The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-12-09
HARDING URGES
congressman tn
WORK TOGETHER
Asks Cooperation With Will
son, Sits By Cummins and
Makes Over La Toilette at
Senate Reopening.
BY LOWELL MELLETT.

Onieea News Staff CORRESPONDENT.
senator has declared. he'd rather be
senator than president. Not many Of
them have been believed, but there
may be something in it. Monday a
~PfeSldent-elect added his assurance
on the point.
II one could always direct his own
poiitlcal fortunes to his liking,
siould nave preferred my member
SNIP here to any office a citizen NAV
iold IN this republic or elsewhere in
the world declared Warren G. Hard
ing Monday afternoon in his farewell
speech TO the Senate. And all around
lhat august chamber there were
grave mods of acquiescence. The
agreement seemed to be unanimous
mat truer words never had been
spoken. (Senator Hiram Johnson was
absent.}
1t was a nice thing for the presi-
dent-elect to say and the senators
liked it. They liked everything else
he said, too, save that some of them
may have had their doubts concern
ing this sentence: "Three months Of
the present administration remain
and would have the House and Sen
ate join cordially in making them
fruitful rather than wasteful
months"
FeIicitous Occasion on the Whole.
On the whole it was, a f%elicitous oc-
casion, from the m Tom Heflin,
new senator from Alabama and earli-
est arrival on the scene, presented
his broad, rounded pan of white
vnct 70 the. IoJ;oL{ol <rono "a
leries. The galleries were crowded.
Ever he stairway aisles We're &C.
cupied by folks glad to sit on the floor
to witness the unusual scene.
Only the presidents row. half a.
dozen seats reserved for the disposal
OF the occupant Of the White House
was vacant and presently a distin-
guished locking gentleman in an i'm
maculate mustache came in and occu-
pied one of them. His appearance,
furnished a debate as to whether he
were David Jayne Hill or not David
Jayne Hill. No decision had been
rendered when the appearance Of
Senator Harding ended the argument.
Pomerene Marches Harding In.
A minute or two before noon-or
moo meridian, in careful senatorial
phraseology = Pomerene, Harding's
democratic colleague from Ohio,
fished the president-elect out Of the
crowded republican cloak room where
he had been holding an informal re-
ception and led him into the cham
Der. The galleries. republican and
democratic, greeted his coming with
propmpt and earnest applause. Sena-
tors came from all the corners of the
floor to shake his hand and DON the
nations new hero was almost hidden.
You could tell where he was by jerky
heaving of the little mass of men
about the cloak room door, indicating
the business Of cordial handshalifng
at the center Of the group
Harding Embarrassedly Happy.
AS the crowd began to dis~integrate
Harding was seer with his hand first
on the shoulder of ore senator and
then on the shoulder OF another
marking the change that November
2 has wrought. it was always the
Senator Harding's hand on another
mans shoulder, never another mans
hand on Harding's shoulder. Once
or twica a hand was seen slipping
gently up the president-elect's back
as though for the accustomed m
brace, but the mind that controlled
the hand always brought it back.
Harding's face was flushed. He
seemed em~barrassedly happy.
Vice President Marshall's gavel
fell and the members Of the Senate
stood silent during prayer.
Harding Sits BY Cummins.
Harding took his seat by Senator
Cummins. His response to his name
during the roll call drew a renewal
Of the handc1apping. Following the
induction Of the senate newcomers,
Heflin and Carter Glass, of Virginia,
into office, Senator Lodge proposed
hat they hear from the president
elect and they heard as above re-
corded.
Words scarcely can convey the cor
diality of the atmosphere that fol-
lowed the speech. Perhaps one Incl
dent will make clear how thorough it
was. Senator La Toilette, stormy
radical, who fears neither senator nor
man. Joined the line Of those who had
not vet shaken the president-elect's
hand. Ahead of him were clerks,
pages. members of the House.
Harding "Makes Over" La Toilette.
The gallery expected to see a sit
uation brief and formal as La Fol-
lette and Harding Joined hands. In
stead it was the most convincing
demonstration of affection of the aft.
ernoon. They shook hands three
times. Harding patted La Toilette on
the shoulder. La Toilette patted
Harding on the elbow. Harding
grasped the lapel of La Follette's
coat. La Toilette drummed his fin
gers on H~arding's chest-that, is, he
undoubtedly thought it was Hard
ing's chest, but La Toilette is a short
man and the point where his palm
rested while his fingers drummed was
the outer curve of Harding's convex
'front.'.
II was indeed q Joyful moment.
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