idential Elector in 1892, and in 1896 was elected to Congress from the Fourth district, which place he has held without interruption till the present time (1908.)

On his election to Congress, Judge Adamson gave up the practice of law entirely, giving his whole time to the public service. He was assigned to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and, although a minority member, has aided in shaping important national legislation. He has rendered important service in resisting and defeating bad measures in committeework, while not showing on the floor, has been none the less effective.

He labored for ten years to secure aid from Congress to protect our seaboard against yellow fever, without the humiliating conditions which some people sought to attach to it. He and his colleagues finally saw their efforts rewarded by the enactment of a Federal Quarantine law by the Fifty-ninth Congress.

He resisted the extreme features of proposed pure food legislation, and assisted in defeating most of, what he considered, the obnoxious provisions of the bill, before it became a law. He ha* been active in providing light-houses, light ships, revenue cutters, marine hospitals, railroad and highway bridges, and in the development of water power and navigation, especially in the South. After eight years, he secured the enactment of a measure for the development of both the navigation and water power of the shoal rivers of the South, by permitting the landowners to develop and utilize the water power, the government reserving the right to put locks in the dams when built; so that when the shoals have all been improved the government can secure slack water navigation at small cost on all the rivers. He has secured numerous pensions for Indian and Mexican soldiers and their widows.

During the Fifty-fifth Congress, he suggested to the author amendments to the Hepburn Bill which enabled advocates of canal legislation to unite on and report a satisfactory measure.

In conference, on committee and in the House he was always a consistent advocate of canal legislation.

Judge Adamson also championed the present Pacific cable, making minority reports in three Congresses, once against a subsidy and twice against Government construction and ownership. The third time the bill came before the House directly, backed by the administration and the Committee on Rules, Judge Adamson, with Mr. Richardson, of Alabama, made the fight resulting in the construction of the Pacific cable. Judge Adamson's most effective work, however, has been done in connection with railway rate legislation. His speeches, his labors in committee, and work on the floor show careful study of the subject.

Mr. Adamson was a member of the sub-committee which prepared the bill creating the Department of Commerce and Labor. He succeeded in restoring the Labor name and feature after they had once been eliminated in committee, his party having demanded a Department of Labor but not of Commerce. Appropriations for the Columbus Post-office building and Chattahoochee River improvements have been secured by him, while his district has been made a net-work of rural delivery routes since he went to Congress.

Judge Adamson has retained the physical strength which marked his boyhood and his favorite exercise, when at home, is walking about the farm and working with his own hands. He declares he had better opportunities for general reading when farming and wagoning than he has ever enjoyed since.

On January 29, 1885, he married Miss Minna Reese, a daughter of Rev. A. C. Reese. They have three children.

Judge Adamson is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Royal Arcanum. His advice to the young is, "Never lose any time. Read, talk with intelligent people, form no habits but to work, to pray, to save money, and to respect your fellow men." Joseph T. DERRY.