Evening star., 1925-03-14

The attack on the Senate rules by
ural address is received by the ma
jority of the editorial writers of the
country as an entertaining outburst
with a large element of truth behind
1t. A few hold that it was bad taste,
while others declare that the remedy
for existing conditions is in abolish
ing the short session Of Congress,
rather than in amending the rules.
Some believe senatorial barriers tend
to prevent bad legislation.
The matter is viewed as enlighten-
ing by the Indianapolis News which
observes that there are multitudes of
people who, as a result of the Dawes
address. understand the situation as
they never did before" The Man
chester Union accepts 1t as evidence
that the Vice President will be some
thing more than an amiable figure
head. "a good captain is essential" ;"
says that paper, but you have to
have hard d-boiled top sergeant to
keep a company up to the mark"
The San Francisco Bulletin pictures
Vice President Dawes chuckling over
a statement by Bryce that the office
is a second-rate one given to second
rate men. He is far from a second
rater," says the Bulletin. by a dozen
tests he has proved himself a man of
first-class powers. He is man en-
tIrely competent for any duty-even
the highest-that may come to him."
X x X X
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is
among those who regard the lecture
as "ill timed" for an inaugural. 1T
was we'll grounded in fact" says that
paper "The best answer the Senators
can make is to take the matter to
heart and revise the rules" The Gin
cinnati Times-Star predicts the SEN
ate will do nothing about 1t unless 1t
has to- ECLIPSE for the Vice Presi-
dent?" 1t adds: Either the Senate
must come out into the sunlight with
him or sulk in the shadows" The
Greensboro Record calls it "a pretty
good show and the kind that leaves
the impression that the best part is
coming after the curtain is down"
The New York Times forecasts favor
able response. Honest efforts must
be made" asserts the Times, ito free
the Senate of the United States from
the reproach of the Vice President,
fresh from the people"
Among the papers that showed a
tendency to disagree is the LOUISVILLE
Times: "The performance revealed
in him less of the majesty of the lion
rampant than of the maladroitness
of the bull in the china shop" An
other word of condemnation is from
the Rochester Herald which says:
Had the Vice President reserved his
'bawling out until a business session
of the august body over which he
will preside, 1t might have produced
an impression far more favorable
than that indicated by comments"
The Lynchburg News suggests that
Mr.. Dawes apparently forgets that
he is now Vice President and no
longer Gen. Dawes addressing a
body of soldiers Of inferior rank"
The News adds that Republicans
wish to change the rules while they
hold the majority and Democrats de-
lay until their sun is in the sky" If
Mr.. Dawes was looking for a fight,
states the Newark Ledger "he has
started one" The Ledger adds, "The
country, at least, is assured of much
amusement" The Worcester Gazette
concludes that IAN autocrat for a
presiding officer has manifest draw
backs The Minneapolis Tribune
argues that Senatorial dignity has
its claim and SO has senatorial cour-
tesy; with either or both abrogated
the country would be a worse loser
than it has been under the existing
order"