The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-01-25
.FORMERSENAT0R
 UNDERWOOD DIES SUDDEN ILLNESS
Suffers Cereb bral Hemor- rhage then Is Strick-
 en with Paralysis
(CoLtlnued from rage Onej

when his name was withdraw and
 his strengeA thrown to Woodrow
 Wilson.
 < Refusing to be considered for the
 Vice Presidential nomination with Wilson, he continued his service in the House and through his par ' liamentary skill and his tact of
 leadership he contributed very ma
 ferially toward making Wilson's first four years of administration
 a period of far-reaching legisla- lion. At the same time he brought countrywide recognition to hir
 self as the author of the Under
 wood tariff bill which supplanted She famous Payne-Aldrich act.
 8 Goes To Senate A After 20 years in the House, he moved over to the Senate. His es1me had preceded him and with
 the death of Senator Thomas Mar tin of Virginia, he was chosen
 Democratic leader, place he held until 1921.
 T Reelected to the Senate in 1920,
 he announced just before the e4
 piration of his second six years
 term that he would not be q can
 didate to succeed himself in 1926.
 Meantime, he had purchased Wood
 lawn, on the Potomac river, a part ssf the original Washington estate at Mount Vernon, and there he made his home part of each year
 2 Entering Congress in the days of iron rule of Republican speak CTS, Underwood had a part in breaking the power of Uncle Joe" Cannon and later in liberalizing the rules of the House.
 s Leadership in the House of Rep resentatives as it is known today, Began with the selection of Under wood by the Democrats for the place in 1911.
 
 Y majority, Underwood found him self faced with difficult task His first concern was the writing of new tariff act, a subject to which he had devoted years of study. He wrote measure which he declared was true to the prin- eiples of Democracy"
 President Taft vetoed that bill dn the late summer of 1911 and when the Democrats were return e& to full control of all functions of the government in 1913, the bil. was rewritten and signed by Pres ident Wilson
 | Many Acts Created Under the Underwood leadership were enacted also the Federal Re- serve Act, the Farm Loan Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act and all the others in the long list of legisla- [1ion that went to the statute books during the first four, or "peace years" of the Wilson adminissra- ton. ( Despite the tremendous drive that was made against the Federal Reserve Act, Underwood kep. hls | forces solidly in line on that issue, feat which up to that time had | been almost without precedent. 1 His service in the Senate was eittle less conspicuous. He had 1 early appointments to the Appro- | briations Committee and owing to inc illness of Senator Martin, he Ihad charge of many of the enor- nous war appropriation bills. Tax | legislation also felt the influence of his guiding hand in the days
 when the nation was bearing an ,.snheard of burden in order to de- frav much of the war cost in ! single generation.
 N Democrats Lose
 In the period immediately fol-
 lowing the war the Democrats lost
 control of Congress and Senator 1 TJnderwood's opportunity for the
 directing of constructive work
 came to an end. Always fair even
 to the bitterest of his political op-
 ,,onent-. his friends declared that l Re had natural distaste for hold
 ing continuously a critical attitude
 Toward all the works and ways of
 inc opposing party. which is an
 Essential part of minority leader
 ship.
 This was one of the reasons why
 he did not offer for reelection as
 x,;nnr;tv lAader n 1922. It. per