New-York tribune., 1907-05-09

pedchhent, died at Albuquerque N M, o-day.
The death of Edmund Gibson Ross in loneliness
and poverty in Albuquerque. y. NJ, is a pathetic
ending of the career of an ex-United States Sena-
tor and Governor OF territory. Mr. Ross was
born in Ashland, Ohio, on December T. 1926 and
began to learn the printers trade when he was
only ten years old He made slow but steady
headWay. and foreman of The Milwaukee
Sentinel when he went to Kansas in 1856 to take
part in the border troubles as an ardent Abolition
ist and Free Soil Republican.
on the restoration of order in the state Mr. Ross
returned to the case. but remained in Kansas
and at the breaking of the Civil War was pro-
prietor of The Topeka Tribune and of The
Kansas State Record" He enlisted a private in
the llth Kansas Cavalry and mustered out
as a lieutenant colonel Going back Topeka
he was appointed United States Senator TO sue
ceed Senator Lane. and when the Legislature re-
assembled. he was elected TO I'LL out the unexpired
term.
His career in the Senate chiefly notable for
the stand he took in the mpeachI of President
johnson. Always a strong party man and obedi-
ent 10 caucus mandates, he then refused to indi-
cate how he would vote before the conclusion of
the trial. In the mean time the position OF all the
other Senators was we'll understood. and 1t became
apparent that Senator ROsss vote would decide
the
Needless OF the accusations of corruption and
undue influence that were brought against him, he
adhered TO his announced resolution to hear the
evidence and the argument and then to vote in
accordance with his oath to give the accused pTesi
dent fair and impartial trial. In the end he de
cided that, in spite of his personal antpathy 70
the President and OF his desire 10 follow the wishes
Of his state and party. he could not hold Mr. john
son. whatever his mistakes and follies. guilty OF
the high crimes and mlsdemeanors with which he
charged. Senator Rosss secured the ac-
Quittal of the President and his Punishment
into political obscurity.
Unsuccessful in his repeated attempts TO re-estab
lish himself in Kansas after the expiration OF his
term, in 1871. he forced to return to the case
as a 3ourneyman printer. In 1882 he removed to
Albuquerque and became the foreman OF the JOB
printing department OF local paper. The obloquy
he had brought upon himself by his action in tPe
Johnson trial had caused him to leave the Repub-
ican party and to Join the Democrats. His re
ward came when President Cleveland appointed him
Governor OF New Mexico. in 1850
The salary only $500 year. and the Gov
ernor able to save little from Il. When he re,
turned 10 private life in 1889 he fitted up small
Job printing office In Albuquerque, where he made
a slender living for the next ten years his bust
rarely warranting him employ another
hand. In 1899 he sold his plant and bought a small
farm the edge Of the town. There, In little
adobe house, he spent the sunset OF his life. A
traveller who visited him a few years ago de
scribed him "a rusty. bent, decrepit looking old
With old handsaw he was. with painful
effort, wrestling from the trunk of fallen pinon
the wood with which to cook his dinner