Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1888-04-20

her daughter and is completely prostrated
with grief.
The interment will be at Utica, New
York.
THE FUNERAL.
New YORK, April 18-Undertaker Bar
low, after consultation with Mr.. Conk-
lings relatives and friends, this morning
announced that the funeral services will
be held over the remains on Friday morn
ing at 10 O'clock in Trinity chapel, West
Twenty-fifth street. The Rev. Morgan I.
Dix will of6ciate, assisted by other clergy
men. On Friday afternoon the remains
will be taken on a special train to Utica,
N. Y, where funeral services will be held
in Cavalry chapel on Saturday afternoon.
The pail bearers selected are Judge Ship
man, Abram S. Hewitt, S. L. NJ. Barlow,
Clarence A. Seward, Manton Marble,
Senator John G. Jones, Senator Don Came
ron, William j. Wallace, Walter Schurith
and Isaac H. Bailey. This morning the
body was embalmed by Undertaken Nevins
and placed in casket which is a duplicate
Of that in which Senator Conkling's
brother-in-law, Governor Horatio Seymour
was buried.
New YORK, April 19.-Telegrams con-
tinue to be received by the family express
ing sorrow for the death of ex-senator
COnkling. One from Albert Lea, Minn.,
by William G. McAdam says: sSay to
Mrs. Conkling that Minnesota mourns the
loss OF the illustrious dead" The funeral
in this city will take place at Trinity chapel
at 10 a. M, tomorrow. The procession will
enter the church as follows: Mrs. Conk-
ling with Colonel F. A. Conkling, MI. and
Mrs. Oakum, Alderman Conkling and
Miss Conkling, Judge A. c. Coke and
Howard Conkling, Mrs. U. S. Grant
and her sons and their wives. Following
will come the delegation of thirty of the
citizens OF Utica headed by their mayor.
A delegation of eight congressman and
fifteen members of the legislature will
follow. No sermon will be preached. The
funeral service of the Episcopal church
will be read. The remains will start for
Utica at 1915 p. m., by special train. Mr.
Conkling died comparatively poor man.
His house in Utica is valued at $25,OOO. In
addition to this he owned eight unimproved
lots on One Hundred and Thirteenth and
| One Hundred and Fourteenth streets near
the site proposed for the Episcopal cathe-
dral and unimproved lots in the outskirts
of Washington, also some securities. No
| will has been found.
Roscoe COnkling is dead. What sor-
rowful message to convey to the American
! people. One of the foremost statesmen of
| the age has passed away.
! Roscoe Conkling was born at Albany on Octo-
and afterwards studied law three years with his
father, and in 1913 entered the law office of
Francis Herman. afterward his colleague in the
the office OF district attorney of Oneida county,
and IN the same year was admitted to the bar.
His actual political career began in 1855 when
congress and took his seat in 1859. He was re. e
elected in ls6o In 1892 he was defeated BY his
ceeding election he in turn defeated Kernan.
AS member of the lower house he first served
which he afterwards became chairman. He was
also member of the committee of ways and
means and OF the special committee Of fifteen
was in support of the fourteenth amendment.
He opposed the ,generalship of McClelland and
spaulding' aegal tender act, and vigorously
5uppOAecO luo 8OteEumouG ulo pFOS6VuG1OU OF
the war.
He was reelected in 1886, but in 1927, before he
took his seat, he was chosen United States sena-
tor to succeed Ira Harris, and returned in 1873
! and 1879.
e the senate he was first member of the
judiciary committee. He was connected with
nearly all the leading committees, holding the
chair on the committee on commerce and re-
vision of laws. Mr. Conkling supported Grants
administration and largely directed its general
policy. He was instrumental in the passage of
the civil rights bill and favored the resumption
of specie payments.
at Cincinnati in 1876 Mr.. Conkling received
ninetY-three votes for the republican nomina-
ton for president In the Chicago convention
in 1880 he advocated the nomination of Grant for
a third term.
The end of his political life came in 1881, when
he became hostile to Garfield over the matter of
appointments within New York state, and on the
10th of May he resigned his office to seek vindi-
cation in reappointment at the hands of the
legislature. In this he failed. and at once de-
| clared his political career ended. He then re-
entered upon the practice of law in New York
city.
In 1ss5-s8 he was counsel for the state in the
committee appointed for the purpose of investi-
eating the fraud and bribery involved in the
granting of the Broadway street car franchise in
1854. After three months of investigation he
made an argument before the committee which
resulted in the repeal of the Broadway charter
and the indictment of the boodlers. His last
appearance in court was recently as counsel in
| the Tilden will contest.