The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-31

mated and elected vice president on the | ticket with MT. Taft.
 Associated With Leaders His first years in the House brought him into close association with leaders. Joseph w. Bailey later a senator; Breckenridge, Bryan Bourke Cochran, Crisp, Dalzell, Dingley, Deliver, Tender son, Payne, Paynter, Raynor, Reed, Wadsworth, Fighting Joe Wheeler and score of others whose names became household words in discussion of the tariff and other national policies were his fel- lows The Senate held such men as Al drich, Allison, Cockrell, Daniel. Frye, | German, Hoar, Hill, Teller, Vest and Wocott All were not republicans, but all were Jim Sherman's friends, and in such an environment he worked to a high place In the councils and finally was | numbered one of the big five in the ] House.
 Cannon, Dalzell Payne, Sherman and Tawney were the great quintet during the comparative recent years in which Con gress was republican. Each of them in- variably wore a red carnation Tor a i boutonniere and when sherman went to preside over the Senate and occupy the coveted marble room in the other wing of the capitol he took the custom with him, and the flower always appeared at every |
 Work in the House
 Any review of Shermans life would not be complete without a reference to his work in the House. Briefly, there Is re- corded time when he moved galleries to applause by a debate from the floor, or l changed any votes by eloquence. But the | statutes bear marks of his work in com- mittee and caucus, and the results of his labors on the rules committee, the inter- | committee and other branches of the machinery of the House where the real legislating is done. while l speeches prevail upon the floor.
 l It is not to be said he was no cam paigner. In New York state politics he
 was a leading figure. He was known in other states. His appearances in cam paigns, state and national, were not in-
 frequent. He was at one time chairman of the republican congressional commit tee. He always was active in the New
 York state republican conventions and a figure at all national gatherings of the party
 Break in Senatorial Dignity sherman went to preside over the Sem ate just about the time when what pop ularly is known as senatorial dignity was beginning to feel Its first break. In the chair Sherman was dignity itself, fair in his rulings, his colleagues said, quiet, firm, sure and seldom reversed on an ap-
 peal
 But dignity so far as the traditional | senator frock coat and silk hat were concerned generally was absent. He re- gerded his time presiding over the Sen
 ate as a days business, to be attended | to as if he were sitting in his bank in Utica or at the directors table of one of the many enterprises in which he had found fortune and laid the foundations of another for his sons. He usually appeared in business suit; on hot day he came in f1annels: on a | very hot day palm leaf fan displaced | the gavel and perhaps a glass of lem onade topped off the book of rules. | Other senators. reluctant perhaps, to | transgress staid custom, fell in with ! his ideas and nowadays on blister ing Washington summer day the Sen ate chamber looks quite like business body,
 Went to Seek Health
 | The illness which proved fatal was | the last few months. MT. sherman was I the last fe wmonths. MT. sherman was not present during the closing days l of the last session and the Senate, without a president pro tenn by the death of Frye. and unable to agree upon successor, got along by tenn l porary agreements, placing some sen ator in the chair for two weeks at a time. When he disappeared. seeking rest and health in vain Sherman was gen timely missed about the capitol, in the departments, at the White House, where he was 6 frequent caller ana always exchanged a new joke with President Taft, and on the streets where he often walked. In hurry he used motor but 1t was an occurrence of an ordinary day with Congress III session to meet sherman walking down Iennsylvania avenue. often alone, rosy checked and cneerfully returning the salutations of scores who knew him 1 ly sight, thought of him as Sunny Jim and greeted him: Good morning MT. President and the passerby who recognized him was greeted as heart | fly as the senator who might be next - Vice President sherman was born in | Utica on October 24. 1855. He was mar ried in 1881 to Carrie Babcock at East 1 Orange. N. J. They have three sons sherrill Richard |. and Thomas M. all | living and in business in Utica The ice president was an Elk, a trustee 1 cf Hamilton college, member of the Dutch Reformed church, a member of many clubs, and a business man of vide interests.
 Roosevelt Sends Sympathy