The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-09
Fight Over Upton
Involves Story of
Power of Woman


/ hanging fire in the senate Interstate
. commerce committee for more than
. five months Behind this nomination
/ Is story Illustrating the new power
. OF women in politics
Tho general consensus NJ expert
. opinion following five Mathis in
. Nfstgation into Uptuu's iuahfica-
. tons is that any job he " capable
/ OF tilihg should be abolished
/ Upton be- the husband OF Mrs.
. Harriet Taylor Upton. Ece chairman
. of the republican national committee
. and q wheel horse IN the last
/ presidential campaign. She also
. was star performer In the suffrage
. ratification and through her gener-
. Gus physical proportions and agrees
. siNe personality becaml known as
/ tho amazon Of the suffrage move
/ mont. She IN the daughter VI a for
. mcr republican congressman from
. ONO aud woman Of fine mental
. attalnments. As q stump speaker.
. she has few equals. Her work for tho
. republican tlDact in 1920 was prodi-
gious and sho could have had any
/ reward within reason
/ But here womau's LOYALTY asserted
. Itself and she made ~ known that
. she would ask for nothing II only
/ George" could be taken care OF
| with am appointment of dignity and
| prestige. President Harding promptly
/ recognized the fine spirit back of This
/ request and named George w. I'pton
/ tho husband, 10 a vacancy on the
! FEDERAL trade commission. after first
/ considering him for tho United
/ states district court I'm the District
/ OF Columbia Back IN Trumbun
! county Ohio, where the l'ptons LIVE
| the people were somewhat aghast AT
/ tho honor~ which had cSme 10
/ George Upton, n kindly. generous
\ soul, who had not been a shining
success In any ot his business under
/ takings Senator pomcronc Of Ohio,
| n member of the committee. was one
" the trainers Of the law which
/ created the federal trade commits
/ sion and has always kept "A watch.
| ful eye to sec that no incompetents
are placed In position to maze tho
/ law ~ failure through improper ad-
| mlnistration lie looked into tho
/ qualifications or this nominee from
| ms own state and was surprised to
| learn that though he was repre-
/ scntcd TO be a lawyer, no was not
| known as a practitioner before the
| courts Of his Nome community. An
| examination, undertaken Mt the in
| stance Of the committee. revealed
] AiAhA I pun llullAt uhu NOT appeared
on the docket IN his home county
as praCticing lawyer az far back
as the examination went. covering n
period OF ~ years.
The nominee for the federal trade
/ commission was called on 20 explain
/ this and he said that he had not
/ practiccd, but his work had been re-
| strictod To tutoring young lawyers
at the Trumbull county bar. Tele-
grams were sent 10 the president OF
/ the bar association and. at the re-
quest Of the committee. an effort
was made TO find some Of the young
attorneys whom Upton had tutored.
| Tho search failed. 4 referendum IN
/ Upton was then undertaken among
his friends and nCighhors in Ohio
and the strongest Endorsements ne
NsocurCd merely certified that ne
was a good old man" and his neigh
bors would like to see him get
something at Washington. Tho
committees investigation showed
/ that many Of those who recon-
mendcd Upton thought he was to be
appointed 20 a ClcrHship instead OF
an important administrative posi-
| ton.
Il appears that Upton was best
known TO fame as the inventor OF "a
| fishing reel which, however, was
never successfully marketed. The
committees record discloses that tho
man who bought one-half interest i'm
the patent rights for this invention
threatened suit on the ground II was
worthless but Upton was represented
as being execution proof and tho
matter was dropped.
The republican members Of the
subcommittee which has been prob
ing Upton's record to determine his
suitability for the commissionership
have been compelled 10 Yield in the
face OF tho evidence that he is not
qualified.
Tho subcommittee spent several
hours on tho case Saturday. and IL Is
understood president Harding was
notified today that the members OF
the subcommittee found it impos-
sihle TO 90. X his appointee. The
White House is expected 10 with
draw the nomination within the next
few days and find another place for
tho Ohioan which does not require
senatorial approval II the proal-
dent stands firm, however. the re-
publican members Of the subcommit-
tee, being I'm majority. viii send
the nomination into the senate with
out any recommendation whatever.
In which case UPTON stands chance I
TO be confirmed by n purely admin
istration vote, Many OF the old
guard senators have very poor
opinion of the trade commission any
way nnd would like 20 see It's work
uullified