The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-27
GARLAND DROPS DEAD
While Conducting a Case in
the Supreme Court.
OVER IN TEN MINUTES
Sketch of the Career of the
Ex-Attorney General.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 2s.-Former At
! torney General Augustus II. Garland was
stricken with apoplexy while addressing
the United States supreme court at 12:15
o'clock this afternoon and died within ten
minutes. 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 in the case
of Towson versus Moore, which had begun
yesterday. There was a full bench, with
the exception of Justices Brewer and
White. m. Garland spoke calmly and
with no evidence OF agitation or effort.
He had read from a law volume and lad
followed with the sentence: This, your
honors, is our contention"
AS the last word was uttered, Mr.. Gar
land was seen 10 raise his hand and then
gasp. He tottered and fell sideways, strik-
ing against a chair and overturning 1t 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. cea:hly pallor had over
spread his face and this soon gave place
n old 4Ia ,x-itI
of the attack. He was carried from the
chamber across to the room of Chief Clerk
McKenna and there placed on a sofa. Sen
ator GaIlinger, who is a physician, was
near at hand. An single glance .old him
that the attack would be fatal. Within
ten minutes Of the time of the stroke, Mr..
Garland breathed his last.
The court in the meantime had postponed
the case in which Mr. Garland was en-
gagged and, until the seriousness o. the
attack was known, had proceo1e1 with
other business. Word of the tragedy VAS
soon noised through the capitol anc sen
ators and representatives hurried g the
court room. The two Arkansas senators,
Mr.. Berry and Mr.. Jones, were among the
first to view the body, and following them
was long line of persons high in legisla-
tive and legal circles, who had been as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Garland at various times
in his long and notable public service.
1t is said that never before in the his
tory of the United States supreme court
has an attorney been stricken with death
while making argument there There |
have been cases in which attorneys have |
fallen, stricken with illness, but no case |
~,
utes, as happened today.
After the death of the former attorney |
general became known the supreme court |
adjourned for the day. This action was |
taken on the motion Of Attorney General |
Griggs. In recognizing the motion Chief |
Justice Fuller said:
THE court learns Of the death of Mr.. |
Garland with sincere sorrow and concuTs
in the suggestion that has been made.
Out Of respect to the memory of this dis
tinguished member of the bar. an adj
journment will be taken until tomorrow
at the usual hour"
The news of General Garland's death
produced profound sadness in the SEN
ate, where he had served for many years
as one Of a galaxy of distinguished men.
Augustus Hill Garland was born in Tip
ton county, Tennessee, January II, 1882.
Before he was a year old his parents re-
moved to Arkansas. He was educated at
st. Mary's college, Lebanon, Ky. He read
law there and in Arkansas and was ad-
mitted to the bar IN 1853. After practicns
at that place for three years he removed
to Little Rock. He was a Wing in pcli-
tics and in 1860 was an elector on the Bell
and Everett ticket. He was an opponent
of the secession ordinance in the stale con-
vention, but after its passage he esp oused
the southern cause and was a member of
the provisional congress that met in Mont
gOmery in May. 1861. He was Oh )ssn A
delegate to the First Confederate congress
and afterward served in the senate IN
which he held seat when he Confederacy
fell. In 1865 he petitioned the United States
supreme court for the right to practice
without taking the 'ironclad" oath, pre-
senting an argument on which the ques-
ton was decided in his favor. He was
elected United States senator for the term
beginning March l. 1867. but was not per-
mitted TO take his seat In 1874, after sew
ing a short time as assistant secretary Of
state, he was elected governor of Arkan-
sas under the new state constitution. He
was afterward sent TO the Uni-ei States
senate, serving from 1877 to Marcn ,S,o.
He was offered and declined a supreme
court justiceship. At the close Of the
Cleveland administration he retired from
politics and practiced law in this city. ap-
pearing chiefly before the United States
supreme court.
st. Louis. No. Jan. as.-A special n the
Post-Dispatch from Little Rock. Al
says: The legislature this afternoon
adopted resolution OF regret at the des.h
o. eX-Attorney General Garland and qd
journed out of respect to mis- memory. The
resolution asked that the funeral arraus,-
ments De left TO the Arkansas Legislature
and that the funeral be held IL I.ittl.
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