The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
By R. T. S.
hi. 1922. bv The Are-Herald,

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 Washington. July 1.-The defeat of Senator McCumber in the North Da- kota primaries brings about the un- usual situation of both authors of a new tariff bill retiring from public life within a few monthss after their joint work shall have been written finally upon the statute books. There has been no parallel to this state of affairs in recent years. Uncle Joe Fordney of Michigan had announced that he would retire from Congress prior to the McCumber collapse in North Dakota.
 Uncle Joe, long famed as a high priest of protection, attained his life's ambition when he wrote the new tariff bill as 1t passed the House, and he has watched with increasing sat- isfaction the many higher duties be- ing amended into the bill in the Sem ate. Uncle Joe thought he was doing fairly we'll in raising the rates." but the conservative and deliberate Sem ate is showing the .mpetuous House something now. in the uplift of tariff schedules. Having attached his name for all time to a tariff bill and all to a tariff bill, Uncle Joe is eady to lay. down the uneasy robes of con gressional office and give the young CT fellows chance.
 Peak of Ambition
 MT. McCumber also attained a life ambition when he became head of the powerful committee following the death of Senator Penrose, and all though his tenur of office has been all too brief from his point of view. nevertheless he, like Uncle. Joe, has attached his name though he passes involuntarily from political view, his handiwork on the tariff will be a, subject of political and sonomic discussion for years to come.
 Tariff bills are notoriou-ly uns kind-to political parties if not all ways to the authors. MT. Mckinley rose from the authorship of tariff bill to the presidency. Representative Serene Payne and Senator Aldrich, co-authors of the faTaors billof 1902, remained in Congress until their deaths, but great any or their coll leagues went out as a result of the bill. Senator Underwood. author of the democratic tariff since the days of Cleveland, still remains an honored member of the upper branch of Congress.
 Never before has f''ere been such a speedy exit of ta if makers as in the case of Messr.. Fordney and Mc- Cumber. And never before has so much time been consumed on a tariff . measure. Tnere do-be those who are willing to predict that the authors of the bill may be out of Congress be- fore it Is actually translated into law. But they appear to be entirely too pessimistic. The optimists think 1t will all be over in three or four months.
 McHarg. Surprises
 There was more than one surprise for Washington nthat North Dakota vote. One of the biggest was the dis covery that Ormsby McHarg was in the race. He was not veiy much in the race, it is trre. As batter of fact his name was carried only in the first few bulletins giving the results of the tally. Ormsby was stationary at about 431 votes when his name was dropped uncermoniously from the press reports. It may prove, however, that he polleo sufficient votes to make the defeat of Senator McCumber certain. and that, it seems. was his object
 Ormsby Is very well known here in Washington. In truth he is very well known almost anywhere in the (nlte0 states. A Tatner SITlk1nR IlE- ure--tall, slender white hair, big horn rirnmed or rubber-tired spec tacles and a careful dresser-he has attracted attention on Fifth avenue, on Pennsylvania avenue, on Michigan boulevard. on Market street In San Francisco and on the beach at Wal kiki. To the casual observer there is quite striking resemblance between Ormsby and Col. George Harvey. This twain are alike in other re- spects. too. In politics they are a pair of stormy petrels. They love a political tempest better than life it. self.
 McHarg was assistant to the At torney GeLeraI under President Roosevelt's administration and when Mir. Taft took office he appointed Ormsby as assistant, secretary of commerce and labor, the two depart ments. now separate, being then combined. McHarg did not remain long under Mir. Taft. He was rest less, one might say . resistless, pro- grcssive and he left public life to go to New York to practice law. The republican convention of 1912 found him fighting tooth and nail for Colonel Roosevelt for the nomi- nation. He pitted himself against Frank Hitchcock in contested south ern delegate cases at that time and the steam roller flattenedt him to . fare-u-well. Eight years of democ- racy found. Ormsby somewhat quies- cent politically, but during that time he drifted back to the North Dakota ba had known n -h;v w.,,xI ,.~