ican and we this day mingle our tears with his family and

his other friends.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Short].

Mr. SHORT

Break, break, break,

On thy cold gray stones, O sea!

And I would that my tongue could utter

The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman's boy,

That he shouts with his sister at play!

O, well for the sailor lad,

That sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on,

To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanished hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

Mr. Speaker, while we all daily expected the death of our late and lamented colleague the gentleman from Kansas, Mr. U. S. GUYER, we were naturally grieved to hear of his passing. It only goes to show that after all there is nothing in life which men will cling to, and fight so tenaciously for, as life itself. However aged or infirm, and regardless of how much they may be suffering, we are never quite ready to give up those who are near and dear to us.

One of the first men I met and became personally and intimately acquainted with after my election to the Seventyfirst Congress nearly 15 years ago was ULYSSES SAMUEL GUYER from the State of Kansas. I suppose it was only natural that I should meet him because several years previous to that my father who was postmaster of my little home town had attended a postmasters' meeting in Kansas City. He returned and told me in glowing terms of the beautiful, masterly address he had heard by the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. GUYER] and having graduated myself from Baker University, which is located in his congressional district, it was natural

that I knew many of his constituents. Often when I have spoken in Kansas City those constituents have done me the honor and extended the courtesy of attending those meetings. So, because of mutual friends we had on both sides of the line in Kansas and Missouri, there grew up between us a warm and abiding friendship. Time was, Mr. Speaker, when the boys in Missouri and Kansas did not get along quite so well together. Well did Mr. GUYER recall when Quantrell and his gang from my State raided Lawrence and burned the hotel. But all of that bitterness and discord back in the time of the War between the States and immediately following, has vanished. Behold how sweet it is for brethren to dwell in brotherly love.

U. S. GUYER, Mr. Speaker, was a sort of grand, picturesque figure. He belonged to the old school. While he was not blind to the march of progress and not unwilling to keep step with the times, he was fundamentally conservative. He was grounded in the history and past traditions of our American Republic. He believed in the Declaration of Independence and revered the Constitution almost as much as he did his Bible. He read the Farewell Address of George Washington, the Father of our Country, almost as assiduously as he read the Holy Writ. He stood for the Bill of Rights, and I know that the anxiety and the worry that he has entertained in recent years at the trend away from representative, constitutional democracy toward centralized powerful bureaucracy did not prolong his life.

Mr. GUYER was a great orator. I think it is unfortunate that the new Members of this Congress, even those who served in the last Congress, never knew him. Oh, you have seen him often, but you did not know him as did the older Members of this House. I wish that you might have seen him in his heyday along with the elderly Members of this body, when torrential eloquence poured from his stentorian throat with Niagara force, sentences that sparkled with the

brilliance of diamonds, phrases that rolled like peals of thunder, charming and convincing his auditors whether they be in this House or on the public platform.

U. S. GUYER was a man of a deeply religious nature, entertaining strong moral convictions to which he adamantly adhered; yet he was full of the milk of human kindness and had enough hard common sense to know that no pancake is ever so flat but that it does not have two sides. Always he was willing to look at both sides of any great burning public issue. We can ill afford to lose men of his character and caliber in such times as these. Oh, how I wish I might say something to assuage the sorrow or lessen the grief of his dearly beloved wife, who was truly a great helpmate, a charming woman who has the same kind of religious convictions and the same burning patriotism in her breast as did her husband. But she will discover, Mr. Speaker, that time perhaps is the only thing that can partially heal such deep and sore wounds as she has at this hour. When my heart is overwhelmed I look up unto the Rock that is higher than I. And it must be a source of great comfort, solace, and strength to Mrs. Guyer in this dark hour of her irreparable loss to look up unto that Rock that is higher than she and who, because she has the same kind of religious convictions her husband had, will find a strength and a support in the everlasting arms of a benign and beneficent Providence, a source of strength that comes from Someone greater than any human mortal.

We all extend to her our deep, heartfelt, and sincere sympathy, and we, along with her, shall cherish until our final summons the precious and tender memories, the glories of combat, triumph, and defeat which we have experienced during the past score of years in this body with one of the finest Christian gentlemen and greatest Americans that it has ever been our privilege to know.

Mr. LAMBERTSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Springer].

Mr. SPRINGER. Mr. Speaker, I desire to join with the Kansas delegation in giving my tribute to the late and lamented ULYSSES S. GUYER, now deceased. On Saturday morning, when I learned of the death of our distinguished friend and colleague, I was both shocked and grieved, because I had been associated closely with him since I came as a Member of this body at the commencement of the Seventy-sixth Congress. Judge GUYER, as we affectionately called him, was one of the men I first met when I came; from the hour of our meeting until he was taken away from us, our friendship had ripened and continued. I came to recognize in him those admirable traits of character which directly appeal to all of us—those of a fine citizen, an outstanding patriot, a great statesman, a devoted and constant American, and a loyal friend.

Many of us in this great lawmaking body are not thrown together in extremely close association, because of our segregated committee work and because of our extremely busy days in intricate legislative problems with which we have to deal. But it was my rare good fortune to have been closely associated with our colleague on the Judiciary Committee, in the House of Representatives. Judge GUYER was the ranking minority member of that great committee, of which I have had the honor to be a member during my service here. Thus, our association became close and constant. His parents when they migrated westward had resided near Sulphur Springs, in Henry County, Ind., for a period of time, which place of their residence is located in the congressional district which I have the honor to represent. By reason of that fact, Judge GUYER would frequently discuss with me some of the older inhabitants in that vicinity, many of whom he knew by personal contact during visits he had made to the vicinity of the family residence in Indiana.

Judge GUYER loved his home State of Kansas. He was a part of the very fiber and sinew of that great Commonwealth. He held positions of great responsibility and public trust in his home State, and as mayor of Kansas City, Kans., he

demonstrated outstanding executive ability. His long service in this body stamped him as an outstanding legislator and statesman.

In early life he faced many struggles, but by reason of energy, honesty, loyalty to his people and his country, and unwavering fidelity he ascended the ladder of fame to a fixed place in the hearts of the people of this Nation. His counsel and advice was often sought by the Members of this body and especially by the younger Congressmen, and it was a rare privilege for him to aid and assist those who were less informed. He was truly the friend of man.

When our country became involved in this terrible war, Judge GUYER was greatly distressed. He frequently discussed with others the great hardships and suffering of our soldiers and sailors in this gigantic crisis; he was saddened by it; he expressed the hope that peace would soon come to our Nation. Thus we knew him-our esteemed friend-when he was under the stress of grave responsibilities, when our country was engaged at war, and we knew him when the veil was removed and those finer intimacies which are forever reserved by each one of us for but a few were then exposed; and we knew him when he expressed sound logic and statesmanlike utterances in his constant effort to solve the pending problems of the day. He loved his country. He was both kindly and he was brave.

Our loyal friend, our constant friend, whose memory I will long cherish, lived a good life. He ever struggled onward and forward with the constant weight of the livid problems of the people before him. He continued at his post serving his people as long as health would permit. His last appearance in this Chamber came when he was scarcely able to come; yet, as ever, he responded to his duty as a servant of the people he represented. The summons came for his departure while he was in this city. He was unafraid. While within the shadow of the scene of his constant effort for his country throughout the many years of his service here, he