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Show SUDDENLY CALLED STATESMAN WHO LONG HELD SUPREMACY IN REPUBLICAN COUNCILS IS DEAD. Was Regarded as Greatest Parliamentarian Parlia-mentarian That Ever Served in Senate and Recognized as Authority on the Tariff, New York. Nelson W. Aldrich, for thirty years United States senator from Rhode Island and Republican leader whose name was stamped upon tariff and currency legislation of his party, died of an apopletic stroke at his home on Fifth avenue here April 16. He had been ill of indigestion since the previous afternoon. after-noon. Until then he had been in excellent ex-cellent health. He was in his seventy-fourth year. Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich held a seat in the United States senate continuously con-tinuously from 1881 to 1911. Probably Prob-ably the greatest parliamentarian that ever served in the senate, Mr. Aldrich had no difficulty in maintaining maintain-ing leadership of his party. Although known among the veterans as a "committee" senator, he was quite as much at home on the floor, and naturally was more in evidence in the larger arena. Mr. Aldrich's long-continued supremacy su-premacy in the counsels of his party and in directing legislation caused him to become the subject of much adverse criticism. It was his policy never to defend himself against published pub-lished attacks. He rarely permitted himself to be quoted by the press. Born in Foster, R. I., Nov. 6, 1841, he first appeared in public office as a member of the common council in the city of Providence. He was elected elect-ed to the Rhode Island assembly in 1875, and four years later sent to congress. After two sessions he was elevated to the senate, as successor to General Ambrose E. Burnside. |