The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-21
EX-SENATOR CALL Is DYING
FLORIDi STATESMAN SUFFERS
CEREBRtL STROkE.
Had served Three Terms and u subject
of Many stories, One Relating To Put
ting His stockinEed Feet on His Desk
Had Been Feeble for several Year,.

WAsHTS0roN, Aug. %. Wilkinson Call
ex-senator from Florida. is believed To
bo dying at the Emergency Hospital
In Mashin gton at tn" age Of "a Mr.
Call who has been IN feeble health for
two or three years past. was taken to
the hospital from his home. 1919 y street.
NJ noon unconscious and apparently
in a dying condition lie was attacked
with a cerebral hcmorrhage just a. h.
had finished lunrhsou and was leaving
the dining room Tonight MIR Calls
condition is unchanged. He had not
recovered consciousness after the stroke
Ex-senator Can was at one time n
conspicuous member OF the senate He
TOOK his seat on March ~. 1879 and served
for threc terms Hrs home was in Jack
sonvilla. u" was first elected to the
Senat" Immediately after the war. but
vas not allowed To take his seat
Mr. Call was the subject Of many stories
that have been handed down from IN.
days when he was an active member
NJ tho Senate One ~ the hest remem-
her"d of rhaS" related how the Senator
from Florida removed his shoes while
SEATED IN the Senate chamber during a
session onn day and sat for some time
with stOCNInged feet The story IA printed
originally related that MIR call put hls
stoCNinged feet on the top Of his desk
and nearly created stampede among
his Colleague-
The senator denied the story and some
persons declared that MIR Call merely
slipped one of his feet out II low shoe
= adjust his stocking and returned the
foot promptly t. the shoe H. was said
that tho performance took place under
the Se-Pt r. desk and that IL was done
~ quickly that 10 was observed by only
one or two pe 'Ul'' and was really less 81
an incident than Tradition has mad. out
ot u. IN" story has chung - senator Cali
g thIs day
Mr. tall was ALWAYS an interesting
senator hut never particularly influential
He had a tendency toward pDpulism. IL
was relat'Si Of hum that he made his cam
pHIgn through the more populous sections
of / luTIia. driving IN AN old fashionsd
two wh-"l'-t srIlkv. calling at farinhousas
and plying ia" arts 81 the old time cam
pHigr"r Mr. Call was a very prosy
speaker There II no r's'olction that the
Senat" was ever thrown into any state 81
excitement 10y his sp.'srhsr In fact one
II t.c stories related at his expense Was
ot a question pr"pounded by one Capitol
attach" - another.
What - wor-. thar a call 81 the hou-es-
Can of the senate vas IN. reply
After being r"tIrel from IN" Senat. as
the result - a new regime m Florida poll
ti~s Nr call got very much uut 81 tune
with his PARTY leaders and tried tn make
tTouhl" for them IN various ways Ho
sr"nt much II his time IN Washington
practising Law before III" departments
III" made on" or Two unsuccessful Efforts
10 ls@t bach into the senate hut neV er made
very marked impression on the cleo
torai". HIS last was az the tlrre the late
William james Bryan -ICCe--isd the late
Senator Mallory Mr. Call made a de-
'"rmn"i "Nort 20 attack senator Bryan's
right 10 hls place IN the Senate and filed "A
~" noral with the senate COMMITTEES on
Privileges and Elections alleging that
senator B-vAn had no constitutional right
to his seat Tn" memorial was ~ much
involved. however,. m the statement of the
constitutional question involved that the
cpn'uitt"" refused t. TAX" any action
upon II
SENATOR calls health failed rapidly tho
last three nr four wears and h. was tho
subject Ut much sympathetic Interest,"
when h" app"arei on tn" stroets or around
IN" Capitol being constantly IN need 81 an
attendant - help hi'n make his way about