Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-05
SERVICE
IS PRESENTED
CHAS. R. CRISP
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the minority leader, and they do not
get into the limelight much, as the
rest of us do when we try right har,,
Among these employees, invaluable %
the speaker and the membership of
the house, is the speakers parliament
tary clerk.
81 recently stated in a magazine ar
ticle if the Hon Asher c. Kinds, who
discharged the duties of that place with
such distinguished success and ability
under three speakers, had not been
elected to congress l would have UNI
hesitatingly re-apopinted him to that
place, Notwithstanding he is repub
lican. And the truth is when I got to
looking around for a parliamentary
clerk for a democrat somewhere
who had had something to do with the
rules of this house it was extremely
difficult to find one. When l frs
came 70 congress the present parliA-
mentary clerk was parliamentary
clerk to his father, one of my distiE
guished predecessors, the Hon. Charles
Frederick Crisp. Twenty years later /
inquired how he had developed mental
ly, about his character, and l found
that he was all right in every regard,
and l appointed him. The universal
testimony of the members of this
house is that he has discharged the
difficult and multifarious and delicate
duties of that position with great sue
cess. (Applause)
when General Lee heard that
Stonewall Jackson was dead he said:
I have lost my right arm And l feel
good deal that way, knowing that
MIR. Crisp becomes a congressman to,
day.
1T is a suggestive thing that Asher
c. Kinds graduated from that position
into membership of this house, and
Charley Crisp has done the same thing
And now on behalf of his fellow mem-
bers, without respect to politics, and
in their name, l present to him this
magnificent silver present May it's
brightness ever keep us bright in his
memory, and may his success in life
be as durable and brilliant as the
metal of which it is made" Great
applause)
Judge Crisp in replying to this tri-
butte said
1T rarely happens that at times
one is met with an unlocked for and
unexpected kindness that so complete
" fills the soul with love and graft
tide that he cannot find words to ex-
press the feeling. That is my cond:.,
ton tonight.
when l accepted the position Of
parliamentarian under the speaker, /
realized that l had been away from
Washington a great many years.
l entered into the discharge of
| the duties with fear and trembling.
But the membership of this house was
universally kind to me, and have Of
ten said that some of the very best
+: iends | had at this house were on
the republican side. (Applause)
81 have done my best, gentlemen.
have made mistakes, but they We" !.
honest ones When l behold this beau-
tiful present, evidencing your friend
ship and esteem, shall have nothing
but the happiest recollections of nv
service as parliamentarian during this
congress.
81 believe, gentlemen, in a divine
creator, and then when life's short ca
, reer here is ended there is life be-
You'd, and believe that all loved ones
know things that transpire here.
have beloved mother and an idolized
father on the other shore, and that ia
Their spent many years in this hall.
know if it were possible for those in
the other world to know what is trans .
piring here, your generous act has Civ
en- pleasure in heaven as well as in
this world. (Applause) | have never
hod nv, ha;rl,xaY, h,,+ haVa pou, :,