490 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLORIDA CANAL

 tude, affection, and interest which individually you have in so many ways
 expressed for me during my long illness. [Applause.]
 Only a few moments ago did the request come that I make a talk on the
 subject now up for consideration. It is the first talk I have made in the House
 for more than a year. May I read two lines of a verse quoted by one who, in
 the Senate, opposed this appropriation some weeks ago:
 "The waves that plunge along the shore
 Said only, 'Dreamer, dream no more!'"
 I wonder, Mr. Speaker, if the distinguished Senator from Michigan, who
 quoted these words, has since felt how pertinent, how prophetic, they were. I
 would say to the Senator from Michigan that these words are clothed now with
 a broader, deeper, and more significant meaning.
 That great soul which passed from among us this morning may have been
 a dreamer, but his dreams were worth-while, and such dreams always come
 true, sooner or later. They were like the dreams of Theodore Roosevelt, of
 Wilson, of Lincoln, of Jefferson, and of Washington-in that, after the dreamer
 was called away, there always came, as there will now, others to carry to
 realization those visions of these, our departed great.
 My friend from New York [Mr. Bacon], for whom I entertain the highest
 personal regard, is in error in concluding that the Corps of Engineers has made
 no study of this project He is in error in concluding that the Department of
 Commerce has recommended that it is economically unsound. He is in error
 in concluding that the facts gathered in reference to this project by the Corps
 of Engineers and on which their final report will be predicated do not justify
 the building of the canal
 I Invite the gentleman from New York to read, on page 3902 of the Congres-
 sional Record, the letter there set out from the Chief of Engineers-and then, fair
 as he is, I venture to predict he will rise of his own volition to say that he was
 in error. I invite the Members of the House to read that very remarkable and
 informing statement recently spoken, with deep feeling, on the floor of the Senate
 by that great man, now no longer with us, and which appears in the Record under
 date of May 30 of this year. It effectually answers much erroneous propaganda.
 The SrPaxm pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Alabama has
 expired.
 Mr. Bu HANAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield the gentleman 5 minutes more.
 Mr. OLiVL The two recent speeches by Senator Fletcher, full and complete,
 are the only statements in reference to this project I have read in the last 12
 months. To me they seem convincing, coming as they did from one of unim-
 peachable integrity, when nearing his fourscore years, after a distinguished serv-
 ice of 27 years in the United States Senate. No words of bitterness or unkind
 acrimony, no resentment against those who differed from him, will be found in
 these statements, but only a dignified, forceful, logical statement of the reasons
 for his faith and belief as to the practicability and public value of the canal
 Senate amendment no. 41, which the House is now considering, simply undertakes
 to provide funds for furnishing to the President further advice with reference to
 the Florida Canal, and while, in my opinion, the expert opinion now available is
 sufficient, yet cumulative evidence may well be considered.
 May I say here that the Senator's speeches of March 17 and May 30, to which
 reference has been previously made, serve to set a high and proper standard for
 the discussion of public questions, if you please, that might well be followed on
 both sides of the aisle, while the House is in session and not in session, and
 especially during an election year, when, too often, we give utterance to unkind
 and bitter emotions.
 When I read those beautiful memorial addresses which recently appeared in the
 Congressional Record, I could but feel hoW truly they represent the heart senti-
 ments of the Members of this House, differences forgotten and only the beautiful
things, characteristic of our departed colleagues and friends, remembered.
 Thus does this great and beloved Senator from Florida, whose soul took its
flight today, leave with us his last words, which will remain always as a memory
to be cherished-yea, like the memory our beloved Speaker left with us-which
will never die.
 I will here diverge to ask, What are some of the memories that, of all the
great things our Speaker did, will live on? Some may answer, "His great love
for his fellows, forgetting classes and sections", because it can be truly said
of him that it mattered not from where they came, whether from the East,
North, West, or South, friends to him were the same. This is, indeed, a just