18 MAJOR JOHN F. LACEY 



from public life. His loss was a loss not to the people of 

 Iowa alone, but to the people of the entire nation, and no 

 man has since appeared in Congress to take up the great 

 work of the conservation of wild life in so able, so per- 

 sistent, and so effective a manner as Major Lacey did 

 that work. 



Major Lacey enjoyed the confidence and respect of his 

 associates in Congress, to an unusual degree. They all 

 considered him an absolute authority on everything per- 

 taining to nature and the great outdoors. 



He was also recognized as an authority on constitu- 

 tional law. In fact a member of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives told me that Lacey was generally regarded as 

 the greatest constitutional lawyer in that body. 



