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JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN 
 
JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT 
 SHERMAN 
 
 ( Late Vice President of the United States ) 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED AT A JOINT SESSION OF THE SENATE 
 
 AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 FEBRUARY 15, 1913 
 
 AND 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF THE FUNERAL SERVICES 
 IN UTICA, N.Y., NOVEMBER 2, 1912 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OITICE 
 
 1913 
 
S. Con. Res. No. 41, 62d Congress. 
 
 [Passed Mar. 1 (calendar day. Mar. 2), 1913.] 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring). That there 
 shall be printed and hound, under the direction of the Joint Committee on 
 Printing, fourteen thousand one hundred copies of the proceedings and the 
 eulogies delivered in Congress on James Schoolcraft Sherman, late Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States, with illustration, of which four thousand copies shall 
 be for the use of the Senate, eight thousand copies for the use of the House 
 of Representatives, two thousand copies for the use of the Senators and Repre- 
 sentatives of the State of New York, and one hundred copies, bound in full 
 morocco, for the use of Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sherman: Provided, That there 
 shall be included in such publication the proclamation of the President and 
 the proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States upon the death of 
 Vice President Sherman, and an accotmt of the funeral services at Utica, 
 New Yorli. 
 
 Attest: Chables G, Bennett, 
 
 Secretary of the Senate. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 South Tbimble, 
 Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Biography _. 4 
 
 Proclamation by the President 5 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 7 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 7, 22 
 
 Memorial addresses by — ';-->"> r ^- " \ 
 
 Senator Root, of New York 25 
 
 Senator Martin, of Virginia 30 
 
 Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire 33 
 
 Senator Thornton, of Louisiana 35 
 
 Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts 38 
 
 Senator Kern, of Indiana 43 
 
 Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin 47 
 
 Senator Williams, of Mississippi ,49 
 
 Senator Curtis, of Kansas 54 
 
 Senator Cummins, of Iowa 58 
 
 Senator Oliver, of Pennsylvania 61 
 
 Senator O'Gorman, of New York 63 
 
 The Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
 
 Champ Clark 66 
 
 The President of the United States, William 
 
 Howard Taft 70 
 
 Proceedings in the House 77 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 80 
 
 Proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States 83 
 
 Proclamation by the Governor of the State of New York 84 
 
 Proceedings of the Utica (N, Y.) Common Council 85 
 
 Proclamation by the Mayor of the City of Utica, N. Y 88 
 
 Proceedings of the Philippine government — 89 
 
 Funeral services in Utica, N. Y., November 2, 1912 91 
 
 Address by Dr. M. Woolsey Stryker, President of 
 
 Hamilton College 101 
 
 Memorial services in Berlin 105 
 
 Tributes - 106 
 
 Condolences from foreign Governments 117 
 
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BIOGRAPHY 
 
 [Revised from last biographical sketch approved by Mr. Shebman for inser- 
 tion In the April, 1912, edition of the Congressional Directory, second session of 
 the Sixty-second Congress.] 
 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, of Utica, N. Y., Vice President 
 of the United States from March 4, 1909, to October 30, 1912, was 
 born in the city of Utica October 24, 1855; his father, Richard U. 
 Sherman, also born in Oneida County, N. Y., was by profession 
 an editor and also prominent in public life. The son was gradu- 
 ated from Hamilton College in 1878; was a lawyer by profession, 
 but retired from practice in 1906; was married in 1881 to Carrie 
 Babcock, at East Orange, N. J.; three sons — Sherrill, Richard U., 
 and Thomas M. — are living and in business at Utica; was presi- 
 dent of the Utica Trust & Deposit Co., of Utica, N. Y., and an 
 officer and director of various local business enterprises; was an 
 attendant of the Dutch Reformed Church and chairman of its 
 board of trustees; a graduate of Hamilton College, which college, 
 as well as Wesleyan University and Pittsburgh University, con- 
 ferred upon him the degree of LL, D. He was a member of the 
 Royal Arcanum and the Order of Elks. He was also a member 
 of all the local clubs at Utica; of the Union League, Republican, 
 and Transportation Clubs, of New York City; of the Metropolitan, 
 University, Chevy Chase, and Columbia Clubs, of Washington. 
 He had been active in Republican politics since 1879; was a fre- 
 quent delegate to State conventions, and presided over the New 
 York State Republican conventions in 1895, 1900, and 1908; was 
 delegate to the Republican national convention of 1892; vice 
 chairman of the Republican national congressional committee for 
 many years prior to 1906, in which year he was chairman of the 
 committee. He appeared upon the platform in various States in 
 every campaign from 1892 down to the year of his death; was 
 mayor of Utica in 1884 and a Member of Congress continuously 
 from 1886 to 1908, with a two-year interim from 1890 to 1892. 
 While in Congress he served on the Committees on the Judiciary, 
 the Census, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Interstate and For- 
 eign Commerce, Rules, and Indian Affairs, of which latter com- 
 mittee he was chairman for 14 years; was elected Vice President 
 upon the ticket with President Taft in 1908 for the term which 
 ended March 4, 1913. Renominated for Vice President by the 
 Republican convention in 1912. His last pubhc speech (Senate 
 Doc. 943, 62d Cong.) was made in Utica, August 21, 1912, when 
 he again accepted a place on the Republican ticket with President 
 Taft. Died in Utica, N. Y., October 30, 1912, and was buried in 
 Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, November 2, 1912. 
 
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[DEATH OP VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN.] 
 
 aSfi tbc iMcBlOcnt Of tbe 'mn(te& States of Smctlca 
 
 a proclamation 
 
 To the People of the United States: 
 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States, 
 died at his home in Utica, N. Y., at 9:42 o'clock on the evening of 
 October 30th, 1912. In his death the Nation has lost one of its most 
 illustrious citizens and one of its most eflBcient and faithful servants. 
 Elected at an early age to the mayorship of his native city, the con- 
 tinued confidence of his community was shown by his election for 
 ten terms as a Representative in the National Congress. As a legis- 
 lator he at once took and retained high rank and displayed such 
 attributes of upright and wise statesmanship as to commend him 
 to the people of the United States for the second highest oflSce within 
 their gift. As presiding officer of the Senate he won the respect and 
 esteem of , all for his fairness and impartiality. His private life was 
 noble and good. His genial disposition and attractiveness of char- 
 acter endeared him to all whose privilege it was to know him. His 
 devotion to the best interests of his native land will endear his 
 memory to his fellow countrymen. 
 
 In respect to the memory, and the eminent and various services 
 of this high official and patriotic public servant, I direct that on the 
 day of the funeral the Executive Offices of the United States shall 
 be closed and all posts and stations of the Army and Navy shall 
 display the national flag at half-mast, and that the representatives 
 of the United States in foreign countries shall pay appropriate 
 tribute to the illustrious dead for a period of thirty days. 
 
 %'a ^itnBSB ^IrerKof I have hereunto set my hand and caused 
 the Seal of the United States to be affixed. 
 
 Done at the City of Washington this thirty-first 
 day of October in the year of our Lord one thou- 
 [sEAL.] sand nine hundred and twelve and of the Inde- 
 
 pendence of the United States the one hundred 
 and thirty-seventh. 
 
 WM H TAFT 
 
 By the President: 
 
 A1.VCY A. AsES 
 
 A cling Secretary of State. 
 
 [No. 1322.] 
 
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DEATH OF HON. JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 Monday, December 2, 1912. 
 
 The first Monday in December being the day prescribed 
 by the Constitution of the United States for the annual 
 meeting of Congress, the third session of the Sixty-second 
 Congress commenced on this day. 
 
 The Senate assembled in its Chamber at the Capitol. 
 
 Augustus O. Bacon, a Senator from the State of Georgia, 
 took the chair as President pro tempore under the order 
 of the Senate of August 17, 1912. 
 
 The President pro tempore called the Senate to order 
 at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, in whose presence 
 we now stand, we are come together in Thy name and to 
 do Thy will. At the opening of this session of Congress 
 we invoke Thy blessing. Without Thee we can do noth- 
 ing. Until Thou dost bless us, our highest wisdom is but 
 folly and our utmost strength but utter weakness. Be- 
 stow upon us, therefore, we humbly pray Thee, wisdom 
 and strength from above, that so we may glorify Thee, 
 accomplishing that which Thou givest us to do. 
 
 We come before Thee, our Father, with a deepened 
 sense of our dependence upon Thee. Thou hast made us 
 to know how frail we are. Thou hast showed us that the 
 
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 way of man is not in himself alone, and that it is not in 
 us who walk to direct our steps. Thou hast called from 
 his earthly labors Thy servant, the Vice President of our 
 Nation. While we thought it was still day Thou didst 
 cause the sun of his life to go down, bringing the night, 
 when no man can work. We murmur not nor repine, 
 our Father, knowing that alike the day and the night are 
 Thine. Thou hast taken from our side fellow laborers 
 and companions, leaving in this Senate empty seats and 
 in our hearts loneliness and sorrow. We can not forget 
 them, our Father, though in the flesh we behold their faces 
 no more. Thou hast removed from his post of duty an 
 officer of this body and has made us to know that in the 
 midst of life we are in death. Comfort our hearts, we 
 beseech Thee, for all our sorrows, and keep us evermore 
 in Thy love; and though Thou feed us with the bread of 
 adversity and give us to drink of the water of affliction, 
 yet take not from us Thy holy spirit. 
 
 We pray Thee to bless the President of the United 
 States. Uphold him by Thy power, watch over him by 
 Thy providence, guide him by Thy wisdom, and strengthen 
 him with Thy heavenly grace. Bless him who shall pre- 
 side over this Senate, bestowing upon him all things as 
 shall seem good unto Thee. For all who are in authority 
 we pray that they may serve Thee with singleness of pur- 
 pose, for the good of this people and for Thy glory. 
 
 So, our Father, may this session of Congress, begun in 
 Thy name, be continued in Thy fear and ended in Thine 
 honor. Grant us so to labor that by our deliberations we 
 may hasten the time when Thy kingdom shall come and 
 Thy will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. 
 
 In the name which is above every name, hear our 
 prayer. Amen. 
 
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 DEATH OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
 
 Mr. Root. Mr. President, with a deep sense of public 
 loss and of personal bereavement I discharge the duty 
 of announcing to the Senate that on the 30th day of Octo- 
 ber last, at his home in the city of Utica, James School- 
 craft Sherman, the Vice President of the United States, 
 departed this life. 
 
 His serene and cheerful temperament, inspired by love 
 of country and of his kind, will no more diffuse through 
 this body a sense of reasonableness, of friendliness, and 
 of kindly consideration. His faculty of swift and just 
 decision which has promoted and cleared the path of 
 public business in the Senate for the three years which 
 are past will no longer aid us in our deliberations. 
 
 I have the honor to offer the resolutions which I now 
 send to the desk. 
 
 The resolutions (S. Res. 390) were read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
 follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and 
 regret the announcement of the death of James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, late Vice President of the United States. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 The President pro tempore. In connection with the 
 announcement just made the Chair now lays before the 
 Senate a cablegram received from the Brazilian Senate 
 and the reply thereto, in order that the same may now 
 be read and become a part of the Record, and to be on 
 a later day given such disposition as the Senate may 
 direct 
 
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 The matter entire is as follows: 
 
 Rio de Janeiro, via Dakar, 
 
 Noviembre 6, 1912. 
 Sr. Presidente Senado, 
 
 Senate, Washington. 
 Cumpro dever communicar V. ex. que Senado Brasil sentido 
 vivamente morte eminente Sr. James Sherman, Vice Presidente 
 dessa grande Republica, deliberou inserir acta sens trabalhos voto 
 profundo pezar por esse doloroso acontecimento, e transmittir 
 Senado Americano sinceras condoleancias, o que em seu nome 
 faco por intermedio V. ex. a quem apresento minhas attenciosas 
 saudacoes. 
 
 Ferreira Chaves, 
 1" Secretario do Senado. 
 
 [Translation of cablegram.] 
 
 Rio DE Janeiro, via Dakar, 
 
 November 6, 1912. 
 President of the Senate, 
 
 Washington: 
 I perform the duty of informing Your Excellency that the 
 Senate of Brazil, keenly aiDicted by the death of the eminent Mr. 
 James Sherman, Vice President of your great Republic, has voted 
 to enter upon its journal a resolution of profound sympathy 
 in that sorrowful event and to transmit to the American Senate 
 sincere condolence, which I do in its name through Your Ex- 
 cellency, to whom I present my respectful salutations. 
 
 Ferreira Chaves, 
 First Secretary of the Senate. 
 
 [Cablegram.] 
 
 Washington, November 7, 1912. 
 To the President of the Brazilian Senate: 
 
 I have received your very considerate and cordial message of 
 sympathy, addressed to the American Senate, on the occasion of 
 the death of the late Vice President James Sherman. 
 
 The Senate of the United States is not now in session. So soon 
 as it convenes in December I will have the honor to lay before 
 that body your highly esteemed message. I beg, in the meantime. 
 
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 to thank your honorable body for its kindly consideration and 
 sympathy. 
 
 Augustus O. Bacon, 
 President of the Senate pro tempore. 
 
 INoTE. — The foregoing reply to the cablegram of the Brazilian Senate was, 
 upon the request of Senator Bacon, cabled to the American ambassador at 
 Brazil by the Acting Secretary of State, with directions for immediate delivery.] 
 
 Mr. CuLLOM. Mr. President, I desire as a further mark 
 of respect to offer the following resolution, and I ask for 
 its present consideration. 
 
 The resolution (S. Res. 393) was read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
 follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the late Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman and the late 
 Senators Weldon Brinton Heyburn and Isidor Rayner, whose 
 deaths have just been announced, the Senate do now adjcrurn. 
 
 Thereupon the Senate (at 12 o'clock and 22 minutes 
 p. m.) adjourned until to-morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 
 1912, at 11 o'clock a. m. 
 
 Wednesday, December 4, i912. 
 
 Mr. Poindexter. Mr. President, I present a series of 
 resolutions adopted by the people of the city of Olympia, 
 State of Washington, in commemoration of the late Vice 
 President. I ask that the resolutions may lie on the table 
 and be printed in the Record. 
 
 By unanimous consent, the resolutions were ordered to 
 lie on the table and to be printed in the Record, as follows : 
 
 Whereas death has removed from his earthly labors the Hon. 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, late Vice President of the United 
 States; and 
 
 Whereas we realize that he represented the highest type of 
 American manhood, and that by his unwavering devotion to duty 
 as he saw it he deserved well of his country and the world : Now 
 therefore be it 
 
 Resolved by the people of the city of Olympia, Wash., and 
 vicinity, assembled without regard to political afflliations or 
 
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 beliefs, That we deplore the untimely death of Hon. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman and deeply feel the loss that our Nation 
 has sustained, and that we extend to his stricken family the 
 heartfelt sympathy of this community; be it further 
 
 Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting, over his signature, 
 transmit a copy of these resolutions to the widow of our lamented 
 Vice President, a copy to the President of the United States, and 
 a copy to the Senators from the State of Washington, to be pre- 
 sented to the Senate of the United States. 
 
 The foregoing resolution was unanimously passed at an assem- 
 blage of the citizens of Olympia, Wash., held in the Capital Park 
 on Saturday, November 2, 1912. 
 
 Chas. D. King, Chairman. 
 
 Friday, December 13, 1912. 
 
 Mr. Root submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 
 408), which was read, considered by unanimous consent, 
 and unanimously agreed to : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate of the United States acknowledges 
 with grateful appreciation the sympathy of the Senate of Brazil 
 in the loss suffered by the American Government and people in 
 the lamented death of Vice President Sherman; and it begs the 
 Senate of Brazil to accept the assurance of its most respectful 
 consideration and friendship. 
 
 The Secretary is directed to transmit a copy of this resolution 
 to the first secretary of the Senate of Brazil. 
 
 Saturday, January 11, 1913. 
 Mr. Root submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 
 426), which was read, considered by unanimous consent, 
 and agreed to : 
 
 Resolved, That the Committee on Rules be, and it is, directed 
 to report to the Senate an order for suitable ceremonies in the 
 Senate in honor of the memory of the late Vice President of the 
 United States, James S. Sherman. 
 
 Saturday, January 18, 1913. 
 Mr. Cummins. From the Committee on Rules, to which 
 was referred Senate resolution 426, directing the Com- 
 mittee on Rules to report an order for ceremonies in 
 
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 honor of the memory of the late Vice President James S. 
 Sherman, I report a resolution which I ask to have read 
 and referred to the Committee to Audit and Control the 
 Contingent Expenses of the Senate. 
 
 The resolution (S. Res. 435) was read and referred to 
 the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Ex- 
 penses of the Senate, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That Saturday, the 15th day of February, be set 
 apart for appropriate exercises in commemoration of the life, 
 character, and public service of the late James S. Sherman, Vice 
 President of the United States and President of the Senate of 
 the United States. 
 
 That a committee of three Senators, composed of Elihu Root, 
 James O'Gorman, and Charles Curtis, is hereby appointed with 
 full power to make all arrangements and publish a suitable pro- 
 gram for the aforesaid meeting of the Senate and to issue the 
 invitations hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 That invitations shall be extended to the President of the 
 United States, the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice and 
 Justices of the Supreme Court, the Speaker arid Members of the 
 House of Representatives, the judges of the Commerce Court, the 
 judges of the Court of Customs Appeals, the judges of the courts 
 of the District of Columbia, the officers of the Army and Navy 
 stationed in Washington, the members of the Interstate Commerce 
 Commission, the members of the Civil Service Commission. That 
 such other invitations shall be issued as to the said committee 
 shall seem best. 
 
 All expenses incurred by the committee in the execution of 
 this order shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate. 
 
 Monday, January 27, 19i3. 
 Mr. Briggs, from the Committee to Audit and Control 
 the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, to which was 
 referred Senate resolution No. 435, setting apart a day for 
 appropriate exercises in commemoration of the life, 
 character, and public services of the late Vice President, 
 submitted by Mr. Cummins on the 18th instant, reported 
 it without amendment. 
 
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 Tuesday, January 28, 1913. 
 
 Mr. Cummins. I ask unanimous consent for the present 
 consideration of Senate resolution 435, a resolution sub- 
 mitted by me and reported yesterday from the Committee 
 to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the 
 Senate by the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. Briggs] . 
 
 There being no objection, the resolution was considered 
 and agreed to, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That Saturday, the 15th day of February, be set apart 
 for appropriate exercises in commemoration of the life, character, 
 and public service of the late James S. Sherman, Vice President of 
 the United States and President of the Senate of the United States. 
 
 That a committee of three Senators, composed of Elihu Root, 
 James A. O'Gorman, and Charles Curtis, is hereby appointed, with 
 full power to make all arrangements and publish a suitable pro- 
 gram for the aforesaid meeting of the Senate, and to issue the 
 invitations hereinafter mentioned. 
 
 That invitations shall be extended to the President of the United 
 States, the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Justices 
 of the Supreme Court, the Speaker and Members of the House of 
 Representatives, the judges of the Commerce Court, the judges of 
 the Court of Customs Appeals, the judges of the courts of the 
 District of Columbia, the oflBcers of the Army and Navy stationed 
 in Washington, the members of the Interstate Commerce Commis- 
 sion, and the members of the Civil Service Commission. That 
 such other invitations shall be issued as to the said committee 
 shall seem best. 
 
 All expenses incurred by the committee in the execution of this 
 order shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate. 
 
 Wednesday, February 5, 1913. 
 Mr. Root submitted the following resolution (S. Res. 
 451), which was read, considered by unanimous consent, 
 and agreed to: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate extend to the Speaker and the Mem- 
 bers of the House of Representatives an invitation to attend the 
 exercises in commemoration of the life, character, and public 
 services of the late James S. Sherman, Vice President of the 
 
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 United States and President of the Senate, to be held in the Senate 
 Chamber on Saturday, the 15th day of February next at 12 o'clock 
 noon. 
 
 Friday, February 7, 1913. 
 A message from the House of Representatives, by J. C. 
 South, its Chief Clerk, announced that the House accepts 
 the invitation of the Senate extended to the Speaker and 
 Members of the House of Representatives to attend the 
 exercises in commemoration of the life, character, and 
 public services of the late James S. Sherman, Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States and President of the Senate, to 
 be held in the Senate Chamber on Saturday, the 15th day 
 of February next, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
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 [PROGRAM] 
 
 
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 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE CALLS THE SENATE TO ORDER AT 
 12 O'CLOCK NOON. 
 
 PRESIDENT DIRECTS THE SECRETARY TO READ, AND THE SECRE- 
 TARY READS, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION GOVERNING 
 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE DAY: 
 
 "RESOLVED, THAT SATURDAY. THE I5TH DAY OF FEB- 
 RUARY, BE SET APART FOR APPROPRIATE EXERCISES IN 
 COMMEMORATION OF THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND PUBLIC 
 SERVICE OF THE LATE JAMES S. SHERMAN, VICE PRESI- 
 DENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND PRESIDENT OF THE 
 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES." 
 
 SERGEANT AT ARMS ANNOUNCES THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS 
 OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 SERGEANT AT ARMS ANNOUNCES THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND ASSO- 
 CIATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED 
 STATES. 
 
 SERGEANT AT ARMS ANNOUNCES THE AMBASSADORS AND MIN- 
 ISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY TO THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 SERGEANT AT ARMS ANNOUNCES THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 
 STATES AND MEMBERS OF HIS CABINET. 
 
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 ALL HAVING BEEN SEATED, THE CEREMONIES OF THIS OCCA- 
 SION WILL BE OPENED BY PRAYER BY THE CHAPLAIN OF 
 THE SENATE. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE RECOGNIZES THE SENATORS 
 WHO ARE TO SPEAK IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: 
 
 Mr. ROOT 
 Mr. MARTIN 
 Mr. GALLINGER 
 Mr. THORNTON 
 Mr. LODGE 
 Mr. kern 
 Mr. la FOLLETTE 
 Mr. WILLIAMS 
 Mr. CURTIS 
 Mr. CUMMINS 
 MR. OLIVER 
 Mr. O'GORMAN 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE RECOGNIZES THE SPEAKER OF 
 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE RECOGNIZES THE PRESIDENT 
 OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE RECOGNIZES SENATOR ROOT, 
 WHO MOVES ADJOURNMENT. 
 
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MEMORIAL EXERCISES 
 
 Saturday, February 15, 1913. 
 {Legislative day of Tuesday, February 11, 1913.) 
 
 The Senate reassembled at 12 o'clock meridian, on the 
 expiration of the recess. 
 
 The President pro tempore (Augustus O. Bacon) called 
 the Senate to order and directed the Secretary to read the 
 resolution of the Senate adopted on the 28th of January 
 last. 
 
 The Secretary (Charles G. Bennett) read the resolution, 
 as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That Saturday, the 15th day of February, be set 
 apart for appropriate exercises in commemoration of the life, 
 character, and public service of the late James S. Sherman, Vice 
 President of the United States and President of the Senate of the 
 United States. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Senate is now in ses- 
 sion for the purposes of this resolution. 
 
 At 12 o'clock and 3 minutes p. m. the Sergeant at Arms 
 (E. L. Cornelius) announced the Speaker and Members 
 of the House of Representatives of the United States. 
 
 The Speaker was escorted to a seat on the left of the 
 President pro tempore, and the Members of the House of 
 Representatives, the Clerk, Sergeant at Arms, and Chap- 
 lain of the House occupied the seats assigned them. 
 
 At 12 o'clock and 6 minutes p. m. the Sergeant at Arms 
 announced the Chief Justice of the United States and the 
 Associate Justices of the- Supreme Court of the United 
 
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 States, who were conducted to the seats provided for them 
 in the area in front of the Secretary's desk. 
 
 At 12 o'clock and 8 minutes p. m. the Sergeant at Arms 
 announced the ambassadors and ministers plenipoten- 
 tiary from foreign countries to the United States, and 
 they were conducted to the seats assigned them. 
 
 At 12 o'clock and 10 minutes p. m. the Sergeant at Arms 
 announced the President of the United States and the 
 members of his Cabinet, who were escorted to the seats 
 provided for them in the space in front of the Secretary's 
 desk. 
 
 The other invited guests, the judges of the Commerce 
 Court, the judges of the Court of Customs Appeals, the 
 judges of the courts of the District of Columbia, the offi- 
 cers of the Army and Navy stationed in Washington, the 
 members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 
 the members of the Civil Service Commission, occupied 
 seats on the floor of the Senate. 
 
 The President pro tempore. Prayer will now be offered 
 by the Chaplain of the Senate. 
 
 The Chaplain of the Senate, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, 
 D. D., offered the following prayer : 
 
 Almighty God, our heavenly Father, Thou hast been our 
 dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains 
 were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth 
 and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting. Thou 
 art God. We thank Thee, O Holy One, that in a world of 
 fleeting change and where naught abides we can take ref- 
 uge in Thee who inhabitest eternity. Because Thou art 
 so great, and for that Thy years have no end, therefore 
 canst Thou stoop even to us who seem but children of a 
 day. Bend over us now, we beseech Thee, and for our 
 weakness give Thou us of Thy strength, and in the dark- 
 ness of our sorrow bid the light of Thy Holy Spirit to 
 shine upon us. 
 
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 Thou knowest all, our Father, and because Thou know- 
 est Thou canst help. Thou knowest how weak and frail 
 we are. Therefore we look unto Thee, who art Lord alike 
 of life and of death. To Thine unfailing compassion we 
 turn, even to Thee, who dost note Thy children's pain and 
 sorrow. We bring to Thee our empty hearts, our loneli- 
 ness, our pain, and lay them at Thy feet. If we drop a 
 tear, it is not because we doubt Thee or because we mur- 
 mur at Thy will, but because of the great love we bear to 
 him whom Thou hast called from our visible presence 
 and whom we this day mourn. In Thy name we conse- 
 crate this day to him. 
 
 Thou hast taken from us, our Father, the Vice President 
 of this Nation and the President of this Senate. As we 
 record the greatness of our loss and faintly utter our trib- 
 utes of love and honor, aid Thou us. Touch Thou our 
 lips, we pray Thee, that the measure of our hearts' affec- 
 tion may find utterance this day. Inspire our minds, and 
 by Thy Holy Spirit quicken our remembrance, that the 
 life which Thou hast taken from us may live before us 
 as he lives before Thee. 
 
 O Thou who art the Giver of every good and perfect 
 gift, sincere and fervent thanks we render unto Thee for 
 the life, the character, and the public service of Thy serv- 
 ant, the Vice President of the United States. For the 
 fruitage of his labors, for the blessed and unfading mem- 
 ory of his life, for these, our Father, we thank Thee more 
 than our lips can say. And now, that Thou hast called 
 Thy servant to Thy nearer presence and to Thy higher 
 service, we yield him to Thy love and keeping. May his 
 soul rest in peace ! 
 
 We commend to Thee, most merciful Father, the hearts 
 made desolate by this loss. Let the light of Thy counte- 
 nance dispel the grief and gloom of the home where Thy 
 servant was wont to dwell. Comfort, we pray Thee, the 
 
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 wife and family as we, alas, can not do. Touch their 
 hearts with Thy love and heal their wounds. Though 
 Thou leadest them through the valley of the shadow of 
 death, may they fear no evil. Let the rod of Thy faith- 
 fulness and the staff of Thy loving-kindness comfort them. 
 Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourn- 
 ing, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 
 Graciously grant that neither life with its burdens nor 
 death with its sorrows may be able to separate them from 
 the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 
 
 And now may God our Father, who hast loved us with 
 an everlasting love and called us into His eternal kingdom 
 in Christ, comfort our hearts and stablish them in every 
 good word and in every good work. Unto Him be glory 
 and honor, dominion and power, now and forevermore. 
 Amen. 
 
 The President pro tempore. For the purposes of this 
 commemoration a certain order of exercises has been 
 adopted, in pursuance of which there will be addresses 
 made by Senators and some of the guests on this occasion. 
 The Chair now recognizes the senior Senator from New 
 York [Mr. Root]. 
 
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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Senator Root, of New York 
 
 Mr. President : Vice President Sherman was bom in the 
 city of Utica, on the banks of the Mohawk, on the 24th of 
 October, 1855. He came of English stock. His father, 
 Richard U. Sherman, was a native of the same county 
 and was one of its well-known and esteemed citizens. 
 His grandfather, Willett Sherman, was one of the early 
 settlers upon the lands relinquished by the Oneida 
 Indians toward the close of the eighteenth century, and he 
 was one of the first manufacturers of central New York. 
 The grandson was graduated from Hamilton College in 
 the class of 1878. He was admitted to the bar in 1880 and 
 became a successful lawyer. In 1884 he was made mayor 
 of his native city. In 1886 he was chosen by the people 
 of the great manufacturing region of the upper Mohawk 
 to represent them in the Fiftieth Congress, and for more 
 than 20 years he continued to represent them with but 
 one break in his continuous service through reelection to 
 the Fifty-first, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth, Fifty- 
 sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth 
 Congresses. He became a potent factor in the House of 
 Representatives. He was an active member of the Com- 
 mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; he was 
 chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs; and he 
 was long a member of the Committee on Rules, one of 
 that little group of three constituting a majority of the 
 committee, who, under the former rules of the House, 
 guided the course of legislation and accomplished the 
 
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 nearest approach to responsible parliamentary govern- 
 ment which this country has ever seen. Through frequent 
 designation as Chairman to preside over the House sitting 
 in Committee of the Whole, where so great a part of the 
 business of the House is done, he gradually rose to general 
 recognition as a parliamentarian of the first order and a 
 presiding officer of the highest effectiveness. In his own 
 city, as the years passed, evidences accumulated of the 
 respect and confidence in which a community so rarely 
 errs while it renders unpremeditated judgment upon the 
 character of one known through the contact and observa- 
 tion of daily life. He was made treasurer of his church, 
 the Dutch Reformed Church, of Utica, and chairman of 
 its board of trustees. He was chosen to be president of 
 the Utica Trust & Deposit Co. He was made a trustee of 
 his alma mater and a member of the executive com- 
 mittee of its board of trustees. Children grew up about 
 him and the wife of his youth, in a home where virtue, 
 family affection, cheerfulness, honor, and obedience ruled. 
 It was one of those homes which, indefinitely multiplied 
 among a people, are the safe foundations of just and free 
 self-government, and sure guaranties of the future in a 
 republic. From near and far throughout that region the 
 unfortunate and struggling learned to come to him, their 
 Representative, and his kindness and ready sympathy 
 never failed them. No trouble of another was ever too 
 great or too small to command his attention. His patience 
 under such demands was never worn out. His willing- 
 ness to take trouble for others was never overtaxed. In 
 the feelings of his people grateful appreciation of the 
 poor and humble for his kindly service was mingled with 
 general pride in the honor of his representation and of 
 his citizenship. 
 
 The long and distinguished career as a Representative 
 in Congress was brought to a close by Mr. Sherman's elec- 
 
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Address of Senator Root, of New York 
 
 tion to the Vice Presidency in November, 1908. He was 
 renominated by his party for the same high office in 1912, 
 but a fatal malady already had been established, and 
 before the election, at his home in Utica, on the 30th of 
 October, 1912, his earthly course came to its end. 
 
 Senators know, but few outside of the Senate fully 
 appreciate, how great a service he rendered as presiding 
 oflBcer in this Chamber during the three and one-half 
 years which followed the inauguration of March, 1909. 
 Only experience can give a full understanding of the diffi- 
 culties of legislation, the obstacles to progress in legisla- 
 tive business presented by the persistent advocacy of a 
 multitude of varying opinions, and the impossibility of 
 wise and judicious consideration when feelings are exas- 
 perated and personal prejudices and antipathies are ex- 
 cited. Only through experience can one learn how much 
 the success of legislative consideration depends upon the 
 spirit which pervades the legislative chamber, and how 
 much depends upon the firm and intelligent application 
 of those rules of procedure which the experience of cen- 
 turies has shown to be necessary in the conduct of legis- 
 lation. During all the years in which Vice President 
 Sherman presided over the Senate we felt the calming 
 and steadying effect of a serene and potent presence in 
 the chair. The justice of his rulings was the product not 
 merely of intellectual integrity, but also of essential kind- 
 liness of feeling and consideration. Not only the rulings 
 were fair, but the man was fair. He was strong and self- 
 possessed and untroubled, with a gentle and delicate sense 
 of humor subdued to the proprieties of the place, with 
 swift certainty of conclusion, founded upon knowledge 
 and accurate thinking, carrying conviction and making 
 acquiescence natural. He expedited business by always 
 doing promptly the right thing without vacillation or de- 
 lay. In the rare instances when he found himself mis- 
 
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 taken, prompt acknowledgment and reparation were ac- 
 corded with such frank sincerity that the sufferer by the 
 mistake felt himself the gainer. He was positive without 
 dogmatism; certain without personal overconfidence. He 
 controlled procedure under the rules without making 
 them the instruments of irritation or oppression, and 
 without sacrificing the spirit to the letter. Senators of all 
 parties became his friends. All lamented his untimely 
 death, and all join here in doing honor to his memory. 
 
 All associated action among men exhibits an inevitable 
 conflict between the idea of combined efficiency and the 
 idea of individual freedom. Neither can prevail without 
 some sacrifice of the other. The difference is tempera- 
 mental, and the two types of character are hard to recon- 
 cile and are prone to misjudgment, each of the other. 
 
 Mr. Sherman was of the type which seeks efficiency by 
 the law of its nature. His instincts were for order, disci- 
 pline, intelligent direction, voluntary subordination to a 
 common purpose, definite conclusions, achievement. So 
 in politics, from first to last, he was always for party 
 organization and party responsibility. In the House he 
 was always for the most effective rules of procedure, and 
 as a parliamentary presiding officer he naturally made the 
 application of parliamentary rules a means of progress 
 rather than an obstacle. His character exhibited in high 
 degree the virtues of his type. He had the capacity for 
 sympathetic appreciation of the feelings and motives of 
 others which makes associated action easy. He had a 
 genius for friendship which conciliated affection and dis- 
 armed enmity. He thought much of the common cause 
 in which he was enlisted and little of his own advantage ; 
 much of general success and little of personal advance- 
 ment. He was modest and unassuming — ^never vaunted 
 himself or pressed himself forward. He never sought the 
 spotlight on the public stage. He was free from the ex- 
 
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Address of Senator Root, of New York 
 
 aggerated egoism which has wrecked so many fair causes. 
 He had the unselfishness and self-control to obey where 
 others rightly led, and he had the clearness of intelligence, 
 the force of personality, and the decision of character to 
 lead, so that others might follow. He was simple and 
 direct in thought and action. He was frank and truthful 
 and entirely free from that cowardice which breeds de- 
 ception. He had naturally an unconscious courage which 
 needed no screwing up to the sticking point. Among all 
 the multitude who have known him, in boyhood and in 
 manhood, in private and in public, not one can recall a 
 mean or ignoble or cruel or deceitful word or act on his 
 part. He was sincere in his beliefs, he was faithful to 
 his word, he was steadfast in his friendships, he was loyal 
 to every cause that he espoused. His life made men 
 happier; his example is making men better. His service 
 will endure in the fabric of our institutions. 
 
 In this Republic, unlike many nations which enjoy con- 
 stitutional government, we grant no titles of nobility and 
 no decorations for honor. As public servants complete 
 their work and pass from the stage of action the judg- 
 ment of their contemporaries finds no such definite means 
 of expression, and so we have come here to-day to render 
 in this ceremony the verdict of our generation upon the 
 private virtues and the public service of James School- 
 craft Sherman. The Senate and the House of Represent- 
 atives, the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the 
 Supreme Court, the ambassadors and ministers pf foreign 
 powers, the President and his Cabinet, the civil and mili- 
 tary and naval officers of the Nation, a multitude of 
 friends who knew him and of countrymen who knew him 
 not, join here to set in the archives of our Government a 
 record of honor which will remain so long as the Nation 
 he served so well endures. 
 
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Address of Senator Martin, of Virginia 
 
 Mr. President: To an orator or an essayist the aspira- 
 tions, achievements, and character of the late Vice Presi- 
 dent Sherman would furnish a theme big enough and 
 broad enough to invite and justify an effort of the most 
 philosophic and ambitious proportions. My time, oppor- 
 tunity, and humble abilities have not tempted me to 
 undertake to offer to the Senate to-day anything on that 
 plane. My only desire is very briefly and in plain and 
 simple words to pay some tribute to the memory of a per- 
 sonal friend, a patriotic citizen, and an able and upright 
 public officer. 
 
 I knew Vice President Sherman chiefly in his relations 
 to the Senate as its presiding officer and in his relations 
 with Senators in his daily contact and association with 
 them. He was elected Vice President of the United States 
 on the 3d day of November, 1908. He took the oath of 
 office and entered upon the discharge of his duties on 
 the 4th day of March, 1909. On that day he first presided 
 over the Senate. The last day on which he presided over 
 the Senate was the 12th day of June, 1912, at which time 
 a serious illness compelled him to discontinue his active 
 work and go to his home at Utica, N. Y., where on the 
 30th day of October, 1912, he departed this life. 
 
 Between the 4th day of March, 1909, and the 12th day 
 of June, 1912, a period of three years and more than three 
 months, he was rarely absent from his post of duty in the 
 Senate. During that period I can say with perfect safety 
 that no one heard from him, either from the chair as the 
 presiding officer of the Senate or in his association with 
 Senators, a harsh, unkind, unjust, or unpleasant word. 
 
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Address of Senator Martin, of "Virginia 
 
 The Senate during my 18 years of service in the body has 
 been fortunate in its presiding officers, but in no instance, 
 either of a Vice President or a President pro tempore, has 
 the body been honored with an abler, more courteous, or 
 more impartial presiding officer than Vice President 
 Sherman. He was as just and as fair to one side of the 
 Chamber as to the other. He was as courteous, consider- 
 ate, and as just to the Democrats as he was to the most con- 
 spicuous and able Republicans in the body. He was by 
 training and conviction a Republican in politics; he was 
 always loyal to his party. He was by nature a partisan. 
 I have no doubt I am as intense a partisan as he was, and 
 I trust I am as devoted to the Democratic Party as he was 
 to the Republican Party; but, Mr. President, in the Senate 
 there is much less of politics than is generally supposed 
 to exist. 
 
 In respect to questions essentially political in their 
 nature Senators divide on political lines, but questions of 
 that character constitute only a very small per cent of the 
 questions which come before the Senate; and in defining 
 questions essentially and properly political I would limit 
 them to questions in respect to which Senators form their 
 opinions in accordance vdth their convictions as to the 
 policies in their judgment most promotive of the public 
 welfare. In the Senate rarely, if ever, are questions 
 treated as political questions with a view to gaining 
 political advantages for the one party or the other. From 
 my experience and observation in the Senate I can say I 
 have found very little disposition on either side of the 
 Chamber to deal with public questions with a view to 
 party advantage rather than with a view to the public 
 welfare. From this broad and patriotic point of view the 
 late Vice President Sherman was a partisan in respect to 
 questions essentially and properly of a political nature. 
 So long as men adhere to this patriotic and honorable 
 line of division on political questions politics does not 
 
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 and can not interfere with cordial personal relations or 
 lead to unjust, unfair, or partial rulings from the chair. 
 A partisan only in this higher and nobler sense, and 
 actuated only by patriotic motives, it was inevitable that 
 the official rulings of Vice President Sherman from the 
 chair would always bear the impress of honest conviction 
 and intelligent consideration and command the respect of 
 Senators on both sides of the Chamber. 
 
 As his rulings were impartial as between the two politi- 
 cal parties in the Senate, so his personal friendships were 
 not confined to the members of either one of the political 
 parties. He was my personal friend. My associations 
 with him constitute one of the most pleasing features of 
 my public life. He enjoyed to the fullest extent the con- 
 fidence and esteem of the Democrats as well as of the 
 Republicans of the Senate, and with many of them he was 
 on terms of the closest friendship. Democrats consulted 
 and advised with him as freely as the Republicans did. 
 There was no sham or hypocrisy in his character. In his 
 personal association with Senators he was always frank, 
 cordial, and courteous. In the conduct of the business 
 of the Senate he was attentive, vigilant, just, and able. 
 He was a careful student of parliamentary law, and in 
 his rulings rarely, if ever, erred; but whether he erred or 
 not, there was never an occasion during his official life 
 in the Senate when any Senator questioned his fidelity of 
 purpose or his careful consideration of any question pre- 
 sented to him or his earnest desire to dispose of it cor- 
 rectly and justly. 
 
 His death brought the deepest sorrow to every Mem- 
 ber of this body. In the official business of the Senate he 
 has been missed more than words can reasonably express. 
 The country at large has lost one of its noblest citizens 
 and a public officer of the highest ideals, devoted to the 
 faithful discharge of every duty devolved upon him. 
 
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Address of Senator Gallinger, of New Hampshire 
 
 Mr. President: When on a certain occasion the late 
 Vice President called me to the desk, saying that he felt 
 ill, and asked me to take the chair for the remainder of 
 the day, he added, with pathos in his voice, " I am not at 
 all sure how long I shall be able to continue to preside 
 over the Senate." He then told me something of his fears, 
 and as he left the Chamber my heart sank, and what fol- 
 lowed a little later was not a matter of complete surprise 
 to me. As was his custom in emergencies, Mr. Sherman 
 made a brave fight against the disease that had fastened 
 itself upon him, and only surrendered when poor, weak 
 human nature succumbed to the inevitable. 
 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman was a strong type of the 
 best in our public life. He was an intelligent legislator, 
 an ideal presiding officer, a powerful debater, and an 
 orator of acknowledged ability. He was a good friend, 
 a charming companion, and a loving husband and father, 
 whose popularity was nation-wide. His death was a 
 shock not only to his countrymen, but beyond our borders 
 it was felt as a calamity. He died as serenely and bravely 
 as he lived. 
 
 Mr. President, the predominant note in Mr. Sherman's 
 life was geniality and good nature. From him radiated a 
 sweetness and tenderness that were contagious. No one 
 came in contact with him without feeling the influence of 
 a pure, generous, lovable soul. He was kind to animals, 
 fond of sports, and a lover of nature. In good literature 
 he found great pleasure, and in the study of economic 
 questions he took special delight. 
 
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 In both Houses of Congress Mr. Sherman was univer- 
 sally liked, and in every relation of life he was honored 
 and respected. We sadly miss him from this Chamber, 
 where he was held in highest esteem by the entire mem- 
 bership. While a strong party man, he was free from 
 narrow partisanship. He was in the truest sense a pa- 
 triot, loving his country and its institutions, and devoted 
 to the happiness and welfare of all classes of its people. 
 He was broad-minded and large-hearted, incapable of a 
 meanness, and filled with sympathy and love for his fel- 
 lows. Such a life surely did not end when death came. 
 Rather let us believe that it was the beginning of a higher 
 and better existence, and that the earthly activities of our 
 friend were but the prelude to a life of greater beauty, of 
 grander aspirations, and of nobler achievements. In the 
 contemplation of the great mystery that surrounds death 
 and immortality, which no one, however wise, can fully 
 interpret, we may well exclaim : 
 
 Shall I say that what heaven gave 
 
 Earth has taken? 
 Or that sleepers in the grave 
 
 Reawaken? 
 One sole sentence can I know. 
 
 Can I say: 
 You, my comrade, had to go, 
 
 I to stay. 
 
 And so, Mr. President, to this brief and inadequate trib- 
 ute to a dear friend, whose memory will always be lov- 
 ingly treasured in my heart of hearts, I can but add the 
 simple word " adieu." 
 
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Address of Senator Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 Mr. President: It is to me a source of mingled sorrow 
 and pleasure to have been asked to speak on this occasion. 
 
 Of sorrow, because it brings freshly to my mind the 
 thought of the loss of him whose memory we are as- 
 sembled to honor, and of pleasure because of the oppor- 
 tunity given me to add my short tribute of respect and 
 affection to the fuller tributes placed on the altar of his 
 memory this day. 
 
 It was not my good fortune to know him as long as did 
 others who have preceded or will follow me, but I shall 
 ever esteem it fortunate for me that I knew him at all. 
 
 My acquaintance with Mr. Sherman only dated from 
 my entrance into the Senate in 1910, yet in the time that 
 I knew him I learned to love him because of his sweet 
 spirit, his gracious demeanor, his kindly consideration, 
 coupled with the fine sense of humor that added to the 
 charm of his personality and made his companionship so 
 agreeable. 
 
 These were the traits of character that won my heart 
 soon after we met and held it to the end. 
 
 And it is not on the statesman, the Congressman, the 
 presiding officer of the Senate, or the Vice President of 
 the United States that my mind lovingly dwells, but on 
 the lovable man. 
 
 And I do not know how better to illustrate these win- 
 ning qualities I have mentioned and the recognition by 
 others of their exercise than by relating an incident in 
 which he and I were the actors and the comment of a 
 third party thereon. 
 
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 He was not presiding over the Senate on the morning I 
 was sworn in, and I did not meet him for four days there- 
 after. Then he came to my seat and, with that pleasant 
 smile we all so well remember, said : " Senator, I have 
 not had the opportunity of making your acquaintance, but 
 I wish now to introduce myself and so say that I welcome 
 you to the Senate and hope your stay with us will be 
 always agreeable and pleasant to you." 
 
 And after a moment of pleasant chat he left, taking a 
 part of my heart with him. 
 
 About a day after this little incident, one of my Demo- 
 cratic friends from the House of Representatives, who 
 had seen long service in that body with Mr. Sherman 
 and was on intimate personal terms with him, came over 
 to the Senate and sat down by me and said : " Have you 
 met my friend, Jim Sherman, yet?" Then I told him of 
 the incident of the previous day and of how much' I had 
 appreciated the gracious action, and his comment was: 
 " Now is not that exactly like Jim Sherman ! " 
 
 This was the beginning of my acquaintance with him, 
 this the first of the many acts of kindness shown me by 
 him during the two years that followed until death stayed 
 the hand always so ready to be uplifted for the help of 
 others. 
 
 And so it was that I learned to love him while he was 
 here, and so it is that I shall love his memory since he 
 has gone. 
 
 And I am sure that my experience with him is that of 
 all with whom he came in contact, for he was filled with 
 the spirit of kindness toward others, and many there are 
 besides myself who loved him living and mourn him 
 dead. And if the beautiful dream of the poet be true, 
 that on the roll of the book of gold hereafter the names 
 of those who loved their fellow men shall be first in- 
 scribed, then will his name be found high up on the list. 
 
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Address of Senator Thornton, of Louisiana 
 
 We will no more see the winning ^mile, no more feel 
 the cordial hand grasp, no more receive the acts of kindly 
 sympathy, but the memory of it all will remain with us 
 and make us feel thankful that we knew one whose im- 
 pulses through life prompted his conduct toward others to 
 the end that he might contribute to their happiness. 
 
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Address of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 Mr. President: The tie which binds those who have 
 been long together in the public service is apt to grow 
 very close as the years glide by. Mr. Sherman and I,, as 
 it chanced, began our congressional life at the same time, 
 in the Fiftieth Congress, 26 years ago. Except for two 
 years, when he was out of the House for one term, we 
 have been together ever since. He remained in the 
 House, was one of its most trusted leaders and most effi- 
 cient Members. During all those years I saw him con- 
 stantly, and it was with peculiar pleasure that, as the 
 president of the convention, I declared his nomination 
 as the Republican candidate for the Vice Presidency in 
 1908. His service here in the high office to which he was 
 chosen is so recent that it is as fresh in our minds as the 
 grief we have all felt for his untimely death. I say 
 " untimely," for he was still far from the chilling pre- 
 cincts of old age, and any death is premature which 
 strikes a man down when he is in the prime of his 
 abilities, when he is ripened by long training and wide 
 experience, and when his life is still valuable to his 
 country, still ample in promise for a yet larger service in 
 the future. 
 
 Of his long and successful career as a legislator I shall 
 not attempt to speak. Others who saw him at work year 
 after year in the House can alone do him sufficient justice 
 in this respect. But there is one phase of his public work 
 of which I wish to say a few words, because he there 
 attained to an excellence not often reached in what is 
 always an exacting and sometimes an ungrateful duty. 
 During his long service in the House he gradually came 
 
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Address of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 to be recognized as the best Chairman of the Committee 
 of the Whole whom that great body had known in many 
 years. 
 
 To preside not merely well but effectively in the House 
 Committee of the Whole is a severe test of a man's quali- 
 ties, both moral and mental. He must have strength of 
 character as well as ability, quickness in decision must go 
 hand in hand with knowledge, and firmness must always 
 be accompanied by good temper. 
 
 Many if not most persons seem to regard parliamentary 
 law as a collection of haphazard and arbitrary rules. No 
 view could be more erroneous. General parliamentary 
 law, like all other systems of law or jurisprudence, rests 
 upon certain underlying principles, and is designed to 
 carry out those principles and to effect particular pur- 
 poses for which the system exists. Parliamentary law 
 aims to insure the transaction of business by legislative 
 bodies, to eliminate disorder iand confusion from the 
 process, to make impossible the occurrence of situations 
 where there is no thoroughfare and no way out, and to 
 preserve the proper rights of minorities. 
 
 For the attainment of these objects, so essential to the 
 transaction of business in any legislative assembly or any 
 large body which debates and votes, parliamentary law 
 has been developed by practice and perfected by long ex- 
 perience. A presiding officer of high and marked ability 
 like Mr. Sherman must therefore possess a full knowledge 
 of the principles upon which parliamentary law is based 
 and also understand the philosophy of the system so that 
 he can apply it at will to any given question. Besides this 
 familiarity with general parliamentary law and in addi- 
 tion to a firm grasp of its principles, a presiding officer 
 must know thoroughly the rules of the particular body 
 which he serves. In the case of our House of Representa- 
 tives the rules are many and complicated and the litera- 
 
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 ture to which they have given rise in discussions, deci- 
 sions, and precedents is voluminous in the extreme. In 
 the Senate, on the other hand, the rules are simple and 
 their burden is light, but they are administered in con- 
 formity with habits and customs which have slowly grown 
 up during a century and which, for that very reason, can 
 be understood and appreciated only by the exercise of 
 patient and observant care. Mr. Sherman, as Chairman 
 of the Committee of the Whole in the House and as 
 President of the Senate, met the exacting and very diffi- 
 cult requirements of both positions with a success as com- 
 plete as it is rare. He was equally master of general par- 
 liamentary practice and its principles and of the various 
 systems peculiar to the two branches of Congress. 
 Always alert, prompt, and clear in decision, rapid in the 
 conduct of business, he was courtesy and kindness itself 
 to all the Members of the House and Senate. A strong 
 party man, of deep convictions as to political principles, 
 when in the chair he recognized no party divisions on the 
 floor. To him in that high and responsible place each 
 Member of this body was simply a Senator with rights and 
 obligations equal to those of every other Member of the 
 body. He understood thoroughly also that most essential 
 fact, that the first duty of a presiding officer is to preside, 
 and, when questions of order are raised, to decide. He 
 realized fully that it was far better to run the risk of an 
 occasional error, against which his knowledge and experi- 
 ence protected him, than, like Lord Eldon, to say con- 
 tinually " I doubt." He knew that the presiding officer 
 who hesitates is, if not always lost, quite sure to find con- 
 trol of the helm slipping from him, to see the public busi- 
 ness drift off on the baffling waves of debate, ground on 
 the shoals of delay, or sink, a helpless wreck, even when 
 in sight of land. Therefore he ruled, as he conducted the 
 general business, clearly and without doubt or hesitation. 
 
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Address of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts 
 
 He exhibited also in a high degree, whenever occasion 
 demanded, the steady courage which is at all times so 
 important, but which is not always associated in the 
 minds of most people with the qualifications of a presid- 
 ing officer. Correct rulings may readily be as unpopular 
 as a righteous vote or an honest speech, and it is very easy 
 to create a doubt under cover of which the unpopular 
 ruling can be escaped. This Mr. Sherman never did. He 
 was as incapable of making a wrong ruling through fear 
 as he was of ruling wrongly to advance a personal or 
 party interest. I remember well one occasion when a 
 very popular and much-desired amendment was offered 
 to an appropriation bill where it was plainly out of order. 
 Under the Senate rules the Chair may submit a question 
 of order to the Senate. It was not necessary in this in- 
 stance that Mr. Sherman should rule wrongly; it was 
 only necessary to stand back and allow the Senate to set 
 the rule aside. Mr. Sherman was urged to submit the 
 question, of order to the Senate. He declined to do so. 
 He refused to evade his duty. The point of order was 
 made, and he sustained it. It was not popular to do this, 
 but it was right, and the act showed not only courage but 
 a high conception of public duty. 
 
 I have dwelt upon this single phase of Mr. Sherman's 
 public service, because time forbids that I should do more, 
 and because the high excellence which he achieved as a 
 presiding officer, both in the House and Senate, is in 
 itself at once an exhibition and a proof of his ability, 
 his intellectual keenness, and his force of character. But 
 I can not end these most inadequate words without 
 speaking of him for an instant as a friend and wholly 
 apart from his public service. He was one of the best 
 and most loyal friends. Indeed, his loyalty to a friend was 
 so strong that he more than once bore troubles not his 
 own and endured censure when he had no fault, rather 
 
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 than desert one to whom his friendship had been given. 
 He was one of the pleasantest and most agreeable of com- 
 panions, full of fun and humor, and with a sympathetic 
 interest which ranged over many subjects and touched 
 many men. By those who knew him well he is greatly 
 missed. Not a day goes by that I do not think of him 
 here and of our talks together, that I do not wish I could 
 hear once again that hearty laugh and cheery voice, that 
 I could see him as he was, now serious, now mirthful, but 
 always strong and kind and full of sympathy with those 
 for whom he cared. He died in the highest office but one 
 of the Republic. The office Avill be tilled, but the place 
 which he had made for himself in the affection of those 
 who knew him will remain vacant and unoccupied. 
 
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Address of Senator Kern, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. President: It was during the presidential campaign 
 of 1908, and in the city of Chicago, that I first met James S. 
 Sherman. We were opposing candidates for Vice Presi- 
 dent, and at that particular time and place the political 
 situation was the subject of well-nigh universal discus- 
 sion. Both of us were in the midst of the contest. I have 
 never forgotten the genial warmth of Mr. Sherman's 
 greeting, and the ease with which he captured my 
 friendship. 
 
 Before that meeting I had him in mind as a formi- 
 dable political adversary — a foeman worthy the steel of 
 any man, but none the less a foeman. After looking into 
 his genial face, which reflected that gentle spirit, and 
 hearing his words of kindly greeting which so clearly 
 proceeded from a heart full of affection for his fellow 
 men I was never able to regard him otherwise than as 
 my friend. 
 
 Some weeks later as the campaign proceeded I was 
 about to be introduced to a very large political assem- 
 blage in his home city of Utica, when a telegram was 
 handed me. It was from Mr. Sherman, who was in a 
 distant part of the country, bidding me welcome to his 
 city, expressing his hearty good will, and urging me to 
 call upon his family while in Utica. 
 
 A few days later, when the word came to me that a 
 member of my family had been suddenly stricken by 
 disease, I had scarcely turned my face toward home, 
 abandoning the campaign for a time, when from my 
 opponent, this great-hearted man, came a message full 
 
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 of sympathy, expressing in tenderest phrase his hopes 
 that my worst fears might not be realized. 
 
 Within a week of the election, when a foul libel assail- 
 ing my reputation had been published in a single eastern 
 newspaper, the first knowledge I had of the article came 
 from Mr. Sherman, deprecating the publication and re- 
 assuring me of his high personal regard. 
 
 When I came to the Senate two years ago he was so 
 anxious to show his good will and emphasize his personal 
 friendship that within five minutes after the oath had 
 been administered to me he invited me to take the gavel 
 and preside over the Senate. I protested that I was a 
 stranger, not only to this body but its procedure, but he 
 insisted, saying, " It will be only for a few minutes and it 
 is for my own pleasure and gratification that I ask you 
 to do me this personal favor." 
 
 And from that time on until the last he never lost an 
 opportunity to make me feel that however wide our politi- 
 cal differences — and they were irreconcilable — I had in 
 him a friend on whose fidelity I might always rely. 
 
 Such incidents may be tiresome, in so far as they refer 
 to my personal connection with them, but it seemed to me 
 that the recital of these bare facts would serve to illus- 
 trate the kindness of heart and nobility of spirit of this 
 man whose untimely death we mourn, with far greater 
 force than I could possibly portray them in any combina- 
 tion of words, however ingeniously arranged or elo- 
 quently expressed. 
 
 While the election of 1908 brought to me defeat, disas- 
 trous as such things are counted or measured amongst 
 men, the campaign brought to me in the nature of recom- 
 pense the friendship of this man, which during his life I 
 treasured as one of my dearest possessions, and now that 
 he has " gone forever and ever by," the memory of that 
 friendship will bless and inspire me to my latest day. 
 
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Address of Senator Kern, of Indiana 
 
 There are men here who knew him intimately through- 
 out his long and honorable public career, covering a pe- 
 riod of nearly a quarter of a century, and who, therefore, 
 must have loved him well, but I doubt if any of such men 
 had greater reason than I for yielding to him a full meas- 
 ure of affectionate regard or who felt a deeper sense of 
 personal loss when death took from me such a friend. 
 
 It is not my purpose to speak of this man's official life, 
 nor of the distinction gained by him during his years of 
 service as a Representative in Congress of a rich and 
 populous district, or those other years of service here as 
 the Vice President of the United States. 
 
 The people of the Utica district honored and trusted 
 him, and he was altogether faithful to their interests. 
 They loved him, and he gave them his personal affection 
 in return. He won their continued support by his fidelity 
 to duty, but he won their hearts by his unfailing kindness 
 and gentle bearing to everyone. 
 
 And so in this body. As a presiding officer he was able 
 and impartial, and because of the ability with which he 
 discharged the duties of his high office he was honored 
 by the Senators from every State. And yet when he died 
 and a deep sense of personal loss and bereavement op- 
 pressed us, it was not of his great ability as a presiding 
 officer, or the loss that the Nation had sustained in the 
 loss of its Vice President, that we thought first, but rather 
 of the great heart of the man, of his genial manners, his 
 gentle ways, and his never-failing love for his fellow man. 
 
 His public record is one of which his family and friends 
 may be justly proud. He will be doubtless remembered 
 as a commanding figure in the councils of the Nation in 
 that period during which he served the people. But be- 
 yond and above all this, the memories of his cheery smile, 
 his kindly deeds, his generous conduct toward political 
 friend and foe alike, which made men love him, will find 
 
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 their way into the history of the times in which he lived, 
 and in the homes of the people at least will add luster to 
 his name. 
 
 It is better that a man should have the personal affec- 
 tion of the hundreds who know him well and love him for 
 the sweetness of his life and character than that he should 
 have the applause of the millions because of great public 
 achievements, while hungering for the joys of personal 
 friendship of which he knows nothing. 
 
 The Divine Master when on earth, being called upon for 
 a solution of the problem as to what was necessary in the 
 conduct of man to insure the inheritance of eternal life, 
 declared that he who loved God and who also loved his 
 neighbor as himself should surely live, and in further ex- 
 emplification of the law of love which glorified the new 
 dispensation declared : "A new commandment I give unto 
 you, that ye love one another." 
 
 What a true disciple of this Christian doctrine, what a 
 consistent follower of these divine teachings, was the late 
 Vice President of the United States ! 
 
 And if we may rely upon the teachings and promises 
 of the Man of Galilee, as with confidence we do, then is 
 the future of our friend assured, for he has come into that 
 inheritance of eternal life which has been promised to all 
 who, keeping God's commands, have loved their fellow 
 men. 
 
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Address of Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin 
 
 Mr. President : In the brief time assigned me I can offer 
 but the simplest tribute to a personal friend. 
 
 I first met the late Vice President 25 years ago, when 
 he became a Member of the Fiftieth Congress. I had en- 
 tered the House of Representatives two years before. 
 We were of the same age. We were both Republicans. 
 We became friends. We served together four years. We 
 were both retired from the public service on the 4th of 
 March, 1891. We did not meet again for 15 years. 
 
 In those intervening years he had been returned to the 
 House of Representatives, where he had risen to posi- 
 tion and to power. I had gone back to my State, to find 
 another call to service. 
 
 When we again met in this Chamber, a decade and a 
 half had wrought great changes in political parties and 
 in the country. We were both Republicans, but he was 
 of one school, I of another. He believed that the inter- 
 ests of business and the interests of the country were at 
 all times identical. I believed otherwise. But while we 
 disagreed on many if not most matters of legislation, 
 our friendly personal relations remained unbroken to 
 the end. 
 
 Looking back upon the years in which he laid the foun- 
 dations of his career, I can well understand its influence 
 upon his conception of the obligations of public service. 
 The strongest men are, in some degree at least, the prod- 
 uct of their environment. But whatever may have been 
 the influences directing the course of Mr. Sherman's 
 thinking, that course was a steadfast and consistent one 
 throughout his life. His convictions were strong and 
 
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 were strongly maintained. He never skulked or evaded, 
 but with resolution and courage fought out every issue 
 openly, to victory or to defeat. 
 
 From the House of Representatives he was chosen to 
 be Vice President of the United States. But in the hour 
 of his greatest triumph, when life and hope were strong- 
 est within, the hand of death was laid upon him. At the 
 very threshold of his new career the grim messenger met 
 him. From the first its shadow went with him in and 
 out of this Chamber, stood over him at his desk, fol- 
 lowed him down the corridors, pursued him to his home. 
 Month after month, waking or sleeping, in social cheer 
 or the still hours of the night, it was his constant com- 
 panion. Before all others he was the first to know what 
 threatened him. His ear first caught the mandate that 
 chills the heart and slows the pulse : " Be ye ready, the 
 summons cometh quickly." 
 
 He indulged in no delusions touching- the final issue. 
 His clear vision saw straight to the open tomb. To go 
 down in defeat and to rise again and fight on demands 
 courage of a high order. To face death when it breaks 
 life off in the middle and to make no sign is the supreme 
 test. 
 
 He understood. But he took care that those who were 
 nearest and dearest to him should not know. He bore 
 an outward geniality and spirit that dispelled fear from 
 all his friends, while caring for every detail, and making 
 the final preparation. 
 
 Mr. President, the longest span of life is but a day — 
 a day of sunshine and shadow between the impenetrable 
 darkness of two eternities. The mystery of our coming 
 and going we can not solve; but — 
 
 We believe that God is overhead; ' 
 
 And as life is to the living, 
 So death is to the dead. 
 
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Address of Senator Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 Mr. President: Mr. James S. Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States, was cut down in the high tide of 
 physical and mental virility and maturity. 
 
 Shakespeare pictures life as a one-act play with seven 
 scenes, and of the seventh he says : 
 
 Last scene of all. 
 That ends this strange eventful history. 
 Is second childishness and mere oblivion, 
 Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. 
 
 The man whose personality we recall to-day least of 
 all men would have desired to live that long. Rather was 
 his temperament that of one who would heed the admo- 
 nition : 
 
 Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. 
 
 Old Time is still a-flying. 
 And this same flower that smiles to-day 
 
 To-morrow will be dying. 
 
 For that reason was he called " Sunny Jim." He was 
 sunny in appearance, in speech, in thought, in feeling. 
 But it was not the rippling sunniness of short, breaking 
 wavelets on the surface of a shallow brook; the stream 
 of his thought was deep and strong and steady. 
 
 I first met him in 1893, when both of us were Members 
 of the Fifty-third Congress. We were of totally opposite 
 schools of political thought, opposite heredities and en- 
 vironments, but we soon became warm personal friends 
 of that type who are said to be " hail fellows well met," 
 extending one to the other every possible personal cour- 
 tesy, and in legislative work every possible favor consist- 
 ent with our respective partisan obligations. He was ex- 
 perienced, 1 not; and so it came to pass that he showed 
 
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 me how to do things in a parliamentary way. In 20 years' 
 acquaintance I never saw a frown on his face, nor did I 
 ever see a shadow or a cloud. He must have had his 
 sorrows and troubles, as all of us have, but whatever they 
 were he never afflicted others with them. He shared his 
 enjoyments, not his worries, with his friends. 
 
 He had been when I first met him already a Member of 
 two Congresses — the Fiftieth and the Fifty-first — though 
 defeated for the Fifty-second. He was after the Fifty- 
 third a Member successively of seven more Congresses, 
 and then for nearly four years Vice President of the 
 United States. " He wore his honors meekly." Pride of 
 office was as alien to him as taking himself too seriously 
 in any other way would have been. Among his fellows he 
 did his work patiently, vigilantly, intelligently, genially, 
 and, above all, equably — never seeking the first place for 
 glory nor the last to shirk labor or responsibility, but 
 meeting with marked ability whatever fell to him as his 
 share in his country's or his party's tasks in that great 
 arena of struggling and often excited gladiators — the 
 House of Representatives. The favorite of three Speak- 
 ers — Reed, Henderson, and Cannon — all of whom, when 
 forced to leave the chair at critical moments demanding 
 a quick, decisive, self-possessed, and able parliamen- 
 tarian in their stead, delighted to call him to it, he yet 
 never held a committee assignment in the House higher 
 than that of Judiciary at one time and Interstate and 
 Foreign Commerce at another. For years he could have 
 had a place on Ways and Means or Appropriations — the 
 two leading committees there — for the asking. But there 
 were always friends who wanted preferment, and he 
 always subordinated himself to them, thereby making 
 the task of the Speaker, who was in those days always 
 the party leader, easier and the pathway of his friends 
 pleasanter. 
 
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Address of Senator Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 He proved himself easily equal, if not superior, 
 wherever he was placed. He fell below the demands of 
 no responsibility or task laid upon him. His action was 
 decisive; his speech facile, lucid, and terse, though unpre- 
 tentious. I used to think in the House that he was the 
 ablest and the readiest presiding officer we ever had after 
 Reed died, and that he handled bills of which he had 
 charge on the floor more rapidly, more easily, and with 
 clearer explanations to Members not on the committee 
 and seeking information than any other Member. 
 
 Above all, he did all with irresistible pleasantness of 
 demeanor and appealing modesty. When with a point of 
 order he took a Member off his feet and the floor, he did 
 it with a smile, which was itself an apology, as much as 
 to say, " I hate to trouble you, old fellow, but really the 
 business of the House must go on in an orderly and pre- 
 scribed way"; or, " I hate to disturb you of all men, but 
 this is my only way of meeting an exigency of party man- 
 agement." Of nearly all men I ever met, he knew best 
 that no man has a right to take himself or his share of 
 human work and human honors too seriously. Men are 
 too many, the earth is too small, and other planets and 
 solar systems are too numerous and large and earthly 
 life is too short for that. 
 
 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. 
 
 * * * * * • • 
 
 And the fever called living 
 Is conquered at last. 
 
 After his death his friends may say that he was— 
 A man that Fortune's bufl"ets and rewards 
 Has ta'en with equal thanks. 
 I am not an old man yet, as life is measured here in 
 Washington, and yet there are perhaps more of the men 
 
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 who were in public life when Mr. Sherman and I first 
 entered it who are now waiting to shake our hands on the 
 other shore than there are on this. 
 
 Friend after friend departs; 
 Who hath not lost a friend? 
 
 There is no union here of hearts 
 
 That finds not here an end. 
 
 * * * * * * ♦ 
 
 Over the river they beckon to us — 
 
 Loved ones who've crossed to the farther shore. 
 
 Perhaps the best thing we can do here is to so deal with 
 men and women, too, that we shall be neither ashamed 
 nor afraid to meet them hereafter. This I believe this 
 man did. I have met him by the funeral bier; in the po- 
 litical struggle, where we crossed swords in earnest and 
 fateful conflict; around the banquet board. He was 
 always the same and always a gentleman, in manners, 
 speech, and conduct. He carried sunshine with him in 
 this life. Why can we not hope that he carries it with 
 him over there? 
 
 Of course none of us know with certainty what death is, 
 nor can we know except with the eye of faith. How can 
 we, when we do not even know what life is or whence 
 it is? 
 
 Life! I know not what thou art. 
 
 But know that thou and I must part; 
 
 And when or where or how we met, 
 
 I own to me's a secret yet. 
 
 Or, as another sweet singer expresses it : 
 
 Like to the grass that's newly sprung, 
 Or, like a tale that's new begun. 
 Or, like the bird that's here to-day. 
 Or, like the pearl'd dew of May, 
 Or, like an hour, or, like a span. 
 Or, like the singing of a swan — 
 E'en, such is man, who lives by breath; 
 Is here, now there — in life and death. 
 
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Address of Senator Williams, of Mississippi 
 
 But if, as I fervently believe, existence is one duration, 
 of which what we call life is one part on this side of the 
 dividing portal which we call death and of which what 
 we call eternity is the part on the other side — if, as Long- 
 fellow says: 
 
 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. 
 Or if, as another sings — 
 
 The living are the only dead; 
 The dead live, never more to die — 
 then, why in sweet Heaven's name can we not go through 
 life as James S. Sherman did, with smiles upon our faces, 
 meeting our tasks earnestly and honestly, but cheerfully, 
 not sadly — doing our best and leaving the sad faults and 
 sins of us, like little children, to the pity of the All Father 
 whose mysteriously weak and strong and unfathomable 
 creatures we are? 
 
 The body of him has been laid away in " God's acre " — 
 I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls the burial 
 ground God's acre; it is just — and though a Nation here, 
 through us, its representatives, is met with fit observance 
 to do him ceremonious honor — all deserved by faithful, 
 long, honest, intelligent public service, deserved by cour- 
 teous, kind-hearted human serviceableness and cleanness 
 in private life — I do not think he wants us to be sad or 
 to make others sad in his death, except in so far as we 
 can not help it because of the mutual missing of him. 
 It is for the living who have been left by the loving and 
 beloved dead and not for the dead themselves that we 
 are called to sorrow, because, as to him who has passed 
 the portal where this " mortal coil," the flesh, is " shuf- 
 fled off," a freer and a broader life, untrammeled by 
 flesh limitations and undeflected by flesh temptations, 
 
 begins. 
 
 The soul, immortal as its Sire, 
 
 Shall never die. 
 
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Address of Senator Curtis, of Kansas 
 
 Mr. President: No one outside his family circle felt 
 more than did I the death of James S. Sherman, the Vice 
 President of the United States. For years I was associated 
 with him in the House of Representatives, and early 
 learned not only to respect him but to love him. His 
 qualities not alone as a man, as a legislator, as a parlia- 
 mentarian, but as a friend, impressed themselves upon 
 me and quickly endeared him to me in many ways, and 
 that endearment deepened as time went by. Mr. Sher- 
 man was more than a friendly acquaintance to those with 
 whom he frequently came in contact. He was a fatherly 
 man. He was at once interested in the things in which 
 you were interested, and immediately took upon himself 
 the cloak of helper and adviser. He was thus particularly 
 useful and congenial to new Members, and commanded 
 for himself respect and support in everything he under- 
 took. In fact, I believe, and make bold at this time to 
 assert, that James S. Sherman enjoyed the real loving 
 friendship and affection of more men throughout the 
 country than any other one American living. He had 
 traveled extensively in the United States, and there was 
 scarcely a town in this broad Nation in which he might 
 appear, whether or not his coming had been heralded, 
 that some man would not step to his side, and, throwing 
 his arm about his neck, accost him in terms of pleasure 
 and of attachment. 
 
 Long and close association with Mr. Sherman in the 
 House gave me keen appreciation of his talents as a legis- 
 lator, while all of you here to-day are aware of his excep- 
 
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Address of Senator Curtis, of Kansas 
 
 tional abilities as a presiding officer and as an exponent 
 of parliamentary law. While seeking no recognition as 
 an orator, he was ready in debate, and, though kindly and 
 considerate to his opponents on the floor, drove home 
 arguments with such conciseness and good effect that 
 defeat in a contest on legislative matters rarely overtook 
 him. His readiness under all circumstances to gauge a 
 situation in its true light, his quickness to take advantage 
 of opportunities made him, to my mind, one of the most 
 successful and best Representatives, and he was valued 
 and complimented as such not only by the people of his 
 district but of the United States. His efforts were not 
 centralized or localized. As chairman of the Committee 
 on Indian Affairs and as a leading member of the great 
 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce his field 
 of labor was broad and varied, and in nothing did he 
 shirk his responsibilities, but was constantly working for 
 the enactment of legislation of a character which would 
 inure to the benefit of the public and of those whose inter- 
 ests were at stake. A large number of the most important 
 statutes born in these committees bear witness to-day to 
 his ability and able judgment. 
 
 Mr. Sherman was a partisan, open and unequivocal. 
 He made plain his position on public policies and pub- 
 lic questions at every opportunity, and rather, I always 
 thought, enjoyed such declarations. There was never 
 any misunderstanding as to where he stood on any ques- 
 tion, and he would lose with grace, upholding his ideals, 
 rather than yield to those beneath whose veneering was 
 a desire to either please or advantage his opponent. 
 He disliked pretense and detested dishonesty. While 
 easy of approach and ready to listen to those who sought 
 him, he was quick to detect and resent imposition or in- 
 sincere motives. On such occasions his indignation would 
 
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 assert itself by vigorous expression and prompt refusal, 
 and the discovery would rarely be forgotten. 
 
 Some of Mr. Sherman's warmest friends were num- 
 bered among those who did not always agree with him 
 either in politics or in policy. He was democratic, un- 
 ostentatious, genial. His sympathy was deep and easily 
 stirred. He saw the right in all that he did, but, finding 
 himself mistaken in any situation or degree, his acknowl- 
 edgment of the fact was quick, earnest, and sincere. 
 In fact, in private and public life Mr. Sherman met, as 
 fully as it is possible to meet, every demand upon him 
 as a citizen, a neighbor, a friend, and a statesman. 
 
 In his family relations he was particularly blessed. 
 His enjoyment and contentment reached its height when 
 his family was gathered about him, and its members, 
 more than any others, will miss him as a devoted hus- 
 band, loving, gentle father, and jealous protector. 
 
 It is difficult, indeed, to realize that James S. Sherman 
 has gone never to return. Had he been spared there were 
 other heights which he might have reached, but after 
 traveling well the road of service to his people, his party, 
 and his Nation, he was stricken down in the prime of 
 life and left us lonely and sorrowful at his demise. We 
 miss his cordial greeting, his heartfelt hand grasp, his 
 tender solicitude. His memory vdll live always and we 
 are better for having known him. His career will ever 
 be a shining example before the youth of our country, 
 and the tributes paid him heretofore and to-day, though 
 they do not add to his worth or greatness, are confes- 
 sions of love, respect, and esteem on the part of those 
 who not only knew him but who enjoyed in his pres- 
 ence and at his side those delightful characteristics and 
 that personal charm which endeared him to young and 
 old and which remained with him to the end. 
 
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Address of Senator Curtis, of Kansas 
 
 He has gone. He has trod the path we shall tread when 
 the summons comes. Let us be as well prepared ifl all 
 things as was he, for the good he did lives after him. 
 Our struggle here may be longer, yet for whatever time 
 it be we will go on as " weary ships to their haven under 
 the hill." 
 
 But 1 for the touch of a vanish'd hand. 
 And the sound of a voice that is still 1 
 
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Address of Senator Cummins, of Iowa 
 
 Mr. President : It seems to be the way of this turbulent, 
 fighting world of ours that in life the people, and es- 
 pecially the public people, are chiefly concerned with 
 their never-ending disagreements; but in the presence of 
 death, with its majestic and solemn harmonies, we no 
 longer hear the noise of the conflict and we lay aside the 
 weapons of our warfare. We are conscious then, as at 
 no other time, of the immensity of that limitless region 
 in which the peace of common purpose always reigns. 
 
 In his lifetime there were some things upon which the 
 late Vice President and myself were not in accord, but 
 now that he has joined the immortals upon the other 
 shore my memory refuses to perform its accustomed office, 
 and just now I am wondering what these differences were. 
 In the stead of a recollection of controversy there comes 
 trooping into my mind the remembrance of his noble 
 manhood, his lofty character, his strong, keen intellect, 
 his unsurpassed candor, his perfect fairness, and his 
 tender heart. Into every political contest he carried not 
 only the flawless courage but the sensitive honor of the 
 knights in the olden time. He hit hard, but only when he 
 was face to face with his adversary. The body of his 
 enemy felt his blows; but the wounds he inflicted were 
 always found on the breast, never on the back. The 
 American people had a name for him, and they will 
 cherish it so long as humanity holds the affection which 
 lightens and sweetens mortal existence. 
 
 To be loved by close associates and immediate fol- 
 lowers is a joy that many men experience, but to be loved 
 by the whole number of one's acquaintance is a distinc- 
 
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Address of Senator Cummins, of Iowa 
 
 tion that but few men have attained, and our lamented 
 friend was one of these rare, choice spirits of the world. 
 
 For nearly four years James S. Sherman, as Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States, was the presiding officer of the 
 Senate. Others have spoken, and spoken well, of his 
 service elsewhere. My purpose is to record my high ap- 
 preciation of his service here. The qualities which fit a 
 man to guide the deliberations of a body like ours, to ad- 
 minister the rules which govern it, and to render quick 
 justice to all its members, are rarely united in a single 
 man. High above every other quality is the power to be 
 fair and impartial. Most men, I think, want to be fair, 
 but there are only a few men who, in the moments of 
 stress and storm, have the capacity to be fair. Vice Presi- 
 dent Sherman had this quality in as high degree as any 
 man I ever knew. During all the time he directed our 
 deliberations he was eminently just. So successful was he 
 that throughout all the days of fierce debate, days in 
 which feeling ran strong, there never arose the least sus- 
 picion of his perfect impartiality. 
 
 He was a skilled parliamentarian. He was not only 
 master of the general subject, but, what is more wonder- 
 ful, he was master of the mysterious rules which we have 
 adopted for our own government. His decisions were 
 quickly made and were delivered with precision and 
 emphasis. The operations of his mind were not only 
 accurate, but they were lightninglike in their rapidity. 
 He was courteous, but his firmness was as striking as his 
 courtesy. Many illustrious men have occupied the chair 
 to which he so worthily succeeded, but I venture to say 
 that no one of them discharged its duties more faithfully 
 or more efficiently than did he. 
 
 All in all, I have never known a presiding officer who 
 combined all the qualities of mind and conscience de- 
 manded by such an office more completely than they were 
 
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 united in him; and when the Master called him he Jaid 
 down the authority of his commanding position among 
 us with the love, the respect, the confidence, and the ad- 
 miration not only of every Senator but of all his fellow 
 men. 
 
 With hearts full of sorrow we say of him the best that 
 can be said of any man — the world is better because he 
 lived in it. 
 
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Address of Senator Oliver, of Pennsylvania 
 
 Mr. President : Few men have lived and died who were 
 better loved than James Schoolcraft Sherman. I leave 
 it to those who knew him from his earlier years to tell 
 the story of his public life, and will content myself with 
 saying a very few words about Sherman the man — ^for it 
 was as man to man that we knew each other best. I never 
 met him until after he was Vice President and I was a 
 Senator, not quite four years ago; but we were thrown 
 into close companionship during the long extra session 
 of 1909, and from that association there grew a friendship 
 which, on my part, was at least as strong as I ever felt 
 for any man, and I believe that on his part it was just as 
 strong. No man could be with him long without becom- 
 ing his friend. His very presence compelled friendship. 
 The sunny smile which dominated his face, and about 
 which so much has been said and written, was not the 
 mere mask of the hail fellow well met, but the outward 
 manifestation of an inborn and ingrained kindly nature, 
 filled to the full with the joy of living and the delight of 
 mingling with his fellow men. What most endeared 
 him to men was his intense humanity. He was human all 
 through, and he loved human kind; and those of us who 
 were admitted to the inner cloisters of his intimacy feel 
 that in losing him we lost a part of our own selves, and 
 that life for us will never again be as complete a thing as 
 it was before he was taken away. 
 
 Hypocrisy was a thing abhorrent to him, and political 
 hypocrisy he could tolerate least of all. Not once but 
 often have I heard him in unsparing terms denounce men 
 in public life who, to please the passing whim of the 
 
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 people, advocated or supported measures or policies in 
 which he knew they did not believe. 
 
 He was first and last a partisan, and an intense one at 
 that; but his partisanship was in no way tainted with 
 bitterness of spirit. It arose from the very intensity of his 
 convictions. He believed from his heart that his country's 
 welfare depended on the continued supremacy of his 
 party, and he saw no path to progress but by way of its 
 success; and with zeal unflagging and spirit undaunted, 
 in and out of season he labored for that success. I know, 
 for he told me more than once, that with waning health 
 and growing years he longed to withdraw from the con- 
 flict, and spend the days that might remain to him in the 
 companionship of the wife and sons who were the objects 
 of his tenderest affection; but with his rare political in- 
 sight he well knew that last year's fight was to be a losing 
 one; and he would not — constituted as he was, he could 
 not — ^be recreant in its adversity to the party which had 
 honored him in the days of its triumphant prosperity. 
 So, like the true soldier that he was, he died with his face 
 to the foe, under the standard of thejparty he had served 
 so well, and in whose principles he so implicitly believed. 
 
 He was a man, take him for all in all. 
 We shall not look upon his like again. 
 
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Address of Senator O'Gorman, of New York 
 
 Mr. President: I join in the estimate of the late Vice 
 President, which has been so eloquently pronounced by 
 my distinguished colleague, and I share in the general 
 grief caused by the premature closing of a career which 
 only a few months since was rich in achievement and full 
 of promise for the future. It is no small achievement to 
 serve as a political leader in city, county, and State; to 
 represent an important constituency in the National 
 House of Representatives for 18 years, and at the end of 
 so long a period of exacting public service to be elevated 
 to within one step of the highest office within the gift of 
 a free people. In public life such was the record of 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman. Its mere recital is an elo- 
 quent eulogy on the character and attainments of the 
 citizen in whose memory we now pause to pay a last 
 tribute of affectionate respect. It is no mere ceremonial 
 that the Senate, over whose counsels he presided for four 
 years, should bestow that homage which friendship and 
 patriotisna ever offered to the true man, the faithful pub- 
 lic servant, the enlightened statesman. During his active 
 and useful career Mr. Sherman witnessed the mightiest 
 strides in material development the world has ever seen. 
 He saw the Republic grow from the chaos of Civil War 
 to its present commanding place among the nations of the 
 earth. He saw the Empire State, of which he was a native 
 son, leap forward with giant bounds, valiantly maintain- 
 ing her place at the head of the mighty procession of the 
 States of our majestic Union. His pride in the forward 
 strides of the State and Nation was justified, for in the 
 upbuilding of both he played the part of an active, ear- 
 nest, and public-spirited citizen. 
 
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 Neither a laggard nor a drone, for more than 25 years 
 he was in the thick of the conflict which accompanies and 
 stimulates progress. Throughout his life Mr. Sherman 
 was a popular type of the American optimist, and im- 
 parted confidence and enthusiasm to all within the influ- 
 ence of his delightful personality. Industrious and suc- 
 cessful in private enterprise, he was alert and influential 
 in public aff'airs, and ably contributed to that ceaseless 
 mental combat and attrition of thought whose constant 
 flashes light the guiding torch of civilization which illu- 
 mines the pathway of liberty and law. His impulses were 
 generous, his sympathies broad, his intellect keen. He 
 was a patriot. He loved his country and its institutions. 
 For many years, at great personal and domestic sacrifice, 
 he gave loyal, generous, and disinterested service to ad- 
 vance the public weal and uphold his country's honor. 
 He had unbounded faith in the Republic; he had un- 
 wavering confidence in his countrymen and in their at- 
 tachment to the principles of liberty and their capacity 
 to right wrongs and uproot evils. In their active, watch- 
 ful, and vigilant patriotism he saw the best security 
 against the evils that beset all Governments. His best 
 tribute was the repeated expression of confidence and 
 approbation that came to him from his fellow citizens in 
 central New York, who knew him so well and valued his 
 character and attainments so highly. 
 
 After years of industry and earnest effort in party 
 council and public arena the citizen whose deeds we now 
 commemorate was raised to the exalted station of Vice 
 President of the United States, from which he passed 
 with honor to the grave. 
 
 As President of the Senate he measured up to the best 
 traditions of that high office. No Member of this body 
 can forget the charm of his bearing or the ability, scru- 
 pulous impartiality, and fine courtesy with which he 
 
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Address of Senator O'Gorman, of New York 
 
 presided over the deliberations of this Chamber. The 
 promptness and fairness of his rulings were no small 
 contribution to the expedition of public business, and 
 the lucidity with which he revealed his exceptional knowl- 
 edge of parliamentary law was a constant source of pleas- 
 ure and gratification. 
 
 Laying no claim to the gifts of genius, he won a high 
 place in the Nation's councils by that persistency of effort 
 and strength of character which constitute the genius of 
 success. Above all, he was the true American and ideal 
 citizen in his domestic life, and by his devotion to home 
 and family commanded the deep respect of a moral and 
 chivalrous people. As a stream can rise no higher than 
 its source, so a Nation can be no better than its homes. 
 In the family circle are found those spiritual agencies 
 which save society from corrosion and decay. Unless a 
 nation grows morally as well as materially, spiritually 
 as well as intellectually, its future is dark and its days 
 are numbered. For Mr. Sherman's success in life we 
 commended him; for the enviable places that he won 
 among his fellow men we praised him; for the public 
 honors that he earned we admired him ; yet in this solemn 
 hour, sanctified by the liberated spirit of the comrade 
 whom we mourn, I would pay tribute to those traits of 
 character which made the loving husband, the devoted 
 father, the faithful friend, the good citizen. These were 
 the titles that he won; they were the flowers of love and 
 duty and friendship that blossomed along his pathway 
 through life. They constitute the fairest garland that 
 can be placed upon his tomb. 
 
 Mr. President, our departed friend gave his best to the 
 service of the people. Who can do more? The State of 
 New York has given many of her sons to the service of 
 the Nation, and high upon her roll of fame posterity will 
 inscribe the high character and unblemished record of 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman. 
 
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Address of Speaker Clark, of the House of 
 Representatives 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Chair now recognizes 
 the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Mr. President : Of all the wise and salutary things done 
 by the fathers of the Republic, one of the wisest and most 
 salutary was dividing Congress into two bodies. 
 
 There is a House habit and a Senate habit, differing 
 widely. This difference grows out of the difference in 
 numbers, the difference in average age, and the difference 
 in the length of tenure. Some Representatives never 
 learn the House habit; some Senators never learn the 
 Senate habit; a few observant men learn both habits. 
 That Mr. Vice President Sherman learned both habits 
 thoroughly and well is sufficiently attested by the fact 
 that he presided with eminent success over the large and 
 tumultuous assembly of the House of Representatives and 
 over the smaller and more sedate assembly of the Senate. 
 
 I hope that it will not be taken as an ungracious word 
 for me to suggest to Senators that James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman was a House product. We trained him; we 
 gave him his promotion; we sent him to the service of 
 the Nation in his capacity of Vice President. 
 
 There is no finer school under the sun than the House 
 of Representatives for mental pugilistics. Personally we 
 are courteous to each other, but there is no such thing as 
 House courtesy that influences the course of legislation. 
 
 It might be well to state for a moment how reputations 
 are made in the House. They are made in two ways — 
 one by a brilliant oratorical performance and the other 
 by assiduous industry in the committees and on the floor 
 of the House. I used to divide the membership with ref- 
 
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 erence to rising in the House into two classes — the quick 
 climbers and the steady climbers. 
 
 A few men make a national reputation in that House 
 by one great oration. I saw Lafe Pence, of Colorado, in 
 the Fifty-third Congress, make a national reputation the 
 second day after he was sworn in, and I saw Charles E. 
 Littlefield, of Maine, make a national reputation by one 
 great oration within about three months of the time when 
 he was sworn in; but these are exceptional cases. As a 
 rule, the men who achieve high position in the House do 
 so by slow and steady climbing. Vice President Sherman 
 went up and up in the House gradually until he got into 
 the front rank. One day, in a hot political debate there, 
 I dubbed the small coterie to which he belonged as the 
 " Big Five," a name which stuck. 
 
 There is much truth in Longfellow's lines : 
 
 The heights by great men reached and kept 
 Were not attained by sudden flight. 
 
 But they while their companions slept 
 Were toiling upward in the night. 
 
 That was the case with Mr. Sherman. He presided in 
 the House and also in the Senate with grace, firmness, 
 fairness, unfailing courtesy, rare good sense, and to the 
 entire satisfaction of Representatives and of Senators. 
 Though he was never elected Speaker, he was frequently 
 assigned by three Speakers to preside temporarily over 
 the House proper as well as over the Committee of the 
 Whole. 
 
 While not an orator, he was a strong debater and 
 illumined every subject which he discussed; because he 
 never spoke on any subject on which he was not well in- 
 formed — an example which all public speakers would do 
 excellently well to follow. 
 
 A fine stage presence, graceful gestures, most gracious 
 manners, a musical, well-modulated voice of good carry- 
 
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 ing power, exquisite taste in the selection and arrange- 
 ment of words, enabled him to please the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, the most critical and at the same time the 
 fairest and justest audience in the wide, wide world. 
 Though he killed the pet bills of many Members, he had 
 not an enemy in the membership of the House. He 
 seemed to have taken for the basis of his action the saying 
 of Thackeray that " the world is like a looking-glass. 
 Smile at it, and it smiles back; scowl at it, and it scowls 
 back; hit at it, and it hits back." 
 
 He was a most successful pilot of measures through the 
 House, the chief reason being that he moved on lines of 
 least resistance. Adhering to his opinions with tenacity, 
 fidelity, and courage, he antagonized no one unneces- 
 sarily. To use a common and expressive sentence, he 
 took things by the smooth handle, and thereby accom- 
 plished much. 
 
 Amiability was the chief characteristic of the man, and, 
 after all, Tennyson was right when he said : 
 
 Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
 And simple faith than Norman blood. 
 
 Whether in committee or on the floor or in the chair, 
 like charity, as described by St. Paul in his splendid 
 rhapsody in the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, 
 he suffered long and was kind; envied not; vaunted not 
 himself; was not puffed up; behaved himself not un- 
 seemly; was not easily provoked. In fact, he had himself 
 so well in hand that he could not be baited into an ex- 
 hibition of bad temper. He gave sharp blows, and re- 
 ceived them with perfect equanimity. In victory he was 
 not offensively jubilant; in defeat he was not utterly cast 
 down. He appeared equal to both extremes of fortune, 
 clearly realizing, with his optimistic philosophy, the as- 
 tounding swiftness with which political situations change 
 in this rapid age. 
 
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Address of Speaker Clark 
 
 In the House he was a prime favorite on both sides of 
 the big aisle, which constitutes the line of demarcation in 
 politics, but not in personal friendships or robust Ameri- 
 canism. When he was translated from that energetic and 
 boisterous body to the dignity and quietude of the Vice 
 Presidency his fellow members, while sincerely rejoicing 
 at his promotion, just as sincerely regretted his departure 
 from their midst. 
 
 The House most heartily joins the Senate and the 
 President of the United States in doing honor to this 
 typical American. His fitting epitaph would be : 
 
 Mens aequa in arduis. 
 
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Address of President Taft 
 
 The President pro tempore. As a fitting close to these 
 ceremonies, the Chair now recognizes the President of the 
 United States. 
 
 Mr. President: After the eloquent tributes that have 
 been paid to the memory of the late Vice President Sher- 
 man by his associates, who knew him well, it is not for 
 me to add anything new to that which has been said, and 
 well said. 
 
 Mr. Sherman was a man with whom no one could come 
 in contact without feeling better for the meeting and with 
 a more kindly disposition toward his fellow men and the 
 world at large. 
 
 Life, on the whole, is made up of a series of what ap- 
 pear to many to be insignificant incidents, and there are 
 those who in their own thoughts, in their own affairs, 
 and in what they regard as the large issues of society 
 recognize no necessity for attention to the daily en- 
 counters and the hourly exchanges of thought and of 
 treatment between individuals. To them life is ap- 
 parently a series of grand stage plays, which are to mark 
 the character of the players permanently, and that which 
 intervenes between these plays is of no importance. This 
 view is accentuated as men grow in self-absorption and 
 lose the sense of proportion with respect to their own im- 
 portance — a weakness to which most men in greater or 
 less degree are prone. A character that is the antithesis 
 of such tendencies makes for himself a place among all 
 with whom he has personal association that is durable 
 and fragrant. This was one of the lovable and most 
 marked traits of Mr. Sherman. Everyone, high or low, 
 
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Address of President Taft 
 
 intimate or distant, who met him, felt the influence of his 
 good will, of his earnest desire to accord to each one the 
 courtesy and recognition of his right as a member of 
 society to which he was entitled. Any painful feeling 
 that he had to cause by what duty required him to say 
 was as painful to him as it was to the person to whom he 
 felt called upon in this way to speak. 
 
 He never exaggerated his own importance. He depre- 
 cated the personal equation. He was always for helping 
 a cause or some other person, and he had truly that 
 charity and love of his fellow men which, as the poem 
 has it, is really the love of God, and made the name of 
 Abou Ben Adhem lead all the rest. 
 
 Educated at one of those truly American small colleges, 
 with high patriotic ideals, derived from the history of the 
 struggle for liberty regulated by law as embodied in our 
 Constitution, Mr. Sherman came to manhood to the study 
 and successful practice of law, but in a few years drifted, 
 as so many country lawyers do, into politics. He loved 
 politics; he correctly thought that he could be engaged 
 in nothing more useful to his country, and he became a 
 partisan on principle. As might be expected from one 
 of his generous self-deprecatory attitude of mind, he 
 minimized the personal and exalted his party cause. He 
 came to believe thoroughly and, in my judgment, rightly 
 that the only possible means of securing effective, perma- 
 nent, and just popular government, truly representative 
 of the people, is through parties, and therefore he was 
 willing to give up much of his personal judgment to 
 reconcile the views of himself and his associates upon a 
 few great principles. 
 
 His personal popularity carried him into the mayoralty 
 of the city of his birth, in which he lived his life long. 
 Then he came to Congress, and for 20 years he was a 
 Member, and a prominent member of the Republican 
 
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 Party, in the great popular House of Representatives. 
 There he exhibited great ability as a debater and legisla- 
 tor, which his fellows fully recognized. But in contempo- 
 rary history Mr. Sherman suffers in comparison with 
 others less deserving, because the work that he wrought, 
 the influence that he exerted, the progress and reforms 
 that he helped to bring about, were not recorded in the 
 headlines of newspapers, or, indeed, in the news columns 
 or editorials, for he was content to work quietly to achieve 
 an object, and made no conditions that should attach his 
 name to the success of the work in hand. 
 
 He was an influential and leading Member of that body 
 during the controversies that took place over the question 
 whether the House of Representatives should be per- 
 mitted to do business or should be at the mercy of the 
 minority, and he stood with one of the great Speakers of 
 that body for progress, and it was achieved. 
 
 He was at the head of the Indian Committee in the 
 House, and no problems in our Government are more 
 difficult than those within the jurisdiction of that com- 
 mittee. They involve the proper, businesslike considera- 
 tion and disposition of questions of the management of 
 trust property in which the discretion of the particular 
 official having control can be very little restricted by law. 
 Conditions in and near the Indian country are such that 
 neighboring public opinion can not be trusted to do jus- 
 tice to the Indians or to carry out the charitable purposes 
 of the Government. The situation is prolific of schemes 
 to defraud the wards of the Nation. 
 
 No one will know, except those most intimate with the 
 course of legislation and with the details of appropriation 
 bills, the work James S. Sherman and a few of his asso- 
 ciates did in the elimination of fraud and the maintenance 
 of the honor of the Nation in preserving to the Indians 
 what was theirs. And thus we may say truly that the 
 
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Address of President Taft 
 
 great work that the man whose early death we deplore 
 did for his fellow men was done as an adviser, as a quiet 
 but active worker in the shadow of some more conspicu- 
 ous person, all arising from the disinterested patriotism, 
 the high-minded party spirit, and the inherent modesty 
 of the man. 
 
 I need not recite to those who had so much better oppor- 
 tunity than I to observe it and feel it the clear and rapid 
 thought and the equally clear and rapid expression of 
 decision which in the administration of the parliamentary 
 law that Mr. Sherman displayed frequently as the presid- 
 ing officer of the House of Representatives and continu- 
 ously during his term as Vice President as President of 
 the Senate. He was a model presiding officer. Preserv- 
 ing his temper under all conditions, and some of them 
 most difficult, he ruled with firmness and with a courtesy 
 that disarmed the sometime heat of those whose views he 
 was overruling. 
 
 And now there is but one more word to speak, and that 
 one utters in the tenderest tone and makes most brief. 
 What might be expected from a man of his heart and his 
 constant appreciation of the feelings of others, from one 
 of nature's gentlemen, his domestic life, his love of wife 
 and children and fellow townsmen, made a circle so 
 sweet, a home so bright, a neighborhood so full of love for 
 him that even in the few hours that we were permitted to 
 spend in the city where he lived and died the overwhelm- 
 ing evidences of affection for him were most impressive 
 on every hand; and his great qualities were revealed in 
 a most remarkable tribute which his memory called out 
 from his beloved pastor, the president of Hamilton 
 College. 
 
 We have celebrated the memorial of a modest Ameri- 
 can, a distinguished patriot, an able statesman, a noble 
 man! 
 
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 Mr. Root. I now move that, after the guests of the Sen- 
 ate shall have retired, the Senate, as a further mark of 
 respect to the memory of the late Vice President, stand in 
 recess until 12 o'clock noon, on Monday, the 17th of 
 February. 
 
 The President pro tempore. Before submitting the mo- 
 tion, the Chair will give opportunity, as indicated by the 
 Senator from New York, for the guests of the Senate to 
 retire. The Sergeant at Arms will announce the order in 
 which they will retire, so that they may do so without 
 confusion. 
 
 The President of the United States and the members of 
 his Cabinet, the ambassadors and ministers plenipotenti- 
 ary to the United States, the Chief Justice and Associate 
 Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the 
 Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives, 
 and the other guests of the Senate thereupon retired from 
 the Chamber. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Senator from New 
 York [Mr. Root] moves that, as a further mark of respect, 
 the Senate now stand in recess until 12 o'clock on Monday. 
 
 The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
 o'clock and 30 minutes p. m., Saturday, February 15) the 
 Senate took a recess until Monday, February 17, 1913, at 
 12 o'clock meridian. 
 
 Monday, February 17, 1913. 
 Mr. Smoot submitted the following concurrent resolu- 
 tion (S. Con. Res. 41), which was read, considered by 
 unanimous consent, and agreed to : 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concur- 
 ring), That there shall be printed and bound, under the direction 
 of the Joint Committee on Printing, 14,100 copies of the proceed- 
 ings and the eulogies delivered in Congress on James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, late Vice President of the United States, with illustra- 
 tion, of which 4,000 copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 
 
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 8,000 copies for the use of the House of Representatives, 2,000 
 copies for the use of the Senators and Representatives of the State 
 of New York, and 100 copies, bound in full morocco, for the use 
 of Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sherman: Provided, That there shall 
 be included in such publication the proclamation of the President 
 and the proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United States 
 upon the death of Vice President Sherman, and an account of the 
 funeral services at Utica, N. Y. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 The Speaker on October 31, 1912, appointed the fol- 
 lowing committee to represent the House at the funeral 
 of the late Vice President, the Hon. James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman : 
 
 Representatives Underwood, Alabama; Macon, Arkan- 
 sas; Needham, California; Taylor, Colorado; Hill, Con- 
 necticut; Heald, Delaware; Sparkman, Florida; Bartlett, 
 Georgia; French, Idaho; Cannon, Illinois; Crumpacker, 
 Indiana; Murdock, Kansas; James, Kentucky; Broussard, 
 Louisiana; Guernsey, Maine; Talbott, Maryland; McCall, 
 Massachusetts; Hamilton, Michigan; Stevens, Minnesota; 
 Candler, Mississippi; Bartholdt, Missouri; Pray, Montana; 
 Kinkaid, Nebraska; Roberts, Nevada; SuUoway, New 
 Hampshire; Gardner, New Jersey; Fergusson, New Mex- 
 ico; Kitchin, North Carolina; Hanna, North Dakota; Long- 
 worth, Ohio; McGuire, Oklahoma; Hawley, Oregon; Dal- 
 zell, Pennsylvania; O'Shaunessy, Rhode Island; Finley, 
 South Carolina; Burke, South Dakota; Moon, Tennessee;' 
 Henry, Texas; Howell, Utah; Plumley, Vermont; Jones, 
 Virginia; Humphrey, Washington; Hughes, West Vir- 
 ginia; Cooper, Wisconsin; Mondell, Wyoming; Haugen, 
 Iowa; Payne, New York; and Hay den, Arizona. 
 
 Monday, December 2, 1912. 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Crockett, one of its 
 clerks, announced that the Senate had agreed to the fol- 
 lowing resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard -with profound sorrow and 
 regret the announcement of the death of James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, late Vice President of the United States. 
 
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 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
 the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
 family of the deceased. 
 
 Also: 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the late Vice President James Schoolcraft Sherman and the late 
 Senators Weldon Brinton Heyburn and Isidor Rayner, whose 
 deaths have just been announced, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 * * * * * * * 
 
 Mr. Cannon. Mr. Speaker, I announce to the House that 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United 
 States, departed this life at his home in Utica, N. Y., on 
 the 30th day of October, 1912. 
 
 The admirable administration of the high ofl&ce which 
 he held, the second in the gift of the Republic, his bril- 
 liant and useful career for so many years in the House of 
 Representatives, his sympathetic touch with every class, 
 the unsullied purity of his public and private life, had 
 so impressed the country that his death occasioned ex- 
 pression of deep-felt grief so universal as to manifest a 
 general and profound sense of national bereavement. 
 
 Congress will doubtless, by concurrent action of the 
 two Houses, at an early moment set apart a time for 
 proper expression touching the life, character, and serv- 
 ices of this eminent citizen. 
 
 I move you, sir, that out of regard for his memory and 
 the memory of the Members of this House and of the 
 Senate who have departed this life since the adjournment 
 of the last session of Congtess this House do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 1 o'clock 
 and 8 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to- 
 morrow, Tuesday, December 3, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Thursday, February 6, 1913. 
 Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that the Speaker lay before the House the invitation of 
 
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 the Senate to attend the memorial exercises of the late 
 Vice President. 
 
 The Speaker laid before the House the following resolu- 
 tion, which the Clerk read : 
 
 Senate resolution 451 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate extend to the Speaker and the Mem- 
 bers of the House of Representatives an invitation to attend the 
 exercises in commemoration of the life, character, and public 
 services of the late James S. Sherman, Vice President of the 
 United States and President of the Senate, to be held in the Senate 
 Chamber on Saturday, the 15th day of February next, at 12 o'clock 
 noon. 
 
 Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Speaker, I move that the invitation 
 be accepted, and that the Clerk be directed to notify the 
 Senate to that effect. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from New York moves 
 that the invitation of the Senate be accepted, and that the 
 Clerk be directed to notify the Senate to that etfect. 
 
 The question was taken, and the motion was agreed to. 
 
 The following resolution, submitted by Mr. Fitzgerald, 
 was agreed to : 
 
 House resolution 817 
 
 Resolved, That the House accept the invitation of the Senate ex- 
 tended to the Speaker and Members of the House of Representa- 
 tives to attend the exercises in commemoration of the life, char- 
 acter, and public services of the late James S. Sherman, Vice 
 President of the United States and President of the Senate, to be 
 held in the Senate Chamber on Saturday, the 15th day of Feb- 
 ruary next, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 that when the House adjourns on February 14, 1913, it 
 adjourn to meet at 11.30 a. m. on Saturday, February 15, 
 1913. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from New York asks 
 unanimous consent that when the House adjourns on the 
 
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 14th of February, 1913, it adjourn to meet at 11.30 a. m. 
 on Saturday, February 15, 1913. Is there objection? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Friday, February M, 1913. 
 
 Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
 for the present consideration of the resolution which I 
 send to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 House resolution 835 
 Resolved, That on Saturday, February 15, 1913, at 10 minutes 
 of 12 o'clock a. m., pursuant to the resolution heretofore adopted 
 accepting the invitation of the Senate to attend the memorial 
 services to commemorate the life and character and public 
 services of the Hon. James S. Sherman, late the "Vice President 
 of the United States, the House shall proceed, with the Speaker, 
 to the Senate Chamber, and at the conclusion of the services it 
 shall return to this Chamber. 
 
 The Speaker. Is there objection to the present con- 
 sideration of the resolution? 
 There was no objection. 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 Saturday, February 15, 1913. 
 The House met at 11.30 a. m. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer : 
 
 Our Father in heaven, we thank Thee that our Republic 
 is not ungrateful, but holds in sacred memory the men 
 who laid her foundations deep and strong and wide; the 
 brave men who have fought her battles, the statesmen 
 who have breathed their spirits into her sacred institu- 
 tions and kept them inviolate, as evinced by the special 
 order of the day in memory of a noble son, who proved 
 himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his 
 fellow countrymen. May his life be an incentive to faith- 
 ful service and nobility of soul to those who survive him. 
 
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 Be Thou solace to those who knew and loved him, and 
 let the everlasting arms be about the bereaved wife and 
 children, that they may look forward with confidence to 
 the unchanging love of a heavenly Father who doeth all 
 things well. Amen. 
 
 The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read 
 and approved. 
 
 The Speaker. The hour of 10 minutes of 12 having ar- 
 rived, the House will proceed to the Senate Chamber. 
 
 Thereupon the Members of the House, preceded by the 
 Sergeant at Arms and the Speaker, proceeded to the 
 Senate Chamber. 
 
 At 2 o'clock and 35 minutes p. m. the Members returned, 
 and the House was called to order by the Speaker. 
 
 Mr. Fitzgerald. Mr. Speaker, as a further mark of re- 
 spect to the memory of the late Vice President Sherman, 
 I move that the House do now adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to; and accordingly (at 2 o'clock 
 and 36 m^inutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to- 
 morrow, Sunday, February 16, 1913, at 12 o'clock noon. 
 
 Sunday, March 2, 1913. 
 Mr. FiNLEY, Mr. Speaker, I move to take from the 
 Speaker's table Senate concurrent resolution 41, relative 
 to the eulogies on the late Vice President Sherman. 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 41 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concur- 
 ring), That there shall be printed and bound, under the direction 
 of the Joint Committee on Printing, 14,100 copies of the proceed- 
 ings and the eulogies delivered in Congress on James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, late Vice President of the United States, with illustra- 
 tion, of which 4,000 copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 
 8,000 copies for the use of the House of Representatives, 2,000 
 
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 copies for the use of the Senators and Representatives of the State 
 of New York, and 100 copies, bound in full morocco, for the use 
 of Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sherman: Provided, That there shall 
 be included in such publications the proclamation of the Presi- 
 dent and the proceedings in the Supreme Court of the United 
 States upon the death of Vice President Sherman, and an account 
 of the funeral services at Utica, N. Y. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS IN 
 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 Thursday, October 31, 1912. 
 
 Present: The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice McKenna, Mr. 
 Justice Holmes, Mr. Justice Day, Mr. Justice Lurton, Mr. 
 Justice Hughes, Mr. Justice Van Devanter, Mr. Justice 
 Lamar, and Mr. Justice Pitney. 
 
 Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Fowler addressed 
 the court as follows: 
 "May it please the Honorable Court: 
 
 " I deeply regret the necessity of performing the sor- 
 rowful duty of announcing to this honorable court the 
 death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice Pres- 
 ident of the United States. 
 
 " Through many years of active and valuable public 
 service, Mr. Sherman had attained, independent of the 
 office which he occupied, an enviable position in the 
 hearts of his countrymen. Four years ago he was chosen 
 by the people of his country to the position which he held 
 at the time of his death. 
 
 " Out of respect deemed to be due so exalted a position 
 in a coordinate branch of the Government, and that this 
 honorable body may join with a bereaved Nation in ex- 
 pressing its sorrow at his untimely death, 1 move that this 
 court do now adjourn until after the funeral." 
 
 The Chief Justice responded: 
 " Mr. Attorney General : 
 
 " The court hears with sorrow the announcement which 
 you make of the death of the Vice President, and as a 
 token of our participation in the burden of loss which the 
 country has suffered, and out of sympathy with his coun- 
 trymen, the motion you present is granted, and the court 
 will stand adjourned until Monday next." 
 
 Adjourned until Monday next at 12 o'clock. 
 
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 proclamation 
 
 3Bb tbe ©overnor of tbc State ot "Mew Korft 
 
 State op New York, 
 Executive Chamber. 
 James Schoolcrapt Sheiuhan, Vice President of the United 
 States, and for twenty years a Member of the House of Representa- 
 tives from the State of New York, a patriot and statesman, beloved 
 by all who knew him, and honored and esteemed by the entire 
 citizenship of our country, is dead. The people of the State of 
 New York moimi the loss of one of her most illustrious sons. Thfe 
 qualities which won for James Schoolcraft Sherman a high place 
 among the Nation's statesmen and rulers endeared him to the 
 citizenship of his native State. His untimely demise causes great 
 sadness and deserves sorrowful and appropriate recognition. 
 
 Nam, tlTBtnef 0ir«, it iss terBbg Mvectei, That as a mark of regard 
 for the distinguished dead the flags upon the capitol and upon all 
 the public buildings of the State, including the armories and arsenals 
 of the National Guard, be displayed at half-mast until and including 
 the day of the funeral, and the citizens of the State for a like period 
 are requested to unite in appropriate tokens of respect. 
 
 Given under my hand and the privy seal of the 
 State at the capitol, in the city of Albany, this 
 [t. S.] first day of November, in the year of our Lord 
 
 one thousand nine hundred and twelve. 
 
 JOHN A. DIX. 
 
 By the Governor: 
 
 John A. Mason, 
 
 Secretary to the Governor. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS OF 
 THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UTICA,N.Y. 
 
 In Common Council, 
 Thursday noon, October 31, 1912. 
 
 SPECIAL SESSION 
 
 Meeting called for the purpose of taking suitable action upon 
 the death of James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the 
 United States, which occurred at his home in this city at 9.42 
 p. m., Wednesday, October 30, 1912. 
 
 President Stetson presiding. 
 
 Present, all members. 
 
 In calling the meeting to order, President Stetson addressed the 
 council as follows: 
 
 " The occasion which calls us together at this noon hour is in- 
 deed a sad one. As you know. Vice President James S. Sherman 
 last evening departed this life. 
 
 " While the death of our distinguished citizen, who has so effi- 
 ciently served his city and the Nation, was not unexpected, yet 
 the news of his passing came as a shock to the community. 
 
 " Genuine grief will not pause at the threshold of his home, but 
 will spread itself throughout the entire land. 
 
 " Mr. Sherman was a genial gentleman, who had the faculty of 
 making fast friends of those with whom he came in contact. 
 That he had due regard for those things which are most ennobling 
 in life can be best attested by his achievements as a servant of 
 the people. He was a friend to his neighbors, thoughtful of 
 others, unselfish, and courageous. 
 
 "Here he was known and loved because he was known; and 
 here his considerate, helpful, and gracious presence will be sor- 
 rowfully missed. 
 
 " He strove for advancement and attained honorable position as 
 the reward of application. He had earned for himself national 
 distinction and held next to the highest office within the gift of 
 the people of the Nation. He was our shining light. 
 
 " While he was approaching life's period of whitened locks, he 
 had reached the summit of a remarkable career, in the zenith of 
 his fame, and in his departure we may find consolation in the 
 fact that he was loved and honored and will be mourned by all 
 who knew him and appreciated his worth. 
 
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Memorial Addresses; Vice President Sherman 
 
 " It is most fitting that tliis council, in belialf of tlie people of 
 tlie city, take appropriate action expressive of the sorrow which 
 his death occasions." 
 
 Alderman Dickinson addressed the council as follows: 
 
 " Mr. President and Gentlemen : This is an occasion when mere 
 words prove but feeble vehicles for the conveyance of the sad- 
 ness which burdens our hearts. We are mourners at the bier 
 of one we loved. Our admiration for the statesmanship of the 
 Vice President, who lies to-day clothed in the ineffable majesty 
 of death, is shared by 90,000,000 fellow people of the great 
 Republic of which he was an ornament, but our deep and abiding 
 love for our neighbor and friend is a tender and holy sentiment 
 which transcends mere admiration and can be shared only by 
 those nearer ones to whom he was " Jim " — Sunny Jim — personal 
 friend, genial companion, intimate associate. 
 
 " In history James Schoolcraft Sherman will be given an ele- 
 vated place as a constructive statesman, a bulwark of a great 
 political party, a tireless and consistent advocate of certain 
 national policies, and as the most gifted Presiding Officer who 
 ever graced the Senate Chamber. 
 
 " Here in Utica his memory will fill a more intimate, more per- 
 sonal chamber in our hearts — a chamber redolent with the 
 fragrance of the flowers of genial fellowship, helpful citizenship, 
 cordial intimacy, and wholesome, tender aflfection. The ruddy 
 countenance which bespoke the warm red blood pulsating 
 through his arteries, the genial smile which was but a radiation 
 from a generous and humanity-loving heart, the warm handclasp 
 which electrified with the knowledge that back of it was genuine 
 affection, the cheery word before which the pessimism took its 
 flight — these will be cherished in Utica so long as lives any of the 
 thousands who knew and loved Jim Sherman — the Jim Sherman 
 whose untimely death at the very height of his splendid career 
 has draped our public edifices in black and brought a sense of 
 personal bereavement to our hearts." 
 
 Alderman Miller presented the following and asked unanimous 
 consent for an immediate vote thereon, which was granted: 
 
 " The common council of the city of Utica assembles in special 
 session to-day to give testimony to its profound sorrow and the 
 sorrow of all our people at the death of James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman. 
 
 "As mayor of our city for 2 years, as our Representative in 
 Congress for 18 years, and as Vice President of the United States 
 for 4 years, he attained an eminence in public life never before 
 achieved by any other citizen of this community. The honor 
 and prominence vvhich he brought to his native city were sources 
 of pride to his neighbors and friends, no less than a marked 
 distinction to the community and a tribute to his own remark- 
 
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Proceedings of the Common Council of Utica, N. Y. 
 
 able personality and splendid attainments. In this city, which 
 saw the beginning of his illustrious career and was the field of 
 his earliest triumphs and whose interests he always held pecul- 
 iarly his own, his death is felt as a deep and lasting personal loss. 
 
 " That he achieved by his own ability and distinguished per- 
 sonality the second highest office in this great Nation, that he 
 was a statesman among statesmen whose honor and integrity 
 were above reproach, whose purposes were ever pure and lofty, 
 who impressed himself upon the history of his country — those 
 things and many more are known to all men. 
 
 " But to us, his neighbors and friends, there comes the vivid 
 memory of the genial disposition and beautiful traits of character 
 which endeared him to all; an appreciation of his deep convic- 
 tions and intensity of purpose in all that he undertook; a knowl- 
 edge of his utter disregard for caste and his ready recognition 
 of merit and ability, whether in friend or foe, in person of high 
 or low degree. He was a man of boundless energy, of loyal 
 devotion to the measures of public policy which he believed to 
 be for the best interests of the people, and of a beautiful courage, 
 which he displayed at all times, even in the face of the most 
 discouraging opposition. 
 
 " With no disposition to intrude upon the grief of his devoted 
 but afflicted family in this sad hour, we feel that as the official, 
 representatives of the city — the home which he loved so well and 
 to which he brought such merited distinction — we should tender 
 to them this expression of our heartfelt sympathy and the assur- 
 ance of our deep appreciation of his splendid public career and 
 his beautiful private life." 
 
 Yeas — Aldermen Dickinson, Galligan, Geiersbach, Goldbas, Hirt, 
 Hughes, Kaufer, Miller, Nicholson, Pellettieri, Pugh, Redmond, 
 Ryan, Simmonds, Weikert — 15. 
 
 Nays — None. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 By Alderman Goldbas: 
 
 Resolved, That the City Hall be draped in mourning, the flags 
 on all public buildings lowered to half-mast for a period of 30 
 days, and that all public offices of the city be closed during the 
 hours of the funeral of Vice President Sherman, as an official 
 tribute of respect to his memory. 
 
 Yeas — ^Aldermen Dickinson, Galligan, Geiersbach, Goldbas, Hirt, 
 Hughes, Kaufer, Miller, Nicholson, Pellettieri, Pugh, Redmond, 
 Ryan, Simmonds, Weikert — 15. 
 Nays — None. 
 Adopted. 
 Adjourned. 
 
 J. P. Bannigan, 
 
 City Clerk. 
 
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 In Common Council, 
 Friday evening, November 1, 1912. 
 President Stetson presiding. 
 
 Present: All members, except Aldermen Miller, Pellettieri, and 
 Ryan. 
 
 By Alderman Hughes: 
 
 Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of our 
 late esteemed fellow townsman, James Schoolcraft Sherman, 
 Vice President of the United States, the common council does 
 hereby request that all business of every kind and description in 
 this city cease during the hours of his funeral from 2 to 4 p. m. 
 to-morrow. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 By Alderman Dickinson : 
 
 Resolved, That the common council of the city of Utica hereby 
 determines to attend in a body the funeral of our deceased 
 esteemed fellow citizen, James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States, meeting for this purpose at Hotel Utica 
 at 1.30 p. m. to-morrow, and that out of respect to his revered 
 memory this council does now adjourn. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 Adjourned. 
 
 J. P. Bannigan, 
 
 City Clerk. 
 
 PROCLAMATION BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF UTICA, N. Y. 
 
 To the citizens of Utica: 
 
 As a final tribute to the memory of Utica's illustrious son, Hon. 
 James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States, I would 
 respectfully urge that all business be suspended throughout the 
 city between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock on Saturday. 
 
 The funeral services of the Vice President will be held at the 
 First Presbyterian Church at 2 o'clock. Many business houses 
 will close during the afternoon, while operations will be sus- 
 pended in many manufacturing establishments. I would respect- 
 fully request a complete cessation of business during the hours 
 of the funeral services. 
 
 Frank J. Baker, Mayor. 
 
 Utica, N. Y., November 1, 191Z. 
 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT 
 
 [Governor General's proclamation.] 
 
 Executive Order 1 
 No. 76. I 
 
 The Government of the Philippine Islands, 
 
 Executive Bureau, 
 Manila, November 2, 1912. 
 The announcement of the death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States, has been received 
 ■with sincere and general sorrow. Since the beginning of his 
 public career he has steadily grown in the estimation of the 
 American people, and his distinguished ability and service have 
 been universally recognized. 
 
 It is deemed fitting that the deep grief which fills all hearts 
 should find formal expression. Therefore, the President of the 
 United States has directed that the flags on all Government build- 
 ings be placed at half-staff from sunrise until sunset to-day, No- 
 vember second. It is further ordered that all public business in 
 the various offices of this Government be suspended so far as prac- 
 ticable during the same period. 
 
 Newton W. Gilbert, 
 
 Acting Governor General. 
 
 PHILIPPINE legislature EXPRESSES SORROW 
 
 On the day of Vice President Sherman's funeral, November 2, 
 1912, the third Philippine Legislature adopted the following reso- 
 lution and adjourned in respect to his memory: 
 
 " JOINT RESOLUTION Expressing the grief of both houses of the legislature on 
 account of the death of the Hon. James Schoolcbaft Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States, and providing for the adjournment of both houses as a 
 token of sorrow. 
 
 "Resolved by the Philippine Commission and the Philippine 
 Assembly, That they express, as they hereby do express, the pro- 
 found sorrow with which they have received the announcement 
 of the death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States; 
 
 "Resolved further, That the session of both houses be, and 
 hereby is, immediately adjourned in token of their sorrow for 
 this day; 
 
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 "And resolved further, That the secretary of the Philippine 
 Commission or the secretary of the Philippine Assembly shall 
 furnish a certified copy of this resolution to the President of the 
 United States, through the chief executive of the Philippines, and 
 to the family of the deceased." 
 
 NARVACAN COUNCIL MANIFESTS REGRET 
 
 The municipal council of Narvacan, Province of Ilocos Sur, 
 P. I., at the suggestion of the president, Mr. Pedro Viloria Banez, 
 and on motion of Mr. Poinciano Viloria, seconded by the vice 
 president, Mr. Aniceto Corrales, adopted the following resolution 
 on November 27, 1912: 
 
 "Resolved, To express, and it hereby does express, the fact that 
 it has received with profound regret the notice regarding the 
 death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States. 
 
 "Resolved, further, That the municipal secretary be directed 
 to forward, through his excellency, the governor general of the 
 Philippine Islands, certified copies hereof, not only to His Excel- 
 lency, the President of the United States, but also to the family 
 of the deceased." 
 
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FUNERAL SERVICES 
 
 [From the UUca (N. Y.) Daily Press, Nov. 2, 1912.] 
 
 FRIENDS GET FINAL GLIMPSE THOUSANDS GAZE SORROWFULLY BODY 
 
 OF VICE PRESIDENT LIES AT THE COUNTY BUILDING, WHERE FOR 
 HOURS MEMBERS OF GRIEVED COMMUNITY PASS FOR LAST LOOK ON 
 HIS FACE IMPRESSIVE AND SOLEMN EXERCISES. 
 
 The body of Vice President Sherman was placed in state in the 
 courthouse in this city yesterday afternoon and remained on 
 view until well into the night, and during these hours was seen 
 by many thousands. There were no formal exercises, but the 
 proceedings were conducted in a quiet, dignified manner befit- 
 ting the solemnity of the occasion. About a thousand of Mr. 
 Sherman's neighbors and friends marched in the procession 
 which acted as escort. Chairman Thomas R. Proctor and mem- 
 bers of the reception committee were inside the house. The 
 veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, led by Maj. James 
 Miller and E. G. Ferry, were ranged on both sides of the south 
 walk. It was about 2.30 p. m. when the hearse drew up at the 
 curb and the procession began forming. All heads were uncov- 
 ered as the body was brought to the door. The members of the 
 Boosters' committee were ranged each side of the hearse and 
 the members of the reception committee, headed by Rev. Louis 
 H. Holden, Ph. D., escorted the remains from the house to the 
 hearse. The procession started for the courthouse in the fol- 
 lovdng order: 
 
 Platoon of police headed by Ofiicer McGarthy, who was Mr. 
 Sherman's bodyguard in 1908. 
 
 Veterans of the Civil War led by Maj. James Miller and E. G. 
 Ferry, Capt. Frank S. Judson of the Cavalry troop acting as 
 marshal. 
 
 Utica Lodge Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, 300 men. 
 
 Hearse. 
 
 Business men's escort; William H. Roberts, F. X. Matt, Russell 
 Wheeler, William E. Richards, Hon. Henry Martin, Oscar S. 
 Foster, William E. Lewis, M. Jesse Brayton, Charles W. Wicks, 
 F. M. Kendrick, D. D. Smythe, A. H. Munson, Patrick J. McQuade, 
 E. J. Millspaugh, F. A. Bosworth, Lieut. W. G. Mayer, John L. 
 Maher, George B. Allen, B. Allen Whiffen, James H. Gilmore, John 
 A. Cantwell, Wilbur S. Clark, Charles Millar, Brian Clarke, Messrs. 
 Jefferson, Safford, DeLong, and others. 
 
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 Reception committee, Thomas R. Proctor, chairman; Robert 
 Fraser, George L. Bradford, W. S. Doolittle, Frederick T. Proctor, 
 Charles A. Miller, Charles B. Rogers, George E. Dunham, J. Fred 
 Maynard, William T. Baker, Hon. F. M. Calder, Hon. John D. 
 Kernan, Perle W. Harter, Edgar B. Odell, Otto A. Meyer, Hon. P. C. 
 J. DeAngelis, Hon. Charles S. Symonds. 
 
 Automobile containing Dr. Holden, Sherrill Babcock, and others. 
 
 City officials, bankers, and business men generally. 
 
 Prof. Emidio Spina and Vincenzo Marrone, of La Luce, in which 
 Mr. Sherman was a stockholder. 
 
 Utica Republican Club, over 100 members. 
 
 As the procession moved slowly down Genesee Street it was 
 viewed by thousands standing on the sidewalks. Nearly all the 
 dwellings and places of business displayed the Stars and Stripes 
 at half-mast and bound with crepe. While the procession was 
 en route, the city hall bell was tolled. 
 
 The courthouse was profusely draped in mourning. In the 
 center of the rotunda directly opposite the entrance on the main 
 floor a catafalque had been made of flags, and above this was a 
 canopy formed of large flags. At the right and left were screens 
 formed of palms. Near by on benches were large wreaths of 
 orchids, roses, carnations, and Easter lilies. 
 
 Gapt. Peter Arheilger had charge of the police outside, and at 
 the entrances and inside were about 50 members of the National 
 Guard, Companies A and B, in charge of Lieut. E. K. Miller and 
 Lieut. Chester W. Davis. Two soldiers stood at the head and two 
 at the foot, and they were frequently relieved. 
 
 The body was incased in a massive casket of mahogany 
 covered with black broadcloth and having massive bar extension 
 handles of antique silver. On the casket was a large cross of 
 white lilies fringed with maidenhair fern. Mr. Sherman's face 
 was placid and serene, and his position was natural. Those who 
 made up the escorting column were the first to look at the re- 
 mains. As the members of the Elks passed through each took 
 from his buttonhole an ivy leaf and placed it on the casket. 
 
 There was no music, no display, no speeches, but as a resident 
 and former mayor of Utica and as Vice President of the United 
 States, Mr. Sherman belonged to the people, and their desire to 
 see his face again before it should be lost to sight was natural and 
 sincere. To place the body in a public building in a place easy 
 of access, where people could see it conveniently, was a courtesy 
 on the part of his family which was highly appreciated. The 
 spectators entered by the front door, formed in two lines, and 
 with uncovered heads and measured tread they proceeded to the 
 bier, where they paused for an instant and took a last look and 
 a mental farewell of the sleeper, and then passed on and out of 
 the door just opposite. It was done quietly and reverently and 
 in less time than it takes to write it. It was silent, yet eloquent; 
 
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 a simple yet beautiful demonstration dictated by a feeling of 
 friendship for the dead and sympathy for his surviving relatives. 
 
 Never was there a better opportunity to study the composite 
 character of the population of Utica than by watching the crowd 
 which passed through the courthouse in viewing the remains of 
 Mr. Sherman. For the first hour or two women and school 
 children were in the majority. Among those in this period were 
 clergymen, school-teachers, lawyers, and doctors. After 5 o'clock 
 there were more men, and from 5.30 to 6.30 there were mostly 
 men. Then there was a falling off for about an hour, but shortly 
 after 7 o'clock the crowd began to increase, and soon there 
 was a jam outside the building, so that people were obliged to 
 stand in line for from 15 to 20 minutes until they could get 
 inside. Once inside they made speedy progress, for fhe soldiers 
 had things well systematized and kept the line moving. From 7 
 to 8 o'clock the crowd was large, and passed through at the rate 
 of 5,000 an hour. The spectators were not confined to Uticans, 
 but there were delegations from nearly every town in the county 
 and some from Herkimer County. 
 
 The evening crowd comprised mostly the men and women 
 who were at work during the day in all sorts of occupations. 
 And, though they were of all ages, colors, nationalities, and races, 
 all showed that they felt the presence of death and knew the kin- 
 ship of sorrow. A delegation of about 50 boys from St. Vincent 
 Industrial School viewed the remains about 5.30. They were 
 accompanied by Brother Director Gregory. 
 
 Just before the doors were closed the members of Utica Council, 
 Knights of Columbus, passed through in a body. They were led 
 by Knight McCreary and numbered about 200. The Sherman 
 Boosters came in just after 9 o'clock. 
 
 At about 9.30 the remains were carried out the Mary Street 
 entrance to the hearse. The members of Companies A and B 
 of the National Guard acted as escort, and formed on either side 
 of the hearse. The Elks, Boosters, and members of the Repub- 
 lican Club also joined the column and accompanied the remains 
 up Genesee Street back to the home of Mr. Sherman. When the 
 body was taken to and from the city hall all street cars en route 
 were stopped as a mark of respect to Mr. Sherman, who was an 
 officer in the company. 
 
 A large wreath presented by the Boosters rested at the side of 
 the casket and a magnificent wreath of orchids from former Con- 
 gressman Littauer was close by. 
 
 The Elks acted as escort, at the request of the family of Mr. 
 Sherman. Mr. Sherman had an Elks badge in the lapel of his 
 coat. 
 
 Rev. Louis H. Holden, Ph. D., read appropriate prayers at the 
 home of Mr. Sherman yesterday afternoon before the remains 
 were taken to the courthouse. 
 
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 [From the Utlca (N. Y.) Daily Press, Nov. 4, 1912.] 
 
 MR. SHERMAN AT REST FUNERAL NOTABLE FOR ITS PROPORTION AND 
 
 DISTINCTION A NATIONAL AND CIVIC EVENT DIGNITARIES OF 
 
 STATE, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, UNITE WITH 
 NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS IN THE LAST TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. 
 
 The funeral of Hon. James S. Sherman, Vice President of the 
 United States and Utica's foremost citizen, was held from the 
 First Presbyterian Church of this city at 2 o'clock Saturday after- 
 noon. In size and proportion it was the largest ever held in this 
 city. Those who attended the services at the church, although 
 they filled the edifice, were but a fragment as compared with the 
 throng that filled the streets and which was none the less ardent 
 in its devotion to the eminent dead, or less willing to pay formal 
 tribute if given opportunity. It is estimated that there were 
 25,000 persons in the streets of Utica on this sorrowful day. 
 
 In distinction, likewise, no such funeral has ever before been 
 held in Utica. The President of the United States, in the person 
 of Mr. Taft, justices of the Supreme Court, United States Senators, 
 Representatives in Congress, and State dignitaries from all parts 
 of the country were in attendance. Men famed in various walks 
 of life, friends of the departed, were also present. 
 
 The people of Utica never paid a more universal and more 
 heartfelt tribute at the bier of any of its sons. The city paused 
 in its various activities to do honor to the man who had done so 
 much for it in life and brought it distinction even in death. 
 
 The rumble of traffic was hushed as the city-hall bell tolled the 
 approaching hour of the obsequies. Simultaneously flags were at 
 half-mast in every State in the Union and in all the possessions 
 of the Government, to the remotest and smallest island. Public 
 buildings were closed and from every warship a salute of 19 
 minute guns was fired, echoing around the world, while every 
 officer of the Array, Navy, and Marine Corps wore an emblem of 
 mourning. 
 
 No other Utican has ever received such a testimonial of honor 
 and respect. Nation and city united in the tribute. The grief of 
 the many mourners, friends, and kindred will be assuaged, in a 
 measure, by the thought that the character and position of the 
 departed were such as to command the praise and homage of a 
 whole people. 
 
 The services at the church were simple in form, yet solemn 
 and impressive. They partook somewhat of the quality of 
 majesty. No services conducted in such presence could fail to 
 give such an impression. There were seated many of the gov- 
 erning minds of a mighty nation as well as representatives of 
 the highest culture — chiefs of state, of business, and education. 
 
 President Stryker of Hamilton College delivered a touching and 
 feeling eulogy. It was the sincere tribute of a friend to a friend 
 who had gone hither. Without show or ostentation, he told of 
 
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 the excellent qualities of the departed and the blessings and cer- 
 tainty of immortality. President Taft looked directly at the 
 speaker throughout the discourse, and was evidently deeply 
 impressed. His attitude was typical of the attitude of all. The 
 speaker communicated his emotion to the assemblage, and there 
 were many tear-stained eyes. 
 
 Sympathy radiated to the gentle and broken widow, the 
 bereaved sons, and other kindred. 
 
 The perfume of the beautiful flowers, like incense, pervaded 
 the atmosphere of the auditorium. The black and purple of the 
 mourning emblems gave a somber touch and color wholly in 
 keeping with the sorrowful occasion. The music was attuned 
 with the universal feeling. 
 
 Outside was the crowd, not sharing in the inspiration of eulogy, 
 music, and incense, but none the less solemn and reverent. 
 
 The procession was formed and slowly wended its way 
 between two flies of bowed humanity to the cemetery, where the 
 final rites of the funeral were performed, the last adieu said 
 by the family, and the body of James Schoolcraft Sherman laid 
 at rest. 
 
 WITH THOSE who LOOKED ON ^VAST CROWDS THRONGED THE 
 
 STREETS PROCESSIONS TO AND FROM CHURCH. 
 
 Gray clouds racing low across cold windswept sky, a piercing 
 chill that cut to the marrow, and a few light flakes of snow drift- 
 ing downward — these formed a fit setting of dreariness and 
 sorrow to the final rites accorded to James Schoolcraft Sherman 
 Saturday afternoon, when Utica and the surrounding towns 
 poured thousands of spectators into the center of the city and 
 along the route of the funeral procession. 
 
 It had been announced in the papers that certain portions of 
 the First Presbyterian Church not occupied by those entitled to 
 reserved seats would be opened to the public, and long before 
 11 o'clock the crowds began to gather outside the building where 
 the public funeral services were to be held. 
 
 The distinguished visitors of national reputation headed the 
 procession which was formed in the Hotel Utica lobby and the 
 Italian room. Members of the Republican Club of the city, to- 
 gether with the executive officers of the city, followed next in 
 line. The clergy, the common council, and the members of the 
 consistory of Christ Church completed the procession to the 
 church which was formed at the hotel. 
 
 It was 2.20 o'clock when the tolling of the city hall bell an- 
 nounced that the funeral cortege had left the Sherman home, fol- 
 lowing the services there. The big bell tolled solemnly on with 
 momentary intervals until after the procession reached the 
 church. 
 
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 When the body was placed in the hearse the carriages were 
 filled as follows: 
 
 1. Mrs. Sherman and Sherrill Sherman. 
 
 2. Mr. and Mrs. Richard U. Sherman) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. 
 Sherman. 
 
 3. Mrs. Sherrill Sherman, Mrs. L. B. Moore, Capt. Babcock, 
 Mr. Littauer. 
 
 4. Mrs. William B. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Cookinham, 
 Mrs. Rice. 
 
 5. Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Sherman, Miss Bessie Sherman, 
 Mrs. Dick. 
 
 6. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hatfield. 
 
 7. Mr. and Mrs. James De Long, the Misses De Long. 
 
 8. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Cookinham, jr., Mr. and Mrs. Frederick 
 Cookinham. 
 
 9. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cookinham, Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. 
 Cooper, jr. 
 
 10. Walter Cookinham, Robert Sherman, the Misses Rice. 
 
 11. Judge and Mrs. Alfred C. Coxe, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Doolittle. 
 
 12. Miss Isabel Doolittle, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. J. Doolittle. 
 
 13. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Clark, Mrs. Roberts. 
 
 14. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Childs, Miss Nellie Barber. 
 
 15. Thomas Baker, the Misses Baker, Miss Connelly. 
 
 16. Hon. and Mrs. George Fairchild, Hon. L. W. Emerson. 
 There were in all 42 carriages at the Sherman home, and the 
 
 greater share of the remainder were filled without regard to 
 special order. The procession then moved toward the church, 
 preceded by the honorary and active bearers. 
 
 At 2.34 the carriage containing Dr. Stryker, Dr. Holden, and 
 Dr. Brokaw arrived at the entrance of the church. 
 
 Then the bearers arrived, followed by the hearse. The heavy 
 casket, covered with flowers and containing the body of Utica's 
 distinguished son, was lifted reverently from the hearse and 
 carried up the steps of the church. 
 
 The arrival of Mrs. Sherman was the signal for a general silent 
 manifestation of sympathy. Everywhere hats were lifted and 
 quiet murmurs of sympathy came from the women. Mrs. Sher- 
 man was escorted to the church by her sons, Richard and 
 Sherrill. 
 
 When the distinguished visitors and those having cards of 
 admission were seated such of the public as could be seated in 
 the remaining space were admitted. While the service was in 
 progress the throng about the church and up Washington Street 
 could easily stand an estimate of 18,000. The crowd immediately 
 about the church extended over Columbia Street and down Wash- 
 ington Street to Lafayette. 
 
 After the services, the general public was admitted through 
 the chapel doors of the church to view the flowers and deco- 
 rations. 
 
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 Between the double line of Senators, Congressmen, and Justices 
 of the Supreme Court the casket was borne to the hearse and 
 the flowers placed upon it. The immediate family and Presi- 
 dent Taft and suite followed, and the procession took up the line 
 of march to the cemetery. 
 
 Up Washington Street to Genesee the 42 carriages moved in 
 slow time between thousands of spectators that lined both sides of 
 the route as far as Court Street. From there on the spectators 
 were on the west side of the street and four deep as far as South 
 Street. Every corner was crowded, and at Oneida Square 
 another crowd awaited the cortfege. 
 
 At 3.45 o'clock the body of the dead Vice President passed the 
 Sherman home for the last time. The house stood dark and 
 grim in the failing light of the afternoon as the master of the 
 house passed on forever. No crowd assembled there, but from 
 the windows of the near-by homes faces looked out to see the last 
 of their good friend and neighbor. The march continued past 
 the House of the Good Shepherd, where the waiting lines of 
 orphans bowed their heads in respect to the passing hearse. 
 
 Following out the suggestion made by Mayor Baker in his 
 proclamation Saturday morning, the business houses of the city 
 closed their doors from 2 o'clock until 4. The national colors, 
 tied with crepe or black and purple bunting, appeared all along 
 the line of march, and the business section of the city presented 
 a Sunday afternoon appearance. 
 
 In compliance with orders issued yesterday, all electric cars in 
 the city stopped at 2 o'clock and remained stationary for five 
 minutes. The business offices of the railway company were 
 closed all day. It was in these ways that the local electric 
 company expressed the sympathy due to a distinguished citizen 
 and a stockholder in the company. 
 
 SERVICES AT THE HOME ONLY RELATIVES AND A VERY FEW FRIENDS 
 
 GATHER THERE BEFORE THE PUBLIC CHURCH SERVICE. 
 
 Intimate, and because of that intimacy the more sorrowful, were 
 the services conducted Saturday afternoon at the home of Vice 
 President Sherman. There gathered the members of his family 
 and a few very close friends who were given this opportunity to 
 pay their tribute of honor and affection to the man they had 
 known and loved. It was for this reason that the services took 
 on an aspect essentially private, although President Taft was 
 present for part of the service. 
 
 The casket containing the body of Vice President Sherman 
 was placed in the parlor at the north side of the house. In that 
 
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 room were seats for some of the family and the President's party, 
 while other seats were placed in the hall and the adjoining rooms. 
 The honorary bearers, who were Senator Elihu Root, Thomas R. 
 Proctor, Charles S. Symonds, William S. Doolittle, J. Francis Day, 
 George E. Dunham, Charles B. Rogers, William T. Baker, Henry 
 H. Cooper, and Dr. Fayette H. Peck, were seated in a room at the 
 rear of the hall until such time as they were called to perform the 
 duties of their sad office. Near them also were waiting the active 
 bearers from the Utica Trust & Deposit Co., of which Mr. Sher- 
 man was president: Graham Coventry, Charles J. Lamb, Grover 
 C. Clark, George W. Williams, Floyd E. Ecker, H. R. Huntington, 
 C. R. Hicks, H. P. Thomas, J. C. Cody, R. E. Roberts. 
 
 Everywhere were to be seen the beautiful flo'wers which had 
 been sent to express the sympathy of friends. The parlor was 
 banked on every side with these and in the other rooms, too, they 
 were found in profusion. From persons high and low throughout 
 the country these messengers came, bearing the sympathy of 
 friends who mourned together in the loss of their common friend. 
 
 The service had been announced for 1 o'clock, but it was 
 considerably after that before Rev. Louis H. Holden, Ph. D., pastor 
 of Christ Church, began the Scripture reading. This he did after 
 President Taft and his party arrived. They came about 1.40, the 
 President being met by Lieut. W. G. Mayer, Thomas R. Proctor, 
 W. S. Doolittle, and others. All stood while the President passed 
 into the parlor to take his place near the body of his dead asso- 
 ciate. 
 
 After the minister had repeated the Twenty-third Psalm all 
 present joined in reciting the Apostles' Creed. Then they were 
 seated while Dr. Holden read the Scriptures, his selections being 
 taken from I Corinthians xv and John xiv. He offered a brief 
 prayer, ending with the Lord's Prayer. Then followed the bene- 
 diction. 
 
 The singing, which was under the direction of Dr. F. P. Cavallo, 
 was beautiful and lent much to the dignity and impressiveness 
 of the occasion. The Schubert quartet, composed of Mrs. Hugh 
 T. Owen, soprano; Mrs. Lelia Ryan Schilz, contralto; Dr. Cavallo, 
 bass; and Elliott H. Stewart, tenor, sang " Paradise, Oh Paradise " 
 and " Rock of Ages." There was also a male quartet, composed 
 of Mr. Stewart, first tenor; Thomas E. Ryan, second tenor; A. 
 Spencer Hughes, first bass; and Dr. Cavallo, second bass. They 
 sang an arrangement of " Crossing the Bar." 
 
 While the singing was in progress the bearers had left the home 
 with their sad burden, and already the hearse was moving slowly 
 down Genesee Street at the head of a mournful procession. As 
 fast as the carriages were filled with the members of the family, 
 they joined the slow-moving line which passed between crowds 
 all the way to the church where the public service was held. 
 
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 INSIDE THE CHURCH PRESIDENT STRYKER OF HAMILTON COLLEGE 
 
 PAYS AFFECTING TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF A DEAR FRIEND. 
 
 The church doors were not open till just before the hour of 
 the funeral, but the ushers were on hand as early as 1 o'clock. 
 They were : From the Conkling Unconditionals, Arthur J. Lowery, 
 chief; Spencer Kellogg, Frank B. Rathbun, Edward B. Ibbotson, 
 Charles DeAngelis, Russell Brennan, William A. Clark, Edward 
 K. Miller, Chester W. Davis, Bradford C. Divine, Frederick W. 
 Kincaid, A. C. Brinckerhoff, Fred B. Adams, Stewart Snyder, 
 M. Angelo Cooper, Rex Witherbee, George Ladue, Charles L. 
 Williams; from the First Presbyterian Church, Dr. F. H. Brewer, 
 Dr. E. D. Fuller, J. C. Hamilton. 
 
 The interior of the church was profusely draped with emblems 
 of mourning. The base was black and the overdrapings of 
 purple. The reredos was covered with black and purple and 
 at the sides were festoons of similar hues. The gallery front 
 was covered with black and overdrapings of purple, and festoons 
 of the same colors were under each windovir. The columns were 
 wound, and the frdBt pews, occupied by the President and by 
 Mrs. Sherman, were covered with black and a large flag. 
 
 The floral tributes were the most numerous and costly ever 
 seen at a funeral in this city. They filled the chancel and the 
 space in front. In the center was a large flag in flowers, the 
 gift of the Utica Republican Club. On one side of the pulpit 
 was a large cross from the Conkling Unconditionals and on the 
 other a large cross of white chrysanthemums trimmed with 
 orchids from the ofiicials at the city hall. Other pieces were 
 a wreath of orchids from the United States Senate, a wreath of 
 white roses from the House of Representatives, and beautiful 
 floral pieces from the Secretary of State and Mrs. Knox, the min- 
 ister of Salvador, the Dominican Republic, the Guatemalan min- 
 ister and Sefiora Dona Luz Mendez, the German ambassador and 
 Countess Bernstorff', the National Republican League, the Ameri- 
 can Protective Tariff" League, the Republican city and county 
 committee, Charles V. Schram, large cross with "Auld Lang Syne " 
 in flowers from the Hebrew people of Utica, a large wreath of 
 white flowers on palms by Harry Gerber and Samuel Stone. On 
 this was a card inscribed, " For He will give His angels charge 
 concerning thee, to guard thee in all thy ways." Large floral 
 piece from Herkimer County friends. Other floral pieces were 
 from Minard J. Fisher, Miss Florence Millar, and Charles Millar, a 
 blanket of chrysanthemums from the congregation of Christ 
 Church. 
 
 At 1.30 the doors to the galleries were opened and the galleries 
 were at once filled. Next the side aisles were opened and filled 
 almost as quickly. At 1.50 the congressional party entered, then 
 the Justices of the Supreme Court and the trustees of Hamilton 
 
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 College. The Conkling Unconditionals were seated in the chancel. 
 When President Taft, former Vice President Fairbanks, and the 
 other officers entered, the audience rose and remained standing 
 until the President was seated. 
 
 The President occupied a seat in the center aisle of the church, 
 and with him sat Attorney General Wickersham, Secretary Nagel, 
 of the Department of Commerce and Labor; former Vice Presi- 
 dent Fairbanks, and Chairman Hilles, of the Republican national 
 committee. 
 
 Immediately back of them were seated Justices Hughes and 
 Pitney, of the United States Supreme Court; Senators Crane, 
 Curtis, Lippitt, Penrose, Oliver, Bacon, Works, and O'Gorman; 
 Secretary Bennett, of the Senate; and Representatives Dalzell, 
 Galder, Jones, Wright, Fairchild, Fitzgerald, Dwight, Knapp, 
 Cocks, and other Members of the National House of Representa- 
 tives. Senator Root was seated with the honorary pallbearers. 
 
 Others in the assemblage included former Govs. Frank S. 
 Black and Benjamin B. Odell, jr., and members of the New York 
 State Legislature. Gov. Dix was unable to be present, but sent 
 Lieut. Commander Eckford C. DeKay, ^is military secretai:y, as 
 his representative. 
 
 The casket, covered with violets and lilies of the valley, was 
 borne into the church at 2.30 o'clock, and following it came Mrs. 
 Sherman in heavy mourning, leaning on the arm of her son 
 Sherrill. She was accompanied by other members of the Sher- 
 man family. All were given seats in close proximity to the casket. 
 The Mendelssohn funeral march was played as the body was 
 carried in and deposited immediately in front of the altar. 
 
 The entire audience arose in silence as the bearers made their 
 way to the front. First came the honorary bearers and the active 
 bearers with the remains and then the members of the family and 
 relatives. The Republican Club occupied the chapel in rear of 
 the pulpit. 
 
 The music was in charge of Charles W. Mowry, organist and 
 choir master. While the pews were filling the organ played the 
 following selections: "Adagio and Andante"; C Minor Sonata, 
 Mendelssohn; Elegy, Halsey; Largo, Handel; Legend, Foulkes. 
 
 The choir was made up of the following: Sopranos, Miss 
 Carmelita Wilkes, Miss Florence Lumley, Mrs. Hugh T. Owen; 
 altos. Miss Calista Gardner, Miss Florence Debbold, Mrs. Leila 
 Ryan Schilz; tenors, Thomas G. Jones, Alfred Jay, and Elliott 
 H. Stewart; bassos, Herbert Jones, A. Spencer Hughes, Hugh T. 
 Owen. 
 
 The services opened with the choir singing " Lead, Kindly 
 Light." Rev. Louis H. Holden, Ph. D., read passages of Scripture 
 which declare the blessed assurance of eternal life. 
 
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 PRESIDENT STRYKER's ADDRESS 
 
 The address by President M. Woolsey Stryker, of Hamilton Col- 
 lege, was brief but full of feeling. Dr. Stryker never spoke more 
 deliberately, and when he came to say the words of farewell he 
 looked down from the pulpit on the form of Mr. Sherman below 
 and his voice choked with emotion. Many in the audience were 
 moved to tears. Dr. Stryker spoke as follows: 
 
 " In solemn and united mourning, but with tearful gratitude 
 and calm, reasonable hope, we are met in this house of faith to 
 remember him whose form is before us in all the mysterious 
 dignity and the eloquent silence of death. We represent, while 
 we deeply share, a general public sorrow. The high representa- 
 tives of State and Nation assemble with us, who are his neighbors, 
 in keen human sympathy, to make a common tribute of manly 
 regard and manly affection to an exalted dignitary of the land 
 and to an endeared companion. We lament the passing, not 
 first of the Vice President of the United States, but of James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, the man. This community shares in these 
 acts of devotion, aware that there is gone their preeminent — ^long- 
 time such — preeminent fellow citizen, but also that one is gone 
 whose cordial courtesy and whose indomitable and impartial 
 kindliness made him the counselor and the helper of innumerable 
 men. 
 
 " In the name of you all, I assure this household of your 
 keen and profound heed for their distress, and in their names 
 I thank you for your presence and for that swift telepathy in 
 which you identify your grief with theirs. You put out to 
 them warm and firm hands and they take them gladly, and 
 unspeakably they thank you. 
 
 " I speak for that college circle which had delight and honor 
 in this elect and loyal comrade and for those, its trustees, whose 
 labors he zealously shared. And I speak — alas, that words are so 
 poor I — as an intimate and sorrowing friend, one of many, so 
 many who grieve that we shall here not see him any more. Not 
 even with the most urgent brevity may I at all recite his con- 
 sistent and influential career. No; nor his earthly honors. No; 
 nor his noble traits. All these are legible; written past recall. 
 Our hearts review them. Nor will we ever forget. Least of all 
 may I lead you, with steps however soft, into the sanctities of 
 that domestic love which are his endearing legacies. We inter- 
 meddle not with that joy. 
 
 " Good-by, good and faithful servant, great heart, gentle friend, 
 good-by. Here be it remembered that this man was one whose 
 patience and whose courage drank deep of' that spiritual rock. 
 Never was he ashamed of his hope in the Master of Life, whom 
 ever since long ago he quietly and steadfastly confessed before 
 men. 
 
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 "Yes, farewell. Let the mortal put on immortality. We, the 
 pilgrims of the night who still dwell in tents, salute thee in thy 
 secure abode where all shadows are swallowed up of day. 
 Thanks be to God for every good fight fought through; for every 
 victory won through pain; for Him, the Captain of the Cross, 
 who leads steadily His own to where, beyond these voices, there 
 is peace." 
 
 At the conclusion of his address. Dr. Stryker proceeded at once 
 with his prayer, in which he said: 
 
 " Therefore, Almighty and Merciful God, we bow before Thee 
 and acknowledge Thy sovereign will in us. Come death, come 
 life, we lay in Thy hand the secure keeping the dear dust of 
 the dead. "We remember with joy and gratitude before Thee 
 all wherein Thy life touched theirs with beauty and with power. 
 We pray that we may so follow the good example of those who 
 sleep in Jesus Christ that, after this painful life is ended, we 
 may dwell with Thee in life everlasting. Thou Who didst with 
 Thine own lips say, ' I will not leave you orphans, I will care 
 for you with more than human love,' dost regard these friends of 
 ours in their sorrow. Let there be light in their dwellings. Let 
 the peace of God that passeth all understanding guard their 
 hearts and their thoughts in Christ. Make us all, O God, more 
 tender and more true by this day's experience. Let our vows be 
 registered with Thee while our hearts praise Thy name. Join 
 us with the blessed company of those everywhere who trust 
 and serve and bow and wait. And in Thy due time, through 
 Thy great mercy, through Jesus Christ, who won for all, receive 
 us into everlasting habitations. Thou who hast said, ' Because 
 I live, ye shall live also,' we do not ask that the way of life may be 
 made soft and easy to our feet, but we ask that it may be made 
 plain. Help us to bear the day's burden, to endure the trials of the 
 instant. We leave all things in Thy good hands and do commit 
 ourselves and all this presence to Thy faithful care, and, when 
 this is over, open to us Thy door that at last we may know Thee 
 whom we have so much forgotten, and know as we are known. 
 
 " Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy 
 on us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, grant us 
 Thy pe^ice. Amen." 
 
 Then, at the request of President Stryker, the audience rose 
 and joined the choir in singing with great earnestness the well- 
 known hymn, " Nearer, My God, to Thee." It was the first time 
 that those in the congregation had had an opportunity to give 
 expression to their feelings, and they sang the five verses of the 
 hymn with an earnestness seldom heard. President Taft sang 
 as fervently as any, as did President Stryker. 
 
 The benediction was announced by the pastor of the church. 
 Rev. Ralph W. Brokaw, D. D. The choir sang with fine expres- 
 
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 sion the well-known prayer hymn, "Abide with Me," after which 
 the remains were borne from the church, the funeral procession 
 being made up of the honorary bearers, clergy, the remains, 
 members of the family and mourners. President Taft, and the 
 other officials in their order. For a recessional the organ played 
 Mendelssohn's funeral march. 
 
 The official position of Mr. Taft, as President of the United 
 States, entitled him to ride ahead of the hearse, but he preferred 
 to be a mourner, and at his own request was given a place behind 
 Mr. Sherman's immediate family. 
 
 The floral tributes were so numerous that they could not all be 
 brought into the church, but all were taken to the cemetery. 
 Among them were wreaths and other designs from the follow- 
 ing: Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Neale, J. G; Small and wife. National 
 Republican League, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. C. 
 H. Poole, employees of the Utica Trust & Deposit Co., Hon. and 
 Mrs. M. E. DriscoU, Beta Chapter of the Sigma Phi fraternity, Hon. 
 J. W. Weeks, Republican county and city committee, Mr. and Mrs. 
 O. H. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Peckham, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. 
 Hazard, Hon. Charles L. Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Dunham, 
 William H. Hawk and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. C. Smith, Mr. 
 and Mrs. J. C. Bishop, the Northern New York Trust Co., Hon. 
 L. N. Littauer, Judge W. B. Hooker and family, the Spanish 
 minister, the minister of Haiti, the Secretary of State and Mrs. 
 Knox, Hon. F. M. Davenport, the United States Senate, George W. 
 Hinman, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Clarke, and employees of the Utica 
 post office. 
 
 A magnificent wreath from President and Mrs. Taft did not 
 arrive till late, but Mrs. Sherman, accompanied by members of 
 her family, went to the cemetery and placed it in the mausoleum 
 yesterday morning. 
 
 AT THE CEMETERY HUNDREDS GATHER TO WATCH THE FINAL 
 
 SERVICES AS VICE PRESIDENT SHERMAN IS LAID TO REST. 
 
 The scene at the committal service in Forest Hill Cemetery was 
 one never to be forgotten. There were gathered as closely as 
 they could be grouped the high and low of the earth, for many 
 of the people who are generally described as just " plain folks " 
 were almost rubbing elbows with the President of the United 
 States. And all about them were the resting places of those who 
 are asleep in the last long rest which obliterates all distinctions 
 of place and power. 
 
 As sharp as were the contrasts in humanity gathered there, even 
 more sharp were the visible aspects of nature. Underfoot along 
 the edges of the drive rustled the dead leaves which had fallen 
 from the many trees. Stark and bare the limbs of the trees stood 
 in naked outline against the cold November sky. And yet, grouped 
 
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 near the place where the last words of farewell were said in honor 
 of him who is gone, appeared every sort of tribute from the art 
 and skill of the florist. The most beautiful and fragrant forms in 
 which nature displays its floral riches were gathered there in a 
 profusion of color and design. Wonderful wreaths and designs, 
 huge bouquets of lilies, orchids, roses, and violets gave mute testi- 
 mony of the place in the hearts of his friends which Mr. Sherman 
 held. These were the tributes of friends who chose in this 
 beautiful manner to express their sympathy. And so these 
 flowers became the eloquent messengers of those whose hearts 
 were perhaps too full to say the things that the flowers meant. 
 
 In front of the Babcock-Moore mausoleum a tent had been 
 erected to shelter those who were to take part in the final service. 
 Against the ropes in front crowded hundreds of people, eager to 
 see and yet respectful and reverent, fully appreciating the sad- 
 ness of the occasion. 
 
 About 4 o'clock came a few carriages, bearing more of the 
 flowers which had been brought from the church. There fol- 
 lowed a few busy moments arranging these, and then fell the hush 
 of expectancy. Soon the Haydns, numbering about 60, arrived, 
 and they were groupied against the ropes at one side of the plot, 
 to take their share in the service. Then Dr. M. Woolsey Stryker, 
 Dr. Ralph W. Brokaw, and Dr. Louis H. Holden arrived. They 
 were followed by the honorary bearers, who were grouped about 
 the place prepared for the casket before it was finally laid to rest 
 in the crypt. 
 
 When the hearse stopped before the approach to the mausoleum, 
 the bearers stood near to receive their sad burden. Reverently 
 the crowd uncovered as the men moved slowly away, bearing 
 between them the heavy black symbol of grief. On top of the 
 casket lay two crosses, one of white lilies and the other of violets, 
 tributes of the family. 
 
 The casket was placed on the rests and there was a moment's 
 hush as President Taft, former Vice President Fairbanks, and 
 several others high in the Nation's councils, gathered there 
 for the last tribute of respect and aflfection. Meanwhile the 
 Haydns had been singing "Asleep in Jesus " on the tune " Rest," 
 this being at the request of Mrs. Sherman. It was the same hymn 
 they had sung at the funeral of Mrs. Sherman's mother not long 
 before. 
 
 Dr. Stryker began the committal service, speaking in a low 
 tone, yet so distinctly that his words were heard by many in 
 the crowd. The reading occupied about three minutes and 
 then the Schubert quartet sang " Good Night." There followed 
 a moment's stir as President Taft and his party had to take leave. 
 They stepped slowly from the shelter of the tent, to make their 
 way toward the waiting automobiles. As they left, Richard U. 
 Sherman followed them, to climb into the President's car, shake 
 
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 his hand, and thank him, apparently, for his presence at the 
 funeral. 
 
 Reverently the honorary bearers and others who had been a 
 part of the gathering left the tent. There remained but the mem- 
 bers of the family, and none wished to intrude on the sacredness 
 of those last moments. To the relatives belonged the intimacy of 
 the final farewell and no person would have had it otherwise. 
 After the Haydns had sung " Nearer, My God, to Thee," and Dr. 
 Stryker had pronounced the benediction, the service was at an 
 end. Gently the casket was slid into the crypt prepared for it, 
 slowly the crowd turned away to pass quietly down the winding 
 paths. 
 
 Dusk was giving way to darkness before the last persons had 
 left. Lights flashing here and there in the valley below picked 
 out the busy places in the city's activity. From afar came a 
 steady impersonal hum as though of many voices talking — in 
 fact, it was the voice of the city. And there through the trees on 
 the hillside whispered the cold November wind. But it held no 
 terrors for him who was left there asleep — close to the city and 
 people he loved and served so well. 
 
 MEMORIAL SERVICES IN BERLIN 
 
 A memorial service in honor of the late Vice President James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman was held at the American church in Berlin 
 on the afternoon of November 2, 1912, at 2 o'clock, the same hour 
 as the funeral services in Utica. The Berlin services were at- 
 tended by the respective staffs of the American Embassy and the 
 consulate general, headed by the ambassador, the Hon. John G. A. 
 Leishman, at whose suggestion the memorial was held. The Ger- 
 man minister of foreign affairs sent Count Montgelas, of the for- 
 eign oflSce, to attend the services as his representative. Members 
 of the American colony in Berlin also attended. 
 
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 BY PRESIDENT TAFT. 
 [From the Washington (D. C.) Post.] 
 
 New York, October 30, 1912. — President Taft was informed of 
 the death of Vice President Sherman at 9.50 o'clock, as the Chief 
 Executive and his Secretary of the Navy were seated in the 
 Thirteenth Regiment Armory, Brooklyn, as guests of honor at a 
 dinner given to them by employees of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 
 in celebration of the successful launching of the battleship New 
 York to-day. 
 
 The President had just iinished a plea for a greater Navy, and 
 Commander Greaves of the navy yard was speaking at the time 
 when the news of Mr. Sherman's death was broken to the 
 President. 
 
 Mr. Taft at first made no comment after hearing the news. He 
 remained seated, concealing emotions which he might have had, 
 until Commander Greaves and Congressman Calder had finished 
 their speeches. He then rose and said: 
 
 " My Friends : Three years ago you met on an occasion like 
 this to celebrate the launching of the Florida, and you were 
 honored by the presence of the Vice President of the United 
 States — ^Vice President Sherman. It is a very sad duty for me 
 to announce that word has just come that the Vice President is 
 dead. 
 
 " Those who knew him loved him. Those who knew the serv- 
 ices he rendered to his country respected him. I venture to ask 
 that this assemblage adjourn in honor of his memory and that 
 no further proceedings be taken." 
 
 A period of silence followed the President's unexpected words. 
 The band came to the relief of the situation by playing, "My 
 Country, 'Tis of Thee," and the naval ofiicers and men filed out 
 quickly. • 
 
 The President was escorted to his automobile. Tears came to 
 his eyes. He was lost sight of, however, as he stepped inside of 
 the car and was whisked across Brooklyn Bridge and to the 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York, where he was due 
 to take his train at 12.30 o'clock for Washington. 
 
 Immediately after arriving in New York President Taft dis- 
 patched the following telegram to Mrs. Sherman at Utica: 
 
 " Mrs. Taft and I extend to you our heartfelt sympathy in your 
 great sorrow. Our hearts go out to you in the loss of your noble 
 
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 and loving husband. Vice President Sherman had rendered dis- 
 tinguished service to his country, and his death, 10 years before 
 the time allotted by the Psalmist, is a great loss. As a Member of 
 Congress and a Vice President he endeared himself to all who 
 knew him. His memory is full of sweetness and light. 
 
 "William H. Taft." 
 
 Just before boarding his train for Washington President Taft 
 made the following statement: 
 
 " News of the death of Vice President James S. Sherman has 
 just reached me, and although it was not unexpected, it has filled 
 my heart with sadness. I feel a sense of personal bereavement 
 in the loss of a friend, who was a conscientious worker in the 
 many undertakings in which we were engaged. 
 
 " It is an easy matter to pay tribute to his worth. He was a 
 gentleman of splendid poise, of mental attainment, which were 
 balanced by so fine a sense of justice that all who knew him 
 respected him and admired him. The sobriquet which he has 
 properly earned, and which was a tribute to a disposition that 
 radiated sunshine and good will, readily explains the warm affec- 
 tion in which he was held by the many thousands who had come 
 into personal contact with him. 
 
 "As a legislator and expounder of parliamentary law and prac- 
 tice he had achieved a reputation of national proportions before 
 he was elevated to the high and dignified office of Vice President 
 of the United States. His services as Vice President will be fit- 
 tingly acknowledged by the United States Senate, over which he 
 presided with marked fairness. He was a Republican of sturdy 
 principles, and his counsel within the party, always eagerly 
 sought and highly regarded, will be sadly missed in the many 
 crises created by new problems arising and demanding wise con- 
 sideration and practical solution." 
 
 BY GOV. WILSON. 
 
 [From the Dtica (N. T.) Dally Press, Not.- 1, 1912.] 
 
 The family of Mr. Sherman yesterday received hundreds of 
 telegrams from all parts of the country expressing sympathy. 
 Among them was the following: 
 
 " In common with the whole country, Mrs. Wilson and I have 
 been deeply shocked by the death of Vice President Sherman, 
 and we wish to extend to you our heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 "WooDRow Wilson." 
 
 [From the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, Nov. 4, 1912.] 
 
 Rochester, November 2, 1912. — At the request of Gov. Wilson, 
 the Democratic parade announced for this afternoon in New 
 York City has been called off out of respect to the memory of 
 Vice President Sherman, whose funeral will take place to-day. 
 
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 As soon as Gov. Woodrow Wilson arrived in Rochester late yes- 
 terday afternoon he telegraphed National Chairman W. F. Mc- 
 Combs to cancel the parade scheduled to be held in New York 
 to-day by the College Men's Wilson and Marshall Clubs. The 
 parade was to take place at the same hour that Vice President 
 Sherman's funeral is to be held. 
 
 The governor wired as follows: 
 
 " I hope that the arrangements for the parade ■will be canceled 
 as an evidence of our deep sympathy for the family and friends 
 of the late Vice President. I know this will be your feeling." 
 
 BY GOV. MARSHALL. 
 [From the Washington (D. C), Post, Nov. 1, 1912.] 
 
 Chicago, October 31, 1912. — Gov. Thomas R. Marshall, at the 
 end of his 7,000-mile speaking tour to the Pacific Coast States and 
 return, to-day canceled further campaign speeches because of the 
 death of Vice President Sherman. Gov. Marshall had been sched- 
 uled to make three speeches in Chicago and several in Indiana and 
 Ohio. 
 
 " In the presence of the dead," said Gov. Marshall, " every self- 
 respecting man stands silent. 
 
 " Mr. Sherman is not alone the dead of one of the contesting 
 political parties, but is the Nation's dead as well, and as such is 
 deserving of the honor and respect of every man who respects 
 the Nation." 
 
 Before departing from Chicago for Indianapolis this afternoon, 
 Gov. Marshall sent a telegram of sympathy to Mrs. Sherman. 
 
 BY COL. ROOSEVELT. 
 
 New York, October 30, 1912. — Just after he left the Madison 
 Square Garden meeting. Col. Roosevelt was informed of the death 
 of Vice President Sherman. The colonel immediately sent the 
 following telegram: 
 
 " Mrs. James S. Sherman, Utica, N. Y.: 
 
 " Mrs. Roosevelt and I are greatly shocked and concerned at 
 the sad news of your husband's death. We beg you to accept our 
 most sincere sympathy. 
 
 " Theodore Roosevelt." 
 
 New York, November 1, 1912. — The following telegram was sent 
 by Chairman Prendergast, of the Progressive mass meeting in 
 Madison Square Garden to-night, to Mrs. Sherman in response to 
 Col. Roosevelt's suggestion to the meeting: 
 
 " Mrs. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vtica, N. Y.: 
 
 " At the suggestion of Theodore Roosevelt and in the name of 
 15,000 citizens of this city gathered in mass meeting, I have the 
 
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 honor to extend to you their heartfelt sympathy in your great 
 sorrow. 
 
 " William A. Prendergast, 
 
 " Chairman." 
 
 OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY. 
 [From the Utlca (N. Y.) Dally Press.] 
 
 The universal esteem in which Mr. Sherman was held is testi- 
 fied to in the following messages of respect and sympathy to Mrs. 
 Sherman. 
 
 The following was received from Hon. Augustus 0. Bacon, 
 President pro tempore of the United States Senate : 
 
 " Sherrill Sherman : As President pro tempore of the Senate I 
 have directed the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate to make all ar- 
 rangements and provide everything which may be desired by your 
 family in connection with the funeral of your honored father, the 
 late Vice President, all of which it is desired may be entirely at 
 the charge of the Senate. So soon as you inform me of the ar- 
 rangement and the dates fixed and desired by the family I will 
 cause the notices to be given to the Members of the Senate to se- 
 cure their personal attendance. I beg that you will give me here 
 this information so soon as it may be found convenient to do so. 
 
 Senator Bacon also telegraphed as follows: 
 
 " I beg to express my profound sympathy in this hour of your 
 unspeakable affliction in the death of your universally beloved 
 husband. By all the people of the United States his passing away 
 will be deplored as a great national loss, and by each Senator he 
 will be mourned as a personal friend." 
 
 " You have our heartfelt sympathy in your great sorrow. May 
 God bless you and yours. 
 
 " Champ Clark, 
 " Speaker of the House of Representatives." 
 
 "All the members of the court deeply sympathize with you in 
 your great sorrow, and personally in the loss of so faithful a pub- 
 lic servant. 
 
 " E. D. White, 
 " Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court." 
 
 " Mrs. Hughes and I extend to you our deepest sympathy in 
 your great sorrow. 
 
 " Charles E. Hughes." 
 
 " Mrs. Dix and I extend to you and your family our sympathy. 
 The State and the Nation have lost an honored and honorable 
 citizen. 
 
 " John A. Dix, 
 " Governor of New York," 
 
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 " I extend to you heart sympathy for the loss of your beloved 
 husband, who was also my cherished friend. 
 
 " Cardinal Gibbons." 
 
 " Mrs. Sulzer and myself are greatly shocked by the death of 
 your distinguished husband, and in the hour of your sad be- 
 reavement we send you our heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 "William Sulzer." 
 
 " Mrs. Straus and I deeply sympathize with you in your be- 
 reavement and grief. His cheerfulness and kindliness endeared 
 your husband to all who knew him. 
 
 " Oscar S. Straus." 
 
 " Please accept my sympathy in your bereavement, and rest as- 
 sured that your loss has brought sorrow to many. Your husband's 
 friends are your friends. 
 
 "Job E. Hedges." 
 
 " The University of Notre Dame, Ind., mourns and prays beside 
 you. May God comfort you and protect the Nation. 
 
 " President Cavanaugh." 
 
 "Washington, D. C. 
 " Mrs. Bryce and I and all the members of this embassy desire 
 to convey our deep and sincere condolence with you in your 
 great bereavement. 
 
 " British Ambassador." 
 
 "Washington, D. C. 
 "At the request of the Japanese minister for foreign affairs and 
 Viscountess Uchilda, I beg to convey to you expression of their 
 profound and sincerest condolence at the terrible bereavement of 
 yourself and your family. 
 
 "Viscount Chinda, 
 
 " Japanese Ambassador." 
 
 " Pleasanton, Gal. 
 " May my wife and I offer you sincere sympathy in your great 
 sorrow. Regret absence from the East will prevent my repre- 
 senting the Persian legation at the funeral. 
 
 " MizRA Ali Kuli Khan, 
 
 " Persian Chargi d' Affaires." 
 
 " On behalf of the Swiss Government and the Nation I have the 
 honor to express to you my profound sympathy, 
 
 " Henri Martin, 
 " Chargi d'Aff aires of Switzerland." 
 
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 " Tokyo, Japan. 
 "My most sincere condolence and heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 " Prince Tokugawa." 
 
 "Mrs. Knox joins me in aifectionate sympathy in your great 
 bereavement. 
 
 "P. C. Knox." 
 
 " My heartfelt sympathy goes out to you in this hour of grief. 
 None will miss his kindly personality more than those who have 
 known him so intimately during years of service in the Senate 
 and House of Representatives. 
 
 " Joseph M. Dixon." 
 
 " I grieve over the loss of one of my oldest and most valued 
 friends. Mrs. Depew and I join in deepest and tenderest sympa- 
 thy for yourself and family. 
 
 " Ghauncey M. Depew." 
 
 " I mourn with you and your family on the death of your dis- 
 tinguished husband and my friend, the Vice President. The 
 Nation has lost an honest, wise, and courageous public servant, 
 and to many there will come a deep sense of personal loss. Please 
 accept the assurances of my sincere sympathy. 
 
 "J. G. Cannon." 
 
 Congressman William B. McKinley, of Illinois, who managed the 
 preconvention Taft-Sherman campaign, said: "A great man and 
 a good man has gone." 
 
 " Seattle, Wash. 
 " Our deepest sympathy in your great bereavement. The Nation 
 has sustained a great loss in Mr. Sherman's death. 
 
 "W. E. Humphrey." 
 
 " Shreveport, La. 
 " In the death of your distinguished husband the Nation has 
 lost one of its foremost citizens and faithful public servants. I 
 served years in the House with Mr. Sherman. He enjoyed the 
 esteem, confidence, and respect of his colleagues without regard 
 to party. Mrs. Pujo joins me in extending heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 "A. P. Pujo." 
 
 " Please accept my sympathy. The Nation and the State as 
 well as the family have suffered a great loss. 
 
 "Alton B. Parker." 
 
 " Mrs. Odell and I sympathize with you in your bereavement. 
 Many years of association with your husband gave me the right 
 
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 to call him friend, and his death therefore comes home to me 
 with peculiar force. In his civic life he has ever been faithful; 
 in every other walk of life he has been equally true. This knowl- 
 edge should be of comfort to you in your hour of sorrow. 
 
 " B. B. Odell, Jr." 
 
 "Washington, D. C. 
 " Will you allow me to convey to you my personal sympathy 
 and the sympathy of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 
 the crushing sorrow which has come to you in the death of your 
 distinguished husband. The flag on our Memorial Continental 
 Hall floats at half-mast in token of our respect and honor for the 
 great man whose loss the Nation mourns. 
 
 " Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, 
 " President General, N. S. D. A. R." 
 
 " Lugano, Switzerland. 
 " We weep with you and yours. 
 
 " Louis LOMRARD AND FAMILY." 
 
 "New York City. 
 " Please accept the deepest sympathy of my wife and myself in 
 your great bereavement. 
 
 " John Philip Sousa." 
 
 " London. 
 " I have lost a friend. Deepest regret. 
 
 " Harry Lauder." 
 
 " South Harpswell, Me. 
 " Our deepest, sincerest, and lasting sympathy to you and yours 
 in your irreparable affliction. We shall always be proud that we 
 numbered in among his friends. 
 
 " Rear Admiral and Mrs. Peary." 
 
 " The Royal Arcanum of Illinois, in general meeting assembled 
 in Chicago, in common with our fellow cousins throughout the 
 United States, mourn the loss of our faithful brother, James S. 
 Sherman, and tenders to you and to his sons, our bereaved 
 brothers, our profound sympathy. He has served both his coun- 
 try and this order ably and nobly. 
 
 " George W. Manierre, 
 
 " Chairman. 
 "F. T. McFaden, 
 
 " Suprepie Regent. 
 " Graeme Smith, 
 
 " Grand Regent." 
 
 " My Dear Madam : The members of Utica Lodge of Elks sympa- 
 thize deeply with you in the loss of your husband. Mr. Sherman 
 
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 had been an Elk for over a score of years, a period in whiicli he 
 always showed an interest in our organization. We have lost an 
 honored brother and our sorrow is deep at this time. Every one 
 of the 700 Elks in Utica sends you heartfelt sympathy. 
 
 " Lawrence J. Zobel, 
 
 " Exalted Ruler." 
 
 " The members of Branch 51 of the Association of Letter Car- 
 riers of Fall River, Mass., extend to you their heartfelt sympathy 
 in your sad bereavement. In your husband's death the Nation 
 loses a faithful servant and the letter carriers a staunch friend. 
 
 "John H. Haythornthwaite, 
 
 " President." 
 
 " The Union League of Philadelphia sympathizes deeply with 
 you and your family in this, your great sorrow. The Vice Presi- 
 dent was well known and greatly beloved here. 
 
 "William T. Tilden, 
 " President of the Union League." 
 
 Mrs. Jennie T. Hobart, widow of former Vice President Hobart, 
 extended her sympathy as that of one " who can fully appreciate 
 your great bereavement." 
 
 Former Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks wired : " We loved 
 him as a friend and loved him as an able and truthful public 
 servant." 
 
 There also were expressions of profound sympathy from all 
 the Cabinet ministers and from many American ministers to for- 
 eign countries as well as from foreign representatives in the 
 United States. Whitelaw Reid spoke of the Vice President's 
 death as " a great loss." 
 
 Messages of condolence were also received by Mrs. Sherman 
 from the following: Senators George T. Oliver, J. H. Gallinger, 
 Newell Sanders, A. O. Bacon, Luke Lea, Jeff Davis, C. A. Culber- 
 son, T. E. Burton, D. U. Fletcher, G. P. Wetmore, Isaac Stephen- 
 son, J. W. Bailey, C. W. Watson, Charles E. Townsend, W. E. Chil- 
 ton, John W. Kern, Charles Curtis, George 'Sutherland, W. A. 
 Richardson, G. M. Hitchcock, W. Murray Crane, Boies Penrose, 
 C. A. Swanson, Isidor Rayner, Thomas S. Martin, S. M. Cullom, 
 Henry F. Lippitt, George E. Chamberlain, Jonathan Bourne, jr., 
 F. M. Simmons, Henry F. Ashurst, Albert B. Cummins, Robert J. 
 Gamble, and James A. O'Gorman. 
 
 Also from the following: Hon. Charles G. Bennett, Secretary of 
 the United States Senate; Hon. Frank S. Black, Attorney General 
 George W. Wickersham, Rev. and Mrs. U. G. B. Pierce, Norman J. 
 Gould, Hon. Dennis T. Flynn, Hon. Francis E. Hendricks, Hon. 
 
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 Samuel McMillan, Hon. Eugene Hale, Hon. I. F. Fischer, Mr. and 
 Mrs. George Sicard, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Brother 
 Gregory, Henry Casson, jr., Hon. Jacob Ruppert, jr., Hon. W. B. 
 McKinley, Walter C. Witherbee, Sefior Don Juan Riaiio, ambas- 
 sador of Spain, and Madame De Riano; George Therrill, Mr. 
 and Mrs. E. H. Wells, W. C. Hackett, Hon. James R. Garfield, Hon. 
 Frank H. Hiscock, Judge Irving G. Vann, Hon. George B. McClel- 
 lan, J. G. Schmidtlapp, J. D. Fuller, B. S. Rodey, Judge Warren B. 
 Hooker, Louis Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Elting, Hon. Carmi 
 A. Thompson, secretary to the President; Samuel P. Calef, George 
 C. Priestley, P. B. Boden, Hon. Richard Bartholdt, Mrs. Ethel 
 McCarey Sanger, Hon. Charles L. Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. Pensel, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Louis J. Ehret, J. C. P. Kincaid, F. W. Buderus, Charles 
 A. Hawley, F. S. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. William Roach, John W. Van 
 Allen, Robert Gardiner McGregor, D. M. Johnson, J. Frank Aid- 
 rich, Hon. John T. Mott, John G. Moflitt, J. G. Eversman, A. V. 
 Conover, Garry B. Adams, H. M. Daugherty, H. W. Dearborn, Mr. 
 and Mrs. William Morris, Hon. John Dalzell, J. J. Gilbert, N. B. 
 Yates, John E. Dowd, Col. William M. Griffith, William R. P. 
 Bloyer, Martin J. Hutchins, R. A. C. Smith, M. D. Crowley, C. W. 
 Richardson, Ormsby McCammon, Hon. C. L. Bartlett, W. C. War- 
 ren, William Clift Foote, I. P. Brown, Charles E. Fitch, Victor 
 Rosewater, Wilfrid Hartley, Reuben R. Lyon, Hon. Charles R. 
 Skinner, M. W. Blumenburg, George W. Wanamaker, Hon. Charles 
 A. Towne, George C. Boldt, George X. McLenahan, Mr. and Mrs. 
 V. M. Wilson, jr., James Otis Woodward, J. G. Searne, H. H. 
 Knowles, F. B. Newell, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Sewall, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Homer P. Snyder, Hon. Henry M. Goldfogle, Hon. D. F. La- 
 fean, Hon. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Mrs. Kate I. Nixon, S. G. Malby, 
 Gonsalo De Quesada, Hon. Charles H. Sherrill; Col. D. M. RansdeU, 
 Sergeant at Arms United States Senate; B. N. Martin, Marcus P. 
 Rice, William A. Logue, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Brooks, the German 
 Ambassador and Countess Bernstorff, Hon. George W. Aldridge, 
 Hon. William Barnes, jr., Hon. George S. Klock, Miss May Irwin, 
 the French Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand, George Orvis, A. E. 
 Martin, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Watson, Fred A. Smith, Thomas E. 
 Oshen, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Vrooman, Henry M. Rose, C. B. Mc- 
 Cawley, Hon. George Puchta, Hon. and Mrs. Charles Dick, Mrs. 
 Elizabeth H. Hemphill, James K. Apgar, Bessie Edwards, Mr. and 
 Mrs. David M. Ranken, Hon. and Mrs. Richard Wayne Parker, 
 Mr. and Mrs. A. Seeley, Francis A. Willard, Howard B. French, 
 George E. Hopkins, J. E. MillhoUand, Mrs. A. S. Paddock, Hon. 
 W. B. Greene, Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon, Louis V. Davison, David 
 F. Wilder, Ralph A. Gamble, Justice of the Supreme Court Joseph 
 McKenna, Lloyd Paul Stryker, Hon. Nicholas Murray Butler, Hon. 
 Montague Lessler, Hon. C. H. Duell, A. B. Andrews, Dr. M. O. Terry, 
 S. C. Neale, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burch, E. J. Welsh; Hon. L. P. 
 Fuhrmann, mayor of Buffalo; Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Murray, Mr. and 
 Mrs. William H. Hotchkiss, Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Brooker, John 
 
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 C. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Elliott, Frederick S. 
 Flower, the Danish minister, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Butler, 
 Hon. "William Richardson, Charles F. Newsom, Mrs. George M. 
 Pullman, Mayor Scanlon, Lawrence, Mass.; Sterling J. Joiner, 
 Mrs. Mary Townsend, Hon. Horace White, C. L. Stone, J. Herbert 
 Ballantine, George H. Harris, Secretary of the Treasury Franklin 
 MacVeagh, the Japanese Ambassador Viscount Chinda, Mr. and Mrs. 
 P. W. Herrick, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stone, H. B. Tompkins, Mr. and 
 Miss Hawk, Hon. Samuel Koenig, the Minister of Norway and Mme. 
 Bryn, Hon. and Mrs. Truman H. Newberry, Mrs. Caroline Caton 
 Williams and daughter, H. P. Bells, the senior class, Berkeley In- 
 stitute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hon. and Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff, the 
 Haitian minister. United States Supreme Court Justice Mahlon 
 Pitney, Hon. and Mrs. James R. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. L. White 
 Busbey, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Denny, the governor of New 
 Hampshire, Robert P. Bass; Hon. L. B. Gleason, Mr. and Mrs. Ells- 
 worth Brown, Cortland S. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Coolidge, 
 Mr. and Mrs. James M. E. O'Grady, Hon. and Mrs. Charles B. Law, 
 John L. E. Pell, Louis Waldauer, Hon. and Mrs. J. Charles Linth- 
 icum, Mr. George C. Van Tuyl, jr., Mr. George Hinman, Mr. Jules 
 Roth, Mr. Harry S. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Seth C. Adams, Mr. and 
 Mrs. F. W. Sessions, Thora Reynolds, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Mr. 
 and Mrs. William C. Sylvester, Hon. John Barrett, Mr. and Mrs. 
 John Hays Hammond, Postmaster General Frank A. Hitchcock, 
 the Charge d' Affaires of the Republic of Panama and Mrs. Brin, 
 Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Phi, Ithaca, N. Y.; Hon. J. Hampton 
 Moore, The Ohio Society of the City of New York, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Frank S. Witherbee, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. Minor, R. F. Brush, 
 J. F. McMurray, Mr. and Mrs. William Littauer, Irving W. Day, 
 John F. Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston; Hon. Newton W. Gilbert, 
 Martin J. Bowe, J. A. Flannigan, Hon. Joseph B. Foraker, Paul S. 
 Pearsall, Mrs. Charles J. Hughes, jr.. Miss Christine Hoar, Hon. and 
 Mrs. J. W. Fordney, Mrs. W. B. Newman, N. Main, Commander and 
 Viscountess Benoist d'Azy, United States Supreme Court Justice 
 and Mrs. Lurton, Leroy W. Baldwin, S. C. Neale, Maj. Richard 
 Sylvester, Senor Antonio Martin Rivero, Cuban minister; Mr. and 
 Mrs. Frederick C. Stevens, the Board of Bishops of the M. E. 
 Church of Toledo, Ohio, Evangeline Booth, John E. Frost, F. R. 
 Bane, George E. Vankennen, Francis E. Ames, Hon. Nicholas and 
 Alice Longworth, Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilcox, 
 Royal Arcanum of the State of Ohio, H. D. Oliver, Gen. Oscar F. 
 Long, Rev. Father William H. Ketcham, Mr. and Mrs. Edson Brad- 
 ley, Isabella E. MullhoUand, G. Gunby Jordan, Philip A. Howard, 
 Florence M. Bennett, C. K. Corbin, Wilbur E. Van Auken, Curtice 
 Brothers, Hon. L. W, Emerson, Walter M. Ostrander, J. Shepard, 
 jr., Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wood, Raymond F. Rode, Mr. and Mrs. 
 F. H. Judd, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Smith, Hon. T. Harvey Ferris, 
 Hon, James K. O'Connor, Hon. Charles D. Walcott, J, J. Guernsey, 
 Taft Business Men's League of St. Paul, Minn. ; Hon. and Mrs. W. A. 
 
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 Massey, Mrs. William B. Heyburn, R. L. Kers, jr., W. R. Roach, 
 Miles P. Ondereaux, Hon. and Mrs. W. S. Cowbridge, the Minister 
 of The Netherlands and Mme. Loudon, Charles H. Wilson, Rev. 
 John Arthur, William R. P. Bloyer, Ellis A. Gimel, Hon. James K. 
 McGuire, Henry White Callahan, Cary F. Simmons, Mr. and Mrs. 
 William A. Shanklin, Hon. Herbert Parsons, Hon. George B. Cortel- 
 you, P. A. Franklin, Charles G. Wagner, Sophonisba P. Brecken- 
 ridge, Hon. and Mrs. Frederick M. Davenport, Fay T.Kent, Herbert 
 W. Clark, E. C. Converse, Commander Joseph W. Kay, Hon. G. 
 Fred Talbott, G. W. Graham, Mayor John J. Irving, Binghamton; 
 Mrs. Percy Morgan, Hon. John W. Weeks, Hon. William L. Ward, 
 Pittsburgh Association of Credit Men; Supreme Court Justice Wil- 
 lis Van Devanter, the Bolivian minister and family, George Alex- 
 ander, mayor of Los Angeles; George T. Stockham, Hon. James Mc- 
 Kinney, Hon. Daniel A. Driscoll, J. S. Runnells, Henry H. Bender, 
 Mathilda Gerry, Hon. Edward Bruce Moore, Mrs. George R. Malby, 
 A. Garrison McClintock, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, Royal Ar- 
 canum of Oregon, Judge Peter B. McLennan, Hon. J. M. Levy, Hon. 
 John Stewart, Hon. Nelson W. Aldrich, James M. Belden, Hon. 
 George von L. Meyer, Secretary of the Navy; Hon. Charles Burke, 
 Hon. E. F. Kinkead, F. H. Murphy, William B. Austin, for Hamil- 
 ton Club, Chicago; Andrew J. Lester, for Chicago Club; Mme. 
 Bakhm6teff , wif e of the ambassador of Russia; Miss Mary Schluter, 
 Miss Sally H. Culberson, S. V. Whelen, Chief Justice White, for 
 the justices of the United States Supreme Court; Chief Justice 
 and Mrs. Edward D. White, Hon. Charles F. Scott, Hon. William 
 Lorimer, the Chinese minister, Chang Yin Tang; Greek Charge 
 d'Affaires Caftanzoglu, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harty, Margaret M. 
 Rager, Frank E. Wilson, the Peruvian minister, F. A. Pezet; Mr. 
 and Mrs. Caldwell Sweet, William Busby, Carl Harrer, Hon. and 
 Mrs. Julius Kahn, Hon. and Mrs. S. W. McCall, Irving C. Casler, 
 M. J. Sherrill, Hon. Alton B. Parker, Hon. and Mrs. George S. 
 Legare, Ida H. Crany, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ramsey, for the stu- 
 dents and faculty of Fairmont Seminary, Washington, D. C; H. M. 
 Baker, for the Chevy Chase Seminary, Washington, D. C.; the 
 Turkish ambassador, Youssouf Zia Pacha; Mrs. William E. Curtis, 
 C. K. MacDougall, Stewart Lowery, Hon. I. W. Wood, Hon. and 
 Mrs. W. W. Cocks, Anna Ray Root, Edith Patten Corbin, Hon. 
 Thomas W. Bradley, and Arnold Shanklin, United States consul 
 general. City of Mexico. 
 
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CONDOLENCES FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS 
 
 ARABIA 
 
 From Maj. H. F. Jacob, first assistant political resident of Aden, 
 Arabia, to the American consul at Aden, November 6, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 
 the 2d November, 1912, and to convey to you the expression of 
 the political resident's deepest regret at the news of the sad death 
 of His Excellency James Schoolcraft Sherman, the Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States." 
 
 ARGENTINA 
 
 From President Roque Saenz Pena, of Argentina, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Buenos Aires, October 31, 1912. — Pray accept. Excellency, 
 the expressions of my condolence for the regrettable death of the 
 eminent citizen Mr. James Sherman, Vice President of the Re- 
 public." — ( Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 From Mr. Manuel E. Malbran, charge d'affaires of the Argentine 
 Republic, Washington, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 
 1912: 
 
 "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of this day's 
 communication by which the Secretary of State is pleased to an- 
 nounce the sad intelligence of the death of the Hon. James S. 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States of America. 
 
 " In oflFering to the department, in the name of my Government 
 and in my own, the most heartfelt expressions of condolence on 
 the mourning which means so great a loss to the Nation, I make it 
 my duty to inform you that appropriate measures have been 
 taken at the legation to keep the Argentine flag at half-mast on 
 the building as long as the ofQcial mourning lasts." 
 
 Department of State, November 1, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The charge d'affaires of the Argentine Republic called to say 
 he had received a telegram from his Government directing him to 
 present the sincere condolences of Argentina on the death of the 
 Vice President. He will address a note to the department. Mr. 
 Adee told the charg6 d'affaires that a copy would be sent to Mrs. 
 Sherman." 
 
 From Mr. Manuel E. Malbran to the Secretary of State, Novem- 
 ber 1, 1912: 
 
 " In compliance with express instructions from my Govern- 
 ment, forwarded by cable to the legation, I have the honor to 
 
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 present to the Government of the United States the expressions 
 of the Argentine Government's condolence on the lamented death 
 of the Vice President of the Nation, the Hon. James S. Sherman. 
 
 " The high attainments and great moral gifts of the Hon. James 
 S. Sherman were well known and highly appreciated in the 
 Argentine Republic and my Government desires to express to 
 that of the United States the sincereness of the sentiments with 
 which it joins in the mourning of this Nation for the loss of one 
 of its most notable personalities. 
 
 " In begging the Secretary of State kindly to convey to the 
 Most Excellent the President of the United States the Argentine 
 Government's expressions of condolence, to which I join my own, 
 I have pleasure in renewing to the Secretary of State the assur- 
 ance of my highest and most distinguished consideration." 
 
 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 
 
 From Baron Erich Zwiedinek von Siidenhorst, charge d'affaires 
 of Austria-Hungary, Washington, to the Secretary of State, Novem- 
 ber 2, 1912: 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your excellency's communica- 
 tion of October 31 last, relative to the death of Mr. James School- 
 craft Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " I have received instructions from the Imperial and Royal 
 Government to express its genuine sympathy to the Government 
 of the United States on the occasion of this deplorable loss. 
 
 " Taking the liberty of having recourse to your excellency's 
 good offices in carrying out my instructions, I beg your excellency 
 also to accept the expression of my own sincere sympathy." 
 
 BELGIUM 
 
 Department of State, November 1, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The Belgian minister called upon Mr. Adee to-day to say he 
 had a telegram from his Government directing him to express 
 sincere condolence on the loss of the Vice President." 
 
 From Mr. E. Havenith, Belgian minister, Washington, to the 
 Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With profound regret did I hear the sad intelligence of the 
 death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States. 
 
 " I have the honor to beg you to accept my sincere condolence 
 on the occasion of the death of that statesman in whose death the 
 country suffered so trying a loss. 
 
 " I have been instructed by my Government to convey to the 
 Government of the United States the expression of its deep con- 
 dolence." 
 
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 BOLIVIA 
 
 From Sefior Don I. Calderon, Bolivian minister, Washington, to 
 the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have heard with true sorrow of the death of the Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States, the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, 
 which took place at Utica on October 30 last. 
 
 " I beg your excellency to accept my Government's and my 
 own heartfelt expression of sympathy in the loss of the dis- 
 tinguished citizen who so creditably discharged his high duties." 
 
 BRAZIL 
 
 From Mr. D. da Gama, Brazilian ambassador, Washington, to the 
 Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 "In the name of my President I have the honor to apply to 
 your excellency with a request that you be pleased to convey to 
 the President of the Republic the expression of sincere condo- 
 lence on the part of the Government and people of Brazil on the 
 national mourning brought upon the United States of America by 
 the lamented death of Vice President Sherman. To these ex- 
 pressions I beg leave to add my own personal regrets to your ex- 
 cellency, to whom I have the honor to renew the assurances of 
 my highest consideration. 
 
 From President Ramon Barros Luco of Chile to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Santiago, November 2, 1912. — My Government and the Chilean 
 people profoundly deplore the bereavement which aiBicts the 
 great American Nation in the death of its illustrious Vice Presi- 
 dent Sherman." — (Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The Chilean minister called to-day upon Mr. Adee to express 
 to him his sincere regret at the death of the Vice President; and 
 to express sorrow on behalf of the Chilean Government." 
 
 From Sefior Don Edo. Suarez Mejia, Chilean minister, Washing- 
 ton, D. C, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912 : 
 
 " I have the honor to receive your excellency's obliging note of 
 yesterday's date, intended to confirm to me the sorrowful news 
 of the death at Utica, at 9.42 p. m. last evening, of the most ex- 
 cellent Mr. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the 
 United States. 
 
 "In discharge of a painful duty, I offer to your excellency in 
 the name of the Government of Chile the expression of its deep 
 condolence on the taking off of the illustrious citizen who, by 
 popular verdict and with the respect of the whole country, held 
 the high office of Vice President of the Republic. 
 
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 " For my part I wish to confirm the sentiments I had the honor 
 personally to express to your excellency yesterday most sincerely 
 showing the sorrow which afflicts the Government and people of 
 the United States." 
 
 CHINA 
 
 From Mr. Chang Yin Tang, Chinese minister, Washington, to 
 the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note 
 of the 31st ultimo, announcing the death at Utica, N. Y., at 9.42 
 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, October 30, 1912, of the Hon. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " I have cabled to my Government this sad intelligence, and I 
 beg to offer to the Government and people of the United States 
 the heartfelt sympathy of the Government and people of China 
 in the loss of a great statesman whose nobility of character won 
 the love and respect of all." 
 
 From Mr. Chang Yin Tang to the Secretary of State, November 
 2,1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to inform you that I have just received a 
 cable message addressed to the President of the United States by 
 the President of the Republic of China, of which the following is 
 an English translation : 
 
 " ' Mr. President : I learn with inexpressible grief of the death 
 of the Vice President of the United States. The people of China 
 join with me in mourning for the distinguished statesman. I beg 
 to extend to you my personal sympathy and the sympathy of the 
 people of China. 
 
 " ' Yuan Shi-Kai, 
 " ' President of China.' 
 
 " I have the honor to request that you will be so kind as to con- 
 vey the above message to its high destination." 
 
 COLOMBIA 
 
 From Seiior Don Julio Betancourt, minister of Colombia, Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have received the very obliging communication by which 
 you announced to me the lamented death of the Hon. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " In the name of my Government and in my own I extend, 
 through you, to the Government and people of the United States 
 the expression of the most profound regret at the taking off of so 
 distinguished a citizen. 
 
 " As a sign of mourning for this national loss, the flag of Colom- 
 bia has been displayed at half-mast at the office of the legation." 
 
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 From Senor Don Pedro M. Carreno, minister for foreign affairs 
 of Colombia, to the American charge d'affaires at Bogota, Novem- 
 ber 4, 1912: 
 
 " By your courteous note, F. O. No. 42, of yesterday's date, this 
 oflace has been informed to its sincere sorrow of the death of His 
 Excellency James Sherman, Vice President of the United States, 
 ■which occurred on October 30 last. The national flag will there- 
 fore remain at half-mast until to-day." 
 
 COSTA RICA 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1913, memorandum: 
 " The minister of Costa Rica called upon Mr. Adee to-day to ex- 
 press on behalf of his Government and of himself, personally, 
 sorrow for the death of Vice President Sherman. He will send 
 an informal note to the department to this effect." 
 
 From Seiior Don Joaquin Bernardo Calvo, minister of Costa 
 Rica, Washington, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " Referring to my visit of to-day, and interpreting the sentiments 
 of my Government, I have the honor to confirm my expressions 
 of deep sorrow for the lamentable death of the Hon. James S. 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States, and, at the same 
 time, I beg leave to request of you very kindly to transmit to Mrs. 
 Sherman our heartfelt sentiments of condolence on her bereave- 
 ment." 
 
 From Seiior Don Joaquin Bernardo Calvo to the Secretary of 
 State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With profound sorrow I have been notified by your note of 
 yesterday that the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman died at 
 Utica, N. Y., and that the funeral will take place in that city 
 to-morrow at 2 p. m. 
 
 " On this sad occasion, I have received from my Government 
 instructions to express in its name to the Washington Govern- 
 ment the most sincere condolence on the lamented loss of a citi- 
 zen possessed of the high merits and conspicuous civic virtues by 
 which the prominent functionary the Hon. Mr. Sherman was dis- 
 tinguished when alive. 
 
 " In so carrying out the wishes of my Government, I beg your 
 leave, Mr. Secretary, to join to this manifestation of mourning 
 my own expression of like sentiments of sorrow." 
 
 CUBA 
 
 From Senor Lcdo. Antonio Martin-Rivero, Cuban minister, 
 Washington, D. C, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " In the name of the Government and people of Cuba, in my 
 own, and in that of all the members of the legation, I have the 
 honor to offer to you the assurances of my deep sympathy in the 
 
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 grief that is now weighing upon the American Nation by reason 
 of the death of the Hon. James S. Sherman, Vice President of the 
 United States." 
 
 Department of State, November 1, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The Cuban minister called to express deep sympathy on the 
 part of Cuba at the death of the Vice President. The minister 
 will address a note to the department to this effect." 
 
 From Sefior R. Gutierrez Alcaide, charge d'affaires of Cuba at' 
 Panama, to the American charge d'affaires, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With deep sorrow I have just acquainted myself by reading 
 the cable messages published to-day in the newspapers of this 
 capital of the sudden death of the Hon. Mr. Sherman, Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States of America, and in offering to you as 
 the worthy representative of the noble American Nation the ex- 
 pression of my most heartfelt sympathy for such unfortunate 
 news, I wish to assure you that I join heartily in the feeling of 
 sorrow which to-day afflicts the -American people and their 
 brothers of all America." 
 
 DENMARK 
 
 From Mr. C. Brun, Danish minister, Washington, to the Secre- 
 tary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " In the name of my Government which I have the honor to 
 represent, and in my own, I beg to express to you, and through 
 you to the Government of the United States, my most sincere and 
 deep-felt sorrow and sympathy in the great loss which the Ameri- 
 can Nation has suffered by the death yesterday of the Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States, James Schoolcraft Sherman." 
 
 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 
 
 From Senor Dr. Don Francisco J. Peynado, Dominican minister, 
 Washington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With the most profound sorrow have I received the sad news 
 of the death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice 
 President of the United States, which occurred at Utica, N. Y., 
 on Wednesday, the 30th of October, 1912, at 9.42 p. m. 
 
 " An illustrious citizen, eminent servant of his country, is thus 
 removed from the scene, and in the presence of the irreparable 
 loss, the Dominican people and Government join with the people 
 and Government of the United States in sharing with them the 
 fitting feelings of regret occasioned by his unlooked-for removal." 
 
 ECUADOR 
 
 From President Plaza, of Ecuador, to President Taft : 
 " Quito, Ecuador, November 5, 1912. — The Government and 
 people of Ecuador lament the regrettable death of His Excellency 
 
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 Vice President Sherman, and share the grief of Your Excellency 
 and of the American people. — (Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 From Senor Dr. Don S. S. Wither S., charge d'affaires of Ecua- 
 dor, \Vashington, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 "With profound sorrow my Government has learned of the 
 death of the "Vice President of the United States, Mr. James S. 
 Sherman, and I have been specially directed by cable to present 
 to you, in behalf of the Government and people of Ecuador, the 
 heartiest manifestation of condolence for the irreparable loss 
 that the American Nation has suifered. 
 
 " In complying with the wishes of my Government, I have the 
 honor to avail myself of this opportunity to express to you the 
 sincere expression of my personal sympathy." 
 
 EGYPT 
 
 From Y. Wahba, ministry for foreign affairs, Cairo, to the 
 American consul general, November 3, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of 
 yesterday's date informing me of the death of Mr. J. S. Sherman, 
 Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " The Government of His Highness the Khedive, deeply feeling 
 as it does the mourning of the American Nation, charges me to 
 beg you to be toward the Government of the Republic the in- 
 terpreter of its most profound regret and sincere sympathy." 
 
 FRANCE 
 
 From Mr. J. J. Jusserand, French ambassador, Washington, to 
 the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have received the letter by which your excellency did me 
 the honor to impart to me the sad intelligence of the death of the 
 Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United 
 States. 
 
 " I am transmitting the information to my Government, which, 
 your excellency may be assured, will take a sincere part in the 
 mourning of the President of the United States and the American 
 Nation. 
 
 "I beg leave to extend to you, Mr. Secretary of State, the ex- 
 pression of my personal condolence on so sad an event. I know 
 it is for you the loss of a friend, and having had, for my part, 
 many occasions to appreciate his high gifts, I can not but fully 
 realize the sorrow you must undergo." 
 
 GERMANY 
 
 Department of State, November 1, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The Imperial German ambassador called to express the con- 
 dolence of his Government on the death of the Vice President, and 
 
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 his own personal sympathy at the loss of a warm friend. He will 
 write a note to the department." 
 
 From Count J. H. von BernstorfF, German ambassador, Washing- 
 ton, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your ex- 
 cellency's note of the 31st of October last by which you gave me 
 notice of the highly to be lamented death of the Vice President of 
 the United States. I beg leave to express to the Government of 
 the United States my most sincere sympathy in this severe and 
 distressing loss. I shall never forget the friendly relations that 
 I maintained with the deceased. I expect to have an opportunity 
 to-day to express orally to your excellency my most deeply felt 
 condolence." 
 
 GREAT BRITAIN 
 
 From the Right Hon. James Bryce, British ambassador, "Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of 
 October 31 in which you convey to me the distressing news of 
 the death of the Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " I desire 'to convey to you an expression of the sincere regret 
 and sympathy of my Government, and also of my personal sor- 
 row, at the loss suffered by the people of the United States. I 
 have already personally conveyed my condolences to the Presi- 
 dent." 
 
 Department of State, November 4, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The British ambassador called upon the Acting Secretary of 
 State to-day to say that he was instructed to formally convey the 
 deep condolences of his Government upon the death of the Vice 
 President. The ambassador spoke feelingly of his personal regret 
 and sympathy. He had known Mr. Sherman well for many 
 years, and regarded him as one of the ablest heads the Senate 
 ever had. He said he had a keen appreciation of the loss the 
 entire country would sustain without Mr. Sherman's eminent 
 services and kindly counsels. 
 
 " Mr. Adee thanked the ambassador for his words, and spoke of 
 Mr. Sherman as having been especially a lover of peace and be- 
 loved of everyone." 
 
 GREECE 
 
 Department of State, November 4, 1912, memorandum: 
 " Mr. Caftanzoglu, the charg6 d'affaires of Greece, called to-day 
 upon the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Adee, to say that he had 
 received a cable from his Government directing him to express 
 sincere condolence on the part of the Greek Government at the 
 death of the Vice President, and also to extend the personal 
 sympathy of- the minister for foreign affairs on the lamentable 
 death of this great public man." 
 
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 GUATEMALA 
 
 From President M. Estrada Cabrera, of Guatemala, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Guatemala, November 2, 1912. — In the name of the people 
 and Government of Guatemala I hasten to send to Your Excellency 
 and the Government over which you preside the most sincere ex- 
 pression of condolence on the death of the Vice President, Mr. 
 Sherman." — (Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 From Senior Luis Toledo Herrarte, minister for foreign affairs 
 of Guatemala, to the Secretary of State : 
 
 " Guatemala. — I beg your excellency to deign to convey to the 
 Government and people of the United States the expression of 
 heartfelt condolence of the Guatemalan people and Government 
 on the occasion of the lamented demise of the Hon. James S. 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States." — (Cablegram, 
 translation.) 
 
 From Senor Luis Toledo Herrarte, minister of foreign aifairs 
 of Guatemala, to American charge d'affaires at Guatemala City, 
 November 2, 1912: 
 
 " By the esteemed note of your honor. No. 270, of even date, 
 I have heard with great sorrow of the death of the Hon. Vice 
 President Sherman, which took place on the 30th of last October. 
 
 " In the name of the Government of the Republic, I comply 
 with the duty of expressing to your honor the most heartfelt con- 
 dolence for the irreparable loss which the people and the Govern- 
 ment of the United States have suffered by his death." 
 
 From Senor Don Joaquin Mendez, Guatemalan minister, Wash- 
 ington, to the Acting Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge with the deepest sorrow 
 your esteemed note of this date informing me of the sorrowful 
 tidings of the death of the Hon. 'James Schoolcraft Sherman, 
 Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " I wish to express to your excellency in the name of the Gov- 
 ernment of Guatemala and the people of my country the deepest 
 sympathy on the occasion of the sad death of the honorable Vice 
 President of the United States. 
 
 " The death of the honorable Vice President of the United 
 States can not fail to bring sorrow into the hearts of all. But 
 the memory of his noble deeds and heroic sacrifices will survive. 
 
 " I beg you to accept, your excellency, my own deepest personal 
 sympathy for the lamentable bereavement of the honorable Vice 
 President." 
 
 From Senor Don Joaquin Mendez to the Secretary of State, 
 November 4, 1912: 
 
 " The profound sorrow and intense grief caused among the 
 members of the Government and the people of Guatemala by the 
 
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 most lamented intelligence of the death of the Hon. Vice President 
 Sherman have been reflected in two cablegrams that I have re- 
 ceived, one from President M. Estrado Cabrera, the other from Min- 
 ister Toledo Herrarte, both carrying the expression of the keen- 
 est sympathy and most sincere regret to the Government and 
 people of the United States of America and most particularly to 
 His Excellency the President of the United States and the most 
 excellent the Secretary of State. I therefore beg your excellency 
 to deign to accept these expressions as a fresh evidence of the 
 cordiality of our relations and of the community of interests 
 which Guatemala always desires to maintain with her elder sister, 
 the great American Republic. At the same time I shall thank your 
 excellency if you will please to consider this note a continuation 
 of that which I had the honor to address to you on October 31 
 last and accept the homage of my highest consideration and high 
 esteem." 
 
 HAITI 
 
 From Mr. Solon Menos, Haitian minister, Washington, to the 
 Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " In acknowledging the receipt of your letter announcing the 
 death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States, I beg you to accept the sincere condolence 
 I have it at heart to extend to you in the name of my Government 
 and my own on the grievous loss your Government and country 
 have sustained in the death of the illustrious decedent." 
 
 HONDURAS 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The minister of Honduras called upon Mr. Adee to-day to ex- 
 press the regret of his Government, and his personal regret, at 
 the loss of Vice President Sherman. He will also send an in- 
 formal note to the department to this effect." 
 
 From Dr. Albert Membreiio, minister of Honduras, Washington, 
 to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " Deep was my sorrow on hearing of the death of the Hon. 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the Republic. 
 The demise of that great statesman, whose life may be taken as a 
 model for its eminent virtues, is a loss to the American Nation 
 and to the Latin countries which the deceased loved so well. I 
 have apprized my Government of the sad event by cable; and 
 faithfully voicing the sentiments of the Honduran people and 
 yielding to my own, I heartily join in the sorrow that is now bow- 
 ing the American people on account of the death of one of their 
 most illustrious sons." 
 
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 From Dr. Albert Membreno to the Secretary of State, November 
 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your excellency's obliging 
 note of the 31st of October last by which you announce to me the 
 death, at Utica, N. Y., at 9.42 p. m., on Wednesday, October 30, 
 1912, of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President 
 of the United States, and that the funeral will take place in the 
 same city of Utica on Saturday, November 2, at 2 p. m. 
 
 " The President of Honduras, to whom I cabled that very sad 
 event, has just sent me a message directing me to express his 
 most sincere condolence to the Most Excellent the President." 
 
 ITALY 
 
 From Mr. Giuseppe Catalani, charg6 d'affaires, Italian Embassy, 
 Washington, to the Secretary of State, November 3, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the note, dated 
 October 31 last, by which I am advised of the death of the Hon. 
 James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States, 
 which took place at Utica, N. Y., at 9.42 p. m. Wednesday, October 
 30, 1912. 
 
 " In expressing to your excellency my keen sympathy in the un- 
 timely loss of that illustrious man, I have the honor to inform you 
 that I have not failed to cable the mournful intelligence to my 
 Government, which, I am sure, will share the sorrow and mourn- 
 ing of the President and this great Nation. 
 
 " I regret that my official duties prevented my attending, as I 
 most earnestly desired to do, the funeral which took place at 
 Utica on the 2d instant." 
 
 japan 
 
 From Viscount Sutemi Chinda, Japanese ambassador, Washing- 
 ton, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your com- 
 munication informing me of the death of the Hon. James School- 
 craft Sherman, Vice President of the United States, and I beg to 
 tender you expression of my profound sympathy and condolence 
 at the painful loss befallen the Government and people of the 
 United States. I have duly conveyed to my Government the sad 
 intelligence communicated to me in your note under acknowledg- 
 ment. 
 
 From Viscount Sutemi Chinda to the Secretary of State, Novem- 
 ber 1, 1912: 
 
 " Under telegraphic instructions just received from his Im- 
 perial Majesty's Government, I have the honor to convey to you, 
 and through you to your Government, the assurance of the most 
 sincere sentiments of grief and sorrow with which my Govern- 
 
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 ment shares in the loss sustained by the American Government 
 and people through the deeply lamented death of the Hon. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States." 
 
 MEXICO 
 
 From President Francisco I. Madero, of Mexico, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Mexico City, Mexico, October 31, 1912. — ^Will Your Excellency 
 please accept the sincere condolence of the Mexican people and 
 Government, and my own, on the death of Vice President Sher- 
 man." — (Telegram, translation.) 
 
 From the Hon. Pedro Lascurain, minister for foreign affairs 
 of Mexico, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " Will your excellency be pleased to convey to your Govern- 
 ment the Mexican Government's heartfelt condolence on the death 
 of Vice President Sherman." — (Telegram, translation.) 
 
 Frota. Senor Don Arturo de la Cueva, the Mexican chargd 
 d'affaires, Washington, to the Secretary of State, October 31, 
 1912: 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your note of to-day by which 
 your excellency informed me of the death of the Most Excellent 
 Mr. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United 
 States of America, at Utica, N. Y., on Wednesday, the 30th of 
 October. 
 
 " In expressing to your excellency the most sincere sentiments 
 of condolence of the embassy's staff on the distressing loss sus- 
 tained by the Government and people of the United States, I 
 renew to you the assurances of my highest and most distinguished 
 consideration." 
 
 NETHERLANDS 
 
 From Jonkheer J. Loudon, minister of The Netherlands, Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your excellency's letter of 
 yesterday's date, by which you apprise me of the sorrowful loss 
 just sustained by the United States in the death of Mr. James S. 
 Sherman, Vice President of the Republic. 
 
 " Under the sad circumstances, I have the honor to have re- 
 course to your excellency's habitual kindness and to ask that 
 you may be pleased to acquaint the President of the United States 
 with the share I take in this national mourning, and I beg leave 
 also to offer to your excellency my most sincere condolences." 
 
 NICARAGUA 
 
 From President Diaz, of Nicaragua, to President Taft: 
 "Managua, November 2, 1912. — Nicaraguan Government and 
 people join in mourning of American Government and people 
 
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 for death Hon. Vice President Sherman." — (Telegram, trans- 
 lation.) 
 
 " Managua, November 3, 1912. — Deign to accept the condolence 
 of Nicaragua and my own sentiments of sympathy in the Ameri- 
 can national mourning for the grievous death of the Hon. Vice 
 President James Sherman." — (Telegram, translation.) 
 
 From Diego Manuel Chamorro, minister for foreign affairs of 
 Nicaragua, to the Secretary of State : 
 
 " Managua, Nicaragua, November 2, 1912. — Government deplores 
 death Hon. Vice President Sherman, and for this grievous national 
 loss offers its condolence to your excellency and your Govern- 
 ment." 
 
 From Mr. Salvador Castrillo, minister of Nicaragua, "Washing- 
 ton, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912 : 
 
 " I acknowledge the receipt of your excellency's obliging and 
 feeling note, dated yesterday, by which you deign to apprise me 
 of the death at Utica, N. Y., on Wednesday, the 30th of October, 
 at 9.42 p. m., of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice 
 President of the United States; and you add that the funeral will 
 take place at Utica, to-morrow, Saturday, November 2, at 2 p. m. 
 
 " I have reported to my Government the sad event which brings 
 mourning to the American Nation that loses in the Vice President 
 not only a very high functionary, who did it honor, but also one 
 of its most illustrious public men, in whom it can take pride. 
 
 " The Republic of Nicaragua and my Government join the 
 American people and Government in lamenting his removal and 
 take part in their mourning. 
 
 " I beg your excellency to deign to convey, when convenient, to 
 the Most Excellent the President the assurances of my Govern- 
 ment's intense sympathy and my own, which I venture also to 
 extend at this time of national grief." 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The minister of Norway called to inform Mr. Adee of his 
 return to Washington and to express, on his own account and on 
 behalf of his Government, great regret at the death of the Vice 
 President." 
 
 From Mr. H. H. Bryn, minister of Norway, Washington, to the 
 Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to express to the American Government my 
 deepest sympathy on the occasion of the premature death of the 
 Vice President of the United States, whose eminent qualities have 
 won for him the love of his people. 
 
 " I also venture to ask your excellency to be good enough to 
 convey to Mrs. Sherman my sincerest condolences." 
 
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 From Mr. H. H. Bryri to the Secretary of State, November 1, 
 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Hon. Alvey 
 A. Adee's note of the 31st ultimo announcing the death at Utica, 
 N. Y., at 9.42 o'clock p. m., on Wednesday, October 30, 1912, of the 
 Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United 
 States. 
 
 "According to instructions from my Government, I have the 
 honor to express, through your excellency, to the Government of 
 the United States the Norwegian Government's most sincere sym- 
 pathy on the painful loss which the country has suffered by the 
 deplorable decease of the Vice President." 
 
 PANAMA 
 
 From Belisario Porras, President of Panama, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Panama, November 1, 1912. — ^I send to Your Excellency and to 
 the people of the United States sincere regrets in view of the 
 death of the illustrious Mr. Sherman." — (Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 From Seiior Ernesto T. Lefevre, minister for foreign affairs of 
 Panama, to the Secretary of State: 
 
 " Panama, November 1, 1912. — In the name of the Government 
 and people of Panama I express to the American Government and 
 people profound sorrow over the death of Vice President 
 Sherman." — ( Cablegram. ) 
 
 From Seiior E. T. Lefevre, minister for foreign affairs of Pan- 
 ama, to the American charge d'affaires at Panama, November 2, 
 1912: 
 
 " Through your kind communication No. 265, of yesterday, I 
 have been informed of the sad death of the honorable Vice Presi- 
 dent of the United States of North America, which occurred on 
 October 31 ultimo. 
 
 " In the name of my Government and through your worthy con- 
 duct I wish to express to that of the United States my deep sym- 
 pathy on this mournful incident. 
 
 "In view of this sad occurrence the proper authority has 
 ordered that on this date the national colors be hoisted to the 
 half-mast in all the public offices. 
 
 " Renewing to you the assurances of my high esteem and dis- 
 tinguished consideration, I subscribe myself your kind and 
 obedient servant." 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The charge d'affaires of Panama called to-day upon Mr. Adee 
 to express his deep regret at the death of the Vice President." 
 
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 From Senor Don Juan Brin, charge d'affaires of Panama, Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With the deepest sorrow I have read the contents of your ex- 
 cellency's obliging note of yesterday, by which you announce the 
 much-lamented death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Shermak, 
 Vice President of the United States, which occurred at Utica, 
 N. Y., at 9.42 p. m. on Wednesday, the 30th of October last, and 
 whose funeral will take place in the same city on Saturday, the 
 2d instant, at 2 p. m. 
 
 " In view of the singular civic virtues and high personal gifts 
 characteristic of the departed statesman and eminent public man, 
 his death is a world-wide, irreparable loss, which all nations must 
 lament, and in the most fitting mourning that now overwhelms the 
 Government and people of this great country, may I be permitted 
 to extend to them, through your excellency's worthy medium, the 
 expressions of sincere sympathy of the Government and people of 
 my country, to which I join my own? " 
 
 From Senior Don Juan Brin to the Secretary of State, Novem- 
 ber 4, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to transcribe to your excellency the contents 
 of the following cablegram I have just received from my Govern- 
 ment, which reads literally as follows: 
 
 " ' Communicate Department of State the following resolution 
 passed this day by the Assembly: 
 
 " ' " The National Assembly of Panama, voicing the sentiments 
 of its constituents, sends to the Government and people of the 
 United States of North America the most sincere expression of 
 its condolence on the occasion of the premature death of Mr. 
 James S. Sherman, Vice President of that friendly Nation." ' " 
 
 PERU 
 
 From Mr. Federico Alfonso Pezet, minister of Peru, Washing- 
 ton, to the Secretary of State, November 12, 1912: 
 
 "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note, 
 dated October 31, in which you announce the death, at Utica, 
 N. Y., on Wednesday, October 30, of the Hon. James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 "In reply I have the honor to tender my most sincere con- 
 dolence on the occasion of a loss so great for the Government 
 and people of the United States." 
 
 PORTUGAL 
 
 From President Manoel D. Arriaga, of Portugal, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " Lisbon, November 2, 1912. — Just now hearing the sad news of 
 the death of the Vice President of the United States of America, 
 
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 I present to Your Excellency and the friendly Nation the expres- 
 sion of my most sincere condolence." — (Cablegram, translation.) 
 
 From Viscount de Alte, minister of Portugal, Washington, to 
 the Secretary of State, October 31, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of 
 this date announcing the death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " Painfully impressed by this sad event, I beg that you -will, 
 with your usual courtesy, allow me to convey, through you, to 
 the President my heartfelt condolence. 
 
 " I also wish to express to you, sir, and to the whole American 
 Government my very great sorrow at the untimely death of 
 Mr. Sherman. 
 
 " I have been directed by the President and Government of Por- 
 tugal to express to President Taft and to the American Govern- 
 ment their deepest sympathy on the occasion of the great loss the 
 country has sustained through the death of Vice President 
 Sherman." 
 
 RUSSIA 
 
 Department of State, November 4, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The Russian ambassador called upon the Acting Secretary of 
 State to-day to say that he was instructed to formally convey the 
 condolences of the Imperial Government upon the lamented 
 death of the Vice President. The ambassador, Mr. Bakhmeteff, 
 said that Russia had followed Mr. Sherman's public career with 
 interest and admiration and realized the great loss of the Gov- 
 ernment of the United States in his death. 
 
 " Mr. Adee said that this country and the world at large would 
 mourn the loss of this man whose life had been a great example 
 of kindliness, good fellowship, and always on the side of peace." 
 
 SALVADOR 
 
 From President Manuel E. Araujo, of Salvador, to President 
 Taft: 
 
 " San Salvador, Salvador, October. 31, 1912. — My Government 
 joins with sympathy in the mourning of the American Govern- 
 ment for the death of Vice President Sherman." — (Cablegram, 
 translation.) 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum: 
 " The minister of Salvador called upon Mr. Adee to-day to 
 express the regret of his Government and his personal sorrow at 
 the death of Vice President Sherman. He will also write an 
 informal note to the department to this effect." 
 
 From Senor Don Federico Mejia, minister of Salvador, Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " With genuine grief I have read your excellency's valued com- 
 munication, by which you inform me of the death of the Hon. 
 
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 James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States 
 of America, and that the funeral will take place in the city of 
 Utica, N. Y., to-morrow at 2 p. m. 
 
 " The Salvadorean people profoundly regret the sad event, and 
 I beg your excellency to deign to accept, in the name of my Gov- 
 ernment and in my own, our most sincere condolences." 
 
 From Senor Don Federico Mejia to the Secretary of State, 
 November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I am in receipt of special instructions from the Most Excellent 
 the President of Salvador, Dr. Manuel E. Araujo, directing me to 
 express to the Most Excellent Mr. President Taft, through the 
 most worthy medium of your excellency, his sentiments of regrets 
 and profound sorrow for the lamented death of the Hon. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the Republic, which 
 has thrown the American people into mourning and deep con- 
 sternation." 
 
 SERVIA 
 
 From Nich. P. Pachitch, ministry of foreign affairs, political 
 section, to the American consul at Belgrade, October 27, 1912: 
 
 " I am in receipt of your letter informing me that Mr. Sherman, 
 the Vice President of the United States, died on October 31, n. s. 
 
 " I have the honor to beg you to kindly convey to the United 
 States Government the deepest condolence of the Royal Servian 
 Government." 
 
 From the minister for foreign affairs, Devawongse, to the 
 American charge d'affaires at Bangkok, November 3, 1912 : 
 
 " I have received with sincerest regret your letter of November 
 2 announcing the death of the Vice President of the United States 
 of America, Mr. James S. Sherman, which had taken place on 30th 
 of October last. 
 
 "I beg to ask that you will be so kind as to convey to the 
 President of the United States of America the deep sympathy of 
 the Siamese Government as well as that of my own." 
 
 Department of State, November 1, 1912, memorandum: 
 " Mr. Loftus, representing the Siamese minister, called to explain 
 that the minister was en route to Europe and would not be able 
 personally to write to the department to express condolence on 
 the death of the Vice President for several weeks. In the mean- 
 time, however, Mr. Loftus wished to unofficially transmit the deep 
 sympathy of the Siamese Government." 
 
 From Prince Traidos Prabandh, Siamese minister, Washington, 
 to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
 of the 31st instant, in which you announce the death, at Utica, 
 
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 N. Y., on Wednesday, October 30 last, of the Hon. James School- 
 CBAFT Sherman, Vice President of the United States. 
 
 " In reply, permit me to assure you that His Majesty's Govern- 
 ment will deeply regret to learn of the loss which has befallen 
 that of the United States in the passing of this great statesman, 
 and to offer, on their behalf as well as on my own part, an expres- 
 sion of sincere sympathy on this sad occasion." 
 
 SPAIN 
 
 From Sefior Don Juan Riafio y Gayangos, Spanish minister, 
 Washington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your excellency's 
 note of yesterday by which you impart to me the sad intelligence 
 of the death at Utica, N. Y., of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sher- 
 man, Vice President of the United States, which occurred on the 
 30th instant at 9.42 p. m., and that the funeral service will be held 
 at Utica on Saturday, the 2d of November, at 2 p. m. 
 
 " In reply, I extend to your excellency my most heartfelt con- 
 dolence and beg leave to say that I propose to go to Utica to attend 
 the funeral." 
 
 SWEDEN 
 
 Department of State, October 31, 1912, memorandum : 
 
 " The minister of Sweden called to-day to express his deep 
 
 regret and that of his Government at the death of the Vice 
 
 President." 
 
 From Mr. W. A. F. Ekengren, minister of Sweden, Washington, 
 to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912 : 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your letter of yesterday with 
 its sorrowful message of the death at Utica, N. Y., on Wednesday 
 last, of the Hon. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of 
 the United States, and I hasten herewith to repeat the assurance 
 of deep-felt sympathy, which I already have had the occasion to 
 personally express to you, Mr. Secretary, on account of the great 
 loss inflicted not only upon the family of the deceased Vice Presi- 
 dent but also upon the whole country by the demise of a man 
 so highly beloved as a husband, father, and friend, so highly 
 esteemed as a statesman and legislator. 
 
 " His memory shall live long amongst them who had the good 
 fortune of his personal acquaintance." 
 
 SWITZERLAND 
 
 From Mr. Henri Martin, charg6 d'affaires of Switzerland, Wash- 
 ington, to the Secretary of State, November 3, 1912: 
 
 " I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your depart- 
 ment's note of October 31 informing me of the death of the Hon. 
 
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 James Schoolcbaft Sherman, Vice President of the United 
 States. 
 
 " Deeply touched by the unexpected death of Mr. Sherman, I 
 beg you to accept, in behalf of the Swiss Federal Council, the 
 expression of my warm sympathy with the American Nation for 
 the loss of this distinguished statesman." 
 
 TURKEY 
 
 From Youssouf Zia Pacha, Turkish ambassador, Washington, to 
 the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 "I have heard with great regret, by your excellency's note 
 dated October 31 last, of the death of the Hon. James Schoolcraft 
 Sherman, Vice President of the United States of America. 
 
 " I beg your excellency kindly to accept the expression of my 
 keenest sympathy on this sorrowful occasion and to receive the 
 assurance of my very high consideration." 
 
 URUGUAY 
 
 From Dr. Carlos Maria de Pena, minister of Uruguay, Washing- 
 ton, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912 : 
 
 " With profound sorrow have I received your communication 
 announcing the death of the Vice President of the United States 
 and the holding of his obsequies at Utica, November 2, at 2 p. m. 
 
 "I beg your excellency to deign to accept and convey to the 
 President the expressions of condolence with which I take part 
 in the mourning of the Nation for the loss of the illustrious Vice 
 President of the United States of America, Mr. James School- 
 craft Sherman. 
 
 " In offering this deep sympathy I regret my inability to attend 
 the funeral ceremony." 
 
 VENEZUELA 
 
 From the ministry of foreign affairs of Venezuela to American 
 charge d'aflFaires at Caracas, November 7, 1912: 
 
 " With great grief this ofHce has learned, through your honor's 
 courteous note No. 90, of yesterday, that His Excellency Mr. James 
 Schoolcraft Sherman, Vice President of the United States of 
 America, died October 30 last. 
 
 " The Government of Venezuela sincerely sympathizes with the 
 friendly nation in its pain over so great a loss and entreats your 
 honor to convey to the Government you so worthily represent an 
 expression of such sympathy." 
 
 From Senor Don P. Ezequiel Rojas, minister of Venezuela, 
 Washington, to the Secretary of State, November 1, 1912: 
 
 " I have had the honor to receive your obliging letter of yester- 
 day announcing the much-lamented death of the Most Excellent 
 
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 Mr. James Schoolcraft Sherman, worthy Vice President of the 
 United States, and informing me that the funeral service will be 
 held to-morrow in the city of Utica. 
 
 " I deeply deplore the sad event and in the name of my Govern- 
 ment tender to the Government of the United States of America, 
 through the Department of State, the most sincere and heartfelt 
 condolence." 
 
 WEST INDIES 
 
 From the American consul at Bridgetown, Barbados, "West 
 Indies, to the Secretary of State, November 4, 1912: 
 
 " On receipt of the telegram on Friday evening (announcing the 
 death of Vice President Sherman) I immediately called up the 
 acting governor of Barbados by telephone and the flags were at 
 half-mast on all Government buildings on Saturday, the day of 
 the funeral, as well as at the various foreign consulates, and the 
 acting governor, Maj. J. A. Burdon, called at the consulate to ex- 
 press his sympathy." 
 
 From Mr. Robert Johnstone, colonial secretary, Kingston, Ja- 
 maica, to the American vice consul at Kingston, November 2, 1912 : 
 
 " I am directed by the governor to acknowledge the receipt of 
 your letter of the 1st instant reporting the death of the Hon. 
 James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States of Amer- 
 ica. I am to ask you to be so good as to convey to Mr. Bergholz an 
 expression of his excellency's regret on behalf of this Government 
 at the intelligence. 
 
 " The information as to the death of the Vice President has 
 been immediately communicated by telephone and letter to the 
 deputy assistant adjutant and quartermaster general, for the infor- 
 mation of the general oflBcer commanding, and the flags at King's 
 House and Headquarter House will be flown at half-mast to-day 
 as a mark of respect to the deceased." 
 
 From the governor of Martinique to the vice consul of the 
 United States at Fort de France, Martinique, November 1, 1912: 
 
 "Deeply grieved by the news of the death of Mr. Sherman, 
 Vice President of the Republic of the United States of America, 
 which you have just communicated to me, I wish to express the 
 large share which Martinique takes in the loss of the American 
 Nation and Government of the Republic of the United States. 
 
 " I beg you to be kind enough to transmit to the American 
 Nation and Government of the Republic the expression of the 
 sentiments of painful sympathy of the colony and of my sincere 
 condolences." 
 
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