Mr. Bailey was clear in understanding, as he was pure in heart. His life was simple, and his manners unaffected. His, too, were all the household virtues which make a heaven of home, and he was bound to this world by a loving wife and an only child. He was happy in being spared to reach his own fireside. Sensible that death was approaching, he was unwilling to continue here among strangers, and, though feeble and failing, he was conveyed to Fitchburg, where, after a brief period among kindred and friends, he closed his life. His public place here is vacant, and so also is his public place in Massachusetts. But there are other places also vacant: in his home, in his business, and in his daily life among his neighbors, in that beautiful town scooped out of the wooded hills, where he was carried back to die. * * * * * I offer resolutions identical with those offered by myself, and adopted by the Senate, on the death of Robert Rantoul. _Resolved, unanimously_, That the Senate mourns the death of Hon. GOLDSMITH F. BAILEY, late a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, and tenders to his relatives a sincere sympathy in this afflicting bereavement. _Resolved_, As a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, that the Senate do now adjourn. * * * * * The resolutions were agreed to; and the Senate adjourned. USE OF PARCHMENT IN LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS. RESOLUTION AND SPEECH IN THE SENATE, ON THE ENROLMENT OF BILLS, MAY 16, 1862. December 23, 1861, Mr. Sumner offered the following resolution, and said that he would call it up for consideration some day thereafter. “_Resolved_, That the Committee on Enrolled Bills shall consider the expediency of changing the Joint Rules of the two Houses of Congress, so as no longer to require that bills which have passed both Houses shall be enrolled on parchment; but that they shall be simply copied in a fair hand on linen paper, and be thus preserved in the Department of State, instead of being preserved in cumbersome rolls of parchment.” May 16, 1862, the resolution was taken up for consideration. MR. PRESIDENT,--There is a usage of Congress which must strike all coming here for the first time, whether as members or spectators. It is the usage, after bills have passed both Houses, of copying them on rolls of parchment, when they receive the signatures of the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, and the President of the United States. Under our rules this is called _enrolling_, although in England, where it originated, it was known, down to its recent abolition there, as _engrossing_.