Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-24
LACK OF l DIGNITY IN DfBA1f |uo11s of Congress Do Not Ring With Classic Ian
 guage. psH0RT AND UGLY' ,s.,t to Be Made to Correct This and Tendency to Use Slang and
 Rillingsgate.
bssHoRT AND UGLY"
(Ry SIDNEY ESPEY)

Wasil ngtcn, Nov. 23.-Congress is n,,ai.y the doctor for all tn ngs of .,,,;c interest, but when that body .o..s ,ext month, somebody is going :, r,ote the old mo,ton Physician sea, byself,' and endeavor to re- .tors to the debates in Congress ,omathing of the dignity which was am. ant in .ihe days of Dan el Web .ar ,ohn C. Calhoun and Henry Clay
 ,nst outs'de the chamber of the uop;. of Representatives, there stand, statues cf a score or more of orotors .whcse words nave been per ,e.nsted as examples of parliament tary language.
 Vel inside of the chamber too oft on daring the past decade there have heen sounded accusations openly i'm men,ng the motives and veracity of mhIic men, and tle "short-ugly" has frequently been passed.
 Last sess on a member designated a prominent government official as "a refrigerated vulture of the dead" That accusation stands upon the nsges of ple congressional record for .pture generations to read.
 This same member has been un- .spsrlng in his vitnperation and has hesoad Insults upon men in public i l'fe, safely protected by the constitu- tional provision which safeguards a member of congress from the conse- quences of anything he may utter l during a debate on the floor of either l House or Senate.
 Just before the House adjourned, it was necessary for Speaker Clark, A 1 parliamentarian of the old school, to admonish one member for what the speaker cons dered the incorporate use of language.
 It used to be regarded as bad for one member of th's body to impugn the truthfulness of another on the floor of the house. But those times appear to have passed said the veteran Congressman.
 Fo: some time past the tendency has Leen to bring the expressive but come times objectionable language Of the masses to the floor of both the house and the senate.
 "Piahead,' is the epit,,et applied Dy one Congressman to a newspaper man who had WI tten a story to E which the member d'd not subscribe. AS matter of fact while members or Congress rarely pass the lie one 10 mother, they frequently charge lalslslcation to men outside of the government service, and protected by 'neir position, they are safe from be- Ing called to a personal account.
 one member of Congress who has akea a decided stand aga nst the careless use of epithet, has taken the uouole to jo; down from time to ume the most objectionable of the Nofcs used during the past session. ne declsres that it is his in ention v read them W tn cut comment at 5 lrst opp-ttunity after Congress 'ecsh' h'enes, and is hs opinion 'Ast his will dc muca toward resort Ms 70 debates :t least a portion of
 v aisn ty of the old regime.
 Aslde from the l-rom scuous use ep'thets on the flor of ahe House auu Of t-'e Senate. the American people are fast approaching a crisis v language. Slang may be expres- 'se' but if used to a great extent, uay do far more harm than good.
 Sets Bad Example.
 0l'uld you, who are perhaps a s'lse born American, say, upon
 ae'slng close decisicn in base '' game That umpire ought to
 'yhched." you perhaps would en- s' . 'a'l no personal animosity against 'pe official of the team.
 Da. you see what happened in Ha-
 na a short t'me ago under like . instances. Umpire O'Brien, of 10 National League. was officiating