John Thomas Memorial Services TUESDAY, May 28, 1946. The SPEAKER of the House of Representatives presided. The Members of the House rose and remained standing while the relatives and friends of the deceased Members were escorted into the House Chamber by the Committee on Memorials. The Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, D. D., offered the following prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. Hon. LOUIS C. RABAUT sang Ave Maria, composed by A. H. Rosewig, accompanied by Joan Marie Rabaut at the piano. Ave Maria, Ave Maria, Ave, Ave Maria. Ave Maria, Gratia plena Dominus, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus Et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria mater Dei Ora, ora pro nobis. Peccatoribus, peccatoribus Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen, Amen, Ave Maria, Amen. [ 13 ] The CHAPLAIN: SCRIPTURE READING AND PRAYER The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. "O yet we trust that somehow good To pangs of nature, sins of will, "That not a worm is cloven in vain; That not a moth with vain desire "So runs my dream, but what am I? "I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar stairs [14] "I stretch lame hands of faith and grope, To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope." Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am there ye may be also. And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall reign forever and ever. "Yet Love will dream and Faith will trust The stars shine through his cypress trees! Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned in hours of faith, That Life is ever Lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!' [ 15 ] ROLL OF DECEASED MEMBERS Mr. Alney E. Chaffee, reading clerk of the House of Representatives, read the following roll: JAMES GRAVES SCRUGHAM, Senator from the State of Nevada. Born January 19, 1880; engineer; teacher; soldier; graduate University of Kentucky 1906; commissioned major, United States Army, 1917, and promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel 1918; State engineer of Nevada, 1917-23; State public service commissioner, 1919-23; Governor of Nevada, 1923–27; Member of the House of Representatives, Seventy-third to Seventy-seventh Congresses; elected to the United States Senate 1942; died June 23, 1945. HIRAM WARREN JOHNSON, Senator from the State of California. Born September 2, 1866; lawyer; student University of California; elected Governor of California 1910; reelected 1914; one of the founders of the Progressive Party 1912; nominee for Vice President of the United States on the Progressive Party ticket 1912; elected to the United States Senate 1916, 1922, 1928, 1934, and 1940; died August 6. 1945. JOHN THOMAS, Senator from the State of Idaho. Born January 4, 1874; teacher, livestock dealer; banker; student Phillipsburg (Kans.) High School and Central Normal College; superintendent of schools of Phillips County, 1898–1903; register of land office, Colby, 1906-9; mayor of Gooding, Idaho, 1917–19; chairman of the Republican State Central Committee 1922-24; member of the Republican National Committee, 1925–33; Member of the United States Senate, under appointment and election from June 30, 1928, to March 3, 1933; again appointed on January 27, 1940, and elected the same year; reelected 1942; died November 10, 1945. JAMES WHEATON MOTT, First Congressional District of Oregon. Born November 12, 1883; lawyer; student of University of Oregon; Stanford University; graduate of Columbia University 1909 and Willamette University 1917; served in the United States Navy 1918 and 1919; city attorney, Astoria, 1920-22; member of the Oregon House of Representatives, 1922–28, 1930–32; State corporation commissioner 1931-32; Member of the Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Congresses; died November 12, 1945. JOSEPH WILSON ERVIN, Tenth Congressional District of North Carolina. Born March 3, 1901; lawyer; graduate of the University of North Carolina 1921; student University of North Carolina Law |