The Carlisle independent., 1920-05-20
MARSHALL REPEATS STATE MENT THAT SENATE WAS
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AmpIifies Remark Which Aroused Ire of Anti-Saloon League At torney-Urges Law Enforce
 ment, However

Washington, May 17-Vice Presi- dent Thomas R. Marshall has presid- ed over the Senate of the United States for seven years and can there fore be expected to know whereof he speaks when he says that if prohibit tion had been submitted to a secret vote, it would not have gotten 20 votes in the Senate.
 The writer asked the vice president to amplify his statement which was originally made before the Virginia Bar Association.
 q want it to be understood at the outset" said the vice president, that believe in the enforcement of the constitutional amendment on prohi- bition. It is here and is the law and should be enforced. But l believe that if the amendment had been voted upon according to the individual con victions of members of the Senate it would not have gotten 20 votes.
 Now I am not imputing motives to anybody. I have never seen any Anti-Saloon League around Congress and wouldn't know them if they were there believe that the men who voted for prohibition and for woman suffrage, for instance, thought the peopIe--a majority of their constitu- ents-wanted these amendments pass ed. But that isn't my theory of rep resentative government
 IL :. ~I.. T the people of this country didn't in tend in my judgment that their repre- sentatives should be guided by their constituents, but that elected repre- sentatives should act for them. I don't think when people hire a lawyer that they should ask him to do what they want Advice should not come from the client to the lawyer but from the lawyer to the client. If the client doesn't like the advice, he can get another lawyer.
 That's the same with representa- tive government The people, in my opinion, should trust their representa- tives to act for them. If they don't like what their representatives do they can select others and thus repu- diate what has to be done.'
 Then If you had been member of the Senate, you would have voted against the prohibition amendment ?" the vice president was asked
 "Oh, yes," was the reply, land my views have been well known. Mind you, do not use liquor, never serve it at my table, and would to God that no one else did. But I object to the way prohibition has been imposed, though again I must insist now that it is here 1t must be enforced.
 "As a matter of fact. irrespective of the question of personal habits, members of the Senate whose views about the police powers of the several states coincide with my own surren- dered their opinions when they voted, simply because they thought it was the wish of the people of their states. That isn't leadership nor representa- tive government in my conception of the term.
 Indeed, lawyers like statesmen, are losing their influence because they are not telling their clients what is the law and what should be done In- stead. lawyers nowadays are listening to boards of directors and trying to accomplish what those boards want done-often against the best judg- ment of the lawyers themselves"
 I, IL. I L the Virginia Bar Association for the presidency-a compliment of the oc- acsion, no doubt, for Mr. Marshall isn't a candidate, active, passive, re- captive or even interested Maybe if he were he wouldn't express him. self so frankly.-Arkansas Democrat, Washington Cor.
 Senator Sheppard, the Prohi