To that mysterious exercise of His will which has taken from us the
loved and illustrious citizen who was but lately the head of the
nation we bow in sorrow and submission.
The memory of his exalted character, of his noble achievements, and
of his patriotic life will be treasured forever as a sacred
possession of the whole people.
The announcement of his death drew from foreign governments and
peoples tributes of sympathy and sorrow which history will record as
signal tokens of the kinship of nations and the federation of
mankind.
The Senate on December 6, 1881, adopted the following resolution:
_Resolved_, That a committee of six Senators be appointed on the
part of the Senate to join such committee as may be appointed on the
part of the House to consider and report by what token of respect
and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States
to express the deep sensibility of the nation to the event of the
decease of the late President, James A. Garfield, and that so much
of the message of the President as relates to that melancholy event
be referred to said committee.
The committee on the part of the Senate, having been subsequently
increased to eight, comprised the following-named gentlemen:
John Sherman, of Ohio; George H. Pendleton, of Ohio; Henry L. Dawes, of
Massachusetts; Elbridge G. Lapham, of New York; Thomas F. Bayard, of
Delaware; John T.
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