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The reality of his religion brought him comfort at times of domestic affliction. The high pressure of judicial work, and disease common to advanced years, overcame the powerful physique which was his by inheritance and conservation. After a brief illness, he died, in Washington, on November 16, 1939. At his funeral in St. Matthew's Cathedral all sorts and conditions of men attended in silent tribute to his memory. Today representative members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States are in their turn witnessing to their admiration and affectionate regard for one whose simple godliness and faithful public service endeared him to all who came within the circle of his influence.

"Resolved, that the foregoing Minute be adopted; that a copy of it be transmitted to the Attorney General of the United States for presentation to the Court and that the Chairman of this meeting be directed to forward a copy of it to the family of Mr. Justice Butler."

Eulogies were delivered by Messrs. Wilfrid E. Rumble, of Minnesota; George I. Haight, of Illinois; Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, (delivered on his behalf and in his absence by Senator John A. Danaher, of Connecticut); Thomas D. Thacher, and William D. Mitchell, of New York.*

The resolutions were then adopted, and the meeting adjourned.

For a full account of this meeting, containing the resolutions, all of the addresses, and an excellent portrait of Mr. Justice Butler, see a pamphlet entitled "Pierce Butler," edited by the Committee and printed and distributed by Mr. Cropley. This publication contains also the speech made by the Attorney General in presenting the Resolutions to the Court on May 20, 1940, and the response of the Chief Justice upon that occasion, which are printed infra, in this volume, pp. xi, xv, et seq.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.

MONDAY, MAY 20, 1940.

Present: THE CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE MCREYNOLDS, MR. JUSTICE STONE, MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, MR. JUSTICE BLACK, MR. JUSTICE REED, MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER, MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, and MR. JUSTICE MURPHY.

Mr. Attorney General Jackson addressed the Court as follows:

"Mr. Chief Justice and Associate Justices: The Bar of the Supreme Court has delegated me to lodge in your keeping its proceedings in memory of Mr. Justice Butler. By resolution it has expressed its high estimate of his life and services."

[Mr. Jackson read the Resolutions, which are set forth ante, p. VII et seq., and proceeded:]

"Men eminent in the legal profession, former associates in the practice of the law, and public leaders have paid him eloquent and affectionate tribute. All of these tributes I offer for your records.

"I should not presume to add words of my own, except that the proceedings are lacking in one viewpoint which I should be qualified to supply.

"I knew Pierce Butler only as a Justice of this Court. He had reached the full maturity of his great intellectual powers. He was too earnest and forthright to wish me even on such an occasion to deny or minimize the conflict which your reports witness between the general philosophy I have advocated here and much of that to which he was so consistently devoted. But across that gulf, which always exists between two men who regard each other as representing ominous trends, I felt the