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In the Senate, Monday, Senator Morrill, or
fered the following resolution:

Il;ao collamer.
| In the Senate, Monday, Senator Morrill, or
fered the following resolution:
Resoleei BY the S...ite. (tat Hou.s Of RsP',ssntt-
! ticeS cOHcHrTiHp Ina. the thanks Of inlS Con-
| gress be presented 10 the Governor, and though
| MIN to the people Uf the State OF Vermont for the
| statue by Preston Powers pf Jacob COllamer az an
| eminent American statesman that this work Of
art IN accepted and assigned place in TIE National
statuary Hall set apart by Congress for the statues
| OF distinguished citizens from the several States
| and that copy Of this resolution, signed 10y the
PRESIDENT Of the SENATE and the Speaker OF the
Governor Of the state OF VERMONT
Mr. Morrill, then said:
| Ar President The number of statues,
of men distinguished in the past history OF
our country, already placed in the National
Statuary Hall by their respective States, in
dlcates something of the priceless value,
which will belong to the assemblage there
when all the States shall be fully represented. |
| l am glad to be informed by several Senators
| of States which have not taken final action |
upon this subject, that they have been en-
barrassed most by their riches, or by the |
number of names regarded as worthy of the |
rare distinction of being handed down to |
future time as the picked men Of their day |
and generation, and that considerable addi-
tions to the hall may ere long be expected. |
! In making her selection OF names of persons |
whose memory was to be perpetuated in mar
| ble, Vermont selected one from the period of |
the American Revolution, the historic hero, |
Ethan Allen, and the Other from so late a
date that many here may remember the per-
| son of Senator Collamer, and will hardly !
need details as 10 his service or character. |
| The people of Vermont had confidence in his |
eminent ability, in the untarnislIed purity of |
his life, and they trusted him from his youth |
to long past three score and ten" in the |
most important public posts within their |
gift, in all of which he acquitted himself with |
such distinction rs to steadily exalt his rcpu-
taiion. AT the period OF his death he stood
forth as the foremost citizen oil the state, |
IN ability, moral excellence anu National DIS
tinction.
Men IN olilcial litc here come anu 20 rap |
my, anu lew are SO fortunate rs To earn
tities TO enduring lame present tintles are
100 cngrossils 10 allow much careful study
oil those VINO inquired on The stage rs our pred
ecessors. Although the country may often
proiit by their works. only IN rare instances
are The names on the tombstoneS oi inc au-
tlors retoucheu ny any devotion akin 10 tiat
of oid Mortality. Whiie this Is generally
true, II IS gratllylhS 10 meet Win men from
all paris oi the country whose memories 40
not wall 10 be refreshed, anu whose khowi-
euse anu judgment awards 10 'oiiaiher
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AZ nr. ooilalier' nor mas any oen''toi passeu
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pianA III tne coune..'' uiiie,s We VNe'P' m
Do"s.ass. anu n'''ii,; hc auueu oai,
niii' then' tne Treeh Mountain IoctateS:
senator harris declared that 1t ih'sht nc saiu
Oh nun as II was Oh J0hh quincy Auaiiis
NO excesses ot pronlsate youlh, no wees
oi hiiuuie iiie nave sna'ici1u anu hu' "i "
premature uissoiutloh inc noui Ill WHICH
MS incorruptioie spirit resideu'
| Such was the character, drawn 10y those
who knew him best, of Jacob Collamer.
| The voices then heard of these four disjln- |
guished Senators are now silent, all having |
soon Joined the company of the friend they |
so tenderly portrayed but we stall seem 10
| hear the lingering echo of words from those |
who once commanded so much respect of |
the country, and so much the esteem of |
their associates, Authority was first gwen
by the Vermont Legislature to employ Hi |
ram Powers to furnish the Collamcr statue F;
but this highly gifted artist having died soon
after the same authority was then granted TO
employ his son, Preston Powers. who in por-
,rai' statuary has achieved an excellent rep
| utation, and by many is held to be not in- |
ferior in that line even to his father. The
statue presented has been wrought out Of a |
remarkably fine specimen OF Carrara marble, |
and do not doubt that the statue itself will |
be accepted, not only as n spirited and ac-
curate likeness but as crcditable work of |
art. Modern costume is the terror ot sculp- |
| tors but, in this case, it appears to have |
been handled with as much skill as Is ever
obtainable, and the statue as a whole may be
said to be both dignified and pleasing. No
one who ever saw Mr. Colamer at the bar,
on the bench, or in tho Senate,
| can fail To recognize its life-like |
| truthfulness This statue is presented
by the State of Vermont of u citizen
she has honOred and by whom she has
| been honored i'll return, whose character for
solidity and purity If texture is happily typi
fed in the marble representation, and il is
presented with faith that it may he received
W. IL worthy contribution to stand among the
eminent representatives OF the great sister
hood of States which are Ia ultimately grace
Statuary Hall.
/ Senator Edmunds's remarks were us fol
| lows:
| What our friend aud colleague AMI other
| Senators have said leaves little for me 10 add
respecting the individual character Of the
distinguished citizen ri Vermont whose
statue she this day unveils in the Capitol and
delivers 10 Congress in perpetual trust, not
only as Il memorial Of her own career, hut rs
contribution 10 that history which has,
among all Nations been preserved by tenn
pies and monuments rs well rs by writings
and books But may perhaps say, without
wearisomc repetition. that the selection Of
| Mr. Colamer for the subject of statue to
| be placed in one Of the old legislative halls !
of the Capitol was, in my Judgment, eml-
ncntly II wise one for he was a fair type of
that social condition and civilized prosress
which, on this continent, began on the dark
December day when the Mayllower landed !
her band of weary but stout hearted pilgrims
who could mot dwell by llaarlcm Mere, nor
build along the Zuyder Zee, on the drcary
coast OF Massachusetts bay, and which have
| spread over New England like the cool ami