His sudden and untimely death has come as a great shock to all his colleagues, and saddest emotions choke the words of those to whom he had endeared himself. His sudden death has cast a pall of sadness over the Capitol.

Senator VAN NUYS gave a full lifetime of valuable service to the State of Indiana and to our Nation. His whole career can be characterized as one of fearless and courageous effort for the highest principles of government. Time and time again he risked his political life to stand for those things which he believed to be right and in accord with the foundation principles of our Government. His constituents honored that record by repeated calls to public service.

Senator VAN NUYS was truly a son of Indiana. He was born in Falmouth, Ind., and was a graduate of Earlham College, from which institution he also received the honorary degree of doctor of laws in 1938. Having graduated from the Indiana Law School, he began practicing law in Shelbyville, Ind.; was prosecuting attorney of Madison County, 1906-10; member of the Indiana Senate, 1913–16; president pro tempore of State senate. 1915; United States attorney for the district of Indiana, 1920-22; elected to the United States Senate on November 8, 1932; reelected November 1938. He was for a period chairman of the Democratic State committee.

He married Marie Krug, and they have one son, William Van Nuys, who is serving in South America as an ensign in the United States Navy.

In the United States Senate he had been noted for his unswerving devotion to the finest principles of statesmanship. At the time of his death his most responsible position was that of chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to which he gave honorable, efficient, and tireless service until the day of his death. A great statesman has fallen; the Nation mourns. The hearts of the people of Indiana, who honored and loved him, are heavy with the sorrow of a great loss.

Mr. President, I offer the resolution which I send to the desk, and which I ask to have read and considered.

The VICE PRESIDENT. The resolution will be read.

The resolution (S. Res. 245) was read by the legislative clerk, considered, and unanimously agreed to, as follows:

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep regret the announcement of the death of Hon. FREDERICK VAN NUYS, late a Senator from the State of Indiana;

Resolved, That a committee of 10 Senators be appointed by the President of the Senate to take order for superintending the funeral of the deceased Senator;

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will appoint the committee provided for in the second resolving clause at a later time. Mr. BARKLEY. Mr. President, I would not want the occasion to pass without a word in tribute to our late colleague.

In one of his eloquent addresses the great agnostic Robert G. Ingersoll said that "Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities." Those of us who profess and believe in the faith of our fathers do not accept any such definition of life. I have never believed, and do not now believe, that the past to which Ingersoll referred as one of the "cold and barren peaks" can properly be so described. I prefer to believe in the inscription engraved over one of the entrances to the Archives Building in Washington, "What's Past is Prologue." All the past has led up to this hour; all the achievements, all the sacrifices, all the burdens, all the travail of mankind from the date of the creation until this moment have led up to our present state of human existence. I do not believe that the past constitutes a "cold and barren peak," nor do I believe that the future is such a peak.

No one has ever returned to advise mankind what the future holds; no one knows what the future has in store for any of us, as a race or as individuals; but I should be pessimistic indeed if I believed that after all the sacrifice, the loyalty, the devotion, the innate goodness of man in this

world, he must journey toward a "cold and barren peak" representing his future life. I do not believe that. I do not think mankind believes it.

So, as we pay tribute today to our departed friend, we feel, as we must feel, that his toil, his energy, his industry, his honesty, his integrity, his high devotion to duty, public and private, have not led him and do not lead him into a barren, cold future. There is a greater reward than that for those who serve God and mankind.

Mr. President, in the loss of FRED VAN NUYS I feel a peculiar grief. Although on occasion we did not agree about public matters, there was an intimate relationship between him and me and between his family and mine. A more devoted, a more charming, a more loyal, a sweeter-natured companion than Mrs. Van Nuys never blessed the life of any man. It so happened that she arrived in Arizona only yesterday on a brief visit or vacation. She had hardly reached her destination before the word of her husband's death came.

I mourn FRED VAN NUYS as a Senator. I mourn him even more as a friend. I share the sorrow that I know is felt by all his colleagues at this sudden bereavement. I am certain that all Senators, indeed, all who knew him, join in expressing deep sympathy to his family and his friends.

We will cherish his memory, and I am sure that ample reward will be received by his spirit, in the mansions not made with hands, for the contribution he has made in the service of his country, and of mankind, and of his God.

Mr. DANAHER. Mr. President, because of illness which occasions the temporary absence of the senior Senator from Vermont [Mr. Austin], who is the ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, it falls upon me humbly to say a word concerning our beloved chairman.

For the 5 years it has been my privilege to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary I have come to know Senator VAN NUYS with an intimacy born of constant association. In the last 3 years of that service, throughout which he

has been the chairman of the committee, we who have worked with him have found him courageous, generous, and considerate. Learned in the law, and steeped in its traditions, he adhered constantly to the principles of the law, and to the lessons gleaned in the great experience he had had in its practice, as in the Committee on the Judiciary we labored with the affairs coming before us in due course.

We mourn FRED VAN NUYS. It is with the deepest sense of personal loss that I learned of his decease, for I held him in great affection. We who have been privileged most intimately to collaborate with him realize how greatly he will be missed in committee and in the Senate, indeed our country and his State are the poorer for his passing.

Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I was deeply shocked this morning to learn of the sudden death of my colleague and longtime friend, FREDERICK VAN NUYS.

I have known Senator VAN NUYS for more than 40 years. I recall when he first began the practice of the law in Madison County, Ind. I remember him almost from the time of his first case, for I was an officer of the county where he practiced. He began the practice of the law in the early 1900's, and I watched him develop and grow in stature through the numerous party and public offices which he filled so effectively and well.

Senator VAN NUYS served successively as prosecuting attorney of Madison County, as a member of the Indiana State Senate, as president pro tempore of that body, and as United States attorney for the district of Indiana, before coming to the Senate of the United States. The high type of service which he rendered here is well known and appreciated by all who had the privilege and pleasure of working with him.

Mr. President, it is difficult for one to speak at a time such as this, but I know that in the passing of FREDERICK VAN NUYS Indiana has lost a great and noble son, and the people of America have lost a capable and sincere public servant. I

know that the memory of FREDERICK VAN NUYS will live in time long after we who knew him and walked these halls with him shall have gone to our final rest.

Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, as one of the majority members of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate I cannot let this occasion pass without saying at least a word in personal tribute of my own to our friend and colleague who has suddenly passed away. I served with Senator VAN NUYS on the Committee on the Judiciary ever since I have been in the Senate, first as members together on the committee, and later I served under him after he became chairman.

Throughout the years, we have had in the Committee on the Judiciary some rather sharp differences over questions of great importance. Some of those issues arose while Senator VAN NUYS was chairman of the committee, and I wish to say that throughout the years I never saw any bitterness on his part; I never saw him, as chairman of the committee, attempt to force his own views on the other members. Always he presided in a calm, dignified, statesmanlike manner, seeking to have the committee itself function as a committee, and as such to pass upon the many important questions which came before it.

Mr. President, serving with such a man one naturally forms a deep and personal attachment for him. I count his passing this morning a personal loss. I mourn with his family and his friends.

Mr. CONNALLY. Mr. President, I am sure every Senator who had any personal contact whatever with our late distinguished friend who has passed away, the Honorable FREDERICK VAN NUYS, feels a very deep sense of personal grief and loss at his untimely death.

As a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, of which he was a most efficient and able and courteous chairman, I desire to say a brief word. As a former chairman of that committee I was associated with him for a number of years.