was mourned by all of his constituents, without distinction of party. His death has created a void that cannot be easily filled. So well did he discharge the duties assigned him, and so exemplary was his conduct, that the people of his district delighted to honor him. Thrice he has served the people of his district in the Wisconsin assembly — once in 1870, and again in 1876 and 1877. Last fall he was made the republican candidate in Jefferson county for the state senate, and was elected by 1,165 majority, in the face of a usual opposition majority fully equal to that number. He has repeatedly represented the village of Lake Mills his home in the county board of supervisors, and was a favorite and respected member of that body at the time of his death. His convictions were always firm, his friendships unshaken, his word never disputed, and the people had faith in him. In whatever capacity he has served, faithfulness in the last degree to those who reposed trust in him has been his abiding rule. Life with him meant work, rot dalliance; duty, not pleasure.

It is no mere formal words of eulogy that I speak of his worth; I know that I express the sense of this body, most of whom knew him as a man, a citizen and a legislator, when I say that in his untimely death we have been deprived of the association of a true gentleman, a man of genial ..ature and kindly soul; the senate has lost the assistance of one who was always conscientious, judicious and sagacious in counsel, manly and honorable in action; a man of enlarged understanding, and true to his convictions of duty; that the state has lost a valued and useful citizen, and the community where he had lived, one of the most prominent and universally esteemed members.

Mr. Phillips was a man who would be prominent in any community, combining with excellent judgment and strong native common sense, a frank and manly bearing; modest but brave, men were attracted and attached to him by his kindly manners; they honored him for his good judgment and practical wisdom; they trusted him for his loyalty and fidelity to his frier.ds.

Finally, Mr. president and brother senators, let us imitate the virtues and example of our lost brother, so that when we are called upon to cross "the river" our constituents can say of us as his most heartily do, all do with one voice, "farewell, good and faithful servant. Peace be to his ashes."

Not only in conformity to an established usage, but as an expression of our sense of bereavement, and of sympathy to those on whom this affliction has fallen with its fullest force, I offer these resolutions:

WHEREAS, This senate has learned with deep regret of the death of Hon. Charles H. Phillips, senator-elect from the 23d senatorial district of the state; therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of Hon. Charles H. Phillips the legislature has lost a useful and faithful public servant; the senate, the aid and counsel of a conscientious, able and vigilant member; the state, an upright citizen; the 23d senatorial district, a va uable representative and a benevolent, kind-hearted friend; and his wife, an affectionate husband.

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of Hon. Charles H. Phillips, the senate adjourn till Monday evening next, at o'clock.

Resolved, That the chief clerk of the senate be directed to prepare a copy of these resolutions, to be signed by the president of the senate, and forwarded to the widow of the deceased.

Senator Hudd spoke as follows:

Mr. President: Standing here, with this craped, and yet artistically, and by loving and womanly hands, draped desk at my side, mortality seems to be nearer my official place in this body than to some others, and may give me the privilege, if not the right, on this memorial occasion, of adding my voice to the prevailing one of the hour respectful eulogy of the departed, who was chosen to be, and yet is not to-day, our colleague in this senate the dead senator-elect we mourn Charles Henry Phillips, late of the twenty-third senatorial district for the state of Wisconsin.

Senators, it has occurred to me that appropriately and well as the outward task has been performed in this floral and other tributes to our dead colleague, that the sad Prince Hamlet has best expressed the true form of grief for such losses, in that great passage between himself and his mother, the too-hastily new-wedded queen of Denmark, who decrys the affectionate son's dejection for a noble father's death. I reproduce it here as a most excellent funeral discourse. The poet makes the actors speak thus:

Queen to Hamlet — Thou know'st 'tis common all that live must die.
Passing through nature to eternity.

Hamlet-Ay, madam, it is common.

Queen - If it be,

Why seems it so particular with thee?

Hamlet-Seems, madam, nay, it is; I know not seems.

'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,

Nor customary suits of solemn black,

Nor windy susperation of forced breath;
No, nor the dejected havior of the visage,

Together with all forms, modes, show of grief,
That can denote me truly; these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might plav.
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Serving with the deceased in the legislatures that met for 1876 and 1877, but in different branches, the late Senator Phillips being those years, as also for the year 1870, a leading, respected and influential member of the assembly of Wisconsin, I came to know the deceased as well as it is possible to know and become acquainted with a fellow member during the brief weeks of our winter sessions. Opposite in politics, yet socially, and on all questions tending toward the development and prosperity of the state, I am glad to remember now, that we had an accord that was helpful on more than one occasion in advancing, as I thought and advocated, the material needs, honor and greatness of that commonwealth we sought to serve in our legislative capacities.

For thirty years a citizen of Wisconsin, coming to the just newmade state in the year 1849, he had seen a generation pass more

than the quarter century come and go, with marvelous wonders and changes; not the least of all those wonders is the rapid development and position among the states; of his adopted home the wilderness of Wisconsin of 1849, blossoming into the fair rose of civilization and cultivation the perfect and comely form of a great state in this North American Union. That he done his part in helping to make the state what it is, we have abundant witness; the annals and records at this capitol collected, attesting for him in this relation, while on every hand comes the praise of friends and neighbors, who knew the deceased, we are touchingly told, only to respect and admire while living, and to tearfully remember, being dead. They do not say of him that he was a great man, gifted or brilliant as a scholar, orator, or thinker; but they do say he was honest, painstaking and charitable; having firmness when it was a question of right or wrong; charity where humanity exhibited inherited or overtempted weakness. He had learned the golden rule and practiced it.

A leading newspaper of this state, the Wisconsin State Journal, published, on the 2d day of the present January, a brief but comprehensive biography of the deceased, from which I quote the following, as all that seems needful for his history down to the sad hour of his death, occurring as it did, as we have been so well informed by the resolutions under consideration, upon the anniversary of the new year, that came to him, in deed and in truth, as an era, and became his mortal epoch:

"Charles Henry Phillips was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, New York, February 24, 1824; received a common school education; removed to Wisconsin in 1849, and settled at Lake Mills. His occupation was that of a farmer, in which he has been successful. He has devoted considerable attention to the improvement of stock. He was a man of excellent natural ability, which has been improved by reading, and practical experience. His superior common sense, and the practical bearing of his mind, rendered him a very valuable man in society, and his death will be severely felt and deeply mourned by the people of his county. He served as a member of the assembly, in the years 1870, 1876 and 1877, and was a sound and reliable legislator. His great popularity with his people, was shown at the late election, in the fact that he was elected state senator, receiving 3,560 votes against 2,098 for J K. Ryder, his democratic opponent, in a district usually strongly democratic."

And now the record is to be completed by us; and it is summed up in the brevity that is always much in weight of sadness to aching and loving hearts.

Our colleague died January 1, 10 A. M., 1879.

How truly, in the case of him we now lament, comes the oftquoted, but to be remembered, aphorism: "Man proposes but God disposes."

Clothed by the partiality of his friends with an honorable office, expecting and hoping to do the state still more service in this branch of the legislature, when as yet he had not been a member; while receiving and giving the compliments of the season, speeding

the old as he welcomed the new; on the first day, too, of his new obligation to his people, who had trusted him to be their senator and representative in this chamber, his credentials for office were cancelled, at a second's tick of the great and mysterious clock of Fate; a masterful and powerful hand drew the veil over his office and seat with us. Thus it has always been; will be in the everrecurring problem of our being, and our ceasing to be "in earth."

"Life; but an errand to that magic morn;
Forever, on the brink of being born.

The resolutions were adopted unanimously, and in accordance with the above resolutions, the president declared the senate adjourned until 7:30 P. M. Monday, January 13, 1879.

MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1879.

Senate met.

President pro tem. Price in the chair.

The roll being called the following senators responded to their

names:

Senators Anderson, Andrews, Bailey, Campbell, Dering, Grimmer, Haben, Hathaway, Houghton, Hyde, Loper, Morgan, Paul, Price, Reynolds, Richardson, Sacket, Scott, Treat, Van Schaick, Van Steenwyk,,Welch and Wolf.

Journal of yesterday approved.

On motion of Senator Welch,

Indefinite leave of absence was granted to Senator Burrows.
On motion of Senator Morgan,

Indefinite leave of absence was granted to Senator Hudd, and to Senator Richmond until Wednesday.

BILLS INTRODUCED.

Read first and second times, and referred.

By Senator Grimmer:

No. 3, S.,

A bill to legalize the acts of John Carel, a justice of the

the county of Kewaunee.

To committee on Judiciary.

By Senator Scott:

No. 4, S.,

A bill for the division of the counties of Chippewa and Lincoln, and for the erection of the county of Flambeau.

To committee on Incorporations.

By Senator Campbell:

No. 5, S.,

A bill to authorize the commissioners of public lanes to loan a portion of the trust funds of the state to the city of Mineral Point, in Iowa county.

To committee on State Affairs.

By Senator Campbell:

No. 6, S.,

A bill to authorize the commissioners of public lands to loan a portion of the trust funds of the state to the town of Mineral Point in Iowa county.

To committee on State Affairs.

MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY.

By J. E. ELDRED, chief clerk thereof.

Mr. PRESIDENT:

I am directed to inform you that the assembly has concurred in the adoption of

Jt. Res. No. 4, S.,

For the appointment of a committee of one from the senate, and two from the assembly, to invite their honors, the judges of the supreme court and the state officers, to attend at the joint convention of the legislature, to hear the message of his excellency the governor.

Which was adopted, and Senator Dering appointed as such committee on the part of the senate, and Messrs. Ostrander and Condit on the part of the assembly.

Res. No. 6, S.,

RESOLUTIONS CONSIDERED.

Referring the governor's message to appropriate committees. Senator Welch moved to amend by striking out the following: "So much as relates to the institution for the deaf and dumb, to a special joint committee, consisting of two from the senate and three from the assembly."

Which motion prevailed.