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...week's service the House, taken somewhat unaware, was reasonably full. Two speeches were delivered, one by jovial, wavy-haired Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield...
Minority Leader Garrett then spoke briefly of the "perfect democracy" of the House and "the democracy of death...
...minority leader Mr. Garrett is young, comparatively. Of his 53 years, 24 have been spent in the House, in laborious ascent through his party organization. A tall stooping man with hollow eyes, a face almost cadaverous, a melancholy voice, he is a devoted lover of the past...
...leading his party against the G. O. P., Mr. Garrett exhibited a delicacy of manner, a restraint of language that caused his more bellicose followers to ask if he were "pulling his punches" (gentling). His attack was on broad principles. He never ridiculed the White House, never called the President names. Small wonder that the many potent Republicans who recommended his appointment to a $12,500 job found the President responsive...
...from the White House to the Senate with Mr. Garrett's went two other names that caused much less elation. One was Irvine Luther Lenroot, onetime (1918-27) Wisconsin Senator, to sit also on the Customs Appeals bench; the other, Henry H. Classic, Maryland Democrat and once a very much abused U. S. Tariff Commissioner, to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...