Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-06
IN GOVERNOR rrsa,s HONOR.

Memorial Exercises Held in the As.
 sembly Chamber at Ad. dress of Senator Edmunds was . Masterly Effort.
 ALBANY, April l5.-Memorial exercises in
 honor of the late Governor Hamilton Fish
 were held in the assembly chamber here
 tonight. The chamber was handsomely adorned with flowers and plants. The railing of the ladies' gallery back of the speakers rostrum was draped In purple
 and black, while in the center of the rail-
 ing was hung an oil painting of Governor
 Fish. About 1t were festooned American
 flags. The four polished granite pillars
 one hundred feet high which support the
 assembly ceiling, were draped in black and
 purple. The chamber and galleries were
 crowded, admission being by card. In the
 we'll of the house sat MT. and Mrs. Hamil- ton Fish, jr., Nicholas Fish and other members of the Fish family. In reserved seats were the judges of the court of 3D. pesls, President Low of Columbla collage, Philip Schuyler and John L. Cadwalader of New York, and other invited guests.
 The governor and state officers were es- corted from the executive chamber to the assembly by the legislative committee of arrangements. The members of the Iegis- laturs entered the chamber In e body, wearing mourning rosettes. Speaker Walby called the assemblsge to order. The following program was rendered.:
 Proceesional hymn; prayer by Bishop dent of the evening. Senator Saxton: so- prano solo; oration, Hon. George F. Ed munds of Vermont; hymn; benediction by the Rev. W. ". Bsttsrghall; recessional hymn.
 The music was by Saint Pster's choir of this city. The address of Senator Ed munds was a masterly effort. He said:
 ''To officially commemorate the lives snd | public services of the citizens of the state | who have been dessrvedly conspicuous in the progress and welfare of its | the duty and pleasure are still larger when the citiasn who Is thus brought wildly in- to remembrance has impressed his intelli- | gent and patriotic thoughts upon the prin- | ciples and policies of a nation. Such c I citizen was Hamilton Fish"
 Senator Edmunds then gave c sketch of | the life of the subject of his address, fol- | lowing his career through all the positions | of public trust held with such distin- duu Hltu two terms of secretary of state in Presi- dent Grants cabinet, and continued his | tribute to MT. Flsh's subsequent private life up to the time of his death. Mt. Ed munds then said:
 'I turn with joy to pay the tribute that Ia most justly que to him for his lifelong | and stesdfsst interest in the church work | h the best ssnse of that term. From c personal and somewhat intimate acquaint- sncs with Mir. Fish, from the spring of 1869 to the day of his death, can say. without disparsgement to others, that nave never known any man who, all In all, ,n every side of his character and behav- or, came nearer to the perfect type of the American citizen and Christian man.
 "Your excellency and the legislature do we'll to give high honors to his memory, put what you now do Is not 8 memorial ,nly. His career and the grateful tributes you bestow in the name of the people whom le served go well are continual inspirations o better lives, higher purposes and more 'srnest efforts In your noble state and in 'ur great republic, to the end that the welfare and true progress, private nd public justice and civil aud political quality, until in our beloved land all our ways shall become ways of pleasantness nd all our paths are peace"
 The address was listened to with the most arrest attention.