The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-09

I IN Tennessee. having the year previously
served as a presidential elector on the
/ Democratic ticket. and two years before
/ been elected a member of the legislature
I for the state. Mr.. Harris represented the
Nlntn tennessee dlstriSs IN congress Tor
Two terms, ending in 1894, when he de-
clfned denomination. He then moved
TO Memphis. where he has since resided.
Here he was engaged in the practice of
law until 1851. with the interruption neces-
sary TO allow him to become a presiden-
ttal elector in 1886. He was three times
in succession. before the war. beginning
IN 1851 elected governor of his state. and
was serving in that capacity when the
war broke out. He took a pronounced
stand for the Southern Confederacy, and
was known as one of the southern war
governors. The viciSSitUdes of conflict
rendered frequent change of residence
necessary, and he was often with the
army in action. He attached himself at
different times TO the staff of Generals
Albert Sidney Johnston. joseph E. John
StoE. Beauregard and Bragg. Albert Sid
ney Johnston fes from his horse into
Senator Harris arms when he received
his death wound.
After Lees surrender Mr.. Harris was
one of a small party of political refugees
who escaped ITO Mexico. going across the
country on horseback. ParSOn BrowniOw
who had become the military governor
of Tennessee. offered large reward in a
characterlSttcaliy WOrded Foster for the
capture of his predecessor, but the latter
remained absent from the country until
his return was safe. He remained il
TO England. where he resided until 1867.
when he returned to Memphis and re-
stunned his practice of the law.
Mr. Harris was allowed TO fo.sciw the
pursuits of a private citizen uutM 1871.
when he was elected to the United States
senate. defeating Hon. L. l.. Hawkins.
Republican. He has remained a member
OF the senate ever since. and would have
completed his Goth consecutive year in
that body on the 4th of next month had
he lived to that date. He had been four
EaIAr r-d ~ha L.
In 1888. and his term would not nave ex-
pired until 1901.
Senator Harris had received almost all
the hOnOrS which the senate can beSroW
He was the president pro tempore during
the Fifty-third congress. a leading mem
her of the committee on finance and
visOry or steering committee. He has
long been awarded by common consent
the front place on both sides of tine
chamber in parliamentary questions, and
in recent years he had been more fire.
quenty heard in eXpounding these ques-
tons than in the elucidat.On of other sub
1ects- He was possessed of a very posi-
tive manner. and never failed TO throw
into his statements concerning parliament
tary practice The fullest force of which
he was able. HIS language on these and
other occasions was generally so uncom-
promising that he was regarded by those
who knew him not. as a man of Etre
feeling. That. however. was not true.
and that the contrary was true none are
nents in the senate. who unite in attrl5-
utinC to him a warm heart as well as
just spirit and brilliant mind
Senator Harris had been especially ac-
tive in the senate since the passage of the
Wilson-Gornan tariff act in 1894. He was
one of the three Democratic senators in
trusted with the arduOus duty of putting
the bill in shape in committee and to
him was delegated the control of the
parliamentary work of getting tine bill
Through the senate. Although then
man of advanced years. his energies never
seemed 70 flag. He was AT his post of
duty night and day. and no man in the
opposition who sought TO turn a legis-
lative point against the bill ever caught
him mapping but once. They adjourned
one day earlier than ne intended when ne
was temporarily absent. but he made the
incident so disagreeable TO friend and foe
t.Tat the experiment was not repeated. Z
He was a tireleSS worker. and made IL a
point to be prompt in his attendance at
committee meetings whenever able 10 he
at the capitol. He was punCsialouS in
observing THE rules of the senate. regard
ing that body much IN the light of a
daughter to be cherished and protected.
Senator Harris was a native of TerDeS-
see. HIS facher was a planter who had
emigralted to the stare from North Caro-
lima. He was admitted to the bar in 1871
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