The Washington times., 1921-06-30
BEEF BILL GIVEN
0. K. in SENATE
ON BLUNDER VOTE
Hapgood Says Insurgents We're
Asleep at Switch Az
Measure Passes.
~ NORMAN HAPoOOD.

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Nobody can follow washington
| news inteliigentiy just now unless
he bears two things in mind onA
IL the existence OF = honsyrnoon. still
playing > leading role.
The other is the stirring Of discpn-
tent, especially on Capitol 4tal
threatening to take ths lsAding role
for its own. 49,.
The next month or two IL going 20
see . tuAsls between these too
forces for nrst place. second .pt&ce
will not be much good. second money.
In q prize hight often. means more
than most of ns can get hold OF,
But II won't be like that In the
contest. between tho regular forces
and the insurgent forces- Either the
insurgents will look fooiish soon. or
thsy will hold the whip hand
Everybody knows about Methu-
saleh. He u one of the most famous
men who ever lived Blu there was
another man only four years younger
than he. He trained just as hart,
swung the Indian clubs tust as many
times before breakfast. was as care
full in his diet. and came withio
four years of tieing the record. Yet.
probably not one reader of this art
icie can tell his name.
JOCkEYING FOR POSITION.
In the preliminary tactics betwcsp
the two Republican factions there 10
q little encounter tonight 1t 10 not
nearly a. important a. the .dotngs OF
the agricultural bloc. where some
twenty Senators snd some hundred
consressmen OF both parties were
lined up togethee.
1t is not nearly ~ important as fhs
| - a hat
Republicans of the different factions
on the beef bill. Senator Mccormick
10 going to be regular when the spit
comes, apparently. and the things ne
and Senator Norris said TO each other
about beef showers that the love ex-
listing between them was limited.
In the jockeying for position over
how to handle the Beef trust the In
surgents were beaten by straogc
piece of parliamentary carelessn es 50.
Senator Kenyon was in a hurry to
get away to some engagements. lie
brought in some amendments to she
vicious House bill that had Just been
suggested. They were improvements.
Suddenly, and without clear know,-
edge of what they were doing the In
surgents, after getting these amend
ments. voted for the bill
1t passed the Senate, when the In
surgents had a good chance 10 kill II.
They woke up, and realized that they
were in the position of having voted
for a bill that will leave the packers
more untrammeled than they are
now.
Norris. Kenyon and Kendrfck rep
resent the Senate in conference. and
an attempt will be made TO renew the
fight against the bin. but the parliaI
mentary slip makes IL much harder to
do anything.
The explanation no doubt lies in
the fact that for the insurgents the
bulk of the work has to be done by so
few men that they are always over
worked The big night when It comes
will be exactly along these lines--the
relation of big business to Govern
ment. Such questions require a lot Of
hard work.
Although the meeting of Mondell
with the hundred complaining new
Republican members of the House
does not compare in Importance with
these deeper rumblings. IL has its
be airing. 1t represents, not a long
distance plan, like the other symp-
toms, but a general political discon-
tent
This discomfort Is stil1 slight. II
cannot be heard by the general ear.
But Congressmen. through their let
ters from home. hear of these STIR
rings before most of US do.
MoNDELL, LODGE WORRIED.
Mondells job this evening was to
distribute soap to the new boys and
make them think they are enjoying
a nambuoyant amount of import
ance. With some of them this viii
not be difficult. Soap Is all they
need to settle back into . happy
life.
But some of them know what they
are UP to. Some of them will re-
ceive the soap in the same spirit