The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-30

with kindness and Willingness TO
help.
Ranking next in importance in pub
lie life to Senator Stone was Senator
Francis G. Newlands of Nevada. who
died on Christmas eve, 1917, after an
illness of only few minutes. Senator
Newlansd had been active in national
affairs for many years. Always a
democrat and admittedly regular
there was no more independent think
er in the senate. He was staunch
supporter of the presidents policies In
the main, but never for moment did
he relinquish his independence Of
thought.
Died With Untarnished Record.
Senator Newland's most important
committee, craftsmanship acquired
with the incoming of democratic
senate In 1913, was that on interstate
commerce He died at the pinnacle
Of his public importance with record
untarnished from the hour of his en-
try into congress In 1898 as represen-
tatiye from Nevada to the time of his
death.
One OF the most tragic deaths In the
seven in the present senate was that
of Senator Paul o. Husting Of Wis
consin, who was shot while duck
hunting In the river bottoms Of his
home state last autumn. The sena-
tors own brother fired the charge Of
buck shot which penetrated his
lungs.
| Mr.. Husting had been the faithful
friend of the president, though COM
ing from state then under suspicion
OF being hotbed Of paciflsm and pro-
German anti war sentiment, but since
redeemed In the brilliant campaign
waged by Irvine L. Lenroot, a. repub-
!, lican and loyalist. Senator Hust-
ing's record for loyalty was a shining
feature of his life.
In the passing of Senator William
Hughes Of New Jersey the president
lost his most congenial friend in the
senate Beloved Billy Hughes" was
the gentle humorist toward whom the
president turned when he wanted re-
Taxation.
BY trade q silk weaver and an earn
est, honest labor leader In the mills OF
Passaic county, Mr.. Hughes clambered
out of obscurity into the house of rep
resentatives and then into the United
States senate with a fine record as a
hard working statesman who spoke
with authority and with the force of a
sledge hammer When the democrats
won the house of representatives In
1910 Mr. Hughes was chosen by the
caucus to an important place on the
ways and means committee, the most
powerful committee of the house.
Two years later he won his way to
the senate in the same election which
sent President Wilson to the White
House. There he was at once made n
member of the committee on finance,
where he participated in the drafting
of the Underwood Simmons tariff law
and other important financial legsla-
ton.
Senator James A. Brady of Idaho,
who died after protracted illness
last winter was the recognized apos-
tie Of woman suffrage in the senate.
He worked increasingly in the inter-
est Of his home state and of the in
tramountain region with its numerous
problems of timber and mineral and
water power conservation. He was a
good representative of the Rocky
mountain business man.
Senator Harry Lane of Oregon was
the first Of the members of the 65th
congress to die. He had been one of
the "Wilful Twelve He was a pro-
nounced pacifst and an equally earn
est democrat. AS the colleague of
the more conspicuous Senator Cham
berlain, with only a record Of two
years in the senate back of him, he
had impressed himself but little up
on the senate.
Seven deaths in year have brought
about changes in the senate which are
fraught with grave importance to the
country now. The successor of Sem
ator Stone on the foreign relations
committee is Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska. Senator Stones death also
opens the way for the democrats to
fill a vacancy of high importance in
the finance committee. Senator
Hughes also left vacant seat there,
and with the next meeting of the
democratic committee on committees
both these important billets must be
filled.
The death of Senator Brady made
an opportunity for the republican eau
Gus to fill three seats of high influence
in committees also, most Importance
being attached to that in the military
committee, for which Hiram Johnson
of California will be chosen. For
vacancy in the committee on public
lands Lenroot of Wisconsin is slated
In addition there Is vacancy on the
committee on agriculture which Is
highly coveted.