Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-25

at the boom town" of Cheyenne. He
went thither and found life in the
raw" Cheyenne was chiefly city of
tents, covered wagons and rude shacks,
with everything wide open" and brass
bands playing to attract patrons to
rival gambling houses. This state OF
land conscience, and while he undertook
no crusade against it, he did ally him
self with those who were striving to
improve conditions and to make Wyom-
ing worthy Of the recognition as a
Territory which Congress a little later
in that same year accorded to It,
When Cheyenne became q city he
was chosen in 1873 to be one of its
trustees and also president of the coun-
Gil of the Territorial Legislature. Later,
upon the permanent reorganization of
the local government, he was men,
Der of the City Council, and then in
1885 its mayor. This Office he resigned
to become Governor of the Territory,
meanwhile having served for three
terms as Treasurer of the Territory.
He was governor in 1885-86 and again
in 10000, the interval when he was
out of office being due to the change
of politics in the national admfnistra-
ton, of which the governor was an
appointee. When the Territory was
made State in 1890 he was elected its
first governor and thus served from
Septembe II to November "a. On the
latter date he resigned to accept cleo
ton as the first United States Senator
from Wyoming.
Woman Suffrage Supporter.
For more than full generation he
was a member of the Senate, consDic-
uous for his energy, fidelity and the
general esteem in which he was held by
his colleagues regardless of party
Never merely Snowy or spectacular
figure, he was one of the hardest work.
ers and most efficient legislators of his
time. Among his most important
activities were those connected with
the reclamation act, under which vast
areas of arid lands were made arabic
and fertile; with the reorganization of
the Army and the creation of the gen.
eral staff, and with the establishment
of various permanent Army posts in the
West Being a representative of the
first State to grant in its constitution
equal suffrage for both sexes, he logi-
cally supported the nineteenth amend
nent to the National Constitution. The
eighteenth amendment he opposed be-
cause he believed 1t to deal with a mat
ter which properly belonged to the IN
dtvidual States and not to the Federal
Government.
With the oncoming Of the World War
he felt again the patriotic impulse that
so years before had led him into the
''forlorn hope" at Port Hudson and.
lifelong, stalwart Republican as he was
he gave unhesitating support to the
Wilson administration In all its worthy
measures for the prosecution of that
conflict. In this he had, doubtless, an
especial and peculiar personal interest,
arising from the fact that Gen. Persh-
ing was his son-in-law. Senator War
ren's daughter, the wife of Gen.
Pershing, lost her life, with her three
daughters, in the fire that DESTROYED
their home at the Preside, in San
Francisco, in 1915. and her young son,
Francis Warren Pershing, lived most
of the time with his grandfather, the
Senator, during Gen. Pershing's service
in France.
There was never any indication, how
ever. that personal considerations in
huenced Warren's public course in the
Senate or elsewhere. After the war he
became chairman of the appropriations
committee OF the Senate, and thus had
a nlgnly important part in carrying out
the rehabilitation and economy program
OF Presidents Harding and Coolidge.
Disdained Senate Elevator,
His physical energy and his mental
alertness were preserved long after he
had become an octogenarian, demon-
strating that In his case the strength
OF his years at four score and more
was by no means labor and sorrow"
None OF his younger colleagues sur
passed him in the ease with which.
sometimes several times during the day'
ne walked up the long flights of stairs
10 the Senate chamber, disdaining to
use the elevator; or in the cheerful en-
durance with which he sat through the
long sessions when filibusterinG was
reSorted TO by the opposition.
On June ID, 1929, a noteworthy DEM
onstration was made in the Senate In
recognition of his eighty-fifth birthday
anniversary two days later. when the
senate would not be in session. The
principal address was made by Senator
Kenneth Mcclellan, who was able con-
1ldently to declare that every member
Democrat, Republican and Farmer.
Laoorite, will rejoice and join in wishing
1or Senator Warren many, many happy
returns OF the day" He also pointed
out that as chairman of the appropria-
lions committee, Senator Warren had.
between his seventy-seventh and efphty-
NTH years, supervised the EXPENDITURES
Of about $4,000, 600, 900.
Mr.. Warren married. on .Jan,iarv "a
1871, Miss Helen Marie Smith of Middle
field, Mass. They had one son and one
daughter. She died on March as. 1902
ana on June 28, 1911, he married Miss
cara lie Baron Morgan of Groton, Conn.