Mr. GRINNELL. Mr. Speaker, the words of affection are few, and only those shall I utter. It is a pleasing reflection that my early years were spent near the mountain home of the lamented Senator. He gave me assurance of his friendship, and that he cherished the memory of my dearest deceased kindred furnishes me an occasion to paya brief and sorrowful tribute to his character and virtues. That biography which follows the eulogistic sketches in the forum will place the deceased in the front rank of our truly Americanized gentlemen and statesmen, the measure of whose success should be unseparated from the asso ciations and means by which it was attained. The grave Senator ever with emotion and pride spoke of the rural town of Cornwall, Vermont, where he was born. Its population is not 1,000souls, and less than at the beginning of this century, yet has the distinguishing honor, in addition to an intelligent yeomanry, that of furnishing 36 educated clergy men, 18 lawyers, 23physicians, and 14 professional teachers. Its town institutions were the church, the lyceum, and the school. In the church oung Solomon was baptized; at the lycenm e s oke to ve, promise of future eminence and the school he left to become a teacher and college graduate, later tutor, and founder and head of an institution of learning. He honored the vocation of the schoolmaster and never wearied in giving this humble profession credit for its devotion to a refined civilization and the general welfare. With trul American simplicity he taught our youth self yreliance, and for himself who owed nothing to wealth, the partiality of friends, or the issue of campaigns, be regarded it as fortu nate that he was called in disci line to tread the hard, rough paths of life. e was proud of his origin; and that filial affection of a fatherlcss boy for a doting and devoted mother was an augury of future fidelity and devotion to the national weal most fortunately realized in more than a quarter of a century of service, and ending with one of the most glorious trib utes on record to the worth of parental instruction and the reality and value of the Christian religion. As husband and father he was doting and beloved; a scholar without pedantry; a Gentleman free from the arts of the counter; brave in action without bravado; matchless invol ume and sweetness of voice; persuasive in eloquence, yet abstemious in speech; genial as a c“ompanion, unwaveringin friendship; in society Pliant as reedswhere streamsof freedomglide; " A“ Senator and statesman, Firm as the hills to stem oppressions tide." Wheeling in eddies on lifes stream, he could not prevent the gaze of the multitude, and ever in the presence of the claims of honor, mercy, and justiec, his noble heart was so moved that this 18its fitting accord and representation: "His life was entle and the clcments So mutedin nu, that Nature might stand up and anyto all the world. this was a maul" Bereaved and gallant people of Vermont, millions arein mourningwith you today. memorable in history and conspicuous by the service of your public servants, it has been your fortune to furnish a noble exemplar for the nation, reflecting in character the grandeur of your ever green mountains and the clearwaters distilled in the rugged cliffs by the purity and beneficence of his memorable life now ended. In the shadow of the shaft of the purest marble which will be reared to commemorate his virtues in the chosen place of his burial he shall sleep with more than the honors o a martial hero, for here he met a mightier than earths mailed soldier the “ king Oter rors, " and with a smile. With a preme nition of an early dissolution, he was raised from his pillow to gaze once more upon this Capitol and then, with mortal vision ended, to behold in its brightness the city of the living God, the home of the ransomed soul. Mr. Speaker the effort to enforce the lessons of such a life illumined by divine smiles would be almost a profane attempt. It has more than the award of the gods. Sol crese entes decedms duplicat umbras, and by so far as eternity is unmeasured by time, will his settin sun add to the lengthened shadows. I won] accept it as a high honor to have recognized the proffer of the service, which I would make, by the 1,000s in the West who claim pater nity with the sons of the mountains who have left the old house tree, in being their honored servant in bearing the flowers of affection from the prairies, the valley, and the mountains, moistened with their tears in memory of a friend who now sleeps in sepulture among the people whom he faithfully served and by whom e was so ardently loved.