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 BY THE STATE OF KANSAS 
 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE AND IN 
 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 OF THE UNITED STATES UPON THE 
 ACCEPTANCE OF THE STATUE OF 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON GLICK FROM 
 THE STATE OF KANSAS 
 
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 SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 30, SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS 
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
 be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
 acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick sixteen thou- 
 sand five hundred copies, of which five thousand shall be for the use of the 
 Senate, ten thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the 
 remaining one thousand five hundred shall be for use and distribution by the 
 Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. The 
 Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared 
 for the Pubiic Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue to 
 accompany the proceedings. 
 
 Passed the Senate August 25, 19 14. 
 
 Passed the House of Representatives March 2, 1915. 
 
 K OF i; 
 
 OCT 7 1S15 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 7-28 
 
 Letter of presentation from the governor of Kansas, Hon. George 
 
 H. Hodges 8 
 
 Cablegram from Hon. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma 9 
 
 Telegram from Hon. George A. Neeley, of Kansas 9 
 
 Telegram from Hon. B. P. Waggener, of Atchison, Kans 10 
 
 Addresses by — 
 
 Mr. William H. Thompson, of Kansas n 
 
 Statement by employees of the Bureau of Pensions 18 
 
 Mr. Joseph L. Bristow, of Kansas 21 
 
 Mr. William J. Stone, of Missouri 23 
 
 Mr. James A. Reed, of Missouri 25 
 
 Mr. Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado 26 
 
 Proceedings in the House 31-56 
 
 Addresses by — 
 
 Mr. Philip P. Campbell, of Kansas ^3 
 
 Mr. Joseph Taggart, of Kansas 37 
 
 Mr. Victor Murdock, of Kansas 46 
 
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THE SCULPTOR 
 
 Charles Henry Niehaus 
 
 Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24, 1855. In early 
 life followed wood engraving, stonecutting, and carving in 
 marble. Studied art in the McMicken School of Design, 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the Royal Academy of Munich, 
 receiving conspicuous awards in both institutions. Lived 
 for some time in Rome. Is a member of the Council of the 
 National Sculpture Society, of the Architectural League of 
 America, the National Arts Club, the Players Club, and 
 fellow of L'Associazione della Artistica Internazionale di 
 Roma. Since 1885 he has resided in the city of New York. 
 Among his works are statues of Hooper and Davenport, 
 statehouse, Connecticut; Astor historical doors, Old Trinity, 
 New York; carved- wood tympanums, Library of Congress; 
 statues of Moses and Gibbon, Library of Congress; Hahne- 
 mann Memorial, Washington, D. C. ; statues of Lincoln 
 and Farragut, Muskegon, Mich.; statues of Garfield, 
 Chandler, Allen, Morton, Ingalls, and Glick, Statuary Hall, 
 United States Capitol ; and a portrait bust of Daniel Tomp- 
 kins, in the gallery of the United States Senate. 
 
 Statue of James A. Garfield Statuary Hall. 
 
 Statue of Oliver P. Morton Statuary Hall. 
 
 Statue of John J. Ingalls Statuary Hall. 
 
 Statue of William Allen Statuary Hall. 
 
 Statue of Zachariah Chandler Statuary Hall. 
 
 Statue of George Washington Glick Statuary Hall. 
 
 Portrait Bust of Daniel Tompkins Senate gallery. 
 
 (Extract from Works of Art in the United States Capitol Building, S. Doc. 
 No. 169, 63d Cong., 1st sess.) 
 
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PROCEEDINGS IN THE 
 
 SENATE OF 
 
 THE UNITED STATES 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1914 
 
 Mr. Thompson. I desire to offer a resolution, and I should 
 like to have unanimous consent for its immediate adoption. 
 
 Mr. President, there is being placed in Statuary Hall to-day 
 the statue of George Washington Geick. Under the law 
 each State is entitled to place two statues of its distin- 
 guished men or women in that famous Hall. About 10 
 years ago Kansas selected from her citizens as one of the 
 recipients of this honor John James Ingalls, who was for- 
 merly a celebrated Member of this body. About one year ago 
 Kansas chose another of her citizens, George Washington 
 Geick, the only Democratic governor the State ever had until 
 the present administration, to receive the same high honor. 
 
 As everyone knows, Senator Ingalls was an uncompro- 
 mising Republican. As is equally well known, Gov. Geick 
 was an uncompromising Democrat. These men lived and 
 died in the same town, Atchison, Kans., and are buried in 
 the same cemetery. It is therefore very fitting that the 
 statues of these eminent sons of Kansas, representing, re- 
 spectively, two branches of political thought and the two 
 great political parties of this country, should stand side by 
 side in the Hall of Fame. 
 
 A prominent place immediately at the right of the entrance 
 leading from Statuary Hall to the House of Representatives 
 has been selected for the statue of Gov. Geick. A place 
 equally important has been selected for the statue of Senator 
 Ingalls, immediately at the left of the same entrance. 
 
 Mr. President, I offer the following resolution and ask for 
 its immediate consideration. 
 
 The resolution (S. Res. 402) was read, considered by unani- 
 mous consent, and agreed to, as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
 the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, to-day 
 erected in Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Sat- 
 urday, July 18, 1914, after the conclusion of the routine morning business. 
 
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Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1914 
 
 The President pro tempore. The regular order will be 
 the exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance 
 of the statue of George Washington Glick from the State 
 of Kansas. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. Mr. President, I present a letter from the 
 governor of Kansas and ask that it may be read. 
 
 The President pro tempore. In the absence of objection, 
 the Secretary will read as requested. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 State of Kansas, 
 
 Topeka, June 2Q, IQ14. 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Gentlemen: Among the many distinguished Kansans who have patrioti- 
 cally devoted their lives to the service of the State, helped make its splendid 
 history, promoted its material growth and prosperity, and marched in the 
 forefront of the van of spiritual and social progress, there is no man who ranks 
 higher than its one-time governor, the late George W. Glick. 
 
 Grateful for his eminent services and proud of his history and attainments 
 in behalf of the State, the legislature, at its regular session of 1913, adopted a 
 concurrent resolution and made an appropriation for the purchase of a suitable 
 statue, as a tribute to his memory, to be placed in Statuary Hall, where the 
 Nation has granted to his people the privilege of placing it. This rare privilege 
 is gratefully accepted by the State of Kansas, and the statue, done in imper- 
 ishable marble, is now ready for acceptance by the Government; and, in be- 
 half of the Legislature of Kansas and of the people I represent, I here avail 
 myself of the honor and pleasure of presenting it to the people of the United 
 States and their Representatives in Congress assembled. 
 Respectfully, yours, 
 
 George H. Hodges, Governor. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. Mr. President, I submit a concurrent 
 resolution, and ask that it may be read and considered at 
 this time. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas 
 introduces a concurrent resolution, which the Secretary will 
 read. 
 
 The Secretary read the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
 28), as follows: 
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
 statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to 
 be placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, 
 and that the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution 
 
Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 of the statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished 
 civic services. 
 
 Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
 authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 
 
 The Senate, by unanimous consent, proceeded to consider 
 the concurrent resolution. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. I present a communication from Hon. 
 Robert L,. Owen, senior Senator from the State of Okla- 
 homa, and ask that it may be read by the Secretary. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas 
 presents a communication, which he asks may be read by 
 the Secretary. Unless there is objection, that will be the 
 order. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 [Cablegram.] 
 
 July iS, 1914. 
 Hon. William H. Thompson, 
 
 United States Senate, Washington, D. C: 
 
 I greatly regret my inability to be with you to-day. I especially desire to 
 pay my great respect for Gov. Glick in person. He was an honor to the great 
 State of Kansas. His upright, useful life, his great integrity, and his patriotic 
 devotion to the public interest will always remain a model and an inspiration 
 to the youth of Kansas and our whole country. May his splendid example 
 be forever perpetuated by the noble monument which you to-day erect in 
 the National Capitol. 
 
 My sympathy and good wishes are with you. Extremely sorry I am pre- 
 vented being present. 
 
 Robert L. Owen. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. I also present a telegram from Represent- 
 ative George A. Neeley, of the seventh district of Kansas, 
 which I ask may be read. 
 
 The President pro tempore. The communication will be 
 read, unless there is objection. The Chair hears none, and 
 the Secretary will read. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 [Telegram.] 
 
 Hutchinson, Kans., July 18, 1914. 
 Senator W. H. Thompson, Washington , D. C: 
 
 Matters over which I have no control deprive me of the pleasure of being 
 present at the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statue to 
 the memory of the late Gov. George W. Glick. Time has only tended to 
 
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 magnify the splendid qualities that made him the foremost Kansan of his 
 day, and it is indeed a happy day for the people of our State, irrespective of 
 party, that this remembrance of his life, service, and activities is to be thus 
 recognized. 
 
 George A. Neeley. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. I also present and ask to have read a 
 telegram just received from Hon. B. P. Waggener, of Atchi- 
 son, Kans. 
 
 The President pro tempore. In the absence of objection, 
 the Secretary will read as requested. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows : 
 
 [Telegram.] 
 
 Atchison, Kans., July 18, 1914. 
 Hon. W. H. Thompson, 
 
 United States Senate, Washington, D. C: 
 As member of legislature for many years and as chief executive of Kansas, 
 George W. Glick accomplished more for State than any of her public men. 
 While' he was not a brilliant orator he was a constructive statesman, and 
 Kansas honors herself by perpetuating his memory. 
 
 B. P. Waggener. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. THOMPSON 
 Mr. President, the statutes of the United States provide: 
 
 The President is authorized to invite all the States to provide and furnish 
 statues in marble or bronze not exceeding two in number for each State of 
 deceased persons who have been citizens thereof and illustrious for their 
 historic renown or for distinguished civic or military services, such as each 
 State may deem to be worthy of this national commemoration, and when so 
 furnished the same shall be placed in the old Hall of the House of Representa- 
 tives in the Capitol of the United States, which is set apart, or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, as a national statuary hall for the purpose herein indi- 
 cated. 
 
 This proceeding, therefore, involves two propositions: 
 First, the presentation by the State of Kansas to the United 
 States of a marble statue of the late George Washington 
 Guck; and, second, the formal acceptance of that statue 
 by the Congress of the United States. 
 
 Sir William Jones, the noted English linguist and jurist, 
 furnished to the literature of the world the following beautiful 
 sentiment in verse: 
 
 What constitutes a State? 
 Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, 
 
 Thick wall or moated gate ; 
 Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; 
 
 Not bays and broad-armed ports 
 Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; 
 
 Not starred and spangled courts 
 Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 
 
 No! Men, high-minded men, 
 With powers as far above dull brutes endued 
 
 In forest, brake, or den, 
 As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, 
 
 Men who their duties know, 
 But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, 
 
 Prevent the long-aimed blow, 
 And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. 
 
 These constitute a State, 
 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, 
 
 O'er thrones and globes elate, 
 Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 
 
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 Sumner said: "The. true grandeur of nations is in those 
 qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." 
 
 The causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the 
 destinies of nations are substantially the same. That nation 
 is the greatest which produces the most noble men and 
 faithful women. It has frequently been demonstrated in 
 battle that success does not depend so much upon the number 
 of men and guns as it does upon the character of the men 
 behind the guns. The principal elements of success in life 
 consist in innate capacity and pronounced determination to 
 excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost certain. 
 It is therefore proper on occasions like the present to make 
 a study of successful lives, to serve both as a source of infor- 
 mation and as a stimulus and encouragement to those who 
 have the capacity to emulate their example. Longfellow 
 furnishes an important lesson in this connection in his expres- 
 sion, " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, 
 while we judge others by what they have already done." 
 
 George Washington Glick, the ninth governor of Kan- 
 sas, was born at Greencastle, Fairfield County, Ohio, July 4, 
 1827. His great-grandfather, Philip Glick, a Revolutionary 
 soldier, was one of five brothers who came to Pennsylvania 
 from Germany. His grandfather, George Glick, served in 
 the War of 181 2, as did also his mother's father, Capt. George 
 Sanders. Gov. Glick's father, Isaac Glick, was a man of 
 influence in the community where he lived, who took an 
 active interest in State and local politics, and held many posi- 
 tions of public trust. His mother, Mary Sanders, was of 
 Scotch parentage, and a woman of marked and lovable char- 
 acter. Both parents lived to a good old age. 
 
 Gov. Glick was reared on his father's farm near Fremont, 
 Ohio, and there acquired the habits of industry, economy, 
 and self-reliance that have made his later life so successful. 
 At the age of 2 1 he entered the office of Buckland & Hayes 
 as a law student, and was admitted to the bar two years later 
 at Cincinnati by the supreme court. Rutherford B. Hayes, 
 one of the members of this firm, afterwards became Presi- 
 dent of the United States. Gov. Glick began the practice 
 
Address of Mr. Thompson 13 
 
 at Fremont and soon won an enviable reputation as a hard- 
 working and faithful lawyer. He fully sustained this repu- 
 tation after coming to Kansas. Whatever else may be said 
 of the legal fraternity, it can not be successfully denied that 
 members of the bar have been more prominent in public 
 affairs than any other class of citizens. Gov. Guck was a 
 natural leader of men and consequently began early in life 
 to take a hand in politics. When but 31 years of age he was 
 nominated for Congress by the Democracy of his district in 
 Ohio, but declined to accept the nomination. The same 
 year he was nominated for State senator and made the race 
 against Gen. R. P. Buckland, his former law preceptor. He 
 was defeated, but ran 1,750 votes ahead of his ticket. 
 
 Locating at Atchison in the spring of 1859, about the same 
 time that Senator Ingalls also located there, he formed a 
 partnership with Hon. Alfred G. Otis, who afterwards be- 
 came a prominent judge of the State, which partnership 
 lasted until 1874, when an affection of the throat compelled 
 him to relinquish the active practice of the law. This firm soon 
 became one of the best law firms in the State. Hon. Balie 
 P. Waggener, of Atchison, the present general attorney for 
 the Missouri Pacific Railway Co., and one of the most promi- 
 nent Democrats of Kansas, and whose sixty-seventh birth- 
 day is being celebrated to-day, read law in this office when 
 he was a young man and was admitted to the bar from this 
 firm. Mr. Waggener is also the author of the resolution for 
 the presentation of the Guck statue to the Nation, which as 
 State senator he introduced in the last legislature. Gov. 
 Guck soon took a leading place at the Kansas bar. His 
 practice extended throughout all the courts, and he was a 
 salaried attorney for two railroads and a number of large 
 business concerns. His fees were often very large, but at the 
 same time he did much legal work for the poorer settlers with- 
 out compensation, and he never willingly saw a man sent 
 out of court without a hearing because he was unable to 
 pay a lawyer. At the bar he won marked prestige by reason 
 of his thorough understanding of the law and his constant 
 devotion to his clients' interests. He prepared his cases with 
 
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 precision and exactness, studied the question at issue from 
 every conceivable standpoint, and was thus ready to meet 
 not only the expected but also the unexpected, which hap- 
 pens so frequently in the courts. 
 
 Notwithstanding he was an active Democrat and lived 
 on the Missouri River in close proximity to the State of 
 Missouri, he was an uncompromising free-State man, and 
 was perhaps as much responsible for the State enlisting in 
 the free-State cause as any other person. He helped to pre- 
 pare and adopt the constitution upon which the State of 
 Kansas was admitted to the Union. He served in the first 
 legislature and again and again in following legislatures 
 until the policy of the State was firmly established. He was 
 elected by the Democrats to the Kansas Legislature in 1862, 
 without opposition, something unprecedented in that Re- 
 publican State in those days. He was reelected by the 
 Democrats against strong Republican opposition in an over- 
 whelmingly Republican district in 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 
 1868, 1876, and 1882, serving almost constantly for 18 
 years, giving him the longest service in the Kansas Legisla- 
 ture of any man in either political party. 
 
 During his long and active service as a legislator he intro- 
 duced and secured the passage of many needed and important 
 laws that have fixed and settled the policy of the State on 
 many matters of vast interest, and that have stood the test 
 of time and experience. Mr. Glick in 1863 prepared and 
 secured the passage of the first law in Kansas regulating the 
 rate of interest on money, changing the then prevailing 
 rates of from 5 and 3 per cent per month to 10 per cent per 
 annum, with penalties for exacting usury. Also the first 
 law relating to marriage, and providing for a record of the 
 same, making it easy to prove the marriage and to establish 
 the legitimacy of children and the title to property belong- 
 ing to heirs. This law, passed in 1863, has been amended, 
 but the original requirements of a license and a record of the 
 marriage have not been changed. The occupy ing-claimant 
 law, the law relating to wills, and the mechanics' lien law, 
 with many others passed in the early sixties, that have stood 
 
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 the test of time and extended by amendments to conform 
 to changed conditions, but not changing their theory or 
 purpose, are now part of the settled policy of the State. 
 Gov. Guck, as chairman of the judiciary committee, in 1868, 
 in revising the laws, prepared and secured the adoption of sec- 
 tions 5046 and 5047 of the civil code, which have had a most 
 important bearing on the proceedings of the supreme court. 
 
 Section 5046 provides that in all cases decided by the 
 supreme court it shall be the duty of the judges of the su- 
 preme court to prepare and file with the papers of the case 
 the opinion of the court upon the questions of law arising in 
 the case before any mandate shall issue to the court below. 
 
 Section 5047 provides that the judge writing the opinion 
 of the court shall prepare a syllabus of the points of law 
 decided in the case, and file the same with the papers in the 
 case, and in all cases a copy of the syllabus must accompany 
 the mandate to the court below. Previous to the adoption 
 of those two sections of the code, in more than half of the 
 cases tried and decided by the supreme court no opinions 
 were filed, and litigants never knew on what grounds the 
 cases were decided; and the lower courts, when cases were 
 reversed, were left in ignorance of the reasons for reversal. 
 These amendments to the code met with the universal in- 
 dorsement of the bar of the State, and Gov. Guck received 
 many thanks from district judges and members of the bar 
 commending his acts in securing the passage of these statutes. 
 
 In 1876 Gov. Guck was made speaker pro tempore of the 
 house of representatives, although that body was strongly 
 Republican. As a presiding officer he proved eminently 
 fair and an expert parliamentarian. During his years in 
 the legislature he was recognized as one of its strongest 
 members. He was a ready debater and on the alert to detect 
 all schemes aimed at the public treasury or at the rights and 
 liberties of the people, and knew the full meaning and import 
 of every bill passed. He was at the head of the judiciary 
 and other important committees, and to him is largely due 
 the credit for the complete and successful revision of the 
 laws of Kansas made by the judiciary committee in 1868. 
 
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 He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions 
 in 1856, 1868, 1884, and 1892. He was the choice of the 
 Kansas Democracy in 1884 for Vice President, and the 
 Kansas delegation in the Democratic national convention 
 at Chicago that year presented his name to the convention 
 as its candidate for Vice President after the nomination of 
 Grover Cleveland for President. 
 
 He was nominated for governor in 1868 and made the 
 race in obedience to his party's call, although his defeat was 
 inevitable. In 1882 he was again the unanimous choice of 
 his party for governor and made a memorable campaign, 
 and, though fighting against great odds, among them being 
 a Republican majority of over 52,000, he defeated that dis- 
 tinguished Republican and Prohibitionist, John P. St. John, 
 by 8,079 votes. The campaign of 1882 was an extremely 
 lively contest. It was the first political campaign that I 
 ever became interested in. My father, John F. Thompson, 
 made his first political race in Kansas on the Democratic 
 ticket for probate judge of Nemaha County, and I was natu- 
 rally interested in the outcome, although only a mere boy. 
 I remember especially the activity of Gov. Glick in that cam- 
 paign. I learned from him at that time my first lesson in 
 politics. He made a personal campaign, speaking in prac- 
 tically every county in the State, and when the votes were 
 counted he had overcome the fifty-odd thousand Republican 
 majority. Gov. Glick was the only Democrat elected on 
 the State ticket in 1882. Gov. Glick was our first and only 
 Democratic governor until the present administration, and 
 our present governor was also the only Democrat elected 
 on the State ticket in 191 2. 
 
 While in the election of 1882 the resubmission question 
 cut some figure in the contest, as prohibition had only 
 recently been adopted in the State, and most people who 
 were opposed to the amendment at that time, regardless of 
 political affiliations, naturally voted the Democratic ticket, 
 yet, after all, the fight against the third term for St. John 
 was really the controlling factor that brought success to the 
 Democrats. No one in any party has ever been elected for 
 
Address of Mr. Thompson 17 
 
 a third term for governor in Kansas, and very few men have 
 been elected for a third term to any office. Resubmission, 
 when submitted alone, has always been defeated, and al- 
 ways will be. Resubmission was like a millstone around 
 the neck of the Democratic Party so long as it gave encour- 
 agement to this issue. General success never came to the 
 party on principle until it freed itself of this burden. None 
 of the old recognized leaders of the party now stands for 
 resubmission. In fact, none of the leaders of any of the 
 political parties now advocates it. It is a dead issue in 
 Kansas, except to only a few politicians who refuse to recog- 
 nize the settled policy of the State in this regard, and who 
 occasionally attempt to resurrect it simply to cause trouble. 
 Although the resubmissionists claimed to have elected Gov. 
 GucK, their cause never received any consideration or en- 
 couragement during his administration, and before he died, 
 like David Overmyer and other former great leaders, he 
 repudiated the doctrine. 
 
 Gov. Gwck was inaugurated January 8, 1883, and his 
 administration was marked by dignity, intelligence, and a 
 careful and discreet management of the material and financial 
 interests of the State. His long experience as a legislator 
 gave him an intimate knowledge of the State's needs, and 
 many valuable reform measures recommended in his message 
 to the legislature were accomplished. He entered an earnest 
 protest against the burdens imposed upon the agricultural 
 classes by the railroads, and asked that legislation be enacted 
 to prevent these exactions. A law creating a railroad com- 
 mission and embodying substantially all the improvements 
 asked by him was passed and proved of great benefit to the 
 people of the State. 
 
 Among other measures suggested by him and adopted by 
 the legislature may be cited the first good-roads law enacted 
 by the State; more just and equitable assessment laws for 
 taxation; the establishment of a live-stock sanitary com- 
 mission, with a State veterinary surgeon; and laws providing 
 for the better care of public money, since the adoption of 
 which not one dollar has been lost to the State. 
 
 85890°— S. Doc. 990, 63-3 2 
 
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 A wise economy without stinginess marked his manage- 
 ment of the State's finances, and the various educational and 
 charitable institutions of the State were admirably cared for. 
 He was renominated for governor in 1884, but- was defeated 
 by Col. John A. Martin, also of Atchison, although running 
 15,000 votes ahead of his ticket. 
 
 In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland pension 
 agent at Topeka, and so satisfactorily discharged these duties 
 that he was reappointed without solicitation on his part when 
 Mr. Cleveland again came into office. During Gov. Guck's 
 two terms as pension agent at the Topeka agency he received 
 over $85,000,000, which he disbursed to ex-soldiers, and 
 holds the Government's acknowledgment for the faithful 
 disbursement of that large sum without the loss of one cent 
 to the Government or to the old soldiers. Among those who 
 served as employees under Gov. Gwck while pension agent 
 there are still employed in the Pension Bureau in this city 1 5 
 men, who have contributed the following statement for these 
 proceedings, which I am pleased to present: 
 
 We found in that closer relationship of employer and employee all he 
 demanded, as the one in charge of this important Government position, was 
 faithful, earnest, and honest endeavor to do and perform all duties assigned us 
 the same as would be expected of us in any other field of human activity. He 
 demanded the same requirements in public service as in private life. He 
 exacted no more and was satisfied with no less. He insisted upon faithfulness 
 in the performance of duty. He was decidedly averse to subterfuge, unmoved 
 by flattery, and observant of the absolute rights of others. An unrelenting 
 foe to unfaithfulness, he ever admired fidelity of purpose, honesty of endeavor, 
 and uprightness of conduct. Whether in private, public, or official life, he 
 believed the same rules should be conscientiously applied. Officially or 
 privately he was easily approachable, listened with interest, advised with 
 candor, and judged with mercy. 
 
 With the exception of his immediate associates during the Civil War and 
 perhaps a very few close friends in his social, public, or political life, it was 
 not generally known that he served in an humble station during the Civil War. 
 Still fewer of his immediate friends knew that he was wounded during his 
 service. Inquiry of one of his closest friends, an important appointee during 
 his term as governor of the State, brought an emphatic denial of his service, 
 because, as he said, "Had the governor been a soldier he would certainly have 
 told me." 
 
 Men who campaigned with him when such a statement would have largely 
 benefited his chances made no claim along that line, because they did not 
 know it. He was decidedly averse to making use of this fact, even for political 
 gain. That he took this course is characteristic of the man. Experience and 
 
Address of Mr. Thompson 19 
 
 observation have shown that length of service is of far less importance than the 
 fact of service. His country called; he obeyed the call, served the term 
 required by the Government, was in a battle, received wounds, and when dis 
 charged retired to civil life, as did thousands of others, to resume the obliga- 
 tions, duties, and labors of citizenship. 
 
 Guy O. Taylor, disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions; Cass 
 Carr, John Hovenden, Lawrence A. McDonald, Mark P. Miller, 
 Emmett Turner, Leonard S. Fortune, Isaac D. Huntsberger, 
 O. B. Martin, C. D. Nichols, J. P. Wilson, Samuel C. Garrard, 
 Rufus G. Kessler, E. E. Miller, William H. Ruff. 
 
 For 30 years Gov. Glick was engaged in farming. He was 
 the owner of a valuable tract of land of about 640 acres 4 
 miles west of the city of Atchison, and there he successfully 
 carried on stock raising, making a specialty of breeding short- 
 horn cattle. A number of times he paid as high as $1,000 
 for a single head, and among stock dealers be obtained a wide 
 reputation, shipping cattle all over the United States. He 
 was a close personal and political friend of Senator William 
 A. Harris, who distinguished himself in this body. They had 
 many things in common, and were especially mutually inter- 
 ested in high-grade stock and intensive farming. 
 
 He was one of the organizers of the State board of agri- 
 culture, and served several terms as its president, and at the 
 time of his death was still a member. He was a member of 
 the Kansas Historical Society and its first vice president. 
 He was a ready and vigorous writer, and contributed many 
 valuable essays on agriculture, stock raising, and kindred 
 subjects to various periodicals and public meetings. He 
 was one of the Kansas commissioners at the Centennial 
 in 1876 and a member of the board of managers at the 
 Columbian Exposition in 1893. He was president of the 
 Kansas board of managers at the Trans-Mississippi and 
 International Exposition in 1898 at Omaha. 
 
 Gov. Glick served in the Second Kansas Regiment under 
 Col. M. Quigg, and was in a number of engagements on the 
 border. He was wounded at the Battle of the Big Blue. 
 He enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican War, but peace was 
 declared before he saw active service. He was a Mason, and 
 was one of the charter members of the Knights Templar 
 Commandery at Atchison. 
 
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 Always an uncompromising Democrat, Gov. Guck had 
 the respect and esteem of Kansas people of all parties. His 
 sagacity and courage in treating public questions, his de- 
 testation of trickery, and his fair treatment of all won and 
 kept him many loyal friends. 
 
 His inflexible determination to make Kansas respected and 
 entitled to the respect of the Nation forced him into a posi- 
 tion of prominence and responsibility. His unswerving 
 attitude through all the changes and vicissitudes of the State 
 made his name a household word. Until the day of his death 
 he represented in his own individuality the best history and 
 attainments of the State of Kansas. More than to any other 
 man is due him the credit for the construction of the impor- 
 tant railroads of the State of Kansas. He was a charter 
 member of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe organization, 
 which line started from the city of Atchison, as its eastern 
 terminus. He helped to build up the farming industries of 
 the State, and was always consulted in all matters of farm- 
 ing and stock raising. His natural instincts were in har- 
 mony with an agricultural region. He was the best repre- 
 sentative of an agricultural State. 
 
 Gov. Guck was married in 1857 to Elizabeth Ryder, of 
 Massillon, Ohio, whose grace and dignity adorned his home 
 and added honor to his official life. Mrs. Glick still lives at 
 Atchison in comfort and happiness, enjoying the rewards of 
 a well-spent life. A son, Frederick H., and a daughter, 
 Jennie, are the fruits of this union. Gov. Gwck died at his 
 home April 13, 191 1 , and was buried at Mount Vernon Ceme- 
 tery, Atchison, Kans. Thus ended the earthly career of one 
 of the ablest, most active, and useful citizens who ever lived 
 in Kansas, and whose achievements are indelibly written 
 upon the pages of history of the State for more than a half 
 century. It is therefore clear that for his historic renown 
 and distinguished civic services he is in every way worthy of 
 national commemoration by the State, and it is entirely 
 fitting and proper that his statue in marble should be pre- 
 sented by the State of Kansas and accepted by the Congress 
 and placed in the National Statuary Hall. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. BRISTOW 
 
 Mr. President, George Washington Guck was a resident 
 of Kansas for more than 50 years. He devoted much of his 
 life to the promotion of the agricultural interests of the State. 
 He was a genial, affable gentleman, who had attractive 
 social qualities and made many personal friends. His pro- 
 fessional and political career was not conspicuous. He was 
 a member of the legislature of the State for many years, 
 served on the State board of agriculture, I believe, from its 
 organization to the time of his death, and was governor for 
 two years. 
 
 He was the only real Democrat ever elected governor of 
 Kansas, except the present incumbent of that office. L. D. 
 Lewelling and J. W. Leedy were elected governors over their 
 Republican competitors, but they were both Populists, and 
 were elected on a fusion ticket supported by the Populists 
 and Democrats. Mr. Guck was elected governor in 1882, 
 defeating Gov. John P. St. John, who was running for the 
 third consecutive term. During St. John's incumbency of 
 the office the prohibitory amendment to the constitution 
 was adopted, and he began a vigorous crusade to enforce it. 
 As a result the antiprohibition Republicans bolted and 
 voted for Guck, who had been nominated by the Demo- 
 crats on a strong antiprohibition platform. 
 
 It is an interesting coincidence in Kansas history that 
 Gov. Guck, the only avowed antiprohibitionist who has 
 ever been elected governor of Kansas since the prohibitory 
 amendment was adopted, is to be honored by the people of 
 his State with a statue in Statuary Hall, though the issue 
 upon which he was elected governor, that of opposition to 
 the prohibitory amendment, has passed away. I have been 
 told by friends of Gov. Guck that before his death he ad- 
 mitted that prohibition had been beneficial to Kansas. And 
 the party which nominated him and denounced prohibition 
 
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 in the most violent terms has now repudiated its antiprohi- 
 bition declarations and at this time is standing for the pro- 
 hibitory law and its enforcement. So that, in fact, Gov. 
 Guck and the party which he represented now admit that 
 the issue upon which he was elected governor was a false 
 one. The temporary victory which the Democratic Party 
 won in the State by the election of Mr. Guck resulted in no 
 legislation adverse to the prohibition law of the State. In 
 fact, the law has grown stronger year by year, and to-day 
 is more strongly intrenched in the minds of the people of 
 Kansas than at any time since it was adopted, 34 years ago. 
 If I had had a voice in the selecting of the second Kansan 
 to be honored by a statue in the National Capitol, there 
 are many others that I would have chosen in preference 
 to Gov. Guck. But the legislature, upon whom the re- 
 sponsibility is imposed, has made this choice, and I am 
 glad to commend his good qualities and personal virtues. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. STONE 
 
 Mr/ President, for more than 25 years my home was at 
 Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., located in the southwestern 
 section of the State. Vernon County adjoins Bourbon 
 County, Kans., of which Fort Scott is the county seat. 
 These cities are about 20 miles apart. Fort Scott is the 
 most important city in southeastern Kansas, and Nevada 
 is one of the most beautiful, progressive, and important 
 cities in southwestern Missouri. Because of the proximity 
 of these counties and cities the people residing in them, 
 respectively, were constantly brought into intimate inter- 
 course with each other. Years ago I had a somewhat 
 extensive acquaintance with the people of that part of Kansas 
 tributary to Fort Scott. Back in the seventies and eighties 
 I participated, more or less, in political campaigns in the 
 Sunflower State, particularly in the southeastern section. In 
 the campaign of 1882 George Washington Guck was the 
 Democratic candidate for governor. I was complimented 
 with an invitation to deliver several addresses in support of 
 the ticket of which he was the head, and it was during that 
 contest that I first became acquainted with Mr. Glick. 
 Mr. Guck was elected governor in that somewhat memo- 
 rable struggle. His victory was the occasion of great rejoic- 
 ing among his political followers throughout Kansas, heartily 
 shared in by thousands of Missourians of his political faith, 
 especially along the western border of that State. I met 
 him frequently afterwards, and although I can not say that I 
 ever knew him intimately, I did know him well. He was a 
 strong, virile, intellectual man, whose heart was full of kind- 
 ness and sympathetic regard for his fellow men. He was 
 broad minded and large hearted. He was a typical man of 
 the then new and rapidly expanding West. He was one of 
 the big men of Kansas — patriotic, clean in his life, devoted 
 to the higher duties of citizenship, and withal brave and 
 
 fearless. 
 
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 He rendered numerous valuable services to his State and 
 country, and justly held a high place in public esteem. 
 His long and distinguished life was closed among the people 
 to whom he had become greatly endeared, and when he 
 died his countrymen felt that a great man had fallen. 
 
 Among the States that make up our Union, Kansas, 
 because of her exceptional history and marvelous develop- 
 ment, stands forth as somewhat unique and remarkable. 
 She is one of the great States of our federation, and for her 
 the spirit of promise stands like a shining figure beckoning 
 her onward. Gov. Guck bore a conspicuous part as a 
 builder in making Kansas beautiful and great. It is well, 
 therefore, that the people of Kansas should honor the 
 memory of this man who was so useful to them and the 
 country by giving him a place in Statuary Hall among 
 the mute marble images of so many of the great sons of 
 America. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. REED 
 
 Mr. President, the home of Gov. Glick for many years was 
 within a few miles of Kansas City, where I reside. It there- 
 fore happened that I had occasion to follow with some degree 
 of accuracy his career. 
 
 George W. Glick was a warrior on the battle fields of 
 progress. He was one of those men, all too rare, who place 
 principle above popularity and subordinate private interests 
 to the public weal. 
 
 For a half century he waged a desperate struggle on behalf 
 of the principles of a party hopelessly in the minority in his 
 home State. During at least 40 years of that time not a 
 single star of hope illumined the dark horizon. His con- 
 tention therefore was without expectation of emolument or 
 reward. No man in Kansas could anticipate political prefer- 
 ment who marched under the banner of Democracy. His 
 fidelity through the long years to that cause is certain proof 
 that he found his inspiration in duty. 
 
 In this long and desperate contest his spirits never flagged, 
 his zeal never abated. After each disaster his was the first 
 hand to raise the stricken banner from the dust. His voice 
 rang loud and clear as he rallied the scattered hosts. His 
 valor always inspired the hearts of others with courage. So 
 he continued from early manhood until the day of his death 
 to contend for great principles the adoption of which he be- 
 lieved essential to the welfare of the Republic. He saw those 
 principles grow in popularity and strength. He lived to 
 witness the crystallization into law of many reforms for 
 which in the beginning his voice resounded almost alone. 
 
 It is eminently proper that the Federal Government unite 
 with Kansas in paying honor to the lofty citizenship of such 
 a man. It is to men of his fiber and character the country 
 owes its onward march. Sincerity in public life, self-sacri- 
 fice, and high courage are the qualities which in the end make 
 up the sum of human progress. It has been such architects 
 as GeorCxE W. Glick who have laid the foundation and 
 erected the walls of the temple of civilization. 
 
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ADDRESS OF MR. THOMAS 
 
 Mr. President, George W. Guck was a type of the early 
 westerner, the man who cast his fortunes and utilized his 
 talents upon the frontier in the stirring days when there 
 was a frontier. In those days the venturesome and the 
 ambitious were attracted by the El Dorado of the West, 
 and, obeying that instinct which has impelled the human 
 race westward from the dawn of civilization, he entered 
 upon a career having its beginning in a rude western and 
 uninhabited land and its full fruition in its redemption 
 from barbarism and its occupation by the white man. 
 
 Gov. Guck was elected to the chief magistracy of the State 
 which he helped to found at a time when questions of internal 
 interest and importance had weakened the loyalty of the 
 great majority party to its ticket. He became conspicuous 
 by reason of the fact that he was the first Democratic 
 governor of the State of Kansas; but with the eyes of the 
 country upon him in consequence of that unique circum- 
 stance, he bore the burdens of his position with dignity and 
 discharged its duties with eminent success. 
 
 It is altogether fit and proper, Mr. President, that the 
 marble effigy of such a man should be the companion piece 
 from the State of Kansas of that of the great Senator, John 
 J. Ingalls, who was conspicuous for so many years in the 
 Senate Chamber. 
 
 The Presiding Officer (Mr. Clark, of Wyoming, in the 
 chair). The question is on agreeing to the concurrent 
 resolution submitted by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 
 Thompson]. 
 
 The concurrent resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914 
 
 Mr. Thompson. I submit a concurrent resolution, and I 
 ask unanimous consent for its present consideration. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretary will read the con- 
 current resolution. 
 
 The Secretary read the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
 30) , as follows : 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be 
 printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the accept- 
 ance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, of 
 which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
 of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
 by the governor of Kansas; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed 
 to have printed an engraving of said statue to accompany said proceedings, 
 said engraving to be paid for out of the appropriation for the Bureau of Engrav- 
 ing and Printing. 
 
 Mr. Smoot. I ask that the concurrent resolution may be 
 referred to the Committee on Printing. 
 
 Mr. Thompson. Very well. 
 
 The Vice President. Is there objection? The Chair 
 hears none, and the concurrent resolution will be referred to 
 the Committee on Printing. If there are no further con- 
 current or other resolutions, the morning business is closed. 
 
 TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914 
 
 Mr. Chilton. From the Committee on Printing I report 
 back favorably with an amendment Senate concurrent reso- 
 lution No. 30, submitted by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. 
 Thompson] on July 23, authorizing the printing of 16,500 
 copies of the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance 
 of the statue of the late George Washington Glick, accom- 
 panied by an engraving of said statue, and I ask unanimous 
 consent for its present consideration. 
 
 The Vice President. Is there objection to the present 
 
 consideration of the concurrent resolution ? 
 
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 The amendment of the Committee on Printing was, in line 
 8, after the words " distribution by the," to strike out " gov- 
 ernor of Kansas; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
 directed to have printed an engraving of said statue to 
 accompany said proceedings, said engraving to be paid for 
 out of the appropriation for the Bureau of Engraving and 
 Printing," and insert "Senators and Representatives in 
 Congress from the State of Kansas. The Joint Committee 
 on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared 
 for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
 said statue to accompany the proceedings," so as to make 
 the concurrent resolution read : 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
 be printed and bound in one volume trie proceedings in Congress upon the 
 acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Guck 16,500 copies, 
 of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
 of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
 by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. 
 The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy pre- 
 pared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue 
 to accompany the proceedings. 
 
 Mr. Smoot. Mr. President, I ask that the last clause of 
 the amendment to the resolution be again read. 
 
 The Vice President. The Secretary will read as re- 
 quested. 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy 
 prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said 
 statue to accompany the proceedings. 
 
 Mr. Smoot. I will simply say to the Senator from West 
 Virginia that in the past the Joint Committee on Printing 
 have always been able to secure such plates from the Director 
 of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but it may be that 
 we may be able to procure the plate in this case through the 
 Public Printer. 
 
 Mr. Chilton. Oh, yes; that can be done. 
 
 The Vice President. The question is on the amendment 
 reported by the committee. 
 
 The amendment was agreed to. 
 
 The resolution as amended was agreed to. 
 
PROCEEDINGS IN THE 
 HOUSE OF 
 REPRESENTATIVES 
 
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PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1914 
 
 Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the present consideration of the resolution which I send to 
 the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House resolution 558 
 
 Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
 the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, erected in 
 Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
 1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 
 
 The Speaker. Is there objection to the present considera- 
 tion of the resolution ? 
 
 There was no objection. 
 
 The Speaker. Is there not a Senate resolution like this ? 
 
 Mr. Taggart. The Senate resolution relates to the ac- 
 ceptance by the Senate. 
 
 The Speaker. And this is the corresponding House reso- 
 lution ? 
 
 Mr. Taggart. Yes. 
 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1914 
 
 The Speaker. The Chair lays before the House the reso- 
 lution for the special order, which is as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
 the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Glick, erected in 
 Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
 1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 
 
 The Chair designates the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. 
 Taggart] to act as Speaker. [Applause.] 
 
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 Mr. Taggart assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from 
 the State of Kansas of the statue of George Washington Guck, erected in 
 Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, July 18, 
 1914, at 3 o'clock p. m. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. CAMPBELL 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the law provides that the several States of the 
 Union may send to Statuary Hall statues of two citizens of 
 the State eligible for such an honor, and for the acceptance 
 of such statue by the Congress of the United States. This 
 House is now for the second time engaged in the acceptance 
 of a statue from the State of Kansas. John James Ingalls, 
 in statue, has for many years occupied a place in Statuary 
 Hall. George Washington Guck, formerly governor of 
 the State, was a pioneer. He went to Kansas before it 
 became a State. He went before there were railroads west 
 of the Mississippi River. 
 
 When he arrived upon the prairies of Kansas in Atchison 
 County he was at the end of the road trail in that direction. 
 Travel had not gone beyond, and when he stopped he 
 began the work of a pioneer in making Kansas a habitable 
 place. At that time nothing greeted him and those with 
 him except the broad expanse of prairie that receded from the 
 Missouri River westward to the Rocky Mountains. There 
 were no common carriers of interstate commerce, no bridges, 
 no public buildings and but few of a private character. 
 There were no gas or electric light plants, no telephones, or 
 rural delivery of mails. A young man full of energy and 
 ability even then saw opportunities in that part of our 
 domain that was then designated upon the map as the 
 American Desert. He knew, as those with him knew, what 
 it would require to make that desert a fit home for a 
 splendid citizenship. He knew of the sacrifices, of the 
 energy, of the determination that it would take. He devoted 
 himself to the work of making Kansas a great State from the 
 day that he arrived upon her prairies until the day of his 
 death. He found it a raw prairie; he left it a fertile field, 
 inhabited by a prosperous and happy people. When he 
 came he found nothing; when he left the people had every- 
 thing. Gov. Glick saw the prairie broken, houses, barns, 
 
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 schoolhouses, churches, bridges, courthouses, colleges, state- 
 house, and charitable institutions all built and paid for. 
 
 Gov. Guck was one of the many thousands of heroes who 
 went forward and removed the frontier. The frontier is 
 gone, and those who moved it are going. No honor is too 
 great for them, and George W. Glick was one of their 
 leaders. 
 
 He was early engaged in politics. He was a Democrat. 
 He worked for and voted with his party, and yet almost from 
 the beginning of his political career he was elected to office 
 by the vote of his political opponents. He was a member of 
 the Kansas Legislature from the early days of the State's 
 admission to the Union, at odd intervals, whenever he could 
 be prevailed upon to go, up to the time that he served as 
 governor, in 1882. 
 
 He was a peculiarly popular man with those who knew him. 
 He had a way of getting close to his associates. It is not 
 strange, therefore, that the people of Atchison County sent 
 him to the Kansas Legislature whenever he expressed a 
 willingness to go. 
 
 In 1882 a peculiar political situation arose in the State of 
 Kansas, which finds its sequel here this 18th day of July, 
 1 91 4, in the acceptance of a statue for the Hall of Fame of a 
 man who saw opportunity and seized it. 
 
 In 1880, after a long struggle, Kansas became a prohibi- 
 tion State. The Democratic Party in its platforms had been 
 declaring against sumptuary legislation of any character 
 whatever. It had declared for resubmission of the pro- 
 hibitory amendment to the constitution. But the people of 
 Kansas did not adopt constitutional prohibition in a spas- 
 modic frame of mind. It was a deliberate judgment upon 
 their part. It was a determined forward movement from 
 which they did not propose to recede. One of the great 
 men of Kansas and the Nation, John Peter St. John, was the 
 leader of the prohibition cause. He had just served four 
 years as governor and had much to do with the adoption of 
 prohibition in the State. He was running for governor for 
 the third time. 
 
Address of Mr. Campbell 35 
 
 The Democratic Party nominated George Washington 
 Guck as their candidate for governor upon a resubmission 
 platform and in opposition to a third term, and the campaign 
 was made on two lines— opposition to a third term for Gov. 
 St. John and resubmission of the constitutional amendment 
 for prohibition. Many men who were opposed to the Demo- 
 cratic Party and were ardent Republicans had not yet 
 brought themselves into hearty sympathy with prohibition, 
 and they found it easy to vote for a candidate for governor 
 who was making the issue that Gov. St. John had already had 
 two terms. It was a violation of the precedents for the 
 people of Kansas to give to any man a State office for more 
 than two terms. 
 
 Guck was elected. His term of office as governor was not 
 conspicuous for any great achievement. The legislature was 
 Republican. Gov. Guck was the only man elected that 
 year on the Democratic State ticket. At the end of two 
 years he retired to his home in Atchison, after one term as 
 governor, with the respect of his political foes and with the 
 devotion of his political friends. He was many times 
 rewarded by his party and given place both of honor and 
 emolument. He attended many Democratic national con- 
 ventions as a delegate. He was the choice of the Kansas 
 Democrats in the national convention of 1884 for Vice Presi- 
 dent. He was twice appointed by Grover Cleveland as 
 pension agent for the Topeka district, at Topeka, Kans., 
 pensions being distributed from there to the veterans in a 
 number of adjoining States. 
 
 In 191 1 Gov. Guck, ripe with years and experience and 
 full of honor, reached the end of his earthly career. Gov. 
 Guck was chosen by the Kansas Legislature for this honor 
 from among a long line of Kansans eligible for the Hall of 
 Fame. Offhand, I think of John Brown, Jim Lane, Charles 
 Robinson, Preston B. Plumb, David J. Brewer, Charles W. 
 Blair, and George T. Anthony. I think of others whom 
 death will enroll in the list. Among the many, John Peter 
 St. John, now full of years and crowned with honor. He is 
 rising above political prejudice, and is esteemed and honored 
 
36 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 throughout the Republic for his devotion to a great cause. 
 But I must not speak more of the living nor much more of the 
 dead. A statue of Gov. Guck, that does credit to the sculp- 
 tor who made it and to Gov. Guck himself, stands in Statu- 
 ary Hall at the left of the door as you pass from the House to 
 the Senate. The statue of Ingalls stands at the right of the 
 door. They were neighbors in Atchison. They are together 
 in the Hall of Fame. The statue of Gov. Glick has just 
 been unveiled. I favor the resolution providing for its 
 acceptance by Congress. [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. Helvering assumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 
 The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Kansas 
 [Mr. Taggart] is recognized. 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. TAGGART 
 
 Mr. Speaker, George Washington Guck was the ninth 
 governor of Kansas. His name comes of that virile and 
 sturdy German stock, of which people no less than 6,000,000 
 have come to the shores of the United States since the year 
 1820, at which time we began the practice of making accu- 
 rate statistics of immigration. 
 
 His grandfather, George Glick, who was the son of the 
 original German immigrant, served faithfully as a soldier 
 in the War of 181 2. The father of the mother of Gov. 
 Guck, who was George Sanders, a Scotchman, also fought 
 in the War of 181 2 under the flag of the United States. 
 The ancestors of Gov. Guck were residents of Pennsyl- 
 vania and were identified with the interests and industries 
 of that State. His father was a public-spirited man and 
 took an active part in the affairs of his community. He 
 removed to Fairfield County, Ohio, where the future gov- 
 ernor of Kansas was born on the anniversary of American 
 independence in 1827. George W. Glick became a law 
 student at an early age, and at 21 was admitted to the bar 
 and began the practice of law at Fremont, Ohio. 
 
 A young attorney could acquire a reputation 70 years ago 
 more rapidly and more effectively than at this time. The 
 profession was held in high respect. It had not suffered the 
 unfortunate taint of commercialism that has come to it, 
 especially in our great cities. It was then distinctly a pro- 
 fession. It has now become scarcely anything more than a 
 business. Young George W. Guck attained local promi- 
 nence and high respect as a practitioner of law at Fremont. 
 Sixty years ago the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska 
 offered to young and ambitious men the most promising 
 field of any part of the Union. There were no railroads in 
 those Territories at that time, and transportation was con- 
 ducted by means of steamboats on the Missouri River. At 
 
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 that time there were two cities of importance in the Terri- 
 tory of Kansas, only about 30 miles apart and located on the 
 Missouri River, namely, Leavenworth and Atchison. These 
 were perhaps the most alluring places for ambitious young 
 professional men who sought to identify themselves with 
 the new and growing Territory. The name of Kansas had 
 gone abroad throughout the world. There, upon that soil, 
 men met each other face to face and debated with each 
 other, sometimes with terrible meaning in their voices, the 
 grim question as to whether or not the State of Kansas 
 should be slave or free. So intense had become that issue 
 that there was bloodshed in Kansas. There were 
 
 Great drops on the bunch grass, but not of the dew. 
 
 The reputation of the exciting struggle that was in progress 
 added to the enthusiasm of the young and vigorous class of 
 men who emigrated there. 
 
 George W. Guck heard the call of Kansas, and in 1859 
 he went and cast his fortune in the town of Atchison. He 
 immediately identified himself with the movement for a 
 free State. He was an uncompromising foe of slavery. 
 
 I presume we have all noticed how certain towns produce 
 a great many noted men. We can go up into the town 
 of Concord, Mass., and find triat in that little city of a few 
 thousand inhabitants there are perhaps a dozen names of 
 men and women that have gone forth throughout the 
 world — names destined for immortality. And we find it so 
 in many another place. Perhaps in every State of the 
 Union there is some one city which, for some reason or 
 another, was the dwelling place of an unusual number of 
 celebrated persons. 
 
 About the same time there came to the same town of 
 Atchison another man whose statue adorns Statuary Hall 
 alongside of that of Gov. Glick — John James Ingalls. 
 
 Strange, unaccountable Kansas! Within that "grassy 
 quadrangle" the unexpected seemed to be the law of life. 
 There, in the midst of the pioneers who were passing through 
 Atchison, was the polished and cultured Ingalls, an orator 
 
Address of Mr. Taggart 39 
 
 whose genius approached that of Burke, a satirist outrival- 
 ing Juvenal, an intellectual gladiator whose arena for 18 
 years was to be the Senate of the United States. ' 
 
 In that very same year came a young man to Atchison, 
 Kans., from Brownsville, Pa., the town in which James G. 
 Blaine grew up, and this young man afterwards became a 
 governor of Kansas, the next following Gov. Guck. He 
 was John Alexander Martin, secretary of the convention 
 that drafted the constitution of Kansas in 1859, and colonel 
 of the Eighth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, a gallant regiment, 
 whose record for sacrifice, heroism, and suffering stands 
 high in the list of the military organizations that have 
 served under the flag of the United States. Albert H. 
 Horton, afterwards a distinguished chief justice of the 
 Supreme Court of Kansas, came and took up his residence 
 in the little town of Atchison at about the same time that 
 George W. Glick came there. 
 
 John Seaton, a mechanic and ironmaster — a man who had 
 learned his trade in the old-fashioned way — came and estab- 
 lished a foundry in Atchison and became one of the wealthi- 
 est men in that city. He left after him not only wealth 
 but an inheritance of honor and a name and reputation for 
 justice toward labor, for personal interest in everyone who 
 took part in his life work with him, and for an exalted type 
 of citizenship that will remain as one of the brightest tradi- 
 tions of the city of Atchison. 
 
 I shall not name the living now, nor can I call to mind 
 all the distinguished dead who lived and worked out their 
 careers in that one city. Suffice it to say, without mention- 
 ing States or State lines, which seem to mean less as time 
 goes by, that they who came to Atchison represented all 
 that was enterprising, generous, high-minded, and progres- 
 sive in the American people. 
 
 George W. Guck formed a partnership with an able 
 lawyer of Atchison — Hon. Albert G. Otis — and in this part- 
 nership continued in the active practice of law until 1894. 
 Mr. Guck was recognized as one of the foremost attorneys 
 
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 at the Kansas bar. Railroad building was active in his 
 time, and his services were sought by railway companies in 
 the multitude of difficulties that beset their path in the 
 beginning of their operations in Kansas. He often received 
 large fees, but it was said of Gov. Glick that if a poor 
 person had a case and seemed to have a right to be heard in 
 court, regardless of whether he was to . receive any fee or 
 not, he never refused or failed to see to it that poverty 
 did not prevent a fair hearing in court. 
 
 No successful attorney has ever escaped at least being 
 requested to take part in politics. Very few have been able 
 to resist that temptation. George W. Glick was a Demo- 
 crat. It is well known that for the first 30 or 40 years 
 of the history of Kansas the State was overwhelmingly 
 Republican in politics, and there was little, if any, oppor- 
 tunity for one having other views politically to attain to 
 any high place in that State. Mr. Glick, however, accepted 
 a nomination for the legislature, and he was elected in 1863, 
 1864, 1865, 1866, and then again in 1868 and 1876 and 1882 
 as a member of that body. 
 
 He took a very active part in preparing legislation in 
 Kansas. He was especially interested in civil procedure, 
 and his work was of immense value to the bench and bar. 
 Prior to his service in the legislature the Supreme Court of 
 Kansas was not required to render its opinions in writing. 
 Through the influence of Mr. Glick as a member of the 
 legislature laws requiring opinions to be fully written and a 
 syllabus to be prepared by the judge who speaks for the 
 court were enacted. In 1863 he drafted and secured the 
 passage of the first law in Kansas regulating the rate of 
 interest on money. In the early days of Kansas, as in all 
 other frontier places, exorbitant rates of interest were 
 allowed by statute. He had a law passed through the 
 legislature changing the then prevailing rates of interest 
 from 5 and 3 per cent a month to 10 and 12 per cent per 
 annum, with penalties attached for usury. 
 
 He also took an active part in framing the marriage laws 
 of Kansas. It was extremely difficult under the early 
 
Address of Mr. Tag gar t 41 
 
 statutes of many of the States to prove marriage. This 
 was simplified so as to establish, without all of those diffi- 
 culties, the legitimacy of children and the title to property. 
 He took part in establishing and perfecting the occupying 
 claimant law, the law relating to wills, the mechanics' Hen 
 law, with many others passed in the early sixties that have' 
 stood the test of time and still remain as a part of the settled 
 policy of the State of Kansas. 
 
 In 1876, although the legislature was overwhelmingly 
 Republican, Mr. Guck was chosen speaker pro tempore of 
 the House of Representatives of Kansas. This honor, more 
 significant than it perhaps may sound, usually means in the 
 house of representatives of that State that the speaker pro 
 tempore presides over a large part of the deliberations. 
 But one speaker pro tempore for an entire session is elected, 
 and he has much to do in conducting the proceedings. 
 George W. Guck was a ready and able debater. He had 
 the faculty of immediately grasping the meaning of every- 
 thing that is done in a legislature. He was a practical 
 lawyer. He did not have to read a statute over and over 
 nor examine a bill at great length to grasp the full import 
 and meaning of it. His services were therefore of great 
 value in a legislative body. 
 
 He was three times elected a delegate to Democratic 
 national conventions, serving in that capacity in 1868, in 
 1884, and in 1892. A fact in his history that is not well 
 known is that the Kansas delegation in the Democratic 
 national convention at Chicago in 1884 presented his name 
 as a candidate for Vice President, and he received a large 
 number of votes. 
 
 He was nominated for governor of Kansas in 1868 at a 
 time when he and everyone else knew that there was no 
 opportunity to elect a Democrat to that office. He accepted 
 the nomination, performed his duty to the party, and made 
 an active campaign throughout the State. The people of 
 Kansas remembered the canvass that was made by George 
 W. Guck, and in 1882 he was again put in nomination as 
 tht unanimous choice of his party for the office of governor. 
 
42 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 Something was said by Mr. Campbell of the situation 
 which obtained in Kansas at that time. One of the ablest 
 platform speakers that has ever appeared in Kansas, or, per- 
 haps, elsewhere, was then closing his second term as governor 
 of Kansas. John Peter St. John, who still survives, and 
 though past the age of 80 years retains apparently the fire 
 and vigor that characterized his movements 40 years ago, 
 was elected governor of Kansas in 1880 for the second time, 
 and, in 1882, offered himself as a candidate for governor for 
 a third term. 
 
 It is a strange fact that unwritten laws are very often 
 enforced with greater rigor and with more certainty than the 
 most solemnly enacted statutes. The Republican Party of 
 Kansas was always a powerful and cohesive organization. 
 It had its rules and regulations. It had its unwritten laws, 
 and whenever any member of that organization in public 
 life, having enjoyed two terms in office, presented himself as 
 a candidate for a third term, he was almost invariably dis- 
 ciplined by the Republican Party of Kansas. Two great 
 facts made George W. GiyiCK governor — the unwritten 
 law of the prevailing party and the uncontested and 
 acknowledged excellence of his character and attainments. 
 He was elected by a majority of more than 8,000 votes, 
 although the prevailing party had an ordinary majority of 
 more than 50,000 votes in that State. 
 
 He entered upon the discharge of his duties as governor 
 on the 8th day of January, 1883. Sometimes I think that 
 those who are elected by a minority party, aided by some 
 of the majority, make a special effort to serve the people. 
 Their administration is always interesting. They are always 
 respected by the majority party. They are almost idolized 
 by the minority party, to which they gave, perhaps, an 
 unexpected victory. George W. Guck was very popular 
 as governor of Kansas. His administration was marked 
 by intelligence and dignity. His long experience in the 
 legislature and his knowledge of the affairs of the State 
 fitted him in the highest degree to discharge the duties of 
 governor. • 
 
Address of Mr. Taggart 43 
 
 He was an economist in public affairs. Perhaps ulti- 
 mately it was hopeless, as it seems hopeless always, to pro- 
 test against prodigal expenditures. It has always been an 
 issue in every new and growing State. Gov. Glick protested 
 with the utmost vigor against extravagance in public office. 
 Perhaps he injured his popularity to some extent by his 
 protests; but he foreshadowed in his administration and in 
 his canvass for governor the fact that sometime the people 
 are going to take their minds off the issues that are not so 
 vital and give their consideration to the more pertinent and 
 practical issue of public expenditures. He knew that the 
 American people pay the heaviest of all taxes. The national, 
 State, county, school district, and city or township taxes 
 of the American citizen added together make the greatest 
 per capita expenditure for public purposes in the world. 
 He entered his vigorous protest against this great abuse, so 
 incidental to a wealthy and growing community. 
 
 Gov. GiviCK was a pioneer. He had that advantage that 
 only pioneers have. He saw a country as nature had fash- 
 ioned it, and witnessed the work of man by which it was 
 converted into homes. This can happen but once. Great 
 artists have undertaken to paint scenes that could have 
 occurred but once in the history of the world. Poets have 
 sought after themes describing incidents in the history of 
 man as classics, because they never happened before and 
 could never happen again. The untouched prairie could 
 be broken but once, and in his time he saw that prairie 
 converted into a landscape that would delight the eye of 
 one who can paint on canvas the glory of rural life. 
 
 He was always interested in everything incidental to the 
 growing community. While he was governor he caused to 
 be established the live stock sanitary commission for the 
 protection of live stock in the State. He insisted on and 
 had enacted into law statutes prescribing better care of the 
 public funds. And let it be said that since his day not a 
 single dollar of the public money of Kansas has been lost. 
 
 In 1885 he was appointed pension agent by President 
 Cleveland, and afterwards reappointed. In that capacity 
 
44 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 he disbursed $85,000,000, and among his papers is the receipt 
 of the Government, showing the faithful disbursement of 
 that vast sum of money. 
 
 He went out as a volunteer in the Second Kansas Regiment 
 and took part in the protection of Kansas when it was at- 
 tacked in what is known as the Price raid. 
 
 He gave the last years of his life to agriculture, especially 
 to the improvement of the live stock of Kansas. He had 
 one of the finest stock farms in the State and took a pride 
 in breeding fine cattle. He was one of the commissioners 
 appointed by the State to the Centennial Exposition in 
 1876. He was again sent to the International Exposition 
 in Omaha in 1898. Throughout his long life he was an 
 interesting figure in the history of Kansas, and was identified 
 with every important or exciting event in the history of 
 the State. 
 
 In 1857 he married Elizabeth Ryder, of Massillon, Ohio, a 
 lady descended from a distinguished colonial ancestry. Her 
 ancestors were among the first settlers of Concord, Mass., 
 and she derived her name from forbears who were well 
 known among the early colonists of New York City. For 
 50 years and more this noble matron having with her the 
 best traditions of American life presided over the hospitable 
 home of George W. Guck with the grace and dignity 
 inherited from a fine ancestry. She added to the success 
 of his public life the greater blessing of domestic happiness. 
 Two children were born of this union — Frederick H. Glick 
 and Mrs. James W. Orr, of Atchison, Kans. 
 
 George W. Guck died April 13, 191 1, at the age of 84 
 years, having devoted to the world two-thirds of a century 
 of active and valuable service, all of which added to the 
 welfare of his fellow men, and the progress of the great and 
 growing community that was the scene of his noblest efforts. 
 
 In conclusion, let it be said of George W. Guck that 
 he had one of those fortunate frames of mind which was 
 not easily changed nor readily prejudiced nor carried away 
 by any sudden impulse. He never moped nor mourned 
 over defeat. He was calm, good-natured, and sensible in 
 
Address of Mr. Taggart 45 
 
 victory. He never visited revenge of any kind or character 
 upon an enemy, if indeed there was anyone who ever had 
 such resentment against him as to be described as an enemy. 
 He was a kind and gentle citizen, full of enterprise and hope. 
 He was approachable and sympathetic. George W. Glick 
 was one of the best of that great multitude of enterprising 
 citizens who were the pioneers of Kansas. There was no 
 bitterness that gnawed out his life. There was no hatred 
 that troubled his spirit. In his heart was good will toward 
 all men. He saw the beginning of a great State and wit- 
 nessed its progress for more than 50 years. He left it better 
 than he found it. He added to the sum of its enterprise 
 and he helped to develop its resources. He left his name 
 and his work as a part of its history. [Applause.] 
 
ADDRESS OF MR. MURDOCK 
 
 Mr. Speaker, there are several considerations which lead 
 me to add to the expressions already made here this after- 
 noon, and not the least of the moving causes has been the 
 nature of the addresses made by the gentlemen who imme- 
 diately preceded me, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Taggart. In 
 the nature of things that portion of the Capitol once the 
 Hall of Representatives, and now known as Statuary Hall, 
 in which each State may place two statues, will soon be 
 closed to additional memorials. It may not be amiss to 
 remark in passing that as the custom of placing statues 
 there grows old, and, because of the physical limitations of 
 the area itself, as well as the provisions of the law, draws to 
 a close, the legislative business of presenting a statue to the 
 Nation has become more or less perfunctory, a function 
 performed in a wilderness of empty seats, before a drowsy 
 reporter or two in the press gallery and a scant baker's 
 dozen of other auditors. And yet the function, I submit, 
 desperately formal as it has grown to be, carries with it a 
 kindly office; for there must be virtue in the mellowing 
 reminiscences which on these occasions well up out of the era 
 that is gone, when, through the mists of the past, the hard 
 lines soften and the soft lines glow as they have to-day to 
 me, as I listened to the addresses of the two gentlemen who 
 have preceded me. 
 
 George W. Guck belonged to an exceptional generation 
 in time and place. The first settlement of Kansas came 
 about not so much through the lure of land as from challenge 
 of political contest, grown white-hot with the contention of 
 50 years. Men moved from the South and from the North 
 into Kansas to battle. Largely because of river travel, 
 then the sole means of public conveyance, the first part of 
 46 
 
Address of Mr. Murdock 47 
 
 Kansas settled was the northeastern corner, which is touched 
 by the Missouri River. In this section of Kansas the chief 
 cities were and are Atchison and Leavenworth. George 
 W. Guck was from Atchison. Across the river is St. 
 Joseph. That part of Kansas and Missouri is one of the 
 richest agricultural sections in the world. It was here that 
 the spark of conflict that had irritated a Nation for decades 
 burst into devastating flame. The nomenclature of Kansas 
 shows in many instances how early the southern element 
 dominated politically, for you will find on the map of Kansas 
 names of men who were politically prominent in the South 
 60 and 70 years ago. The contest here was high-tensioned 
 and all-absorbing. There was no neutral ground. And no 
 man was neutral. Each new arrival was to one side a loss, 
 to the other an acquisition. And no man escaped. 
 
 As a boy I heard my father tell the story, legendary but 
 illuminating, to the effect that when the proslavery men 
 possessed the northeastern corner of Kansas it was their 
 custom to post themselves at an important landing on the 
 Missouri River and interrogate the new arrival to determine 
 whether he was proslavery or antislavery. The crowd had 
 tied to a convenient post a cow, and they asked the new- 
 comer what the animal was. If he said it was a cow, they 
 permitted him to remain as likely to be proslavery, but if 
 he said it was a " keow," pronounced with what was believed 
 to be the New England twang, they sent him back posthaste 
 across the Missouri River as surely antislavery. 
 
 To the struggle for political possession the untold agri- 
 cultural possibilities of the domain remained for the moment 
 secondary and subordinate, for knowledge of its resources 
 was necessarily limited. The map makers had libeled it by 
 including a part of it in the "Great American Desert." 
 Even its Indian population was not large. Some of it was 
 unknown, for indeed only a few years before — that is, until 
 the Mexican War — a part of Kansas was Mexico. The terri- 
 tory was a long amphitheater, sweeping gently upward from 
 the Missouri River to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains — 
 
48 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 prairie — with all the mystery and fascination and loveli- 
 ness that Bryant limned when he wrote — 
 
 These are the gardens of the desert, these 
 
 The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, 
 
 For which the speech of England has no name — 
 
 The prairies. I behold them for the first. 
 
 And my heart swells, while the dilated sight 
 
 Takes in the encircling vastness. Lo, they stretch 
 
 In airy undulations, far away, 
 
 As if the ocean, in his gentlest swell, 
 
 Stood still, with all his rounded billows fixed 
 
 And motionless forever. Motionless? 
 
 No; they are all unchained again. The clouds 
 
 Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath 
 
 The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye ; 
 
 Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase 
 
 The sunny ridges. Breezes of the south, 
 
 Who toss the golden and the flamelike flowers 
 
 And pass the prairie hawk that, poised on high, 
 
 Flaps his broad wings yet moves not — ye have played 
 
 Among the palms of Mexico and vines 
 
 Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks 
 
 That from the fountains of Sonora glide 
 
 Into the calm Pacific. Have ye fanned 
 
 A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? 
 
 Man has no part in all this glorious work; 
 
 The hand that built the firmament hath heaved 
 
 And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes 
 
 With herbage, planted them with island groves, 
 
 And hedged them round with forests. Fitting floor 
 
 For this magnificent temple of the sky — 
 
 With flowers whose glory and whose multitude 
 
 Rival the constellations. The great heavens 
 
 Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love — 
 
 A nearer vault, and of a tenderer blue, 
 
 Than that which bends above our eastern hills. 
 
 This prairie, this fair domain, had its civil birth in the 
 red passion of fratricidal strife, and a State, fitted incom- 
 parably by nature as a theater for peace and contentment, 
 came to the Nation as " Bleeding Kansas." 
 
 But the vastness of its natural resources were not long 
 unrecognized. After the Civil War the immigration which 
 came into Kansas was largely that of the soldiers of the 
 Union Army, men who had been tempered by the mighty 
 
Address of Mr. Murdock 49 
 
 rigors and discipline of war. They launched, individually 
 and collectively, not only into the development of the 
 State, but into politics, and there followed in that period 
 of the history of Kansas a day of the most spirited political 
 contest, conducted with a partisan discipline which was, in 
 its severity, almost military. The Republican Party domi- 
 nated. Its conventions were huge affairs of tremendous 
 contentions and intense factional passion. But the disci- 
 pline was perfect. The defeated aspirant for a nomination 
 pledged fealty. To "scratch" a ticket was an unpardon- 
 able sin; to be " read out of the party " a disgrace. A nom- 
 ination was an election. Kansas in this period was prob- 
 ably the most partisan Republican of all the States in the 
 Union. 
 
 The Democrats of Kansas at that period were mostly men 
 who had been Democrats before the war, many of whom had 
 served in the Union Army during the war. Immigration to 
 the State added to their number, and in all localities they 
 formed small groups of individuals who held fast to their 
 opinions and who as a determined but always cheerful 
 minority struggled at each election in precinct, city, county, 
 and State; never, however, with notable success until 
 George W. Guck was elected governor. 
 
 Gov. John P. St. John has been referred to here by Mr. Tag- 
 gart as one of the strongest, if not the strongest, man on the 
 platform this Nation has seen in a generation. He is, in 
 fact, one of the strongest men this Nation ever produced, 
 the pioneer in a principle which spreads around the world. 
 He had been a highly popular governor for two terms. His 
 adherents attempted a third term for him. He was attacked 
 by the Democrats under the leadership of George W. 
 Guck, and Mr. Guck as a Democrat was elected governor 
 of Kansas in this most partisan of Republican States, a little 
 less than 20 years after the close of the Civil War. This 
 event was manna to the Kansas Democrats. They had 
 traveled long in the wilderness. And in their hour of tri- 
 umph and jubilation as partisans they exalted George W. 
 
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50 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 GiyiCK. That initial triumph remains in the minds of 
 Kansas Democrats epochal, and it led to the legislative 
 preference which sent his statue here. 
 
 In the election of George W. Guck party discipline in 
 Kansas had broken down and it was known of all men that 
 despite its strong partisan qualities at bottom Kansas was 
 politically individual in its mental processes. The condi- 
 tions which led to the early settlement of Kansas invited 
 no weaklings there, and the conditions in Kansas were such 
 that if a weakling came he could not stay. The early 
 Kansans were sons of strength. That is not mere laudation 
 voiced by one partial to his State. As a boy I knew most 
 of the Kansans who have been mentioned here to-day — 
 Robinsons, Hudsons, Martins, Ewings, Anthonys, Brewers, 
 Thatchers, Lelands, Wares, Ryans, Crawfords, Plumbs, 
 the Elders, the Pecks, the matchless Ingalls, the Speers, 
 and hundreds of others I could name were each distinct 
 individual types, all of exceptional talent and strong fiber, 
 men capable of every responsibility and worthy of statues 
 here. 
 
 Kansas was the first of the Union States after the war to 
 send an ex-Confederate, W. A. Harris, to the United' States 
 Senate. This was in 1897. But as early as 1883 Kansas 
 was forgetting the lines of political division that grew out 
 of the Civil War and was turning to the issues of the future. 
 It was in Kansas among these same strong people later, in 
 1890, that the new foreseeing element of Populism arose, 
 thriving prodigiously overnight in the fertile soil of political 
 independence in the individual, which is and will continue 
 to be one of the chief characteristics of this liberty-loving 
 State. 
 
 The self-reliance of the early citizenship was general. It 
 touched every walk of life. My grandfather, Thomas 
 Murdock, was a minister of the gospel and had part in these 
 rigorous times. Margaret L. Wood, widow of Sam N. Wood, 
 an early Kansan, who was cruelly shot down in one of the 
 county-seat wars, wrote me the other day from Boise, 
 
Address of Mr. Murdock 51 
 
 Idaho. In her letter she instanced the dauntless spirit of 
 that people by saying: "Your grandfather Murdock used to 
 walk from Emporia to Cottonwood Falls to preach to us. 
 One of the coldest Sunday mornings I ever saw, my husband 
 came in and said, ' Now get ready to go to church.' I said, 
 'The weather is too cold.' He replied, 'That old man has 
 walked 20 miles this biting morning to preach to us. The 
 wagon will be at the door in 1 5 minutes and all of us must 
 go.' The girl whispered to me, 'We will have to go though 
 we freeze to death.' We went, and heard a good sermon. 
 Your grandfather was like the old-fashioned Methodist 
 ministers of Ohio and Kentucky — conscientious, devout, 
 brave, and self-denying." 
 
 I knew Gov. Guck in his later years. He had all of the 
 qualities which have been ascribed to him by the two gen- 
 tlemen who have just spoken. He was old-fashioned in his 
 devotion to frugality. He believed in and he practiced 
 economy. Tike all strong men, he was strong in his opin- 
 ions, firm in his convictions. Like all strong men, he was 
 mistaken in some of them. In common with its entire 
 citizenship, he rejoiced in the high estate Kansas reached in 
 social progress, for he grew to see the State of which he was 
 an early governor rise to the highest development that in 
 many respects, I think, it is possible for a people to attain. 
 He lived to see the day when this vast expanse which he knew 
 as a youth as an endless, treeless, virgin prairie had grown 
 to a rich Commonwealth, populated by a contented folk in 
 the midst of rich fields, churches, schools, with bursting bins 
 of plenty, with bank deposits reaching $600 per family, 
 with $750 per family in live stock. He lived to see his State, 
 consisting of 105 counties, number among them 87 counties 
 without any insane, 54 counties without any feeble-minded, 
 96 counties without any inebriates, 38 counties without any 
 poorhouses, 53 counties without any persons in jail, and 65 
 counties without a representative in the State penitentiary. 
 
 He lived to see the State which he entered under the lure 
 and invitation of political contest bring to the vision of his 
 
52 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 old age the splendid spectacle of an era of finished devel- 
 opment, of rounded citizenship, of peace and permanent 
 prosperity. 
 
 As I said in the beginning, and as I shall say in closing, 
 nearly all the States having given their quota of statues in 
 yonder hall, this custom will soon pass. Available space 
 for this statue was found with difficulty in the chamber. 
 We are among the last who will so officiate. Let us account 
 ourselves fortunate that for a few minutes we may put aside 
 the fever and hurly-burly of political strife and, harking 
 back to the contests of other days, which time has softened, 
 pay tribute, in this presentation to the Nation, to the 
 memory of a virile man who lived among virile men in a 
 virile generation. [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I am informed that a con- 
 current resolution has been adopted by the Senate accepting 
 the statue of Gov. Glick, but that it has not yet come over 
 from the Senate to the House. 
 
 The Speaker. It can as well be adopted on Monday as 
 to-day. The Chair is informed by the Clerk that it has not 
 yet come from the Senate. 
 
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1914 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Carr, one of its clerks, 
 announced that the Senate had passed the following resolu- 
 tion, in which the concurrence of the House of Representa- 
 tives was requested: 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 28 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
 statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to 
 be placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, and 
 that the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution of the 
 statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished civic 
 services. 
 
 Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
 authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 
 
 Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate concurrent resolu- 
 tion of the following title was taken from the Speaker's 
 table and referred to its appropriate committee, as indicated 
 below : 
 
 S. Con. Res. 28. Concurrent resolution accepting the statue 
 of George Washington Guck, presented by the State of 
 Kansas, and tendering thanks of Congress therefor; to the 
 Committee on the Library. 
 
 TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1914 
 
 A message from the Senate, by Mr. Carr, one of its clerks, 
 announced that the Senate had passed the following reso- 
 lution, in which the concurrence of the House of Represent- 
 atives was requested: 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 30 
 
 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
 be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
 acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, 
 of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
 of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for the use and distri- 
 bution by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of 
 Kansas. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the 
 copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
 said statue to accompany the proceedings. 
 
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54 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 Under clause 2 of Rule XXIV, Senate resolution of the 
 following title was taken from the Speaker's table and 
 referred to the appropriate committee, as indicated below: 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 30 
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
 be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
 acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Glick 16,500 copies, 
 of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of the House 
 of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and distribution 
 by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State of Kansas. 
 The Joint Committee on Printing is heieby authorized to have the copy pre- 
 pared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of said statue 
 to accompany the proceedings — 
 
 to the Committee on Printing. 
 
 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 191 5 
 
 Mr. Ten Byck, from the Committee on the Library, to 
 which was referred the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 
 28) accepting the statue of George Washington Guck, 
 presented by the State of Kansas, and tendering thanks of 
 Congress therefor, reported the same without amendment, 
 accompanied by a report (No. 1337), which said concurrent 
 resolution and report were referred to the House Calendar. 
 
 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 191 5 
 
 Mr. Taggart. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for 
 the present consideration of Senate concurrent resolution 
 28, accepting the statue of George Washington Guck, 
 presented by the State of Kansas, and tendering thanks of 
 Congress therefor. 
 
 I will state that by an oversight the Senate concurrent 
 resolution had not reached the House at the time of the 
 ceremonies incidental to receiving the statue which had been 
 placed in Statuary Hall. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Kansas asks unani- 
 mous consent for the present consideration of the resolution 
 which he sends to the Clerk's desk. 
 
Proceedings in the House 55 
 
 The concurrent resolution was read, as follows: 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 28 
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That the 
 statue of George Washington Glick, presented by the State of Kansas to be 
 placed in Statuary Hall, is accepted in the name of the United States, and that 
 the thanks of Congress be tendered the State for the contribution of the statue 
 of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished civic 
 services. 
 
 Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
 authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Kansas. 
 
 The Speaker. Is there objection? 
 There was no objection. 
 The resolution was agreed to. 
 
 TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 191 5 
 
 Mr. Tavenner. Mr. Speaker, I desire to present for imme- 
 diate consideration the following privileged report from the 
 Committee on Printing, which I send to the Clerk's desk. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 The Committee on Printing, having had under consideration the Senate 
 concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 30) providing for the printing of 16,500 
 copies of the proceedings in the Congress upon the acceptance of the statue 
 of the late George Washington Glick, accompanied by an engraving of 
 said statute, reports the same back to the House with the recommendation 
 that the resolution be agreed to. 
 
 The estimated cost will be $4,622.09. 
 
 The unincumbered balance of the allotment for printing and binding for 
 Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, is $653,910. 
 
 Mr. Mann. We did not catch what this was for. 
 
 Mr. Tavenner. The printing of the proceedings on the 
 Guck statue unveiling in Statuary Hall. 
 
 The Speaker. The Clerk will report the concurrent reso- 
 lution. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 Senate concurrent resolution 30 
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That there 
 be printed and bound in one volume the proceedings in Congress upon the 
 
56 Statue of George Washington Glick 
 
 acceptance of the statue of the late George Washington Guck 16,500 
 copies, of which 5,000 shall be for the use of the Senate, 10,000 for the use of 
 the House of Representatives, and the remaining 1,500 shall be for use and 
 distribution by the Senators and Representatives in Congress from the State 
 of Kansas. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have 
 the copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable plate of 
 said statue to accompany the proceedings. 
 
 The concurrent resolution was agreed to.