The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-18

ROCHESIER, Mlnn., May IS (Dy Associated Press) )-Franklin K Lane died here this morning after an at operated on May for gall stones and appendicitis and was said to be re- covering when heart disease devel- oped
 The end came suddenly, with Mrs. Lane and his brother, George Lane at his bedside.
 George Lane said this morning that his brother left no estate whatever The body will be taken to Chicago tonight.
 It was often said of Franklin K Lane that if he had been born in the United States instead of Canada, he would have been presidential timber. After serving seven years in Presi- dent Wilson's cabinet as secretary of the interior, he resigned his $12,- o00-a-year post in expensive Wash ington early in 1920 Gin justice to his family" to become vice president and legal adviser of the Mexican petrol cum companies controlled by Ed ward l.. Doheny
 Born near Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, July 15, 1864, the son of Canadian doctor who removed to California during the boys childhood, young Lane was educated at the University of California from which he graduated in 1886. By reason of his scholastic achievements the hon. orary degree of ILL. D. was conferred upon him some years later by his Brown universities and the University of North Carolina.
 Upon leaving college he engaged in newspaper work, becoming part owner and editor of the Tacoma, Wash, Daily News. In 1889 he was admitted to the bar of California and from 1897 until 1902 served as cor operation counsel of San Francisco. In the latter year he was the Demo- cratic candidate for governor of Cali. fornia but was not elected. He re. ceived the party vote of the state legislature in 1903 for United States senator. Appointed a member of the interstate commerce commission by President Roosevelt in 1905, later becoming chairman. MT. Lane was serving in that capacity when he was made secretary of the interior
 During his service on the inter- state commerce commission he earned the reputation of being progressive. His decisions in the railway cases were said to have been almost in- variably pleasing to men of advanced ideas. He favored for years a na- tional corporation commission simi- lar to the interstate commerce con- mission with power to regulate all business enterprises engaged in in. terstate commerce as the most ef- fective remedy for trust evils. He also advocated commission form of government for Alaska. He was elected member of the permanent international railway commission, or ganized in 1910 at the international railway congress in Berne, Switzer- land.
 In 1916 Mir. Lane headed the Ameri- can delegates at a joint conference with high commissioners from Mexico as result of which a protocol was signed at Atlantic City and United States troops were withdrawn from that country.
 When the United States entered the war in 1917, Secretary Lane in a number of public speeches outlined the country's purposes and urged business men to show sacrifices as worthy as those men on their way to the trenches" In numerous address. es in behalf of the liberty loans he declared the defeat of the United Sta tes was "unthinkable" and that the government was determined to see tha war fought to finish. When