Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Speaker, never before in the history of our Government has a State been called upon to mourn the loss of both its Senators at a single session of Congress. Ver mont weeps, for her Senators are not. Only a few days since and our tributes of sorrow bedewed the grave and wrenthed the memory of greatly respected Senator Collamer, whose unblemished career had conferred honor, not only upon his State, but upon our whole country. on the Senator whose decease we now mourn spoke, in unbroken health and strength, of the life and many virtues of his late illustrious asso ciate in terms of great fullness and rare beauty; but how remote from him was the suspicion that in so brief a time his survivors would be called upon to delineate his own character, his private worth and public services, not less conspicuous, and though much unlike, moving in orbits widely apart, equally meritorious. Sel dom has any State been represented by the same Senators for so long a time, and still more seldom so fittingly represented by those of so much eminence and ) unquestioned integrity and ability. My colleague [Mr.Woonnsrnen] has so hap pily and eloquently portrayed the history of Senator Foo r, while others have so generously acknowledged his worth, that little more remains for me to contribute. Like many men who have risen to distinction in after life, (to copy his own language applied to another) “he owed nothing at all to the factitious aids or the accidental circumstances of birth or for tune or family atronage." Having lost his father at the ear y age of 7 years, he was indebted to an excellent and pious mother for his early training and instruction, and for the foundation of those high toned principles of honor and integrity which always guided him as a private citizen and distinguished him as a public man. Not born to afiluence, he was while yet a boy taught the lesson of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. An incident at this time shows that his ambition had early been touche by the ethereal fire. A man with whom he lived for a short time, when about 14 years of age, sent him with a team to “drag” in some seed sown the previous day. Along in the middle of the forenoon the team was discovered without a driver, and the work accomplished a cured very incon siderable. At last young oor was found in a corner of the fence 1 in flat on the grass. To the question as to whatfiae was doing there he replied, “I am thinking what I shall say when I“ et to be a member of Congress.” Ihus flie child is the father of the man." If any of these field thoughts ever found utterance in Cengress, they ha not to wait much longer than those said to have been conceived in the early morning on the ramparts of Quebec, and which many years after embellished one of the most memorable speeches of Daniel Webster. While yet a young man, Mr. FOOT often rep presented Rutland, the place of his residence, in the Legislature of Vermont, and nearly as often was made Speaker of the HoRep; and here he 1st displayed his extraordinary aptitude for the discharge of the duties of a presiding officer over a legislative assembly. Ihis faculty was soon discovered and early recognized in the Senate of the U.S., where he was repeatedly elected to the office of President protempers, and where he was perhaps more equently called to the duties of the chair than any other Senator. It is just to say that much of the dignity ascribed as well as properly pertainiu to that branch of Congress may be credited, or the last 15 years, to Senator Foors high exampleof decorum, order, and thorough knowle ge of parlinmentary routine. He dispatched business with admirable romptness, with equal fairness and grace; an be held at all times both senate and the galleries under complete control by his commanding presence and his most unmistakable emphasis. His call to order, like the sound of a trumpet, was heard and heeded. From his decisions of parliamenta law there was no appeal asked or desired is dignified hearing and urbanit during his service in the chair, as well as in the faithful discharge of all other senatorial duties, his massive features and courtly manners, will cause him to be asso ciated with and long remembered as a promi nent figure arepresentative man of the Senate of the U.S. He will also be remembered as one of the last of those who entered the field of statesmen while the great men of the last generation Webster, Clay, and Calhoun yet lingered on the st c. His speeches while in this Hausa on the Mexican war, in 1846and 1847, were able and fearless expositions of its origin and character, and received the hearty approval of a large proportion of the northern people. In the Senate not all ofhis speeches have been reported in the Globe; certainly one of his best never appeared, for the reason that he retained the report for revision until it was too late to be inserted. llis patriotism infolded his whole countr, and bidhing defiance to all party ties, when the honor and glory of his country seemed imperiled, he roused all the energies of his impassioned natdre and rushed to the rese ue. This temperappeared in his speech, in 1856, on the Central American question. when England exhibited her traditional y ambition for universal empire, bv her pretensions connected with Honduras. c said: "Standing in opposition as I do to the present national Administration; differing from it as I do most widely and radically upon nlniostcver question ot domesticpolicy, I am the moreliii ny in icing able to accord to it the tribute. worthless t ough it maybe. of my sincere and entire approval of the position it has taken upon this question. However we may be divided among ourselves.howcvt rwe may contend and wrangle upon questions ufdomestic interest and of local policy. yet. when it comes to a questionwith a foreign Power. whereine ur national honor and our national interest are concerned. as in the present instance letusexhibit to the world the beautiful and sublime spectacle of a great. a united. a harmonioas people; iipeoplehaving onemind. oneheart and one PUDJSG Among the speeches reported, that upon the Kansas constitution, better known as the “ Lecompton Swindle, ” was one of his best, and of marked excellence. The plot to force a proslavery constitution upon a free people was shown up with all its revolting features. Not a frequent speaker in the Senate, be was yet always listened to with attention when he did speak upon any subject; and upon those subjecu immediately confided to his charge he sod its entire confidence. His recent eulogy upon his deceased colleague was not only worthy of the occasion, but was a good specimen of the Senators matter and manner, and when delivered awakened responsive chords in the hearts of all hearers by its impressive eloquence and chastened beauty. As a public speaker before a public audience Mr. FO01" occupied no mean rank. His noble figure and full toned voice at once arrested attention. Never begrudging preliminary preparation, his is eeclics were clear, forcible and well sustained) to the end. His style never lacked elevation, and without being ornate, was affluent and scholarly. Though admirable in temper, he could yet employ invective at times with crushing effect, and declaimed with the daring impetuosity of a may terwho felt able to both ride and guide the storm he was creating. But his cat strength lay in his absolute earnestness. Elilis voice gave forth no uncertain sound. No man ever heard him speak and went away in doubt as to his meaning or as to which side of the argument he had espoused Having satisfied his own judgment that he was right, e embarked his whole soul and strained every nerve in the effort to bring hisaudience to the same conclusions with himself. He was both sincere and positive, and utterly incapable of guile or double dealin. His integrity, moral and political. was asfirm y fixed as the mountains beneath whose shadow he was born and there was never any doubt or speculation upon any question as to where he would be found. When he spoke, therefore, he brought to bear, not only cogent argument, but the influence of a true man, the waigit of an experienced legistator. As chairman of the ComPubBldg he had for a long period taken a deep interest in the work of the Capitol extension. His ideas were liberal coextensive with the grandeur of the nation and he would build well and for all time. He felt a pride in the splendors of the structure, fondly contemplated the time of its completion in all its parts, when all the vacant niches as well as the old Hall of the HoRep should be filled with the statues of our fathers, when the surroundin grounds should be on larger], and believed in the end the world would not be able to show Government buildings and grounds more imposing or so appropriately magnificent. It was the Capitol of a nation of free men l What wonder, then, that he should in his last hour close the drama by wishing to be so raised in his bed that his eyes might once more behold the rays of the morning sun glit tering upon the majestic dome and illuminin those Halls wherein he had long been so noted an actor. He was a modest man and obeyed the Gospel recept, “ not to think of himself more high y than he on lit to think, ” and esteemed “others” bettertion himself. Few men who spoke so well have been able to content themselves with speaking so unfrequently. He always up mud to underrate his own performances, an nover, I believe, circulate any of his speeches in pamphlet form, but he was Generous and hearty in his appreciation and cir culation of those made by others. He was a man of courage. When he served in this House, beloning to the old Whig party, the great radical abolitionist from the Ohio Ashtabula district was alsoa member. Anti slavery sentiments in those days found little favor anywhere, and here encountered fiercest hate and frequent violence on the part of slaveholding Representatives. Mr. Giddings once told me that upon one occasion, when he had uttered some unwelcome truth about the institution of barbarous memory, one of these chivalric Representatives rushed toward him evidently bent on mise hief, and that Foor at once sprang to his side ready to meet the aggressor. The from tness of this actionand the tirm port of