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Show Congressman Tongue Dead. WASHINGTON. Jan. ' lt-Representa-tlve Thomas H. Tongue of tbe First Con- rssional district of Oregon died sudden-at sudden-at this residence In this city at X o'clock yesterday afternoon of heart failure, fail-ure, following an attack of indigestion. : Mr. Tongue remained In bed longer than Usual, not rising until about half-past 10, 1 o'clock. lie ate only a light breakfast and symptoms of dyspepsia, from which be had suffered before! manifested them, selves. His daughter, Miss Bertha, thinking think-ing the attack only a slight one, administered adminis-tered some domestio remedy, and Mr. Tongue lay down on a sofa. He failed to get relief, however, and the attack in. creased la severity. An effort was made ( get a physician, but before any of the balf-dosen doctors who had been telephoned tele-phoned for reached the house Mr, Tongue |