Evening journal., 1897-07-09
EATH OF ASENATOR
ham q. Harris Of Tennessee
Passes Away.
As A VERY PROMINENT MEMBER

Man More Identified with the History
of the Country-Had Received All
Possible Honors - Known as
southern War Governor.
Washington, July 9.-Senator 1sham
4 Harris Of Tennessee died at his resi-
Ence here a few minutes before s
clock yesterday afternoon. There
. .ere present at his bedside when death
E zne his son, Mr.. Edward X Harris,
Z al the latters wife, Representative
enton McMillin Of Tennessee, Miss
& ok, a friend from his native state
here the senator has lived for some
Nme
& Probably no man in public life had
s. Zen identified with more of the his
. ry Of this country than had Senator
arris. He had almost completed his
. sventy-ninth year, having been born
4 February, 1918, and first became a
Nbcmber of congress in 1S49. His con-
ressional career thus began earlier
s han that of any member of either
0use, antedating Senators Morrill, and
.herman by seven years and Hon. Ca
tisha A. Grow. now a member of the
@ @ouse from Pennsylvania, by one year.
|Ir. Harris had. when he was elected
D the national house of representa-
lives, already become a man Of state
eputation in Tennessee, having the
ear previously served as a presidential
Hector on the Democratic ticket and
wo years before been elected a mem-
Der of the legislature of the state.
Mr. Harris represented the Ninth
tennessee district in congress for two
erms ending in 1858. when he de-
|lined a denomination. lie then NOV
ID to Memphis. where he has since re-
&ided Here he was engaged in the
practice Of law until 1857 with the in
@erruption necessary TO allow him tc
become a presidential elector in 1856
Me was three times in succession be-
fore the war. beginning in 1851, elected
governor OF his state and was serving
n that capacity when the war broke
. put. He took a pronounced stand fol
\ he southern Confederacy and wal
known as one of the southern war gov
ernors.
Tse was elected to the United State
.senate defeating Hon. L. L. Hawkins
|(RepD. He has remained a mem
F. of the senate ever since and woul'
Nhave completed his twentieth consecu
Hive year in that body on March 4 mex
ID ne had lived to that date. He hal
. been four times elected TO the senate
1 'the last time in 1885, and his term woul
not have expired until 1901
Senator Harris had received almos
f all the honors that the senate could be
stow. lie was the president pro tenn
pore during the Fifty-third congress.
Heading member OF the committees o
finance and on rules and also Of th
, Democratic advisory or steering com
mittee. He has long been awarded b
common consent the front place on bot
sides of the chamber in parliamentar
questions. and in recent years he ha
been more frequently heard in expount
. ing these questions than in the elucids
tion Of other subjects. He was possess
ed Of a very positive manner and nev'
. failed to throw into his statements cor
cerning parliamentary practice the iui
est force Of which he was capable IA
language on these and other occasion
was generally so uncompromising th'
he was regarded by those who kne
. him not as a man of little feeling. Tha
however this was not true, and thi
the contrary was true none are now
willing to testify as his opponents in Il
senate who unite in attrbuting to hi
a warm heart as well as just spin
and brilliant mind.