Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-06-14
*<BIG THREE" IN SENATE ARE
BORAH, LODGE AND PENROSE
By ELIZABETH KING STOKES
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal.)
Cartwright 1921

Copyright, 1929
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE
house of representatives, for the last
few years unsung and pretty much
publicity was concerned, today pre-
sents a new picture. Visitors arc in
the galleries. Correspondents, like
weather-vanes Of the days news, are
appearing in greater numbers and
variety in the press box, and attend
ance on the floor, although always
in contrast to the senate in numbers
and sensitiveness to roll calls, is
full to Overlooking.
Personalities in the house are
emerging in prominence. Members
of the committee on foreign affairs
of the house can be seen on the floor
carrying obvious weight of new re-
sponsibilities. Chairman Porter is
frequently pointed out. The house
peace resolution this week had help
ed to augment this wave of popu-
larity in the lower house where tariff
and taxation already has stirred pub
Lefty.
But so far all this only reflects
more sharply another picture, an
other matter of personalities, and
that is what has happened in the
senate where a lone dozen or half
dozen solons lately have constituted
the usual audience sitting in kind
oI Legislative SlooliI' ne SendIe -
not "a happy place today. To one
looking down from the galleries
watching the by-play, the upper house
appears to be saddled with three per-
sonalities all working out the sem
ate's salvation from different an
giles, all in the guise Of leaders
Lodge, Penrose and Borah. The sem
ate atmosphere is cold.
There seems, first, to be group
self-consciousness down there in the
pit of the upper house, of Senator
Borah and the Roadway which he
has made with his proposition for
world disarmament conference,
woods, has made progress deemed i'm
possible and utterly at variance with
the senatorial temper.
Hand of Penrose
There is, too, consciousness of
the heavy hand of Senator Penrose,
now that his hearings on taxation
are over and his methods and admin
istration attitude revealed. Then
Senator Lodge comes through the
lobby door, gives few commands as
majority leader and disappears, leav-
ing his imprint upon the gloom OF
the senate. These conflicting person
alities are not openly or worldly
pitted against each other. but the
policies and politics they have puf-
sued on the floor and in the back
ground have brought them almost
automatically into anomalous posi-
tions. What are they like as person
alities? Why is it that they pull IN
different directions?
A study of this senate triumvirate
brings to mind at once the fact that
politicians, too, are born and not
made. There is Senator Lodge, proud
forefathers, New England in out
look, perfect in type. Back of him
is Senator Borah, great numbering
westerner, with a lazy body and
powerful head, who looks oblivious
to amenities, whose personality
fine, parliamentary cunning and de-
votion to traditions of Lodge. And
Senator Penrose stalks in, showing
himself at the other end of this
gamut of contrasts, a shrewd, eagle
eyed, machinelike master of politi-
as form, as manipulation, something
upon which neither erudition, aes-
theticism, nor the pounding of prin-
ciples and law need be wasted if the
power to feel and know all the un-
dercurrent of political psychology is
umvirate. as Enthusiastically OPP
posed as they could be-Senator Bo-
rah leader by virtue of open prin-
ciples and the force with which he
HgntS Tor them; senator PenroSe, the
acme of subtle and silent power;
Senator Lodge, the statesman and
scholar expecting homage due his
titular position and environment-all
as they are because they were born
SO, and born leaders.
Senator Lodge at his desk appears
to be jealous of the powers and au-
thority of the senate in it's relations
with the other branches of the gov
eminent, almost to a point of obses-
sion.
Taxation Hearings
He is constantly Watchful that no
move be made, or Interpretation CIV
en-, which shall diminish tn eillumi-
nation of the senate, and it's control
and check over other branches which
the constitution bestowed This
technicality is his hobby.
Senator Penrose, with his hands
full of the taxation problem, is just
as jealous of power, but for the sake
I,