New Britain herald., 1925-06-01

Whether some Of the foregoing would have been good or bad is en- tirely a matter of opinion, and no one will pretend to speak for the entire nation on the subject To have entered tho World War two years before we did might have found the nation divided upon the question, and it might not have been an entry vigorous enough to have brought about a much earlier termination of the conflict That of course Is also a matter of opinion. as is the senator's observations re- garding the ratification of the Yer sailles Treaty without reservations.
 Charles Nicholson Of the New York World lists other bills that have been killed by flibusters. Twenty years ago Senator Lodge in- troduced his Force bill, involving the establishment Of practical mili- tary suzerainty over southern cleo tions. The bill pleased the Negro vote in the northern states, and it was hoped to break up the political unity of the solid south. The bill was a sectional measure, and the Republicans had sufficient votes to put it through. But Senator Ar thur Pue German of Maryland con- ducted one of the most able filibus- ters in the history of the Senate and killed the project, There is no doubt In the minds of most citizens today that the bill, had it become a law, would have had mischievous ten dencies and that it was better off dead.
 Mir. Nicholson then refers to two rivers and harbors pork bills in two successive congresses. The bills were log-rolling affairs, and the ma jerity congressmen could have prohted in their districts through it's passage; but inc treasury would have suffered severely. Only q deter mined hlibuster by the minority killed them.
 Sometimes flibusters do not al- ways succeed. MT. Nicholson re- counting the efforts Of LaFollette against the Aldrich-Nrecland cur rency bill, when he established the long distance talking record in the Senate-speaking for 13 hours only to have the bill passed into law.
 The Dyer Anti-Lynching bill of recent memory is referred 10 as camouflage to protect the Negro from outrages in the south. The committee to which it was referred did not favor il, but political eN- pediency gained the support of most of the G. o. P. Senators Lodge and Watson Insisted upon it being passed. But the Democrats served notice they would hold the floor indefinitely against it, and the majority party let the bill go by the board.
 The Republican fhbustered to hold up the League of Nations, and instance the result of the con gressional election of 1918 as proof they were right; and instance the Harding landslide two years later as confirming inc proof Had the Senate operated upon the Dawes c!oture plan 1t could have put through the treaty and the League. There are many sincere citizens who think 1t should have been done.
 The ship subsidy bill was brought 10 the fore during the Harding administration. just as a similar bill is threatened for the next congress by the Coolidge forces. Indeed, the motivating force behind the Dawes campaign in the Senate is said 10 be in anticipation of the subsidy fight. During the Harding administration the ship subsidy scheme was talked to death in the closing days of the session; and the plan was not revived at the two succeeding sessions, but may be revived in 1925.
 There are some natural born cynics who claim another ship sub sIdy bill in prospect is the main reason why the attempt is being made to eliminate the present cloture rule. It apparently is fear cd by uphoders of tho bill that some mean senators will talk it to death.
 Any maybe there will be other pet measures ahich cannot stand much ak