Show tJ y RETURN OF SPEAKER KIEFER WAS nAS CZAR OF THE HOUSE WHEN it PRESENT SPEAKER JOE OX WAS MEMBER ER Is Oe Oue of the Three NAtional Speakers Who ho Have Been Returned t to COr Congress ress After a Lon Long Lone Laspe of Years rf The return of or General J J. J Warren Kiefer to Congress after an absence of ot 22 years is ia of ot more than passing li- li Interest for tor tho the reason that he was c. c 0 Speaker of or the House which was or organized orin f in 1881 It was a n famous Congress and Kiefer's pathway was l. J-l. not one ono of or roses He became Involved involved ved ted in a controversy with H. H V. V c Boynton then d dean an of ot the Washington Washing Washing ton correspondents and the bitter attacks at attacks tacks of or Boynton had much to d do with lefers lefer's retirement from public life Ilfe although he lie was but 48 when he finished his fourth term in the House Since then he has not been idle but has been prominent in civil and military mili mill tary life lICe He lIe returns to Congress as did Nathaniel P P. Banks and Galusha A. A Grow They had been Speakers J t II I I 00 O a oat o J J. J WARREN KIEFER AT 48 49 AND AT 70 many years before and their return i was notable Each like Keifer Kelfer lived for tor years without prominence In polItics politics poli poll tics but both were older when they came back General Kleter la is now OS but remarkably hale and hearty He was He-was was always a a. conspicuous man and Is the more so now because of ot his bis white hair and beard which were ta tawny brown In the We days oC ot his He lIe clings to the garb of ot the old time statesman and wears at atall atall atall all times an old fashioned swallow tailed coat cut much like the dress coats of to today General Kiefer served four terms In Congress coming com corn ing lug to Washington first for tor the special session of ot 1877 He lie was chosen i Speaker of ot the Congress Dec th 1881 serving but the one term Last Lust year he be was nominated for tor Congress and had no very hard time ant Inv th n nr s str n hi c u An i E r was the largest ever any candi J i date General KIeler Kiefer has hag a n great war record As a fighter and leader he had few equals In la the Union army He lie was practicing II law w when the first alarm of ot war was SO sounded ed In and he be at once volunteered vol as a I ate Before going to the front he was commissioned major and was promoted promoted pro pro- rooted rearing In 1865 as brevet ma majo major general and as a brigadier brigs briga dier In active service At the battle battIe of ot the wilderness In 1861 he be was severely wounded but would not give glue up He stayed at It until Lee Leo surrendered sur sur- rendered A born soldier he could not resist the call to arms when the war with Spain came on on and was made a major general major gen ral of ot volunteers He commanded a a. brigade under Sheridan Sheridan SherIdan Sher Sher- idan In the Virginia battles that led S up to Appomattox At the battle of ot Sailors Sailor's Creek General Kiefer bad had an experience out of the ordinary Going alone at dusk to observe the lines of ot the enemy he found himself suddenly surrounded by a large body of ot confederates They could not distinguish dis din his Federal uniform In la the dark and he be was equal to the occa I Ion Wheeling his horse about he hey y cried out In tones of or command Attention Atten r tion men right about face march Thinking It was one of ot their own officers the confederates followed him into the anlon camp w where ere to their disgust they found themselves prison prison- ers era r j He returns to congress Tf vigorous rous and eager for tor active participation in the councils of the nation As an ex ex- Speaker he has been given a a. chairmanship chairman chairman- t ship and was also allowed the privilege of ot choosing choosing- his old seat without going nto ate the lottery scramble scramble- Speaker Spatter 4 cannon was In la Congress during general genral gen gen- aral eral Kiefer's term as Speaker and hey were warm friends General defer represents one of ot tha ilia best bestA A districts In Oh- Oh containing big manufacturing manufacturing man man- establishments He has found few Cew of ot his old colleagues In the House Bouse Many are dead and many more long ago retired to private life lle Cannon and Bingham Hitt end and Payne also Ketcham of New V York are about all who are now in la the House who were with Kiefer In la the stirring days of his |