his father in the Whittenton Mills of Taunton. He gave
himself earnestly to his work, and eventually became the
president of the company. He was also interested in
many other concerns.
His excellent and long business training and the active
interest he always took in the aftairs of his city equipped
him for taking up the problems before him when he
entered the State senate and enabled him to deal with
the questions affecting labor which arose when he was
a member of that body and later when he became a Rep-
j-esentative in Congress. He was in the Army during the
Civil War as quartermaster of engineers, but owing to ill
ilealth was obliged to retire from the service after a brief
period. Even his short service, however, bound him ever
after to those of his community who had served their
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country on the field, so tliat he was an earnest member
of the Grand Army post of his city. His business ex-
perience, thorougli investigation of iiuhistrial questions,
and his excellent jiulgnient made him a valuable man on
the two most important committees on which he served,
those of Banking and Currency and of Interstate and
Foreign Commerce. His counsel was much sought. At a
time of life when most men, after arduous business jiur-
suits, are ready to lay aside all active work, public honors
came upon him, and he pursued his work here with (he
interest of a much younger man and the devotion which
he had given to his own private interests for so many
years. He was loj'al to his constituents, serving them
with great earnestness and fidelity, and he had their con-
fidence in an unusual degree.
Mr. Lodge. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect
to the memory of Mr. Lovering and Mr. Tirrell, late Mem-
bers of the House of Representatives, I move that the
Senate adjourn.
The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 5
o'clock and 25 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until
Monday, February 27, 1911, at 12 o'clock meridian.
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