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Rh The Clerk read as follows:

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of the Hon. Adolph Meyer, late a member of this House from the State of Louisiana.

Resolved, That, as a particular mark of respect to the memory of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public career, the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand adjourned.

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the family of the deceased.

The resolutions were agreed to.

Mr. Davey, of Louisiana, took the chair as speaker pro tempore.

Mr. Ransdell, of Louisiana: Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of my deceased colleague, Hon. Adolph Meyer, late a Representative in Congress from the First District of Louisiana, who died at New Orleans on the 8th of March, 1908, and is honored and mourned by his State and nation.

was born at Natchez, Miss., October 19, 1842, and spent his childhood in that State. He matriculated in the University of Virginia, and before graduation left that famous training school of the South to enter the Confederate Army in 1862. During the trying times of the greatest Civil War the world has ever seen played an active, honorable part, serving on the staff of Brigadier-General John S. Williams, of Kentucky, and holding the rank of adjutant-general when the war closed. In 1879 he was elected colonel of the First Regiment, Louisiana National Guard, and in 1881 was appointed by Governor Wiltz brigadier-general of the First Louisiana Brigade, embracing all the uniformed militia in the State. In connection with the organization of the State militia his services were very efficient.