Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
Ia GILLETTE AND
WHEELER WILL MAKE
TROUBLE. IN SENATE
Hunt Thinks seth Session of
Upper House VIII Be
Sideshow

! the humorously inclined, thefe IS
vast range of possibilities in the ST.
I tuations that will inevitably arise
as the result of the approaching ele-
ction.
No matter who is elected--Coo-
lidge and Dawes, Davis and Bryan,
or La Toilette and Wheeler--the
| United States. Senate is certain to,
be the setting of some situations
that for sheer humor will out reach
the widest imaginigs of the burlcs-
Que libretttist or the comic supple
men artist.
For those who do not take their
politics and their congressman and
senators too seriously, Washington
during the next Congress wiz be
better than sideshow.
Consider the situation in the Sc
nate should the Coolidge-Dawes
ticket come through winner.
Dawes becomes vice president.
His sole duty is to preside owe"
the Senate; to decide points of
order in accordance with the rules
and precendts and to be an impair
tial arbiter in the matter of pro
cedure. He has no vote. except i'll
case of a tie, and no voice in debate
Down on the floor, on the Repub-
lican side of the aisle, will sit Sen
ator BrookhaFt Of Iowa, who fought
4 dawes as the candidate Of his own
| party and demanded that he be re.
moved from the G. O. p ticket.
Will Dawes recognize Brookhart
when the Iowa senator arises TO
make some remarks? If he does,
| or if he doesn't, interesting and ex-
piosive things may happen. Match
aud powder key will be in juxtapo-
sition. The possibility of blawup
VIII be ever present.
y
Consider, too, the dramatic pos
Utilities underlying an average
speech of Caraway of Arkansas, Ca
raway is the Democrats expert
skinner, and he specihazes in TAX
ing the hide of the G. o. P. elc-
plant.
Students of the effect of mind
over matter will crowd the Senate
galleries to watch the physical and
emotional reaction on Dawes as Ca
raway slips his knife through the
Republican cuticle and proceeds
to lay bare the carcass beneath. Ca
raway carves with a careless .nd
which has pricked the risibilitie; Of
much more depressed men than
Dawes.
Can "Hell-an' Maria" Dawes, in
such a situation, be expected to fol
low the traditions of vice presiden-
No stage drama will have 4.1y-
thing on the tneseness of that time.
tial ethics?
applexy. Unleashed emotion would
bring real fireworks.
Repressed emotion might bring CD
On the other hand, should the
, Davis-Bryan band wagon bring the
Democratic candidates to Washing
'ioR, consider for a moment the
! agony of soul and spirit that would
5 tear at the very vitals of Henry
Cabot Lodge when he arose in his
; chair and sought the privilege OF
recognition from Brother Charley
Next to having to appeal on ben.
: ded knee to the Council of the Lea
que of Nations for permission Ia
run for reelection, one can think
of no pill quite so complete, as
for this blue-blooded dean of the
Senate aristocracy, long the sage
and intellectual leader in the upper
house, to be compelled to ad lress
this newcomer from Nebraska: III
the president please"
There, indeed, would be real
drama of soul. Or melodrama.
In either case, whether Bryan
or Dawes presides in the Sixty-ninth
Senate, there win be on the floor a
shorn in the side of either or both
PARTIES as the situation may decree,
La Toilette and Wheeler.
They will be there as senators
unless one of them is there as the
/ presiding officer while the other
r sits at the White House,
Suspense? Human interest?
Drama?
That's what Washington is go.
: ing to be full of nothing else but as