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| It was given out here by his intimate
friends that he was threatened with
general physical collapse
4 AT the close of congress Senator
IDolliver announced that he would take
long rest and that he would go to
New Mexico to recuperate his health.
he spent q few weeks In that state
and returned to Iowa declaring that
Iowa climate was good enough for him
and that he would remain in this state
until congress convened again.
Senator Dolliver announced before
the republican convention in Iowa that
he was in the best Of health and that
his rest had restored his normal health.
He was chosen permanent chairman Of
the convention.
At the beginning of Senator La Fol
lette's campaign In Wisconsin, Senator
Dolliver announced his intention of en-
Itering that state to assist his candi-
dacy. In the meantime, however, he
had gone into Ohio and Indiana to
Investigate some records relative to
the international rubber monopoly. He
worked hard gathering this data, and
this added work seemed to affect his
] health.
i Taken III in Milwaukee.
| Senator Dolliver made several
! speeches in Wisconsin in the interest
OF Senator La Follettes candidacy. At
1 Milwaukee he was taken Ill and re-
turned to his home at Fort Dodge. His
illness was not regarded as serious,
/ however. About two weeks ago he
went to Jewel Junction, Ia, on bust
ness, and while there he contracted q
heavy cold. It was feared for a time
that he had contracted pneumonia. He
was unable to shake off his illness and
q week ago on the advice of physicians
| he took to his bed.
| Physicians diagnosed his case as
| stomach trouble, which interfered with
/ his heart action.
Big Man In Public Life.
/ Twice in the limelight as strong
vice presidential possibility and in the
front rank throughout his entire
career in congress as an authority on
tariff and railroad rate legislation,
Senator Dolliver was one OF the strong
figures in public life AS an orator,
both in the halls of congress and on
the lecture platform. he never failed
to charm his audiences with his elo- i
quence, Incompatible stories of which I
he had an inexhaustible fund and with
his home1y SMILES. He was famed
particularly for the biting ridicule
which he was ever ready to hurl at Il
political opponent and which usually
went unanswered.
Senator Dolliver was born near King
wood, Preston county, Virginia (now
West Virginia), Feb. 6, 1858. He was
graduated in 1875 from the West
Virginia university and at 20 was adj
mitted to the bar. He soon moved to
Iowa and became prominent as a law
yer at Fort Dodge He was elected as
a republican in 1883 to the Fifty-first
congress as representative Of the
tenth district. That was his first
political Office and he was continued in
the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty
fourth and Fifty-sixth congresses.
On August %, 1900, he was appointed
by the then Governor Leslie M. Shaw
to fill aavacancy in the United States
senate. caused by the death of Senator
Gear; he was elected in 1902 to sue
coed himself and reelected in 1907 for
a term which would have expired
March 3, 1918.
Active in Tariff Issues. f.
When the Dinkley tariff law was
enacted Mr.. Dolliyer was member of