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MR. PRESIDENT—Your committee appointed to present resolutions of respect commemorating the life, and services to the state, of William Wilson of Washington, Iowa, report the following and recommend that the same be adopted:
Whereas, Hon. Wm. Wilson, late of Washington, and formerly a senator from the Fourteenth district, composed of Washington and Louisa counties, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth General Assemblies, died at the home of his son in Keota, Keokuk county, on March 22, 1900.
Resolved, That in his death the state has lost an honored and public spirited citizen; a man of strong convictions and mature judgment, who by his long public service has earned the gratitude of the people.
Resolved, That the Senate extend its sincere sympathy to his children, who by his death are bereaved of an affectionate father, and that the Senate present an engrossed copy of these resolutions to his family.
A. N. ALBERSON,
W. R. LEWIS,
L. R. BOLTER.
Unanimously adopted by a rising vote.