Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-27
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CLEvE-
LAND CABINET PASSES AWAY.
DIES IN THE SUPREME COURT
STRICKEN DOWN WHILE DELIVER
ING AN ARGUMENT.
Augustus Hill Garland Had Been state
Legislator, Governor. Senator,
Cabinet Ohicer and Declined
Supreme bench
JudSeship.

WASHINGTON, Jan. -26.-Former Attor-
ney General Augustus H. Garland was
stricken with apoplexy while addressing
the United States supreme court at 12:15
O'Clock this afternoon and died within ten
mirutes- The occurrence came with start
ling and tragic unexpectedness, changing
the usual calm and dignity of the court
into temporary confusion. while the dying
man was carried from the chamber in a
futile effort to alleviate his condition.
When the court convened at noon Mr..
Garland resumed an argument which had
begun yesterday. Mr.. Garland spoke
calmly and with no evidence of agitation
or effort. He had read from a law volume
and had followed with the sentence: This.
your honols, is our contention"
AS the last word was uttered. Mr.. Gar
land was seen to raise his hand and then
gasp. He tottered and fell sideways, strik-
ing against chair and overturning it as
he fell heavily to the floor. A succession
of loud. deep gasps came from him as he
lay on the floor. His associate in the case.
Mr.. Franklin MacKey, was at once by his
side and. with other counsel and officials.
the head of the dying man was raised. his
shoes removed and a draught of water
! given him. He was carried from the
chamber across to the room of Chief Clerk
McKenney and there placed on sofa.
Senator Galinger, who is physician. was
| near at nand. A single glance told him
that the attack would be fatal. Within ten
| minutes from the time of the stroke Mr..
| Garland breathed his last.
| It is said that never before in the his
tory of the United States supreme court
has an attorney been stricken with death
while making an argument there. There
| have been cases in which counsel have
| fallen, stricken with illness, but no case
| in which death has followed within few
minutes, as happened to-day.
Mr.. Garland had been in poor health for
several years and some months ago was
| in the hospital for some weeks. Yesterday
afternoon while in the supreme courtroom
| he had laid his head on his hands as he
| sat at table for the accommodation OF
counsel, and complained of feeling very
| i'll.
After the death of the former attorney
general became known the supreme cour,
adjourned for the day.
| Augustus Hill Garland was born in Tip
| ton county, Tenn, June II, 1882. Before he
was year old, his parents removed to AR.
| kansas. He was educated at st. Mary's
| college, Lebanon, KY. He read law there
and in Arkansas and was admitted to the
bar in 1858. After practicing at that place
|
| He was an opponent of the secession ordi-
nance in the state convention, but after its
passage he espoused the Southern cause
and was a member of the provisional con,
gress that met in Montgomery in May, 1861
! In 1874, after serving short time as acting
J secretary OF state. he was elected governor
of Arkansas under the new state constitu.
| tion.
In January, 1876, he was sent to the
United States senate and was reelected in
1855. serving from March 5, 1S77. to March
1855, when he took his seat as attorney gen
erai in President Cleveland's cabinet. He
was offered and declined a supreme court
justiceship: At the close of the Cleveland
practiced law in this city, appearing chiefly
before the United States supreme court.
A special from Little Rock, Ark. says
The legislature this afternoon adopted 8
resolution of regret at the death of ex
| Attorney General Garland and adjourned
out of respect to his memory.
The resolution asked that the funeral ar
rangements be left to the Arkansas legis
lature and that the funeral be held in Lit
tie Rock.