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Show FRIEND OF FARMER GETS BIG SENATE POST I - M. jk -M. A A i A A A A A A A A I I M'CUB IS 1 GIVEN PLACE IJ PENROSE m Senator Whose Interests Are I Agricultural Heads Most J Powerful Committee I SOME APPREHENSION I New Leader Able and Bears 1 All Earmarks of Sturdy j ; Westerner Iflfl WASHINGTON'. Jan B Senator) I flH McCumber of North Dakota, was se- rfgH lected today by the committee on com- I :H mittees as chairman of the senate fi- I nance committee, to succeed the late gadgfl' Senator Boies Penrose Si-nator Krc-Imphuysen. Krc-Imphuysen. Republican, New Jersey, fl was selected to fill the vacancy on the H finance committee H Elevation of Senator McCumber to fl the chairman of tho finance committee j Hh win leave vacant the chairmanship of! 3fcy! tho pensions committee, but the com- ; fVJ mlttces deferred selection of a chan - H man of thai committee V By HAKRY HUNT. W WASHINGTON, Jan 9. A fan, in boy from the northwest HV A United Stales senator whose con- BtltuentS are 1)0 per cent farmers wlthi Hs Miterests exclusively agricultural. WB Such is Porter J. McCumber of; V North Dakota, who, by tho death of j M Senator Boles Penrose of Pcrrnsyl"1 B vnnla, moves into the chairmanship of the powerful senate finance com- j 7f m It tee. Wm A man whose personal financial In-' terests He wholly In farm investments. I HF Wherefore there Is a great to-do in eastern banking, business and politi-: LW tal circles. Tho horrible possibility J Bf of a go erni.i' nt dominated I.;. 9 friends of the farmer Is discussed on , i i-ry side. w Just whnt sort of Individual, then, is this man from the wast who cauSSS such Chills of apprehension along the spine r,i Wall street EARM IRKS I t ui si A tall, angular westerner, florid and I Y.lnd-bealcn of face with sparse taw-i ii y hair and a htsh-pttehed nasal drawl suggestive of his Scotch fore-j bears A man who despite his 23 years, in the senate, still bears the ear- marks of the country .school teach-j er .nvl .small town lwyer. Careful above the average; In his dress, slow and deliberate In speech. rbose in debate Born 04 years ago near Crete. 111.,! he moved as a child with hifl par-j ents to a homestead near Kuche-'Uer. j Minn He went to the country school I and later to the Rochester high' school. Then he taught school win-1 lers, working on the farm during vacations, va-cations, until , ho had money enough j to ontr the r livorslty of Michigan.- j sTahis pit (TK i;. Out of college, set up in the' practice of law at Rocht ster but th J Red Iiivei Valley country was Just' opening up and hs saw prospects of I 1 viler opportunities there. So hoi hung out his shingle first al Lisbon.; - .1'. but soon transferred it to Wahpetori. g in 188G he became a member of! the territorial house of represents, lives, then state's attorney. Iu 189! , ho won election to in-- I'nlled States i benate and has served continuously I since. i McCumber scored his fir. , killing; is a senator by getting through th,;j pure food and uruge aol. As a new senator, ho was shelved ou tho im onspiLuouti oommittee on manufactures The food and drug' bill was referred to this committed with the idea of shelving it, too. II 1 1) PASS n McCumber took his committee I work and the bill seriously He got! bo much general support i"or the lil' stirred up, that there was nothing to do but pass it. McCumber also scored with the first prohibition legislation to pa ' the federal congress. He Introduced! the bill prohibiting the sale of liquor In the capltol and on government ; reservations, in passing that, com-i g i ess -took its first real step toward, national prohibit ion McCumber has one dissipation fishing. Saturday afternoons he will! hie to southern Maryland. There he I ushes a long as he can see to haul t hem in. Next to fishlng; motoring is his favorite recreation and he always js his own chauffeur! He doesn't like poker, plavs an In-1 different hand at bridge and thinks1 of golf aa cow-pasture pool. WHY HE'S 1T3ARED. Just why lhe.ru should be alarm' among high-protectionists at McCum- ber'elOVatiOn may not be plain Kot ' he Is an open and avowed high-pro- I tectlonlsl. But McCumber wants protection afforded equally t0 agriculture and I Industry Captains of Industry who have sought protection for their products have opposed tariffs on farm products because they desired low foodstuffs for their workers so wages could be kept low "Tho American market," saya McCumber, Mc-Cumber, "belongs of rlRht. to th-I th-I American farmer, to the exclusion of I every- other farmei on earth, until ( ontinned n Page Tn i M'CUMBER IS GIVEN PLACE PENROSE HELD (Continued from Page One) farming, taken one year with another, an-other, Is mado lust ns profitable, measured by the labor expended, ,is any other great industry of tho country coun-try " I I Thore is the foundation stone upon which his leadership of the finance committee will rest. Prosperous farmers, he contends. are just as essential as prosperous steel barons or motor magnates. I l-UVOnS SOLDIER UONUS The fight for a soldier's bonus takes on renewed interest becauso of Mc- Cumber's elevation. In the last session ho was tho lead- lng' advocate of substantial aidi through a bonus to veterans of the' world Wfir. As chairman of the finance com- mittee McCumber will be able to" urge with greater power his proposals pro-posals for soldier .- 'km' nn-l for the financial .irrangcmviid tc provide tho funds. |