Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. President, Senator Lasawasa ember of the ComIndAffrs of the Senate, and for several years our intercourse was constant. I had come to know him well. While he had great faults, he had many great and good qua ities of character. He was certainly a man of no ordinary intellect, not of the highest order perhaps, and was gifted with as fine a temperament for activity and endurance as I have ever known. He was undoubtedly a man of courage; a man, if not gifted with a high order of eloquence, yet possessed of great power, especially in his addreses to popular assemblies. He certainly possessed great power among the people of his own State, and was ever faithful and most devoted to what be deemed to be the interest of Kansas. I say he was a man of great power in addressing a popular assembly. I have seen and heard many address assemblies, but I think never in my life have I seen a polar assembly moved as they were moved 31m address of JAMES H. LANE, in 1856, in the State of Wisconsin. He was a man stron in his friendships and not les implacable in is hatreds. He was a soldier in the Mexican war and attained distinction in it.v He was from the 1st engaged in the great troubles in Kansas. Passing through scenes of violence, it is not to be wondered at that a man of his temperament and character should become a man of violence himself. As is known to some of his friends, some acts which transpired there, and especially one in relation to the taking of the life of a fellow beiu at Lawrence, put upon his soulnburden which was never lifted, alt ough hecouldjustify to himself the act which had ecn done. As I have said, sir, there were many great and good qualities in his character. He was a true and devoted and constant friend. I cannot call to mind the circumstances under which his death has occurred without being weighed with sadness. I have no doubt that his mind was in a state of aberration; that he was insane. In deed he had given evidence of it to some extent before he left the city of Washington; and I have been informed, upon the authority of his physician who attended him at StLouis, that he gave evidence of it there also. Mr. President, allusion has been made by one who preceded me to another friend as dear to me as any who has ever sat in this Chamber, whose life was taken by his own hands. Irefer to the late Preston King. These 2 events, happening within so brief aperiod to 2 who have been so well known and so distinguished in this body, are to me a source of deep grief. The resolutions were unanimously adopted; and the Senate adjourned.