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After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...
Digression. Called to the stand was suave, genial Colonel John Haydock Carroll, an oldtime lobbyist who proved his professional competence by charming his investigators with stories, diverting their inquiry into amusing byways, by winning their praise for frankness. Lobbyist Carroll had been hired by the U. S. Sugar Association to go to Cuba, at $4,500 per month, to investigate rumors against President Machado which threatened U. S. intervention...
...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...
...late great John Pierpont Morgan once sat for his portrait. Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27, waiting for him. Mr. Steichen had been there for a half-hour studying lights and shades, posing the janitor of the building in the chair where Banker Morgan would sit. Briskly he shunted the sitter to his seat. Banker Morgan sat down, glared into the lens. Snap. One picture was taken...