But yesterday he was with us like a giant oak, with a will of iron and a constitution that we hoped would give him a score of years; in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the omnipotent hand of God touches him, and he is gone. "We are admonished that no man, king or nation, physician or priest, can retard the appointed hour."

I saw thousands of boys a few days ago standing with uncovered heads along tho route from Indianapolis to Mt. Vernon, viewing the funeral car of our late Governor; I saw his people in his native town vie with each other to do him honor; I saw his body consigned to the dust; I heard the cry of anguish and despair that went up from his family; I saw gray-haired veterans cry like children; I saw on an unpretentious signboard," A. P. Hovey, Attorney-at-Law," and, as I looked upon all this sad scene, great black clouds dropped their tears upon the earth; I said: "This is the end of man. I stood among these scenes and saw the Ohio River marching on unvexed to the sea. I remembered the Indiana regiments, 200,000 strong, who, in the flush of young manhood, had crossed over this historic stream and dared death for the consideration, "love of country," alone. Then I remembered the thousands that never returned; then that great army who did return, bearing in their bodies the seeds of disease. I saw in my meditation, beyond the river the fugitive slave escaping for his life; I could hear the cry of parents for their own offspring, the cry of the child for the breast that gave it nourishment; I could see the stars and bars flung to the breeze, and "Old Glory" dragged in the dust. I saw Alvin P. Hovey, a brick mason, then a young and prosperous lawyer. He leaves a lucrative position for the drama of war; I hear his appeals for volunteers in the old court-room, in school houses, in out-door meetings. I see the loyal, the good and the brave rally around him. I see him and his boys, called "Hovey's Babes," like an irresistible cyclone, driving the angry and determined armies before them. The country is restored; the blighting and damning curse of human slavery finds its last hour and bitter end in the blood of patriots brave, and then I said: "He has only answered his last roll-call; his spirit has gone to meet the immortal Lincoln, the brave Grant, the lion-hearted Logan, the Rock of Chickamauga, Old Pap Thomas,' and thousands of comrades who have gone on before." They have left an undivided country;

the stars and bars have gone down to oblivion; the fields of gore, carnage and war are now fields of agriculture, romping children laugh and play where once the cannon boomed; school houses, churches and pulpits take the place of auction blocks.

General Alvin P. Hovey's name will live forever in the hearts of his countrymen. His name and fame, when the future historian takes up his pen, will be written among the greatest men of this generation.

Mr. President, I move the adoption of the report of the committee.

Remarks of Representative Dailey :,

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Senate and House:

Despite the universal belief in the immortality of man and the imperishable hope of a reunion hereafter, the human heart finds it impossible to reconcile itself to the irreparable loss of our loved ones when overtaken by death. Our sympathies and eulogies are but poor rags in comparison with the greatness of our loss. And, although no words can recall him who has gone, yet in the loneliness and helplessness of condition the heart feels some relief in words of sympathy, admonition and eulogy. As a lawyer, a jurist, a soldier, Governor and Congressman he wore a quintuple crown. My first recollection of Governor Hovey goes back to the closing days of the war. I recall his public acts; he was honest and efficient and his public life was one of affection and purity; he shone as a poet, he commanded respect as a diplomate, and in everything left that purity which entitles him to the title of our glorious and lamented dead. His achievements as soldier in two wars were shown with brilliancy and the victories he shared were for the benefit of no section, and attest alike the bravery of all Americans. We rejoice to honor a name so glorious, not because he was an Indianian, but because its beneficent effects are to fall alike on the citizens of the entire Nation.

We rejoice in the magnificent growth of our Nation since the results of his courage were garnered, and are led to hope that the highest ideals of the fathers of the Constitution are to be realized. His study, his industry and his statesmanship encourages us in the belief that God's purpose in plucking

from the bosom of the old world the plant of a new nation shall move forward until every right of common man shall be established, and universal happiness prevail, so far as it is possible with the frailties of human nature.

Let us hope his example may be emulated by the members of this Legislature. But if we are too much set in our own ways, still it will not be idle to hope that the plastic mind of youth and seeds of his heroism, honesty and purity may form its model after him whose death we deplore and whose memory we would to-day enshrine in auroral glory.

Remarks of Representative Dr. C. G. R. Moutoux:

Mr. President and Members of the Senate

and House of Representatives:

It seems to me that I am quite unable to add anything special to the impressive remarks made by the previous member of the Senate, touching upon the many noble deeds, regarding the service and character of the late General Hovey as a soldier, commander, executive officer of our great State and as a citizen.

Though I have not had the honor to serve under his direct command nor have enjoyed his personal acquaintance, but I am glad to call General Hovey a comrade of mine, for we have fought under the same banner of the stars and stripes and for the same great cause to preserve the Union of our States for, I hope, to unexpiring times.

We all feel proud of our deceased leaders and heroes, who stood, like our lamented Governor Hovey, as patriot and soldier, in times of peril in the lines of battle, for the defense of our country and that a thankful people take every occasion to pay a just tribute to the heroes, departed from the scene of life to an unknown world, from where a return is beyond anticipation.

On behalf of this side of the House I desire to specially point with pride to a work of memory to the acts and service of the heroes of wars for the defense of our beloved country in the shape of the Soldiers' Monument in this capitol city of our State, proving the true patriotism of a grateful people and aided by the appropriation of necessary means for that purpose by a Democratic Legislature.

The great commanders and soldiers, like our deceased General Hovey, will ere long be all called away from among us, but from generations to generations that great and noble spirit of a patriotic people, which so eminently characterize the American citizen, will never expire and will preserve in their hearts the greatest of all monuments, an immortal memory to those who have served our country, and through their acts have preserved a Union of States, in which liberty shall prevail and a government for the people and by the people perpetuated to all times to come.

Remarks of Senator Kern:

Mr. President and Gentlemen:

It would be difficult to add to what has already been said touching the life and great public services of Alvin P. Hovey. Nothing which I could say would add to the affectionate regard in which his memory is held by the people of this commonwealth.

I had not the honor of a close personal acquaintance with Governor Hovey, and know of his life and public services chiefly as a leader of them from the history of my country and State. From that source I learn that he was a just Judge, a brave soldier, a skillful diplomate, a conscientious Congressman and Governor, and in every walk of life an honest man. His decisions as a member of the Supreme Court are marked by learning, ability and a keen sense of justice. It was, however, as a soldier that he rendered the greatest services of his life, reflecting honor not only upon himself but upon the State and nation for the integrity of which he waged battle.

As I read his history he was a typical American soldier. I thus style him because when the hour of national peril came, he at once tendered his services to his country, marched to the front, braved his breast to the bullets of the enemy, walked upon the outermost ridge of battle, went down into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell, that the Union might live and the grand old starry banner might forever float.

He was a typical American soldier because when the war was over and the victory won, scorning to strike a prostrate foe, he became a citizen, and in time of peace no longer fought

the war. He was a typical soldier, as shown by the spirit of comradeship in which he always met, and with which he regarded those who with him shared the hardships of campaigns and the perils of battle. He believed in and always advocated the claims of the old veterans of the war. It was his creed that the soldier who volunteered for $13 per month in 1861 and served his country for four years, the soldier who shed his blood at Champion Hills, or lost a limb at Vicksburg, or sacrificed his health in prison deserved better at the hands of the government than the soldier who volunteered in 1865, received a great bounty, and knew nothing of the hardships and dangers of war. He believed that the pension roll ought to be a roll of honor, and devoted the last years of his life in a vain endeavor to secure a service pension law.

Alvin P. Hovey loved Indiana and was proud of her history, and the patriotic character of her citizens. If he were here, in this assembly to-day, his voice would be the first to repel the insinuation that people in any part of the commonwealth were disloyal to the Government in the hour of its peril. His voice would be raised, as it always was, in vindication of the loyalty of his State and the patriotism of her people.

Alvin P. Hovey was a brave partisan and a foeman worthy of the steel of any party or any man. By his course of honorable upright conduct he endeared himself to the whole people and did them honor. It is now meet that on this occasion the whole people by their representatives, without regard to party or creed, should honor themselves by doing honor to his memory. History will accord to Governor Hovey a high place as a jurist a soldier, a diplomate, a statesman, but in my judgment the crowning glory of his history will lie in his sturdy integrity and that fearless honesty which marked his public career at every step.

Mr. President, I most cordially second the motion for the adoption of the resolution offered.

Remarks of Senator A. J. McCutcheon:

Mr. President, Members of the Senate and Legislature:

It is meet that I should say a word on this occasion. While others have paid a just tribute to the public life of Governor