The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-28
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
TRIBUT BY SENATORS TO THE
 LATE SENATOR PICKERING.

Eulogies of the Deceased-Grace Hospital
 Appropriation Advocated by Prominent
 New Haveners-Many Bills Considered
 New Haven Electric Company-Educa-
 tiOnaI-The Fish Commissions-Short
 Beach Improvements, Etc.
 Hartford, Feb. 27.-When the senate
 adjourned last Tuesday after the death
 of Senator Pickering had been an
 nounced, it was voted that to-day be
 set apart for presenting resolutions of
 respect to the memory of the departed
 This noon when the senate came to-
 gether Senator Charles E. Chapman
 of Westbrook offered the following
 resolutions:
 Resolved, That the senate has heard
 with profound sorrow and regret of
 the death of the Hon. Thomas R. Pick
 ering, the senator from the Twenty second district.
 Resolved, That in his death we sim cerely deplore the loss to the state of an upright and faithful legislator and to ourselves a wise counselor, an es- teemed and honored friend.
 Resolved, That the clerk of the sen ate transmit copy of these resolu-
 tions to the family of the deceased, together with the action of the sen- ate"
 Senator Chapman then spoke as fol- lows:
 MT. President-We are called upon to pause in the performance of our legislative duties in order that we may pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of a deceased colleague. In the death of the late Hon. Thomas R. Pickering the state of Connecticut has lost one of her most distinguished citi- zens, the republican party one of it's able representatives, and the Twenty second district a zealous and devoted senator and guardian of every interest of its people. Senator Pickering was born in England and came to this country in his. boyhood. Locating in New York, he received a technical and practical education as a mechanical engineer. Shortly after his invention of new governor for steam engines he located in Portland, this state, and established the Pickering Governor company and became it's president
 Senator Pickering's life has not been that of an active political worker, but has rather occupied positions of great trust and responsibility connected with exhibitions in this and foreign coun- tries, among which were the Paris ex- hibition in 1867, Vienna in 1873, receiv- ing from the management the Order of the Cross of Francis Joseph, Philadel- phia in 1876, Australia in 1881, and New Orleans in 1884 His genial presence is missed. His kindly greeting is no more heard. The memory of his virtue will remain with those who knew him, and the excellent qualities of his char acter will be help and an inspiration to those he left behind"
 The remarks of Senator Edward E. Fuller of Holland, representing the Twenty fourth district, were as fol- lows:
 MT. Presidential this hour conse- crated to the memory of our dead yet living friend, permit to say a word to drop leaf for friendships sake and to twine spring of laurel in this sena- torial wreath, which we in thought and heart to-day place upon his caslxet, in loving memory. The message which flashed over the wires last Thursday announcing the sudden death of Senator Pickering brought sorrow and dismay to our hearts, and not to ours only, but to all those who had the pleasure and honor of his acquaintance. Almost at the beginning of this session, with anticipations of many weeks of pleasant companionship and of many oF cle has been suddenly broken by the call of that Angel fronS whose summons there is no escape. 'Verily, in the midst of life we are in death
 ''It is not for me to attempt to sketch his life; that has been done by others who knew him more intimately. My acquaintance with him has been very brief, beginning only with the com of this session, but in that time he has found a very warm place in my heart. His nature was of the genial, friendly, social kind. Wealth or honors did not turn his head, sorrows or defeats did not embitter him. All | ways the same, his eye had the tear of | and the twinkle of jolIity. | He was the oldest of us in years and | the youngest in feelings. The only one | In this body of foreign birth, no one l was truer American and patriot than | he. Humanity was his friend because 1 he was it's friend, Much shall we miss I his hearty hand-shake, his genial words | If greeting and farewell, his erennial | good nature. Seven weeks ago to-day, | the first day of this session, a basket | 1f flowers, the insignia of life, was upon lis desk, the gift of loving friends To- lay the sable gloom of mourning, the insignia of death, enshrouds it, placed here also by loving friends. His life las gone from among us, but his mem ,ry we have and shall always have with IS. Death is but a gentle friend, and when His summons comes to one who las been true and faithful to his trusts, whose outward life of noble deeds has ,een but the simple outpouring of a ,oble heart, who at the sunset hour of fife leaves with the love of all who ynew him, as it has to this, our friend, t is indeed a consummation devoutly O be wished Only two short weeks .go he was here among us; since then ve have stood beside his open grave, nd to-day we pause to pay these sin ere tributes to his memory. With i'm the battle of life has been fought nd by the fruits of that life has the
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