Contents Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 5 Sixty-eighth Congress SUBMITTED BY MR. WILLIS Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there shall be compiled, printed with illustrations, and bound, as may be directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, 25,000 copies of the oration delivered by the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes in the House of Representatives during the exercises held in memory of the late President Warren G. Harding on February 27, 1924, including all the proceedings and the program of exercises, of which 8,000 copies shall be for the use of the Senate and 17,000 copies for the use of the House of Representatives. Passed March 15, 1924. Warren G. Harding E arrest our activities to pay tribute to the chosen leader who, well beloved and crowned W with the most enviable honors that confidence and station can bestow, was taken from us in the midst of the administration of his trust and at the moment of the highest possibilities of service. It is fitting that we should render the official tribute of respect, but the significance of this occasion is far deeper than that. It is the tribute inspired by love of country, as laying aside the differences and controversies which seem but trivial in the face of man's adventures and God's providence, we stand united by the indissoluble bonds of a common patriotism, knowing well that ungrateful republics can not endure. The temples of democracy will be but as vain vestiges of a vanished faith if their altar fires are not kept burning by the memory of those who have met the supreme test and have laid down their lives in heroic fidelity and self-sacrifice. Above all, we give the tribute of the deep affection which moves us to speak in tender remembrance of a generous and kindly spirit who counted human fellowship more precious than all the pomp and circumstance of power. Not only those |