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Show James R. Mann Giant of House Dies Washington. Death Thursday ended end-ed the legislative career of Representative Representa-tive JamC3 U. Mann of the Second Illnois district, long rated as a gaint of the house. News of Mr. Mann's death was a shock to the house, for few of his most intimate frieDds knew of his illness, beyond the statement that he had been confined to his home by a cold. Minority leader In the house during the eight years of Deni. ocratic control, Representative Mann saw the speakership go to Gillette of Massachusetts when his party again came into power there, but if the failure fail-ure of his party in caucus to select hun as speaker left any tinge of bitterness bit-terness with the veteran member, his friends never saw an indication of it. Declining then the proffered leader, ship of the magority, Mann thereafter continued to exercise a power equal to if not greater than that of the speaker himself as chairman of the committee on committees, which controls con-trols the makeup of the house committees. |