Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

nets of Mckinley and Roosevelt and
resigned from the Senate so that he
might be Secretary of State during
President Tafts administration, which
office he held from March 4, 1909, UNI
til March 5, 1913.
AT the age of forty-eight, after
practicing law in Pittsburgh for TWEEN
ty-six years. Senator Knox was a
wealthy man. His share OF the net
revenues of his law firm. during the
last twelve months of his practice,
was $4,000. While he was student
liam Mckinley was prosecuting at
torney of the same county and occa-
sionaiiy attended the debates of the
society of which Mr.. Knox was a
member.
Pittsburgh is not a great distance
from Canton, the home of Mr.. Nc
Kinley, and the acquaintance. OPEN
the years that followed. Becoming
Attorney General in McKinley's cabi-
net with reluctance that yielded to
persuasion, Mr.. Knox entirely with
drew from business and gave himself
wholly to the work Of the govern
ment. IT,
In his youth. he learned to set type
and at bank in Brownsville. his ma
tive town, he mastered all the details
Of accounting. 1t was at the bank. he
has told the writer, that he was
taught how to meet business men and
was shown why notes and drafts go
to protest and how to prepare COM
mercial papers. He believes that he
could earn his living now in print
ing office and that he could keep the
books of bank or factory
At the bank he was paid $5S.33
month. The 5000 he saved during the
year that he was SO employed met
his expenses while he was studying
law He lived on less than dollar
a day. There were twelve children In
his fathers family and, although the
father was banker himself. money
was hard to get and economy was
fashionable and was practiced by rich
and poor. T.
Tangled as q brier patch and just as
prickly. John Sharp Williams, also OF
the committee on foreign relations,
lawyer and cotton planter. Is an
American always before he is demo-
crat. His education was given some
extra f1ourishes at Heidelberg ana
then he read law at Memphis. He
would have practiced in that city but
1000 deaths from yellow fever IN is- -S
and 10 900 cases of the disease In 1878
led me to believe" he said to the
writer. that young lawyer ought
to begin life somewhere else.
So he returned to Yazoo. Miss, the
old home of his mother, and ms
grandfather. dying. left John snarp
and his brother 10000 acres Of land.
some good. some poor and some mid
ding" Having read Seneca. Homer.
Gibbon. Hallam and the Spectator
also the Hebrew prophets and the
English poets, John sharp concludeo
to enter politics.
The populists nominated a Methodist
preacher against him. the frst time
he ran for Congress, away back IN
1892, and the two candidates. race 70
face. on the same platform. debated
all over the district, and the preacher,
outtalked, and. 1t might be said. out
prayed and outexhorted. was bad
second at the election that followed.
Mr.. Williams in his seven subsequent
campaigns for the House of Repre-
sentatives, had no opposition. either
for his nominations or elections. Mis-
stssippi sent him to the Senate in
1911. t..'
Other republican members on the
committee are william Edgar Borah
OF Idaho. Frank Bosworth Brandegee
OF Connecticut, Porter James Nc
Cumber of North Dakota and Albert
Bacon Fall of New Mexico. Borah is
fifty-thre Brandegee. fifty-four. Nc
Cumber sixty-two and Fall fifty
seven.
Rorah's father, affectionately
known among his neighbors In Ilti-
nois as "Uucle Billy. "egoing to the
Presbyterian Church on Sunday.
which was his habit, and finding the
minister absent, would take the pulpit
himself, open the Bible, find a suitable
text and extemporaneously preach
rafting good sermon.
In the Senate today William Edgar.
jr., Is counted among it's chief ora
tors. When he arrived in Boise he
had SIS. Fall. who had worked In
Nashville cotton factory at the age
of eleven for $12 month. paying all
but So of that sum for his lodgings
and board, and who had followed his
itinerant father around and helped
him teach school. was already located
in New Mexico.
There came q day when Senator Fall