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My words are very feeble, but they are very sincere when I say that FRANK was held in high esteem not only by his colleagues on our side but by those on the other side of the table. We mourn his passing, and I direct to his loved ones my very sincere sympathy.

Mr. EBERHARTER.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle

man from Pennsylvania [Mr. Rhodes].

Mr. RHODES. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart that I humbly rise to pay tribute and to say farewell to a friend and colleague, FRANK BUCHANAN, of Pennsylvania.

Only last Thursday, the day before his death, I reported on this floor after contact with a member of his family that his condition was good after the operation the previous day. He died last Friday after a turn for the worse.

FRANK BUCHANAN will be missed by all Members of this House. He had a charming personality and a deep sense of fairness and justice. He will be missed by the liberal Members because of his practical idealism, his ability, and his courage.

FRANK was not the glib orator or actor who would appeal to emotions. Never would he sink to the level of a demogogue to ride the wave of hysteria. He was too much of a man for that. He would not sacrifice principle and honor to win the plaudits of the powerful and selfish who dominate the major avenues of public information. He was the teacher type. His appeal was always one of reason. His appeal was to fairness and to intelligence. He will be remembered because of the great service he rendered as chairman of the House Committee to Investigate Lobbying Activities. He worked hard and diligently as head of that committee. Someday when the average American learns the whole truth about what this committee uncovered, the name of FRANK BUCHANAN will win far greater respect and far more recognition than it has won today. I feel sure that the hard work he performed contributed to his early death..

It had an adverse effect upon the health of this mildmannered, earnest, and sincere man.

In his death the people of this country have lost a real champion. He was a type of person with high moral character and integrity so greatly needed in American public life today. He was a real statesman. He was a great humanitarian with a deep sense of honor and human decency. He did not openly boast of his great patriotism or deep Christian principles, but he practiced them in his everyday life and in his activities as a Member of the House of Representatives. He lighted a torch when he exposed some of the evil and subversive practices which threaten our democratic way of life. He left a challenge to us to carry on. I hope this Congress will do so. I hope it will complete the work which FRANK BUCHANAN So nobly advanced. If this Congress will not act some future Congress will, when reason, common sense, and justice emerges from the confusion which the forces of blindness, selfishness, and greed have so successfully spread. His great sacrifice will not be in vain. Time and history will bring honor to FRANK BUCHANAN as it always does to men of such sterling character when truth finally triumphs over deception. He will be remembered for his faith and loyalty to the cause of liberalism and true Americanism.

Little that is said here today will bring comfort to his wife and daughters to whom, in closing, I express my deep feeling of sympathy for the loss of a loving husband and father.

Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California [Mr. Doyle].

Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, I was one of the members of the Select Committee to Investigate Lobbying Activities during the last session. I had the great privilege of sitting under the chairmanship of Hon. FRANK BUCHANAN therefor, for that lengthy assignment. I shall always consider that as one of the high privileges of my life. He was a fine gentleman.

I think perhaps it may be appropriate for me to mention just two or three incidents of my intimate committee work with FRANK BUCHANAN. I think they illustrate the real character that he had. I always felt refreshed after being in his presence. I always felt I had met a gentleman who was trying to continue to be a gentleman. I always felt that I was glad to sit with him socially because he always had a contribution to make that was worth while. I want to say as a Member of the House that as our colleague FRANK has passed on from our midst, a thing about him I realized the most from my daily contact with him, so intimate for many months, was that he was outstandingly conscientious on his job, and it was a challenging job. I had occasion to go to California during the recess of sessions of the committee, and I left word with him as chairman something like thisI said, "If you need my authorization to carry through on something that the rest of the committee want to carry through, why, go ahead and use it." I knew that I would be on the move and that he could not reach me on the phone very conveniently. Twice during the few weeks I was in California he called me long distance. He reached me one morning very, very early, before I left my home in California, at 5 a. m., because it was 3 hours earlier here. He wanted to make sure that I knew what the committee was proposing to do on a certain report. He wished to make sure that I, as a member of the committee, had the opportunity and responsibility of also having a voice in the committee report, regardless of the authority I had extended him.

On another occasion, I said to the chairman: "FRANK, I would be pleased to receive the printer's first proof of that report. About what time could I have it tomorrow do you suppose?"

He said, "Clyde, I will be here at my office before 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. Your office is just around the hall. If you want to send over, I will have a copy here at my office

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at 8 o'clock. I will be here." He was there. He was there too often too early during that very heavy chairmanship of the Select Lobby Committee.

I then discovered that his habit was to get to work about the time most of us were thinking of awakening in the morning.

FRANK has passed on ahead of us, not because he tried to spare himself in performing his duty but because he was unsparing of himself in performing his duty. He recognized his moral as well as his legal duty; he did this beyond the call of duty.

Another time, I remember during the committee hearings, the question was under consideration as to whom we should ask the House to cite for contempt of our committee proceedings. Being a lawyer myself and knowing that FRANK was not a lawyer, I was greatly inspired by the fact that he was asking us to make sure that in our decision no injustice nor unfairness was being done to any man. This was typical of him. He was anxious to see to it that no man should suffer or be harmed a bit. He had no conscious desire to be unjust or unfair.

I wish to pass this on to you Members. I am sure you will agree with me that FRANK was a living example of a desire to be fair, just, kind, helpful. I think it is incumbent upon us as his surviving colleagues to be more fair than ever before; to be more kind and helpful to people because we had a living example of a man in FRANK BUCHANAN.

One more incident: I was a member of the majority members on Select Lobby Committee. I am sure that we on the majority, and the minority also, were very conscious of the fair and square manner in which he presided at those hearings. I had a sense of being able to rely on the fact that FRANK had prepared the work of the committee in such a thorough way that we, as members of the committee, could be conscious of the fact that the committee was presided

over by him, with a dominant desire on his part to see to it that the minority members could also always have equal opportunity to present their views and have their time for questioning witnesses on the committee.

On one occasion FRANK came to me deliberately just before the committee began and he said, "Clyde, I know that Brown of the committee has important questions to ask the witnesses today. Let us see that he and Mr. Halleck get all the time they need." This was just like him.

I had the pleasure of sitting with FRANK BUCHANAN the last day he sat in this House. It was the day General MacArthur spoke to the joint meeting recently. He deliberately came and sat down next to me. His first question was, "Clyde, how are you getting on with the Un-American Activities Committee job?" I told him it was a challenging but important job, much like the Lobby Committee. I thought then that it was quite startling that a man should get up out of a hospital bed and come to that joint meeting of the House and Senate, a really sick man, and then his first question to me was about a problem of Congress.

While FRANK never boasted about his patriotism or his desire to protect our form of government, it was just a part of him to be concerned chiefly with the welfare of the people of our great Nation. He was richly imbued with a patriotic zeal to so serve his Nation as to protect it against false doctrines and selfish people and pressures.

I will never forget, John McCormack, and you probably do not forget either, this incident at the joint meeting: You will remember that just that day a jury here in Washington had found one of the men whom we had asked be cited for contempt, Dr. Rumely, by a unanimous verdict, guilty on all three counts of contempt of Congress. John McCormack, just before General MacArthur spoke, leaned over to FRANK BUCHANAN, Who was sitting next to me that day, and said to FRANK Something like this: "I think that jury verdict, FRANK,

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