The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1890-05-16

: &udden Death uf senator Heck. ~ ~"
tucks. Ia va-hsngson-usart faii"re she
Immediate Cause az Death " iiresksnn
/, Down 81 the lkugged Physique az the Tar
entei Democrats SrnateP--ne rails Dead
within u Few Feet ~ Where the Late
President Garfield Fell. when shot ~
Guiteau.
WAsnI>GroN. May A-Scnator James
q Beck, Of Kentucky, dropped dead az
four o'clock Yesterday afternoon ~ tho
depot OF the baltimore & Potomac rail-
road Accompanied by his daughter.
Mrs. Goodloe. tho wife OF Major food
Toe, Of the United States Marine Corps.
the Senator had just alightcd from
the train on which he had travelled
from New York. The depot is on sixth
street. a few yards south OF r%cnnSylya-
MIA avenue. Ii Is the same depot in
which President Garfield dropped. not
dead, but fatally wounded from an as
s~assin's bullet, almost nine years ago.
within a few yards OF the spot where
senator Beck fell dead, from paralysis
Of the heart.
James u. Beck was born in the low
lands Of Scotland sixty-cight years ago.
but, although approaching the allotted
limit Of threc-score and ten. he looked.
at least until recently. as il he might
live thirty years longer. He had q big.
burly. rugged figure. Hcrculcan phys
iquc, bright eye and grizzly hair.
Strength was stamped in every feature.
But since he broke down two years ago
he has never rcgaincd his former
strength, health and yigor. For
years he has been the whcel-horse OF
Democracy in the United States Sem
ate. lie had as thick and stubborn q
Scotch accent as ever survived in q
Scoichman so long separated from his
native heath. lie did not pretend to
any Of the graces Of o~ratorv. but he was
the store-housc Of a vast amount Of use
full and practical knowledge and cxpcri-
cnce. and was not only capable Of, but
habitually performed, an immense
amount OF work. On questions Of revenue
and appropriat lions he was the main.
stay OF the Democratic side OF the SEN
ate. and his experience and information
will be greatly missed by his associates.
lie has been for years the leading Demo.
cratic member OF the Senate committee
on appropriations. and. after Voorhees,.
who takes precedence, the leading Dem.
ocratic member Of the committee on
financc 1t was when this latter COM
mittee, two years ago. was busily en-
gagged in framing a tariff bill to an
tagonize the Mills bill. passed BY the
that Senator Beck was taken
suddenly i'll. IL was feared that he was
going to die as General sheridan
had died a short time before.
the case was understood tc
DO similar, but his immense
physique stood by him. so did his active
habit, and after a somewhat heightened
at Fortress Monroe he rccov.
cred sufficiently to return to his place
in the Senate. But he has never since
the same man or able to do the
same work. While placing a certain
Of hope and trust in his grea
constitution his friends and brother
Senators have feared all along that
heart-failure might overtake him. Yes
it came. and Of all places in the
in q railroad station. Just as be
had finished . journey and returned &c
the city Of his residence and one might
say his home.
The Senator death is q great loss 10
The Senate and to his party. Cox. Kan.
iall and Beck. all called away in one
short season, were men whom the Dem.
,crats will miss for some time TO come.
The Senator's autobiography. a.
in the Congressional Record. 4.
modest like the man. Here is how IL
Dumfriesshire, scotland. February Is. ls22
received an academic education in scot
land, graduated as lawyer nj
Pennsylvania University. Lexington. Nv.
IN March. 1886. and practiced there, never
holding any office until elected a Repre-.
in the Fortieth. Forty first.
forty second and Forty-third Congresses:
a reelection a. representative
was elected 70 the United states senate a.
to succeed John W. stevenson
took his seat March s. 1877. and
was re elected In 1851 and 1855. His term Of
service will expire march 8, 1886.
The question Of q successor il already
talked about by the Kentuckians.
Fortunately the Legislature Is now in
session. but unfortunately a joint rcso
luton was passed several days ago to ad.
on the 18th Of May. Members "a
the delegation in Washington have com.
with the Governor and their
riends at Frankfort, urging that IL will
unseemly to try to fiji the vacancy &
The funeral will not occur al
Lexington before the eth. and that
would leave only five days in which TO
20 through the campaign OF clcctinv the (.
An effort will be made to in.
luce the Legislature to reconsider the
adjournment resolution and take moro
(,
Departure Of ~Pan-American Delegates.
New York, May 4.-Among the pas
on the steamship La Normandic,
which sailed for Havre yesterday, were
ir. Rogue Saenz-Pcna. n OF the most
Of the Pan-American party, and
lis wife. On Mr.. Saenz-pena's return
o Buenos Ayrcs he will assume his new