Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-10-16
WAS STRONG FIGURE
IN PUBLIC LIFE.

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Washington, Oct l5.--TWice in the
lineight as a strong vice. presidential
possibility and in the first rank
throughout his entire career in CON
gress as an authority on tariff and
railroad legislation. Senator Dolliver
WAS one of the strong figures in public
life As an orator, he never failed to
charm his audiences with his elo-
quence with incomparable stories of
which he had an ineXhaustible fund,
and with his homely SMILES He was
famed particularly for his biting ridi-
cule
Senator Dolliver was born near
kingwood, Preston county, Va (now
West Nirginia), February 6, 1858. He
graduated in 1875 from the West
Virginia university and at twenty was
admitted 10 the har He soon moved
10 Iowa and bccame prominent
lawyer at Fort Dodge He was elected
as a republican in 1883 to the fifty
slrst congress as a representative of
the tenth district That was his first
political office end he was continued
Ia the fift, second. fifty-third, fifty
fourth, fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth con-
crosses.
on August 23. 1900 he was APP
pointed by the then Governor Leslie
United States senate, caused by the
death of Senator Gear; he was elected
in 1902 to succeed himself, ana re-
elected in 1907 for a term that would
have expired March 8, 1913
When the Dingley tariff was en-
acted Mr.. Dolliver was a member of
the committee on ways and means of
the house
He distinguished himself then for
the active part which he took in max
ing that law. Although more inde-
pendent than many, he was then
known as a standaatter Iowa being
an agricultural st9te, he successfully
advocated protection for all products
of the soli.
During the administration of Presl
dent Roosevelt in he heighth of agl-
tation for the regulation of freight
rates, Mr.. Dolliver, who had gone to
the senate, filled q conspicuous role.
The Hepburn Dolliyer law, amenda-
tory of the original act creating the
interstate commerce commission, was
to q large extent the product Of his
labors although after that measure
was repoi ted to the senate it under
went many changes of which he did
no. approve.
During the life of Senator Allison,
one of the standpat leaders of the
senate, Dolliver then the junior Iowa
senator, was constantly within the
shelter Of his venerable colleagues
guidance. After Allison died and was
by Senator Cummins, who
had long been known as a progressive,
Senator Dollievr joined hands with
q new colleague and incurred the
ennity Of the republican political
faction with which he had so long
been affiliated.
In debates with nearly every one
Of the stcaGFat creators. Senator Dol
liver c0nt~ihlI3 MANY of the bright
est pages o1 the congressional record
of the tariff session last year. He
was one OF the ten republican sena-
tors who voted against the Payne
Aldrich bill
In the convention al Philadelphia
in 1900, which rcnominated Mckinley
for the presidency Dolliver probably
would have heep the nominee for
vice president if Senator Platt and
)tner republican leaders then in power
had not determined upon the NOM
nation OF Roosevelt. Again in Chi |
ago at the republican national con- |
vention the Taft leaders wanted q |
nan from Iowa for second place on |
he ticket, but the delegation was so /
divided between Cummins and anti /
1ummins forces that the selection of |
Dolliver, the real choice, became inn |
possible.
When Senator Dolliver left Wash |
ngtnu at She close Of the last session, |
apparently strong and vigorous, he !
old many OF his friends that he felt |
hat he had just come into his own.
BY that he meant that though as !
sociated for many years with the old |
guards" in congress, he had frequent |
IN felt q lack of sympathy with many /
IF the measures they advocated; ne /
was at heart a progressive