Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-12-28
MORRILL, NO MORE,
NeStCr Of United States Senate
Passes Away
VICTIM OF THE GRIPPE,
His Fatal Illness Was Of a Few
Days Only.
CAREER AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
The Distinguished yermonter Was
Long Chairman of Senate Finance
COmmittee-Rcndere Great Aid to
Agricultural Colleges.
CAREER AND PUBLIC SERVICE.

WASHINGTON, d. c., December 2.-
Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, the senior United
States senator from Vermont, died at %
minutes past o'clock this morning. in the
SSth year of his age, after an illness Of
less than a week.
With him when the end came were his
sister-in-law, Miss Louise Swan: his son,
James; Mr. Benjamin Durfee. for a long
time associated with the Senator in Fl
nance Committee work at the Capitol, and
Colonel S. T.. Chamberlain, an intimate
friend. Senator Proctor was in the house
at the time, as were also several other
friends.
The Senator never recovered from the
unconscious state into which he lapsed
early in the day, and his death was calm
and peaceful
The immediate cause Of death was pneu-
monia, which developed from an attack
Of grip, contracted about a week ago.
The venerable Senator was confined to his
home but a few days.
Notwithstanding his advanced age no
attended to his senatorial duties faith
fully
THE FATAL ILLNESS.
About ten days ago the weather was
cold, raw, and foggy and his physician
thinks that exposure to its rigors brought
on the attack of grip. The day before
Congress adjourned for the Christmas
holidays the Senator was unable to leave
his residence. He grew no better as the
days went on, his low vitality, due TO
advancing age being unable to resist the
disease. On Christmas night it developed
into pneumonia, and from that time until
the end he sank steadily.
THE FUNERAL.
no definite funeral arrangements have
yet been made. 1t is although !'kely that
House services will be held i'm the Senate
chamber, but just when cannot now be
stated. The remains of Mrs Morrill,,
who died during the present year, are in
a vault at Rock Creek Cemetery, near
this city. and it may be that the Senator's
body will be deposited there pending re-
moval to Stratford. VT. where a mauso-
leum is now in course of construction.
NEsTOR OF THE SENATE.
In the death of Justin Smith Morrill,.
the Senate lost its senior member in point
of service and it's oldest I'm age. He had
served continuously in the Senate for
more than thirty-one years, and he was
IS years old on the 4th Of April last. With
the single exception Of Hon. Galusha
Grow, of the House Of Representatives,
he was the only man in Congress whose
congressional career began prior TO the
beginning of the civil war, and he had
the honor over Mr.. Grow in that his con-
gressional services had been continuous,
covering IN the Senate and House COM
bined almost forty-four years.
Mr. Morrill, was a native of Vermont.
He was first elected to the House from
that state. as a member Of the Thirty
fourth Congress, taking his seat at the
first assembling of that body after the
4th OF March. 1856. He was reelected TO
the Thirty-ffth Thirty-sixth, Thirty
seventh Thirty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth
congresses. and was in 1867 elected TO the
Senate, TO succeed Hon. Luke L. Poland.