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 CCEPTANCE OF STATUE OF 
 
 ON. GEORGE LAIRD SHOUP 
 
 lOCEE DINGS IN CONGRESS ON THE OCCASION OF 
 THE RECEPTION AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE STATUE 
 FROM THE STATE OF IDAHO : : 61st CONGRESS. 2d SESSION
 
 
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 LATE A SENATOR FROM ID/\HO 
 
 ERECTED IN STATUARY HALL 
 
 OF THE CAPITOL AT 
 
 WASHINGTON 
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE- 
 SENTATIVES AND THE SENATE ON THE 
 OCCASION OF THE RECEPTION AND 
 ACCEPTANCE OF THE STATUE FROM 
 
 THE STATE OF IDAHO ::::::: 
 
 COMPILED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE 
 JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING 
 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
 
 1910
 
 Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring), That 
 there be printed and bound in one volume sixteen thousand five hundred 
 copies of the proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statue 
 of the late George Laird Shoup, of which five thousand shall be for the 
 use of the Senate, ten thousand for the use of the House of Representa- 
 tives, and the remaining one thousand five hundred shall be for use and 
 distribution by the Senators and Representative in Congress from the 
 State of Idaho. 
 
 The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy 
 prepared for the Public Printer, who shall procure a suitable copper- 
 process plate of the statue to be bound with these memorials. 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Resolution providing for printing ....... 3 
 
 Proceedings in the House of Representatives .... 7 
 
 Address of Mr. Hamer, of Idaho ...... 9 
 
 Address of Mr. Hull, of Iowa 18 
 
 Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 22 
 
 Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming .... 29 
 
 Address of Mr. Needham, of California 33 
 
 Address of Mr. Graham, of Pennsylvania . . . . 41 
 
 Proceedings in the Senate 4.5 
 
 Address of Mr. Heyburn, of Idaho 46 
 
 Address of Mr. Gallinger, of New Hampshire .... 53 
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 5:5 
 
 Address of Mr. Clark, of W'yornmg 63 
 
 Address of Mr.' Warren, of Wyoming 69 
 
 Address of Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania . . . . 71 
 
 Address of Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana 75 
 
 Address of Mr. Scott, of West Virginia 79 
 
 Address of Mr. Gamble, of South Dakota .... 85 
 
 Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 89 
 
 Address of Mr. Carter, of Montana .... 93 
 
 Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 99
 
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 PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE 
 
 January 15, 1910. 
 The Speaker. The House will be in order. The Chair lays 
 before the House the following special order, which the Clerk 
 will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 House Resolution 156. 
 
 Resolved, That exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance 
 from the State of Idaho of the statue of George L. Shoup, erected in 
 Statuary Hall in the Capitol, be made the special order for Saturday, 
 January 15, 1910, after the conclusion of the routine morning business. 
 
 The Speaker. Under the resolution the House will proceed 
 with the exercises of reception and acceptance. 
 
 Mr. HamER. Mr. Speaker, I present the following communi- 
 cation, which I send to the desk and ask to have read. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows: 
 
 State of Idaho, E-xecutive Office, 
 
 Boise, Idaho, January 5, 1910. 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C: 
 
 Idaho, in accepting the invitation contained in section 18 14 of the 
 Revised Statutes of the United States, by an act of its legislature, ap- 
 proved March 5, 1907, made an appropriation to provide a statue of 
 George L. Shoup to be placed in Statuary Hall of the Nation's Capitol. 
 The act provided that tlie commission to have the work in charge should 
 be composed of Hon. Frank R. Gooding, governor; Hon. Weldon B. Hey- 
 burn and Hon. William E. Borah, Unite^d States Senators; Hon. Burton 
 L. French, Representative in Congress; and Hon. Joseph Perrault. 
 
 The commission has performed its duties, and the statue is now in place 
 in Statuary Hall.
 
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 As governor of the State of Idaho I have the honor to present this 
 statue of George L. Shoup, who for many years was our most distin- 
 guished statesman, soldier, and citizen. He was the first governor of our 
 new State, and served ten years as our first United States Senator; the 
 pioneer who blazed the way in Idaho for our present high state of civili- 
 zation and development, and whose memory our jieople delight to honor 
 by erecting this lasting monument as an evidence of their appreciation 
 of his eminent services in behalf of the State and Nation. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Yours, very respectfully, James H. Brady, 
 
 Governor of Idaho. 
 
 Mr. Hamer. Mr. Speaker, I offer the following concurrent 
 resolution. 
 
 The Speaker. The gentleman from Idaho offers a concur- 
 rent resolution, which the Clerk will report. 
 
 The Clerk read as follows : 
 
 House Concurrent Resolution 33. 
 
 Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring), That the 
 statue of George L. Shoup, presented by the State of Idaho and now in 
 place in Statuary Hall, is hereby accepted in the name of the United States, 
 and the thanks of Congress tendered the State for this contribution of the 
 statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distinguished 
 military and civil services. 
 
 Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
 authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Idaho.
 
 Address of Mr. Hamer, of Idaho 
 
 Mr. Speaker: In an age when brute force ruled all Europe 
 the Anglo-Saxon established in England the first enlightened 
 government known to man. From that day to this the con- 
 quest of the wilderness and the fabrication of like governments, 
 each an improvement upon the one before, has been the pre- 
 dominating characteristic of that mighty race; and, as a result, 
 wherever the Anglo-Saxon foot has trod, civilization has fol- 
 lowed; wherever the Anglo-Saxon voice has called, enlightened 
 government has come. 
 
 The intrepidity of Columbus had hardly established the 
 existence of a new continent to the westward until the prow of 
 an English ship was directed toward its shores. And from the 
 decks of the historic Mayflower, with the Magna Charta in one 
 hand and the Holy Bible in the other, stepped the first American 
 pioneer. He was a composite of the best blood and intelligence 
 of the wide, wide world, the heir of countless ages of honest 
 political endeavor, the inheritor of all the social good that had 
 ever been. 
 
 For centuries before, he and his progenitors had dreamed of 
 
 a form of government as yet unknown to man — a government 
 
 in which religious and civil liberty, peace, prosperity, law, 
 
 order, and political preferment should be alike tlie heritage of 
 
 all. Intuitively, he felt the time had come to try the great 
 
 experiment ; and devoutly kneeling in thanksgiving and praver 
 
 upon the bleak and wind-swept coast, he solenmly and sincerely 
 
 dedicated his fortune and his life to the last grand and perfect 
 
 culmination of his first and fondest dream. 
 
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 lo Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 That full and complete success has crowned his efforts his- 
 tory dulv records and the nations of the earth bear willing 
 witness, for in little more than a century the restless energy of 
 succeeding generations has here builded in true accord with 
 the teaching of the fathers the greatest nation, the only true 
 republic, the only government of, by, and for the governed the 
 world has ever known. And yet, Mr. vSpeaker, strange to say, 
 there are those to-day, living under the protection of that Gov- 
 ernment and protesting allegiance to its flag, who seem to 
 doubt it — those who proclaim through pubUc print and from 
 stump and rostrum that ours has ceased to be a representative 
 government; that with us liberty is dead and even-handed 
 justice is unknown. 
 
 And when one of these itinerant pessimists takes his nightly 
 stand on the street corners of our large cities, gathers as his 
 audience the "army of discontent" that seems to wax and 
 thrive upon professional agitation even in the face of a national 
 peace and prosperity unprecedented and before unknown, 
 admonishes those assembled that the great corporations and 
 the much-advertised multimillionaires are about to deprive 
 them and generations yet unborn of ancient liberties and make 
 them labor's slaves, declares that our courts are convened to 
 decree justice only to the rich and our National Congress is a 
 captained band of freebooters, ever ready to scuttle the ship 
 of state and organized alone for public plunder; when these 
 statements, false, misleading, yes, and treasonable, are received 
 with discontented murmurs, if not with cheers, I want to say 
 that the true American heart turns with renewed appreciation 
 to the farm houses, hard by the peaceful country roads, and 
 breathes a Ixnediction and a prayer. And it is well. For 
 therein is usually to be found, in full measure, the three car- 
 dinal principles of a self-governing people, w^hich are respect
 
 Address of Mr. Hamcr, of Idaho 
 
 1 1 
 
 for the past, confidence in the present, and hope for the future. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 George Laird Snorr, in honor of whose Hfe and memory we 
 have set aside tliis hour, was a product of the American farm. 
 From the moment he opened his eyes to the world in a modest 
 cottage in Armstrong County, Pa., June 15, 1836, until his 
 death in Boise, Idaho, December 21, 1904, he lived close to the 
 soil, as true, steadfast, and devoted to the institutions of his 
 country as is the needle to the pole. 
 
 Like Lincoln, "he w^as born upon the border and grew up 
 along the ragged edges of civilization." In 1852, as a boy of 
 16, he moved with his parents to the then far distant State 
 of IlUnois. Subsequent events proved that the change was 
 inopportune and untimely. No sooner had the family settled 
 down than ominous clouds began to gather on the financial 
 horizon, and in 1857 the panic came with the force of a tor- 
 nado. The Shoups, always in modest circumstances, were par- 
 ticularly unprepared for the event, and when the cloud at last 
 lifted it found the old folks worn, disconsolate, and broken, 
 sitting upon the wreck of a new home, sadly contemplating 
 the comforts of the old. But, fortunately for the human race, 
 there are always those who, though the heavens fall, rise sub- 
 limely above the tumult and hopefully and calmly face the 
 tempest. Out of such fiber George L. Shoup was evidently 
 
 made. 
 
 Close upon the heels of the panic came word that the granite 
 hills at the base of the Rocky Mountains were rich in gold. 
 Toward that new Eldorado young Shoii' directed his footsteps, 
 and the vear 1859 discovered him one of that hardy band of 
 Argonauts who carried civilization and the Hag to Pike's Peak, 
 Colorado. There he encountered a new and unexplored empire, 
 rich beyond compare in natural resources, awaiting the hand
 
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 of the master builders. vStrong of limb and stout of heart, his 
 youthful ardor knew no bounds. He at once became a part and 
 parcel of this new and fascinating life, and in his chosen occu- 
 pation of prospector, miner, and merchant met with instan- 
 taneous success, thus early displaying those exceptional busi- 
 ness qualities which characterized him all through life. But 
 if these were the sum total of his accomplishments — the full 
 measure of his public service — Idaho would not claim the 
 proud privilege of this hour to do him honor. 
 
 That age of chivalry when knighthood was in flower fails to 
 record deeds more romantic, valorous, or valuable than such as 
 are connected with the winning of the West. Into the unex- 
 plored wilderness of that far-off land w^ent men whose courage 
 and devotion were constantly subjected to most heroic tests. 
 To the country nature has been prodigal of gifts. Lofty moun- 
 tains, pregnant with richest ore; valleys far more fertile than 
 the Nile; w^atersheds, snow crowned, the source, supplv, and 
 inspiration of future fertile fields; and from lowliest hill to 
 loftiest crag an amplitude of priceless timber, all patiently 
 awaiting the advent of the stout heart and the willing hand. 
 
 But the valleys required patience to subdue, the mountain 
 heights were hard to climb, the forests difficult and hazardous 
 to penetrate, and every nook and cranny, everv stone and 
 bush and tree that aboriginal cunning could discover or devise 
 was appropriated as an ambush for the treacherous savage, 
 resentful of the white man's intrusion on his " happv hunting 
 ground." 
 
 Far removed from danger of invasion by the hostile armies 
 of the confederacy and eagerly engaged in extracting wealth 
 from the ever-generous hills, one w^ould naturally expect the 
 people of that remote territory to display but little interest in 
 the bloody scenes being enacted along the Potomac, and many
 
 Address of Mr. Hamer, of Idaho 13 
 
 no doubt did, but George L. Shoup was not one of them. The 
 withdrawal of the regular troops from the frontier in 1861 for 
 ihr (kl'fiisr of W'ashiiit^lon left tlie settlers of Colorado at the 
 mercv of hostile Indians, ever ready to take advantage of 
 favorable occasion to exterminate with tomahawk and scalp- 
 ing knife the widely separated and unprotected camps and 
 settlements. 
 
 Thus young Snorp, for the first time in his life, faced a chance 
 to serve his country in a practical way, and turning his back 
 upon the alluring opportunities which beckoned from every 
 hand, he enlisted as a private soldier in Captain Baxter's com- 
 pany of independent scouts. 
 
 His natural soldierly ciualities — for he came of Revolutionary 
 stock — his cheerfulness in the camp, and his gallantry on the 
 field soon won him deserved promotion; and, at the age of 
 26, he became a lieutenant of the First Colorado Cavalry, 
 scouting on the borders of Texas and the Indian Territory. 
 He was later commissioned colonel of the Third Colorado 
 Cavalry, and during the interim of active warfare, while his 
 new regiment was bivouacked in winter quarters, served as a 
 delegate to the first constitutional convention of his last adoj^ted 
 State, to which position of honor and trust an already grateful 
 people had unanimously called him. 
 
 The early spring, however, found him again engaged in the 
 arduous duties of the field, and, as the comnuuuling officer of 
 his untried regiment, he participated in the battle of Sand 
 Creek, one of the most sanguinary in western history, the ter- 
 mination of which brought lasting peace to the people of Colo- 
 rado — a respite from nianv years of Indian depredations that 
 proved as profitable as it was welcome. 
 
 When, in 1865, the last grand triumph at Appomattox came, 
 and the gallant young colonel of volunteers saw his countrv's
 
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 flag peacefully waving over a reunited, stronger, and more 
 patriotic nation than ever before, he took his discharge from 
 the army and, with a light heart, a slim purse, a conscience 
 free from reproach, and a military record spotless as a star, 
 turned his eyes toward Idaho. 
 
 There again his patriotic fervor found full sway. In a newer 
 and, if possible, wilder community than the one last left be- 
 hind his tireless energy, unusual qualities of leadership, and 
 wise counsel, now tempered and disciplined by years of valuable 
 experience, were in immediate and peremptory demand. At 
 Salmon City, Lemhi County, Idaho, which ever after was his 
 home, he embarked in farming, mining, and merchandizing, and 
 soon took rank as one of the most successful business men of 
 the West. 
 
 His zeal for the general welfare and his aptitude for public 
 affairs soon attracted the favorable attention of his neighbors, 
 who almost immediately elected him their representative in the 
 lower branch of the territorial legislature. In 1878 they re- 
 turned him to the upper house, and in 1884 he was appointed 
 commissioner to the World's Cotton Centennial at New^ Orleans. 
 This appointment he at first declined for business reasons, but 
 discoveiing later that none would take the position because of 
 dearth of money to defray the expenses of an exhibit, he after- 
 wards accepted, from sheer territorial pride and patriotism, and 
 out of his own means gave $35,000 to exploit the resources of 
 the embryo State. 
 
 This generous act, that made possible the first display of the 
 Territory's products in the East, was undoubtedly the medium 
 of attracting the attention of the outside world to her latent 
 riches, and the thank ofTering thus made by George L. Shoup, 
 twenty-five years ago, finds a responsive echo in the myriad of 
 fertile farms, the hundreds of prosperous towns and cities with
 
 Address of Mr. Hamer, of Idaho 15 
 
 school flags and church spires pointing upward, and the 5oci,ooo 
 law-abiding, liberty-loving men, women, and children who 
 to-dav compose the si)lendid citizenship of the grand, young 
 Commonwealth of Idaho. [Ai)plause.] 
 
 In 1889 President Harrison appointed Colonel Shoui' governor 
 of his adopted Territory, and upon the admission of Idaho into 
 the Union of States in 1890 he was elected by the people to the 
 same position. In December of that year he was chosen one of 
 Idaho's representatives in the national Senate, and in 1893 was 
 reelected to the same position, which he continued to fill with 
 honor, credit, and fidelity until a fusion of the opposition polit- 
 ical forces of the State resulted in the election of a successor of 
 a different party faith. 
 
 Thus he lived for sixty-eight years, without a personal enemy 
 on earth, and thus he died, his heart o'erflowing w^ith peace, 
 contentment, and good-fellowship to the end. His personal 
 popularity with every class in Idaho was so unusual as often to 
 call forth remark and wonderment. In the many political con- 
 tests in which he took part he w^as never once defeated by the 
 direct vote of the people, and I have always thought I knew one 
 of the elements of his political strength. Tradition has it, al- 
 though history may be silent, that at the final fall of the Con- 
 federacy the left wing of Price's valiant army never surren- 
 dered — that, instead, it moved to northern Idaho. And I have 
 always suspicioned that in the heat of the many political con- 
 tests which in the past have reddened the skies of that fair 
 State, when opposing candidates were abusing each other from 
 the hustings, each alleging the other to be a horse thief, and 
 almost proving it, too, Colonel Shoup would quietly wend his 
 way to the northern Panhandle, where, on the glorious sunlit 
 slopes of Camas prairie, the political freedom of south Idaho 
 meets and blends with the political tolerance of the Coeur
 
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 d'Alenes, and hunt up the survivors of Price's old army; sit 
 down on the shady side of a hospitable haystack, talk over 
 their troubles together, possibly take a drink out of the same 
 canteen, and in due time part with the warm handclasp of 
 peace and amity, both impressed with the time-honored fact 
 that a brave and fearless enemy, fighting for a principle 
 founded in good conscience, usually makes, when the same is 
 definitely settled, the most trustworthy and reliable friend — 
 after which the gallant old Senator would quietly return to 
 Salmon City, filled with that feeling of political confidence and 
 security which "passeth all understanding," just in time to 
 count the victorious votes as the election returns came in. 
 [Applause.] 
 
 Mr. Speaker, I do not know of any fixed and definite rule for 
 measuring human greatness. Each day, age, and generation is 
 a law unto itself. But it is safe to say that he who has acted 
 well his part in life, however humble or exalted, has performed 
 in full measure his duty to himself, his country, and his God. 
 And therein all honor lies. George L. Shoup was neither 
 orator nor statesman. He was a soldier and a pioneer. He had 
 no eloquence with which to charm the multitude, but with a 
 love and devotion second to none he did valiant service for his 
 country in its time of direst need. He conceived no great or 
 lasting policy of government, but he stood preeminent among 
 the pathfinders and builders of an empire in the Rocky Moun- 
 tain West. 
 
 I know not how others may feel, but aj, for myself I would 
 rather participate in laying the foundation of two great States 
 of the American Union — aid in placing in the azure blue of my 
 country's flag two fixed and permanent stars — than to rank in 
 persuasive power and eloquence with all of the world's orators 
 past, present, and to come. I would rather have stood watch
 
 Address of Mr. Hamer, of Idaho 17 
 
 and guard on the outposts of civilization wliile tlie industry 
 and courage of my countrymen transformed the indolence and 
 silence of the great American desert into countless thrifty lields 
 and happv homes. I would rather be the recipient of the heart- 
 felt gratitude and gentle blessing of one pioneer mother whose 
 child I had restored from savage torture than be any king or 
 prince or potentate that ever sat on a throne. [Applause.] 
 And Georgk L. Siioup, in one short lifetime, did all of this 
 and more. 
 
 The gallant old Indian fighter, dauntless pioneer governor, 
 and faithful Senator to-day sleeps in the soil he dearly loved — 
 the soil of Idaho. No vvord, no wish, no prayer can call him 
 from his lone abode, nor v/ould he have it so. His life mission 
 is ended; his work on earth is done. That he was nature's 
 model of a gentleman, kindly of heart, devoid of selfishness or 
 meanness, full of charity for all, and devoted to the interests 
 of his fellows, those who knevv him best in life wall ever testify. 
 Into the keeping of the great Nation he served so long and faith- 
 fully Idaho to-day consigns, with love and deep appreciation, 
 a marble effigy, firm in the belief that his name and memory 
 will live so long as modesty, manly courage, and unobtrusive 
 worth shall endure among men. [Loud applause.] 
 28717 — 10 2
 
 Address of Mr. Hull, of Iowa 
 
 Mr. SpiJ AKi: R : Thts Nation has been wonderfully fortunate 
 in its development to always have men to carry on the great 
 work of founding and perpetuating a free Republic. A larger 
 part of the first century had conditions which developed a 
 character of manhood that will be impossible in the future. 
 The first seventy-five or one hundred years of the Republic 
 was constructive work. We had a great wilderness to subdue, 
 a great territory to settle, great States to form, and it required 
 a character of manhood entirely different from anything that 
 is likely to develop in this country in the future. Patience, 
 courage, devotion to duty were common virtues then. When 
 Colorado was discovered and the subject of these exercises as a 
 youth went from Illinois to what afterwards became Denver, 
 it was a matter of weeks to make the distance. To-day it is 
 only a matter of hours to make the journey. The remoteness 
 from the older civilization developed in the men of that day a 
 character of self-reliance, of sturdy manhood, that quality of 
 manhood developed from hardships and dangers that come to 
 the individual and not to the community. A class of statesmen 
 was developed by the conditions of the country at that time 
 wliich, to my mind, has never been surpassed and it will be 
 difficult for the conditions of the future to equal. 
 
 More culture, more education, more brilliant characteristics 
 of mind may be developed by the older civilization that we 
 are now coming into, but the character of constructive states- 
 manship that could build great commonwealths out of the 
 wilderness, that could face the dangers of Indian warfare and 
 
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 20 Siatiie of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 protect the husbandman at the same time that they could go 
 into state legislatures and enact wholesome laws, adopt consti- 
 tutions, or serve in the higher branches of the Government in 
 both the Senate and the House, will not come in the future to 
 the same class that it has in the past; and it is a question 
 in my mind whether the same sturdy self-reUance, the same 
 devotion to public service, will be as marked in the future as 
 it has been in the past. The old order of our public men has 
 largely passed away. The class of men who started in the 
 lowliest walks of life, without any particular education and 
 absolutely without any of the advantages beyond what they 
 could bring to themselves, is only developed by adverse con- 
 ditions and personal hardship and personal responsibiUty, and 
 will not be developed by the schools or by luxury. 
 
 The Lincolns and Shoups and that class of great men who 
 have wrought for their country in the past were developed by 
 the circumstances surrounding them, and those circumstances 
 being removed forever, the same character of men will not be 
 developed. I regard the late Senator Shoup as one of a dis- 
 tinguished class of that group of statesmen who were the very 
 genius of common sense. As said by the distinguished Member 
 from Idaho, not born an orator, yet he was of that poise of 
 judgment that approached and weighed every question pre- 
 sented him so that when his final action came it was on the 
 right side and met the approval of the people whom he served. 
 No man untrained in all the habits of self-reliance, without 
 military training and without any experience, could take charge 
 of a regiment and accomplish what he did in the Indian wars 
 in Colorado, 
 
 A man not trained in the school of self-reliance could not 
 accomplish what he did in the lines of constructive statesman- 
 ship. While his name may not be associated with any individual
 
 Address of Mr. Hull, of Iowa 21 
 
 law or any individual measure, the whole level of his life, the 
 whole character of his services, place him in the ranks of those 
 who have served their country with distin^^uished honor and 
 fidelity and make him worthy of a place in our Hall of Fame, 
 the Marble Room of tlie Capitol. 
 
 I believe another thing can be said of this class of men, and 
 certainly can be said of Georciv L. Shoup, that he was not only 
 true to his country in peace and war, but he was absolutely 
 true to every man with whom he came in contact. He won 
 men to him because of the fact that they knew the character 
 of the man made it impossible for him to exercise deceit or in 
 any way cause men trusting him to lose that faith in humanity 
 that comes from meeting those that are not true to each other. 
 Shoup was true to his friends, he was true to his country, and 
 his great legacy of good works, extending from early youth to 
 the time when he laid down to his eternal rest in Idaho, mark 
 him as one of the men that we can honor as a soldier, a states- 
 man, and a friend. [Applause.]
 
 Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 
 
 Mr. Speaker. Among civilized people it seems instinctive 
 to symbolize their progress and history by erecting in appro- 
 priate places elTigics of those citizens who have contributed 
 powerfully in the upbuilding of their institutions. This supreme 
 honor is not merely to the individual, or even to personal efforts 
 or accomplishments for the public welfare. For the most part, 
 it is designed to typify the spirit of the generation or of some 
 strong popular movement or advancement in which such men 
 may have been the creators or leaders. Particularly is this true 
 of our National Hall, where each State may present two of its 
 most important figures as memorials of its history and of its 
 and their achievements for the pubUc weal. 
 
 Some prominent citizens of our country who have claimed 
 consideration as leaders of public thought have criticised this 
 policy of our nation, and have objected to some of the selections 
 as unworthy of a conspicuous place in Statuary Hall. Opin- 
 ions must necessarily differ upon this. But in the long course 
 of time it is generally safer to follo\v the direction of a free 
 people, acting soberly through their regularly organized insti- 
 tutions, than the opinions of eminent and prominent gentlemen 
 arbitrarily selected by some irresponsible authority to express 
 some judgment upon the comparative worth of men as promi- 
 nent and deser-ving in our national career. 
 
 It is easy to criticise the selections and the execution of the 
 greatest and most impressive of the world's memorials at 
 Westminster Abbey, and yet in the presence of them one is 
 awed by the realization that around him are the symbols of 
 
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 24 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 the progress and the power and the glory of one of the most 
 powerful and beneficent empires of the world. That however 
 unworthy, some might be in such a presence; yet, after all, there 
 is centered a great nation's reverence and pride, and there are 
 clustered the testimonials to the great and the good of the 
 centuries, who represent the varying phases and who have led 
 to triumphs the struggles and aspirations of a free and mighty 
 people. 
 
 Attempts have been made in this country at various times 
 and places to more fittingly select and depict the leading char- 
 acters and events of our national career than we can do in this 
 Hall at the Nation's Capitol. 
 
 Such places will exist and such selections will continue to 
 be made by those who esteem themselves peculiarly fitted to 
 do so by careful investigation of the different parts of our 
 people's life and progress. But such a choice and such memo- 
 rials anywhere can never supplant the place which our Hall and 
 its heroes hold in the affections and reverence of the American 
 people. 
 
 This is their Hall, established by their representatives from 
 their treasure, where shall repose the figures of their heroes 
 chosen by themselves under the institutions which they have 
 created and maintained. This spirit of proprietorship, this rep- 
 resentation of their own activities and progress and history 
 and institutions will ne\er brook a competitive choice by even 
 the learned and discriminating of our land. Here shall be 
 centered the Nation's patriotic interest; here will come the pil- 
 grimages of thousands of our people to behold the wonders and 
 beauties of their Capital City, and be impressed by the multi- 
 tude of visible forms, with the struggles and triumphs of our 
 people and their Government and its institutions, so beneficent 
 to those already enjoying them, and which all hope may yet
 
 Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 25 
 
 bless even more the untold millions who will come after them. 
 This is the meaning and mission of Statuary Hall, and its 
 importance and inlluence sliould not be diminished by undue 
 criticism or calumny. 
 
 No nation can compare with ours in possessing in its progress 
 and short history a period of such alluring and romantic and 
 heroic interest as the exploration and settlement and civilization 
 of the great West, and especially that region of vast plains 
 and mighty mountains beyond the Mississippi and the Missouri 
 rivers. There have been the scenes of the wildest adventures, 
 of the most stirring heroism, of glowing hopes, of brightest 
 dreams, and their realization or disasters. 
 
 The brief period of half a century witnessed there the con- 
 quest of barbarism, whether it be the face of nature itself, 
 of savage beasts, and yet more savage men. This Eldorado 
 excited the ambitions of the strong and daring, and drew to 
 its bosom the spirited and adventurous from all over the world. 
 The weak and the slow and the indolent had no place in the 
 tumult and the onward rush of the mighty West, where the 
 history of the civilization and of republican institutions was 
 repeated and reenacted in the span of a generation. Nowhere 
 in the world's history have there been adventures more entic- 
 ing, events more stirring, advancement more swift and substan- 
 tial, eventuating in institutions more enduring and beneficent 
 than in the winning of that wilderness. This genius for daring 
 and constructive progress; this conquest of opposing forces, 
 however powerful and continued; this foundation for popular 
 institutions, so filled with hope and blessings to the myriads 
 who may enjoy them; this independence of personal conchict 
 and impatience- with ancient and outward rules, are the types 
 and characteristics not of those citizens of the Wcit only, but 
 the prevalent American spirit everywhere.
 
 26 Statue of Hon. George Laird Sho2ip 
 
 It is fitting then — rather more, it is necessary — to properly 
 symbolize these influential phases and aspects of our national 
 life and progress, and that some figure should be placed among 
 these immortals in our National Hall which shall appropriately 
 and truly typify that period and that vast region, that wonder- 
 ful constructive history, that splendid national and personal 
 advancement, and that unquestioned hope and confidence in the 
 future. This effigy should not be of one of the very greatest of 
 the earth, because such have not settled the West; did not have 
 part in its conquest and improvement. The common, everyday 
 typical American citizen wrought those wonders, and made the 
 vast leaps in history for himself and those like him. The only 
 true and just representation of those m.arvelous events can only 
 be of the truest and best of that class which brought such 
 things to be. The people of the young and enterprising and 
 hopeful State of Idaho instinctively seemed to appreciate this 
 sentiment, and in their own way have sought to truly typify 
 their history and the history of the vast region of which they 
 are a conspicuous part. 
 
 There was needed the resolute spirit and courage of the 
 soldier, and yet no great warrior of the world had opportunity 
 among them. 
 
 There was needed the constructive genius and breadth of 
 the statesman, but no broad field there invited the great intel- 
 lects of the world. 
 
 There was needed the strong practical sense and foresight 
 of the great captain of industry, and yet no temptation then 
 invited such as he. 
 
 There was needed the kindliness and humaneness of the 
 philanthropist and universal friend, and yet the environment 
 v/ouUl not naturally conduce to the development of the milder 
 virtues.
 
 Address of Mr. Stevens, of Minnesota 27 
 
 But all of these essential riualilies must have existed and did 
 exist in any leader who should be for successive years honored 
 among the strong men in those primitive days. 
 
 Idaho has been fortunate in having and presenting a figure 
 which can appropriately idealize the conditions and history 
 which require recognition within the realm of the Nation's most 
 worthy memorials. 
 
 vScnator GKORGii) L. Shoi'p was one of the foremost of his kind 
 and time. His qualities always marked him as a leader of his 
 people and in the region where he sought his home. He was 
 by turns a pioneer settler, a soldier, a miner, a man of large 
 business and affairs, a public servant; he acted in any capacity 
 which would benefit his people and their conditions. There 
 could be no sham or pretense about a man like that. 
 
 He dealt in stern and strong realities, which any moment 
 might overwhelm him and those who depended on him. Thus 
 were developed those qualities of strength and foresight and 
 resourcefulness which have ever been at the foundation of per- 
 sonal and national prosperity and progress. Our \"alhalla needs 
 a representation of these qualities and virtues from the young 
 and vigorous West. It should have embodied in imperishable 
 form a symbol of the romance, and character, and genius which 
 permeated and founded its institutions, and Idaho has done well 
 in presenting a personal figure and an individual career which 
 typifies them all, in the statue accepted to-day of its foremost 
 citizen, pioneer, soldier, and public man, George L. Shoup. 
 [Loud applause.]
 
 Address of Mr. Mondell, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. Speaker : The ullimate American type is yet to be de- 
 veloped, and while scientists may speculate as to what its dis- 
 tinguishing characteristics shall be, time alone can determine 
 what manner of man, physically, mentally, and morally, shall 
 be evolved as a distinct and characteristic type from tlic- wild- 
 ing of the races which have met here to work out their destiny 
 under new climatic, social, industrial, and political conditions 
 and environment. 
 
 Whatever may be the ultimate American type, however, the 
 period which has elapsed since the planting of the first per- 
 manent settlements, from Xew England to the Carolinas, has 
 developed one type sufficiently marked to be accepted as the 
 best, if not, indeed, the most characteristic American type up 
 to this time — the building pioneer. 
 
 I have not in mind particularly the hardy explorers, hunters, 
 and adventurers, fighters of Indians and slayers of wild beasts, 
 who were through all the early period of our development the 
 vanguard, the scouts, and pickets of our onward march con- 
 quering a continent. They were mighty men, endowed with 
 courage and fortitude, all to a greater or less degree versatile 
 and adaptable, and uniting with the ardor of adventure the 
 genius of statecraft. 
 
 But the tvpe I have in mind were of that larger class, who, 
 possessing the courage, the spirit, and fortitude of the ex- 
 plorer and pathfinder, combined with these qualities prescience, 
 capacity for organization, industrial and political, and a ruling 
 
 passion for the establishment of law and order. 
 
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 30 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoiip 
 
 These men, with the courage necessary to face the wilder- 
 ness, the enthusiasm that made light of hardship, combined the 
 will and talent to make the wilderness fit for the habitation 
 of civilized men; to not only subdue, but to organize, plan, 
 and develop; to lay foundations, not for the present alone, but 
 with prophetic eye for all the future. 
 
 Such is the building pioneer, the best type America lias 
 developed, and of this type GeorgE Laird Shoup was one of 
 the finest and most illustrious examples. 
 
 His ancestors for generations loyally and faithfull\- per- 
 formed their part in the conquest of the American wilderness; 
 in the establishment of agriculture and industry. They fought 
 for the political independence of their country in the Revolution 
 and for its industrial independence in the war of 1812. 
 
 To his birthright of physical and moral soundness, bequeathed 
 by God-fearing, liberty-loving, hard-working ancestors, was 
 added a characteristic American training. An education in the 
 common schools, not far-reaching, but thorough; a foundation 
 on which he built broadly through reading and observation. 
 He had a share in the employment and occupation of the family, 
 and the lessons of application and industry were well learned. 
 In vouth he benefited by the training of the overland journey 
 to the Mississippi Valley and in early manhood of the toilsome 
 and dangerous passage of the Plains to the new Eldorado of 
 the mountain West. 
 
 Here began his life's work. For a short time mining and 
 merchandising in the vicinity of Pikes Peak occupied his atten- 
 tion; then came the tidings of Sumter and the call to arms, the 
 enlistment, rapid promotion, and hard fighting throughout the 
 Southwest; the return to Denver to help form tlie constitution 
 of the State of Colorado; the return to the field and the bloody
 
 Address of Mr. M n )idr! / , nf W yoni i )ig 31 
 
 and decisive cucounUr aL .Sand Creek; and tlie nnisler oul wlun 
 peace was restored. 
 
 Tlien came the call of the farther West — the overland jonrnex- 
 to Montana, followed by his career as merchant, legislator, 
 governor, and Senator. vSuch a career is characteristicallv 
 American. Nowhere else conld the same opportnnities have 
 been jiresented. I (lonl)t if an\- where else could be found men 
 willi the inherited and acquired endowment and capacity for 
 playing so many important roles in life so well. The most 
 valuable lesson we can learn from the career of George L. 
 Shoup is that of faithful performance of duty, however trying, 
 seemingly unim])ortant, or commonplace that dut\' mav be. 
 
 The most prosaic and commonplace duties of life were per- 
 formed by him as cheerfully and as faithfully as he met his 
 greatest responsibilities. The duties and toils of youth and 
 early manhood, the wearisome overland journeys, the difiicul- 
 ties of pioneer life, all faithfully met, prepared him for the 
 fierce camjjaign on the Pecos and Canadian, for the awful 
 whirlwind charge on vSand Creek, for the duties and responsibili- 
 ties of helping to lay the foundations of two Commonwealths, 
 of presiding over the destinies of his adopted State, and of 
 faithfully representing that State in the United States Senate. 
 
 I count it one of the good fortunes of my life to have known 
 George L. vShoup — a man of action, of affairs, of tremendous 
 force of will. And yet the characteristic that most imjiressed 
 me in him was his unfailing good nature. No man had a keener 
 sense of humor than he; few that I have met were more uniformly 
 kind, cheerful, and optimistic; and yet no one could know him 
 long without realizing the depth and llrraness of the character 
 that lay behind that kindly and smiling exterior. 
 
 The State of Idaho has done well in placing the statue of 
 George L. Skoup in the American hall of fame. She has
 
 32 Statite of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 honored herself in thus honoring him, for he possessed in 
 abundant measure the quaUties most essential for success, 
 when civilized man confronts the wilderness and the savage, 
 in molding and shaping the titanic forces thus joined to the 
 highest and best uses of mankind. 
 
 Idaho gives to our American Valhalla the likeness in stone of 
 one who we are proud to claim as a characteristic American— 
 hardv pioneer, valiant soldier, master builder in industry and 
 statecraft, and, above and better than all else, one who was 
 warm-hearted, sympathetic, generous, and faithful in every 
 relation of life. [Loud applause.]
 
 Address of Mr. Ncedham, of California 
 
 :\Ir. vSpeakEr: The vState of Idaho is the youngest State in 
 the Union to take advantage of the privilege under the act of 
 Congress which i)ermits each State to place in Statuary Hall the 
 statues of two of its citizens. I ))elieve I am correct in saying 
 also that the State of Idaho is the most western State that has 
 availed itself of this opportunity. 
 
 It is rather interesting to note the manner in which the various 
 States in the Union have acted, or have failed to act, in accept- 
 ing the invitation of Congress in this regard. \'irginia, one of 
 the oldest States of the Union, has only recently availed itself 
 of its privilege. It has always been a much-debated question 
 whether the people of a State should wait until such State had 
 developed a man of great national reputation in order to have 
 the statue of such placed in Statuary Hall, or whether the State 
 would more truly meet the spirit of such law by promptly 
 making such selection. 
 
 Without attempting to pass upon this question, for it must be 
 recognized that this will always probably be a question which 
 will excite much division of opinion, I think it can be safely and 
 truly said that the State of Idaho, in acting promptly upon the 
 standing invitation of Congress, as is exemplified by the pre- 
 sentation of the statue in whose honor these exercises are held, 
 and placing in Statuary Hall a statue which perpetuates the 
 memory of a citizen who typifies the territorial life and the 
 transition period from a territorial condition to that of state- 
 hood, has adopted a course wh.ich can not be in any sense criti- 
 cised, but, on the other hand, must be praised. The late 
 28717—10 3 33
 
 34 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 Senator George L. Shoup was a man whose life stands out as a 
 typical representative of the territorial days of Idaho, and a 
 man who also was a most prominent representative of the first 
 decade of the life of this young Commonwealth. 
 
 Ex-President Harrison in one of his speeches stated in effect 
 that it would be a sorry day for the Republic when we lost 
 our frontier. This expression is, to my mind, a most truthful 
 one. A country which possesses a frontier, an expanse of terri- 
 tory which is thinly populated, offers a field for that great num- 
 ber of our population who are adventurous in spirit. The 
 problems of our great cities did not become acute to that extent 
 as to become really dangerous until the frontier of the country 
 had been practically extinguished. Now that we have lost that 
 vast extent of unoccupied land and territory which formerly 
 was known as the "frontier," and our population is congregat- 
 ing in cities, the problems which formerly righted themselves 
 by reason of the safety valve which the frontier of the country 
 furnished, the dangers and intricacies which naturally emanate 
 from our great centers of population are becoming more and 
 more real problems, which call for the highest type of our 
 statesmanship to properly solve. 
 
 George L. Shoup was born in Pennsylvania June 15, 1836. 
 He received an education in the public schools of that State 
 and moved with his father to Illinois in June, 1852, where he 
 engaged in farming and stock raising near what is now known 
 as Galesburg. He remained there until 1858, and, being of 
 an adventurous spirit, he went to Colorado in 1859. He was 
 then 23 years old, and for two years he followed the occupation 
 of mining and merchandising. In September, 1861, the civil 
 war having broken out, he enlisted in Captain Backus's inde- 
 pendent company of scouts, and was soon after his enlistment 
 commissioned second lieutenant. In the autumn and winter
 
 Address of Mr. N ccdlnnn , of Calijornia 35 
 
 of 1 86 1 he was engaged with his command in scouting along the 
 base of the Rocky Mountains. In the early part of 1862 he 
 was ordered to Fort Union, N. Mex., and kept on scouting duty 
 on the Pecos, Canadian, and Red ri\crs. 
 
 He had been assigned in 1862, however, to the Second Col- 
 orado Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, but he himself had been 
 retained on duty in the cavalry service. He was subsequently 
 assigned to the First Colorado Regiment of Cavalry in May, 
 1863. In 1864 he was elected as a delegate to the constitu- 
 tional convention for the proposed State of Colorado, and 
 immediately after performing his service as a member of such 
 convention he returned to active duty in the army and was 
 commissioned colonel of the Third Colorado Cavalry in Sep- 
 tember, 1864, and was subsequently mustered out at Denver 
 with his regiment at the expiration of his term of service. 
 
 From all accounts his record as a soldier was excellent, most 
 of his serv'ice being extra hazardous, being scouting duty in 
 the protection of the frontier against hostile Indians. His rise 
 from second lieutenant to colonel indicates the capacity of this 
 young man, who at the close of the war was less than 30 
 years of age. He was a man that was not given to boasting, 
 and it is stated that he very seldom if ever referred to his 
 military ser\Mce. 
 
 The services of our soldiers, who, during the war of the 
 rebellion were stationed in the Western States among hostile 
 Indians, have not had that recognition which the importance of 
 such services demands. TIktc was naturally a desire on the 
 part of all soldiers who enlisted during the period of the civil 
 war to see service at the front in the eastern part of our coun- 
 trv. The records of the various commands which took part in 
 war east of the Mississippi River are much more complete 
 than those of the commands which participated in the war
 
 T,6 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 west of the Mississippi River, but it was just as essential to 
 the life of the Republic that we should have an army in the 
 West as in the East. 
 
 It is related that a lady who was an eyewitness to the battle 
 of Glorietta, in which Colonel Shoup's command vanquished 
 the famous Texas Rangers in a sanguinary fight on the borders 
 of New Mexico, in describing that valorous performance of the 
 federal troops said : 
 
 Their commander was, in my estimation, the most magnificent man 
 who ever sat on horseback. I have seen many men who were accounted 
 great roughriders, and who possessed fine physiques and great courage, 
 but the federaJ commander at Glorietta eclipsed them all. He was always 
 in the lead. 
 
 When Colonel Shoup was asked by friends to confirm this 
 story, he merely said: "Yes; I was there." This remark was 
 characteristic of the man, as he was never boastful, but always 
 modest. 
 
 After the war Colonel Shoup went to Virginia City, Mont., 
 and in the year 1866 he established a business in Salmon City, 
 Idaho, which place remained his home for many years. He 
 engaged in mining, stock raising, mercantile, and other business 
 and was eminently successful. He was a member of the terri- 
 torial legislature during the eighth and the tenth sessions. 
 He was a delegate to the National Republican convention in 
 1880, a member of the Republican national committee from 1880 
 to 1884, United States commissioner from Idaho to the Cotton 
 States Exposition at New Orleans, La., 1884-85. He was again 
 a member of the Republican national committee in 1888. He 
 was appointed governor of the Territory of Idaho in 1889, which 
 position he held until elected governor of the new State of 
 Idaho on October i, 1890. He was elected to the United States 
 Senate as a Republican December 18, 1890, and took his seat
 
 Address oj Mr. IVccdlui ))i , oj Cnlijornia 37 
 
 December 29, 1890, and was reelected in 1895 and served until 
 March 3, 1901 . 
 
 Aftir 1 came to W'ashiiij^toii in 1 899 to take mv seat as a 
 Member of Congress, the first session of the iMfty-sixth Con- 
 gress, I met Senator vSnoup, who was then serving in the United 
 States Senate, and during the next few years I had frequent 
 occasion to meet him and to observe his work in that body. 
 He made no pretensions of being an orator, yet he delivered 
 while in the Senate two quite notable speeches. 
 
 He made a very elaborate speech in the Senate on Septem- 
 ber 13, 1893, against the repeal of the purchasing clause of the 
 so-called "Sherman law." This was an extra session of the 
 Congress of the United States, called by President Cleveland to 
 repeal the silver-purchasing clause of the Sherman law. The 
 speech of Senator Shoup on this occasion occupies about eight 
 pages in the Congressional Record, and was an elaliorate ex- 
 position of his position upon that question. The speech shows 
 great research and a very intimate acquaintanceship with tlie 
 question which he was discussing. 
 
 Again, on February 15, in the year 1900, he made a speech 
 justifying his vote, which he subsequently cast in favor of the 
 Republican bill then pending to establish the gold standard. 
 
 Mr. Speaker, the late Senator Snorp was an ardent Republi- 
 can. He was a man who believed in party government. In 
 1896 the Republican party of Idaho, as well as of all the Western 
 States, was split over the monetary issue, and the silver wing 
 was in the ascendency of that organization in most of the 
 States in the West. At this time Senator Shotp was a member 
 of thf Rcpu])liean national connnittee. but he was not elected 
 a delegate to the Republican national convention of that vear. 
 
 Senator vSiiorp was present at the national convention at 
 St. Louis, and when the Idaho delegates walked out of the
 
 38 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 convention after the adoption of the platform, Senator Shoup 
 left his seat among the members of the national committee and 
 took a seat on the floor in one of the chairs vacated Ijy the 
 delegates from the State of Idaho, and it is related that he said: 
 " Idaho shall not be unrepresented in this convention. " A great 
 demonstration followed this utterance by vSenator Shoup' and 
 many of the delegates came forward to shake his hand. 
 
 The next day the national Republican committee held a meet- 
 ing and Senator Shoup was late in arriving, and there was some 
 talk to the effect that he might not come, but when he made his 
 appearance the members of the committee stood upon their 
 chairs and cheered him for several minutes. He was a man 
 devoted to his party and a consistent believer in the doctrine 
 that a majority of the delegates to the national convention of a 
 poHtical party has a right to declare the party poUcy. 
 
 Shortly after Senator Shoup's return to Idaho from the St. 
 Louis convention in 1896, he issued an address to the Repub- 
 licans of that State, from which I quote: 
 
 No political party has ever yet succeeded in formulating a creed which in 
 all particulars met the unqualified approval of every member of the organi- 
 zation, and no party is likely to arise within the lifetime of this generation 
 that can hope to attain to that degree of perfection. Therefore each indi- 
 vidual citizen, sensible of the imperfection of all human contrivances, 
 should associate himself with that political party which in its aims, pro- 
 fessions, and achievements reflects most nearly his own views of correct and 
 successful government. 
 
 That is a statement that succinctly and yet completely is 
 descriptive of a political party not only at the time it was 
 promulgated, but it is equally applicable at this time. 
 
 Senator George L. Shoup died at 8 o'clock Wednesday 
 morning, December 21, 1904, at the age of 68. 
 
 George L. Shoup was a scout, a soldier, a pioneer, a mer- 
 chant, a constitution builder, a legislator, a governor, and a
 
 Address of Mr. Needham, of California 39 
 
 United States vSenator. His life was typical of the West in the 
 most interesting period of that section of our country. He was 
 easily the first citizen of Idaho, although he had rendered im- 
 portant services to more than one State. 
 
 As one Member of the Congress of the United States I am 
 pleased to be privileged to say these words in acceptance of 
 this splendid statue presented by the State of Idaho, to be 
 placed in the people's Statuary Hall of the Nation. I con- 
 gratulate the State of Idaho that its legislature, instead of 
 waiting for generations for the development of some man 
 among its citizenship who might possibly in some way prove to 
 be a more brilliant man in some respects than the one whose 
 statue we are now accepting, has seen fit at the very morning 
 of its history to present to the Nation a statue of that citizen 
 who typifies the frontier life and the pioneer spirit of this 
 splendid young Commonwealth. 
 
 George h. Shoup bears a similar relation to the vState of 
 Idaho that Daniel Boone does to Kentucky. It is fitting and 
 appropriate that in the Statuary Hall of the Nation the mem- 
 ory of those who represent best the pioneer spirit of that region 
 which was once the western wilderness and frontier, but which 
 is now fast becoming our most prosperous Commonwealths, 
 should be perpetuated and honored. 
 
 It is but just and proper that in this Statuary Hall of the 
 Nation the western pioneer should be represented, and no more 
 fitting representative could be selected than the one in whose 
 honor these exercises are held this day. [Loud applause.]
 
 Address of Mr. Graham, of Pennsylvania 
 
 iVir. SpivAKi;k: In offering:; this statue as one of its eontrihu- 
 tioiis to vStatuary Hall, the State of Idaho does honor to herself 
 and her eitizens rather than to the late GeorgE Laikd Siiori', 
 the "Grand Old Man of Idaho." As my gaze first fell ujion 
 that wonderfully living image of the soldier-statesman, whom I 
 had the lionor to know -and, knowing him, to revere — there 
 came to my mind that which Horace had written: 
 
 I have executed a monument more lasting than brass, and more sublime 
 than the regal elevation of pyramids, which neither the wasting shower, 
 the imavailing north wind, nor an innumerable succession of years and the 
 flight of seasons shall be able to demolish. 
 
 Never before, nor since, has the Territory, and later the State, 
 of Idaho suffered such an irreparable loss as when on December 
 21, 1904, its foremost citizen, its patriotic statesman, and its 
 most gallant soldier, was "mustered out." I have said that 
 knowing him was to venerate him. His was a most lovable, 
 God-fearing character, and by the thousands who enjoyed the 
 rare privilege of his acquaintance it was conceded that never 
 could there be a more broad-minded, unselfish, untiring worker 
 for the welfare of his Commonwealth. 
 
 vSenator Shoitp was born June 15, 1836, at Kittanning, Pa., 
 a thriving little town on the Allegheny River, 46 miles above 
 Pittsburg. Kittanning, or Atlique, as originally named by the 
 Indians, had a settlement of whites long before Pittsburg was 
 foimded or a white man had located at the forks of the Ohio. 
 In fact, Atti(|ue ftirnished two families out of the first three 
 that attempted a settkineiit at the forks. These tlircc families 
 
 41
 
 42 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 erected their little log cabins on the Allegheny side of the river, 
 in what is now part of my congressional district, about the year 
 1742, but their intrusion upon Indian territory was resented, 
 and in 1743 they were all massacred by the Indians and their 
 cabins burned to the ground. These were representatives of 
 the sturdy stock that first peopled Kittanning; the same Penn- 
 sylvania stock from which sprang Daniel Boone and many other 
 early pioneers of the great West. 
 
 It was not, however, until the Forbes expedition of 1758 
 opened the gateway to the West and broke the French line of 
 water communication extending from Canada to New Orleans. 
 The British under Forbes, the Pennsylvanians under Armstrong, 
 and the Virginians under Washington formed the wedge that 
 opened up the great West and made Pennsylvania the starting 
 point of a movement by land and water that has ended only at 
 the Pacific Ocean. 
 
 A strain of the same pioneer blood evidently remained in 
 the Shoup family; for, realizing that "westward the star of 
 empire takes its course," that family removed to Illinois in 
 1852, and from thence, in 1859, to Colorado, then known as the 
 "Pikes Peak country," where Mr. Shoup launched out in mining 
 and merchandising. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted 
 in an independent cavalry company, the great part of whose 
 ser\dce was — as was mine during the war — that of scouting. 
 It was not long before he became a lieutenant of his company 
 and then the colonel of his regiment, the Third Colorado. This 
 regiment participated in some unusually hazardous campaigns, 
 in which were encountered both hostile Indians and confed- 
 erates. He was always victorious, and repeatedly was he 
 commended in general orders for his energy, his zeal, his per- 
 severance, and his self-denial. He w-as indeed a peerless leader.
 
 Aililnss oj M r . (j ) tilidm , oj Pcntisyivania 43 
 
 1 shall not alU'injit to mention the offices of trust and confi- 
 dence which he held almost continuously, Init they were many, 
 and higher and higher did he ascend the ladder of fame, until 
 in March, 1889, he was appointed governor of the Territory of 
 Idaho, of which he had been a respected citizen for twenty-three 
 years. He had only held that office a little over a year when 
 Idaho was admitted into the Union as the forty-third State, on 
 Julv 1 , 1890, and at tlie first election of the people, the following 
 October, he again won gubernatorial honors, becoming the first 
 governor of the new State. It was not generally known that 
 the admission into the Union of the State of Idaho was largely 
 due to Mr. Shoup's untiring efforts. He was takr-n to task by 
 the Secretarv of the Interior for coming to Washington to work 
 for the admission into the Union of the Territory without first 
 having obtained leave of absence — for he was at the time gov- 
 ernor of the Territory and therefore under the Interior Depart- 
 ment. At once did he tender his resignation as governor, that 
 he might remain and continue his efforts with Congress. He 
 was, however, prevailed upon by the President to withdraw^ 
 his resignation, but did so only with the understanding that 
 he was to be allowed to remain in Washington so long as he 
 regarded his presence necessary. 
 
 Nor was he to remain in this new office long, for the very 
 next December he was once more promoted, this time to a seat 
 in the United States Senate, which he took December 29, 1890. 
 It was about this time that I happened to be visiting at the 
 house of a brother-in-law of Mr. Shoup — Hon. Robert McAfee, 
 now secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — and 
 there it was that I first met him. He was on his way to Wash- 
 ington to be sworn in as a Member of the Senate, in which 
 bodv he served for nearlv eleven vears.
 
 44 
 
 Statue of Hon. George Laivd Shoup 
 
 I entered Congress some years before his retirement, and it 
 was mv pleasure to renew our former acquaintance and become 
 more intimately attached to him personally and officially. 
 
 Although born in the East, Senator Shoup was distinctly a 
 western man, and his motto was "Melius est cavere semper 
 quam patii scmel" (It is better to be always on our guard than 
 to suffer once). One of his peculiarities was that of invariably 
 when taking his seat in a restaurant or dining room, insisting 
 upon being seated so that he could command a full view of the 
 doorwav. So fixed was this habit that after coming to Wash- 
 ington he followed the custom, which was the cause of much 
 good-natured badinage from his acquaintances. He explained 
 to me that this habit was caused by his long residence and perils 
 on the frontier. 
 
 Not often is there such a character that his State can almost 
 unanimously proclaim, within five years after his death, that 
 he is entitled to be one of those to whom she will place a monu- 
 ment in our National Capitol; but so it is in the case of vSenatoi 
 Shoup, and in six years after his death his statue is being 
 accepted by the Congress of the United States. [Loud ap- 
 plause.] 
 
 The SpEakhr. The question is on the adoption of the concur- 
 rent resolution. 
 
 The question was taken, and the resolution was agreed to. 
 
 Mr. Hamer. Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now 
 adjourn. 
 
 The motion was agreed to. 
 
 Accordingly (at i o'clock and 58 minutes p. m.) the House 
 adjourned.
 
 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE 
 
 Jaxi'auv 17, 1910. 
 
 'riic \'ici:-1*ki:sii)i:nt. TIk' Chair lays hel'orr the vSt-nalc a 
 conciirR'nl ifSoiiUion of llit- House of RepreseiUaliNes, wliieh 
 will !k' read: 
 
 The Secretary read as follows: 
 
 Resolved hv the House of Representatives (the Senate concurrUuj), Tliat 
 the statue of George L. Shoup, presented liy ihc State of Idaho and now 
 in place in vStaluary Hall, is hereby accepted in the name of the United 
 States, and the thanks of Congress tendered the State for this contribution 
 of the statue of one of its most eminent citizens, illustrious for his distin- 
 guished military and civil services. 
 
 Second. That a copy of these resolutions, suitably engrossed and duly 
 authenticated, be transmitted to the governor of the State of Idaho. 
 
 Mr. Heyburn obtained the floor. 
 
 Mr. Borah. Mr. President 
 
 The Vice-President. Does the senior vSenator from Idaho 
 yield to the junior Senator from Idahoi^ 
 
 Mr. HEviiURX. I yield to my colleague. 
 
 Mr. Borah. I ask unanimous consent that the gentlemen 
 composing the statue commission of the State of Idaho having 
 this matter in charge be i)ermille(l to occupy the floor of the 
 Senate duriir^ these services. 
 
 The Vice- PRi>n)i:.\T. Is there objection to the request of 
 the junior Senator from Idaho? The Chair hears none, and the 
 order is entered as requested. 
 
 Mr. Heviu:rx. I send to the <lesk a comnumication from the 
 governor of the State of Idaho, which I ask mav be read. 
 
 The Vice-President. Without objection, the Secretary will 
 
 read as requested. 
 
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 46 Proceedings in the Senate 
 
 The Secretary read as follows : 
 
 State of Idaho, Executive Office, 
 
 Boise, Idaho, January 5, igio. 
 To the Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C: 
 
 Idaho in accepting the invitation contained in section 18 14 of the Re- 
 vised Statutes of the United States, by an act of its legislature approved 
 March 10, 1907, made an appropriation tb provide a statue of George L. 
 Shoup to be placed in Statuary Hall of the Nation's Capitol. The act 
 provided that the commission to have the work in charge should be com- 
 posed of Hon. Frank R. Gooding, governor; Hon. Weldon B. Heyburn 
 and Hon. William E. Borah, United States Senators; Hon. Burton L. 
 French, Representative in Congress; and Hon. Joseph Perrault. 
 
 The commission has performed its duties and the statue is now in place 
 in Statuary Hall. 
 
 As governor of the State of Idaho, I have the honor to present this 
 statue of George L. Shoup, who for many years was our most distin- 
 guished statesman, soldier, and citizen. He was the first governor of our 
 new State and served ten years as our first United States Senator; the 
 pioneer who blazed the way in Idaho for our present high state of civiliza- 
 tion and development, and whose memory our people delight to honor by 
 erecting this monument as an evidence of their appreciation of his eminent 
 services in behalf of our State and Nation. 
 
 I have the honor to be 
 
 Yours, very respectfully, James H. Brady, 
 
 Governor of Idaho.
 
 Address of Mr. Hcyburn, of Idaho. 
 
 Mr. President : the duty that \vc undertake to-day is a novel 
 one, and on few occasions have such ceremonies been had; 
 but when we take into consideration the spirit which actuated 
 the legislation pursuant to which these ceremonies are held, we 
 must be aware of the very grave and patriotic motives which 
 prompted those who passed that act. 
 
 In 1864, on the 2d day of July, sitting in this Capitol, the 
 Congress of the United States, considering the state of the 
 Union and the character of the men who stood for the Union in 
 that hour, realizing that the opportunity offered to do a special 
 honor to those men and men of their class and character, set 
 aside the historic Hall in which the House of Representatives 
 had sat from practically the beginning of the Government in 
 order that the States might bring to the National Capitol the 
 representatives of their choice who stood for the principles of 
 government and the patriotism of that hour. 
 
 On the 2d of July, 1864, under the windows where these men 
 sat the smoke from the bake ovens arose where bread was being 
 baked for the armies of the United States. Perhaps this gen- 
 eration does not know that right under the windows, under the 
 old brown steps, which (he older Members remember, were the 
 bake ovens for the armies in Washington, and that the armies 
 lay camped all around these grounds. Patriotism was in the 
 air, and the Congress was but voicing the sentiment of the 
 American people when it rose to this patriotic emergency and 
 provided by law as follows: 
 
 And the President is hereby authorized to invite each and all the States 
 to provide and furnisli statues, in niarhle i>r hron/e, not exceedint; two 
 
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 48 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 in number for each State, of deceased persons who have been citizens thereof 
 and illustrious for their historic renown or from distinguished civic or 
 military services, such as each State shall determine to be worthy of this 
 national commemoration; and when so furnished, the same shall be 
 placed in the old Hall of the House of Representatives, in the Capitol of 
 the United States, which is hereby set apart, or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary, as a National Statuary Hall, for the purposes herein indi- 
 cated. 
 
 I feel that we owe it to the Congress to apologize for having 
 anticipated the acceptance of this statue by placing it in 
 Stattiary Hall before it was accepted. It is evident from the 
 language of this act that Congress places the statue there, not 
 the State. The State presents it. The language is: "Provide 
 and furnish statues * * * and when so furnished"— that 
 is, furnished to the Government or to Congress— they shall be 
 placed in that hall. By whom? Not by the State, but by the 
 Government. I interject this suggestion because it is or may 
 become a very pertinent one. 
 
 The House has already accepted this statue, and, so far as 
 that branch of the Government is concerned, it is properly 
 there. When this body shall have accepted it, it will be the 
 property of the Government of the United States, and then, 
 and not until then, is it properly within that hall. 
 
 The State of Idaho, by an act approved March 5, 1907, has 
 made a sufficient appropriation and provision for the furnishing 
 of this statue, and it is pursuant to that act, which is the desig- 
 nation of the choice and election on the part of the State, that 
 -the statue now stands at the door of Congress for its action. 
 
 It is the statue of George Laird Shoup, born in the State 
 of Pennsylvania, going to Illinois when yet a young man, and 
 remaining there until early in 1859. Alert for the opportuni- 
 ties of life, when the great discoveries of gold were made in 
 Colorado at Pikes Peak, Clear Creek, and all of those early
 
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 camps, he went to Colmado, as did hundrt-ds and Ihousands of 
 otlu-r vduni; iiku, a pioneer into ihr forests of Colorado and 
 into llie field of ()i)porlnnity, ready to take advantage of it for 
 his advancement and for the benefit of the country. 
 
 Mr. President, upon his arrival in those promising fields, 
 amidst those golden opportunities, he had scarcely settled, 
 scarcely prepared himself to take advantage of those conditions, 
 when the crv went out that the life of the Nation was in dan- 
 ger, and this young man, then in the very prime of his life, did 
 not wait for the golden opportunity of commission or high com- 
 mand, but entered tlie army as a private soldier. He enlisted 
 for the term of three years as a private soldier. He went right 
 into the active field and the active life of a soldier, and there 
 came rapid promotion, based on the merit of the man. He had 
 no sponsors to lift him faster than his arm could win the pro- 
 motion. He attained the commission of lieutenant, of captain, 
 and then of colonel of the Third Colorado Regiment. He saw- 
 active, fearful ser^nce. No man who wore the uniform had 
 more frequent opportunity to test his merit as a soldier than 
 had Colonel vShoup. 
 
 In 1864, when this act was under consideration in Congress 
 from January until July, he was performing these acts of hero- 
 ism and bravery that resulted in his promotion; and his com- 
 manding officers, in reporting the battles in which he partici- 
 pated, referred to him, giving him especial mention. It is suffi- 
 cient to say, without reading the exact language, that he was 
 mentioned in the dispatches with honor for the manner in 
 which he commanded the regiment under his control in battle. 
 When the war was over and peace came, he returned to the 
 occupations befitting peace. He came to Idaho and entered 
 into commercial business at vSalmon City, which grew up around 
 
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 him because of the activity, the energy, and the enterprise 
 which George L. Shoup injected into it. He became one of the 
 largest commercial dealers in that country, and I use that term 
 because they dealt in everything that a new country requires. 
 He w^as a pioneer. You can say nothing that reflects more to 
 a man's credit than that he was a pioneer in usefulness. It is 
 not often that the pioneer who enters the forest lives to see 
 and enjoy the fruits of his labor. Lowell says: 
 
 The settler's ax and the builder's trowel are seldom wielded by the self- 
 same hand. 
 
 But it was not true of Senator Shoup. He laid, or assisted 
 in laying, the foundation of the prosperity of that country, and 
 he lived to see it prosperous and great around him, to grow 
 from the mierest frontier settlement to the prosperous State of 
 Idaho; and that State sent him to this body as one of its first 
 representatives. 
 
 He had been the last territorial governor. He had called the 
 constitutional convention which laid the foundation for state- 
 hood, and he was the first state governor. Prior to that time 
 he had served in the legislature. He had been a member of a 
 constitutional convention in Colorado immediately after the 
 war, before he came to Idaho. He had been in close participa- 
 tion with every great public movement in whatever lines his 
 life was thrown. 
 
 He sat in this body as one of the Senators from the State of 
 Idaho for ten years, and how well he conducted himself, how 
 well he satisfied the people of the State of Idaho, is best evi- 
 denced by the fact that when the right rested in them to select 
 their most distinguished son to be represented in the hall of 
 honor, they selected George L. Shoup, six years after he had 
 passed away from this earth. There was no excitement of 
 political campaign, no strife or rivalry. It was a reflection of
 
 Address oj Mr. II !■ yhur )i , oj Idaho 51 
 
 the cool judgment of the people of the State, and they sent his 
 statue here to stand in that hall where none but patriots stand; 
 to stand among those whose record is for freedom, who repre- 
 sent lovaltv to the flag, who represent loyalty to the Govern- 
 ment in each and every minute of their lives. 
 
 Do you think that those men in Congress on the 2d of July, 
 1864, ever contemplated for a moment that any vState, under 
 any conditions, at any time, would place the statue of Benedict 
 Arnold in that hall? It was an inspiration of patriotism and 
 loyalty that impelled them to this legislation, and when I 
 looked upon his form there this morning I recognized that the 
 reward of ])atriotism is best realized in that you live in the 
 hearts of your countrymen, and that after life has ended you 
 still command their respect for your deeds during life. 
 
 That hall should be a lesson of patriotism to the people of 
 this country. It should illustrate only the reward for loyalty 
 to the country, to the Government under which men serve. 
 
 In this spirit, on behalf of the State of Idaho, we present the 
 statue of that soldier, statesman, and citizen, George L. Shoup. 
 [Applause in the galleries.] 
 
 The \'ice-PrESIDEnt. Occupants of the galleries will ]ilease 
 refrain from manifestations of approbation or disapproval.
 
 Address of Mr. Gallingcr, of New Hampshire 
 
 •Mr. President: The Senators from Idaho will ull in detail the 
 story of the life of the remarkable man to whom this statue is to 
 be dedieatrd. I'rom me a simj^le word of appreeiation is all 
 that the proprieties of the occasion will warrant. 
 
 George L. Sikjup belonged to a class of men whose achieve- 
 ments are of the greatest benefit to the country. He was a 
 rare man — rare in intellect, in courage, and in integrity. He 
 was as brave as he was kind, as loyal as he was generous. A 
 pioneer, a soldier, a business man, a politician, a public official; 
 in all those positions he proved himself to be worth\- of the con- 
 fidence and esteem of his fellow-men. Whether subduing the 
 forest, fighting the battles of his country, or serving his vState 
 in the governor's chair or in the vSenate of the United States, he 
 was the same sturdy, fearless, upright man, doing his duty 
 faithfully and conscientiously. Those of us who served with 
 him in this Chamber will never forget his kindliness, his 
 serenity of temper, and his rare quaUties of mind and heart. 
 He hated shams and admired truth and honesty. He despised 
 hypocrisy, and loved simplicity. He was a good friend, a 
 loving husband, a devoted father, and a genial companion. He 
 loved his country and its institutions, and was devoted to the 
 State which honors him to-day. The wonderful strides that 
 Idaho has made is largely due to the efforts of men like George 
 L. Shoup. He was an optimist, clearly discerning the greatness 
 that was sure to come to his State. He knew her vast wealth 
 of timber, of minerals, and of agriculture, and he lived to see 
 the partial fulfillment of his ear!\ dreams He believed that 
 Idaho was destined to become one of the greatest States of the 
 
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 54 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 Union, and his belief is rapidly becoming a reality. The debt 
 of gratitude that Idaho owes to this man will never be fully 
 repaid, and it is well that in yonder hall his effigy will stand, 
 an e\'idence of the appreciation of the people of his State, and 
 an inspiration and help to all who may look upon it. 
 
 For manv years I counted GeorgE L. Shoup as my friend. I 
 admired his robustness of character and his bigness of heart. 
 I knew, as we all knew, that he was a man of high ideals and 
 lofty purposes; that he was a patriot in the highest sense, and 
 that his public service was unselfish and pure. In his death 
 Idaho lost her foremost citizen, and the Nation lost a man 
 of the highest honor and most distinguished ser\dce. 
 
 George L. Shoup unflinchingly faced and courageously over- 
 came dangers and difficulties, and to him may well be applied 
 the hues of Sarah K. Bolton: 
 
 I like the man who faces what he must 
 
 \\'ith step triumphant and a heart of cheer; 
 Who fights the daily battle without fear; 
 
 Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust 
 That God is God; that somehow, true and just 
 
 His plans work out for mortals; not a tear 
 Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, 
 
 Falls from his grasp; better, with love, a crust 
 Than living in dishonor; envies not, 
 
 Nor loses faith in man; but does his best 
 Nor ever mourns over his humbler lot, 
 
 But with a smile and words of hope, gives zest 
 To every toiler; he alone is great, 
 
 Who by life heroic conquers fate. 
 
 Mr. President, in the truest and highest sense GeorgE L. 
 Shoup's life was a Ufe heroic, and those of us who knew and 
 loved him rejoice to-day that the people of Idaho have placed 
 in the Capitol of his country an imperishable evidence of their 
 affection and a lasting tribute to his memory.
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 
 
 [Read by his colleatjiie, Mr. FuiNT.] 
 
 Mr. 1'lint. Mr. Prcsidcnl, 1 have been requested by my col- 
 league [Mr. Perkins], who is ill, to read the remarks he had 
 prepared for this occasion. 
 
 Mr. President, the man in whose honor we meet here to- 
 day was one of those whose energy, enterprise, ability, public 
 spirit, and ardent patriotism have, within our memories, built 
 up the great West. George L. Shoup was the type of the cre- 
 ators of the flourishing and pov/erful Commonwealths which not 
 so many years ago were the abodes of savage men and savage 
 animals. 
 
 He represented that strong and adventurous element among 
 the people of the Eastern States whose forefathers battled with 
 and conquered conditions similar to those wliich he himself 
 overcame. He sprang from the race of empire builders to whom 
 we owe our own great country, and he was evidence that the 
 spirit which actuated the pioneers of the seventeenth and eight- 
 eenth centuries lias not become weakened in the lapse of time. 
 
 His history is that of the strong men of the nation. Born on 
 
 a Pennsylvania farm, educated in the public schools, devoted 
 
 to agriculture in his early years, carried West by the instinct 
 
 of the State builders, invigorated and broadened in mind by the 
 
 influences of the vast, almost unknown, wilderness of plain and 
 
 mountain beyond the Mississippi, he grew to manhood amid 
 
 the scenes which marked the work of those who wrested from 
 
 savagery the imperial West, and in which work Ik- took an 
 
 important part. 
 
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 56 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 When, at 25 years of age, the civil war began, he had found 
 his way to far Colorado. There for two years he had been one 
 of those earnest, active, strenuous workers in civilization's cause 
 who loved the new land in which they had cast their lot and 
 whose mighty efforts were directed toward its development. 
 The devotion to the alluring land of vast possibilities was only 
 another manifestation of the spirit of '76, and when war came 
 George L. Shoup entered the ranks of the Union soldiery. 
 
 True to the spirit of the wilderness conquerors, he entered 
 the army as a member of an independent company of scouts, 
 and as such had more experience of danger, privation, and 
 hardship than fell to the lot of most soldiers of the regularly 
 organized armies. The Indians and desperadoes of the Pecos, 
 Canadian, and Red rivers down to the borders of Texas and the 
 Indian Territory gave work enough of the hardest kind to men 
 who were accustomed to frontier life in all its phases, and the 
 manner in which it was performed merited the highest praise 
 of their contemporaries, as it merits the appreciative thanks of 
 all of us to-day. 
 
 For two vears this important and arduous work was done 
 bv the company of scouts, during which time young Shoup had 
 developed the qualities which make the great soldier, and in 
 1863 he was given a commission as first lieutenant in the First 
 Regiment of Colorado Cavalry. Though a soldier, he was still 
 a builder of States, and his aid was solicited and given in the 
 work of organizing the new Commonwealth of Colorado. 
 
 This done, he returned to his command, and was soon after 
 commissioned colonel of the Third Regiment Colorado Cavalry. 
 But the war was soon after brought to a close, and Colonel 
 Shoup returned to his first great work of redeeming the great 
 western wilderness to civilization and progress. 
 
 Just before Colonel Shoup was mustered out tlie Territory 
 of Idaho, with which his future life was to be identified, was
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 57 
 
 formed. It was then of far greater extent than now, comprising, 
 in addition to its present area, that of the great States of Mon- 
 tana and Wyoming. 
 
 But in 1864 Montana was cut out and organized as a Terri- 
 tory, and four years later Wyoming. At the close of the civil 
 war this vast region, which was practically unknown, was just 
 beginning to be explored by jirospectors in search of gold. 
 Previous to this time- there had been only two or three attempts 
 to effect settlements, and these by Mormons, who were unsuc- 
 cessful. 
 
 The movemenl wliich led to permanent settlements and the 
 development of the resources of the region began in 1862 with 
 the discovery of gold on Clearwater River. The thirst for this 
 precious metal soon caused an influx of miners into that part 
 of the region west of the Rocky Mountains. It was a region 
 rough with mountains, among which were a few plains, deemed 
 for the most part desert wastes, where man, it was thought, 
 would have hard work to live. Only records of from $30 to $300 
 per man per day in the placer mines served to maintain the 
 courage of the newcomers and to attract others. 
 
 There were no roads, no means of transportation by water, 
 and prospectors had not only to face the danger of starvation, 
 but were compelled to fight their way through hostile Indians. 
 But more gold placers were found, and then gold quartz. Then 
 came the discovery of silver. This served to attract prospectors, 
 who, in spite of all sorts of dilTiculties and dangers, pushed into 
 the mountain canyons and founded ephemeral cities along the 
 old river channels. 
 
 When, in 1866, Colonel vShoit went forth from Colorado to 
 the newly discovered mining country, he found a community 
 unorganized, a forbidding region whicli was just beginning 
 to be known, with a future- whicli seemed to he limited to the 
 production of precious metals, whose amount no one could
 
 58 Statue of Hon. George Laird Slioup 
 
 determine. The exhaustion of the placer mines soon sent 
 back to more favored States miners who had hoped to wash 
 easily in a few months from sand and gravel fortunes that 
 would satisfy their cravings. 
 
 In consequence, the population, which in 1863 was esti- 
 mated at 20,000, rapidly diminished, only the true pioneers 
 remaining to develop such resources of the precipitous moun- 
 tains and dusty plains as they might discover. 
 
 It was in 1866 that Colonel Shoup took up his work in this 
 unpromising territory, establishing himself at Salmon City, 
 Idaho. Gold had been discovered at the latter place the pre- 
 vious year, and had attracted 5,000 miners the first season. 
 Colonel Shoup laid out the town, which became the center of a 
 most busy mining region. When the placers were exhausted 
 the mining population rapidly declined, but there remained 800 
 active and energetic inhabitants, who — Colonel Shoup the most 
 prominent — were the real founders of the city. With Salmon 
 City and with the region which we now know as Idaho (the 
 Indian word for "gem of the mountains") he closely identified 
 himself, and became one of the most active, useful, and enter- 
 prising of its progressive people. 
 
 The Territory was essentially a mining country, most of the 
 energies of the people being devoted to the extraction of the 
 precious metals from the soil. The population was unstable, 
 for its means of livelihood was simply the uncertam supply of 
 gold and silver in rock and gravel. It was a community which 
 offered few promises to the organizer of States, but with the 
 difficult problems presented Colonel Shoup immediately 
 grappled. 
 
 The first and greatest difficulty to be overcome was that 
 presented by the hundreds of lawless men who flocked to the 
 mines, and who inaugurated a period of crime which at last
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 59 
 
 called for drastic treatment. In the sparsely settled region, 
 where the atlminisLration of law — where there was law — was 
 dilTiculi, il became necessary to resort to civil organizations for 
 the promotion of public safety. 
 
 Crime of all kinds was rampant. Of the revenue of the 
 Territory one-third was devoted to tlie maintenance of the 
 territorial prison, yet in two years this was not enough by 
 $22,000 to cover the cost of caring for criminals. Boise City 
 was burned by desperadoes; murders were committed whole- 
 sale; embezzlement by public officials seemed to be the rule, and 
 a reign of terror was the result. 
 
 But the vigilance organizations worked swiftly and effect- 
 ively, and in five years over 200 outlaws were executed. From 
 that time on orderly development was assured, and to this end 
 Colonel Shoup was one of the most prominent and efficient 
 workers. Then came the Indian troubles, begun by Chief 
 Joseph, of the Nez Perces, whose hostilities called out a large 
 force of United States troops and resulted in many bloody 
 contests. 
 
 The settlers in the new Territory had also to arm in their 
 own defense. An independent company was raised in the Sal- 
 mon River region to fight the Indians on the warpath under 
 Chief Joseph Colonel Skoup was placed at their head, and 
 cooperated with General Howard during the campaign. Then 
 came the war with the Shoshones, which further convulsed the 
 Territory. But all of these tragedies of pioneering at last came 
 to an end. and the work of civil organization and mdustrial 
 development was resumed, not to be interfered with again. 
 
 Colonel Shoup took a leading part. He was one of the 
 supervisors of Lemhi County, who appointed the first county 
 officers, and was the first councilman from that county to the 
 territorial legislature. He was also a member of the legislature
 
 6o Statue of Hon. George Laird SJioup 
 
 during its eighth and tenth sessions, and was prominent in 
 urging the enactment of the laws under which the Territory 
 rapidly developed. 
 
 In 1S89 he was appointed territorial governor — the last 
 governor under territorial organization — and issued a proclama- 
 tion under which assembled a constitutional convention to draft 
 a constitution for Idaho as a State, though as yet Congress had 
 not passed an enabling act. The convention met and adopted 
 a constitution, which was drafted on the lines of those of 
 the older States, but which contained a provision prohibiting 
 polygamy and bigamy. 
 
 There was considerable opposition to such provision on the 
 part of the 25,000 Mormons in the Territory, who held that laws 
 enacted for the suppression of polygamy were unconstitutional, 
 for the reason that they interfered with religious liberty. Gov- 
 ernor Shoup, however, upheld the provision, holding that the 
 argument against it was dangerous, for the reason that under it 
 any association could, in the name of a religious association, 
 commit with impunity crimes against society. The provision 
 was adopted and is now a part of the constitution of Idaho. 
 
 With the adoption of the constitution came the admittance 
 of Idaho as a State, and Colonel Shoup was elected its first gov- 
 ernor. In that high office he showed the earnestness and pub- 
 lic spirit which had always characterized him, and which led 
 to his election to the United States Senate in December, 1890. 
 In this body he served until March 3, 1901, and during the ten 
 years or more that he in part represented Idaho all his efforts 
 were devoted to the promotion of the best interests of the State 
 and to the development of all its resources. What these re- 
 sources were even he, enthusiastic as he was, did not realize 
 when he laid out the first town in eastern Idaho. As has 
 already been stated, in that time there were no roads, and
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 61 
 
 communication was so difficult that although the proclama- 
 tion organizins^ the Territory was issued in September it was 
 not known in (he mines mUil (lie following sj^ring. 
 
 Mining was the only industry throughout the entire region, 
 which was deemed unproductive and unfitted for permanent 
 settlement. But when once attention had been turned to possi- 
 bilities of the soil other than gold and silver, surprise followed 
 surprise. It was seen before long that the real and permanent 
 riches of the region lay not in its deposits of gold and silver, 
 which yielded $17,000,000 in 1886 alone, but in the utilization of 
 its other natural resources; and this was emphasized !)>• the 
 sudden drop in the value of gold produced as soon as the 
 placers were exhausted, the yield diminishing to $6,500,000 in 
 1867 and to $1,350,000 in 1878, its present yield being from 
 $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 per year. 
 
 Gold and silver had made the Territory, but they did not 
 maintain it. There were sources of far greater riches. In 
 1870, when the real development of Idaho began, its inhabitants 
 numbered 14,999 — far less in number than during the palmy 
 days of placer mining. But since then population has steadily 
 and rapidly increased, and with it the riches of this favored 
 region. 
 
 The first homestead entries were made in 1868, when applica- 
 tions were filed covering 6,337 acres. In 1880 there were 1,885 
 farms, against 414 ten years before, and in 1900 there were 
 17,471, embracing 3,204,903 acres and valued at $67,271,000. 
 Last [une the homestead entries embraced 7,188,004 acres. 
 There is no record of cattle in i860, and in 1870 there were 
 only 10,000, but in 1900 there were 277,000. 
 
 There were only 2,151 horses in 1S70, but in 1900 there were 
 151,000. In 1870 there were only 1,021 sheep, yielding 3,415 
 pounds of wool, but in igo8 there were 2,500,000 sheep, which 
 yielded nearly 18,000,000 pounds, valued at almost $3,000,000.
 
 62 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 Farm products were valued at $637,000 in 1870, in 1900 at 
 $18,000,000, and in the same period the value of live stock 
 increased from 5416,000 to S2 1 ,600,000. The value of the prod- 
 ucts of the farm alone at the end of twenty years was over 
 three times the value of the gold and silver produced, which 
 metals originally attracted adventurous men to this apparently 
 sterile region. 
 
 That base metal, lead, yielded almost as much in 1906 
 as the gold and silver mines in their most prosperous day, 
 nearly $15,000,000 in that year. Copper, too, yields about 
 half as much in value as gold and silver together. In 1908 
 wheat yielded $11,000,000, hay over $10,000,000, lumber over 
 $7,000,000, potatoes over $1,000,000. 
 
 Population increased to 205,704 in 1906, and the value of all 
 property to $342,871 ,000. The vast sum of $7,145,000 has been 
 expended in irrigating 266,000 acres of land; 18,000 miles of 
 public roads have been built ; and nearly i ,800 miles of railroads 
 extend through one of the most difficult regions for railroad 
 construction. 
 
 Water power aggregating 78,743 horsepower has been de- 
 veloped, and this will in the immediate future be vastly in- 
 creased through the utilization of mountain streams for the 
 generation of electricity. Already, in 1905, the value of manu- 
 factures depending on power had increased to nearly $9,000,000. 
 
 Such are some of the results which the efforts of George L. 
 Shoup were instrumental in achieving. No wonder that he 
 was an enthusiastic lover of this great State and that ail his 
 energy and best efforts were given to it. As United States 
 Senator he strove to secure for his State the benefits of legisla- 
 tion demanded by conditions which he so well understood, and 
 his knowledge of all that great western country was so minute 
 and so comprehensive that he naturally found his way to the
 
 Address of Mr. Perkins, of California 63 
 
 head of the Committee on Territories, where, during his term 
 of service, he was instrunieiital in passing those laws which 
 have been of much benefit to the people of the great Northwest. 
 To him are due the thanks of the 700,000 people who now live 
 within the borders of the original Territory of Idaho, and whose 
 present prosperity is due in no small degree to his energy, wis- 
 dom, and constant efforts to secure wise legislation. No meas- 
 ure was proposed in Congress affecting the scene of his early 
 labors ^hat did not command his most careful attention, and 
 no bill that promised good to the people whom he loved failed 
 to secure his warmest support. 
 
 He never forgot the great States carved out of the wilderness 
 of mountains between the Missouri and the Columbia, for it 
 was their mystery which first attracted him, the surprises which 
 they revealed which caused him to cast his lot with them, and 
 the way in which they fulfilled his prophecies which caused 
 him to devote his life to them. He was one of the last of the 
 builders of States. 
 
 There are no more opportunities for labors of this kind. 
 Our great country no longer presents opportunities for the 
 exercise of the talents which George h. Shoup possessed in 
 such an eminent degree. The great State of Idaho may be said 
 to stand as, in a very great degree, his work, and should be con- 
 sidered his real monument, of which this statue that we accept 
 to-day is merely a visible reminder.
 
 Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 
 
 Mr. President: For many years Right Rev. Ethelbert 
 Talbot, now bishop of the diocese of central Pennsylvania, 
 was missionary bishop for Wyoming and Idaho. He is a man 
 especially fitted for such a charge, and carried his Master's 
 name into every village and mining camp and to nearly every 
 ranch house in both these Territories. He was a close observer 
 of the country and a student of men, and his appreciation was 
 bounded by no creed, nor was his true and clear insight into 
 character dimmed by any sectarian prejudice. In his volume 
 of most interesting reminiscences of the time he spent in those 
 fields, entitled "My People of the Plains," he thus speaks of 
 one of the strongest and most respected men of that day and 
 country, George L. Shoup: 
 
 He was jjerhaps the best-beloved man in Idaho, quite apart from his 
 political alTiliations. Indeed, he was one of nature's noblemen, and I 
 cherished for him the warmest alTection. He was a native of Pennsylvania, 
 served through the civil war with distinction, and afterwards had a most 
 thrilling experience in Indian wars in Colorado and elsewhere. He was 
 absolutely without fear, and under iiis courageous leadership as colonel 
 the warlike tribes that had terrorized the frontier were si)eedily brought 
 under the strong arm of the Government. He was generous to a fault, 
 modest and unaffected, of transparent integrity of character, and instinc- 
 tively won the confidence of men. He was always ready to respond with 
 generous liberality to every good cause. 
 
 The mention of Senator Shoup's venerated name leads me to state that 
 the conditions of frontier life often developed a high type of manhood quite 
 unusual elsewhere. Frequently these men were not connected with any 
 church, a fact which may be explained by the absence of organized Chris- 
 tianity during the earlier years of their residence there; but they were in 
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 fulk'sl svmiiMlliv willi llu- pi iiu-i|>k'S of rij^htcousiicss for whicli tin- chiiroli 
 stands, :iii(l coiiUl al\v;iys W n-lii-il iipoii to use tlu'ii inlliK'noo in Inliilf of 
 (Uivncy ami molality, 'riicy were the warm personal friends of the elergy 
 in i;eneral, and a bishop felt the stroni^er for their ontspoken loyalty and 
 snppoit Their \\i\es anil families were loi tlie most pail memhers of niy 
 lloek, and 1 always thoni;hl of the men themselves as an important part of 
 my dioeesan family. 
 
 Bishop Talbot was ri>;hl Inilli iti his estimate of tlu' cliaiaolcf 
 ol" llir man aiul ol' llu' i.-oiulitions ami tlii' tiiiK'S that rrmU'ii'd 
 j)ossihlo his caivcM. Ilu' hanlships atul pii\atiotis ol llic fron- 
 tier, the strti,<;i;K" wiili nature ami with athetse e<ni(Hli(Mis for ;i 
 livelihood, the oiililoor life, have e\er prodiieed a elass ol men 
 that tlu- eiowded atmospheie of tlu- eit>- and elTeminale soeial 
 oondilions have seUU^m broiii^hl forth. .\ sttndy imleixaidetico 
 of tlu>n,i;ht ami aetion, stroiis; and ori>;inal minds, and a i>alienl 
 and ne\er failiiii; eottrai;e have been awakoneil in every new 
 ami nmle\ iloited poition ol om eonnlrv. 
 
 In his lifetime t'.l.'oRr.i: 1.. SiliMi" tonehed e\ery line of Amer- 
 iean eiti/enship, ami alwa\s in a wa\- to lelleel ciedit and honor 
 on that eiti/iMiship. With his faee alwa\s towatil (he fnnilier, 
 he took i.-\ei\- dtit\- as it eanie to him aitil ehallem;ed e\eiy new 
 eondilion with nnllinehinv; eoinav;e and with peisiN eranee ami 
 Slieeess. In eaiU life a farmei in the then new West betore 
 (Mir ei\il wai, the eiisis found him in the still newer and almost 
 unknown West, the l\oek\ Monnlains. 
 
 lie beeame one ^^i that ^land aiin\- against whose tanks the 
 S]>lendid eoniai;e and the tempi'st notis waxes o{ the lost eanse 
 "dashed and bioke foi four lorn; \eais in \ain." Ihiriiii; his 
 uiililaiv eareei and as the stitiv^^le between the Slates was 
 drawim; near its pia\ed for end. his lot was east amoiii; (hose 
 dexuled nun w hosi- dnl\ iMiiied them to the diiense ol that 
 ^reat boidei land infested with the !u>stile Indi.m (tibes, ter- 
 rors to out settleis and bloeks to onr ei\ ili/.ilion ; (hat lino he
 
 Address of Mr. Clark, of Wyoming 67 
 
 defended from the Mexican border to the far North. His 
 record in those years during which he rose step by step to high 
 command, has been excelled by no man from the lime Miles 
 Standish led his little army against the savages of New Eng- 
 land until the jjresent day. He was among the greatest and last 
 of the intrepid and fearless protectors of our western frontier 
 in the sixties. Gentlest among the gentle, he knew that peace 
 and security to our settlers could only be (obtained by swift and 
 decided action, and when he moved, he struck with sudden, 
 unerring, and terrific blows, and his strategy and actions were 
 models for every successful commander in our Indian wars from 
 that time until permanent peace was secured many years after- 
 wards; peace with the Indians having been conquered, and the 
 Regular Army being deemed sufficient to maintain it, he was 
 mustered out of the service with the regiment of which he was 
 colonel and took up the duties of civil life in the country which 
 his military activities had rendered safe and habitable. In an 
 interval between Indian disturbances he had been an honored 
 and useful member of the first constitutional convention of 
 Colorado, and soon after the termination of his military serv- 
 ice he turned his face again toward the setting sun and took up 
 his permanent home in the then Territory, now the "Gem" 
 State of Idaho, which to-day pays him such distinguished honor. 
 From that time until 1904, the year of his death, the life of 
 George L. Siioti' and the history of Idaho were inseparable; 
 he was easily the foremost citizen of the State, and the vState 
 loved him as he loved Idaho. No State in this Union ever had 
 a more loyal citizen nor one who gave more freely of his time, 
 energy, and substance in promoting the public good. 
 
 The service of vSenator Shoup in this body was such as to 
 reflect credit on himself and honor upon his State; modest to 
 a fault, he was not often heard in public debate, but when he
 
 68 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 addressed the Senate his words were the words of a wisdom 
 drawn from a wide and varied experience, and in all matters 
 concerning western affairs, at least, he was looked upon as 
 authority. A strict party man, he believed in the wisdom of 
 that party's policies, but never placed party above patriotism- 
 Especially fitted by his life's experience, he found his natural 
 place on the Committee on Territories, of which he was chair- 
 man, and on the Committee on Military Affairs, where in peace 
 and war he rendered most signal service. His servdce in this 
 bodv was most deUghtful to his colleagues, and his associates 
 will always hold his name in sweet remembrance. 
 
 Idaho has had, and has, many a noble son, men whose lives 
 are entwined about the very foundation of the State and whose 
 names will be more and more honored as the present gives place 
 to the future, and yet none will question the wisdom or the 
 justice of the undying honor which that State to-day pays to 
 George L. Shoup. A repetition of his career will not be 
 • possible, because the times in which he lived and of which he. 
 was a part come not again, but the great work of state building 
 to which he devoted so freely his time and influence and energy 
 will be more and more appreciated, his fame will glow with 
 increased luster, and his name and deeds will still be a sweet 
 and most glorious memory to his children and his children's 
 children as the years go by.
 
 Address of Mr. Warren, of Wyoming 
 
 J- 
 
 Mr. President: I deem it an honor to be permitted to take 
 part in the dedication of a monument erected to commemorate 
 the services of our former colleague, the late George L. Shoup, 
 of Idaho. 
 
 I venture the assertion that the men of the United vStates 
 whose achievements will remain longest in the memories of 
 their fellows will be those who in their lives have had to do 
 with the formation and upbuilding of new States, and who 
 have had a hand in changing the so-called " waste places " of our 
 country into regions of homes and progression. Such a man 
 was George L. Shoup, and it is fitting that the great vState of 
 Idaho has shown its appreciation of him by placing here in 
 this hall of fame a likeness of him in imperishable marble. 
 
 It was my privilege to have enjoyed a long personal acquaint- 
 anceship with Governor Shoup in the West and here in Con- 
 gress. My public duties and his were, in a measure, strangely 
 coincident. Living in neighboring Territories, which were 
 admitted to statehood at the same time, he was the last terri- 
 torial governor and the first state governor of Idaho, as I was 
 the last territorial governor and first state governor of Wyom- 
 ing. Our coincident services continued later, for we were 
 both elected to the United States Senate by the first legisla- 
 tures of our respective States. 
 
 In the Senate we were both members of the }ililitary Affairs 
 Committee and were frequently associated together in regard 
 to legislation affecting the Western States and Territories. 
 
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 The varied experiences of Senator Shoup as soldier, stock- 
 man, miner, farmer, merchant, and as executive chief of a vast 
 Western Territory and State, combined with his inherent hon- 
 esty and patriotism, made of him when he reached the Senate 
 one of its most valued and capable Members. His courage 
 was of the most heroic order; his unselfish devotion to his State 
 was constant and complete. 
 
 His State owed him much, and has honored itself as well as 
 him by erecting here in the Capitol this statue to perpetuate 
 his memorv.
 
 Address of Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania 
 
 Mr. President: The people of Pennsylvania take a great 
 interest in the great State of Idaho, and our people feel very 
 close to the people of Idaho. We recall the fact that one of 
 the territorial governors was Hon. William M. Bunn, who is 
 living to-day, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia; and one of 
 the counties of Idaho is named after the Hon. Henry H. Bing- 
 ham, the titular father of the House of Representatives in 
 Congress. Much Pennsylvania capital has been invested in 
 the mineral and other industrial enterprises of Idaho, and we 
 recall with pride that the Hon. George L. Shoup, the last ter- 
 ritorial governor of the State and the first governor under the 
 new state administration, a distinguished Senator rn this body, 
 was a son of Pennsylvania, as is the able and distinguished 
 senior Senator from Idaho. His relatives still reside in west- 
 ern Pennsylvania, and one of them, the Hon. Robert McAfee, 
 is secretary of the Commonwealth and a political leader in the 
 State. 
 
 Senator Shoup was a worthy representative of the State of 
 Idaho and was typical of much that is most rugged and ad- 
 mirable in her citizenship. The fact that Mr. Shoup was born 
 in Pennsylvania and that I had for many years hunted and 
 traveled through the State of Idaho in the territorial days 
 naturally brought about an intimate acquaintance with him 
 immediately on my entrance into the Senate. I suppose I knew 
 him as well as almost any Member of this bodv, and I can 
 testify to his sturdy and heroic virtues and attainments and 
 achievements. Idaho is destined to become one of the great 
 
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 States of the Union. From her ample limits, as originally out- 
 lined, the whole of Montana and nearly all of Wyoming have 
 been car\^ed out. The great rivers of the State, the picturesque 
 and lofty mountain ranges possessing in their recesses untold 
 mineral wealth, the rich alluvial basins of the Salmon, Clear- 
 water, Payette, and Boise producing excellent crops of cereals 
 and fruits, and the uplands well adapted to grazing, present to 
 the imagination of anyone who has traveled through the State 
 unlimited possibiUties in the future and give assurance that 
 here will be one of the seats of empire and civilization. In no 
 section of the United States is development making more rapid 
 strides, with the construction of railroad lines and with the 
 increase in manufactures, which, although small at present, 
 give promise of great growth in the future. 
 
 Mr. Shoup had a remarkable and distinguished career. It is 
 in every way fitting that his statue should be erected in the hall 
 of this Capitol dedicated to the memory of representatives 
 from each State in the Union m.ost typical of their respective 
 histories and civilization. He was successful as a merchant 
 and I know from personal experience of the high respect and 
 regard in which he was held by the people of Idaho on account 
 of the liberality and kindness with which he treated all the 
 people with whom he did business. I have been told in my 
 travels in Idaho that no miner or settler was ever turned away 
 from Mr. Shoup's mercantile establishment because he did not 
 have the money with him for his purchases, but a generous 
 treatment of credit and assistance was extended to all. He 
 was successful in mining and stock-raising enterprises and 
 became widely known as a business man of ability and of 
 pronounced and valuable views upon all questions of public 
 concern. He was a member of the territorial legislature, dele- 
 gate to Republican national conventions, and for a long while
 
 Address of Mr. Penrose, of Pennsylvania 73 
 
 a member of the national committee of the Republican party. 
 As a Senator he was noted for his attention to the interests 
 of the great western country and no one could have been more 
 peculiarly fitted for the discharge of his duties as the chair- 
 man of the Senate Committee on Territories, a position he held 
 at the time of his retirement from the Senate. 
 
 I feel that I voice the sentiments of the people of Pennsyl- 
 vania in saying that it is most gratifying that the people of our 
 sister State have selected the Hon. George L. Shoup as one 
 of their representatives in Statuary Hall. Future generations 
 will view his monument among those of the other great men of 
 the Nation, and will recognize the fact that he stands foremost 
 and typical among those courageous and enterprising men born 
 in the Eastern States, imbued with the best ideals of American 
 patriotism, whom the spirit of enterprise and adventure at- 
 tracted to our so-called "western frontier," and who in the 
 fields of war and peace assisted in building up and constructing 
 those great Commonwealths which subsequently entered the 
 union of States and have contributed so much to the power, 
 the dignity, the wealth, and the civilization of the Nation.
 
 Address of Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana 
 
 Mr. President: I have been asked by my colleagues from 
 Idaho to pay my tribute to Senator Shoup, under whom I first 
 served in the Committee on Territories when I entered the Sen- 
 ate eleven years ago, and whom I succeeded as chairman of that 
 committee; and I count it an honor and a privilege to respond. 
 I shall not enter into the details of his busy life, which ran 
 strong and clear as a mountain current, for older friends have 
 done that, and done it well; but I shall speak of him as the most 
 conspicuous recent example of that type so peculiar to our own 
 country, the American pioneer. 
 
 Indeed, Mr. President, American blood is pioneer blood; and 
 pioneer blood is the blood of faith and deeds, the blood of 
 optimism and courage. It dares the unknown, from which the 
 faint-hearted shrink, well understanding that what is unknown 
 to men is known to God, and prepared by Him for the uses of 
 man when he who is strong enough shall discover it for his fel- 
 lows. The pioneer has that vision which sees no dragons guard- 
 ing unknown seas or lands, but instead beholds in unsearched 
 plains and valleys and mountains the unexhausted wealth 
 which mankind needs and the abiding places for a people. 
 
 The pioneer fears not the dangers of savage foe, of wild 
 
 beast, of parched desert, of deadly hunger. He welcomes them. 
 
 Combat with untamed nature and the elemental forces is his 
 
 pleasure; and the hazards which weaker men, softened by 
 
 luxury, call "sport," to the pioneer are the tame diversions of 
 
 a child. 
 
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 76 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 To the pioneer the doubts and forebodings of pessimism are 
 absurd, for his belief in the conquest of new lands by human 
 kind inspired by liberty is the passion of his life — aye, and the 
 conquest of the world as well by liberty and civilization. 
 To him Daniel's vision was a simple statement of the fact of • 
 the world's supreme event, which the passing days are real- 
 izing, and of the realization of which he is an agent and an 
 instrument. 
 
 And so in the pioneer there is something of prophecy, much 
 of daring, much of doing, and all of faith — the strongest pos- 
 sible combination of human character. It was men and women 
 of this stamp who at our beginning settled on the shores of 
 this continent ; then pushed forward the outposts of order and 
 industry into the wilderness; planted in the soil of peril the 
 seed of liberty and nourished the growing plant until it yielded 
 the fruits of safety; pushed ever onward across flooded rivers, 
 waterless plains, impassable mountains — always building as 
 they went — until within the briefest time in human history 
 a continent was occupied by a nation of free men. It was 
 the pioneer spirit that founded the Republic and saved the 
 Republic, and the Republic will endure just as long as that 
 hardy blood runs through American veins and that unques- 
 tioning faith inspires American hearts, and no longer. 
 
 The pioneer never asks, "Is the path before me blazed and 
 easy?" He says, "I will blaze the path myself and go for- 
 ward." He never asks, "Is there a precedent for this thing?" 
 He only asks, "Should this thing be done?" And if it should, 
 he does it. Do multiplying men and women and children need 
 new lands to occupy, new fields to till? The pioneer declares, 
 "I will fmd them." Do burdens He heavy on humanity and 
 legal tricksters endeavor to prevent their lifting? The pioneer 
 declares, "I will devise a law that will remove them," and he
 
 Address of Mr. Beveridge , of Indiana 77 
 
 writes it, champions it, and in the end he passes it. Do bar- 
 barism, tyranny, and darkness oppress and envelop an alien 
 people, and does Providence call an enlightened nation to the 
 rescue? When the infidels of liberty declare the task imi)()s- 
 sible, the pioneer moves calmly forward to its accomplishment 
 amid the final applause of a doubting and reluctant world. 
 
 Of such, Mr. President, was the man whose statue is placed 
 in Statuary Hall of the Nation's Capitol to represent forever 
 the spirit, the courage, the constructive genius of the American 
 pioneer. He never asked, "Can this wild western countrv be 
 made the homes of a happy people ?" He only said, " I will help 
 make it so." He never asked, " Will I be killed fighting Indians 
 and outlaws that civilization may advance; fighting my own 
 brothers that the Nation may live?" He only said, "I gladly 
 offer my life as an humble sacrifice to either or both." Not 
 from his lips of prophecy, not from his heart of faith, not from 
 his hand of deeds went forth a single word or action that even 
 suggested that this Nation, which had succeeded in such great 
 things for humanity at home, would fail in the easier tasks 
 which events have given us to do in the islands of the sea; he 
 only said, "I know that the blessings which this Nation has 
 secured for its own people it will achieve for alien peoples 
 whom God has placed in our keeping in His own good time." 
 
 Such was the mind, the will, the character of George L. 
 Shoup; such were his words and works of life. 
 
 Even the Central West beyond the Mississippi was wild indeed 
 when George L. Shoup, a mere stripHng, heard and heeded its 
 call. At an age when the youth of to-day have hardly left 
 their schools, he was a commander of scouts, in desperate en- 
 counter with savages who sought to stay by bloodshed civiliza- 
 tion's resistless march; aye, and a colonel of Volunteers battling 
 with those who sought in arms to destroy this Nation of free
 
 78 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 and equal men. After the war was over there still was need 
 for his fighting blood not only against the savage red men, but 
 also against the more savage white outlaws who robbed and 
 murdered and sowed lawlessness where the pioneer was tilling 
 and building and striving to sow order. 
 
 And this was his heroic part in the adventurous life of the 
 young and mighty West; and all the while, and after, he poured 
 his energies out in the peaceful and constructive life of that new 
 land which had forever won his heart. 
 
 Explorer and prospector, Indian fighter and soldier of the 
 Union, miner and trader, executive and lawgiver — his years 
 flowed on to the sea, ever broadening in usefulness, fertilizing 
 ever-increasing lands which their waters touched, and bearing 
 ever-enlarging cargoes of responsibility discharged and of human 
 helpfulness performed. i\nd finally came the end, as come to 
 all it must; and the day that put a period to his life closed a 
 career of courage and accomplishment of faith justified, of 
 liberty strengthened, of the American spirit personified. 
 
 And so when Congress accepts the statue of George L. Shoup, 
 Idaho's gift, the Nation will have placed forever in her Hall of 
 Fame the marble image of the last great representative of the 
 early American pioneers, who as individuals have passed away, 
 but whose blood still flows in American veins, and whose spirit 
 will endure forever in American hearts. In giving us the statue 
 of George L. Shoup Idaho gives us the eternal presentment of 
 a soldier of civilization.
 
 Address of Mr. Scott, of West Virginia 
 
 Mr. President: We meet to-day as representatives of the 
 Congress of the United States to formally accept an offering 
 from the great State of Idaho. That Commonwealth has well 
 chosen when she sends to this Hall of Fame the statue of George 
 L. Shoup as her contribution to the "American immortals." 
 
 This country of ours, during the past century, has been 
 simply developing herself. There was little time to give to the 
 remembrance of those who have helped to make it what it is. 
 During the centuries of the past other countries and other lands 
 have provided places where the records of the lives and deeds 
 of their great men may be preserved in as enduring a form as 
 possible. Their heroes have been honored in various ways. 
 From the earUest recorded history down to the present day 
 nations have paid their loving tributes to the memories of those 
 who have lived greatly. As the years go by, a similar plan may 
 be adopted by this country, so that the generations yet to come 
 may have before them in some concrete form a tribute to the 
 men who made us great. As it is, we must be content with the 
 placing of statues in this hall, silent witnesses of men, tlie mem- 
 ory of whose achievements is still warm and pulsing in the 
 hearts of their countrymen. So to-day the Commonwealth of 
 Idaho is presenting to the Congress of the United States the 
 statue of one of whom she was proud and whose niemorv she 
 desires to perpetuate. 
 
 The qualities which go to make up a man are the main- 
 springs which move his whole being. Unless he is straight- 
 forward, honest, and upright, the results of his life are not such 
 
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 as win the approval and love of his cotemporaries. Even at 
 the best, the man who is all that his God intended him to be 
 is misunderstood and misinterpreted by those among whom 
 he lived, and it is not until he has passed to the great beyond 
 that the qualities which have made his sterling manhood are 
 best seen and best appreciated. This was not true in the case 
 of George L. Shoup, who was loved, revered, and honored in his 
 lifetime and whose many noble qualities are worthy of public 
 preservation for the benefit of his countrymen yet to be born. 
 
 The placing in this Hall of a statue to the memory of such a 
 man is not so much a contribution to the man himself as it is 
 the presenting of his life to his countrymen as an example, as 
 a guide, to civic virtue. The qualities which have made such 
 a man as George L. Shoup are the qualities which have made 
 this country what it is. They have been found in the men who 
 tunneled the mountains, cut down the forests, and from the 
 mountain wilderness built up my own vState. They are the 
 qualities which wrested from the cold, the blizzard, the red man, 
 and stern natural obstacles the great Northwest. They are 
 the same qualities which have built up our great Southland. 
 They are the same qualities which make men wherever thev 
 are. It is these qualities that are commemorated in this Hall 
 to-day, and it is these qualities which our sons' sons must 
 respect, revere, and attain. 
 
 Nothing I can say can add to the fame of the achievements 
 of George L. Shoup. Nothing that I can do can make his 
 record brighter. I have simply been asked to speak from the 
 standpoint of personal friendship and of an acquaintance that 
 commenced more than half a century ago, an acquaintance that 
 afterwards ripened into friendship and was only closed by death. 
 
 As a boy of i6, before the civil war, I started to find my 
 fortune in the West. Driving an o.\ team across what was
 
 Address of Mr. Scott, of West Virginia 8i 
 
 then known as tlie Cireat American Desert to the site where 
 now stands the city of Denver, I nici for the first time (iICorcic 
 L- Siroup, a superintendent of a wagon train. He had been 
 born in Pennsylvania, had moved to Illinois, and, after living 
 there several years, started farther west. I had been born and 
 reared in Ohio; neither of us knew the other, yet we were 
 brought together on this journey to the place where Denver 
 now stands. A few years older than myself, I looked upon him 
 with admiration and thought him one of the finest young men I 
 had ever met or known, for I found him a lovable man, fearless, 
 upright, straightforward. Cheerful and alert, he was the life 
 of our gathering. Ever ready to lend a helping hand, he was 
 liked by all. Looking back over the years, I can now see that 
 he was then, in the humble position he occupied, fitting him- 
 self for future responsibilities and greatness. 
 
 Many a night on the plain, when the wagons had been placed 
 in the form of a corral, with hundreds of savage Indians sur- 
 rounding us, we were wont to discuss the trials and tribula- 
 tions of the past day and what we might expect for the next. 
 At one crossing — that of a stream called Lost Creek — we came 
 upon a camp that had been occupied the night before by some 
 gold seekers, and found that 31 of the men, women, and chil- 
 dren had been slain by Indians. Well do I remember the look 
 on the face of George L. Shoup as the evidences of this horrible 
 outrage met our eyes. The kind expression on his face, an 
 expression so well known to many of you now present, changed 
 to one of stern determination that this villainous deed should 
 some day be punished. Perhaps a remembrance of this mas- 
 sacre strengthened his arm as he led his cavalry regiment in 
 many an Indian charge. 
 
 Reaching the present site of Denver, I drifted away from 
 that point to engage in gold mining, and he drifted in another 
 
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 direction. My life work brought me back to the East, while his 
 kept him in the West. The experiences of plains life fitted him 
 for scout duty, and when the great civil war broke out he en- 
 tered the service of the Federal Army as a scout. This service 
 led him into many encounters with Indians and border des- 
 peradoes, where the fearlessness of his character was further 
 developed. He did everything well, and it was not long before 
 he was colonel of a regiment of Colorado cavalry, and from 
 that time his advancement was rapid. 
 
 During these years I never met the superintendent of the 
 wagon train I had so much admired, and I only heard of 
 George L. Shoup as I read of him in the papers. It was not 
 until a quarter of a century later that we met as members of 
 the Republican national committee and renewed the acquaint- 
 ance begun in a setting of Indians, unbroken forests, and plains. 
 From that time until he retired from public life we were closely 
 thrown together. When I was honored by election to the 
 United States Senate he was serving his second term, and we 
 met and spent two years in close companionship. On more 
 than one occasion we lived over again the memories of the 
 past, from the days in which he cracked an ox whip over his 
 team of bullocks up until the days we voted side by side on 
 matters of national interest. 
 
 I had found Senator Shoup as a young man to be straight- 
 forward, earnest, progressive, and considerate of his fellow-men. 
 I never found occasion to change this estimate. As a national 
 committeeman, as a United vStates Senator, he was always in 
 the front rank. His estimate of men and things was remark- 
 able. His honesty of purpose, his purity of life, were all that 
 could be desired. He was a man who did things, and did them 
 successfully. His was the spirit which made the Western 
 States, which cleared the forests, which planted the deserts,
 
 Address of Mr. Scott, of West Virginia 83 
 
 which grappled with liuhans, and overcanic' all (hlTicuhies. 
 He was always in advance, clearing the path of civilization. 
 Other speakers will tell and have told of his labors in behalf 
 of the State of Idaho, have told what he has done in the devel- 
 opment of the West, have told of his career in Congress. I 
 can only add the loving tribute of a friendship of fifty years' 
 standing. I can only say that a brighter beacon light to 
 Americans yet to come, a more illustrious example of the 
 manhood of the West, it would be hard to find. 
 
 His life should be encouragement to the young men of this 
 country to do well whatever their hands find to do, to be honest, 
 to be straightforward, and to remember that it makes no differ- 
 ence from what humble condition they start, their futuie is 
 within their own hands.
 
 Address of Mr. Gamble, of South Dakota 
 
 Mr. Presidknt: I am graU-ful for the opportunity this occa- 
 sion affords me to pay a brief tribute to the memory of this dis- 
 tinguished and most beloved citizen of Idaho. I congratulate the 
 people of his State upon the wise selection they made in accord- 
 ing to OdorgK I.. vShoi^p this signal and uni(iue honor and this 
 lasting evidence of their love, respect, and devotion. The life 
 he lived and the services he rendered his State and his country 
 well merit this special recognition and distinction they pay him. 
 
 It was not ni}- privilege to serve as a Senator while he was a 
 member of this Vxxly, but I knew him well and intimately. lie 
 was generous, companionable, and kind, and to know him was 
 to love him and to feel he was your friend. 
 
 Nature was generous in her endowments. vShe made him 
 strong, resolute, and courageous, and at the same time tender, 
 simple, and approachable. He had a restless spirit and a high 
 purpose, and from his youth gave evidence of the character 
 that would be so rich in honorable and heroic endeavor. 
 
 He early caught the spirit of the West and gave to it his 
 best energies and supreme seni'iee in a long, unusual, and dis- 
 tinguished career. 
 
 Idaho can not alone claim him, for his services were not cir- 
 cumscribed by territorial or state limits. While a citizen of 
 the Territory of Colorado he responded to the call of his coun- 
 try, and rendered long and most trying sen-ice in her behalf 
 during the civil war. His military record was most creditable. 
 His service extended practically throughout the war. He was 
 an ideal, brave, and accomijlished soldier. The recognition 
 
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 accorded him was honorably, faithfully, and fearlessly won. 
 From the ranks, through the severest tests of efficiency . and 
 daring, by successive advancements, he reached the rank of 
 colonel. 
 
 His whole life was one of serv^ice, and he was always ready 
 to answer the summons, whether the call came from his coun- 
 trv or his State. His young and vigorous manhood and his life, 
 if need be, were freely and patriotically dedicated to his coun- 
 try and for its integrity. No higher or greater sacrifice is pos- 
 sible. In the service he met every expectation and was equal 
 to every emergency. His military record alone entitles him to 
 high consideration and to honorable distinction in the estima- 
 tion of his countrymen. 
 
 He must have stood high and have been well considered by 
 his fellow-citizens even in these earlier years of his life, for it 
 appears when at home for a short period from his military 
 duties in 1864 he was elected and ser\"ed with ability as a mem- 
 ber of the constitutional convention of Colorado in that year. 
 This ser\^es as an indication of the versatility of his powers 
 and his great interest in the Commonwealth in seeking wisely 
 to lav the foundations of the future State. 
 
 His tireless and energetic spirit felt the call of duty else- 
 where, and soon after the close of the war he took up his resi- 
 dence in the Territory of Idaho, that afterwards became the 
 State to which his citizenship brought honorable distinction. 
 It appears here, as in his former home, his fellow-citizens early 
 recognized his high character and ability, and he was soon 
 called upon to serve them in various positions where sj^ecial 
 fitness, integrity, and a high order of service were demanded. 
 
 In no place was he found wanting. He was strong, wise, and 
 resourceful. He appreciated the great opportunities that came 
 to him. He sought to serve the people and the highest interests
 
 Address of Mr. Gamble, of South Dakota 87 
 
 of his State. He was the leading spirit in the transition from 
 territorial condition to statehood. To have been the last terri- 
 torial governor and the first of the vState is a unique distinction 
 in the history of his Commonwealth. Like opportunities come 
 to but few. To have been an active and leading participant in 
 the formative period of two separate Territories, to have had 
 to do in shaping the social conditions that later were to be the 
 foundations upon which two free and independent vStates of the 
 Federal Union should forever rest, is associating yourself and 
 your life work among the most ideal and sublime acts in human 
 history. 
 
 Two great, indestructible States, dedicated in the highest 
 sense to the people's welfare, to conserve their freedom, to 
 establish justice, and give inspiration and opportunity for the 
 expression of their highest ideals; to encourage a high and 
 patriotic purpose, to enlarge every opportunity for honorable 
 endeavor and encouragement in industry, in civic virtue, in 
 education, in religion, in philanthropy, and for human happi- 
 ness — these are imperishable results to which this man devoted 
 his high purpose and for which he stood and took a leading and 
 most distinguished part. 
 
 To have had to do with the founding of a State in itself is 
 a signal honor, but to have been an active participant and a 
 leading spirit in his relations to two certainly is exceptional and 
 unusual in the history of the Republic. 
 
 Mr. President, his record as a representative of his State in 
 this body was honorable, dignified, patriotic, and of the highest 
 service to his State and country. Idaho in honoring George 
 L. Shoup in any position always honored herself. He was 
 in the fullest sense a pioneer, and as such accomplished great 
 and enduring results. He was a loyal and a brave soldier, a 
 wise and high-minded executive, a patriotic, efficient, and
 
 88 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 ser\^ceable Senator, and, withal, a noble, large-hearted, gener- 
 ous, and kindly man. 
 
 The luster of his high character and of his unselfish and de- 
 voted life must always illumine the home and the lives of those 
 he left behind. In these, as husband and father, he left them 
 the richest possible heritage. To the people of Idaho his life 
 must always be an inspiration and a benediction. 
 
 George L. Shoup well merits his place as a representative of 
 his State among the immortals of the Republic. He was ac- 
 corded high distinction by his people while he lived, and in his 
 death he is commemorated in a noble figure worthy of his high 
 character and of the people he so unselfishly and patriotically 
 served.
 
 Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 
 
 Mr. President: vStatuary Hall, in this, our country's Capitol, 
 has become the American Hall of Fame, for here the several 
 States of the Union honor their greatest and wisest men. Idaho, 
 in placing the marble statue of George L. Shoup there, recog- 
 nizes his unselfish ser\ices to his country and his undeviating 
 devotion to his peojile. The statue of marble is the concrete 
 and material expression of the monument of love he has im- 
 planted in the hearts of those who knew him best. 
 
 I deem it a great privilege to speak brielly upon this occasion 
 and express some of my thoughts suggested b}- the life and 
 labors of our departed friend. I intend my remarks to be gen- 
 eral, for it is better that the Senators of his own State recount 
 in detail his great labors and achievements. 
 
 Senator Shoup was a frequent visitor to my own home State. 
 We lived neighbors, and I, in common with many others, learned 
 of his worth as a man, his lofty ideals, his generous heart, and 
 of his honorable ambitions. Whenever the name Shoup is 
 mentioned in my hearing there arises at once before me the figure 
 of a man, tall and straight as an arrow, a pioneer, a business 
 man, a soldier, a patriot, a statesman, a Christian gentleman, 
 whose life was devoted to the building up of this magnificent 
 Government of ours in a form so grand and enduring as to ex- 
 cite the wonder and cliallenge the admiration of the civilized 
 world. To him more than to any other Idaho owes her early 
 admission to statehood. To this end he brought to bear his 
 power as an organizer, his ability as a leader, his logic as a 
 debater, his inllexible will, his honest soul; and for this reason, 
 
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 90 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 among others, his sculptured presence is placed in yon Pan- 
 theon of the Republic to forever proclaim to the world the love, 
 respect, and honor the great State of Idaho has for one of her 
 noble citizens. 
 
 Like nearlv all our great historical characters, Shoup was a 
 self-made man. He was not born with a silver spoon in his 
 mouth nor reared in the lap of luxury, but had to combat with 
 the difficulties of life, overcoming them one by one until success 
 could be called his. What he won came to him because of his 
 own persistency and ability, by dint of struggle and toil. From 
 bovhood his chief capital for his future was reliance upon him- 
 self, upon his own integrity, upon his own conscious power to 
 achieve. He was not deterred by obstacles nor discouraged by 
 opposition; they but added strength to his aims and determi- 
 nation to his will. Duty! duty! work! work! thundered in his 
 soul, and he was loyal to their demands. 
 
 Shoup looked at every problem from the view point of the 
 common people. He sprang from them; was one of them. His 
 association until full manhood was exclusively with the w^ork- 
 ing classes. His labors in this body fully justify me in saying 
 that he believed profoundly in the plain people, but never de- 
 scended to the demagogue in order to show it. He had the sin- 
 ceritv and simplicity of nature. He w^as not an orator in the 
 generally accepted meaning of that word, but his oratory was 
 of that purer tyoe used by great and good men in all ages of 
 the world, for in si)caking he told the truth at the appropriate 
 time and believed what he said so fervently that those who 
 heard him became convinced. His people loved to hear him 
 and were drawn to him not by mere tinsel of words, but by the 
 soliditv and strength of his argument and the force of his 
 character. The people knew that back of the word was a 
 heart, a conscience, a conviction, a man.
 
 Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 91 
 
 He was strong in his personal attachments, intensely loyal 
 in his friendships. He had no treachery in his heart; he ex- 
 acted only that whicli he gave, loyalty and fidelity, and these 
 he demanded in full measure. My whole memory of him, from 
 first to last, is such as I am now glad to recall and shall cherish 
 as long as I live. His hearty greetings when meeting him inva- 
 riably imparted the joy of friendship and brightness to the 
 passing moments. Good will, kindness, and perfect honesty 
 shone in his face. Generosities were at home in his heart. He 
 was full of loyalty. Indeed, I think I should say if I were 
 asked to name the trait most characteristic of him that it was 
 loyalty. He was loyal to his country, in devotion to which he 
 in 1 86 1 offered the sacrifice of his life. He was loyal to his 
 State and made many sacrifices for the advancement of her 
 interests; loyal to the community in which he dwelt in honor, 
 and of which he ever studied to be and was a benefactor; loyal 
 to his friends; loyal and true to the wife and children that God 
 so blessed him with. 
 
 Shoup's home life was ideal. The wish of one was the desire 
 of all. Neither cloud shadowed it nor frown chilled it. Sick- 
 ness might invade it; disappointment might enter it; severe 
 pain might smite it; and calumny, coarse, brutal, and per- 
 sistent pound and clamor at its doors, but the peace, the love, 
 the good-night kisses, and the happy morning greetings of that 
 united and joyous household were never interrupted nor dis- 
 turbed. 
 
 Such being the life and the character of the man; such being 
 his generosity and his devotion; such his personification of all 
 that was best and noble, most patriotic, and most unselfish, 
 and most characteristic in her history, it was indeed fitting that 
 the State of Idaho should select him as her most distinguished 
 citizen to be placed in vStatuary Hall in imperishable marble as 
 long as the Capitol shall stand and as long as the nation shall live.
 
 Address of Mr. Carter, of Montana 
 
 Mr. Presidknt: In placing the statue of the late Georgi-: L. 
 Shoup in our national vStatuary Hall the vState of Idaho responded 
 to sentiments of regard entertained for the memory of that 
 worthy man by hosts of people residing outside the limits of 
 the State in which he lived and died. Plis home was in Idaho, 
 but his activities and sympathies were not bounded bv state 
 lines. 
 
 For the State of his adoption he labored without ceasing to 
 the close of his days, but his efforts and his influence extended 
 over a territorial area of imperial extent. He was a type of 
 man not only truly representative of his State, but of the large 
 region of country extending along the Rocky IMountains from 
 Mexico to Canada and spreading from the Sierra Nevadas to 
 the plains of Kansas. 
 
 Every State and Territory in the so-called "intermountain 
 country" felt the quickening sense of his presence either as 
 a soldier, an explorer, a prospector, or a directing force in busi- 
 ness affairs. He was a conspicuous figure in the first consti- 
 tutional convention in the Territory of Colorado. He was a 
 pioneer merchant in the Territory of ]\Iontana, and his mer- 
 cantile, mining, and stock-raising enterprises extended over an 
 area exceeding that of modern Europe. 
 
 He was a pioneer possessed of a spirit of adventure and 
 ambition for conquest, capacity for construction, and genius 
 for government. He demonstrated his ability to deal with 
 every problem intervening between savage wilds and well-estab- 
 lished, orderly civilization. Toil, hardship, privation, and the 
 
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 94 Statue of Hon. George Laird Shoup 
 
 dangers of the frontier were with him mere incentives to 
 effort and vigilance. He was a trail blazer fitted by nature to 
 open and guard the way. 
 
 The settlement of the West has developed many similar men, 
 but few, if any, of so rare and masterful capacity to skillfully 
 cope with the difficulties and successfully overcome the ob- 
 stacles which he encountered and serenely surmounted in the 
 course of nearly half a century in the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 The achievements of others have been more loudly pro- 
 claimed, and in some respects he was excelled by certain of 
 his contemporaries, but taken all in all, he stood in the front 
 rank, unsurpassed in poise, nerve, principle, and capacity by 
 any pioneer it has ever been my privilege to know. Shoup 
 entered the unsubdued West in the early sixties with the fixed 
 and conscientious purpose of a home builder. He was pre- 
 pared to meet any duty, face any danger, and remove any ob- 
 stacle between him and that coveted home. Through a sense 
 of duty he became a soldier, and a distinguished soldier at that, 
 but when the war was over he resumed pursuit of the home 
 he sought, little heeding and not deflected by the applause his 
 brave deeds had evoked. 
 
 In the distant Territory of Idaho, where in the early days 
 law was largely a memory, he set his stakes and laid the foun- 
 dation of a home which survives him — a seat of peace, love, and 
 honor. In his comprehensive view, proper environment of a 
 home embraced the whole community, the Territory, and the 
 entire country in which he lived. Imbued with this idea, he 
 stood for law and order and justice and decency. In the 
 midst of isolated and primitive conditions, with the passions 
 of men and women distorted and intensified by lust for gold, 
 the stand taken by vShoup was not easy to maintain, but he 
 stood his ground from first to last and, hai)pily, lived to see
 
 Address of Mr. Carter, of Montana 
 
 95 
 
 reverence for home and respect for law securely established, 
 not only in fair Idaho, but in all the neighboring vStates. 
 
 He was remarkably successful in all his undertakings. In 
 war he displayed the qualities of high and dauntless leader- 
 ship. As a ranchman, a merchant, and an all-around man 
 of business affairs, he showed such integrity, industry, fore- 
 sight, and capacity for management that he became recog- 
 nized as one of the strong., reliable business men of the West. 
 The duties of citizenship were never neglected by him, for it 
 is well known throughout the West that in the early struggles 
 for good government and the establishment of law, order, and 
 justice, Shoup was always to be relied upon. 
 
 When the aspirations of the people of Idaho for statehood 
 were strongest, George h. Shoup was urged by them for the 
 governorship of the Territory, in the belief that his elevation 
 to that high station would materially aid them in their struggle 
 for recognition. In this they were not disappointed. It is 
 well known by those who served in the Senate and House of 
 Representatives at the time of the admission of the State of 
 Idaho that the tireless efforts of the governor were potential 
 in impressing upon the Congress and the country the just claims 
 of the Territory for admission into the sisterhood of States. 
 
 He was elected the first governor of the. new State, and while 
 governor was selected to represent the State as a Senator in 
 Congress. He served as a member of this body continously 
 from 1890 to March 4, 1901, when he laid down the burdens of 
 public office and retired to his home to devote the remaining 
 years of his life to the adjustment of his private affairs and 
 the enjoyment of closer communion with his old-time friends. 
 
 Many of the Senators present to-day served in this Chamber 
 with Senator Shoup, and, without exception, all retain pleasant 
 recollections of association with him, and his memory is held
 
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 in reverence here. It required intimate association and close 
 observation to discover the elements of power in the character 
 of the man, for although he was thoroughly representative of 
 the West, his demeanor and address in nowise comported with 
 the widespread and erroneous notion that this type of man 
 should be loud, boisterous, self-assertive, and domineering. 
 George L. Shoup did not respond to any of those characteris- 
 tics. He was unobtrusive, gentle, considerate, and kind. His 
 voice was low and rarely elevated above the ordinary conver- 
 sational tone. He was honest, firm, direct, courageous, and 
 brave; but these points in his character were made manifest 
 by actions rather than by proclamations. 
 
 Devotion to duty was wnth him a ruling passion, and he met 
 every obligation fairly and sincerely. Although very positive 
 in his own views he was tolerant of the views of others. He 
 was what might be called a "liberal-minded" man. He had 
 encountered all kinds of vicissitudes in the course of his life, 
 for the whole range of human experience, from poverty to 
 riches and from obscurity to exalted position, had come to 
 him; and, in addition to unusual experience, such was the 
 breadth of his mind and the depth of his sympathy that he was 
 fitted as few men have been to understand and charitably view 
 the weaknesses and faiUngs of men. He loved the right and 
 abhorred the wrong, and all forms of sham and false pretense 
 he held in utter contempt. 
 
 The social feature of western character found full expres- 
 sion in his genial and kindly nature. Good cheer radiated from 
 his healthy and wholesome personality. A certain philosopher 
 has said : 
 
 A man is alTable in liis converse, generous in his temper, and immovable 
 in what he has maturely resolved upon.
 
 Address of Mr. Carter, of M ontana 97 
 
 Measured by this test Georgr L. Shoup was a great man, but 
 such was his modesty that he would instantly have ridiculed a 
 suggestion of greatness as applied to himself. vSure it is that 
 his greatness was in all respects unconscious. The \irtue of 
 the thing he accomplished was never cheapened by self-praise 
 nor tainted with alloy through the means employed to accom- 
 plish it. 
 
 He proved equal to every task assigned him and fairly met 
 and discharged every duty that fell to his lot. He loved his 
 fellow-man, and those who knew him reciprocated his regard. 
 He moved serenely through all the trials and difficulties of 
 the tempestuous days of the gold craze, the Indian wars, the 
 road agents, and all the tragedies and comedies attending the 
 establishment of homes and civilization in the midst of wild, 
 savage, and barren surroundings. With the chivalry of a 
 knight errant, he was always ready to redress the wrongs of 
 the weak and to check the rapacity of the strong. His power- 
 ful, gentle, brave, and kindly nature embraced all the elements 
 employed in laying the foundation of the new State, which has 
 honored his memory by placing his statue in the midst of the 
 national group of bronze and marble figures of distinctly repre- 
 sentative men from all ])arts of our common country. The dis- 
 criminating judgment of Idaho in this selection is most cor- 
 dially approved by all her neighboring States. 
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 Address of Mr, Borah, of Idaho 
 
 J- 
 
 Mr. President: The pioneer of the Far West is entitled to 
 take his place as a commonwealth builder along with the Puritan 
 and the cavalier. With the love of adventure and the valor 
 of the one, the sturdy character and inflexible jnirpose of the 
 other, CaUfornia and Oregon are no less the handiwork of the 
 latter than Massachusetts and Virginia of the former. When 
 the golden sands of California lured the emigrant into the Far 
 West, that region was not only widely removed in distance from 
 the States, exempt from established law, and divorced from 
 authority, but it was under the ban of leading American states- 
 men. That a large part of it was reserved to this country 
 which otherwise would not have been, and that over it all there 
 now obtains the most thoroughly democratic life, the most 
 universally prosperous and wholesome civilization under the 
 flag, are due to the energy, the courage, the inexorable purpose 
 and indomitable patriotism of the pioneer. 
 
 I do not know of a more heroic narrative than that which 
 tells the world of the simple, self-sacrificing, dauntless life of 
 Marcus Whitman. Relieved of all that the pen of fiction or 
 romance may have added and reduced to plain, unquestioned 
 facts, well founded and susceptible of historic proof, his life 
 still remains one of those surrendered and dedicated to the 
 highest impulses which stir the human heart. His courage was 
 of the highest order. His far-seeing statesmanship places him 
 beside our most exalted patriots, and his utter self-surrender to 
 his work was that of a martyr, which indeed he became. Tar- 
 dily, but we may hope finally and properly, the world is to 
 
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 recognize the inestimable work of this singularly able, upright, 
 and tireless patriot. Not so conspicuous, not so noted, were the 
 deeds of others, but the whole pioneer history of the Pacific 
 slope is enriched with unusual exhibitions of hardship, of en- 
 durance, and loyalty, for they wx^re men of initiative, of rare 
 self-confidence, of unbending will, broad in their views and 
 plans, and fearless in execution. The world has never seen, and 
 likely never will see, a finer class of men, all in all, better 
 equipped in mind and body for their work than those who took 
 possession of that great western region and made it ours and 
 made it great. 
 
 ;Most of those pioneers are gone. No pen has yet paid just 
 tribute to their work or worth. We are so engrossed in ex- 
 ploiting and enjoying the splendid estate they built up that we 
 evince little concern in commemorating the excellent qualities 
 of those who built it. The result of their work we know — 
 California and Oregon, Washington and Idaho, ^lontana and 
 Wyoming, Nevada and Utah — but the personal history of these 
 remarkable men, the suffering, the fortitude, the clear-sighted, 
 broad-minded patriotism are to live, it seems, mostly by the 
 treacherous tongue of tradition. . No braver, more resourceful, 
 no bolder, more persistent band of explorers ever wTung from 
 the stubborn grasp of waste and desert a great civilization. 
 They found a region without the semblance of government, a 
 mob excited by the passion for gold, and they hammered this 
 wild, warring, chaotic mass of humanity into order and shaped 
 order into government. They found a new kind of property 
 and a new phase of property rights, concerning which the great 
 common law furnished neither ])recedent nor guide, and with 
 rare foresight and wisdom they wrote into the rules and cus- 
 toms of the camp the principles which still guide and are a 
 sufficient guide to great and growing commonwealths. They
 
 Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho loi 
 
 found mountains and great rivers and barren plains — the vast 
 forces of nature, formidable and uninviting — and with a courage 
 that lias never been excelled, a steadiness of purpose seldom 
 equaled, they mastered all and gave us an empire of untold 
 wealth. 
 
 But no reference to pioneer life would be complete, the pic- 
 ture would be unfinished and unfaithful, without a fitting ref- 
 erence to the courageous women who shared with fathers, 
 husbands, and brothers the hardships of those days. Condi- 
 tions more out of harmony, environments more uninviting with 
 what woman would have conditions and environments to be, 
 could scarcely be imagined. The ease, comforts, companion- 
 ship, and society so essential to woman's life were sternly set 
 aside, bravely given over for years of struggle and adversity. 
 Not much is told of her in the brief page of pioneer history; in 
 the popular story of those free, venturesome days little note is 
 given of her presence; but through all these scenes and trials, the 
 darkest and severest, the inspiring presence of the American 
 woman tinted and softened the harsher outlines of the pioneer 
 life with the subtle halo of a woman's influence. In endurance, 
 in patient waiting through the leaden-footed hours of suspense 
 when danger was impending, and, above all, in that self-sustain- 
 ing hope which in crucial hours discerns through the night of 
 adversity the coming dawn of triumph, she was in every sense 
 the helpmeet of her bolder companion. There is nothing in 
 romance or song more thrilling, richer in the higher qualities of 
 womanhood, than may be gleaned from the stories of pioneer 
 life touching the women who helped to make the western land 
 the home of security and refinement for her daughter. 
 
 George L. Shoup was a pioneer. Born in the State of Penn- 
 sylvania, of yeomen stock, brought up on the farm, educated in 
 the public schools, restless and self-reliant, he turned early to
 
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 the West and located in Colorado while it was yet a Territory. 
 Here he lived until the breaking out of the civil war, farming, 
 stock raising, mining, merchandising, and becoming thoroughly 
 acquainted with all the phases of the free, independent life 
 which then characterized the West. When the civil conHict 
 came he entered the Union Army as a member of an independ- 
 ent companv of scouts, continued in the service until 1864, 
 retiring as colonel of the Third Cavalry. 
 
 In the meantime he had served for a short time as a member 
 of the constitutional convention of Colorado. After the war he 
 removed to the Territory of Idaho, where he made his home 
 during the rest of his life and served with distinction and fidelity 
 his Territory and State as legislator, governor, and United 
 States Senator. Others have dwelt in detail upon the specific 
 events of his life — I need not again recall them. 
 
 Senator Shoup was a type, a true and pronounced embodi- 
 ment, of those splendid qualities which characterized and 
 distinguished those who opened up and subdued the West. 
 Among those giant men he stood forth a leader. Stalwart in 
 frame, of striking presence, the first and strongest impression 
 he gave was that of strength and poise. Kindly, considerate, 
 generous, and tolerant, he was nevertheless possessed of great 
 determination and a will power which, when aroused, yielded 
 alone to the inexorable. He had only such education as he 
 could secure in a few months in the common schools, but united 
 with rare judgment, a perception almost intuitive, a keen, quick, 
 unerring knowledge of men, a practical wisdom gathered during 
 his long, active career in the school of life, he was a safe, trusted, 
 and able counselor in all matters of private and public concern. 
 
 Few men within the limits of their respective acquaintance 
 could count more personal followers— men who were willing 
 to accept his judgment in a crisis or give him their fealty,
 
 Address of Mr. Borah, of Idaho 103 
 
 regardless of the issue for which at a particular time he stood. 
 This was not alone because his loose purse strings and 
 generous hands so often relieved the unfortunate and braced the 
 faltering, but because they believed in his sanity of view, his 
 disinterestedness of purpose, his unquestioned patriotism. 
 He was wise and practical in the affairs of the world, and 
 through it all ran a rich fund of genuine humanity. 
 
 His hospitality, so strong a trait with all those who built the 
 West; his physical courage, without which men who walked the 
 path it was his to walk could not have succeeded; his loyalty 
 to his friends; his power of sustained effort and endurance ; his 
 devotion to a cause once espoused caused men to seek him out 
 in all those countless emergencies which in those stirring days 
 tested to the utmost the mettle of men. I will venture to say 
 that in all the history of the West, studded and enriched with 
 many deeds of personal prowess, you will find no finer exhibi- 
 tion of that steel nerve which never knew surprise or fear than 
 among those with whom he was an acknowledged leader. 
 
 Rugged in mind and robust in body, wise in counsel and brave 
 in danger, George; h. Shoup was one of that class of men who 
 have braved the sea, fought the wilderness; who have met the 
 savage, conquered the desert, spanned rivers, and tunneled 
 mountains; who, from the Puritan to the western pioneer, have 
 pushed forward the lines of civilization, planted society, and 
 built commonwealths. Without parade, pretense, or rhetoric, 
 with a clear, forceful, forecasting intelligence; with a gigantic 
 and at times almost superhuman power and purpose they 
 changed that region, once almost rejected, into a country which 
 now excites the interest and admiration of all. "There were 
 giants in the earth in those days." 
 
 We place his statue here among the celebrated and distin- 
 guished of our country, not for brilliant orations delivered or
 
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 great state papers indited, not for his genius in war or his 
 achievements in legislation, but rather for his great qualities of 
 citizenship — self-reliance, a high and steady purpose, a whole- 
 some faith in the self-governing capacity of the people, a firm 
 belief in the permanent worth of our institutions; rather because 
 he was of that humane and great-souled citizenry which holds 
 together the social fabric and makes sure the stability of the 
 Government. We do well to honor him and to honor the 
 class of which he was a splendid type, for in them, above all 
 other things, above material wealth, above armies and navies, is 
 found the assurance of the continued happiness and prosperity 
 of the Republic. 
 
 The Vice-President. The question is on agreeing to th( 
 concurrent resolution of the House of Representatives. 
 
 The concurrent resolution was unanimously agreed to.
 
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