Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-06-15

q home dedicated to high thinking
and plain living. The public schools &
laid the foundations Of his education;
he then went to Colgate university
and to Brown university, and at each
institution fraternized with the more
serious purRosed and most intellec-
tual men, winning academic honors AS:
he went along, and leaving behind a
record cerditable to his teachers, his
friends and himself.
Admitted to Bar III 1894
At the Columbia university lawF
school he won his bachelor OF law
degree, and the same year, 1884, he
was admitted TO the bar. Slmultan-
eously he held the prize fellowship of
1.-THE Columbia law school. proof Of
his attainemnts; and later he taught
law at Columbia, at Cornell, and at.
the New York law school, Incidents
I In a career that put him In the class
with the scholar in politics. Z For
1.-The stamp of the thinker and teacher
| Is upon him as surely as 1t lis ON
| Woodrow Wilson. K Yst ithal he NJ EsssS
a successful practitioner at the bar,
Learning much oil technic while in the
Office OF Stewart i. Woodford, where
i he soon made his mark for astute-
ness, thoroughness, and tenacity, ass
well as for his knowledge of the law
land his cases, 3
Gas Inquiry Opens New Era.
| The call to new career and q new
8tera In life came when Mr. Hughes
/ was chosen as special counsel in the
! service of the legislature set to in-
quire into the management OF the
icorporations selling gas and electric
Iity in New York city. The repilta-
tion he then made was slight and cir:a
lcumstances compared with what came
1 after; but 1t showed what he couIds
4 be counted upon to do, once he be-
came legal sleuth on the trail OF
extortioners and Iawbreakers. So,
when in 1905, the same year, internal
Idfssentions within the Equitable Life
i Assurance society came to the snr.
Iface, and recriminations between nigh
oMcials disclosed the methods by
which that great corporation hads
been managed and Its policyholders'
assets spent, 1T was not at alp si1r-
Iprising that the state Of New YORK.
1Idrlyen to probing OF the scandal,
4 In a company which. It nominally sus-
perYised and stood sponsor FOR
sought out this lawyer and made him
Especial counsel for the Armstrong
committee, named by the Legislatures
TO investigate all phases of adminis-
i tration Of the metropolitan insurance
companies, Nor did 1t regret It's
choice,
inquiry Makes Him National Finur@
hughes ca pacity to sweep into view
g maximum supply of evidence Il,
i DurroW beneath the nominal ana eef
| al the actual, to deal with data a fhe
most technical kind, to coordinate.
seemingly irrelevant facts, to meme.
trate TO the inner motives Of witnass.
es ana force from them Confessions
" iIaWDreaking, and to press relent-
.essly on day after day without seem.
ing PHYSICAL OF mental fatigue, made
| 9, p,gIound impression upon tlIes city /
oI New York and the countuys al
s iaig mere was a certain elemental
Leientlessness IN the way in whinfsi
ne exposed the high financiers and
.ns pohtlclans that made him SYM
not only the Equitable hut ntha,.5
leading life insurance companies a.
the metropolis He at once became
a national figure, and never has ceas-
ed 70 be one since. 81 5
Frames Correcting Statutes.
For when the Armstrong committee
made It's report, with constructive
Recommendation to prevent policy
holders In the future and really to
give the state effective control OF In a
surance companies and an honestly
conducted insurance department. ft i
was TO MI. Hughes that the task OF