CARL EDGAR MAPES was born on a farm near Kalamo, Eaton County, Mich., December 26, 1874; attended the common schools; was graduated from Olivet (Michigan) College in 1896 and from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1899; was admitted to the bar, and commenced the practice of law in Grand Rapids in 1899; member of the State house of representatives 1905–1907; member of the State senate 1909-1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1913, until his death; member of the House subcommittee to take testimony in New Orleans, La., on a bill to conserve oil production, and died in that city on December 12, 1939; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich. In the House of Representatives MONDAY, March 25, 1940. Mr. BULWINKLE. Mr. Speaker, I have sent to the Clerk's desk the usual resolution providing for memorial services for deceased Members of Congress to be held on Wednesday, April 24, and I ask its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: House Resolution 437 Resolved, That on Wednesday, the 24th day of April 1940, immediately after the approval of the Journal, the House shall stand at recess for the purpose of holding the memorial services as arranged by the Committee on Memorials, under the provisions of clause 40-A of rule XI. The order of exercises and proceedings of the service shall be printed in the Congressional Record, and all Members shall have leave to extend their remarks in the Congressional Record until the last issue of the Record of the third session of the Seventy-sixth Congress, on the life, character, and public service of the deceased Members. At the conclusion of the proceedings the Speaker shall call the House to order, and then, as a further mark of respect to the memories of the deceased, he shall declare the House adjourned. |