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61ST CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT
2d &ssion. No. 518.
BIRTHDAY SPEECH OF SENATOR CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW.
Mr. BRADLEY. Mr. President, on the 23d of April last the senior
Senator from New York [Mr. DEPEW] delivered a most notable
address at the annual dinner given him by the Montauk Club, of
Brooklyn, in celebration of his birthday. The address is replete
with historical information of great value to the people of the United
States. The Senator on that occasion spoke in his usually entertain-
ing and eloquent manner In view of the historical value of the
address and the high standing of the Senator from New York, I
move that it may be printed as a Senate document.
The VICE-PRESIDENT. Without objection, the request is complied
with.
MAY 2, 1910.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:
No language can express fittingly my pleasure at the renewal of your
greeting. For nearly two decades you have gathered annually in honor
of my birthday. Members of all political parties, and all religious
faiths, men in the professions, in business, in journalism, in literature,
in the multifarious activities and antagonisms of American life, lay
their differences aside for this festive night, as they have done during
all these years. This holding in abeyance and suspension the antago-
nisms which divide men upon many lines is only ordinarily possible at
a funeral. Even in that case, some go as .Lar as did the late Judge
Hoar, who detested Wendell Phillips, and when, requested by the family
to be a pallbearer, sent back word declining, but with the remark,
I approve of the proceedings. It is a refutation of the universal
charge against us that we are so absorbed in materialism that we have
lost all faculty for the healthy enjoyment of association and that attri-
tion of minds without rancor which promotes truth and longevity, for
to-night, whatever we were yesterday or will be to-morrow, is devoted
whole-heartedly and unselfishly to comradeship and good-fellowship.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.beal/higvtca0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)