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Mr. Taylor submitted the following resolution in reference to the death of Hon. L. D. Hotchkiss:
MR. SPEAKER—Your committee to draft suitable resolutions relative to the death of the late L. D. Hotchkiss, ask permission to report as follows:
WHEREAS, Hon. L. D. Hotchkiss was born in Ohio in 1835 and died at his home in Bloomfield, Iowa, August 15, 1891; and
WHEREAS, The character and public service of the deceased are worthy of emulation and highly commendable; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hotchkiss served as a member of this House with dignity and distinction in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third General Assemblies, serving as temporary Speaker of the House of the Twenty-third General Assembly during the memorable dead-lock with credit and honor to himself and the very general satisfaction of the body; therefore be it
Resolved, That the House learns with sincere regret of the death of this highly respected Christian gentleman, and do hereby tender to his bereaved family the sympathy of this body.
Resolved, That the chief clerk of the House cause a copy of these resolutions to be spread upon the journal and an engrossed copy to be mailed to his widow, Mrs. Ellen Hotchkiss, at Bloomfield, Iowa.
GEO. W. WYCKOFF,
W. H. TAYLOR,
S. J. VAN GILDER.
The resolutions were adopted unanimously by a rising vote.