HOLD SERVICES ON TUESDAY
MANY EXPECTED TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF ROGER Q. MILLS

HOST OF FRIENDS
MANY SEND MESSAGES OF CONDOLENCE TO FAMILY AT CORSICANA

TRIBUTE OF DALLASITES
Prominent Citizens Who Knew Former Senator Mills Tell of His Life and His Brilliant Career.

Special to The Times Heald.

Corsicana Tex., Sept. 2. -- The funeral of former United States Senator Roger Quarles Mills, who died Saturday morning, will take place next Tuesday if it is possible for relatives including Mrs. C. H. Mills, a daughter-in-law, to reach here by that time from New York.

Hundreds of people called at the Mills home today to extend their sympathy to the family of Senator mills, and a shadow of gloom has been cast over the entire city by the death of this famous Texan.  Senator Mills' death was not entirely unexpected as he had been suffering from Bright's disease and hardening of the arteries for many months.

In May of this year Colonel Mills went to Canada in the hope that a change of climate would be beneficial.  He returned home less than one month ago and gradually grew worse until he collapsed following an attack of apoplexy yesterday, and was unconscious until death came this morning.

Of Colonel Mills' family who survive him there are: Major Charles H. Mills, a son; Mrs. Richards and Mrs. J. D. Wood, a daughter.  Mrs. Richards is now in Europe and it is impossible for her to attend the funeral.  Mrs. Woods and Major Mills were at their fathers bedside when he died.  Mrs. C. H. Mills has been in New York, having been called there by the serious illness of her own father.

It is expected that the funeral of Senator Mills Tuesday will be the most largely attended by prominent Texans than any that has taken place in Navarro county.  Colonel Mills' body will be interred beside that of his wife in the cemetery here.

Already scores of telegrams of condolence have been received from prominent citizens and friends in all parts of the country.

TRIBUTES OF OLD FRIENDS
EX-SENATOR CHILTON AND OTHERS TALK OF CAREER OF ROGER Q. MILLS

News of the death of former United States Senator Roger Q. Mills, which occurred yesterday at Corsicana and which was told of in The Times Herald, was received with a great deal of regret in Dallas.  The former statesman had many warm personal and political friends in Dallas, some of them who followed the political fortunes of Mr. Mills immediately following the Civil War and who regarded him as one of the really great statesmen of Texas.  Expressions of regret, however, were not confined to the elder friends of the deceased, but many who knew his record only from what has been written and said about him, joined in expressions of sorrow.

Ex- Senator Chilton's Tribute

Former United States Senator Horace Chilton of Dallas, was a member of the senate in 1899 when Senator Mills retired from the senate.  In speaking yesterday of his former colleague, Senator Chilton said:

"I have long regarded Roger Q. Mills as belonging to the highet class of American statesmen.  When the Republican domination was being lifted from Texas, from 1872 to 1877, the best men in the state were called to active duty.  Then men sent to congress constituted a body of talent and leadership which has never been surpassed in the history of any one state at any period in the national life.  The roll was made up of such men as Hancock, Throckmorton, Herndon, Sleicher, Giddings, Culberson, Reagan, McLean, Willie, Mills, Maxey and Coke.

"Colonel Mills entered the house in 1873, and served in that chamber and in the senate for twenty-six years, without a break.  He made himself a master of economic questions, and stood in the front, with Wm. R. Morrison and John G. Carlisle in the earlier battles for tariff reform which opened up immediately after the settlement of the sectional issues which had afflicted the Southern states.

"When he left the senate in 1890, I was a member of that body and this was the dominant thought which occurred to me in connection with his return to private life:  Here is a man who has preserved the simplicity of his private life, his fondness for Texas, his sympathy with the Democratic masses during a quarter of a century passed a midst the temptations and magnificence of a great capital city.  No lobbyist can lay his finger on him to call for a return of favors.  No corporation owes him anything for special services rendered.  After twenty-six years of beneficial service he is the same free and uncorrupted man that he was on the day he first entered congress.  Such a record is not to be lightly scanned.  It is to be pondered, it is to be preserved; it is to be commemorated as long as truth and integrity deserve to command the veneration of ourselves, our children and our grand-children.

General Davidson's Tribute

Former Attorney General R. V. Davidson, who was very much grieved on hearing of Senator Mills' death, said: "While I did not have the honor and pleasure of an intimate association with Senator Mills, yet I have known him for many years.  I knew him when he was a member of congress, and afterwards as a senator from Texas.  He was a man above reproach, and without suspicion.  As a public servant he was always a friend of the people, and his every effort was to relieve them from tax burdens, and from extortion and governmental oppression.  No man in the last fifty years did more for them than Senator Mills.  He was a leader in congress and in the senate, and was honored by his colleagues in many ways and how well and ably he discharged his duty as chairman of the committee on ways and means is a part of the history of our country.

"He was not a man who changed his views with every passing political cloud, or arranged them to catch popular approval, or to get or hold a public office.  The principals and policies he advocated and stood for when in congress and in the senate, are at last to be put in force by his party.  His personal and official life are worthy of emulation by the young men of our state."

Former Neighbor Pays Respect

Hon. Bryan T. Barry, resided at Corsicana for many years, and was intimately acquainted with Senator Mills, said: "I am pained to hear of Col. Mills' death.  I was born and raised in the county of his residence and have known him all my life, and the first political speech I ever heard was made by him during the trying times of reconstruction just after the Civil War.  For many years I followed him closely in matters political, and he was always my ideal of the brave, brilliant and wise statesman.  And all his political life was free from any taint whatever.  He had pointed views upon every question of his time, and always the nerve to stand for them and he was outspoken and forceful that he encountered much opposition which he generally overcame by his own force and genius.  He was the best grouped public man I ever knew in pure Democracy.  He believed the people competent to govern themselves and always favored trusting them and took no stock at all in the idea that they should be protected by others who assumed superior wisdom in governing and taking care of them.  That basic idea of government run through all his political utterances and no man in his day presented them more forceful or eloquently."

Commissioner Nelm's Tribute

"It was with deep regret that I read of the death of Roger Q. Mills this afternoon," said Water Commissioner Richard R. Nelms yesterday.  "He was a type of public man worthy of great admiration.  I have known the former senator for thirty years or more, I suppose.  He was a friend of the family and in that way I got to know him well.  In private as in public life, he was a man whom one could not help respecting and admiring."

Caroline Mills - Oct 28, 1897

MRS. MILLS ID DEAD.

Wife of Former United States Senator from Texas Dies at Corsicana

Mrs. Roger Q. Mills, wife of the former United States Senator, died this morning at 2 o'clock, surrounded by the members of her family. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
In her time Mrs. Mills was one of the best known women in Texas. She manifested great interest in all her distinguished husband's affairs, and had a wide acquaintance both here and at the National Capital.
Mrs. Mills had been married nearly half a century-forty-nine years, to be exact-she having become the wife of Hon. Roger Q. Mills on Jan. 7, 1858. She was Miss Caroline R. Jones, daughter of Henry Jones of Navarro County. Three children survive her-Charles H. Mills and Mrs. Woods of Corsicana and Mrs. Richards of Washington, all of whom were with her when the end came.
Her health had been bad for many months. Some time since she was taken to Washington, D. C., for treatment in a sanitarium there, but this failing to prove efficacious, she was brought back to Corsicana a short time ago.

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