The Irish standard., 1914-01-24
from the National Capitol
MORE HoNoRs FOR CATHOLIC
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
BY Stanton Lawton

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MORE HoNoRs FOR CATHOLIC
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.
# Honorable James M. Carley, who
the 18th District of Massa.
schusetts in the House of Representa-.
stives, and who was elected Mayor Of
Boston, on Tuesday, January 18th, for
q term of four years, has had a re-
markable public career. and is a good
example. that the way to the highest
position is open to all.
Mr.. Curley was born in Boston on
November 20, 1874, and his education
was obtained in the grammar school
and the evening high school, and after
wards he engaged in the real estate
and insurance business.
Showing a liking for politics, he be-
came very active, and was elected a
member of the Boston Common Coun.
Gil in 1900 and 1901; the Massachu.
sets House of Representatives, 1902
and 1903; and the Boston Board of
Aldermen, 1904 to 1911; was elected
to the 62nd and reelected to the 63rd
Congress.
Mr.. Curley is a member of the i'm.
portant House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, and is known as one of the
best debaters and extemporaneous
speakers in Congress. On behalf OF
the rationale al-German-American Ali,
ance of the United States of America,
Mr.. Curley presented bill which had
been ratified by thousands of mem
bers of the organization for the regu.
lation of the immigration Of aliens
and for the amendment of existing
laws, and his speech in the House of
Representatives in opposition to the
passage of the immigration bill, re-
quiring literacy test, was one of his
greatest efforts and was the main
cause for it's defeat.
Representative Curley, despite the
demands of his legislative duties,
found time to actively aid in keeping
alive interest in all that pertains to
the welfare of Irish organizations,
where his services as speaker were
constantly in demand. He has been
an active member of the A. o. H.
for nineteen years and is ever a well
come figure at national and state con-
ventions Of the order.
AS mayor of Boston, Mr.. Curley will
receive an annual salary of $4,000,
which is the same as that of the gov
ernor of Massachusetts.
He succeeds another Catholic, Hon
orable John F. Fitzgerald, as mayor.
Speaker Clark of the House of Rep
resentatives has announced the ap-
pointment of Representative Maurice
Connolly of Iowa as a member of the
board of regents of the Smithsonian
Institution at Washington. Mr.. Con-
molly takes the place made vacant
by the death of Representative Irwin
S. Pepper, of Iowa. Honorable Ed
ward D. White, Chief Justice of the
United States, is chancellor of the in
stitution.
Mr.. Connolly is one of the best edu-
Gated and learned men at the Cap
itol, being a graduate of Cornell Uni
versity with the degree of A. B. 1897;
received the degree of L. B. cum laude
at the New York Law School in 1898,
and was admitted at the age of 81
to the bar Of Iowa; took post-gradu-
ate course at Balliol College, Oxford
University, England, and at the Uni.
versity of Heidelberg, Germany.
Mr.. Connolly has been president OF
q college fraternity and the Iowa
State Association, and the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks.
He is an authority on College life
and customs, and has a wealth of rem
iniscences and amusing incidents ol
his progress through the lecture halls
laboratories and the campus at these
institutions of learning.
He has the distinction of being the
first democrat and the first native
born and youngest man to represent
the Monkey Wrench District" in the
( National Legislature.
~ Need Bible in Schools.
& Vice President Marshall in an ad
+ dress before a meeting under the au
{ spices of the Council of Church Boards
.of Education, delivered in Washington
1 last week, iauded the achievement
4 and aims of the UNCONVENTIONAL edu
cational institutions, and branded tn
4 common school system of the Unite'
I States as an organization with weak
4 ness, which he attributed to inabilit
g to include within its curriculum tn
/ teachings of the Bible.
"The weakness of the commo
Il school SYSTEM" the Vice Presiden
& added, "is the fact that it is not poss
Il BILE to teach in the public school
the Bible. 1t is impossible to teac
1t because the Inauguration of th
q Bible leads to UNCONVENTIONAL contr'
versies."
ut is generally believed" said M
Marshall. that the distress and III