it is not so, because otherwise it might produce effects that would be detrimental not only to the men who live but to the friends who surround them.

I bade adieu in this Chamber to a friend who in life was very near to me. I hope that in the future these Halls may be filled with men who possess the heart, who have the ability, who have the judgment that he had who has gone hence forever. Peace to his ashes.

ADDRESS OF MR. CAIN, OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

Mr. SPEAKER: Four years have passed since I first entered this Hall. During that time I have listened with deep feeling to the tributes paid here to the many eminent men that the insidious reaper, Death, has taken from our midst. It has never been my privilege until now to utter a sentence or a word in connection with the departure of any member of this House.

At this time, however, I feel prompted to utter a sentiment in harmony I hope with the sentiments which have been uttered by the distinguished gentlemen who have preceded me. I come to pay a tribute of respect to the departed dead. I come to mingle my sympathies and, if I may be allowed to say so, the sympathies of my race with your sympathies for the bereavements which this House of Congress has suffered, and which have befallen the States from whence came these departed Representatives.

Men are known by their lives, and their labors furnish the best evidence of their worth to the communities from which they came, and the States they represented, and the nation whose citizens they The deeds, the labors of the distinguished departed, are to us the best evidence of their worth and their value.

were.

The gentlemen who have preceded me in these eulogies have aptly described the character and the services of him who has gone. It

was not my pleasure to be familiarly associated with him on committees of this House, or to have any intimate social relation with him other than as a fellow-member on this floor. But I regard it as but right, when death comes into this Hall, that each member should necessarily feel the bereavement. Each of us is reminded then there will come a time when we, like our fallen comrades, must take our departure.

The fact that the State of Nebraska had trusted Mr. WELCH with the care of her interests in this Hall is indeed one of the evidences of his value to that State and his worth to the people he represented. The labors which he performed upon the committees of this House, his deportment among his fellow-members, are the highest encomiums that can be paid to him and his worth as a Representative and a citizen.

The confidence which the State of Nebraska reposed in Mr. WELCH must indeed be to us the best evidence of the regard in which he was held at home, and of his value to the community in which he lived, of his moral and social worth to the State which he had the honor to represent here. The best evidence of his high value comes to us from the arduous labors in which he was engaged and the honorable manner in which he discharged all his duties.

Mr. Speaker, in this Hall we all meet upon one common level. I therefore come, and I may be pardoned for the allusion, to present on this occasion the sympathy of a race of men who hitherto have had but little representation on this floor. I want the nation to know that those with whom I am identified, the constituency whom I represent on this floor, feel a common sympathy with all that affects the interests of this great country. No member of this House can be smitten down by the hand of death but we partake of the sorrow which his loss causes the nation.

When any one State loses an honorable representative, the constituency that I represent feel a common sympathy with that State in its

bereavement. When the nation suffers the loss of one of its great and good men, we as a part of that nation claim the privilege of paying our tribute of respect and honor at the shrine of his memory.

Sir, death is the common lot of all men; none too high, none too low but must pass in the same solemn train. It is ours as statesmen, as citizens, to recognize the importance of this great truth; that whatever may be the aspirations of men, whatever may be their attainments here on earth, there must come a time when their earthly career shall be cut short and they shall be carried to that bourne from whence none may return.

Upon the altar of sorrow I come now to pour out my sympathy and the sympathy of those whom I represent. I come to tender to this nation the sympathy of a heart that feels whatever loss this nation may suffer, whatever loss a State may sustain. We join in common with our fellow-citizens in paying our tribute of respect to the memory of him who has gone, and of expressing our sympathy with the State and the nation in its loss, and to implore the blessings of Heaven upon all our common country.

The resolutions offered by Mr. MAJORS were then agreed to unanimously; and in accordance therewith (at nine o'clock and ten minutes p. m.) the House adjourned.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE.

FEBRUARY 22, 1879.

A message from the House of Representatives by Mr. GEORGE M. ADAMS, its Clerk, communicated to the Senate the intelligence of the death of Mr. FRANK WELCH, late a member of the House from the State of Nebraska, and transmitted the resolutions of the House thereon.

FEBRUARY 25, 1879.

Mr. PADDOCK. Mr. President, I call up the resolutions of the House of Representatives of respect to the memory of the late Hon. FRANK WELCH, member of the House of Representatives.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions will be read.
The Secretary read as follows:

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
February 21, 1879.

Resolved, That this House has heard with profound regret of the death of Hon. FRANK WELCH, late a Representative from the State of Nebraska.

Resolved, That the House do now suspend the consideration of public business, in order to pay proper respect to the memory of the lamented deceased.

Resolved, That in token of regard for the memory of the lamented deceased the members of this House do wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

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Resolved, That the Clerk of the House do communicate these resolutions to the Senate of the United States.

Resolved, That out of further respect to the memory of the deceased this House do now adjourn.

Mr. PADDOCK. I send resolutions to the desk to be read.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions will be read.

The Secretary read as follows:

Resolved, That the Senate receives with sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon. FRANK WELCH, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Nebraska, and tenders to the family and kindred of the deceased the assurance of sympathy under their sad bereavement.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to transmit to the family of Mr. WELCH a certified copy of these resolutions.

ADDRESS OF MR. PADDOCK, OF NEBRASKA.

Mr. PRESIDENT: I little thought when my late colleague of the House sat near me here listening to the eulogies pronounced in the memorial service for the lamented Morton that only a few months would pass until I should be summoned to speak in his funeral. Verily it hath been truly written, "In the midst of life we are in death." How often during the past year has this solemn admonition come to us. True, our own immediate brotherhood has been spared during these later months, but the shafts of death have fallen thick and fast among our brethren in the other House. One bereavement has followed another there in quick succession, until in very truth it hath become a House of mourning.

Mr. President, I shall not delay the Senate by an extended memorabilia of our lamented colleague, Representative WELCH. He was born on Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts, February 10, 1835; was graduated at the Boston High School, and afterward specially