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HON. R. S. BENSON.
MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to draft resolutions of respect to the memory of Hon. R. S. Benson, respectfully submit the following:
WHEREAS, The Hon. R. S. Benson, an honored member of this House in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth General Assemblies of the Iowa Legislature from Franklin County, departed this life on the 15th day of March, 1905, and
WHEREAS, In the death of Mr. Benson this State and Nation has lost a Scholar, a gallant Soldier, a careful and intellectual Statesman, and a perfect gentleman in all ways which that name implies, therefore be it
Resolved, That in part to perpetrate his good name and fame these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of this House, and that an engrossed copy be sent to his bereaved family, to let them know that the members of this House desire to mourn with them in their untimely loss.
A. D. W. DOW,
F. M. EPPERSON,
R. M. WRIGHT,
Committee.