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By Mr. PIND.A.R: Petition ofthe Sarsfield Club, ofNewYork city, 

opposing the so-called extradition treaty with theBritishGovernmentto the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

By 1\Ir. HEED: Memorial of E. G. Parker Post 99, Grand Army of 

the Republic, of Kittery, Me., in favor of the passage of the Mormon 

bill-to.the Committee on the Judiciary. 

By Mr. SPJ:UNGER: Petition of C. D. Timothy, of'Springfield, ill, 

in favor of House bill 9733-to the Committee on Ways and Means. 

By ltir. SWINBURNE: Petition of the Sarsfield Club and of the 

Garryowen Club, of New YOl'k city, opposing the so-called extradit10n 

treaty with Great Britain-to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. 

By Mr. J. M. TAYLOR: Petition of John T. Robeson, late United 

States consuln.t Beirut, for refund of money expended for clerk-hireto the Committee on Appropriations. 

By Mr. WHEELER: Petition of A. S. Shelton, of Lawrence County, 

and of Richard M. Skidmore, of Morgan County, Alabama, for reliefto the Committee on War Claims. 

The following petitions, praying for the E?nactment of a bill providin~ temporary aid for common schools, to be disbursed on the easis of 

ill)teracy, were severally referred to the Committee on Education: 

By Mr. HALL: Of 193 citizens of Washington, Mount Pleasant, and 

Winfield, Iowa. 

By Mr. HIRES: Of77 citizens of Camden, N. J. . 

By Mr. LYl\IAN: Of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of 

Dow City, Iowa. 

By Mr. O'FERRALL: Of269 citizens of Winchester, Va. 

By Mr. PAYSON: Of 110 citizens of Forrest, Ill. 

SENATE. 

WEDNESDAY, February 9, 1887. 

The Chaplain, Rev. J. G. BUTLER, D. D., offered the following 

prayer: 

PRAYER. 

Blessed be the G!}d and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, aecording to His·abundant mercy, hath begotten in us a living hope by 

the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 

Let the words of our lips and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in Thy sight, 0 Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. And as we 

turn away.from theopen grave with sympathizing hearts may we e-ver 

be filled with the spirit of Him who is touched with the feeling of our 

infirmities, the great Redeemer, the conqueror of death, who liveth 

and reigneth forever. 

Inspire us, we pray Thee, with courage and with faith, as fi.·om day 

to day we meet the responsibilities and trials and temptations incident to thi'3 mortal life. Fill us ever with Thy Good Spirit, sanctifying Thy providences, comforting those who are in sorrow, 0 Thou 

judge of the widow and Thou father of the fatherless ones, enablin~ 

us to meet the duties of each day with courage, with fortitude, with 

faith, and with patience, so serving our generation that when we shall 

fall asleep we may enter upon the everlasting rest. Blot out all our 

transgressions, and grant us grace and peace. Our Father, who art in 

in heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come, Thy will be 

done upon earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. 

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. 

Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil; for Thine is the 

kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 

THE JOURNAL. 

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read and approved. 

DEATH OF SENATOR LOGAN. 

Mr. CULLOM. 1\Ir. President, I ask leave to introduce resolutions 

at this tima. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from lllinois presents 

resolutions, which will be read. 

The Chief Clerk read as follows: 

Resolved by the Senate, That as an additional mark of respect to the memory of John .A.. Logan, long a Senatorft·om the State of I11inois, o.nd a distinguished member of this body, business be now suspended, that the friends and associ- ates of the deceased may pay fitting tribute to hL<~ public and private virtues. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be directed to communicate these 1·esolutions to the House of Representati'i(es and to furnish an engrossed copy of the same to the fami\y of the deceased Senator. 

1\Ir. CULLOM. 1\Ir. President, for the third time within a. year 

we are called upon to raise our >oices reverently in speaking of our 

dead. For the third time within a year death has laid his icy finger on 

a brother Senator and beckoned him to the unknown realms of eternity. 

To-rlay we lay our tribute of love upon the tomb of Logan. 

Su:fl'e1·ing from a sense of personal loss too deep to find expression, I 

de pair of being able to render adequate praise to his memory. 

But yesterday, as it seems, he stood among us here in the full flush 

of robust manhood. A giant in strength and endurance, with a will 

of iron, and a constitution tough as the sturdy oak, he seemed to hold 

within his grasp more than the threescore years and ten alloted to man. 

No one thought in the same moment of Logan and death-two conquerors who should come face to face, ahd the weaker yield to the 

stronger. It seemed as if Logan could not die. Yet, in a moment, in 

the twinkling of an eye, as it were, •' God's finger touched him, and he 

slept." 

Almost without warning he passed from strength to weakness; to 

death and decay, from life pulsating with vigor to dare and to do. The 

physician's skill, the loving, agonized, devotion of those most dear, his 

own invincible will, were alike powerless to resist the approach of the 

grim destroyer who stole upon him ''as a thief in the night," and has 

given us another sqiking warning of the fact that " No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.'' 

John Alexander Logan was born on a farm located in what is now 

the town of Murphysboro, in Jackson County, Illinois, on February 

9, 1826. Had he lived until to-day, sixty-one years-eventful, glorious years-would have rested their burden as a crown upon his head. 

Life is a crucible into which we are thrown to be tried. How many 

but prove the presence of alloy so base that refining ''seven times'' can 

not purify. But here was a life generous, and noble, an open book from 

which friend and foe alike might read the character of the man. 

General Logan was the eldest of a family of eleven children. His 

father, Dr. John Logan, was born in the north of Ireland of Scotch 

ancestry, and came to this country early in this century. He first settled in Maryland and then in Missouri, afterward moving to lllinois 

and locating in Jackson County. There he met and married Miss Elizabeth Jenkins, who was a native of North Carolina, but came of a Scotch 

family. Dr. Logan was a man of marked characteristics, and a physician and surgeon of unusual skill. 

He was noted for his integrity, his sturdy independence of character, 

his devotion to his friends, and his recognition of the equality of all 

men who were honest and upright, without regard to their social 

position. His wife was a woman of determined courage, strong in her 

prejudices, who never swerved from the path she had once marked out 

for herself. The characteristics of the father and mother were conspicuously combined in the son, who owed his success in life lar~ely 

to the possession of the traits most prominent in the character of both 

his father and his mother. · 

The professional services of Dr. Logan were in such demand that he 

had little time to devote to the care of his farm or the education of his 

children, but he was an educated and studious man, and gave his 

children the best educational faeilities he could command. 

In those days money and schools were scarce in that new country, 

and the education of the youth was not considered so essential as it is 

to-day, but Dr. Logan managed to secure the services of a tutor who 

resided in the family and trained the children in the branches not 

taught in th~ schools of that day, including the rudiJ.D.ents of Greek 

and Latin. While young Logan failed to receive suchaclassical training as a college gives, he was eager and quick to learn, .and made the 

most of his opportunities. 

Reared upon a farm under such circumstances, his character was unconsciously molded and formed by surroundings similar to those which 

gave to Lincoln that strength and steadfastness which served him so 

well in later years. The men with whom young Logan came in contact druing his boyhood were generally without the refinements of life, 

but they were rugged, sturdy, and seli:reliant, of powerful physique 

and healthy intellects. His association with these vigorous, hardy, pioneers of civilization imbued the young man with unconquerable energy, indomitable will, and a stern sense of honor which through his 

manhood to the end of his life made him a master spuit among men. 

. At the age of sixteen he was sent to Shiloh College and subsequently 

added to the education obtained there whatever he could glean from 

the books within his reach. When barely of age he made his entrance 

into manhood upon the field of battle. 

When the Mexican war broke out young Logan plunged into itwith 

all the fire and enthusiasm of his nature, enlisting in the First Illinois 

Volunteer Infantry. Though then but twenty years of age, he served 

with distinction, and by the end of thewar had become quartermaster 

of his regiment. This beginningofhis career might have been to him 

an omen of future fame to be won on fields of blood. On returning 

home he was received as a student in the law office of Alexander M. 

Jenkins, his mother's brother, but, being an ardent admirer of Stephen 

A. Douglas, Logan soon became fascinated with political life, and in 

less than a year was elected clerk of Jackson County. 

In 1850 he became a student in the law department of Louisville 

University, graduating in thespringof1851, and entering upon theprac· 

tice of law at Murphysboro in partnership with his uncle. In 1852 

he was elected to the State Legislature, and soon afterwards to the 

office of prose.cuting attorney for the judicial district in which heresided. In this position he wru:~ called upon to prosecute some remarkable criminal cases, and it is a notable fact that he secured a conviction in 

all the cases which he prosecuted and tried. 

On the 27th of November 1855 he was marriecl to Miss 1\fary S. Cunning• 
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ham, a daughter of Capt. J. M. Cunningham, and established his home 

and law office in Benton, in the adjoining county of Franklin. In 1856 

he was again elected to the State Legislature, and it was during thesession of 1857 that it became my privilege to become acquainted with this 

remarkable man, who at that time demonstrated his power as aleader. 

In 1858 Mr. Logan was elected to represent his district in Co:qgress, 

and from the time he took his seat in the House of Re~resentatives his 

rise was rapid and his public career became known to the country. 

He had not been cradled in luxury. Fortune had not been especially kind to him, but he had been bred honest to the core, was incapable of meanness: and among the strong men of that Congress, the 

young, resolute, courageous Representative from Illinois held his own. He was again elected to Congress in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln· was 

elected President. Logan was elected as a Douglas Democrat, and had 

advocated the election of Douglas to the Presidency with all his power 

before the people. When Lincoln was elected and ·mutterings of rebellion and whisperings of secession· were heard, the fire of patrioti"m 

began to burn in his breast, and on the floor of the House of Representatives, ou the 5th of February, 1861, before the inauguration of 

President Lincoln, he defined his position upon the burning question 

of the hour in the following unmistakable terms: 

I have been taughtResaidthat the preservation of this glorious Union, with its broad flag waving over us as the shield of our protection on land and sea, is paramount to all parties 

and platforms that ever have existed or ever can exist. I would to-day, if I bad 

the power, sink my own party and every other one, with all their platforms, 

into the vortex of ruin, without heaving a sigh or shedding a tear, to save the 

Union, or even to stay the revolution where it is. · 

What a declaration of unselfish patriotism ! Placing party and platforms under his feet, be was first of all for the Union and the flag, which 

were dearer than all else to him. With the flash of the first gun which 

tbuudered its doom upon Sumter be was up and in arms. Consecrating all the energy of his ardent nature to the cause of the Union, 

he left his seat in Congress, saying he could best serve his country in 

the field. Falling into the ranks of the Union Army he took his part as a civilian volunteer in the first battle of Bull Run. 

To describe the part he took in the late war after he raised the Thirtyfir..;t Dlinois Regiment and took the field would be to recite the history 

of the war itself-a story impressed a.s in letters of fire upon the mem- ory of the American people. The record of his bravery at Belmont; oi 

his gallant charge at Fort Donelson, where, as a colonel, be was dangerously wounded; of his service as major-general commanding the 

Army of the Tennessee; of the memorable siege of Vicksburg, when 

with the great leader of the Union armies he stood knocking at the door 

of that invincible stronghold; of his service with the gallant Sherman 

in his famous ''march to the sea"-all are written on the pages of history to lend undying luster to the name of Logan. · 

It is said that poets are born, not made. So it may be truly said that 

General Logan was a natural soldier. Every instinct within him was inspired with fervid love of his country. His figure was massive, his 

shoulders broad, his presence commanding, with his swarthy face and 

coal-black hair, and "eye like Mars to threaten or command," he was 

every inch a warrior. The soldiers of the late war believed in him as a leadm· in the field, and those of that great Union army who survive 

him mourn his loss to-day as their nearest, most earnest, ablest, and 

most devoted friend. 

During the war General Logan rose by regular promotion through 

every grade from colonel to the highest rank, save that of lieutenantgeneral, that the nation could bestow in recognition of his bravery and 

great capacity as an officer. How appropriately the words which, on April6, 1870, he pronounced in eulogy of that other great soldier, 

General George H. Thomas, can now be applied to himself. On that 

occasion General Logan said of General Thomas, as we can now say of 

him: 

He bas gone. Grief sits visibly on every soldier's brow and pervades every Joyal heart of the nation. His noble form lies low ready to be committed t<> its 

kindred dust. Earth never received into her bosom a manlier form or a nobler 

breast. The halo of his deeds and brilliancy of his achievements may almost be 

said to illuminate the grave into which his body descends, and the fragrance of 

his acts of kindness perfumes his sepulchre. He has gone from our sight, but not from our hearts and our memory; he must live on embalmed by our love and 

l!'arlanded with our affection, his name growing brighter and brighter as time 

rolls on. The cold marble bears in mockery a name forgotten butf.orthe letters 

chiseled on the icy slab. H can not be so with the name of General George 

Henry Thomas, which is chiseled on the tablets of too many hearts to need the 

aid of marble or bronze to perpetuate it. · 

Is it enough to say of General Logan that he was the greatest 

volunteer g~neral of the Union army? By no means. A quarter of 

a century and more has passed since that terrible struggle, and civil 

honors we1·e won by him ~uring that period as rapidly as military ones were won during the war. When gentle peace, which "hath her victories no less renown'd than those of war," returned, he was at once 

called to again take his place in the councils of the nation. Twice elected 

to the House of Representatives since the war and three times chosen by 

the Legislature of his State to represent it in the Senate, it m.ay be 

truly said that General Logan spent his life in the active service of his 

country. He was a man of high honor and singular boldness and frank-

.ness of character. He made no concealments. He fought always 

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openly and above- oard. His integrity was beyond the whisper of 

suspicion. 

He was aggressive and impulsive with the courage of his convictions. 

Eager to do, tireless in effort, persistent in purpose, by his indomitable 

will he made each obstacle in his path a stepping-stone to greater 

things. The more he was antagonized the stronger he became, and, as in battle, he pushed on until his enemies gave way and lefthim master 

of the situation. Goethe has said that ''he who is firm in will molds 

the world to himself;" and so it could be said of Logan, who had be- come recognized as one of the most prominent factors in national affairs. 

As a Senator he devoted himself steadfastly to the duties which crowd a Senatorial life, never turning a deaf ear to the appeals of his constituents, or from whatever quart-er of the conn try they came. He was a ready 

speaker, full of energy and forceful in manner, and when aroused by 

debate and the importance of the subject he would pour forth thoughts 

that breathe and words that burn into the ears of his hearers. 

Many passages may be selected from General Logan's writings and 

addresses which exhibit his ardent patriotism and love for the Union. 

In a letter to his friend, General Haynie, a gallant Union soldier, on December 31, 1861, he said: 

I am for the Union, and for maintaining it, if such a thing is possible, and am uncompromisingly opposed to any man or set of men that countenance disunion, with its horrible consequences. There is no sacrifice I would not make 

for it. I have no opinions that I am so wedded to that I would not modify them 

in any way, consistent with the hon or of my constituents and myself, to give peace to the country. 

Again be said, in an address to the people of Chicago on August 10, 

1863, while fresh from the field of battle: 

I do not propose to discuss party politics or questions with a view to the ad- v::mcement of any party organization, but desire only to speak to you with ref- erence to the troubles that now en vi ron the country and threaten the perpetuity 

of the Government. • • * In this war I know no party. * * * Although I have always been a Deroocrat, and ·cherish the doctrines of that old and honored party, yet in this contest I was for any man, let him belong to whatever 

party he might, who was for his country. 

Being criticised for being an Abolitionist, General Logan said: 

If it makes a man an Abolitionist to love his country, then I love my coun- try, and am willing to live for it and willing to die for it. 

General Logan's devotion to hiscoun~was the moving impulse ofhis 

heart, and be was willing, from the hour in which he saw the danger 

threatening the perpetuity of the Union, to give his life to save it. When 

the war was over and the integrity of the Union had been maintained, 

when he had laid aside his victorious sword, be used the following language in a speech at Louisville, Ky., on July 21, 1865: 

Peace has come at last. • • * The dark clouds of war that have been piling in terrific grandeur along the southern horizon for four long years, a.nd ever and anon bursting with fatal and fearful fury upon the land, have at last, Heaven be praised, rolled away. The trumpet clangor and the cannon's roar resound no longer from embattled plains. God grant that they never may again; 

that it may be a..~ literally true of the soldiers who survive as it is bound to be of those who "sleep their sleep" that they have all" fought their last battle." 

Like his great and true friend, General Grant, while General Logan was a great soldier, he did not love war, but with a heart full of human 

sympathy he loved peace and preferred her victories to those of war. Logan had a -tender and sympathetic nature. His heart was full of 

sorrow for the sick, the wounded, and the dying soldiers who were con- stantly around him. He regarded the institution of slavery a.s the 

cause of the war and all its attendant distress, and in the address at 

Louisville already referred to he used these graphic words: 

Oh, that I bad t-he power to bring together all the slaveholders of the land, 

and have them look on in solemn silence while the cripples, the widows, and 

orphans that have been made by this war could pass before them in grand re- view and tell their tales of misery and woe t-hat slavery has brought upon them. Were their hearts not made of stone they would melt while gazing at such a scene, and with one voice they must cry out: "Let the land be at once rid of the curse that has caused such a dreadful scene as this." 

General Logan's earnest feelings in regard to those who fought to 

preserve the Union are illustralied by a statement made in a speech in 

the other wing of this Capitol in 1867, when, in speaking on the subject of the reconstruction of the States that had been in rebellion, he 

said: 

God forbid that the day shall ever dawn upon this Republic when the patriots 

whose patriotism won them crutches and wooden limbs shall have apologies and explanations t<> make for their public conduct! 

Mr. President, I make these few quotations from the many striking 

passages that illuminate Genern.l Logan's addresses in Congress and to 

the people to show how earnest and undivided was his devotion to his 

country, his love for his companions in arms, and his opposition to 

sla>ery as the cause of the war. 

General Logan was the idol of the volunteer soldiers of the late war, 

and since the war closed no man in the nation has been so universally 

recognized by them as a friend upon whom they could confidently rely 

for help as he was. His heart went out to them and theirs to him. 

On one occasion he said: 

My consent can never be commanded to ignore the claims that I feel the gallant dead who fell fighting under our flag have upon my devotion to their fame 

wl,J.ile I live. 

The death of no man since the war has been so sorrowfully mourned 

by the volunteer soldiery of the Union as has been th~ death of Gen-
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eral Logan. The soldier of that grand army momm his loss to-day as " one who will not be comforted." 

Yon will call to mind, Mr. President, General Logan's speeches on edu~tion, on the needs of the Army, his defense of General Grant, and 

his arraignment of General Fitz John Porter. These constitute an important part of the records of Senatorial debate-g, and should be classed 

among the ablest and most exhaustive speeches ever made in the Senate. .AB a political leader General Logan was conspicuously successful. 

He was naturally in the front rank, whether on the field of battle or in 

political contestB. Living in an era when corruption was not uncom- mon, when strong men of both parties sometimes stood aghast and saw their reputations blasted by public exposure, he remained throughout 

his long public career above suspicion. 

Wealth could not tempt him to soil his spotless name. He never used the opportunities of his official position as a means of obtaining 

gold. He died as he had lived, a poor ma.p_. 

Throughout his long and conspicuous public career he came many 

times before the people, but there never was a ghost of dishonor in his 

past td rise up and cry upon him shame. May his children ''rejoice and 

be glad" in the example of a father of whom the whole nation could 

rise up and say, '' There was an honest man.'' 

But let us not indulge in adulation. General Logan was not a perfect man. Faults had he, "child of Adam's stem," but they were small, and served by comparison but to enhance his virtues. ~is prej u- dices were sometimes narrow, but he was never a hypocnte. He never professed to be what he was not. 

He sometimes erred, for he was possessed of like passions with other 

men. He sometimes alienated a friend, as every strong, independent man must in the course of a public career. He had his bit£er enemies, 

but, in the words of a revered and venerable friend of General Logan's, 

ex-Senator Simon Cameron, ''a man who makes no enemies is never a 

positive force." Logan was a positive force. He took his ~osi~on on questions as they came up, and was always ready to defend 1t Wlth all 

his power. 

Mr. President, few men in American history have left so positive an impress on the public mind and so glorious a record to be known and 

read of all men as has General Logan. The pen of the historian can not fail to write the name of Logan as one prominently identified with 

the great movements and measures which have saved the Union and 

made the nation free and great and glorious within the last thirty years. 

Like Lincoln, his heart and hand were ever for the people. He came up from the ranks of the peo:ple, believed in the purity and integrity 

of the masses, and was always ready and eager to speak for· them. He was a true republican and believed firmly in republican government. 

He despised tyranny in all its forms wherever he found it. He was always true to his convictions and to his friends, and no power or influence could induce him to forsake eithe-r. 

His sturdy character has been so often de~onstrated upon this floor 

and in his work and in his powerful speeches in every part of the coun- try, always showing his most earnest devotion to the Union, his never flagging zeal in behalf of his comrades-in -arms; his love of liberty and 

human equality, his belief in universal education as in the interest of 

the happiness of the people and of the perpetuity of. republican government, his adherence at all times to his convictions of duty, his un- faltering determination to stand by his friends-that it seems needless 

for me to dwell upon it longer. In his remarks in this Senate upon an occasion similar to this, in speak--ing of a once distinguished mem- ber of this body, the lamented Chandler, General Logan used the following language: 

'Tis true the ~ve in its silence gives forth no voice nor whispers of the mor- row, but. there IS a voice borne upon the lips of the morning zephyrs that lets 

fall a whisper, quickening the heart with a knowledge that there is an abode 

beyond the t-omb. Sir, our lamps are burning now, some more brightly than 

others; some shed their light from the mountain's top, others from the lowly vales; but let us so trim them that they may all burn with equal brilliancy when relighted in our man.si.ons beyond the mysterious river. I fondly hope, sir, that there we will again meet our departed friend. 

Mr. President, he who uttered those tender wo-rds,,thus giving ex- pression to his faith in the hereafter and to his love of his departed 

friend, has gone to join him in the mansions beyond the mysterious 

river, may we not trust in that better land where there is no more pain nor suffering nor sorrow, but in the mansions of eternal bliss. 

.AB time passes and the men who did the most in the late terrible 

civil war pa.ss rapidly away one by one we have the consolation of knowingthat they leave to us a united country, with the Union of the States 

restored and liberty secured to all the people, to be transmiteed by us to those who come after as a glorious inheritance. 

Death is a good Samaritan, throwing the mantle of charity over the 

faults of men, burying in oblivion the sins of the flesh, and bidding 

their good deeds ''live after them.'' 

And now we stand as at an open grave to say our last farewell. 

Here was a man who could ill be spared to country, friends, or home. 

"Our life is scarce the twinkling of a star in God's eternal day," yet we bow in resignation to the divine decree when the summons comes to one weary with the burden of years and with labors ended. Butto see the darkness fall at noon-time, the sun go down while we look far a brighter day, is a mystery of Providence too deep for human comprehension. • 

When death claims the strong and great, those to whom we look for 

help and strength, we ask why, why was he taken, and can not understand the dealings of an Infinite Wisdom. .AB. the autumn leaves 

drop and enrich the soil, so are the great men of our nation falling by 

the way, leaving a golden heritage of honored names and fame to generations yet unborn. . Oor' friend and brother has crossed to the other shore to join the immortal throng. He has left a desolate hearthstone, a loved companion, 

prostrate in her grief, refusing to be comforted. His conflicts are over. 

He is at peace" where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary 

are at rest.'' 

In halls of state he st{)od for many years, 

Like fabled knight, his visage all aglow! Receiving, giving sternly, blow for blow! 

Champion of right I But from eternity's fa.r shore 

Thy spirit will return to join the strife no more. Rest, soldier·statcsman, rest; thy troubled life is o'er. 

Mr. MORGAN. Mr. President, this is not an unmeaning ceremonial. 

The Senate has notpaused in its great labors and arrestedits important 

service to the people of the United States for the purpose merely of 

indulging in passing eulogistic remarks upon the character of our 

brother who has left us; but we consider that it is due not to him alone 

but to this whole country that a man who was so marked in his grand 

individuality and splendid characteristic:; should bespoken of here, and 

that we should contribute what we are able to do to enhance the value 

of his memory for the sake of posterity as well as for the present generation of men. The pathetic remarks that fell from his lips which 'were quoted by 

the Senator fromillinois [Mr. CULLOM] at the timethatwewerehold· 

ing obsequies over the departed Senator from l\fichigan, Mr. Chandler, 

bring forcibly before my mind, as I have no doubt it does before the 

mind of the Senate, the question, whence has gone this man so powerfully clothed with every element of strength, goodness and greatness of 

character? Has the Divine hand that fashioned a man like this and 

made it possible for him to build himself up through the toils and la· 

bors and vicissitudes of life found no use for him in the great economy 

ofHis providence, sinee that sad and startling moment when he was taken, yes, snatched from our midst? I think, sir, of John A. Logan 

to-day as a powerful factor in the hands of his Creator, still working 

out diligently and faithfully the good that he seemed so well designed 

to accomplish. I do not regard him as lost or passed into a mythical 

land where there is no longeruse for the valuable services which he has 

been so conspicuous in rendering to his race while he lived among us. !think ot him as a living, moving energy, still useful in the great purposes of the Divine economy. 

I do not come here, !.ir. President, to pronounce about a man so sin- cere as he was any word of eulogy or praise in which there will be a coloring of insincerity. Fortwenty-fiveyears I was opposed to almost 

every measure of public policy that he espoused. It so turned out that 

in the first battle of the war and in the latest battle in which I participated we were confronted with each other. It so turned out that having our political principles cast much in the same mold in early life, we separated, as did the sections of this great country, upon questions 

that it appears could not be settled or reconciled otherwise than by war. 

A.fter we had again come in the presence of each other in this Senate, he, with an absolute sincerity of purpose, which I claim for my· 

self also, took the opposite view from that which I held of most of 

the great questions that have engaged the attention of this body since 

that time. But in all that he did and in all that he said John A. 

Logan was a thoroughly sincere and a resolutely upright man. 

The differences of opinion that exist between men in this country, 

where freedom of speech and of debate are sanctioned and encouraged 

by the Constitution and by the traditions of our history, develop men 

who oppose each other with great strength and power frequently, and 

develop even in ordinary men a strength of will and purpose that is 

honorable to them and beneficial to the people. Our divisions of sen- timent and opinion are altogether natural and indispensable. They 

merely mean that the questions with which we have to deal are debatable and often doubtful, and that they must finally be settled in 

this body, as in all other legislative bodies in this country, by the 

power of a majority, the minority always yielding to the majority as being right in substance and in effect. So that when I controvert with a man of the strength of Logan's will and a man of his ability, his 

learning, his enterprise, and his genius, for he possessed all in a large 

degree, I feel that the combats in which we engage are those in which men on either side may be absolutely sincere. -

John A. Logan was, more than almost any man in my remembrance, 

the typical American of the Western States. He was born and reared 

in the West, that country of marvelous strength, power, and progress. 

All of his efforts were given to the service first of that particular section and afterwards to the more enlarged service of the general country. 

But Logan seemed to be the embodiment of the spirit and power of 

that wonderful West, which has grown and strengthened in our conn try 

as no other section of this Union ever has within a given time. The 

energy of his nature, the fortitude, the persistence, the industry, the 

courage with which he encountered every question that arose seemed 
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merely to exemplify the pervading spirit of the western part of the 

United States, and he will go down to posterity, not because we describe him in our speeches here to-dn.y, but because he has described 

himself in every act of his life as a man perfectly understood and the 

recognized exemplar of one of the strongest and most splendid types 

of American character. 

I confess, !11r. President, that I feel a certain joy in the power of our 

country to develop men like thi~. I think it is greatly to the credit 

of the country that a man can be brought from the bosom of the people and lifted into the highest stations of place and power without, in 

the slightest degree, losing his identity with them; reflecting here upon 

the floor of the Senate what they feel in their hearts and what; they 

believe and teach in their homes, keeping up a ·perpetual bond of affectionate union between those highest in authority in this land and 

those who are in the retirement of private life. . 

Institutions that can produce men and results like these are worthy 

of preservation, and no :man more regrets than I do that there was ever 

one moment of time in the history of this country when it seemed to be 

necessary for the preservation of rights, that a large portion of th~ people 

of this country believed to be sacred, that these institutions of ours 

should have been put under a threat. That time has passed away, and 

with it all the rancors of the occasion. You can not point out in the 

history of any race of people that degree of mutual magnanimity and 

forbearance that has characterized the people of this great country in 

returning to unite hands and hearts in the maintenance of its institutions, in the elevation of its honor, and in the perfection ofits glory. 

In these efforts nien who thought and felt as I have thought and felt 

always gladly stretch forth the hand of honest brotherhood to men like 

John A. Logan. We were never afraid of such men, because they were 

candid and true. No guile beset that man's life, no evasion, no finesse. 

No merely political strategy ever characterized his conduct in public 

life or marred his honor in private life. He was a bold, pronounced, 

dignified, earnest, manly, firm, generous, tme man, and I value the 

opportunity to express these sentiments about such a man on the floor 

of the Senate on this solemn occasion. 

Passing beyond the events to which I have alluded, where-he and I 

had adverse opinions, and taking this young man in company with 

thousands of his confreres of like age who were in the army that invaded 

1\fexico, we find there the earliest display of those qualities which continued in unabated vigor and distinctiveness down to the very hour o~ 

his death. I have always felt that we had sent out with the army to 

1\Iexico the very flower of American chivalry in the persons of those 

young men who bore our banners in triumph to the halls of the 1\fontezumas. Scarce a man who distinguished himself in that war has not 

received great honors at the hands of bis country and has not prbved 

himself thoroughly worthy of them. We can scarcely recall an individual who had a prominent place in that war-I do not mean official 

place, but who won his position by dutiful service in that war-who bas 

not received at the hands of the American people a complete recognition 

of those abilities and courageous manhood which enabled him to go out 

in this early trial of his life and to prove himself upon th03e fields as a 

man of valor and of power. 

I believe that no man has died in this country in a half century for 

whom the people of the United· States at large had a more genuine respect or in whom they had greater confidence than in General Logan. 

The Senate has witnessed, on various occasions, his antagonism even 

to his best friends, when his convictions led him to separate from them 

upon political and other questions that have been brought before the 

Senate. Always courageous, always firm, always true, you kuew exactly where to place him; :md when his manly form strode across the 

Senate Chamber and he took his seat among his brethren of this body 

this country as well as this august tribunal felt that a man had appeared of valor and strength and real ability. 

Though perhaps he could not handle the refinements of disquisition 

and logic with as much skill as some, Logan did not want to use such 

methods in his argument. He desired to have strong materials out of 

which to build powerfulargnmli}ntation. If the facts that appeared before 

his mind convinced his judgment and his conscience that his course was 

right, be seldom stopped to see whether the path that he had marked 

out for himself was one justified by the doctrines of any political party 

or had been explored by some great man. While I feel that there is 

great attention always deserving to matters of the kind I have been 

mentioning, it is nevertheless true that those strong and earnest; men who take hold of facts as they arise, and in handling them follow the 

dictates of judgment and of conscience, oftener meet the approval of the 

American people than those who refine too much and, from timidity, 

fail to reach the results that the people themselves have fastened their 

hearts upon. 

I am glau, Mr. President·, of the opportunity to render to our late 

n.ssociate what I conceive to be a merited tribute, and to extend mv 

re~;narks a little further and to say of him that in his domestic relations 

he was one of the fondest and most lovable of men. In that crucial 

test of an honest character and of a .gentle and forbearing nature, no 

man excelled John A. Logan. He was a true husband, a true father 

a true friend, and when that is said of a man, and you can add to it 

also that he was a true patriot, a tme soldier, and a true statesman, I 

do not know what else could be grouped into the human character to 

make it more sublime than that. 

111r. EDMUNDS. Mr. President, I first knew General Logan about 

twenty years ago. He was then a member of the House of Representatives, and · I had just come to the Senate. His fame as a soldier, of 

course, was well known to me. His personal characteristics I then knew 

nothing of. I soon met him in committees of conference and otherwise 

as representing the opinions of the House of Representatives in matters 

of difference with the Senate, and I was struck, as everybody has been 

who has known him, with the very extraordinary characteristics that 

he possessed. They have been stated by his colleague who first addressed you and by my friend on the other side of the Chamber-the 

cha.racteristic of candor, the characteristic of simplicity of statement, 

the characteristic of clearness of opinion, the characteristic of that AngloSaxon persistence in upholding an opinion once formed that has made 

our British ancestors and onr own people the strongest forces for civilization ofwhich we have any account in the history of the world. 

There was no pretense about the man; there was no ambuscad~; 

there was no obscurity. What he was for he understood his reason for 

being for, stated it briefly and clearly, and stuck to it; and that, as 

we all know, and as it always ought to be, means in the great majority 

of instances success, and where success fails it is an instance of honorable defeat. 

His industry, Mr. President, which I have so long had opportunity 

to know and to know intimately, for later when he came to the Senate 

it was my good fortune to serve with him in one of the committees of 

the Senate having a very large amount of work to do-his industry, as 

well as these other characteristics that I have spoken of, was of the 

greatest. He seemed never to tire, to be ready to stay out and finish 

the things that were to be done, an example to us all of that fidelity 

t.o the administration of public interests, the things to be done and ac· 

complished that I think were extremely conspicuous, and I must say 

among the living are somewhat rare. 

So speaking of him, Mr. President, as aMeniber of the House ofRepresentatives and as a Senator performing his public duty, ·I can speak 

of him with the simplest sincerity and say that he was entitled, in my 

opinion, to the highest praise for these qualities and these things that 

he both had and did in per1orming important public duties. 

No more can be said, 111r. President, of any man, whether he have 

the gifts of eloquence or the boundless resources oflearning. He who 

does his deed of duty in the place where he stands is the best patriot, 

the best citizen, the best legislator, the best ruler, and the best man. That he did. 

For many years General Logan and I have sat here side by side. His 

temper, like that of some of those who sat very near to him, was not 

always of the most stolid kind, and he and I, sitting here side by side, 

very often in our constant conversations and intercourse differed and 

disagreed; we sometimes got warm and angry; but I think I can say 

truly that the sun never went down on his wrath toward me or any 

other man from occasions arising from differences of opinion and warmth 

of words. 

He was the gentlest of hearts, the truest of natures, the highest of 

spirits, that feels and considers the weaknesses of human nature and 

who does not let small things stand in the way of his generous friendship and affection for those with whom he is thrown. And so in the 

midst of a career that had been so honorable in every branch of the 

public service, and with just ambitions and just powers to a yet longer 

life of great public usefulness, he disappears from among us-not deadpromoted, as I think, leaving us to mourn, not his departure for his 

sake but that the value of his conspicuous example, the strength of 

his conspicuous experience in public affairs, and the wisdom of his coun· 

sels have been withdrawn. 

And so I moum him for ourselves, not for himself; and so I look upon 

an occasion like this not so much-far from it-for the regrets that belong to personal separations as the testimonial that a great body like 

this should make for ourselves and for our people of a rer.ognition of 

the merits and of the example3 and of the services that are to be not 

only a memorial but an inspiration to us all and to all our countrymen 

as to the just recognition and worth of noble deeds and honest desires. 

And so I lay my small contribution upon his grave in this way. 

l\Ir. 1\IANDERSON. 11Ir. ·President, as I stood a few weeks ago by 

the vault that received within its gloomy walls the honored remains of 

John Alexander Loga.n, and heard the impressive words of the solemn 

ritual for the dead of the Grand Army of the Republic, it seemed to me 

a most fitting ceremonial. The aged comrade of the order who, in 

tremulous tones, read the lines that breathe in every word the spirit of 

fraternity, charity, and loyalty, represented the three hundred and fifty 

thousand companions in arms, comrades of the illustrious dead, to 

whom he was endeared by much of self -sacrifice and a devotion to their 

interests thut never knew fatigue. As the clear, well-sustained notes 

of the bugle hung, as though loth to leave, upon the wintry air, 

And the dingle's hollow throat . Prolonged the swelling bugle note, 

sounding the call '' lights out,'' it was :fit finale to the life of activity 
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and conflict so Ia.tely ended. It spoke of rest after fatigue, of the 

pea-ceful camp after the wearisome march, of quiet after the din of 

arms, of sweet sleep after battle. It meant the restful darkness after 

the wakeful light, the covering of the camp-fire to retain its warmth 

until the dawn, the promiSe of the coming day, the resurrection and 

the life eternal. 

The familiar bugle-call brought most vividly to my recollection the 

:first time I met our friend and comrade, nearly twenty-five years ago. 

The disaster to our arms on dread Chickamauga's bloody day-the only 

battle approaching defeat that the Army of the Cumberland had ever 

known-had been redeemed by the glorious and substantial victories of 

Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain. These battles had been won 

with the aid of the Army of the Tennessee, and Sherman, its leader, had come to fight by the side of Thomas, ''the Rock of Chickamauga.'' 

With Grant, the great captain, to direct the movements of these 

most able lieutenants, the victory was a.<lSUred, and with the capture of 

the rebel stronghold upon the frowning heights of :Mission Ridge and 

lofty Lookout the Georgia campaign, that ended in the capture of Atlanta and the march to the sea, that.'' broke the back of the rebellion," became possibilities. The fair fame of our brethren of the Ten- nessee was familiar to us of the Army of the Cumberland. We had 

fought by their side at Shiloh. We knew of their high emprise at 

Corinth, Champion Hills, and Vicksburg. We had heard and read of 

Sherman, McPherson, and Logan. 

I do not disparage the bright fame of either of the first two when I 

say that the chief interest centered at that·time about the name of the 

third of these famous leaders of the Army of the Tennessee. He was the great volunteer soldier. He camefromcirillife-was without education in the art of war save that which came from a limited experience during the war with Mexico. He resigned his position as a mem- ber of Congress to enter the army of the Union as a private. With 

burning words of eloquence and lofty patriotism he gathered his neighbors of his Congressional district about his recruiting flag, organized 

and became the colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment of illinois Volunteers. The baptism of blood came to him at Belmont, where he led 

the charging column upon the foe. 

At Fort Henry his regiment captured eight of the enemy's guns. At 

Fort Donelson, while impetuously urging his men to the assault, he was badly wounded in the arm and hip but never flinched, and by his 

intrepidity kept his men in place until they were reinforced, their 

commander leaving the :field only when faint from loss of blood. 

His regiment in this bloody fray lost 50 per cent. of its number in killed 

&nd wounded. Promoted to be brigadier-general, he returned before 

full recovery ofhealth and strength, and, atCo:ririth, General Sherman 

acknowledged his special obligation to General Logan, and described 

how gallantly ''he held the critical ground on the right against a large 

force of the enemy." 

Advanced to the command of a division he saved the day at Raymond, 

and the historian wrote of himHe was full of zeal and wild with enthusiasm, and to his division belongs the 

honor of the victory. Fearless as a. lion, he was in every part of the field and 

seemed to infuse every ma.n of his command with a. part of his own indomitable energy and fiery valor. 

At Jackson and at Champion Hills his splendid division, as usual, 

immortalized itself. He seemed a born leader, displaying '' unflinching endurance, daring bravery, and determined energy.'' At the siege 

of Vicksburg, and particularly in the assault after the mine explosion, 

he was the prominent figure. His division was the first to enter the 

captured stronghold on that memorable 4th day of July. A witness 

of the scene wrote: 

The General rode at their head worshiped by his men-a man of iron will 

and lion-like courage, who seemed under the blasts of war to change into a demi-god. · 

As a tribute to his gallantry and effective service during the siege, 

he was made military governor, and in that capacity displayed won- derful executive power in caring for the captured thousands of Pemberton's army and the many other thousands of citizens who were re- duced almost to starvation. He brought "order out of chaos, re- strained disorder, and treated the conquered with impartial justice." 

Having been made major-general of volunteers, he succeeded General Sherman as commander of the Fifteenth Corps. 

His parting address to the gallant division he had so frequently led 

to victory is well worthy of remembrance. He said it "had made for 

itself a history to be proud of; a history never to be forgotten; for' it 

is written as with a pen of fire dipped in ink of blood in the memories 

and in the hearts of all." He besought his men in these words: "Remember the glorious cause you are :fighting for, remember the bleaching bones of your comrades killed on the bloody fields of Donelson, 

Corinth, Champion Hills, and Vicksburg, or who perished by disease 

during the past two years of hardship and exposure, and swear by 

these imperishable memories never, while life remains, to prove recre- ant to the trust Heaven has confided to your charge." 

This was the meteoric military career of the junior of the three 

splendid soldiers who came from the great valley they had immortalized by their valor to the central West, to join with Thomas, Schofield, 

and Hooker in the campaign against Atlanta-" the gate city of the 

South." 

I :first saw Logan in front of the confederate position on Kenesaw 

Mountain, when his corps made that desperate a.ssault upon Little 

Kenesaw,-so fruitless in results, so costly in human life. The sight 

was an inspiration. Well mounted-" he looked of his horse a part." 

His swarthy complexion, long black hair, compact figure, stentorian 

voice, and eyes that seemed to blaze ''with the light of battle," made a figure once seen never to be forgotten. In action he was the very 

spirit of war. His magnificent presence would make a coward fight. 

He seemed a resistless force. 

The sword 

Of Michael, from the armory of God, 

'Vas given him, tempered so that neithe1· keen 

Nor solid might resist that edge. 

The splendid reeord of achievements won along the :Mississippi was to remain unbroken. His name is written upon every page of the 

Georgia campaign of over one hundred days of constant :fighting. Says one of the historians of the Army of the Cumberland: "As the united 

armies advanced along the battle line, where for four months the firing 

never wholly ceased by day or by night, everbody came to know Logan. 

Bra\e, vigilant and aggressive, he won universal applause. Prudent 

for his men and reckless in exposing his own person, he excited general 

admiration. 

When the lines were close his own headquarters were often scarcely 

out of sight of the pickets, and he generally had a hand in whatever 

deadly work might spring up along his front. 

At Resaca, at Dallas, in front of frowning Kenesaw, at Peach Tree 

Creek and New Hope Church his corps under his leadership added to 

its fame. When McPherson was killed Logan 38Sumed temporary command of the Army of the Tennessee, and '' wrested victory from the 

jaws of defeat." We of the Cumberland heard the noise of the cannon and the rattle of the mhsketry that told of the severe assaults made by 

the desperate foe on Logan's line. I visited the :field the next morning 

and saw the terrible results of the deadly struggle. 

The ground was thickly strewn with the slain, and the face of nature 

had been changed by the conflict as though 

::Uen had fought upon the earth and fiends in upper air. 

Logan's battle presence here is said to have been ~mblime. The death 

of his beloved comrade in arms seemed to transform him into a very 

Moloch. Bare-headed he rode his lines, encouraging his men by word 

and deed, his battle-cry, "McPherson and revenge." Sherman's official report of the battle says: 

The brave and gallant General Logan nobly sustained his reputation and that 

of his veteran army and avenged the death of his comrade and commander. 

I would fain speak of Ezra Chapel and Jones borough, but lack of time 

forbids. 

On September 2 the campaign of constant :fighting that began Uay 2 

closed by the occupation of Atlanta, and no one man did more to bring 

about the glorious result than he whose death we to-day deplore. Of 

his services during the march from Savannah through the Carolinas I 

can not take time to speak. He rode at the head of the victorious 

veterans of the Army of the Tennessee at the Grand Review. Long its 

leader, he had at last become its commander. No more knightly figure 

appeared in the marching columns. No braver or truer heart swelled 

with the lofty emotions of the hour. 

Through all of General Logan's military career it is evident that he was far more than a mere soldier. Although terribly at home upon the 

:field of battle it was not love of the life that took him there. His sensitive and sympathetic nature caused him many unhappy hours as he saw the horrors war had wrought. He was no mere seeker for "the 

bubble reputation." The speeches made and letters written immediately before.and during the great struggle for national existence show 

him to have been imbued with the spirit of loftiest patriotism. In Congress he said: 

I have been taught to believe that the preservation of this ~lorious Union, 

with its broad fla.g waving over us as the shield for our protectton on land and on sea, is paramount to all the parties and platforms that ever have existed, or ever can exist. I would to-day, if I had the power, sink my own party and 

every other one with all their platforms into the vortex of rwn, without heaving a. sigh or shedding a. tear, to save the Union. 

In 1862, when solicited to represent illinois as Representative at 

large, he wrote: 

A compliance with yom· request on my part would be a. departure from the 

settled resolutions with which I resumed my sword in defense and for the per- petuity of a government, the like and blessings of which no other nation or age shall enjoy if once suffered to be weakened or destroyed. In making this re- ply I feel that it is unnecessary to enlarge as to what were, are or may hereafter 

be my political views, but would simply state that politics of every grade and 

character whatsoever nre now ignored by me, since I am convinced that the 

Constitution and life of this Republic, which I shall never cease to adore, are in 

danger. 

I express all my views in politics when I assert my attachment for the Union. I have no other politics now, and consequently no aspirations for civil place or power. No! I am to-day a. soldier of this Republic, so to remain, changeless and immutable, until her last and weakest enemy shall have expired and passed 

away. Ambitious men who have not a~ue love for their country a.t heart may bring fortb crude and bootless questions to agitate the pulse of our troubled 

nation and thwart the preservation of this Union, but of none of such am I. I have entered the field to die if needs be for this Government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war has become a fac' 

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While deeply in earnest and desirous of serving his country in the 

largest sphere, it can not be said that he was ambitious. He never sought promotion. It came to him as proper recognition of great fitness and much service. 

The trait in his character upon which my thoughts dwell with fond· ness and emotion was his generous regard for the rights of others. It 

shone out conspicuously in his treatment of that noble soldier and lirue 

patriot, General George H. Thomas, whom all men loved. There was impatience that Thomas did not move to the attack of Hood. The 

fact that the rain, which froze as it fell, covered the earth with ice upon 

which man and beast could scarcely stand was really cause sufficient for 

delay. 

Logan was ordered to supersede the great leader of tho Cumberland 

army. He proceeded westward without haste, although the command 

of that splendid army of veterans was something greatly to be desired. 

Reaching Louisville and hearing that the tliaw had come and Thomas 

ready to move, he delayed in that city. The glorious news of the great 

victory at Nashville soon came to him. Logan, with the order assigning him to supreme command in his pocket, telegraphed the glad tidings 

to Washington and asked that Thomas might remain at the head of the men who had followed him for so many years, and that be might return to the inferior command. 

No desire for self-advancement could prompt him to disregard the 

rights of a comrade. Without a murmur he had before this time seen 

thecommandoftheArmyoftheTennesseepasstoanotherwhenitseemed 

matter of right that it should bl' his as the natural successor of the lamented McPherson. General Hooker, with less of claim, wanted it, 

and in his grievous disappointment asked t~ be relieved from duty. 

Logan did not sulk an instant, but, with unselfish patriotism, went 

wherever duty called. 

It is not my purpose to speak of the great dead in any other capacity 

than that of a soldier. Let others speak of him as a civilian, lawyer, 

legislator, statesman, and tell of his merits as citizen, husband, father, 

and friend. I was his recognized comrade, as was every other man who wore the blue. He never forgot them. They will never forget him. 

He made it impossible so to do by his devotion to the volunteer soldiers' interests. The statute-books are full of laws for the maimed 

and disabled, the widowed and the fatherless, that he either originated 

or actively helped to pass. His life here and in the other House since 

the war was one of constant devotion to those with whom he had 

served. It was this strong feeling of comradeship that prompted him 

to aid materially in the organization of that great order-the Grand 

Army of the Republic. · 

He originated the ever-beautiful Memorial Day and constantly urged 

its observance. It was a revelation to many that this sturdy soldier 

should have conceived the poetic idea that the graves of the Union dead 

should receive their yearly tribute of flowers. The thought was born 

of his love for them. There was ·much that was refined beneath the 

bold, frank exterior. 

The bravest are the tenderest, 

The loving are the daring. 

A friend who knew him well writes of him: 

His domestic life was an exquisite idyl. It was fragrant with faith and ten- derness. It was a poem whose rhythm was never marred. 

Our hearts go out in sympathetic love to-day to the lonely woman who was his helpmeet all the days of his manhood life. Her's the desolation of a great loss, but with it the consolation of a great love. 

Peace be with her. 

Mr. HAMPTON. :M:r. President, I understand and appreciate fully 

the motives which prompt the tender and touching tributes paid here 

to the memory of our late and distinguished colleague. I sympathize 

with them as honorable alike to the living and to the dead. It is eminently right and proper that the political associates and the comrades 

in arms of the dead statesman and soldier should bear grateful testimony to his services and pay homage to his virtues. This is his due; 

it belongs of right to him, and none are more willing to accord this to 

him than those who were his political opponents. For one, I join gladly 

in every mark of respect paid to the memory of General Logan. But, 

sir, in the few remarks which I shall make on this mournful occasion 

which recalls a calamity that has filled, not only the Senate, but the 

whole count.ry with profound sorrow, I must speak from a standpoint 

di)ferent from that occupied by the political friends and the comrades 

of him who has been stricken down in the prime of manhood, and in 

the midst of his usefulness so suddenly and so mysteriously. The 

political school in which my creed was formed inculcated other doctrines than those held by General Logan, and these necessarily not only 

arrayed me in the ranks of his political opponents, but in those which were opposed to the cause he espoused and so bravely upheld in the 

late unhappy civil war. .As a Democrat, a Southern man, and a confederate soldier, I am called on to speak of him as a Republican in high 

and deserved honor with his party, as a Northern man who offered his 

life and ~ve his blood to prove the sincerity of his convictions, and as a Federal soldier whose fame was as wide-spread as it was fairly aehieved. 

I therefore leave to others better fitted than myself the grateful 

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duty of portraying his remarkable military career which placed him 

high in the ranks of successful commanders, and of tracing his no less 

remarkable political career, which led him up to become an honored 

and recognized leader of his party. But I may say, in connection with 

his brilliant military service, and it is due to him that I should say it, 

that when war was flagrant, and the passions of men were inflamed to 

their highest pitch, we of the South knew of no act of cruelty, of barbarity, or of inhumanity to stain his record as a brave and honorable 

soldier. 

I shall speak of him as I knew him here, as a Senator and as a man; 

and while we held opposite opinions on nearly all of the great questions which have divided parties in this country, I hope that I may 

be able to speak with impartia1ity and with truth. His ability commanded my admiration; his many high qualities won my personal re- gard, and every feeling of my heart prompts me to do full justice to 

his merits. My acquaintance with General Logan began upon my entrance into this body, and by a curious coincidence the first utterances 

I heard in this Chamber were from him while he was criticising my own 

State sharply. His language on that occasion, as may readily be supposed, was not calcuJated to inspire me with friendly feelings toward 

him, and it created in my mind a prejudice against him which doubtless warped my judgment to some extent. It was in this condition of 

things that I found myself placed on the Committee on Military Affairs, of which he was a member, and over which he subsequently presided as chairman for years, zealously and efficiently. 

Our service together on that committee was continuous from ihat 

time until death freed him from earthly labors, and my long association with him there taught me to respect his great ability and to admire the many good and generous traits which marked his character so strongly. Thoroughly familiar with the Army rules and regulations, 

earnestly desirous of promoting the efficiency of the service, laborious 

and conscientious in the discharge of his duties, devoted to the old 

soldiers, he was fully equipped to fill the arduous and responsible position he held. Of ardent temperament and strong will, he was not free 

from the prejudices which always belong to natures such as his was, 

but these were rigidly subordinated to his stern sense of justice and of 

honor. .And, sir, I can say truthfully that he frequently tempered 

justice by mercy, and I acknowledge gratefully that olJ. many occasions 

the people of the South were the recipients of his kindness. His 

words in the heat and conflict of debate were sometimes bitter, but his 

acts, inspired by his generous heart, were generally kinder than his 

words. By his acts I prefer to judge his character, and by them my 

estimate of him has been formed. 

The characteristics which gave him such ·marked individuality as chairman of the Military Committee were constantJy illustrated on the 

floor of the Senate. A strong adherent and supporter of hiS party, he 

never failed to assert his independence of thought and of action when- ever he deemed that his duty demanded this. Frank, fearless, and 

outspoken, he professed in an eminent degree the courage which springs • from sincere convictions, and he had the ability to defend these con- victiops. While p.oing this he dealt heavy blowf!, but they were always delivered in an open, straightforward, manly manner. He never fought in ambush; he asked only an open field and fair play. Possessing as he did so many rare and generous attributes, it is not strange 

that he found warm friends even among his political opponents, nor is 

it surprising that he was a tower of strength to his own party. 

His services, his talents, commanded the position of a leader, and he 

filled that position ably. The ancient Romans, Mr. President, regarded 

courage as among the highest virtues, and the word used by them to 

express this quality has given to our language its beautiful word" virtue.'' If the Latin and the English words are synonymous, as they 

should be, then surely we can ascribe courage and virtue to John A. 

Logan. 

No braver man ever lived, and the Almighty Creator endowed him 

with many other and great viitues. His work on earth is done, and he 

is at rest. 

And from heaven of heavens above 

God spea.keth with bateless breath: 

"My n.ngel of perfect love 

Is the angel men c.~J.ll Death ! " 

Mr: ALLISON. Mr. President, whosoever shall hereafter faithfully 

write the annals ot' our country's history for the last quarter of a ' cen- tury will have occasion to speak often and in words of high praise the name of General John A. Logan. 

His death came suddenly and unexpectedly to us all, as but a few 

days before he was in his seat, apparently in his usual health. When 

it came it disclosed not only the warm affection, friendly devotion, and 

high esteem of his associates in this Chamber, but also the firm and 

enduring hold he had upon the affections of his countrymen everywhere. In public halls and churches and in other places they as· 

sembled to give expression to their grief and sorrow by memorial services and public addresses, recounting the story of his life. 

This universal manifestation, spontaneous and sincere, did not com ·· 

by chance or accident, but because his long public career rendered hb 

worthy of the great honors that were paid t~ his memory. 

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,. Others have spoken of his early history in Mexico, at the bar, and 

in the State Legislature, all preliminary to larger field, opening up to 

him in the National Congress and upon the great theater of war. He 

first appeared in the National Capitol and took a seat in the House 

of Representatives, to which he had been elected from the State of Dlinois in December, 1859. He was elected as a Democr-~t, and whatever 

part he took in the public discussions of that session was in the line 

pursued by the Democratic party. It is not fitting here and now to 

speak of the momentous questions which then agitated the public 

mind and sharply divided political parties. He was thrown into the 

midst of this terrific political conflict which even then threatened the 

country with war. He arrayed himself on the side of the great leader 

of one fa-ction of the Democratic party, and in the Presidential struggle 

of 1860 he espoused the c..1use of this great leader with all the zen.l of 

his strong personality, aud in his own State aimed heavy blows at the 

Republican party and the Southern wing of his own. That struggle ended in the "election of President Lincoln, which was soon followed by the opening of a struggle of a very different nature. 

This conflict of arms, though long predicted by many, at last came suddenly upon the country without preparation. It has been said that 

"once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide in the 

strife of truth with falsehood for the good or evil side." This supreme 

moment came then not only to the country, but to the citizen, what- ever his station. General Logan did not hesitate, but at once, with 

his great leader, arrayed himself on the side of his country. So de- 'ciding he immediately resigned his seat in Congress, surrendering for 

the time his political ambition, returned to his native State, and with 

all the energy and impetuosity of his nature proclaimed his purpose to 

enter the mill tary service and remain in it until the Union was restored. 

This among his constituents was a courageous resolve, as from their 

location and political education they were not easily persuaded torisk 

all, as he proposed, to save the Union. Such was the force of his character and the persuasiveness ofhis arguments that in a very few days 

he found himself at the head of a regiment largely composed of his political associates and friends. 

Here began that conspicuous military record which four years later 

by common consent placed him foremost among the many eminent 

citilian commanders of that great conflict. 

I shall leave others to speak in detail of his military career, but can not refrain from saying that through it all he had the confidenccofhis 

military superioTS as one fitted to command a great army in battle. 

Sherman assigned him to the supreme command on the battlefield of 

Atlanta after McPherson was slain; he justified that confidence by 

leading the army t~ victory. Later on Grant did not hesimte to select 

him as the man most likely to achieve a victory at Nashville, when he was growing restless at the delay of General Thomas. Here as every- where he showed the magnanimity andgenerosityofthetruesoldier by 

not wresting the command from Thomas on the threshold of a great , victory. He not only held throughout the war the undiminished confidence 

of the great chieftains I have named, but his great q ali ties as a soldier 

also secured for him the respect, esteem, and confidence of those serving 

under him, which he held .firmly and unreservedly to the end; and the 

soldiers who served with him, now grieve because of the loss of a com- rade, companion, and friend, and they will repeat to their dying day 

around their camp fires recounting the stories of the war, "I fought 

with Logan at Atlanta," or "at Jones borough," or "at Vicksburg." 

General Logan reappeared in this Capitol as a Representative in 

March, 1867, and from that time until his death, except for a period 

of two years, he was continuously a member either of the House or of 

the Senate. His ability M a popular orator and his great military reputation 

gave him prominence at once in the House of Representatives. He 

fully sustained himself in that great popular body by the earnestness of his convictions, by his skill as a debater, and by his knowledge of 

public affairs. He soon became one of the recognized leaders in the 

consideration and discussion of the great questions before the House. 

At that time, and by the vote of his associates in that body, he was chosen to appear here as one of the managers in behalf of the House to 

conduct the trial of the impeachment of President Johnson. 

The questions then prominent were questions growing out of the war, 

covering the entire range and scope of the powers of the General Gov- ernment, the reorganization of the Army, the management of the public debt, the reduction of taxes, changes in our tariff and internal-reve- nue systems, the currency, specie payments, the new amendments to the 

Constitution, and the restoration of the States deprived of representation because of the rebellion. All these questions and many others were in a brief space of time forced upon Congress for its consideration. 

General Logan had decided views upon them all, and expressed his 

views fearlessly and with great force and power. 

General Logan was transferred to this Chamber in 1871. He was then in the full vigor of his matured faculties, and brought with him 

the valuable experience of a. long service in the House, and at once took high rank in the Senate, which he maintained undiminished to 

the end, always taking an active part in the discussion of the great 

questions constantly appearing here for action. His sympathy with 

his old comrades and their devotion to his personal fortunes imposed 

"Upon him unusual labor in caring for their interests and welfare. He was assiduous and constant in the advocacy of all the measures which he and they deemed of especial interest to them, whether re- specting pensions, bounty, back pay, or the reorganization of the Army 

itself, and he became their conspicuous advoc.:'lte and friend. So that 

for all the years following the war whatever legislation there is upon our sta.yute-books upon these topics bears the impress of his advocacy. He was a man of tireless activity and industry in the Senate. The 

Fi tz-J ohn Porter case is a conspicuous example of these characteristics. He found time in the midst of the multiplied cares of a seat in this body 

to write an exhaustive history of the causes which led to the conflict 

in which he bore so prominent a part. ' 

T.bis brief retrospect discloses that th~ life of General Logan was one of ceaseless activity and exceptional usefulness to his country. Few men of this generation in our country have achieved a more illustrious career. Coming into active political life at the beginning of the great civil 

war, he has linked his name imperishably with the military achievements that resulted in the restoration of the Union. Coming into the 

councils of the nation soon after the close of hostilities, he bore an honorable part in the legislation which then seemed necessary for the per- petuation of the .Union. General Logan was not, in the common acceptance of that phrase, an eloquent man; yet he had extraordinary power as a popular orator. 

There was something inherent in his character and method and in his 

utterances intensely attractive to large assemblies. Few men in our country could attract larger audien~, or hold them more .firmly, or dir~ct them more certainly to the views he expressed. This characteristic was well illustrated in the c..1.mpaign of 1884, when great multitudes gathered to he:u him, and listened with intense interest to every 

uttemnce, and were persuaded by his arguments and eloquence. 1\Ir. President, this body in its organization is perpetual, and unless 

the Constitution shall be changed will endure as long as the Govern- ment remains. It is now the same body it was when organized in 

1789. Its members have the longest fixed term known to the Constitution except the tenure of the judges of our courts; yet its member- ship rapidly changes. When we met in December only six Senators 

appeared in their seats who were in this Chamber fourteen years ago, when I entered it. One of these WllS General Logan; and of all the men who have come and gone in these intervening years, none were more conspicuous and none will be more missed by the country and 

by those of us who still remain. My service with him began in the other House, in 1867, and since 

thattimewehave been associated together continuously upon important 

committees. So I had opportunity to know him well. Like most of 

us, he was not free from fuults and peculiarities of disposition; his na- ture was sensitive; he was quick to resent an injury, and as quick to 

forgive it. He never knowingly did an injustice to his associates, and 

if be found that he ·had done so unconsciously, he was swift and ready 

to make reparation. He was conscientious in the discharge of his pub- lic duties. 

In his death the nation hn8 lost one of its ablest counselors, his com- rades in the army one of their most ardent and devoted supporters, we in this Chamber a valued co-worker and friend. The arduous labors, the conflicts and struggles incident to high pub- lic station with him are ended. Those who survive him here will strug- gle on for a few brief years at most, and will then like him be gathered 

to the world beyond, to receive the reward which awaits those who per· 

form faithfully and well all their duties here. 

1\Ir. HAWLEY. Mr. President, a stranger seeing General Logan for 

the .first time and observing him in these Halls a few days ago would 

perhaps have said that the most prominent feature of his character WllS 

his combativeness. He snuffed the battle afar off; he never lagged in 

the rear of the column; he crowded to the front; he never shirked the 

combat; he went out to look for it. 

He was quick and strong in his likes and his dislikes. He scorned 

double-dealing and meanness, but I do not think that he hated anybody. We have see!l him in committee and here in this Hall, impetuous, 

trampling down all obstacles to his cause, and perhaps trampling upon 

the feelings of his associates. We have seen him then, upon a protest, 

drop the point of his sword instantly, become gentle, quiet, conciliatory, and evidently full of regret that he had even appeared to be un- just to any one. He had a matchless courage, as everybody knows, a courage not only 

upon the battlefield but a high courage and spirit of self-sacrifice in 

politics. He had a right to suppose from all that was said to him by 

great multitudes, that he was a fair and honorable candidate for the 

Presidency, yet he cheerfully accepted a subordinate position upon a. Presidential ticket in 1884 in the belief, in which he was strengthened 

by friends, that his influence and his acquaintance with tens of thou- sands of soldiers would bring something of strength to his political 

party. We remember very well the famous Fitz-John Porter controversy. 

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He was well aware in what he was doing there, that he was strengthening old animosities and creating new ones; but you know with what a splendid courage he carried himself through, with what power, with 

what indefatigable industry he accumulated his facts and arguments, 

and renewed the battle again and again. 

I remember with interest that during the controversy O"Ver the famous 

anti-Chinese bill he was absent. He returned after a time, and while 

he was under no obligation to say anything, he was opposed to the bill, 

and lest he might be even thought to shirk-no, not that, but because 

he desired to be sure in whatever was being done-he took an early occa- sion to rise here and manifest his vigorous and determined opposition 

to that measure. He knew well what chances he took then of losing 

political support. 

Not a great while ago there arose here a very painful controversy 

concerning the Senatorial representative from one of our great States. 

He took his ground firmly; he argued it with all his accustomed vigor 

and energy. He recognized well that he was creating again enemies 

and opponents-yes, more than opponents, bitter enemies-in a great 

Sta.te that would be essential to the support of his ambition. 

I remember that General Logan was several times much annoyed 

by a charge that about the time of the breaking out of hostilities, previous to it, he had been concerned in raising troops for the confederate 

service. It was a charge that had not a shadow of truth in it. lie was a Democrat, of course, before the war, and, as he wa.s in everything 

else, intensely a Derp.ocrat, fierce, combative, bitter sometimes; but as the contest drew near the fire of his patriotism blazed up and con- sumed like flax all obstacles in his way, and he became, as you have 

learned from some declarations of his made at the time, nothing but a defender of the Union. And not only as a soldier, for he carried with 

him politically the people of Southern Illinois, many of whom in their 

political prejudiOf'S and convictions were as completely Southerners as the people of Alabama. He swept them along with him by the power 

and fierce energy of his oratory. 

He went into the war. .After Vicksburg General Grant said that 

McPherson and Logan had demonstrated their fitness to become the com- manders of independent armies. He had a right to suppose, after the 

gallant McPherson had fallen, under the very feet of an advancing and 

temporarily triumphant confederate force, he had a fair right to suppose 

that he would succeed to that officer's command. He was second in 

rank. The soldiers desired it. They ha.d seen his great leadership on that battlefield as orr ma.ny others. Another took the place, an honorable and gallant soldier. • The manly generosity and high courtesy of his bearing when he was ordered t.o relieve the noble General Thomas have been described today. I do not contrast General Logan's action on that occasion with 

the conduct of certain othP.rs in similar situations, though there were examples of wonderful contrast; but he was as obedient as a child, 

faithful as ever. His complaints were probably uttered, for he could 

not disguise himself, but they are not upon record. 

He labored under the reproach that he was something of a political 

soldier in those days, but he did not then disclose the fact that he had 

received a suggestion he could not disregard, that he should go to Illinois, another battlefield as important as the battlefield of Atlanta. 

He came to be the eminent figure among the volunteer soldiers. It 

is so recorded; it will be so remembered in history. There is no soldier of the old Army, the most captious or the most jealous, who re· grets or carps at any of the great honors paid to Logan; for whatever is 

said of Logan as the chief of volunteers is claimed to be the common glory of them all. . I heard General Grant say once of him in private conversation that 

he was uneasy in camp but all right when he charged. He sulked in 

his tent, but it was because it was a tent. When the bugle called him 

to the saddle he was exultant, happy. 

He was classed as a political general. I do not know that it was altogether an unfriendly remark. He was, sir; he had the honor to ·bea 

political general. It was a political war, and he was as strong in one field of battle as the other; the political genernls did double duty. The 

anxiety during some of the great days of those four years was not that 

the soldiers of the Union would be unable to put down the rebellion in 

due time, but that the voters at the ballot-box might put down the war too early; and some of the political combats won by Logan and others 

at home were as useful to the cause of the Union as the triumphs of Vic~sburg and Gettysburg. Baker, matchless as an orator, chivalrous 

and lovely in battle, was a political general. Garfield, giving promise 

of great generalship by an unconquerable industry and energy and a brilliant comage in the face of the enemy's guns-Garfield, obeying 

what was almost a command, went from the army to Congress. Frank 

Blair, with the trumpet tones of his voice and the quiver of his uplifted finger, was worth a corps of soldiers in his influence over Missouri, and he was a political general. 

Scandal spared General Logan from its insinuations of dishonor in 

private or public life. Perhaps calumnious mud was thrown at him, 

but nothing of it is recorded or e-ven retained in the memories of men. 

He loved his country. Why, sir, that is true of sixty millions of 

people, I hope; but he loved it with a devotion immeasurable and un- fathomable. He believed in the justice, the equality, and the liberty 

of its Constitution and its L1ows. He had no doubt whatever of the 

wisdom of this great experiment, universal suffrage and all. He was no agnostic; he had a creed and a purpose always, in every contest. 

He did not assume all knowledge; but what he knew, he knew 4e 

knew; and what he believed he was always ready to say. Whatever 

he wanted, he greatly wanted; he was very much in earnest. He 

trusted the great jury of twelve million voters and had no doubt about 

the future prosperity, honor, and glory of the great Republic. 

He was an ambitious man, politically; he had a right to be, and he won a high place. He was ambitious of a great place among soldiers, 

and he won it. 

He was generous, he was frank, he was tender. Possibly that will 

sound strangely to many people who did not know him as we did. He 

had as tender a heart as entered these doors. He was one of the bravest men physically and morally that ever lived. He was a brilliant and 

great volunteer soldier. He was an incorruptible citizen and legis- lator. His patriotism was unsurpassed in enthusiasm, intensity, and 

faith. 

:Mr. SPOONER. Mr. President, the busy hand of death beckons us again to the side of a new-made grave. Amid the tears and sobs of 

this greah people, to the music of mu:ffi.ed drums, and under the furled 

flag which he loved, we tenderly bore John A. Logan to his rest. 

It was to be expected that the words of tribute spoken in this Chamber, still so filled with his presence, would come fresh and strong from warm heart~, for his wonderful career was of ou:r own day and generation, and we were his colleagues and friends. 

But, sir, no one need fear for Logan the cold analysis of the historian 

yet to come. How little dependent is this man's fame upon the speech 

of his contemporaries. It rests upon the solid foundation of glorious 

deeds and splendid public service. We may well say that he was born 

for the service of the people, for the active years of his whole life, with 

hardly an intermission, were spent in the discharge of public duty. 

That life was an open book, read and known of all men, and biographi- cal details of it are for my purpose, quite unnecessary. It is said that 

"historyis the essence of innumerable biographies." Logan's life is of 

the essence of our history. -

With him love of country was a prussion, and with him the union of the 

States was "the country." He could see, save through the perpetuity 

of that Union, nothing of any worth in the future of the Republic. 

Of strong convictions and prejudices, a stern partisan, reared among 

those whose predelictions and views of constitutional right were distinctively of the Southern school, the friend and trusted lieutenant of 

Douglas, it will stand forever to the credit of his clearness of mental 

vision and of his independence of character, that when the war cloud 

which had been so long gathering, broke in fury upon the country, he straigh~ay took his rightful place by the side of Abraham Lincoln, 

under the beautiful fl.ag, which, at the threshold of his manhocd, he 

had followed upon the plains of Mexico. 

His star shot into the sky at Belmont, to shine fixed and unobscured 

forever. 

It would be idle for me to recount the battles which he fought and 

won, the precipitous charges which he led, the marvelous personal 

mRoanetism and daring which, communicating itself to a whole army, 

turned, as by the will power of one man, defeat into victory. It is 

enough to say of him as a soldier that by common consent he stnnds 

forth the ideal volunteer soldier of the war. He was, among a million 

brave men, original, picturesque, and unique. There was but one John 

A. Logan. What n. pitiful combination of folly and malignity was that 

which thrust .at such a one the charge of disloyalty! 

The world loves, and easily remembers, the soldier. Tales of the 

bivouac, the siege and the charge, of personal daring on the field of 

battle, have had peculiar fruscination for men in every age, and doubtless Logan's chief renown will be as a soldier. He would have it so. But, great as he was in war, he was great also as an orator of the 

people, and in the councils of peace. He won as an orator a reputation 

which, if he had no other claim to be remembered, would keep his name alive and wouldsatisfyanyreasonableambition. His popularity as a speaker was not ephemeral, nor was it peculiar to any section. He was everywhere welcome. Listening thousands hung in rapt interest 

upon his words. It is not at all difficult to account for his power as a speaker. His evident sincerity and earnestness, his commanding presence, the flash of his eye, the like of which I never saw in any other. face, the boldness of his utterance, the impetuous flow of his speech, 

and the trumpet tones of his voice, gave t.o him as a popular orator a charm indescribable. No man could catch more quickly than he the 

spirit of his audience, or more deftly adapt himself to its fancy. 

The law of his life was action. He could not rest. It is said of him 

that as a soldier he was chafing and unhappy unless the army was in 

motion and the battle near at hand. This characteristic was quite as marked in civil life. · 

He was a student and a worker, ' and as the years went on he grew 

in mental strength and stature and in oratorical power. 

As the nominee of his party for the second great office in the gift of 

the people, he added greatly to his civic fame. The dignity of his bearing, the method and manner of his thought and speech, were every-

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where a revelation to those who then heard him for the first time: Other orators have been more finished. but, sir, it is not the language 

of fulsome eulogy to say that, taking John A. Logan all in all, he was a great orator, and will be known· as such. · 

He possessed, also, indisputable claims to high statesmanship. Look 

through the statutes and the records of Congress, and you will find there 

the strong impress of his character and individuality. Many· acts of 

great public consequence he devised and draughted. As a legislator, 

he was broad-minded and fearless. Neither the love of commendation nor the fear of criticism swerved him in the least from the path blazed 

out by his convictions. He was ready in debate and a dangerous antagonist on the floor of the Senate. 

One cannot fail to notice, looking through the record of his work in 

the national Senate, everywhere the evidence of service rendered to 

the soldier, and to the soldier's widow and orphan. Every thought 

that loving comradeship and appreciation of great service and sacrifice 

could suggestfor the soldier's good, you will find at some time formulated into statute by his faithful hand. He took it upon him as a sacred trust that he should look always t<> the interest of those who 

with him had stood_ in the shock of battle. Well may the surviving 

soldiers oftheFederalArmy-now, alas, fast falling by the wayside- as they gather around their camp-fires, weep bitter tears for the loss of 

Logan. 

Though a chieftain of his party, he was not narrow or sectional as a legislator. He met more than half way those who had but lately been 

his adversaries on the field of battle. No man more desired the restoration of perfect harmony between the sections and the upbuilding of the 

waste places of the South or gave readier aid t<> that great consumma- tion. He demanded only in return that every man and woman and 

child, of whatever condition, class, or degree, should enjoy unobstructed 

and in the fullest measure, every right given by the Constitution and 

the laws. Wit.h less than this he thought it moral treason t<> be content. 

Logan was a leader by divine right. A.ll the elements combined to 

make him such. Of resistless energy, iron will, knightly daring, lofty 

moral courage, quick and acute intelligence, fervent patriotism, unselfish loyalty to principle and friendship, and unswerving honor, it is impossible to conceive of him as other than a great leader in any field of 

human effort. Scan his eventful life however critically, study the 

forces which moved him, analyze the characteristics which marked him 

from his fellows, and you find little indeed of accident or adventitious 

aid in the achievements which will glorify his name. It is no marvel 

that he was a great soldier, or that he was an orator of high repute, or 

that he was conspicuous among the leading statesmen of his day, but 

that he united in himself all of these is conclusive of his genius. 

He was, with all his rugged strength of will and bravery and fortitude, a sensitive ruan, easily wounded by a personal or party friend. 

In the retrospect we see now, with unavailing regret, how ke.enly he 

may have suffered in spirit from what gave us little thought or concern. Quick to resent what seemed to him a wrong, he was, like all 

great natures, as quick to forgive and forget. He was magnanimous. 

No manly man found it difficult to repair, without loss of self-respect, 

a quarrel with John A. Logan. 

He was, in many ways, a proud man. He carried for a quarter of a 

century upon his body, wounds received in battle. He bore, without 

complaint, racking pains, horn of the privations of the soldier's life, of 

the pelting storm, the comfortless bed upon the frozen earth, the cold, 

wearisome march, the sleepless nights and toilsome days. Standing in 

his place on the 16th of March last, he said: 

I could say-but I dislike t o mention myself-that. I was en tiLled to a pension early in the war, and ha ve been e\·er since the wa,r, but I have ne>er asked for 

it, and never expect to. 

Mr. President, we now know that there were times in his later 

years when the days were dark, and when the stress of financial embarrassment pressed him hard, but he was too proud and delicate to 

claim the pension which was his due under the laws which he had 

been so potential in fashioning and in enacting. I hope if the words I am about to utter are a sin against the proprieties of this occasion that 

I shall be forgiven; but I do not doubt that as he stood there, announc- ing to the Senate and to the country his right to a pension, he had 

abirling faith that should he, in the providence of God, be first called, 

the people whom he had served so long and so well, would pay, not 

grudgingly, but as in cheerful payment of a debt of honor, to the 

womanly woman who in all the years of his growth had kept pace 

with him, who had been his love, his pride, his companion, that which was his due, but which he had forborne to claim. 

That is not a full tribute to the memory of John A. Logan which takes 

no thought of her whose life has been a part of his life and whose fame 

is linked inseparably with his fame. What tenderer, sweeter tribute 

can the American people pay to his memory, than to place above the 

calamitous vicissitudes of life, the woman who was ever by his side, 

not alone in the hour of triumph but in the hour of pain and suffering; notalonein this beautiful capital city, but in the rude hospital on the ba.nk.s of the distant Western ri>er where he lay wounded nigh 

unto death? 

He died in the servica of his country, and we know from him-for he 

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"being dead, yet speaketh "-that his strength and vigor were sapped 

and mined bythe privations and the wounds of war. How difficult it is to think of him as dead! 

Can that man be dead 

Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind? He lives i.J:i glory; and his speaking dust Has more of life than half its breathing moulds. 

He will live, sir, in the hearts of men until the history of his time shall 

have faded utterly away. With each returning May, wherever there is a soldier's grave-and where is there not a soldier's grave?-the people now living and those to come after us will remember the name of Logan, 

the patriot, soldier, orator, and statesman, and will bring, in honor of 

his memory, the beautiful flowers of the springtime and the sweet in- cense of praise and prayer. 

Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, with profound sorrow and deep 

grief I join in paying the last official tribute of respect, honor, friendship, and love to the memory of our late distinguished colleague, John 

Alexander Logan. 

For the first time, in March, 1875, I had the pleasure and honor of 

his personal acquaintance in this Chaii!.ber. · For the succeeding two years, and then from March 4, 1879, to the 

day of his death, I was a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, 

of which he was the honored chairman. Our official and personal re- lations at once became, and uninterruptedly continued, most intimate, 

cordial, and friendly. However widely we may have differed upon 

many questions, I respected, admired, honored, and loved him for his 

many noble, manly, generous, magna.nimous, and chivalrous qualities 

of head and heart-the distinguishing attributes of the true soldie1· and 

great man among all nations and tongues. 

It was my sad privilege on December 26, 1886, at 2.55 p.m., to stand 

at tbe foot of his bed, and, powerless for relief, to see him quietly, 

peacefully, and unconsciously breathe the last breath of his life on earth. 

His deathless soul, freed from its earthly body, racked, tortured, and 

paralyzed by disease and pain, triumphantly passed. through the mystic vail intervening between the grievous afllictions and bereavements 

of earth and the fullness of joy in the presence and tbe evedasting 

pleasures at the right hand of our Heavenly Father, and entered upon 

its glorious unending life upon the beautiful shores of the ''bright forever," far, far beyond· the touch of disease, suffering, or death. 

Now beyond the reach of fulsome praise or eloquent panegyric, we 

can calmly consider his life, and profit therefrom. 

Abont the year 1823 Dr. John . Logan emigrated from Ireland and 

located in Jackson County, Illinois, and there married Miss Elizabeth 

Jenkins. Of this union John Alexander Logan was the first born, 

February 9, 1826, and inherited a robust physical constitution and vig- orous mind, the richest inheritance bequeathed by parents to children. 

In that section of the then West educational advantages were very 

limited, and young Logan was taught at home, and attended the common schools of the neighborhood as opportunity offered, and a neighboring academy; and by industry, perseverance, and self-reliance obtained a fair education. ·we see him a young manabouttwentyyearsoldinhis native county; 

without wealth, family distinction, or influential friends to aid him, 

having only the future and its possibilities before him to inspire and nerve him for the battles of life, the architect of his own fortune, free 

to plan and execute as be would and could. With honesty, determination, and self-reliance · he boldly moved forward, conscious that ''life 

gives nothing to mortals without great labor.'' He enlisted as a private 

soldier in the First Illinois Regiment for service in the war with 

Mexico, and became a lieutenant, acting adjutant, and quartermaster, 

faithfully discharging his duties. 

Upon the conclusion ofpea<le he returned home with a broader view 

of life and la.udably increased ambition, and began the study oflaw in 

the office of his uncle-Hon. A. M. Jenkins-and in 1849 was elected 

clerk of the county court of his native county; served as such about one year, then resigned and attended the law school of Louisville University, and graduated therefrom in 1851. 

Returning home, he entered upon the practice of law with his uncle, 

and was elected to the Legislature of illinois in 1852-'53-'56 and '57, 

and t<> the office of prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district 

in 1853. 

In 1S.fJ5 he was married to Jtfiss Mary Cunningham, a most happy and 

fortunate union. In 1856 he was Presidential elector, and cast his vote 

for Buchanan and Breckinridge. In 1858 he was elected a Representative 

in the Thirty-sixth Congress, and in 1860 was re-elected to the Thirtyseventh Congress, and served his term in the Thirty-sixtl~ Congr~s 

from March 4, 1859, to March 3, 1861, and entered upon his term m the Thirty-seventh Congress, and attended the called session in 1861. 

While attending that session he shouldered his musket as a private soldier in the Second Michigan Volunteers, and marched to and partici- pated in the battle of Bull Run. He then resigned his seat in the 

Thirty-seventh Congress, entered the Union Army, raised and was appointed colonel of the Thirty-first Regiment Illinois Infantry August 

16, 18~1, marched to the front in the field, and there continued. 
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He was promoted to be brigadier-genei:al in March, 1862, and then 

major-general, and commanded succesively a regiment, brigade, division, an army corps, and the Army of the Tennessee. · On August 17, 

1865, after full four years' service, he resigned his oommission as majorgeneral, and was honorably mustered out. He was then appointed by 

President Johnson minister to Mexico, and resign~d. · Returning to the walks of civil life he rffiumed the practice of law 

in his native illinois. In 1866 he was elected a Representative at 

large from illinois to the Fortieth Congress, and re-elected to the Fortyfirst Congress, serving from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1871, and was elected to the Senate of the United States for the term beginning March 

4, 1871; and was again elected to the Senate for the term beginning 

March 4, 1879, and re-elected for the succeeding term from March 4, 

1885, to March 3, 1891. 

In 1884 he was the nominee o( the National Republican party for 

Vice-President. 

This bird's-eye view of his life-reoord and services is just sufficiently 

distinct and full to enable us to form cortect impressions of this great man-our lamented colleague in this Chamber. In all these varied 

positions of trust and honor he was, and proved himself to be, honest, 

determined, self-reliant, faithful, and efficient, and the worthy recipient 

of the friendship and confidence of the people. · . For the length of time devoted to his profession he was a good lawyer; 

Among all the many great and distinguished volunteer officers during the late war i.t is no disparagement of any of them to say tha~ 

General Logan was the greatest and most distinguished. Courageous, 

fearless, energetic, untiring, generous, and dashing, he was the beauideal of the American volunteer soldiery. For four long, weary years, 

during the greatest military conflict the world has ever beheld, Gen- .. eral Logan, as a private soldie_r, a commander of a regiment, then of a brigade, then of a division, :then of an army corps, and then of an army, 

met and satisfied the highest expectations and demands 'of the administration, the country,· and the people. No man could do more. . As a Represel?-tative and Senator in the Congress·of the United States he was incorruptible, faithful, diligent, and laborious, and was earnest in his 

convictions and forcible and aggressive in their advoca<!y. . . . His repeated re-elections to both the· House and Senate by the same constituency attested their continued friendship and confidence, and 

their approbation of his character and services. In his personal inter- course he was manly, generous, candid, and sincere. 

As a husband and father he was devoted, faithful, tender, loving, 

and warmly appreciative of the boundless love and undying devotion 

ofhis noble wife and dutiful children. As a memberofthe Methodist 

Episcopal Church he was ''not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for 

it is the power of God unto sal vatiou to every one that believeth.'' 

The name, ·the fame, the life, and the illustrious and successful 

achievements of General Logru~ are now the common heritage of our great country and people, and will be che1·ished and remembered by the 

present and coming generations. 

Many poor, _worthy, and honorably ambitious young men, just en- tering the arena of active life, faint, weary, and despondent, will re- member the great disadvantageS surrounding General Logan when at 

their age, and then his subsequent illustrious and successful life, attained by his honesty, perseverance, and self-reliance, and made possible to all by our unequaled systelllil of government-the best ever yet 

devised by the wisdom of sages or attained by the blood of heroes-and 

will take fresh courage and worthily imitate the illustrious pattern, 

and make themselves a blessing and honor to country and people. 

The life and achievements of Logan, cast upon the bosom of the public life in the United St-ates, have started waves of influence and power 

for good which will widen and extend until they break against the 

shores of eternity in the resurrection morning. 

Mr. FRYE. Mr. President, Senators have brought to-day, and will 

bring, garlands and wreaths with which to decorate the grave of our dead soldier and Senator. I shall content myself with offering a single 

flower. 

Logan was an honest man. I do not mean by that simply that he 

would not steal, that he would not bear false witness, that he had not an itching palm for a bribe. If this were all, he would not be unlike 

every man I have been associated with. in both Houses of Congress 

during a sixteen years' service, nor essentially different, in my opinion, from a large majority of his fellow-citizens. 

Sir, ·the press very generally and occasionally an eulogist to-day, in 

assigning to General Logan this admirable quality of character, have 

contracted and dwarfed it, have seemed to make money its measure, 

by producing as evidence in its support the fad that he had served 

long in public life and died poor. The Senator from Missouri has just 

said that he was poor, that he was incorruptible. I trust, sir, that 

the same honesty and incorruptibility may truthfully be ascribed to 

every Senator within the sound of my voice, to every member of the 

two Houses. Is there any necessary connection between honesty and 

poverty? Is the one the logical sequence of the other? Are dishonesty and wealth in copartnership? I have been taught to believe, and 

do believe, that honesty is the broadest, safest, and surest pathway to 

prosperity. 

I do not regard it as eulogistic of this great man to say that he was honest in that narrow sense. I do not cripple my declaration by any 

such limitation, nor sustain it by any such questionable testimony. I mean that General Logan had an honest mind, an honest purpose, an , honest habit of thinking. I mean that he never played tricks with his 

mental machinery to serve his own ends and his own purposes. I mean that he never attempted jugglery with it. I mean that he permitted 

it, in spite of his ambitions, his prejudices, his jealousies, and,his passions, to move straight forward in its operations; and that the legitimate results were convictions-convictions followed always by earnest, 

determined, intense action. In my opinion that largely constituted 

General Logan's strength in the Senate, in the Army, and with the 

people. · · 

Let me illustrate by a few brief incidents of his life. He was living 

in Southern Illinois, where there was little if any anti-slavery sentiment, at a time when slavery was never more firmly established by 

enactment of law and judicial deciSion, at the time when it was arro- gant and aggressive in its demands. Yet Logan ste~ed the current, 

disregarded his own apparent self-interest, and resisted the demands. 

He ·was associated with a party whose shibboleth was State rights; 

whose overshadowing fear was centralization of power in the National 

Government; and when that doctrine culminated in secession he 

dropped it at once forever and tendered his sword so to the threatened 

and imperiled Republic. 

War came on; He believed that war was a serious fact; that it was to be waged for the suppression of rebellion and the restoration of the 

Union. Hence in every council ofwar his voice was alwaysforbattle, 

and in every battle he was ever at the front. . Some of the prominent officers were for temporizing, were studying 

political enigmas, were nursing Presidential aspirations, were casting 

obstacles in the way of supposed rivals. Logan never swerved to the 

right nor to the left, but pressed ever straight forward to the goal of. ultimate victory. 

When in the midst of the war preferment was.offered him,_ay:e, 

more, urged upon him by his friends, he did not hesitate a moment, 

but with emphasis declared to them that he had enlisted for the war, ·and that, God helping him, he would fight it out on that line to the 

end. When he was superseded, as he believed unjustly, as has been well 

said to-day, he did not sulk in his tent a single ho~, but marched 

straight forward in the line of duty. 

When the war was over, the Union was restored and peace was en- throned, and a grateful people showered upon him public honors he 

exhibited everywhere the same characteristics. Take the case which .has been alluded to here to-day of General Porter. Logan believed, 

whether justly or unjustly is not forme now to say, that this man was jealous of his superiors, that criticisms and complaints subversive of 

discipline were made by him, that he neglected plain and open duty, 

that he refused to obey peremptory· orders, and that his punishment was just. In this Chamber we listened to his matchless, marvelous, 

powerful, convincing speech against hi., restoration; and when his great 

captain, with a voice infinitely more powerful with this soldier hero 

than the glittering bribes of gold or of fame, called him to a halt he did 

not hesitate a moment, butwith renewed vigor, withredoubledpower, 

urged his convictions upon the Senate. 

We all remember perfectly well thab Logan knew his comrades 

saved the Republic, and in season and, as many thought, out of season he was ready to propose and to advocate any measure for their relief 

that commended itself to his judgment, not taking for a moment into 

account any public sentiment that might be hostile. 

When his great commander was fora third time urged by his friends 

for the candidacy by the Republican party for the office of President, 

and it was apparent to all thinking men that it was to be a stTugg1e 

fierce, full of intense bitterness, Logan went to the front in that fight 

utterly regardless of any effect that it might have upon his own p()litical fortunes. 

I have seen within a few days ago an item floating in the press that 

in that ever to be remembered convention, when it was apparent that 

Mr. Blaine could not be nominated, Senators HALE and FRYE visited 

General Logan and tendered to him the support of their friends for the 

nomination if he would accept the candidacy. Of course it was a myth. Senators HALE and FRYE both knew John A. Logan, and had 

known him for years, and even if they had been vested with the au- thority, which they were not, they never would have dreamed of un- dertaking to bribe him from his allegiance. They knew that no gratificatio:r;t of personal ambition (and it is the greatest temptation to a man on earth) would move him from his allegiance to Grant in that 

fight any more than a _summer breeze would stir a. mountain from its 

base. 

Sir, when subsequently Logan himself justly had aspirations for the same nomination l sat here in this seat, by the side of that which now is empty, a curious observer, and I dare assert that I never saw him 

trim his sail in the slightest. I never could perceive that the fact made 

any change in his thought or word or vote. 

About that time the Republican national committee met here in 

Washington to determine upon the time of holding the convention and 

to settle upon the basis of representation. Logan was present. A 

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delega.t~ from one of the Territories raised the question about Territorial representation, and insisted that his Territory mnat have three 

delegates in that convention, and that it Wall the duty of that committee to increase the representation of the Territories. generally. As he was closing his speech he turned to Logan and significantly said, "Candidates for the Presidency had better take notice.'' · Logan sprang to 

his feet in the twinkling of an eye and boldly denounced the whole 

system of Territorial representation in national conventions as unjustifiable, utterly obliviona of the fact that perhaps he was hazarding that 

marvel01l;S prize for which he was then contending. · Mr. President, there is not a Senator within the sound of my voice, 

and there are Senators here who have served in the councils of the nation 

many years with John A. Logan, who ever knew him to hesitate or wa-ver in or shrink from any expression of opinion as to any subject 

under consideration, who ever knew him to avoid a vote, who e-ver sna- pected. him of taking any account whatsoever of what effect his words or his acts would have upon his own personal or political fortunes. 

There is not a Senator within the sound of my voice who, when Logan 

had expressed his opinions, the result of his convictions, ever dreamed 

that he was not entirely, faultlessly sincere in the expression. 

Mr. President, Logan was a fearlessly honest man. May our dear 

Lord give him a blessed rest and a glorious immortality. [Manifestations of applause in the ga.lleries.] 

Mr. PLUMB. ])Ir. President, it is one of the chief excellencies of our institutions that no man, however exalted in station, great in intellecl;, or rich in graces of character, is indispensable to their security, 

growth, and permanence. Where rank comes by inheritance, and the 

es!ence. as well as the symbols of authority is transmitted from generation to generation, a single life often stands as the only barrier 

against threatened re-volution or anarchy. 

How different here ! Great characters, in whom center the affections 

of the people and the forces of the state, pass from the current speech 

of men into the repose of history, while the state itself, dominated by 

the popular will and secure in the popular affection, gives no pause to 

its beneficent progress nor relaxes the least of its necessary functions. 

Garfield-himself destined to succeed to the station as well as the· martyrdom of Lincoln-upon the ~ination of his immortal predecessor, gave u~rance to a sentiment as significant as it was eloquent: 

''The President is dead; but, thank God, the Go-vernment at Washington still lives." 

This consideration by no means implies inadequate appreciation of 

the illustrious men who have gone from among us. It is rather an added tribute to them that the Government had received no detriment 

at their hands, but had been so strengthened by their patriotic solicitude, shared by the ~eat average of their fellow-citizens, that it was made capable of passmg unharmed through the severest crises. 

We do not honor Lincoln less because when his unrivaled authorif:t was pa:rnlyzed by death the good ship of state under other control and 

guided by Providence passed safely through the perils of the time into 

the serene anchorage of restored peace and prosperity. Grant, the greatest hero in our military annals, breathed out his life amid the mount-

' ain pines, and the orderly progress of the great affairs of state, over which he had so faithfully presided, was only temporarily suspended 

by the universality of public and private sorrow. Logan has gone from among us to return no more. Another sits in 

his pla~. The burden and responsibilities which he bore so well and 

discharged with so much acceptance have fallen upon other shoulders. 

The Senate, permanent in its organization, and renewed from time to 

time, continues its round of duties, sustained against shock and disaster. 

Yet Logan will not be fol'gotten. No individual, no association of men is proof against the salutary teachings of example. Others among us may have excelled our dead friend in many of the qualities which are combined in true statesmanship, but who will deny to him those rare gifts and virtues which make their possessor conspicuous anywhere? 

His zeal was restless, his energy intense, his industry tireless, his 

intellect clear and incisive, his courage unshaken in any and everycircumstance, his loyalty to trnth and duty undoubted, and his fidelity 

to- friendships, in these days of self-seeking, almost phenomenaL Always impetuous, sometimes impatient in controversy, his nature was ardent without rancor, and in private and social life he was sunny 

and persuasive. 

General Logan's speech was vigorous and forceful. He subordinated 

the graces of rhetoric to the logical results sought to be COlDJ>assed. 

The pith and marrow of his discourse was seldom embellished by fanciful allusions or poetic imagery. His weapons of debate comported with 

his rugged, practical nature, and challenged the judgment rather than 

the fancy and the imagination. Beyond all and above all his candor 

and sincerity were so evident that no one ventured to question them. 

He was a zealous friend and a sturdy opponent. His blows were delivered in honorable fashion, and those he received in like manly con- troversy were accepted iD. a chivalrous spirit. 

It was the crowning felicity of his association with us that, as the 

most conspicuous of our volunteer soldiery during the war. of the rehellion, he became the special champion of the interests of not only.his 

immediate comrades in the field, but of all who bad helped to ~ th& 

flag of the Union through trials and discouragements to final victory. 

With what fidelity and energy this sacred trust was discharged theSena.te and the country alike bear witness. 

It is given to but few tQ so happily unite in their own experience 

heroic martial achievements with eminent civic successes. Yet he bore 

his accumulated honors mildly, and delighted more in the calm content 

of his home and fireside than in the loud acclaim of men. It will be one of the most grateful remembrances of him who has gone that what 

he became he owed to his own exertions. No man of his time more strikingly illustrated the beneficence of a Government which, looking 

for its support and maintenance to people of all conditions, pursuits, 

and beliefs, offe~ its honors and its trusts to the competition of all. 

Logan fought his own way, won his own victories, made his own fame secure. 

Scrutinizing the list of those who, emerging from comparative obscurity, have contributed the·noblest service to the Republic and made 

themselves a record for immortality, the name of Logan will be found 

written not far below those of Lincoln and of Grant. . 

Mr. EVARTS. We are collected here to-day, Mr. President, neither 

to bury nor to praise the soldier and Senator whose life in its fnllluster and at its zenith was so lately eclipsed before our eyes by the impenetrable veil of death. Not to bury him, for his obsequies have been 

celebrated with all the observance that admiration of his career, applause 

for his conduct, reverence for his love and labors for his country, and 

affection for those humble, common traits that affect as with a touch 

of kin all who love the character in the home which this our friend man• ifested in all his life. Not to praise him, for we do not need to display, 

and we ha-ve no power to enhance, his fame. 

It is that we and the communities that we may speak for are to asso- ciate oursel-ves and them in this hour to recall our enforcement of his 

relation to the public life of this country, the benefits that he has con- ferred, and the power he is yet to exert over them in the future.· It can not, I believe, be doubted that at every stage of General Logan's 

life he was a capital figure in his own share of public power and in:flu- ence and in the recognized estimate of his countrymen of that posi· 

tion. 

If in the first few months of the opening struggle, after he had taken 

his position in animating, arousing, confirming the movement of this 

people to sustain the Government, if in the first battle bullets had taken 

away his life, Logan would have been a capital figure in the memory of 

that great scene and on that great theater. If in his military career, 

commemorated and insisted upon so well, at any pause in his advance 

he had fallen in this battle or that battle, he would have been a capital 

figure in that scene and on that theater. And if at the end of the war, 

when the roll was made up of the heroes, and he then bad not moved 

before this great people in any subsequent career, the angel of death 

had then taken away his life, he would have been a capital figure in 

the whole honor of that war. 

.A.nd, Mr. President, in the great civic labors and dangers that attended the rearrangement of our political and social condition in this 

country consequent upon the war, if that share and if that part of his career had been the only one to be commemorated, he would have been a capital .figure in that. But when these strifes were composed and the 

country was knit together in allegiance and loyalty to the Government 

he loved and served, he thenceforward in this Chamber had presented 

for the record of his life only what should have been manifested and 

known and observed here, he would have been a capital figure in that 

single scene and theater. 

We therefore must agree in what in his lifetime and so recently now after his death meets a universal concurrence, that he was of the citi- zen soldiers of this great nation the greatest, and that of that class of 

citizen soldiers that were numbered among statesmen he was the greatest of statesmen, and we must confess that on this larger area he still 

remains a capital figure which could be missed from no narrative of any 

portion of the story of his life. 

Mr. President, it has been said by a profound political philosopher 

applied to a condition of political life not far different from our own, 

that by whate-ver path great places are to be gained in public life in the 

opinion and support of the community, that path will be sought. If 

it is anhonorablepath,ifit beofuprightnessandopenness andstraightforwardness of conduct and of character that these high places are to 

be gained, then that path will be trod. .A.nd what better encomium 

upon his own path, what more creditable to our people's estimate and 

their own approval upon this or that path in public life, than that General Logan by the path that he pursued, ne-ver in ambush, never in 

devious paths, never agitated about his own reputation, and never defaming that of others, led on in a path that brought him up to the 

highest distinction and has left him this capital figure in the memory 

of all his countrymen. 

In every form of popular influence on the largest scale, near to the 

topmost of the culminating crown. of a people's glory to the fame of one of their citizens, he was before us in the most recent contest for the 

Presidency. He, at the moment that he died, was held, in the judgment 
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of his countrymen, among the very foremost for the future contest; 

And this illustration of his distinction knows no detraction, ru>disparagement, no flaw touching the very· heart and manhood of his·life and 

chAracter. . 

Let us, then, applaud our people and applaud this great character as being a just answer to much of the contumely and opprobrium that is. 

aimed at the pnblic life of this country. I can find no capital :figure 

in the politia:~ of other nations that more plainly shows that this is a path of honor, and in the sunlight, and arrives at the final glory of its 

consummation. 

Mr. President, for some imperfection of our nature, which we can not 

lay aside, it is said that the fullness of the heart and of admiration can 

· not show itself. 

Not till the sacred dust of death is shed 

On each dear and reverent head, 

Nor love tho living as we love the dead. 

If it be so, nevertheless it is a part of our nature that when thus liberated from the threat and fear and competition of the li-ving, never- theless after this obscurity is removed, it is an honest and not a vague 

and extravagant. judgment that gives prominence to the life and character and removes the shade. 

The times are never idle and the busy fingers of the fates are ever weaving as in a tapestry the many threads and colors that make up our several lives, and when this is exposed to critics and to admirers there 

shall be found few of brighter colors or of noblerpattem than thiS lite of 

General Logan. 

Mr. SABIN. Mr. President, the melancholy event which engages 

the atrention of the Senate on this occasion accords with the course of 

nature, and must in due time overtake us all 

While no man may hope successfully to contend against like con:se- quence, our interest therein but increases as we near it. 

This interest, however, as it concerns another, is chiefly retrospective. 

The death of one having occupied so important a place in the service 

and affections of the public as General Logan naturally leads to a sur- vey of his life, and an inquiry into those personal qualites that molded 

his being into whatever fullness and roundness of outline it possessed . 

.And I am pleased to find so many members of this body qualified with 

familiarity with General Logan's public and private life, and knowledge of the mainsprings of his conduct, who are ready to venture into 

this field of inquiry with a spirit of generous consideration to. which 

his memory is conspicuously entitled. 

Hence, I approach with .great diffidence so delicate a task,. offering as my only excuse my personal admiration, esteem, and love for one of the 

best of men and noblest of characters. I shall, therefore, attempt to 

treat the subject more from a personal standpoint and my own impressions and experiences. 

The personal and public history of General Logan is of that marked 

character, and so far-reaching in its proportions, that it is impossible to 

encompass it within the tn""bute which the present occasion permits. I 

leave especially the history of his marked and brilliant military career, 

his devotion, services, and friendships to his coiDI"ades in arms during 

and since the war; to those who were with him in service during that 

long and sanguinary struggle, and who know so well how to speak of 

his labors and his victories. 

To follow the career of a life ha-ving within its bounds such a range 

of developments, and marked by so many acts which stand out in bold 

relief npon the panorama of our national progress, woulclrequire a latitude embracing space and time only to be covered through the compilation of volnmes. 

This session of the Senate has been dedicated to the offering of a tribute to him who but recent1y sat with ns in council, and who, it is en- tirely within the limits of moderation to say, has left a stamp upon 

the public affairs of our country during the period of his life which 

time will not efface w bile the Republic endures. The name of General 

John A. Logan is at once a glory to the .American people and a natural 

heritage to future generations. He was a Colossus among the giants of 

American history. The impress of his individuality and geni-us must 

remain upon the institutions for the perpetuity and perfecting of which 

the lives of Washington, of Hamilton, of Jefferson, of Sumner, of Lincoln, and of Grant were dedicated. 

Long before I had personal acquaintan~ with General Logan his name and fame had become an object of interest and pride to· me in common with all other American citizens. 

I think it was General Logan's attitude at the outbreak of the rebellion that first directed the attention of the public to him. A Douglas 

Democrat, he shared the confidence of that great leader. 

During the troublesome period intervening the first victory of the 

Republican party in the election of Lincoln and the bombardment of 

Sumter Logan found his path of duty in companionship with life-long 

political associates, struggling in the fruitless endeavor to resist one of 

the greatest evolutionary movements ·of a people of which history 

speaks-a movement characterized by those who participated therein 

in terms appropriate to mere civil strife, but which in securing for us a more perfect Union may be discovered at this day to have been an evolutionq.ry development of the Constitution. 

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In those days the mists which lowered in the political sky obscure<l. 

the vision of our wisest men. But the fall of Sumter, like a fog-hom 

at sea, determined the comse of Logan. For him party machinery 

had been a means of directing the united efforts of ci~izeru! sharing the same views of public polity. To divert the·mechanism to other purposes was to release him. from party fealty. The Union was to him 

the paramount good,. and party but a means of accomplishing it. 

That great chieftain, with palsied speech, and death seeking to BYrest his hand, determinedly wrote the imperishable "memoirs," and 

deliberately recorded the first results of General Logan's example upon 

the people of Southern Illinois. "As a result of Logan's speech at 

Springfield," writes General Grant, "every man enlisted for the war." . What a glorious tribute did that great man thus render to the noble 

character whose memory we honor to-day. 

Loyalty to the Umon left Logan no altemative1 and he accepted it 

with a resoluteness of purpose not afterward shaken. 

Logan'slife-current:flowedasteady, strong stream; and once directed 

against the forces of disunionnothing could satisfy his ambitious courage 

buttbe heat and labor of the day in theforefrontofthe battle. Here, 

to the fulness of every patriot's hope, Logan served his country. Here; 

amid all the horrors of four long years of civil strife, Logan's character 

received those deep impressions which -so intensified his subsequent 

utterances and lent vehemence to much of his after life. 

Comradeskip in the perils of battle was ever to him an all-su.:fficient 

claim upon his utmost service, and the genius of our institutions so molded his conduct toward all classes of people that his sympathy, 

with an appreciative comprehension of their situation and wants, secured 

for him their utmost confidence and esteem as a tribute of the people. 

Logan's opportunity for serving his country was not dosed at Appomattox. 

The restoration of the reign of law in those regions long dominated 

by the force of arms, the readjustment of those communities in their 

relations as members of. the Union, the formulation of legal enactments demanded by the elevation of the black man into the light and 

liberty of American citizenship, the whole scheme of national restoration and civil rehabilitation known as "the period of reconstruction," 

called for ability equal in importance to the 4emands of civil strife. 

In this new field was General Logan found the constant, effective, and 

honored representative of the people, and the sturdy champion of the 

most effective measures calculated to secure for the entire country the 

benefits of a restored Union. 

For over twenty years the untiring industry and the genius of General Logan as a statesman is to be found on almost every page of the 

records of the House of Representatives or of this Senate; and it is a fact perhaps not generally known that General Logan originated and 

introduced mor.e.publie-measures than any other member; and we1 his 

colleagues upon this :floor, me familiar with that record, which is destined to grow brighter and more legible with the lapse of time. 

Such was the openness and simplicity of his character and the can- dor of his demeanor that those differing most from him in conviction were the first to yield him that respect and regard due and given only 

to real nobility of character. 

Logan's character presents three distinct aspects-that which relates 

to his career and services as a soldier, that which considers his eminent 

ability and services as a statesman; and that which pertains to his whole 

career, from the growth of the boy to the lamented death of an honored man. It is presented not only to the people of America but to the 

wbole civilized people as a. bright example to be held up to the illumination as well as emulation of every youth beginning his struggle with 

the world. 

But who shall be able to do justice within the limits of a few minutes' eulogium to the brilliant record of a soldier who abandoned relations of family, kindred and friends, of party popularity, arraying bitter 

hostilities to himself, throws his whole energy with all the power of his 

vigorous young manhood and enthusiasm against the armed enemy of 

his country. During the storm of misrepresentation which always 

assails a man of such ;marked character, the sublime heroism of General 

Logan's first act in that dreadful ordeal through which oUJt country 

passed has not yet received that appreciation which time and a consid· 

erate people will give it. 

The popular idol of his party in a State of supreme importance during 

that crisis to the Union cause, recently elected after conducting a brilliant campaign by a large majority over his party opponent, with youth 

and strength, rare intellectual endowment as his heritage, let it be 

considered for a single moment what would have been the consequence 

if he with all his power and enthusiastic following had clung to the 

party of disunion. No man at this day can do more than form a con- jecture of the terrible disaster which might have followed such an event. 

Happily for the American Union, no such contingency was possible 

in the character of General Logan. In elevating him to honor and 

power the constituency then at his back had '' builded better than they 

knew." With a rare self-abnegation and devotion to his country, he 

resigned political position, and offered his services as a soldier, in any 

rank, to his imperiled Goverliment. • Thousands upon thousands rushed 

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them all. While the brilliant military genius of General Logan, con- fessedly the greatest volunteer soldier of his or any other time, served 

his country with patriotic force ·upon the field of battle, yet the influence of his example in its effects upon an element which he un- doubtedly turned from service against the Government seems, viewed 

from a dispassionate standpoint of subsequent developments, almost 

like a miraculous interposition in the affairs of men. Others upon this floor have touched in flowery words and beautiful 

phrases upon these portions of our departed colleague's career, and I 

will only add the brief and feeling tribute of another to his military 

genius: 

Closing his career as a soldier at the end of the war in command of that army be loved so well, and whose devotion to him was so enthusiastic and unparalleled, in the temple of fame, in the great galrur;yofheroes, pnreand·bright as t.he sun, firm and solid as the foundation of freedom, will .John .A.. Logan forever stand. .A. soldier of transcendent military genius, a fearless, skillful, and accomplished leader a peer among the commanders of armies, his name will go down to history the synonym of purity, loyalty, and patriotism. 

Let me in brief terms refer to those traits of character which must ever be held as shining examples to the youth of the land. . 

General Logan was born and reared under adverse circumstances of an early Western frontier life. In }_lis day there was none ?f the educational advantages possessed by the youth of the present time. Born · in a cabin, his youth was passed in the hard labors of farm life. The 

few months of winters' schoolirig were assiduously utilized by t.he boy 

whom nature had marked for a brilliant future. But the ambitious 

youth was not content with these meager advantages. After the toils 

of the day were over and when the youths of his age were enjoying the 

pleasures of a socia1 country existence young Logan was poring over books in his father's cabin and drawing from the fountain of knowledge by _the aid of a tallow dip and blazing fire in the old-fashioned 

log fire-place. . Less than a half century ago the man whose loss is now mourned 

by the millionS of America's freemen might be seen as a boy lying on the floor of his father's cabin, eagerly scanning his books in his thirst 

for knowledge, illuminated only by a flickering light, and intent upon an education which fitted him for thatcareerheafterwardsachieved. No more interesting pictnre can be placed before the youths of America 

than that which is thus presented by the ambiguou~ genius, asserting 

itself and achieving itB destiny through adverse conditions and surroundings. · . Fixing a standard of excellence high in the ideas of men, our dead 

eolleague sought to reach the stars through almost insurmountable 

difficulties. Through a long and useful life he maintained principles 

which he had cultivated in youth; and amid all the brilliancy of his 

service in field and forum he left an untainted and unstained private 

and public-character. · · 

What an eulogy is this brief and simple announcement ! A mall en- joying unlimited opportunities that place and power conferred upon 

those of such strength of leadership, moving through an orbit of public functions for a whole generation, resisting the blandishmentB of 

wealth, faithfully serving his country, and in the end sinking to his 

rest poor in purse, though enormously rich in all .of the virtues which 

ennoble humanity; indeed, this is a spectacle which must claim the 

admiration of the pure and the good. General Logan was a pure man 

and a good man. A Christian gentleman, a man of temperate, simple, aud frugal habits, his private life was spotless. No man living ever dared to approach 

him with a corrupt proposal. · It was indeed fitting that such qualities should have led the Republican party to honor itself by honoring him with the nominat~on of 

Vice-President, a nomination that added great strength to the ticket, 

and will ever be regarded 88 a wise and considerate act. 

It is a common observation that General Logan was an ardent partisan. If by that expression is meant that he ardently devoted himself to the success of his party, it is doubtless true; but he was not a blind partisan. That he looked to his duty to the country, sufficiently 

appears from his whole public life. Such partisanship represents the 

high priae of American citizenship, and by it Logan has been raised to an exalted place in the hearts of the people. It is an open secret, but 

not a matter of public history, and therefore not generally known, that 

General Logan left his command in the field at the request of President 

Lincoln to bear a conspicuous part in the political campaigns during 

the darkest days of our Republic. In the light of these accusations 

of partisanship, let me ask you to observe carefully his generous and 

'kindly sentiments in the eloquent appeal to his fellow-citizens in that 

famous speech at Chicago in 1863: 

Under circumstances of this character, and sw·rounded by the perils that 

have heretofore been strangers to us, it behooves every citizen to pause and re- flect; to divest himself of all manner of prejudices, and to ask himself without 

regard to former party associations what duty he owes to himself, to his coun- try, and to future generations. It makes no difference that you may have been a Democrat, a Republican, or an Abolitionist, this Government was established 

by your fathers for you; it is a sacred trust committed to you; the laws have 

been enacted by the people for themselves and their protection, and no one can escape the duty he owes to the Government to reverence its Constitution, to yield a respectful obedience to its laws. * * * 

May our untarnished escutcheon kiss every breeze that is wafted .from the 

balmy waters of the South to the frozen regions of the North, or that comes from the golden plains of the far West to mingle with those in the East. May 

it be unfurled in honor and pride upon every ocean where civilization has 

penetrated, and stand side by side with the banners of the proudest empires of 

the earth. · 

An fuscrnta.ble Providence has temov~d a great and good ·man, and 

the memories which cluster about his name as a member of this body 

are so fresh and personal that we .can scarcely realize the great loss 

which this Senate and country has sustained; but his useful life and 

shining example are left to guide the feet of coming generations. 

His form we shall see no more, but his work and his character are ours forever;· the body is dead, but the spirit lives-

. For there is no death; 

The stars go down to shine on a fairer shore, 

And bright in heaven's jeweled crown they shine forever more. 

More fitting words can not be said of our dear friend and 1amented - a..'lSOCiate than his own touching and eloquent tribute to the memory 

of the immortal Lincoln: 

·Yes, his sun has set forever; loyalty's gentle voice can no longer wake thrills 

of joy along the tuneless chords of his moldering heart; yet ·patriota and lovers 

of liberty who still linger on the shores of time rise and bless his memory; and 

millions yet unborn will in after-times rise to deplore his death and cherish as a household word his deathless name. 

1\Ir. PALMER. When the news reached me many thousand miles 

from here that General Logan was dead, I (elt that something m_ore than a great man had passed away. I felt that a great impelling force-a 

bulwark whose resistance had been never overcome-a ~ohesive power 

which bound together many atoms which otherwise would have been 

unrelated had been eclipsed. · Among the many prominent characters that have come before the 

public gaze in the last twenty-five years he can be assigned to no secondary place. Born in the then far West, where advantages were few, he 

had developed from within. He had evolved what was involved. All 

that he appeared to be he was. His nature could not tolerate mere- tricious aids if proffered. If he had been caught in the eddies and cyclones of the French Revolution he would· have been Danton's coadj u- tor, if not Danton himself; Danton the furious, the generous, the un- restrainable, the untamed. His motto would have been as was that of 

his prototype, to dare, and by that sign he would have saved his coun- try if human power could have availed. Placed in another ·environment, inspired by other traditio:ns, his daring was none the less con- spicuous, and he was none the less a factor in that memorable conflict 

which unified his native land. 

Born in Switzerland he would have been a Winkelried or Hofer, had 

the exigencies of the times demanded. · . If there is to be a type of .the Caucasian race to be known distinctively as the American, it will have as its substructure spiritually the 

pronounced traits which have made the name of Logan famous-directness of aim, intrepidity of spirit, honesty of purpose, generosity for 

the vanquished, tenderness for the weak, and catholicity of ~eeling for all. 

Some of these qualities were at times obscured in him because of the 

intensity of his nature, which subordinated all things to the demands 

of the time and occasion. . He detested pretense. He denuded shams. He projected himself 

with such force that to me he seemed to have the dual nature of the 

catapult and the missile which it throws. 

Others have spoken of his military career, of how he learned tactics 

and the manual at the cannon's mouth, of his legislative career with 

all the honor that attaches thereto; all th.is has become history. He 

enjoys the proud distinction, not only of military leadership which he 

achieved in common with others but of that of a leader and controller 

of the minds of men. The spirit, the fire, the intensity, the insight, the fortitude which 

made him effective at the head of his legions were none the less potent 

when the sword was turned into the pruning-hook and material force 

had been supplanted by legislative methods. 

My acquaint-ance with General Logan was confined to the last three 

years of his life, but! had known him eversince thatfateful daywhen 

with his leader he was about to move on the enemy's works at Donel- son. I had watched him at Vicksburg-on the march to Atlanta. I 

had followed him to the field, when, recovering from his wounds, he met 

his corps as it struck the sea on that dramatic march which captured 

the minds of men by the ;mystery which hung over it, the uncertainty 

of its outcome, the brilliancy of its execution, and the plenitude of its 

results. I heard of him again in the Senate. I saw him in defeat and 

always without variableness or shadow of turning. His face as a subaltern was as firmly fixed on the objective point as if he had been in 

command. He was no Achilles furious in a.ction, who could permit 

his bosom friend and thousands of his fellows to perish that he in his 

tent might nurse and enjoy his wrath. . . He was a partisan; but he was a partisan because he was a patnot. 

He did not "narrow his mind and give up to party what was meant 

for mankind," but he stuck to his party because it was his good sword 

excalibur with which he hoped to hew down giant wrongs and to ac- complish great results for bis fellow-man. 

He was direct; because with the eye of a soldier and not through the 

lens of the schoolmen he saw the weak spot in the enemy!s line and 

threw all he had and all he hoped for upon the salient point. His pur· 

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}>(?Se did not "lose the name of aetion" by oollateral issues. The sidetr8ck.s which divert or distract the philosophic or the less earnest might as well have not existed as far as their effect on him was concerned. 

He was honest-not in the vu1gar sense that he was unpurchasable 

with money-that goes without saying......:...but he had fixed views of right ·and wrong, and before the tribunal of his conScience he determined his course where the ways divided. 

He was intrepid; his temper, iron-like, grew by blows, and in debate, as in the field, opposing forces stimulated and sustained. 

He was generous; and although at times his indignation at real or supposed wrongs spurred him to extremity I never knew him to treasure 

up a hatred. . I was thrown with him during the last Presidential contest tor a sea- son in my own State. The canvass was bitter and exhausting. His 

capacity for work then illustrated was marvelous. ; The meth<>4s by 

which he reached the hearts of the people were spontaneous, subtle, and 

effective. His progress was an ovation. He never appeared without 

evoking the most rapturouS applause, and he never disappointed expectation. He carried about him an atmosphere that attracted and cemented men to him. The secret was he was in rapport 'with the heart 

of humanity. No man so low but felt he was a brother, no man so high 

but felt he was his peer. 

In the Senate he united the valor of the soldier and the temper of 

the legislator to the tenderness of the child with its quick resentments 

quickly set aside. · 

The last time I saw my friend he was at the head of a cavalcade at one of the fairs of our country. He had been impressed for the occa- sion and compelled to serve. He was the cynosure of all eyes. The men cheered, the women waved their handkerchiefs, and the children 

loaded him with :flowers. It was as much a triumphal march as ever went up the sacred way with captives frorii remotest Gaul . . But one short year ago he helped to lay away hia leader and friend 

in his narrow cell mid all the pomp and circumstance · which people 

love _to lavish o.n their heroic. dead. Summoned by the same bnglecall.' to _duty upon earth-the trumpet t~t shall call the one to re- newed effort in the great hereafter will rouse the other to share his 

labors, his joys, and his triumphs. He has fought the good fight; he 

has finished his course. If in another age, under other conditions, he had died like Danton, on a scaffold raised by those whom he had he~ed. to save (I can fancy), 

he would have said, as Danton said to his friend when the mob-were howling for his blood, "Heed not that vile canaille, my friend;" and 

again, as he stepped upon the scaffold, "0 my wife, my well beloved;'.' 

and I believe the historian would have said of him as of Danton, " No 

hollow formnalist, deceptive and self-deceptive ghastly to the natural 

sense, was this; but a man-with all his dross hewasa man, fiery real 

from the great fire bosom of nature herself.'' 

If, like Sidney, wounded and d~g, he had lain upon the battlefield he would have been E>.qual to the re-enactment of the story which ba..~ made Sidney's name a_ sweet savour unto Christendom. 

But Providence had reserved him for a kindlier fate. The hand of 

affection cooled his brow and his eye had lost its speculation and the ear its sensibility before the tears and moans of those he loved attested 

to others that the strong man had at last met a power that was silently, 

speedily, surely bearing him to the dark house and the long sleep. 

Amid the many heroic figures which stand out on the luminous background of the past quarter of a century none will be regarded with more affection and interest than that sturdy and intrepid form portrayed in silhouette, clear cut and pronounced in its outlines as in its 

mental traits. 

.Happy the St-ate which has borne such a citizen. Thrice happy the 

people who, appreciating his virtues, shall give him a place in the valhalla of her heroes for the encouragement and inspiration of the youth 

of the future. 

Mr. FARWELL. Mr. President, after the many eloquent words 

which have been said upon this mournful occasion, I feel that any word 

which I could say would be idle and vain. 

General Logan was the bravest of soldiers, an able statesman, and an honest man. No higher tribute can be paid to man than this, and this is the offering which I bring. The late President of the United States, General 

Grant, said to me that he could never forget General Logan's great serv- ices to his cotmtry. In battle always brave, never faltering, always 

ready. 

He is greatest who serves his country best. And shall we not class 

him as one of these? . ·Mr. President, I second the resolutions of my colleague. 

The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The question is on the adoption of 

the resolutions. • 

The resolutions were agreed to unanimously. 

Mr. CULLOM. I move, as a further mark of respect to the memory 

of General Logan, that the Senate ~o now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock and 2 minutes p.m.) 

the Senate adjourned until to-morrow, Thursday, February 10, at 12 

o'clock m. 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 

WEDNESDAY, February 9,1887. 

The Honse met at 12 o'clock m. Prayer by Rev. Dr. BuLLOCK, 'of 

Washington, D. C. 

The J onrnal of the pr<?ceed.ings of yesterday was read and approved. 

SIGNAL LIGHTS ON VESSELS. 

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary_ of 

the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the board of super-· vising inspectors of steam vessels, recommending that section 4234 of 

the Revised Statutes _be amended in respect to signal lights on vessels; 

which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, and ordered to be 

printed. 

JOHN , H. MITCHELL VS. THE UNITED STATES. 

-: The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact 

in the case of John H. Mitchell against the United States; which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. 

JOHN LOAGUE, ADMINISTRATOR, VS. THE UNITED STATES. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the House a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact 

in the case of John toagne, administrator, &o«ainst the United States; 

which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. · 

T. J. POWELL, AD)I1NISTRATOR1 VS, THE UNITED STATES.-

The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting a copy of the findings of fact 

in the case of T. J. Powell, administrator, against the United States; 

which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. 

• JOHN KELLY VS. THE UNITED STATES. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse a letter from the assistant 

clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting_a copy of the fuidings of fact 

in the case of John Kelly against the United States; which was re- ferred to the Committee on War Claims. 

BRIDGE OVER BAYOU BARNARD, IDSS. 

The SPEAKER also lr.id before the Honse the bill (H. R. 1336) to 

authorize the construction of a bridge over Bayou Barnard, in the 

State of Mississippi, with the amendments of the Senate thereto. 

Mr. VAN EATON. I ask unanimous consent that theamendments 

of the Senate be concurred in. 

The SPEAKER. Let them be read. 

The amendments were read, as follows : • 

In section 1; line 6, after the word "transit," insert "without tolls; " in line 9, 

before the word "boats," strike out" passing; " in line 11, after the word "therefore," insert "width of spans; " and in the same line, after the word "location," 

strike out the word "thereof" and insert "of _said bridge." Insert the following as additional sections: · ''SEC. 2. That the said board of supervisors shall maintain, at their own ex- pense, from sunset to sunrise, throughout the year, and during heavy fogs, such 

lights on the bridge as may be required by the Light-House Board for the secu- rity of navigation. ''SEc. 3. That'the right to alter or amend this act so as to prevent or remove all 

material obstructions to the navigation of said bayou is hereby expressly re- served; and all changes or alterations so required shall be made at the expense of the parties owning or controling said bridge. 

"SEc. 4. That if the construction of the bridge authorized herein be not com- menced and completed within three years from the approval of this act, this act shall be null and void." 

The Senate amendments were concurred in. 

MESSAGE FRO:\! THE SENATE. 

A message from the Senate, by Mr. SYMPSON, one of its clerks, informed the Honse that the Senate had passed a bill (S. 2287) for se- curing statistics of the extent and value of the vessel fisheries of the 

United States; in which the concurrence of the Honse was requested. 

KANAWHA AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse, with the amendments of 

the Senate, the bill (H. R. 2646) granting to the Kanawha. and Ohio 

Railroad Company the right to lay its tracks through Uhited States lock 

and dam property in the Great Kanawha Valley, State of West Virginia. 

Mr. SNYDER. I ask unanimous consent that the amendments of 

the Senate to this bill be non-concurred in; and that the Honse agree 

to the request of the Senate for a conference. . The SPEAKER. If there be no objection, that orderwill be made. 

There being no objection, it was ordered accordingly. 

The SPEAKER. The Chair will appoint during the day the managers on the part of the House at the conference. ' 

HARRISON DEWEY. 

The SPEAKER also laid before the Honse, with the amendments of 

the Senate, the bill (H. R. 3110) directing the Secretary of War to 

amend the record of Harrison Dewey. 

Mr. BRAGG. A.s the amendments to this bill are merely verbal, I 

ask unanimous consent that they be concurred in. 

The amendments were read, as follows: 

In line 6, after the word "honorable," strike out "discharge" and insert 

"muster-out," so as to make the bill read: · "Be it enact~d, ~c.; That the ~cretary of War be directed to amend the record