Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-04-19

faculties in trying to understand
Einstein.'
Etnstein Far Too Deep.
Not to be squelched. however. Sena-
tor Williams continues:
II believe il is the Earl of Derby
who once said that there were only
two men who ever understood the
near eastern question. that one of
them was dead and that he himself
was getting old and had pretty nearly
forgotten it all. So far as Einstein is
concerned. ! did endeavor for little
while to understand Einstein. ] do
not believe the senator from Penn
Sylvania ever even tries, but | frankly
, had the wisdom to confess that | did
not understand Einstein. However. I
do understand that there are certain
great fundamental. cardinal prin-
ciples of fairness which exist in the
world and l know the senator from
Pennsylvania knows that. too"
1t Is at this point that Senator
Brandegee abrutly removes the discus
sion from the domain of Einsten. and
brings it back to the practical problem
of giving the democrats six members on
important committees to the republicans
ten instead Of six. and nine. which was
! the ratio before the republicans won
such an overwhelming victory in the
last election.
II believe in the intelligence of the
American people," says Mr.. Brandegee.
! "the republican party will go out of
power some day remember eight
years ago. in 1912, when we came back
; here and we were out and YOU were in,
and the pulchritudinous senator from
! North Carolina. Mr.. Overman, who now
| refreshes the galleries with his sena-
/ torial beauty. met me at the door here
and assured me that the democratic
party was in power for the next fifty
, years. and wanted to know what |
meant. being a corpse and buried. in
! walking around here and pretending to
| be alive.
| Would Follow Marshnll's Example.
Times change and men change with
! them. We may go out. of course. but
. II we do, we will do it as your honored
, Vice President did. with smile on his
face and with a brave heart. When
ever the public gets tired of the repub-
i lican party. of course, they will put
them out. They have an awfully poor
alternative. of course. Generally, those
intermissions are very few and far be-
tween. Nevertheless. the Mutations
and bleatings and squeals we have
! ocratic friends about this very fair
program we have adopted are about to
subside.
The tumult and the shouting dies,
The captains and the kings depart.
And the steamroller is about to
start.
Whereupon the Senate hears a clos
ing grafton by Senator Williams, who
points out that he has heard of the
steam roller before, in the days OF
Aldrich, when Dolliver was the inSur-
gent, and in the days of Joe Cannon's
speakership in the House of Repre-
sentativeS.
About all that Senator Brandegee
has proven" remarked Mr.. Williams
"is that the senator from North Caro-
lima, Mr. Overman, made about the
same mistake that he is making now
asserting that when a party got into
power IT stayed in power forever. and
all it had to do was to be selfish and
take all the power it could"
Thus is the Senate returning to nor
malcy with it's conversation about
Newton and Einstein, steam rollers
and insurgency and moot questions As
to the relative intelligence of the
electorate.
Copyright, 1927