THE PRESIDENT'S VALEDICTORY.
Thereupon the LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR said:
SENATORS--Before I declare the the Senate adjourned, permit me to say in the way of a parting word that I am thankful to you on account of your aid to your presiding officer in the performance of the difficult task he has had before him. Coming, as he did, without a day's legislative experience, and being able to go through an hundred days' session and not a single difference of opinion existing between the Chair and the Senate is a pleasing fact to me, and it could only have been brought about but from your uniform courtesy and desire "to do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
You have had a greater amount of work to perform than any other Legislature within the history of the State, and I think the legislative records bear mark to the statement that you have done more labor than any of your preceding bodies. I wi 1 not undertake to tabulate your work, for it is known to you all, and is now a part of the history of the Commonwealth, and we now have every reason to believe that your work will receive the approval of the 2,000,000 people whom you represent.
Our associations for the last two sessions have been among the most pleasant of my life, and when I have grown older and turn with an eager eye and look upon the pathway in the plane of my life, these last hundred days will be like a beautiful oasis on either side thereof
One word more. If anything has transpired in your deliberations, during the heat of debate or in the excitement of the moment, that will in any manner tend to mar the memory of your associations here, leave it behind you when you pass out over the doorsteps of this chamber; let it be blotted from the tablets of our memory; let it be buried in the grave among other things which are forgotten. It shall be so with me. May God speed you all in your life work. I declare the Senate adjourned sine die.
And so the Senate of the first special session of the Fifty-second General Assembly of Indiana adjourned without day.
