The Yale expositor., 1922-12-07
COUzENS ACCEPTS
SENATORIAL SEAT
DETROIT MAYOR APPOINTED by
GOVERNOR TO SUCCEED
SENATOR NEWRERRY.
RETAINS RAILWAY BOARD WORK
New Senator Offers to Continue Man
agement Of Detroit's Street
Railway Commission

Lansing-Mayor James Couzens OF
Detroit has accepted Governor Groes-
beck's appointment as United States
Senator, but he will retain the gen.
eral managership of the Detroit Mum
icipal Street Railway system, as long
as the new mayor and the street
railway commission are agreeable.
appointment of Mayor Couzens to
fill the vacancy caused by the resig-
nation OF Truman H. Newberry was
officially announced from Lansing
and Governor Groesbeck later tele-
phoned to the mayor at the Belmont
hotel, New York. The mayor accept
ed the appointment over the telephone
and will take the oath Of office after
arranging his affairs in Detroit.
In accepting the senatorial ap-
pointment in the face Of protest from
citizens who felt he still had work
to do in Detroit, the mayor in a
statement wired from New York, said:
There will always be problems
confronting the fourth city, will al
ways be at their service in helping to
solve them. II felt in any way that
Detroit would be inconvenienced by
my appointment l would decline"
When asked his attitude toward the
insurgent wing of the senate and
his possible alignment, Mr.. Couzens
said:
Il have always been a Republican
and will continue to be so, but hope
1 may be considered a progressive
one. My past activities in public
office is the best guide as to what
may be expected in the future.
II hate compromise, but know
that not to compromise is stupid.
Half loaf is better than none. l
shall let my conscience be my guide
at Washington. I'm not the represen-
tative Of any block or group and l
do not purpose to tie myself to any
faction OF the senate in advance Of
each issue as it arises, and upon each
issue I shall take my own stand. l do
not represent labor as a group.
do not represent the farmers as a
group, and that is not to say that
would not favor legislation beneficial
to any OF these, so long as the same
legislation is beneficial to the nation"
Il want to thank his excellency,
Governor Groesbeck, for the conf
dence placed in me. l hope that l
may so conduct myself as to warrant
q nf nd
the confidence Of the people OF Mich
igan."
In making the appointment, Cover
nor Groesbeck let 1t be known that
he had from the start favored a De
troit man for the post.
He declared he had no understand.
ing with Mayor Couzens that the lat.
| ter would sever all connection with
city work, and that he saw no objec.
ton to him continuing an official con.
nection with the street railway especi-
ally as that connection probably would
be without salary.
II want some one whose service has
already been approved by the public
and whose attitude would be pro-
public the governor declared. "Cou
Zens seems to be that man. be-
lieve he will prove strong figure in
the senate and l think an arrange
ment might be made whereby he
could continue to serve the city's
street railway.
There are no strings attached tc
the appointment. Mr.. Couzens knows
he may feel free to pursue any policy
he desires in the senate. This applies
also to patronage. l am not interest
ed in the least. My advice will al
ways be at his disposal, but he is G
free agent"