Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-15
SENATOR SEES
WORMTURNING
0NCAPITOL HILL
Says Country Receives Kind
of Congress 1t Deserves,
and No More.
POINTS OUT INFLUENCES
Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger

and Philadelphia Public Ledger
BY FREDERICK WILLIAM VILE.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The con-
gressional worm is inclined to turn. 1t
is firing Of being jumped upon. 1t re-
Eents the nationwide criticism of Its
dilatoriness and INDIGESTION. 1t pleads
that it Is more sinned against than sin
ming. 1t charges the electorate that sent
the Sixty Seventh Congress to Washing
ton with primary responsibility for what
ever shortcomings that body has revealed
it declares the American people always
have the kind of Congress they deserve,
and that the present aggregation on
Capitol Hill is exception to the rule.
The congressional worm Is even more
specific. 1t alleges in bitter accents that
legislative power as in the days Of the
French Revolution. Parliaments have
passed from the floors of Congress to the
galleries and Hobbies OF the Capitol. 1t
asserts that laws no longer are enacted
by the free will and deliberate Judgment
of men elected for that purpose, find their
way on to the statute books for the most
part at the behest of blocs Of every
hue. every sex and every interest.
ESSENCE OF ONE
SENATOR'S SPEECH.
Remonstrance like those above men
TONED formed the essence Of remark
able speech delivered this week outside
Of the Senate by one Of its most re-
nowned members. He had been asked to
address private dinner company Of
men and women assembled in Washing
ton from all parts of the nation on the
outstanding public topic of the day. The
Senator chose wha he descrit ed as the
"unreasoning clamor" against Congress
as his theme.
The speaker made no attempt to ex-
blame for the jam" into which the Ma
tons business has come. But he in
sisted that responsibilit must be shared
BY the country and that it cannot in fair
ness be shifted to the shoulders Of Con-
gress. The Senator recalled in dramatic
fashion how the Adamson law was
foisted onto Congress" Men sat In the
galleries." he said, with stop watches
virtually imposing upon Congress a time
limit within which their bidding had to
be done, or dire consequences for the
veal OF the Republic would ensue." To-
day. the Senator asserted, now referring
to the agitation for the passage OF the
soldiers bonus, another set of men SIS
holding stop watches on Congress"
bent this time. not upon paralyzing the
economic life OF the Republic. but upon
pulverizing politicians who dare to ig-
more by annihilating them at the polls
in November.
CONGRESS CEASES
TO BE FREE AGENT.
The speaker contended that Congress
thus IS ceasing to be the free agent"
intended by the fathers of the Con-
stitution, and is degenerating into a body
that can be hectored bossed and in
fIuenced this way or that. by any com
bination Of citizens sufficiently well
organized and sufficiently insistent to
impose their will Congress, he argued,
cannot and should not be blamed for such
a State of affairs. for. he said. 1t is not
Of the making OF Congress, but Of the
makers Of Congress IL tariff bill Is
emerging from the welter Of words on
Capitol Hill. the Senator explained, that
threatens harsh burdens for wide sections
Of the community, the cause lies not so
much with Congress as with the selfish
interests that by hook~or crook con-
trive to fashion arbitrary schedules.
The speaker pilloried as a twin evil'
with the tyranny OF special interests
and the consequent alleged failures of
Congress-the growing habit OF foisting
more and more bureaucracy on the
Federal Government. Already" he said.
I'VE lave a law which takes charge Of
the citizen stated number of Of months
DeIoFe ne Is boFn- HOW long VIII IL De
before there will be other laws 70 shep-
herd his progress from the cradle to the
grave. He painted picture of a bureau.
crazy ridden United States, that unless
the present trend be checked would step
by step, deprive the citizens of every lib
erty ne once enjoyed under the Consti-
tuition.
Congress, the Senator conceded. Is a
party to the '.malodorous system" In
vogue, but his point was that House and
Senate are the tools Of the electorate,
which in the last analysis is entitled to
the bricks now being hurled at statesmen
on Capitol Hill.-Copyright, 1922, by
Public Ledger Company.