The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-08-05
Succumbs to Heart Failure Af-
ter Having Been in Semi
conscious State Since
Saturday.
|b5 YEARS IN U. S. SENATE
ks Co-Laborer With lincoln Carried
Through Great Civil War
Measures--Thrice Spurned
Cabinet Offers. .

Dubuque, Iowa, Aug 4.-United
Estates Senator W. b. Allison died at
Erhe immediate cause of his death was
[heart failure. The end came as a re-
<.sult of serious sinking spell due to
"a prostate enlargement complicated
|.with kidney diseases and during pc
EIriod of unconsclousness which had last
He'd since Saturday afternoon Two
t'weeks ago the senator left his home In
1.-THE city to escape the heat. He went
Ito the home of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a
|friend of the family living on the AS
|bury Road a few miles from town. For
la few days his condition seemed to
.limprove but he later began to grow
worse Medical advisers urged that
k.an operation be performed to relieve
nthe prostate enlargement which was
bringing his condition TO a crisis,
Saturday morning the senator was
drought back home. Soon afterwards
he relapsed into condition of semi
consciousness. Except for brief pc
F'rlods of partial recovery, he remained
in this condition until death came this
IA afternoon
News Of the serious illness Of the
n aged senator was kept from the public
L as much as possible and his death came
y a surprise to his thousands Of friends
q residing in this city. Only the more
Il intimate friends Of the family were
"A aware of his critical condition
No arrangements for the funeral
II have yet been made
4 Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 4-Senator AL
lison was born at Perry, Ohio, March
2. 1929 and secured his education In AL
legheny college in Pennsylvania and
n the Western Reserve college Of Ohio, ir
\ both of which schools he distinguished
a himself at winning high honors.
Senator Allison was admitted to the
n bar In 1850; was married to Miss Anna
Carter of Wooster, Ohio, In 1855 and
In 1857 removed to Dubuque where he
took up the practice of law
Senator Allison was a delegate to the
National republican convention In Chi
\ cago in 1860. He was member Of the
governors staff during the Civil war
and raised troops to fight for the in
tegrity of the nation in 1861. In 1858 he
was elected to congress and served con-
/ tinuously until 1871 In 1873 he was
1 elected United States senator from
/ Iowa and represented his state in this
| capacity until the time of his death
He was offered the position of secre
tary of the treasury of the United
States by Presidents Garfield Harrison
and Mckinley, but in each instance
declined TO accept the office.
In 1892 he was chairman Of the in
| ternational monetary conference a
/ republican presidential nomination be
1 fore the national republican conven
tion in 1883 and again In 1896
It was Senator Allison as much a.
any man then In the service Of tn
people who planned and carried
through the great measures for tn
conduct Of the civil war, the re-estab
lishment of the national credit and tn
development Of the national resources
He was contemporary of, and a co
laborer with every one Of the grea
men whose services are now recognize,
as Of inestimable value to the nation
Lincoln, Stanton, Chase, Sumner
Blaine, Edmunds, Sherman, Garfield
Logan, Trumbul, Morton and others.
His aid in the nomination of Abra
ham Lincoln as republican candidat
for president In 1860 was perhaps Sen
ator Allison's first great service for hi
country. On the ways and means com
nittee of the national house, he bega
the career which made him one of tn
best authorities In the country upo
the. revenues and expenditures Of tn
government For more than forty year
he has been assigned by the judgmen
of his colleagues in house and senat
to the responsible task Of planning tn
revenues and supervising the expendl
lures and no man who ever had par
In this work had the confidence {
both houses more completely