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Show MAMP CLARK, FORMER SPEAKER OF HOUSE, DIES I 11SE VOTES ll OF S9000 JtO MRS. CLARK Services to Be Held Kdiy in Rotunda of I U.S.Capitol Mini COMES 2 DAYS .before RETIREMENT SLoricJ of Long Career Re WJed in Congressman's Dying Momerts Ha rUrmrr.' from the huc HjLuV. srve Lbs? i I w m m ILK UK Bw i t I H7wr who epr'n. .1 Hfcir sl lgV ' A fin 1 I - I ii , ii aop- . UK i E v . IsK . Hi.vl ill i :i IN. , I 1 1 Ht ' Svr ' rri Clark nam Kl . M N n.' it SB i J--. !: Mlssa irl. All sIl 'W1 :'dr. of Warrenton, I 1 I iB r' - iouh since that I K ' ' ' r sVV1'' I 1 l I I I N I ION -""Baltimore in lsi:, hamp EB tver-.tv -seven ballots for station ar candidate !ir pre-LJ4'-' 1 r ruajorlt; uii nine g P-,-r to iho fln I naming of J Will,.- ; n,. -uo ;hlr.lH Convention alone prevented nomination. The honoi f;ir,ythuf paid him u the PSM of his public life. In r ier who 8 : ihe DemocrstU no ill P,t:" 1 ha lD Majority of the votes In the J vtatin -L BlV s vn u iv Ba LbbbbbbbbI th ' IssssV B- T' ' 'Imont and Charles F ' gpmk nuru that non.- of the Bti- ' "ntloned w.r. for 7 holr. but thut Ih,. tir.lt Bf,,vx m ion i n i. , th k U'J w"n VV entorvj the I . , on U.tfsUtiv,. policies 'm j w' th repeal Of thw IHBSlBBHiBBBHsgHIBJKaBSiiBKVBBlHgelC HBggJglBg HOUSE VOTES SUM OF $9000 TO MRS. CLARK (Continued from Pnge One.) Panama tolls exemption, which Speaker Speak-er Clark opposed sue. i ssf uily. The failure of his candidacy at Baltimore Bal-timore never ceased to be the disappointment disap-pointment of Nlr. TUrk's life. He refused re-fused nomination us vice president and told the house on the eve of his defeat de-feat that he preferred to remain as speaker Ills election to the speakership of the house came in the 62nd congress, prior to the Baltimore convention, and It was by a united Democracy in recognition rec-ognition of the contest Mr. Clark had made against the rule of Speaker Joseph Cannon. Mr. Clark hnd served in everv congress since and Including :he 53rd. in 1893. except the o4th ! when he was beaten, BORN in KENTUCKY Although Champ Clark was knovwi a?, a Missourlan he was born In An-derion, An-derion, Ky., on March 7. lSR! He was christened James Heauchamp Clark, but early in I'fe he reduced Ihls to Champ Clark Ills first work was I as a farm hand, clerk In a general i store, and on a country newspapor. He was educated at Kentucky university uni-versity nnd Bethany college, and the Cincinnati law school For a abort time he was president of Marshall col-liege, col-liege, and, at 22, held the record of hemp he-mp the .ouilgest college president In the United States- In 1 876 he moved to Missouri whom he took up the I Study and practice of law, and be-Oame be-Oame prosecuting attorney in Pike ! county. His Next step wa Into the Missouri legislature where he framed the Missouri primary law. an antitrust anti-trust statute, and an Australian ballot bal-lot law. He was permanent chairman Of the Democratic national convention in SI Louis In 1904 and headed the committee that notified Alton B Par-Iker Par-Iker of his presidential nomination. MM Ml I U.VCHI'.S. lie was first sent to the national .forum In 1 893 Although then regarded re-garded as ' green," his strength In the house developed i.apidly When John Sharp Williams left the house for the i senate. Representative Clark was made mlnorlt leader by virtue of his seniority sen-iority on the ways and means committee commit-tee which drafted the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill. His service on that committee com-mittee in trying to keep duties down won him the regard of the Democrn's and his speech of five hours against the hill was one of the notable addresses ad-dresses of that congress. Mr. Clark's sincerity, friendship for opponents and adherents alike, his fairness as a presiding officer and his knowledge of hlstorv. his love of clean anecdotes and humorous stories, and his marveiouslv retentive memory tanked with his attributes of leadership. leader-ship. He welded the minority Into a irtuai Democratic unit when he was minority leader, ami after the ousting of Cannon, which robbed the speakership speaker-ship of many of It! powers, he divided with Majority leadei I nderwood the control of the Democrats in the house and thev formed a great working team. .l W I IN si rUBE. Phu.alR he vv.i! a giant of a man., standing over six feel two inches ir. height ami weighing a trifle more than |