The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-10
DIRECTED FIGHT
 AGAINST LEAGUE
Led Contest With Wilson Over Ratification Of
 Versailles Treaty
SAT AS DELEGATE
 AT ARMS FARLEY
Presented Four-Power Treaty
 And Later Piloted It To t. Ratification
(By Associated Press)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 9.-Senator H enry Cal bot Lodge died at the Charles Gate hospital at 11:14 tonight. He suffered a stroke last We'd nesday
 Stricken at noon Wednesday, the senior senator from Massachusetts lin- gered for four and a half days, when the end came. During the latter part of the time he laid in a state of coma, but after nearly 16 hours of uncon- sciousness he aroused for time to take a little nourishment and recoE- nized persons in the room.
 The hope that revived for tine faded, however, as he lapsed again into inconsistencies and gradually became weaker. Never from the outset did his physicians offer encouragement in their bulletins. They did, however, comment upon the vitality that despite his "A years enabled him to live on for days when death was expected L-omentariiy. The illness that led to death was sim liar to that of President Wilson, the original complaint being similar and the stroke that brought on the end much the same.
 Undergoes Two Operations
 The senator had attended the repub- IicaI convention at Cleveland at which his former leadership of the state forces was divided between Speaker Gillette and Governor Cox, but within month suffered a condition that required an emergency operation July 27. Recovery WAS surprisingly good and three months later a second operation was performed. Again the senator's stamina stood hlm in good stead and he was out of bed October 23, three days after the opera tion.
 With the reopening of congress only three weeks ahead, Senator Lodge was planning to leave the hospital in few days and get ready to take his seat when the stroke came. It left him un- conscious and ill condition so critical that death was considered likely at any time.
 Senator Lodge had four years still to serve in the senate, where he had rep resented his state continuously for 3I years. His place will be be filled by appointment, Governor Cox having au- thority to name a successor until the next general election that will not take place until 1926.
 Long Service
 Henry Cabot Lodge had served con- tinuously in the United States senate since 1893, as republican leader since August, 1918, and was one of the most prominent members of his party for a generation.
 Statesman, publicist, author, lawyer and historian, Mir. Lodges manifold activities made wide impression on comtemporaneous events. Chief prom thence, perhaps, came to him as leader of the senate opposition to the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles during 1918, 1919 and 1920. As chair man of the Senate foreign relations committee and republican floor leader, he led the contest with former PresI- dent Wilson in the fight against ratific- ation. He was the author of the Lodge reservations" and was credited with a large part in mOlding the policy ot the Harding administration against Amer ican entrance into the league.
 He was born in leisure, but always worked. A principle laid down by him in early life was: ''The first thing for a man of leisure to do, if he really wishes to count in his day and generation, is to avoid being an amateur" Although he apparently had no intention of prac- ticing law, he worked hard and won q degree in that branch at Harvard, and then worked on a thesis on Anglo Saxon land laws, which won him his Ph. D. In the three years that followed he was lecturer at Harvard on Amer ican history, and at the age of 50 was Among the score of books be wrote Anon gthe score of books he wrote were biographies of Washington, Hamil- ton and Webster.
 Enters Legislature
 It was his theory that every man should give of his leisure, more or less, to politics; for it is simply good citizenship for him to do so," and among with the historical researches he became interested in contemporary politics. His public career began with election to the Massachusetts House of Represen- tatives in 1879.
 He was unsuccessful in his first at- tempt to go to Washington as q ma tional legislator. In 1882 he was cam didate for the republican nomination for congressman and the contest was so close that 130 ballots were required to decide the nomination of his op- ponent by the congressional convention. In 1886, however, he was nominated and elected to the national house of rep- resentatives, where he served six years before his election to the senate.
 Noted Orator
 His oratOry was distinguished by his practice of sketching in an historical background and his facility in quoting apt historical incidents. In an inter- view in 1922 summing up his career he said T have nothing to say about my opponents, for l have never made per- sonal or abusive attacks on anyone ops posed to me. It always seemed to mo that a man in public life stood more strongly if he stood on his own merits
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