Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-14

Dakota report and speeches on the Ed munds resolution regarding civil ser vice reform are considered among the best efforts of his life.
 As a member of the foreign affairs committee he assisted in the considera- ton and amendment and united i'll the unanimous favorable committee report of. and voted ill the senate for, the Chinese restriction bill. His senate term expired on March f. 1887. and he then returned to thespractice of his profession. @
 In the Chicago convSptiOn. ill June 1888. he was nominated as the candi- date of the republican party for presi- dent of the United States and was Se- lected on the eighth ballot. /
 He ran as an avowed protectionist and was elected. defeating Grover Cleveland. democrat He was inau- @Trated twenty-thirl president of the United States March f. 1889. His ad miniStration is famous for the pasSag" of the Mckinley bill. high tariff measure: the negotiation of several commercial and reciprocity treaties and controversies with Chili. Italy and Great Britain, growing out of the Chill ian revolution: the New Orleans lynch ing and the Behring sea difficulty.
 
 won many strong friends and bitter enemies. He was renominated for president on the first ballot in Minne apoliS on June 10 1892 and was de f""tod at the polls by Grover Cleve- land
 Geenral TIarrison's public services were valuable to the country after he left the presidential chair. He ap- neared for the public of Venezuela as the agent, before the tribunal in which Chief Justice Fuller and Assistant Justice Brewer were selected to repre- sent that conDirE. and was associated with General Benjamin |. Tracy.
 General Harrison twice was mar ried. His second wife was Mrs Mary Lord Dmmick. The wedding took place in this city in April. 1896. and in February. 1897. baby girl was born General Harrison was then e. and his wife twenty years younger.
 Washington. March 14-The nation al capital is iii mourning to-day for eX- President Harrison. Flags are at half mast. not only upon all the public. buildings. but upon the hotels. stores and many of the private residences. The act of 1893 prohibits the draping of public buildings in black. as was the custom formerly upon the death of an eX-president President McKin- ley. who was deeply affected by the death of General Harrison. directed that the doors of the executive man. sion be closed to visitors and denied himself to callers except those on business of urgent importance. Inn meaiately upon receipt of the news last night he decided to attend the fu- neral and he and Secretary Cortclyou will leave Washington tonight. Mrs Mckinley probably will accompany him as far as Canton, where he may stop over one day. At 1O:3C this morn ing President Mckinley issued q proc lamation formally notifying the peo- pie of the country of the death of their former chief magistrate, and directing the observance of a period of mourn ing for thirty days. In pursuance of this proclamation the flags on every public building in the United States. at every army post in the United States. Cuba, Porto Rico Hawai- and the Philippines and on every Ameri- can warship ill whatever harbor of the globe will fly at half mast for thirty days.