Senator HARRIS knew to the fullest extent the importance of details and the value of little things. He knew that the least things make the greatest; that invisible atoms make the universe and seconds of time make eternity. He did nobly and well the great acts of human endeavor by performing with painstaking care the minor parts. His careful attention to detail, his honesty of purpose, and his great loyalty to his people enabled him to become a true and honorable servant of the people he loved so well. His every act showed that he knew that "duty is the sublimest word in the English language." With him a promise was most sacred and never to be broken. I have never known a man in public life who could stand more pressure without shadow of turning from a friend whom he had promised to serve. Senator HARRIS was a valuable public official and his friends everywhere suffered a great loss in his passing. He filled his place in the United States Senate ably, and no one else can render the quiet, unassuming, efficient, all-embracing service so peculiarly his own. He understood to the fullest extent that the greatest powers in the universe are most silent. Like the silence of gravitation, the stillness of the sunshine, and the quietness of a mother's love, he did and did well his life's work, and like all of these it will last through all eternity. Mr. Speaker, during the first twelve years of my service here only two of my colleagues passed into the Great Beyond. First, I went to Georgia with all that was mortal of the late Senator Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, and saw him returned to mother earth at Thomson, Ga. Several years later I left in Washington in apparently good health my good friend Hon. Leslie J. Steele, of the fifth Georgia district, only a few days later to be notified of his passing and to attend his funeral at Decatur, Ga., where I saw him for the last time until the great awakening. Now, during the last twelve months I have been notified of the death and attended the funeral of three of my beloved colleagues: First, Hon. Charles Gordon Edwards, of the first congressional district, who was buried in Savannah; next Hon. Samuel Rutherford, who was buried in Forsyth; and last, Senator WILLIAM J. HARRIS, who was buried recently in Cedartown. Sorrows never come single spies, but in battalions. Three nobler, truer friends of mankind never lived. Their work is imperishable. It will last as long as yonder sun shall shine. Remarks by Representative Larsen Mr. SPEAKER: Senator WILLIAM J. HARRIS was one of the most unique characters who ever occupied a seat in the United States Senate. The one dominant, outstanding trait in his sterling character was his uncompromising loyalty to conviction. In truth, this was the very genesis of his political creed. He possessed an agility and vivacity of spirit that seemed to increase rather than diminish as the years passed. Although in ill health for some time before his death, the close of his life was marked by the same interest in, and application to, his official duties that had characterized the commencement of his public service. Beginning his public career he was first secretary to the late Senator Clay, of Georgia, after whose death he returned to Georgia, engaged in business, and was elected to the State senate, where he served with much credit. He was manager of the 1912 Woodrow Wilson presidential campaign in Georgia. Upon Mr. Wilson's entry into office he first designated Mr. HARRIS as Director of the Census, and later as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, of which body he became the chairman. His services in these positions were so satisfactory, and he was so greatly admired by Mr. Wilson, that in 1918 he personally advocated his election to the United States Senate. He was successful in that notable campaign and thereafter served continuously in the Senate until death. Elbert Hubbard said that after perusing the lives of great men one concluded that it was more difficult to find a gentleman than a genius. I do not agree with Mr. Hubbard. I have met many gentlemen who would be properly classed among the great-I have found them in all walks of life, rich and poor, proud and humble, wise and not so wise men who consistently displayed all the fine attributes of character and conduct that constitute a gentleman. Senator HARRIS is entitled to be classed among the great. He was a gentleman at all times and under all circumstances. He possessed to a marked degree the spirit of forgiveness toward those who he thought had wronged him and was ever ready and willing to adjust differences on equal and honorable grounds. This is characteristic of greatness and goodness. His demise marked a broad, dark somber swath across the political horizon of Georgia. His death is a loss, both personal and public, to which it is difficult to properly reconcile any thoughts and feelings. Remarks by Representative Wright Mr. SPEAKER: It has been said some men are born great and others achieve greatness, but the latter was essentially true of the late Senator WILLIAM J. HARRIS. By intelligent application and unceasing energy he acquired a broad knowledge of the true principles upon which our great Government was founded and applied these principles in his private and official conduct. Born of distinguished parentage, he was reared in a country town, and the foundation for his subsequent active and useful life was based on a practical education secured in the common schools, followed by a course in the University of Georgia. As a young man he became the private secretary to the late Senator A. S. Clay, and during this service he acquired a liberal knowledge of the workings of the United States Senate and of governmental affairs. He was later elected to the State senate of Georgia, where he rendered active and constructive service. Later he was appointed Director of the United States Census Bureau, in which position he made a splendid and notable record. Then he became Acting Secretary of the Department of Commerce, in which position his services were most creditable and efficient. He later served as |