SENATOR HEFRON.
MR. PRESIDENT--Though not a member of the Committee, my close neighborship and long acquaintance with Governor Williams forbids my silence on this occasion. I do not rise, however, to pronounce a eulogy, but simply to manifest my respect for the memory of a great, good man.
Governor Williams belonged to a school or type of statesman who, unfortunately for the country, are almost extinct-a school that believed in administrating the affairs of Government as the fathers contemplated, with simplicity of procedure and purity of purpose. He brought to the discharge of very public duty a sound and discriminating judgement, a mind disciplined in the severe experiences of pioneer life, and an honesty of purpose as fixed and immovable as the everlasting hills. He was a man upon whose shoulders and honors rested lightly, conferred upon him by his fellow-citizens and whose head or heart could not be turned by the fawning or flattery of those which place and power brought to his feet. Whether on the farm, in the Senate, in the Congress, or in the Chief Executive Chair of State, he was the same plain, affable, upright, sterling honest man.
