be, who 
 has indomitable will, pluck, and energy, can surmount the 
 most obstinate and difficult barriers in his path through life. 
 In no other country on the face of the globe is this so possi- 
 ble and so marked as in our own. 
 
 General LILLY'S career in that regard is a striking illus- 
 tration and one worthy of emulation. He entered the serv- 
 ice of the Beaver Meadow Railroad Company as their coal- 
 shipping agent at Penn Haven, which was then at the head 
 of the Lehigh Canal. He became a conductor on that road, 
 and by energy, hard work, and good business habits he very 
 soon tilled a place of 'trust in the administrative department 
 of the road. His life thenceforth was one of active business 
 enterprise. He soon entered into coal-mining operations in 
 the anthracite region of the State, and he increased his 
 business from time to time, so that, at his death, he was a 
 member of the coal-mining firms of Lentz, Lilly & Co., and L. 
 A. Reilly & Co., in Schuylkill, and of the firm of George B. 
 Markle & Co,, at Jeddo, Luzerne County. He was a director 
 in the East Broad Top Railroad Company, in the Highland 
 Coal Company, in the Union Improvement Company, and in 
 the Andover Iron Company. 
 
 In his own county of Carbon, he was president of the Lehigh 
 Emery Wheel Company and the Carbon Metallic Paint Com- 
 pany. He was a director in the First and Second National 
 Banks of Mauch Chunk, and also held a seat in the board of 
 directors of the First National Bank of Shenandoah. He was 
 one of the board of commissioners to locate and build a State 
 hospital for injured persons in the anthracite coal region. This 
 institution, called the Miners' Hospital, is situated near Ash- 
 land, Schuylkill County, and was turned over to the trustees 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 47 
 
 in 1884. He was one of the original trustees, and at the time 
 of his death was, and had been for some years, the president 
 of the board. This institution, it is needless to say, had in 
 him a warm, faithful, and devoted friend. He was a life mem- 
 ber of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and 
 also of the American Association for the Advancement of 
 Science, being treasurer of the latter, and was likewise a mem- 
 ber of the Society of American Mining Engineers. 
 
 During the war he was a great friend of the Union soldiers, 
 and supported a number of the families of his workmen who 
 had volunteered. He was an active member of the Masonic 
 fraternity for more than half a century and held the position 
 of Grand Master of Pennsylvania. 
 
 However, all these numerous business connections and occu- 
 pations did not prevent General LILLY from becoming a close 
 student of social and political affairs, for which he evinced a 
 taste in early manhood. At that time he affiliated with the 
 Democratic party. He was elected to the State legislature of 
 1850 and 1851 before he was thirty years of age, taking such 
 an active and leading part in the first session that at the be- 
 ginning of the second session he became a prominent candi- 
 date for speaker of the house, but was defeated by a few votes. 
 Urgent business demands compelled him to decline a reelec- 
 tion to that body. 
 
 Although the valley in which he lived was strongly Demo- 
 cratic, he joined the fortunes of the Eepublican party in the 
 autumn of 1862^ and at once became what was termed an 
 ardent Union man and a prominent figure in the politics of 
 the State, and ever afterwards he rendered valuable and effi- 
 cient services to that party. 
 
 It is related that while on a visit to Washington in 1862, 
 General LILLY met some of the leading Democrats of the 
 country and became very much dissatisfied with their views 
 
48 Address of Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, on the 
 
 on the war. Visiting the House of Representatives, lie found 
 fifty-five Democratic Congressmen voting against a war meas- 
 ure of vital import to the National Government. Finding on 
 personal conversation with many of them that they were in 
 sympathy with the South, he said to a Democratic member' 
 from Pennsylvania: "I don't care about breaking personal 
 friendship, but I have come to bid you a political good-bye." 
 ''What's the matter?" asked his astonished friend. "Well," 
 replied General LILLY, " I have made up my mind never 
 again to vote witli a party which has failed to support the 
 Government in its hour of trial and need." And he was true 
 to his word. From that time on he served as a delegate at 
 every important Republican State convention in tbe State, 
 . and was also a delegate or alternate to every National Eepub- 
 lican convention held in the last twenty-five years. 
 
 In 1868 he was a candidate for the gubernatorial nomina- 
 tion and his name was presented to the convention, receiving 
 next to the highest vote on the last ballot. It was partly 
 through his instrumentality that the Pennsylvania State con- 
 stitutional convention of 1872-73 was called, to which he was 
 elected as a delegate at large. At this convention, which was 
 composed of some of the most eminent, learned, and distin- 
 guished men in the State, and the sessions of which were pro- 
 longed for almost an entire year, he established for himself a 
 splendid record and one which will be handed down in the 
 annals of the Commonwealth as equal to that of any of the 
 members of that famous assemblage. 
 
 General LILLY was elected as one of the Congressmen at 
 large from Pennsylvania to the Fifty-third Congress, receiving 
 five hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and seventy- 
 seven votes, against four hundred and forty-eight thousand 
 seven hundred and fourteen votes for his Democratic opponent. 
 
 My departed colleague obtained the title of general during 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 49 
 
 his connection with tbe State militia in his early youth. He 
 was a man of fine and powerful physique and of commanding 
 appearance, and when but twenty years of age was elected 
 colonel of one of the militia regiments in his neighborhood, 
 and was subsequently appointed a brigadier-general. It is 
 said that he was the youngest man upon whom the governor 
 of Pennsylvania had ever conferred so high a rank. 
 
 General LILLY was in every sense a true Pennsylvanian. 
 Even while a Democrat he was a firm, steadfast believer in 
 and exponent of the American doctrine of high protection. 
 It was the dream and ambition of his life to see our people of 
 all trades and classes, the miners, the mechanics, the artisans, 
 the laborers, elevated to the highest possible plane, and his 
 noble spirit rebelled against the idea of putting them on a 
 level with the poorly paid labor of Europe. He believed this 
 could only be possible by the most stringent protective tariff 
 laws. He was very pronounced in his convictions in this 
 regard, and no subtle and ingenious argument could swerve 
 him in his opinions which a lifetime of study and experience 
 had convinced him were based upon correct principles. So 
 strongly had he proclaimed himself the champion of our home 
 industries that in 1881 the New York tariff convention made 
 him their chairman, a position which he filled conscientiously 
 and creditably. 
 
 General LILLY was a true, faithful, and patriotic friend of 
 the people, kind-hearted, generous to a fault, and he possessed 
 a manly and moral courage that is rarely equaled. He was 
 fully alive to the interests of his State, and had he been 
 spared to us would have taken a leading part in defending 
 them to bis utmost ability when the body to which he had 
 been elected was engaged in rending asunder all her great 
 industries. He was violently opposed to free-trade heresies. 
 He was a man of the people, with the people, and for the 
 H Mis. 216 4 
 
50 Address of Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, on the 
 
 people, and he vehemently denounced both publicly and 
 privately the false economic ethics and political sophistries of 
 those who were constantly endeavoring to tear down the 
 bulwarks of American institutions and opening wide the 
 gates of our shores to foreign competition. His loss, there- 
 fore, at this most important juncture of the history of our 
 country was not only a severe blow to his own immediate 
 constituency, but it was a great shock and an irreparable loss 
 to the whole State. 
 
 Mr. President, General LILLY was my warm personal friend. 
 He was a friend as stanch and true as it has been my fortune 
 to possess. He was a man of noble impulses, and I had the 
 highest regard and respect for him. Our friendship began a 
 long time ago, and ripened as the years rolled by; and I am 
 glad and proud to say that never for a single moment was 
 that friendship in the least degree strained. His life can justly 
 be epitomized in one short sentence: He was honest, square, 
 and fair in his dealings with his fellow-man; and the people 
 of Pennsylvania will revere his memory for all time to come. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PALMER, OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT : It was not my fortune to meet General 
 LILLY until his brief appearance in this city as a member of 
 the Fifty-third Congress, and yet he was not to me an entire 
 stranger. In 18G1 1 was a member of that abortion termed a 
 Peace Congress. At that convention I met David Wilmot 
 and other Pennsylvania Democrats. I had conferences with 
 them as to their and my own duty in the then impending 
 crisis, and I then heard of Gen. WILLIAM LILLY as a Demo- 
 crat, a Jeffersonian Democrat, opposed to slavery as the logic 
 of his political creed, devoted to the Union as a necessary part 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 51 
 
 of his inheritance as a Jackson Democrat. I was told that he 
 was earnest, and would be earnest, whatever might happen in 
 the future of our common country. I knew many of the 
 Democrats of Pennsylvania at that time. I learned much of 
 their patriotic attachment to the interests of the country, and 
 their devotion to the Union of the States. 
 
 They were States rights men, opposed to slavery upon prin- 
 ciple. They, however, recognized the Jeffersonian doctrine of 
 the rights of the States. They regarded slavery as having its 
 foundation in force, and believed it could only exist in the 
 States when sanctioned by positive law. When the struggle 
 came for the preservation of the Union, they were earnest in 
 their efforts and did their whole duty. I will not repeat the 
 names of many of them who are endeared to me by sacred 
 memories. They have passed away, and I linger on this stage 
 of action. 
 
 General LILLY was born on the 3d of June, 1821. He died 
 on the 1st day of December, 1893. His death was timely, 
 not untimely. He lived his threescore years and ten, and his 
 was a life of activity and usefulness. We are told also that 
 he was descended from Eevolutionary stock. From that 
 stock he inherited health, integrity, courage, and those 
 nobler qualities, resolution and self-denial. In 1838, with 
 his father, he removed to a part of Pennsylvania which was 
 then comparatively new, and with that inheritance, which is 
 far more than millions, he early saw the advantages which 
 surrounded him, and had the sagacity to control them. He 
 became distinguished for his activity and his usefulness, for 
 his business sagacity, for his personal integrity, and for his 
 devoted patriotism. 
 
 Not much more can be said, Mr. President, of any man. 
 Some men obtain loftier positions in the estimation of their 
 countrymen and of mankind, but the man who wins the dis- 
 
52 Address of Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, on the 
 
 tinction I have mentioned has fulfilled all the just expecta- 
 tions of those who love him. 
 
 Mr. President, I may be permitted to say, having myself 
 lived even longer than he, that we underrate the advantages 
 of the conditions that prevailed in the part of Pennsylvania 
 in which this man settled. Such conditions favor the devel- 
 opment of individualism. It is one of the evils of modern 
 social and business life that individuality is almost entirely 
 lost in the gseat struggle in which we are all engaged 
 
 I trust and believe that there will be at no distant day such 
 an adjustment of conditions as will again allow the develop- 
 ment of strong individuality. But I may say that the condi- 
 tions which surround young men or which surrounded young 
 men in the new States of the Union caused the development 
 of personal characteristics that attended them through life, 
 and made them strong in the right direction or strong in wrong 
 directions. In the case of General LILLY, his strength, his 
 earnestness, his courage, his resolution, his self-denial were 
 wisely employed, and he attained political distinction as well 
 as business successes. 
 
 It may be, Mr. President, that changes in political connec- 
 tions separate men who were intimately associated during the 
 occurrence of great events. If it were true that the stream of 
 life flowed on steadily and quietly, if it was never disturbed 
 by rocks and rapids, men possibly might never learn to love 
 and respect each other; but there are days of peril and hours 
 of trial, when men become attached to each other by ties that 
 are never broken. I may refer for the moment to the fact 
 that the men who in 1860, and during the years of our national 
 struggle, became attached to each other by their common 
 sympathies and efforts in that great cause, and who contrib- 
 uted to the great, grand result for which we all hoped and 
 struggled such men never separate entirely; they never be- 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 53 
 
 come altogether estranged. They may differ; there may be 
 grounds of personal and political controversy between them; 
 they may pursue different directions and follow interests that 
 are divergent, but after all there is a tie that binds them 
 together which is never broken. 
 
 The memory of a man such as General LILLY is described 
 to be clings to me. I remember him, though a stranger, as a 
 brother, as one whose sympathies were in the right direction, 
 as one whose efforts were directed toward noble ends, a man 
 who loved his country, and who had the courage to take 
 ground for its defense, and who did his duty in the sphere in 
 which he was no doubt most useful. 
 
 The men to whom I refer, Mr. President, are becoming fewer 
 and fewer every day. To many who listen to me the events 
 of 1860 to 1865 are but traditions. They listen to them as to 
 the twice-told recollections of the ancients; they know but 
 little about them. The struggles of that period have given us 
 beyond all question a new .Republic, a free Republic. Its 
 result was to abolish and destroy one of the great evils that 
 afflicted the country and perfect the Constitution of our com- 
 mon country, which needed but the improvements which were 
 the result of the conflict that occurred in the years to which I 
 have adverted. 
 
 The men who took part either in civil or military life in that 
 great struggle are passing away. Slocum within a few days. 
 Other names occur to me. One by one they pass away. 
 LILLY, not the soldier, but the patriot in civil life, who 
 gave of his substance for the care and comfort and pro- 
 tection of those whom the soldier loved better than his life 
 he has gone. They go, and soon all will be gone. The great 
 civil war is to-day but a memory. Its actors are falling by 
 the wayside; they will soon pass away. They have left a 
 rich inheritance to their country a Union restored, liberty 
 
54 Address of Mr. Call, of Florida, on the 
 
 and law established forever, the flag the symbol of freedom 
 wherever it floats, and peace and order prevail. The duties 
 of Government are still difficult: but this great struggle gave 
 us a Government, and those who succeed us will 110 doubt, 
 Mr. President, be equal to all the requirements of the new 
 days upon which we are entering. 
 
 I can not deplore the death of the aged man whom Provi- 
 dence has permitted to pass his threescore years and ten. 
 Death is not an enemy to such men. Such deaths are as 
 natural as births. Death is but the voice that calls such men 
 from the life that is to that life which is to come. 
 
 I am told that this patriot, this aged and venerable citizen, 
 was ready to respond to the call of the Master of life. When 
 he heard his name, he answered, like the soldier at roll call, 
 "Here!" He died as the wise man would wish to die. 
 
 I am told that his death was such that twenty minutes was 
 the limit of his life from the time death appeared until it took 
 its own. Such a death may well be envied by men who are 
 prepared to meet the last, not the dread, account no, not the 
 dread account; death is no enemy to the man who has dis- 
 charged his duties faithfully as becomes a man, a citizen, and 
 a patriot. Death is the kind summons; it is the voice of the 
 Almighty: "Your work is done; come up higher." 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CALL, OF FLORIDA. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: It is not unfitting that in this great arena 
 of national action those who come from widely separated parts 
 of the country should upon occasions when members of either 
 of these two bodies shall pass into another stage of existence 
 add our tributes of respect to their memory, to the end that 
 the whole country and the whole people shall appreciate and 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 55 
 
 respect the record of those who shall have done in their place 
 and in their time Something for the preservation of the coun- 
 try, something for the continuance of those public policies 
 which we believe will advance the happiness and the welfare 
 of the great mass of the people of the world. 
 
 In that respect, in his place and in his time, the distin- 
 guished Pennsylvania!!, whose memory we now celebrate and 
 to whose virtues we pay this tribute of respect, performed a 
 great part admirably and perfectly. It is not always those 
 who are most distinguished and most eminent in public life in 
 either of these two bodies who perform the most useful part. 
 The wise, the deliberate, the thoughtful citizen, intent upon 
 those practical measures which convey success to our public 
 policies, contributes more than the brilliant orator, more even, 
 perhaps, than the great statesman whose thoughts are intent 
 upon some special measure, some particular theory of action 
 in respect of public policies. 
 
 Amongst those thoughtful, firm, stable, patriotic, brave, and 
 manly men, the record which has been presented of General 
 LILLY equals that of anyone I have ever known ; not a distin- 
 guished orator, not identified with any particular scheme or 
 public measure other than those which belonged to his party, 
 yet known as a brave, a manly, a sincere and earnest friend 
 of the people, and a man laboring in the convictions of an 
 honest and an intelligent judgment. 
 
 Mr. President, I can not conceive of a character more 
 worthy of respect ; I can not conceive of an example that will 
 do more to build up that American character upon which the 
 destinies of this great Republic must rest than the life and the 
 example of such a man. 
 
 It was the custom of the Romans, when the body from 
 which the spirit had departed to another life was removed to 
 its final resting place, to salute it as it passed away with the 
 
56 Address of Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, on the 
 
 words, Ave, awe, atque vale, hail, hail, and farewell, until we 
 too shall quickly join thee. Thus ended the poetic and touch- 
 ing funeral ceremony of that extraordinary people; but after 
 this there was left a record in that great Republic of the lives 
 of their public men, reserved and transmitted to us, and in 
 that history the virtues which have characterized this mem- 
 ber of the Congress of the United States bear a conspicuous 
 place. This distinguished Pen nsy Ivan ian's history will go 
 down to future generations with the record of his manly vir- 
 tue, of his devotion to the public interests, of his sincere 
 patriotism. His life still remains to enlighten the world and 
 encourage the citizens of this Republic to emulate his 
 example. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CHANDLER, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: The present Congress has been called upon 
 to mourn for an unusual number of its members. Senators 
 and Representatives have seen so many seats draped in black, 
 and have started so often at the mind's vision of the familiar 
 forms so lately present but forever gone from mortal sight, 
 that the session has seemed almost a continuous ceremonial 
 in memory and honor of our departed associates. 
 
 Our own number on this floor was lessened by the deaths of 
 three respected and beloved companions the wise and benev- 
 olent Stanford; the patient and devout Colquitt; the genial 
 and eloquent Vance. 
 
 Six Representatives have passed away: Two from Ohio, 
 Messrs. Houk and Enochs; one from Michigan, Mr. Ohipman ; 
 three from Pennsylvania, Mr. Mutch ler, whose son succeeds 
 him; the lovable veteran in faithful and patriotic service, 
 Charles O'Neill, and he whom we now lament. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 57 
 
 Among all these whose deaths have afflicted the Fifty-third 
 Congress there was no finer specimen of American manhood, 
 no nobler product of American institutions, no truer type of 
 American citizenship than Gen. WILLIAM LILLY. In his 
 long life of seventy- two years his varied experiences formed 
 the strong character which leads those who have studied it to 
 speak in no stinted words their commendation and eulogy. 
 
 His recollection of the virtues of his Eevolutionary fathers; 
 the simplicity of his early surroundings; his own hard and 
 unremitting toil in the Lehigh Valley when its sturdy settlers 
 began to tear the mineral wealth from its coal mines and send 
 to an ever- widening market this marvelous product so bounti- 
 fully created by nature's wonderful chemistry during ages 
 long gone by; the slow accumulation of wealth by patient and 
 honest processes; all these developed in WILLIAM LILLY a 
 manhood accompanied by few faults and by no vanities, self- 
 reliant and powerful, bringing him to the front rank in the 
 community where his lot was cast. Labors of usefulness and 
 honor were crowded upon him ; in coal enterprises, in manu- 
 facturing companies, in banks and other financial institutions, 
 where his participation, counsel, and assistance were always 
 eagerly sought; in societies for the development of science, 
 both theoretical and applied, and in organizations benevolent 
 and Masonic, where his membership and services were ever 
 welcome and ever cheerfully, helpfully, and earnestly given 
 until at the last he attained, in full age, the completest develop- 
 ment of the greatest number of human faculties which can be 
 reached outside of public life in this or any country. 
 
 General LILLY did not not seek public employment; and 
 only with reluctance in his youth consented to become for two 
 terms a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, in 1868 al- 
 lowed his name to be considered in connection with the nomi- 
 nation for governor, and in 1873 attended as a delegate a 
 
58 Address of Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, on the 
 
 constituti oiial convention. The pressure of his business pur- 
 suits and their kindred occupations most fully engrossed the 
 attention of his long, laborious, and useful life, and he resisted 
 all temptations to give them up. The war for the Union 
 aroused his earnest sympathies, and caused him to change his 
 political affiliations, and to give his influence at all times and 
 in the fullest possible measure to the party whose principles 
 he espoused in the greatest national emergency of the century 
 in which he lived. 
 
 With this grand old man before them, full of years and 
 private honors, but never having sought or willingly accepted 
 public position, it was natural that in 1892 the people of the 
 State of Pennsylvania, looking for candidates for Congress- 
 men at large, should select to represent them in the Fifty- 
 third Congress such a man as General LILLY. He did not 
 need the suffrages of his fellow-citizens, but was content 
 to live and die in his successful and honorable career in 
 private life. But they needed him; they wished to honor 
 one who had done so much to increase the prosperity of his 
 neighborhood and his State and to illustrate the high char- 
 acter of Pennsylvania citizenship; and so they called upon 
 him, he yielded to their demands, gave strength and popu- 
 larity to the ticket upon which he was placed, and was 
 chosen by sixty-four thousand majority. 
 
 It was a movement that was creditable to the greut Com- 
 monwealth; it was an honor well deserved by General LILLY; 
 but it is possible, so some may think, that at his age it was a 
 mistaken demonstration. He took his seat at the special 
 session in August, 1893; but his health was already infirm, 
 he soon left for his home on leave of absence, and on the 1st 
 day of December, tfhile heroically preparing to come again to 
 Washington, he was stricken down and passed away from 
 earth. 
 
Life and Character of William Lilly. 59 
 
 He had begun his career, as a boy, in Pennsylvania in 1838, 
 with unfaltering strivings to achieve success by hard labor 
 and untiring effort. The determined spirit of his youth had 
 not failed him when, in November, 1893, he rose to perform 
 the duties he had undertaken as a Eepresentative in Congress. 
 But, alas! although the spirit was willing the flesh was weak; 
 his mortal powers were unequal to the task he felt bound to 
 perform ; and so there went from earth to Heaven one of the 
 best and noblest* of our kind. 
 
 Mr. President, I feel that 1 can not too often assert my 
 hope and belief in the existence of a future life. In the mad 
 rush and hurry of human endeavor, becoming each year in 
 this era and in this American world more and more fierce, 
 with all the modern appliances derived from growing wealth 
 and marvelous inventions to incite us, there is the utmost 
 danger of increased materialism leading on to prevalent skep- 
 ticism. On such solemn occasions as this we must renew our 
 faith. We know little of what we are. We know nothing of 
 what we shall be. But we do know that we are now in exist- 
 ence, and we do not believe that we shall be annihilated when 
 life in this world is extinguished. No such mockery of human 
 aspiration is possible. The mind will not conceive or admit 
 the possibility of the cruelty which is involved in limiting 
 human existence to this present state of being. 
 
 Either we do not now exist (and the consciousness of every- 
 one assures him that such an assertion is false), or we shall 
 live on to endless ages with the soul of God himself. Those 
 who have left us have put off, God be thanked, the burdens of 
 human care and trouble and suffering; but they are not 
 dead ; they walk in gardens of perpetual delight, by streams 
 of endless beauty and brightness; they will not come back to 
 us, but we shall go to them, and in their renewed presence 
 enjoy the boundless felicity which, according to the blessings 
 
60 Life and Character of William Lilly. 
 
 of the divine scheme of universal salvation, comes to all the 
 creatures to whom God in His infinite wisdom and power and 
 mercy has ever gi^en a conscious existence. 
 
 Mr. CAMERON. Mr. President, I submit for adoption the 
 resolution which I .send to the desk. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hale in the chair). The 
 resolution submitted by the Senator from Pennsylvania will 
 be read. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on the adoption 
 of the resolution. 
 
 The resolution was unanimously agreed to, and (at three 
 o'clock and forty-three minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned 
 until Monday, April 30, 1894, at eleven o'clock a. in. 
 
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