Senator Joseph M. Casey View All Years

Senator Downey, from the Committee on Memorial of Judge Joseph M. Casey, presented the following report and moved its adoption:

MR. PRESIDENT Your committee, appointed to draft resolutions of condolence and respect upon the death of Judge Joseph M. Casey, of Fort Madison, Iowa, respectfully submit the following:

WHEREAS, Hon. Joseph M. Casey, member of the House of Representatives of the Eighteenth General Assembly, and a member of the Senate of the Twenty-first General Assembly, and for more than eight years filling the honorable position of one of the judges of the First Judicial District of Iowa with distinguished honor to his district and vast credit to himself, an honorable example of impartiality, firmness, patience and learning, died at his home February 9, 1895.

WHEREAS, Judge Casey was a man of great and commanding ability and a noble upright man, serving the people in every capacity that his great worth won for him, faithfully and well, dying as he lived, went fearlessly down into the unknown depths of the valley and shadow of death; therefore,

Resolved, That in perpetuation of the memory of his high and generous qualities we pause in our deliberations to enter upon the pages of the Journal our deep sorrow for his death and extend to the bereaved family of the deceased our sympathy and condolence.

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to transmit to the family of the late Judge Casey an engrossed copy of these resolutions.

JOHN DOWNEY.

GEO. M. CRAIG.

T. G. HARPER.

Adopted by rising vote.