ought to make you feel mighty happy, because it is a compliment to the fine work you as chairman and your Select Committee on Lobbying did."

Then FRANK BUCHANAN said to me: "Clyde, John McCormack never forgets to say a good word for a Member of our House, regardless of which party he belongs to, does he?"

I express my humble but very sincere words of sympathy to his loyal and bereaved wife, and to his daughters. He was brave and they naturally will be in his memory. I am sure we members of the Select Committee and the staff will never forget that after the work was over FRANK, on his own, saw to it that the many volunteer members who helped us brief and coordinate our work, because we had many volunteer workers, and we did not have money enough to do all we intended to, had a very sincere dinner. But it was just like him, out of appreciation for very valuable volunteer work well done, to give these volunteer workers and the staff a bouquet of flowers while they could smell them.

Mr. Speaker, some sage has wisely said that the evil that men do lives after them, but the good is often interred with their bones. But the good that FRANK lived in his daily life will not be interred with his bones. The amount of good he did was so great and its sincerity and unselfishness so pure that the good he started on its way through life will live for a very, very long time. Regardless of what religious faith we may have; regardless of the details with which we think through the matter of death and the life hereafter; regardless of whether we believe in a life hereafter or not, the fact is that the greatest tribute we can give to what FRANK BUCHANAN was and did each day amongst us would be to make our own lives habitually a little more sincere and our attitude toward public service a little more unselfish and generous and with a greater abundance of real service to others our daily watchword and practice. In a very large sense FRANK'S courtesy, kindness, encouragement, and appreciation expressed to me in his lifetime I believe will make me a very much better Congressman.

Now, in closing I wish to relate another incident on the occasion of FRANK'S last sitting on this floor. He leaned over to me and put his right hand on my left hand and said:

Clyde, thanks for sending me that letter to the hospital. It was better than a large dose of aspirin.

And so I thought that because I have, in these extemporaneous, humble remarks, two or three incidents of my association with FRANK BUCHANAN, I would share with you the text herewith set forth of a letter I sent to him on April 1, 1951. It was this letter to which FRANK referred:

APRIL 1, 1951.

Hon. FRANK BUCHANAN,

Bethesda Naval Hospital,

Bethesda, Md.

MY DEAR FRANK: I have been missing you hereabouts. Just now I called your office and found that the reason for your smiling face not appearing on the floor and elsewhere during the last couple of weeks-was because you were out there in Bethesda resting up a Good luck to you. You are a prince of a gentleman.

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If there is anything in the world I can do for you, let me know; tell your secretaries to let me know. Either my staff or I will be glad to help them.

Cordially yours,

Mr. EBERHARTER.

CLYDE DOYLE, Member of Congress.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle

man from Florida [Mr. Sikes].

Mr. SIKES. Mr. Speaker, I subscribe in great earnestness to all that has been said here today about FRANK BUCHANAN and his value as a good American, a good Congressman, a good friend, a good husband and father.

There are times when sorrow is genuine and regret is sincere; this is one of those times. We know now how much we need FRANK BUCHANAN and men like him, and how much we shall miss him.

Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Albert].

Mr. ALBERT.

Mr. Speaker, like all other Members of this body, I was greatly shocked and deeply grieved on learning of the death of my friend, FRANK BUCHANAN. I met FRANK when I first came to the Congress. I learned to love him. When the Select Committee on Lobbying Activities was organized I had the honor of serving under his leadership. I then learned to admire him as I have admired few men in my lifetime. I have never known a man who had more consistency of purpose, more devotion to duty or a greater capacity for hard work than FRANK BUCHANAN. I know his lovely wife and lovely daughters and I extend to them my deepest sympathy in this hour of their bereavement. This country has lost a fine public servant; I have lost a fine friend.

Mr. EBERHARTER.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle

man from Pennsylvania [Mr. Kearns].

Mr. KEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I know the Nation today grieves over the loss of a capable legislator. FRANK BUCHANAN was a great man because he was a great humanitarian.

I happened to have known FRANK BUCHANAN many years before he came to Congress. He was a school teacher and we had served on education panels many times that were evaluating educational programs in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I learned to admire him then and I have always highly respected him since he became a Member of Congress.

I was deeply shocked last Friday night in Pennsylvania when I learned of his death. It was quite a coincidence because early that morning I had been in a little grocery store buying some groceries. The clerk asked: "Do you ever see my friend FRANK BUCHANAN down there in Washington?” I said, "Oh, yes; quite often. He is sick." He said, "Is that so?" He further said: "I had FRANK BUCHANAN in school. He taught me. He was a good teacher and a good friend."

He said, "I want to tell you something, Congressman, the reason FRANK BUCHANAN was mayor of the city and then later United States Congressman was because the boys and girls thought there was no one like FRANK BUCHANAN."

So as I humbly stand in the well of the House today paying my last tribute to a great teacher and a good Congressman I, like all of the students who graduated under FRANK BUCHANAN, realize how sorrowfully we mourn his passing.

Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Louisiana [Mr. Boggs].

Mr. BOGGS of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I first came to know FRANK BUCHANAN intimately when I served with him on the Joint Committee on Housing. We went over the country together and while FRANK BUCHANAN had definite and strong convictions after due study and deliberation about the type of legislation that committee should recommend, he was always eminently fair in his consideration of witnesses and others who desired to be heard before the committee. As a matter of fact, we worked oftentimes late at night because FRANK was insistent that everyone who desired to be heard be given that opportunity.

I think that fairly characterizes his service in this body and to the people of America. He desired at all times to hear all sides of a question, and having reached a decision, he was square and firm in his convictions regardless of what the consequences might be to him personally or politically. He was devoted to his country, to his colleagues here in Congress, to his fine wife, and lovely daughters.

Mr. Speaker, I believe that as long as our Nation is able to produce men of the character of FRANK BUCHANAN and the people are able to elect and send men of the type of his convictions to the Congress, our Republic and its future is assured.

Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Hamilton C. Jones].

Mr. HAMILTON C. JONES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to make a few remarks concerning my good friend FRANK BUCHANAN. This is my third term in Congress, and I unhesitatingly say that FRANK was one of the finest men I have met in Washington. In character he was very strong, but kind and thoughtful. In temperament he was of that type which is suited for responsibility in the Congress of the United States and for intelligent and consistent decisions. In disposition he possessed an evenness of temper and fairness to the other man's view which is rarely excelled in public life; in diligence and industry in the discharge of his duties as Congressman. There are very few men who during their service ever worked harder at their job than FRANK. This was shown in the masterful way in which he tackled the job of heading the Lobby Investigating Committee. And may I mention as a most valuable asset of his character was his love and devotion for his family, consisting of his attractive wife and two charming daughters, to which our heartfelt sympathy is extended.

In public service he rose very rapidly, in the opinion not only of the Members of Congress, but of the people of the Nation. It was quite unusual for a Member of Congress to have attained the prominence and influence and general all-around ability acquired by FRANK BUCHANAN since his entrance into Congress in the latter part of the Seventyninth Congress.

A splendid future lay ahead of him, and it is most disappointing and very sad that his career should have been cut short at a time when he was so rapidly developing as a great leader in the proceedings of Congress, and especially of those appertaining to his important Committee on Banking and Currency.

Mr. EBERHARTER. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Rabaut].

Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Speaker, so many of FRANK BUCHANAN'S colleagues have told us of his devotion, of his splendid char