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Show I EX-SENATOR'S PLIGHT t 1 - Tl Warner Miller, formerly United States sena- J ymi tor from Now Yor,t antl onco l)rmlnent In Re- yT """sYvtl Pl,hl'can politics as loader of the "Halfbrceds," 4t vY lins 'alIed as a result ot tho Martlnlquo disaster t VCjkl soveral years ago, "bankrupted by tho acts of tft "1 00(1 aml W'"nm Nelson Cromwell," as ono of ll1i?Vft5 1,18 fr,ondB expressed It Mt Ml 110 dld not own n f00t of ,and ,n Mart,nI(lU0 Wrj sv nor did ho havo a dollar Invested there, yet tho 'J'Vv. im A torr'D' explosion of natural forces that blow off 'imsMc 'lllllll tho top ot the mountn,n. wlpod a city from tho jyC3v iifli fnco of tlle eartn ,a,d wasto tho fields and caused RL( vvi wuon destruction among tho shipping caused his wi?' rn'n ycara 'Rter. Dcoply Interested in tho NIca- TJjRXjX ragua canal project, Mlllor had Invested much of r irZf. 1 his money In It. Tho Unltod States had virtually decided to undortnko tho work. Mlllor stood to malto a fortune Then camo tho disaster, which brought with It the fear ot U similar outbreaks In Nicaragua. Tho Panama canal peoplo had mcantlmo I como to their senses and wore preparing to make an equitable bargain. The t& Nicaragua canal project was dropped and Mlllor was deeply Involved. To " moot his obligations ho dlsposod of his pulp mill and lumber holdings and pinned his faith to tho Sierra Consolidated Gold Mining Co., a West Virginia corporation. Ho hold about ono-thlrd of Its total stock of $3,000,000, hoping to recover his standing through that, but tho mines novcr becamo producing 1 proportleB, although ho hold on for 12 years, and In tho end It camo to crnsh, bringing Miller down with It. Mlllor first camo Into prominent notice whon Sonator Roscoo Conkllng m and Thomas C. Piatt resigned their sents In tho sonate, to appeal to tho poo- plo for their Indorsement. They failed to receive tho Indorsement they sought, and Mlllor becamo senator to succeed Conkllng. Ho novor did any- ' thing romarkablo In tho senato, and retired almost as. obscuro a. porsonago I as when ho entered. |