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Mr. Johnston of Franklin offered the following report of the Committee on Resolutions on the death of Capt. John W. Luke, and moved its adoption:
Whereas, It has pleased an all-wise but just Providence to remove from our midst by the silent reaper, Death, Captain John W. Luke, of Franklin county, and the State of Iowa, when his life of usefulness had only seemed to have reached its meridian;
Whereas, He was a member of this House in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third General Assemblies, and at the time of his death, December 21, 1895, chairman of the board of railroad commissioners of our state;
Resolved, That in the removal from the scenes of earthly activity of Captain Luke, the State of Iowa has lost a safe counsellor, a brave soldier, an able, patriotic, conscientious and painstaking public servant, whose only aim was to do his duty and what his calm dispassionate judgment dictated to be right;
Resolved, That we hereby express our earnest appreciation of his valuable, lasting and honorable public services, duties assigned him always receiving that care and earnestness that their gravity demanded. He was a pure citizen, a true friend, a kind neighbor, an ideal husband and father, a plain, unassuming man, of whom it can justly be said that he always honored the many high positions of honor and trust that were thrust upon him;
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the afflicted wife and children, and hereby tender to them our sincere condolence;
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of this House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send a copy of the same to the afflicted widow and family.
C. F. JOHNSTON,
M. J. DAVIS,
JAMES M. CLARK,
Committee.
Adopted.