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Show CONGRESSMAN PAYNE DEAD. Noted Republican Leader a Victim of Heart Failure. Washington. Representative Sere-no Sere-no E. Payne of New York, died suddenly sud-denly of heart failure at 11:15 o'clock Thursday night. Mr. Payne was on the floor of the house Thursday afternoon cheerfully active as usual. A representative from New York in every congress since 1883, except one, Mr. Payne was chairman of the ways and means committee and Republican Re-publican floor leader in 1909-1910,' and directed the drafting of the Payne-Ai-drich tariff bill. He was born at Hamilton, N. Y., June 2G, 1S43, and educated at Rochester and Colgate. He practiced law and was district attorney of Cayuga county, and In 1888 was elected a member of congress con-gress from the Twenty-sixth district. As one of the foremost tariff authorities au-thorities in congress, Mr. Payne was a notable figure among the Republicans Republi-cans of the house long before he became be-came chairman of the ways and means committee and framed the original of the Republican tariff doctrine which stood until repealed by the Underwood Under-wood law. |