DECEMBER 12, 1899.

 Mr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Speaker, it is my painful duty to announce to the House of Representatives that on the 19th day of June the Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, a member of this House, died at his home in St. Clairsville, Ohio. He had been a Representative in Congress for ten years and died full of honors. I offer for adoption the resolutions which I send to the Clerk's desk, and at some later day will ask the House to set apart a time for the further consideration of the memory of our deceased colleague.

The resolutions were read, as follows:

 Resolved, That the House has heard with great sorrow of the death of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a Representative from the State of Ohio.

 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these resolutions to the Senate, and that as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased this House do now adjourn.

The resolutions were agreed to.

JANUARY 8, 1900

 Mr. GROSVENOR. I ask unanimous Consent that Thursday next, from the hour of 1 o'clock in the afternoon, be set apart for eulogies on the life and character of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a member of this House from Ohio.

There being no objection, the motion was agreed to.

Proceedings in the House.

JANUARY 10,1900.

 Mr. GROSVENOR Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent of the House to vacate the order made on yesterday for eulogies on my late colleague, Mr. DANFORD of Ohio, fixed for tomorrow. I hold in my hand a telegram from his successor, Mr. GILL, who states that it is impossible for him to be present at that time.

 The SPEAKER If there be no objection, the order referred to by the gentleman from Ohio will be vacated.

There was no objection, and it was so ordered.

 Mr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that Friday next, from 1 o'clock in the afternoon, be set apart for eulogies upon the late LORENZO DANFORD, a member of Congress from Ohio.

 The. SPEAKER The gentleman from Ohio [Mr. GROSVENOR] asks unanimous consent that Friday next, commencing at 1 o'clock, be set apart for eulogies on the life and services of the late Mr. DANFORD of Ohio. Is there objection?

 Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I understand the gentleman to ask for Friday.

Mr. GROSVENOR Yes.

 Mr. RICHARDSON. Under the rules every Friday is specially dedicated to certain work reported by the Committee on Claims and the Committee on War Claims, and I submit that the gentleman ought to take some other day than Friday. We have plenty of days other than Friday to the setting apart of which no one will make objection.

 Mr. GROSVENOR. Mr. Speaker, I understand there is nothing from that committee ready for action.

Several MEMBERS. Oh, yes.

Mr. Richardson. I understand there is. Some gentlemen

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on this side told me this morning that there was business from that committee which was ready. My colleague [Mr. SIMS], a member of that committee, sits in front of me, and he can state whether it is true or not.

 Mr. GROSVENOR. I will change my request, then, Mr. Speaker, and ask that Saturday be set apart.

 The SPEAKER. The gentleman from Ohio amends his request and asks that Saturday next, commencing at 1 o'clock, be set apart for eulogies on the life and character of the late Mr. DANFORD, of Ohio. Is there objection ?

There was no objection.

JANUARY 20, 1900.

 The SPEAKER. The hour of 1 o'clock has arrived, the time set by the special order for memorial services on the death of the late Mr. DANFORD, of Ohio.

 Mr. GILL. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk.

The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, that opportunity may be given for paying tributes to the memory of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Ohio.

Resolved, That, as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished public servant, the House at the conclusion of these memorial proceedings shall stand adjourned.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the deceased.

Ordered, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.

ADDRESS OF MR. GILL.

 Mr. SPEAKER: It is in the presence of death and in the Contemplation of his handiwork that the kinship of all humanity is most forcibly manifest to every thoughtful mind. can it be other than a useful and humanizing experience to all that live to thus receive a new and most emphatic impress of the great truth of the brotherhood of man? The divine laws of kindness and of charity can not be too often freshened up in our hearts, and their timely exercise toward the living, both as an opportunity and as an obligation, should be earnestly resolved upon each time that we pay our loving and tearful tributes to the revered but unresponsive dead.

 At such times the thoughts of the exalted should tend toward humanity, and the lowly may lift his head to a higher level ill the absolute assurance of a universal ultimate equality. For though the carved marble and the laurel wreath may be placed, and justly, over one, and the modest slab and a solitary flower may be the only mark that love can give to the resting place of another, yet beneath the token of remembrance in either case the silent lips, the pulseless heart, and the rigid clay are in every essential identical. Both, as they lie there prostrate, have been stripped of every possession, whether material, intellectual, or spiritual, and to neither is there anything left beyond the equal hope of a common resurrection morning. Surely some such thought as this justifies the poet when he exclaims-

O fading honors of the dead!

 O high ambitions, lowly laid!

 The full consciousness of this thought is borne in upon us in id a striking manner if we but pause an instant to consider the sad havoc wrought by the fell destroyer during the past year in the ranks of those who have won fame in widely different walks of life. By so doing we can learn afresh the truth that the great Leveler grants no favors, but that high and low, rich and poor, youth and age, alike must obey the summons to that " unknown silent shore. " Thus, even he who held the great office of vice-president of the United States was not exempt from the chilling blast, and when the genial Hobart heard the summons, " Weary wanderer, Come, " he was, notwithstanding the showering tears of a nations bereaved, laid away in the bosom of our Common mother earth, with the throng of undistinguished dead, to sleep the same dreamless sleep.

This House can not escape the universal experience, and to-day the work of legislation halts once again to permit the performance of the sad duty of paying our tributes of honor and respect to the memory of yet another of its members who has passed away in the last year.

 Were it not that LORENZO DANFORD was my immediate predecessor as the Representative of my district on this floor, I would prefer to sit silent and listen to others more able to speak in fitting language of my dear and honored friend; but, conscious as I am of the exalted place he held in the hearts of the people whom I have the honor to represent, I should, even in the absence of the custom of this House calling for my participation in the proceedings of this hour, feel that I had disregarded their wishes should I permit this occasion to pass without attempting to give expression to their high appreciation of his character and their love for his memory.

Not in years has a sorrow so universal pervaded the homes of the Sixteenth district of Ohio as that which followed the announcement of June 19, 1899, that LORENZO DANFORD was dead. Everywhere throughout the district the news came as a stroke of personal sorrow to all, and on the streets, in the factories, on the farms, and wherever men are wont to Congregate were heard mingled expressions of keenest sorrow and regret. W hen I recall the faces of his friends shadowed o'er with thoughts of parting and the eloquent tears that sprang unbidden to the eye, I am reminded that no poor sentiment of mine Can thrill the chords of love with such majesty and power as did his simple story, for each could say-

His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand  up And say to all the world, " This was a man !"

Born on a farm in Washington Township, Belmont County, Ohio, October 18, 1829, he was fortunate in living through the most magnificent period of opportunity which the history of this nation presents. Breathing the free air of Country life and intellectually expanding under the educational influences of his teachers and the ready knowledge of his father, he was soon able to Comprehend the fateful trend of the political movements of the times and to intelligently play his part in the great drama of human affairs.

 Beginning at the period of his majority, a time of great activity had set in along all lines of progress, not only in the sphere of polities, but also in the field of industrial advancement. Territorial acquisitions had extended the boundaries of our nation from ocean to ocean; property qualifications had been superseded by manhood suffrage; the isolated settler, in his humble Cottage, was now the peer of any in the land; canals had brought the West into Closer Connection with the East and opened the markets for the surplus products of the farms; the Mexican war fired his youthful blood with martial valor, while the great discussion over slavery thrilled his soul with freedoms highest and noblest impulses.

He received a common-school education; attended college at Waynesburg, Pa., for two years, studied law, and was admitted the bar in 1854. The people of his native county early recognized the characteristics which later were to carry him to higher positions of activity and responsibility by choosing him successively in 1857 and 1859 as prosecuting attorney; but ere second term had expired, vehement discussion of the burning question of that hour had given way to a passionate appeal - the arbitrament of force, and the booming cannon heralded e first act in history's greatest tragedy.

In that hour of his country's peril he did not hesitate to sacrifice all upon its altar, and resigning his office he enlisted for three months as private in the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon the expiration of his service he returned home ad assisted in raising a company of the Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was chosen second lieutenant, and later was promoted for bravery upon the field of battle to be first lieutenant and captain. He was one of the nation's heroes who Stained his country's honor upon the bloody fields of Shiloh, Lone River, Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and any others.

 Owing to failing health he resigned his commission in 1864 Id returned to his native county. The sterling qualities which had so successfully carried him through his early career were manifest in the richer and more conspicuous triumphs of his later years. Devoting himself assiduously to the practice of which he soon became the leading advocate of the eastern Ohio r, and step by step won the esteem and confidence not only of e people but also of his professional brethren. He was eminently fitted for forensic triumphs, and was in a most remarkable degree successful in obtaining favorable decisions in his jury cases.

 Tall and graceful, with keen eye and massive head, a commanding presence and a most musical voice, he was an orator who carried conviction to the minds of his hearers, his clear logic and burning eloquence often enabling him to sway his auditors at will. Nor was this power exerted in the court room alone, for he was one of the most forceful and pleasing speakers who ever graced the political forum of his native State, and even in this Hall he has won notable triumphs in the arena of debate, of which, and of other details of his work in Congress, his friends and associates still serving here are in a position to speak more fully and satisfactorily than I can.

 In 1864 he was a member of the electoral college of Ohio, and in 1892 he was again a member and president of same. In 1872 he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress from the Sixteenth Ohio district, and his personal popularity was so great that he was successful in his campaign over the intrepid and eloquent John A. Bingham, who enjoyed a national reputation as a brilliant statesman and scholar. Although the task before him was difficult, yet so well did he perform the arduous duties of his new trust that the people ratified the choice of that convention by reelecting him to Congress in 1874 and again in 1876.

 Retiring from political life in 1879, he resumed the practice of law. His reputation as a powerful advocate was so well established that hardly a case of any importance was tried in his native county upon which he was not employed as attorney for one side or the other. Although in many heated contests, he never took an unfair advantage of a witness or an opponent, for, although intellectually combative and persistent in opposition, he was always generous to an adversary, and the kindness of his disposition was never more apparent than in the skill Which he displayed in eliciting needed information. Always alert, active, and forceful in behalf of a client, his high sense of honor prevented him from falling into the tricks of a mere pettifogger, and he was consequently respected and admired even by his bitterest opponent. Just and dignified in his demeanor, he was a man of warm impulses, and his generous heart was large enough to carry Within its sympathies all classes of men. To those who knew him well he was unassuming and confiding, and he was at all times absolutely steadfast in his. friendships.

 Reentering politics in 1894, he became a candidate for Congress, and after a heated contest was nominated for that high position and elected by a large majority. Appointed by Speaker Reed chairman of the Immigration Committee, he displayed unusual breadth and ability in the discussions arising out of the intricate and difficult problems coming within the scope of the Work of that committee. He was reelected in 1896 and in 1898, but ere the Fifty-sixth Congress began its labors his spirit had taken its flight to the God who gave it.

In 1858 he was married to Anne H. Cook, of Jefferson County, and as a result of this union three sons were born- William, John, and Thomas-the first and last of whom still survive. His wife dying in 1867, he was again married in 1870, to Mary M. Adams, their only child being Carrie Lee, now a nurse in the Philippine Islands.

The proximate cause of his death was the exposure to which he w as subjected in attending the funeral of his father, Samuel Danford, and his constitution, already weakened by disease, was unable to withstand the insidious attacks of la grippe which followed. Though he fought in the sick room with the same vim and determination he had always displayed, yet slowly but surely the tide of his life ebbed away. Surrounded by kind and sympathetic friends who forestalled his every wish, his mind wandered again to the scenes of his childhood, and he longed for the hills and vales, the simplicity and purity of country life.

Loving hands removed him to the home of his cousin, John Sidebottom, a few miles from his own home, at St. Clairsville, where, surrounded by peace and plenty, and subject to the gentle ministrations of his devoted daughter, Carrie Lee, the hourglass slowly ran its course, with hope freshening as renewed strength seemed to summon back the old fire and vigor, and anon giving way to despair, as the hectic flush faded, leaving the patient weaker than before, until at last, on a beautiful day in June, the morning sunrise seemed to flood his countenance with a strange, new light, and ere the evening shadows gathered Death's finger touched him and he fell asleep.

To describe him whom we honor to-day as merely an ordinary man would be to do his memory great injustice; to say that he was a very great man, as that term is generally understood, would be fulsome flattery; but, measured by the standard of purposes well and earnestly accomplished, Captain DANFORD was truly great, for by faithful and honorable conduct in public and private life he won the confidence, esteem, and love of those who knew him best, and in their hearts his name will ever be written, like that of Abou Ben Adhem, as one who loved his fellow-man.

 Mr. DANFORD was a man of action as well as a man of thought, and, having that valuable possession generally termed "good common sense, " he was clear and practical in his views of affairs, and it was needless to be in doubt as to his position upon any public question. He was frank in all that he did. He was faithful in every sphere of life, public as well as private, and whether as soldier or as civilian fidelity to his duty always characterized his conduct. He was a patriot in the best and broadest sense of that term, intensely loyal to his country. He loved the Republic because it meant a sovereignty under organized law, able and ready to give back to its citizens a full retune for all services demanded of them-" a republic with iron in its blood. "

 He loved his country for its devotion to human rights and its adherence to every pledge of public faith, and he gloried in its onward march of freedom and in its progressive spirit. He had unlimited Faith in its imperishable vitality, power, and purpose to protect and rule the American Continent. Mr. Speaker, our friend lives in all that is deathless; the physical body is laid away under the sod of the valley, but those qualities of soul which manifested themselves in devotion to God and country, in kindness and love to neighbors and friends, and in fidelity to truth and honesty of purpose in life, will bear his memory upon the bosom of everlasting remembrance. There is so much to be said that is good of him, and with such justice, that I feel entirely free to say that I do not wish to be understood as claiming that he was a perfect man.

 Being only mortal, he had, like all of us, many faults, toward which he was even more severe than his most censorious critic; but when we think of the superabundance of his many virtues, all else melts away into insignificance.

 It is also to be said that there was a sad minor strain of sorrow running through his life which brought to him a degree of suffering that at times gave his face that tenderly pathetic look Which is born of irremediable heartache; but he complained not, and bore his cross manfully. Truly, in this, it must be admitted, there was after all nothing so very exceptional; for where is the life that is ideal, or in which the stream of happiness or even of satisfaction flows smoothly without the murmuring rapids or even the thundering cataract at some point ?

 And here, not alone in contemplation of the facts in the life of Captain DANFORD, but referring to what I am sure is the too common experience of most mortals as to the painful contrast between the prospect and the retrospect of this life, I will venture to recall a vivid word picture by an eloquent tongue, in which there is very much of consolation to soften its somber shadows. He says:

The loves and friendships of individuals partaking of the frail character of human life are brief and uncertain. The experiences of human life may be shortly summed up: A little loving and a good deal of sorrowing; some bright hopes and many bitter disappointments; some gorgeous Thursdays, when the skies are bright and the heavens blue, when Providence, bending over us in blessing, glades the heart almost to madness; many dismal Fridays, when the smoke of torment beclouds the mind and undying sorrows gnaw upon the heart; some high ambitions and many Waterloo defeats, until the heart becomes like the charnel house, filled with dead affections, embalmed in holy but sorrowful memories; and then the cord is loosened, the golden bowl is broken, the individual life-a cloud, a vapor-passeth away.

 As Captain DANFORD sank into his last sleep, some one inquired as to his comfort, and he replied, "All is well." Let us believe that at the dawning of the morning in the New Jerusalem he found a richer, fuller realization of his words than earth could give and was able to say, with Longfellow-

There is no death! What seems so is transition;

This life of mortal breath

Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.

ADDRESS OF MR. McCall.

Mr. SPEAKER: It was not my fortune to know LORENZO DANFORD before he became a member of this House, so that I did not have that intimate personal acquaintance with him which would justify me in making any extended remarks on this occasion. I would say, however, that in some of the work here, and especially the work which he as a member was most interested in, I was closely associated with him. He was chairman of the Committee on Immigration, of which I was a member, and I had occasion in the work of that committee to know him somewhat intimately, and especially to know something of the way in which he performed his public duty.

 I was impressed with the great care and conscientiousness with which he did his work. He was, as members know, a firm believer in the policy of restricting immigration. He gave a great deal of his time while a member of this House and a great deal of ability as well to that single subject; he made the most elaborate preparation upon it, and it was an occasion of sorrow to him that he did not finally secure the passage of the bill he had so long advocated. His successor in this body has feelingly alluded to the sorrow which he appeared to have suffered. Very likely he had his full share, but he showed no sign of being consumed with vain regret over what had gone by, but he kept his face turned manfully toward the future, and did his utmost upon each new condition and to solve each new problem as it arose. He was an able and devoted Representative and a true friend, and in the presence of those who knew him well, and especially the members from the great State which he served and which he loved, I wish to add my word and pay my tribute to his worth and to his memory.

ADDRESS OF MR. KERR.

Mr. SPEAKER: I shall undertake no eulogium upon the life and career of my dead colleague, but I want to leave upon the record a few words in remembrance of an old friend.

 The statesmen of Ohio naturally divide into two classes and into two periods-those who precede and those who follow the days which marked Garfield's greatest fame. To this observation one exception should be noted. John Sherman belonged to both of these periods. His public career was respectable before Corwin's brilliant sun went toward its setting, and it was national and distinguished before the first gun of the civil war was fired, and in the end, as it was longer so was it greater than that of any Ohioan. In practical statesmanship and in constructing legislation John Sherman has no peer among Ohio statesmen, living or dead.

 In the days preceding Garfield, with one exception, John A. Bingham was the greatest orator Ohio had produced. Yet when this great man was in full possession of his resplendent powers, "while his shadow still was falling toward the west," the people of his district took from him his seat in this House and gave it to LORENZO DANFORD. No ordinary mall could have wrested from this old commoner of Ohio his seat in Congress.

 When Captain DANFORD was first elected to Congress he was in the meridian of a splendid physical and mental manhood. His people had been contributing to the public service such men as Stanton and Stanbery and Bingham, and with these men was he measured and weighed. Those of us who knew him best as he was in his latter service here, somewhat burdened with years, his physical and mental strength weakened by infirmities, and the gloom of a constitutional melancholy thickening toward the end, can but little appreciate the strength and virility of the man during his service with such parliamentary giants as Blaine and Garfield and Hill and Randolph Tucker.

 Mr. DANFORD'S experience has been duplicated hundreds, perhaps thousands of times in the history of this body. He had many of the elements of greatness, and had his service been continuous, and a public career the concentrated and consecrated purpose of his life, he would have taken high rank in the House, but he was a lawyer, the profession his sure and certain staff; office was secondary or incidental. With him, as in all such cases, and they are the rule, his professional achievements were modified by his public career and his public career interrupted by the demands of his profession .

 If I could extract from his combination of qualities the predominant one, I would say that it was his modesty. He shrank from making himself conspicuous, and it was only in the discharge of duty that he put himself in positions attracting attention or notice. Modesty has spoiled many a career and doomed many men of talent and aptitude to obscurity. But after all this quality in public men has its compensations. It escapes notoriety, which is worse than obscurity; against it the javelins of envy are seldom thrown; it escapes jealousy's poisoned fangs, and when life's fitful fever has burned out it rests as well and sleeps as sound as the head that has worn a crown.

 I remember well the first time I saw LORENZO DANFORD; it was back in the seventies and among his old comrades of the Fifteenth Ohio. It was at a " Camp fire, " and there he was at his best. I recall him now as he was then, strong, rugged standing firmly upon the ground, perfectly at home among the men who had endured with him the dangers and hardships of war, my ideal of a Citizen soldier, and, withal, in referring to those who had succumbed to the' hurricane of battle, as tender as a mother.

 He was modest even about his service in the civil war, long and distinguished as it was. I have talked to him many times about it—about his regiment, many of whose soldiers went from my district—and the only thing I now recall about it all with which he collected himself conspicuously was his paternal care and watchfulness over a younger brother who was in his command.

 With a father's care and affection he shielded this young brother from the rude blasts of war; and when we are weighed and the credit given for balances, it will not be our performances in the larger sphere and more conspicuous relations of public life which will weigh most to our advantage or discomfiture, but rather in the narrow circle of family and friendship will the reckoning be made.

 Mr. DANFORD was an eminent lawyer at the Ohio bar and in his section. When politics or public duty did not subtract from his professional efforts, he commanded one side or the other of every important case. He had a rugged, homely way of stating propositions of law and fact, and, with a reputation for honesty and candor, at a country bar and before country juries he won his cases, which, after all, is the best measure and test of the success or failure of a professional career.

 But, Mr. Speaker, I do not dwell upon my colleague as a statesman, a lawyer, or a public man.  I knew him best in the relations of friendship, and as a friend I pay his memory this modest tribute; I lay upon his grave a flower of remembrance.

ADDRESS OF MR. GROSVENOR.

 Mr. SPEAKER: I come here with no prepared eulogy to participate in the ceremonies of this hour. My first acquaintance with Captain DANFORD was during the period of the civil war. I knew him as a bright, handsome, thoroughly capable soldier of the Volunteer Army. I have no particular remembrance of anything special in his career that came under my own personal observation, excepting a general recollection of this character. Following the battle of Stone River, in which he participated, the regiment to which he belonged, the Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, became the subject of an investigation, which was made by a court of inquiry appointed by General Rosecrans, and which consisted of Col. Stanley Matthews, then colonel of the Fifty-first Ohio, and another officer whose name I have forgotten, and myself. It was not because of any character or conduct of the regiment itself, but there was an issue made in a controversy between the colonel of that regiment and the major. The turning point of that inquiry was whether or not Colonel Wallace was in command of the brigade on the second day of that great battle, and if so, who was in command of the regiment itself and if it was the major, whose name I know but do not care to mention, the question arose whether he took command of the regiment as he ought to have done, and properly discharged his duty.

 We spent several days visiting the various points of the battlefield, and some very laughable facts came to our knowledge. We found that there was absolutely grave doubt and uncertainty whether Colonel Gibson actually commanded the brigade at any time during that day or whether he did not; and when he came to testify himself he described how he had been cut off from his command with two pieces of artillery, a section of a battery, and he had skirmished around over the principal parts of the battlefield, and finally got safely into camp at night with his two guts and the few men he had with him.

 Here is where Captain DANFORD came in with that precise, clear-headed mind that he always had. As captain, or the officer in command of his company, he testified. He testified of the movements of his part of the command on that day, and there was no general officer from Rosecrans down who had a more complete and graphic description at his tongue's end of every movement made by him than DANFORD had. He bore the characteristics of a soldier that he had afterwards as a lawyer and afterwards as a statesman.

 He was elected to the Forty-third, Forty-fourth, and Forty-fifth Congresses. He served about the time that it takes a man of ordinary capacity to become valuable and efficient, and then he was retired for some reason that I do not understand. That he was making rapid progress toward leadership in the House is the common report of men who knew him in that day, and he served with a class of men equal, at least, to any one period of time that we have had since the war. Then he became conspicuous as a lawyer, not perhaps conspicuous in the scientific knowledge of the law books, but noted as one of the greatest trial lawyers in that section of the State of Ohio, and he lived in a locality that produced not only the great men which my colleague [Mr. KERR] has referred to, but such men as Shannon and Kennon and Cowen and other great men of that day. Then he came to Congress. He had participated in every political campaign in the State of Ohio. There was a time when I believed that he was as effective a stump speaker as there was on the stump in Ohio, and he came very often into the mining sections of my district, before I came to Congress, and spoke with wonderful efficiency. He was not what we usually call an eloquent man; he did not lay any claim to that; but he had the power of statement, of political proposition, and the power of application of current facts which made his speech upon the stump one of the most vote-getting of all the speakers I knew when he was at his best.

 He received a serious injury, almost met his death, by a railroad accident, and came out of that and lingered at the very door of the other world for quite a time. I have thought, and I think I am right about it, that he never quite recovered the full spring and activity of the capacity that he enjoyed before. But he came back to Congress, and we all of us who were here in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth know how well he discharged his duty. He had become exceedingly anxious with regard to certain matters of legislation, and sometimes he almost lost his temper when baffled and headed off by the various plans of the opposition here. He was one of those persistent, steadfast men who never yield when they believe they are right. I do not believe that there was one man on this floor nor in public life in this country who in his official capacity acted with a closer reference to conscientious belief and conscientious duty than did LORENZO DANFORD. He never had any buncombe about him. You never heard him on the stump, nor in this House, nor by the introduction of bills, nor by any other process, ever bringing forward a mere buncombe resolution, bill, or suggestion. What he brought here he favored. What he advocated here he believed it was his duty to support. That which he opposed he opposed not because of its effect upon him, but because of his obligation to duty.

 He began to go downward; death was staring him in the face; and in that hour, as in the case of a great many others, he turned with fond recollection to his old home in Ohio. In the month of November or December preceding his death he had gone to his home and stood at the deathbed of his father, an old man, a farmer of Belmont County, over go years of age. When he came back he himself was ill, and he told me and others that his present trouble had come of staying in the cold and cheerless farmhouse of his father, away from the usual conflicts that he had enjoyed, and he felt that a very serious condition had come upon him. He wanted to get back again, as his trouble pressed upon him. He thought of Ohio, and talked of Ohio, and finally he told a colleague very dearly loved and myself, one day, that he was going home. He said, " I am going to Ohio. I will get more good out of that air of southeastern Ohio than I can get out of all the medicine of all the doctors in this city. "

 He spoke of its altitude, 600 feet above the Ohio River, and said, " The purest air on earth is the air of Belmont County. " And he was not far wrong in his assertion of the loveliness, beauty, and healthfulness of the home in which he had lived. Those of us who attended his funeral and went to St. Clairsville for the first time were impressed with the beauty of the surroundings, and we did not wonder that in the hour of his dissolution, as it were, he almost cried like a child for the air and the surroundings of his Ohio home.

 He had the confidence and respect and love of his people. They came from every county in his district. They came in great numbers. They came on that beautiful June day to do honor to the memory of the man who had been so long their champion and leader. And I can pay no better tribute to his memory than to say that around that bier, around that open grave, there were tears of affection from men not related to him, but who had known him so long and well that it seemed that a friend and brother had been taken away.

 Mr. SPEAKER: I would be unmindful of the obligation imposed by a long acquaintance with LORENZO DANFORD, and of the high regard which I entertained and often expressed of his character and ability, if I did not take this opportunity to bear public testimony to that regard. The eminence of his early career at the bar and his effective and patriotic Services as a soldier during the civil war brought him prominence and reputation among the people of Ohio many years ago, and that prominence and that reputation were emphasized and taken into a larger field by his election to Congress in I872. We honor him because he deserves to be honored. He was honest as the sun; as free from cant or buncombe or hypocrisy as an absolutely simple, straightforward, and fearless Character Could possibly be.

 I think, with my colleague [Mr. KERR], that his most engaging and conspicuous Characteristic was his modesty. I never knew a man who had been so Successful in everything he undertook, and who possessed in so large degree the capacity of bringing success in this body, who was so utterly lost to any sense of vanity or self-seeking or pushing himself into prominence. He was essentially, and like a youth or a girl, modest and simple. He wasted neither words nor action. He always aimed at the heart of the Controversy, and always reached it.

The years, full of usefulness and honor, came to him, and he died after a life well spent, mourned by all who knew him, and entered into a well-deserved rest, leaving behind him a legacy of good will and good deeds which will long survive.

 Mr. SPEAKER: Though a peculiar interest attaches to the life and service of LORENZO DANFORD. He was really the first prominent public man whom I knew personally in my boyhood. In his greatest days I was a student in the high school under that matchless and faithful teacher, Prof. James J. Burns, at St. Clairsville, where Mr. DANFORD was almost constantly in court. His ability and success have been so well portrayed here ill the eulogy of my colleague [Mr. KERR] that it seems almost unnecessary to undertake to say anything, because what could be said would seem like repetition. But I feel that I ought to say something of how he appeared to us in that community ill our boyhood days.

 LORENZO DANFORD was on one side or the other of every important case that came before the court, and it was usually considered in advance that the side that was fortunate enough to secure his services would be victorious in the cause, particularly if it was a jury case. Not only was he considered a great lawyer, but I can appreciate what my, colleague [Mr. GROSVENOR] has said about the tears at his grave. He was appreciated as a friend, as a counselor, as a neighbor, as a good citizen, and as a soldier with a magnificent record. No one spoke of DANFORD except to praise him. To the boys in that community he was the model before the court, and he was the model not only through the seventies, but even later, as an orator. It was painful to see his uncomfortable condition during the last few months of his life, particularly after his visit to the deathbed of his father, and my colleague is quite right in his statement that Mr. DANFORD'S death really began at that bedside of his father. He was not, in those last few months, the DANFORD Of whom we, at least in Ohio, are proud of. The DANFORD of the last few months was not even the DANFORD of 1896 or 1897.

 I know of no better description of him in the campaign of I897 than that given in some newspaper account of a speech made by him at Marietta. He and Senator HANNA were there, and the account of the meeting was simple and brief. I do not know who the reporter was who described it, but in substance, and I think in exact language, these were the words:

 Senator HANNA took the platform and made a speech to a large and enthusiastic audience. After him the Hon. LORENZO Danford, of St. Clairsville, took the platform and showed Senator HANNA how to make a speech.

 That was a sufficient description of that meeting to all who had heard DANFORD in the court room or on the rostrum. This is no discredit to the ability of Senator HANNA to make a speech, nor to the ability of any other man, because I think it is fair to say, with due regard to all that may have been said of the Shannons and the Kenllolls of St. Clairsville, and others who were giants in the forties and the fifties, that Belmont County, yes, and the eastern part of Ohio, never produced any man of whom it might not be said that Lorenzo DANFORD could show him how to make a speech.

 I am pleased to know that LORENZO DANFORD was born in Belmont County, and who is there that is not proud of old Belmont! No one of us born in that beautiful county has ever had to apologize for the morality or hospitality of its people. Nature and nature's god were generous to old Belmont, giving her pure air, rich minerals, fertile soil, and crystal waters. The world's greatest masters in music, sculpture, and painting would have been greater masters could they have spent their youth in the dreamland beauty and inspiration of the song of the birds, the sculpture of the hills, and the paintings of the sunrise and sunset of old Belmont.

 Lorenzo DANFORD was born in a county that was greater relatively at the time of his boyhood and young manhood than it is now among the counties of the State. The great highway known as the National Road runs through that county, and in his younger days it was the greatest thoroughfare of the Republic. It was as important in Mr. DANFORD's young manhood as the Union Pacific Railroad was in a later day.

The bar at St. Clairsville has gained distinction probably not equaled by any other bar in the State except that of Lancaster, which was the home of the Ewings, the Shermans, the Hunters, and others of that school. Lorenzo Danford has left a name that will live with other generations; it will be a sweet memory; it will be a pleasant dream; the recollections of him will go down in the traditions of Belmont County as a part of the honor and fame of one of the best counties in the State, and Lorenzo DANFORD'S memory will be repeated to the youngest of the children of old Belmont with a fond and affectionate regard by all who knew him, for none knew him except to love him. As we here to-day in the American Congress pay the last tribute of affectionate words to the memory of a faithful friend, whose life added to the dignity and the beauty of the hills of old Belmont, I recall the philosophy of Tom Moore's sad poem:

This world is all a fleeting show,

For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow—

There's nothing true but heaven.

Poor wanderers of a stormy day,
From wave to wave we're driven;
And fancy's Rash and reason's ray
Serve but to light the troubled way—

There's nothing calm but heaven.

 Mr. SPEAKER: It is well that we should pause amid the exciting scenes of legislative action to thus pay tribute to the memory of one who but lately mingled with us in the conduct of affairs, whose voice was so recently heard in this Chamber, and whose wise counsels aided in the deliberations of Congress

 We are told that man was made in the image and likeness of the Almighty, and, sir, the man whose memory we cherish to-day exemplified in his spirit and in his life that man may be godlike

My personal acquaintance with LORENZO DANFORD was not intimate nor my association with him extended, but my knowledge of his public life and of his private character has come to me through a long series of years, beginning a third of a century ago on the battlefield of Stone River, where he performed a hero's part in the discharge of his duty From that time I have followed his career with admiring gaze No man living in the State of Ohio and caring to know aught of its public men could remain ignorant of the valor, the ability, the virtues, and the beautiful life of LORENZO DANFORD. Soon after the close of the civil war I met him in the congregation of the boys who had been in the field; and although I then was young and he in the prime of his young manhood, knowing so well that he was one who had distinguished himself ill the cause of his country and defense of its honor, I gave him my profoundest respect, if not my love

 Later in life my association with him was always in the field of political contention, and I was not often permitted to meet him save when the air was charged even to bitterness with partisan feeling, but I always found in him an honest advocate for what he believed to be right. I always found him not only able and courageous, but always absolutely fair and courteous; and although in our political discussions we differed, yet when we closed I never did, and no man ever could, leave LORENZO DANFORD without respect for and admiration of him.

 When I came to this House I sought to know him better, and in my seeking, as well as from those who came closer in contact with hilly I was more than ever convinced that he was a manly man. He was braver than most men gave him credit for. A mall laden with sorrow and disease in life, rising bright above them and always appearing among his fellows with cheerful smile and kind words upon his lips, moving about ever with kind and farseeing counsel, is deserving of more sympathy than he who is in full enjoyment of physical health and strength.

 There was that about him that can only be characterized in a sense as womanly. " Kind as a woman " is a frequent expression, and in his character there was that trait which may be called womanly kindness, a kindness that did not need to be drawn out by some great emergency, but welled up from the fountain of his heart at all times, wherever his daily walk led him, and communicated itself to every one he met.

His life was a benediction to his fellow-men; his death a universal loss. Not alone do his own people and home mourn, but over his native State a wave of sadness rolled, extending in widening circles until it covered every State whose Representatives sat in this Chamber with him.

 It is often said that after the death of a man we sometimes carry to the extreme our praise of him. We know that in the grave lie buried all resentments. We know that it is easier to speak kindly of one that is gone from us than of the one who remains; but, Mr. Speaker, from the profoundest depths of my heart comes the belief that not one word has been uttered here to-day in commemoration of the life, character, and virtues of our departed friend that is not true and fully warranted. I believe that around the grave of LORENZO DANFORD, from all who knew him, will gather for time and eternity clusters of memories of respect, honor, and love that will never die.

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Mr. SPEAKER: After an active life, an eventful career, Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, crowned with military laurels and civic honors, passed into the great hereafter. Gentlemen who served with him in the House of Representatives and knew him intimately have portrayed in fitting language his personal qualities and public services. They have detailed his birth in Ohio, his admission to the bar and subsequent practice of his profession, his military duty, wherein conspicuous bravery brought promotion, and his Congressional service.

 In speaking of the dead, intimate association alone qualifies one to discuss those attributes of personality which, after all, make the man as we know him. I regret that fortune did not favor me with such relationship to Mr. Danford. But his public worth as a soldier, a citizen, and statesman is known of men, and I wish to place on record my tribute to one who was prominent in many walks of life, and each illumined by his purity of purpose and deed and his consecrated devotion to duty. His was a well-rounded life, and when the inexorable summons came it found him in the service of his State and country.

 Mr. Speaker, it is a wise course which the Federal Congress pursues in suspending its strict legislative functions to review the lives and public services of Senators and representatives who die while in the discharge of their official duties. In honoring them honor is reflected upon itself. It furnishes to the youth of the country lessons in patriotism and public and private virtue which are all the more forceful in that they are examples rather than precept. The study of such lives gives inspiration to many toiling beneath oppressive burdens and directs the efforts of the living generations, as it will of generations to come, to higher and nobler aims.

 Especially is this true in a country having the institutions of our own, where titles of nobility and hereditary rank are unknown. In repudiating the divine right of kings, the wise forefathers also disavowed the superiority of selected strains of blood. And so the life of everyone who, from the ranks of what the immortal Lincoln termed the common people, rose to eminence in public life or private station stimulates to better endeavor the youth of our country. In this category Mr. DANFORD'S life stands preeminent.

 Mr. Speaker, death affords a vast field for philosophic study and historic research. It is a subject so infinite that the finite mind, whether endowed in abundance or favored in less fortunate degree, has never reached a conclusion which dissipated doubt. But with the faith that is in us it is sweet to believe that on some favored shore the hosts assemble in eternal peace.

 LORENZO DANFORD lived a Christian life and died a Christian death. In every relation of life he did his duty as an enlightened judgment dictated and a quickened judgment approved. On the anniversary of his birthday, when he had attained the three-score and ten years allotted to man, he fell asleep.

 " Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

 Mr. SPEAKER: My personal acquaintance with Mr. DANFORD began with the commencement of the Fifty-fourth Congress. Of course I had known of him before, but I can only speak of him as he impressed me. She was always what he appeared to be—honest, open, and frank on all occasions. He never desired to appear what he was not. He never hesitated to oppose what he believed to be wrong, and that which he believed to be meritorious always commanded his vigorous support. Our relations were of the pleasantest kind, and with the years that I knew him my respect for him constantly increased.

 Those matters which were committed to his care as a member of Congress always received careful attention and consideration, and he was ever willing to help a friend. He was most considerate of those whose experience was less than his, and always ready to lend a helping hand to those who sought his assistance.

 He served his country well, and if his constituents honored him by repeatedly sending him here to represent their interests and those of the country, he in turn honored them and the Commonwealth of which he was proud and in whose behalf he was always faithful and zealous.

 I must leave to others who knew him longer and better the privilege of presenting his record as a soldier, statesman, and citizen. I knew him only as a brother member of Congress; but when he died I shared in that sorrow which came to all who had associated with him here. His memory will always be respected and honored by all his associates, especially in this House; and his Congressional district, his State, and his country must always acknowledge his faithful and valuable service.

 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the adoption of the resolution offered by the gentleman from Ohio.

The resolution was unanimously agreed to.

 Mr. Foraker If there is no other legislative business to be transacted at this time, I ask that the message from the House of Representatives announcing the death of Representative DANFORD be laid before the Senate.

 The PRESIDENT pro tempore laid before the Senate the following resolutions from the House of Representatives; which were read:

IN THE House OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 12, 1899.

 Resolved, That the House has heard with great sorrow of the death of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a Representative from the State of Ohio.

 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these resolutions to the Senates and that as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased this House do now adjourn.

 Mr. FORAGER. Mr. President, hereafter I shall ask that a day be fixed when proper tributes can be paid to the memory of the deceased. At present I ask for the consideration of the resolutions which I send to the desk.

 The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Ohio submits resolutions, which will be read.

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows:

 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a Representative from the State of Ohio.

 Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of-the deceased the Senate do now adjourn.

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.

 Mr. FORAKER. Mr. President, I ask that the resolutions from the House of Representatives on the death of the late Representative DANFORD may now be laid before the Senate.

 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair lays before the Senate the resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be read.

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows:

IN THE HOUSE OF Representatives January 20, woo.

 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of the Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State of Ohio.

 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a distinguished public servant, the House, at the conclusion of these memorial proceedings, shall stand adjourned.

 Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of the deceased.

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.

 Mr. FORAKER. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk, and ask for their present consideration.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The resolutions will be read.

The resolutions were read, as follows:

 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep and profound sorrow of the death of Hon. LORENZO DANFORD, late a Representative from the State of Ohio.

 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended in order that fitting tribute may be paid to his eminent public services and high personal character.

 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of representatives.

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ADDRESS OF MR. FORAKER.

Mr. PRESIDENT: It is the custom to take formal note of the decease of our colleagues, and it is usual in such connection to speak only words of eulogy.

 The circumstances of death and the proprieties of such occasions are calculated to restrain and qualify all that may be said.

 For this reason our tributes too frequently have less weight and make less impression than they should. It is not necessary to have any such thoughts in this instance. The unrestrained truth is in this case the highest eulogy; and if it were not so, he whom we honor to-day would, if able to have a wish, infinitely prefer it to any false compliments.

 LORENZO DANFORD was born on a farm in Belmont County, Ohio, October 18, 1829. At the age of 25 years he had attended the common schools, spent two years at college, graduated in the law, and been admitted to its practice, where his advancement was rapid.

 In the six years following he had acquired a clientage, attracted the favorable attention of the public, been twice chosen prosecuting attorney of his county, and had turned his back on all the bright prospects that thus attended him to enlist as a private soldier in the Union Army.

 His service was at the front, where he made a record for gallantry in battle that brought its reward in one promotion after another, until finally he was made a commissioned officer, and later attained to the rank of captain.

 At the close of the war he resumed the practice of his profession, in which he soon became so distinguished that he was tendered employment in almost every case of importance in his judicial district. His great success was due to the fact that, in addition to being well grounded in the law and having great power as an advocate, he had preeminent good common sense and a familiar knowledge of human nature. He seemed to comprehend intuitively the motives of men, and thus was able to unravel transactions and discover and establish the truth.

 He lived in a Congressional district that had given to the public service such men as Edwin M. Stanton and John A. Bingham. Mr. Bingham was then representing that district in Congress. He was popular with his constituency not only because of the distinction he had conferred upon them by his conspicuous public services, but also because he was one of the most affable and lovable of men. Only a strong man intellectually, morally, and in a popular sense could succeed such a man to such an honor. But this distinction fell to Captain DANFORD when, in J872, he was first elected to the House of Representatives. He was soon recognized in that body and throughout the country as worthy to follow his distinguished predecessor.

 His habits of thorough study, his sound judgment, and his long and varied experience at the bar made him ready and forceful in debate, and at once, almost, he took his place as one of the strong men of the House. After three terms of service he voluntarily quit public life, that he might devote himself to the practice of his profession, in which he again had the most brilliant success. He was reelected to the House in I894 and reelected in I896 and I898, but died at his home in the county of his birth in I899, before the Fifty-sixth Congress had convened.

 His whole life was a struggle. As a boy with poverty and to acquire an education; later to qualify himself for the practice or the law; as a soldier in the civil war to contribute his full share to the preservation of the Union; as a man to discharge with fidelity the duties of the high positions to which he was called.

 He was strong and rugged, both physically and mentally. He was an earnest an(l Constant exemplification of truth and sincerity. He was in all his conduct plain, practical, and straightforward. He relied on his own powers, his own efforts, his own judgment, his own abilities, his own sense of right and justice. In person he was tall and graceful, with a handsome face, a frank, manly countenance, and a polite and attractive address. He had the genius of Common sense, anti the brilliance of sound judgment and sincere purposes. He was not an orator who dealt in imagery, but he was an easy, logical, eloquent, and forceful speaker, who marshaled facts and presented them with Commanding power.

He surmounted all difficulties and attained a high measure of success hl all the fields of his labors and efforts.

He was a faithful friend, a devoted husband, a loving father, a splendid(l type of the American citizen, and an inspiring example for the American youth. His work is done. In the House, where he served so long and so ably, fitting testimony has been given by his colleagues to the uprightness of his life an(l the worth of his services. They have spoken admiringly, tenderly, beautifully, but in it all there has been no insincerity or exaggeration. He was worthy of all that has been said. I can speak no higher praise.

Mr. President, I ask for the adoption of the resolutions.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is, Shall the resolutions submitted by the Senator from Ohio be adopted ?

The resolutions were unanimously agreed to.

 Mr. FORAKER. Mr. President, as a further mark of esteem to the deceased, I move that the Senate do now adjourn

The motion was unanimously agreed to.