difficult field. He was always able to explain both sides of a legislative issue and he could give you clear and concise reasons for his stand upon any issue. It was this clarity of mind and thoroughness of purpose which made him valued to those of us who sought his advice.

Dr. McVEY has had a beautiful family life. Mrs. Springer and I have enjoyed knowing Dr. and Mrs. McVey during all of these 8 years. They have visited in our home and we have been in theirs. I can say for his bereaved widow that Dr. MCVEY will not only be missed by her but by all of us who have come to love him for what he was and what he meant to us in the Congress. I know Mrs. Springer as well as myself extends to her our sympathy and understanding on so great a loss.

Mr. BROWN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Dr. MCVEY was one of the most useful and outstanding members of the Committee on Banking and Currency. I was distressed to learn this morning of his passing. He worked tirelessly and intelligently. He will be greatly missed by all the members of the Banking and Currency Committee.

Dr. McVEY always looked for the best in his fellow man. I never heard him speak ill of anyone. I do not believe he had an enemy. He was highly respected by all who knew him.

I extend my deepest sympathy to his wife and family.

Mr. DAVIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it was with deep sorrow and sadness that I read in the paper this morning of the passing of Dr. MCVEY. Through the years that I have served with him here in the House I formed a great affection for him. I regarded him with respect and admiration.

During his lifetime, as has been testified here today, he achieved a great many distinctions, but he wore his honors with becoming modesty. He was not an ostentatious person at all, but he had deep convictions, and he had the courage of his convictions. It was a genuine inspiration to serve with him here. I came to look up him as a man who carefully thought through all of the problems which continually come before Members of this body. I came to look upon his decisions on legislative matters as decisions resulting from careful thought. He was a man who, regardless of consequences, would vote his convictions upon legislation.

He will be greatly missed here, not only on his side of the aisle, but also on our side. I join with all those who today express their sorrow at his passing in extending sympathy and condolences to his family.

Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, another one of the most beloved and respected Members of this body has been called to his reward.

I have known Dr. McVey since the day he first came to the House of Representatives. I learned to know him much better after he moved his office to my floor of the House Office Building. His office and mine have been in close proximity for some time now.

Dr. MCVEY was one of the most serious and conscientious men of this great body. He approached the great problems of the Congress in a very serious-minded way. He was a man of great experience, a man who gave a lot of thought and study to the problems of the common ordinary individual. His vast experiences prompted his deep devotion to education and the cause of education, but he had a much broader viewpoint than just the one subject as he served with equal distinction his district and the Nation.

Those of us who have learned to know and love Dr. MCVEY realize that he was a man of sterling qualities, a man of character and reputation. We can ill afford to lose such great and outstanding men from this body and the citizenry of this country.

In expressing my feelings of personal loss I want also to extend to the Illinois delegation my sympathy and to his family my sincere and deep sympathy in their bereavement.

Mr. O'BRIEN of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, in the untimely passing of our colleague, the Honorable WILLIAM E. MCVEY, the Illinois delegation has suffered a great loss and all in the delegation are feeling a deep personal grief. He was a man of sweet personality, a man of large ability and of deep learning. Yet, in all of his associations he was gentle, unassuming, and self-effacing. While we were of different political parties, I counted him among my dearest friends. There was never a time when the interest of Chicago was at stake that Chicago could not count on BILL MCVEY and I wish to say that no member of our delegation made a larger contribution to Cal-Sag, the Lake Michigan water diversion and the other measures needed for the welfare of the people of Chicago. He served Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation with dedicated devotion. Mrs. O'Brien joins me in deepest sympathy to his widow and his children.

Mr. O'HARA of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, mine is a feeling of personal loss. Dr. MCVEY was one of the sweetest men that I have ever known. He was a man of great learning, he was a man of tremendous ability; yet he was always simple, he was always plain. He never projected himself into the limelight. There was about him a fairness, a fairness that is seldom seen in such measure as it was in Dr. McVEY.

We were very close friends. His congressional district joins the district that I represent. Although we were of different political faiths, always between us there was a great bond of understanding and affection.

Not too long ago he told me that he had decided he could not run again. He knew the condition of his health and he felt he should retire. But when the people of his great district asked him to forgo his own personal desires and to stand for reelection, finally he consented. In that, as in everything else in a distinguished and honorable life of usefulness to his fellow man, he placed duty, as he saw it, above personal comfort.

Here was an unusual man, a man who in his younger years was a vibrant part of the great educational system in the Philippines when American teachers were preparing the youth of the islands for the responsibilities of self-government. What Dr. McVEY contributed to the great task of popular education in the Philippines cannot be exaggerated. In later years he made an outstanding contribution to popular education in the metropolitan Chicago area. With this rich background of experience, he came to Congress and at once took high place in the esteem and affection of his colleagues.

In two Congresses I served with him on the Committee on Banking and Currency. He was the one Republican member of that committee from Chicago and I was the one Democratic member of that committee from Chicago. Always we worked together in the causes in which Chicago was interested, and when there were other matters on which we differed I respected the sincerity of his views as he respected the sincerity of mine, and our friendship grew in warmth. He was an able and dedicated member of that committee, an able and dedicated Member of the House, one of the towering scholars of the Congress, and, above all, as sweet and gentle a personality as ever I have known.

To his fine wife and his children I express my deepest sympathy.

Mr. COLLIER. Mr. Speaker, it was a great shock to me— as it was to all of his friends to learn today of the sudden death of our good friend and colleague, the Honorable WÉLIAM E. MCVEY, of Illinois. I am sure our distress is more than shared by the people of the Fourth Congressional District of Illinois where BILL MCVEY was for years a well-known civic leader and beloved friend to all. Generations of school children grew to know and feel great confidence and trust in the man who guided the destiny of the school system in Harvey, Ill. His ability was recognized in this field as witness his selection as a lecturer on educational administration at a number of universities, including the Universities of Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was also elected president of the North-Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, a position of both honor and responsibility. He wore the honors well; he discharged the responsibilities with a firm, sure hand.

When, in 1950, a new figure, a new vitality, was needed in the fourth district, the people turned naturally to BILL MCVEY as their Representative in Congress. He has not failed to measure up to their expectations. There could have been no finer Member of the House, no harder worker, no more local colleague.

Through a long and purposeful life, BILL MCVEY devoted his time, talent and energies to serving the people around him. He served in the Philippine Islands, and has since served in various educational positions in Illinois and elsewhere. He was for many, many years superintendent of the Thornton High School and the junior college at Harvey. He has been president of the Harvey YMCA and a member of the board of the Harvey hospital.