tine, of Nebraska; George W. Cassidy, of
Nevada; Joshua G. Hall, of New Hampshire; John Hill, of New Jersey;
Samuel S. Cox, of New York; Robert B. Vance, of North Carolina; Melvin
C. George, of Oregon; Charles O'Neill, of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Chace,
of Rhode Island; D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina; Augustus H.
Pettibone, of Tennessee; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; Charles H. Joyce, of
Vermont; J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia; Benjamin Wilson, of West
Virginia, and Charles G. Williams, of Wisconsin.

The following concurrent resolutions were adopted by both Houses of
Congress on December 21, 1881:

Whereas the melancholy event of the violent and tragic death of
James Abram Garfield, late President of the United States, having
occurred during the recess of Congress, and the two Houses sharing
in the general grief and desiring to manifest their sensibility upon
the occasion of the public bereavement: Therefore

_Be it resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring),_ That the two Houses of Congress will assemble in the
Hall of the House of Representatives on a day and hour to be fixed
and announced by the joint committee, and that in the presence of
the two Houses there assembled an address upon the life and
character of James Abram Garfield, late President of the United
States, be pronounced by Hon. James G. Blaine, and that the
President of the Senate _pro tempore_ and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives be requested to invite the President and
ex-Presidents of the United States, the heads of the several
Departments, the judges of the Supreme Court, the representatives of
the foreign governments near this Government, the governors of the
several States, the General of the Army, and the Admiral of the
Navy, and such officers of the Army and Navy as have received the
thanks of Congress who may then be at the seat of Government to be
present on the occasion.

_And be it further resolved,_ That the President of the United
States be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to Mrs.
Lucretia R. Garfield, and to assure her of the profound sympathy of
the two Houses of Congress for her deep personal affliction and of
their sincere condolence for the late national bereavement.

February 1, 1882, both Houses of Congress adopted the following resolution:

_Resolved by the House of Repres