Evening star., 1927-03-13
NOT CANDIDATE YET,
DAWES DECLARES

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Vice President will not be in the
| South long.
1.-THE great wide fields of the West
will attract statesmen in the next few
months. Farmer Lowden and Farm
| er Dawes will be out working in the
vineyard" he said, diminishing the
burden of the suffering farmer, while
| Calvin Coolidge will be carrying the
chill of his presence to the fields of
Kansas, perchance.i
Now, if it's in the lap of the gods
that we are to have continuing vista
tions in the form of Republican Presi-
dents, the country might go further
and fare worse, as Champ Clark once
| said and as Champ remarked. Prob
ably they will"
| After a few prefactory remarks,
Gen. Dawes launched into strong in
dictment of Senate procedure and de-
clared:
"The rules of the Senate are as
sure to be reformed in time as the
sun is to shine tomorrow.
II give you as a perspective, with
out discussing the rules, in connec-
ton with the absurd situation in
which this country found itself at the
the fact that 1t was only an accident
that the District of Columbia appro-
priation bill was passed.
Its the most absurd situation
which ever existed in any parliament
ary body in. the world. The Senate
by it's rules allows unlimited debate,
then requires two-third vote to close
it. In effect, they have amended the
Constitution of the United States so
as TO give a one-third vote the power
of blocking legislation.
Now, what will 1t come to with
the growth of the bloc system? Why
is the bloc system going to grow in
the United States? One reason is the
primary, which makes a man inde-
pendent of his party organization,
makes him a free lance when he goes
to Washington.
TITS the very thing that has brought
the breakdown of the parliamentary
efficiency in Europe"
Already Dictator, Moses Says.
Senator Moses said: "That day of
dictatorship, which the Vice President
foresaw has already arrived, because
we see him now usurping the func-
tions of the presiding officer Of this
gathering.
las to the episode which has just
taken place, IL / had any part in it,
glory in 1t, because there were by
products of that episode of much
| greater consequence to this country
and to it's interest. of much
greater consequence to you gentle
men. Representing as you do great
| material interests of the country, or
much greater consequence than any
thing involved in the persons OF two
candidates for the Senate who had
been under investigation or OF any
candidate who might be investigated.
among other things to be reck-
oned in the by-products of the NIL
| buster which took place, WEI prevented
the passage of the Borah resolution,
which would have set up the foreign
relations committee of the Senate as
a peripatetic department of state, ira
yelling over the country taking testi-
mony of hearsay nature and emDar-
/ assiDg the executive in all or the ne
gotiation of a delicate nature Wnlch
he has with respect to our relations
with Nicaragua and Mexico.
Also Condemns Bloc.
1--WE prevented the passage of the
! Walsh resolution, under which row
| ing commission would have sioshed
around the country for nine months
investigating every public utility In
! the United States. And among the BY
product of this episode was defense
Of the sovereign rights Of States.
| "Of blocs in general, j will join him
In condemnation. But of all the blocs,
may / point out to- you that the most
effective combination which the sixty
ninth Congress saw, or which any
Congress in recent years has seen, was
| the combination of the farm and bank'
er bloc put together by the Vice Presi-
dent himself for the purpose of pass
| Ing the McFadden act and forcing
| through the McNary-Haugen Dill,
which l regard as subversive OF every
! sound principle"