Show MORE MOR E POWER FOR MORGAN through p purchase of control of the equitable life assurance society J P morgan la is edged the insurance king of america the domi ning n ing factor in the nation s finances and the master and controlling spirit of the traction situ atlon ii ir new york mr air morgan has been during the past 25 ears the atlas of 0 the financial world of the united states lie ile possesses more money power than any man who ever lived in this country born in hartford conn april 17 1837 of a family which for generations had been wealthy and aristocratic he from his louth auth up enjoyed all the educational advantages that his parents money and social position could give him after graduating at the english high school in boston he went abroad and became a student it i t got germany at the age of returned to this country and alpar antly because nothing else presented itself for him to do went into his father fathers s banking business As his experience in the business grew his father lather wisely placed upon his shoulders more and more of the firm s responsibilities he was sent to london as the firm s representative and there obtained a thorough grounding of the exceedingly complicated subject of foreign ex cl ange when he returned to new york he was made a partner in his father fathers banking firm during the years that followed some of the most luminous of his achieve ments merits were in 1871 he created a market in europe for 25 worth of new Nev york central stock and sold it there at a profit prof it which amazed old commodore vanderbilt in 1877 he handled an issue of 26 of government bonds in prepa ration tor for putting the national currency on a gold basis in 1880 he arm provided aided 40 for the extension of the northern pacific railroad to the pacific coast in 1880 his was the master hand in the reorganization of the reading railroad and the reorganization of the baltimore and ohio in involving syndi cate work and the loan of 10 in 1893 the southern railway was created out of the richmond terminal and allied lines in 1895 the erie railway was rehabilitated SENATE WATCHES DOLLIVER senator jonathan P dolliver Doll lver of iowa a lead ing member of the insurgents threw some hot shot into the enemy in his speech delivered at the press club in chicago just before congress convened mr air dolliver advanced the theory that the most hopeful sign about the last congress was not what congress did but the tact fact that it did not do so unanimously he lie also said that he believed president taft s attitude toward the insurgents at the present session will be friend ly and that he thought the president had done all that it was N as up to him to do in the tariff mat ter as congress made the tariff revision and not the president the time when a skin game can be worked on the people with the unanimous consent of congress will never come again said mr air dolli dollt ter er R when hen I 1 am a asked aked ked why I 1 do not vote with the majority I 1 say N not t un til I 1 hae fri tande ide a chemical analysis of it lk 0 1 the real insurgents at afe extraordinary session of congress were not the few men who tried to represent the public interest faithfully and carry out the pledges of the party platform but the interesting group of private interests interest before whose threats to defeat legislation the leaders af the party bowed down for the sake of harmony it will be a queer state of the public mind when representatives of the people are successfully read out of a party in order to secure a solidarity organized around merely private interests soon after he arrived in washington senator dolliver went up to the white house to see president tatt taft he ile waited for some time in an outer office and then demanded of secretary carpenter the reason for the delay he ile was told that the president was busy and could not be seen until the next day the lowan iowan slapped his hat on his head and left telling mr air carpenter that when when the president wanted to see him he could send tor for him it is said the iowa senator now has a different opinion concerning the president presidents s feel toward towar dihe the insurgents EDWARD OUT OF DOOR KING no other burodean bur hur sovereign is so much a man of the open air as king edward who has just celebia celebrated ted his sixty eighth birthday anni HP is singularly energetic though not active in the sense of one who walks rapidly and far when there is nothing better available for an out of door occupation he does not de despise pise the gentle game of croquet though he has never fallen a victim to golf he is not afraid of rain and he actually revels in the brisk freshness of a heavy shower he hardly ener uses an amorella um orella for life out of doors he prefers clothes which will resist the 41 ram rain but he does not like a mackintosh clad in a long cloth cape which completely covers his other clothes he scorns to take shelter from even a tropical downpour he likes the sea not only in its fairer moods as when he is yachting in pleasant weather on the solent but also when he can watch it 41 in storm on his tour abroad this year the king was perpetually out of doors in the royal yacht gr or ashore in motor cars or carriages he picnicked wherever be lie could even at girgenti and pompeii malta was entirely traversed in the duke of Con connaught motor car few are more skilled in the management of a sporting estate than his majesty his head keeper mr air jackson constantly consults him and the king takes no mere surface interest in the intricacies of game ganie preservation with due regard to the rights of others he ile arranges arranged the beats personally rule and d with much skill and he enjoins a rather strict observance of all the rules he is an excellent marksman MONEY aey IS THE NEW LEADER the democrats in the united states sanate have a new leader he ile e hernando de soto 71 money aloney senator from mississippi the senate is pretty well made up of money these days having several multimillionaires on its salary list it often is called the Alillion millionaires aires club the new minority leader however has money in name only of course the mississippian who will ill lead the party of jefferson in the affairs to come com e be fore the senate has a few dollars but as corn com pared with elkins guggenheim depew and sev A eral others he is a poor man senator culberson of texas has been the mi nonty leader in the upper branch of congress foi for several years but soon after the lawmakers con for the sixty first firk session he announced that he would uld give up the honor because of his 1 health many thought senator bailey dailey also of texas enild w ild get the place but it went to senator money mr air money has had ample experience in ln congress to make him a goor gooe leader of his party forces he was first elected from thu the fourth mississippi district in 1875 and served 10 years he ile wag was out of tha house until 1893 and as again acain elected serving until 1897 while a member of the house h wa wac ecter in 1816 to the senate but did not take SIs Ns spat seat until march 4 esgo 1 |