The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-02-25
Tmemtp=SROemth Congress.
SECOND SESSION
in SENATE,
THURSDAY, February "a, 1912

of Ambrose Whitlock the Receiver of Public Moneys
at Charlottesville, in that State, praying the quida-
ton and payment Of his account against the United
States upon just and equitable principles.
Mr.. WHITE introduced bill for the relief of
William r. Davis which was read a first and second
time
Mr.. MOREHEAD presented the memorial of the
Chamber Of Commerce of Louisville, Kentucky, pro-
! posing certain amendments to the Bankrupt law.
The Senate took up for consideration the resou-
ton heretofore submitted by Mr.. MERRIcK, as JOINT
rule of the two Houses providing that no amendment
which proposes to appropriate money not called for
by pre-existing laws, shall be received adopted in
either House amendment to general appropriation
bills but before the subject disposed of, mes
sage received from the House of Representatives
| announcing the
DEATH OF THE HON. LEWIS WILLIAMS
| Mr.. GRAHAM observed that the melancholy event
which had just been announced, was the result of
sudden and violent attack of bilious pleurisy, which
defed all remedies, and which proved fatal in less
than thrty-six hours. On Monday, MIR. Williams
in his seat until the adjournment but Wednes-
day he lifeess corpse; and this melancholy occa
sion presented to his mind few reflections, in which he
begged to be INDUCED. public man had been struck
down by the hand of Death almost in the harness of
| his public labors-a man who had devoted long
life the greater part of nearly sixty years. to the pub
|
to the contemplation Of the awful change TO which,
sooner or later they all destined while they
were reminded of the life and character of him who
had long shared, and so long enjoyed, the conf
dence of his country Mr.. Williams a native Of
the county of Surry, in North Carolina his educa-
ton was liberal he graduated at the University of
| his native State, and subsequently spent some time
there as tutor and viglant guardian. Having re-
| ~, alo oil
member ofthe House of Commons of the State, and
| although he was then young man, he took an active
and prominent part in the bus mess of that session
| In 1915 he was elected member of the House of Re-
representatives. from the Thirteenth Congressional Dis
tric OF North Carolina, and from that time until this,
he had been uniformly returned by the same consitu-
| ency OF his les slatve history it was not necessary
| to speak here among his associates and those who
knew him better than he who addressed the Sen
ate. 1t would be found incorporated with the history
of the country for more than quarter of century,
and it written on the legislative journals, in the
reports of committees, and in the register of debates
Few men more ndustriousy and arduously de-
voted to the public service than he was, and none
ever longer remained a member of Legislative
body without intermission. AS the chairman of
the Committee of CLAIMS in the nu nervous and
embarrassing cases arising out OF the late war, he
was useful, and, it might be said invaluable
man and all his acts bore testimony that he was
faithful and attentive Interests othe constituency
who sent him there as well as those Of the people OF
the United States. With patient, aborous, and
investigating mind he turned his attention to pub.
lie business, with desire to understand it, with
which he became intimately acquainted by long
f experience and thus he was the most useful coun-
seller in either branch of Congress. But it not
merely in the reference to the talents he displayed and
the,labor in which he engaged that his demise
was to be lamented. He had known him for many
years and he had known no man more pure and ell
eyated in principle than was his deceased friend who
, was always moral, but late in life became
a religious man, and his conduct, public and private,
f was marked uniformly, by conscientious sense Of
{ duty. His course public man was opcn manly
and ingenious, by which he secured the appreciation
of his constituents not merely tribute of their re-,
spect, but tokens of the affection His frmness ho-
nesty and fathfuness in the public service pro-
verbal for few enjoyed to the same extent
that he did, extensive confidence with his
stituents, who, with numerous train of acquaint-
ances will receive the intelligence of his death with
: the deepest regret lie Mr. Graham) knew his i'm
mediate constituents from his boyhooj, And he had
spent year or two in the district which Mr.. VII
lams represented; and he remembered TO have seen
the intercourse Of the people by whom the de-
ceased was surrounded, and never was man
more cherished by them, and never was a
man more deserving of their love. But in the
circle Of private life among his friends and relatives,
his character was beyond all praise. He never con
tracted the relation Of married life, yet there were
those who would hear of his death as they
, would that of their own immediate parent. He
member of numerous family, the head OF
which acquired distinction in the war of the
Revolution Some of his brothers known in
the public councils Of the country and others in the
public councils of their Stale His elder brother,
Colonel John Williams, well known to the coun-
try large for his gaantry during the late war and
for his services in the character of United States Sc
nator. Another brother was the Adjutant General
: of North Carolina, and twin brother of his Mr..
e Grahams 81 lamened friend third brother now pre-
i sided as Judge in The courts of Tennessee
!. and the others were well known in that State
and North Carolina as liberal and enlightened
citizens To them and their families, the
!. intelligence of this bereavement would fall like thun-
: der from cloudless sky They did not anticipate
this event His health, though somewhat broken