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57th Congress, 1 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I Document 
 
 2d Session. i i No. 465. 
 
 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 HARLES A, RUSSELL 
 
 (Late a Represent \tive from ' m < tt in i 
 
 hi 1 l\ ERED IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE, 
 
 FIFTY-SEVENTH C< INGRESS, 
 
 Second Session. 
 
 WASHINGTON: 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 
 1903. 
 

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TABLE OF CONTEXTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the House of Representatives 5 
 
 Address of Mr. Brandegee, of Connecticut 10 
 
 Address of Mr. Capron, of Rhode Island 16 
 
 Address of Mr. Sperry, of Connecticut 19 
 
 Address of Mr. Hill, of Connecticut 23 
 
 Address of Mr. Henry, of Connecticut 26 
 
 Address of Mr. Payne, of New York 28 
 
 Address of Mr. McClellan, of New York 32 
 
 Address of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania 34 
 
 Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio 40 
 
 Address of Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts 44 
 
 Address of Mr. Stark, of Nebraska 45 
 
 Address 1 if Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin 49 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 51 
 
 Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut 55 
 
 Address of Mr. Frye, of Maine 60 
 
 Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts 63 
 
 Address 1 if Mr. Jones, of Arkansas 66 
 
 Address 1 if Mr. Kean, of New Jersey 6S 
 
 Address of Mr. Burrows, of Michigan 7. . 
 
 Address . if Mr. Aldrich, of Rhode Island 72 
 
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Death of Representative Russell. 
 
 Proceedings in the House. 
 
 December i, 1902. 
 death of representative charles a. russell. 
 
 Mr. BrandEGEE. Mr. Speaker, it becomes my sad duty to 
 announce to the House the death of my predecessor, Hon. 
 Charles Addison Russell, of Killingly, Conn. He died at 
 his home on the 23d day of October, 1902. I do not at this 
 time desire to enter upon any extended remarks upon that 
 most unfortunate event. At some future time I shall ask the 
 House to name a day when proper and customary tribute of 
 respect to his memory may be paid. 
 
 At this time, as supplementing what I have said, I offer 
 the following resolutions, which [ will send to the desk and 
 ask to have read: 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with deep regret and profound 
 sorrow of the death of Hon. Charles A. RrssELL, late a Represent. itive 
 from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these resolutions 
 to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect, the House do now adjourn. 
 
 The Speaker. The question is on agreeing to the resolu- 
 tions. 
 
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6 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 The question was taken; and the resolutions were agreed to. 
 Accordingly, in pursuance of the resolution, at 12 o'clock 
 aud 50 minutes the House adjourned. 
 
 December ii, 1902. 
 
 eulogies ox the late representative charles a. 
 
 KUSSELL. 
 
 Mr. Bkaxdkgee. Mr. Speaker, I desire to ask the House to 
 fix a time for memorial addresses upon the life, services, and 
 character of the Hon. Charles A. Russell, deceased, late a 
 member of this body. With this object in view I beg leave to 
 offer the following resolution: 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the House meet on Sunday, the 25th day of January. 
 1903, at 12 o'clock noon, for eulogies upon the life, character, and services 
 of the Hon. CHARLES Addison Russell, deceased, late a member of this 
 House. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 January 25, 1903. 
 
 The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to order 
 by Mr. Grosvenor, as Speaker pro tempore. 
 
 The Chaplain. Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
 following prayer: 
 
 We come to Thee, Almighty God our Heavenly Father, with 
 gratitude welling up in our hearts for all the disclosures Thou 
 hast made of Thyself unto Thy children; and especially do we 
 thank Thee for that personal revelation in the life and char- 
 acter of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, through whom we are enabled 
 to interpret to some extent the purpose for which we are called 
 into existence. We thank Thee that we may look up to Thee 
 and call Thee Father, realizing that in that name the whole 
 world is akin. 
 
 We thank Thee that Thou hast bound us together, through 
 the teuderest and sweetest ties, into families; that Thou hast 
 bound us together by the ties of friendship, which continually 
 enlarge the circle of fraternity, so that though we come here 
 from widely different sections of our great country, imbued 
 with different political views and religious sentiment, we may 
 lav these all aside on such occasions and see only that which 
 was noble and true and pure and just in those who wrought 
 upon this floor. 
 
 We thank Thee for that something in us which tell-, us we 
 shall never die, for that something which tells us that truth 
 shall outlive the stars; for that something which tells us that 
 love shall finally be satisfied. 
 
8 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Let Thy blessings descend. Heavenly Father, upon the 
 
 families of those who are in mourning and sorrow over their 
 
 ones. Comfort them, we beseech Thee, by the blessed 
 
 assurance that by and by they shall meet in another world. 
 
 where there shall be no more separation. 
 
 Help us so to order our lives that we may live each day 
 to prepare ns for the next, so that when we shall finish our 
 course in this world we shall be prepared to enter upon the 
 larger, grander life in a fairer world. 
 
 Hear us in the name of Jesus Christ, our L,ord. Amen. 
 
 The Journal of the proceedings of yesterday was read and 
 approved. 
 
 ORDER OF PROCEDURE. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The House of Representatives is 
 
 in session pursuant to three special orders of the House, which 
 the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 On motion of Mr. Br \.\i 'i.ci-a-:, by unanimous consent, it was 
 Resolved, That the House meet on Sunday, the 25th day of January, 
 1903, at 12 o'clock noon, for eulogies upon the life, character, and services 
 of the Hon. Charles Addison Rrssi-u.i., deceased, late a member of this 
 II« 'Us, . i >rder made in the House Thursday, December 11 , 1902. 
 ( in motion of Mr. Hah, of Texas, it was 
 
 ived, 'I'll. it tin- House meet on Sunday, the 25th day of January, 
 A. I). [903, at 12 o'clock in is m. for eulogies upon the life, character, and 
 services of the Hon. John I.. SHEPPARD and Hon. ki.i.si C. I » 1 Graf- 
 FENREID, deceased, late members of this House from the State of Texas. — 
 Order made in the House Thursday, December 11, 1902. 
 
 Mr. Brandegee. -Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolution which 
 I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Connecticut 
 offers a resolution which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That in pursuance of the sin-ci.il order heretofore adopted, 
 the House proceed to pay tribute to tin- memory of Hon. CHARLES A. 
 
Memorial Addresses. g 
 
 Russeix, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State 
 of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of tin- 
 deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a faithful and dis- 
 tinguished public servant, the House, at the conclusion of the memorial 
 proceedings of this day, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be, and is hereby, instructed to send a copy of 
 these resolutions to the family of the deceased. 
 
io Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Address of Mr. Brandegee, of Connecticut. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: As the successor of Mr. RUSSELL, and in 
 accordance with the time-honored custom of this House, it 
 becomes my melancholy privilege to speak briefly in commem- 
 oration of his life and character. 
 
 CHARLES ADDISON RUSSELL, was born at Worcester, Mass.. 
 on March 2, 1S52. His parents were Isaiah Dunster Russell 
 and Nancy Maria Wentworth. Through his father he was a 
 descendant of Henry Dunster. the first president of Harvard 
 College, and on his mother's side he was descended from Ben- 
 jamin Wentworth. one of the earlier governors of New Hamp- 
 shire. His great-grandfather, Jason Russell, a patriot of the 
 Revolution, was killed at the battle of Lexington. 
 
 Mr. Russell attended the public schools of his native town. 
 those humble New England universities which have shaped 
 the minds and characters of so many illustrious public men, 
 and was prepared for college by the Rev. Harris R. Greene. 
 In 1869 he entered Yale College. He was an apt and dili- 
 gent student and was popular both with the faculty and with 
 the undergraduates. He graduated with honors in 1873. 
 He immediately entered journalism; was city editor of the 
 Worcester Press for five years, and was also connected with 
 the Worcester Spy. and corresponded with several of the 
 large New York and Boston newspapers. 
 
 On May 14. 1879, he was married to Ella Frances Sayles : 
 the daughter of Sabin L. Sayles, of Dayville, in the town of 
 Killingly, Conn., one of the most distinguished citizens of that 
 State, and in that year moved to Killingly and thenceforth 
 resided there. He soon became treasurer of the Sayles 
 
Address of Mr. Bra?idegee t of Connecticut. 11 
 
 Woolen Company, an official of other corporations and insti- 
 tutions, and a member of various benevolent and fraternal 
 organizations. 
 
 In 1SS1 he was appointed by Governor Hobart B. Bigelow 
 an aid-de-camp upon his military staff, with the rank ol 
 colonel. In 1883 he was elected a representative in the gen- 
 eral assembly, and served with ability both on the floor and 
 as chairman of the important committee on cities and bor- 
 oughs. In 1885 he was elected secretary of the State. In 
 1886 he was elected Representative in the Fiftieth Congress 
 from the Third Connecticut district. He was unanimously 
 nominated and elected by steadily increasing majorities to each 
 succeeding Congress, including the present one. He died at 
 his home in Killingly on Thursday, the 23d day of October, 
 1902, at about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, surrounded by his 
 family and friends. His aged mother, a sister, his widow, and 
 two children — Sabin Savles Russell and Deborah Russell — 
 survive him. 
 
 Mr. RussELT- entered upon his first term in this body with 
 more than the ordinary experience, both in business and poli- 
 tics, and with more than the usual qualifications for the respon- 
 sible position. These attainments, in connection with his 
 winning personality, his cheerful disposition, his indomitable 
 perseverance, and his innate kindness of heart, soon engaged 
 the attention of the House and foreshadowed his distinguished 
 subsequent career. During his sixteen years of consecutive 
 service in this body — a period of membership longer than that 
 of any of his predecessors or of any New England Representa- 
 tive now here — he had served upon the Committees on Educa- 
 tion, Railroads and Canals, Banking and Currency, Reform in the 
 Civil Service, Census, Expenditures in the War Department, 
 as chairman, and the leading Committee on Ways and Means. 
 
12 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 It was upon this last committee that his must signal services 
 were rendered to his country and his constituents. Here his 
 business training, his intimate acquaintance with the details of 
 the manufacture of textile fabrics, his broad and exact knowl- 
 edge of general commercial conditions, his experience upon 
 other committees, and his knowledge of the duties of the vari- 
 ous governmental departments and their needs, soon gave him 
 conspicuous rank and designated him as the trusted counselor 
 and friend of Nelson Dingley and William McKinley. His 
 fidelity to duty, his unflagging industry, his uniform courtesy, 
 his modest bearing, and his distinguished services in this House 
 are still fresh in the memory of all and will be recounted by his 
 colleagues who will soon pay loving tribute to his memory. 
 
 Standing in the shadow of our great sorrow, which hangs 
 like a pall over the hearts and homes of the men and women of 
 his historic district and fills this Chamber with sadness, what 
 shall I, what can I say of him — the honored, the loved one, the 
 friend of the old soldier, the friend of the laboring man, every- 
 body's friend — who has been summoned from the councils of 
 the lawmakers of earth into the majestic presence of the 
 Almighty Lawgiver? He was a Representative in the highest 
 and best sense of that term. Honest, industrious, capable, 
 unassuming, and conscientious, he devoted his whole time, 
 mind, and strength to the service of the State and the interests 
 of an intelligent and prosperous constituency. "Seest thou 
 a man diligent in his business, that man shall stand before 
 princes; he shall not stand before mean men." 
 
 And so he stood, for sixteen years, like a knight of chivalry, 
 untouched by the tongue of calumny, in the highest parlia- 
 mentary assembly in the world, the trusted comrade, associate, 
 and friend of legislators, orators, and statesmen. He made no 
 claim to oratory — that indefinable gift of speech which stirs 
 
Address of Mr. Brandegee, of Connecticut. 13 
 
 men's souls, but by which oftentimes the worse is made to 
 seem the better cause — but he was endowed instead, and in a 
 large measure, with what has not inaptly been called "the 
 genius of common sense." 
 
 He discriminated, as it were, with an unerring instinct 
 between the false and the true. He saw and knew men and 
 measures in their proper relations and proportions, and esti- 
 mated them at their real rather than their pretended value. 
 This gift showed him when and how to apply to the evils 
 of the body politic appropriate remedial legislation. He was a 
 clear thinker and a plain talker. He illuminated his subject 
 because he saw it clearly himself. To him language was not 
 simply a combination of words or of* articulated sounds. It 
 was a system of expressing ideas. He was not given to much 
 speaking, but whenever he desired to express his views he did 
 so with that purity of diction and in that simplicity of manner 
 which, if not eloquence itself, is close kin to it. He abhorred 
 the babblings and mouthings of the word monger; he despised 
 the tricks and fripperies of the mere rhetorican, and he hated 
 the turbulence and clamor of the demagogue and the agitator. 
 He had an aversion to all sensationalism and display. He was 
 utterly devoid of all guile, hypocrisy, and cant. He was free 
 from the slightest affectation. It was this antipathy to artifice 
 which led him to reject all literary and rhetorical adornment 
 and to rely for his effect entirely upon the logic of his thought 
 and the lucidity of his statement. 
 
 His disposition was genial and kindly. His manner was 
 cordial without being demonstrative. He was dignified, but 
 not distant; reserved, but not reticent; unassuming, but not 
 diffident. He was absolutely and wholly honest, frank, and 
 candid in thought, word, and deed. There is some mysterious 
 intuition in nature which defies analysis, but which infallibly 
 
14 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 marks an honest man. Whatever this influence may be it 
 actually radiated from Mr. Russell. Xo one could be in his 
 presence without a consciousness of his impregnable integrity. 
 His heart beat with kindness, sweetness, and charity, and his 
 whole appearar.ee. bearing, and voice were attuned to these. 
 He inspired confidence and affection at first sight. His everj^ 
 instinct, feeling, and aspiration was clean, wholesome, and 
 noble. His character was well rounded and his intellect sym- 
 metrically developed. By long and faithful service he had 
 become one of the most trusted and honored members of this 
 body. He was familiar with its traditions, observant of its 
 rules, courteous to its members, attentive to its business, and 
 proud of its historic repute as the freest and most famous 
 popular legislative assembly of all time. 
 
 He represented a constituency composed of many elements. 
 Sturdy farmers, toilers in mills, artisans in factories, busy mer- 
 chants, and captains of industry, men who go down to the sea 
 in ships — all the diversified interests and individuals of an 
 agricultural, manufacturing, and maritime district were repre- 
 sented and protected by him. And he represented the political 
 principles and policies of a State which had furnished Roger 
 Sherman to the Constitution, Israel Putnam to the Continental 
 army, Jonathan Trumbull to the Revolution, William A. Buck- 
 ingham to the preservation of the Union, and Morrison R. 
 Waite to the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 He had a lofty conception of the dignity and duty of the 
 office of a member of Congress. In his view it was neither an 
 agency tor the distribution of documents and the spoils of 
 political conquest nor a stage for the exhibition of talent, nor 
 a theater for the display of ambition, nor a market for the 
 barter of influence and votes, but rather a sacred ministration 
 tur which he was ordained by a great constituency to voice its 
 
Address of Mr. Brandegee, of Connecticut. 15 
 
 principles and wishes in the supreme council of the greatest 
 nation of recorded time. Though he was one of the most dis- 
 tinguished members of this body, he was free from all vanity, 
 self-assertion, and pretense — that trinity of the smaller vices 
 which while they counterfeit greatness detract from it. 
 
 At home, in his private life, among the people he loved and 
 who loved him, his daily walk was as a daily benediction. He 
 was their guide, their counselor, and their friend. He joined 
 in their pursuits, he shared their sports, he contributed to their 
 needs, he sympathized with their sorrows, he rejoiced in their 
 successes, and by his devotion to their interests he sacrificed 
 his life. Among the many opportunities and temptations of 
 long public service, where thrift might easily have followed 
 fawning, he kept his character, his record, and his reputation 
 spotless and free from even the slightest shadow of suspicion. 
 At last, after a longer period than is ordinarily allotted to 
 public life, without a spot on his record, honored and loved by 
 everybody, " having provided things honest in the sight of all 
 men," having fought a good fight, having kept the faith, 
 there came the inexorable roll call, and it found him ready. 
 "He wrapped the drapery of his couch about him and laid 
 down to pleasant dreams." 
 
 Rated by the commercial standard, he died a poor man, but 
 when the very name of the money king shall have passed into 
 oblivion, the memory, the life, the character, and the services 
 of Charles Addison Russell will still remain an example 
 and an inspiration to posterity and a conspicuous honor to his 
 State. 
 
i6 Life and Character of Charles A, Russell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. CAPRON, OF RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The poet Whittier had in mind the type of 
 man to which our loved friend and colleague, the late Charles 
 Addison Russell, of Connecticut, belonged, when he wrote — 
 
 Formed on the good old plan — 
 
 A true, a brave, a downright holiest man. 
 
 He blew no trumpet in the market-place. 
 
 Nor in the church, with hypocritic face, 
 
 Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace. 
 
 Loathing pretense, he did with cheerful will 
 
 What other-, talked of while their hand-, were still. 
 
 As often as I have attempted to prepare such words as 
 would serve to express my thoughts upon the life and char- 
 acter of Charles A. Russell, I have found the written 
 sentences ringing formal, perfunctory, and hollow, so will 
 content myself with simply recording the sentiments which my 
 heart in its love for him prompts. It was to the heart that my 
 friendship for Mr. Russell appealed first ami strongest. In 
 every hour of my Congressional life as it touched his I knew 
 him best as one. first of all, who loved his fellow-men. 
 
 Others will tell of his public life and labors, of his strength 
 of character, of his fearless courage in the cause of right, of 
 his high and unfailing sense of honor, of his devotion to plain 
 duty to the limit of martyrdom, and of his genius for hard 
 work and the success which crowned his efforts. 
 
 Of the lovely and loving heart which never failed those who 
 were allowed within its citadel it is mine to recall. He sought 
 me out upon my arrival at the Capitol, prompted, perhaps, 
 first, because his district joined mine, and the interest- of 
 business and friendship do not halt at the imaginary line 
 
Address of Mr. Capron, of Rhode Island. 17 
 
 which divides the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island. 
 Kindly counsel as to the great economic problems then being 
 settled he gave me, and as one of the leading spirits engaged 
 in the formulation of the schedules of the Dingley tariff, he 
 took pains to daily advise and instruct me. So inspiring was 
 his smile, so cheering his voice, that the day when I did not 
 sit and talk with him had something wanting which could not 
 be gained elsewhere. As with myself, so I found at length it 
 was with other men. They trusted Chari.es A. Russell 
 with a rare confidence that his judgment was unerring and his 
 instincts sure. 
 
 In all the years when health was his he was never pessimistic 
 or cynical. His faith in men was dominant. His creed was 
 that men average honest, though recognizing human limita- 
 tions and weaknesses. 
 
 The love of country burned ever an altar fire in his soul. A 
 purer, truer patriot never breathed. 
 
 A quiet joy at the success of the policies he had helped to 
 enact, resulting in the prosperity of the workers of the land, 
 abided with him always like an atmosphere. 
 
 It was my good fortune to go with him through his district 
 during the last campaign he made, and I shall never forget 
 the expression of absolute trustful satisfaction everywhere 
 expressed by the people we met. His genial, manly, and 
 quiet, though forceful, addresses were universally satisfying. 
 The heartv hand grasp which whole communities came to 
 bestow, and the words of approval of his course in public life 
 had nowhere one discordant note. So long had he known this 
 people, and so well, it almost seemed that he kept in touch 
 with the home life of each family. 
 
 It was with satisfaction that I attended the convention which 
 last nominated Mr. Russell with enthusiastic acclamation. 
 H. Doc. 465 2 
 
t8 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Although it was universally known that there was not an 
 opposing vote in his party, there was a full attendance of the 
 delegations, and the grief at the report that he was too ill to 
 attend the convention was profound. A resolution asking the 
 candidate to attend to the recovery of his health and assuring 
 him that the delegate-, to the convention would attend to every 
 other needful thing to assure his triumphant reelection was 
 enthusiastically voted. 
 
 A few days later he went to his reward, and the whole 
 community in which he had lived ami labored came, men and 
 women and children, from the mills and farms and shops, 
 1m .well with a grief such as it is not often the lot of men 
 In inspire. 
 
 But beyond and above all the qualities which so endeared 
 this man to his town, his State, and the nation, the love which 
 his great heart held for his home and his own was that 
 which most deeply appealed to those who knew him best. As 
 husband, as father, as home maker shall I recall him to my 
 last day. To have known Charles A. Russell in this 
 relation was a benediction to any man's life. 
 
 God grant that we may not miss the lesson his life and 
 death teaches. 
 
Address <>/ Mr. Spiny, of Connecticut. ig 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. SPERRY, OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: This day has been set apart for the memorial 
 services to the Hon. Charles Addison Russele, late a 
 member of this House from Connecticut. Having known 
 and loved him for many years, both in and out of Congress, 
 I can not refrain from adding a few words of tribute to his 
 memory in addition to those already spoken. 
 
 It is with a sad heart that I speak of one who was called 
 away from us in the full vigor of his manhood, when his 
 usefulness to his .State and his district, which he served so 
 faithfully for many years, was at its height. His record and 
 career are those of a man ever just, ever lovable, ever upright 
 in all his dealings with his fellow-men. 
 
 I first knew of Mr. RuSSEEE as a student at Yale. Here 
 he endeared himself to his fellow-students, just as he did 
 later to those he came in contact with in the sterner walks of 
 a busy life. He was ever known affectionately as "Charlie," 
 a name that clung to him from his college days to the end, 
 though honors and dignities were thrust upon him. His 
 geniality and his lack of formality were responsible for this, 
 and it was a name he loved to hear from the lips of his 
 friends. 
 
 Mr. RrssELL. as a member of Congress, was alert and con- 
 sistent in all the duties required of him. He was ever ready 
 to help a needy constituent, and it was not strange that he- 
 was beloved and honored by all to an extent that falls to the 
 lot of few men. He was a large-hearted man, broad in his 
 sympathies, full of love and tenderness for all in want or 
 distress, a companion unexcelled, a man true and steadfast 
 
20 Life and Character of Charles A. Rtissell. 
 
 in his friendships. I do not believe he ever wronged a single 
 person or swerved from the path of a noble life. 
 
 His family ties were exceptionally strong. His love and 
 devotion to his wife and children were apparent to all. His 
 solicitude for their welfare was ever uppermost in his mind. 
 He loved children. To the very last he took a deep interest 
 in their sports and their -anies. their little troubles and their 
 pleasures. Many a time this whole-souled man. the best part 
 of whose life was spent as a legislator of national reputation, 
 would stop and watch the children of the village school at his 
 home playing in the school yard. He was always a welcome 
 visitor. They looked upon him as a friend and comrade — 
 one who did not hesitate to join in their sports, and who could 
 be a boy with them — though cares and responsibilities weighed 
 upon him. His sunny nature shed a luster wherever he went, 
 and no company where he happened to be could be dull. 
 
 His was a life that we who survive him would do well to 
 remember and honor. The last year he was among us he was 
 struggling bravely with an insidious disease which would 
 sooner or later end his mortal career. Vet not a murmur 
 escaped his lips. He was hopeful to the end. If he had at 
 times doubts as to his recover} 7 they were not made known to 
 his family .or his friends. He was always looking on the 
 bright side of life, and it was his aim to shed happiness and 
 sunshine wherever he went. Gloom and despondency were 
 not a part of his nature. 
 
 The people of his district loved him. Most of his life was 
 spent among them, and in his younger days he was always 
 prominent in all their festive gatherings. He loved to mingle 
 with them, to greet them with a hearty grasp of the hand, 
 ami in return to receive their love and friendship. They 
 learned to know his ability and his worth. They appreciated 
 
Address of Mr. Sperry, of Comiecticut. 21 
 
 the faithfulness and devotion with which he served them. 
 His memory will ever be green in the hearts of the people he 
 represented so long, so devotedly, and so ably. When the 
 sad news of his death spread throughout his district, sorrow 
 and mourning could be seen on every hand — the genuine grief 
 of friends and neighbors who loved him as a man and 
 respected him as a true and honest politician. 
 
 .Mr. RUSSELL had strong political opinions. He was firm 
 and inflexible in his adherence to them, both by his vote and 
 his speech. Yet so kind and gentle was he in his acts and 
 dealings, so just and considerate of all who entertained 
 opinions in opposition to his, that he has taught us how a 
 member of this House can be a true and loyal party man and 
 still maintain the friendship and respect of all he comes in 
 daily contact with. 
 
 He died as he had lived — beloved and respected by all who 
 were so fortunate as to be able to claim an acquaintanceship 
 witli him. To the end he was cheerful, ready to take up his 
 life work, and solicitous for the welfare of those around him. 
 It was the bravery of a noble heart facing death's problem, not 
 shrinkingly, but courageously, with faith in the benevolence 
 and justice of his God and Maker. 
 
 It is only a few weeks ago that his earthly remains were 
 committed to their last resting place. The little village of 
 Dayville in which he lived was crowded with mourning friends 
 from all parts of the State. A delegation composed of mem- 
 bers of the Senate and the House was there. The people of his 
 home village, and for many miles around, did homage to their 
 departed friend. The little children of the village school lined 
 the sidewalks, and not an eye was dry. It was a touching 
 tribute of devotion to the memory of a man they were proud to 
 call their friend. Fragrant flowers, the gifts of sorrowing 
 
22 Life and Charade) of Charles .1. Russell. 
 
 friends, filled the house, shedding their sweet perfume. Here. 
 too, the great esteem in which he was held by his neighbors 
 and townspeople -bowed itself. A wreath of roses sent by the 
 >! children, who gladly contributed their pennies to honor 
 the memory of their lost friend, was a touching token of their 
 affection. 
 
 With his devoted wife and children around his lifeless form. 
 his earthly bodj was laid away, to await the summon- of Him 
 who said: "I am the resurrection and the life. He that 
 believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." 
 
Address of Mr. Hill of Connecticut. 23 
 
 Address of Mr. Hill, of Connecticut. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: On the 23d of October last, Charles Addison 
 Russell, in the fiftieth year of a useful and busy life, died in 
 his <>\\n home surrounded by his family and friends. 
 
 A few days later he was buried in the village where he had 
 lived and among the associates whom he had loved. 
 
 It was not a funeral in the sense that it was only the laying 
 away of a body from which life had gone, but it was the sad 
 parting of friend from friend and a tribute of respect to his 
 character and memory from the whole State which he had 
 served so long and well. 
 
 The flowers which covered the casket and filled the chancel 
 of the church in rare profusion were beautiful, but the tears 
 which flowed unbidden from every eye were the real expression 
 of the regard of those who had come not to pay formal respect 
 to an honored citizen, but to bid a sad good-by to one they 
 loved. 
 
 It was a wonderful demonstration of what a place a man can 
 make for himself in the hearts of his fellow-men by a life of 
 usefulness to others rather than of selfish devotion to one's 
 own interests. 
 
 And this, I think, was the secret of his success, for success 
 he had, and in a marked degree. 
 
 It is not success to secure a fortune and nothing else in life. 
 That grave is empty which holds a corpse and does not make 
 to some one a sacred spot where it lies buried. 
 
 A statement of dollars left behind is the poorest epitaph of 
 which I know to put upon a tombstone. 
 
 One kind word spoken here, one good deed done to a fellow- 
 man, would outweigh them all in the life eternal. 
 
24 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 In the whole histor) of Connecticut hut one man has ren- 
 dered longer service in the House of Representatives. That 
 man was John Davenport, who was a member of nine Con- 
 gresses, dating from [799 to [817. Mr. Russell served eight 
 terms, and at his death had been renominated for the ninth. 
 
 J. O. Mosely, from the Second district, and Benjamin Tall- 
 madge, from the Fourth, had eight term-, each, but no man 
 from the Third district, which Mr. RuSSELL represented, had 
 ever equaled him in length of service. And, indeed, for more 
 than a century the average length of service from that district 
 had been but a little over two terms each. 
 
 But in 18S7 Charges A. Russell, then a comparatively 
 young man, began to represent the sturdy farmers of the Third 
 district, the rock-ribbed home of Republican faith in Connecti- 
 cut, and from that time on, down to his dying hour, held the 
 confidence, respect, and love of all his people. 
 
 Visiting Xew London one day last summer, I met one of his 
 warm personal and political friends. He told me that he had 
 just received a letter from Mr. Russell, who was up on the 
 coast "I Maine. In that letter he asked the question, " Do you 
 think my people will reelect a man to Congress who is as sick 
 as I am " and the answer went immediately back. "You need 
 have no anxiety whatever about a renomination or election." 
 
 He had absolutely devoted himself to their service. He had 
 been faithful in little things as well as large ones. Nothing 
 was allowed to stand between him and them. His only thought 
 was for their welfare. Xo sacrifice of health or strength or 
 time was too great for him to make in their behalf, and he did 
 it all so pleasantly and in such a kindly way that each task 
 seemed a privilege rather than a burden put upon him. 
 
 This was the way he won their confidence, and they gave 
 back to him devotion for devotion and love for love. 
 
Address of Mr. Hill, of Connecticut. 25 
 
 Almost his last words were to advise concerning his 
 successor and ask for him a like support. 
 
 As a legislator his work was always well done. He was not 
 a brilliant orator in the sense that he charmed an audience by 
 flashes of wit and studied phrases and practiced posings, but 
 he spoke fluently and straight at his subject, with the one- 
 purpose of convincing men and securing adherents to his 
 cause. 
 
 He was not a genius, as the word is generally used to 
 describe one who originates great policies or leads new move- 
 ments on radical lines, but he did possess an analytical mind 
 and power of judgment which drew men back from swift 
 conclusions and held them beside himself on the solid ground 
 of established and proven facts. 
 
 If he had been a soldier his place would not have been on 
 the skirmish line, but in command of the reserve to safely 
 In ild every position gained and strengthen it as a base for 
 further operations. 
 
 He was a man upon whom his party and his colleagues 
 could rely and in whose matured judgment they could 
 unfalteringly trust. 
 
 His life will be an inspiration, his work a far-reaching 
 benefit, and his death a lasting sorrow to the people of 
 Connecticut. 
 
26 Life and Character of Charles A. 'Russell, 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. H :ticut. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I first met Charles A. Russell twenty 
 years ago, when we both commenced political life as members 
 of the Connecticut general assembly of [883. ' Mr. RUSSELL 
 was then a young man in the early thirties, tine looking, with 
 an unusually attractive personality. Although comparatively 
 a stranger in his adopted State, yet his happy, cheerful ways, 
 genial manners, good-fellowship, and intelligent comprehen- 
 sion of his public duties won him immediate confidence and 
 prompt promotion, with merited popularity that never waned, 
 but constantly increased during the passing years. 
 
 Mr. RUSSELL was in the public service continuously for 
 nearly twent}- years. Faithful to every trust, winning golden 
 opinions from all with whom he came in contact, he occupied 
 an assured place in the hearts of his constituents, as well as 
 in the estimation of the people of the entire State, irrespective 
 of party lines. 
 
 It is not too much to say that no public man of his genera- 
 tion was more highly esteemed and respected than our lamented 
 friend, and I but restate a generally conceded fact when I say 
 that had Mr. RUSSELL'S life been prolonged the highest politi- 
 cal honors a State can confer awaited his acceptance. 
 
 In this place and presence I need only refer to Mr. Rrs- 
 SELL's distinguished services in this august bod} - . . Other 
 friends and fellow-members now present will bear witness of 
 his fifteen years of faithful Congressional work. 
 
 Clear in intellect and of sound judgment, always candid and 
 truthful, life brought to Mr. RUSSELL a full share of duties, 
 toils, and responsibilities. These were invariably manfully and 
 wisely met and overcome. Burdens were assumed and carried 
 without a thought of trifling or evasion. Modest, kindly, 
 
Address of Mr. Henry of Connecticut. 27 
 
 dignified, courageous, every public and private obligation was 
 at all times conscientiously discharged. 
 
 Mr. RUSSELL was a dutiful son and a kind brother; in his 
 home, beside the family hearth, he appeared at his best; in him 
 wife and children found an affectionate and devoted husband, 
 a fond and indulgent father, whose loving solicitude wa- ever 
 faithful and alert. As a friend, Mr. RUSSELL was loyal and 
 true, sympathetic and helpful, an altogether safe counselor 
 and wise advisor. 
 
 Mr. RUSSELL was long favored with robust health and when 
 stricken by a fatal disease, with death's gloomy shadows gath- 
 ering around him. he with undaunted courage bravely main- 
 tained his usual buoyant spirits. Indeed, he slightly resented 
 the sometimes too solicitous intimations of his friends that he 
 was not in normal health. • His cheerful, hopeful disposition 
 was never more in evidence than during his prolonged struggle 
 with the grim destroyer, continued unrelentingly through 
 many suffering, anxious months. During all those weary days 
 and nights the battle for life was fearlessly fought, until the 
 closing act brought a happy release to his worn, sweet spirit. 
 
 The grave has seldom received the mortal remains of a 
 nobler, worthier man than the one his friends were wont to 
 lovingly call "Charlie Russell." 
 
 With but a scant proportion of worldly goods, Mr. RusSELL 
 leaves his children the far more precious heritage of an hon- 
 ored, untarnished name, and the blessed memory of a useful, 
 well-spent life. 
 
 At all times a gracious gentleman, the great poet's eulogistic 
 lines are tersely descriptive of our departed friend: 
 
 His years but young, but his experience old; 
 His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe; 
 Ami, in a word 1 lor far behind his worth 
 Come all the praises that I now bestow . 
 He was complete in feature and in mind. 
 With all good t;race to grace a gentleman. 
 
Life and Charade)- of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Address of Mr :, of New York. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: As we pause for a brief time to pay a parting 
 tribute to one who was so recently among us an active, living 
 force and is now silent in death, it is fitting that we turn from 
 the turmoil of life and seek this quiet, peaceful day of rest in 
 performance of this duty. It is t<> be hoped that the precedent 
 so recently established will be followed hereafter, and that no 
 other day than the Christian Sabbath will be chosen by the 
 House for a public memorial to any of our members who have 
 been removed by the hand of death. 
 
 There is no forum in the world in which a man's character is 
 so truthfully appreciated as in the House of Representatives. 
 The daily assembling where mind meets mind, often in sharp 
 debate, or in earnest, honest criticism, brings out all that there 
 is in a man, good or bad. Hence it is tint the average impres- 
 sion of the House' is an honest judgment of every member. 
 Partisans are fair here in weighing the character of their oppo- 
 nents: and after party strifes are over for the time, evenhanded 
 justice is meted out by political opponents. These are some of 
 the bright flowers that hang over the walls that divide parties; 
 they are the pleasant tokens that lend cheer and pleasure to 
 Congressional life. 
 
 Not that the House is always a garden of flowers. Each 
 man. if he has real worth, is stirred in defense of his own opin- 
 ions, and often there is fierce conflict and real warfare. We 
 witness here the survival of the fittest, and the judgment of the 
 House is fairly made up on the merits. 
 
 Charles Addison Russell entered the House with the 
 Fiftieth Congress, and had served here for nearlv sixteen 
 
Address of Mr. Panic, of New York. 29 
 
 years at the time of his death. On the floor of the House he 
 was an admirable legislator, never speaking without having 
 something to say that illuminated the subject under discussion 
 and enlightened the House. He always commanded attention 
 and respect. Whenever he arose to address the House his 
 colleagues had reason to expect a plain, unvarnished, straight- 
 forward statement, not wearisome by repetition nor shrouded 
 with needless words calculated to conceal thought or the ab- 
 sence of it, as is sometimes the case. After listening to a clear 
 and lucid presentation, the wish came to us that he would 
 the more frequently address the House. Kind, genial, and gen- 
 tlemanly, with the courage of clear conviction, he was 
 accustomed to impress his thoughts upon others with great 
 success. 
 
 But his real strength of character displayed itself in commit- 
 tee work. It was my privilege to be associated with him in 
 the Committee on Ways and Means for nearly eight years. 
 Our relations were intimate and cordial. Seldom did a ques- 
 tion arise upon which I did not find that he had bestowed 
 much thought and generally had a definite, clear-cut opinion. 
 While he believed in his conclusions, he was ready to listen to 
 the view- 1 if his associates. If they presented to him a better 
 reason, he had no such pride of opinion as to prevent his 
 acknowledgment of a mistake. 
 
 In no place is a man's mental caliber more thoroughly tried 
 than in such committee work, for example, as the preparation 
 of a general tariff bill. Mr. Russkli. was one of the eleven 
 men who prepared the so-called " Dingley bill " in 1S97. He 
 contributed his full share to the formation of that measure. 
 For more than the half year that this act was in contemplation 
 in either House of Congress, he was a constant attendant at all 
 the meetings of the committee and an inveterate student of 
 
30 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 all the conditions surrounding the work. The business of his 
 life rendered him an expert on all matters relating to the 
 textile schedules. But he was built on a still broader plan — 
 his college training, his wide reading upon economic subjects, 
 his thorough study, and his never-failing conservatism and 
 good sense rendered his advice invaluable to the labors of that 
 imittee. The chairman of the committee and each asso- 
 ciate leaned upon him for advice. As one of his colleagues 
 upon the committee, I cheerfully acknowledge the aid 1 
 rendered me at all times during our long and intimate 
 association. 
 
 It is fitting that we who survive him should stop for a brief 
 moment and place wreaths of affection upon the grave of 
 Charles Addison Russell. We mourn his untimely end. 
 Having just passed the age of 50 years, he was at the full 
 zenith of his power and gave promise of many years of c,reat 
 service to his State and to his country. He was popular 
 anion-' his own people. In a recent campaign it was my good 
 fortune to spend a little time in his district and State. He was 
 the idol of his constituents, and his name and character were 
 honored throughout the State. His friends looked for higher 
 honors for him, believing that his character and usefulness 
 had hardly begun in its strenuous growth. 
 
 His failing health was noted by his associates early in the 
 last session with much concern. How bravely he combated the 
 encroaching disease: how faithfully he bore up in order to 
 fulfill his duties here, those who were closest to him can testify. 
 Never a murmur of complaint, making light of his ills, he 
 proved himself the same brave character his life illustrated so 
 fully. He died in the midst of his labors and surrounded by' 
 the tokens of success. 
 
 We bring flowers to his grave to-day. How many of us 
 
Address of Mr. Payne, of New York. 3 i 
 
 contributed a single flower along his pathway in life, wearied 
 as lie often was with the exacting labors of his position? We 
 are accustomed to observe the old Latin maxim and speak 
 nothing but -nod of the dead. It is well; yet I think we too 
 often speak good of the dead only. We come far short of our 
 duty to our brothers, except we sp<_-ak good of and to the 
 living. More here than elsewhere, however, have I heard men 
 titter words of cheer and good will, with just praise to their 
 fellows. How much better than to wait until their ears are 
 stopped in death. 
 
 Our friend has departed to the unknown. We miss his 
 genial presence, his kindly greeting. We miss him in com- 
 mittee, where his influence was wont to smooth out difficulties 
 and dissensions; we miss him in the House, where he was 
 often instructing us and influencing our final judgment: we 
 miss him in the social life, which renders our occupation here 
 tolerable; he is missed in the home circle, that seemed so 
 attractive to an on-looker. His State and his country will 
 miss the service of one of the best of their sons. And yet we 
 can but think that he has gone to something better; that there 
 is a life beyond, rendered brighter by faithful service and good 
 works here. We can but hope that our loss is his gain. 
 
32 Life and Charade} of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. McCLELLAN, OF NEW YORK. • 
 
 Mi. Speaker: I knew Charles A. Russell intimately. 
 We were fellow-members of the House for seven years, during 
 five of which we were colleagues on the Committee on Ways 
 and Means and on a subcommittee, and during four of which 
 we had a permanent pair. Beiiii; so closely associated in the 
 business of the House, scarcely a day went by when the House 
 was in session that we were not more or less together. I never 
 knew him to have had an ungenerous impulse or a mean 
 thought. I never knew him to do an act unworthy of a manly 
 man. He was a Republican. I a Democrat; but such was the 
 breadth of his nature that he was never limited by party in his 
 friendships nor in his relations with his fellow-members. 
 
 RUSSELL is dead, and these eulogies of ours can not bring 
 him back to us; yet there is some satisfaction in being able to 
 tell each other of the affection, the esteem, and the honor in 
 which we hold his memory. 
 
 The loss of an able and honest man seems to us a misfortune, 
 even when it is evident that his race is run and his task com- 
 plete. But it is to our limited comprehension almost calami- 
 tous when he whose loss we have sustained was in the full vigoi 
 of manhood, with apparently many years of public usefulness 
 before him, and with what was the almost certainty of eventu- 
 ally crowning his career with a seat in the other branch of 
 Congress. And yet in the scheme of Divine Omniscience 
 nothing occurs by accident. In the constant and triumphant 
 evolution of the human race, which leads us day by day and 
 year by year nearer to our Maker, every atom of humanity has 
 its own part assigned and has its own duty to perform. The 
 end never comes until in Cod's -nod time that part has been 
 
Address of Mr. McCellan, of New York. 33 
 
 played or that duty done. No man ever dies until he has 
 accomplished the purpose for which he was placed on earth. 
 When the gifts given a man are great, then is his responsibility 
 the greater. When those gifts are applied as the Giver of all 
 true and perfect gifts intended that they should be, then has 
 their possessor not lived in vain, but has aided according to his 
 ability the march of the evolution of humanity. 
 
 Russell was endowed with an even, gentle, kindly disposi- 
 tion. Industrious and painstaking, he had become one of the 
 best-informed men in the United States upon the great national 
 question of the tariff. His sterling integrity caused him to 
 apply his knowledge conservatively. Never an extremist, 
 profoundly convinced of the truth of his convictions, whatever 
 he did was done in what he considered the cause of righteous- 
 ness, whatever he accomplished was in what he thought the 
 best interests of the people. 
 
 Throughout the long months of suffering that preceded the 
 end. when for his health's Nake he should have left the task of 
 legislation to others, he stayed at his post unflinchingly, never 
 complaining, never sparing himself, always cheerful, no matter 
 what the effort cost him, always ready and anxious to bear his 
 share of the work of the House, no matter how much he might 
 suffer as the result. 
 
 Other men have lived whose deeds have been more spectac- 
 ular and who have more directly influenced the course of 
 history; other names there are that have more space in the 
 annals of the nation. Yet, when the record is made up at the 
 end of time, when the last account is balanced between the 
 good and the ill we have done, no page will be more pure or 
 spotless than that upon which is written the name of CHARLES 
 A. Russell — an able, honest, kindly gentleman, who never 
 failed to do his duty, and in doing it added to the sum of 
 human excellence and aided the progress of mankind. 
 H. Doc. 465 3 
 
34 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. DALZELL, OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: This Sabbath service to the memory of our 
 dead colleague appeals stronglj to my sense of the fitness of 
 things. Heretofore it has been the custom of the House to 
 turn abruptly from affairs of state to these memorial services, 
 and the custom has little tended to induce and stimulate that 
 spirit of reverence and sorrow which belongs to our regard for 
 the dead. It is more appropriate far, it seems to me. that we 
 should meet for our present purpose while Christian men and 
 women, if not devoting their thoughts to sacred things, are, 
 at least, seeking rest from the cares and burdens of evervdav 
 life, and having in mind the ideals of which such life is 
 largely destructive. In this Sabbath calm, amid the company 
 of Sabbath worshipers, I come to lay my humble wreath on 
 the tomb of my departed friend. Charles A. Russell. He 
 was my friend and I was his. To me his memory is and ever 
 shall be sacred. 
 
 While during the last session of Congress he seemed to 
 those of us who knew him intimately to be fading from dav 
 to day and maturing for eternity, nevertheless when the end 
 came and we knew that he was no more the shock was great. 
 Genial, sunny Charley Russell, he has outrun the rest of 
 us in the race for the unknown, has anticipated us in solving 
 the great mystery. "If a man die. shall he live again 3 " is 
 the question that with Mr. Russell's death comes to each of 
 us anew in personal and searching form: the question as old 
 as the race and as unanswerable now as when first put by 
 human weakness and human doubt. I )oes he know to-day 
 that loving hearts are mourning his loss? Is he walking now 
 
Address of Mr. Dahcll, of Pennsylvania. 35 
 
 the Elysian fields in sweet converse with the friends who 
 preceded and the friends who followed him — with Dingley, 
 with whom he was associated here, and with Reed, only 
 recently stricken? Shall we know him again and he us when 
 our turn shall come to cross the dark river? 
 
 These are the questions the like of which press us for answer 
 whenever into our circle, as the Latin poet has it, "the pale 
 messenger conies who with impartial footstep knocks alike at 
 poor man's cot and palace gate." Had we no answer to the 
 question, no solution of doubts in divine revelation, we would 
 still find the answer in the immortal qualities of head and heart 
 that belonged to our departed friend. It is impossible of belief 
 that the native virtues, the acquired accomplishments, the 
 growing ability, the maturing but unmatured capacity to 
 accomplish results represented in the brief life of Mr. Russell 
 should prove fruitless and unavailing even in the economy of 
 natural law. And so while we say to-day in sorrow " good- 
 bve," we say also in hope and confidence to him upon whose 
 brow is the light of an eternal day — "good morrow." 
 
 Born in Worcester, Mass., only a little more than fifty years 
 ago, Mr. Russell's life repeats in its beginning the history of 
 the New England boy of comfortable birth. His first education 
 was had in the admirable public schools of his native city. 
 This was followed by discipline under a private tutor, Rev. 
 Harris G. Greene. Then came four years' experience as a 
 student amid the elms of Yale, in the atmosphere of that grand 
 old university whose traditions and customs are those of a true 
 democracy, where wealth nor influence prevails as against 
 merit; where, be his condition as to name and fortune what it 
 may, "a man's a man for a' that." 
 
 The modest little school founded two hundred years ago by 
 nien of prayer and faith, with the avowed purpose to fit young 
 
36 Life and Character of Charles .1. Russell. 
 
 men "for puplic employment in church and state," has nobly 
 fulfilled its purpose. Prayer has found its answer and faith its 
 fruition in the great university, the roll of whose sons in civil 
 life, in legislation, in the administration of law. in deed- of 
 valor in every war where courage and patriotism have carried 
 and defended our flag, lends luster to every chapter of our 
 country's splendid history. 
 
 On that roll of honor Charles A. Russell has a conspicu- 
 ous place. It matters not how much he did — rather what he- 
 did; he did what he could, and what he did was good and was 
 well done. It is only natural to believe that it was here in 
 this scholarly ami inspiring atmosphere that there entered into 
 the young man's soul the ambition t<> enroll himself among the 
 sons who, by engaging in public employment in the State. 
 should fulfill Yale's high purpose. He was a faithful student 
 and graduated with honor as a scholar at the age of 21. 
 Returning then to his native city, he became the city editor of 
 the Worcester Daily Press, a position which he retained with 
 great credit for six years. Subsequently he served for a short 
 time in an editorial capacity with the Worcester Spy. Later 
 on, after his marriage in Connecticut, he moved to that State, 
 and thenceforward his life history is connected therewith. 
 He engaged in business there and became identified with its 
 politics. He was appointed an officer on the governor's staff. 
 He became a member of the State legislature ami served upon 
 important committees. lie was elected secretary of state. 
 Then he came to Congress in the Fiftieth Congress, when and 
 where I first met him, he and I being both new members. As 
 Yale men we naturally came together at once, beginning a 
 personal friendship which was intimate anil cordial down to 
 the time of his death. 
 
 The period covered by Mr. Russell's service has mi parallel 
 
Address of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania. 37 
 
 in importance in all our country's later history outside of the 
 period covered by the civil war. Within it were stormy and 
 tempestuous discussions over great economic questions and 
 their partial settlement. Our friend listened to tliL- debates on 
 the Mills bill and saw it go down to defeat. He witnessed the 
 struggle over the McKinley bill, and was cm terms of intimacy 
 with the great and loving soul that gave it its name. With 
 all mankind he shared in the sorrow and joined in the proces- 
 sion that followed McKinley to a martyr's tomb. He took 
 part in the deliberations that resulted in the passage of the 
 Wilson bill, and like the rest of us felt and appreciated its 
 results. He was a factor in the legislation upon the financial 
 question, a question which swept the country like a hurricane 
 and was dominant not alone in the determination of our policy 
 and the choice of our rulers, but in the determination of our 
 national destiny. He was one of the committee that framed 
 the Dingley bill, and foremost among those who held up the 
 arm of our great and lamented leader. Of the six minority 
 members of that committee not a single one now remains in 
 the House. Of the eleven majority members only six remain 
 in the House, and when this Congress shall expire only four 
 will remain as members of the next House. Two have died, 
 two have gone to the Senate, and three to private life. 
 
 He was in the center of the storm that with such fury beat 
 upon the House following upon the tragic sinking of the Maine 
 in Habana Harbor and that swept the House with irresistible 
 force into the declaration of the Spanish war. He witnessed 
 the triumphs of our Navy in that brief and decisive conflict 
 and rejoiced with all his countrymen in the luster that Ameri- 
 can valor lent to American arms. He took a conspicuous part 
 in the deliberation upon and in the decision of questions fol- 
 lowing upon that war's close. He saw our flag carried and 
 
3S Life and Character of Charles .1. Russell. 
 
 planted far beyond our borders, and appreciated the importance 
 of the great (im.---ti.ni> that such adventure called upon us to 
 face. He saw the opening of a new century and with it the 
 beginning of a new national destiny. Of all the important 
 happenings of the period to which I have referred it was his 
 to say "quorum pars fui," and as to all his acts and doings in 
 connection therewith he went down to death with the happy 
 consciousness of duty faithfully done. There is no spot on his 
 escutcheon, no rust upon his armor. Like the great untitled 
 Frenchman of Napoleon's army, he is "dead on the field of 
 honor." 
 
 Mr. Russell was a man of strong intellect and, preemi- 
 nently, of good judgment. His ruling characteristic was 
 practical common sense. He was well poised: not without 
 enthusiasm, but not given to extravagance or hysteria. He 
 was deliberate, judicial in his make-up. He would have 
 adorned the bench. He was honest of intellect. When I say 
 honest 'it' intellect, I speak advisedly, for there i- more than 
 one kind of honesty. To keep premises, and pay debt-, not 
 to cheat one's neighbor is one kind of honesty; but that kind 
 of honesty may consist with the dishonesty of intellect which 
 permits a man to cheat himself, and in pursuance of personal 
 ends to play the demagogue. Mr. Russell never could have 
 been a demagogue. He was as intellectually as he was person- 
 ally honest. He reasoned straight. He thought honestly. 
 II is mental processes were clear. He never was even honestly 
 milled. He was a useful man. He did things. He was a 
 man of high ideals, and loyal to them. He was a forceful 
 man, because he lived for a purpose and kept it always in 
 view. He was courageous without boasting, and true to his 
 convictions as the needle to the pole. He was a modest man, 
 but modesty could not hide his virtues, and his fellows 
 
Address of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania. 39 
 
 appreciated him more than he did himself. His virtues shone 
 in his daily life and demanded recognition. He was a clean 
 man, above suspicion ; an honest man, above question. 
 
 He had thus, as I have shown, the qualities that lie at the 
 base of efficient public service. I am aware that the language 
 of eulogy is generally the language of extravagance, and 
 remembering this I believe that I have not done myself in- 
 justice in what I have said, but only have rendered justice 
 to our dead colleague. 
 
 Far away in importance above and beyond the life that the 
 most illustrious man leads in the public eye is his home life, 
 Xo relations so sacred as those that cluster around the hearth- 
 stone. Xo test of character so true as that which measures 
 loyalty or disloyalty to home duties. 
 
 Mr. Russell was a man of pure and simple life. The altar 
 at which he worshiped was in his home. The wealth of his 
 affection found its objects there, and the dearest wishes of his 
 great heart found their highest gratification in bringing happi- 
 ness to those of his household. However much Connecticut 
 may mourn the loss of her distinguished son, the grief of all 
 griefs, into which we may not intrude, is that of those to 
 whom he was not statesman or legislator, but husband and 
 father. From our standpoint he died all too soon. But we 
 are not keeping the books. The Master is. He knows both 
 sides of the account. It is ours to believe that he closed 
 Charles A. Russell's account when, in the eternal fitness of 
 thinsrs, the balance was on the right side. 
 
40 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell, 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. GROSVENOR, OF OHIO. 
 
 Mk. Speaker: The death of Chaki.es A. Russell came to 
 me as a personal sorrow. I made his acquaintance at once 
 upon his coming litre in the Fiftieth Congress. He repre- 
 sented the district in Connecticut in which I was born and I 
 felt something more than an ordinary interest in him, and 
 hence sought his acquaintance at the outset of his career. 
 Later he became a member of the Committee on Ways and 
 Means and served on that committee until, by his death, that 
 committee suffered an irreparable loss. He was a member of 
 that committee at the time pending the interval between the 
 election of William McKinley and the assembling of the Con- 
 gress at the special session called by the President in lSuj. 
 The Republican members of the committee prepared the 
 Dingley bill, and he was a faithful, intelligent, efficient, and 
 valuable member of the committee until his death. 
 
 He was nut a man given to display or show on the floor of 
 tlte House or in the committee room, but there was not a 
 member of that committee whose opinion was accepted as of 
 greater value than was his. He enjoyed the full confidence of 
 Mr. Dingley. He was a man of laborious tendencies. He 
 never took hold of a matter that was of interest and laid it 
 down until he had mastered the full details of it, and under- 
 stood all that was to be ascertained by investigation. As i 
 representative from his State he was especially valuable and 
 untiring in representing the special interests of Connecticut 
 ami New England. There was no article manufactured in that 
 great, busy hive of manufacturing industry that he did not 
 understand the genesis of its production, the details of its 
 
Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. 41 
 
 progress, and the success of its growth and development, but 
 he was not narrow or provincial. He brought to the discharge 
 of his duties broad views of patriotic purpose and wise applica- 
 tion of facts to principles. 
 
 Amid the perplexing questions of detail that constantly 
 arose at every step of our pathway in the development of the 
 Dingley bill, he never lost sight of principles as well as details 
 of special situations. He dealt with the questions which 
 arose with a mind almost judicial in its development, and he 
 was free from prejudice, bias, or hasty decision. He had 
 broad intelligence and far-reaching knowledge. His thorough 
 education had well fitted him for the acquirement of knowl- 
 edge, and his mode of thought enabled him to master details 
 while not losing sight of generalities. His views were always 
 valued by his colleagues and great attention was always paid 
 to his suggestions. 
 
 He was an able and valuable member of Congress; not one 
 who displayed his efficiency in the forum of debate, but one 
 who had a clear understanding of the questions before him 
 and who drove straight at the purposes which he formed. 
 So much for his ability. 
 
 I do not know what his early occupation had been, except- 
 ing as it appears in his brief biography in the Congressional 
 Directory. As I have said, he represented the district in 
 which I was born. I first saw the light of day in the little 
 country hamlet of Pomfret, only a few miles away from the 
 home of "Russell and the place of his death. 
 
 I visited his district, calling upon friends of my father at the 
 home of my infancy. I met the constituents of RrsSELL at 
 one of their county fairs. I saw many of them during the time 
 that I spent in Connecticut; and I was delighted to learn, as I 
 did learn from all sources of information, that he had a strong 
 
42 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 and abiding hold upon the confidence and esteem of his con- 
 stituents. They believed in him. They appreciated his quali- 
 ties of mind and heart. They understood him fully. They 
 looked up to him. He represented in his mental characteristics 
 and the sternness of his principles faithfully the old-time, 
 honored, and beloved State of Connecticut — the State that we 
 laugh about sometimes, sneer at, it may be, occasionally, but, 
 after all, a State that stands to-day typifying in her social, 
 industrial, and political attitude and purpose the true repre- 
 sentative of the old-time New England. She has produced 
 great men, sturdy men, men of high character, men of national 
 repute, and in her fallen son her true characteristics were 
 strongly presented and truly expressed. 
 
 I can not speak of RUSSELL without going to the personal 
 view. He was not a man demonstrative of his friendship, but 
 he was a man who impressed his good qualities upon those 
 with whom he came in contact. If ever there was a man who 
 despised false pretenses and who looked past the surface to the 
 matter of intrinsic merit, he had that faculty, and hence to be 
 his friend and to be recognized as his friend was not only a 
 pleasure, but was moreover a distinguished compliment, which 
 no one who knew him would fail to appreciate. He was by no 
 means taciturn among his friends. He was by no means lack- 
 ing in humor and appreciation of a good thing, but he was 
 careful in all he said to offend no one unnecessarily and t<> 
 always fully appreciate those by whom he was surrounded. 
 
 One of his great characteristics, and one that could not be 
 hidden from his associates even though he should have tried to 
 do so, was the strong love and deep filial affection that he had 
 for his family. I think that when he began to appreciate that 
 his health was failing, as he did appreciate a considerable time 
 ago, his deep concern was not for himself — self in that instance 
 
Address of Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio. 4;, 
 
 was a secondary consideration — but it was his anxiety for those 
 
 he loved with such intensity of affection. He spoke often of 
 
 his children. He was proud of the progress that his sun made 
 
 in his studies and he did not hesitate to manifest the pride of a 
 
 fond father, but his reference to his personal affairs was never 
 
 obtrusive, but always thoughtful, wise, and judicious. 
 
 I do not know what were his religious opinions; I never 
 
 heard him express them. That he was a Christian in all the 
 
 essential elements of Christianity I never doubted and d" not 
 
 doubt now. Whether or not he was an adherent of a creed. 
 
 and if so. what creed, I can not answer: but the old proposition 
 
 that 
 
 He can not be greatly wrong 
 Whose heart is in the right, 
 
 would have applied without qualification to our friend. He 
 
 lived and exhibited the principles of Christianity, and. having 
 
 done so, the question of his belief is not essential. 
 
 He fell in the very zenith of his usefulness. He had reached 
 a position of influence and of power, and was certain to have 
 reached a high place, with broader opportunities, but he fell 
 short of the fulfillment of his modest ambition. 
 
 He left behind him a record that will lie a monument 
 of emulation to those who are to follow him; he left behind 
 him sorrowing friends and weeping relatives; he left be- 
 hind him admiring associates and a constituency always glad 
 to do him honor. 
 
 We shed here a tear of friendship; we come with warm 
 hearts to do him honor; we speak of him as we knew him and 
 as we loved him. 
 
44 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Address of Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I do not take the floor with the hope that I 
 can add anything of weight and beauty to the eulogies that 
 have been so fitly spoken, but I am unwilling that this occasion 
 should pass by without a word to hint at the high esteem in 
 which I held Charles A. Russell. I cherish his memory' 
 because of his long and honorable career, because of the fine 
 qualities of manhood which ennobled him, and because I am 
 glad to believe he was my personal friend, as I was his. A 
 native of the Commonwealth of which I have the honor to be 
 one of the Representatives, identified during his mature years 
 with the neighboring State of Connecticut, from which he 
 received his various commissions for public service, he was a 
 genuine product of New England and in him were easily traced 
 the simple and uplifting discipline of her life. 
 
 He had the inheritance of sterling qualities of mind and 
 body; he was nurtured under institutions which are unsur- 
 passed in the freedom of thought and speech, and in the gen- 
 erous invitation they extend to the individual man to make the 
 most of the powers (rod has given him. His strong mental 
 characteristic was. I think, the tact with which he would 
 endeavor to secure the cooperation of other men in bringing 
 about what he might wish to accomplish. Firm, but not 
 assertive, utterly' lacking in the vanity that leads to self- 
 exploitation, his efforts did not excite personal antagonism. 
 
 He was sagacious in detecting the weak points of measures 
 he did not like, but he was measured in his criticism, kindly 
 and fair in his methods, and his manner never wounded the 
 self-love of those who were working for other ends. He was 
 
Address of Mr. McCall, of Massachusetts. 45 
 
 an antagonist to whom it was easy to submit and over whom 
 one would prevail with regret rather than with elation. He 
 did not often claim the attention of the House in debate; indeed. 
 speaking as he did, with force and vigor, he was among those 
 who spoke too rarely. It was a pleasure to be associated with 
 him in a common cause and to rely upon his ready resources 
 and his choice gift of common sense. 
 
 He inspired one with a sense of his reserved power and, equal 
 to any position which he held, you felt that he would be equal 
 to any public place, however high, to which he might be called. 
 The House does well to pause to-day and take note of the great 
 loss which it has suffered. A strong, manly man, a sweet- 
 hearted friend, a devoted and distinguished servant of the State 
 has fallen. While we pay our heartfelt tribute to his memory 
 kt us take into our hearts the lesson of his noble life. 
 
46 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell, 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. STARK, OF NEBRASKA. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: This service, in memory of the Hon. 
 Charles A. Russell, late a Representative from the Third 
 district of the Commonwealth of Connecticut, brings with a 
 peculiar force some recollections attending my entrance here as 
 a member of this body. 
 
 I was from the State where resided in the campaign of 1896 
 a great standard bearer who had been overpowered by superior 
 numbers, and the fires of that conflict had not yet died out. I 
 was 1 member of a political party that by comparison was small 
 in number. It was said by some that these conditions were 
 much against my service, as a member of that body. Personally 
 this had but little effect upon me. having learned to be always 
 stout of heart and remembering when troubles and difficulties 
 come, "They all shall pass away.'' 
 
 Experience teaches the thoughtful man that it is not of 
 much consequence what others say, but it is of the greatest 
 importance what he does; that in this life there must be '.10 
 drifting; there must lie a settled purpose to reach a given 
 point; there must be a policy laid down and worked to all the 
 way along. All new Congressmen soon discover that the) cm 
 elect between two policies — whether they will confine them- 
 selves to being of service to their people by looking diligently 
 after their main- wants, or. by frequent speech and interview. 
 attempt the difficult task of leadership. I adopted the first- 
 named policy, for it was within my reach and more to my 
 liking; but. being without experience, it was necessar) for 
 some one who was well prepared by long service to "lend a 
 hand" to the end that it might become effective. 
 
Address of Mr. Stark, of Nebraska. 47 
 
 Just at that time Mr. RrsSELL came to me as a volunteer in 
 the most kindly and whole-hearted manner and offered any 
 service that he could perform. The antithesis of my political 
 conviction, a stranger, he based his proffer on the ground that 
 as I had been born and grown to manhood in his district he 
 was interested that I should give a good account of myself. 
 being a kind of a constituent of his. Appreciating the genu- 
 ineness of his offer, I was quick to avail myself of his sugges- 
 tions as to methods of departmental work. 
 
 In this presence I publicly acknowledge my debt of gratitude 
 to Mr. Russell and testify t<> his helpful nature and his great 
 ability. He held out his hand to me not because my kinsfolk 
 lived in his district and I might be of service in a political 
 way. but because he was a manly man and well knew in his 
 own heart the natural law that no person ever forgets his 
 birthplace. 
 
 While I love my adopted State, where I have lived all my 
 manhood years, where is located my permanent home, and 
 where I shall rest at the last, yet at times my heart turns with 
 love and veneration to the old homestead in Xew London 
 County and takes a pride in the history of the Commonwealth 
 of Connecticut. May I have force of character enough and 
 grace great enough to prove myself a worthy son of that old 
 Continental State. 
 
 When the word came of the passing of Mr. Russell it was 
 to me a personal sorrow that such a kindly soul could not be of 
 further help, and that his individual counsel could no longer 
 avail. Then I thought that his influence is still in the world, 
 for that which is good can not die. Though the law of the 
 material realm tends u . dissolution, no mental force, no spiritual 
 energy, no moral principle, ever dies. 
 
 The material world is dominated by an immaterial principle, 
 
48 Life and Character oj Charlei A. Russell. 
 
 and in all the universal realm there is no such potent force as 
 love. Itself unarmed, it disarms all its adversaries. This is the 
 power that ruled the subject of this memorial occasion. He was 
 gentle, helpful, and earnest in all his dealings with men. 
 
 This principle was not only the potency that ruled, but the 
 monitor that guided his life. Those who knew him well learned 
 that his course and reckoning were — 
 
 To love some one more dearly every day, 
 
 To help some wand'ring child to find the way, 
 
 T<> ponder o'er a noble thought and prav. 
 
 And smile when evening falls. 
 To follow truth as blind men long for sight, 
 To do the best from early dawn till night, 
 To keep the heart fit for His holy sight, 
 
 And answer when He calls. 
 
Address of Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin. 49 
 
 Address of Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin. 
 
 Mr. Speaker: One of the earliest acquaintances I formed 
 upon becoming a member of this body in the Fifty-third Con- 
 gress, or nearly ten years ago, was that of the gentleman to 
 whose memory we are paying tribute to-day. From that time 
 until his last illness our friendship was cordial and sincere. I 
 therefore do not desire that this opportunity shall pass with- 
 out adding my tribute to the character and services of the late 
 Charles Addison Russell. 
 
 In the later years of his public service I was associated with 
 him on the Committee on Ways and Means and realize that in 
 his death we have lost a statesman whose public and private 
 life was ever above reproach. 
 
 Hi-- acts and motives were at all times dictated by an intense 
 desire to do only that which was right and just, and which 
 would reflect the greatest honor upon his State and country. 
 He was broad minded, liberal in his views, never influenced by 
 narrow prejudices, and in every sense a typical American, 
 whose future was full of promise. 
 
 The death of Mr. RrssELL was sincerely mourned by the 
 entire people of his State. It was my privilege to attend the 
 funeral sendees at his home in Connecticut, and I do not 
 believe I ever witnessed expressions of more sincere and gen- 
 uine sorrow than on that occasion, and I had an opportunity to 
 learn of and observe the high regard and tender affection in 
 ■which he was held by his neighbors and constituents. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the world is better for his having lived, and we 
 should all be proud to follow the upright course he pursued. 
 
 Mr. Dalzell. Mr. Speaker, I have information that there 
 H. Doc. 465 4 
 
5<d Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 are some other gentlemen who would like to bear witness to 
 Mr. RUSSELL'S memory, and I therefore ask unanimous consent 
 that general leave to print be granted. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore. If there be no objection, that 
 leave will be granted. 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 Mr. Henry, of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I now ask that the three 
 series of pending resolutions be adopted. 
 
 The question being taken, the resolutions were unanimously 
 adopted. 
 
 The Speaker pro tempore (at 2 o'clock and 55 minutes 
 p. m. ). In obedience to the resolutions just adopted, the House 
 stands adjourned. 
 
Proceedings in the Senate. 
 
 December 2, 1902. 
 
 MESSAGE FROM THK HOUSE. 
 
 Mr. William J. Browning, the Chief Clerk of the House of 
 Representatives, appeared below the bar of the Senate and 
 delivered the following" message: '■'■'■ 
 
 I am further directed to communicate to the Senate the 
 intelligence of the death of Hon. Charles A. Russell, late a 
 Representative from the State of Connecticut, and to transmit 
 resolutions of the House thereon. 
 
 DEATH OF REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES A. RUSSELL. 
 
 Mr. Platt. of Connecticut. Mr. President, I ask that the 
 resolutions of the House- of Representatives communicating 
 the intelligence of the death of Hon. Chaki.es A. Russell, be 
 laid before the Senate. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Chair lays before the 
 Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives, which 
 will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resoh'ed, That the House has heard with deep retrret and profound 
 sorrow of the death of the Hon. Chari.es A. RrsSKi.i., late a Representa- 
 tive from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House communicate these resolutions 
 to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect the House do now adjourn. 
 
 M . Platt, of Connecticut. I desire that the resolutions of 
 
 the House may lie on the table for the present, and I present 
 
 the following resolutions, which I ask may be immediately 
 
 considered. 
 
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52 /.iff and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The resolutions submitted by 
 the Senator from Connecticut will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follow-.: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate lias heard with deep sensibility the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. Chari.es A. RUSSELL, late a Representative 
 from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 
 
 The resolutions were considered by unanimous consent, and 
 unanimously agreed to; and (at i o'clock and 52 minutes 
 p. m. ) the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Wednesday, 
 December 3, 1002, at 12 o'clock m. 
 
 January 26, 1903. 
 
 MESSAGE FROM THE Hcil'sH. 
 
 The message further communicated to the Senate resolutions 
 passed by the House commemorative of the life and services 
 of Hon. Charles A. Russell, late a Representative from the 
 State of Connecticut. 
 
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
 
 January 30, 1903. 
 
 Mr. Platt, of Connecticut. Mr. President, I wish to give 
 notice that on Saturday, February 14, at 4 o'clock in the after 
 noon, I will present resolutions in commemoration of the life 
 and character of Hon. Charles A. Russell, late a member 
 of the House of Representatives from the Third district of 
 Connecticut. 
 
 February 14, 1903. 
 
 Mr. Pi.att, of Connecticut. Mr. President, I ask that there 
 be laid before the Senate the resolutions from the House of 
 Representatives relating to the death of Hon. Charles A. 
 Russell, late a Representative from the State of Connecticut. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The resolutions of the House 
 of Representatives will be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 In THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 
 
 January 25, 1903. 
 
 Resolved, That in pursuance of the special order heretofore adopted, 
 tlie House proceed to pay tribute to the memory of Hon. Chari.es A. 
 RUSSELL, late a member of the House of Representatives from the State 
 of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased, and in recognition of his eminent abilities as a faithful and dis- 
 tinguished public servant, the House, at the conclusion of the memorial 
 proceedings of this day, shall stand adjourned. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk be. and is hereby, instructed to send a copy of 
 these resolutions to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Mr. PlaTT, of Connecticut. Mr. President, I present the 
 resolutions which I send to the desk, and ask for their adoption. 
 
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54 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The resolutions will be read. 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announce- 
 ment of the death of Hon. Charles A. Russell, late a Representative 
 from the Si an of Connecticut. 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the Senate be now suspended, in order 
 that fitting tribute be paid to his memory. 
 
 Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect the Senate, at the con- 
 clusion of these ceremonies, do adjourn. 
 
Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut. 55 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. PLATT, OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 Mr. President: Charles Addison Russell, who repre- 
 sented the Third Congressional district of Connecticut for 
 sixteen years, a period exceeding in length of service that of 
 any predecessor, died at his home in Killingly, Conn., on the 
 23d day of October. 1902. I speak of him to-day as an honored 
 colleague and a much-loved friend. 
 
 Mr. RuSSELL was born in Worcester, Mass., March 2. 1852. 
 His father, Isaiah Dunster Russell, was a merchant of that 
 city, and his mother was Nancy M. [Wentworth] Russell. 
 His ancestry was of the best, being a descendant through his 
 father of Isaiah Dunster, who was the first president of 
 Harvard College, and through his mother of Benning Went- 
 worth. who. in the early history of that State, was governor 
 of New Hampshire. His great-grandfather, Jason Russell, 
 was killed on the 19th of April. 1775, in his own doorway, by 
 the British on their retreat from Lexington and Concord. 
 Thus by heredity he united in his character scholarly attain- 
 ment, civic tendency, and patriotic ardor. 
 
 Mr. Russell's parents were not rich, neither were they 
 poor. His advantages were only those of the well-born New 
 England boy. whose future is to be fixed by self-effort. 
 Energy, determination, and aspiration are the chief character- 
 istics of such boys, and these first manifested themselves in 
 the case of young Russell when he became a carrier of 
 morning newspapers. 
 
 It is impossible to fully and justly analyze the effect of 
 early surroundings upon life and character, and no one may 
 
56 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 even now clearly set- how much of the future man was due 
 
 to the daily work of the carrier boy. who, in the pure New 
 England atmosphere and mid the peculiar New England en- 
 vironments, faithfully, morning by morning, delivered the 
 papers along his route, year in and year out. thereby earning 
 the first money for self-support and development. There was 
 in that work the element of faithfulness which so marked his 
 whole career. 
 
 He had the ordinary educational advantages which the place 
 of his birth afforded. He entered the high school; prepared 
 tor college; was matriculated at Vale, and graduated in 1S73. 
 After graduation he engaged in newspaper work, becoming a 
 member of the editorial staff of the Worcester Press; was also 
 connected with the Worcester Spy, and was correspondent for 
 Xew York and Huston daily papers. 
 
 On May 14, 1879, Mr. RusSEU. married Miss Ella Frances 
 Sayles, daughter of Sabin L. Sayles, a prominent woolen man- 
 ufacturer of Killingly, Conn. A most hearty and generous 
 welcome was extended by Connecticut to the young man from 
 Massachusetts, and from the very day he took up his residence 
 in our State he was thought of only as a Connecticut man; he 
 soon attracted the attention and confidence of the people. In 
 ism and [882 he was a member of the governor's staff, and 
 then chosen to the legislature. In 1885 he was elected 
 secretary of state, ami in 1886 was nominated and elected to 
 Congress. He served as Representative eight successive terms, 
 and had been enthusiastically renominated for a ninth. 
 
 I need not speak in detail of his career in the House of 
 Representatives. He constantlj grew in the estimation of his 
 associates until at the time of his death I think I may say 
 without qualification that no member was more respected, 
 trusted, honored, or loved than he. His colleagues relied upon 
 
Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut. 57 
 
 his sound judgment and his clear perception of what was best 
 for the country and the people. He never assumed to be a 
 leader, and yet he was in the truest and best sense a real leader. 
 He never posed for admiration or applause, but he was a man 
 of unwavering purpose, ever going straight forward to 
 accomplishment. Real leadership is seldom achieved by mere 
 eloquence or oratory. The orator gains applause, but does not 
 often influence greatly the judgment of his hearers. 
 
 Thorough and complete understanding of problems and 
 policies, an honest, unflinching, confidence-inspiring purpose, 
 constitute the qualities which make up real leadership. These 
 characteristics Mr. Russell possessed in an eminent degree. 
 When men were in doubt they turned to him, because they 
 knew that he had mastered both the principles and the details 
 involved in proposed legislation; they knew him to be unselfish 
 and true, and for these reasons they followed him. In times 
 of uncertainty and danger, of complication and embarrassment, 
 they sought his advice and direction. It was in critical 
 situations that his influence was most marked. 
 
 When the sea is smooth and the wind is fair almost any 
 seaman can sail the ship, but in the storm, amid billows and 
 breakers, the skillful pilot must take the helm. His colleagues 
 recognized in Mr. Russkll a skillful pilot: many a time he 
 brought the ship safely through the storm. Still he was a 
 most modest man; he never thrust himself to the front; he 
 was unassuming, retiring, but never distrustful of himself. 
 His speeches did not occupy a large space in the Record, and 
 when, all too infrequently, he did speak, there was no 
 suggestion of self-consciousness or self-seeking in what he 
 said: he spoke as he thought, with decision, directness, anil 
 force. What he said carried conviction and formulated opinion 
 in others. 
 
5S Life and Character of Charles A. Russtll. 
 
 He was a rare man. It is difficult to single out from the 
 many estimable gifts of his mind and heart one more con- 
 spicuous than another. If I might venture to do so, I would 
 say that the most striking quality with which he was endowed 
 was that of faithfulness — faithfulness to his work, his duty, 
 his constituents, his country, his friends, his family. It is 
 hard to tell just what it is in a man that makes others love 
 him. There must be more than mere attractiveness to produce 
 friendship and love. I have never known a man more beloved 
 by those who knew him than Mr. Russell. I tried in his 
 lifetime, and have tried since his death to determine what it 
 was in him that brought about such universal affection for 
 him, and I think it was more than anything else this quality 
 of faithfulness of which I have spoken. In the closing book 
 of the New Testament may be found the injunction, which 
 rings with inspiration, " Re ye faithful unto death." It seems 
 t<> me that Mr. Rtsskll during all his life, and even to his 
 latest hours, perfectly fulfilled this command. 
 
 During the last session of Congress which he attended, friends 
 marked with apprehension the steady, stealthy footsteps of the 
 disease to which he finally succumbed, but he never faltered in 
 his work: sometimes it seemed as if he were staggering to his 
 fall, but with unusual courage braced himself to go on. When 
 compelled at last to relinquish his toil here and seek rest else- 
 where, he insisted, while on his way to the train which was to 
 bear him finally away from the scene of his labors, upon stop- 
 ping to do a departmental service for a friend who was not a 
 constituent. This touching incident illustrates his faithfulness 
 as scarcely anything else could. He entered Congressa youth- 
 ful man: he left it in the prime of his life, when it seemed as if 
 greater honors and opportunities for usefulness were just ahead 
 of him, as if he could not be spared by his district, his State. 
 
Address of Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut. 59 
 
 his country, his friends, or his loved ones, and yet his was a 
 rounded and, as we look at it now, a complete life. 
 
 To live truly and nobly and to die beloved — what more can 
 there be to that which we call life? And, after all, if our faith 
 is not misplaced, his life has but begun. We part from dying 
 friends with sad and breaking hearts; but why should we? 
 With the assurance that this brief stay here is but preliminary 
 to a better, happier, and grander life, why should we mourn 
 when the spirit leaves the body. Our hearts do not break when 
 we part with friends who set sail for a foreign country, from 
 which we have no reason to expect their return. We realize, 
 indeed, that we shall see their faces no more, but we cherish 
 them in our hearts as still living, still enjoying, still doing; that 
 we may thus cherish the friends who have passed from our 
 sight into a new world makes life worth living and shuts out 
 despair. 
 
 Parting with my colleague, my comrade, and my dear friend, 
 I repeat the words of David when he mourned for Jonathan; 
 " Very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was 
 wonderful, passing the love of woman;" and I hold fast to my 
 faith that he still lives, that he still loves me as I love him. 
 
6o Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. FRYE, OF MAINE. 
 
 Mr. President: It seems to me proper thai I should drop 
 a modest flower on the grave of Mr. Russell, for through 
 
 his entire public life we were intimate friends. Here in 
 Washington we lived at the same hotel, in adjoining rooms. 
 I have been a guest at his home. I have been associated 
 with him in political campaigns. The last summer of his 
 life he was my near neighbor at the seashore, where he was 
 striving to regain strength and health. I thought that the 
 contest there was an unequal one and that he would be 
 vanquished, but he was patient, courageous, and hopeful. 
 
 Mr. President, it is a pathetic picture, that of a man com- 
 paratively young, who had been strong and vigorous, fighting 
 a battle for life. Shortly after. Mr. RuSSELL died. It 
 undoubtedly occurred to most of us who were his friends that 
 his death was premature. But was it 2 The speech just made 
 by the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. Piatt] answers that 
 question. It was not premature. The true measure of life is 
 not length of years. It is achievements accomplished in the 
 years which God gives us. 
 
 William McKinley did not reach the three score years and 
 ten, but he was a soldier, a statesman, a member of the 
 National House of Representatives, governor of his State. 
 President of the Republic. He was, living beloved, and dying 
 mourned by more men and mine women than ever loved or 
 mourned any other man. Was not that life a rounded one? 
 
 A few days since in this Chamber memorial exercises were 
 held over one of our late colleagues, the Senator from Michi- 
 gan, Mr. McMillan. Read those eulogies — evidently sincere. 
 
Address of Mr, Frye, of Maine. 61 
 
 in no sense exaggerated — and then tell me, Was not that life 
 complete J 
 
 Judged by that standard, the life of Charles A. Russell 
 was in no sense a failure. He had the affection and confidence 
 of his people. He served them in their assembly, was their 
 secretary of state, was elected by them nine times to the 
 National House of Representatives. In that great body, where 
 competition and rivalry are always intense, where one wears 
 only what one wins and never any more, he secured a con- 
 spicuous position and was recognized as a man of strength 
 and power. He served on many important committees, and 
 at the time of his death was a member of the "Ways and 
 Means." He was regarded as an authority on all questions 
 of revenue. He was constant in his attendance on the House 
 and in committee, and the natural result of that followed — he 
 was a potent factor in legislation. 
 
 He was a good debater. He never wasted words, never 
 talked to the galleries, but his speeches were always made 
 to the subject under discussion — concise, logical, forcible — 
 and they commanded the attention of the House. As a plat- 
 form orator, he was graceful in manner, agreeable in presence, 
 with a pleasant voice, with convictions and ever the courage 
 of them, honest and forcible in utterance, and he invariably 
 commanded the confidence and attention of his audiences. 
 
 As a citizen of Connecticut he early gained the confidence 
 and affection of his fellow-citizens to a most extraordinary 
 degree, regardless of party affiliations, though he himself was 
 a strong party man. He favored by precept and example 
 everything calculated to promote the public welfare, to elevate 
 and improve the condition of the people, to promote religion, 
 education, and temperance. 
 
 In his own home he was delightful, sunny, cheerful, loving 
 
'-' Life and Character of Charles .1. Russell. 
 
 his fireside better than any other place in the world. He was a 
 devoted husband, an affectionate and indulgent father. Death 
 has made that home desolate indeed. 
 
 Mr. President, such sad experiences as these, coming upon 
 us so frequently, ought to admonish each one of us. God's 
 ways are not ours. Each one of us is to cross ' ' The Covered 
 Bridge" at His will, not our own. We have left to us sub- 
 mission to that Divine will and the duty of honest, constant. 
 vigilant endeavor for every day the dear Lord gives us. 
 
Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, 63 
 
 Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts. 
 
 Mr. President: Mr. Rcssell and I entered Congress at the 
 
 same time. He was a native of my State and there received 
 his early education. He graduated at Vale soon after I grad- 
 uated from Harvard. We had, therefore, many associations in 
 common when we first met in Washington, and the friendship 
 then formed was never broken. My contemporary in age and 
 in public service, his untimely death was to me a very personal 
 sorrow, but the sense of personal los>, however deep, is. on an 
 occasion like this, overshadowed by that of the larger loss which 
 has come to the State and nation which Mr. Risski.i. served so 
 faithfully, so well, and with so much distinction. 
 
 He brought to his public service strong character, high prin- 
 ciples, the thorough education of one of our .^reat universities, 
 and the practical training which came from the management 
 of a large industry in a great industrial community. 
 
 Sir Henry Taylor's familiar aphorism that "The world 
 knows nothing of its greatest men" is one of those cheerful 
 falsehoods in which failure finds consolation. But there is 
 much truth in the modified proposition that the world often 
 knows too little of its most useful men. This is especially the 
 case in public life when a man is quiet and modest as Mr. 
 Russell always was, and possesses slight aptitude, if not 
 positive distaste, for the arts of self-advertisement. It is an 
 ancient saying that if you can make the songs of a nation it 
 matters not who makes their laws, and it too often happens 
 that song and speech and writings obscure the labors of those 
 who, with toil and diligence at once incessant and obscure, 
 build up the statutes which embody a nation's policy and 
 
'I Life a/!,/ Charade) of Charles .1. Russell. 
 
 which touch the business and prosperity of all the men and 
 women who dwell within her borders. 
 
 Mr. Russell's work, lor which he deserves not only remem- 
 brance but the gratitude of the country and of his own State. 
 was essentially that oi a lawmaker. For sixteen years he 
 represented in Congress a district composed of a substantial 
 and prosperous New England population; a district with varied 
 industries which demanded the constant and faithful watch- 
 fulness of one who thoroughly understood them. He guarded 
 those interests jealously, yet without losing sight of the broader 
 relationship which a Representative in Congress hears to dis- 
 tricts and States other than his own. At the time of his 
 death he had been tor many years an influential member of 
 the Committee on Ways and Means, and while a member of 
 that committee he bore a conspicuous part in framing the 
 tariff law which is now upon the statute book and under 
 which the country has enjoyed a prosperity and witnessed an 
 expansion of trade such as ii has never known befo 
 
 Just how much of the effectiveness of that measure is due 
 to his painstaking labor and clear intelligence it is hard to 
 sa\ , for the work of a committee is done behind closed doors. 
 That which we surely know is that Mr. Russell was the 
 trusted lieutenant oi Mr. Dingley, who Leaned upon him in 
 those days of harassing responsibility more heavily perhaps 
 than upon any other man. Mr. RuSSELL was in a peculiar 
 sense the representative of New England at that period. The 
 industries of Massachusetts, I know, turned to him as freely 
 as the industries of his own State. They found in him a 
 willing, patient, and never-tiring friend. He labored day by 
 day and night by night upon dr\ schedules and wearying 
 statistics without complaint, and in the full knowledge that 
 the work he performed had in it for him no personal gain 
 
Address of Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts. 65 
 
 and little opportunity for the reputation which glitters in the 
 newspapers and that his only lasting reward must be the 
 consciousness oi duty done. 
 
 He was not an orator, and made no pretense "I being one. 
 He could state a proposition clearly and effectively. His 
 sincerity carried conviction, and he was satisfied with that. 
 The higher flights of oratory he never undertook, and the 
 merely superficial fame that comes to a ready and attractive 
 public speaker he never sought. He was content if he could 
 see the measures he advocated meet with success, no matter 
 whether he received individual credit or not. His public 
 service was thus marked by an unselfishness which is by U0 
 means common. The influence he exerted quietly in a body 
 where unobtrusive helpfulness counts for much was very great 
 indeed. He was looked up to by his associates as a wise and 
 safe adviser, with great strength of character and a fine 
 capacity for accomplishing results. 
 
 IK- was an educated man of business. He had the breadth 
 of view which is fostered by a college training, and the prac- 
 tical sense which comes from business experience, lie tinder- 
 stood well the true relationship of business to public affairs. 
 Although he had been so long in public lite he really stood it 
 the threshold of what promised to be a continued career of 
 ever-broadening usefulness. His death was premature for his 
 country and his friends, for he was in the fullness of his 
 powers and we all hoped and believed that larger fields of 
 achievement and a wider fame were opening ln-fore him. 
 
 The country has lost in him an honorable, able, skillful, 
 and laborious legislator, the State of Connecticut a distin- 
 guished and faithful representative, and those who knew him 
 a beloved and honored friend. 
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66 Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 Address of Mr. Jokes, of Arkansas. 
 
 Mr. President: It is proper that the Senate should lay 
 aside the ordinary public duties, no matter how important or 
 pressing they may be, for the purpose of paying a last tribute 
 of respect to the memory of one who has been a faithful, 
 capable, and honored public servant, and to place upon the 
 record of the proceedings of this body, to last until "time 
 shall be no more," our sense of the public loss in the death 
 of such a man. 
 
 If it was ever true that the good which men do is "oft' 
 interred with their bones." it is not so now. The example 
 of a good man lives after him, and long after he ceases to 
 take a part amongst his fellowmen the good he did during his 
 life will be effective for good and valuable to those who are 
 to follow him. 
 
 I believe that men grow better, more benevolent, more un- 
 selfish, and more public-spirited with the spread of intelligence 
 and the advance of civilization and enlightenment. The dis- 
 trust of and hostility toward each other which characterized 
 men and nations in past ages, which embarrassed and ham- 
 pered all advancement and intercourse, have happily been 
 largely broken down, and the result is that we are rapidly 
 approaching the time dreamed of by poets, in which it will 
 be said that — 
 
 The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd 
 In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. 
 
 Mr. RrssKU. and I differed as widely as possible in our 
 ideas of governmental policy. We lived in sections of the 
 country remote from each other. We each doubtless had 
 something of the prejudices which naturally sprung from our 
 
Address of Mr. Joins, of Arkansas. 67 
 
 environments, but it is a pleasure to me now to say that in 
 all my intercourse with him I always found in him such 
 sterling worth in his private life and public work as com- 
 manded my great respect and admiration. 
 
 He was tenacious of his opinions, certainly, but this was 
 because they were the honest convictions of a deliberate and 
 strong judgment, arrived at after careful consideration ; and 
 while I did not always agree to his conclusions, I knew he 
 was sincere in his beliefs. While he held his convictions as 
 strongly as any man. he was always tolerant of the opinions 
 of those who differed from him, because he believed firmly in 
 the great natural right of all men to think and speak for 
 themselves on all questions and to follow the dictates of their 
 own judgments and consciences. 
 
 It is well for us individually, as well as a nation, and for 
 the future of mankind, that this spirit of toleration of free- 
 dom of thought and speech should have so strong a hold as 
 it has on the great body of the American people: for this 
 mutual regard for the honest convictions which characterizes 
 those who differ will always advance the cause of truth ;m<l 
 honest investigation in any field of human thought. 
 
 There ran in his veins the blood of men who were eminent 
 in their day as leaders of thought and of men, and he, by 
 his private life and public career, added luster to his family 
 history. Though he was comparatively a young man he had 
 accomplished much ; he had, in fact, but just reached the 
 prime and vigor of his intellectual strength, and if lie had 
 been permitted to fill out his full three score years and ten 
 his whole life would doubtless have been full of usefulness. 
 That which must come to us all has come to him. His work 
 is ended ; his career is closed, and his friends have the satis- 
 faction of knowing that he did his full duty and did it well. 
 
Life and Character of Charles A. Russell. 
 
 ADDRESS OF MR. KEAN, OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Mr. President: The story of the well-rounded life of 
 Charles A. Russell, which has been so eloquently described 
 by my distinguished friend from Connecticut, I will not 
 attempt to follow. But I will try to pay in a few words a 
 brief tribute to the memory of a man whom I knew in my 
 younger days and in these later days. 
 
 He and I were students together at Yale — he an upper class 
 man. I an under one. Naturally upper classmen do not 
 iate very much with under classmen; but I knew him 
 then well, and the acquaintance which we formed at that time 
 he .md I kept up to the time of his death. I came to the 
 Fiftieth Congress not a new member, because I had been in 
 the Forty-eighth Conurc->. and he and I renewed in the 
 Fiftieth Congress the friendship we had formed in youth. It 
 was always a pleasure to me to meet him. I admired his 
 ability, and I admired his character, for. as has been so well 
 said by the Senator from Connecticut, he was always faithful. 
 He was a man on whom one could rely in every way, and 
 when he said that he would do a thing he always did it. The 
 best tribute I think that can be paid to his memory is to say 
 that he was faithful. 
 
 Representing a district of great and diversified industries, he 
 knew what it was to deal with different matters and large 
 measures, and how well he did this i> best answered by the 
 result of his work. He possessed qualities which singled him 
 nut among men to do these things. He had not only extraor- 
 dinary ability, but unusual qualifications for the responsibilities 
 that were thrown upon him. 
 
Address of Mr. Kean, of New Jersey. 69 
 
 He was attractive in manner, cheerful in disposition, and 
 endowed with great perseverance. He possessed a kindness of 
 heart which brought to him many friends and helped him in 
 performing the duties which lie did so well. He was for more 
 than sixteen years a member of the House of Representatives, 
 and Connecticut and the people of the United States will miss 
 his -en-ices to-day. He added another to the distinguished 
 names which are on the roll of honor which Connecticut has 
 furnished to the history of this country. 
 
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 Address of Mr. Burrows, of Michigan. 
 
 Mr. PRESIDENT: I can not permit this occasion to pass 
 without joining the Senator from Connecticut and others in 
 paying a brief tribute of respect to the memory of Charles 
 A. Russell, with whom it was my good fortune to be so long 
 associated in the House of Representatives and to whom I 
 became strongly attached during the years of our service 
 together in that body. 
 
 I met Mr. RUSSELL to know him for the first time when he 
 took his seat in the National House of Representatives in 1887 
 as a member of the Fiftieth Congress from the State of Con- 
 necticut. I served with him continuously from that time until 
 1895, a period of eight years, when my connection with that 
 body terminated, and during those years of daily association I 
 necessarily came to know him well, and formed an attachment 
 for him for his manly virtues and admirable traits of character 
 which will remain with me a pleasing memory to the end. 
 
 He entered the House unheralded, although he had held 
 many positions of trust and responsibility in his State, and took 
 the places assigned him on committees without criticism or 
 complaint, and set to work in the conscientious performance of 
 every duty committed to his charge, whether of trifling or great 
 concern, with an intelligence and fidelity which insured the 
 success winch readily awaited him. He never sought to 
 exploit himself or inclined hi- head to catch, if possible, the 
 echoes of popular applause. To all these things he was appar- 
 ently indifferent, solicitous only tor the approval of his own 
 conscience and the commendation of his best judgment. 
 
 Modest, unobtrusive, and retiring, he always seemed devoted 
 
Address oj Mr. Burrows, of Michigan. 71 
 
 to and absorbed in the work he had in hand, with no other 
 thought than to reach such a result as would advance the 
 interests of his State and the weal of his country. To my 
 mind he was an ideal public servant, sinking self and exalting 
 only the great principles of his political faith. He builded his 
 public life on the only sure and enduring foundation — personal 
 integrity and fidelity to duty. 
 
 Step by step, cautiously, but surely, without brag or bluster, 
 he made his way from an humble beginning to a commanding 
 position on the Committee on Ways and Means, where his 
 business training, clear discernment, and sound judgment con- 
 tributed in no small degree to that legislation the fruits of 
 which the nation is now gathering in such abundance. But 
 higher and more enduring than these, by his daily bearing in 
 private and public life he made his way to the respect and con- 
 fidence of the House, and by his genial, lovable nature he 
 made his way to . the hearts of all his associates, where his 
 memory will be forever enshrined. 
 
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 ADDRESS OF MR. ALDRICH, OF RHODE ISLAND. 
 
 Mr. President: Circumstances made me entirely familiar 
 with tlie life and public services of Mr. Russell. The district 
 which he represented so long and so well adjoins Rhode Island 
 on the west. I became familiar with the character of the 
 people of the district — an ideal, prosperous Xew England com- 
 munity — as the early years of my boyhood were spent in the 
 town in which Mr. RUSSELL lived. 1 was naturally interested 
 in the young man who sixteen years as^o came to Washington 
 as their Representative. M\ acquaintance with him. which 
 commenced at that time, led to a friendship which continued 
 until his death. 
 
 Karly in his service in the House Mr. RUSSELL was placed 
 upon the Committee on Ways and Means, and representing 
 as we did similar communities and with a service on similar 
 committees, we naturally had conferences on public questions. 
 I learned to admire the qualities which distinguished Mi. 
 Ri sski.i. among his associates, his fidelity to principle; his 
 industry, which never tired: his devotion to the interests .if 
 his people and to the country, which were never questioned. 
 
 The two men who were most conspicuous in the Committee 
 ul Ways and Means of the House of Representatives in the 
 preparation of the great tariff act of 1897 have now passed 
 away. To what extent his unremitting labors in this connec- 
 tion were responsible for his filial breaking down of health no 
 man can tell. He brought t>> the labors of those long, weary 
 months of preparation an intelligent knowledge and appreci- 
 ation of vast numbers of important questions involved in the 
 work of tariff revision. 
 
Address of Mr. Aldrtch, of Rhode Island. 73 
 
 He had at all times the full confidence of his associates. 
 
 Through these and similar associations I came to know 
 Mr. RrssKLL well, and I have never known in public life a 
 more thorough and absolute devotion to the highest ideals of 
 public sen-ice than were to be found in the late Representative 
 from Connecticut. 
 
 Mr. Platt, of Connecticut. Mr. President, as there are 
 other eulogies to follow. I ask that the further consideration 
 of the resolutions which I introduced may be passed by for 
 the present. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The chair hears no objection. 
 
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 Mr. PlaTT, of Connecticut. Mr. President, I move the 
 adoption of the several resolutions which have been considered 
 this afternoon. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and ( at 5 
 o'clock and 15 minutes p. m. ) the Senate adjourned. 
 
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