BURTONS splendid tribute to the character of Bourke Cockratu reminded me at .tle time of another sterling American of the same exemplary type as the great New Yorker. I refer to one of my Boston predecessors it this House. the late Hon. Patrick A. Collins. legislator. orator. and publicist. This chosen spokesman in the days of Cleveland rose from tite lowly station of a poor Irish immigratt to a seat in Congress and later to tle office of the chief executive of our fair city of Boston. where the name of Patrick A. Collins wilt ever continue to Ie an inspiration. The same truly American spirit that animated Cockran and
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