to the gift of oratory. He was not showy in his service to his people. But the humblest citizen of Georgia could bring to him his trouble and receive the response of a kindly heart, willing and anxious to give aid wherever it might be rendered. The attainment of distinction, position, and power made him humble and anxious to be worthy, not arrogant nor proud. Too many of our public servants feel that their selection for public place is a selection to rule and not to serve. It was not so with him. WILLIAM J. HARRIS in the Senate was as close to the ordinary man as he was on the streets of his home town before any public honor ever came to him.

Twenty years ago I served with him in the Georgia Legislature. Then, as throughout all of his career, he felt his obligation to the masses of the people, and disclosed that feeling by his legislative work. He was not a demagogue. He did not seek to win the approval of the unthinking by unjust attacks upon the interests of those of his constituents who were wealthy or powerful. He represented them also and gave to them every legitimate assistance in his power. But throughout his long career no man ever suspected that he was subject to the control of any special interest, nor that he viewed his obligation to the humblest farmer or workingman in his State as less sacred than that which he owed other classes of our citizenry.

When I came to Washington as a Member of the Seventieth Congress, with all of the lack of knowledge of practice and procedure in Congress which

afflicts every new Member, he found time from his numerous duties to inform, advise, and assist me in every possible way; and he continued the closest cooperation and accord with me in the more than five years that followed until his death. In greater and more poignant degree than those who did not work with him, I mourn the passing of a friend; an able, powerful, honest friend. I know-as who of our people does not-that Georgia never sent out from her red clay hills into her public service a man who loved her more and never received back into her soil the ashes of a man who was by her people more beloved.

Remarks by Representative Ramspeck
Of Georgia

Mr. SPEAKER: In the death of its late senior Senator, WILLIAM J. HARRIS, Georgia has lost a most unusual public servant.

Senator HARRIS devoted himself untiringly to the interests of the people of his State. He was never too busy to attend diligently to any matter in which one of his constituents was interested. No man or woman was too humble to command his best efforts.

For many years he ably represented the State of Georgia in the Senate. He rose, by seniority of service, to the top of the Democratic side of the great Senate Committee on Appropriations. He held other important committee assignments. These arduous duties, however, never caused him to lose sight of the common people of Georgia. Their interests came first with him.

Senator HARRIS was known in our State as one official that always answered a call from his people. He served them with diligence and devotion and was always active in every matter that concerned the welfare of the State.

His death is a great loss to our people. He is mourned by a host of devoted friends and my sympathy rests with them and with the members of his family. He was a true friend, devoted and

loyal to those legions of Georgians by whom he was honored with three elections to the United States Senate.

He was always kind and helpful to me, always ready and glad to assist in any matter concerning my district. His death is a great loss to me personally, and to our State.

Remarks by Representative Lankford
Of Georgia

Mr. SPEAKER: The State of Georgia lost a true friend and the Nation suffered an irreparable loss in the death of Senator WILLIAM J. HARRIS on April 18 of this year.

He and I came to the Congress at the same time, both taking the oath of office on May 19, 1919, during the last two years of the administration of President Woodrow Wilson. We both had been elected at the November election, the same month in which the World War came to a close. We not only assumed duties new to us, but new to all Members of the House and Senate.

The World War has more than doubled the departmental work of Members of Congress. We all gladly render this labor of love to those who served so nobly and well in the hour of our great peril.

No one was more anxious to serve well the veterans of all wars than Senator HARRIS. Especial attention was given by him to the claims of the veterans who suffered service-connected disabilities.

Senator HARRIS, because of his previous experience in departmental matters, was well fitted for the splendid and untiring service which he rendered not only to World War veterans but to all who asked him for aid.