Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States: Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of John Bonifas Bennett, Late a Representative from MichiganU.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - 79 pages |
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Page 34 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 79 - Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the House be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of these resolutions and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Resolved, That the Cleric communicate these resolutions to the Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
Page 34 - ... the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention.
Page 34 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Page 79 - Chaffee, one of its reading clerks, communicated to the Senate the intelligence of the death of Hon.
Page 65 - And now, my classmates; ye remaining few That number not the half of those we knew, Ye, against whose familiar names not yet The fatal asterisk of death is set, Ye I salute!
Page 65 - Celestial voices Hymn it around our souls : according harps, By angel fingers touched when the mild stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality...