Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-06
BOTH SIDES SHIFT
BLAME FOR DEATH
OF DEFICIENCY BILL
Responsibility Not Nine"
Says Reed; "Nor Mine,"
Declares Walsh.
FIGHT NOW APPEARS
ONLY TO HAVE BEGUN
Republicans Plan to Attack Demo
cratic Elections if Ware and
Smith Are Barred.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Who killed cock robin?
Whose is the responsibility for the
failure Of the second deficiency ap-
preparation bill in the Senate fill
buster?
Not mine,'' says Senator Dave
Reed of Pennsylvania, leader of the
filibuster.
Not mine" says Senator Dave
Walsh of Massachusetts, who OBJ
jected to taking up the deficiency bill
unless the Reed slush fund COM
mittee resolution could be voted upon.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania joy
fully admits his full share in defeat
ing a vote on the Reed resolution.
But he seeks, in a statement issued
last night, to put the blame for the
failure of the deficiency bill, the
public buildings bill and other legisla-
iion on the shoulders of the Demo
Gratis. He might, with the same rea-
soning, have referred to those Repub-
Leans who stood shoulder to shoulder
with the Democrats in the fight to
pass the Reed resolution.
Walsh Blames FiIibusterers.
Senator Walsh makes no bones
about attributing the failure OF the
legislation to the fllibusterers, led by
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania and
Senator Moses of New Hampshire.
The political effect, if there be one.
of the filibuster and the resulting de-
feat of the deficiency. public build
ing and other bills, time alone will
tell. In the meantime, both sides are
seeking to place the blame on their
opponents in the filibuster.
1t is no secret that some of the Re-
publicans who took part in the fill
buster against the Reed committee
resolution had reached the conclusion
it was about time to stand up and
hight Senator Jim" Reed of Missouri
and his slush fund committee, which
had caused the Republicans in two
States, at least, serious embarraSS-
nIent. The question is whether they
have gained ground by their tactics
in the Senate, which not only killed
the Reed resolution. but also saw the
death of the appropriation bill and
others.
Fight Has just Begun.
The fight, it now appears, has only
begun. The Republicans, if Senator'S
elect Ware and Smith of Pennsylvania
and Illinois. respectively, are denied
the right to take the oath of office
when the next session opens, plan
to hold up If they can some of the
Democrats-Black of Alabama, Smith
of South Carolina and others. No
charges have been filed against these
Senators, but some of the Repub-
leans argue that If the representa-
tive of one sovereign State can be
denied the right to be sworn in as
Senf<r then the same medicine can
be applied to those of other States.
With the political makeup Fof the
next Senate SO evenly divided be-
tween Republicans and Democrats,
however, 1t is doubtful that they will
! succeed In this matter. In the next
Senate there will be AZ Democrats,
4S Republicans, including Ware and
Smith, and ] Farmer-Labor Senator
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, in
sisted in his statement last night
that his determination to kill the
resolution extending the life of the
Reed slush fund committee and turn
ing over to it the power to examine
the ballots cast in the PENNSYLVANIA
senatorial election last Fall, was not
due TO any desire to prevent an in
vestigation of that election. which
resulted in the choice of Ware over
his Democratic opponent, William b.
Wilson.
Reed Explains Attitude.
Il have always favored. and will
continue 10 favor, a comprehensive
investigation of the Pennsylvania
primaries and general election by the
regularly constituted committee of
the Senate" said Senator Reed
This has been the real question over
which our battle was waged.
THE efforts of certain Democratic
Senators to escape the blame for the
fiafaaf rNf hn l.iI A.
public buildings bill and the alien
property bill are little short of ride
nlous. They took the position that if
they could not continue their slush
fund inc uiry, then they would not per-
init anything else to pass the Senate
'On February 25, when this battle
began, Senator Reed of Missouri, in
speaking of his resolution to revive
and enlarge the authority of his spe-
cial committee, stated in the open
Senate and we will get the authority
or the Senate will not do any more
business at this session; notify you
OF that
ITO that declared policy the Demo
Gratis adhered until the moment of
adjournment on March 4. Their posi-
ton was like that of spoilt child,
who, being denied his stick of candy,
destroyed everything within reach.
Cites Rejected Appeals. +
Our repeated appeals to the Senat =
TO consider the alien property bill, the
public buildings bill and the deficiency
appropriation bill were invariably OBJ
jected to by Democrats or the so-called
I'rogressives, who were allied with
them.
Time and again the Congressional
Record will show that Democrats and
insurgent Republicans united to pre-
vent consideration of these bills.
Whenever a roll call was held, these
men were found voting against con.
sideration OF these bills; whenever an
attempt was made to seek unanimous
consent TO consider these bills, these
same men objected. No person pres
ent in the Senate chamber will ever
forget the tragic appeal made by the
venerable chairman of the appropria.
fions committee for consideration Of
'the deficiency appropriation bill. which
carried necessary appropriations for
the widows of Civil War veterans
and for compensation to injured vet
Grams of the World War, as with shak
ing voice he vainly implored Demo
cratic Senator to withdraw his obJec
lion to consideration of the bill.
They claim. also, that we have
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