The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1899-02-01
SUDDENLY STRICKEN.
Ex-AttOrney General Garland Dies
from ApOplexY.

ExsAttOrney GemerMA UarlhnO Dlo4
from ApOplexy.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Ex-Attorney
General Augustus H. Garland was
stricken with apoplexy while address,
ing the United States supreme court
Thursday afternoon, and died within
ten minutes.
When the court convened ait noon
Mr.. Garland resumed an argument in
the case of Towson VS.. Moore, which
had begun Wednesday. Mr.. Garland
spoke calmly and with no evidences of
agitation. He had read from a law
volume, and had followed with the
sentence: "This, your honors, is our
contention"
As the last word was uttered, Mr..
Garland was seen to raise his hand and
then gasp, He tottered and fell side
wise, striking against chair and over
turning it as he fell to the floor. A
succession of deep gasps came from
him as he lay on the floor. His asso-
ciate in the case, Franklin Mackey,
was at once by his side, and with
other counsel and officials the head of
the dying man was raised and a
draught of water given him.
A deathly pallor overspread his face,
and this soon gave place to deep
purple which foretold the gravity Of
the attack. He was carried from the
chamber to the room of Chief Clerk
McKenney, and placed on a sofa. SEN
ator Gallinger, who is physician, was
at hand. A glance told him that the
attack would be fatal. Within ten
minutes from the time of the stroke
Mr.. Garland breathed his last.
Tt is said that never before in the
history of the supreme court has an
attorney been stricken with death
while making an argument there. Mr..
Garland had been in poor health for
several years.
Augustus Hill Garland was born in
Upton county, Tenn, June II, 1892.
Before he was year old his parents
removed to Arkansas. He was educa-
ted at st. Mary's college, Lebanon,
Ky.. and st. Joseph's college, Bards-
town, Ky. He read law there and in
Arkansas and was admitted to the bar
in 1858. After practicing at that place
for three years he removed to Little
Rock. He was whig in politics and
in 1860 was an elector on the Bell and
Everett ticket. He was an opponent Of
the secession ordinance in the state
convention, but after its passage he
espoused the southern cause and was
a member of the provisional congress
that met in Montgomery in May, 1861.
He was chosen a delegate to the first
Confederate congress and afterwards
served in the senate, in which he had
a seat when the Confederacy fell
In 1865 he petitioned the United
States supreme court for the right to
practice without taking the "ironclad'
oath, presenting an argument on which
| the question was decided in his favor,
| He was elected United States senator
for the term beginning March 4, 1867
but was not permitted to take his seat
In 1874, after serving a short time as
acting secretary of state. he was elect
ed governor of Arkansas. In January
1876, he was sent to the United, 81 es
senate and was reelected in 1888, sery-
ing from March 5, 1877, to March A.
1885, when he took his seat as attorney
general in President Cleveland's cabi-
net. 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.