The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-12
End Comes Painless
" After Long
Illness.
JOHN H. BANKHEAD,

Grieving men and women ascend the
steps with slow and reverent tread.
Noiselessly the massive doors swing
open. The mourning people enter.
Noiselessly the doors close. In the
street outside. in the heart Of the city
there is stiffness, broken only by the
occasional stroke Of horses hoofs on the
paving as the carriages that have
brought the nations great men TO the
silent home move TO and fro.
John Tyler Morgan. the senior Sena-
tor from Alabama. is dead.
And all day those who knew him in his
Ions life of eminently brilliant service
have Journeyed to his home in John
Marshall place to tell the bereaved fam
lily of their sorrow for the departure of
soul whose greatness was established
in the highest legislative body in the
world.
The Senator's body will be taken TO
Selma, Ala, on special car attached
% the regular train leaving this city
over the Southern railway tomorrow
night at IL o'clock. The funeral services
will be held in Selma at noon on Satur-
day.
Accompanying the body will be the
Senator's two daughters. James oscar
Jones, his private secretary; Senator
Pettus, and the members of the Senate
tend the funeral.
There will be no services in this city
The SergeanU-at-Arms OF the Senate
this afternoon announced the following
committee of Senators to attend the
funeral in Selma:
Senators Pettus, Allison. Fry. Cullonl.
Daniel, Simmons. McLaurin, Culberson,
Perkins, Bacon, McCreary, Elkins. Till
man, Frazier. Gallinger. Raynor, Nal
lory. McEnery, Clarke OF Arkansas,
Stone, Nelson. .TaliaferrO. Whyte, For
aker, Crane and Overman.
1t is expected that Speaker Cannon,
who is now in the West, viii notify the
Sergeant-at-Arms Of the House by tele-
graph some time this afternoon as TO
the members Of the House who shall at
tend the funeral.
The body of the Senator viii be in his
home, 3l5 John Marshall place, until to-
morrow night, when il viii be placed Oh
the special car.
Daughters at Bedside.
The end came at 1l:l5 o'clock last
night. At the bedside were the Sena-
tors daughters. Miss Mary and Miss
Cornelia Morgan, and the attending ply
sicians. The immediate cause of death
was angina DectOris. the fatal stroke
coming as the end Of three months Of
illness Death was painless, as if all
meroiful nature, mindful 81 the brave
mans life OF poor health ard suffer-
ing. had lulled him tc slumber for The
final sleep.
For the last ten days Senator Nor
gan had been seriously i'll, but, in spite
OF this. his death was not expected. AT
S o'clock last evening. however, he be-
came suddenly worse. His physicians.
Drs. Fry SnOwden. and Harden. soon
saw that death was imminent in
spite of their heroic remedies, IL came.
The Senator was conscious until a few
moments before he died.
June 20 would have been his eighty
third birthday, and March next would
have completed his thirty-one years OF
continual service in the United States
Senate.
Deeds Showed His Honesty.
There have been many men in the
public life of this nation who have her
aided themselves to the people as hon
est, but John Tyler Morgan was one
whose deeds. and not his voice. put
upon him the stamp of an incorruptible
honesty and sincerity Of purpose. And
to the support of this rugged, immut-
able honesty. he brought the force Of a
marvellous intellect. the charm of true
oratory and the compelling power OF an
unhagging industry.
In III health from his youth because
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