Mr. POLAND. Mr. President, I offer the followmg resolution: Evolved, That the SecyS be directed to inform the HoRep that the Senate.havinglistened to eulozies upon the charactor and public servicesof Hon. SoLouox Foor, a Senfrom the State of Vermont, lately deceased. out of respect.to his memoryhave votedto adjourn. Mr. President, 2 weeks ago this day it was my painful duty to announce to the Senate the deat of my distinguished and beloved colleague, Hon. SOLOMON Foote. The little time that elapsed between his decease and the fu iieral ceremonies here and the absence of oneot my colleagues of the House, who was Mr. Foo r: s immediate Representative, were deemed sufficient reasons for postponing the customary obituary tributes to some future day. In accordance with the notice then given, I now ask that the Senate for a short time lay aside its ordinary business and allow me and others the melancholysatislhction ofexpressingourappreciation of the character, servi es, and virtues of our departed associate and friend. The last occasion of this kind, in this Chamber, was early in the present session, in memory of my lamented predecessor, Judge Collamer. No one of ns Will ever forget the eloquent and loving words of Mr. Foor on that occasion in dwellin upon the memory of his long time friend an colleague. As we looked at his robust and majestic form, and listened to his deep, rich voice, and solemn, weighty words, how little we thought that in so short a time he, too, would have become only an object of memo, and a subject of eulogy. Who next in this ody of representatives of States shall be called from this high place to the unseen world I No one of us can tell. How solemnl are we reminded that death comes as a thief in the night; and how1 wisely are we cautioned, “ Be ye also rea. Mi. Foor was born in Cornwall, Addison county, Vermont, on the 19th day of November, 1802. I have not been able to learn any thinir in relation to his early life, but I infer thatchis family condition was such as to make “all attainment and advancement life depend upon his own efforts and labors. I infer this from the fact that he graduated from Middle later in life than is usual with young men where the means of education are provided by others. After his graduation he spent some time in teaching, and at the same time studying law. After his admission to the bar he commenced practice in the town of Rutland, Vermont, and that continued to be his place of residence up to the time of his death. He was elected a Representative from the town of Rutland to the Vermont HoRep in 1833, 1836, 1837, and 1838, an again in the year 1847, and during the last 3 of those years was Speaker of the House. He was a member of the State constitutional convention, in 1836, which made the important alteration in our State constitution of exchanging the old Legislative Council for a State Senate. He also held the office of prosecuting attorney for Rutland county from 1836 to 1842. In 1842 Mr. Foor was elected m the lower House of Congress, and reelected in 184 1, but declined further election. In 1850 he was elected to the Senate of the U.S., reelected in 1856, and again in 1862, and at the timeof his death was the oldest member in continuous service in this body. Mr. Foor very soon attained a highly respectable position as a lawyer. He was careful and attentive to the interests of his clients, and always made full and elaborate preparation for the trial of his causes. If his life had been devoted to his profession he would doubt less have attained high rank as a lawyer. But his attention was early turned to political life, and his professional career was too broken and desultory to enable him to attain the highest distinction in it. His ability and character were far better suited to a public and po u lar rather than a mere professional life. He had been but a very few years at the bar, and a resident of the town of Rutland, when he was chosen to represent that town in the State Legislature. It was quite rare at that day that so youn a man was chosen to represent one of the of dest and most important towns in the State, and which contained many leading public men. But he had already attained a high position as an able and popular speaker upon iuhlic and political questions, and his career in the State Legislature added to this a reputation as a wise and careful legislator. It was as Speaker of the Vermont HoRep that he 1st displayed that l almost wonderful aptitude and capacity as the , presiding officer o a deliberative assembly, which afterward made him so celebrated throu hout the nation, when he became the i Presiing Officer of the Senate of the United bury College about 1826or 1827, and somewhat States, as perhaps the best presiding, Officer in the whole country. He seemed almost to have been made for the position. His line, majestic person, his dignified deportmcut. his full and rich voicc, his easy and graceful manner, all cons ired to make him a most useful and acceptable president over any assembly. His knowledge of arliamentary law and usage was very thoroug, but not more so, proba bly, than many others. His superiority in this respect appeared born in him. His look preserved order; the slightest word allaed confusion. The same grace of person an dignity of manner attende him always and every where, and was equally pleasing and agreeablein private society or on the Senate floor; it had nothing of lianghtiness or arrogance, but was kindly and benignant. It had doubt less much to do with the almost universalpersonal love and reverence felt for him by all who knew him. Mr. Foot was not a man of great originality. I am not aware of an great public measure that he originated. lie did not take much part in the general debates in the Senate upon general subjects, but he was always in his seat, careful and watchful of all measures, with excellentjudgment of what was for the public interest. A member of the present Cabinet, who served ten years with him in the Senate, said to me, during Mr. Foors sickness, that he never knew a man whose votes were always more consistently right than his. When he did speak in the Senate it was generally with careful reparation, and then he spoke wisely and well), and was listened to with great attention and respect. He was always faithful and prom tin his attendance on his committees, in ming his reports, and in the performance of every public duty. But it was especially in his dot to his State, and the people of his State, that his watchfulness, energy, and untiring etforts were mainly directed. No interest, of Vermont was allowed to suffer, or remain unguarded, either in Congress, or in any Dept of the General Government and so with every citizen of the State having right or claim or properrequest upon any Dept of the Government Mr. Foor mass it his own special duty to see it righted., He loved and honored Vermont he was proud that it was the place of his birth. More than once since I became his colleague he hasmentioned the fact to me, that never before was Vermont represented in the Senate by 2 of her sons, born on her own soil; and he seemed to dwell on the idea with great satisfaction. During his illness, and after he became satisfied he should not recover, he loved to speak of being carried back to his native State: of being buried under the shadow of her grand mountains and green hills and within sound of her waterfalls, and that his grave would be among his own people, whom he loved, and who loved him so we 1. Mr. Foors real greatness and the cause of his universal popularity I have not yet named. Some men are called great from a single at action, others by a few great deeds. Mr. foo: was a cat inan by reason of his great heart; not a single act, or several acts of gent states manship, but a lifetime of good and generous and unselfish deeds was what made him great and gave him such a hold upon the hearts of the people of his own State and others who knew him. Hismental faculties were of a high order; his so requirements were very respectable indeed; his in gment was excellent; e had extraor dinary gifts of person and manners; but many men possessingall these in equal degree would never have attained a tithe of the mom and respect he did. It was his generous, warm hearted love and sympathy for his fellows and his exhibition of it to them and for them at all times that induced their love and respect for him. You saw with me the general exibition of sorrow for his death here where he had been so long and was so well known and so highly respected; but it was my fortune to be one of your committee to attend his remains to his old home and among the neighbors and asso ciates of his dail home life. Had you witnessed the deep g 00m and sadness that hung over that whole community, the tears that, filled so many eyes as we fulfilled our melan c“holy duty, you might well have exclaimed, Behold how they loved him I” Living in another part of the State from Mr. Poor, and our pursuits for many years having been so different, I had never much persona intimacy with him until the commencement of the present session, when I became his colleague. From that time till his death we lived in the same house and, till his sickness, at the same table. I soon saw why all loved and respected him, and shared their sentiments in the fullest manner. The infinite pains he took to make my position agreeable; to make me acquainted with the course and details of business in the senate; the properoffices and Depts for everything; in short, the whole routine of congressional drudgery, which it is so important or every man to know, and still every man is expected to find out for himself, was what I did not expect from him and probably should have received from no other man. But with his nature he could hardly have avoided doing it. The circumstances of his sickness and death were such that general publicity has been given to various interviews and partings between him and valued friends, solemn and affectin in their character and interest. took my ast leave of him on that same afternoon before his death. I could not now attemptto describe it, but I shall never forget his affectionate language or his solemn benediction at our parting. l mourn his loss in common with all who knew him; but with all who believe in the heaven hereafter, I doubt not that our loss is his infinite gain. His triumphant Christian delagh was a fitting end for so loving and useful a l e. Well may we all pray that our lives and our deaths may be like his. Sorely indeed, has my native State been stricken; her 2 most distinguished sons, long her joint representatives in this body, where they represented her with so much ability, usefulness, and credit, both taken away by death, and so near finch other that the stunning effect of the 1st blow had hardly passed when the other came. God grant that those who have survived and succeeded them may be enabled in some degree to emulate their virtues and usefulness to the State and people thus bereaved 1