Arizona republican., 1916-08-27
The EpistIe of Henry to the Phoenicians

-I The tPistle of-henry to the Phoenicans
 The mails yesterday morning were laden with -1nimeographed letter from United States Senator Ashurs his constituents Phoenix The letter a volumnous one, equal five single-spaced type written pages. Even in that great volume what has been accomplished by MT. Ashurst is only briefly told. We read it with amazement and admiration and our first impression that have United States senators than need: Why should this gov ernment maintain 96 senators at $70OO year ca .h at the cost of their mileage the of their secreat and other contingent expenses. when have MT Ashurst doing all the work himself? The other 95 supernumeraries leeches the public treasury
 We learn from Mr. Ashurst's that he not only executed the senate program, much of it as was worth executing but in odd moments he lent helping hand to his colleague, Senator Smith, and Representative Hayden their puerile efforts to be doing something.
 We find. however, that part of the work of MT Ashurst was ex post facto that is to say it was done before he became senator according the record For instance, gather from the third paragraph of his letter that after entering the the bill establishing the parcels under consider ation and he saved it by making one of the principal arguments in favor of the constitutionality of same" The parcels post law, by the way became ef fective on January l, 1913 more than two months be- fore the accession of Mir Ashurst the It possible that the activities Of Mr. Ashurst related an amendment to the parcels post law which never should have been made and under which a barley was shipped from Mesa to Snowflake great loss to the government but great profit to the shipper who the purchaser of barley the 5 chant to whom it consigned and star route carrier who received more for hauling his barley from Williams Snowflake than he had paid the government for postage
 Another post facto achievement of Mir Ashurst was his vote for the creation of an industrial com mission which law went into effect August 23 1912 five months before MT. Ashurst was elected to the senate. But the democratic national campaign com mittee has included these long past performances in the list of achievements of the democratic admins tration; there is why MT. Ashurst may not claim sharesof the glory republican legislation
 There is item which if we had been MT Ashurst, would have omitted q led the fight in behalf of the confirmation of D Brandes to be associate justice of the supreme court the United States" We do not that MT Ashurst was en- gagged in an unworthy work but that he was un- worthly engaged in it. He attracted great deal of and in speech in the senate, of the action of demo- cratic colleagues in opposing the nomination of MT. Brandes in committee. It transpred that he spoke hearsay information that the acts described by him had not occurred; that he had attended the meetings of the committee but had heard only street gossip. He brought upon himself such fierce senatorial rebuke had never before been adminis- tered by senator to a colleague of his own party.
 We would detract from the real record of MT. Ashurst in the senate. He has participated in much excellent legislation and has taken an active part in it. We merely making friendly correction of his record