South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-12
SENATOR STONE
SAYS 'SHUT-UP''
Man From Missouri in Favor
OF Americans Keeping Still
at This Time.
lnternatIonal New. Service

International News Service.
WASHINGTON. MAY I'm
these DAYS of international crisis.
grave situations. strained relations
and threatened war no one has
done 80 much as 10 keep congress
calm and in an attitude of Let VIII
so do it," than Sen William Joel
Stone. Gum Shoe Bill" OF Mississ-
ipi. chairman of the senate commit
tee on foreign relations
This is a good time for every
one 10 keep his head cool and his
mouth shut. has been Stones motto
since the war broke out. Every time
congress. deluged 10y peace and war
propaganda. has threatened TO
blow up" kick over the traces.
or do other things congresses of the
past were so fond OF doing in de-
rance Of presidents. Sen. stone has
been on the job with a heavy wet
blanket 10 smother out the flame
before il got beyond control.
Several times, notably when the
Gore and McLemore resolutions
were before congress. senators and
congressman got unruly and threat
ened no longer To stand hitched,"
but in the end. after much oratory
had been spouted, Sen. Stone and
/ his henchmen always checked the
| insurgent movements. 1t often re-
/ quired all his skill to keep the sem
ate corralled, but the political deX-
/ terity which earned him the name
I Gum Shoe Bill" back i'm Missouri
I enabled him to apply sedatives to
/ congressional nerves whenever the
/ war alarms were sounded.
( Is Connecting Link.
I Stone has been the connecting
/ ink between the white house and
/ the capitol since international crises
came into vogue and diplomatic re-
lations began to be strained. What
! ever the president has wanted con-
| gressional leaders to know about the
inside" OF international situations
! he usually told Sen. Stone. When
| ever congress became FESTIVE and
| the president wanted 10 get a line
on its feelings, the president called
| Sen. Stone and interviewed him. How
accurately Sen. Stone sized up"
| congressional situations has been
| demonstrated by the failure Of all
measures seeking 10 interfere with
the presidents handling of diplo-
matte affairs.
] Sen. Stone doesn't often agree
with the president. His radical dis
| agreement with the president on the
| submarine issue is a matter of his
tory. But he believes with the pres
| ident that congress should take no
/ action that might embarrass dip
| lomattS negotiations and on this
LASTS ~ has consistently 'squelched'
every budding movement to infu-
ence executive action in the coun-
try's foreign affairs He has fire.
quently jeopardized friendly rela-
| tons with some of his most init
mate colleagues by putting his foot
Gown hard on their proposals even
when he personally sympathized
with them.
Aimed at Peace.
Through all the present turmoil
in which he is playing such "A CON
spicuous part, Sen. Stone has his
aims conferred upon peace He
would like to see everything settles
bloodlessly and congress adjourned
before the middle OF the summer
He would like 10 spend long vaca-
ton back in Missouri. where folks
don't think of him as the chairman
Of the committee on foreign rela-
tons but as their friend "Old Bill
stone" He has two main hobbies
mis- grandchildren. and fried chick
on-three times a day-and there
isn't any place in the world like
Missouri for both, he says.