Evening star., 1918-08-17
SENATOR GALLINGER
IS DEAD, AGED 81
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A dinner was given in his honor at
the Hotel Lafayette in celebration of
the eighty-frst anniversary of his
birth last March, and tributes were
paid him by men in public life of all
parties and from all parts Of the coun-
try.
Supported Every War Measure.
The war weighed heavily upon the
veteran senator. He supported every
war measure and did all in his power
to aid the interests of the United
States In the conduct of the war.
Senator Gallinger was always keenly
interested in upbuilding the Amer
lean merchant marine and was
chairman of the joint congressional
merchant marine commission in
1s04-5. He believed that the govern
ment should build up the merchant
marine through subsidies as has been
! done by foreign countries and offered
| bill for this purpose. He was vice
chairman of the national waterways
commission and a member Of the ma
tional forest reservation commission.
Always forceful in his public declara-
tfons. MIR. Gallinger created a sensation
by telling the Senate lobby committee
in 1918 that President Wilson has come
| ''perilously near lobbying in connection
| with the tariff bill: He declared that In
his four years in the House and twenty
two in the Senate he had never en-
countered improper influences nor lobby
methods. and that he had mo interests
outside Of little rocky farm In New
Hampshire" where he raises hay and
apples.
The senator made a long fight against
confirmation of George 8. Rublee OF New
Hampshire as a member Of the Federal
Trade Commission, which eventually re-
suited in Mr.. Rublee leaving the board
after serving without confirmation and
on recess appointments.
Senator Gallinger married In 1850
Mary Anna Bailey of Salisbury, N. h,
who died in Washington in 1907.
Firm Friend Of the District.
Senator Gallinser was q nrm friend
of the District Of Columbia and did
moro than any other member of Con.
gress to aid in the Development Of the
leo in the Senate. He was for many
fyears a member Of the Senate Districa
| committee, and was chairman of that
| committee when mucr of the impor-
| tant legislation for the, District was
enacted into law. -
should be made the most beautiful
city in the world. and that 1t should
be a model in sanitation and good
government for the rest OF the countrJ
and the world to copy. The new mu.
nicipal hospital here Is named in his
providing that 1t should be called the
Gallinger Hospital in tho Legislation
for its establishment.
Supported Half-and-Half Principle.
It was Senator .Gallinger's opinion
that the half-and-half principle OF
\ appropriating for the District of Co.
lumbia, whereby the federal govern.
ment pays one-half of the expenses
District pay the other half. was, JUS
and fair and that the development OF
Washington AZ a beautiful city large.
1 ly depended upon the continuance
Of this plan of appropriation. He
held that II the government tool
away its aid. or part Of II, the city
could not progress as It should. HI
was q member of the conferences com.
mittee of the two houses now dead.
locked over this matter In the Dis.
trict appropriation bill.
In addition to being republican
leader Of the Senate. Senator Gallingel
was q member of some Of the mos
important standing committees Of In,
Senate. among them appropriations
finance and rules
He was member Of the washing.
ton National Monument Society.
Senator Gallinger had been In II
health for some time. More than q
year ago he suffered q severe attach
Of illness, from which l1o never en-.
tirely recovered. However, he WA
faithful in his duties in the Senate
and was to be found at his post in thu
Senate chamber through the long ses.
sion which began last December an6
u -still continuing.