hearts the same sentiments and the same feelings. It is the friction of intellectual contact that gives life to deliberation and wisdom to final determination.

Mr. President, how shall I describe our affection and regard for the memory of that knightly spirit from Illinois of whom the senior Senator from that State has spoken with such beauty and eloquence! It seems to me JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS was carved out of the chivalrous days that have gone before. He gave to his companions a breath of wholesome freshness; he gave to discussion here a brilliance of expression and of conception worthy of any man on any side of any question. And in his daily walk and in his bearing there was a gentility, a courtesy, a chivalry, a sort of intellectual and spiritual setting apart of himself as one who had been cast in a mold which no longer fashioned the character of individuals.

Our memories are rich in these associations. They inspire us to greater effort on our own part. They inspired us to make ourselves worthy of their companionship in the past, but they inspire us to be worthy of their hallowed memory in the years to come.

Mr. President, as I think of these Senators, not as Senators, not as public officers, not as worthy and humble bearers of distinguished honors but as human beings, I am constrained to read from Holy Writ the beautiful language of the Twenty-third Psalm:

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou annointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Lucas in the chair). The Chair recognizes the Senator from Texas.

Address by Senator Connally

Of Texas

Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, I am honored by having an opportunity briefly to join in memorializing our late colleague, Senator JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, of Illinois.

It is always a difficult task to pay adequate and accurate tribute to one who has departed this life, and whose relations with ourselves have been affected by friendship, association, and service.

I believe it was Arthur Henry Hallam who evoked from Lord Tennyson's pen perhaps the noblest memorial in all the English language, and today I could wish for something of the genius of that man in undertaking to give utterance to the very great affection and veneration and admiration which I entertain for Senator JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS.

Some years ago I read an account in a magazine by a writer who set forth what he thought was the preparation requisite for one to be a Member of the House of Representatives or of the Senate. The writer had never served in the Congress; he probably never would serve in the Congress; but his outline of the necessary requirements for one seeking to enter the Halls of Congress were, in short, a liberal education, college degrees, and then experience in business and industry, and a variety of the activities of modern life. I am very glad that such requirements are not constitutional requirements.

It seems to me that Senator JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS perhaps came as near to having the requirements set forth in that article as any Senator with whom I have ever been privileged to serve. He was a cosmopolite. He was born in Virginia, which is a good State in which to be born and to live when one is young and has the opportunity of reflecting upon the majesty and the greatness of Virginia when it was young. He was educated in Georgia, a great old State of fine tradi

tion. And then as a young man he grew up in the West-in the West that was growing, in the West that was young. There he developed, catching a new conception of modern American life. And then in his maturity he went to the great metropolis of the Middle West, which in a sense is the countinghouse for that great and splendid area. And so he had a background from the standpoint of geography and education and experience possessed by few men.

Our late colleague served as a soldier during the SpanishAmerican War. He had military experience in Cuba and in Puerto Rico. Back in the nineties he served with distinction as a Member of Congress from the State of Washington. While I have not verified this statement, I doubt not that Senator LEWIS' service in the Congress, while interrupted, covered a longer range of time than that of any man now living and serving in either branch of the Congress of the United States. It covered a period of more than 40 years. He was a lawyer, not alone an accomplished lawyer in the courtroom, but a legal authority, the author of several works on the law. He was a statesman, but equally as important, he was a politician, and I use that term in its highest and best significance. He was politician enough to get elected; then he was statesman enough to serve his people well and patriotically.

He was widely traveled. He knew many foreign countries and many foreign places, not alone from books but from actual contact with foreign institutions and foreign races.

What were his personal qualities? He had in abundance those attractive personal qualities that make one man love another man. He was gallant, courteous, kindly, considerate. He was a counselor of those of us who were his juniors in service. I recollect on one or two occasions when I was either engaged in a contest for reelection or was looking forward to the possibility of one, Senator LEWIS of his own motion came to me and made suggestions as to the proper manner in which to conduct the campaign, and he somewhat

checked up on the possibilities of the probable candidate who would oppose me.

Senator LEWIS was perhaps as well read in English literature as any man in this Chamber. What is more than being well read, he knew how to use his command and his mastery of English literature in the debate and in the interchange here upon the floor of the Senate.

He was a lovable, kindly, delightful man. He was more than that. He was not only terrific in debate when roused to the full measure of his powers but he was a great orator. I remember some years ago, when I was a Member of the House, sitting in this Chamber and hearing Senator LEWIS in the memorable debate following the World War, when the titanic issues involving the League of Nations and our relations with Europe were under consideration. I heard him deliver one of the most attractive and outstanding addresses in all that debate. I now commend to Senators two great orations which Senator LEWIS delivered in this Chamber. One was on the 6th of December 1918, while the Peace Conference was meeting. With marvelous perception Senator LEWIS then clearly outlined the issues which later arose as the result of the Treaty of Versailles. Again, on the 3d day of January 1919 he replied to a number of Senators on the other side of the Chamber who had attacked his position. He made an outstanding address, which commanded the attention and admiration of those who heard it.

Mr. President, on occasions such as this, when we come to grieve over the loss of our friends, we frequently meditate. We wonder and conjecture whether this little span that we spend here is all there is of life. Scientists tell us that matter is indestructible; that it is merely transformed from one form into another; that the cigar which is consumed by fire is not destroyed but is merely resolved into ashes, vapor, and smoke, and that all its essential elements are still in existence, though in another form. Scientists tell us that the electricity which comes to us from the clouds is not destroyed

but is transmuted into heat, light, and energy, and goes back into the great reservoir of Nature in another form; that the flower which blooms in the spring, withers, and dies is not dead but goes back to mingle with Mother Earth in the great chemistry of Nature to bring forth another flower in another spring.

So, Mr. President, whatever be our inability to look beyond the curtain that veils the future, I cannot believe that the spirit which animated the now cold and silent dust of JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, and which glowed and flashed from his eyes in debate, the intellect which charmed us and moved us on the floor of the Senate, and the eloquence which thrilled his hearers are dead forever. I believe that his spirit has gone out to influence our own lives and the activities of this body, and that it has become a priceless heritage, not to the future world alone but to American public life; and that, like indestructible physical matter, it will go on to enrich and ennoble the generation in which he lived.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair recognizes the Senator from Illinois [Mr. Slattery).