6 JANUARY 1923, Page 12

One of the most picturesque personalities in the American Congress

will be Mr. James Couzens, the multi- millionaire, a former partner of Henry Ford, who leaves the mayoralty of Detroit to suceed Senator Newberry. In 1903 Mr. Couzens, so the Boston Globe informs us, was earning $1,800 a year as a clerk, but he believed in Henry Ford and put $2,500 (I500 in pre-War currency), most of which was borrowed, into the Ford concern. When he withdrew from the Ford Company he was paid $30,000,000 (t6,000,000) for his holding. The new senator from Michigan at the age of fifteen was a newsboy on the Erie and Hudson trains, but it was not till he became chief of the Detroit police that he came into national prominence, and his successful campaign to " clean-up ". the city of Detroit received much praise.