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Mr. O'HARA of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, it was with deep sadness that I learned this morning of the sudden death of our colleague, WILLIAM E. MCVEY, of the Fourth District of Illinois.

Only last Friday I visited with him and conferred with him relative to the legislation which was pending upon the floor at that time.

All of us respected and liked BILL MCVEY. He was a gentle, scholarly, conscientious Member of Congress.

I am sure there is no one in the Congress who had been more closely and intimately connected with education than was Mr. MCVEY. He had degrees from various distinguished universities including Ohio University and the University of Chicago and had been a professor of education of De Paul University since 1949, a lecturer at various times at the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio University, and Emory University, as well as having been president of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

The fact that he had been a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity indicates the brilliance of his mentality. In am sure that everyone in the House admired and respected Mr. McVEY, as I did, for the fine gentleman and able, conscientious Representative that he was.

To Mrs. McVey and to his children, I extend my deepest personal sympathy.

Mr. HARVEY. Mr. Speaker, it was with genuine and sincere regret that I learned this morning of the passing of our colleague from Illinois [Dr. McVEY]. I had a defilnite feeling of personal friendship for him that a Member shares with possibly only a few of his colleagues. It was a feeling of deep kinship and one of great affection.

I frequently have paused to recall the fact that here was not only a brilliant man, but also a very humble one, who

had a deep conscience and a great belief not only in the system of government that he so stanchly supported, but in the importance of the well-being of the average person. His gentleness of character was also associated with an intellectual honesty that made him stand out as peer among his colleagues. Mrs. Harvey and I join in extending our sympathy to his bereaved family.

Mr. ADAIR. Mr. Speaker, it was with a very real sense of loss that I learned this morning of the death of BILL MCVEY. Ever since he and I came here together in the 82d Congress I have regarded him as one of my very best friends and certainly a man worthy of our respect and admiration. He was, as others have said here today, a very gentle man. He was a scholar in the true sense of the word. He was a patriot. He was a man who loved his country and his people. Truly his place here will be difficult to fill, and we shall miss him greatly.

Mrs. Adair joins me in expressing sympathy to Mrs. McVey and the family.

Mr. McGREGOR. Mr. Speaker, I join my colleagues in paying respect to "MAC” MCVEY, as I knew him. I have lost a loyal friend, a great and worthy counselor. The family has lost a loving husband and father. The Nation has lost a great American and a great citizen. I extend to the family my deepest sympathy in this, their hour of bereavement.

Mr. MCDONOUGH. Mr. Speaker, I join my other colleagues in expressing the great sorrow and shock we have sustained in the passing of one of our very beloved Members of this Congress. I have had an intimate acquaintance with

Dr. MCVEY for a number of years as an associate committee member on the Banking and Currency Committee. He always exemplified to me the high type of intellect and good American spirit that should be represented by a Member of this Congress. He had a keen intellect. He was always present at committee meetings. He contributed greatly to the deliberations of the committee and also to the bills that were reported by the committee to the House.

I join my other colleagues in expressing my sincere regrets and our consolation to his family. I believe the State of Illinois, this Nation, and this House have lost a great man in the passing of Dr. WILLIAM MCVEY.

Mrs. CHURCH. Mr. Speaker, there are moments when no words can express what is in our hearts. I had not known of Dr. MCVEY'S death until just a few moments ago. He was the last to see me when I left here Friday, after both of us had had a hard and strenuous day. As I left he said, "You know, when you have made up your mind and done the best you can in making it up that way, nothing else matters. If you think you are right, that is what counts."

I have known Dr. MCVEY since we both came here as freshmen Members of the Congress in January 1951. My admiration and respect for him have grown each day of the passing years. We have been very proud of him in Illinois. Without belittling any other Member, I would like to pay him the additional tribute of saying that he was one of the few scholars who have come to this House, holding a doctor's degree and being a member of Phi Beta Kappa-but always using his pedagogy to make life richer and more real, never falling into abstractions, but trying always to make his country better. I like to think of his gentleness, of his friendliness, of that calm spirit of dispassion in which he would review both sides of an issue and then reach that moment of

decision which others oft found difficult. Where others might rush to decision—in ignorance of all the issues involved—or emotion-Dr. MCVEY solved the problems for himself and for his country through careful thought, long study and a yardstick that measured an act not by whether it had popular appeal but by what its effect would be upon the country that he loved more than life itself. It is going to be difficult to think of the Illinois delegation without Dr. MCVEY. None of us, try as we may, can supply what that Christian gentleman and scholar brought to our deliberations, or the friendship that he gave so warmly to each of us. I am thinking of his family. It is not easy to lose a husband or a father during his service in the Congress of the United States. Home never seems quite so far away. Yet I can say to Mrs. McVey and mean it, that she will come to find comfort in the very fact that he was taken while he was still active and at the height of his powers, going with a smile on his lips into a richer life and carrying with him all the praise that a grateful Nation reserves for those who have served her well. That knowledge will be to her forever a source of strength and comfort, a stimulus to fuller living and deeper inspiration. I extend to her and to her family my understanding sympathy.

Mr. HIESTAND. Mr. Speaker, I wish to join with my colleagues and to commend them for the tributes they have been and are making to our recent colleague, the Honorable WILLIAM MCVEY, of Illinois. I knew him, perhaps, better than some because I sat alongside him in the Committee on Banking and Currency. He was an authority on banking and currency. He had these college degrees and was a scholar, but unlike many scholars he was constantly a student. He was a very deep student of monetary affairs-gold, debt management, and inflation. I had occasion to compare notes with him frequently on some of these subjects. I enjoyed his com

pany because he had not only this giant intellect but also a delightful sense of humor, a straight and clean method of reasoning. Truly, Mr. Speaker, the House has lost a tower of strength. I join with my associates in great regret at his passing.

Mr.BEAMER. Mr. Speaker, it is with a deep sense of grief that I join our colleagues in expressing my sympathy to the McVey family in the passing of one whom we respected and loved.

I, too, came to the Congress with BILL MCVEY in the 82d Congress. It did not take me long to learn of his sterling qualities, his unswerving character, and his loyalty and devotion to his work and to his country. So often I have felt that he was a man I wanted to emulate, and I know I did so on many occasions. In fact, there were many times when, as I sat beside BILL, I would ask him what he thought about this or that measure. I always found he was thinking not of BILL MCVEY but of the people back home and of the future generations who would be affected. He was not only thinking of the present but always of the future.

So I want to join with my colleagues of the 82d Congress and the present Congress in paying tribute to this man we always liked to emulate. Mrs. Beamer joins me in expressing our sense of heartfelt loss, our sincere regard, and deepest sympathy to his family.

He has preceded us but a short while in his journey to that great land. Let us so live that with him we may approach that event with an unfaltering trust and as serenely as he who has wrapped the draperies of his couch about him and laid down to pleasant dreams.

Mr. BOYLE. Mr. Speaker, it is a sorrowful assignment to take the floor this afternoon to memorialize a colleague and

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