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 WALTER P. BROWNLOW 
 
 (Late a Representative from Tennessee) 
 
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 MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 
 
 DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
 TIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 U- SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS 
 THIRD SESSION 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 February- 19, 1911 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 
 December 6, 1910 
 
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 THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the House 5 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 6 
 
 Memorial addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 8 
 
 Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 16 
 
 Mr. Houston, of Tennessee 21 
 
 Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 26 
 
 Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 30 
 
 Mr. Ryrns, of Tennessee 34 
 
 Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 40 
 
 Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 51 
 
 Mr. Sims, of Tennessee 54 
 
 Mr. Cannon, of Illinois 59 
 
 Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 61 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 67 
 
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DEATH OF HON. WALTER P. BROWNLOW 
 
 Proceedings in the House 
 
 December 5, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Massey. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolu- 
 tions. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Tennessee offers 
 the following resolutions, which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, late a Representative 
 from the State of Tennessee. 
 
 Resolved, That the Cleric of the House be directed to transmit a 
 copy of these resolutions to the Senate and send a copy thereof to 
 the family of the deceased. 
 
 The resolutions were agreed to. 
 
 Mr. Ransdell of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I offer the 
 following resolution. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Louisiana offers a 
 resolution, which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
 the deceased Senators and Representatives the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
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MhMDHiAi. Adohesses: Hi;i'hi:sentative Bhowni.ow 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. Accordingly (at 12 
 o'clock and 49 minutes p. ni.), the House adjourned until 
 12 o'clock noon to-morrow. 
 
 December 6, 1910. 
 
 The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered 
 the following prayer: 
 
 Almighty Father, ever ready and willing to hear the 
 prayers of Thy children, we draw near to Thee, seeking 
 Thy blessing that we may know Thy will and have the 
 disposition and the strengtli to do it that we may fulfill 
 tile obligations of the hour. 
 
 Be very near, we beseech Thee, to all who are in sorrow 
 and distress everywhere. Especially be very near to the 
 families of those who were bereft of their dear ones dur- 
 ing the recess and whom we knew as Members of this 
 House to love and respect. Help them and us to look 
 forward with bright anticipations to that other life where 
 we shall dwell together in peace and liappiness forever, 
 througii Jesus Clirist our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Jamaky 10. li»ll. 
 
 Mr. Massev. Mr. Speaker. I offer llir following order. 
 Tlic Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Ordered. Tliat .Sundav. tlic Htlli day of February, 1011. at 12 
 o'clock noon, be set apart for adilrcsscs on tbc life, character, 
 and public services of the Hon. \V. 1*. Bhownlow, late a Repre- 
 senlalivc from the Stale of Tennessee. 
 
 Tlu' or<ler was agreed to. 
 
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Proceedings in the House 
 
 February 19, 1911. 
 
 Mr. Gordon took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 Mi-. Massey. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resohitions (H. Res. 
 983) wliich I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
 that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of the 
 Hon. Walter Preston Brownlow, late a Representative from the 
 State of Tennessee. 
 
 Resolved, That the next adjournment of the House shall be 
 considered a particular mark of respect to the memory of the 
 deceased. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
 Senate. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
 the family of the deceased. 
 
 The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 
 
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MEiMORL\L ADDRESSES 
 
 Address of Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: 1 rise lor the purpose of paying an 
 humble tribute to the memorj' of my predecessor in this 
 House and to voice, inadequately though it Ije, tlie deep 
 sense of the irreparal)le loss sustained l)y the people not 
 only of the first congressional district of Tennessee, but 
 the entire State, in tiie demise of my distinguished pred- 
 ecessor, Hon. W. P. Brownlow. 
 
 Walter Preston Brownlow was one of my most 
 devoted jjersonal friends, and I admirt'd him as one of 
 the ablest, most useful, and resourceful public men I ever 
 knew. From our first meeting I was attracted to him; I 
 never knew a man who possessed in so high a degree that 
 indefinable (lualily termed "personal magnetism"; 1 at 
 once became his friend, and 1 take jiride in saying tliat 
 friendshij) was reciprocated. 1 cliam])ioned liim in all 
 ol' Ills conflicts, some of llu in uiosl strenuous aiul hiltrr, 
 tliough all of a successfid character; and 1 take pride in 
 the fact liiat I, in the language of my own beloved moun- 
 tain people, " stood l)y him through tliick and tliin." 
 
 Mr. Speaker, 1 not only adniii-ed and lilved Mr. Huown- 
 l.ow, Init 1 Io\((l him. and the passing years increasi'd 
 rather than diminislK d my friendship for him. 1 appre- 
 ciated his wonderfid ability and ha<l the utmost con- 
 lldence in him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Brownlow was born on the 27th day of March, 
 1851, at Abingdon, Va., the county seat of Washington 
 County, and within 15 miles of the line separating the 
 Slate of Virginia from the district he had the honor to 
 represent. The place of his birth, as we all know, is 
 historic, and now more than historic in the hearts of the 
 people of the first district of Tennessee. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, since Tennessee's admission to our great 
 Federal Union, 115 years ago, no one has represented my 
 district in Congress as long as did Mr. Brownlow, with 
 the exception of the Hon. John Rhea, and, had Mr, 
 Brownlow lived, he would have surpassed Mr. Rhea's 
 period in length of service. Mr. Brownlow had been 
 nominated for an eighth term in a district where the 
 nomination of his party is equivalent to an election of 
 from ten to fifteen thousand majority. The people of 
 my district were strong adherents of the Union cause in 
 the Civil War and furnished to the Federal Army more 
 soldiers than any district in the United States— all 
 white — and under the leadership of Mr. Brownlow the 
 Republican majority has been increased some 15,000. 
 His supporters were not confined to his own party. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, until Mr. Brownlow came to Congress 
 the first congressional district of Tennessee had never had 
 a dollar of public money appropriated for any purpose, 
 but during the time he served he had established a fish 
 hatchery at Erwin, Tenn.; a public building at Bristol, a 
 rapidly growing city of about 20,000; a public building at 
 Greeneville and another at Johnson City, all among the 
 most prosperous and growing cities of the South. He 
 also caused to be established at Greeneville, Tenn., the 
 burial place of former President Andrew Johnson, a 
 fourth-class national cemetery, the only one of this class 
 ever established by the Federal Government. There was 
 a poetic justice in this tribute to Andrew Johnson. He 
 
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Memokiai. Addrkssks: Representative Browxi.ow 
 
 rendered, as we all know, invaluable service to his coun- 
 try', whicli was recognized by the National Union Con- 
 vention of 18()1 at Baltimore, when he was nominated for 
 Vice President on the ticket headed by the immortal 
 Lincoln. 
 
 And, Mr. Speaker, in addition to all this, Mr. Brown- 
 Low had erected in his district, at a cost of •'?2,100,()()0. a 
 National Soldiers' Home, and this home was the pride of 
 his whole life. It is situated in one of the most beautiful 
 sections of the mountains of east Tennessee, where the 
 atmosphere is the most desirable and the water bears 
 the finest test as to purity. The climate is unequaled. 
 and one of the greatest pleas rendered by Mr. Brownlow 
 before the American Congress for the establishment of 
 this home was that it would be located in a latitude the 
 most desirable in the country, being 1,G00 feel above sea 
 level. He was so much interested in this home that he 
 and his wife lived tliere, notwithstanding that he owiud a 
 home of his own at Jonesboro, Tenn., one of the most 
 palatial in upper east Tennessee, and his pride in tliis 
 home was evidenced by his dying request that he be 
 buried in its cemetery by the side of the Union veterans, 
 for whose comfort and in whose interest he had it estab- 
 lished. After he had viewed its final completion he was 
 not satisfied, but his everj' tliought was for the well- 
 being of its inmates, who were not only tlie veterans of 
 the Union Army, hiil (if tiie Spanish-American War. 
 including many of tiie sons of old Confederate veterans. 
 First, lie coiu-tived liie idea of furiiisliiiig reading matter 
 for tiie iiimales. so lie wrote to llial iidIiIc plii!:intiiiiii)ist. 
 Andrew C.arnegie. requesting tiiat he contriiiiite to tlie 
 erecticMi ol the library building, and in answer to lliis 
 appeal tie received a check <if .'r2r).(KK) for Ilie lihiary 
 building; witli lliis sum he had erected a splendid build- 
 ing, superior -because of Ihc cheapness of building 
 
Address of Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 
 
 material in Tennessee — of any that could have been 
 erected in other sections of the country for the same 
 money. To get books for this library — there being no 
 public money for the purpose — Mr. Brownlow wrote to 
 all the leading publishing houses in the country, and in 
 response to this appeal he received 16,000 volumes of the 
 best literature of the world in history, poetiy, and fiction. 
 
 In addition to this it occurred to Mr. Brownlow^ that in 
 the hospital in this home the old soldier, left alone in the 
 world, without having those he had loved the most 
 around him, should have something more than bare walls 
 to look upon while sick, and he wrote to the leading art 
 firms, describing, as only Mr. Brownlow could describe, 
 the home, and asked them to contribute one or more 
 works of art, framed; and in answer to this request he 
 received valuable works of art, sufBcient to cover the 
 walls of the hospital. Then, again, it occurred to this 
 man of wonderful resource and brain that the old soldier 
 should have music during his declining years, and while 
 on his sick bed lie wrote to many firms in this line, 
 requesting that they contribute to this grand cause, and 
 in response to this appeal he immediately received valu- 
 able pianos and other musical instruments. But, not yet 
 feeling that his work was complete, he procured, without 
 cost to the Government, one of the best artists in the 
 country to fresco and decorate the dining room. This 
 was done in elaborate style, and for beauty and work is 
 unequaled in the South, or, I might say, in the entire 
 countiy. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I mention these details to show the intense 
 interest he had in this noble institution. In the very 
 center of our glorious Southland he has placed this mag- 
 nificent home, an object lesson and typical of the gen- 
 erosity of our glorious Republic; and in this connection 
 I might say that a movement is now on foot to erect a 
 
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Memorial Addresses : Rehresentati\'E Brownlow 
 
 monument lo the memory of Mr. Brownlow. But while 
 I am heartily in sympatliy with the movement, and look 
 forward with pride lu the unveiling of this monument, 
 at the same time no monument of stone or marble is 
 needed to jjerpetuate his memory in tlie liearts of the 
 people of our country, as the National Soldiers' Home at 
 Johnson City, Tenn., will ever stand as a monument to 
 his untiring energ)-, brain power, and love for his fellow 
 beings. 
 
 As tilt' days that conu- into the lives of these men 
 Cause them to lose their years and are young again, 
 When tiie wrinkles flee from the careworn face 
 And the smiles that flow have unwonted grace, 
 These are the days when life is sweet, 
 When past and present and future meet, 
 To hlend in a halo of heavenly light 
 And crown all things with a glory hright. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Mr. Brownlow in liis private life was 
 above reproach; he lived for those around and about him. 
 I believe, Mr. Sj^eaker, if a man ever. lived a life of silf- 
 denial and devoted his life to his family, friends, and 
 country, that man was Walter Preston Bro\\'nlow. He 
 believed tliat in "casting Iiis i)read upon tlie waters it 
 would be returned to him many days hence." In this 
 connection 1 wish to speak of a little incitient in his life, 
 tolti me by his wife several years before he was elected 
 to ("-(ingress. A newspaiur ;irlii.lf one inuiiiiiiL; de- 
 nounced liim in very seatliiiig terms, and ii|iiin liis naeh- 
 ing home liis wile said, " Did you see this article, 
 Walter? " and he reiiMtd, " Yes, my dear." " Well," said 
 Ids wife, " what are yon going to do alioul il ? " To \\ liieli 
 he replied, " I siiall do iiolliiiig about il." " Well, why 
 won't you do anytiiing about it'.'" "Because, my tiear, 
 if I stop Id lake up all sucli matlirs as tliis 1 will never 
 reach the place to whicli 1 liave starlet!." " l"or w iial 
 
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Address of Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 
 
 place have you started? " To which he replied, "The 
 United States Congress." 
 
 As to whether he took the wisest course, I leave to the 
 decision of his friends in the first district of Tennessee 
 and in the United States Congress. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, as previously intimated, Mr. Brownlow 
 needs no monument of marble and stone to perpetuate 
 his memory, for above all this is the affectionate and 
 grateful regard and love of the people whom he so long 
 and so faithfully represented. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I desire to have published in the Congres- 
 sional Record, as an appendix to my speech on our dis- 
 tinguished and much-loved Congressman, Hon. W. P. 
 Brownlow, the speech made by the Rev. Dr. Ruble, chap- 
 lain of the National Soldiers' Home in Tennessee, which 
 is as follows: 
 
 ADDRESS OF REV. J. A. RUBLE, CHAPLAIN MOUNTAIN BRANCH SOLDIERS' 
 HOME, DELIVERED AT FUNERAL OF HON. W. P. BROWNLOW, JULY 
 11, 1910. 
 
 Our subject is a character at once great and unique. Losing his 
 father at 10 years of age, with the handicap of poverty, as well 
 as lack of early educational opportunities, nevertheless we see 
 him rising until his name and influence became truly national. 
 This is impossible anywhere except in a Republic, and rarely 
 occurs here. 
 
 May we pause in the presence of the newly stirred earth to 
 inquire how this occurs. In the exigencies of war, men attain 
 dazzling heights, becoming really great with almost abrupt sud- 
 denness, but Col. Brownlow launched his bark on a placid sea, 
 and amid the tranquil environments of peace did a work and 
 reached an influence which will render his name immortal, giving 
 him an exalted and permanent place among our national legisla- 
 tors. Estimated by his influence on the lawmaking power of one 
 of the world's greatest nations, by what he achieved for his peo- 
 ple, and also by his helpfulness in achievement for the whole 
 Nation, we can but feel that he was truly great. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Brownlow 
 
 That Nvc may better understand llie work and worth of this 
 man, let us pause a moment for analysis and comparison. Serv- 
 ing in Congress for 14 years, it is probable that history will attest 
 the truthfulness of the statement that no other Congressman has 
 been able to do more for his people, and but very few as much. 
 Again, sec him as he stands related to the many great illustrious 
 lawmakers furnished by the grand old Volunteer State in her 
 history spanning a period of more than a century of years. 
 
 Disclaiming a purpose, and deeply desiring to avoid being 
 invidious, love for his memory and loyalty to truth will allow the 
 statement that no other has ever wrought so fruitfully or achieved 
 so much. Endowed far beyond the ordinary with resources 
 almost limitless, lie brought to his task untiring industry. He 
 studied the needs of the people of his State and of the Nation, 
 and in a continuous effort he dedicated his splendid powers of 
 brain and heart to supply them, which effort was crowned with 
 marvelous success. 
 
 The Mountain Branch of tlie Nationiil lloinc for Disabled Vol- 
 unteer Soldiers, with its cost of more than !?2,0(I0,(I()(), located near 
 Johnson City, Tenn., and which Corpl. Tanner, in the address on 
 Decoration Day, May 30, 1910, characterized "Among all the 
 branches of the National Soldiers' Home you stand as the cap- 
 sheaf," the National Cemetery, located at Greeneville, Tenn., where 
 repose the mortal remains of President Andrew Joimson, known 
 among his people as the " Great Commoner," the fisli hatchery at 
 Erwin, Federal buildings at Bristol, Johnson City, and Greeneville, 
 stand as monuments to his genius for hard and successful work. 
 
 He worked more hours per day and took less rest than any 
 other man the speaker has ever known, and the fact lliat " liis sun 
 has gone down while it is yet day" attests the truth, well known 
 among his friends, he died a martyr to hard work. 
 
 A most noleworliiy characteristic of this juiblic servant was his 
 sympathetic heart power. Greatness of intellect renders achieve- 
 ment possible, but where this is reenforced by the warmth of 
 heart power success is far greater and more satisfactory. 
 
 Iiilo his great heart all classes and conditions of the ixniile 
 coulil enter and be made welcome without ringing the door bell. 
 In the many, many that we have seen approach him, from the 
 worthy old veteran on crutches to the struggling laborer, whose 
 family was then sulVeriiig for the necessaries of life, he never 
 
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Address of Mr. Massey, of Tennessee 
 
 turned one away wounded, but when he could do no more he 
 would send them away with the memory of a brother's tear. 
 
 He was truly national. In the points which diflferentiate the 
 great parties he was Republican, but as Congressman he was the 
 servant of all, and in his efforts to discharge the duties of accepted 
 responsibility his efforts had in them far more of business than 
 of sentimental politics, and while the congressional district which 
 he served was a historic battleground in the sad and stormy days 
 of the sixties, the position of this people being peculiar in that 
 they were radically divided in their sympathies, many loving and 
 clinging to the Confederate cause, more loving and clinging to 
 the cause of the Union, thus causing the desolating waves of grim 
 visaged war to sweep back and forth like a simoon, leaving the 
 hates and prejudices as a blighting inheritance to the good people, 
 here his marvelous influence as a peacemaker is seen and felt, 
 so that when the end came the people, irrespective of party, felt 
 that they had lost a real friend. 
 
 He was a firm believer in the Bible, believing that Jesus Christ 
 stands for the highest good in the universe. He always felt and 
 showed the greatest reverence for sacred things, and as the end 
 approached he expressed faith in the spiritual and eternal, prayed 
 earnestly and much, and invoked the prayers of others. 
 
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Address of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The \\l\- ol' W.alter Preston Brownlow 
 presents a most interesting and unique history. In its 
 varied lines and endeavors it forms a hook of life that 
 deserves study and admiration. Everj' incident and 
 event in this remarkable man's life, from his early youth 
 to manhood, marks him as possessed of an energ\', deter- 
 mination, and courage that never hesitated or faltered 
 when (hlliculties, obstacles, or embarrassments were 
 encountered — and there were more of them in iiis life 
 than any public man of my acquaintance — and no one 
 nu't liieni more courageously and more successfully liian 
 \N'.\LTER P. Brownlow. 
 
 Like a great many of the great and distinguished jjublic 
 men of our country, his educational opportunities were 
 very limited, hut he eminently j)ossessed as a natural gift 
 a fund of good common sense and judgment of men and 
 things that a curriculum of colli'ge life could nt)t bestow. 
 It is said, and it is li iic. tliat tlu' Ii\is, charactt r, and dis- 
 position of men are formed and shaped irresistibly by 
 the conditions, events, and circumstances that surround 
 them in llie deviloping period of youtli. it was not so 
 with Mr. Brownlow. He was reari d midst liu' storms of 
 passion, bloodshed, violence, and liatud. Ih:il split asun- 
 <ier the |)eoi)Ie of east Teinu'ssie in llif r\il (i:iys of llie 
 Civil War, from IStil to ISCm. 
 
 His tiislinguisiied uncle. William (i. iJiow nlow, with 
 the potent picsligf of llic Kiiiiwilli Wliii.;, ol wliiili lie 
 was the famous editor and o\\ in r, was an uiiexcelli'd 
 factor in retaining tin' loyalty of liis peoj)le for the cause 
 of tlie Union. Walter, his nephew, embraced with all 
 
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Address of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 
 
 his heart the cause of the Union. Manj', a great many, 
 of his neighbors, friends to his own family, his associ- 
 ates, gave their hands and hearts to tlie cause of the South. 
 All the horrors of an internecine local war, more so than 
 in any of the border States of the South, were enacted in 
 the mountains of east Tennessee. But when peace came 
 and the cause of the Union had triumphed, I affirm with 
 confidence that no trace of harshness, no feeling of resent- 
 ment for the South or its brave followers, ever found an 
 abode in the generous and kind heart of Walter P. 
 Brownlow. He was in the broad acceptation of the term 
 a southern man, with a heart of yearning sympathy for 
 the people of the South. He was always ready and will- 
 ing with hand and heart to use his great influence in 
 Congress to help his southern colleagues. That was said 
 of hiin by all men who knew him. 
 
 Mr. Brownlow demonstrated in his successful career 
 that he was a great leader of men. No man environed 
 and besieged with as bitter and hostile political factions, 
 constantly seeking his overthrow, could have defeated 
 their machinations, save a great masterly political genius 
 that made no blunders or mistakes. His triumphs in the 
 first Tennessee congressional district are simply a mar- 
 velous record, and it is not the province of a brief sketch 
 like this to present even its outlines. He was in all 
 respects and in all things a loyal Republican, true to the 
 edicts of his party, its platforms, and principles. Neces- 
 sarily his success aroused jealousies and envies and made 
 for him many strong and bitter enemies, but his true and 
 steadfast friends were far more numerous. He was 
 elected seven times in succession to Congress, and twice 
 the Republican Party of Tennessee conferred on him the 
 honor of a nomination to the United States Senate, and 
 the Republican members of the Tennessee Legislature 
 gave him their cordial support. 
 
 1658°— 11- 
 
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Mkmokiai. Addui.ssks: Rki'resentative Bhowni.ow 
 
 In many respects the strenuous struggles that Mr. 
 Brownlow encountered in life and successfully overcome 
 created a strong resemblance to the life of Andrew John- 
 son, one of the ablest public men produced by our coun- 
 trj'. No two null engaged actively in the live politics of 
 the State of Tennessee during the span of their natural 
 lives were the continuous targets of bitter political fac- 
 tional warfare in their own parties so much as Andrew 
 Johnson and Walter P. Brownlow. The eminent suc- 
 cess of each of these two men is an interesting and 
 instructive chapter in the political history of Tennessee. 
 They both have demonstrated what an American youth, 
 unarmed and unequipped in education and unaided by 
 wealth and influential friends, can accomplish in life by 
 an energj- that never tires and a determination whose 
 only end is success. It is doubtless true that the most 
 valuable lessons of education are acquired by men who 
 tread such thorny paths, beset with troubles and snares. 
 But the simile between these two noted men, whose tur- 
 bulent political careers are more familiar to the people 
 of Tennessee than of other States of the Union, is that in 
 all tile factional political wars made on each of them 
 no opponent — no personal or political enemy— no one 
 was ever heard to charge that one cent of public money 
 had ever ciiuig iiiipropirly to tluir liaiuls. Tluy wire 
 honest, and tluir constituents knew it. And it was tliis 
 trail (if cliaracter, unimpeaclu d and unimpeachable, thai 
 was tiu- crowning factor of tlic tiiiim|)Iis of tlic IIms of 
 Andrew Johnson and W.vltlr l\ HiiuwM.uw. 
 
 If we judgi' public servants by their achievenuiits in 
 behalf of liuir constiluints, thi ii ^\\■. IhuiwNi.ow easily 
 takes first rank among soutlurn stalisiiun of the jjast .")() 
 years. He nnuK- frw si)ieclus in ("ongnss, but he did 
 his work in a i|iiirt. calm, dignilled, courteous manner 
 that iiiadi- him liirnds and achif\r<l success. Howi-vi-r 
 
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Address of Mr. Richardson, of Alabama 
 
 nauch he loved Tennessee and the Union of States, yet his 
 first and greatest love was for the people of the first 
 Tennessee congressional district. He believed that the 
 people of his district justly deserved liberal appropria- 
 tions from the Federal Treasury for needful improve- 
 ments, and without ostentation or vain boastings his 
 efforts were rewarded with a marvelous success. My 
 first acquaintance with Mr. Brownlow was in January, 
 1901, soon after I entered Congress. The bill for the 
 establishment of the National Soldiers' Home at Johnson 
 City, Tenn., was under consideration before the House of 
 Representatives, and after many speeches on the floor 
 the vote was about to be taken. He came on the Demo- 
 cratic side and took his seat by me. He said to me in a 
 sincere and earnest tone: "I need one more speech for 
 my bill, and it must come from a Confederate soldier 
 who saw service on the field of battle. Won't you make 
 it for me?" I consented, made the speech, and the bill 
 was passed. With his face beaming with a happy, bright 
 smile, he came to me, grasped my hand, and said, " Call 
 on me whenever I can serve you or your people." 
 
 And as I recall the 10 years of service with him in Con- 
 gress that followed, no man could have more cheerfully 
 and willingly fulfilled the promise he made me. 
 
 Several beautiful Government buildings, the Soldiers' 
 Home and a fish hatchery, and many other substantial 
 monuments located in the first Tennessee congressional 
 district, representing an expenditure of millions of dollars 
 from the Federal Treasury, stand as silent tributes to the 
 fidelity of Walter P. Brownlow to the interests of the 
 people who honored and trusted him so long. It was 
 his success, his devotion to his public duties, that won for 
 him that confidence of his people; that caused the poi- 
 soned shafts of political enemies to fall harmless at his 
 feet. His success and his achievements in Congress 
 
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 bewildered and confounded the schemes of envious men 
 who sought liis overthrow. In his puhlic life the ines- 
 timable value of a people's confidence was well demon- 
 strated and empliasized. His death marked tlie fall of 
 one of the most noted of the many great men that Tennes- 
 see has produced. It is now, after he is gone, that the full 
 measure of tlie man and liis works can he fully under- 
 stood and appreciated. His place will he hard to fill. 
 
 He has passed forever from the scenes of his struggles 
 and victories. He sleeps in the grounds of the Soldiers' 
 Home at Johnson City, Tenn. It was eminently jiroper 
 to bury him there, for tlie home was the creation of his 
 own indefatigable energy. It was the pride of his heart. 
 The brave, war-scarred veterans of the Inion Army, who 
 are kindly and gratefully sheltered by that beautiful 
 home by a liberal and generous Government, can well 
 afford to pause midst the scenes of their departing lives 
 and shed a tear over the grave of W.\lter P. Brownlow. 
 
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Address of Mr. Houston, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I came to-day to offer my tribute to the 
 memory of my deceased friend and colleague. 
 
 Few names have been more familiar to the people of 
 Tennessee for the last quarter of a century than that of 
 Walter P. Brownlow. While he lived in the extreme 
 eastern part of the State, his name was familiar to every 
 section and in every county of our Commonwealth. Not 
 onlj' was he known and honored by his own party during 
 these years, but the people of all parties were familiar 
 with his name and with his work, and looked upon him 
 with admiration and respect. For many years he was a 
 strong and controlling factor in the Republican Party 
 of Tennessee. While his influence was dominant in the 
 party, he was familiarly, and I might say affectionately, 
 called the " easy boss," and this expression was significant 
 of the manner and way he exercised power and even con- 
 trol in his party. While he was a Republican, he was 
 more essentially a Tennesseean and a southerner. No 
 interest of Tennessee, no interest of the South ever 
 appealed to him in vain. In his loyalty to his section he 
 was unfailing, and he brought into activity a vigor, a per- 
 sistence, and determination to be of service to his people 
 that has rarely been excelled. His lusty intellectual and 
 physical manhood was untiring in his efforts to promote, 
 their interests, and the success that attended these efforts 
 has been surpassed by few men in his time. There are 
 many monuments to his untiring labors in east Tennessee 
 and elsewhere. My colleague who has preceded me has 
 
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Mkmokial Addkkssks : Hi;iMti;si:MAri\i'. BiunvM.ow 
 
 called attention to many of them. These will stand as 
 testimonials of his devotion to his country and the success 
 that attended liis efTorts. His huoyant nature, his strong 
 faith, and invincible will gave to him an energy and a 
 courage that never failed, and in the accomplishment of 
 his purpose few men wrought better than he. 
 
 Descended from that hardy pioneer slock that won 
 the Battle of Kings Mountain Walter P. Brownlow 
 inlierited the patriotism tliat inspired his life and, reared 
 in the mountains of east Tennessee, his character was 
 marked by that hardy patriotism and invincible will that 
 comes naturally from such antecedents and surroundings. 
 
 My acquaintance with him covered a period of many 
 years in a casual way, and, while I had seen but little of 
 him personally until 1 came to the Fift>--ninth Congress, 
 I knew much of his public service. He loved his countrj' 
 and he loved his fellow men. He was devoted to the 
 public- interest and few nun served it more diligently or 
 accomplished so much in llir way of acquiring material 
 benefits for his people. In addition to this he loved his 
 fellow men and his life was full of good deeds and kindly 
 ministrations. He loved to render assistance and to 
 extend the helping hand, and untold numbers bear testi- 
 mony in their hearts to the kind deeds and generous help 
 of this kindly man. Few men gave so much of their 
 time to aid and lielp those in trouble and few men liter- 
 ally cared for so many people. N\) man was more loyal 
 to his party or more iiitensily a believer in ils doctrine, 
 yet iHi Minn lusitali'd less to step across parly lines to 
 sup|>()rt a nu asuri' lii' believed was rigid. 
 
 lie was cssiiitially suutlurn in all of his instincts. He 
 loved tlie Soulii with all the strength ol liis great luart 
 and lie stctnd by her interests as he saw it regartiless of 
 paitv ties. It was his misfdrlune that the He|)ulilieaii 
 Party in his ow n State was ilividid in factions in the last 
 
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Address of Mr. Houston, of Tennessee 
 
 years of his life; and being an ardent and earnest man, 
 he incurred the strong opposition of one faction of his 
 party. This opposition, I think, will now be recognized 
 as a political antagonism only, and I believe those of the; 
 opposing faction to him will lose sight of their former 
 differences and now remember only the ardent, generous, 
 kindly man; and that now, after life's fitful fever is over 
 and he has been laid to rest in the mountains of his own 
 native country, his personal virtues, his warm heart, and 
 his generous devotion to his friends and his country will 
 be the characteristics that are remembered. 
 
 For many years I have had a warm and intimate rela- 
 tionship with some members of his family connections 
 and have had occasion to know much of the place he 
 held in their hearts and their regard for him, and the 
 affectionate pride with which they looked upon him; and 
 this is a testimonial of his inner life that furnishes one 
 of the best tests to the real man. Those who knew him 
 best in his home life, as well as in his public walks, 
 believed in him with a faith and confidence that amounted 
 to veneration. And, after all, the love and confidence of 
 those who know the home life is the best evidence and 
 truest test of the real man. 
 
 The public life of this man is a striking example of 
 what may be done and accomplished by indomitable will 
 and never-tiring energy. He was born of a family that 
 were among the striking characters and distinguished 
 figures in the historj" of Tennessee. His early life was 
 surrounded with stirring events and great political agita- 
 tion. He was thrown upon his own resources at an early 
 and tender age, and he made his way, step by step, over- 
 coming difficulties, and steadily forged to the front. He 
 seemed equal to every condition and made headway in 
 every struggle from apprentice boy, locomotive engineer, 
 newspaper reporter, and editor to various positions of 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Browm.ow 
 
 honor and responsibility in his own party and finally to 
 the position of Rcpreseiitiitive in this House. Here he 
 found the field for his great energy and activity, and in 
 this position his work for his section and his country was 
 remarkably successful. Few Members of Congress have 
 done more for their districts than he. He was a working 
 Member of Congress. He was not given to much speak- 
 ing on the floor of the House, and rarely could it be 
 charged to iiini that he wasted the time of the House in 
 futile declamation or vain discussion. But when the 
 occasion arose upon questions close to his heart, espe- 
 cially those all'ecting the interest of his own section, he 
 showed a vigor and power of a high order. One notable 
 occasion of this was wluii lu' IkhI a measure pending 
 before the House to protect and preserve the buying 
 place of Andrew Johnson, which lies in the district which 
 was represented by Mr. Brownlow. 
 
 There developed on the floor a good deal of opposition 
 among the members of his own party to the proposed 
 legislation, and it looked as if the bill would be di-feated; 
 but Mr. Brownlow came to the rescue with a vigor and 
 an eloquence that surprised the Members of the House. 
 In paying a tribute to llie loyally of east Tennessee, he 
 described the conditions under which the boys from the 
 mountains and valleys of east Tennessee enlisted in the 
 liiion Army, showing that it was not done to the " roll 
 of the stirring (h'uni and tlie truni])et that sings of fanu-," 
 jjul tiiat tile l)i)ys received their mothers' blessings 
 seciiliy at liic i)aek door and told their sweithearls good- 
 bye down by the spring by the light of tlie stars, and made 
 their way to the Federal Army in secret and under cover 
 of nigiit. The clfcil of liis words on this occasion gained 
 fur his bill the supjjort that secured its passage. Tills 
 was an example of llii' sircnglh he couhl bring to bear 
 when the occasion demanded. 
 
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Address of Mr. Houston, of Tennessee 
 
 The career of Walter P. Brownlow is but another 
 striking example of what may be accomplished by will 
 and resolution. Without the advantages in early life 
 that come from wealth and fortune, without these he 
 struck out on his own resources. He had vigor of mind 
 and body, and boldly he set forth with an ambition and 
 faith that never faltered; and with this capital he 
 wrought, and thus he developed the strong man that over- 
 came difliculties and commanded the confidence and 
 support of his countrymen. 
 
 The friends that he had and their loyalty to him bear 
 testimony to his own unfailing devotion to his friends. 
 
 In middle age, long before his life had reached the 
 allotted span, he was called to go. His years, though 
 not great in number, were stirring and eventful, and his 
 life, measured by the deeds done and work accomplished, 
 reached a full standard. 
 
 His taking off in the prime of life and the sudden ter- 
 mination of a career but lately so buoyant with expecta- 
 tion and full of promise is another reminder that at any 
 hour the summons may come, and bids us stand ready for 
 the call. These dispensations are dark and inscrutable 
 to us, but let us hope that to him there is no shadow, no 
 mysterj', but that all is glorified with that Light that is 
 neither of the sun, the moon, nor the stars. 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In im-inory ol ihv distinguished Member 
 from Tennessee, Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, I desire to 
 speak a few words and to present an attribute of his 
 character which strongly ajjpcals to nic, and which my 
 colleagues here and his friends elsewhere appear to 
 regard as among his most distinguishing traits. 
 
 As saiil in Tennyson's In Memoriain, he \\as the man 
 of " the larger heart, the kindlier hand." 
 
 This life is a pleasant vale between the dreamless work! 
 of the unborn and the undreamed-of world of those who 
 die no more. Coming into it. the ("nator louelus our 
 existence with an immortal spark; and if we cherish this 
 as the years come and go, it becomes a light whose color 
 and bi'illiance distinguish us I'rom our fellows. 
 
 This Member from Tennessee attraeltd us all to iiini 
 by the simple manliness of his character, the unsullied 
 gentrosity of his nature, the kindliness of his pin-poses, 
 and his helpfulness. Every man has a great gallery of 
 memories, which begins with the earliest recollection and 
 continues to his latest hour. On llu walls of that galKry 
 are pictures that memory has painted of the things tlial 
 have attracted liim most, of the ])ersons whom lu' has 
 loved best. 
 
 Tberi' is a memory picture' of his mother before which 
 countless pt'r|)etual camlles burn, each lit in lioiior of 
 some act of her changiless and unsiHish care and love. 
 And in seipunci- a|)pear jjiclures hung tlureof the dreams 
 of youth and Hie purposes of manhood by ambitions and 
 ideals, of (k'eds of love or might, by faith and hoi)i'. so 
 that if wc could enter and, passing Ihi-ough. survey them 
 all we WDuld know cacli heart as it is known li> the 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 recording angel. Into this holy place few are ever 
 admitted. Onlj^ personal love or personal attraction 
 opens such doors, for herein is disclosed the naked soul 
 of man. Sometimes in great public stress or by reason 
 of personal affection the gallery is opened and we stand 
 before the hidden thoughts and the secret places of a 
 human soul. It was my fortune once on an occasion to 
 see the man in whose solemn memorj^ we hold these serv- 
 ices open his heart, and the beauty of that inmost pic- 
 ture and the gloiy of its illumination have lingered in 
 my memory. The act done was not one of great distinc- 
 tion, but rather one of the kindliness most characteristic 
 of true manliness, a helping of the helpless, a hand 
 stretched out in aid when there seemed to be none that 
 heard. I have read that the blue dome that spreads 
 above us, the inverted cup of the sky, gets its color from 
 the tiniest particles of dust arising from the surface of 
 the earth or drifting in from interstellar space; that the 
 pencils of white light coming from the sun, containing 
 all the rays of light, have broken out from them their 
 feeblest ray — the little blue ray — and that the particles 
 of dust, like swinging mirrors in the sky, fill all the 
 expanse of heaven with color grateful to the eye and 
 alluring to the heart as the symbol of universal love and 
 trust. 
 
 I have read further that the moisture rising from the 
 ground is invisible, and that it can not condense except 
 upon a foreign substance; that it floats in the sky until 
 condensed on the dust into clouds, full of the attractive- 
 ness of color and of harvests yet to be; that if not so 
 upheld, the moisture would settle down upon the earth, 
 condensing on every object it touched, until everything 
 dripped with water; but it is said the dust with its tiny 
 fingers catches the invisible moisture of the air, con- 
 denses it, carries it over vast spaces inland until it 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: Representative Bhowniow 
 
 descends in dew and rain to make fertile the fields and to 
 nourish the harvests for the comfort and benefit of man. 
 So that to the smallest tilings we owe the morn in russet 
 mantle clad, the colors of clouds, and the blessing of the 
 early and the later rain. The world is not made up of 
 great deeds. Kindly deeds are the color and substance 
 of life. The world is not distinguished in the last analy- 
 sis by the great deeds of great men, important and admi- 
 rable though they be, but the world as we know it is made 
 up of the countless tiiousands of loving kindnesses of the 
 innumerable throng of us all. They are the foundations 
 on which we build neighborhoods, connnunities, cities. 
 States. And this man, though he had many admirable 
 qualities and was distinguished in many ways, in whose 
 memory many worthy words have been said and will 
 yet be said, was a man whose distinctive characteristic 
 was his constant and unheralded rendering of assistance 
 and the doing of the kindnesses tliat take the anguish 
 out of life and put tiie joy in-^the most kindly attribute 
 of human nature. 
 
 Afiection, kindness, the sweet olTices of love and duty, 
 were to him as needful as his daily bread. 
 
 TlKit btst portion of a good man's life — 
 His little-, nameless, unrenuMnlu'reil acts 
 Of kindness and of love. 
 
 As I have heard tohl the |)rocesses of his rise and 
 advancement, and how he moved fn.m one |)l;ic-( in lifi' 
 to a liighcr place. I call to memory tlu- words, as litlingly 
 ai)i)lii(l to him : 
 
 Hiiikl tliee more stalely mansion.s, () my soul. 
 
 While the swift seu-sons roll! 
 
 Leave tliy low-vaulted p.isl! 
 
 Let earh new temple, iiolilcr lli.ui llic last, 
 
 .Shut thee from heaven willi a douie more vast, 
 
 Till lliou al Icnulli art (rvi-. 
 
 Leaving thy outgrown shell hy life's unresting sea, 
 
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Address of Mr. Hawley, of Oregon 
 
 And this man, a friend of us all, year by year, as meas- 
 ured by his achievements, by his advancement, built him 
 a dome more vast until in the fullness of his development 
 he was set free. He will go from the field where he 
 sowed material for a grateful harvest of good with great 
 rejoicing, bearing his sheaves with him, to render his 
 accounting to the dread Lord of all the earth. 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I greatly fear that the condition of my 
 voice will deprive me of an opportunity of speaking of 
 our departed colleague as I should desire. It is not my 
 purpose to-day to speak words of fulsome praise or of 
 foolish llattcry. 
 
 It is my desire to speak of Mr. Brownlow in words of 
 truth and soberness as I knew him from our association 
 together in our work; to give the impress that his life 
 and fellowship made upon me. 
 
 Ho was a man of intolligiiice. By lliat I do not moan 
 simply that he was one of the species of intelligent beings, 
 but I moan llial he was a man possessing an intellect of 
 Dial high order and character that gave him a high and 
 comprehensive grasp of the condition of tiie country, of 
 the State, of public aft'airs, and lifted him into a region 
 of tlie higher atul mjhlir and l)elter impulses which char- 
 acterize the action and conduct of men as individuals 
 an<l of people. 
 
 He was a man of honor. 1 would not say tlial lie ilid 
 not lia\e diplomai y. it \\iiul<l i)e luiwdrtliy of liini to say 
 that lie was lacking in the proper ajjpreciatioii of lliat 
 taet wliieli we i-all diplDiiiaey that adapts conduct to con- 
 ditions. Hut 1 wish to emphasi/.e the fact that liie spirit 
 of honor moved his conduct with tiie purpose of sincerity 
 anil integrity wliieli ehaiaiicri/.cd liis life. If there was 
 one tiling ahovi' another that we can emphasi/.e in the life 
 of \VAi.ri;ii HuowNi.ow, it was, as was often spoken of 
 hiui, thnt his word was as good as his bond. 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 He realized and appreciated the value of sincerity of 
 conviction, integrity of purpose, honor of conduct, and 
 fulfillment of promise. I do not conceive any attribute 
 of a man's life that deserves more emphasis, that is 
 worthy of more praise, than to speak of the man and to 
 say of him that he loved honor for honor's sake. 
 
 He sought the principle of the good and attempted to 
 measure his life and his dealings with his fellows accord- 
 ing to the standard that addresses itself to that higher 
 and nobler conception of humanity that is true, real, and 
 genuine. Moreover, he was a man of a kindly heart. I 
 do not recall at this time a man that you could approach 
 with more confidence of a kindly response to a generous 
 appeal than Walter Brownlow. It was one of the attri- 
 butes of his life, the warmness, the kindliness of his heart, 
 and the sincerity of his affections. An appeal which car- 
 ried with it the element of sympathy, a demand which 
 had in it the characteristic of human kindness always 
 found in the heart of Walter Browtvlow a generous 
 response. In his soul he had the milk of human kind- 
 ness that always responded generously to a worthy appeal. 
 
 He was a man of character. I mean by that stability, 
 purpose, fixedness of purpose, an ideal that rose above 
 the petty trickery of life and found lodgment that gave 
 expression to those characteristics, those elements of 
 human life that measure our purpose and characters, our 
 aims and our destinies. 
 
 He was a man who possessed those elements of charac- 
 ter that form the warp and the woof of our being, that 
 give stamina and stability to life, and lift to that plane of 
 moral, social, and intellectual excellency that command 
 the respect and the confidence of every man who loves 
 the truth and admires integrity. Such a man of character 
 was Walter P. Brow^nlow. 
 
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Memorial Addressks : Representative Browm.ow 
 
 He was a man of fine, practical efliciency, and by that I 
 moan a man of" usefulness. He was not an idle dreamer. 
 He did not spend his life in dreaming dreams that never 
 realize. He believed in the practical things of life. He 
 understood human nature; he understood the motives of 
 men and how to deal with tliein, and how to accomplish 
 results. The illustrations which have been given by 
 others who have spoken to-day testify to the practical 
 efficiencv', the everj'day usefulness of the life of this man. 
 His life work left its impress upon his country for good 
 and for its upbuilding. 
 
 If you go among individuals many there are who can 
 say, " 1 am glad that \V .alter Brownlow lived and that I 
 associated with him and was in touch with his life." 
 Many are they who, testifying individually, can prove his 
 good works. And if we look collectively to the country 
 manj' are the fruits of his labors that not only to-day, 
 but in the years to come, will be living witnesses of the 
 value of his life and testify the good he did and the 
 impress he made upon his country for its uplift and its 
 upbuilding. 
 
 iiMii lliat utiiir life, which the soul of inan craves as 
 the liigher and better life, he has gone, and we speak our 
 conviction and our belief that he entered it facing his 
 fellows and liis God with that conviction wliich comes 
 from duty well performed. We often moralize, Mr. 
 Speaker, and we often speculate upon that life which is 
 beyond. It is not my purjiose to-day to engage in it. I 
 simply wish, liowever, to express tliis thouglit: Tiiat what- 
 ever life hereafter is reserved Idi- tlie true, tlie generous, 
 the honorabh', and Die good, Walter HuowMdw will liml 
 his fcHowship and association with lliem. 
 
 We speak often of llie grave eternal: \\c speak of one 
 being in the grave forever. 1 do not so In liiNc oi- regard 
 it. .\s I stand :it the liiavf of a loved one or a friend 
 
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Address of Mr. Padgett, of Tennessee 
 
 there comes to me the memoiy of the words of the angel 
 who went early in the morning to the grave on the mem- 
 orable occasion and said to the women, " He is not here ; 
 He is risen." And as I stand at the grave of one whom I 
 love I lift my eyes above the grave toward that higher 
 and better life and say of my friend, "He is not here; 
 he is risen into that glory reserved for the true and the 
 good." 
 
 1658°— 11- 
 
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Address of Mh. Ryrns, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. SrFAKKK: I consider it a sad privilege to have this 
 opportunity of paying a tribute to the memory of our 
 deceased colleague, Hon. Walter P. Bro\\'^'low, wlio for 
 so many years faithfully and ably represented tlie first 
 congressional district of Tennessee. Mr. Browm.ow was 
 first elected to Congress in 189G, and from that time until 
 July [), 1910, when he quietly passed away at his home in 
 Johnson City, he held, in tlie veiy largest measure, the 
 esteem and affection of the people who had seven times 
 honored him with their suffrages. There was a good 
 reason, Mr. Speaker, for the confidence wliich his people 
 placed in liini. He never betrayed tlu trust wliicli tliey 
 bestowed upon him. He never lost an opportunity to 
 serve them and the State from which he came. He was 
 intensely loyal to Tennessee. He loved lier people, their 
 history, and Ihrir liadilioii^, and tlic time iicmt was 
 wluii he was not willing to devote ins tirtdess encrg}' to 
 tlie upiniilding of ins Slate and tiie advanei'inent nf lier 
 people. 
 
 It is not ni\ purpose in the brief remarks wliieh I shall 
 make to coinimnl parlii-ulail\ npon wlial he ai^'oni- 
 plislied for iiis (hstrict and his people. I shall lea\f tiiat 
 for tiiose who si-rved with him for a longer time in this 
 House. Rut it may l)e frnlhi'ully said thai no Miuiher of 
 Congress — certainly nonr I'liun the South ever sei-nitd 
 more matei'ial and substantial benefits for liis dislriit 
 tlian did Mr. liiidWM.ow. It is no doubt trnr llial his sne- 
 cess along this line was in i)art liue to the lart lliat he 
 
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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 
 
 belonged to and held high place in the councils of the 
 dominant party in the administration of our national 
 affairs during all the years of his public service, and to 
 the further fact that for many years he was a member of 
 one of the most important and influential committees of 
 Congress. But his success was also due to his wisdona 
 and foresight, his thorough knowledge of men, and his 
 ability to recognize and grasp every opportunity which 
 was afforded to secure an appropriation for his district in 
 the form of some public improvement. And, in all can- 
 dor, it may be said that on such occasions he did not stop 
 to consider the cost to the Treasury. Mr. Brownlow was 
 entirely practical in his ideas of legislation. He knew 
 that each year Congress would appropriate a certain 
 amount of money for public improvements, and he made 
 no concealment of his purpose to secure as large a share 
 as might be possible for his district. 
 
 I would not be understood as holding that an ability 
 to secure large appropriations from the Public Treasury 
 is an evidence of high statesmanship. Neither did Mr. 
 Brownlow have such an idea. He knew that the true 
 value of a Representative's service to his district and his 
 people does not consist in his capacity to secure large 
 appropriations of the people's money for the benefit of his 
 particular district; that securing a public building or 
 improvements of a local value and interest is not of itself 
 an evidence of statesmanship. His talents and energies 
 were by no means confined to endeavors to obtain local 
 advantages. His keen knowledge of men and his con- 
 servative judgment was of potent value to his party in the 
 consideration of legislation on the floor, and particularly 
 in the important committee of which he was a member 
 and to which he gave his undivided time and attention. 
 He was quiet and unostentatious in all that he undertook. 
 He was no orator, nor did he aspire to be one. He never 
 
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Me.moiual Aduhessks : IAi.i'iti:M;MATivE Bhowm.uw 
 
 sought to cultivate the graces of orator)- in order to 
 attract attention to himself. He preferred rather to do 
 his work quiclly in comniittoc and on the floor and to 
 trust to results to \in(iic;ile the confidence which his i)eo- 
 ple had imposed in him. And yet, Mr. Speaker, there 
 were occasions when he expressed himself witii a force 
 and vehemence which showed that whenever the neces- 
 sity arose he was abundantly able to take care of himself 
 and a cause in which he believed. Perhaps the most 
 striking instance of this fact, as well as of his intense love 
 for Tennessee and the history of her distinguished sons, 
 is to be found in his earnest and eloquent defense of that 
 great commoner, Andrew Johnson, against the post- 
 mortem attack upon liis character which appeared in a 
 book containing the personal recollections of Senator 
 William Stewart. This book gave publicity and credence 
 to false insimialions antl iuil't)iintUil rumors concerning 
 the character and habits of Johnson, which were inspired 
 by the rancorous bitterness of the dark days of recou- 
 striiclion when Johnson, as the President of a reunited 
 people, sought lo give aid and comfort to the brave but 
 suffering Southland. 
 
 Mr. Bkownlow knew how unfounded these attacks 
 were and how great was the injustice done to the memory 
 of Johnson aiul liis family. He rej)resented llie district 
 which Johnson fornuily had represented in Congress — 
 a district in which Johnson li;i(l lived and died and where 
 his remains now repose, lit knew Jolnison's liistory 
 from the early days of poverty. Ihrongli all llie struggling 
 years until he reached llie highest olliii- in tiu' land. And 
 when, long yeai-s after his dealli, cruel and false accusa- 
 tions were peiine<i as liistoriia! fails. Mi. Hhownlow was 
 quick to refute and denounce Hum. 11< did not pause 
 to retlect that Johnson was a Denioi'ial and he a Uepub- 
 lican. Nor did he slop lu question what .some of Ids 
 
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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 
 
 Republican associates might lliink of liis rushing to the 
 defense of a Democrat against the attacks of a fellow 
 Republican. He did not care what they or others might 
 think. He only knew that the memory of a distinguished 
 son, whom Tennessee had many times delighted to honor, 
 had been unjustly assailed. Mr. Brownlow was first a 
 Tennesseean and then a Republican. And, Mr. Speaker, 
 this sense of justice and fair play in all things and toward 
 all men was one of the chief elements of his character. 
 While perhaps the most striking, this is by no means the 
 most convincing evidence of the loyalty of Mr. Brownlow 
 to Tennessee and her people. There are many Tennes- 
 seeans in the Government service to-day who can testify 
 to his kindliness and to his willingness to serve those who 
 appealed to him for aid. I have often heard him say 
 that when his influence and help was sought by a Tennes- 
 seean in the service of the Government he never stopped 
 to ask the politics of those asking his assistance. There 
 are hundreds in the sei-vice to-day who will keep his 
 memory ever green in their hearts because of some gen- 
 erous, kindly, and friendly service done them. 
 
 Undoubtedly the achievement of which Mr. Brownlow 
 Avas most proud was his work in securing an appropria- 
 tion of more than $2,000,000 to erect a national soldiers' 
 home on the outskirts of his home town, Johnson City. 
 The erection of this splendid home so far south was a 
 great achievement and shows the great influence and per- 
 sonal popularity he possessed in Congress. 
 
 As a result largely, if not altogether, of his efforts, this 
 magnificent home was built under sunny southern skies, 
 amid the splendid mountains and beautiful hills of east 
 Tennessee and in close proximity to those great battle 
 fields of the South, where was proven the prowess of 
 those who wore the blue and the gray, and where glory 
 and luster was shed upon American valor and American 
 
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Mkmohial Addkessks: Hepresentative Bhowneow 
 
 manhood. This great home stands as a lasting monu- 
 ment to tlie memory of Mr. Browm.ow, and the old sol- 
 diers Avho wore the blue, and who in their declining years 
 find shelter and comfort under its roof, are living 
 reminders of his devotion to them and the cause for 
 which they fouglil and in which he steadfastly believed. 
 And it was but fitting, when the inexorable and merci- 
 less hand of death beckoned to Bhowm.ow and his 
 earthly career was finished, that his mortal remains 
 should have been laid to rest beneath the greensward 
 \\Iiicli surrounds the home in \\hich he took such a par- 
 donable pride. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, Mr. Browm.ow was a man of firm and 
 positive convictions. There was no lialfway ground willi 
 him. He had strong views upon all subjects, and, having 
 the courage of his convictions, he never hesitated to give 
 expression to them. He was a party man in the strictest 
 sense of tlie word. In sliort, lie was a partisan. He 
 believed in parties and party organization as necessary 
 to the proper administration of government. He stood 
 steadfastly by his party's organization and never failed 
 to vote with it on all measures which involved party 
 principle or party procedure. But while this was true, 
 he was !)road and lil)eral in his ideas, and his respect for 
 the opinions of others was such that he entertainetl no 
 ill will or unkindly feeling toward any man wlio might 
 differ with him or wIio Ixloiiged Ici llu opposite political 
 l)arty. Intensely loyal in ills frii lulships, always cour- 
 teous and ever obliging, he numi)ered among his warm 
 friends many of liis Democratic colleagues, and it affords 
 me, a Democrat, l)i iieving just as liiinly and unalterably 
 in Democratic principles as he believed in Hepublican 
 ])rinciples, a sad but sinci-rc pli-asure to testify to-day to 
 his great worth as a man, his eminence as a citizen, liis 
 
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Address of Mr. Byrns, of Tennessee 
 
 usefulness as a public servant, his loyalty to his people, 
 and his patriotic devotion to his countrj'. 
 
 From an humble beginning Mr. Brownlow rose to a 
 high place in the confidence of his people and in the legis- 
 lative councils of his country, as a result of his untiring 
 energy, his indomitable pluck, his good sense, and his 
 sterling worth. In his early years he was trained in the 
 school of stern necessity. Later on he became the secre- 
 tary of his uncle, Hon. William G. Brownlow, known as 
 " Parson " Brownlow, and one time governor of Tennes- 
 see. Mr. Brownlow often referred with pride and grati- 
 tude to the training he had received under his distin- 
 guished uncle, and attributed to it much of the success 
 which he subsequently achieved. He possessed the spirit 
 of optimism to a very rare degree. It was not his custom 
 to complain at fate or misfortune. He believed always 
 in the eternal fitness of things, and it was a part of the 
 philosophy of his religion to look on the sunny side of 
 life. No higher tribute could be paid to him than to say 
 that he sought to be faithful in all things, that he tried to 
 do the right as God gave him light to see the right. Hence 
 it was, sir, that when fatal disease placed its relentless 
 hand upon him and he was warned that the time of his 
 departure was near at hand, he could meet his fate with 
 cheerful fortitude and serenity, and — 
 
 Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
 About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: It is with tiie most piorouiul feeling of 
 sorrow Unit I rise to say a few words in memory of the 
 Hon. WAi.TiiR Preston Bhownlow, a Representative in 
 this body from the first district of Tennessee, who died 
 at the National SohUers' Home near Johnson City, Tenn., 
 on the 8th day of July, 1910. Not only was lie my col- 
 league here oflicially, but for many years he was an inti- 
 mate c()mi)aiiii)ii — my guide, counselor, and friend — and 
 I miss liim as I would a dear and valued kinsman. I was 
 fortunate enough to be associated with him in the dis- 
 charge of the duties of his office wlu ii he was the Door- 
 keeper of this House, and also when he first became a 
 Representative in tliis body, and in all our intercourse 
 1 am proud and pleased to say that 1 can not recall a dis- 
 cordant word or thought between us; but, on tlie cDutrary, 
 there was the utmost harmony of ])urpose an<i action, and 
 he always manifested a warm and uiunistakablc regard 
 that was a source of the greatest pride and value to me. 
 His advice and assistance in the perfonnance of my 
 duties and in personal inattris, partiiiihiily in ])olitics, 
 can not be overestimated in its imixirlance, and he ren- 
 deretl me this assistance tlisinteresletiiy and witliout tiie 
 hast ungiaciousness or exi)ictation of return. I lis diatli, 
 it is needless to say, is a source of the greatest loss to me, 
 both personally and olViciaily, which I realize every day. 
 Tiie State of Tiiiiussce, too, will feil his loss sensibly, 
 and tlie first district will never liave the good fortune to 
 have his equal as a faitliful and successful Representa- 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 live. As for Mr. Brownlow, with my partial eyes I could 
 see no blemish in his character: 
 
 His life was gentle, and the elements 
 
 So mixed in him that Nature might stand up 
 
 And say to all the world, " This was a man." 
 
 Mr. Brownlow was born on tlie 27tli day of March, 
 1851, in Abingdon, Va., where for three years he attended 
 private schools. His father dying when the boy was quite 
 j'oung, he was thrown upon his own resources, and was 
 compelled to help in his own support and to otherwise 
 assist his mother, working as a telegraph messenger boy 
 when he was only 10 years of age. At 14 he became an 
 apprentice in the tinning business, and later on learned 
 to be a locomotive engineer. In these vocations he 
 deported himself creditably, as he did in all his subse- 
 quent fields of employment. In selecting the latter occu- 
 pation, Mr. Brownlow, young as he was, it is worthy of 
 notice, was actuated by a strong sense of duty besides 
 that of help to his family. He had in mind the impor- 
 tance of the work he was to do and the help he might 
 be to humanity; and in this he was conscious, as we all 
 are, that to the locomotive engineers the world is under a 
 deep debt of gratitude. It is wonderful to think of the 
 number of human lives and the millions of property that 
 are every day intrusted to and dependent upon the 
 sobriety, nerve, the skill, the fidelity, and the courage of 
 these men. Their duties are among the noblest and most 
 important of the various occupations of human life, and 
 their compensation should be among the highest given to 
 any class of our public servants. 
 
 In this employment, however, Mr. Brownlow did not 
 continue very long. He aimed at something which the 
 world regards as still higher than the care of a locomo- 
 
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MkMOHIAL AdDKESSKS : HEl'UESi;MATlVli BaOWM.dW 
 
 live — something that was calculated to hring him laiiK' 
 and a greater income. He was ambitious to become a 
 newsi)ai)c'r man, and with this feeling he obtained 
 employment as a reporter for the Knoxville Whig anil 
 Chronicle, a paper that under the management and 
 ownership of his uncle, the celebrated William G. Brown- 
 low, popularly known as " Parson " Brownlow, previously 
 a Senator of the Lnited States, became one of the most 
 widely known and influential periodicals in the countiy. 
 He did not find it necessarj' to remain with his uncle more 
 than a year. In 1876 he made arrangements to go into 
 business for himself, and to this end purchased the 
 Herald and Tribune, a Republican newspaper issued at 
 Jonesboro, Tenn., since which time he has continued as 
 its editor and proprietor, both to his own aiul his parly's 
 advantage. At the same time he entered actively into 
 j)()litics and soon became a representative man. He was 
 a <lelegatc from his tlislriel to the Republican national 
 conventions of 1880, 18',)(i, and 1900, and a delegate at 
 large to the national conventions of 1881 and 1901. In 
 1880, besides, he was chairnnin of the Republican congres- 
 sional committee of his tiistriet, and in 1882 was elected 
 a member of the Republican State committee, serving 
 eight years as such, during one-fourth of which period 
 he was chairman. In all this political service, it may be 
 added, he was not eonlenl to occupy simply a nominal 
 position; lie was not a mere figurehead; he was Ihrough- 
 oul :icli\e in tile woi'k aii(i niulfn il liis ])arly i'ssenti:il 
 and uiiivi'rsaiiy recognized assistance. It is largely o\\ iiig 
 lo tliis liiat his own congressional district is one of the 
 few districts in all the South that renuiin in the Repub- 
 lican column. 
 
 Ill Maicii, 1881, he was appointed postmaster of Jones- 
 boro, his home town, but resigned a few months there- 
 after to accept llie position of Doorkeeper of the House 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 of Representatives, which he held during the whole of 
 the Forty-seventh Congress. In 1884, 1896, 1900, and 
 1904 he was elected by the delegations from his State to 
 the national Republican conventions as Tennessee's mem- 
 ber of the national executive committee, and was unani- 
 mously elected chairman of the Republican State execu- 
 tive committee by the members of that bodj' for 1898 and 
 1899. He was also elected by Congress to be a member 
 of the Board of Managers for the National Home for Dis- 
 abled Volunteer Soldiers. Twice was he nominated for 
 United States Senator, and in 1898 he was elected as 
 Tennessee's member of the national Republican con- 
 gressional committee. His most important honors, how- 
 ever, were comprehended in his election as Representa- 
 tive in Congress, being successively chosen to the Fifty- 
 fifth, Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, 
 Sixtieth, and Sixty-first Congresses as a protectionist 
 Republican in a district formerly represented by Andrew 
 Johnson as a free-trade Democrat. During this long- 
 continued service Mr. Brownlow was quite active, sel- 
 dom, indeed, appearing on the floor of the House as a 
 prominent debater; but being nearly always a member 
 of some of the most important committees of the House, 
 he was enabled to take a decisive part in the shaping 
 and enactment of legislation. One of the most interest- 
 ing measures, originated and enacted largely through 
 his influence and efforts, was the establishment of what 
 is known as the Mountain Branch of the National Sol- 
 diers' Home, situated near Johnson City, Tenn., in a most 
 healthy and lovely location — one of the most attractive 
 and valuable soldiers' homes in the country. 
 
 Not only was he instrumental in having this charming 
 institution created, but he has given sedulous attention 
 to its improvement and its growing wants, never neglect- 
 ing an opportunity to add to its beauty and its usefulness, 
 
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.MiCMoaiAK Addhicssks : Ki:i'Ki;si;m vnvi: Hkowm.ow 
 
 as well as to the individual comfort and pleasure of its 
 occupants. His connection with this benevolent work is 
 alone enough to warrant liis occupancy of a niche in the 
 Temple of fame. It places him alongside of some of 
 the most distinguislied per.sonages in the historj' of the 
 world — beside Queen Mary, of England, the wife of Wil- 
 liam tlie Tliird, to whose tender interest in the welfare of 
 the tlisabled mariners of lier country the naval home at 
 Greenwich owes its establishment; beside Gen. Winfield 
 Scott, the founder of the great soldiers' home at Washing- 
 ton; beside Napoleon Bonaparte, whose love for the old 
 soldiers of France caused tlie foundation of tlie Home of 
 the Invalides at Paris; and besiile tlie gieat Imsl of large- 
 hearted and benevolent men and women all over the 
 world who iiave turned aside from the private avocations 
 of life to assist in llie work of relieving tlie wants and 
 adding to the pleasures and the comforts of tlie poor, 
 the unfortunate, and the suffering in the great army of 
 humanity. 
 
 As a Member of Congress Mr. Bhownlow gave his zeal- 
 ous attention to much of the greatest business that came 
 before that l)ody. He neglected nothing ])ertaining to 
 the duties of a national legislator, but it is a noticeable 
 fact that docs not detract a whit from his fame as a states- 
 man tliat his first and most loving thought was for his 
 State and his district. In his inuigination the mountains 
 of Tennessee were the most beautiful in the world. Her 
 rivers were In liini Hie most picluresciuc. inui In r lirooks 
 and rivulets nuidi' the sweetest of nuisic. llrr air was 
 the balmii'st that ever encircled the beaulilul places of 
 tlie earth, and her skit-s weiT ucil surpassed by those of 
 Greece or ItaK'. Ihr liiids, licli with Ihi liiiil nl man's 
 industry and inlilligenci\ weie iml to he ((lualed any- 
 wiiere in Hie world. Like all nuuintaiii-horn nun. he 
 intensely loved his native soil, and when he hit it, even 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 for a short time, he always longed to get back to it. His 
 thoughts of the people were the same. He loved them, 
 and they loved him. The women were all charming and 
 interesting, and the men were all courageous and strong. 
 Andrew Jackson once said, in speaking of the danger of 
 a foreign war: 
 
 Let it come. In a war we will beat them, sir; we can whip all 
 Europe with United States soldiers. Give me a thousand Tennes- 
 seeans, and I'll whip any other thousand men on the globe. 
 
 These were somewhat the views of Mr. Brownlow; 
 there was nothing too great for Tennesseeans ! And in 
 some respects I am inclined to agree with him. It has 
 been my fortune to see a good deal of my own country, 
 and of some foreign countries as well, and I can truth- 
 fully say that the people of Tennessee, east Tennessee 
 included, of course, are among the most remarkable 
 of them all. Let these people once see their duty and 
 what can be reasonably expected of them, and they will 
 perform it. If it is a question of " getting there," they 
 will prove equal to the work and get there! Of the 
 future of Tennessee Mr. Brownlow was very hopeful. 
 He realized the wonderful natural resources of the State, 
 and knowing the capabilities of her people, he saw with 
 a prophet's vision that in time she would outstrip Penn- 
 sylvania and New York. Of the State's past history he 
 was extremely proud. In the people's early struggles for 
 the settlement and improvement of the country he read a 
 record of heroism and patriotism that has not been sur- 
 passed by any people appearing in the pages of history; 
 he could realize fully the efforts and environments of 
 the early settlers of Tennessee, when every step was 
 attended with danger, when every bush or tree was likely 
 to conceal one or more red enemies, and when the women 
 and children, left at home when the father was either at 
 
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Mf.mohiai. Addhkssks: Rei'RESkntativi: Browmow 
 
 work in the fields or on the hunt for food, were in con- 
 stant fear of death or capture at the hands of nierciU^ss 
 savages. He looked upon Kings Mountain, fought prin- 
 cipally by Tennesseeans, North Carolinians, and Vir- 
 ginians, as the great battle of the War of tiic Revolution, 
 where Cornwallis's men met their first defeat, and that 
 this victory was hut a prelude to Yorktown; and he 
 regarded the leaders of the Tennessee pioneers — Sevier, 
 Coffee, Donelson, White, Jackson, and others — as the 
 greatest men in history. To Andrew Jackson in particu- 
 lar, the man who practically brought the Floridas, and 
 indirectly Texas also, into the territory of the I'nion and 
 gained the battle of New Orleans, assisted very largely 
 by Tennesseeans, one of the greatest victories of record 
 in the annals of mankind, he gave his highest praise and 
 reverence. That unobtrusive moiuunent in the garden of 
 the Hermitage, where tlie remains of Jackson lie buried, 
 and which to the citizens of Tennessee is perhaps the 
 most cherished spot in all lur fair donuiin. was worthy 
 of every patriot's veneration. He tiiouglit that — 
 
 Such graves as liis are pilgrims* shrines, 
 ShriiU's to no code or creed confined. 
 The Delphian vales, the Palestines, 
 The Meccas of the miiul. 
 
 James Paiton, in his Lite of .Vndrtw Jackson, gives 
 the following as a carel'uliv tdllalcd stattuuMit ol tlir 
 opinions of Francis P. Blair conci rning tlic (icnirai, w iiii'ii 
 tliougii seemingly extravagant were no doubt sincere, ami 
 they |)robably came very near expressing the views of 
 Mr. Bhowm.ow: 
 
 Mr. Hlair di-liheralely eoneiirs in Colhert's Judgnient llial 
 Andrew Jaekson was llie Kri'alrsl man lliat fver lived — the bravest 
 of llie liravi-, the wisest of the wise, the most lender, the most 
 resolute, the most devoted to this countr\, and llie most ehxiuent 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 of Iniman beings. Fighting men loved him for his valor and 
 cowards loved him for the protection he gave them. No man 
 and no combination of men could ever overcome him. He was 
 victorious on every field. Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Preston, 
 Biddle, the United States Bank, the capitalists, the brightest men, 
 and the most powerful agencies were leagued against him for 
 eight years without gaining over him one important advantage. 
 He attempted nothing which he did not accomplish. He gained 
 constantly in Congress and left his party in a majority in both 
 Houses. His eloquence surpassed that of the most renowned 
 orators. When he grew warm in conversation and his gray 
 bristles shook he thrilled the listeners' nerves and souls as no 
 other man could thrill them. No man could resist the impetuous 
 intensity of his speech. He was a man of absolute sincerity, 
 incapable of duplicity or acting for effect. He loved the people 
 ■with a deep, exhaustless love; believed in them; would have laid 
 down his hoary head on the block for them and counted it gain 
 and glory. He was the controlling soul of his administration at 
 every moment of its existence. 
 
 All this may sound like the views of a man somewhat 
 unbalanced in his mind, but we should remember that 
 it is the deliberate opinion of a man of the greatest astute- 
 ness, one who seldom went astray himself; and if Mr. 
 Blair entertained such views himself, we can not be very 
 much astonished — making every allowance for the par- 
 tiality of his friends and admirers — that most of the world 
 should share his opinion. Andrew Jackson, in sober 
 truth, was a wonderful man, and deserving of all the 
 honors and the love which the citizens of Tennessee have 
 heaped upon him. 
 
 To the other great men of Tennessee Mr. Brownlow 
 gave almost unstinted admiration. And for Andrew 
 Johnson, loaded as he was with the enmity of so many 
 men, he had great respect. But there was another great 
 man — one of his own kinsmen — the illustrious William 
 G. Brownlow, to whom he could not render enough praise 
 or admiration. " Parson " Brownlow was truly an cx- 
 
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Mkmohiai. Addhkssf.s: Hkpresf.ntativi; Bhow nijiw 
 
 traordinary man — an unflinching patriot, a man of such 
 devotion to principle that he would have laid down his 
 life rather than sacrifice his truth or his honor. His 
 courage was of that rare order that no amount of danger 
 or suffering could make him failir or give way in times 
 of trial or difliculty, and his example and loyalty to his 
 country were fruitful of benefit to his State and the 
 Nation. After his election to the Senate of the I'nited 
 States, after tlie close of the Civil War, wliieh elevation 
 was in but a small measure a recognition of his unfalter- 
 ing love of country and his devotion to duty, he was 
 stricken with a nervous trouble, from which he suffered 
 up to the day of his death; but it was a source of pride 
 to his friends and relatives that this afldiction, which he 
 bore with resignation, was the only thing in the whole 
 course of his life that had ever made him tremble. With 
 nearly the whole disloyal element in Tennessee — perhaps 
 in most of the South — eml>itt( red against him, impris- 
 oned, and with the halter, metaphorically speaking, 
 around his neck, he was true to his country and his con- 
 victions. He was, indeed, as Napolei)ii once said of tiie 
 famous Gen. Desaix, "of the heroic mold of antiquity." 
 Congressman Brownlow himself, and some of the Par- 
 son's <lirect descendants resembled him in these matters, 
 and ct)uld, if circumstances had rendered it necessary, 
 have displayed the same high degree of courage and 
 loyalty. 
 
 In the final analysis of the character of Wai.tkr Phf.s- 
 TON HnowM.ow there were several n(>ticeal>le liaits tiiat 
 are desiiving of spicial meiitiim. 
 
 He was, for example, ])( i(iiMi:illy elieiTliil ami kiiul. 
 N(»thing seemed to de|)ress liiiii oi- iiitn fcie with his 
 customary spirit of aeeonunoilatitui an<l good humor. 
 He could cast aside trouble witlxiut ditliculty and deport 
 himself as if misfortune and ill-will were total strangers 
 
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Address of Mr. Austin, of Tennessee 
 
 to him. A pathetic ilhistration of this was seen in his 
 later years wlien he was tlireatened with total hlindness. 
 He was an object of much sj'mpathy as he was led about 
 by a guide, unable in many respects to care for himself; 
 but he philosophically bore his misfortune, and was noted 
 during even the worst of his trouble for his unfailing 
 courtesy and good humor. Even if he had to fall, his 
 optimistic and courageous spirit led him to feel that it 
 was best to fall witli his colors flying. On the eve of his 
 last physical breakdown a remark is attributed to him, 
 also quoted sometimes as a bon mot of the late Senator 
 Zeb Vance, of North Carolina, which at once illustrates 
 his wit and his unfailing serenity. In response to an 
 inquiry as to his health, he said he ought not to com- 
 plain or feel discouraged. " I am," said he, " simply like 
 old Tom Henderson's wagon down here in Tennessee — 
 all I need is a good body and a good running gear." 
 
 He was, besides, a man of great frankness and truth- 
 fulness. When necessarj' to state his views or come to a 
 conclusion he did not beat about the bush. He was ready 
 to express his convictions at all times and to let his de- 
 termination be known. And his word could always be 
 depended upon. He was not lavish of promises, but what 
 he did promise he always meant to perform, and, indeed, 
 his performance often went beyond his promise. 
 
 He had naturally a lively fancy, a happy abundance of 
 wit and humor, and an admirable faculty for telling a 
 story. In the exercise of this latter talent he resembled 
 Abraham Lincoln and many other great raconteurs. His 
 stories were generally used to enforce some truth or as 
 accessories in the accomplishment of some high aim or 
 great duty. His power of I'epartec, too, was quite re- 
 markable. In conversation or public argument, on the 
 " stump " or elsewhere, he was never taken at a disad- 
 vantage, either by legitimate means or by ill-mannered 
 
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Me.muiual AuDiiLssLS : Hici'Uesematim: Hhowm.ow 
 
 interruption. He generally managed to place his antag- 
 onist in a position of embarrassment or discomfiture, but 
 generally without any exhibition of malice or hostility. 
 He always strove, on the contrary, to avoid wounding the 
 feelings of either friend or foe. It was this happy spirit 
 and his talent as a story teller that made him a favorite 
 of such men as Clen. (larfield, William McKinley, Theo- 
 dore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and many other distin- 
 guished personages, who never failed to enjoy his quaint 
 and original humor. 
 
 As a man of business Mr. Brownlow was reasonably 
 successful. Beginning his career almost without a dol- 
 lar, he ended life with, for Tennessee, an income adequate 
 for the comfortable support of liimself and family; and 
 this, be it understood, without greed or dishonesty. He 
 did not grind the poor, but always stood forward ready 
 to help and serve them. He accumulated his estate with- 
 out questionable means, and he bore his prosperity with- 
 out vulgar ostentation or conti in|)tible snobbery. 
 
 Finally, when the dread enemy of all of us ajqiroached, 
 his end was characteristic of him. He made no indecent 
 manifestation of the love of life. He knew when his end 
 was approaching, and he received the announcement 
 rather as a benediction than a blow. In the language of 
 Br\ant, he went away calmly and complacently: 
 
 Siisliiincil aiui sootlifd 
 By an uiifalkTinK trust, he aijpioailuii his niave 
 Like one that wraps tin- drapciv of liis couch 
 .\l)()ut him, and lit-s down to pliasant dnains. 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 Mr. Speaker: I am not a member of the Tennessee 
 delegation and had not the pleasure of serving on any 
 committee with the late Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, but 
 I should be unwilling to let this occasion pass without 
 saying a few words concerning his life, character, and 
 public services. 
 
 I was born in the count}' where he lived, and lived 
 there until I was 22 years of age, when I moved to the 
 State which I now have the honor to represent on the 
 floor of this House. I came to know Mr. Brownlow 
 quite early in my life and had the pleasure of a somewhat 
 intimate personal acquaintance with him from that time 
 until his death. My father and my brothers were his 
 personal and political friends, and I grew up in an atmos- 
 phere of friendliness toward him. 
 
 It seems to me that it can be well said of Mr. Brownlow 
 that he was the product of his day and environment. He 
 was but a boy during the troublous times of the Civil 
 War, but was old enough to learn much from the ex- 
 perience and conditions of those days. School facilities 
 in the part of the country where he lived at that time 
 were seriously lacking, so that it was with difTiculty that 
 he acquired the elements of an education. It was also 
 characteristic of the time and place that there was a gen- 
 eral lack of ample means among the people of that section 
 of the country. 
 
 Having obtained the rudiments of a school education 
 he gained a much broader and more effective education 
 
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Memorial Adduesses : IIephesentativi; Bhowni.ow 
 
 in the rough and liiinl)le ol' experience. Along with his 
 struggles he acquired hahits of industry, tenacity, and 
 pertinacity. He was a tireless worker, never left ofi' 
 when he had hegun and never ceased effort until the 
 thing attempted hecame an accomplished fact. That he 
 was a man of unusual intelhitual capacity has never 
 been denied, even by his enemies — and he had enemies. 
 It is also conceded by all that he was a man of forceful 
 character. He became a leader of men, because the force 
 of his character dominated men. 
 
 The faculty of expressing forcefully his thoughts and 
 ideas was his in a very ri'mnrkable degree. Even in 
 casual conversation his words fell like blows from a 
 sledge hammer. He was particularly happy and enter- 
 taining when surrounded by a small circle of friends, and 
 his fund of stories, abounding in homely wisdom, seemed 
 inexhaustible. 
 
 He did not belong to the tribe of the self-righteous, 
 neither was he to be found listed among the so-called re- 
 formers. If anyone had accused him of being such, the 
 accuser would have run serious risk of being enlightened 
 oji the subject by one of tliose clear, concise, emplialic 
 statements of forceful English falling like a thunderbolt 
 from Olympus, for which he was so deservedly cele- 
 brated. He looked witli suspicion upon much that pa- 
 rades itself under tlie guise of reform. He had come uj) 
 by his own strength and elVoit out of miverse conditions 
 and IkuI elimltcd oNcr ()i)slacles tn ;i pusitidii ol' Iradcr- 
 ship and usefulness. lie IkkI imt i-rcatcd tlie rules or 
 imposed tiie conditions ol the game in wliitli lie was to 
 |)lay a pari, lie aeci'pted these as lie loiiiul liu in and 
 li\i(i aii<l ailed witiiin liieir pro\isions. To his iniii(i 
 the burden was upon liini \\lio proposed a change to 
 justify il. I'ldess lliis were done lie was inclined to look 
 upon it either as an attempt to gain some unwarr.inled 
 
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Address of Mr. Tilson, of Connecticut 
 
 advantage or to impose upon an unsuspecting public by 
 a hypocritical cry of reform. 
 
 He was a hater of shams. His strongest anathemas 
 were reserved for the man who, on the hustings or in the 
 legislative chamber, thunders loudly in the name of the 
 people for \\hat it may bring him in the way of notoriety 
 or personal advancement while in private he seeks every 
 possible advantage for himself and his own. 
 
 His creed of public service was simple and well known. 
 He believed in doing things and getting things for his 
 district and people. No Member of Congress ever worked 
 more arduously or effectively for his constituents and 
 district than did he. It was his aim to secure for them 
 all that could possibly be secured within the rules of the 
 game, and this aim and purpose he pursued with unusual 
 ability. He helped others to secure things for their dis- 
 tricts and constituents, and they in turn helped him. His 
 aim, first, last, and all the time, was the accomplishment 
 of results for his people. A catalogue of what he accom- 
 plished in this direction, some part of which has been 
 and will be referred to here to-day, would be the strongest 
 possible proof of the statement. And after all, while men 
 are fond in the abstract of the high, the lofty, the ideal, 
 yet when it comes down to the measurement of the 
 effectiveness of a public servant it is only human nature 
 to measure it by results. Measured by this standard, 
 Mr. Brownlow ranks high among the men who do things. 
 He will be long remembered by the people of the first 
 congressional district, and all the rest of Tennessee, as 
 well as the whole South, as a forceful and effective public 
 servant who left behind him a record of things accom- 
 plished which it would be dillicult to equal. 
 
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Address of Mr. Sims, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The usual topics customary to be gone 
 over in these eulogies ol" deceased Menil)ers have been 
 so completely covered by the gentlemen who have pre- 
 ceded me on this occasion — Mr. Massey, Mr. Austin, Mr. 
 Byrns, Mr. Padgett, Judge Houston, and others — that I 
 shall not repeat what has been so well and so eloquently 
 said by these gentlemen about the life, character, and 
 services of our deceased colleague, Hon. \V. P. Brown- 
 LOW, but 1 shall relate some of those smaller occurrences 
 of life which more often enable those who did not have 
 personal knowledge of the deceased to form correct and 
 lifelike conceptions ol liis distinctly personal character- 
 istics than is otiierwise possible. 
 
 1 never knew Mr. Hhowm.ow personally until the extra 
 session of the Fifty-fiflli Congress wliich convened in 
 March, 1897. I found hini to be a warm-hearted man, 
 approachable and of easy acquaintance. 1 fell from tiic 
 start as if I had known him all my lifi'. His conversation 
 was always entertaining, even on the most trivial sub- 
 jects. He seemed to possess an inexhaustless fund of 
 humor, and was inuisually bright and original. In order 
 that those who hear and those who may hereafter read 
 these eulogies, 1 shall somewliat in ditail relate some of 
 tlie occurrences in tlie service ol Mr. Bhowm.ow coming 
 under mv piisonal ol)sii-\ation wliicli illustrate llu' Icm- 
 perament and lunnor of miv late lamiiited colleague. 
 
 Soon after the commencemt ill of the Spanish War 
 Mr. HnowNi.ow and 1 had joined in reconnnending to the 
 President fur appointnHiit as brigadier gent'ral of \olini- 
 
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Address of Mr. Sims, of Tennessee 
 
 teers from Tennessee a certain distinguished and well- 
 known citizen of our State. A few days later I met Mr. 
 Brownlow in the street and told him that I had heard 
 that at least one of our Senators had refused to join us 
 in our recommendation, stating that our man had no 
 military training or experience and that it would be 
 dangerous to have such a man in command of raw volun- 
 teers in battle. Mr. Brownlow replied that — 
 
 the man you and I have recommended for brigadier general is 
 like me. He knows the Tennessee boys are brave and impetuous 
 and will fight anywhere, but he loves them too well to ever lead 
 them into any place of danger; therefore, I stand by our man. 
 
 I never knew Mr. Brownlow to vote against or oppose 
 any appropriation of money coming to the South. On 
 one occasion when some bill was coming up for con- 
 sideration he came over on the Democratic side and 
 asked me to support the bill and to do all I could to get 
 our side to do the same. I asked him, What about the 
 merits? He replied: 
 
 Oh, it is a steal, and that ought to make it popular on your side; 
 but, in addition, it is coming South. If we vote for all the steals 
 coming our way for the next hundred years we will not then get 
 even with the North. 
 
 After several years' service Mr. Brownlow was ap- 
 pointed on the Committee on Appropriations, and by 
 Members ahead of him going out of Congress and on 
 other committees it was not long until he was near the 
 head of the committee. It was but natural that I wanted 
 to see him become chairman of the committee. So on a 
 proper occasion I mentioned the matter to him and sug- 
 gested that if he did not manifest a greater disposition 
 toward economy in public expenditures that I feared he 
 would never be made chairman of that great committee. 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representative Browts'low 
 
 iiltlioiigli he iniglil be entitled to it by rank and seniority. 
 He rt])lied: 
 
 Now, Sims, don't you worry about that; if these Yankees get 
 all they want for the North and I get all I want for the South, 
 there will not be anything left in the Treasury to appropriate 
 long before I can get to the head of the committee. 
 
 It will be recalled that Vice President Fairbanks, dur- 
 ing the campaign in which he was a candidate, was car- 
 tooned as a cold, icy man. He was represented as hav- 
 ing icicles hanging irum liis liat brim and beard. I 
 always thought that cartoon did Mr. Fairbanks great 
 injustice. I have never known a man in public life more 
 approachable or more kindly and sympathetic in his 
 treatment of all people with whom he came in contact 
 than was Mr. Fairbanks. It was not an unusual tiling 
 for the Vice President to invite a Miini)er cif llic House 
 to share with him his carriage on going to the Capitol 
 in tlie morning. On one occasion as I was walking east 
 on F Street I saw the Vice Presidrnt's carriage in front 
 of me with Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. H now slow seated 
 together and in conversation. In a moment the carriage 
 slopped in front of a store and tlic Wrv Pri'siiienl aliglited 
 and passed into tlic building, uiiili Mi-. Hkowm.dw re- 
 mained sealed in tlic carriage. Wlicu 1 came up even 
 with him I h:ill((l ^irid spukc to liini and asl<i(i liini wlicre 
 he was going. Ih npjird: 
 
 Oh, nowhere in iiartieular; 1 am just taking a ride in liie ice 
 wagon. 
 
 Ills reply was so bright and so t'liaraitei'istic of tin man 
 that 1 could not keep it fiH)m tlie new s])apers. Nut long 
 afUrwar<ls .Mr. HitowNi.ow got sharjily after me for jell- 
 ing the occurrence to the newspaper boys, and said that 
 if lie got into any trouble witii any of his bills in the 
 
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Address of Mr. Sims, of Tennessee 
 
 Senate on account of it he would have my seat contested 
 and have me thrown out of Congress. I replied: 
 
 Just go ahead with your contest; the remark was worth a seat 
 in Congress. 
 
 Only a few months after I began my first service in the 
 extra session of 1897, Mr. Brownlow passed me in the 
 corridor between this Chamber and Statuary Hall, where 
 the telegraph operators are located, and noticed that I 
 was sending a telegram and paying the charges on it. 
 He said: 
 
 Sims, have you not got a book of telegraph franks yet? 
 
 I replied that I had not; that I did not know that such 
 franks were to be had. He replied: 
 
 Well, make application for one immediately. 
 
 I replied : 
 
 How do you know that I want to use them? 
 
 ^He replied: 
 
 I don't care whether you use them or not, but I don't want the 
 Western Union Telegraph Co. to know that Tennessee ever sent 
 a man to Congress who did not have sense enough to know what 
 was coming to him and how to get it. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the membership of this House, like the 
 world, is made up of all kinds of men of all kinds of per- 
 sonal characteristics. It is difficult to so treat, in a merely 
 descriptive way, the lives of men so as to fully bring out 
 these distinguishing characteristics. 
 
 I think few men were more original than Mr. Brown- 
 low, and in order that those who follow him may know 
 of some of the many peculiarly personal traits of this 
 
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Memori.\l Addresses: REPRESENXATn'E BRO^^'^'LO\v 
 
 many-sided man 1 have attempted, witliout embellish- 
 ment or exaggeration, to relate some of those occurrences 
 in actual lile without which it is impossible to fully por- 
 tray the real living W.\lter Preston Brow'Nlow. 
 
 He has been and will be ven.- greatly missed in this 
 House by those of us who had the good fortune to serve 
 with and to know him intimately for so many years. 
 
 He was a true and steadfast friend, a devoted father 
 and husband, and a loyal party man, but without partisan 
 rancor and bitterness. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, we regret and grieve that we can never 
 again meet him in these halls, that his voice is silenced 
 forever, that his work is ended; but he will never be for- 
 gotten by any living man who ever knew him. 
 
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Address of Mr. Cannon, of Illinois 
 
 Mr. Speaker : Mr. Brownlow came from a family and a 
 community with convictions. He had convictions and he 
 had the courage to defend them. In my judgment these 
 were the distinguishing characteristics of Mr. Brownlow, 
 and they are tlie qualities that have done most for the 
 construction and development of this Nation. They are 
 the qualities we most need in our American citizenship 
 in the future as we have had in the past. 
 
 Mr. Brownlow came from a stock that has ever been 
 tenacious of the principles it accepted as right. His 
 family had that tenacity, as was well demonstrated in 
 the public life of his distinguished uncle, " Parson " 
 Brownlow. Both of them typified a community in the 
 mountains of east Tennessee, which held to its political 
 convictions throughout the terrors of the Civil War. 
 
 These people were within the confines of the territory 
 which was openly at war with the Government, and yet 
 they were openlj' and actively loyal to the Government 
 and at war with the great majority of the Southern peo- 
 ple. Mr. Brownlow well represented that people in their 
 conviction, but without any evidence of the old interne- 
 cine war spirit that prevailed in his State in an earlier 
 day. 
 
 He was the friend of every man in this House, and the 
 Members with whom he served were his friends. He 
 was a Republican, believing in the policies of the Repub- 
 lican Party. He was an adherent of these principles 
 openly under all conditions. His courage and his loyalty 
 
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Memorial Addresses: Representati\-e Bro\\'nlo\\' 
 
 gave him the respect and the friendship of men to whom 
 he was opposed in politics. 
 
 lie was not an orator, and never pretended to be that 
 which he was not. He was industrious, earnest, and 
 courteous, and he probably brought the people of his 
 district into closer touch with the National Government 
 than any other Representative who served them in the 
 last half centurj'. 
 
 Representing a constituency that had always kept the 
 faith through good report and evil report, he was a true 
 representative of tliat constituency under all conditions 
 and at whatever cost; he was true to the policies in wliich 
 he believed, and on one occasion was carried into tiiis 
 Hall to record his vote when his physician said it might 
 cost him his life. He felt that liis vote was needed and 
 he came, regardless of the consequences to his health. 
 
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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 
 
 Mr. Speaker: The State of Tennessee, like ancient Gaul, 
 is divided into three parts — east, middle, and west Ten- 
 nessee — and the sectional distinctions are recognized in 
 the organic law of the State and play a very conspicuous 
 part in all our relations — social, political, and otherwise. 
 It is, perhaps, unfortunate that there is constitutional 
 recognition of these divisions, since it tends to emphasize 
 sectionalism; but, even if they were not thus recognized, 
 this sectionalism would still obtain in some measure, be- 
 cause the divisions are perfectly natural, both historically 
 and geographically. The State was settled by sections, 
 the eastern part being first occupied by pioneers moving 
 westward from the Carolinas and southwestward through 
 the Gap from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. 
 
 From the eastern section, following the natural lines of 
 travel, the population passed into the middle and founded 
 settlements in what may be roughly termed the " plateau 
 region." Only these two divisions had been settled at 
 the time of the admission of the State into the Union in 
 1796, west Tennessee then being known as the western 
 district. It was not until 1818, in fact, that the treaty 
 was negotiated whereby the Indians were removed from 
 this division and it was opened for settlement. It was 
 rapidly divided into counties, and its fertility, combined 
 with the cheapness of lands, caused an inrush by settlers. 
 But while settled at different times, Tennessee's people, 
 in the main, came from a common stock, so that while 
 there has been inevitably a certain sectional spirit, yet 
 
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Mi:m(ihiai. Ai)I)Hi;s.si;s: l{i-:i'Ki;si;MAri\i: Bkowmjiw 
 
 for the most part, by reason of the ties of common blood 
 and descent, there has all along been a deep feeling of 
 sympathy upon tlic broad question of State progress and 
 devclopnuiit. 
 
 Our late colleague, Hon. Walter Preston Brownlow, 
 in memory of wlinni we are assembled to-day, repre- 
 sented the extreme eastern end of the State. His home 
 town of Jonesboro is the oldest town in the Common- 
 wealth, and his county — Washington — is the oldest 
 county, having been organized while the State was a 
 part of North Carolina. Living as I do in the extreme 
 western part of the State, several hundred miles from 
 his home, 1 did not meet Mr. Brownlow until I became 
 a Member of Congress, although he was at tiie time the 
 most conspicuous Republican in Tennessee. I soon grew 
 to be quite well acquainted with him, however, after 
 coming iiere. and learned to ai)|)reeiate and esteem him 
 for iiis many ciiarming and polciil eliaracteristics. He 
 was a genial, kiiuiiy gentleman. 1 have not known a man 
 more ready to accommo<late a friend. He was, too, a 
 man of really great ability. 1 often wondered wliy lie 
 never cultivated the habit of engaging in the debates on 
 the floor of the House. He possessed wide general infor- 
 mation, was a man of decided convictions upon i)uhlic 
 questions, had as line a .sense of humor as any per.son 1 
 have ever known, and a gift of repartee that was sui)erb. 
 Had be chosi'u lo do so, 1 ha\c not llie slightest dmilil tliat 
 he could iiave made a re])utatioii lor i)rilliancy in debate 
 that would have e(]uai('(i or surpassed liis wide reputa- 
 tion as a practical legislator. 
 
 I have heafd him I re(iii( ntlx in ])ri\ale eon\ eisation 
 make rej)lies to sallies thai 11 made on llu Ihior of the 
 House wouiil liave iieeome classic as specimens of rep- 
 artee. 
 
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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 
 
 He did not cultivate this faculty in debate here, how- 
 ever, but devoted himself assiduously to practical labors 
 for his district and State. 
 
 Mr. Brownlow was one of the busiest men I have ever 
 known and had a capacity for sustained labor that was 
 surprising. For many years he was the recognized head 
 of his party in his State and distributed the Federal 
 patronage throughout the entire Commonwealth. His 
 correspondence was enormous, but he so systematized 
 his woi'k as to handle it with ease and dispatch. With 
 all this tremendous volume of work upon him he was 
 regular in his attendance in this body, it being rare that 
 he missed a vote. 
 
 I often wondered how he found the time to attend to 
 the vast amount of department work that was thrust 
 upon him. I have no doubt that he literally worked him- 
 self to death. Although a man of strong physique, his 
 large labors necessarily led him into a sedentary life, 
 and, like many of us here, he did not find time for need- 
 ful exercise, and gradually his vitality was sapped. 
 
 The story of our colleague's life has been so well told 
 by others of the delegation here to-day that it is not 
 necessary for me to enter upon that, and I have chosen 
 rather to refer to his personal characteristics. He was a 
 strong man, of great intellectual breadth, of untiring 
 energy, and unyielding persistency. His political acumen 
 mounted almost, if not quite, to the height of genius. He 
 knew men, knew how to control them and bind them to 
 him. He was a typical representative of the feelings and 
 aspirations and hopes of the bold, generous mountain 
 people, who honored him and whom he served with all 
 the loyalty and devotion of his earnest, hearty, wholesome 
 soul. A partisan of partisans, he always retained the 
 friendship and respect of his political foes by his candor 
 and courtesy. 
 
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Mkmoiuai. ADDnnssKs: Represi:ntativk Bhowm.ow 
 
 His people were loyal to liini Irom his entrance into tlie 
 political arena until the day of his death. He had sturdy 
 oj)i)osition in his district at times witliin Ids own party, 
 hut always triumphed with ease. 
 
 I i'eel a deep and sincere sense of loss hy his tleath. 
 He was my personal li ii nd. and 1 greatly admired the 
 strength of his character, the charm of his personality, 
 and tlie vigor of his life and work. He carved out for 
 himself a great career and acquitted liimself witli tine 
 fidelity. He was a worthy son of the great section trom 
 whence he came, and his proud place in tlie history of 
 the State is quite secure. 
 
 As a part of my remarks 1 heg tu include an editorial 
 from the Louisville Courier-Journal of July 1, 1910, the 
 paper so long famous by reason of the greatness of its 
 editor, Hon. Henry Watterson: 
 
 Tlif (ieatli of Walti-u l'ni:sTON Buownlow of Tennessee re- 
 moves from the National House of Rei)resentatives one of its 
 most poijular Meml)ers. A l)liill', rufe'geil man of generous pro- 
 portions, with a kindly heart ami a keen sense of humor, he was 
 the best of companions. .\ man of considerable personal mag- 
 netism and resourcefulness, he rejiresented a type of politician 
 more prominent a generation ago, when personality was a larger 
 factor in the oflice-seeker's equation than it is to-day. It was said 
 of Mr. HitowNLOw that he carrieil his political machine under his 
 hat. This was not, strictly speaking, true, lie knew the value 
 of organization, and possessed a talent for perfecting it that 
 amounted to genius. But there is a dill'erence between draw 
 poker as played between gentlemen and three-card nionle as eon- 
 ducted by a fellow of the baser sort for illegitimate prolit. Mr. 
 HnowM.ow i)layed draw-poker politics and pla\cd above the table. 
 His tactics rellectid an absorbing passion for llu' game rather 
 than an unscrupulous ilch for gain, and the evidence of his pos- 
 session of true spurting instincts coniuicnded him to the friendly 
 consideration of the spectator of his activities. His opponents 
 were compelled to admit his brilliant virtuosity even while he was 
 pocketing their losses and they were swallowing their defeat. 
 
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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 
 
 Although the chips usuallj- drifted toward him as tlie game pro- 
 gressed, the adjournment of tlie session usually left the other 
 players in fairly good humor if their flow of sporting blood was 
 equal to that of the victor. 
 
 Constituents would be better served and better satisfied, po- 
 litical campaigns would be more picturesque, and Congress would 
 be cleaner if there were a greater proportion of professional poli- 
 ticians of the Brownlow type in the field. His state of health 
 foretold several years ago the earlj- termination of his career. 
 His death will be the cause of deep regret in Tennessee and in 
 Washington, and wherever his personal acquaintance extended. 
 
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Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 December 6, 1910. 
 
 Mr. Frazier. Mr. President, I ask that the resokitions of 
 the House announcing the death of the late Representa- 
 tive Brownlow, of Tennessee, be laid before the Senate. 
 
 Tlie Vice President. The Chair laj's before the Senate 
 resolutions of the House of Representatives, which will 
 be read. 
 
 The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 
 
 In the House of Representatives, 
 
 December 5, 19i0. 
 Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
 the death of Hon. Walter P. Brownlow, late a Representative 
 from the State of Tennessee. 
 
 Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit 
 a copy of these resolutions to the Senate and send a copy thereof 
 to the family of the deceased. 
 
 Mr. Frazier. 1 submit the following resolutions and ask 
 for their immediate consideration. 
 
 The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 
 
 The resolutions were read and unanimously agreed to, 
 as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sensibility the 
 announcement of the death of Hon. Walter Preston Brownlow, 
 late a Representative from the State of Tennessee. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these reso- 
 lutions to the House of Representatives. 
 
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