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Thus last week did the Congressional Record tersely note the death of Representative Edward Everett Eslick, 60-year-old Democrat of Pulaski, Tenn. Representative Eslick was addressing the House in favor of the Patman bill to pay the Soldier Bonus in full with new currency. Not a hale man, he had worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried...
Next day the House passed the Patman Bonus bill (209-10-176). The B. E. F. turned its attention to the less friendly Senate. From their Anacostia camp tattered jobless veterans marched by thousands to the Capitol. They packed into the Senate galleries. They flopped down in corridors to nap. They swarmed over the wide Capitol steps. They sprawled on the grass. They packed the plaza. They sang and joked. By dusk there were close to 10,000 of them in & around the Capitol. Shortly after 8 p. m. their comrades in the Senate Chamber flashed out the news?...
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...suggested giving them Federal lands to till for a living. Commander Waters said they would "dig in for the winter" and stay "till hell freezes." Red agitators began to work within the ranks. Reports were heard that wives with children were on the march to join their husbands at Bonus City. Police officials hoped the B. E. F. would soon start to disintegrate. One general fear was that homeward-bound veterans, hungry, penniless, desperate, would form roving bands which would prey upon the countryside...
...best publicized act was saving the fire department's horses .from being killed for fox farm food when the department was motorized. Died. Edward Everett Eslick, 60, Congressman from the ;th Tennessee District; instantly, of heart disease while addressing the House in behalf of the Bonus; in Washington (see p. 15). Died. Rev. Dr. Caleb Rochfort Stetson. 61, twelfth rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Anglo-Catholic in his communion, Dr. Stetson was a foe of divorce, birth-control. He denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head...