Mr. NIBLACK. Mr. Speaker, I feel that I ought not to allow this occasion to pass without saying a few words. Genera LANE’sancestors, like mine, were among those who 1st penetrated the wilderness of that region of country which has since become the great State of Indiana; and although my personal acquaintance with him did not commence in early life, yet I have had with him for many years an agreeable acquaintance and pleasant personal relations. I have also been associated with him in legislative positions which have brought me more or less in contact with him. My 1st personal acquaintance with him commenced in the year 1849, at the time when he was inaugurated as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana. I was then a member of the HoRep of that State for the 1st time. [he year following I was elected to the Senate of the State, of which he was the presiding officer by virtue of his position as Lieutenant governor of the State. I served as a.member of the Senate during the remainder of his official term. Before that I had only heard of him as the gallant colonel of 2 of our favorite Indiana regiments, and I only knew him by reputation. M acunintance thus formed with him continue until the timeof his death. Although I was never personally intimate with him our personal relations were always kind, and differing, though we often did, the exciting questions which have occupied the public mind since that time never disturbed our kindly relations. I can say, and say with truth, that General LANE was, in all the relations of life in which I knew him, a marked man. He was not a learned man; he was not so cultivated as oth ers; but he was a man of strong will, of great force of character, of indomitable energy, and of high ambition. He always became a cen tral figure in any movement in which he was engaged, and he always bore a prominent part in any enterprise with which he connected himself. As a political leader, although apparently bold and reckless, ho was in truth a discreet and prudent man. I always conceived him cautious in devising his plans and mapping out his future life, but hold and resolute in the execution of these plans, never deterred by any dangers which seemed to threaten him por sonally or by any consequences which might result to him. From what I knew of him, I could not regard him in any other light than as a man of both physical and moral courage. As a military leader, his courage, lpresume, is unquestioned, and the other conflicts in which he engnved and which have been 5 oken of here today, I think sufficiently estab ished his reputation as a man of moral courage. It is not my purpose to refer to those scenes which have been portrayed by the gentlemen who have preceded me. [hey take one view of those questions, and I, perhaps unfortunately to myself, take the other view. But while thus advo eating these other views, and differing from General LANE as I have done, I am not the less willing to bear testimony to those traits of character which have made him so prominent in the political history of the country for the last 15 or 20 years. As I have remarked he was aman of ambition. He struggled hard to obtain that political prominence and power and influence which in the later years of his life he possessed. After years of unremitting struggle, after passing through one of the most remarkable contests in the history of this country, he succeeded in obtaining a position which gave him influence and power in the councils of the nation. He became a member of the Senate of the U.S., and was continued for many years preceding his death in a position which many of the best minds of the country have been willing to devote a large portion of the best years of their lives to attain a position that would gratify the ambition of most men. Possessing so much, therefore, as would seem to have endeared life to an ambitious man, the struggle must have been a fearful one, the despair must have been terrible, which induced him to lay violent hands upon himself and become the destroyer of his own life. Of all the forms in which death can come, none is so mysterious and terrible as the one by which his life was closed. It is hard for us to conceive that one so gifted and occupying so exalted a position should grow so weary of life. But by his own not he has passed away from among us. As has been well remarked by the Gentfrom Kansas, [Mr. CLARKE, ] it is our duty, a duty which ought to be strictly observed, to draw the veil of charit over all his faults and failings, and the this ortunes, whatever they may have been, which darkened the close of his career. As a citizen of the State of Indiana, before he emigrated to the far distant Territory, he was already a.marked and distinguished man. And in the great struggle of life through which he has passed, he has given evidence of some of the highest traits of manhood. Indiana cannot be insensible to the great loss which Kau sas has sustained in his death. I therefore bear my willing testimony to much that has been said in his behalf by those who have preceded me on this occasion. As a citizen of Indiana, I have to express my profound regret at the sad termination of so active and eventful a life as his has been. I very heartily 2nd the resolutions which have been offered. The resolutions were then adopted. And thereupon (at 5 o’clock p. m.) the House adjourned.