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ROOSEVELT LOSES
ESCORT OF POLICE
Leaves Scheduled Route to
Take Kin Home From
Mount Vernon.
President Roosevelt’s characteristic
at doing the unexpected and a contro
versy between Senators on George
Washington’s foreign policy combined
yesterday with clear, brisk weather to
enliven the National Capital’s ob
servance of the 205th anniversary of
Washington’s birth.
After a motor trip to Mount Vernon,
where his wreath was laid at the tomb
of the First President, Mr. Roosevelt
climaxed the day when he lost a park
police escort and baffled correspondents
as his car left the beaten path in
Alexandria to escort home a distant
relative and old neighbor.
The President met his relative, Mrs.
L. C. S. Hambley, who formerly lived
In Dutchess County, N. Y., at the
Mount Vernon ceremonies and invited
her to ride home in the official car. Her
Identity was not learned until after the
presidential caravan had left her resi
dence.
Park Police Led Way.
Five park policemen on motor cycles
led the way along Mount Vernon Me
morial Highway on the return trip. The
party turned at the George Washington
Masonic Memorial" and a half mile
further the President's car turned left
on a dirt road while the police escort
went straight ahead, later finding itself
all alone. The officers turned-around
and caught up, apparently somewhat
flustered. Meanwhile, the President’s
car rolled up the driveway of Mrs.
Hambley's home and the President told
her good-by when she alighted in front
of her door.
Motoring to Mount Vernon over a
highway lined with thousands of holi
day spectators, the President stood in
silent tribute at 4 p.m. at the vine
covered tomb of the first President
while his aides placed upon the tomb
a simple wreath tied with a broad
ribbon of red, white and blue.
Several hundred of the 4,500 pilgrims
who visited the Nation's shrine re
mained past the closing time for Mr.
Roosevelt’s arrival. The presidential
party drove up while the bell an
nouncing the closing of the grounds
was ringing. The assistant superin
tendent of Mount Vernon, T. C. Wall,
extended the visiting time in order
not to disappoint those who came to
see the President.
Silence Osberved at Tomb.
Complete silence was observed at
the tomb of "The Father of His Coun
try’’ except for the clicking of news
reel cameras for which Mr. Roosevelt
posed.
Col. Harrison H. Dodge, veteran cus
todian of Mount Vernon for 52 years,
was unable to be present on account
of illness. The President expressed
regret at his absence and asked Asst.
Supt. Wall to convey this message:
•'Give him my love and tell him I’ll be
down to see him as soon as It gets
warmer.”
The largest delegation to pay its
respects at Washington's Tomb was
a group from Washington Centennial
lodge No. 14. Several veterans’
groups made pilgrimages to Mount
Vernon.
Assistant Secretary of State R.
Walton Moore paid tribute to the first
President in a Washington birthday
celebration In Memorial Continental
Hall, where 800 members of the
D. A. R. and Its allied groups were
assembled. Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty,
national chairman of the D. A. R.
Radio Committee, conducted the
D. A. R. radio program over a national
network from 6 to 6:30 p.m.
Delegations from the Daughters,
Sons and Children of the American
Revolution and other organizations
visited the Washington Monument
during the day to lay at its base
wreaths and flowers in tribute to
Washington. President Roosevelt sent
a wreath to the monument early in
the day.
Library Corner Stone Laid.
At Alexandria the comer stone of
the new public library was laid with
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President and-Relative at Mount Vernon
President Roosevelt is pictured here with his distant relative, Mrs. L. C. S. Hambley, after he
had laid a wreath on the tomb of George Washington at Mount Vernon The presidential auto
mobile “detoured” unexpectedly to take Mrs. Hambley home on the return trip to Washington,
and lost a motor cycle escort of five park policemen• The officers, somewhat perplexed, had to
go back and find the President. _ A, P. Photo.
the Mason's tools which Washington
used in laying the corner stone of the
Capitol in 1793. The tools, a square
level, plumb and trowel, belong to the
Alexandria-Washington Masonic Lodge
of which Washington was a member.
The library is a gift of Dr. and Mrs.
Robert South Barrett as a memorial
to Dr. Kate Waller Barrett.
Thousands of citizens joined in
Washington's birthday anniversary ob
servances throughout the National
Capital area, taking advantage of the
closing of Government departments,
banks and schools and the clear, cold
weather to visit Mount Vernon, the
Monument and other historic spots.
In Congress, the traditional reading
of Washington's farewell message
touched off a Senate controversy.
Senator Lodge, Republican, of
Massachusetts read the message,
which includes this passage:
"The great rule of conduct for us,
in regard to foreign nations, is, in ex
tending our commercial relations, to
have with them as little political con
nection as possible.”
Weakness Reason, Says Thomas.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah
took the floor to say that weakness
helped dictate the country’s foreign
policy in that day.
"Co-operation with the League of
Nations in one form or another is the
best anti-war medicine we can take
at this time.” Thomas added.
He interpreted the last election as
a mandate for greater international
co-operation, and an expression
against “those who for 12 long years
belittled the great ideals of Woodrow
Wilson.”
Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho,
who helped defeat Wilson's League of
Nations covenant and President
Roosevelt’s proposal for American ad
herence to the World Court, replied.
He said some writers had attributed
to Washington a statement that this
country “might safely take part in
consultations of foreign nations” after
the American Government had be
come firmly consolidated.
“Of course it's not to be found in
Washington’s writings,” Borah as
serted. “Those who put quotation
marks around it were impudent
forgers, nothing less.”
Statement Held Interpretation.
He said the statement was an inter
pretation made 60 years after Wash
ington’s death.
A red-headed congressional fresh
man, Representative O’Neill, Demo
crat, of Newark, N. J„ read George
Washington's farewell address in the
House.
Just a few more than 100 members
were on hand as the annual ceremony
got under way.
Except for the presidential and
diplomatic sections, galleries were
packed with a holiday crowd.
Col. William O. Tufts, president of
the Board of Trustees of Goodwill
Industries, speaking at the George
Washington’s birthday reception yes
terday afternoon at Goodwill’s new
home. 1218 New Hampshire avenue,
paid tribute to the group of public
spirited citizens who, through their
efforts and contributions, have made
Goodwill one of Washington's out
standing philanthropic institutions.
“In 18 months,” he said, “Goodwill
has received $15,000 for operating ex
penses, contributions of clothing,
furniture and thousands of other
articles from 11,000 bag contributors
in Washington. It has paid out over
$31,400 in wages to local handicapped
men and women, grown from an or
ganization with only three temporary
employes to an industry providing
employment to over 60 crippled, aged
and otherwise handicapped men and
women.”
Judiciary
(Continued From First Page.)
be debated in the Senate in a few
days.
The full court reorganisation pro
gram, however, is in for a longer
battle.
Non-congressional supporters of the
President speeded up their activities.
George L. Berry called a national
convention of Labor’s Non-Partisan
League March 8 to indorse his pro
posals.
Berry, president of the Printing
Pressmen’s Union as well as head of
the league, said:
"The meeting will mark the climax
of an intensive campaign by the
league throughout the Nation to show
Congress and the country that labor
Is solidly behind the President in his
efforts to modernize the Federal
judiciary."
The league, formed last Bummer by
Berry, John L. Lewis and other labor
leaders, to “put labor on the record
for Roosevelt," asked all members to
notify their Congressmen that they
favored the President’s proposal.
Factor in Farm Program.
Reorganization of the Supreme
Court was mentioned In a conference
yesterday between Mr. Roosevelt and
leaders of farm organizations. They
were told, they said afterward, that
it was one of the factors to be con
sidered in developing a farm program.
M. W. Thatcher of the Fanners
National Grain Corp. said in a state
ment the President’s proposal was
effective as a temporary correction,
but should be supplemented by a
A
constitutional amendment permitting
Federal control of agriculture.
Radio debate continued last night,
with Senator Burke, Democrat, of
Nebraska, asking the Nation’s youth
to oppose the program and Senator
Barkley, Democrat, of Kentucky, call
ing for a progressive interpretation
of the Constitution.
Burke declared "the independence
of the judiciary is undergoing the
most insidious attack since the Con
stitution was written."
"Governments are necessary,” he
said, "but no governors are ever so
pure, so wise, so farseeing that they
can be safely trusted to exercise un
limited authority.
“The danger is no- the less real
because the present motive behind
this attack is to remove an obstacle
that seems to stand in the way of
passage of certain measures of na
tional legislation, which to their pro
ponents seem necessary in order to
bring aid to labor, to agriculture, to
commerce and to industry.
“So the appeal is made to all of
these groups in much the same method
as the spider used in addressing the
fly.”
Not a Museum Piece.
Barkley told the Federrl Bar Asso- ;
ciation at a banquet:
"In more recent days the Federal
courts have sought to find technical
and obstructive ways by which to pre
vent the exercise of the power of the
National Government in a field where
it must be exclusive, and has even
gone to the extent of holding that
even a State cannot in some light
exercise the power which it has de
nied the Federal Government.
"I believe that the Constitution of
the United States is a living, moving,
vital instrument of gove nment not
to be preserved in a museum, but to
bs_ preserved by a fair and liberal in
terpretation of its powers as well as
a progressive and sane interpretation
of its implied powers.”
After the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee meeting yesterday, Chairman
Ashurst said hearings on the presi
dential proposal would be open to the
public and that no limit had been set
upon their length. They will be held,
he said, in the tiny Judiciary Com
mittee room in the Capitol rather
than one of the spacious hearing
rooms at the Office Building.
Ashurst laughed and wisecracked
about his recent shift of position
shift which aligned him in favor of
the Roosevelt program.
“I may be driven from my opinions,
but never from my seat,” the Senator
said.
As to the length of the hearings
he said:
“At least a half dozen gentlemen
of respectability and character have
indicated they would like to be heard'
in favor of the ill, and at least five
have asked that they be heard against
It.”
“What about their respectability
and character?” a reporter asked.
“They are persons of large respecta
bility and of great poise and even
avoirdupoise,” the Senator responded
with a characteristic airy gesture.
King Moves For Delay.
Ashurst revealed that a move to
delay the beginning of hearings was
made by Senator King of Utah, an
avowed opponent of the bill, who
suggested the March 15 date, and
Senator McCarran, who has yet to
express his viewpoint. McCarran
asked that the date be set for March 21.
Both motions were defeated by a
voice vote, and then when the ques
tion reverted to Ashurst's motion that
hearings begin on the ninth, the date
was approved without opposition.
Meanwhile, the committee for clari
fying the Constitution by amendment
Indorsed the Roosevelt judiciary pro
posals as “a means of bringing the
courts promptly, but probably tem
porarily, In accord with the needs of
the country.”
The committee, organized recently
In Detroit by a group af social work
ers and labor and educational leaders,
Is headed by Miss Grace Abbott,
former chief of the Children’s Bureau.
y At an all-day meeting, ideas for a
proposed constitutional amendment
defining Federal powers more defi
nitely also were discussed.
Mayo
(Continued From First Page.)
Vera Cruz by the United States. He
was commander in chief of the At
lantic Fleet during the World War.
Coming from the same State as Ad
miral Dewey, he was always known
as a sea dog. It was In an address
at New York after the World War
that Admiral Mayo advocated a “lion”
Navy. Explaining that many were
predicting the coming of universal
peace when the lion and the lamb
would He down together, he declared
that when that day arrived he wanted
the United States to be the lion.
Demanded Mexican Apology.
The Tampico Incident occurred on
April 9, 1914, after a Navy paymaster
and the crew of a whaleboat from the
dispatch boat Dolphin had been ar
rested by Mexicans when . loading
gasoline from ashore. As commander
of the 4th Division of the Atlantic
Fleet M those waters, Admiral Mayo
demanded an apology from the Mex
ican commander at that port for the
act and the firing of a national aalute
of 31 guns to the United States flag.
The dictator Huerta was then In the
RITES TOMORROW
McKinley High Official to Lie
in Washington Memo
rial Park.
Funeral services for William C.
Myers. 63. assistant principal of Mc
Kinley High School, who died yester
day in Garfield Hospital, will be held
at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Gasch's
funeral parlors, Hyattsville, Md. The
services will be private. Burial will
be in Washington Memorial Park
W. C. Mrer*.
Cemetery. A list
of honorary pall
bearers is to be
chosen from as
sociates at Mc
Kinley.
Mr. Myers, who
resided at 801
West Madison
avenue, River
dale, Md., joined
the Washington
public school
system in 1905 as
a teacher of
mathematics a t
Central High
School. He was
transferred to McKinley in 1911 and
taught mathematics there until ap
pointed assistant principal in 1930.
A native Pennsylvanian, he was
graduated from Grove City College in
that State in 1896 and before coming
to Washington he was principal of
the Barkeyville Academy, Barkey
ville, Pa.; taught at Findlay College
in Ohio, and later at the Edln
borough Normal School in Pennsyl
vania.
Mr. Myers was a minister and early
in his career occupied the pulpit of the
Church of God ir» Westmoreland
County, Pa. Also he at one time
preached at the Preesbyterian Church
at Riverdale.
He received his master’s degree here
from American University and taught
mathematics at the George Washing
ton University night school.
During Summers Mr. Myers had en
gaged in work of laying out town
sites in the Far West for the Land
Office.
OCHSENREITER RITES
SET FOR TOMORROW
Funeral services for William F.
Ochsenreiter, 70, for 18 years prop
erty custodian for the House of Rep
resentatives, will be held at 9 a.m. to
morrow at his home, 429 Quincy street,
and at 9:30 in St. Gabriel's Catholic
Church. Rev. William F. Sweeney,
pastor of St. Gabriel's, will officiate
at the funeral and at burial in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Mr. Ochsenreiter died at his home
Sunday after a long illness. He was
a member of the Association of Oldest
Inhabitants.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Flor
ence C. Ochsenreiter; two sons, Frank
B. of this city and Eugene C. Ochsen
reiter of Asheville, N. C, and four
grandchildren.
saddle in Mexico, and Admiral Mayo
did not get his amends, but the situa
tion precipitated resulted in imme
diate orders from Washington in sup
port of his position. Within a few
days Marines and bluejackets had
taken Vera Cruz. Subsequently the
American forces were withdrawn, but
only after Huerta had taken flight.
Admiral Mayo was appointed com
mander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet
In 1916 and held that command
through the period of American par
ticipation in the World War, the com
mand including all vessels in Atlantic
and European waters. During that
period he was for the most part on
his flagship in American waters, but
he made a trip of inspection of Amer
ican ships in European waters in 1918.
In 1917 he represented the United
States at the Naval Conference of
Allied Countries in London.
Commended by Daniels.
Wiring him after his retirement for
age in 1920, Secretary Daniels said:
“It is a matter of congratulation that
while under your command the United
States Fleet reached its highest effici
ency and made its largest contribution
in the World War. When we entered
the war, largely due to your direction,
the fleet was in its highest state of
readiness. Your service abroad was not
only recognized by your countrymen
but by naval leaders of the allied na
tions, and contributed much toward
hastening the adoption of measures
which increased the allied offensive.”
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Talk in Paris Held
Groundless.
B7 the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 23.—Both the
French foreign office and the United
States Embassy today discounted
some French prediction* that a
apeech yesterday by American Am
bassador William C. Bullitt presaged
major Franco-Amerlcan moves to re
duce trade barriers and further world
disarmament.
The Embassy said, moreover, that
Ambassador Bullitt’s Washington
Birthday dinner speech last night had
been written in Paris and that Presi
dent Roosevelt had not seen it in
advance.
That was in reply to press interpre
tations of the speech as a virtual In
dication by President Roosevelt of a
new international policy as a result of
Germany’s rejection of French and
British overtures of economic peace.
These quarters speculated on the
possibility the statement of American
policy might be followed by concrete
American, British and French pro
posals for economic collaboration
with Germany.
Such a proposal, bringing the
United States into the European set
tlement. they said, would be based on
a strictly enforced agreement with
the Reich, for collaboration in a
general arms limitation program and
lowering of trade barriers to consoli
date peace.
me Amwuwaaor predicated his re
marks with the statement the Unite I
States may have to fight in the next
war.
"We are entirely aware,” the Am
bassador said, "that there is always
some possibility some nation might
be sufficiently reckless to drive us
Into war.”
Then Bullitt launched into the
sharp criticism of the world arma
ment race which was considered a
possible forerunner of renewed Amer
ican participation in negotiations for
an European accord:
"It is impossible to restore world
prosperity when nations are engaged
in ruining their economic and finan
cial positions by participating in an
armaments race.” he said.
"It is impossible to expect nations
to co-operate economically if they
fear the revival of economic life of
some other nation will result in the
iron and steel they furnish that na
tion being returned to them in the
form of shells and bombs.”
He declared the United States was
prepared to participate in any future
arms limitation and was doing all
passible to reduce trade barriers "be
cause we believe they are the two
fields in which may be found the be
ginning of peace.”
"Economic stress," he said, speaking
of trade barrier, "may drive peoples
to desperation.”
The - Ambassador has planned to
sail for the United States on Thurs
day. While Embassy officials said
the trip was personal, diplomatic
circles pointed out he was likely to
see President Roosevelt during his
two week’s stay in the United States.
The Paris press considered Bullitt's
speech as having extraordinary sig
nificance in that "the Ambassador
only expected instructions from Roose
velt,” and "Roosevelt most certainly
sees there is an occasion to propose
the only plan which would bring a
terrible blow to autocracies.”
Townsend
(Continued From First Page.)
derly prophet of old-age security,
heard the Oovemment concede he
had not refused to answer any ques
tion put to him by the House com
mittee.
The Government’s stipulation that
he had not refused to answer any
question of the committee was made
by Assistant United States Attorney
Harry L. Underwood. When Hanson
was asked to agree to the stipulation
he replied.
"Why, that's the very point of the
case. I am glad to stipulate that
when Dr. Townsend left the commit
tee hearing no question had been put
to him and that he never refused to
answer any question put to him by
the committee."
The stipulation was submitted to
the court shortly after Chairman Bell
of the House Committee had been
called to the witness stand. He tes
tified Townsend had appeared before
his group May, 10, 20 and 21.
In taking the witness on cross-ex
amination, Hansen stated he pro
posed to show the major purpose of
the investigation was political and not
legislative. In that connection, he
added, he wanted to show the "no
toriously corrupt political machine"
in Missouri, Bell's home State, had
opposed the Townsend plan.
Trial Justice Peyton Gordon ruled
he could not pursue this line of ex
amination unless he was willing to
make Bell his own witness.
When Dr. Townsend, a national
figure only a few months ago, entered
the court, the room was only about
two-thirds full and many of those
present were extra jurors. The jury
of 11 men and 1 woman was chosen
quickly, the Government exercising
only one challenge and the defense
none. Three of the jurors are alderly
men, the others being comparatively
young.
Dr. Townsend, wearing a brown suit
and red striped tie, took his seat be
hind his attorneys, Hansen and Joseph
A. Centre 1, with hardly a glance at
the scattering of youthful spectators
in the room. He showed little interest
in the proceedings beyond staring at
the jury and an occasional conference
with his attorneys.
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ROSOFF TO VISIT
Agrees to Go for Question
ing in Redwood Case if
Nominal Bail Is Set.
BACKGROUND—
Last Friday night R. Norman
Redwood, business manager of Pse
tandhogs’ union, was kUled by gun
men as he sat in an automobile in
front of his home, at Teaneek, N. J.
The gunmen escaped in a car. Po
lice investigating the killing ar
rested Samuel Rosoff, wealthy New
York subway builder, lor Questioning
about labor difficulties between him
self and Redwood's union. Rosoff
refused to go to New Jersey for
Questioning, and was freed in cus
tody of his lawyer.
Redwood’s union of underground
workers recently called strikes on
projects being handied by Rosoff’s
contracting firm.
B7 the Associated Press.
HACKENSACK. N. J., February 23.
—Samuel R. Rosoff, millionaire New
York subway builder, agreed today.
Prosecutor John j. Breslln reported, to
come to New Jersey for questioning in
the R. Norman Redwood murder case
provided nominal ball was set for hU
release.
The contractor, under technical ar
rest in New York as a material witness
In the slaying of the New York “sand
hogs’* union leader, previously had re
fused to leave Manhattan.
Breslin said he received word of his
changed position by telephone and
stated he would fix ball for Rosoff
at $1,000.
A hearing on the contractor’s re
moval to New Jersey was to have been
held in New York today. Leaving for
New York to confer with Mayor Flo
rello La Ouardia, Breslin declined to
say when Rosoff would come here.
Mrs. Victoria Redwood, widow of
the slain man. became a key figure in
the hunt today as a two-State inquiry
centered on labor fights In which he
was involved.
Tells of Telephone Cali.
She told Police Chief Cornelius J.
Harte of Teaneck, he said, her hus
band telephoned from New York
shortly before he was killed last Fri
day night that he “had some one
with him” and would be delayed In
coming home.
She described alleged threats re
ceived by her husband and searched
her memory for details that might be
Important to the Investigation.
The widow, about 45, stout and
brown-haired, gained a key figure
status, authorities said, because fit
her knowledge—meager thoughg-tt
might be—of the background f of
events which, they behave, culminated
In Redwood's being al)pt to dcaffi in
the driveway of hi* 935,000 Teaneck
home last Friday night.
Backed by a 925,000 special fufld
for the inquiry, John J. Breslin, Jr„
Bergen County prosecutor, sought
further evidence of ownership of the
murder gun, found on a highway near
Teaneck It was traced through sale*
records to a Demarest, N. J., police
chief, now dead, but its recent owntr
ship was not yet determined.
Breslin also awaited word from Jos
eph Moreachi of Quincy, Mass., presi
dent of the International Hod Camera
and Building Laborers' Union of
America, whom the prosecutor wishes
to come here for questioning on union
angles of the case.
The gun used to kill Redwood. Bres
lin said, has been traced to the point
where it was sold to the late Police
Chief Carroll Potter of Demarest, a
town 9 miles from the scene of the
siaylng.
Potter died August 4. 1935, leaving
three guns—none of which was the
murder weapon, Breslin said.
Assistant Prosecutor William Mehler
said the mystery surrounding the gun
might have been caused by the fact
Chief Potter bought the gun for a
friend rather than for himself, using
his own name so the friend could get
the police discount and escape the ex
cise tax. This possibility prompted In
vestigators to determine if the chief
ever made a record of such a purchase.
Redwood’s burial in Hackensack
Cemetery was set for today after a
funeral service at Christ Episcopal
Church, West Englewood.
Breslin declined to comment on a
report from New York that .Thomas
E. Dewey, special rackets prosecutor,
planned to investigate the affairs of
locals of the International Hod Car
riers, Building and Common Laborers
to determine whether there was rack
eteering that might have provided a
motive for the Redwood slaying.
Taylor
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only to Representative Adolph J.
Sabath of Illinois in length of service
in the House. Sabath has served 30
years and Taylor 28. During the ill
ness of Representative Bankhead,
when the latter was House leader,
Taylor served for eight months as act
ing majority leader In the Seventy
fourth Congress. Since the first ses
sion of the First Congress on March
4, 1789, there have been more than
10,000 members of the House. Of
those only nine have been elected 15
successive times—Kelly. Bingham and
Butler of Pennsylvania, Gillett of
Massachusetts, Pou of North Caro
lina, Haugen of Iowa, Vice President
Gamer of Texas, the present dean of
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the House, Sabath of Illinois and Tay
lor of Colorado.
Friends recalled today that Repre
sentative Buchanan spoke of Taylor
in the House two years ago.
"Should anything happen to me,”
he said, “he would become chairman
of that great committee (Appropria
tions). • • • If that should happen,
the fiscal affairs of the House would
be in safe keeping.”
More than eight years past the re
tirement age advocated for justices
by the President, Taylor is about to
take over one of the most exacting
jobs in the House—a job on which
successive chairmen have worn them
selves out—Representative Buchanan,
Texas, and Representative Byms,
Tenn., being the most recent. Tay
lor, who practiced law for more than
25 years before coming to Congress,
has indorsed the President's court re
organization plan, saying:
“If a man thinks right and lives
moderately without dissipating his
faculties, he often can retain mental
vigor and physical soundness long
after 70. Yet, the President's re
tirement proposal is a splendid gen
eral rule.”
As a matter of fact the President
has no more staunch supporter in
Congress than Taylor on all his legis
lative program. As chairman of the
Democratic caucus and as acting lead
er, he frequently has admonished his
colleagues . “We must go straight down
the line with our great President."
Friend of West.
The new chairman of the Appropria
tions Committee has been a vigorous
fighter for Western development—
implacable for generous Federal allo
cation of funds for this purpose. Re
peatedly he has fought off attempts in
committee and in the House to slash
appropriations for Western enter
prises—shouting, “You can't flim
flam me.”
He has been recognised for years
as the leader of the West’s relatively
small representation in the House, and
frequently has been heard recommend
ing “some political horse trading” to
form alliances with other sectional
groups to gain voting strength for pet
projects. He has been known as the
“Father of Western water legislation"
because he adjudicated and established
the irrigation water rights of a large
part of Northwestern Colorado, in 1887
and 1889.
He became a member or the master
Appropriations Committee of which he
now is to be chairman when the com
mittee was enlarged on the passage
of the budget and accounting act,
which took away appropriating power
from some eight other committees—16
years ago. Since 1933 he has been
chairman of the subcommittee han
dling the Interior Department appro
priations.
Born at M eta m or a, Woodford
County, 111., Taylor spent his early
life on a farm in Illinois and a stock
ranch in Kansas. After being grad
uated from high school in 1881 he
went to the “highest town” in the
United States. Leadville, Colo., where
56 years ago he was first principal of
the high school. He was president
of his class in the University of
Michigan Law School. On graduation
he returned to Leadville to practice
law with his uncle and In 1884 was
elected county superintendent of
schools and then deputy district at
torney. He moved to Glenwood
Springs in 1887 and for 25 years was
associated with his brother in law
practice. He was elected district at
torney for the Northwestern Colorado
Judicial district. He was elected
State Senator in 1896, served 12 years,
was President pro tempore of the
Senate and sponsored 40 statutes and
five constitutional amendments ap
proved by a general vote of the peo
ple. He also served five terms as
city attorney and two terms as couaty
attorney.
Organised Bureau.
One of Taylor’s outstanding achieve,
ments for the Democratic party was to
organise the bureau of naturalized
citizens at the national headquarters
in Chicago in 1916, and he conducted
the party’s campaign throughout the
24 Western States to secure the votes
of foreign-bom citizens of 46 different
nationalities and languages.
With his wife. Taylor lives at the
Roosevelt Hotel, and they are both
prominent in congressional social
circles. He has three children, Ed
ward T., Jr., and Joseph E„ both
practicing attorneys, and Mrs. Irving
M. Baker, jr„ and a stepson, George
H. Durfee. He is a Scottish Rite
Mason, a Mystic Shriner and an Elk.
Roosevelt Grieves at Loss of
"Old Friend”—Bankhead
Joins in Tribute.
President Roosevelt and congres
sional leaders today mourned the death
of Representative James P. Buchanan,
69-year-old chairman of the powerful
House Appropriations Committee, who
has served in the House for the last
quarter of a century.
The veteran Texas legislator died
last night in Naval Hospital follow
ing an illness of about a year. Presi
dent Roosevelt today paid high tribute
to his old friend in a public state
ment.
‘‘A faithful and wise counselor, an
Indefatigible worker has been lost to
our national life in the passing of
James P. Buchanan," the President
said. "As chairman of the great
Committee on Appropriations of the
House, he discharged his duties with
great intelligence and strict fidelity.
Mourns “Old Friend."
"Unmoved by emotional appeal,
above partisanship or sectionalism, he
accepted the responsibilities of his
trust with the single purpose of serv
ing the highest interests of the Na
tion as a whole. I personally moum
the loss of an old and staunch friend.”
Representative Buchanan was a
critic of the administration policy of
seeking “lump sum” appropriations,
instead of funds allocated for specific
items, but guided budget proposals
through the House.
A strong believer in governmental
economy, it fell to him to work for
the $4,800,000,000 work relief measure,
largest single appropriation in his
tory, and to see national defense costs
reach a new peacetime high.
He had been handicapped by failing
health for the last year. He had
served in the House since 1913. becom
ing Appropriations chairman in March,
1933, when the late Joseph W. Byrnes
was elevated to Democratic floor
leader.
Speaker Bankhead said Mr. Bu
chanan was "a useful and courageous
man.” and Representative Rayburn.
House majority leader, called him ”a
man of fine ability who rendered
great service to his State and coun
try.”
Gov. James V. Allred said Texas
had lost “a big man” who would be
hard to replace.
Mr. Buchanan’s fatal heart attack
was foreshadowed as far back as Jan
uary, 1936. At that time he spent
three consecutive nights, until after
midnight, in a dentist's chair. A short
time later his heart began troubling
him and he went to the hospital for
three weeks.
Apparently recovered, he returned
to his desk again to tackle his tre
mendous job. A bronchial cough de
veloped.
With the beginning of the present
Congress last month. Mr. Buchanan
told friends he was more nervous and
tired than usual, but continued his
work. He was stricken suddenly yes
terday and taken to Naval Hospital.
He is survived by his widow and
one son. James P. Buchanan, jr.,
both of whom were present when he
died at 10:40 p.m.
Mr. Buchanan was elected to the
House to succeed Albert Sidney Burle
son. whom President Wilson appointed
Postmaster General.
Spoke In Low Voice.
Never noted as an orator. Mr. Bu
chanan spoke in a voice which some
times failed to carry across the House
chamber. Frequently he drowned out
a point by smacking his right hand
into the palm of his left with a re
port like a pistol shot.
Visitors to his office in the Capitol
often found him curled up in a swivel
chair, feet crossed atop his desk. A
cigar usually switched from one side
of his mouth to the other as he spoke.
His infrequent relaxation took two
principal forms. One was to lose him
self in a gaudy-colored dime novel of
the west—“the wilder and woolier the
better,” he once said.
The other was an informal discus
sion of Government problems at a late
night “session” with colleagues in the
lobby of a hotel on Capital Hill.
He seldom took a vacation, and to
his strenuous committee duties was
added recently the chairmanship of tha
House committee created to study
President Roosevelt's plans for reor
ganization of the Government.
Mr. Buchanan's father was a wealthy
plantation owner who thought the
South would win the Civil War.
Afterward, the elder Buchanan started
back to his home, but learned some
persons accused him of being a spy,
and he decided to leave the State.
The father headed West by one route
' and Mrs. Buchanan and her two chil
dren went another. At the age of 8,
James P. Buchanan was pioking cot
ton on rented acres in Central Texas.
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