The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-23
Young Florida States man Passes
 Away. HIS DEATH IS PECULIARLY SAD AND IS ADISTINCT SHOCK The Future Held a Brilliant Career
 for Him. In MT. Bryan, the Senate Loses Its seventh Member By Death In One Year--sDecuIation
 <. To His
 Successor.

washington, March z2--United States Senator William James Bryan. of Flor ida. died at the Providence Hospital at s:30 o'clock this morning of typhoid fever. I
 It was only seventy-three days since he took his seat as the successor of the late Senator stephen R. Mallory. who died December 23. and thirty-three days of that time was spent in his fight against disease. Several times during MT. Bryan's illness. his friends despaired of his recovery, but as iate at last night. the report was given out that hts condition had taken turn for the better His death today, therefore. came as a surprise and distinct shock.
 In physique. Mir. Bryan was united to resist a protracted fever. He was of slight build and of nervous tempera- ment. He came to Washington early in January from the warm climate of Florida and from the day of his arrival. was far from we'll. Finally he was compelled to give up and was taken to Providence Hospital. During the last few days of his illness. he was attend ed by specialists from Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore.
 In Mir. Bryan the Senate loses the seventh member by death since the ad4 journment of the Fifty-ninth Congress on March {. a year ago. They were the two late Senators from Alabama. MT. Morgan and Mr. Pettus; Mir. Mallory, of FIotida; MT. Latimer. of South Caro- lima: Mir. Proctor. of Vermont: Mr. Whyte. of Maryland. and Mir. Bryan. Curiously the last two were the oldest and youngest members of the body. Mir Whyte was S4. years old and Mir Bryan less than 32.
 Although MT. Bryan was in the Sen. ate too short time to impress his in dividuality on legislation or to take 3 prominent part in the consideration Of matters in committee. # Is considered that had he lived. he would have be- come forceful part of the minority.
 Mir. Bryan was born in Orange Coun- ty, Fla. October 10, iST6- He attend ed the public schools of his State and Emory College. Georgia. graduating from tho latter institution in 1886. Three years later he was graduated from Washington and Lee University, and In 1899 began the practice of law in Jacksonville Fla. Until a short a time before his appointment to sue ceed Mir. Mallory in the Senate, he had served as Solicitor of the Duval Coun- ty Criminal Court. He was married to Miss Janet Allen. of Lexington. Va, who survives him.
 The body of Senator Bryan. accom- panied by a committee from the senate, will leave here at o'clock tomorrow morning over the Southern Railway for Jack sonville, Florida where inter ment will be made on Wednesday. An unusual featurs will be the absence of a funeral committee from the House of Representatives. It was the wish of the family that the usual congression- al cornmitte be dispensed with but this was reconsidered and 1t was decided that the senate only should be repre- sented at the funeral.
 The senate committee Is made up of Messrs. Taliaferro, of Florida, Bacon, of Georgia; Stone. of Missouri; Daniel. of Virginia: Clark, of Wyoming; Scott, of West Virginia; Carter, of Montana and Clapp, of Minnesota.