Thomas Hedge, John H. Gear, John Patterson, George C. Lauman, E. D. Rand, John G. Foote, James Morton, J. S. Schramm, C. E. Perkins, and J. C. Peasley. The remains were deposited in Aspen Grove Cemetery.

The City Council, the Old Settlers' Association, the bar of the county, and the trustees of the Public Library, adopted resolutions of profound regret at his death, expressing their sense of his ability, integrity, public spirit, and eminent services, and their respect for his character as "one who fearlessly performed whatever he deemed his duty, uninfluenced by party bias, popular prejudice, or personal interest." The public press presented many tributes to his honor and fame. The General Assembly of Iowa, by a resolution approved April 23, 1872, ordered his portrait to be procured and placed in the Capitol.

Hon. G. V. Fox wrote to Mrs. Grimes:

I mourn with you at the loss of one who stood very close to my heart. Our mutual feelings intertwined during great events, when I learned to respect, to admire, and to love him.

The widow of a gallant officer, who laid down his life in the war, wrote:

I hope you will let me express to you my sympathy for you, and my respect and admiration for Senator Grimes. Besides my own feeling for you, I have always associated you both with my husband, and I like to think that I am sending you his sympathy with my own. I wish the whole country could feel, as I do, that Senator Grimes has given his life for the nation, as truly as those did who died in the war, and how deep a debt we owe him for his steadfast clinging to what he knew was right, when the struggle was so hard a one. What a blessing it must be to you to feel that through all his public life you have helped and upheld him!

A companion of the later portion of his public life said:

I feel more indebted to Mr. Grimes than any one for the little success I have achieved. His early friendly recognition of me at Washington gave me a position and companionship that would otherwise have required years of patient labor. To enjoy his friendship was to secure the confidence of the truest and best men

of the country. The inducements to temptation and folly are so great at Washington that, but for his friendly counsel and guidance, I might have yielded to them. In his death the State and the country have suffered a great loss, and the young men who enjoyed his confidence, and looked to him for guidance in the future, will look in vain to find one suited to take his place.

Hon. H. B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, who sat next to him. in the Senate, and was with him upon the Committee on Naval Affairs, says:

Mr. Grimes's ability, sterling common-sense, capacity for business, and unquestioned and straightforward integrity, gave him. great influence in the Senate. He was not a frequent speaker, never a dull one. He spoke only when he had something to say, and always with a knowledge of the subject; always for effect in the Senate, never for Buncombe. I have seldom seen a man who had such thorough contempt for humbug. In this, as in many other respects, he resembled his intimate friend Mr. Fessenden, whom he shortly followed to the "undiscovered country." He had the greatest knowledge of naval affairs of all the men that I ever knew. We used on the committee to call him "The Admiral." His acquaintance with the personnel of the Navy was equal to his acquaintance with its history, its condition, and its need. It may never be fully known how much the Navy owes to him for the glorious successes of the war. He was of immense value in reorganizing it, and in the legislation that was required. Touching his course on the impeachment, of his entire honesty in that, as in all his public life, I never heard a doubt expressed; I have reason to suppose that it gave him great pain to differ from so many of his friends, but no consideration could swerve him from the line of duty that his judgment and conscience had marked out.

Hon. Joseph S. Fowler, of Nashville, Tennessee, wrote:

It was not my fortune to know him so long and so well as many of his more intimate friends, but I knew him during one of the most eventful trials that any public servant was ever called upon to undergo. How often have I recalled the agony of that great, carnest, tender heart! How well I remember that divine sense of justice and right, that braved calumny and threats, and the fears.

of misguided friends! Never shall I cease to remember the devoted purpose that looked far into the future for approval. During that trying ordeal it was my fortune to meet him alone. It was then I learned the deep recesses of his heart, and its pure fountains of life. His warm friend and elder brother, and great companion, preceded him a few years. In many respects they were alike, in many different. Both were earnest, brave, faithful, and commanding Senators. They lived above mean and debasing purposes, and were among the most illustrious men that have adorned our annals.

Mr. Grimes was five feet eleven inches in height, with a well-proportioned frame, and a commanding presence. Careless of appearance, and somewhat rough and ungainly in early life, he grew with years into suavity, and grace, and dignity of bearing. He had the canny qualities of the stock from which he came. Plain in dress, and frugal in his habits, he was unassuming in every situation; simplicity, straightforwardness, and independence characterized both his manners and his mind. He abhorred pretension and indirection. Having great power of secretiveness and reserve, he seemed cold and repellent to many, and could chill with indifference those whom he distrusted or disliked. If thrown in the way of such persons, he would turn aside quietly, or pass on. To those who enjoyed his confidence, he was frank and hearty, and open as summer. Exposed in the political agitations of his career to animosity and abuse, he kept himself scrupulously from personality and recrimination. The popularity which he enjoyed at different periods was never won by any arts, or by seeking it. His candor was proverbial; friends sometimes objected that, in political discussion, as was said of his practice at law, he conceded too much to opponents. His speeches and letters reveal, without reserve, his principles, sentiments, and habits. His words and deeds afford a better indication of his character than can be given by another hand.

His mind was not imaginative or fanciful, but critical and