This pass' owner attended the 1882 memorial service for James Garfield in the House Chamber. Former Speaker James G. Blaine delivered a eulogy whose length was matched only by the extravagance of its language. After describing Garfield's contributions and last lingering months, he concluded that as the president's death approached, "let us believe that in the silence of the receding world he hear the great waves breaking on a further shore, and felt already upon his wasted brow the breath of the eternal mourning."