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Show James R. Mann Giant of House Dies Washington. Death Thursday ended end-ed the legislative career of Representative Representa-tive James R. Mann of the Second Illnois district, long rated as a gaint of the house. News of Mr. Mann's death was a shock to the house, for few of his most intimate friends knew of his illness, beyond the statement that he had been confined to his home by a cold. Minority leader In the house during the eight years of Democratic Dem-ocratic control, Representative Mann saw the speakership go to Gillette of Massachusetts when his party again came into power there, but if the failure fail-ure of his party in caucus to select him as speaker left any tinge of bitterness bit-terness with the veteran member, his friends never saw an indication of it. Declining then the proffered leadership leader-ship of the magority, Mann thereafter continued to exercise a power equal to if not greater than that of the speaker himself as chairman of the committee on committees, which controls con-trols the makeup of the house-committees. |