lifetime can be forgiven and salvation secured by a death-bed repentance. Without desiring any controversy, I can not help believing that in the bookkeeping of heaven there is a debit and a credit account which can only be balanced by works as well as faith, by deeds as well as professions. So I count most happy those who escape the agonizing scenes, so often recurring and so painful at death, of parting with those we love. Here we have a friend who in every position in life did his duty according to his best lights as a father, a husband and a citizen, a man and a Senator. He so lived during the time allotted to him by God that when in a moment he was called to join the majority, he left behind him nothing but praise and had before him the certainty of reward. S. Doc. 225-7 ADDRESS OF MR. ALGER, OF MICHIGAN. Mr. PRESIDENT: When the last leaf is turned and the book of life falls idly to the ground, we pause and think. The crowding incidents of conflict and treaty, of loyalty and indifference blend together, with the happier memories dominant. It would be impossible for me here to give a history of the life of JAMES MCMILLAN. With its main features the whole country is familiar, and it is not its details which concern us so much as its significance. The story of his younger days is all the story of a struggle— that grim, silent struggle of a man against circumstances, wherein there is no mean between subjection and masteryMCMILLAN conquered. Step by step, steadily and wisely, he moved forward-from schoolboy to clerk, from clerk to proprietor, and thence to the control of great commercial interests. Through the valley of toil he walked strong and unwavering. Great factories in his home city and ships on our Great Lakes bear witness to the many enterprises that mark his life's achievement. His charity is shown by hospitals, and his quiet giving the poor and needy will always hold in grateful remembrance. He prospered in the affairs of the world until that prosperity moved almost of its own weight. His State made him a representative in this great body. Of his career here it would be presumption for me to tell you-his colleagues. The new beauties of this capital city are but examples of his creative and comprehensive mind. They are the facets of the gem which catches the light; the expression, in terms, of the beauty of a character built on effectiveness. I could tell you of an acquaintance of more than a third of a century with this man, who was ever courteous, generous, and modest, whose courage was unyielding, and whose character was made strong by an unflinching determination. But I could tell you nothing half so eloquent as the single-hearted devotion of those and to those who lived in closest communion with him. Memory will inscribe upon her tablets his unfaltering loyalty and love to those he held most dear. Let that be JAMES MCMILLAN's monument. It matters little how long life is; it matters all how it is lived. He, the man, has come and gone. With him, a strong man has been in our midst, a generous one has passed away. Simply he trod the road, and simply he turned aside to rest. Let posterity pass the final judgment upon his public deeds, as it will upon ours. Distance lends perspective, and only in perspective can objects attain a true proportion. But whatever a future generation may think or say, we, his contemporaries, write him, JAMES MCMILLAN, statesman, gentleman, friend, and man. Mr. President, I ask for the adoption of the pending resolutions. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to; and (at 4 o'clock p. m.) the Senate adjourned. FEBRUARY 2, 1903. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE. The message further communicated to the Senate resolutions passed by the House commemorative of the life and services of Hon. JAMES MCMILLAN, late a Senator from the State of Michigan. 336230 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. DECEMBER I, 1902. MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. The message further announced the adoption of the following resolutions : Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of the death of Hon. JAMES MCMILLAN, late a Senator from the State of Michigan. Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these resolutions to the House of Representatives. Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate do now adjourn. DECEMBER 12, 1902. EULOGIES ON THE LATE HON. JAMES M'MILLAN. Mr. CORLISS. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent for the present consideration of the following resolution. The Clerk read as follows: Resolved, That the House meet on Sunday, the 1st day of February, 1903, at 12 o'clock noon, for the consideration of resolutions of respect to the memory of the late JAMES MCMILLAN, a distinguished member of the United States Senate from the State of Michigan. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the present consideration of the resolution? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. The resolution was agreed to. 101 |