Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-11

House of Representatives. NO sucn
services have been held there since
| the death of Representative Nelson w.
Dingley.
Funeral Arranged at Conference.
Plans for the funeral were made at a
conference held in the Speakers Office
| bv Speaker Clark and Representative
Underwood, Mann and Fitzgerald.
Resolutions adopted later by the House
invite the Senate and Senate commit
tee, the President and his cabinet, the
Vice President, justices of the Supreme
Court, members of the diplomatic
corps, the admiral of the navy and the
chief of staff of the army to attend the
ceremonies.
The body will be taken to Auburn,
n Y, in the custody of the sergeant
alarms and committee of the House.
which, in addition to the entire New
York state delegation. will include
Representatives Underwood, Mann.
Jones, Talbot. Cooper, Gillette, Bar
tholdt, Bartlett, Butler. Greene of
Massachusetts,, Hamilton, Mondeli,
Fordney, Murdoch, Gardner, Moore,
ktchin, Rainey, Dixon, Hull and
Hammond.
Senate Expresses Regret.
The Senate this afternoon adopted
resolutions expressing the regret of
that body upon the death of Repre-
sentative Serene Z. Payne of New
York. Immediately after Senator
Weeks of Massachusetts, had COM
pleted his address on system of re-
serve for the army, Senator OGorman
OF New York informed the Senate Of
fcially of the death of Mr.. Payne, and
presented the resolutions which were
adopted.
The Senate, as a further mark of re-
Spect, then adjourned, after having ac-
cepted the invitation of the House to at
tend the funeral service for Mr.. Payne
in the House chamber Sunday. The fol-
lowing committee was appointed to act
with a similar committee of the House
to make arrangements for the funeral:
Senators Root, OGorman, Clark of
Wyoming. MARITIME. Brandegee Ashurst,
Smith of Georgia, Nelson, Bankhead and
Lodge.
When death came Mr.. Payne was
alone. although an employe of the
apartments entered the room a moment
afterward. The New York represent
alive had telephoned to the hotel clerk
| that he was very ill and asked for a
| physician. DR.. Charles c. Marbury was
summoned, but Mr.. Payne died within a
| few minutes after telephoning. Efforts
| made by the physician to restore him
| to consciousness were unavaillng. A
| certificate from the coroner states-that
F.. death was due to arterial scleroSis and
| heart failure.
| Messages were Immediately sent to
| Representative Payne's friends. and
attempts were made to reach mem
| bers of his family. Jerry South, clerk
| of the House of Representatives, was
the first to reach the bedside after the
doctor had arrived. He undertook to
find William Payne, the congressman
son. but after a thorough search of the
city learned that he was in Auburn,
N. Y. Representative Mann of I'LL
nois, republican House leader and
longtime friend of Representative
| PAYNE, was also summoned. Owing to
the late hour it was found impossible to
reach others of the deceased represen-
| tative's associates, and the arrange
ments for further announcements were
left until today. Representative James
| S. Parker of New York called at the
hotel early in the morning.
No Indication of Illness.
| The death of the veteran political
leader was very sudden. There had
been no indication to his friends that
he was not in his usual health He
had stayed on the floor of the House
until adjournment yesterday and had
taken an unusual interest in the de-
bate on the District appropriation bill,
and had made a few remarks himself
touching the school system. Return
ing to the Portland, he ate Il hearty
dinner in the public dining room and
talked with friends. No one had an
intimation of the approaching fatality
until the clerk of the hotel received
Mr.. Payne's telephone message, ask
ing for physician.
The death of Representative Payne
removes from the House one of the
few members with a national reputa-
ton. He was just completing his
fifteenth term. third of century of
service in Congress. He was first
elected to the Forty eighth Congress.
which assembled in 1888, and has been
a member of each succeeding Con-
gress. He was defeated for election
| in the Fiftieth Congress. but later
served in it to I'LL unexpired term
because of the death of Representative
Newton W. Nuttng.
He ranked with the "old guard" and
as a tariff expert with high protection
| views he was famous. Long service
on the ways and means committee gave
him opportunity to view and re-
tain the greatest possible number of
tariff facts and the results of various
tariff laws. The Payne-Aldrich tariff
law. in large part the work of Serene
Payne. was the storm center of the
politics of the country in the three
most recent national elections. The
Payne-Aldrich tariff is looked on by