New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-04-15
SENATOR Stone OF
MISSOURI EXPIRES
Death Seals Active Life Of 40
Years in Politics


of the committee of foreign re-
lations, died at his residence here at
4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He
had been critically i'll since Wednes-
day, when he suffered a cerebral
hem orrhage. A secondary attack at
S o'clock Sunday morning caused a
state Of coma. Senator Stone passed
away without regaining consciousness.
He was in his 10th year. having been
born May 7. 1848.
At the bedside when Senator Stone
died were his wife and his children.
Federal Judge Kim brough Stone of
Kansas City, Miss Mabel Stone and
Mrs John w. Parkinson Of ST. Jo-
seph, Mo-; a niece, Miss Margaret
Winston of st. Louis; the attending
physician. DR.. w. M. Sprigg, and a
nurse,
In addition to his widow and chill
Gren the senator is survived by six
grandchildren and several younger
stepbrothers and stepsisters. Judge
O. M. Spencer Of st. Joseph, general
counsel of the Burlington railway, is
q cousin.
At the Stone home when Mr.,
Stones death was announced by DR.
Sprigg were Senator and Mrs. Reed,
Representative J. w. Alexander Of
Missouri, Colonel J. William Zevely
of Muskogee, Okla, a close friend;
Colonel Charles p. Higgins Of st.
Louis, sergeant at arms Of the sem
ate; w. H. HOLSTER Of Jefferson City,
assistant secretary Of the democratic
national committee, and John J.
Cochran, secretary to Senator Stone.
They were joined later by Third AS
Dockery of Gallatin. Mo-. who was
form erly governor of Missouri, and
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Breckenridge Long Of st. Louis.
viii Be Buried in Missouri.
Funeral services will be held at the
Stone residence here this afternoon at
o'clock. The Rev. DR.. Horace J.
Prettyman, Chaplain Of the Senate
will officiate. The funeral party will
start for Missouri at o'clock this
evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad
train due to arrive in st. Louis at $50
o'clock Tuesday evening. The body
will be taken on a night train to JEFF
ferson City, where it will lie in state
in the corridor of the new Capitol
Wednesday forenoon. Wednesday af-
ternoon the body will be removed to
Nevada, Mo-, where the interment
pieces Of the Nevada Masonic Lodge.
Church services will be held in Ne
Vada.
Senator Reed and virtually all the
memb ers of the Missouri delegation
in the House of Representatives, rs
well as members of the family, will
accompany the body to Missouri.
Committees representing Senate and
House to attend the funeral will be
appointed by Vice President Marshall
and Speaker Clark tomorrow. A pc
culiar rule Of the House probably will
prevent Speaker Clark from going
with the funeral party. Under this
rule the Speaker may not absent
himself from the House during a ses-
sion of Congress for more than one
day, except in the case Of personal
illness. Only a House recess, not
likely at this time, would enable the
Speaker to accompany the body Of
his old friend and campaign manager
in thre memorable pre-conVention
Presidential contest Of 1912.
Senator Stone was entirely free Of
pain during his brief illness, his ply
stefan said last night. He was strick-
en- Wednesday on q street car while
on his way to the Capitol, shortly af-
ter he had left his daughter, Miss
Mabel Stcne. He was removed to his
home in an ambulance, after physi-
clans had discovered that paralysis
In Public Life As Years.
Senator William j. Stone was in
public life As years and during that
long period proba bly, engaged in as
many political contests as any man Of
his time, ranging all the way from
offices
the broadest national issues.
At the entry Of the United States
into the war, Senator Stone per-
formed the trying feat Of antagoniz-
ing his own party administration and
then re-aligning himself with it in
generally satisfactory manner. 1t
was in connection with the bill pro-
posing the arming of American mer-
chant ships that he took sharp issue
with President Wilson. He stood with
the dozen senators whose opposition
caused the failure of that measure at
the close Of the Gath congress, and
brought down the denunciation of the
president upon 1.-The wilful twelve.
While Senator Stone made no apollo
gies for his course on that occasion
he always contended it was in strict
line with his duty a senator be-
cause in accord with his convictions,
and as he believed, In protection of
| Americas interests
His opposition to the declaration
| Of war on Germany was also pro-
| nOunced, and he declined to take
| charge Of the war resolution as would
| have been expected of him as chair
| man of the committee on foreign re-
lations. He did not seek, however,
| to place obstacles in the way of
! consideration and transferred the
leadership to Senator Hitch cock, next
| ranking democratic member of the
| committee. His attitude on these