Evening star., 1925-01-09

Consistency, thou art undoubtedly
a level. Thou adornest, it would
appear. not the crown that presses
down upon the opulent brow of James
f,ouzens. senior Senator from Michf-
gan. At least so sayeth the o7acles
on Capitol Hill. One day this week
Senator CouBens went to the hlte
House and eloquently pleaded the
cause of his friend. Gov. Alexander
T oesbeck of Michi gan, as an ideal
Attorney General of the United
States. Next day, following the Sem
ator's example, and, some say, at his
instieation, the entire Republican
membership of the Michigan delega-
tion called on President Coolidge and
boosted Groesbecks aspirations. Now
comes the story. On December "
Senator Couzens introduced in the
Senate a bill ito prevent and punish
the use of political influence in the
appointment or promotion of Fed
eral employees" Section or tnat
worthy measure reads:
ANY member of the United States
Senate or House of Representatives.
or any member of State legislative
body. or any State official, or any Of
ficer Of any State or national poilt-
ical organization who makes any re-
quest, oral or written, to any chief
officer or subordinate officer. or en-
ploye of any of the executive or Ju-
dicial departments of the Govern
ment. asking for the appointment of
any person or the promotion of any
employe, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor. and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined a sum not exceeding
81. 900 or be imprisoned not to eX-
ceed six months, or both, and shall,
moreover, be disqualified thereafter
from holding any office of honor.
profit or trust under the Government
of the United States
If the great proletarian world out
side thinks that ranccr and recrimi-
nation rule supreme in Congress in
these days of partisan pickering, let
It contemplate the fraternal scene in
the Senate. 1t fairly reeks with
brotherly love. During the roll call
on the Muscle Shoals bill Senators
Underwood and Norris. the fates Of
whose respective bills were at stake,
might have been observed hobn obbing
like two long-lost comrades of a
distant youth. At another stage of
proce edings Senator Curtis of Kansas,
the regular Republican leader, wan
dered over to q seat alongside Sem
ator Ladd OF North Dakota, lately
expelled irregular, and held confab
with him as affectionately as a pair
of cooling doves. The while Senator
Dial of South Carolina, lately under
the lash for an act of Democratic
infide elity. threaded in and out of his
side OF the chamber, arm entwined
around brother Democrat here.
Shaping the back of another there,
as lovingly as if he had never been
spanked In his life.
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Senator Claude a. Swanson of Vir-
ginia gave the new Junior senator
from Colorado, Rice w. Means, tip
as 10 how he could easily anu peas
antly place" his colleagues in the
United States Senate. Don't ask EN-
where they're FROM" said Swanson.
Just assume they're from Virginia.
If they're not. they'll be ashamed to
admit it, and you'll acquire auto
matically a reputation for felicity
and. tact"
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President Coolidge has moved so
quickly with respect to the judici-
ary changes necessiated by Justice
McKenna's retirement that his new
Attorney General may be named be-
fore these reflections see the light of