A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents eBook
James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
William McKinley, Jr., of Ohio; Romualdo Pacheco,
of California; James B. Belford, of Colorado; John
T. Wait, of Connecticut; William H. Forney, of Alabama;
Poindexter Dunn, of Arkansas; Edward L Martin, of
Delaware; Robert H.M. Davidson, of Florida; Alexander
H. Stephens, of Georgia; Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois;
Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana; John A. Kasson, of Iowa;
John A. Anderson, of Kansas; John G. Carlisle, of
Kentucky; Randall L. Gibson, of Louisiana; Nelson Dingley,
jr., of Maine; Robert M. McLane, of Maryland; Benjamin
W. Harris, of Massachusetts; Roswell G. Horr, of Michigan;
Mark H. Dunnell, of Minnesota; Charles E.
Hooker,
of Mississippi; Nicholas Ford, of Missouri; Edward
K. Valentine, of Nebraska; George W. Cassidy, of Nevada;
Joshua G. Hall, of New Hampshire; John Hill, of New
Jersey; Samuel S. Cox, of New York; Robert B. Vance,
of North Carolina; Melvin C. George, of Oregon; Charles
O’Neill, of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Chace, of
Rhode Island; D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina; Augustus
H. Pettibone, of Tennessee; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas;
Charles H. Joyce, of Vermont; J. Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia; Benjamin Wilson, of West Virginia, and
Charles G. Williams, of Wisconsin.
The following concurrent resolutions were adopted
by both Houses of Congress on December 21, 1881:
Whereas the melancholy event of the
violent and tragic death of James Abram Garfield,
late President of the United States, having occurred
during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing
in the general grief and desiring to manifest their
sensibility upon the occasion of the public bereavement:
Therefore
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives
(the Senate concurring), That the two Houses
of Congress will assemble in the Hall of the House
of Representatives on a day and hour to be fixed and
announced by the joint committee, and that in the presence
of the two Houses there assembled an address upon
the life and character of James Abram Garfield,
late President of the United States, be pronounced
by Hon. James G. Blaine, and that the President
of the Senate pro tempore and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives be requested to invite
the President and ex-Presidents of the United
States, the heads of the several Departments,
the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives
of the foreign governments near this Government,
the governors of the several States, the General
of the Army, and the Admiral of the Navy, and
such officers of the Army and Navy as have received
the thanks of Congress who may then be at the
seat of Government to be present on the occasion.
And be it further resolved, That
the President of the United States be requested
to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs. Lucretia
R. Garfield, and to assure her of the profound sympathy
of the two Houses of Congress for her deep personal
affliction and of their sincere condolence for
the late national bereavement.
February 1, 1882, both Houses of Congress adopted
the following resolution:
