Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-06
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GUSH.|N||.A||N DEAD.
Recently Operated on, Pneumo..
MA Followed, Causing II His
Death This Morning.
KNOWN AS HOUSE HUM0RIsT.
Never Displascsdl Ills Gift Of II''n'or
Il For Amusement butte Give More
Force to His Argument.

New York, July c. Francis W. C'usil-3
,nan representative in Congress from
Il Il. iona, WASH, died a I o'c clock this
H morning at Roosevelt hospital, from ON
nnrnmonia. At the bedside ut the time
,rere, besides the doctors and nurses.
I tinted states Senator Samuel Pile g i
+ Washington, and dreW s.. Burleis 81 ~
1 INA city, ii lifelong friend.
~ Gnnrressll,an @ ushman underwent an
1 ,soratio,,a n short time ago and pneu-
aonia resulted ,ys
4 senator Piles and Mr.. Burletgil VINO
Mad been with the patient almost con-
81 startly since his condition became Sc
,iS,,s,' said they would make arrange
,nents for the sending Of the body TO
Washington. III *
IA wa shington, July 6.---Nhilc Repre-.
sentative Cusllman possessed unchal-
ienged tho title of house humorls ST.
he was universally rcga rded as "a / more
Than that, (. His high abil ity3 was rec
agnized M Speaker5Ga Cannon in commit
fee appointments, particularly In his
\ SELECTION to fill u vacancy on the ways
and means commit tee al Ia; time When ~
great tariff bill was Ito be reported TO
tihe house for considerat ION. 5 II 81
one striking thing about Repre- enta-s
+ five Cuslinnn was that he @neNe "a rs
nlayed his gift Of humor to the house
& I'M its amusement, but always with a
view of 5impresslng' his view more TO rel
4 bly, upon that body. In8contrast with
hulnorsts who have pa ssed into MS
tory, his fame does not rest on a single
speech Ills maiden effort IN thc house
attracted 20 much attention to him that
eyer thereafter he gained a hearing as
soon as he arose. III Is style of5.ex-s
preston and his llomely ;appe q ra nee
had quite us much to do With the effegt$
? as humorous lema rks: 85 81 3s53g
HIS HUNGRY CONSTITUENTS.
one of his first speeches to attract
attention touched OIL the effects OF he F
panic OF 1893. IN descri bling the sili-&
poverished condition to which his corr
stituents were reduced ht. said they
were forced to live on clarns, washed
ashore BY the incoming tide. Their
stomacl,s;. he concluded, ~ rose and fell i
with the risingSand falling OF the tide. 'g
HE will probably be long emembered@
by reason Of the ectiNcness sof his
humor5 in the debates on the Payne
tariff bill in he house. Ills speech linz
defense Of retaining the duty on luni-&
Der secured several nd dit ional votes on
the schedule. Cushmaii's acqulescing5
10 u Eule &Ipt d. VOle; OIL NJ n
with reduced rates on Lumbar assured
its passage. Il In describing to the hous's
his feelingshe likene1 them to those tf
Il COW puncher, in Wyoming " hose .abil
ity to raise 1000 cattle in one summer
with one COW as a starter, caused
rope to be placed around his neck by Y
vigilance commit tee. ri ii. &s
They asked Bill What he had to
say explained Mr. Gushnal1.
cold Bill rolled his qlid into@tlei
other check and said: WE'LL gentle
men. 4 spose II got more interest. IN
this performances than any other CERT
present. but I am the least enthusiastic
over the program. = VEN, III
The Washington congressman WAS
said to have looked more like Lincnlili
than any other public man of5recen.,
years.
tIn summing up his career once.
he said he had bcer6a water boy, Sec,
ton hand, cowboy, school teacher law
Yer and con gressman. He was IN Con
giess for more than ~ years