Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-28
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
Special to The Bulletin.)

started off at full tilt. The so-called | debates on merchant marine sound very i much like before election rallies. Each i side whacks at the other twitting on 1 facts without mercy. And when facts l grow scarce, speakers don't hesitate to draw on their stock of phrases that have4 grown old and gray by years of hard usage. Your programme will wreck the country" yell democrats across the main aisle of the house and senate. your programme has already wrecked it. shout back the republicans. Then the Wilson administrations get thorough airing; the republican defeats are harshly enumerated, Heflin in the senate refers with sneers to the flock
 of lame ducks that clutter up things.
 Caraway suggests that men who fahed of reelection be soft pedaled and that they shall neither vote nor speak dur ing the remainder of their term Of ser vice, LaFollette goes a step further and wants them turned out of office and the new men put in without further par lev In the meantime comments on MT. Clenenceau fill in whatever gaps may occur. Senators Borah and Hitchcock claiming preference in that line ana getting it every time.
 It is generally conceded here that
 M Rriand mixed things up pretty well .
 conference, but he didn't hold candle
 to Cl6menceau, though taken together they have made team against which the entire senate seems about to enter I the ring. Thus far debate on the Ll-
 berisn loan and merchant marine nave | included long, Wrathful and retallatory speeches on the Newberry case, Clemen- eeau, the federal reserve, the recent cleo
 tien, the 1924 campaign, the admission of "The Lady Senator" from Geefgia
 to the senate, prohibition, and a half dozen other extraneeus topics
 | The Connecticut delegation is greatly | interested in the merchant marine bill and stands practically solid for It. in 1 fact the recent statement or senator walsh. democrat of Massachusetts. is taken as an indication that New Eng Hand democrats will support the measure, although they hope it will be changed ln some respeets to mere fully meet their 1 yieSSs. Senator Walsh said, '1 believe an American merchant marine Is Reces- sity and that the democrats ot the sen | ate must provide a construetive pro- I gramme along that line before 1t votes asainst the measure offered by the ao- miaistratien, even though in his opinion that bill is faulty
 I Gonsressman GIynn, the only member I of the Connecticut delegation to go down ,l to defeat Nov. 7th, is back in his seat .l and proving himself a good sport, ln his manner of accepting the result. The | state of Connecticut will lose promm- ent member of the house in the retire ment of MT. Glynn, who was in direct line for the ehairTnanship of the house } committee on insular affairs, which IS reckoned as one of the important com !, n,ittees, dealing as it does with all the ! insular possessions of the United states , MT. Qlynn stands close to the top, and 1t is understood that the two members : who rank above him, prefer to hold the cflairmanships now in their hands, thar , to change committees, and that MT. 5 Glynn would have been the logical cnoice , of the house, in naming an insular affair." , chairman, had he been reelected.
 gankresnnan John 0. Tilson of Con
 Inectieut is presiding in the house Whll'
 the merchant marine bill is under con
 sideratien. Tilsen is recognlzed as Ln 3 best presiding officer that can be callet from the floor to take the chair when f ever the house is in committee consider z ing A bill where tufnult, heated debat
 and infringement of the rules IS brett!
 sure to occur Until Joe Walsh 3 Massachusetts resigned from the hods ? to take seat on tine superior bench F. Massachusetts, it was nip and tuck be e tween FilseA and Walsh as to which ma # could best held the house in cheek l ' troublesome times. But now Tilson ha ; the field to himself, no one else being i ], the same high class as he, both by train ing and experience.
 The "Boys' are telling a soed stor ion Tiisen's first day in the chair, sine , the big annliaeF has been installed owe y the sHeakeF's rostruna. It was all yer le we'll te have the sound multiplied UT 5. I til Tilson took the chair and called fe S| order. in stentorian tones. Then tn le house literally clapped it's hands over i .sl ear; the press gallery men sent out
 Els o. S. call to have the "durned thin te shut off ;'' somebody pressed the butte y and Tilson's voice was sson heard in i y don't need a megaphone or an ampl II fer His veiee easily reaches to u l. further corners of the house, without il ,a ventiVe aids, and when Ttlsen raps u
 gavel, he pounds it in a way that con i= rnands order without delay. And B gets it. Tilson not only knows u Fe rules of the game of presiding over u IA house, but knows how to enforce the 1t with toea nature but with dignity a1 d. unrelaatiag iasistenca.
 s- GtmErsasnaAn James H. Mann of ] 1t iineis, former floor leader of the heuE
 has made positive statements that .n will not join in any movement for Il sr diSnlaeement of Speaker Gillett when t -y next congress eonvenes. Mir. Mann car 01 a. very close second to MT. Gillett in u n- contest for the speakership following [ CT downfall of the Wilson administratio n. and was the prospective candidate te h. oppose MT. Gillett next spring. "Und re no circumstances will I become cana !. date for the speakership" said MT. Maj to your correspondent few days az ne Some of the radical members of t " republican party hoped to drag Ma :n into q contest with GiIlett, and there
 put te the front some candidate of thi
 own, but their plan will not succee
 Neither are those radicals likely to
 welcomed into democratic ranks for { ty purpose of organizing the house und h. democratic rule. The majority of t republicans will be small and the den
 eFats aoa't want their side of the hot
 ciHttered up with men they can't rt P on when a party crisis comes to t in surface. t"The man who will desert |
 party which elected him, whenever
 nnds the chance to give himself bit .e. prominence, isn't the sort of 8 man sS wadk. Let him keen m his oWn res = Satloa. If he leaves it he ean stay 6e aNo Mans land for all of us,'' was i l. lnpen comment Of a southern denocra
 lSkder ef the house, when the subj HA vas preached to him gy ysar corr ,a. pondent:
 ne TAe e4tSok at this moment is fer
 hfaqtically uadisputed reelection
 Speaker Gfliett to the speakefship. I
 ASor ieaderShip is still in doubt, in bt ltg parties, Lon&warth of Ohio, being in sA foreground at the nonent. The den ise cfats are Wefse of than the repul
 cans for they must elect new lead