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By the President of the Senate Hon. A. A. Sargent, of California, 

 as regent for the term of his service as Senator, (1879,) \ice Mr. 

 Trumbull. 



By the Speaker of the House, Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, re-ap- 

 pointed, and Hon. E. Eockwood Hoar, of Massachusetts, vice Hon. J. 

 A. Garfield, and Hon. G. W. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, vice Hon. L. P. 

 Poland; for two years from the fourth Wednesday of December, 1873. 



Mr. Hamlin, from the special committee appointed at the last meet- 

 ing, reported the following resolutions : 



Resolved, That in the death of Chief Justice Chase, the Smithsonian 

 Institution has lost a wise counsellor, an efficient friend, and a zealous 

 advocate of its policy and operations. 



Resolved, That in his death, the country has lost an elevated statesman, 

 a wise, a just, and an upright judge. 



Resolved, That the cause of civil liberty, of pure Christianity, and the 

 advance of higher civilization have lost in the death of Chief Justice 

 Chase the co-operation of one of the most prominent and influential minds 

 of the day. 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the 

 family of the deceased. 



Mr. Hamlin made the following remarks : 



I did not expect to utter a word on this occasion. I have, however, 

 at the solicitation of the Secretary, been induced to make some brie 

 remarks upon the subject of the resolutions reported by the committee. 

 I first met Mr. Chase at the time when he entered upon his official 

 duties as a Senator of the United States, and from that time to the 

 close of his life I knew him well and intimately. This Institution has 

 lost an earnest, able, and devoted friend, and that we shall miss him in 

 our counsels we well know, much better than the world, for we always 

 found him at the post of duty, uniting with a broad and capacious intel- 

 lect, good, common, practical sense, and always ready to counsel well and 

 wisely. We shall miss him here. In the counsels of the nation he did 

 his duty well and nobly. He had what at the time were called his pecu- 

 liar opinions, and he avowed and maintained tbem at a time when it 

 required moral courage to do so ; but, however others disagreed with him, 

 none would say that he did not advocate his views with courtesy and em- 

 inent ability. In the heat of debate he might sometimes make a quick 

 retort, but his bearing was always that of a gentleman, and his position 

 that of an elevated statesman. On these occasions he did what he believed 

 would subserve the best interests of man and elevate him to a higher and 

 nobler civilization. As an executive officer duriug the war, he administered 

 the Treasury Department with great ability, and his name and fame will 

 be connected with those times in the history of the country. To him, 

 more than any other man, are we indebted for the meaus by which the 



