The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-16

l a bluff. He--lS plainly what he IS. He has neither words nor manner. Ills colleagues look down on him a little. But most of them are after all only Calder plus. and plus gem orally speaking, not 30 very much. He is the senator reduced to the | lowest terms.
 calder, the Timid
 Calder Is timid, more timid than Frelinghuysen with his eternal but | tonholing you to ask what impress sion he has made, more timid than anyone except Kellogg of Minne- sota. Tn chatter is in a constant state of flutter Little and wlsplike phys ically he seems to blow about with every breeze of politics. He is so unsure that his nerves are always l on edge, in danger-of breaking. When he was balancing olitical conse- League of Nations discussion, ex- President Taft said to him impa- tiently: "The trouble with you Frank, is that you have no guts." Kellogg strengthened up all his inohes-physically he is a white hairel and bent Will H Hayes and replied: T allow no man to say that | to me-" He fluttered out, and Mir. Taft being kind-hearted followed him to apologize.
 An Uneasy Senator
 If you could analyze 6 uneasiness of MT. Kellogg you would understand 1 the fear which haunts the minds of l all senators. MT. Kellogg comes 10 Washington after an enormously successful career at the bar. He is rich. He is respected. His place In | society Is secure. What would the l tv tn GtaQh | A man? He ought to have all the confidence which is supposed to be | in the man who rises in the world, all that which comes from a. estab- lished position. Unlike most great lawyers who retire into the Senate, MT. Kellogg does not merely inter- est himself in constitutional ques- tions. like a child with molasses on 1 It's fingers playing with feathers He N induStrious. He interests him- self in the Senate's business. He develops nice scruples which cannot | be brushed aside. He wears him self out over them. He hesitates. He trembles. T1e certainty with which his rNlnd must have operated In the field of legal principles de- serts him in the field of political expediency. Or perhaps it Is that he sees DOLh pIlnCiplcS auo cAPcNASA'S' and can not choose between the two. Lonely MT. Wadsworth
 Wadsworth of New York Is an ex- ception to the general run of senators l He belongs by birth to the class which Is additionally free from hypocrisy. He is not boisterously contemptuous l of the slavishness of senators as Pen rose was. He Is quietly eontemptuous. His voice has note of well-bred lm- patience in it. He has not Penrose' s pleasure in mere shocking. but he has | the aristooratic hatred of moral osten- tation. The kind of thing that Is not done is the kind of thing that is not done. You don't do 1t and make no parade of your abstinence. Wadsworth does not open his home to all his New York colleagues in both houses just because 1t is politically expedient. His house is his own and so Is his conscience, which Is not surrendered at the demands of woman suffarge or the dries. He has courage. He has convictions. He is lonely. To be otherwise than lonely in the Senate you must be Frelinghuysen, an Elkins, a Newberry, New, a Watson | or a Hale. He will never be leader He has no more place in the Senate as 1t Is than Lord Robert Cecil, a much larger man, has In the House of Com mons as 1t is. Both belong to another day and generation. Neither is sure of anything but himself and each counts the world we'll lost. Both repS resent the arisocratic tradition.
 A Passion for Details
 Industry makes Reed Shoot one ot the most useful of the senators. Ht has a passion for details. He read. all the bills. He makes himself g 1 | priations and expenditures. He ex. udes figures from every pore. By temperament Mir. Shoot is unhappy and he finds cause of dark forebod- l ing in the mounting costs of govern. ment His voice has a scolding note His manner and appearance is that ot a village elder. His heart is sore as he regards the political world about him. it's wastefulness. It's consumption of white paper. on leaves to print and on reports which no one reads. He Is the aggrieved parent. My chill dren," he seems always to say "You 1 must mend your ways" He spe- cializes in misplaced commas. Noth- ing Is too trival for his all-seeine eyes. In committee he talks much twice as much as anyone else, about points which escape the attention oi all his colleagues. Senators, wish ing to get through no matter how regard him as pest. Only an un- imaginative and uncreating mind car occupy itself as Shoots does. He is g building inspector rather than z builder. With his mussiness, his minor prophetic voice, his hollier. than-thou attitude toward waste, he can never be leader ot the Senate to which the idle apprentice, the good fellow, who dimes out much in the Harding senatorial set. the small business man seeking social prefer. ment gives it's tone and character
 The weakness of parties has led tc the emergence of a few outstandine individual senators who must be ex. amined to see whether around then the new Senate which will come witt the shift of power and responsibility to the legislative branch can be built The most brilliant and interesting ot them Is Senator Borah, but 1t is signi. ficant that the farm bloc looking for leader did not turn to him, but chose rather much less significant
 and effective men.
 Yet the Idaho senator seems the natural rallying point for any move. ment which will give life and force tt the Senate. He is established He is the most potent single individual il the upper house. So far as there i. any opposition ito President Harding and his friends. Mir. Borah is that op position. His is the intelligence whicl inspires the democratic party when f consents to be inspired by intelli. gence. He believes that the revolu ton has come, not one of street fight ing and bomb throwing, but peace
 ful change which has made the ol parties meaningless, destroyed the o1c authorities and set men free for tn,
 new grouping that is to take place Others in the Senate see this and ar,