Senator Voorhees Death

ín the deach of Senator Daniel W. Voorliees, " l'he tall sycamore of the Wabash," as he was admiringly called by hisolleagues, ihe coun ry lo-es one of its ablest statesmen and the Democratie party one of its lrightest leaders. Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was born Sept 26, 1827, in Liberty township, Butler county, Ohio, but in his infancy his parents removed to their pioneer home in the Wabash valley, in the Iloosier state Young Voorhees. after a course in the primitive public schools of Indiana, eñtered the Indiana Asbury university now De Pauw), graduating at the age )f 22. He began the stndy of law and it the age of 24 was admitted to the mr. In 1858 he was appointed United States district attorney for Indiana, ïolding that ofiice until he entered con;ress, in 1861. He was re-elected to the ;hirty-seventh, thirty-eighth, thirtyïinth, forty-first and forty-second conjresses, but was defeated for re-election ;o the forty-third by reason of the ïomination of Horace Greeley for presilent by the democrats that year. He was next appointed United States senator to iill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver P. Morton, and took lis seat in the senate ]STov. 12, 1877. He was immediately assigned to the committee on finance, as his leacling committee and was a member of that committee until his retirement from the senate on March 3, 1897. Shortly after entering the senate Mr. Voorhees made a memorable address to the senate in favor of free coinage of silver and the preservation of the greenback currency as a full legal tender money. In this speech he laid down the principies as a direct issue, upon which the democratie party carried the state of Indiana, in 1878, by over 20,000 majority in the election of members to the legislature. This legislature returned him to the senate by 23 majority in joint ballot over Benjamin Ilarrison, afterward elected president. Senator Voorhees has jnst closed a career in the senate which extended over a continous priod of tvyenty years and was replete with illustrious service to the cause of the common people.