Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-14
SAFETY FIRST,
SAYS SMALL, IN
NIGHT SESSIONS
Indiana Primary Sent
Chill to Otherwise In
different Hearts.
Leading Wearers of
Toga in Peril of Losing
Their Seats in Iie-Up.
BY ROBERT 7. SMALL
Special Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
(,onrrtchf GO The Great EalIa Tribune

| Copyright ls2z By The Great Falls Tribune.
Washington, May 13.-Congress at
last has gone to work, and gosh! how
it breads it.
It's going particularly hard with the
scuatc, but the senate has a long pro-
gram ahead of it. and it will take an
awful lot of driving to get through at
any reasonable time this summer.
The senate started on 4 schedule of
night sessions this week, the repub-
licans having adopted that method of
wearing down the democratic opposi-
ton to the tariff, which has become
rather militant of late.
But even with the utmost pressure
being exerted, long hard grind is In
prospect-a sort of endurance race,
which is going to work innumerable
hardships on some of the elderly
statesmen. But the power of endur-
ance of a senator is thing to marvel
at and no actual casualties are anti
cipated.
Extra Hours for Home Folks
The night sessions have not been
adopted altogether with the idea that
the country needs adoption of the tar
iff. The country has been doing fairly
well Under the temporary tariff and
then, too, the bill has been allowed
to dawdle so long that many persons
had forgotten whether it had been
passed or not President Harding sent
his first tariff message to the special
session of congress on April IL, 1921.
One would be inclined to ask in the
circumstances. why the great rush at
this last period of 1922?
The answer is simple. Some of the
senators have seen great light. The
defeat of Senator Harry New by AL
bert J. Beveridge in Indiana was reve-
lation. The chill it sent to some stout
hearts still holds them in an icy clasp.
The fear of being defeated in their
own party for denomination is far more
real to some senators at this moment
than concern over the possibility of
democratic success at the polls in No
vember.
Some Can't Stay Longer
"It is all very well to tell us to
stay on the job in Washington and
our interest" said distinguished
western senator to this correspondent
today. Harry New stayed on the Job
here. attending to his senatorial duties. !
while brother Beveridge was on the F.!
stump in Indiana. Harry said THE !
folks at home will look after me-
and they did"
A number of republican senator's
frankly have told their colleagues that |
they cannot afford to remain in Wash !
lngton much longer. Their political |
hves are at stake in the primaries |
which are near at hand and none of |
them wants to suffer the fate of Harry |
New. 1t would be difficult to over
state the depressing effect the result |
in Indiana has had upon the repub-
lican senator's faced with opposition
In their own party this year
Reed Has Back to Wall
One or two democrats also are fight
ing with their backs to the wall. This
Is particularly true of Senator Reed.
OF Missouri, who not only is opposed
by Breckinridge Long but by former
President Wilson as we'll 1t will be
interesting to see the Wilson influence
upon democrats of the "Show Me"
state. for the former president has
plainly shown in his campaign letters
that he Is seeking to re-establish or
re-assert my political leadership"
Senator Reed has long since left
Washington and gone to the battle
ground. His course will be followed
soon by some of his distinguished re-
publican colleagues. Senator Lodge of
republican leader in
upper branch of congress, is among
moses senator's who have stated they
'annot tarry here much longer.
McCumher Bound and Gagged
Senator McCumber, successor to {
'enrose as chairman of the finance
committee. is perhaps in the most diff
lcult position of republican senator's. ]
lie is faced by very serious opposition
It home in Nortn Dakota. The pri-
naries there are to b, held late in
une, and there seems n, chance at ,
his writing that the tariff will be dis
,osed of in the senate by that time |
5elng in charge of the tariff, Senator
IcCumber can't cut loose and start
or home as his colleagues are threat g.,
ming to do. He is stuck, and the :
onger he stays in Washington, the :
nore hay his Opponentss are -laking t
n the sunshine of the old home state. I
here also is hanging over Senator Nc b
lumber the necessity of making some
ind of disposition of the soldier bonus Y
i'll. If he goes home without bonus ,
i'll, he will be confronted by the bill, c
nd if he remains in Washington to
ry to enact bonus bill. he will be t
hut off from all campaigning. The s
enator from North Dakota realizes r
ne seriousness of his situation, but he
as yet to find way out Of it.