The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21
ANOTHER FEUD
IN THE SENATE
German Likely to Resent the
Election of Rayner.
OTHER CASES OF JEALOUSY
SEVERAL SENATORS WHO DIS
LIKE THEIR COLLEAGUES.
Special to The Herald.l


Washington, Feb. 20.-The election OF
Isador Rayner to the United States
senate as a colleague Of Senator Cor
man win add another feud to the num-
Der now existing between senators rep
resenting the same state. Rayner is
essentially q business man and German
a politician. The two have been op-
pOnents in state politics, ard their diff
ferences viii undoubtedly continue in
/ the senate. There are many such feuds
/ in the senate. One of the most violent
| is that existing between the two SEN
ators from Arkansas, James ii. Berry
and James =. Clarke. So bitter is the
/ personal and political luminosity Of
! these two senators that when Clarke
| entered the senate last year ne refused
/ - be escorted 20 the presidents desk,
TO take the oath of office. by his col
/ league Mr.. Perry Berry was not quite
/ 50 bitter and offered to act as escort,
although plainly stating that the duty
would be distasteful
The controversies of Tillman and
/ NcLaurin, which finally ended i'm a per-
sonsl encounter. are recalled with in
! teIest. So bitter was the personal feel
/ ing between these two men that in lat
! ter days of McLaUrin's term, It WdS
| feared that there would be an encoun-
/ ger between them leading possibly to
/ fatalities.
New Hampshire furnished a lively
! feud fer many years between senators
/ Chandler and Gallinger, which only
1 ended with Chambers retirement from
/ the senate, watch was accomplished by
! Gallinger's aid. These two men did not
[ speak 10 each other except officially for
! several years while they served tOgeth-
~ 3 s-T,4a nd
/ idge, the two senators from Indiana,
! are officially and formally on goo9
/ terms, but beyond this their friendship
| does not extend. Each is jealous Of the
/ other and there Is constant friction over
/ Indiana patronage. Another is the feuC
! from Delaware. where Addicks and the
/ anti-Addicks factions have their rep
| resentatives in the senate in the per-
| sons Of Senators Alice and Ball.
There is said to be a mild rivalry ex-
/ listing between Senators Lodge and
! Hoar. representing the state of Massa
chusetts. The federal patronage Of the
state is placed almost entirely IN the
p! hands of Senator Lodge, who also con-
/ trolls, to a great extent, the diplomatic
and consular patronage OF the ADMIN
1 istration. Senator Hoar represents the
idealist and higher plane statesmen
of his state, and does not bother Win
patronage beyond lOCklES out lot the
interests Of personal friends While
disagTeeing on almost every important
public question, the personal relations
/ of Senators Lodge and HOar are friend
~, and undoubtedly they viii continue
I to represent Massachusetts IN the SEN
ate as long as they live and desire 10
do so. Senatorial feuds detract ma
terially from the influence of the states
represented by the disagreeing senator's
Delegations which are united and which
work in harmony accomplish more foI
( their constituents than where there IS
pickering strife. Western senator's have
/ learned the secret Of this and very few
western states furnish examples OF dis
agreeing delegations, In Idaho, Where
the two senators are opposed political
". they work in harmony on all except
ing political questions. Senator's Kearn'
and SmoOt of Utah also pull together
as sdo Warren ard Clark of Wyoming
Colorado's senatorial delegation is fair
" harmonious. and the oregon sen
ators act as a unit ia matters pertain
ing TO their constituents.