The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-19
SECRETARY OF
INTERIOR DIES
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| $500
Mrs. Lane from the president and Mrs
Harding, former President Wilson
and scores of others high in nationa
and diplomatic life.
| Mr.. Wilson did not make public wha,
| he. had said to Mrs Lane OF the mar
| who stood by him in his cabinet fol
seven years. The blow fell more sharp
| ly at the home here of Mrs. Philip
C. Kaufman. his only daughter.
| To some of the former secretary's
most intimate friends here there had
come before his death a remarkable
message dictated by him in the hos
pital at Rochester, Mimi, after the
operation which preceded his death by
only few days.
The message showed that the for
mer secretary had undergone the OPP
Grafton with full consciousness and
acceptance of the fact that he might
not survive. 1t told in detail OF his
sensations before. during and after the
operation, of which he was fully con-
would not permit the use of a general
anesthetic.
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 $4,000 a
year post in. expensive Washington
early in 1920 "in justice to his family"
to become vice president and legal adj
wiser of the Mexican petroleum COM
panies controlled by Edward L. Do
heny.
Born near Charlottetown Prince Ed
ward island, July Is. 1864, the son of
Canadian doctor who removed to
California during the boys childhood,
young Lane was educated at the Uni
versity of California, from which he
was graduated in 1886. BY reason of
his scholastic achievements the honor
airy degree of LID. We conferred up
on -him some years later by his alma
mater and by New York and Brown
and the University of
North Carolina.
Upon leaving college he engaged in
work. becoming part owner
scious, as the condition of his heart
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 corporation
counsel of San Francisco. In the latter
year he was the democratic candidate
for governor of California, but was
not elected. He received the party
for United States senator. Appointed
by President Roosevelt in
1905, later becoming chairman, Mr.. |
Lane was serving in that capacity !
when he was made secretary of the
interior.
During his service on the interstate |
commerce commission he earned the |
of being a progressive. His |
decisions in the railway cases were
said to have vbeen4-almost invariably |
pleasing to men of advanced ideas. |
He favored for years national cor
ooration commission similar to the in
-erstate commerce commission with |
power to regulate all business enter |
orises engaged in interstate commercei
rs the most effective remedy for trust |
evils. He also advocated a commission |
form of government for Alaska. He |
was elected a member of the perma-
1ent international railway commission,
organized in 1910 at the International
railway congress in Berne. Switzer-
and. @t 4
In 1916 Mr.. Lane headed the Amer
can delegates at a joint conference
with high commissioners from Mex
leo, as a result of which a protocol |
vas signed at Atlantic City and United |
States troops were withdrawn from |
hat country.
When the United States entered the |
var in 1917, Secretary Lane in a num-
per, of public speeches outlined the |
country's purposes and urged Bust
less men to show sacrifices as wor-
hy as those of the men on their way
o the trenches" In numerous adj
lresses In behalf of the Liberty loans
lie declared the defeat of the United |
States "unthinkable" and that the gov
was determined to see the
var fought to a finish. When peace
,ame he devised 'plans for the en-
,loyment of returning troops, urged
congress to federalize the Americana
;ation of the foreign born, aided in the
var torn nations and advocated imme-
late passage of a bill to give farms to
soldiers. He was also active in the
Council for National Defense and the
American Red Cross,
Secretary Lane was keen support
# of the league of nations covenant
md advocated ratification Of the
,eace treaty of Versailles.
In the summer Of 1919 Secretary
1ane recommended to the president
he calling of conference OF repre-
entatives of American capital. labor
md industry to discuss economic
problems. The national Industrial con-
erence, of which Mr.. Lane was made
hartman, was the result. AS chair
nan Of the railroad wage commission
n 1918, he helped t9-~settle a number
( strikes and avert threatened walk
uts.
Mr.. Lane married in 1898 Miss Anne
of Tacoma, Wash. Two