The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-12
SENATE is SHOCKED
BY ATTACK ON GOLF
Made by Senator ChiIton'S
Press While Senator Gof
is at Home III.

WASHINGTON, August l2.-As a.
sample of senatorial courtesy" as
well as the other kind, as interpreted
by United States Senator William b,
Chiffon, West Virginians in the capital
are standing aghas at the insinuatinG
attack he permitted his press agent
to make on his distinguished colleague
Senator Nathan GOff who, for over
month now, has been confined to his
home in Clarksburg with a serious
attack Of illness
The article which has shocked West
Virginians here as about the meanest
and most discourtCOus, not to say un-
derhand fling that one senator could
aim at another and the one timed at
bedrddcn with illness. was yarn
about pension bill for the relief OF a
West Virginia woman, introduced by
Congressman Nicely in the House, be-
ing missing from the batch of pension
bills reported from the Senate COM
mittee for passage The story went on
reciting that had Senator Goff been
present he could have seen to putting
the bill in, but he was not and Senator
Chiffon, who was in one OF the ante
rooms, his attention being called to it
came onto the floor and had the bill
inserted in the report thus Saving a
pension for a poor West Virginia
woman" etc This doesn't begin to
convey the insinuating insults which
the article contained, but it is suttic-
lent to indicate the character Of the
screed.
Had Senator GOf been we'll and able
to be present on the occasion COM
planned of, he would not have known
any more about this particular bill
than any other one to which his at
tention had not been specifically called
There is nothing in the bills or the
report Of them which indicates where
the proposed benClciaries reside. Be-
sides, this was a House bill introduced
by Congressman NeGly, a Democrat.
1t is the Senate custom that bills of
this kind introduced by Democratic
congressman, when passed by the
House are to be looked after by Dem
oCratic senator's, from the same states
as the congressman when possible, or
by Senate friends from other states
when that arrangement isn't possible.
Then, the senator knows only about
what he is expected to look after when
his attention is specifically called to it,
the underling he fastened to the res
cue, and not satisfied with the false
and fulsome flattery Of himself from
his publicity agent, fails to censor or
delete a case and covert attack upon
his distinguished colleague, whose
long-continued illness no one knows
better about than he
In the pension business which forms
so large and so conspicuous a bunk"
and then ninety-nIne times out OF 100
his secretary attends to it. 1t is stoo
small a matter and too routine to re-
uuire his spending any time over 1t.
1t is about a hundred to one shot that
Senator Chiffon did not know anything
about the commission Of this particular
bill, propably never heard OF its eX-
istence until his attention was called
to 1t by some secretary whose employe
had a political interest in seeing 1t
20 through, but probably himself nev-
er had heard OF it. But upon word from
back in the dee-strict," Senator Goff's
office has efficiently and successfully
looked after the bills from the House
which were introduced by the Republi-
can representatives from West Vir-
ginia, in addition to the bills intro
duced by Senator Goff himself. He
hasn't any more to do with a Neely or
a Littlepage bill than he has to do
with any other Democrats bill. In
saving the Neely bill as to boastingly
and insultingly narrated, Senator Chill
ton did only what he Is expected to do
by his Democratic colleagues in the
House. Senator Goff has time and
again saved a bill Of a Republican col
league from West Virginia in the
House, but he wouldn't stand for any
cheap advertisement being made OF It,
1t is what is expected Of him, what he
is there for and what is done.