OCR Text |
Show Benjamin R. Tillman I Succumbs to Cerebral ! Hemorrhage. 24 YEARS SERVICE I Congress Adjourns in I Honor of Southern I Colleague. I WASHINGTON, July 3. United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, veteran of twenty-four years service in congress and chairman of tho senate naval affairs committee, died at his home her,e early today as the result of a cerebral hemmorhage . suffered last Thursday. The stroHoc6mplete-ly stroHoc6mplete-ly paralyzed the left side and as the right side had been partly paralyzed since a similar attack ten years ago, fl no hope had been held for Senator Tillman's recovery since he lapsed in-to in-to unconsciousness last Sunday. To honor the passing of one of the most picturesque figures in congress, . and southern public life, both bodies of congress planned to adjourn today J I and appoint committees to accompany the body to the Tillman home at Tren IH ton, S. C As Governor of South Carolina, as a leader in the southern wing of the Democratic party and as an active participant in the last generation's growth of the American nation, Sen-ator Sen-ator Tillman had been prominently be-fore be-fore the public for many years. Senator Swanson is Successor Senator Swanson of Virginia prob-ably prob-ably will be his successor as head of j the naval committee, to which Sen-ator Sen-ator Tillman had devoted almost his exclusive interest in congressional legislation for many years. He had been its chairman since 1913, and was one of the most ardent "big navy" ad-vocates, ad-vocates, being among the first to urge extension of submarine construction jH and government manufacture of armor Senator Tillman had been in fail- ing health for several years. Although jH he partlv recovered from his first stroke o'f paralysis, his remarkable vitality was unable to withstand the last and more severe attack. His wife and all members of his family except a son suffering from a minor opera- tion in n southern army camp, were at the bedside at his death. Senator Tillman's death promises an upheaval in South Carolina poli- tics, in which he has been a leader for more than u generation. He died jH in the heat of the senatorial primary i campaign in which his long-time poli- 'H itical opponent, former Governor Col IH M. B'.ese, was contesting for the noni- ination to the senate. Stating that he desired to continue serving his coun trv and state during the war, by giv- ing them the benefit of his long ex- peVlencc with naval affairs, Senator JH Tillman recently revoked a decision not to be a candidate for ro-election and Representative Lever of Soutb Carolina, another candidate, withdrew Senator Tillman was the eight!1 member of tho senate to die since the United States entered the war. The t others were Senators Lane of Oregon; Husting, Wisconsin; Ncwlands, Neva- da; Brady, Idaho; Hughes, NevJer- sey; Broussard, Louisiana and Ston Ht of Missouri. "H |