The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-03
SOUTH'S OLD GUARD IN SENATE
DEATH LAST WEEk REMOVED
TWO. MENERY AND DANIEL.

m the STU Who Remain Two WIN Leave
the senate At the End of the Present
Congress incidents Ia the Career oT
the senators WhG Have Just Died.
WASHINGTON. July death this week
removed two Of the Souths old guard
| In the Senate-Samuel ID. McEnery Of
| Louisiana and John W. Daniel Of Viz
ginia Early in the session Anselm J.
McIaurin Of Mississippi passed away.
senator Bsn jamin X. Tilman Of South
Carolina and senator Charles A. Cul-
herson Of Texas were absent most Of the
session that has just ended. and a good
deal u doubt ~ expressed whether they
will ever again hc able To resume active
duties in th" senate
IL IL thus apparent that the last year
has made a sad impression upon the ranks
II the Southerners Of the old school IN
the Senate. The veterans who wore the
gray are fast fading from the rolls Of the
upper house. Only a few months ago
nine men who have carried arms in the
South's cause were sitting in the Srnate.
Daniel. McEnery and McI.airin were
among the mir e.. OF tho six who remain
two will pass ou' 81 the senate az the end
Of the present Congress- on March next.
These are senator Taliaferro of Florida.
who has failed vt res,lectiOn and will bo
succeeded bv Gov. Broward and senator
Money u Mississippi who will make room
for John sharp Williams. former minority
laader Of the House This will leave
BInkhead ~ Alabama. johnston Of Ala
bana. Bacon Of Georgia and Martin of
Virginia ~ the only Confederate veterans
IN tn" upper house.
-.
II his service IN Washing II on was handi-
capped by deafness. But he remained
t. the end one Of the picturesque Southern
characters in that body. He was fire.
quentIy pointed out from the galleries
A. the man who. although occupying a
Democratic seat from a strong Demo-
cratic State had the courage To vote with
the Republicans about as often as ne did
with hLs own party becaus" he believed
tAat IN doing ~ he - promoting the IN
forests of his STATE
III. aged senator never hal any apology
. offer for his votes and he Vas never
called upon toy the Democratic state o
louisiana O. make any explanations.
That was unnecessary. Louisiana ap-
preciated that she was proiiting from the
Republican measures which senator No
Emery advocated and sh. was perfectly
" llling q accept them. although she ould
regard A. hers~y any suggestion that
sh., herself vote the Republican ticket
Th.. difTsr"uc. between senator McEn-
cry and some 81 hi- southern colleagues
seems TO have been that h. was wiling
e. vote for ~lIat he had worked for in ths
committee room, even 10 IN. extent Of
recording his vote for Republican meas
ure, whIl. other southern Democrats
drew the lin. at tins point Tn" Tact
that senator Mctpery had held his seat
since 1877 and that his present term would
not have expired until 1919 A. pretty good ,
~ Iuence that the Democrats o. fsOuisi- !
ana approved Of his so-called Republican I
Trainings
senator McEnery has been described ,
a "A -prutartion Democrat Luis lana !
wanted protection ON her sugar and other |
products. just a. other southern States 1
wanted their products favored, and Sen /
ator Mct.nery, unlike other Southern ,
Senators, came out IN he light and voted I
for tn. Payne AldrIch tariff bill a. h. /
had for the DIngiey law Tn. senator
himself maintained that he was "A pro-
tectIonlSt from principle and that he had
the illu-triOus example Of such men a.
Was hin gtOn. Jefferson and even jackson
to follow
senator McEnery was first. last and
all the time a Boui-ianian When the
treaty with spain looking TO the acuui-
sltion by the United States " the Phiiip-
pune islands was pending he wa. one
OF the group of Democrats who had IL
IN their power 10 kill the treaty The
Louisiana senator cast hiz vote for the
treaty. but hefnr" he had done 80 he had
eyact@d a prumls" that the rice and sugar
II Louisiana should b" protected in fh..
tarin against similar products from the
Philippines When the, tariff hiII On ms, M,
last year senator Ncfn"ry saw that this /
Apput senator McEnery IN th, Wa-hin1ton
news dispatches except when he voted
with tho R"publicans Yet AK A mar,
b'r 81 III" Senai. for his or inIon ~ ,bc
l.uuIsIanIan and he will say that senator
AlcEn"ry probably got more for m. S,a,. |
than any ptn"r Sp'Ithern.r IN Congress
SENATOR M"kn.ry's dea fnes- led Ia sor,,,
rather amusing Incidents in the senate
which the SENATOR himself apr..ar.I !
!" ENJOY ~ much 40 anybOdy elsss For
IN" last year or more h" had carried with
hum ncN tangled audiuhonn Tbis
littl" nachin" was charged with elact ric,,y
and hung Suspended from TN. Sap,tory
NalSt'nat. \ week or two after he had
got u d" was explaining it, m.rits g.
S.uator Pcttus Il Alabama. who h..c1,,n,
Interested ~ u and asked l., borr,vV 4,
senator P"itus locked IL up i'm his IasL
IN the fnUr 1T the S.snat.. and went br,,,.
h"iorr That body had adjourned In
~ ~" way S'natur McEnsry's bearin,
machine got short Ciruut.d and thsr,
wah huIIiug gong on that zp,iud,d
III" "A hiN" " angry bs,.s For tvy, or thr..
hours SENATOR McEn-ry's mnchin,, h,d
"a" S'hhtc 10 "a state Of Generalization