Tall Sycamore Fallen

Washington, April 12.- Daniel Wolsey Voorhees. whose death occurred in this city last Saturday. had been ill for some time, and with a disease that alwaya carries off those upo,, whom it once fixes- itself- angina pectoris. He was 76 years of age last September, and prior to his retirement from public life on March 4 last had been for many years one of the most' picturesque figures in the senate. He was born in Liberty township, Butler county, O., and in his early infancy was earried. by his parents to their pioneer home in the Wabash valley, Indiana. In 1849 he was graduated from the Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) university, and began the practice of law in 1861. His flrst public office was entered upon in 1S58, since which time he had been almost continuously in the public service. That office was United States district attorney for Indiana. His congressional cs,reer began in 1861, and he went to the senate in 1877 by appointment, to tul the vacancy caused by the death oí Oliver P. Morton, and because of his long experience in the house was assigned immediately to the finance eommittee. a very unusual honor in the case of a new senator. Senator Voorhees was latterly one of the ardent admirers and supporters oí the United States greenback, and beginning his senatorial service with a most eloquent speech in favor of thepreservation of the full legal tender quality to this money he never abated at any time his earnest advocacy of the greenback. In appearance Senator Voorhees waa one of the most striking figures in the senate. He was familiarly known as "The Tall Sycamore of the Wabash," by reason of his large and magnificently proportioned figure. As an orator he had few peers, commanding a magnificent vocabulary and imtuüng his utterances with a degree of earnestness and feeling that strangely influenced his auditors. His legal reputation, in fact, wa3 based largely on nis rorensic powers. and it is an undoubted fact that succes3 attended his efforts in many cases commonly regarded as almost hopeless, ow. ing to his ability to sivay the jury by the magnetic qualities of his address.