Evening star., 1922-12-23
Newcomers in Senate Astonish
Editors.

! 4 !iiibuster called by any other
name would delay legislation just
as long, and editors have been un-
able to draw fine distinctions as they
have watched the race for place be
| tween farmers and ships on Capitol
! Uiu. But figuratively speaking, the
/ editorial observers from the begin
! ming placed their money on the
(. farmers Ard the feature OF the
/ contest that has astonished the press
has been the ease with which the
i latest entries. Senators Brookhart
and CouZens, took the lead of the
| field.
Both are baby senators. says
the Philadelphia Public Ledger On
| depeudenD, ew-hatched. wet from
the shell. serving their first hours
Of their first terms. Just the same,
they are able to stand the so-called
Senate majority on its beamends and
the republican administration on its
head. All they had to do was to
say BOO. in a loud midwest voice
with a farm-bloc twang. and the
: walls of Jericho began to tumble
Certainly, times haze changed be
yond recognition" the New York
, Post independently agrees. when a
senator can come fresh from Iowa
/ ard proceed to act like legislative
traffic officer without being hazed. y
, The Newark News fndependent
also is awed by the spectacle OF
senators being stood up and counted
"by "a fedgling." for time was when
such action would have been frowned
upon in that august body. and the
newcomer. unless promoted after
long service in the lower house
would virtually have been told to let
; his elders do the leading" When
measure upon which the heart of
the administration is set is even so
much as threatened with oblivion
through the instrumentality of
newcomer, the News warns that it
'is pretty near time for recapitu-
lation of the forces at work"
Brookhart's program was to be eX-
pected, it is generally held, but, as
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger Gn-
dependenD says, Mr.. Couzens swing
to insurgency comes as something of
words" agrees the New York World
(democratic). which explains the as
tonishment thus: Senator CouZenS
"is said to be worth $30.00G.O00. Here
tofore the old guard have known
where to place a man with so much
d
where to place this man. II anything
ought to run true to form it is s3O.OOO,-
OO0.' Nevertheless, Senator CouZens
is found sharing leadership with
Brookhart.
But "old guard and young guard.
progressives and radicals. are bent
on an agricultural credits bill. first
and foremost" the New York Times
independent democratic) reports
even the stern and rock-bound Mr.
Brandegee, who objects to most
things, is wrapped in silence at this
regulars are as one" For once, the
Adrian (Mich.) Telegram (independ-
ent) concludes, 1.-The agricultural in
terests seem to have the inside track y
although it is uncertain whether or
not the farm bloc, in its war on ship
sentiment. "The resolution of the
Michigan Grange against the bill re-
fleets the prevailing opinion among
farmers of this state" view "eX-
tensiyely shared in the other agri-
cultural states of the Mississippi val
a resolution opposing the measure"
which developed at the farm bureau
convention in Chicago proved that
Opinions vary, even among the
farmers"
The New York Post regards the
move of the farm bloc as good. so
far as it goes" for "to displace a
| piece of legislation that will benefit
a very small part of the community
at the expense of the rest by
measure that will benefit a consider
able part of the community directly
and the whole community indirectly
is statssmanlike." Further, the New
York Times points out commerce is
needed before the ships that are to
carry it. 1t would biological to take
up railroad rates as we'll as rural
credits before the ship subsidy bill"
But granting that "in their demand
for further farm credit legislation
the senator's from the middle west
are performing their duty in repre-
senting their constituents" the New
York Tribune Crepublican) insists