Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-01
.b0|ES PENR0SE
SENA7ELEADER
DIES LIKE KNOX
Pennsylvania s Repre-
sentative in Upper
House Passes With ~.
Ill More Than Year, He
Had Partially Recov~
cred; Cold Brings End.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Boies Pen
rose. senior senator from Pennsyl-
vania, died suddenly like his colleague,
Senator Knox, at his hotel apartment
here Saturday night from pulmonary
thrombosis, He had been i'll since
Tuesday, first with severe cold, which
rallied quickly to treatment, but on
Thursday his condition became more
serious. He made little progress to-
ward recovery from that time,
1t was not until late Saturday. how
ever, that his physician, Dr.: Roy u.
Adams, realized that his condition was
desperate. Heroic efforts were made
10 save him. and while it was realized
that he was gravely Ill, his death was
described as sudden.
@ Overtaxed His Strength
q Worn out by long illness year or
more ago which kept him long from
the senate, Senator Penrose came back
early in the year and for the last few
months was working in his old-tlme
legislative form on the tax bill, which
takes effect January /. With this out
of the way. he took up the tariff, at
tending daily meetings OF the commit
tee, often overtaxing his strength:
Except for his nurses and physician,
the Pennsylvania senator, long a power
in politics and in the senate, was alone
in his large apartment on the top floor
OF hotel overlooking the city when
he passed away at 11:3O o'clock Sat
urday night. Up to within five min
utes of his death, his condition had
been described as ''quite comfortable"
Then he lapsed into Inconsistencies
and died peacefully.
The senate will reconvene tuesday
a x,nor nyd INN, cdi to1u adi0urn ont of
respect;
Senator Penrose, one of the most in
teresting personalities in the upper
house. which he entered in 1897 as the
successor to the late Senator j. Donald
Cameron, was one of the wealthiest
bachelors in the senate. An "old guard"
republican, he was member of four
important senate committees, namely,
the finance committee. of which he was
chairman, banking and currency, immi-
grafton and naval affairs.
Begun as 0uay's Lieutenant
Chief lieutenant of Senator Mat
thew Stanley Quay. whose representa-
tive he had been in the Pennsylvania
legislature for many years, Penrose did
not at first take very prominent
part in Republican party councils at
Washington. Until his death, how
ever, he never lost as the leader of his
party in his own state. Blunt at all
times but with a reputation that could
be trusted in political deal, Senator
Penrose made fast friends and lr-
reconcilable enemies. The latter often
charged him with representing the in
terestS."
Senator Penrose was an early ad-
yocate of United States Intervention
In Mexico and in 1918 introduced
resolution requesting that American
troops be sent into the republic south
Of the Rio Grande. He was an un
yielding opponent of the Wilson ad
ministration and particularly of the
draft Of the treaty of peace as sub
mitted to the senate by President Will
son, He characterized the transfer to
japan Of former German concessions
in Shantung as "a violation of every
principle of the league of nations and
bribe to Japan" and declared it
"disposscssed i0,O00.OO0 Chinese of
vital rights against their will
Tariff Was His Hobby. ..
Special work for protective tariffs
was Senator Penrosc's chief legisla
tive hobby. particularly with reference
to revenue legislation, and although
his devotion did not result in the pas
sage of Especial BILL" he will long
be remembered for his activity along
those lines. He consistently fought
prohibition legislation. He seldom
made speeches in the senate, but he
was quick in partisan repartee and his
thrusts won for him the fame Of
humorist Of the upper house.
As Pennsylvania national commit
teeman. he was power behind the
throne in all republican conventions,
Sanate and national councils
He and Senator Smoot were regard
I'd as having largely forced President
Taft's nomination in 1912, when Col
oncl Roosevelt bitterly assailed Pen
roses control of the convention.
Largest Man in the Senate.
He was, perhaps, the largest man
uhysically in the senate. standing six
feet, four inches in height and weigh
ing close to 300 pounds. He traced
his ancestry back for more than 500
years and in his veins flowed the blood
of soma of the most distinguished
American families.
Born in Philadelphia on November
I. 1860, young Penrose was educated by
nriyate tutors and at the Episcopal
academy in his home city. At 16 he
entered Harvard from which he was
graduated in 1881. He studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1883.
Entering Immediately into politics,
wear later he was elected to the state
legislature, sand participateda fan hit,
Ter partisan politics in the
followed.