Show SEN DAVIS DEAD end of an eventful life he held many important positions st paul glnn nov 28 senator custman kellogg davis chairman of the committee on foreign relations ot the senate died at bis home in this city last sight at he bad suffered greatly during two of gradually sank away before death and so far as could bo known suffered no pain appreciating the approach of the end mrs dails sent tor venerable T H M appelby archdeacon arch deacon of the protestant episcopal diocese of minnesota and rev theo sedgwick rector of afie church of st john the evaa gelist an had been made to escure ane attendance of bishop phlp ale but the bishop was in florida senator dails was tor a time rational to express ahls grateful appreciation of tie clergy mens ministrations grouped about the deathbed were senator dails immediate family his devoted wife ibis aged father major S H dails and bis two sisters mrs morford and mrs bartlett tripp ills law partner C A and his wife were also present as well as the doctors and nurses the family bad been prepared tor the end since the first spell which occurred last friday night and all have been where they could be summoned at a moments notice the senator bad been in a comatose state during the day death came almost imperceptibly and the closing scene was marked with but incident ills last conscious utterance was a wish to live not tor the sake ot life itself but because he believed his country needed him his words were oh that I 1 might live five years more for my count rys sake mrs dails Is bearing up bravely and despite the strain of the long weeks ot weary watching at the sickbed withstood the shock of parting with characteristic fortitude the senators aged father is prostrated over ats sons death as are also his sisters the senators mother nas been so feeble that she has not realized the seriousness of her sons illness and does not know of his death senator frye president pro tern of the senate has been notified of the senators death and his wishes with reference to the funeral arrangements will be complied with SKETCH OF HIS LIFE cushman kellogg dails was bom in henderson jefferson county N Y june 16 in that year bis parents moved to waukesha wis where his father farmed until 1850 after attending the common schools young davis spent three years in carroll college at waukesha preparing himself for the university of michigan from which he graduated in 1857 during his boyhood he held for some time a position as telegraph operator in what la now a suburb of milwaukee after his graduation he entered the law office of alex W randall governor of wisconsin in mr dails began the practice of law and also took an active part in the campaign resulting in the election of lincoln two years later war having come he closed his law office to enlist in the volunteer army he served for two years in the army of afie tennessee in kentucky tennessee arkansas and mississippi part of the time on staff duty when in 1864 broken health compelled his retirement ti he was first lieutenant of company B twenty eighth wisconsin volunteer la going to st paul he formed a law partnership with his army chief gen W A german ex governor of minnesota territory in 1868 lie was elected to the state legislature and two years later was appointed united States district attorney serving five years in that position in 1873 by a majority of one vote he was nominated by the republicans tor governor and elected by a majority of the campaign issue was then new being whether the state could the charges of railroads governor davis asserted this right and huoh legislation was enacted and enforced during his term of office during a protracted senatorial contest at that session gov dails was oae of the candidates but chief justice mc alllan was finally elected it was at athla time that the great grasshopper plague devastated southwestern aln desota and gov dails raised over in money besides supplies for the victims of the plague gov dails declined a and rearmed the practice of law his successor gov retained him to ar gueIn the united states supreme court the case ot the state of wisconsin against the city of duluth and the state of minnesota to restrain the opening of the present duluth ship canal through which all the commerce of that sort now passes mr dails won the ault for minnesota he continued in the practice of law until 1887 also giving considerable attention to politics in 1884 ho headed the dlaine delegation to chicago where he made one of the nominating speeches for that candidate during 1886 many of the state newspapers advocated his election as ed states senator and when the legislature of 1887 met senator lan withdrew as a candidate for reelection and mr received every vote senator dails first chairmanship in the senate was of the committee on pensions which he held throughout HS first term ife was author of the pension law of 1890 which terminated the demands tor excessive pension legislation and also satisfied the old soldiers As a member 0 the committee on territories senator led the fight tor the admission ot tho dakotas to statehood making first speech in the senate on that subject As a student and an authority on international law senator dails furnished briefs to president harrison and secretary ot state blaine oa the chilean dispute and the bering sea controversy his advocacy of the new locks at ahe sault ste marie ship canal carriea to a successful result legislation the wisdom of which has since been amply demonstrated in 1893 the republican legislative caucus voted in tavor of the election reelection re of senator dails but before the legislature voted on the various influences intervened and be was finally elected by a majority of one although the republicans had a majority of seventeen on joint ballot at the beginning of his second term senator dails was placed on the committee on foreign relations and when senator sherman was transferred to ae cabinet of president mckenley senator dails was placed at the head of that important committee in many friends of the senator pressed his name tor the presidential nomination but before the state convention to name delegates met he withdrew and mckenley delegates were sent from minnesota during the past four years senator position as chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate and later as one of the paris peace commissioners have kept him l akrc the of all nations lie v rc without opposition in for his third term senator dails has been twice married his first wife was miss laura bowman and after she had secured a divorce from alm he married in asso miss anna malcolm agnew |