The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-21
PARTY LINES
 ARE IGNORED
 IN SENATE

| WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Those
 who imagine that Democrats and Re
 publicans really hate each other in i Washington and that the halls of Con- 1 gress are filled with the war whoops of the braves of both parties thirsting | for each others blood, are all wrong The Senate is a staid, usually we'll 1 behaved club of gentlemen, past mid dle age, who on certain occasions will readily oblige each other.
 Back scratching" or the grand old game of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours," comes up in the Sen ate every now and then, and some of the sights that are then witnessed de- light Senate habitues.
 To the spectators that fill the gal leries even during these torrid sum- mer days these sessions are bewilder- ing. They are unable to understand how a Democrat and Republican who have been at each others throats only yesterday can come forth today and bill and coo together over putting duty of umptesn cents pound on codfish tails.
 TARIFF BILL GIVES EVIDENCE The answer is to be found in the new tariff bill, which is keeping Sen- ators sweating and swearing in Wash ington during a humid summer, when they should be home looking after breaks in their political fences.
 Recently in one Senate session, on single issue, party lines were thrown to the four winds, old animosities for gotten, and the Senate indulged in enough "you help me and I'll help you voting to bewilder even the old timers about Congress.
 Imagine Senator Lodge, the Repuo- Iican leader, joining with Senator Un- derwood, of Alabama, the Democratic leader. in opposition to Senator Poin- dexter of Washington, strong admins tration leader, and Senator Heflin, Un- derwood's own colleague from Ala bama!
 REPUBLICAN AIDS DEMOCRAT Imagine Senator McCumber, ot North Dakota, the Republican tariff leader, voting with Senator Simmons, the chief Democratic tariff attacker in opposition to Senator Warren, pow erful Republican committee chairman, and Senator .Ashurst of Arizona, mi nority floor leader.
 Surely these pairings of votes are enough to stir the imagination, but when Senator Borah (R), of Idaho voted in opposition to his old "irrecon- cilable crony," Senator Johnson (R), of California, and Senator Jim" Wat
 son (R.),of Indiana, Presidential
 spokesman, opposed Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota, another administration leader. it passed the understanding of
 even the most veteran Senate door keeper.
 TARIFF PROVISION BLOCKED This strange alignment of Senators came about when the Senate tariff bloc," supported by Middle-Western Democrats, attempted to increase the tariff on soya-bean oil. The increase was opposed by Southern Democrats and Republican members of the Sen ate Finance Committee. The vote was so close, due to the queer affiliations, that a final count showed twenty
 eight senators opposed and twenty eight senators in favor of the amendment, causing it's rejection. Of the number voting "Yea" twen- ty-two were Republicans and six Demo-
 crats, while of those opposed nineteen
 were Republicans and nine Democrats.
 Another unusual result of the vote
 was the splitting of votes between sen
 ators from the same state. McCumber and Ladd, of North Dakota; Curtis and
 Cooper, of Kansas; Underwood and
 Heflin, of Alabama; Borah and Good
 ing of Idaho; Nelson and Kellogg, of
 Minnesota; Watson and New, of In
 diana; Newberry and Townsend, of
 Michigan, and Pomerene and Willis
 of Idaho, voted in opposition to each other.