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 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Sixtieth Congress 
 First Session 
 
 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
 May 2, 1908 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 May 3, 1908 
 
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 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Edward E. Hale 5,7 
 
 Memorial addresses by: 
 
 Address of Mr. Taliaferro, of Florida 9 
 
 Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire __ 15 
 
 Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia 20 
 
 Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota. _ 26 
 
 Address of Mr. Clay, of Georgia 30 
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 36 
 
 Address of Mr. Milton, of Florida 4 
 
 Proceedings in the House 45 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 47 
 
 Memorial addresses by: 
 
 Address of Mr. Spafrkman, of Florida 5 
 
 Address of Mr. Payne, of New York _ _ 59 
 
 Address of Mr. De Armond, of Missouri. 62 
 
 Address of Mr. Lawrence, of Massachusetts _ . 67 
 
 Address of Mr. Brantley, of Georgia __ 69 
 
 Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 74 
 
 Address of Mr. Waldo, of New York _ 79 
 
 Address of Mr. Sufeer, of New York . . 80 
 
 Address of Mr. Clark, of Florida 84 
 
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DEATH OF SENATOR STEPHEN R. MALLORY 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 MONDAY, January 6, 1908. 
 
 Rev. EDWARD K. HALE, Chaplain of the Senate, offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 The people that sat in darkness saw a great light; and to them 
 who sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. 
 * * Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of Right 
 eousness arise with healing in His wings. * * * Repent ye, 
 for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 
 
 Father of light, Father of love, in the midst of darkness Thou 
 wert pleased to reveal Thyself to all sorts and conditions of 
 men to all Thy children. The Sun of Righteousness arises 
 with healing in His wings. From day to day and from year to 
 year this world is coming nearer and nearer to its God. 
 
 And here are we, Father. Thy servants are sent to do Thy 
 will, to enter into Thy service, that service which is perfect 
 freedom, that Thy kingdom may come and Thy will may be 
 done here on earth as in heaven. 
 
 As the year begins, Father, as these Christmas solemnities 
 go by, we come to Thee as so many children of the living God, 
 asking Thee that we may be strong with Thy strength^ that we 
 may speak as His servants, that we may enter into Thy king 
 dom. 
 
 Hear us and answer us as Thy children. 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. -Thy 
 kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven. 
 
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 Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as 
 we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into 
 temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, 
 the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 
 
 Mr. TALIAFERRO. Mr. President, it has become my painful 
 duty to announce to the Senate the death of my late colleague, 
 the Hon. STEPHEN R. MALLORY, at his home in Pensacola, at 
 12.48 o clock on the morning of December 23 last. 
 
 At some future day I will ask the Senate to set aside a time 
 to pay fitting tribute to his memory. I ask now the passage 
 of the resolutions which I send to the desk. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Florida asks for 
 the adoption of resolutions, which will be read by the Secretary. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the death 
 of the Hon. STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY, late a Senator from the State of 
 Florida. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions 
 to the House of Representatives. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions submitted by the Senator from Florida. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Mr. TALIAFERRO. As a further mark of respect to the memory 
 of my deceased colleague, I move that the Senate now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to, and (at 12 o clock 
 and 5 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, 
 Tuesday, January 7, 1908, at 12 o clock meridian. 
 
 TUESDAY, April 14, 1908. 
 
 Mr. TALIAFERRO. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that 
 on Saturday, May 2, immediately after the routine morning 
 business, I shall ask the Senate to consider resolutions commemo- 
 
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 rative of the lives, character, and public services of my late 
 colleagues, Hon. STEPHEN R. MALLORV and the Hon. WILLIAM 
 JAMES BRYAN. 
 
 SATURDAY, May 2, 1908. 
 The Chaplain, Rev. EDWARD E. HALE, offered the following 
 
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 prayer : 
 
 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the faithful brethren: 
 
 We do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye might be 
 filled with the spirit in all wisdom and understanding; that ye 
 might walk worthily of the Lord, bearing fruit in every good work 
 and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all 
 power according to the might of His glory. 
 
 Let us pray. 
 
 Here is our prayer, Father, that what the apostle asked from 
 Thee Thou wilt give to us to-day in this day s duty, in to-day s 
 pleasure, in work, in thought, alone or together, that the Lord 
 God will be with us to teach us, Father, Thy will; that we may 
 walk worthy of this Christian vocation to which we are called; 
 that it may not be in vain that Thou hast lifted this nation 
 where it is, to be the messenger of Thy glad tidings to all men. 
 
 To-day, Father, we go back into the past to recall memories 
 of the lives of those who have served in this Chamber, and to 
 look forward for the good of this people. May every lesson of 
 the past be translated for us into duties for to-day, to-morrow, 
 and every day. Oh, God, make this nation that happy people 
 whose God is the Lord. We ask it, in Christ Jesus. 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy 
 kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is done in 
 heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our 
 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And 
 lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine 
 is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 
 
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 Mr. TAUAFERRO. Mr. President, I ask for the consideration 
 of the resolutions I send to the desk. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The Senator from Florida submits 
 resolutions, which will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
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 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the deaths 
 of the honorahles STEPHEN R. MALLORY and WILLIAM JAMES BRYAN, late 
 Senators from the State of Florida. 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Sena 
 tors the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable their associates 
 to pay proper tribute to their high characters and distinguished public 
 services. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the families 
 of the deceased Senators. 
 
 The VICE-PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the 
 resolutions submitted by the Senator from Florida. 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
Address of Mr. Taliaferro, of Florida 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 " ADDRESS OF MR. TALIAFERRO, OF FLORIDA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: The late distinguished Senator, STEPHEN R. 
 MALLORY, of Florida, died at Pensacola, his home, on Monday 
 morning, December 23, 1907, in the sixtieth year of his age. 
 He was born in Columbia, S. C., November 2, 1848, but very 
 soon thereafter was taken by his mother to Key West, Fla., 
 where his boyhood days were spent. In the fall of 1864, when 
 only 1 6 years old, he entered the Confederate army, but after a 
 brief service, or in 1865, was transferred to the navy, serving as 
 a midshipman on the Patrick Henry until the war ended. 
 
 Soon after the surrender, or in November, 1865, he entered 
 Georgetown College, District of Columbia, and graduated there 
 from in June, 1869. The fortunes of the family having been 
 sapped by the four years struggle, he had to bend his efforts 
 of body and mind to the serious affairs of life, and, having 
 made a fine record in college, he applied for and obtained a 
 chair in his alma mater and taught there for two years. In 
 June, 1904, this institution conferred upon him the degree of 
 doctor of laws. The hours not filled by his duties at college 
 were diligently spent in preparing himself for the practice of 
 law. Later he removed to New Orleans and, while still read 
 ing law, supported himself by teaching school. In 1873 he, 
 was admitted to the supreme court of Louisiana and in 1874 
 removed to Pensacola and began practice. 
 
 From his early life he took an active interest in govern 
 ment and politics, and especially in the herculean struggle 
 
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 being made to free Florida from the corrupt control of political 
 adventurers. In 1876 he was elected, as a Democrat, to the 
 lower house of the Florida legislature; was elected to the State 
 senate in 1880 and reelected in 1884, his services covering 
 in all a period of ten years. His record was excellent in every 
 way and inspired his people with such confidence in his integ 
 rity and ability that he was sent to represent his district in 
 the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses. 
 
 In 1897 the Florida legislature balloted many days for many 
 men for United States Senator in one of the most exciting con 
 tests of the history of the State, and finally elected Senator 
 MALLORY to succeed the Hon. Wilkinson Call. He was actually 
 not a contestant for the place, but believed that the honor would 
 go to one of the declared candidates then in the field. Indeed, 
 it is said that he had no notice of any purpose to propose his 
 name earlier than twenty-four hours before his election. 
 
 Senator MALLORY S career in this body shows him to have 
 been a careful thinker and a conservative statesman. He was 
 not opposed to reform, but first satisfied himself that a change 
 was needed and that the new order would be better than the 
 old. He thought that the basic principles of this Government 
 were sound; his respect for the Constitution was profound, and 
 his abiding faith was that through the study of the Constitution 
 the broadest and best principles of government could be 
 learned. In his will he left a sum to Georgetown University 
 to be invested and the proceeds used to provide medals to be 
 awarded from time to time for the best essays upon the Con 
 stitution of the United States. 
 
 Senator MALLORY S mind was essentially judicial and his 
 sense of justice true and correct. He was of the Catholic faith 
 and loved his church, but I submitted a case to him once in 
 which the church was largely interested, and, after giving it 
 
Address of Mr. Taliaferro, of Florida n 
 
 careful study and thought, he decided that the contention of 
 the church, while possibly correct in equity, had no standing 
 in the law. 
 
 While he was grateful to those who had brought about his 
 election to the Senate from the deadlock of the Florida legisla 
 ture in 1897 and loyal to the men who led in that contest, yet his 
 gratitude and loyalty were not allowed to extend beyond the 
 bounds of what a correct conscience told him was right. In 
 his first term in this great deliberative body Senator MALLORY 
 made an excellent record, and upon the strength of it had no 
 opposition for a second term, his election by the legislature in 
 April, 1903, being unanimous. 
 
 I had known Senator MALLORY as a lawyer in Florida, as a 
 member of the legislature, and as a Representative in Congress, 
 but my home was in Jacksonville and his in Pensacola, cities 
 wide apart, and because of the infrequency of our meetings 
 our acquaintance was only casual. In 1899 I came to the Sen 
 ate, and it was then that our real acquaintance began. The 
 sturdy excellence of the man caused me to admire and esteem 
 him, and I was soon glad to number him among my strong and 
 steadfast friends. It is largely upon the intimacy with him 
 here in this body that I base my views and judgment of his 
 character. 
 
 He was the son of a distinguished man, but this did not spoil 
 him or cause him to seek prominence or adulation. .He fought 
 his own fight with a definiteness of purpose that was commend 
 able and showed the sterling stuff of which he was made. He 
 attained, but the honors he won were worn with touching mod 
 esty. His career shows steadfastness of character and purity 
 of principle. His record here in all his life, indeed displays 
 a patriotic and abiding faith in the principles of our Govern 
 ment, a correct sense of justice, and a deep and generous sym- 
 
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 pathy for those who struggle for the betterment of themselves 
 and their children. He believed that the foundation of a wise 
 and enduring Government was the education of its people, and 
 if there was one cause more than another which appealed to 
 his sympathy and enthusiasm it was education. 
 
 Child-labor legislation, compulsory education, the organiza 
 tion of the public school system of Florida, and the reorganiza 
 tion of school matters in this city all bear the impress of his 
 zeal in behalf of thousands of children whom he could never 
 know. But the children whose pitiful condition touched him 
 most closely were those in the naval reservation off Pensacola, 
 in sight of his own home. There were 500 or more of these 
 children, many of them descendants of workmen who were long 
 ago induced to go there under the promise of homes in peaceful 
 security. The State had no jurisdiction or control of this 
 reservation, and therefore no power or authority to supply 
 schools, and the children were growing up in comparative 
 ignorance. The first congressional provision for their relief 
 was introduced by Senator (then Representative) MALLORY. 
 Since then he worked untiringly in every Congress of which 
 he was a Member for free school facilities for these children. 
 In the Fifty-ninth Congress he introduced a bill in the Senate 
 for the establishment and maintenance of public schools on 
 the naval reservation. Finally, certain, because of his fast 
 failing health, that he could not live long, he arranged for a 
 place on the Committee on Naval Affairs (exchanging with his 
 old friend, Senator Blackburn, who went to the Committee on 
 the District of Columbia), one of his purposes being to further 
 the educational interests of the neglected children of the Pen 
 sacola Navy- Yard. 
 
 Entering the portals of death, a soul whose life labors were 
 dedicated even in part to the betterment of the condition of 
 little children need have no fear. 
 
Address of Mr. Taliaferro, of Florida i? 
 
 A friend of Senator MALLORY, a friend of education, and 
 especially of neglected children of the naval reservation, has 
 suggested that no more enduring monument could be erected 
 to his memory, no more fitting tribute of love and veneration 
 could be laid upon his grave, than for this great body to assume 
 the work of providing the little neglected proteges of the nation 
 with the educational advantages which should be assured to all. 
 
 Senator MALLORY was the son of Stephen Russell Mallorv, 
 who was a Senator from the State of Florida in this body from 
 1851 to 1 86 1, when he retired to follow the fortunes of his State, 
 which had seceded from the Union to become a part of the 
 Confederate States of America. The elder Mallory was secretary 
 of the Confederate navy, which placed upon the seas the first 
 fighting ironclad the world had ever seen an ironclad which 
 ended the era of the wooden vessel and revolutionized the naval 
 architecture of the world. 
 
 The elder Mallory was born in Trinidad on his father s vessel, 
 sailing from Bridgeport, Conn., famed as the home of mariners 
 and shipbuilders. The junior MALLORY also was reared within 
 the sound of the sea. Indeed, his early boyhood days were 
 spent at Key West, an island in the sea, some miles distant 
 from the mainland of Florida. Reared in such an atmosphere 
 and descended from the sturdy mariner folk of Connecticut, it 
 is but natural that he should love the sea, its vast air of freedom, 
 the grandeur of its storms, the music of its murmurs and its 
 mysteries. The Spanish blood in his veins, a heritage from 
 his mother, produced in him, as the strange chemistry of the 
 Latin admixture usually produces, a perhaps more intense love 
 of the beautiful in poetry and art and nature than the Anglo- 
 Saxon seems to hold, and especially in nature, which he looked 
 upon as the open book the ideal of both poetry and art. 
 
 For many years preceding his death Senator MALLORY had 
 been an invalid. During much of that time he was compelled to 
 
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 rest in a sitting posture. He bore his troubles silently and with 
 out complaint even to his most intimate friends. He has ap 
 peared in this body more than once with the tell-tale flush of 
 fever on his face and suffering bodily pain to participate in some 
 important debate or to advocate some measure of interest to 
 the people of his State and the nation. Nor did he measure 
 the sum of his duty by the interests of his State alone. 
 
 When he came to die the Senate was sent a message one of 
 his last requesting that there be no official funeral. He 
 wished no pomp or display, but merely to be laid quietly away 
 by his own people at his own home with the simple service of the 
 Catholic prayers for the dead. He asked, too, that there be no 
 eulogy, but Father Fullerton, who conducted the funeral, felt 
 "that a life so modest, so full of lessons for the living, war 
 ranted a disregard of part of this request at least. He said 
 that Senator MALLORY "had died as he had lived, a courageous 
 man, religious without pretense, and a faithful soldier of the 
 cross. There was no complaining or repining in the long fight 
 against sufferings which were a martyrdom. He showed us 
 how to live, and when he could not longer show us that, he 
 showed us how to die." 
 
 On the north face of the Confederate monument at Pensacola 
 there is a legend selected by Senator MALLORY and chosen, "per 
 haps, because it was the lode star of his own life : 
 
 Tis not in mortals to command success. We ll do more, Sempronius 
 we ll deserve it. 
 
 And I may add, Mr. President, that the success which my 
 lamented colleague achieved he well deserved. 
 
Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. GALLINGER, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: A singularly conscientious and devoted 
 public man of the very best American type has been lost to the 
 Senate and the nation in the death of STEPHEN R. MALLORY, of 
 Florida. His splendid character was manifest in the very 
 aspect of his face and form in the refinement of his well- 
 remembered features and the dignified and courteous bearing of 
 the well-born, cultivated gentleman. He was a worthy heir 
 to one of the historic names of the South, the second of his 
 family to adorn this Chamber. This is a distinction rare in the 
 annals of the Republic. Not often in our bustling, aggressive 
 democracy are the public honors of a father transmitted to a 
 son nor were these honors in this instance merely transmitted 
 as a matter of right, in the aristocratic Old World way, from 
 the older to the younger MALLORY. Rather were they achieved 
 anew by the younger man, in our good American way, by dint 
 of sheer ability, ardent endeavor, and high personal deserving. 
 Fortunate is he who inherits a distinguished name, but still 
 more fortunate is he who, inheriting it, leaves that name all the 
 more illustrious because of the manner in which he has borne 
 it throughout his life and of honest and beneficent work in the 
 service of his country. 
 
 It was the fortune of Senator MALLORY to have lived during 
 the most stirring and dramatic period of our national career. 
 These are the years spanned by the lives of the majority of the 
 older men now in this Chamber. As a lad he saw the final 
 intensifying of the sad and bitter estrangement between North 
 and South, that consummate tragedy of America, the transform 
 ing of brethren into deadly enemies a tragedy which we are 
 
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 mourning still, but, fortunately, one which heals and fades so 
 swiftly in these present years that to our children s children 
 it will be a thing incredible. 
 
 Young MALLORY not only saw this tragedy. L/ike tens of 
 thousands of brave and ardent boys, South and North, he was 
 himself a part of it both witness and actor in its heroism, 
 grief, and suffering. As a young officer of the Confederate 
 navy he bore his share in the final scenes of the drama, and it 
 happened that his own role was of the most difficult and dis 
 couraging character. It is a matter of history that the little, 
 improvised Confederate fleet was outmatched almost every 
 where by the overwhelming resources of the Federal Navy, and 
 that it was only the solitary commerce destroyers, free and 
 far on the ocean, some of which never saw Confederate waters, 
 that could make any headway against the tremendous mari 
 time power of the North. Yet peculiarly hard and dishearten 
 ing as was the service of the Confederate navy in the work of 
 home defense, it proved to young MALLORY to be an admirable 
 school of manly courage and endurance. What is more, it 
 helped to give him that unusual interest in and knowledge of 
 the affairs of the sea which, strengthened by his long residence 
 at a historic Southern seaport, made him so useful afterwards 
 in House and Senate in the consideration of important matters 
 of ocean trade and navigation. On all these things he spoke 
 among us here with rare information and authority. 
 
 But Senator MALLORY was a well-rounded man. Nothing of 
 concern to the nation or his State found him indifferent or 
 forgetful. The great war had broken in upon his school years, 
 as it broke in upon the student life of so many of the wisest 
 and best men who have sat here and in the other House of 
 Congress. But when there was opportunity he turned again 
 resolutely to his education and gathered an excellent equip 
 
Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 17 
 
 ment in the law. His habit of mind was exact, logical, and 
 fair. He would have made a great and able judge. Indeed, 
 his temperament was naturally the broad and philosophical 
 one of judge and arbiter rather than of sharp, uncompromising 
 partisan advocate. But his honored name, the ripeness of his 
 scholarship, and his notably attractive personality marked 
 him out for an active political career. The people of Florida 
 were proud of his qualities of mind and heart, and proud of 
 the distinction of being represented by a man like this at 
 Washington. 
 
 Senator MALLORY in his later day and generation recalled 
 some of the best traditions of those earlier and fortunate years 
 before the slavery feud had rent North and South asunder. He 
 was-of a distinguished race, long identified with the most im 
 portant public service. The power of leadership and of states 
 manship were with such men a matter of instinctive habit and 
 inheritance. They knew their people and were absolutely 
 trusted by their people, and they held to lofty ideals of the 
 obligations and the powers of government. Even those who 
 differed with them never dreamed of doubting the sincerity of 
 their logical conclusions and their disinterestedness of purpose. 
 
 Senator MALLORY endeavored, in his long and valuable public 
 service here in Washington, to approach every public question 
 with entire openness of mind. His manner of discussion was 
 always candid and philosophical. He respected his honest 
 adversaries and commanded respect from them. He was one 
 of those rare public servants who could be both fair and firm 
 for beneath his kindliness and courtesy there was always mani 
 fest the bed rock of deep and strong individual conviction. 
 
 Out of many years of pleasant associations with Senator MAL- 
 LORY in the general service of the Senate, I can not but recall 
 especially the most faithful and considerate performance of his 
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 duties a few years ago as a member o the Merchant Marine 
 Commission. This was a difficult and thankless labor, involv 
 ing as it did much journeying and long and weary sessions in 
 the heat of summer and the crowded year of a Presidential 
 campaign. Senator MALLORY was not at that time in robust 
 health. The additional duties of the work of the Commission 
 were sure to prove a severe tax upon his physical strength and 
 to rob him of a well-earned and needed leisure. Yet, instinc 
 tively recognizing that his own personal knowledge of maritime 
 conditions made his presence and participation of the utmost 
 value, he loyally undertook the task, traveling, studying, and 
 laboring to the very limit of his physical capacity, personally- 
 arranging for and presiding over several of the Commission s 
 sessions of inquiry in the far South, and aiding materially in 
 the final drawing up of the recommendations of the Commission 
 to Congress. On every point where he could consistently agree 
 with his Republican colleagues Senator MALLORY fully and 
 unhesitatingly agreed, just as on other points he firmly and 
 courteously differed. 
 
 But he made it his business to seek points of agreement 
 rather than of disagreement, and if this question of our mer 
 chant marine, long such a contentious and almost hopeless ques 
 tion in the American Congress, is now, as I believe,, somewhat 
 further along toward a fair, friendly, and satisfactory solution, 
 the credit for it must be held to be in a large measure due to 
 the untiring industry, the breadth of temper, and the devoted 
 patriotism of my good friend and keenly missed and well-re 
 membered associate, the late Senator from Florida. 
 
 But for the ill health which so unfortunately hampered the 
 activities of his later years, Senator MALLORY would have left 
 a far longer record of personal achievement. Yet all of us who 
 knew him here know well how great a contribution to the vast 
 
Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire 19 
 
 work of legislation was his conscientious service on his com 
 mittees and his close attention to the business of the Senate 
 when he was not debarred by sheer lack of physical strength 
 or by physical suffering. The keenness of his well-trained 
 intellect drove right to the heart of a complex and baffling 
 problem. Able as he was, earnest and devoted, he had that 
 all-essential quality often lacking in men of really great ability 
 and high purpose, and that is that fine, strong, human talent 
 for working harmoniously and effectively with his fellow-men. 
 
 Such a public man as this intellectual, learned, patriotic, 
 high-souled, generous is sure to inspire affection among all 
 with whom he meets and works in the great and important 
 responsibilities of the American Senate. We who knew Senator 
 MALLORY think of him to-day with admiration and gratitude 
 aye, but with something even warmer than that, more human 
 and more enduring. He was distinguished as a Senator, and he 
 was also lovable as a man. So it is with a grief deep and per 
 sonal, and not in any mere ceremonious way, that we meet here 
 to-day to speak of him, to recall his vanished face and form, his 
 gracious words and noble work, and to do honor to a dear and 
 sainted memory. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. DANIEL, OF VIRGINIA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: Within the space of less than one year Sen 
 ators MORGAN and PETTUS, of Alabama, L-ATIMER, of South Car 
 olina, PROCTOR, of Vermont, WHYTE, of Maryland, and both 
 MALLORY and BRYAN, of Florida, have been removed from the 
 scene of their labors by the Omnipotent One who wills the com 
 ing and going of his creatures. 
 
 These losses, in proportion to numbers, are greater than the 
 average number killed in a great and fierce battle. 
 
 They show that we walk in our daily ways as soldiers under 
 fire, and none may tell who next will lie amongst the fallen. 
 The oldest Senator and the youngest are enrolled amongst these 
 dead, and neither youth nor age can wear a shield against the 
 dart that struck them down. 
 
 MORGAN and PETTUS were recently commemorated by their 
 colleagues in this body on the same day. At that time such an 
 event was without precedent, but the precedent has been speed 
 ily repeated, and to-day our farewell tributes are bestowed upon 
 MALLORY. and BRYAN, who passed away in swift succession. 
 
 STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY was an able man, a learned man, 
 a patriotic and a good man. He made an excellent Senator, and 
 of his useful service the records of the Senate bear witness. 
 
 In his conduct and character he realized Blackstone s ideal of a 
 good citizen, for he "lived honestly, hurt nobody, and rendered 
 to every man his due." 
 
 He was punctilious in the discharge of every task. The whole 
 Senate respected him highly, and by his intimates he was 
 beloved. 
 
Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia 21 
 
 He was always modest and unobtrusive, neither provoking 
 nor giving offense, and he had no enemy amongst his colleagues. 
 He was as manly as he was modest, and in debate was as firm and 
 assertive as became the dignity of his personality and of the 
 body to which he belonged. A certain refinement, both of ap j 
 pearance, manner, and speech, indicated the instincts which 
 make the character of the. gentleman. The cleanness and clear 
 ness of his mind were illustrated whenever he spoke in argu 
 ment upon this floor. His positions were chosen with wisdom, 
 his views were uttered with precision; whatever he thought 
 was so succinctly and forcibly expressed that none failed to 
 understand his meaning or to be .impressed by the force and 
 earnestness of his nature. No man could ever question either 
 the propriety or the integrity of his course, and his good name 
 was as precious ointment. 
 
 His father, Stephen Russell Mallory, was the fourth Senator 
 of the new State of Florida, and served ten years. Our late 
 colleague was the fourteenth Senator elected by that State and 
 served an equal time. His father became secretary of the 
 navy of the Confederate States, which when he assumed the office 
 was only a name, but he made a navy. Little and makeshift 
 as it was, it held its position on the James River as long as L/ee 
 held his lines on land, and, as war is a great teacher, its history 
 and achievements will be studied, and those who study them 
 will find a lesson taught which will appease anxiety as to this 
 country being ever overrun by an enemy in war. 
 
 The younger MALLORY was born in 1848. He became the 
 bearer of arms in the Confederate army in the autumn of 1864, 
 and was soon made a midshipman in the Confederate navy, and 
 served on the Patrick Henry in the James River fleet until war 
 speedily ended. It was at a time when, as Grant said, the 
 Confederates had robbed the cradle and the grave for their 
 
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 recruits, and the dissolution of the Confederacy, of which their 
 very presence was a sign, was soon fulfilled. 
 
 As the South dropped the sword it picked up the pruning 
 hook, seized the plow handles, and opened anew its neglected 
 books. The steps by which MALLORY advanced to fields of 
 large usefulness and honor are indicated by his successive 
 occupations. 
 
 We find him at Georgetown College in 1865; a graduate of 
 that institution in 1869; a professor of Latin and Greek in the 
 service of his alma mater; again a student, teaching himself 
 the law; at New Orleans a practitioner of the supreme court of 
 Louisiana in 1873, and then, in 1874, settling down in his old 
 home in Pensacola beginning practice. 
 
 It is in the legislatures of the States that many of our most 
 distinguished statesmen have learned something of the art of 
 legislation. In 1875 he was in the house of representatives of 
 Florida. He was elected to the state senate in 1880 and again 
 in 1884. A little later his capacities have so developed and have 
 been so well recognized by his constituents that he is sent in 
 succession for two terms to the House of Representatives of the 
 United States. In 1897 he was chosen to the United States 
 Senate. When he died he was in the second term of a ripe ex 
 perience and of a service valuable in all its connections with 
 the interests of his State and country. He had been a member 
 of all the legislative bodies known to the administration of the 
 governments of the State and of the United States, and in each 
 of those bodies he had well performed his part and left a me 
 morial of his labors. 
 
 Amongst other measures with which Senator MALLORY was 
 identified was one which he offered in the Fifty-ninth Congress 
 looking to the enlarged usefulness of the Public Health and 
 Marine-Hospital Service. He realized what we all know, that 
 
Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia 23 
 
 the pestilence which wasted at noonday is far more destructive 
 and terrible to the human race than is battle, and that more 
 perish from disease in war than by the bayonet, the bullet, and 
 the sword. 
 
 Mr. MALLORY was for years troubled by a physical ailment 
 which was to him a source of constant impediment and suffer 
 ing. How patiently and unmurmuring he bore his burden all 
 of us know. Christian by faith and by profession, his life was 
 the best insignia of his devotion. A soldier of -the cross and a 
 bearer of the cross, he fought the good fight without display of 
 banners, and he closed his life the real conqueror who had con 
 quered and subdued himself. 
 
 He had scarce reached three score. To one of his simple 
 life, his strong nerve, his prudent and well-ordered disposition, 
 a score or more of years might have been reasonably anticipated 
 as his portion; but it was not so ordered. 
 
 The acclaims of the multitude, the conspicuous display of 
 
 i 
 public honors, the dazzling badges of distinction, the resounding 
 
 speech of eulogy, and the printed page; all these things which 
 flatter the vanity and stiffen the pride of man have their place 
 even in the just economy of life s ambitions, which urge on 
 and measurably reward men in their best endeavors. 
 
 MALLORY had no burning ambition for these things. He 
 lived on the work that was for him to do, and he bore to the 
 grave that highest of earthly comforts that God has ever vouch 
 safed to the workers of His will the calm repose of the spirit 
 which holds itself in peace to all others and so goes its way to 
 that peace which passeth all understanding. 
 
 Scarce had he died at his own home, on December 23, 1907, 
 than a new name took its place by the appointment by the gov 
 ernor of Florida on the Senate roll, and WILLIAM JAMES BRYAN, 
 with the freshness of youth, stepped into the Senate. Only 
 
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 seventy-three days was he here, and over thirty of them were 
 spent in the weariness and affliction of a mortal malady, of 
 which he died on the 22d day of March, 1908. 
 Painfully did he illustrate the lines: 
 
 Life can little more supply 
 
 Than just to look about us and to die. 
 
 He was a native of Florida and of a family notable in its 
 private worth and in its honest and useful service. He was 
 himself tall, slender, straight, and handsome, an athlete and a 
 student, a graduate of Emory College, Georgia, and then of 
 Washington and Lee University in Virginia. A recognized 
 orator and debater amongst the young men who were his fellow- 
 students, a lawyer who was soon chosen as solicitor in his 
 community, a successful practitioner, with the beckoning re 
 wards and honors of his profession swiftly extended, no young 
 man could have had a more auspicious or promising position 
 amongst his people. 
 
 Added to these things w r ere his happy marriage to Miss 
 Allan, of Lexington, Va., a daughter of Col. William Allan, a 
 man who had won the honors of war as the chief of ordnance 
 in Jackson s corps, and the honors of peace as a writer of his 
 tory and as a professor in Washington and Lee University. 
 
 On Christmas day came to BRYAN a commission to the Senate 
 of the United States. His bearing here fulfilled the expecta 
 tions of those who saw in him the making of a long, honorable, 
 and useful career. 
 
 He heard his days before him and the trumpet of his life. 
 
 But those days were not to be fulfilled. 
 
 He had barely time to become acquainted with and on easy 
 terms with his associates when came the lingering sickness 
 which afflicted him, and then the solemn repose of death. 
 
Address of Mr. Daniel, of Virginia 2^ 
 
 The names of MAI V LORY and BRYAN will ever linger in the 
 memories of those who knew them here. They will long be 
 cherished in their State and honored by them whom they hon 
 ored. They may remind us of the flickering and how soon ex 
 tinguished is the flame of life, but in the generous economy of 
 that Providence which permits nothing to be lost, their lives 
 intermingle with the meditations of those who come after them, 
 repressing unworthy things, inspiring virtuous deeds and aspi 
 rations, and cheering the column of humanity as it moves in 
 its successive generations of toil and conflict, of achievements 
 and disappointments, of sickness and sorrow, and pain and 
 
 death to 
 
 That one far off divine event 
 
 To which the whole creation moves. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. NELSON, OF MINNESOTA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDP:NT: We all know, especially those who have been 
 for a long time members of this or other legislative bodies, that 
 the most effective work leading to material results in the way of 
 legislation is not always accomplished by those who are regarded 
 as great orators or great debaters, but rather by that other class 
 of legislators who are not much given to debate or oratory. 
 This class is made up of those men who do the hard and substan 
 tial work of the legislative body. They are usually the men 
 who are active participants in the work on committees and who 
 prepare and formulate legislative measures and who put them 
 in practical and effective shape. To this class of industrious, 
 unobtrusive, and quiet workers belonged our late colleague, 
 Senator MALLORY. I became intimately acquainted with him 
 soon after he made his first appearance in the Senate, and during 
 his entire service in this body we were associated on one of the 
 most important committees, and frequently during that time we 
 were thrown together as members of important subcommittees 
 which had under consideration many important and far-reaching 
 measures, and in such committee work I found him to be one of 
 the best-equipped, one of the most industrious, and one of the 
 most efficient of Senators. 
 
 He seemed to grasp intuitively, as it were, the full importance 
 and scope of every important measure that was under considera 
 tion, and if the measure had come to the committee in a crude 
 and imperfect form he alwavs seemed to know how to prune, 
 correct, and improve it; and he never allowed a spirit of par 
 tisanship to control or warp him to any extent. Senator 
 
Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 27 
 
 was a most excellent lawyer, well grounded in the 
 fundamental principles of constitutional and common law, and 
 hence was always able to determine the true legal scope and 
 constitutional validity of any pending bill or proposition. 
 
 He was barely old enough to serve in the Confederate army 
 and navy during the last two years of the civil war, and his 
 army and naval service no doubt left its impress on his physical 
 constitution, so that he was not as strong and rugged as he 
 otherwise might have been if he had not been engaged in such 
 service; but this service, in connection with his legal training, 
 seemed to have equipped him for the important duties of a leg 
 islator in a very high degree. And he was as loyal and faithful 
 to the welfare of our entire country in all his public duties as 
 though he had never at any time borne arms against her. 
 
 While he may not have been regarded either as an orator or 
 a great debater, nevertheless he would on occasions discuss im 
 portant measures in a clear, succinct, and instructive manner. 
 He never spoke for the mere sake of making a speech. He was 
 never given to posing as a legislator for mere show or to attract 
 attention. To him the work of legislation was a serious matter 
 and he was always serious and in earnest in respect to any propo 
 sition or measure that he had in charge or advocated. He was 
 in no sense a radical, but rather inclined to be conservative, 
 prudent, and careful in all his legislative efforts. Whenever he 
 spoke in this body he was always listened to and always gave 
 the Senate valuable information and demonstrated that his 
 judgment was sound and that he was possessed of the true con 
 servative spirit. 
 
 A legislative body composed of men like Senator MAU.ORY 
 would not be apt to make mistakes, but would move along safe 
 and conservative lines and never drift into slipshod legislation 
 and never pander to public clamor. He took a broad and 
 
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 national view rather than a mere local view of great legislative 
 problems, and never seemed to be a creature of, or tied down to, 
 mere local environment. He was always a faithful attendant 
 upon committees and upon the sessions of the Senate, and never 
 sought to shirk his duties and his work in any direction. I 
 served with him on important subcommittees when I knew his 
 health was poor and that he was hardly in a condition to work, 
 and yet he would stick to his task as faithfully and as thor 
 oughly as though he were in the prime of life. He was a true 
 son of the South, typical of all that is bravest and best among 
 the Southern people, and while his heart and his spirit were with 
 his State and his people, his legislative vision extended to the 
 entire country, whose welfare he had at heart as fully and to as 
 great an extent as any member of this body. 
 
 His State never had a more earnest, a more hard-working, or 
 a more faithful representative in this Senate. He was a most 
 kind-hearted and lovable man, as companionable and as ready 
 to form true and real friendships as any man with whom I have 
 ever come in contact. As a member of the committee on which 
 we were so long associated I miss him very much, and I know 
 all his colleagues in this body feel his loss most keenly. 
 
 The generation of men who participated in the great civil war 
 are rapidly passing away, and in a few years more none of them 
 will be left ; but when they have finished their task and finally 
 passed away and finally surrendered to that inexorable fate that 
 awaits us all, the verdict of history will be that they, both of 
 the North and of the South, were big enough and great enough 
 to unite and cooperate in the great and noble task of healing the 
 wounds of the war and recementing the bonds of the Union and 
 of placing it upon a more permanent and enduring basis than 
 ever, and of zealously cooperating to extend, fortify, and perpet 
 uate the moral and industrial greatness of our common country; 
 
Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 29 
 
 and it will redound to his glory and be something that his de 
 scendants may look back to with pride that Senator MAUUORY 
 was one of the prominent members of this class. 
 
 In the latter years of his life he was in poor health; but in the 
 midst of his afflictions, and in spite of them, he struggled along 
 bravely and heroically with his Senatorial duties, always aiming 
 to do his share of the work and never complaining ; but I have 
 no doubt that in the midst of it he often felt like exclaiming in 
 the language of Father Ryan : 
 
 And I am restless still; twill soon be o er; 
 
 For down the west 
 
 Life s sun is setting, and I see the shore 
 - Where I shall rest. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. CLAY, OF GEORGIA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: My first acquaintance with the late Senator 
 MALLORY began in March, 1897. We began public life in the 
 Senate at the same time. He was elected to the United States 
 Senate by the legislature of Florida for the term beginning 
 March 4, 1897. I was elected by the legislature of Georgia 
 for the term beginning the same time. We served continuously 
 together in the Senate for nearly eleven years, and about half of 
 that time we were members of the Committee on Commerce, and 
 I knew much of his services as a public man and Senator. We 
 were warm personal friends, and I will not be accused of exag 
 geration when I say that Senator MALLORY had the respect, the 
 confidence, and esteem of every Member of the Senate with 
 whom he served. He had held many positions of trust and 
 honor in his own State before he was elected a member of this 
 body. He had served in both branches of the legislature of 
 Florida with honor and distinction, and had served two terms as 
 a Member of the Lower House of Congress. Mr. MALLORY was 
 elected to the United States Senate when he was not a can 
 didate, and his services for the first term were so valuable and 
 satisfactory to his constituents that he was returned a second 
 term without opposition. Had his life been spared he doubt 
 less would have been elected for a third term, for he constantly 
 grew in popularity with the people of Florida. When Senator 
 MALLORY first canie to the Senate he was in wretched health, but, 
 notwithstanding this fact, he was diligent and attentive in the 
 discharge of his public duties, and especially devoted to his work 
 on the Commerce Committee, where he was so valuable in secur 
 ing the necessary appropriations to develop the waterways and 
 
Address of Mr. Clay, of Georgia 31 
 
 protect the coast of his State. All of his associates recognized 
 him as a very valuable member of this body. 
 
 He possessed an analytical mind, reached his conclusions 
 slowly, but when he formed an opinion his associates rarely 
 questioned the soundness of his views. He was genial, lovable 
 in all the relations of life, was modest, sincere, and hated every 
 form of wrong and loved justice. His life was dominated by 
 the highest moral purpose. His ideals were lofty. I am sure 
 he lived for that which was noble, pure, and uplifting. He 
 made one of the most valuable members of the Committee on 
 Commerce. He took deep interest in the development of our 
 waterways, and his opinions on any subject before that com 
 mittee always carried the greatest weight. He served on sub 
 committees in solving the most important problems before the 
 Committee on Commerce, and he was diligent in his attendance 
 and untiring in his efforts to faithfully discharge his duty. His 
 intellect was of the highest order, grasping every phase of a 
 subject, overlooking no detail, going to the core of the most 
 complicated problems. In investigating public questions he 
 was actuated by the purest of motives. He sought to know 
 the very right of things. He was a man of positive convictions, 
 and was always moved by those convictions. Convince Senator 
 MALLORY that a proposition was right and no power could move 
 him from supporting the right. While positive and firm in 
 supporting his views on public questions, he was kind and gen 
 tle, "tender as a woman and guileless as a child," and sincere 
 and loving in his friendships. 
 
 Florida lies adjacent to Georgia. The people of my State 
 have always been deeply interested in the growth and progress 
 of our sister State. I knew of Senator MALLORY as a public 
 man before he became a member of the Senate, and of his high 
 character and standing in Florida. His growth was a steady 
 one. Each da.y he grew stronger in the confidence and affec- 
 
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 tions of his associates. During the eleven years that I served 
 with him in the Senate I have never heard an unkind word 
 spoken of him. Both his friends and foes in political life in 
 Florida recognized in him a man of ability, of sterling integrity, 
 and the broadest patriotism. 
 
 No man can gain and retain the public esteem and affections 
 of the people of his State as he held them without having rare 
 qualities of mind and heart. Partisan considerations and 
 prejudices never warped his judgment, but with an even temper, 
 an impartial mind, he was found where justice and equity 
 prevailed. Everyone who knew him and watched his career 
 pointed to him as an upright man, an able, conscientious, and 
 honest public official. No one ever questioned his integrity, 
 and his private life was without a blemish. Few men pos 
 sessed and enjoyed the confidence of their associates as did 
 Senator MALLORY. The distinguished chairman of the Com 
 mittee on Commerce, representing with distinction and ability 
 his State in the Senate for more than a quarter of a century, 
 recognized Senator MALLORY as one of the most valuable mem 
 bers of his committee. This high opinion of the deceased was 
 entertained by every member of that committee. He loved 
 his native State. He diligently studied to advance the interests 
 of that State; but he not only loved Florida, but was devoted 
 to the entire country. No one ever heard him speak dispar 
 agingly of any section of his country. He recognized that the 
 Republic was composed of States and that the Senator who 
 assaulted any section of his country assaulted the Republic. 
 He acted upon the theory that a Senator who was the enemy of 
 any section was the enemy of his country. Sometimes we are 
 swayed by partisan considerations and are inclined to criticise 
 one section of the Republic in comparison with another. But 
 our dead friend loved Maine, Massachusetts, Florida, Georgia, 
 
Address of Mr. Clay, of Georgia $3 
 
 New York, Virginia, and every State in the American Union. 
 He had studied the history of his country. He had watched 
 with pride the rapid progress we had made, and his statesman 
 ship was of the highest character, recognizing that it was the 
 duty of a Senator not only to represent his own State, but to 
 advance in every possible way the interests and welfare of the 
 entire nation. 
 
 His life is a lesson to the American youth. Although in 
 wretched health, a constant sufferer, he struggled and tri 
 umphed over difficulties. He rose step by step in the estima 
 tion of the community where he lived and won one victory after 
 another and at last honorably reached one of the highest places 
 of public life, where his usefulness was recognized by the entire 
 country. 
 
 How did he achieve success? Why is his memory held in 
 such high esteem by his countrymen and associates in this body? 
 The answer can easily be made. He led an honest, industrious 
 life, was faithful in the discharge of every duty, and such a life 
 is always properly rewarded. We can say to the American 
 youth: "Follow in his footsteps lead an honest, industrious 
 life, be faithful in the discharge of every duty, and success will 
 crown your efforts." 
 
 Illustrious and sterling honesty will always be rewarded. 
 Temporary success gained by undue advantage and dishonor 
 able conduct will always end in ruin and disgrace. The future 
 of the Republic depends upon the education and training of the 
 American youth. Most of the education and the training we 
 acquire comes from contact with others. Education by asso 
 ciation and example is a powerful factor in forming character. 
 Association with the intelligent, the industrious, and the good 
 tends to elevate and build up. Association with those who lead 
 an indolent, dishonest, and immoral life tends to corrupt and 
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 degrade. A life of continued exhibition of high morals, purity 
 of soul, and Christian charity is a source of strength and eleva 
 tion to any community. The young men of a community 
 respect, honor, and follow such a life. 
 
 Senator MALLORY was not sensational. He possessed none 
 of the arts of the demagogue. He was not a meteor in the 
 political firmament. He never sought notoriety. He gradually 
 built himself up in the confidence and esteem of the Senate by 
 real, genuine worth. Each day he grew stronger and more 
 useful. 
 
 But, Mr. President, his work is finished, but his influence will 
 never die. 
 
 Mr. President, I have been a member of this body eleven 
 years, and the mortality of the Senate during that period has 
 been remarkable. Senators who have been members of this 
 body since March 4, 1897, will recall those of our number who 
 have gone to the world beyond. The Senators who have died 
 during this period are as follows : 
 
 Alabama. John T. Morgan, Edmund W. Pettus. 
 
 Connecticut. O. H. Platt, J. R. Hawley. 
 
 Florida. STEPHEN R. MALLORY, William J. Bryan. 
 
 loua. J. H. Gear. 
 
 Maryland. Arthur P. Gorman, William Pinkney Whyte. 
 
 Massachusetts. George F. Hoar. 
 
 Michigan. James McMillan, Russell A. Alger. 
 
 Minnesota. Cushman K. Davis. 
 
 Mississippi. Edward C. Walthall. 
 
 New Jersey. William J. Sewell. 
 
 South Dakota. James H. Kyle. 
 
 Ohio. Marcus A. Hanna. 
 
 Oregon. John H. Mitchell. 
 
 Pennsylvania. Matthew S. Quay. 
 
 South Carolina. Joseph H. Earle, A. C. Latimer. 
 
 Tennessee. William B. Bate, Isham G. Harris. 
 
 Vermont. Redfield Proctor, Justin S. Morrill. 
 
Address of Mr. Clay, of Georgia 35 
 
 % 
 Four vSenators who died after ceasing to be Senators were : 
 
 Donelson Caffrey, of Louisiana; Stephen M. White, of California; Edward 
 O. Wolcott, of Colorado; George G. Vest, of Missouri. 
 
 I repeat, Mr. President, that Senator MALLORY S growth was 
 a steady one, the result of a modest, sincere, and studious life. 
 In Washington, after becoming a Member of Congress, .he lived 
 the same plain, temperate, economical life. His influence was 
 not derived from social functions, but from work and worth. 
 No scandal was ever connected with his name in either private 
 or public life. He was not the representative of any trust, com 
 bine, or special interest, neither was he ever engaged in the 
 advancement of his own schemes, using his office as a means to 
 an end. He was a plain, straightforward, unassuming gentle 
 man, a sound thinker, a fearless advocate of what he believed 
 to be right. Senator MALLORY was a staunch friend of honest, 
 clean, economical government. He sought in every possible 
 way to elevate the standard of our civilization, and by precept 
 and example to prepare and qualify our young men for the 
 highest possible standard of citizenship. He abhorred every 
 form of hypocrisy and deceit. He left no doubt upon the 
 minds of those who heard him as to the earnestness of his 
 convictions. Those who differed with him knew he was both 
 honest and sincere. He did his own thinking, formed his own 
 conclusions, and sought diligently to reach conclusions that were 
 just and right. He believed that a Senator should be under no 
 personal obligations to any power and that a Senator should do 
 his own thinking. He formed high ideals and lived up to them. 
 No man is perfect. Doubtless Senator MALLORY had his faults; 
 but if so, I was never able to discover them. I am glad that 
 such a man lived, and I am sure his influence will never die. I 
 most cheerfully place upon the records of the Senate my tribute 
 of affection and admiration for the memorv of the deceased. 
 
36 Memorial Addresses: Stephen R. Mallory 
 
 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PERKINS, OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: The South has been more than fortunate 
 in the men she has sent to represent her in the Senate of the 
 United States. They have been selected from among the ablest 
 and best of her citizens, and have brought to this Chamber an 
 influence for honest and conscientious endeavor that has com 
 ported with the high standards set by the greatest of those who 
 have preceded us. We have recently had cause to mourn with 
 her for great and irreparable losses which she has sustained. 
 Some of the most distinguished Americans of this generation 
 who have occupied seats here have been lost to us through 
 death within a year, and among them are numbered some 
 of the South s greatest men. Of these is STEPHEN RUSSELL 
 MALLORY. 
 
 My acquaintance with Senator MALLORY began when he first 
 became a member of this body in 1897. I was instantly 
 attracted to him by reason of his honesty and sincerity, and 
 soon my admiration was awakened through the recognition of 
 those great powers which he possessed, but which his modesty 
 prevented him from displaying, except on such occasions as 
 specially demanded their exercise. But it was not long before 
 his ability was fully recognized here, and he took a place among 
 the foremost men of the Senate. I was associated with him 
 on the committees of Naval Affairs and of Commerce, and there 
 had the opportunity to learn his peculiar fitness for such matters 
 as came before us. He was unusually well equipped for the dis 
 cussion of such business as arose, by reason of his early experi 
 ence in maritime affairs which excited within him an interest 
 that never flagged. He was the son of the secretary of the 
 
Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 37 
 
 navy of the Confederate States, and in his early youth he was 
 appointed a midshipman in the Confederate navy, and though 
 his service was short on account of the end of the war, he imbibed 
 the spirit which naval training and following the sea gives, and 
 which is one of the most valuable possessions which a man 
 can have. However short may have been a man s connection 
 with a fighting sea force, there will inevitably be born within 
 him an ambition to emulate the deeds of bravery and self- 
 sacrifice which illuminate all maritime history. 
 
 The men who sail the seas, whether in an armored vessel of 
 a navy or on a merchantman or fishing schooner, have experi 
 ences which toughen the moral fiber, which cultivate self-reli 
 ance, which promote unselfishness, which cultivate generosity, 
 and promote honesty in the dealings of man with man. And 
 the traditions of the sea, which will always be of vital interest 
 to one who has once been connected with it, transmit and per 
 petuate all these influences which make for courage, honesty, 
 and sincerity. Senator MALLORY came within these influences, 
 and in him they contributed to the formation of that strong 
 character which commanded the respect of all who knew him. 
 His devotion to public duty was untiring, and no constituency 
 has ever had a representative here whose interests were more 
 carefully studied. He loved his native State with the ardor 
 which characterizes the affection of all Southrons for the State 
 of their birth. The glamor of romance and adventure which 
 was cast over that fair land by the search by Ponce de Leon 
 for the fountain of perpetual youth, and the name which he 
 gave the unknown region when he saw it brilliant with the 
 flowers of a Palm Sunday nearly four centuries ago, undoubt 
 edly have had their influence in strengthening the devotion 
 which is felt for it by all who claim Florida for their native 
 State or adopted home. That of Senator MALLORY was sweet, 
 
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 simple, and sincere, as was his own character. That devotion 
 accentuated his firm belief in the doctrine of State rights, which 
 more than once he ably expounded before this body, and his 
 education in the law and his training in the courts made him 
 a powerful champion of the principle that the States are the 
 possessors of every power not delegated to the Federal Govern 
 ment by the Constitution of the United States. 
 
 Senator MALLORY began his public career early, and has been 
 conspicuous in State and national affairs ever since. After the 
 war he attended Georgetown College, graduating in 1869. He 
 studied law and was admitted to the bar in Louisiana in 1873, 
 and in 1876 w r as elected to the lower house of the Florida legis 
 lature, from which he passed successively to the State senate, 
 the House of Representatives of the National Congress, and in 
 1897 to the Senate. His political career presents a record of 
 clean, honest, efficient work, which gained for him the respect 
 of all people and all parties. 
 
 Those who knew him admired him for his sterling integrity 
 and his genial companionship. He was always true to himself, 
 to his convictions, ideals, and his conceptions of the best public 
 good. His heart went out to all that was good and noble in 
 others, for he looked upon the manifestations of high character 
 as of inestimable value as examples. 
 Example 
 
 He once said- 
 
 is the most potent of preceptors. The object lesson is the most impressive 
 method of reaching the understanding and shaping the inclination of the 
 young, and the oftener we can present to their plastic minds authentic 
 illustrations of character which of itself conquers adverse environment, 
 rises to eminence by its innate merit, and wins the respect and esteem of 
 good men and women, the greater the probability of our inspiring those 
 who are to follow us with a zealous purpose to emulate such virtue. 
 
Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 39 
 
 This reveals his view of life, its duties, and its responsibilities, 
 and we all know how closely he lived up to that high standard. 
 
 In his work in Congress he had ever before him the examples 
 of the great men who in years gone by made this body illustrious, 
 and he strove to reach their high level of pure statesmanship. 
 And when he saw that the end of life was near he again exhibited 
 that honeSt simplicity of character which endeared him to all 
 who knew him. He wished that in the last duties which should 
 be paid to him there should be that absence of even a suspicion 
 of ostentation that had always characterized his acts in life. 
 His wishes were respected, and he was quietly laid to rest by the 
 friends he loved. 
 
 As one by one of our colleagues fail to answer the roll call in 
 the Senate and we realize that we will never again hear their 
 eloquent or persuasive voices, may we not well ask ourselves the 
 question 
 
 Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
 Like a fast -flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
 A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
 He passes from life to his rest in the grave. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. MILTON, OF FLORIDA 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: I have not the gift of language nor of elo 
 quence to fittingly portray the character and attainments of 
 Florida s distinguished son, STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY, whose 
 life, character, and public services we now pause from the cus 
 tomary duties of the Senate to commemorate and commend. 
 
 My reason for speaking on this occasion is not that I think I 
 can do him justice, but these words of commendation, veneration, 
 and eulogy, though weak and halting, come from a friend and 
 are the only tribute he can pay. As flattery to the living is 
 unjust, so fulsome praise of the dead seems mockery; therefore 
 I speak of him as I think and feel. 
 
 More than twenty years ago I met STEPHEN RUSSELL MAL 
 LORY, and so impressed was I with his worth, pure character, 
 integrity of heart and mind, and nobility of soul that whether 
 he was in the shade of temporary political defeat, or crowned 
 with the laurels of success, I was always his friend, admirer, 
 and political follower. His friendship was an honor of which 
 I feel justly proud. 
 
 Mr. MALLORY was a true type of a southern gentleman and 
 statesman, modest, courteous, wise. He was the worthy son of 
 a great sire, and his life work was full and active, replete with 
 Southern sentiment and instinct but of national breadth and 
 force in its statesmanship. He was born November 2, 1848, 
 as the war clouds were gathering over this great land. His 
 father was a member of this body from 1851 to 1861; there 
 fore he was reared in the midst of the activities and battles 
 of intellectual arguments which preceded the conflict of giant 
 brothers. 
 
Address of Mr. Milton, of Florida 41 
 
 At the age of 16 he entered the Confederate army of Vir 
 ginia, and later became a midshipman in the navy of the South, 
 freely risking his life fighting in that titanic struggle for what 
 he deemed to be right then and believed to be right to the day 
 of his death, the sovereign rights of a sovereign State. 
 
 At the close of the war he completed his education and began 
 the practice of law. But his State, like other Southern States 
 after the war, was suffering from the rule of ignorance, vice, 
 and robbery. Thinking it his duty to again serve his country, 
 he entered heartily into the struggle of the people of Florida to 
 redeem her government from negro and carpetbag domination, 
 and in 1876 was elected a member of the Florida legislature. 
 He was elected to the state senate in 1880 and returned again 
 in 1884. In her legislative halls so ably did he serve the people 
 that, feeling his abilities and usefulness should not be circum 
 scribed by state bounds, he was elected to the National House 
 of Representatives, and served two terms. 
 
 While here he so well represented the interest of Florida and 
 so favorably impressed the citizenship of his State that in 
 1897, when the most momentous and bitter strife among Florida 
 Democrats was waged, the representatives of the people turned 
 to MALLORY as the only man who could properly represent them ; 
 and although he was not a candidate for the honorable position, 
 he was elected to the United States Senate and reelected in 
 1905. 
 
 Here for nearly eleven years he gave to the service of his 
 country the benefit of his ripened intellect. At the age of 59, 
 while in the prime of life and the activity of his intellect, and 
 and while he bade fair to still give years of service to his country, 
 he was mowed down by the grim reaper, Death. 
 
 As a soldier he was brave and gallant, bearing cheerfully the 
 hardships necessarily imposed by reason of his impoverished 
 
42 Memorial Addresses: Stephen R. Mallory 
 
 country. He followed the flag of the lost cause with the same 
 zeal, devotion, and self-sacrifice which characterized the hero 
 soldiers of the Confederacy. 
 
 As a citizen he was law-abiding, diligent in the discharge of 
 his duties, and worked for the advancement of good govern 
 ment. He was modest and unassuming, but courageous and 
 bold in the pursuit of and in the path of duty and never swayed 
 by fleeting public opinion from the right, as he saw it. 
 
 As a friend he was honest, loyal, and true. He trusted and 
 could be trusted. His conversation was pure, chaste, and full 
 of kindness. His ambitions were noble and his aims and aspira 
 tions high. He was such a friend that time and separation 
 mattered not; his friend knew at all times that he could be 
 depended on and that he would only do what was right. 
 
 He was a lawyer of wide information and knowledge of law. 
 He was faithful to the interests of his clients, and he won the 
 confidence of all by his high ideal of justice and right. His 
 well-trained mind was analytical, his reasoning logical, and his 
 conclusions just. He was an able lawyer, a credit to the bar, 
 and an honor to his profession. 
 
 As a Christian he was baptized and had an abiding faith in 
 the wisdom, justice, love, and mercy of his Maker. He well 
 performed his duty to his neighbor and in his life exemplified 
 the golden rule: 
 
 Do unto others as you would they should do unto you. 
 
 As a public man he was broad in his views and had a ready 
 grasp of national affairs. He was no demagogue, but at all 
 times a loyal advocate and an outspoken champion of the 
 principles for which he stood. No selfish ambition ever kept 
 him silent or made him swerve from his duty to his people. His 
 character and mind were well balanced, conservative, but bold. 
 If he had one trait of character that impressed one more than 
 
Address of Air. Milton, of Florida 43 
 
 another, it was his strict integrity. MALORY S honesty was 
 known, admired, and esteemed throughout the length and 
 breadth of Florida. 
 
 A prince can mak a belted knight, 
 
 A marquis, duke, and a that, 
 
 But an honest man s aboon his might. 
 
 STEPHEN RussELL MALLORY was an honest man, the noblest 
 work of God. 
 
 As a citizen, a soldier, and a statesman he freely gave to 
 Florida and the nation his best efforts. He was earnest, dili 
 gent, and faithful to every trust reposed in him. His spotless 
 life and character without stain is his best monument, and to 
 succeeding generations will illuminate the path to duty and 
 to honor. 
 
 And now that his life work is over, his body rests beneath the 
 sod of his loved Florida. The Southern sun, which warmed his 
 heart to love of his native State and filled it with patriotism, 
 now with each returning springtime kisses into life aud bloom 
 the flowers that lovingly adorn his grave, and its too warm 
 rays to them as tempered by the soft, balmy southern breezes 
 from across the Mexic Sea, which he loved so well, and his 
 slumber is soothed by the requiem of its rippling waves; for 
 he is not dead, but sleepeth, his pure soul having risen, until 
 resurrection s dawn, to rest on high in realms of eternal bliss 
 with his Maker, for 
 
 Death s but a path that must be trod, 
 If man would ever pass to God. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 MONDAY, January 6, 1908. 
 
 MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 
 
 The message announced that the Senate had passed the 
 following resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the death 
 of the Hon. STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY, late a Senator from the State 
 of Florida. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions 
 to the House of Representatives. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased 
 the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 Mr. CLARK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the House has just 
 heard of the death of the distinguished senior Senator from 
 Florida, the Hon. STEPHEN R. MALLORY. At some future 
 time the Florida delegation will ask the House to set apart a 
 day in order that the Members may pay tribute to the dis 
 tinguished public services of this illustrious son of Florida. At 
 the present time I offer the following resolution and move 
 its adoption. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has learned with profound sorrow of the death 
 of Hon. STEPHEN R. MALLORY, a Senator of the United* States from the 
 State of Florida. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House now adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at 12 o clock and 31 minutes p. m.) the House 
 
 adjourned. 
 
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 THURSDAY, April 23, 1908. 
 
 The SPEAKER. Pending the announcement, by unanimous 
 consent, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Sparkman] desires 
 to make a request. 
 
 Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the present consideration of the order which I send to the 
 Clerk s desk. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Florida [Mr. Spark 
 man] asks unanimous consent for the present consideration of 
 the order which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Ordered, That the House shall meet at u in. on Sunday, May 3, which 
 shall be set aside for memorial addresses on the life, character, and public 
 services of Hon. S. R. MALLORY, late a United States Senator from the 
 State of Florida. 
 
 The SPEAKER. Is there objection? [After a pause.] The 
 Chair hears none. 
 
 The question is on agreeing to the order. 
 
 The question was taken and the order was agreed to. 
 
 Mr. CLARK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous con 
 sent for the present consideration of the order which I send to 
 the Clerk s desk. 
 
 The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Ordered, That Sunday, May 3, at the conclusion of the addresses on 
 the life, character, etc., of the late STEPHEN R. MALLORY shall be set apart 
 for memorial addresses on the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
 William J. Bryan, late United States Senator. 
 
 The SPEAKER. Is there objection? / [After a pause.] The 
 Chair hears none. 
 
 The question is on agreeing to the order. 
 
 The question was taken, and the order was agreed to. 
 
Proceedings in the House 47 
 
 SUNDAY, May 3, iqo8. 
 
 The House met at 12 o clock m. and was called to order by 
 the Clerk, Hon. Alexander McDowell, who caused the follow 
 ing communication from the Speaker to be read : 
 
 SPEAKER S ROOM, HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 Washington, D. C ., May j, 1908. 
 
 I hereby designate Hon. John Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, to act as 
 Speaker pro tempore for this day. 
 
 JOSEPH G. CANNON, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer : 
 
 We bless Thee, our Father in Heaven, for the immutability of 
 Thy character, that Thou art the same yesterday, to-day, and 
 forever; that we are Thy children; that we may rely implicitly 
 upon Thine infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, and that 
 whatsoever Thou dost order for us is better than anything we 
 could desire for ourselves. "Blessed is the man that walketh 
 not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of 
 sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight 
 is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day 
 and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of 
 water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also 
 shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." 
 
 We thank Thee, our Father, for the great and the true, the 
 wise and the pure, the strong and the brave of every age, who 
 comprehended the light which shone out of the darkness and 
 the meaning of life, caught its spirit, and gave themselves in a 
 faithful service to Thee and to mankind. We are gathered here 
 to-day to pay a tribute of love and respect to two such men 
 men in whom their fellows reposed confidence and trust, who 
 never deceived, never betrayed that confidence, but lived pure, 
 
48 Memorial Addresses: Stephen R. Mallory 
 
 noble, exemplary lives, and wrought a good work for mankind. 
 Grant that their lives may be an inspiration to us and to those 
 who shall come after us. And bless, we pray Thee, those who 
 were near and dear to them in life, and comfort them with the 
 blessed thought that they shall meet again in a land where love - 
 shall find its full fruition in the hearts of the true. and the pure. 
 And so may our lives be ordered that we shall be counted 
 worthy in the day of our departure. And Thine be the praise 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen! 
 
 Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask that the special order of 
 the day be read. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempo re. The Clerk will read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 On motion of Mr. Sparkman, by unanimous consent, 
 
 "Ordered, That the House shall meet at 12 m. on Sunday, May 3, which 
 shall be set aside for memorial addresses on the life, character, and public- 
 services of Hon. S. R. MALLORY, late a United States Senator from the 
 State of Florida." (Order adopted in the House April 23, 1908.) 
 
 On motion of Mr. Clark of Florida, by unanimous consent, 
 
 "Ordered, That Sunday, May 3, at the conclusion of the addresses on 
 the life, character, etc., of the late STEPHEN R. MALLORY, shall be set 
 apart for memorial addresses on the life, character, and public services 
 of Hon. William J. Bryan, late United States Senator." (Order adopted 
 in the House April 23, 1908.) 
 
 Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that all those who may address the House to-day have permis 
 sion to revise and extend their remarks in the RECORD. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida 
 [Mr. Sparkman] asks unanimous consent that all Members ad 
 dressing the House to-day may have leave to extend their 
 remarks in the RECORD. Is there cbjection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
Proceedings in the House 49 
 
 SUNDAY, May 3, 1908. 
 
 Mr. SPARKMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the consideration and adoption of the resolution which I send 
 to the Clerk s desk. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida 
 [Mr. Sparkman] submits the following resolution, which the 
 Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That in accordance with the order of the day, an opportunity 
 be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. STEPHEN R. MALLORY, late a 
 United States Senator from the State of Florida. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career, the House, 
 at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the family 
 of the deceased. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on agreeing 
 to the resolutions. 
 
 The question was taken, and the resolutions were unani 
 mously agreed to. 
 
 72901 S. Doc. 762, 60-2 4 
 
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 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR* SPARKMAN, OF FLORIDA 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : We are assembled on this occasion to perform 
 one of those sad duties that have become so frequent here during 
 the past few years, that of paying tribute to the life and char 
 acter of some Member of this body or of that at the other end 
 of the Capitol, who has answered the summons from on high, 
 to which all must give heed and from which none can turn 
 away. All alike the rich and the poor, the powerful and the 
 weak, the sovereign and the subject must obey that summons. 
 No station so high as to be above its reach, none so low as to 
 lie beneath the compass of its sound. How frequently, in this 
 body, are we reminded of this sad truth. How often at each 
 session do we pause in the proceedings here to commemorate 
 the life and services of some one who, in advance of us, has 
 answered the call to go hence. 
 
 I am not one of those, Mr. Speaker, who regard services such 
 as these an idle waste of time. On the contrary, I think we 
 can not use more profitably the brief period necessary to pay 
 loving tribute to those honored by the people with commissions 
 to serve them in the National Legislature, and who have gone 
 down before the grim reaper in the midst of their duties and 
 ere their work here has been done. 
 
 True, we can not, if we would, bring the dead back to life by 
 aught we might say here, no more than the flower dropped upon 
 the casket or the high pealing anthem above the bier can lift the 
 
Address of Mr. Spark-man, of Florida 51 
 
 coffin lid and restore to those who remain behind the departed 
 friend or companion. But they all serve a purpose in life. 
 They soften the gloom of the death chamber and make lighter 
 the burden of bereavement. Touching, as these simple acts 
 do, thetmore delicate cords of our nature, they make us better 
 and purer, and strengthen the bonds of sympathy that link all 
 human hearts together. 
 
 Then, too, the country at large derives a benefit in other ways 
 from such proceedings as these. By them we not only stimu 
 late patriotism, broaden our political horizon, and temper the 
 asperities engendered by party strife, but, by spreading upon 
 the records here the history of an honored and illustrious career, 
 to be read from one end of the land to the other, we kindle the 
 ambition of the young in every walk of life and stimulate them 
 to nobler effort and grander achievement. 
 
 No one has ever accomplished aught in any field of endeavor 
 
 without having been inspired thereto by some one, and few lives 
 
 ^are so barren of results as not to furnish a stimulus to still more 
 
 worthy action by those who may come under their influence. 
 
 A gifted poet has said : 
 
 There s never a rose in all the world 
 
 But makes some green spray sweeter; 
 There s never a tvind in all the sky 
 
 But makes some bird s wing fleeter; 
 There s never a star but brings to Heaven 
 
 Some silver radiance tender, 
 And never a rosy cloud but helps 
 
 To crown the sunset splendor; 
 No robin but may thrill some heart, 
 
 His dawnlike gladness voicing. 
 God gives us all some small, sweet way 
 
 To set the world rejoicing. 
 
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 And in that gem-laden poem, Lucile, Owen Meredith gives 
 utterance to the same truth in the following lines: 
 
 No stream from its source flows seaward, how lowly soever its course, 
 
 But what some land is gladdened; no star ever rose 
 
 And set without influence somewhere; no life ^ 
 
 Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife 
 
 And all life not be stronger and purer thereby. 
 
 And, sir, if influences for good may flow from humble sources, 
 how much greater results may come from the contemplation of 
 the life and character of one such as we are assembled here to 
 commemorate. 
 
 I can not, perhaps, do better, Mr. Speaker, than to quote a 
 short paragraph from the address by the deceased himself. 
 Eulogizing the life and character of the late James Montraville 
 Moody in the Senate a little more than five years ago, Senator 
 MALLORY used this language: 
 
 Mr. President, it is a natural impulse that prompts those who, by associa 
 tion or observation, have learned the intrinsic merit of one who has closed 
 a life of usefulness to pay such tribute as can be conveyed by our inade 
 quate powers of expression to the memory of such a career. When Death 
 has placed his imprimatur on the last chapter of our little earthly life story, 
 and what we have done for good or ill has thereby become fixed forever, a 
 part of our irrevocable and unamendable record, it is eminently proper 
 that not only those who have the incentive of personal affection, but that 
 those who in the casual intercourse of a strenuous existence have had 
 occasion to note exceptional and shining traits in the character and career 
 of one who has passed away forever, should also put in as permanent a 
 shape as possible the results of their observation. This impulse ought to 
 have, and generally does have, with the thoughtful a higher and nobler 
 inspiration than that which evolved the maxim of the ancients which 
 enjoined nought but good when speaking of the dead. Example is the 
 most potent of preceptors. The object-lesson is the most impressive 
 method of reaching the understanding and shaping the inclination of the 
 young, and the oftener we can present to their plastic minds authentic 
 illustrations of character which of itself conquers adverse environment, 
 
Address of Mr. Sparkman, of Florida C7 
 
 rises to eminence by its innate merit and wins the respect and esteem of 
 good men and women, the greater the probability of our inspiring those 
 who are to follow us with a zealous purpose of emulating such virtue. 
 
 Senator MALLORY S life is one well worthy of being studied. 
 While he had not reached its allotted span nor passed much 
 beyond its meridian, he had trodden the pathway of duty and 
 had lived long, if life be counted by achievement rather than 
 by the flight of years. Although springing from an honored 
 and distinguished parentage, he had, by reason of adverse condi 
 tions, been compelled to start well down in the humbler walks 
 of life; but, by his own unaided efforts, had climbed, one at a 
 time, the steep heights of success until he had reached the goal 
 of his ambition, the highest point, save one, that may be touched 
 in the field of political endeavor; and that, too, without a stain 
 upon his life or a blot upon his character. How much, then, 
 may we, whether young or old, learn from a career so filled 
 with bright achievement. 
 
 STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY was born on November 2, 1848, 
 in Columbia, S. C., where his parents were sojourning tem 
 porarily, their home being in Key West, Fla., from which city 
 they subsequently moved to Pensacola. He sprang from Eng 
 lish and Irish stock on his father s side, his paternal grand 
 mother having been a Miss Russell and a cousin of Lord Russell, 
 of England, and from Spanish lineage on his mother s side 
 she having been a Miss Moreno, a lady distinguished for her 
 many qualities, both of mind and heart. His father was a 
 man of marked ability, and, elected to the United States Senate 
 from Florida in 1851, served the people in that high position until 
 his State seceded, in 1861, when he resigned from the Senate, 
 becoming afterwards secretary of the navy in the cabinet of 
 Jefferson Davis, there likewise discharging his duties with dis 
 tinction until the star of the Southern Confederacy "went down 
 forever in smoke and blood." 
 
54 Memorial Addresses: Stephen R. Mallory 
 
 Nor did the son escape the hardships and perils of that blood 
 iest of conflicts. Being then at school in Richmond, the Con 
 federate capital, and where his father s official position had 
 required him to reside, the son, at the call of what he conceived 
 to be the voice of duty, entered Lee s army at the age of 15 
 years,, later being transferred to the navy, in which he served 
 as a midshipman on the Patrick Henry until the surrender of 
 Lee at Appomattox, when he returned to Pensacola. But only 
 for a brief period did he remain there at this time, for we soon 
 find him at Georgetown University, in this city, from which he 
 graduated in due time, with distinction. Being without finan 
 cial means, his father s fortune having been dissipated, as so 
 many fortunes were in that disastrous war, he became a pro 
 fessor of classic languages in the university from which he had 
 graduated, teaching there for two years, when he removed to 
 New Orleans and began the study of law, supporting himself 
 the while by teaching school. Admitted to the bar in Louisiana, 
 he returned to Florida in 1874, where he commenced the prac 
 tice of his profession, in which he took at once a commanding 
 position, and that, too, at a bar ever noted for the ability, 
 learning, and high standing of its members. 
 
 But he was not permitted long to follow without interruption 
 the profession he had chosen. The people of his county, indeed 
 of the State, had a use for his services in the political field. In 
 1876, a period in Florida as well as over the entire South when 
 partisan feeling ran high, he was elected to the lower house of 
 the Florida legislature, where his talents and high character at 
 once placed him in the front rank of Florida s public men, a 
 position he ever afterwards retained. 
 
 Elected to the state senate in 1880, he was reelected in 1884, 
 all the while continuing the practice of law, except when engaged 
 in the performance of his official duties. In 1890 he was elected 
 
Address of Mr. Sparkman, of Florida c c 
 
 to the Fifty-second Congress and reelected to the Fifty-third, 
 serving the people with that fidelity and conscientious regard for 
 duty which characterized him throughout his entire life. From 
 his seat in this body he retired to private life at the end of the 
 Fifty-third Congress, broken in health but not in spirit, still 
 with the determination to give the best that was within him to 
 the world in which he lived. His retirement, however, was not 
 to be for long, for in 1897 he was elected to the United States 
 Senate, and reelected without opposition in 1903, serving well 
 the State whose commission he bore until death laid its hand 
 upon him on December 23, 1907. 
 
 This, Mr. Speaker, is but an outline of a remarkable career, 
 but from it, even if we knew no more, we might easily fill the 
 space within. I have only touched the more prominent eleva 
 tions along his pathway, but from these resting places we can 
 easily discern the difficulties of the course he trod, and picture 
 to ourselves his struggles to surmount them, until finally he 
 reached the goal of his ambition, the highest point for which he 
 strove. 
 
 A soldier at 15 under the greatest chieftain of the South in 
 one of the most gigantic struggles the world has ever witnessed; 
 a civil war veteran at 1 7 ; a graduate and professor in one of the 
 first colleges of the country at the age of 2 1 ; a lawyer with a 
 large practice in the city where his childhood had been spent at 
 26; a member of the lower house of the legislature of his State 
 at 28; twice a state senator between then and his thirty-sixth 
 year; twice a Congressman ere he had reached the age of 45, 
 and then with broken health ten years in the greatest lawmak- 
 ing body in the world; finally, after years of physical suffering, 
 yielding to the ravages of disease and falling under its pitiless 
 assaults, but with earthly honors thick upon him; these show 
 not only a remarkable career, but indicate the traits which gave 
 
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 success commanding talents, honor-able ambition, singleness of 
 purpose, energy in the discharge of duty, unyielding determina 
 tion, and a well-rounded character. 
 
 It was my good fortune, Mr. Speaker, to know Senator 
 MALLORY intimately, and particularly after he had been hon 
 ored with a seat in the Senate. I have seen him in private and 
 public life, have met him in the social circle, accompanied him 
 in political campaigns, observed him in the performance of his 
 official duties at the other end of this Capitol, and know full 
 well the qualifications he possessed for the work demanded of 
 him and the fidelity with which he served those who had 
 intrusted their interests to his keeping. But if I were asked to 
 specify the leading trait in his character, I would unhesitatingly 
 say that it was his high sense of honor. No political or other 
 exigency could make him swerve from what he conceived to be 
 the path of right. 
 
 The voice of the tempter is heard in all the walks of life. 
 With no less frequency, perhaps, is it whispered in the ear of 
 him engaged in civil strife, and the temptation to sacrifice con 
 victions to political exigency is sometimes great, but fortunate 
 is that constituency represented by one who, with an honest 
 heart and a clear head, will, seeing the right, dare to do it in 
 the face of the probable disapproval of that public on whom he 
 relies for support. 
 
 That trait the subject of this sketch possessed in a high degree. 
 Mistakes he may have made now and then in the support of 
 men and measures. Who has not made them? But if such 
 there were, they were of the head and not of the heart. Arid 
 in saying that, Mr. Speaker, I have perhaps said all that is nec 
 essary to be said of STEPHEN R. MALLORY. For he who pos 
 sesses this characteristic can ever be trusted by those he serves. 
 In the life of such a man, the conditions being given, friend and 
 
Address of Mr. Sparkman, of Florida 57 
 
 foe alike will know what his action will be. With the star of 
 right to guide him, he ever moves on a straight line to the end 
 of the way. 
 
 Another characteristic of Senator MALORY S, which, after all, 
 is but one of the many aspects of a high sense of honor, was his 
 fidelity to his State and the people he represented. He ever 
 had their interest before him and never lost an opportunity to 
 serve them when able to do so. I have referred, Mr. Speaker, 
 to the condition of his health. Indeed, he entered the Senate 
 in 1897 an invalid and never afterwards did he regain his accus 
 tomed vigor. Often, to appearances, near death s door, he 
 remained at his post of duty, except when compelled to absent 
 himself on account of the severity of the disease from which 
 he suffered. Going in and out of the Senate Chamber, but a 
 shadow of his once strong and robust physique, though his body 
 might be racked by pain and weakened by fever, he never failed 
 to respond to the request of a constituent, no matter how hum 
 ble or obscure, when able to leave his bed. Frequently I have 
 seen him in the Senate Chamber with a high fever participating 
 in the deliberations of that body, or at the departments serving 
 some friend or constituent, when prudence and a proper regard 
 for his waning health and strength should have kept him in his 
 room. 
 
 But his sense of duty was such as to cause him to disregard 
 his physical condition as long as an obligation claimed by a 
 constituent or imposed by his official position remained undis 
 charged. With him duty was first, everything else, including 
 health and physical comfort, secondary. Knowing of his ill 
 health and the drain which disease and suffering had made 
 upon his strength, I have wondered at his ability to perform so 
 well his official duties. Besides attending to his correspondence 
 and departmental work, he kept well up with the proceedings 
 
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 of the Senate often engaging in the discussions of that body. 
 In fact, there was scarcely a great measure before the Senate 
 while he was a member there upon which he did not speak and 
 which was not rendered more lucid by his utterances. 
 
 Senator MALLORY, while a partisan, was not a bitter one, 
 and although his arguments were presented with force, his kind 
 ness of heart was such that his language left nothing to rankle 
 in the heart of an adversary. While standing firmly by his con 
 victions, he was magnanimous and liberal to all. He was not 
 quick to take offense, and never intentionally wounded the 
 sensibilities of another. He was always in earnest never a 
 trifler but regarding every subject at all worthy of his con 
 sideration as meriting his best effort he conducted the discus 
 sions in which he engaged upon a high plane. 
 
 Such in part, Mr. Speaker, were the leading characteristics of 
 S. R. MALLORY. But he is gone. As the last eventful days of 
 1907 were slipping away into the centuries that have passed his 
 spirit laid aside its wasted abode of flesh and took its flight to 
 the God who gave it. But though with us no more, his memory 
 still lingers in our hearts. Indeed, such a life is never lost in 
 death nor buried in the grave, but passes out upon the years to 
 cheer mankind as the centuries go by. The world is better for 
 his having lived in it, and rich indeed is the heritage of those he 
 left behind or who may come after him. Of him it may be truly 
 said he left- 
 Footprints on the sands of time. 
 Footprints that perhaps another, 
 Sailing o er life s solemn main, 
 A forlorn and shipwrecked brother 
 Seeing, shall take heart again 
 
Address of Mr. Payne, of New York eg 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PAYNE, OF NEW YORK 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: My first acquaintance with STEPHEN R. 
 MALLORY began in December, 1891, when he entered the Fifty- 
 second Congress as a Representative from the southern district 
 of Florida. He came here when his party was in the full flush 
 of victory. The McKinley tariff act became a law on the 6th 
 of October, 1890, and the election was held only a month later, 
 before the act had gotten into full operation. Its various pro 
 visions were magnified by the imaginations of the people and 
 there was a universal feeling and apprehension that prices on all 
 commodities would be enormously high under its operations. 
 I remember well seeing large placards in the stores announcing 
 that certain goods would be sold at a certain price and that now 
 was the time to buy, because on the next invoice they would be 
 compelled to advance the price 25 per cent because of the opera 
 tions of the McKinley law. There was no partisanship either 
 in the display of these placards, because they were seen as fre 
 quently in stores owned by Republicans as those of the opposition 
 party. The result was an overwhelming Democratic majority 
 in the House of Representatives, elected in the fall of 1890; and 
 in 1892 his party came into full power in both the executive and 
 legislative branches of the Government. 
 
 Here was a great opportunity for- a newly elected Member. 
 Mr. MALLORY was fresh from service in both houses of the Florida 
 legislature. He had a mind well trained in statecraft. Yet 
 being a new member he was largely overshadowed by many of 
 the old-time leaders in his party, and with his naturally modest 
 and retiring disposition did not bring himself so much to the 
 front as he would have done under other circumstances. I got 
 
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 to know him well during his service here in the House, although 
 we were not on the same committee in any instance. He was of 
 gentlemanly disposition, of friendly nature, a man of warm 
 friendship, and always courteous in his bearing and intercourse 
 with his fellow Members. 
 
 He was defeated for renomination in 1894 by the present 
 popular and able Representative from that district, the Hon. 
 STEPHEN M. SPARKMAN. The success of Mr. SPARKMAN was a 
 tribute to his wide popularity in the district. But it is a great 
 tribute to the character of Mr. MALLORY that though defeated 
 for Congress in 1894 he was elected to the Senate in 1896 for the 
 term commencing March 4, 1897. He at once took high rank in 
 that body as a patient, persistent, hard-working Senator, a man 
 who looked for results and not for oratorical display. He did 
 not bring himself into the lime light, but was content to work 
 out quietly his plans, with the result of unusual success. He 
 was reelected to the Senate in 1 902 , having been renominated by 
 a vote in the primaries without opposition. His fatal illness 
 overtook him in November last, and the subsequent days of his 
 life marked his character for industry and devotion to duty. 
 His last speech was delivered in this city on the Sunday evening 
 before his sickness, and the last article from his pen was com 
 pleted only a few hours before he was stricken with his fatal 
 malady. He fully realized the condition of his health some time 
 before his death, as he declined to be a candidate for reelection 
 to the Senate and also declined any position of chairmanship of 
 a committee in the Senate. His last request showed the sim 
 plicity of his life; he desired that no committee be appointed to 
 attend upon his funeral and that the services be of the simplest 
 character. 
 
 It is a remarkable fact in the career of Mr. MALLORY that he 
 enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 15 years and 
 
Address of Mr. Payne, of New York 61 
 
 became a midshipman in the Confederate navy in the spring of 
 1865. He retired as a veteran of the war at the age of 17 years. 
 Mr. MALLORY S devotion at this early age to the Confederate 
 cause is but a fair example of the fealty of the men of the South 
 during those sad and bloody years of fratricidal strife. In 
 common with millions of his countrymen he believed the cause 
 of the South was right, although this belief is now generally 
 conceded to have been a mistaken one as to the question of 
 whether the United States was a nation or simply a confederacy; 
 yet all are willing to concede the general good faith of those 
 adopting the latter view who risked their lives in their vain 
 endeavor to sustain it. Now everywhere their valor is recog 
 nized. The heroism which sent boys at 15, or even younger, 
 into the field side by side with old men, tottering on the verge 
 of the grave, showed a sturdy determination and valor never 
 surpassed in history. However we may differ on other ques 
 tions relating to the war of the sixties, none of us can forget 
 that these men were Americans, and well illustrated the fighting 
 blood shed on every field from Lexington to San Juan Hill. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. DE ARMOND, OF MISSOURI 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : On occasions like this we are impressed with a 
 sense of the narrowness of the round of life a rejoicing over 
 the advent into existence in this world, a buffeting of its billows 
 and a braving of its storms, an enduring of its trials and a sharing 
 of its joys and triumphs for a brief period, and then scenes like 
 this, where the survivors gather to pay tribute to those who are 
 gone. 
 
 The subject of our memorial remarks had quite a remarkable 
 career. Into few lives is there crowded so much of history as 
 may be written about the man of whom we speak to-day. A 
 soldier, a sailor, a legislator in each branch of the legislature of 
 his State, a Member of this House of Representatives, and a 
 member of the Senate of the United States, and yet death 
 reached him before old age had come, and when he had but by 
 little passed his meridian. Into few lives is crowded so much 
 of work and of glory. To but few is it given to render so much 
 of public service. 
 
 I came to Congress at the time Senator MALLORY entered this 
 House; I served with him in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third 
 Congresses, and in that time came to know him quite well. As 
 others have remarked, he was modest and unostentatious in the 
 discharge of his duties. His effort seemed to be to find the right 
 side of questions and to adhere to the right as he saw it. 
 
 The devotion of his State to him and the signal manner in 
 which it honored him is evidence of itself that he served the 
 people of that State, both in his Congressional district and 
 afterwards in the State at large, faithfully and well. 
 
Address of Mr. De Armond, of Missouri 63 
 
 It is a comparatively rare thing for son to succeed father, 
 directly or remotely, in the membership of this House. It is 
 still rare for son to follow father in membership at the other 
 end of this Capitol. It is a notable fact that the service of the 
 son in the Senate in this instance is about equal in length of 
 years to the Senatorial service of the father a generation earlier. 
 
 What an amount of history was made in the period during 
 which this young man was upon the boards as an actor in life. 
 In that time was our great civil war, one of the mighty con 
 flicts not only of modern times but of all time, and he was an 
 actor in the scenes, both upon land and upon sea. The events 
 of that war were so tremendous, the results of it are so far- 
 reaching that even those of us who may have given the most 
 thought to the subject perhaps but feebly comprehend the full 
 significance of what then happened, and what has resulted and 
 what will result from what then happened. 
 
 In another respect the career of Senator MALLORY is some 
 what remarkable, because in the death chain his name is linked 
 forever with the name of his successor. It is surely an ex 
 traordinary and perhaps an unprecedented event that upon the 
 same day, in the same Chamber, tributes are paid to the 
 memory of a departed Senator and to the memory of another 
 departed Senator who followed him, his immediate successor 
 in the Senate and in death. With what audacity does Death 
 tread upon the heels of Life! How fleeting is earthly existence, 
 and how rapidly are the scenes shifted ! 
 
 The vacancy in the Senate made by Senator MALLORY S death 
 was filled by the appointment of young Mr. BRYAN. He came 
 here in the flush and strength of young manhood, and yet in a 
 few weeks mourning friends followed him to his last resting 
 place, as mourning friends had followed his predecessor to the 
 tomb; and to-day in this Chamber tribute will be paid to his 
 
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 memory, as well as to the memory of the Senator who preceded 
 him in office and in death. 
 
 Senator MALLORY S abilities were of a solid, substantial, and 
 accomplishing kind, if I may use the expression. A modest 
 man, he never sought display and never attempted it. His pur 
 poses were high, and the means by which he tried to accomplish 
 them were worthy of the ends in view. His aim was to serve 
 faithfully those who intrusted -him with public duties and their 
 interests in this Capitol and elsewhere, and without exaggera 
 tion and without favor or partiality we may well say his 
 services were faithful and efficient. 
 
 It is often a matter of curious study as to who accomplishes 
 most in a given forum in this life and what means are the best 
 for the accomplishment of desired results. Perhaps each can 
 accomplish best the task set before him by his own methods 
 and in his own ways, by the employment of his talents in the 
 ways that are natural for him, because the natural ways of each 
 of us are better for each than the superibr ways of others which 
 we might try to copy or follow. 
 
 This man, not gifted with extraordinary brilliancy, not 
 possessed of display talents, used faithfully and persistently, 
 honestly and courageously the substantial talents which were 
 given him; and the faithful use of these is what results in the 
 attainment of the desirable things of life. Brilliancy dazzles 
 momentarily, startles, perhaps gratifies, but steady work, steady 
 persistence in the pursuit of an object, steady aim in the ac 
 complishment of what is laid out for accomplishment that is 
 what produces results, that is what in the main makes the 
 world better, advances a good cause, and retards that which 
 is bad. 
 
 Some are of the opinion that services and exercises such as 
 these are merely formal and ought to be dispensed with. I am 
 
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 not of that mind. I believe that it is worth while for us in this 
 everyday, plodding life of ours to throw in a dash of sentiment 
 where we can. Life is an extraordinary mingling of tragedy 
 and comedy, the most wonderful thing of which we can con 
 ceive, the one wonderful thing of which we have experience 
 from our entrance into it until our departure from it. It is 
 entirely fitting that those associated with a worthy man in his 
 life and in his work when he is gone should turn aside from 
 their everyday performances to pay a tribute of respect to his 
 memory, a tribute that may be paid honestly because it is 
 richly merited. Of course the departed is neither benefited nor 
 injured by what we say here, nor by our failure to say any 
 thing. He is gone beyond the realm of temporal things. Tem 
 poral voices no longer reach his ear, temporal toncerns no 
 longer command his attention. It is rather for us and for 
 those who follow after us ; it is rather in the example and effect 
 upon humanity in general, that exercises like these have their 
 meaning and use. 
 
 It is no idle ceremony to pay tribute to the memory of such 
 a man as Senator MALLORY; an honest, sincere, worthy man, 
 honored far beyond the average of American citizenship; nota 
 ble by the honors heaped upon him, and by his conduct so 
 worthy of them. In him we have lost a friend and coadjutor 
 in the work of good government; and in our several ways and 
 with our varying lights, blinded sometimes and warped by our 
 prejudices, in the main, I like to believe, we seek good govern 
 ment and its good results. One who battled with us and who 
 wrought by our side, one who was a helper and a friend, is 
 gone; and in a comparatively short time for life is fleeting, 
 and soon the longest life ends we who are yet in the flesh 
 shall have performed our part in life, well or ill, and also shall 
 have gone hence. 
 
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 May it be our good fortune when the time comes for kind, 
 
 loving friends to say something concerning us, to have such 
 records that they may honestly speak well of us, as we this 
 day may honestly speak well of him to whose memory we would 
 pay the tribute of abiding reverence. 
 
Address of Mr. Lawrence, of Massachusetts 67 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. LAWRENCE, OF MASSACHUSETTS 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: It is not my purpose at this time to speak at 
 length of the life, character, and services of Senator MALLORY. 
 That privilege belongs properly to those who knew him longer 
 and more intimately than I did. I do desire, however, to pay a 
 brief tribute to one whose whole career was characterized by a 
 splendid integrity and an absolute fidelity. When he passed 
 away a great loss came to his State and section, but more than 
 that, Mr. Speaker, a great loss came to his country. The sorrow 
 felt by his friends, neighbors, and associates was shared by 
 those who lived in more distant parts of our land and who 
 admired and respected this brave and useful man. 
 
 In the fall of 1864 he was but a boy of 15 years, yet he enlisted 
 in the Confederate service and fought for the cause in which he 
 believed until the war was over. He then taught school and 
 studied law. He had, however, hardly entered upon the prac 
 tice of his profession when he was elected to the lower house of 
 the Florida legislature, and for ten years was a member of that 
 body and of the state senate. So satisfactory was his record 
 there that his constituents sent him to Washington as a Member 
 of the House of Representatives. He had been a United States 
 Senator since 1897. 
 
 Practically his whole life, therefore, was given to the public 
 service. He had the entire confidence of the people of Florida, 
 and in return he gave them the best that was in him. He was 
 an intense patriot. He loved his Southland, and during the 
 days of civil strife showed that he was willing, if need be, to die 
 for its people. His military record was marked by fidelity and 
 fearlessness. When the war came to an end he showed like 
 
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 fearlessness in confronting the distressing difficulties which fol 
 lowed it. From that hour he devoted himself with all his might 
 not alone to bettering local conditions, but to the welfare of the 
 whole country. And how eagerly have those associated with 
 him in public life testified to the signal ability with which he 
 discharged his duties. 
 
 Senator MALLORY was brave, courteous, kindly, the very soul 
 of honor; in a word, he was a true Southern gentleman. I have 
 listened with great interest to the affectionate and eloquent 
 tributes which have been paid to him to-day, and I was espe 
 cially touched by the reference made by my friend [Mr. Spark- 
 man] to the pluck and determination shown by Senator MALLORY 
 in pressing steadfastly on with his work in spite of ill health. 
 There was something very thrilling in that recital of daily battle 
 with disease by one who "though his body might be racked by 
 pain and weakened by fever, never failed to respond to the 
 request of a constituent, no matter how humble or obscure." I 
 think we do not always realize how much of heroism there is in 
 such a life. It calls for a finer courage than that shown upon 
 the battlefield. Companionship with a man who carries cheer 
 fulness with him and goes on with his work in spite of physical 
 ills is inspiring. It drives away melancholy, and makes the 
 world a better place to live in. I have also been impressed by 
 the many references to his rugged honesty. In these days, when 
 there have been revelations of dishonor in public and private 
 life which rrave shocked and alarmed us, it is indeed uplifting to 
 contemplate the life of a man whose record is without stain. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, a strong man has gone; a life of rare usefulness 
 is ended; the record is made up. As the years pass by, it will be 
 realized more and more clearly how great is our loss. A noble 
 constituency which he served so devotedly and unselfishly can 
 be depended upon to see to it that such service is ever gratefully 
 remembered. 
 
Address of Mr. Brantley, of Georgia 60 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. BRANTLEY, OF GEORGIA 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : The friends and admirers of STEPHEN RUSSELL 
 MALLORY, late a Senator from the Stkte of Florida, received a 
 great shock on December 23 last when the news of his death at 
 his home in Pensacola, Fla., was flashed across the wires. 
 
 That shock settled into a deep and profound sorrow as we here 
 and elsewhere came to a full realization of the great loss we had 
 sustained. 
 
 The hearts of countless numbers became and are filled with 
 mourning because of his passing away. This House, of which 
 he was twice an honored Member, took fitting and proper action 
 on his death when notice of same was received, and meets to-day 
 to permit its Members to pay a last final tribute to his memory. 
 Some, more gifted in speech and beautiful thought, will sing his 
 praises and sound his virtues in grander and more harmonious 
 tones than others less gifted can do, but the heart of each will 
 be in his song and each song will be a song of love, for Senator 
 MALLORY was beloved by all who knew him. 
 
 So far as he is concerned, our exercises this day are vain and 
 futile. He has solved the mystery of life and of death and is 
 beyond the reach of our words. We can not contribute to his 
 happiness or his glory; nor can we, by our most affectionate 
 thoughts or tenderest words, provoke the faintest sign of recog 
 nition from him. He has passed from our midst and the things 
 that are earthly concern him no more. 
 
 As he could not in life by taking thought add a single cubit to 
 his stature, so we to-day by taking thought can not add to the 
 stature of manhood and of fame that he for himself carved out of 
 the life that was given him to live. 
 
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 We pay honor therefore to his memory with no thought save 
 
 that of paying honor where honor is due; and in truth by that 
 which we do we but honor ourselves. 
 
 It has been truly written that it is not all of life to live nor 
 all of death to die. We know the former; we believe the latter. 
 We need not enter the realm of speculation nor invoke our re 
 ligious faith to know that it is not all of life to live. Poor indeed 
 would be the life that at its closing could point to no other 
 achievement than that of mere existence, and poorer still would 
 be our great country if the lives that have made it glorious had 
 been pitifully empty and useless lives. But it is not all of life 
 to live, when that living has been filled with mighty deeds and 
 crowned with works of beneficence, for such a life in the hearts 
 and minds of those who knew it lives on and on. 
 
 The grave marks the ending of the physical life, but there is 
 no ending there of memory, and a man s works live after him. 
 The influence of a good and useful life furnishes hope and cour 
 age and is an inspiration to nobler and better things. This 
 influence for neither its beginning nor its ending takes any note 
 of the hour when the life that gave it birth passes from time 
 into eternity. It was such a life that Senator MALLORY lived, 
 and it is because of it that now, when his physical life is ended, 
 we meet to utter words of love and praise about him. The 
 short sketch of him that appears in our directory but faintly 
 reveals the busy and useful life he lived. It shows, however, 
 that he was called to many positions of honor and trust, and 
 those who knew him know that he was faithful and true in every 
 instance. Before he was 16 years of age he became a volunteer 
 in the Confederate army to do battle for his beloved Southland, 
 and from that hour until his last expiring breath he was loyal 
 to the noblest and best traditions of the people he loved and the 
 people who loved him. 
 
Address of Mr. Brantley, of Georgia 71 
 
 One by one the old soldiers of the South, who, after the 
 "bloody conflict," were called to the patriotic service of a re 
 united country, are passing away. 
 
 The roll call on the other side of the river is lengthening, while 
 here it is growing shorter and shorter. One of the last to leave 
 us and to swell the great majority on the other side was Senator 
 MAU.ORY. 
 
 We grieve and lament his departure, while hosannas of joy 
 welcomed his answering "present" to the roll call over there. 
 No better or more efficient or more loyal service to the Stars and 
 Stripes has been rendered here than has come from these old 
 soldiers of the South, and among them all there has not been 
 one more patriotic nor one more consecrated to duty than 
 Senator MALLORY. He was a scholarly man, and his mind was 
 a great storehouse of learning. He was fitted by nature, by 
 inheritance, and by training for the great work of statesmanship. 
 His people recognized this, and for almost half of the fifty-nine 
 years he lived he was engaged in the arduous and exacting work 
 of making laws. He served in both branches of his state legis 
 lature, and he served in both branches of the Congress of the 
 United States. He knew the science of government as but few 
 men learn it, and the Constitution was the chart and guide to 
 which he clung at all times and in all cases. He leaned to the 
 school of strict constructionists, and he ever questioned the exer 
 cise of any power by Congress plain warrant for which could 
 not be found in the written delegation of power. The sover 
 eign State found in him a stanch defender, and no knightlier 
 blade was ever drawn in defense of a just cause than that 
 drawn by him in defense of what he believed to be the reserved 
 power of the States. So gentle, however, was he in thought, 
 and so polished and persuasive in phrase and word, that no 
 opponent met him but to admire, and be disarmed. Whatever 
 
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 the result of the conflict, it left no feeling of enmity or resent 
 ment. 
 
 Senator MALLORY was not merely a student and defender of 
 the Constitution, but he was a man of action and of deeds. He 
 was a man of theories, but he put his theories into practice. 
 The improvement of the harbors and the waterways of his State 
 and country greatly interested him, and the results in this direc 
 tion that he accomplished speaks a greater eulogy of his achieve 
 ments than can any feeble words of mine. He was much con 
 cerned for the protection of the South from the invasion of yel 
 low fever, and our present quarantine law is largely the result 
 
 of his labors. 
 
 
 He was a stanch believer in the future of his State and of the 
 
 South. He ever had before him not only their present great 
 ness, but their greater possibilities, and whatever of law, what 
 ever of speech, whatever of precept that lay within his power 
 to induce .the realization of these possibilities was ever at the 
 service of his people. In all this he was neither sectional nor 
 partisan. He was simply true to those who first reposed their 
 trust in him, for truly his labors were not confined to his own 
 section. He was a man of broad and national views and loved 
 his whole country, and he served it all and served it well. 
 
 So clean was he in his methods and so uprightly did he walk 
 in this body that he possessed the confidence and esteem of 
 both sides; and as it was here, so it was in the upper House. 
 He was the friend of all his associates and all his associates 
 were his friends. He was by instinct a gentleman, and his cour 
 tesy was as unfailing as the atmosphere of honesty in which he 
 lived. He was of kind and sympathetic disposition, and while 
 he knew law and statesmanship and government he also knew 
 people. He never lost sight of the individual, and was ever 
 ready to extend a helping hand to the needy and distressed. 
 
Address oj Mr. Rrantley, oj (jforgia ji 
 
 While sick and suffering for many years before his death, no 
 murmur of complaint came from his lips, but he was ever, in 
 sickness, as in health, the generous friend and the ready sym 
 pathizer. He gave aid and sympathy, but he sought neither 
 for himself. 
 
 Quiet and unobtrusive, one had to know him to thoroughly 
 appreciate him, but once knowing him his personality was im 
 pressive, and those who knew him did not forget him. 
 
 But few who have served in this body knew the city of Wash 
 ington so well as he. He was here as a student and here as a 
 teacher long prior to his advent into political life. This Capital 
 City of the nation lost a friend when his life went out a friend 
 who not only knew and understood its needs, but who was pow 
 erful to aid. There are many in this city, as elsewhere, who 
 have cause to remember his broad and catholic spirit, who 
 know his work for and interest in the boys and girls of the 
 country, and who. know of his zealous efforts in the cause of 
 education a cause near and dear to him throughout his public 
 career. His influence was ever on the side of the weak and 
 helpless, and he left no stone unturned to carry education, to 
 carry aid and sustenance to the dependent children of the land. 
 In his death education has lost a friend, virtue and morality a 
 stanch adherent, and his country a devoted, loyal son. In 
 every walk of life, wherever he was known, his death is de 
 plored; but while we deplore it, we, at the same time, rejoice 
 that he was permitted to live and that we were permitted to 
 know him. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. LAMB, OF VIRGINIA 
 
 Mr. CHAIRMAN: The State of Florida has been unfortunate 
 in losing two senators within a short space of time. Indeed, 
 the grim monster has played sad havoc in both Houses since 
 this session of Congress began. 
 
 We are constantly reminded that we have here no continued 
 city and that death is no respecter of persons. 
 
 In the death of STEPHEN RussELL MALLORY the State of 
 Florida has lost a useful citizen, the Senate of the United States 
 a valuable and distinguished member, and his colleagues in both 
 Houses a warm-hearted and genial friend, whose splendid traits 
 of character endeared him to all who enjoyed the pleasure of 
 his acquaintance and friendship. 
 
 For several years I was thrown with him .at the same table 
 and in his room at the hotel where we both lived, and am there 
 fore as well fitted to speak of his life and character as any 
 Member of Congress outside of his own delegation. 
 
 I loved to hear him talk, and found inspiration and instruc 
 tion in communion with him. We had much in common. We 
 were both soldiers in the civil war he in the Navy, I in the 
 cavalry service. Being the elder of the two, I was longer in 
 the service, for he entered at 15 years of age and .was a veteran 
 of that war at 17. 
 
 He often told me of riding around the defenses of Richmond 
 when a mere lad of 13 years. He seemed to love every foot 
 of ground around that historic and lovely city, and he knew 
 many of the leading families of the place, who exhibited a 
 fortitude and courage during four long years that has never 
 been surpassed, if equaled, by any people in all the tide of 
 time. 
 
Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia jc 
 
 It is no wonder that after entering the Confederate army as 
 a private, he subsequently entered the navy as a midshipman, 
 for his distinguished father, of the same name, was the secre 
 tary of the Confederate navy during the four years of the war 
 between the States. He had been a distinguished Member of 
 the United States Senate and chairman of the Committee on 
 Naval Affairs, and also a member of the Committee on Claims. 
 He refused the appointment of minister to Spain in 1888. He 
 also declined to serve as chief justice of the admiralty court of 
 Florida when that State seceded from the Union. Jefferson 
 Davis appointed him secretary of the navy, which he accepted 
 and held until the close of the war. It was here that he mani 
 fested the wisdom of the choice of the Confederate president, 
 for he succeeded in organizing a navy where none had previ 
 ously existed. In proof "of the wisdom of this choice and the 
 work performed I quote a monograph by Major Gorgas. He 
 says: 
 
 We began, in April, 1861, without an arsenal, laboratory, or powder 
 mill of any capacity, and with no foundry or rolling mill except at Rich 
 mond, and before the close of 1863, within a little over two years, we sup 
 plied them. During the harassments of war. while holding our own in the 
 field defiantly and successfully against a powerful enemy crippled by a 
 depreciated currency throttled with a blockade that deprived us of 
 nearly all means of getting material or workmen, unable to use slave labor, 
 with which we were abundantly supplied, except in the most unskilled 
 department of production; hampered by want of transportation, even of 
 the commonest supplies of food; with no stock on hand even of articles 
 such as steel, copper, leather, or iron, which we must have to build up our 
 establishments against all these obstacles, in spite of all these deficiencies, 
 we pe rsevered at home as determinedly as did our troops in the field against 
 a more tangible opposition, and in that short period created almost literally 
 out of the ground foundries and rolling mills at Selma, Richmond, Atlanta, 
 and Macon; smelting works at Petersburg; chemical works at Charlotte, 
 N. C.; a powder mill far superior to any in the United States and unsur- 
 
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 passed by any across the ocean, and a chain of arsenals, armories, and 
 laboratories equal in their capacity and improvements to the best of those 
 in the United States, stretching link by link from Virginia to Alabama. 
 
 The inheritance from and the example set by such a father 
 must have contributed largely to the development of the char 
 acter and the forming of the life of our late friend and col 
 league. 
 
 In 1865 young MALLORY matriculated in Georgetown College, 
 was graduated, and for some time filled the chair" of classical 
 languages. While teaching school in New Orleans in 1870 he 
 read law and was admitted to practice by the supreme court. 
 In 1876 he was elected to the Florida legislature. In 1880 he 
 was elected to the lower House of Congress and reelected two 
 years later. He was elected United States Senator in 1 897 and 
 reelected in 1902 for the term expiring March, 1909. 
 
 He died in December last at the age of 59 years, leaving a 
 splendid record and an untarnished name. He literally died 
 with his harness on, resisting to the last the fatal disease that 
 had been preying on his constitution for years. He delivered 
 a speech to the Knights of Columbus the Sunday night before 
 he was taken very ill. 
 
 A few hours before he was stricken he compiled an article 
 for the Christmas edition of one of his State papers. 
 
 His was the simple life in many respects. In evidence of this 
 his last request was that no Congressional delegation be ap 
 pointed to attend his funeral and that the ceremonies be of the 
 simplest character. 
 
 His taste was cultivated to a degree. In many years of 
 association with him I never heard fall from his lips an unkind 
 or hasty word. He suffered much. I have been in his room 
 when he was racked with pain, but never heard a murmur or a 
 word of complaint. He possessed patience for the small sor- 
 
Address of Mr. Lamb, of Virginia 77 
 
 rows of life, as he had shown courage for the great disappoint 
 ments that came to him and those he loved in his early youth. 
 
 He appeared to me as a link between the old time and the 
 new when together we discussed the issues of 1865 and the 
 characters of the men who figured in the civil and military 
 life of that stormy time. He knew many of the leading men 
 and officers. He had judged them from the view point of 
 youth, and these impressions wore off with his student life. 
 He knew only what he had gathered from history of the trials 
 and hardships and sufferings of the rank and file of the Con 
 federate army. History has not yet told and will never fully 
 portray the heroic sacrifices and unquenchable spirit of the 
 men and officers of the Southern army. 
 
 In addition to the simple life and patience that marked the 
 character of our deceased colleague I was often struck with the 
 correctness of his judgment and his strong sense of justice. 
 He was fair to his opponents in debate, and rarely, if ever, did 
 he lose his equanimity of temper. 
 
 He was a safe. counselor. He was sincere and frank always. 
 It might be said of him "That he was a man that would swear 
 to his own hurt and change not." If he possessed some of the 
 weaknesses that attach to our frail natures, I did not observe 
 them. 
 
 Inheritance, association, and education combined to make of 
 Senator MAU/)RY a model character. That these together fitted 
 him in an eminent degree for the responsible duties of a legis 
 lator the public records of Congress, running through more than 
 a decade, will amply show. 
 
 That he was warm-hearted and affectionate was clearly shown 
 by the manner in which he often spoke of his family and kindred. 
 
 I often thought that his simple and somewhat exclusive life 
 was possibly the result of self-imposed sacrifices for the good 
 
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 of others. This world has many such lives. The period in 
 which our colleague lived and was reared and educated produced 
 such characters. Sacrifice was the lot of all. It was necessary. 
 Besides, it was contagious. It was in the air and filled the 
 hearts and molded the lives of men and women. 
 
 The youths who drank in this spirit every day and watched 
 it make heroes of beardless youths and angels of mercy of 
 women raised in the lap of luxury, could but drink at the foun 
 tain of waters of sacrifice that flowed in bleeding wounds around 
 the beleaguered city, and spent its force in the hospitals where 
 diseased and mutilated humanity appealed for aid and sym 
 pathy. 
 
 The records of Congress in both Houses will hand down to 
 future generations the public life and services of our colleague. 
 Had he been blessed with robust health there is no calculating 
 the greater extent of his achievements. Had his party been 
 in the majority he would undoubtedly have been one of its 
 ablest leaders. 
 
 Those who knew him best will long regret his untimely end, 
 particularly the men in both Houses riearing the "three score 
 and ten," who look upon a Member of 59 as yet young and 
 active. 
 
 Another trait of character stood out prominently in Senator 
 MALLORY S life. It was the virtue of gentleness, the crowning 
 grace of great and good men. 
 
 He possessed this in an eminent degree. It helped no doubt 
 to endear him to a loyal and devoted constituency. It bound 
 him as with hoops of steel to those who knew him best and 
 loved him most. It will keep green his memory in their minds 
 and hearts when the scenes in which he figured shall have 
 faded and the public acts in which he participated become, as it 
 were, ancient history. 
 
Address oj Mr. Waldo, of New York 79 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. WALDO, OF NEW YORK 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: While I had known of Senator MAI. LORY and 
 of his distinguished life and services for many years, my personal 
 acquaintance only started from the year 1906, when I first came 
 to Congress. His whole life, as has been stated here perhaps 
 many times, was practically spent in the service of the public, 
 commencing with service as a soldier at the age of 15. There 
 are few men who have passed through personally so much of 
 the history of this country as did Senator MALLORY and yet 
 have died comparatively young. He was not, from all that I 
 have read or heard or have known of him, a man of exceptional 
 brilliancy in any way. He was a simple, plain, unostentatious 
 American citizen who was devoted to whatever duty came 
 before him. When I first met him I was particularly impressed 
 with this characteristic a man of such distinguished services 
 in almost all branches of the public service and yet as unassum 
 ing and modest as a schoolboy. He seemed to be an example 
 of the kind of modest, hard, simple, plain work upon which the 
 very life of our great Republic was founded. It is such men as 
 Senator MALLORY that carry on the work of this country and of 
 the world. They ask for no reward except the knowledge that 
 their work has been well done. If anything can justify or does 
 well justify such ceremonies as these, it is the calling to our 
 minds and to the minds of those who come after us that such 
 attention to duties, without the desire or the seeking for ap 
 plause, the attending to whatever comes before us at the 
 moment, is the one thing that is worth while in this life. It is 
 the one thing upon which the stability of human affairs depend. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. SULZER, OF NEW YORK 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER : On this sad and solemn occasion we meet to 
 pay a most deserved tribute to the memory of a good and 
 worthy man STEPHEN RussELL MALLORY late a Senator in 
 the Congress of the United States from the grand old Common 
 wealth of Florida. 
 
 It is fitting for us to pause for a short space of time to con 
 template the march of grim death that within, the past year has 
 deprived us of seven distinguished Senators, who have passed 
 away to their eternal reward. What a commentary on the un 
 certainty of this frail and transitory life. They were all great 
 men and faithful public servants. The mortality in the Senate 
 has, I believe, been greater during the past few months than in 
 any other like time in all the history of our country. 
 
 Call the roll of the illustrious dead. MORGAN and PETTUS, 
 the grand old men of Alabama; the genial LATIMER, of South 
 Carolina; the stately WILLIAM PINKNEY WHYTE, of Maryland; 
 REDFIELD PROCTOR, the sturdy oak of Vermont; and MALLORY 
 and BRYAN, the popular idols of the land of sunshine. They 
 were men upon whose like we shall seldom look again. Their 
 places can not be taken. They leave a void which can never 
 be filled. The death of these noble men is an irreparable loss 
 to their States and a misfortune to the country they served so 
 faithfully and so well. All dead, within a year! All friends; 
 and all gone to their eternal reward and final rest. They were 
 all my friends. I knew them well. I served in Congress with 
 them all. I was a friend of each. I grieve with those who 
 grieve, I mourn with those who mourn. 
 
Address of Mr. Sulzer, of New York 81 
 
 They were all true men, all honest men, all great men, all loyal 
 friends, heroically serving their country and working for the 
 good of mankind in the vineyard of the people. How sad it all 
 is to lose such friends: 
 
 Friend after friend departs; 
 
 Who hath not lost a friend? 
 There is no union here of hearts 
 
 That finds not here an end. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the career of STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY is a 
 most interesting one. It teaches a lesson we should all learn. 
 He crowded much in the active years of his instructive life. He 
 was a worker, a plodder, and he made progress and history. He 
 was born on the 2d day of November, 1848, in Pensacola, Fla., 
 of distinguished parents. He was the worthy son of an illus 
 trious sire. The father made history; so did the son. That 
 story is a part of the annals of our country. Every youth in the 
 land should read it. 
 
 At the age of 15, in 1863, young jVlALLORY entered the Con 
 federate army as a private, and subsequently served with dis 
 tinction as a midshipman in the Southern navy. The great con 
 flict over, he entered Georgetown College, in the District of Co 
 lumbia, in November, 1865, and graduated with high honors in 
 June, 1869. He taught a class at the college until July, 1871; 
 then was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana, 
 at New Orleans, in 1873; subsequently, in 1874, ne removed to 
 Pensacola, Fla., and began practicing law; was elected to the 
 lower house of the legislature in 1 876 ; was elected to the senate 
 of Florida in 1880, and reelected in 1884. 
 
 He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress and reelected to 
 
 the Fifty-third from the First District of Florida, and then the 
 
 crowning glory of his career the legislature of Florida elected 
 
 him to the United States Senate for the term beginning March 
 
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 4, 1897, and he was unanimously reelected in 1903. He received 
 the degree of doctor of laws from Georgetown University in June, 
 1904; and, had he lived, his term of sendee in the Senate would 
 not have expired until March 3, 1909. But in the midst of his 
 arduous labors came the inexorable call of the dread messenger 
 of death. 
 
 In the month of November, 1907, he suffered a general break 
 down as the sequence of an illness of some ten years duration. 
 On December 16 he announced that because of the condition of 
 his health he would not be a candidate again for reelection to the 
 United States Senate, and shortly thereafter, on the 23d day of 
 last December, he died, in the fifty-ninth year of his life, re 
 spected and honored and loved and mourned by all who knew 
 him. But he left us a priceless legacy 
 
 One of the few, the immortal names, 
 That were not born to die. 
 
 Senator MALLORY, Mr. Speaker, was a Democrat of the old 
 school, true to the teachings of the fathers. He had no pre 
 tense. He did not know what it was to be untrue to himself 
 or false to any man. He was a man of the simple life, of 
 courteous ways, and of genial manners. He was a quiet man, 
 without display or ostentation. He cared naught for the pomp 
 and circumstance of the world. He had a gentle manner, a 
 lovable disposition, a magnanimous mind, a kindly character, 
 and was hospitality personified. He had clear ideas of life, 
 fixed views of things, well-defined principles, much determina 
 tion, great force of character, and the love for his native South 
 land was the inspiration of his life. 
 
 He was broad minded in his views, tolerant of the opinions of 
 others, and he believed in the greatest liberty for the individual 
 consistent with the liberty of every other individual. He was 
 farseeing and sagacious, a wise counselor, a true friend, and a 
 
Address of Mr. Sulzer, of New York 83 
 
 safe guide. He was the foe of every special privilege and fought 
 the good fight, in Congress and out of Congress, for equal rights 
 to all. 
 
 He had a great mind, a good heart, a genial nature, and a 
 kindly word for all. He was a student, a lawyer, a soldier, and 
 a statesman. He was a cultivated gentleman without fear and 
 without reproach. For years he suffered much, but he bore the 
 ills and pains of mortal disease with Job-like patience. Amid 
 all his suffering he worked on with a smile on his pallid face 
 and a fortitude that commanded the admiration of all. He did 
 his duty to the last. He died in the service of his country. 
 
 He knew that death was near, yet he had no fear. Beneath 
 his calm exterior there beat an unconquerable heart that never 
 quailed, that never doubted, that never failed, that never mur 
 mured, and that never complained. He welcomed the final 
 summons, and when it came he bade farewell to earthly things, 
 and in his quiet way, so characteristic of his earthly life, he 
 quietly journeyed to that undiscovered country from whose 
 bourne no traveler returns. 
 
 Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace! 
 
 Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, 
 While the stars burn, the moons increase, 
 
 And the great ages onward roll. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR, CLARK, OF FLORIDA 
 
 Mr. SPEAKER: It may not be generally known that, although 
 Florida was admitted into the Union of States on the jd day 
 of May, 1845, this is the first time since she became a member 
 of the Federal Union that a Senator from Florida or a Rep 
 resentative from that State has died during his tenure of office. 
 The first to die while engaged in active service was Senator 
 STEPHEN RUSSELL MALLORY, only to be followed in a few weeks 
 by his successor, WILLIAM JAMES BRYAN. For nearly sixty- 
 three years of Florida s history as an American State the hand 
 of death was never laid upon a single one of her representa 
 tives here in either House. It seems a strange dispensation 
 of Providence, and one that I shall not undertake to fathom, 
 that almost within the month after Senator MALLORY had fin 
 ished his labors and gone across the river the young Senator 
 appointed to succeed him should also be called from his 
 labors here. 
 
 I was asked, Mr. Speaker, a few days ago by a gentleman, 
 what was the distinguishing characteristic of Senator MALLORY? 
 I answered without hesitation, and I think that would be the 
 answer given by all the people of Florida, that his most 
 distinguished characteristic was his sterling, rugged, uncom 
 promising honesty under any and all circumstances. As has 
 been said by gentlemen who have paid tribute to him to-day, 
 he did not rank in that class of American statesmen known for 
 their great brilliancy, known for their gifts of magnificent 
 oratory, but he was painstaking, he was careful, he was loyal, 
 he was true, and he was honest. 
 
Address of Mr. Clark, of Florida 85 
 
 No step in his life, whether as private citizen, whether as a 
 practitioner at the bar, whether as a member of the Florida 
 legislature, a Member of this House, or a member of the Senate, 
 was ever taken except with the purest of motives and the most 
 patriotic of purposes. I knew Mr. MALLORY personally for 
 nearly a quarter of a century. I have gone with him over the 
 State of Florida in political campaigns. I have known him 
 well during all that time and, although we have had in the State 
 of Florida at times fierce factional differences, the opponents of 
 Senator MALLORY always knew that he would never stoop to 
 anything that was improper or unfair to achieve an advantage. 
 The people of the State of Florida, I think, loved Mr. MALLORY 
 probably with an intenser affection than any other of her sons. 
 People who bitterly opposed him in the field of politics admired, 
 honored, and respected him. I think I can say, too, Mr. 
 Speaker, for him something that is exceedingly rare in American 
 politics. Having been a Member of this House for two terms, as 
 has already been mentioned, he was a candidate for a third 
 term, and having been defeated by the present occupant of the 
 chair [Mr. SPARKMAN], he retired to his home at Pensacola and 
 assumed his position as a quiet citizen, taking up his work as a 
 lawyer and lending every possible aid in the upbuilding of the 
 city and State he loved so well. 
 
 In 1897 there was a fierce Senatorial conflict before the legis 
 lature of Florida. Mr. MALLORY was not a candidate. The 
 contest was between others. After this contest had dragged 
 its weary and bitter lengths for some weeks and it seemed im 
 possible that either of the contestants could be elected, some 
 gentlemen who were not supporters of either of the two promi 
 nent candidates got together and it was suggested that they 
 send for Mr. MALLORY. 
 
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 They telegraphed for him, and he came to Tallahassee. I 
 remember how he looked when he arrived. The dread disease 
 which eventually carried him off was then upon him. Pale and 
 emaciated, he was hardly recognizable by the friends who had 
 known him in the years before. 
 
 He had a conference that night with the gentleman who had 
 sent for him, and the next day, without the expenditure of a 
 dollar, without a promise of any character, he was elected to 
 the United States Senate. In 1904, without the expenditure of 
 a cent, he was unanimously renominated, and in 1905, without 
 an opponent, and without the expenditure of a dollar, he was 
 unanimously reelected as a Senator. 
 
 I believe it is generally conceded among the people of the 
 State of Florida that if his health had improved he would have 
 been returned for the third time to the Senate, with practically 
 no opposition. 
 
 Mr. MALLORY S life will always be an inspiration to the youth 
 of Florida. It ought to be an inspiration to the youth of this 
 whole country. What he was he had carved out for himself, 
 because as has been so well stated, he was left in his early 
 youth to strike out for himself, without money and without aid. 
 
 He has never been "found wanting" in any position of honor 
 or trust to which his fellow-citizens have called him. Modest, 
 unassuming, and generous, he was a model citizen; honest, sin 
 cere, and patriotic, he was a faithful public servant; candid, 
 kind, and unselfish, he was a genuine friend. He despised 
 hypocrisy. He would spurn success secured at the sacrifice 
 of honor. He never comprised with wrong or winked at fraud. 
 The Senate may have had abler members, but no man who ever 
 sat in that august body was more thoroughly consecrated to the 
 cause of right than was our dead Senator STEPHEN RUSSELL 
 MALLORY. 
 
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