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ident. Tickets thereto will be delivered to the Pri- 

 vate Secretary of the President. 



The diplomatic gallery will be reserved exclusively 

 for the families of the members of the diplomatic 

 corps. Tickets thereto will be delivered to the Secre- 

 tary of State. 



The reporters' gallery will be reserved exclusively 

 for the use of the reporters for the press. Tickets 

 thereto will be delivered to the press committee. 



The official reporters of the Senate and of the House 

 will occupy the reporters' desk in front of the Clerk's 

 table. 



The House of Eepresentatives will be called to or- 

 der by the Speaker at twelve o'clock. 



The Marine Band will be in attendance. 



The Senate will assemble at twelve o'clock, and im- 

 mediatelv after prayer will proceed to the hall of the 

 House of Beprcsentatives. 



The diplomatic corps will meet at half past eleven 

 o'clock in Kepresentatives' lobby, and be conducted 

 by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House to the seats as- 

 signed them. 



The President of the Senate will occupy the Speak- 

 er's chair. 



The Speaker of the House will occupy a seat at the 

 left of the President of the Senate. 



The Chaplains of the Senate and of the House will 

 occupy seats next to the presiding officers of their re- 

 spective Houses. 



The chairmen of the joint committee of arrange- 

 ments will occupy seats at the right and left of the 

 orator, and next to them will be seated the Secretary 

 of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. 



The other officers of the Senate and of the House 

 will occupy scats on the floor, at the right and the left 

 of the Speaker's platform. 



Prayer will be offered by the Key. F. D. Power, 

 Chaplain of the House of Eepresentatives. 



The presiding officer will then present the orator of 

 the day. 



The* benediction will be pronounced by the Eev. 

 J. J. Bullock, Chaplain of the Senate. 



By reason of the limited capacity of the galleries the 

 number of tickets is necessanly restricted, and will be 

 distributed as follows : 



To each Senator, Eepresentative, and Delegate, three 



No person will be admitted to the Capitol except 

 on presentation of a ticket, which will be good only 

 for the place indicated. 



The Architect of the Capitol and the Sergeant-at- 

 Arms of the Senate and Sergeant-at-Arms of the 

 House are charged with the execution of these ar- 

 rangements. JOHN SHEEMAN, 



WM. McKINLEY, JR., 



Chairmen Joint Committee. 



The President pro tempore of the Senate 

 called the two Houses to order. 



Rev. F. D. Power, Chaplain of the House of 

 Representatives, offered prayer, as follows : 



PRAYER. 



O Lord our God, we thank thee for this hour and 

 for this service. We thank thee for a great life 

 given to this nation ; for its genius and potencies ; for 

 its example and memories ; for its immortality and 

 eternity. May this republic never forget its dead ! 



As we come together this day to recall the wisdom, 

 the integrity, the statesmanship, the loyalty, the rev- 

 erence for thee and thy word, the unselfish love for 

 country and for all mankind, wherewith thou didst 

 endow thy servant and fit him for the administration 

 of the affairs of the Government ; as we meditate upon 

 the patience, the sweetness, the fortitude, the faith, 

 the quiet resignation to thy will wherewith thou 

 didst fit him for his sore tria'l ; as we remember his 

 triumph and our sorrow, grant us thy gracious bene- 

 diction. 



We bear, during this memorial service, our Father, 



before thee, on our hearts, his loved ones with whom 

 we weep. Sustain, we beseech thee, the mother who 

 bore him. May the peace of God that passeth all 

 understanding be the strength and the crown of her 

 spirit. Be very merciful to the wife in her present 

 separation from the husband of her youth. May she 

 rest in God, and may she find such sympathy and 

 joy in her Saviour as the world can not give nor take 

 away. Be a father to the children now fatherless, and 

 may they imitate the virtues of their illustrious par- 

 ent, and like him be useful in living and mourned in 

 dying. May the youth of this land and of all lands 

 feel the power of his example and follow in his foot- 

 steps. May those who rule among us and among men 

 everywhere by the study of his virtues be incited to 

 like patriotism and piety. 



Now we ask thy blessing on this assembly. May 

 the remembrance of this great life be a genuine help 

 to all those present and that greater audience waiting 

 without. Give grace and utterance to thy servant 

 who shall speak to us. May his words be wise and 

 worthy and fitly chosen, like apples of gold in pict- 

 ures of silver. 



Eemember thy servant before thee, the President 

 of the United States. Preserve him from evil influ- 

 ences and evil men. May truth rest upon his brow, 

 wisdom upon his lips, justice in his hands, and grace 

 in his heart. Bless his counselors, this Congress as- 

 sembled, our magistrates and judges, our Army and 

 Navy, pur schools and churches, our whole land and 

 all the inhabitants thereof. 



May we keep alive in us the faith and virtue of 

 those who have passed before. Give peace in our 

 time. Make religion and righteousness, truth and jus- 

 tice, knowledge and freedom to abound everywhere. 

 May thy name be glorified and thy kingdom rule 

 over us from sea to sea. 



We ask it all reverently, through Jesus Christ our 

 Lord. Amen. 



The President pro tempore of the Senate: 

 "Senators and Representatives, this day is dedi- 

 cated by Congress for memorial services upon 

 the late President James A. Garfield. I pre- 

 sent to you Hon. James G. Elaine, who has 

 been fitly chosen as the orator for this histor- 

 ical occasion." 



Mr. Elaine (who was greeted with hearty 

 applause) delivered the following oration : 



ORATION. 



"Mr. President: For the second time in this gen- 

 eration the great departments of the Government of 

 the United States are assembled in the hall of Eepre- 

 sentatives to do honor to the memory of a murdered 

 President. Lincoln fell at the close of a mighty strug- 

 gle in which the passions of men had been deeply 

 stirred. The tragical termination of his great lite 

 added but another to the lengthened succession of 

 horrors which had marked so many lintels with the 

 blood of the first-born. Garfield was slain in a day of 

 peace, when brother had been reconciled to brother, 

 and when anger and hate had been banished from the 

 land. ' Whoever shall hereafter draw the portrait of 

 murder, if he will show it as it has been exhibited 

 where such example was last to have been looked for, 

 let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow 

 knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate. 

 Let him draw, rather, a decorous, smooth-faced, blood- 

 less demon ; not so much an example of human nature 

 in its depravity and in its paroxysms of crime, as an 

 infernal being, a fiend in the ordinary display and 

 development of his character.' 



" From the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth till 

 the uprising against Charles I, about twenty thousand 

 emigrants came from Old England to New England. 

 As they came in pursuit of intellectual freedom and 

 ecclesiastical independence rather than for worldly 

 honor and profit, the emigration naturally ceased 



