Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-25
SANE, LEVEL HEADED CITIZEN
Magazine Wrteup Describes Frank Brandegee Charter Oak Senator-Has Broad View on Public Questions Has Confidence of Colleagues of Both Parties

In the September issue of the Na-
 tienai Magazine, Joe Mitchell Chapple
 writing on A Charter Oak Seuator,
 has the following to say of Senator Frank B. Brandegee, whom he terms 8 sane, level l-headed citizen:
 In a recent trip through Connecticut,
 meeting people in all parts of the state it seemed that everyone joined in an expression of appreciation for Senator Brandegee. In view of the history of Connecticut one would not expect hts state to send a wild-eyed radical to the United States senate. By birth, instinct, education and environment, Senator Brandegee is just the kind Of a senator one would expect a sane, level headed. orderly and prosperous
 people to send te the United States senate He believes in progress, but he does not think that mere motion is necessarily progress. He thinks that motion in the right direction is progress, He does not advocate changes simply for the sake pf change In his opinion one ought to look before leaping, He does Tot be- Heve in keeping on the move for inc sake of mere motion. He has always gone straight ahead himself and has always moved upward, He graduated from Yale at the age of twenty ones al twenty -four he was chairman of the committee on cities and borough5 in
  tives; at twenty Live he was corpor- ation counsel of his home town; 8 thirty-five he was speaker of the Connecticut house. at thirty ight he was a representative in congress- and al forty he was United States sen ator. He served out the unaNpired term of four years of the late Sen ator Orville H. PIatt, and in January, 1909, he was reelected for a fui term of six years. His term of service will expire March 3, 1915, As 2 mem Der of the house of representatives during the 5Sth and 59th congresses, he served on the following commit tees: Naval affairs and expenditures in the department of agriculture Since he has been in the senate he has served on the committees on educa-, tion and labor. the Philippines, as oceanic Canals, on Pacific isl2nds and Porto Rico. and is now chairman of the committee on Pacific railroads, the ranking republican member of the committee on interoceaniC canals and a member of the important comHitteeS on the judiciary, on interstate com merce. the ranking republican mem Der of the committee on patents, in which subject Connecticut iS so great ly interested by reason of it's inYen- tive genius and it's large manufactur ing interests and the committee on  AS chairman of the committee on for est reservations and the protection If game he. put through the senate the White Mountain and Appalachian for est reserve bill He was chairman of the select committee of the Sena1e which investigated the so-calle1 Third Degree abuses He is q member of the special senate committee to inves- tigate the alleged foreign COmbIna- tion against our tobacco. Tn th 62nd congress he was a member of the re- publican steering committee. which de- cides the order of business. and in this congress he is a member o< the republican committee on committees which makes up the republican mem bership of the committees of the sen ate. He is one Of the Inner Circle and is consulted by the leaders as one of the senators whose judgment is sound and whose vision is clear.
 Broad View of Public Questions.
 Senator Brandegee takes T broad national view of public questions and Of the responsibilities of his position. He is well read and well trave.ed. He has travelled extensively in Europe and has crossed to the Pacific On every trans continental railroad line and vis- ited every state and territory in the west. including Alaska and the Ha~ wai1an islands. As chairman of the on inteYoeeanic canals ne has visited the IsthmUS of Panama several times, and is thoroughly fam and government of the stupe5doHs canal enterprise, He took strong ground against the exempti04S of American c0astwiSe skipping fF0fa the payment of canal tolls, first. berause he thought that provision violated the Hay -Pab91cef0t@ treaty: sec0fc. be- cause American c0aStW1Se shipping did not need the exemption: third, because he thought that every saip that passed through taR canal should help pay the gov eFn8aSsGt for tke work and expenditure made by the govern meht: fourth, because even if We had q right t0 make tha exemption under the treaty, the game was H0t worth the candie-it simply incurred the ll1- will and suspicion of OdF foreign friends. with no benefit t6 any body except the coaStwfse shipping interests which already had Q nonopoly--aa no foreign vessel under our laws, Is 2l- lowed to engage in our coastwIse trade The position he took upon this great question was supported by many of the ablest statesman international lawyers and publicists in the country and Senator Root ROW has bill pend ing to repeal this exemption which will probably be taken up at the next session of congress
 His Length Of Service.
 There are ninety-six United States sena tors, fifty-one democrats and for ty- five republicans, Of the forty-f there are only thirteen who have been in the senate longer than MT, Brandegee- Of the ffty-one democrats there are only nine who have been in the senate longer than Brandegee> That is to say of the entire membership of the senate, which is ninety-s six. only tWenty-two Q senators out of the ninety-Six were there when Brandegee entered the senate in December, 1905. In. the brief period Of seven years only one year longer than g single senatorial atOrs go out of the senate and seven To put ii in another way, more than three-fourt of the senators who were there seven years ago have left the senate Brapdegee, therefore, stands among the first quarter of the senate in point Of seniority. or con tinuous service Re has the conf dence of his colleagues on both sides of the chamber. One of the most prom inent senators of longest service told one of Senator Brandegees constit- l1enIs within few weeks that many a senator could be here for thirty y ears and not take so prominent a position as BTSndegee has attained This demonstrates why it is Of advan- tage to a state to keep it's senators in office as long as they represent their state with credit MT F3TaqAdegee Is n0E f0rty-edght years of age. If next thirty years he would theE be TO oJR lSo 1aS Hoa