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Show SERENO E. PAYNE CALLED BY DEATH i , Washington, Dec. 10. Represent.! live Sereno E Payne of New York di-d suddenly of heari failure at his apartment here at 11:15 o'clock to-night. to-night. Mr. Payne had retited to his room apparently In robust health. He telephoned tele-phoned the apartment house olerk about 11 o'clock asking that a phyai cian be sen, for. When the I lerl reached the room the congressman ! was dying and life was extinct before the doctor arrived. Mr Payne, who was 71 years old. lived alone, and at midnight his body lay waiting for the coroner without friend or relative near. Ills wife died three years ago, and oo one could be found tonight who knew the addres of his only son. Members ot congress who had seen Mr. l'ayne on the floor of the nouse this afternoon, cheerfully active as usual, knew nothing ot his death for noro than an hour. representative from New York in ev ry congress since 1S88 except one , M- Payne was chairmen of the wayi and means committee and Republican lloor bader In 1909-1910, and directed the drafting of the Payne-Aldrich tariff tar-iff bill He was born at Hamilton. Y . June L't), 1843, and educated a. Rochester and Colgate. He practice law and was district attorney ot Cayuga county, and In 1 888 was elei i c,l a member of congress from tho Twenty-sixth district. Later his district dis-trict was the Thirty first, and finally final-ly he represented the Thirty-sixth. Hfc was a delegate to many Republican na'lonal conventions and in 1898 wae appointed a member of a joint high commission to negotiate B treaty with Canada. He had made his home at Auburn, N Y.. for years, though moU o: his time was spent in Washington As one of the foremost tariff au ihorities in congress, Mr. Payne wa B notable figure among the Republicans Republi-cans ot the house Ion? before he became be-came chairman of the ways and means committee and framed the or-lginul or-lginul of the Republican tariff doctrine doc-trine which stood until repealed by the Underwood law. When the Democrat.' gained control .if the house four years ago, Mr Payne was succeeded as Republican leader by RepresentaMve Maun of Illinois, who had been one of his lieutenants lieu-tenants during the tariff fights. oo |