New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-08-12
WASHINCTN MAN
GIVES HIS IMPRESSIONS
OF SENATOR BURSUM
BY Col. Winfield Jones.
ial TO State Record:

August 8.-New Mexico should be
proud of Senator Holm. Bursum, OF
Socorro. for Senator Bursum II TIE
blIet space of Il lew mon'hs has
ach eyed a remarkable success and
made a really marvellous record as
a member of the L. 5. Senate. Not
in many years has the staid old Ser
ate seen such a live wire" hustler,
and a mar who wastes no time IN
going after what he wants Tor his
stare and the Nation,
Usually it takes a new senator a
couple Of years to get the hang OF
the procedure in the Senate and to
begin. to make his influence felt in
the greatest deliberative body in the
world. Even the foremost men
in the Senate, men who have served
from eighteen 20 twenty-five years,
il their first terms attracted scant
attention and did little in a legisla-
tive way.
Not so, however, in the csae OF
Senator Bursum, Bursum took the
oath OF office April II. That about
-four months ago. In these few months
the man from Socorro has S o i'm
pressed his personality IN the Senate
and has achieved so much in a legis-
lative way and in other ways that
he is already considered, not only by
the public at large but by senatorial
leaders, as one of the really big men
OF the Upper House. The New Mex
leo senator has made in four months
a record for ability and far-seeing
craftsmanship that is most unusual
Senator Bursum's success may be
ascribed to his native ability and his
long experience in public affairs in
his state and in the Nation,
through his membership on the Re
publican National Committee. Begin
ming with nothing years ago Bursum
has worked his unfaltering way into
a commanding position in American
New Mexico sought to be,
and doubtless is, proud of her old
time rugged pioneer citizen who so
ably represents her in Washington.
A new senator is always gagged by
his ability to get things done in the
Senate for his State and his country
The writer ventures TO say that no
lcvy senator in the last q wears has.
the first fopr months of his term.
.aunched and started toward enact
n,nt into law SO much important leg
station.
RIGHT At the iump-off. soon after
D., W., sworn in C.nator Pursrm So
,-ea y,r, ;uinortant committee as
igimcnts Usually a new senator's
,l,t an upiuportant committee, dur
NO his first congress Rprsum secured
ncmbcrshin ON the committees for
1ublir Lands Military Affairs Civil
,,ry;.o Pension. priyitogos and Fir
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