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tee talked Of citing him for con-
tempt but nothing came of it.
The next month - July, 1880
found him in London, where he
married his former secretary, Mrs.
Helen Hawley McCallum.
But he was not yet through with
inquiries. The Senate Campaign
Funds Committee had been looking
into the Virginia campaign. Bishop
Cannon's report of expenditures
seemingly accounted for only 1000
Of the $65 800 sent him by Mr.
Jameson.
The churchman challenged the
authority of the committee and the
constitutionality of the Federal
Corrupt Practices Act under which
1t was proceeding.
A hearing. brief and inconclusive
was held in May, 1881. Bishop Can
non reclined in an armchair and
nodded approval as Miss Ada Bur-
roughs, his secretary in 1928, re-
fused to answer questions. Inform
ing Miss Burroughs that she might
be cited for contempt, the commit
tee adjourned.
Even before the 1928 election
brought him Nation wide promi-
nence, Bishop Cannon was q figure
in church circles because OF his
active opposition to liquor. He once
summed up his work as more than
twoscore years of active anti
liquor warfare"
He was for many years identified
with the Anti-Saloon League and
he headed the Board of Temperance
and Social Service of his own
church. He also was prominent in
church educational activities.
Born in Salisbury, Md, Novem-
ber 13, 1864, Bishop Cannon was a
graduate Of Randolph-Macon Col
lege and Princeton Theological
Seminary.
He entered the ministry in 1883
and in August of that year mar
ried Lura Virginia Bennett. >She
died IN 1929. .-
Coup Here Cleared Him.
Intervals after November, 1928, in
which Bishop Cannon and his ac-
tivities were not brought before the
public, either by his enemies. or his
friends. were brief.
In February, 1881, a clerical in
vestigating committee sat for nearly
q week at Mount Vernon Place M. E.
Church here, studying charges
but announced there was mo
cause for action"
While the charges never were
made public, it was known they COW
cred 48 points and were of a nature
that threatened Bishop Cannon's
episcopal position. They had been
brought by group of four elders
Of the church.
His antagonists in the church
numbered many prominent clergy
men and laymen, among them Jo-
sephus Daniels. Secretary Of the
Navy in the Wilson cabinet. Mr..
Daniels was factor in causing the
bishop to be tried at the Church
Conference at Dallas.
Requests for the bishops reAg-
| nation were made even after his
acquittal there, some saying his con-
fession of error in his stock market
transactions was virtually an ad-
mission of guilt.
| Among outspOken critics of the
bishop after the presidential elec-
ton was Representative Tnkham,
Republican, of Massachusetts,. Mr..
Tinkham supported Herbert Hoover,
but his views on liquor and other
questions were sharply at variance
with those of Bishop Cannon.
Mr.. Tinkham said on the floor of
the House in June, 1880. that until
Bishop Cannon explained the use
he made of sac, 800 of the $65 300
sent him by Mr.. Jameson the
churchman would stand convicted"
in the eyes of all honest men of hav-
ing appropriated that money to his
own uses"
Bishop Sued Tinkham.
In reply, Bishop Cannon said the
Massachusetts, Representative was a
clustering, cowardly Congressman"
and challenged him to repeat over
his own signature the remarks he
made in the House under the pro-
lection of congressional immunity.
Representative Tinkham issued a
statement. The bishop said it, did
not contain remarks made In the
speech, but II months later, in June,
1881, he filed suit claiming libel in
$500,000.
The suit ran on until 1897 when
Justice Jennings Bailey in District
Court returned a verdict in favor of
Representative Tinkham. The JUS
tice said that the bishop by his own
testimony had admitted violation Of
the Corrupt Practices Act.
There was an equally spectacular
clash with the Senate Lobby COM
mittee in June, 1880.
Bishop Cannon told the COM
mittee he would answer questions
relating to his activities against the
liquor interests, or to organization
during the election. but said fatty
he would not 60 into the disposition
Of the money he received from Mr..
Jameson.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of
Montana. famous as q prosecutor,
was committee member and he
went directly into money spent In
the Virginia campaign. Finally,
Bishop Cannon clasped his crutch
and limped from the room. He called
back over his shoulder:
Il am at my ofice whenever q
subpoena is Issued"
The committee continued to Are
Questions at him ~ he moved to