Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-11
Politics Crowds Out Legislation
PARTISAN ORATORY MARKED SESSION OF SENATE
SPEECH FOR HUGHES
Political Debate Continued for Several Hours-RepubIicans Assaults Called Forth Democratic Defense.

Washington, Aug. 10.-Issues of the national campaign crowded legislation into the background today in the sen ate, and virtually the only progress made with the pending shipping bill was the reading of the amended meas 1 ure, sandWiched between republican assaults on the democratic adminis- | tratiOn and democratic defense of par 1 ty achievements.
 Speech in Support of Hughes. The flood of partisan oratory was started by Senator Townsend (repub lcan), who made a speech supporting the charge of Charles E. Hughes that E. Dana Durand was retired as di- rector of the census at the beginning of the present administration for pOlit- iCaI reasons. Senator Townsend as serted that Secretary Redfeld of the commerce department was mistaken in stating that MT. Durand voluntarily resigned.
 Congratulated by Democrats. Several democrats, including Sena- tors Stone, Hardwick and Hoke Smith, extended their congratulations to the republicans for having at last found an issue in the Durand incident Sen- atOr Smith added that his only critic ism for the president and secretary of | commerce was that they did not open ] ly remove Durand, because he was a man utterly without executive ca pacity."
 Civil Service Violations.
 Senator Penrose (repubIican) joined ! in the discussion with an attack on
 civil service of the administration and ! the hypocrisy" of the administration ! heads in the Durand case. Ignoring i entirely the shipping bill, Senators 1 Oliver and Jones Crepublcans) and | other senators on both sides cOnttn- ] ued the political debate for several l hours. Senator Jones said democratic | senators in first determining to post l pOne action on the child labor bill had l set the stage for President Wilson to | make a sensational visit to the capitol and in a theatrical appeal to senators l have it go out to the country that his i insistence brought about passage of | the bill"
 i Replies to Hughes Utterances. 1 Senator Lewis, the democratic whip, 1 replying to MT. Hughes recent refer ! ence to President Wilson's too proud i to fight" speech, said that those who 1 admired the Independent intelligence l Of the republican nominee deplOred 1 that he had surrendered to the yelp i and bark of Blanche, Sweetheart and ] Tray in the refrain of Too Proud to | Fight charging use of the expression 1 as a confession of weakness or cow | ardice on the part of the president"
 "Too Proud to Fight" q had hoped" said the Illinois sen l ator that Judge Hughes might be | saved from the exhibition of ignorance | displayed by so many lesser but anX- | ious assaiIantS of that which they did i not understand. The expression too proud to fight used at Philadelphia 1 by the president to- an audience of | courageous, Christian people, was the ! adaptation of an old quotation from | the classiCs-ancient as the scriptures. | Its meaning is known to be that a brave ! people, filled with the consciousness of i their right and conscious of their su- i periOr strength, were too proud to | fight where a concession of what was
 riSht would bring justice to all. The | president presumed on the intelligence ! of his audience to understand that. | T often regret that President Wilson
 cannot find it compatible with his | sense of the dignity of his position to 1 sometimes enter into explanations that 1 he might demonstrate to the great
 mass of his fellow mankind how ! prompted by malevOIenCe in some in | stances, and by ignorance in others,
 are the series of assaults upon him."
 Shipping Bill Finally Taken Up. The shipping bill finally was taken 1 up again just before adjournment | when Senator Jones began a, speech | on it with the announcement that he would not be offended at senators | whose business drew them from the | chamber. Most of the members took | him ac his word and left.
 Senator Jones charged that the bill with it's $5O,OO0,OO0 appropriation, was
 a violation of the economic promise of 1 the democratic platform of 1912. He
 estimated that more than $75O,000, ,0Q0 l in all would be needed to create the ] tonnage necessary to care for American l shipping.
 l ADRIFT THREE DAYS
 IN SMALL BOATS