Remarks by Representative Mason Mr. MASON. Mr. Speaker, recently, on the floor of that Senate which he served so well, loved so well, graced so well, JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS received the final highest tribute of his Nation. The Senate Chamber was hushed; the scent of spring flowers filled the still, quiet room. Capitol guards stood at each end of the silver casket with its single spray of white lilacs. Before it stood the great men of the Nation. Behind it flowers were banked. The Chaplain intoned: Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Thus, a gentleman, a statesman, and a scholar was laid to rest. Remarks by Representative Dickstein Of New York Mr. DICKSTEIN. Mr. Speaker, to the world at large Senator LEWIS was known as the gentleman and handsome Beau Brummel. To us in the House of Representatives he was known as a hard-working and devoted public servant. Senator LEWIS died in the fullness of his power and in the vigor of his manhood on April 9, 1939. Death came unexpectedly and while the Senator was in the midst of his public activities. His loss is so recent that it is hard for us to believe that this genial personality is no longer with us. There is not a person in the city of Washington, no matter how humble his calling, who did not know Senator LEWIS by sight, and scores of men knew him intimately. Thousands knew him for his public work. There is no place in which friendships are more readily formed than among Members of our Congress, and whether one belongs to the House or to the Senate, a Member of Congress is a friend of every other Member of Congress. It was my great privilege to have known Senator LEWIS intimately and to have been able to count him among my friends, and to feel that in Senator LEWIS one could always find a warm-hearted public servant ever eager to listen to the woes of his constituents and to the pleas made on behalf of those underprivileged who occasionally come to our legislative body pleading for assistance. No cause however trivial, if there was an opportunity of giving help to one who needed help, was alien to the Senator. I am sure that I voice the sentiment of everyone in the House when I give expression to my feeling that the death of the Senator from Illinois will ever be a loss from which there cannot be any compensation. Memorial Exercises in the Senate MONDAY, May 29, 1939. The PRESIDENT prò tempore (at 2 o'clock p. m.). Under a special order entered heretofore, this hour is set aside for memorial exercises for the late Senator JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, of Illinois. The Chaplain will open the proceedings with prayer. The Chaplain (Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips, D. D.) offered the following prayer: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: Thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest man to destruction: again Thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in Thy sight art but as yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as Thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in Thy displeasure: and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation. Thou has set our misdeeds before Thee: and our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance. For when Thou art angry all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are three score years and ten; and though men be so strong, that they come to four score years; |