Senate met in regular session at 10 o'clock A. M., President Milliman presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev. B. E. S. Ely, D. D., of Winterset, Iowa. On motion of Senator McIntire, Senator Emmert was excused. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. Senator Lambert presented petition of citizens of Iowa to enact a competent law with means for rigid enforcement for the protection of fish. Referred to committee on Fish and Game. Senator Classen presented petition of citizens of Marshall county asking for an appropriation for the Benedict Home at Des Moines, Iowa. Referred to committee on Charitable Institutions. Senator Ball presented petition of officers of savings banks organized and existing under chapter 10, title 9 of the code. Referred to committee on Banks and Banking. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS. By Senator Fitchpatrick, Senate file No. 23, a bill for an act making appropriation to the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Appropriations. By Senator Fitchpatrick, Senate file No. 24, a bill for an act to levy tax to provide for the erection of necessary buildings for the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Ways and Means. By Senator Young, Senate file No. 25, a bill for an act to repeal chapter 38 of the laws of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, and to amend section 1533 of the code relating to cutting of weeds on the public highways. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Highways. By Senator Hayward, Senate file No. 26, a bill for an act providing for compulsory education. Read first and second time and referred to committe on Schools. By Senator Crossley, Senate file No. 27, a bill for an act providing for the listing and taxing of mortgages and other liens upon real estate. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Ways and Means. By Senator McArthur. Senate file No. 28, a bill for an act for the purpose of creating a game protection fund and preventing unauthorized persons from killing birds and game. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Fish and Game. Senator Allyn introduced the following joint resolution: Joint resolution, No. 3. authorizing the executive council to print and bind extra copies of the report of the board of control of the state institutions. Resolved, By the Senate, the House concurring: That the executive council is hereby authorized to print and bind 2,000 extra copies of the report of the board of control of state institutions in addition to the 2,000 copies now printed and the 2,000 copies of said extra number be bound in loth or buckram covers. Read first and second time and referred to committee on Printing. ROOM 16 Senator Garst submits the following report: MR. PRESIDENT-Your committee on assignment of committee rooms and times of meeting submits the following report: The Journal of yesterday was taken up and corrected. President Milliman announced that the hour had arrived for memorial services of ex-Governor Carpenter. Senator Healy reported the following resolution from the committee appointed to prepare resolutions respecting the death of ex-Gov. C. C. Carpenter. The committee appointed to report to the Senate resolutions respecting the death of ex-Governor Carpenter beg leave to report the amended resolutions: Resolved, By the Senate: That we have heard with sorrow of the death of ex-Governor Carpenter, and we herewith record our great appreciation of his public services as teacher, legislator, soldier, congressman and governor. We know that none has held higher ideals, and few have been more effective in the upbuilding of good government in this commonwealth. His earnest and Christian life, combined with an uncommon prudence and foresight brought to him the good will and confidence of all. The great influence of Governor Carpenter was acquired solely by his worth, and we now see in his public utterances and in the enactments secured by him how fully he recognized the necessities of Iowa, and how accurately he anticipated remedial legislation. On the death of this pioneer citizen and lawmaker, Iowa suffers the loss of a just man who to the full measure has done his state and nation a service that endures, be it further Resolved, That these resolutions be entered in the Journal, and that the President of the Senate send to the widow of Governor Carpenter a duly authenticated copy of all Journal entries respecting these memorial exercises. THOS. D. HEALY, Committee. President Milliman introduced Governor Shaw, who addressed the Senate in eulogy of ex Governor Carpenter, as follows: It was my sad privilege in the spring of 1898 to attend the funeral of Governor Carpenter. Fron the porch of what had been for so many years his humble home I could see both to the left and to the right people massed for an entire block, and out in front two blocks. As far as one could distinguish, both men and women could be seen in tears. I remember dis tinctly one aged colored woman crowding her way through the mass of people for a seat on the edge of the porch, and when she reached it she fell half prostrate in a paroxysm of grief. It was the most impressive Occasion of the kind I have ever witnessed. Some of the factors essential to the explanation of this demonstration of regard I then knew; others I have learned since. Mr.Jas. C. Savery of this city tells this incident. In 1854, while he was proprietor of an early hotel in Des Moines, Mr. Carpenter, then a young man of 24 years, was his guest. In the morning when he went to pay his bill, Mr. Savery discovered that it was taking the last 50 cents the young man had, and he said to him. "Never mind about paying this now. Send it to me when you can." But Mr. Carpenter declined, saying, "I will pay as I go;" and he walked from Des Moines to his Fort Dodge home. If I am correctly advised, he taught the first term of school in Webster county. He founded a home there, was a husband and a father; was a neighbor and a friend; was county surveyor and government surveyor; was member of the school board; superintendent of the Sunday school; represented his district in the state legislature; enlisted as a private in the army; was promoted to the position of paymaster by a commission bearing the signature of Abraham Lincoln. He was chief executive of his state for two terms. He represented his district for two terms in congress, and was again returned to the general assembly. In no one of these positions was he pre-eminent. Most of his life was spent as a humble citizen. He was a neighbor and a friend; the advisor of all. The rich and the poor, the exalted and the lowly, came to him for counsel, and were never turned away unaided. His church life was also ideal. He knelt at the altar with his neighbors and his neighbors' children. He taught in matters temporal and spiritual. As a public official he met every requirement, and there was never a flaw or a taint of a suspicion of evil, so far as I have been able to learn, in his private life, and there was certainly none in his public service. He was a speaker of no mean ability, but he was not an orator in the popular acceptation of the term. As a legislator he was wise, conservative, and faithful to his constituents. He was not brilliant, nor was he a pronounced leader in any reform. As a chief executive he carefully guarded the depar ments of state government, and conserved all interests. He was a never failing friend. The clasp of his hand was always warm and the throbbing of his great heart was always kind and responsive. During the last few years of his life after he had retired from public service, his thought was largely given and his time largely spent in returning kindnesses, and there never was any task imposed or any favor asked that it was not a pleasure for him to grant and perform. History may never record Cyrus C. Carpenter as among the great. Nevertheless, measured by all that goes to make manhood, by all that tests the public servant, measured by the highest standards of citizenship and official life, Cyrus C. Carpenter was great. His greatness consisted in the elements which are within the reach of all and attained by few. Those who knew him best loved him most, and no one who knew him could fail to appreciate his true manliness, the exalted standards of life which he had set for himself, and to which ideals he measured up more closely than men are wont to do. President Milliman intre fuced ex-Governor Larrabee, who also addressed the Senate in memory of ex-Governor Carpenter as follows: |