ADDRESS OF MR. SMITH, OF MICHIGAN

Mr. PRESIDENT: In the busy whirl of life, with its trials and exactions, we pause to pay a tribute to the memory of one of our late colleagues in the House of Representatives.

Llewellyn POWERS, for many years a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine, served with honor and credit to his Commonwealth and to the country. Maine has been limited in its geographical area, and almost unlimited in its material resources and seemingly inexhaustible in its wealth of able and distinguished men, many of whom have been chosen because of their special fitness for public place, and retained in the service with credit to the State which commissions them as long as they have been willing to serve.

Think of a State which has within a generation contributed to the public service a Fessenden and a Hamlin, a Blaine and a Reed and a Dingley, and is now so honorably represented by our colleagues, Senator Hale and Senator Frye, than whom there are no more able, conscientious, upright, worthy, or influential

men.

I consider myself fortunate to have served with many of these men in the latter years of their public service. Reed and Dingley and Boutelle and Milliken were all colleagues of mine in the House of Representatives, and I learned something from each of them. I consider the country most fortunate to-day to be guided, as it often is, by the practical common sense and the wise experience of the distinguished Senators from Maine now in this Chamber. True to her high traditions, Maine commissioned our late colleague for duty here.

Mr. POWERS first entered public life as a young man, and retired after one term in Congress. He carried his shrewd commercial instincts into the busy world of affairs and made a business success of life. Later returning, after serving as governor of his State, he entered again into the activities of legislative life. I consider that we were fortunate indeed in his legislative companionship. He was modest and unpretentions, yet he was firm and substantial. He made few tenders of his sympathy or kindliness of nature, but no one could come in contact with him and fail to appreciate that he was one of nature's truest men.

Mr. President, death places its hand upon all that lives, and in calling LLEWELLYN POWERS from an ideal home life and the activities and responsibilities of private and public employment nature drafted an honorable and a worthy son. His personality will long be missed in the House of Representatives and among those who loved him.

I simply desire to pay my tribute to his lofty character, his usefulness, and his fidelity, and I shall long remember the pleasure and the satisfaction I have taken in our companionship and association here.

ADDRESS OF MR. DIXON, OF MONTANA

Mr. PRESIDENt: LlewellYN POWERS was born in Pittsfield, Me., December, 1836, the eldest of ten children. He was descended from a family that had been prominent in New England for many generations, and whose name frequently appears on the muster rolls of the Continental Army. Born on a farm,

he was educated in the common schools and academies of his native State and at Colby University. He entered the Albany Law School and graduated therefrom in 1860. He immediately returned to Maine and began the practice of his profession at Houlton, the county seat of Aroostook County. Of splendid physique, affable in manner, temperate in his habits, and industrious in his profession, front rank at the local bar was soon attained.

Like most young lawyers, he was soon attracted to the field of local politics. In 1864, four years after being admitted to the bar, he was elected prosecuting attorney of his county, and was twice reelected to the same position. He held the position of United States collector of customs for four years. In the early seventies he was sent to the Maine legislature for three consecutive terms and then elected as a Representative to the Federal Congress, serving one term in that body along with a distinguished delegation from the State of Maine which numbered among its members such men as James G. Blaine, William P. Frye, and Eugene Hale.

Defeated for reelection in the greenback agitation of 1878, he again took up the practice of his profession. Twelve years later he again entered public life as a member of his state legislature,

serving again three terms, during the last of which he was elected speaker.

Then followed his election as governor in 1896 and his reelection in 1898 by a majority of nearly 50,000. A few months after his retirement as governor he was again elected a Member of Congress, where he served continuously until his death on July 28, 1908.

Elected by the people of his own district three times as prosecuting attorney, six times as a member of the legislature, and five times a Member of Congress, his actual time spent in the public service covered a period of a quarter of a century.

Unlike most men who devote so much of their lives to the public.business, Governor POWERS was also most successful in his own private business affairs. By his own exertions and good business judgment he accumulated a private fortune of considerable magnitude. Coming from a State justly celebrated for the sound conservatism of its people, he was by nature, blood, and training well fitted for the position of one of the leaders, both in business and political affairs.

It was my pleasure to have served with him for four years in the other end of this Capitol. The Maine delegation, famous for a century past for its strong membership in both Houses of the Federal Congress, was then famous for having three exgovernors of the State in a delegation of only four members.

Governor POWERS was a striking figure in that body, comprising a membership of nearly 400 men, the directly chosen Representatives of 90,000,000 people. Large and well-proportioned physically, swarthy of complexion, a massive head crowned with a shock of raven-black hair, he attracted notice among his fellow-Members. He was most genial in his manner, conservative in his speech, and fair in his judgment of both men and measures. Measured by any standard, his life was a success

ful one.
public service he had achived distinction in all.

In business affairs, in the legal profession, and in the

At the close of their life this can be said of but few men. Most men whom the world calls successful have only achieved success along some one line of action. Our so-called great and successful men have nearly always been deficient in some things.

To his wife and children, to his State, and to the Nation LLEWELLYN POWERS has left a record of an industrious, wellspent, well-ordered, and successful life.

So long as men of his type shall be selected as the chosen leaders of the people of the respective States of this Republic, all is well.