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Senator Carpenter from the special committee appointed to draft resolutions of respect relative to the late Senator F. A. Duncan, submitted the following report:
MR PRESIDENT Your committee appointed to draft resolutions upon the death of Hon. F. A. Duncan, respectfully submit the following:
WHEREAS, Hon. F. A Duncan, member of the House of Representatives in the Nineteenth and a Senator in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies, died at his home in Columbus Junction, Iowa, February 2, 1894, and
WHEREAS, Senator Duncan was a man whose integrity and honesty were acknowledged by all; who served the people of his State as a legislator faithfully and well, and who lived and walked an upright man among his neighbors, and, who, dying as he lived, went fearlessly down into the unknown depths of the valley of the shadow of death; therefore be it
Resolved, That in perpetuation of the memory of his noble and generous qualities, we pause in our deliberations to enter upon the journal our remembrance of him and our sorrow for his death, and extend to his widow and family our brotherly sympathy.
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be requested to transmit to the family of the late Senator Duncan an engrossed copy of this resolution.
C. A. CARPENTER,
M. J. KELLY,
B. R. VALE,
Committee.