my dear friend the Senator from Connecticut. I dispatched a telegram to him forthwith expressing the hope that he would shortly and speedily recover from what I had been told was a heart attack. During the last 5 years I have been for most of the time seated here by his side. I learned to know him pretty well, and to admire him greatly. We had an understanding that when were were able to vote together, we were glad of it. When we voted on opposite sides, as we sometimes did, we gave each other what we called a soft note. We gave a soft objection, and not a vigorous or harsh one. In the last fight we had here we were side by side. During the last war FRANCIS MALONEY was a first-class seaman. I learned of the great pride he had in a son who is serving in the Navy in this war. His son is a first-class seaman, just as his father had been. I learned of his great pride in the accomplishments of his children, and of his hope, if the occasion should permit, of visiting Kentucky, in the center of the country, and enjoying life with us, a promise which he was never able to fulfill because of his untimely death. We are all so busy doing things we consider important that we do not have time to tell those we love, while they live, that we love them. Unfortunately, too, often we wait until they are dead, and then try to think of some words, futile and pitiful as they may be, to express our affection and admiration for them. When Alan Seeger, during the First World War, penned those valiant lines "I Have a Rendezvous With Death," fear found no resting place in his heart. Charles Frohman, as he stood upon the deck of the sinking Lusitania, was a mountain of courage as he whispered, "Now, I shall learn the rest of that beautiful adventure." Each must have been filled with anticipation of a great reunion. There is an immortality in the love which sees death fearlessly and, with forethought, lays plans for the happiness of the survivor. For his devoted wife and children, who will be deprived of his presence and his love and devotion, and who will suffer because of plans not fulfilled, which he will not be able to accomplish for them, I wish to read a poem which I read on one other occasion, written by my very dear friend, Albert Kennedy Roswell, of Pittsburgh, Pa., which expresses, better than I could express, the feelings of a survivor for one who has gone ahead: Should you go first and I remain To walk the road alone, In early Fall when brown leaves call Should you go first and I remain For battles to be fought, Each thing you've touched along the way I'll hear your voice, I'll see your smile, The memory you your helping hand Should you go first and I remain No length'ning shadows shall creep in We've known so much of happiness, And memory is one gift of God Should you go first and I remain Walk slowly down the path of death, For soon I'll follow you. I'll want to know that each step you take For some day down that lonely road You'll hear me call your name. To the memory of my beloved friend, FRANCIS MALONEY, first-class seaman, first-class Senator, and first-class man, Mr. President, I pay this humble tribute. The VICE PRESIDENT. The question is on agreeing to the resolution submitted by the Senator from Connecticut [Mr. McMahon]. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. Under the second resolving clause, the Vice President appointed Mr. McMahon, Mr. La Follette, Mr. Walsh, Mr. O'Mahoney, Mr. Bilbo, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Green, Mr. Mead, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Aiken, Mr. Hawkes, and Mr. Revercomb as the committee on the part of the Senate to attend the funeral of the deceased Senator. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. McLeod, one of its clerks, communicated to the Senate the resolutions of the House adopted as a tribute to the memory of Hon. FRANCIS MALONEY, late a Senator from the State of Connecticut. Mr. MCMAHON. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to the memory of my late colleague from Connecticut, I move that the Senate do now adjourn until Monday next. The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 12 o'clock and 36 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until Monday, January 22, 1945, at 12 o'clock meridian. MONDAY, January 22, 1945. Mr. MCKELLAR. Mr. President, I was sorry that I was unable to be present last Thursday when the sad news of the death of Senator MALONEY was announced to the Senate. I first knew Senator MALONEY when he was a Member of the House several years ago. When he came to the Senate he became a member of the Appropriations Committee, of which I was the acting chairman, and quickly proved himself to be one of the most efficient, fair, active, and vigorous members of that committee. Senator MALONEY was in the early years of a brilliant and useful career. He was born in 1894 and was just 50 years of age. He served in the Navy in the First World War and made an enviable record. He was Mayor of Meriden, his home city, from 1930 to 1933. He was elected in 1932 to the House of Representatives of the Seventy-Third Congress and served in that body until 1935, when he took the seat in the Senate to which he had been elected in 1934. He was reelected in 1940. Senator MALONEY had a most engaging personality. Always smiling, good-looking, and in every way attractive, he made friends with all. He was a good fighter for every principle he supported and he made an able and forceful Senator. He was not satisfied with all of the rules of procedure of the Senate and he had submitted a resolution to reorganize the Senate so as to make it more efficient. He was a liberal. He was a strong Democrat and a strong party man, but never offensive to those who disagreed with him. I think he was one of the most capable men who ever served in the Senate. Personally I was devoted to him, and I think he liked me. We got along splendidly on the Appropriations Committee and in the Senate. I believe I never heard him say anything unkind about others. The Senate of the United States will miss him. He was a great ornament to the body. He was a profound student of government. He was wise and his counsel was ever welcome and helpful. He loved our country and he loved our Government, and he just naturally loved people. I am greatly distressed at his passing away. I saw him only a short time ago and he was the picture of health. I thought I had never seen a stronger, healthier, more able-bodied man. I join with other Senators in expressing my heartfelt sorrow and my deepest sympathy to his stricken family. THURSDAY, January 25, 1945. Mr. CHANDLER. Mr. President, on Friday last, with other Members of the Senate and Members of the House of Representatives, I journeyed to Meriden, Conn., to attend the funeral of our beloved friend, FRANCIS MALONEY, late a Senator from the State of Connecticut. On that occasion, the Most Reverend Henry J. O'Brien, auxiliary bishop of the Connecticut diocese of the Catholic Church, delivered a very beautiful funeral oration. Mr. Herman H. Angell, of the Meriden Morning Record, has sent me a copy of that address. At this time I wish to read the tribute delivered by the Most Reverend Henry J. O'Brien: "I have fought a great fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. As for the rest, there is laid up a crown of justice which the Lord, the Just Judge, will render me on that day" (II Timothy iv: 7,8). It is not customary in this diocese to preach a eulogy on the occasion of the death of a member of the laity, nor do I intend to attempt to do so this morning. I would feel remiss in my duty, however, if I did not pay my tribute of respect to the noblehearted soul for whom we have celebrated mass this morning. He was a big man, big in mind, in soul and heart. He realized only too well we all have an obligation to keep God's law, but he realized, too, a special call goes out to those who have the good will and generosity to accept it. It is a call to a greater service, to a service above the average. He definitely felt he was called to a life of public service; he dedicated himself to it with a generosity of spirit that was characteristic of him. All the great qualities with which he had been so largely gifted by God, he bent to this service. His life indeed was an inspiration to those who had the good fortune to know him. Formal education, as such, he was forced to forego at an early age. He was, however, keen, inquisitive, and observant by nature. What was lacking in formal education he more than supplied by his reading and experience. Indeed, circumstances threw him among the poor. He learned to know and appreciate their trials and difficulties. It awoke in him a deep sense of social justice. His genial personality, his clear judgment, his hard common sense, drew the attention of men to him. It opened to him a new field in life and journalism. This gave him the opportunity to |