The Washington herald., 1920-06-13
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Of medium height, slender and wiry, and
within the last few years his hair, mustache
and small chinbeard have turned white.
When the Senate was on the point Of
voting on q declaration Of war with Ger
many, delegation Of paci6sts from Massa:
chusetts came to Warrington to urge Con-
Eress against that move. One of them had
IN argument on the subject with Lodge and
became so angry that he called the senator
a coward. whereupon the aged but still
athletic legislator pasted him one" In the
eye.
Nowadays one does not hear much Of
that old fashioned senatorial dignity"
but It has not gone out Of style altogether.
One finds a beautiful example Of 1t In Le
Baron Bradford Colt, Of Bristol, r. I.
Always faultlessly dressed, clean shaved and
pink skinned, with q physiognomy like that
Of an ideal statesman.
Judge Colt people call him. because
many years Of his Life were spent on the
bench. Born at Dedham, Mass, he will
enter his seventy fifth year June 26 next.
he was graduated from Yale in 1888, went
through the Columbia Law School and then
spent q year In doing what used In former
days to be called the grand tour" Of
Europe.
After practicing law for a while in Chi
cago, he went to live In Bristol and resumed
the pursuit of his chosen profession in Prov
idence. He is three LII. D.'s-Columbia,
Yale and Brown. In 1881 President Gar
field appointed him district judge for Rhode
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circuit judge for the first judicial circuit.
The reputation he made In his judicial ca
pacity was of the highest.
He held the job Of circuit Judge until
seven years ago, when he was elected to the
Senate. Since then he has devoted his time
to legislation and trout fishing, the latter
being his favorite hobby and amusement.
Find a fisherman and you find a good fell
low" he says, and adds that he never knew
an angler who was not decent man.
L wants more than anything else is action by
Congress that will encourage the establish
ment and maintenance Of an American mer-
chant marine But, while hard at work in
Washington, every spring finds him looking
forward eagerly to his summer vacation
which he spends at a camp Of his own nes'
Mount Katahdin, in Maine. That region
has many so called mountains, but its only
big and real one is Katahdin, which Is al
most in the exact center Of the state.
There, in the good old summertime, Judge
Colt fishes for trout, and, while enjoying the
recreation, accumulates store OF health
for the coming year.
Francis Emroy Warren IL General Per-
sbins's father in law, which ought to be
enough glory for any ordinary man. BIT
Senator Warren is rather an extraordinary
parsonage. Having begun life as poor
boy- he is now q multimillionaire ano the
owner of immense Wyoming ranches, on
which browse great herds of cattle and in
Vulnerable sneep. Foreign celebrities visit
ing this country usually 60 to look at those
wonderful stock farms as part OF the busi-
ness of seeing America"
Warren will be seventy six years old on
the Goth of next June. He was born in
Hinsdale, Mass, and when only seventeen
wears of age enlisted in the Forty ninth
Massachusetts, Infantry. He was promoted
to the rank Of corporal and received a medal