our deepest sympathy, knowing that as he never feared to answer roll call we can be assured that he was not afraid to answer to his name when the final roll call was announced for him. He had served faithfully throughout his lifetime, being ever mindful of the family motto, "Fais bien, crains rien"-do right, fear nothing. He had done right and hence had nothing to fear from the roll call. Today we pray that he may enjoy the fruits of his lifelong endeavors and that he may have rest eternal for his immortal soul.

Remarks by Representative Buck
Of California

Mr. BUCK. Mr. Speaker, the soul of Hon. CHARLES J. COLDEN, late Representative in Congress from the Seventeenth Congressional District of the State of California, has passed to its final reward.

The House of Representatives has lost one of its hardestworking and most conscientious Members, a man who was respected by every Member of the House, who was known for his never-failing good humor and his ability to cooperate with all of those with whom he served. His place will not be easy to fill.

CHARLES J. COLDEN was elected to the House of Representatives in November 1932 and has been returned to Congress at each election since that time. His actual services in the House began in March 1933, but, with his usual application to any work that he undertook, he came on to Washington during the closing month of the Seventy-second Congress in order to familiarize himself with the procedure of the House. It was then that I first met him. In fact, he was the first new Member of the Seventy-third Congress that I formed an acquaintance with and this acquaintance ripened into an association and a friendship which continued steadfast and unbroken until the day of his death.

He was intensely interested in the work that was of special interest to his district, to the State of California, and to the West generally, but his interest extended also to matters of national importance. The care with which he always worked was recognized by his appointment to the chairmanship of the Committee on the Disposition of Executive Papers, a committee which performs a trying task and one often not sufficiently appreciated by the Members of the House. In

addition to these duties he served with distinction on the very important Committees on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and Rivers and Harbors. To these two committees he brought his own experience as a former member and president of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission, and that acquired through a study of the harbors of the world which he had made in a 9 months' trip abroad during 1930. His training in the special subjects covered by these committees was of the greatest value to his associates on the committees and to the Members generally on the floor of the House.

The State of California has lost an able citizen. His constituents, who always had his ear no matter how humble their request, have lost a wise counselor and a friend. His associates in the House will miss not only the good cheer which he radiated but his sage advice.

As one of his friends and associates, I mourn his passing with those who have likewise been associated with him. To his sorrowing family let us extend the sympathy which their hour of grief and sorrow entitles them, but let us bring to them also the consolation that a faithful servant and a devoted husband and father has gone to his just reward.

Remarks by Representative Voorhis
Of California

Mr. VOORHIS of California. Mr. Speaker, few men in American public life have continued through a distinguished career and maintained a more genuine modesty and simplicity than did the late CHARLES J. COLDEN, Representative for many years from the Seventeenth District of California. No one was more faithful in attendance upon his duties or more devoted to the interest of the people of the United States than he. Concern over injustice where he found it was no superficial matter with him. It was part of the very soul of the man. The problems of labor, of the common people of America, were his problems.

Perhaps it was the long struggle of his own earlier life that made him so very ready to give of his time, his counsel, and his guidance to younger men. But whatever the reason, there was no congressional office to which a first-term Congressman could go with greater assurance of a sympathetic hearing than to that of CHARLES J. COLDEN.

It is said that until the illness which finally culminated in his untimely death overtook him he had never missed a roll call in the House. Other men may have been more brilliant, made more speeches, gotten more bills of their authorship enacted into law. But for sheer, solid manhood and depth of sympathetic understanding, the annals of the House of Representatives will record few names, indeed, that deserve to rank with that of CHARLES J. COLDEN.

He was not the kind of man who makes the headlines in the newspapers each day; he never thrust himself forward into the limelight, but when a good cause needed his support he could always be depended on to give it.

He was a Progressive in the best sense of that word, and his devotion to the cause of a suffering humanity ran deep and true.

Many of us will miss him sorely. His place will be hard, indeed, to fill. If the rest of us can leave as good a name and record behind us as CHARLES J. COLDEN did, we need never be ashamed.