never deserted the faith that was in him. He lived and died a Christian patriot.

Michigan gave the world a great soul when ROYAL S. COPELAND was born. Michigan loaned him to the State of New York in the flower of his young manhood, and New York gave him to the Nation. You may follow his career from its humble beginnings on a Michigan farmstead to his thrice commissioned senatorship from the largest and richest State in the Union, and every inch of the way you will find a trail of honor, industry, service, friendliness, and achievement. It is needless for me to remind the Senate or the country of the brilliant part he played for many years in the legislative life of the Republic. He displayed an amazing versatility of interest. He completely mastered any subject to which he put his splendid mind. Indeed, the final entries on his Senate record tell this tale more eloquently than words. As the able senior Senator from New York has indicated, in the hard, hot days preceding the last congressional adjournment he was chairman simultaneously of nine different conference committees, representing House and Senate, charged with the responsibility of composing differences in respect to important legislation. It was an inhuman burden to put upon any man. But he who repeatedly warned the rest of us to take care and watch out lest we tax ourselves beyond endurance, he uncomplainingly taxed himself beyond endurance, and 24 hours after the curtain fell upon the Congress it fell upon his mortal career.

A notable patriotic organization in New York proposed for him this epitaph: "He died at work." Indeed he did. But I would add one illuminating phrase: "He died, as he had lived, at work for his fellow men."

I never knew any practical legislative proposal to lack his vigorous support if it sought to serve the welfare of the unfortunate, the lowly, or the underprivileged. He believed in social justice; and he practiced what he preached. I never knew any assault upon what he believed to be the

integrity of constitutional government that did not find him in the flaming armor of a crusading knight for the preservation of our free institutions. More than once I saw him under acid test, but I never knew him to desert a principle when once an issue came to grips with what he believed to be the destiny of constitutional democracy. In such circumstances he was always first to accept the challenge; and, having enlisted in a cause, he never knew the meaning of truce or of surrender.

Others have spoken and will speak this day of the details of his vivid record. I did so on my own account in the opening hours of this session. But none of us can add anything to what he has written for himself in the devoted respect and the long, lingering affections of his fellow countrymen. I can say only that I miss him-deeply miss him— each day that I look for him in vain across yonder aisle, where I now see the red carnation for the last time. He was so virile, so dynamic, that one thought of him as always living on and on. But inevitably the great accounting comes for all of us. Fortunate, indeed, are we if we may approach the judgment seat with so complete and so deserved an assurance of the eternal benediction which must have greeted him with the finality of all rewards:

Well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.

Address by Senator George

Mr. GEORGE.

Of Georgia

Mr. President, I entered the Senate a short time before Senator COPELAND entered this body. We were desk mates on the back row on this side of the aisle. Later, we were desk mates on an intermediate row. Finally, we both came down to the front row, and he remained my desk mate until the end.

Thinking of him today, I cannot but recall his last utterance in this body. Already the pallor of death was upon his face. He had grown weak with the weary work of a session ending in June. He had been on his feet many times to further or to complete legislation in which he had great interest. On the last day that he occupied a seat in this body, when he rose to make for his last time some observations upon a pending measure, I asked him not to speak. He assured me that he would say only a few words. Some one called me away from my seat, and when I returned ROYAL S. COPELAND was going out of this body forever.

I think of him as a man, because I was thrown with him so intimately from the time he entered this body. He was a man with capacity for great friendship. He had a great capacity for kindliness. He was a man of infinite good humor, and of good feeling, and of good will. He was patient, kindly, and gentle. He had those rare qualities which enabled him to impress all of his fellow men with whom he came in close contact with his complete friendship for them.

He was a great church man. He loved his church. Although he possessed that broad catholicity of spirit with which men are rarely endowed, or blessed, he had not the slightest antipathy or animosity toward any race or any creed. Yet he loved his own church, even as he loved the little town of Dexter, in the great Midwestern State of the

distinguished Senator who has just spoken here, with a personal, passionate kind of love.

He had an intense interest in all civic, educational, and religious matters, as well as in political questions.

Mr. President, thinking back over the days, I found ROYAL S. COPELAND when he came into this body intensely interested in general welfare legislation, in public health. He was interested in everything which had to do with the poor, and the weak, and the helpless. His sympathy for these was true and genuine.

He was interested much in human welfare legislation. That had been the background of his experience as a physician, as a teacher, as the health commissioner of the great city of New York, in the Empire State of the Nation. He drew upon his experience. But I saw him broaden, almost perceptibly broaden, his interest in the whole field of human legislation and human relationships.

As all of our colleagues will recall, he became perhaps the best-versed and best-informed man on maritime law in this body. He had a great passion to rebuild and to fortify and to strengthen our merchant marine.

We all know with what intense industry Senator COPELAND applied himself to everything which came within his care. We all must recall how, for the 5 long years to which the distinguished senior Senator from New York has already referred, he made his fight for the present Pure Food and Drug Acts.

Mr. President, Senator COPELAND's interest broadened after he entered this body, it constantly broadened. Not only did he leave his impress upon much of the useful legislation which passed this body and the Congress of the United States during the years since he entered upon his public service as Senator, but his own affections broadened. He was a genuine American. He did not pay lip service merely to the American system of government: He understood it; he had an inherited understanding of it which came down from the days

when the Pilgrims landed on our shores. Indeed, he traced his ancestry back through those Pilgrims to the sturdy Irish and English of the old country.

Senator COPELAND appreciated the American system of Government, and with that same kindliness and with that same great industry with which he approached all of his public duties, he never failed to register his deepest conviction upon those measures which have more significance than the passing matters which come before this body.

He had courage, and that is the rarest quality of the public official today, not only in this country, but in the world. He had a courage which could not be stilled or hushed by flattery, by threat, by intimidation.

As his desk mate since the day he entered the Senate I unhesitatingly declare, and in the declaration pay to him the highest compliment which can be paid to any statesman, that none of his colleagues had to await the roll call to know where ROYAL S. COPELAND stood upon any matter of great and first importance.

Mr. President, I well remember a notable fight, now ended, in which many of us in the Senate were arrayed upon the one side and many of our colleagues upon the other, an issue upon which honest and well-informed and conscientious and patriotic men differed, and I well remember the conclusion of the fight. A little group of Senators, personal friends of ROYAL COPELAND, met with him, as we had been accustomed to meet through the long weary months when that issue was before the Senate and the country, and we all knew that that evening the fight was over. As the little group dispersed, Senator COPELAND turned to me and said, "It has been worth this fight. We have had our small part in the saving of this country."

Senator COPELAND was a man of great courage, of high courage, and as I watched his broadening interest in legislation, countless laws and bills, from the beginning of his career to the end, I think I can pay to him no higher com