Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-30
MANY SENATORS
HAVE Died
RECENTLY
THIRTY.FGUR IN 20 YEARS
In That Brief Period One.
Third Of Body Died

Washington, Nov. 29.-The death
rate among members of the United
States senate during the lasts twelve
years has been a little short Of appall
ing. The passing away recently of
Senator Rayner runs the death list up
to "a in that period, which shows that
more than one-third of the total men,
bership of the upper branch of con-
gress has passed away. These figures
do not include the members who died
after retiring from the senate, but on
ly the men who succumbed while in
harness. The present membership of
the senate is 90.
The death roll includes some of the
strongest characters and most promi-
nent statesmen of the present genera
| tiCn.
Senator Rayner's death is the fifth,
counting Vice President Sherman,
among the members of the upper
chamber in the last eight months and
during the present session Of congress.
Senator Robert L. Taylor, of Tennes-
see, died last spring after term of
four years; Senator George S. Nixon,
of Nevada, who was elected in 1905,
was stricken down last summer, and
only a month ago Senator William B.
| Hepburn, of Idaho, who had served
since 1903, passed away after few
months of illness.
The fatality among Maryland MEM
| bers has also been striking. Senator
Rayner is the third Marylander to die
in harness. during the last five years.
Senator Arthur Pue German and Sena-
tor William Pinckney White, both of
whom had served in the upper cham
Der with him, yielded to the fearful
strain and arduous labors which are
now part of the life of senator.
In the last dozen years such power
full figures as Marcus A. Hanna, of
Ohio; John w Daniel, of Virginia;
Redfield Proctor, of Vermont; Stephen
B. Elkins, of West Virginia; William
P. Frye, of Maine; John 7. Morgan and
Edmund w. Pettus, of Alabama;
George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts,;
Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota; Mat
thew Stanley Quay, of Pennsylvania,
and ]. P. Dolliver, of Iowa, have disap-
peared
The Senators who died in the last IL
years are as follows, in the chronol-
ogical order of their deaths:
John H. Gear, of Iowa.
Cushman X. Davis, of Minnesota.
]. H. Pyle, of South Dakota.
William ]. Stewell, of New Jersey.
James Mcmillan, of Michigan.
Marcus A Hanna, of Ohio.
Matthew Stanley Quay, of Pennsyl-
vania.
George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts,.
William B. Bate, of Tennessee.
Orville H. Plat, of Connecticut.
John H. Mitchell, of Oregon.
Arthur Pue German, of Maryland
Russell A. Alger, of Michigan.
| John T. Morgan, of Alabama.
Edmund w. Pettus, of Alabama
! S. r. Mallory, of Florida.
A. C. Latimer, of South Carolina.
Redfield Proctor, of Vermont
William Pinckney White, of Mary
land.
William James Bryan, of Florida.
William B. Allison, of Iowa
Martin n Johnson of North Dako-
Ia. tD u = Il
A. ]. McLaurin, of Mississippi
S. D. McEnery, of Louisiana.
John W. Daniel, of Virginia.
Jonathan P. Dolliver, of Iowa.
A. S. Clay, of Georgia.
Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia
c. J. Hughes, Jr, of Colorado
William P Frye, of Maine.
Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee.
George S. Nixon, of Nevada.
William B. Hepburn, of Idaho.
Isidor Rayner, of Maryland.