Representative Marian S. Butler View All Years
Mr. Miller of Cherokee offered the following resolution of the committee to draft resolutions on the death of Hon. M. S. Butler:
MR. SPEAKER Your committee to draft resolutions on the death of Dr. M. S. Butler beg leave to make the following report:
WHEREAS, It has pleased an all-wise Providence to remove from our midst Dr. M. S. Butler, of Cherokee county, who was a member of this House in the Twenty-first General Assembly of Iowa, and an honored and highly respected citizen of Cherokee county; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the people of this state by his death have lost a wise and able legislator, a good counselor, and an honorable, public spirited and upright citizen, a man whom it was ever pleasant to meet, who always had a kind word of comfort and cheer for all; liberal in his views, yet firm in his conviction of right and justice; charitable toward all and generous to the needy.
Resolved, That the House do hereby tender to his family the sympathy of this body, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to his bereaved widow.
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the House cause a copy of these resolutions to be spread upon the Journal of the House.
WIREMAN MILLER,
W. B. CHAPMAN,
J. T. P. POWER,
Committee.
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