Qass ^:^^^:Jrrz__ Book njifJIf: / v/f: ^^ JrflS?/^a^^} HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES {^IjJ'.STf ^ EDMOND H. MADISON (Late a Representative from Kansas) MEMORIAL ADDRESSES DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS Proceedings in the House April 14, 1912 Proceedings in the Senate February 8, 1913 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING WASHINGTON 1913 A7 i^^-b-no^ L. b ./^/sas 0. OF D. SEP 12 1913 f) TABLE OF CONTENTS Page. Proceedings in the House a Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 7 Memorial addresses by — Mr. Campbell, of Kansas 9 Mr. Russell, of Missouri 12 Mr. Norris, of Nebraska 16 Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 19 Mr. Gardner, of Massachusetts 21 Mr. Young, of Kansas 23 Mr. Murdock, of Kansas 29 Mr. Neeley, of Kansas 34 Mr. Martin, of Colorado 37 Proceedings in the Senate 43 Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 44 Memorial addresses by — Mr. Curtis, of Kansas 47 Mr. Jones, of Washington 49 Mr. Bristow, of Kansas 51 [3] '. Such is the diflTiculty of formulating new words of praise that we all, as I believe, shrink from the reiteration of the many times told tale of affection and respect. I am sadly aware that I can not satisfy even myself by any words which I may speak; still for all that I have asked permission to record my sober grief for Madison's decease, my solemn pride in Madison's remembrance. Leadership in this House is not to be gained in a day, it is not to be gained by eloquence, it is not to be gained through favoritism, nor is it to be gained by good-fellow- ship. Long service, industry, thoroughness, learning, all help to make the leader; yet all these advantages together are nothing in the balance as compared with the one greatest quality of courage. When I see a Member of this House grasp a flaming brand which I do not dare to grasp, that Member can lead me. I saw Madison tested and he was not found wanting. Madison was an insurgent, Madi- son was a progressive, but he was an insurgent and a pro- gressive from conviction, not because insurgency and pro- gressive views were popular. All this I know, because I saw Madison's courage tried and proved. With a struggle for reelection in front of him, with an active labor vote in his district, I saw him rise in his place and I heard him condemn a labor measure which he believed to be wrong. There was everything for him to lose, nothing for him to gain. And yet, if in some happy hunting ground his spirit [21] Memorial Addresses : Representative Madison is conscious of our homage to-day, he must know that at least he gained the steadfast respect of a fellow man. The Persians believe that for three days after the death of a good man the soul lingers close to his life-long friend, the body. On the fourth day the soul ascends in the com- pany of his guardian angel to render his account at the gate of "Chinvat Bridge." In his upward journey, float- ing on the soft south wind, he meets his own astral self transformed into an entrancing figure of seraphic beauty. This figure reveals itself to him as the embodiment of his own good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. Oh, if the Persian creed be true, with how transcendent a beauty must Madison's astral self have dazzled his pure white soul! [22] Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas Mr. Speaker: We know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise; Assured alone that life and death, His mercy underlies. I regard it as a sad privilege to assist in writing into the permanent records of this House a tribute tliat shall help to garland as with evergreens and adorn as with im- mortelles the memorj' of the life of Edmond H. Madison, and with his colleagues to stand uncovered in recognition of the real good of life as lived by him. On occasions like this we labor for suitable phrases and struggle for ade- quate sentences to do justice to such a life, and they come not — then it is that the impotency of words becomes apparent. His colleagues may miss him in this Chamber, but Kansas most of all, for her people deeply mourn the great loss. Among the noted men of the Nation whom we all cherish Kansas, his beloved Commonwealth, has con- tributed many, among whom was the great commoner, the constructive statesman, the man of the people. Senator Preston B. Plumb, and that other eminent statesman, the matchless orator and master of the English language, who polished everj' word that fell from his lips until it reflected new meaning, embellished every phrase with increasing luster, and electrified every sentence with irresistible energ>% and before whom every adversary trembled in debate, whose power and dignity is but feebly portrayed by the artist as seen in another hall of this Capitol, Senator John J. Ingalls; and to-day the country [23] Memorial Addresses : Representative Madison looks at that splendid galaxj' and sees an added star, no less honored, no less loved, and no less brilliant in service to country and humanity than they. It is said that life is a mystery and that death is simple and natural, yet the latter is always impressive. It has also been truthfully said that the span of life is marked by springtime and autumn, for if we will but lift up our eyes and behold under the shining canopj' this da^', we will see nature blossoming forth everywhere with ver- dure, life, and beauty. The green blades are coming fprth, the buds are opening, the flowers are blooming, and all is radiant with the mj'stery of life; and in the last analysis the philosopher explains it not. Travel on until the chills of autumn are reached, with eyes earthward turned, and behold the leaf is seared, the blade is no more, the bud is gone, and the flower is dead upon the stock; and all along the pathway, from spring to autumn, here and there, prematurely, blades decay, buds fail to open, flowers bloom no more, and great trees of the forest wither and die in midsummer; so it is in the pathway of human life, where, without a single note of alarm, our colleague fell by the wayside before the allotted time of man. Life is often called a voyage — a journey from shore to shore. If so, his was but half completed, for the full- freighted bark, with all its precious cargo, suddenly went down in midocean. " If a man die, shall he live again? " was the absorbing problem of the race for centuries. The solemn singers and tlieir songs, The shrouded dead, the bier and pall; Oh, death, mankind has waited long To know if death shall end it all! [24] Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas I And the answer did not come until a voice on the Ju- dean hills was heard to say, " I am the resurrection and the life." Invert the torcli and quench the light, And let the darksome tomb entlirall; The star of hope gleams through the night; Oh, loving hearts, death is not all. There is no death; the stars go down. To rise upon some other shore. And bright in heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore. Sharing the conviction entertained in nearly every breast, consciously or otherwise, that " man is immortal until his work is done," and being impressed with the magnitude of the burden resting upon his broad and un- tiring shoulders, and believing that public duty should not be at the mercy of those who gauge everj'thing from the standard of selfishness and ambition, but that politics should be a science and not a scramble, he did not hesi- tate to undertake any task, however great, in the interests of his people and State. As he toiled on, his hosts of ad- miring friends never even suspected any weakness to be lurking in his apparently robust physique which would soon end all and dispel their fond dreams that his career woiUd go on for years to come. Born of a lineage which has given a President to the country, reared by a godly father and mother in a home where luxurj' and idle hands were not supposed to have a place and where all understood and obeyed the divine law to go forth and earn bread by the sweat of the brow, he toiled at whatsoever his hands found to do, and was not ashamed of the grime of his hands or the garb of the laborer, but esteemed each the badge of honor in the sight of God, whom he early learned to love and serve as the whole duty of man. As a Cliristian, his faith and life [25] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison were of the stalwart, sustained, even-going order which neither time nor season nor environment in anywise affected. He was unusually familiar with the Book and the hymnologj' of the church, and, while not pretentiously pious or demonstrative, he could repeat the Book and sing the old familiar songs of the church with such ability that those who heard were charmed with the sincerity of his devotion to the God taught him by a sainted father and mother. As a youthful countrj' school-teacher, the first rung of the ladder that has raised thousands of this country's true loyalty to positions of loftiest eminence, and that marked the way of the martyred Garfield from the tow- path to the Presidency, he was himself a student, a scholar, and instructor. From school-teacher he passed to law student and then to practioner at the bar, where he soon found recognition as an able, trustworthy attorney, one in whom clients could place implicit confidence and whom courts from highest to lowest would hear, and to whom they gave full weight of consideration, respect, and accord. Chosen to the office of county attorney, he became the terror of evildoers and lawbreakers in his community, restoring order where lawlessness had reigned, bringing decency in place of dissipation, and a higher and cleaner civiliza- tion, which remains to this day. Elevated to the judgeship of the district court, he pur- sued the same thoroughgoing course, and no man ever wore the judicial ermine with more dignity and credit to himself or satisfaction to the lovers of law and justice. From the court, where he so evenly balanced the scales of justice between man and man, he was called by a con- fiding people to the greatest legislative body in the civil- ized world, where he exchanged the quiet of the court room to the fiercest forum in debate among men. Of his [26] Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas going in and coming out and service in this Chamber his colleagues are familiar. Of his life it may be truthfully said that he was singularly honest, conscientious, and up- right in all his ways; clean clear through to his soul; modest as a child, but bold as a hero. He was always active, and preformed with courage every duty that fell to his lot better than expected, and never disappointed; he was strong in thought, clear in statement, logical in argument, and was ever mindful of the feelings of others, never stooping to innuendoes or biting sarcasm to humiliate an opponent at the expense of the dignity of debate. He was therefore a wielder of mighty influence and the builder of a character so strong and towering that it commanded the profound respect and admiration of all with whom he came in contact : The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay; A jewel in a ten times barred up chest Is a right spirit in a loyal breast; Mine honor is my life; both grew in one; Take honor from me and my life is done. Antony's saying that " the evil men do lives after them," if true, would leave such men as Edmond H. Madison with- out memory among men. But it is not true. The good men do is their monument, and it lasts forever. The heritage that he has left us in his flawless character and unsullied reputation, and the love and esteem in which he came to be held, not only by his colleagues but at home and abroad, is a more coveted distinction than the gift of the greatest office in the land and comes to the countrj' in these times with a peculiar and indescribable benediction, the memory of which will be as pleasant as the murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst [27] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison of roses or the soft, sweet accents of an angel's whisper in the bright dreams of innocence. Edmond H. Madison is gone, and we may long For the touch of a vanished hand And the sound of a voice that is still; and we are disappointed, yet somewhere, somehow, we feel there is a shoreless beyond, where no shadows fall, which is cooled by the perfume of Eden's flowers of every hue, that can not wither and shall not fade, and in that realm he has found that restful emploj'ment so beauti- fully described by Kipling: When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried. When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died. We shall rest and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an seon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew. And those that were good shall be happy; they shall sit in a golden chair; They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet's hair; They shall find real saints to draw from — Magdalene, Peter, and Paul; They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all. And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame, And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are. [28] Address of Mr. Murdock, of Kansas Mr. Speaker: Over and above his great qualities — he was splendid in mental equipment, strong in conviction, quick in perception, alert to the inspirations of debate, and vigorous in his advocacy of a cause — there was an- other element in the late Edmond Madison which made the high place attained by him in public affairs remarkable. For while the attributes which Mr. Madison possessed in superlative degree bring men into prominence congres- sionally, we know the process is usually slow. With Mr. Madison the attainment was rapid. He had but two terms in Congress. Yesterday he was a stranger here; to-day known of all men. Quickly as he ascended, he was sure in every step upward, and there was no man's future in public life, before the black curtain fell between him and its splendors, more certain than his. I remember his youth, for his start in life was in my county. Thirty years ago he was teaching school near Wichita — busy with the minds of an interesting group of children in Cook's schoolhouse, a red brick building, small, squat, solitary, and asleep in the sunshine beside a dusty prairie road. Eventually he came to town and studied law in the office of a pioneer, G. W. C. Jones, and when admitted to the bar he moved westward to Dodge City, where he rose quickly in public place and popular esteem from county attorney to district judge, from dis- trict judge to Congressman. From the very beginning of his career he loved a cam- paign. The rostrum inspirited him. Happiness was his at the soldiers' reunions, at the harvest picnics, and before the critical audiences that gather in the court rooms in the smaller towns of western Kansas. And in a State con- [29] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison vention, in a nominating speech, he won early in liis career a reputation that soon became State wide. This gift of speech in him, and the joy of him in it, he brought to Washington and to Congress with some fear. We have talked often about it. His first speech here was a success, and from that moment his rise in Congress was signal. And yet that moment was to him, as it must be to all, one of anxiety and of quickening pulse — an ordeal. Yet the success of his first effort here, besides revealing to the membership the presence of a new strong mind, was in a way an epitome of his career, and, so far as a single individual can reflect it, the ever-recurring, fasci- nating story of the democracy as it is developed at every session of Congress. The House is never the sum of the individuals who comipose it; it is in its aggregate something more, some- thing less, and something quite different. It seems at times as elemental in its emotional equipment as a child, as quick in its reactions, as instinctive and as fanciful. If the mood be upon it, the House, in appreciative and responsive attention, can be the most subtly flattering of audiences, and it can be also unspeakably cruel and re- fined in applying the torture of its indifference. The 390 men, in this ability to listen sympathetically, are as any other audience similar in size; but the 390 men, as an audience that listens for a moment to a new Member and rejects the speaker, often without reason, displays a cru- elty impossible in any ordinary audience or, indeed, in any one of the individuals present. A new Member of Congress ordinarily recognizes the capacity of the House for this unconscious cruelty. He is also impressed and oppressed, as a rule, with the thought that the House is highly sensitive to first impressions and tenacious of them, once formed. His whole future, it often seems to him, may be wrecked upon a single effort. [30] Address oi IMh. Mikdock, of Kansas There is, then, an added wreath to the victory of the first speech here when the idle glance the House turns at the sound of a strange voice evolves slowly from curiosity into interest and from interest into eager attention. There are many manifestations in this group of men wlio congregate under the rule of a restless and unavailing gavel, but there is none so close to a miracle as the mar- velous silence of the noisy House when its interest com- mands silence. He who wins that silence by his elo- quence, his logic, his information, has won a victory. There is no denying its sweetness. Our colleague, Mr. Madison, won it in his first speech — one dealing with the writ of injunction, a difBcult sub- ject — and he never sued for attention again in vain. He won it by a certain remarkable gift, strongly evident in this speech— in fact, in all his longer addresses here— the gift of clarity of statement. If there be a technical definition for this in dialectics, I do not know it, but Mr. Madison had a method of weaving his argument into the fine fabric of his statement with such skill that an oppo- nent who granted any part of the premise was liable to be taken into camp, bound hand and foot. I have not seen this gift in anyone in the degree in which Mr. Madi- son possessed it, here or elsewhere. It will be remem- bered by those who listened to his speeches on the writ of injunction, on the corporation tax, and on the rules of the House. In the possession of this particular gift and what he wrought here with it, and his other attributes revealed in the consideration and debate of public questions, is the story of democracy as we see it unfold here day by day, as our friend Madison saw it and eagerly shared in its development. Since any one of us has been in Congress the personality of Mr. Madison stands distinct. That personality has not been repeated, and will not be. His [31] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison tjrpe had not gone before and it will not come again. No two Congresses are alike. Each differs from its predecessors and from its successors. And this is as much because of the change of membership as of the change in political issues. The forms and usages of Congress — indeed, the brevity of tenure alone — would seem to doom all who come to be reshaped in a certain monotonous mold. But character, temperament, individ- uality persist. The variation of types the House shows is endless, and this circumstance changes the complexion of Congresses, and in the curious intermingling of personality and issue in debate gives color to the one and identity to the other; for in the House, as on the hustings, we personify our principles and look once at the platform and twice at the candidate. Mr. Madison was of the strong individualistic type. This was his characteristic, and the roots of it ran far back. As he was, so were his foreb'ears. They were pioneers. The fiber of self-reliance they gave him he strengthened. Noble in mipulse, gentle and just in counsel, kindly in controversy, there was a certain large- ness in his vision and broadness in his convictions that clothed him with extraordinary power among his col- leagues. That power grew with its exercise and was making for Mr. Madison, when he passed suddenly from among us, a more and more brilliant future in national life. His district was the country of earth and sky — prairies that stretch floor-flat far to the unbroken circle of the horizon; a sky unobstructed and undiminished, answering to the magnitude and majesty of the plains. He loved the spell of the prairies. He longed often, when we talked together here in Washington, for the restful silence of the counti-y that brings in its very monotony of landscape [32] Address of IMr. Murdoch, ok Kansas a man into closer relations with tlie profundities and nearer nature and nature's God. He has passed on quickly from among us into the shadows where for each of us a grave is hidden. From out the dark there conies to us no guiding cry. Yet from somewhere in the silences — the silences that lie between the quick and the dead — sounds the earnest that is higher than hope, deeper than belief, the earnest that echoes always in the soul of the quick — that the dead live — the earnest tliat the spirit of our friend, the character it adorned, are and can not be of time, the earnest that they are and must be of eternity. Mr. Russell. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Neeley] , the successor of Judge Madison, is unavoid- ably absent on account of official business, and I ask the special privilege for him that he may extend his remarks in the Record upon the life and cliaractcr of Mr. Madison. The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, it will be so ordered. There was no objection. Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members of the House who so desire may extend in the Record remarks on the subject of the life, char- acter, and public services of the late Edmond H. Madison. The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Kansas asks unanimous consent that all Members who so desire may extend in the Record remarks upon the life, char- acter, and public services of the late Edmond H. Madison. Is there objection? There was no objection, and it was so ordered. The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- lution previously agreed to, and as a further mark of respect to the deceased, the House will now adjourn. Accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, April 15, 1912, at 12 o'clock noon. 92841°— 13 3 [33] Address of Mr. Neeley, of Kansas Mr. Speaker: It was not my privilege to be well and personally acquainted with the late Mr. Madison, I having met him only three or four times, although, from the very nature of things, I knew a great deal of his personal and political history. The first time I met him was at the old soldiers' reunion at Dodge City, in August, 1910, where I went, upon his invitation as chairman of the committee on speakers, as his political opponent, to deliver an address to the old soldiers gathered at their annual State reunion. He impressed me then as a good type of the country judge; a man of strong mentality, of deep conviction, and one who had a strong hold upon the affections of the people of his district. Mr. Madison's life was a somewhat varied and a very active one. Some 25 years ago he homesteaded a piece of land near the town of Ford, in Ford County, Kans., which was then considered to be far out on the Great American Desert. I am told by men who lived on the plains at that time that one of the most beautiful scenes on the Western Continent in the spring of the year was that almost level, seemingly endless stretch of green sward running up the Arkansas River Valley, flanked on each side by an elevation of hills that marked the line where the earth and sky seemed to meet, and dotted here and there by great herds of cattle and buffalo commin- gling together. It may have been a scene like this that fascinated the young man from Illinois, causing him to cast his lot with these men who were laying the founda- tion for an empire. But in the summer the scene changes. The grasshop- pers come, the hot wii,ds blow, and the swarms of insects [34] Address of Mr. Neeley, of Kansas and the onslaught of nature caused the prospects of a bountiful harvest to rapidly disappear, and the young man forsakes the farm for awhile to take up the occupa- tion of school-teaching. It was during this time that he took up the study of law, and soon after his admission to the bar was elected prosecuting attorney of Ford County, and at the expiration of his term was reelected. From this time on his rise was rapid. He had taken his place among the lawj'ers of the district and had earned the reputation of being clear-headed, forceful in expres- sion, and a prodigious worker, so that at the expiration of his second term as prosecuting attorney, he was elevated to the position of judge of the district court, later being reelected to this position and serving his people until the time of the division of what was the old seventh congres- sional district into the seventh and eighth districts, at which time he was nominated and elected to Congress. The excellent judgment and the power of clear analysis that had been such a strong asset of Mr. Madi- son while serving as prosecuting attorney and district judge soon caused him to be recognized as one of his party's leaders in Congress, while his disposition to rec- ognize and endeavor to reconcile the conflicting opinions of his associates upon both sides of the Chamber gave him an independence of thought and action that made him a tower of strength to the cause he represented. Mr. Madison's services in the Ballinger investigation were of inestimable value to the country. His conclu- sions, being as they were practically the same as those reached by his Democratic colleagues in that investiga- tion, were undoubtedly accepted by the country as being free from the taint of party prejudice, and as the findings of fact of a man capable and qualified and above sus- picion of personal interest. [35] Memoriai. Addresses: Representative Madison So faithfully did he perform his services in this matter, that when it became necessary to investigate the Sugar Trust he was the unanimous choice of all the factions of his party for that important position, and had just com- pleted his services when the stmimons came. It was my privilege to be Mr. Madison's opponent in the campaign of 1910, and, although it was perhaps the hardest fought campaign since the days of Jerry Simpson, it is a pleasure to me now to know that it was a campaign of issues and not of personalities, and was conducted without the bitterness that usually attends such contests. And I now look back with a great deal of satisfaction upon the fact that while I often criticized some of his votes and doubted the wisdom of some of his actions, naught but the highest motives and loftiest patriotism could ever be imputed to him. After the returns had begun to come in, and indicated that Mr. Madison had been reelected, I sent him a mes- sage of congratulation upon his success; and I remember very distinctly the reply he sent, which was character- istic of the man. It was — I was very glad indeed to receive your message and to know that you wish me well in the term that is soon to begin, because no one can doubt that it was a genuine battle between real men over live issues in the old, big seventh this year. Fearless and courageous in life, intensely loyal to those whose privilege it was to enjoy his friendship, battling for the right as he saw the right, his death has robbed his district of a sincere friend and the Nation of an able man. [36] Address of Mr. Martin, of Colorado Tuesday, March 4, 1913. Mr. Speaker: I come to lay forget-me-nots upon the shrine of the memory of my friend and colleague, Ed. Madison, to refer to an incident in our earlier lives that eventually touched our hearts into deep and satisfying fellowship, and to say a final word as a Memher of Con- gress, from which 1 am now about to retire, for reasons to which I shall allude only briefly and impersonally, and as they affect many of the Members of Congress, living and dead. Twenty years ago a young locomotive fireman whiled away a long lay-over at Dodge City, Kans., by sitting in the rear of the court room and listening to the trial of a case. Unused to such scenes it made a deep impression upon him — the solemnity of it, the learned ability of the judge on the bench, the forensic combats of the lawj'ers at the bar, the tense interest of the community; but he was particularly impressed with the personality and ability of the leading lawyer for the defense, a young man, black haired, clean shaven, square of jaw and shoulder, the music of a strong, keen voice tuned to the pitch and playing the scale of natural orator\% definiteness and precision in his method, weight, and compelling in his manner. They did not meet, the fireman and the lawyer, but the former went his way with the clear image of the latter graven upon his memory by eyes of desire; and many times afterwards his mind went back to the scene in the court room and its central figure. As the years went by he often thought of the young la^vJ'er and made inquiry, [37] Memorl\l Addresses : Representative Madison learning first that he liad become district judge and finally that he had been elected to Congress; but still they did not meet, and never met until, after the lapse of 16 years, they met in this Chamber as the Representatives of adjoining States and contiguous congressional districts. It Is the commonest triteism that truth is stranger than fiction, for no sane imagination, projecting itself from the little court room, could have foreseen the day when the young la\\yer, as a distinguished Member of Congress, would be making what proved to be his last speech upon the floor of the House, and having as a warm friend and colleague among the assembled Members his unknown auditor of that other daj'. But the people of that prairie communit}^ had gone down into the sand hills of the Arkansas, and in a little prairie schoolhouse had found a young lawyer-teacher, had called him into the public service, and had seen that with each advance he justified their estimate and en- larged their concept of his worth until, in his all too brief tenure in the Halls of Congress, he had risen distinctly into leadership and had begun to make his impress, not only upon his colleagues regardless of party, but upon the political institutions and the legislation of this great countrJ^ It is a romance and it is a marvel, yet it is so common that we may easily overlook its deep significance, for it typifies America and spells her enduring greatness. Her imperishable hope and her indestructible guaranty is the capacity for leadership, for statesmanship, resident in the body politic; the Ed. Madisons in the little school- houses, in the little court rooms, on the farms, on the railroads, in the mines and mills, everj'where and in all callings and walks of life, fitting for and awaiting the summons to higher service. Surely we have only to look [38] Address of Mr. Martin, ok Colorado about us for undoubting assurance that no matter how deep and dark the valleys of our national life, how high and forbidding its steeps, we shall level those lifts and pass on to greater and yet greater heights. But I have not yet summed up the value as a statesman of our departed friend and colleague. It was not all in his physical impress, not all in his magnetic personality, not all in his natural gift of oratory or his ability in debate, not all in his integrity and courage of conviction, though he had all these attributes in rich measure. Above all these his distinguishing characteristics was sound judgment. This rarest of faculties, even in men of the greatest gifts, equaled the sum of all his other gifts, was the crowning attribute of the man, and, added to these others assured him high and yet higher place in the councils of the Nation. But in the morning of a statesman's career and in the forefront of the fray which still rends our national political life, and with heart and brain teeming with the problems pressing for solution, broken by the burden, he fell as a soldier falls, as so many of his colleagues have fallen, and was laid to rest, his mourners all who knew him, his couch the brown bosom of his western plains, his shroud the waving prairie blue stem, his requiem the prairie's ever-blowing winds. He has gone whence he came. A Ship of Mist sailed out of a cloud, Out of a cloud at the sunrise time; The glint of the dawn was on sail and shroud, The glint of the dawn of the sunrise clime. Into the blue from the harbor gray, Into the blue of the living day, Into the vast, she sailed away. "Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" "I've neither chart nor bearing, friend." [39] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison A Ship of Mist sailed into a cloud, Into a cloud at the sunset time; The shade of the dusk was on sail and shroud, The shade of the dusk of the sunset clime. Into the gloom with the dying light, Into the gloom of the endless night. Into the vast, she sailed from sight. "Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" " I'm past the care of caring, friend." But let me digress a moment from the be-aten path of individual eulogies; let me come close to other thoughts and feelings that press upon my heart and mind. During this term of Congress this has been many times a house of mourning. If every seat in this Chamber vacated by death during this term of Congress were draped with its sable emblems, it would present a most solemn spectacle. And if this spectacle could be seen by the country and its significance understood, it would give pause to much criticism. But even these vacant chairs and black-suited desks would not take the toll of those who fall here, and whose seats are vacated and whose careers are ended or broken by the strain, as surely as those who pay as well the forfeit of life itself. Beyond doubt a congres- sional career is now in its demands the most severe and exacting of all careers. The life of a Congressman has become a ceaseless struggle. He is in Congress fighting, or at home campaigning, keyed always to high pitches of feeling and effort, and besieged always with demands which grow witli his ability to feed them. I have little patience with the popular witticisms about the life in Congress, its ease, its emoluments, its pleasures. The truth is. Congress in its personnel typifies largely the survival of the fittest, and is made up in the main of men who would not remain in public life a single day were it not for the great honor which is the due of that greatest [40] Address of Mh. Martin, or Coi^orado of all services in the cause of liiiman progress — public service. Although a poor man, I would despise myself to think that I came to Congress for its ease, its emoluments, or its pleasui-es. I came because the seed was born in me and because the honor of its service was the ambition of my life. And when I say tliis of myself I state what I believe to be the rule and not the exception. I shall go hence, reserving the right and discharging the duty to criticize the public acts of the Members of Congress, but with respect born of knowledge and experience for the lot of the Congressman, the great and varied measure of his duties, the cankering character of liis responsibilities, the integrity of his motives, and the courage of his actions, I have not spoken of Mr. Madison in his private life as a husband, father, and citizen, but I know that in these relations he was all that we hope for our own, and the cottage in which he dwelt, surrounded by wife and chil- dren, was enshrined in the hearts of unenvious friends and neighbors, to all of whom his public career was an unmixed pride and his death a personal loss. Measured by dollars, he died a poor man; but, measured by deeds, he lived a rich life, and left to his family and kindred the legacy of that good name which is more to be desired than great wealth, to struggling youth the stimulus and example of his own climb from obscurity to eminence, to his friends the memory of a just man whose light shone brighter with increase of radius, and to the archives of his country the record of a faithful and efficient public servant. Having spent the last years of my boyhood upon a farm in the district which he later represented in Con- gress, and which has been the home of my people for 30 years, and where my mother sleeps, having passed the first years of my manhood upon a railway division of [41] \-. Memorial Addresses : Representative Madison which his home city was a terminal, having had the honor at his invitation of being the guest of that community, and being bound to it all by so many tender ties, it is to me a peculiarly sad privilege and pleasure to pay his character and memory this tribute of my esteem and love, and not inappropriate, I trust, in the light of all the cir- cumstances, to have enlarged upon it by personal and related references and by touching upon a phase of life in the National Congress which so nearly concerns so many of its Meinbers. To the family of Edmond H. Madison, who must con- tinue the unmarked way of life without his strong, sure, and protecting guidance, I wish all the solace and strength that may come from the contemplation of all that he was to them, to the community, and to the country; and to those who are to tarry yet a little time upon the scenes where his labors have closed I wish health, honor, and achievement while in the arena of public action and peace and content when they retire. [42] Proceedings in the Senate Tuesday, December 5, 1911. The President pro tempore (Mr. Curtis). The Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be read. The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Representative from the State of Kansas. Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the Senate. Mr. Bristow. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk and ask for their adoption. The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas offers resolutions, which will be read. The resolutions were read, considered by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows: Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of the Hon. Edmond H. M.\dison, late a Representative from the State of Kansas. Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to communicate a copy of these resolutions to the House of Representatives. Mr. Brown. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Member, I move that the Senate adjourn. The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 3 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Thursday, December 7, 1911, at 2 o'clock p. m. Saturday, January 11, 1913. Mr. Curtis. I desire to give notice that on Saturday, February 8, 1913, I will ask the Senate to consider resolu- [43] Memorl\l Addresses: Representative Madison tions commemorative of the life, high character, and public services of Hon. Edmond H. Madison and Hon. A. C. Mitchell, late Members of the House of Representatives from the State of Kansas. Saturday, February 8, 1913. The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered the following prayer : Eternal God, our heavenly Father, as we stand before Thee on this day of precious memory we thank Thee that life is not so short that we can not for a time lay aside our customary labors and yield ourselves to the tender and holy influences of this hour. As here we stand in Thy presence, we would take the shoes from off our feet, knowing that where Thy servants have faithfully and truly sought to do Thy will there indeed is holy ground. Here manifest Thyself unto our waiting spirits, we pray Thee, and fulfill unto us Thy promise that where Thy children are gathered together in Thy name there Thou wilt be in their midst. O Thou who art God, not of the dead but of the living, seeing that all souls live unto Thee, we thank Thee, not as we would but as we are able, for the blessed privilege of having known and labored with him whom we Jhis day commeinorate. Inspire our hearts, quicken our memories, and direct our thoughts, that the life which we would now honor may stand before us with all its power and in all its beauty. That life was Thine, our Father, and Thine it is. We yield Thee all praise, Holy One, for the priceless heritage of the memory of him whose life is now hid with Christ in Thee. We pray Thee to be near to those to whom this life was most dear and to comfort those whose tender sorrow is too great for words and too deep for tears. Uphold them with Thy heavenly power and let Thy grace be sufiicient [44] Proceedings in the Senate for lliem until we, too, stand in Tiiy nearer presence, where we shall know even as we have been known. And unto Thee, our God, who hast loved us with an everlasting love and hast called us into Thine eternal kingdom in Christ, unto Thee who hast given us eternal comfort and good hope through the Gospel, be all glory and praise on earth and in heaven, now and forevermore. Amen. Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives on the death of the late Representative Madison. The Presiding Officer (Mr. McLean in the chair). The Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives, which will be read. The Secretai-y read the resolutions, as follows: In the House of Represent.\tives, April li, 1912. Resolved, That tlie business of the House be now suspended that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. Edmond H. AL\dison, late a Member of this House from the State of Kansas. Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand adjourned. Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate. Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased. Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk and ask for their adoption. The Presiding Officer. The Senator from Kansas offers resolutions which will be read. [45] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison The resolutions (S. Res. 459) were read, considered by unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows : Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sorrow of the death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Member of the House of Representatives from the State of Kansas. Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the business of the Senate be suspended in order that proper tribute may be paid his liigh character and distinguished public services. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of the deceased. [46] Address of Mr. Curtis, of Kansas Mr. President: One year ago it was my sad duty to make formal announcement here of the death of Hon. E. H. Madison. He was elected to Congress from the seventh Kansas district in November, 190G. In his service he won the hearts of his colleagues and was rapidly gaining high place among the leaders of the greatest legislative body in the world, the House of Repre- sentatives. He did not gauge legislation from the stand- point of a lawyer, but settled questions more as a judge, trying always to harmonize any differences which might exist. This fact arose from his experience upon the bench. He was recognized as one of the most fair and just judges who ever graced the bench in the district courts of Kansas^ He was born at Plymouth, 111., December 18, 1865; was educated in the common schools of Illinois, and at the age of 18 years began teaching school; in 1885 moved to Wichita, Kans., and began the study of law in the office of G. W. C. Jones, and was admitted to practice in 1888; in the same year was elected county attorney of Ford County, Kans., and served two terms; was appointed judge of the thirty-first judicial district of Kansas Jan- uary 1, 1900, which position he held until September 17, 1906, when he resigned to become a candidate for Con- gress; was married December 12, 1900, to Miss Lou Vance. Mr. Madison was a profound student of all questions before the people, and while he was a Republican, he could not be considered as radical. He was independent in his convictions and believed differences could be har- monized without resort to extremes. He was loved by [47] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison those who knew him, and there were thousands who mourned his death. Among his friends — and he had many — he was affectionately known as and called " Ed.," and he seemed to enjoy such informal recognition from those who were close to him. In his home life he was at his best and most tender and considerate in his family relations. It was with the deepest satisfaction that Mr. Madison entered upon the duties of his congressional office. I need not tell you of his able service in the House. His work speaks for itself. His death was unexpected and a shock to his family, friends, and neighbors. He had just returned to his home at Dodge City, Kans., and had spent but a day or two among his acquaintances, when he was suddenly stricken. His life went out, but he left us an example of how well we should live, for his character was too strong to yield to the allurements and weaknesses or overindulgences of luxury or wealth. In the light of the life and example of Mr. Madison, we refute any assertion to the effect that the days of honesty, of honor, of high ideals are over, and we may further assert that he has given us proof that the underlying moral firmness of character among our people assures the future welfare of the Republic. [48] Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington Mr. President: We stand on the bank of life's river and watch the mystic bark take from our shore its pas- sengers on a voyage from which there is no return, and we are lost in speculation. The wisdom that takes the strong and leaves the weak, that takes the wise and leaves the foolish, that takes the pure and leaves the vile, that takes the good and leaves the bad, that takes the young and leaves the old is beyond our ken. The passengers have no choice. The why, the wherefore they are taken comes only at the end of the voyage. Those behind gaze upon a solemn mystery which each must solve alone with the dreaded boatman. Judge Madison was one of earth's choicest spirits. He was strong in body, brilliant in intellect, noble in char- acter, great in high aims and lofty purposes. He was logical in thought, clear in expression, and courageous in following his convictions. Responsive to the popular will, he was nevertheless honest with him.self and true to his settled convictions of dutj\ He loved his country with an intense love, and the welfare of its people was his highest aim. He was an ideal Representative, loyal to his people, faithful to his trust, able and fearless in expressing and advocating his views, and devoted to those policies which he believed to be for the good of all. Taken in his prime at the very threshold of his useful- ness by an all-wise Providence, perchance to a grander, nobler life, more suited to his great abilities and lofty ambitions, he has left to those who knew him an inspira- tion to greater and better things, and his life and achieve- ments .should stimulate the youth of the land lo lofty 92841°— 13 4 [49] Memori.\l Addresses: Representative Madison endeavor and noble purpose. To have known him is a precious memory, to emulate him a nobler ambition. " He belongs to the ages," thus wisely one said. As they wept by his form when the spirit had fled. Then the ages grew richer with treasure untold, As the scroll of their pages before him unrolled, And he lives in their life, an immortal sublime. While the tides of eternity roll upon time. [50] Address of Mr. Bristow, of Kansas Mr. President: Edmond H. Madison was an able lawyer, a strong debater, a wise legislator, and brilliant orator. He believed in the people and had a deep interest in their welfare. With a strong and commanding mind he also possessed a warm heart. Nothing touched him more deeply than the struggles which the western Kansas farmer had gone through to reclaim the desert and transform its parched plains into fruitful fields. He could entertain his friends for hours telling stories of the struggles of different men whom he had known in the days of the early settlement in the southwestern part of our State. It was the highest ambition of his life to do something that would help these men and make life for them more successful and less burdensome. Mr. Madison was born on December 18, 1865, at Plymouth, 111., and moved to Kansas in 1885. In his early life he was a school-teacher. While teaching school he studied law, and in 1888 was admitted to the bar at Wichita, Kans., and moved to Dodge City later in that year. Because of his unusual ability and admi- rable personal qualities he was elected the same year to the office of county attorney of Ford County, which was an unusual thing to occur in local poUtics. At that time he was only 23 years of age ; it was the first year of his residence within the county and the first year of the practice of his profession. He filled the office with entire satisfaction, and two years thereafter was nominated and elected for a second term. In the early days of his career he was known through- out the southwestern part of Kansas as the " boy orator." [51] Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison He had great personal popularity as well as fine ora- torical talent, and was in demand as a public speaker at all kinds of gatherings and especially in political cam- paigns. On January 1, 1900, he was appointed by Gov. Stanley to a vacancy on the district bench, which position he held until September 17, 1906. That year a redistrict- ing of the State had resulted in the division of the seventh congressional district, and Congressman Murdock was taken out of that district, which he then represented, and placed in the new eighth district, leaving a vacancy in the seventh. Madison was nominated by the Republic- ans and triumphantly elected. He was reelected in 1908 and 1910, and would still be representing that district in Congress if it had not been for his untimely death. In legislation he always sought to do that which he felt was right, and was also exceedingly eager to please his constituents. He felt keenly their criticism, and while the fear of it would not swerve him from what he believed to be his line of duty, yet it pained him very much to have any of them think that he had done the wrong thing. He was sensitive to the good opinions of his fellow men, but he would not sacrifice his conscience to obtain them. It seeins to me that such qualities are of the highest order, and go to make up the ideal representative of a district of freemen in a legislative assembly. He had brilliant intellectual qualities, clear and cool judgment, fine discriminating ability, and a sensitive con- science, and was possessed with a general affection for mankind. These very admirable traits of character made his duties at times burdensome and painful, yet they resulted in giving a direction to his official life that was wise and patriotic. Ed. Madison, as he was familiarly known, was a favor- ite in every community in his district. The people [52] Address of Mr. Bristow, of Kansas were always deliglited to see him, and would assemble in large numbers at any place and upon any occasion where he was to speak. The most conspicuous service that he rendered his country was in the Ballinger investigation. In that trj'- ing experience of his ofiicial life he discharged his duty with independence and without bias. He would not per- mit fear of political punishment or hope of reward to change his attitude on a matter of public concern. During the months of heated factional strife which that investigation produced he held an even and steady course, and after the controversy was over his report was ac- cepted by the country as an accurate ])ortrayal of the facts and conditions in the case. It in truth determined the ultimate results of the controversy, and in this in- vestigation he rendered a service of great value to his country. He was one of my warmest political friends, and I feel very deeply his loss. His father was a Methodist min- ister and so was mine. Our boyhood days were cast in a similar environment and such experiences knit men closely together. I shall never forget the day of his funeral. The winds that swept the prairies seemed to mourn his loss. Cut off without warning in the prime of a brilliant and useful life, he left a sorrowing district, and the thousands that gathered to pay their last respect to their departed friend was the most effective evidence of the high esteem in which he was held. Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I offer the resolution whicli I send to the desk. The Presiding Officer. The resolution will be read. The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased Senators Robeut Love Taylor and George S. Nixon [53] Memorial Addresses : Representative Madison and deceased Representatives Edmond H. Madison and Alexander C. Mitchell, the Senate do now adjourn. The resolution was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 o'clock and 47 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, February 10, 1913, at 12 o'clock meridian. 0^ [54] x