Mr. MURDOCK. Mr. Speaker, I am a comparatively new Member of the House, yet I, too, held Congressman GUYER as one of my best friends in this Chamber. I am not a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, so I cannot speak of my association with him from that standpoint.

To indicate my high regard for him I was about to characterize him as a scholar and a gentleman, but that would be inadequate, so I want to revise that and characterize our departed friend as a profound scholar and a Christian gentleman.

I have listened carefully to the eulogies pronounced today by my colleagues. I notice that they paid tributes to him as a jurist, an outstanding lawyer, a statesman with a wonderful background of experience. One Member spoke of his power of oratory by saying he was an orator of no mean ability, which I though was an understatement, for I always looked upon him as a brilliant orator.

Reference has been made to some of his speeches here in the Chamber, especially on memorial programs. One address of his which is outstanding in my mind is the oration that I heard in the Rotunda at the time of the unveiling of the famous painting by Howard Chandler Christy. It is one of the most scholarly efforts I have ever heard, and one which I have reread with interest and profit.

Congressman GUYER told me that at one time he had been a school teacher, and that was an open door to my heart. I know that he was deeply interested in the right kind of education. Because he was so devoted to basic American life, he attempted, for educational purposes, to get copies made of this famous painting here at the Capitol, the signing of the Constitution of the United States in Old Independence Hall, September 17, 1787, to be widely furnished to schools. He wanted the boys and girls of America to know that famous group of men who established our supreme law, and I have concurred with him and helped a little bit in that effort.

Sometimes I feel that the outside world is prone to think of Members of this Chamber as men who are engrossed wholly in politics, so that they do not think of spiritual things. That is not true, and when I have attempted to refute it in the public mind I have often pointed to Congressman GUYER of Kansas. It has been said here that he was a champion of causes arousing great controversy and he stood adamant for what he thought was right without fear or favor. Regardless of politics, I say to Christian America that it has never had a finer representation in this Chamber than that of our departed colleague, the gentleman from Kansas, Mr. GUYER.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California [Mr. Voorhis].

Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. Speaker, a number of reasons prompt me to say a word today in honor of our late colleague. The first one is that some 42 years ago I was born in a small city in the district which Congressman GUYER represented while he was in Congress. I knew many people that he knew. We used to discuss them, some of those people were still in Kansas, and some had gone from Kansas to the district I now represent in California. I remember the last conversation I had with him was about a very fine woman who had recently passed away in Pomona, Calif. She had come there from eastern Kansas. I remember Judge GUYER said on that occasion how little any of us ever know when our time will come and when we, too, will be called.

Another reason I wanted to pay my tribute was because on one occasion I had the honor of speaking from the same platform in one of the churches in Washington, D. C., with Judge GUYER, one of the happiest memories I have of my experience here in Washington. I, too, like Judge GUYER and the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Murdock], have spent a considerable portion of my life as a school teacher, and we recognize certain things in one another and are able to sympathize and understand each other. Finally, it can be

truly said of Judge GUYER that "he has run a good race, he has finished his course, he has kept the faith." It becomes our simple duty not only to pay tribute to his memory in words here today, but to attempt to carry on our work in a manner worthy of the tradition which he so nobly advanced while he was here.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Idaho [Mr. White].

Mr. WHITE. Mr. Speaker, as a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, the United States of America, I know we have lost a most valuable Member of this Board, the Congress of the United States, a Member whose wise counsel and devotion to American ideals and the welfare of our country was an inspiration to the membership of this body.

In the passing of Congressman GUYER the people of Kansas have lost a great advocate, and our country has lost a noble citizen, and I have lost a valuable friend.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Iowa [Mr. Gwynne].

Mr. GWYNNE. Mr. Speaker, the death of Judge ULYSSES S. GUYER has saddened all of us.

For several years it has been my privilege to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary, of which Mr. GUYER was the ranking minority member. He filled that post with dignity and honor. He possessed a great knowledge of the history of our country. He was a deep student of politics in its broad sense and was one of the ablest and most sincere defenders of the philosophy of government set forth in the American Constitution. In all his work in Congress he kept foremost his duty to his Nation, his State, and his district.

Many of us will always remember him as a true and helpful friend. Judge GUYER was one of the first men I met when I came to Congress. As a young man he lived in Toledo, Iowa, and many people in Iowa knew him and are proud of

his splendid record. In the troubled times that lie ahead his counsel will be greatly missed.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dondero].

Mr. DONDERO. Mr. Speaker, I rise on this solemn occasion to pay my humble tribute to a great American and my warm personal friend, Congressman U. S. GUYER, of Kansas. His passing is a personal loss to me. I am saddened and depressed.

At the beginning of my service in Congress, more than 10 years ago, Congressman GUYER was among the first Members with whom I became acquainted. His office and mine were almost opposite on the same corridor in the Old House Office Building. He called on and conferred with me more than any other Member in Congress. He was not only my colleague and friend but my neighbor in the fullest sense and meaning of that word. I admired and respected him greatly. His courageous convictions and steadfastness on issues for the moment not mandated by popular approval marked him as a man of principle and resolute purpose.

His rectitude in all things, his sterling character, his noble attributes, his generous impulses, his unyielding adherence to what he believed to be right, his sobriety and clean habits of living marked him as an outstanding man.

He was endowed with rare ability. He was truly a great orator. He possessed a remarkable memory and never wearied those who listened to his historic narratives and information. He stood like a giant among men. He was kindly and considerate, hard working, careful and conscientious in his legislative duties. He searched for the truth. He was a fearless defender of the American form of government and our American way of life under it. To him can be ascribed the phrase that "an honest man is the noblest work of God."

Congressman GUYER was such a man. He was a firm believer in and was sustained by an unfaltering faith in God. He was a Christian gentleman.

His State and Nation were made better by his life and deeds. He has answered the last roll call and joined another company where there is no middle aisle. Farewell, faithful and intelligent servant of the Republic.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Bennett).

Mr. BENNETT of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, the first Member of Congress I met on coming to Washington, D. C., was Judge U.S. GUYER, of Kansas. Over a period of 21⁄2 years we became well acquainted. For several months we lived at the same hotel. We discussed many legal questions in which, lawyerlike, we had a common interest. It has been said that Judge GUYER was not only an able jurist but a historian. I know that to be true. Our congressional districts adjoin for more than 100 miles along the Missouri-Kansas border. I have often heard Judge GUYER refer to the bloody but historic warfare which at one time raged along that famous border. That warfare gave rise to bitter feelings which exist to this day, and which influence the political currents of Missouri and Kansas. Congressman GUYER, or Judge as his friends prefer to call him, knew all the details of that tragic era of history.

Judge U.S. GUYER was a kindly man. He was a good, moral man. He was a man of keen mind and staunch faith. His passing is to me a personal loss. It will be difficult for the good people of Kansas to find a man to represent the Second Kansas District with the luster shown by Judge GUYER in his long and useful service to State and Nation. All honor to his memory.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Colorado [Mr. Rockwell].