stored knowledge of the world, the laboratories and workshops resound with the clatter of machinery and the practice of the applied sciences and arts. Not only from California and her sister States, but from eastern communities, from Mexico and the South American Republics, and from the isles and continents of the Pacific Ocean, the flow of students is steadily setting in, and the university seems destined to become a medium for uniting both Occident and Orient in the bonds of human culture and brotherhood.

Senator STANFORD was spared to be present at two of the commencements of the school he had founded, the central object, with his honored wife, of the reverence and gratitude of the great assembly. The contemplation of the results of their public spirit and generosity and the affectionate homage they received from their fellow-men must have afforded them a most exalted form of pleasure and made their last days together on earth full of peace and blessing. Senator STANFORD appreciated fully that, to quote his own words, "An institution of learning, however broad its plans and noble its purposes, must be a growth and not a creation." He made no secret of his expectations, however, that in the course of time the income from his completed endowment would reach a million dollars annually, and suffice for the free instruction of ten thousand students. This would make it by far the largest gift ever made to science by an individual in human history. It will not be out of place, surely, for me to solicit the sympathy and good will of Senators for the admirable lady who is charged with the sole and unrestricted responsibility of carrying out this great scheme of human beneficence.

My tribute would be sadly incomplete if it did not include in its brief survey some recognition of the private and personal worth of the man it commemorates. The strong will and continuity of purpose; the large, calm judgment; the statesman

like sagacity and executive force of LELAND STANFORD have perhaps been sufficiently set forth in what others and I have already said concerning him. But there were gentler, more humane traits in him that well deserve to be remembered. In private intercourse he was genial and kindly and the soul of hospitality. His innate chivalry of nature was displayed in his polite deference to women and high considerations for them. He was a sincere believer in the political enfranchisement as well as equal civil and business rights of women. His university at Palo Alto is open to both sexes alike. It is a crowning touch of this chivalric spirit that in all his public beneficence he linked his wife's name with his own, and, dying, left his vast fortune to her sole disposal. His quick sympathies were revealed not only by his loyal friendship and numberless deeds of kindness, but in the love he bore the animal kingdom. On his great ranches thousands of noble horses found in him a gentle master. His great mastiffs at Palo Alto miss to-day the kindly touch of that master's hand. He loved the very trees at his country seat, and had them shore up the decayed and feeble limbs that threatened to fall. His earthly successes were due to many fortuitous circumstances in his career and character, but his victories over his fellow-men were won through the goodness of his heart. The self-sufficiency and cynicism which so often attend wealth and power he never knew. He always believed in human nature and trusted the people; for, as he said, "the majority of men desire to do right."

Finally, sir, I may be permitted to say that all his moral nature was based on profound religious convictions. While making no ostentatious professions of religion, and not a member of any church, his mind, liberalized by the reading of modern science and philosophy, yet clung to the primal truths of Christ's teaching-God, virtue, and immortality. In the

charter of the new university he prohibits sectarian instruction, but requires the teaching of "the immortality of the soul, the existence of an all-wise and beneficent Creator, and that obedience to His laws is the highest duty of man." After his son's death his thoughts turned with increasing solemnity to contemplate the vast issues of the eternal life.

Like ancient Cato, as reported by Cicero, he might have said:

Glorious day, when I shall remove from this confused crowd to join the divine assembly of souls! For I shall go not only to meet great men, but also my own son Cato. His spirit, looking back upon me, departed to that place whither he knew that I should soon come, and he has never deserted

me.

If I have borne his loss with courage, it is because I consoled myself with the thought that our separation would not be for long.

In whichever of its many aspects we contemplate the life of LELAND STANFORD, as a successful and honorable merchant, as a great chief of industry, as a patriotic war governor, as a Senator of the United States, as a wise and generous philanthropist, he reveals himself as a unique and commanding figure in our country's history and a noble type of American manhood.

Peace to his ashes and honor to his memory!

Mr. President, as a mark of respect to the memory of LELAND STANFORD, who died while a Senator of the United States, I move that the Senate do now adjourn.

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 5 o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, September 18, 1893, at 12 o'clock m.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MONDAY, February 12, 1894.

Mr. Loup. If there be no further business before the House, I ask unanimous consent that we now proceed with the special order.

There was no objection, and it was so ordered.

The SPEAKER. The Clerk will report the special order.

The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow the announcement of the death of Hon. LELAND STANFORD, late a Senator from the State of California.

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended in order that fitting tribute be paid to his memory.

Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect the House, at the conclusion of the ceremonies, do adjourn.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously.

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EULOGIES.

ADDRESS OF MR. TRACEY, OF NEW YORK.

Mr. SPEAKER: Last September the members of the Senate of the United States gave expression to their feeling of profound regret at the loss of their colleague, the Hon. LELAND STANFORD, and at the same time expressed in the strongest terms their admiration of his qualities as a statesman and his generosity as a man, and their high appreciation of the great services he had rendered to his adopted State of California as well as the nation at large. Gentlemen who will follow me on this occasion, and who were intimately acquainted with him in his lifetime, will further enlarge upon these admirable characteristics of the lamented Senator.

It is my intention not to make a formal address, but simply to call attention to the fact that the late Senator STANFORD was a native of the town of Watervliet, in the county of Albany, the district which I have the honor to represent here. Although in early life he left the community in which he had been born and went to the West, finally settling in the great Pacific State which he afterwards represented in the Senate, it was always a matter of special pride to the people of his native county that his career was so successful, and this pride was enhanced by the fact that, although his later home was in so distant a part of the Union, he never lost interest in his native place.

From time to time he came to visit his birthplace, and upon those occasions that generosity which was so prominent a trait

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