Arizona republican., 1916-03-15
SENATOR FROM l. INDIANA DIES
 IN WASHINGTON
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHINGTON, March 14-Ben- jamin F. Shively. senior senator from Indiana and for years prominent figure in congress, died late today at hospital here. He had been ill many months from a complication of diseases and for more than month has been unable to perform actively his official duties. He was 5S years old.
 During three terms in the house and the seven years he had been in the senate, Senator Shively had de- voted his activities particularly to foreign affairs and tariff legislation. At the time of his death he was rank l ing democratic member of the foreign | relations committee. of which he had 1 been acting chairman during the | critical period preceding and follow | ing the American occupation of Vera l Cruz
 In the house he had been regarded ! as tariff expert, sewing conspicuous ly on the ways and means committee and 1 later as a member of an important 1 sub committee of the senate finance ! committee, exerted powerful in- l fluence in the framing of the Under Wood Simmons tariff law.
 | The announcement of Mir Shively's S death was received with many mani festations of sorrow in both the
 senate and house Senator Kern his 1 colleague. in announcing it in the
 senate, said he was performing the
 saddest duty of his official life. Both l of regret were adopted committees l were appointed to attend the funeral and adjournment was taken as a
 further mark of respect.
 Senator Shively had suffered from diabetes for nearly 15 years and re- sulting cancerous growth in the throat l confined him to his bed February
 last He improved under treatment
 out was not able to attend the present session of congress except on the day he took the oath of office for his
 second term.
 | iiis C'1 uition became more criti cal last night but toWarl morning lc llallcd. To-day he fe-ed another relapse. ard Mrs. Shi .cly and a
 son and tsughter were .. the sic, | i'll be trFen to South Bend. Indil11 If r urIal
 1 Benjamin Franklin Shively, born o, a farm in St. Joseph county. Indiana , on March 20. 1857, the son of the Rev Joel Shively. a preacher farmer. hai been prominent in the political histOr!
 of that state since 1884. when he wa! first elected to congress. He wa: , sent to Washington then for the un expired term of Major William H Calkins who resigned to accept tht Republican nomination for governor He was reelected in 1885, 1888 anC | 1890. and declined to be a candidate in 1892
 When he left the house. after thes ; four terms Mir. Shively returned t. , the practice of law at South Bend r and became one of the leading laWyer
 of Indiana.
 The Democrats paid MT. Shively tn
 honor of giving him their party's com plimentary vote for United State
 senator in 1903 and again in 1905 an,
 elected him to the office on Januar, IA, 1909. He won over John Wortl l Kern, who later also became a United States senator. on the twentieth bal lot in the Democratic caucus. H Twas reelected in 1914. by the direc tvote of the people. the first senate
 to receive his election in this way il
 Indiana.
 During his early life Mir. Shivel. had seriously considered becoming
 carpenter but when he learned tha
 some of his chums were making $4
 a month as teachers, he decided t be an educator and entered the Nor
 thern Indiana Normal School.
 After he became member of cong
 ress he took up the study of law ant
 received his degree in that profession at the University of Michigan in 1886
 The newspaper profession at on
 time also almost won the senator. Al ter teaching school for five years, durini
 which time he saved some money, MI
 Shively invested his earnings in tn Era, country journal. For thre
 years he struggled along. setting type
 writing editorials, as well as news, ant
 hustling for advertising. He gave u
 the profession of journalism in 1888
 and devoted his time largely to polit ics. He was regarded as a strong am fighting leader and it was said of hir that he never conducted a defensiv
 campaign but was always aggressive Senator Shively, ever since he turne his back on the carpenter trade t l become school teacher. had take . deep interest in education and fo many years was a member of tn 9 board of trustees of Inliana Univer l sity. He was president of the boar l for several years.
 s In 1889, MT. Shively was married t s Miss Laura Jenks, daughter of Georg s A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania. who wa . Solicitor General in the first admins I tration of Grover Cleveland. He . survived by his widow and thre children. George Jenks, John Joel an