Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-28
SENATOR DAVISDEAD
Long Illness Ends Fatally In
 St. Paul. :.
AN UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT CAREER
In the Army, at the Minnesota Bar, aS Governor, United States Sem ator and Member of the Paris
 Peace Commission.

ST. PAUL, Nov. 2S.-Unlted States Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis, chair man of the committee on foreign relations of the senate, died at his home in this city at o'clock last evening after an ill ness of two months. He had suffered greatly during his sickness and gradually sank away, being unconscious for sever- al hours before death and. so far as known, suffered no pain.
 For more than a week it had been known that the death of Senator Davis was certain to occur within a short time. Although the bulletins issued by Dr. Stone from day to day made no positive statement to this effect they ne ertheless gave the impression that the case was hopeless one. However, the announce ment came as a profound shock to the friends and fellow townsmen of the dis tlngulShed citizen, who had been hoping against hope. The senator's devoted wife, who has been in constant attendance up on his sckbed, had never lost hope. The senator, in his moments of lucidity, eX- pressed strong determination to recov- CT and within the past week told United States District Attorney Evans, who had been admitted to see him, that he was positive that he would soon be W ell..
 On Sunday, Nov. IS, serious change for the worse was noted. Previous to that the senator had been reported as having occasional periods of delirium. On that day these delirious spells became more marked, and since then the lucid in- tervals have become less and less ire quent, until the senator was almost con stantly out of his mind. In his delirium he raved of his congressional work.
 Cushman Kellogg Davis was born in Henderson. Jefferson county N. Y., June It, 1858. In that year his parents nov ed to Waukesha, Wis, where his father farmed until 1850. After attending the common schools young Davis spent three years in Carroll college at Waukesha preparing himself for the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1857. During his boyhood he held for some time q position as telegraph op- orator in what is now a suburb of Mil waukee. After his graduation he en- tered the law office of Alexander w. Randall, afterward war governor of Wis Consin.
 In 1860 MT. Davis began the practice of law and also took an active part in the campaign resulting in the election of Lincoln. Two years later, war having come, he closed his law office to enlist in u, volunteer army. He served for two years in the army of the Tennessee in Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, part of the time on staff duty. When in 1864 broken health com pelled his retirement, he was first lieu tenant of Company B, Twenty ghth Wisconsin volunteer infantry.
 Going to St. Paul, he formed law partnership with his army chief, Gen eral w. A. German, ex-governor of, Min nesota Territory. In 1868 he was elected to the state legislature and two years later was appointed United States dis trict attorney, serving five years in that position.
 In 1873 by a majority of one vote he was nominated by the Republicans for governor and elected by a majority of 5,496 The campaign issue was then new, being whether the state should con- trol the charges of railroads. Governor Davis asserted this right, and such legis- lation was enacted and enforced during his term of office. During a pretracted senatorial contest at that session Gov ernor Davis was one of the candidates, but Chief Justice McMillan was finally elected. It was at this time that the great grasshopper plague devastated southwestern Minnesota, and Governor Davis raised over $1OO,00O in money be- sides supplies for the victims of the plague.
 Governor Davis declined renomina- tion and resumed the practice of law His successor, Governor Pillsbury. re- tained him to argue in the United States supreme court the case of the state of Wisconsin against the city of Duluth and state of Minnesota to restrain the open ing of the present Duluth ship canal, through which all the commerce of that port now passes. MT. Davis won the suit for Minnesota. He continued in the practice of law until 1887, also giving considerable attention to politics. In 1884 he headed the Blaine delegation to CbIr1un where ha IT, ado of mating speeches for that candidate.
 During 1886 many of the state news papers advocated his election as United States senator, and when the legislature of 1887 met Senator McMillan withdrew as candidate for reelection, and MT. Davis received every vote.
 Senator Davis first chairmanship in the senate was of the committee on pen sions, which he held throughout his first term.
 He was the author of the pension law of 1880, which terminated the demands for excessive pension legislation and also satisfied the old soldiers. As member of the committee on territories Senator Davis led the fight for the admission of the Dakotas to statehood, making his first speech in the senate on that subject . As student and an authority on inter- national law Senator Davis furnished
 
 tary of State Blaine on the Chilean dis pute and the Boring sea controversy. His advocacy of the new locks at the Sault Ste. Marie ship canal carried to a sue cessful result legislation the wisdom of which has since been amply demon strated.
 In 1S95-6 many friends of the senator pressed his name for the presidential nomination, but before the state conyen- ton to name delegates met he withdrew, and Mckinley delegates were sent from Minnesota.
 During the past four years Senator Davis position as chairman of the for cign relations committee of the senate and later as one of the Paris peace com missioners has kept him prominently be- fore the public of all nations. He was reelected without opposition in 1899 for his third term.
 Senator Davis has been twice married His first wife was Miss Laura Bowman, and after she had secured divorce from him he married, in 1880, Miss Anna Nal colm Agnew.
 Railroad Greatly Damaged.