Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-13
SENATE ANU
SCENE
Of TWO BOUTS
Senators Glass and Wheeler
Furnish Milling In Upper
Chamber.
TORRlD WORDS
Speaker LongwOrth Sep
arates Battlers Tincher
And Strong.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL R--Torrid
language and one-round bouts de-
veloped at both ends of the capitol
today as feeling over banking and
farm legislation reached fever heat.
Carter Glass, of Virginia, one of the
smallest men in the senate and Bur-
ton K. Wheeler, of Montana, who is
considerably larger, furnished the
milling in the senate, but were sep
arated before either had come to any
physical grief.
The set-to on the house side was
between ]. N. Tincher and James G
Strong, both Kansas republicans
Sneaker Longworth played the role
of peacemaker and in doing so man
aged to avoid several wild hayma's-
ers which the rotund combatants al,
rected at each other.
The Glass Wheeler encounter took
place en- the senate floor during
roll call and after the lie had been
PASSED. The Tincher-Strong tilt was
in the lobby just off the house
chamber and was preceded by liar"
and according to eye witnesses, even
stronger fighting language.
Glass and Wheeler, both of whom
arc democrats, came together while
the senate was voting to take UP
the banking bill and after the fiery
Virginian had objected to unanimous
consent for the Montanan to speak
for an hour on the motion to make
the measure the unfinished business
Wheeler claimed, and Glass denied
in debate that there had been an
agreement yesterday, to let Wheelr
speak on the motion.
AS the roll call proceeded the
Virginian moved over to the demos
cratic side of the chamber and
Wheeler went to meet him. They
came together just in front of the
doors of the democratic cloak room
and Immediately behind the expansive
back of Senator Heflin, of Alabama
Both senators agree that Wheeler
accused Glass of breaking his word.
The Montanana said afterwards he
was not in a belligerent mood, but
chat Virginian insisted wheeler was
llNlu Win du6
Glass passed the lie and grabbed
Wheeler by the arms inviting him
into the cloak room to fight it out
Wheeler pushed the virginian away
and senators and senate attaches in
tervened.
Senator Robinson, the democratic
leader, took Glass into the cloak
room while Ralph Kerry secretary
to Senator Edwards, democrat, New
Jersey salmed Wheeler, who re-
turned to his seat smiling.
During the hubbub of the roll call
only those Immediately around the
senators knew what had transpiIe6
even Vice President Dawes, who waS
presiding and most officers of the
senate missing at least the start OF
the encounter
The senators came together al.
rectly under the mems gallery ana
in violation of the rules there was
a craning of necks over the side tc
see what a moment promised to be
a fist fight. The attention of other
senator and senate officials was at
tracted and they were quickly on
the scene.
Gllss returned from the cloak room
soon after the encounter and took
his seat near Wheeler, but there was
no renewal of hostilities.
The mixup between Tincher anG
Strong grew out of house debate or
the McNary- -Haugen farm bill. AS
they met in the ornate lobby JUST
off the chamber they began hurlins
the term liar" at each other.
Speaker Longworth and Representa-
tive Hudspeth, of Texas, who were
standing nearby, intervened as they
started blows in the general dlrec..
tion of each other
After Longworth pushed them
apart, they attempted to land blows
over his shoulder. They gave up.
but Immediately renewed the verbal
b"oadsides addressing each other in
anything but parliamentary language.
Finally Longworth led Tincher in4
to the house chamber and Hudspeth
and other friends calmed Strong.
Tincher opposes the McNary- -Haugen
hill and Strong is a supporter of it.