MEMORIAL ADDRESSES

ON THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

ASHLEY B. WRIGHT

(LATE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM MASSACHUSETTS),

DELIVERED IN THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE,

FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS,

SECOND SESSION.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1898.

DEATH OF ASHLEY B. WRIGHT.

PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.

DECEMBER 6, 1897.

Mr. LAWRENCE. Mr. Speaker, the House has already heard, by public report, of the death, at his home in North Adams, on August 14, of the late ASHLEY B. WRIGHT, Representative in this body of the First Massachusetts district. In accordance with an honored custom of this House, I will at a later time ask that an hour be set aside for paying heartfelt and welldeserved tributes to his memory.

At this time, as the Representative of the people whom he has so long served upon this floor, and as an expression of the feeling of us all, I will ask the adoption of the resolutions to be offered by the gentleman from Mississippi [Mr. Allen].

At the present time I will ask the adoption of the resolutions. which I now send to the desk.

The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the Hon. ASHLEY B. WRIGHT, a member of this House from the State of Massachusetts, and of the death of the Hon. JAMES Z. GEORGE, a Senator of the United States from the State of Mississippi.

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