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Show SENATOR ALDRICH 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 V. 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 upopletic stroke at his home on Fifth avenue here April 10. He had been ill of Indigestion since the previous art"r-noon. art"r-noon. Fntil then ho had been In excellent ex-cellent health. He was In his seventy seven-ty fourth year. Nelson Wllmarth Aldrich held a seal In the Fnited States senate continuously con-tinuously from l.sSl to 1011. 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 iul'u as much at home on the floor, and naturally was more In evidence In the larger arena. Born In Foster. R. I., Nov. (1. 1S41. ho first appeared in public office as a member of the common council In the city of Providence. Me was clts-t-ed to the Rhode Island assembly In lST.'i. and four years later sent to congress. Aftsr two sessions be was elevated to the senate, as successor to tli'iieial Ambrose K. Burn-ide. |