The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1920-12-09
PRES|DEN INTELLECT
ASKS SENATE AID
Harding, in Farewell Address to
Colleagues, Pledges Teamwork.
TEARS SPRING TO HIS EYES
Ohioans Presence in the Body Marks
the First Time in History That
Executives Elect Has Attended
Its Sessions.

Washington, Dec. 7.--Standng at
his desk where he served for six years,
Presidentelect Warren G.. Harding
babe farewell TO the United States
senate and in a brief speech, choked
with emotion, expressed the hope that
he might have the cooperation of his
colleagues in the four vars beginning
March 4 next
Senator Harding's presence in the
senate marks the first time in his
tory that a President-elect has at
tended sessions of that body as a
member
Harding Bids Colleagues Farewell.
The galleries were chOked with peo-
pie and hundreds stood outside I'M
able to gain admittance, Senator
Hardng's voice was low and husky
as he began his farewell. His eyes
were dim with tears.
81 am pleased at this greeting, my
fellow members OF the senate" he
said. There is still greater salts
faction in having this opportunity to
say to you informally some of the
things in my heart which | could ut
ter in no other way. | recognize that
l am here today under somewhat I'M
usual circumstances, and there is
delicacy about 1t that one in my po-
sition cannot escape through some
form of self-effacement which does not
seem quite possible.
mo member of this body could be
more reluctant to leave it,
II say to the senate that | came
here with a very nigh respect for this
body, and am leaving it with greater
respect than that which | came. If
one could always direct his own polit-
ical fortunes to his liking | should
have preferred my membership here
to any office citizen may hold in
this republic or elsewhere in the
world.
Il like the freedom, the associates
the patriotic sense of responsibility
which abides here. am conscious of
the great place which congress holds
under our Constitution, and particular
ly sensible TO the obligations of the
senate
when my responsibilities begin in
the executive capacity | shall be as
mindful of the senate's responsibilities
as | have been Jealous of them as
member but | mean, at the same time
to be just as insistent about the re-
Sponsibilities of the executive.
"Our governmental good fortune
does not lie in any surrender at either
end of the avenue, but in the co-ordi-
nation and cooperation which becomes
the two in great and truly repre-
sentative popular government.
Senate oligarchy" Faction.
This brings me to the thought par
ticularly in mind. Something has been
said about the senatorial oligarchy.
OF course everyone here knows that
to be a bit of highly imaginative and
harmless fiction. But | do recognize
how essential is the helpfuIness of the
senate in the making of a successful
administration.
81 want to express today the wish of
colleague for the confidence and the
cooperation of the members of this
body in the four years which begin
next March 4. | do not limit this sin
cere request to this side of the aisle
One cannot promise agreement in all
things with an opposite party which
Is sometimes insistently wrong, but we
may find common ground in the spirit
of service, and hope for that agreeable
and courteous and ofttimes helpful
relationship with the opposite which
has added to the delights of fellow
service during the last six years.
1--WE are facing no easy task. We
have our full part in the readjustment
of human affairs, after the world tu-
multi. We have our tasks at home
we have our part in the inevitable
work of the civilized world.
81 am sure that the necessity of wise
solution will inspire us to work TO-
gether; TO take common counsel, to
NC 'oISi"ht VI ohV "hoticl anu give
the best which is in all of us to attain
the ends which become our republic at
home and will maintain its high place
among the nations of the earth.
with propriety / can not venture
upon any suggestions now, even
though | am speaking as member of
this body. Three months of the pres
ent administration remain, and would
have house and senate join cordially
In making them fruitful rather thnn
wasted months"