Theodore E. Burton

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio died tonight at 9:50. He did not emerge from the coma in which he had lain since 2 P. M. yesterday. At 9:45 his night nurse noted that Senator Burton’s temperature was, rising and his pulse, until then strong and regular, had become irregular. William Nelson, the Senator's chauffeur and faithful friend, was sent from the seventh-floor apartment to the lobby to summon by telephone Dr. Robert W. Baker, the Senator’s physician. Nelson telephoned to Dr. Baker and rushed back upstairs. When he arrived in the Senator's bedroom Miss Grace Burton was at the bedside with the night nurse. Senator Burton’s heart beats were then barely distinguishable and in a few moments the end came. Earlier in the day Senator Burton's physician said Mr. Burton might live for another twenty-four hours, although he had not once emerged from the unconsciousness into which he lapsed at 2 P. M. yesterday after a sinking spell from which it was feared he might not rally. Opiates had been administered periodically during the day to relieve possible suffering and afford the exhausted body of the Senator as much rest as possible. The body of Senator Burton will lie before the rostrum of the United States Senate chamber Wednesday morning during a brief service to be presided over by the chaplains of the House and Senate, according to tentative arrangements made at a late hour tonight. The Rev. Z. B. Phillips, chaplain of the Senate; the Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the House, and Dr. Jason N. Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, where President Coolidge worshipped and which Mr. Burton attended, will conduct the services in the Senate. One Senator and one member of the House will deliver brief eulogies. Senator Simeon W. Fess of Ohio, who talked over funeral arrangements with Miss Grace Burton, niece of the Senator, late tonight, probably will speak for the Senate. Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Ohio may speak for the House. The body will be taken to Cleveland for the principal service on Thursday at the First Congregational Church, where the body probably will lie in state. City Manager W. R. Hopkins will be asked to take charge of the Cleveland arrangements. Vice President Curtis is expected to name sixteen Senators who will escort the body to Cleveland, leaving here Wednesday night. Senator James E. Waston [sic; should be “Watson”] of Indiana, Republican floor leader, and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, probably will head the escort. For forty-one years Theodore Elijah Burton served in Congress with distinction as a Representative or Senator from his native State of Ohio. His reputation was founded upon integrity, his work was marked by energy, and his ability was recognized by friend and foe alike. Senator Burton was a man of caution, who did not take a stand before be had studied all angles of the situation involved. He was a student of national and international affairs. When real action was essential, he was in the front row. He was elected to the Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses, appointed a member of the Debt Funding Commission by President Harding in 1922 and made chairman of the delegation from the United States to the Conference of International Traffic in Arms at Geneva in May and June, 1925. His last election was to the Senate for the unexpired term ending March 3, 1933. His majority was 572,747. Senator Burton was always a student, and in his boyhood days he took no part in play. Besides three books, “Financial Crisis,” “The Life of John Sherman” and “Corporations and the State," he has contributed a number of articles to many periodicals, notably a series of fifteen studies of politics and economic conditions in Australasia and the Far East. On his seventy-fifth birthday, Dec. 20, 1926, he was cheered by his friends in Congress and described by Representative Tilson, the Republican floor lead