Bisbee daily review., 1922-01-15
SENATOR BORAH
 CAUSES WORRY
 IN CUP. RANKS
Idaho Legislator Refuses to Stand Hitched, Even on
 Harding's Pet Bills

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-One man in the United States senate-and Republican at that-is causing Presi- cent Harding and administration leaders more worry and wakefulness than the whole Democratic minority.
 That man is Senator William Ed gar Borah of 1daho.;
 Borah cant be compromised and he cant be negotiated. Only two alternatives are offered-to beat him or be beaten.
 Today Borah threatens to delay and embarrass if not actually defeat the four-power pact between the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan, negotiated by the conferees on limitation of armaments. Administration Fearful And what such a fight may mean no one knows better than President Harding and Senator Henry Cabot Loage, author of the pact to be sub nitted.
 From a cloud no larger than that now presented by Borah grew the storm that finally defeated the treaty of Versailles.
 What manner of man is Borah? Physically, he is stocky, broad shouldered, deep-chested. His head, set close to his soulders on a short neck, is large and square hewn; broad square forehead, thick square chm with a deep cleft, and a level, square gaze in his eyes, set deep under heavy brows.
 Black hair, long and bushy. is fnrQhQa6 what a poet might call a eonine mane.
 Intense earnestness, seriousness and fighting virility are characteris- tics unmistakably written in his face and physique.
 His seriousness, in fact, might be labeled his dominating trait. His wife once said of him that he remind ed her of the austere old Scot who said life would be very c-auraDie If it were not for it's pleasures.
 Serious Worker f Being a serious worker, following his own convictions regardless of par ty lines or partisan considerations, Borah usually plays lone nand. Some time ago, President Harding, doubtless foreseeing the possibility of just such situation as has now arisen, sent for Borah and talked over party matters with him. A suggestion was made that Borah be the man to handlde administration | measures in the senate. Borah de- clined.
 The president told Borah that he l had a great following throughout the ] country and that it was most unfor- tunate he declined to do teamwork.
 Perhaps so, MT. President" Borah | replied, but if l did teamwork l probably wouldn't have any following. | The people don't give d-n about me personally; it's the measures l stand for they follow. Tou can get along very we'll without me, but l cant get along without my views" "
 Social functions of all sorts bore him to death.
 i Time is the most precious thing in the world to him and he grudges ev- cry minute of it not spent on the prob ! lens in which he is interested. He is a prodigious worker. Iirs quarters in the senate office building are really a workshop, not an office. Borah's carelessness in dress often irks his wife.
 Normally he wears black. A square cut sack coat, baggy trousers and a large black bow tie of the sort af- fected by artists are the distinctive points in his garb.
 One evening he returned home, with a memory of Mrs. Borah's cen sure of his untidiness on his mind.
 Mamie" he said, "one of the sena- | tnl a GidQrQd me the best-dressed man in the sen- ate"
 Quick as a flash. Mrs. Borah an swered:
 'I know who it was. It was Sena- tor Gore"
 Gore is blind.
 His Three Recreations Borah has three recreations-read- ing Hamlet, seeing Bill Hart in the movies and horseback riding. The last is his favorite. Every morning except Monday, when he attends com mittee meetings, he goes for two hour ride on his sorrel thoroughbred Jester.
 Once after Jester had shied at a squirrel and had been puh,sned wirn the whip, he refused the customary lump of sugar.
 That troubled Borah all day. He couldn't work. In the middle of the afternoon he left his office, took a street car to the stable where Jester Is kept and asked about him.
 The stableman assured him that Jester had eaten and that nothing was wrong with him. Then Borah knew the sugar had been refused because the whipping had offended him. He
 went into the stall. took testers head
 in his hands. patted him and asked his pardon.