Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-26
Death Results From Con tinued Atttacks of NeRrit-
 is, After Long Illness.
A NEAR PRESIDENT
Death oi Uar}EaHd Senator vii,
 rrohaii, Mean tppoinimcnt of Republican.

Wls,iine on, Now, 2J.-lsIdor Ray. ncr, nf Ntryland. one 3l Inc leading Democratic members of the Unitel States Senate, and a man whose name was offered t9 the Chicago eonyvnticu by W Tam !. Bryan as q suitable candidate for he preai- dcntial nomination. died here eHly tcdaF at the end of long illness. re- sultla-y tF0m eontinu attacks of neurit &
 Sena or Rayneg l, ; been n a com atose state since last Wednesday, with only one or tW" slight ra1lies. His seVere illness covered d period of about six weeks. and dating from the t'forts made in the foin. pol ti- cal debate W n Hotrke Cochran at Baltimore, late in Sept mber Phy- siciaas compelled him to retire from the c:m maisn Immediately after that, and ne returned 70 his Wash ngton hcmc where he died at 6:20 o'clock this morn ng.
 Long Sufferer. F0r over five years Senator Ray ner had been a sufferer from nturitis, the attacks often making his work in he Senate arduous and painful.
 His death creates vacancy in the Senate that probably VII be filled by a Republican, through appo ntment of Governor Go'1sboroueh of Mary land. While the legislature of that stzte is Democratic, it does not meet tais winter, and the Republican gov cTnor's appointment will hold through the opening sess ons of the neXt Congress.
 Senator Rayner was one of the | str king figures of the Senate. He had been a member of that body for l almost eigh years, and was one of it's strongest debat(rs and a recogniz- cd authority on constitutional mat ters. Before he entered the senate i ne eaine1 a nation;l reputation by hs vigorous conduct of Admiral Schley's case before the naval court of inQu Ty that investigated the ac- ion af American officers in the bat l tie with Admi!&l Cevera's Spanish l fleet.
 His Nativity.
 MT. Rayner was a native of Ba1ti- more, and was @ years cid. He was a member of the Maryland leg sla- tuTe when 2S years old, ana served three terms in the national House of Representatives from 1886 to 1892. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1904, after having served 9 four years terms as attorney gen. oral of Maryland.
 As member of the committee on foreign relat ons ard the judiciary, Senator Rayner devoted special at tention to Amer can constitutional and legislative affairs.
 The ccntrol of the United States Senate after March 4 may hinge on the death of Senator R9yner. The , Republican whom it B expected Goldsborough will appoint in his place W Il hold office at least until 1 the Maryland' legislature meets in I January, 1914.
 Senator Rayner's death removes one cf the Democrats on whom the control of the Senate depended in the new Congress. With his vote the Democratic leaders counted on mus tering one more than majority of a tosaIl membership of 96. In any event. 4S votes, with the vote of the vice president, in case of te, was looked u'pon 2s sufficient strength to insure control.
 While the Democrats still have an apparent strength of AS. the death of | the Maryland senator reduces the supposed majority to a point very near the dividing Inc of party con- trol.