Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-14
REPORT ON Ware
DUE DECEMBER 3
Senate Will Pass on PennSyI-
vanian'S Eligibility Three
Years After Election.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


Three years, one month and day
from the time he was elected, on the
face of the returns, United States
Senator from Pennsylvania, the Senate
will pass upon the eligibility Of William
S, Ware to take a seat in that body. On
December 3, next, Senator waterman
of Colorado, Republican, chairman OF
the subcommittee of the committee on
privileges and elections, will submit
report on the contest filed by Mr.. Wares
Democratic senatorial opponent, former
Secretary of Labor William =. wilson,
Presumably the report will declare
that Ware was duly elected" and the
majority Of the committee Will corre-
spondingly recommend his admission TO
the Senate. Prospectively, also, there
will be a minority report, urging wares
rejection on the ground both OF trregu-
larities in the gold dust" Pennsylvania
primary Of 1926 and Of frauds In the
ensuing Statewide election.
Two Courses Are Open.
Two courses of action will then be
open to the Senate. One course will be
to adopt the majority report, declaring
Ware admissible and entitled to TAXI
the oath Of once, or to pass the minor
ity report pronouncing him inadmtsSi-
BILE. 1t would require only majority
of the Senate to defeat the vote to adj
NIT Ware and administer the oath to
him. Therefore. 1t is expected, the
Democrats and Republican ProgreSsives
who oppose the Pennsylvanian's entry
on any ground will seek to bring the
matter to a decision forthwith. The 9TH
er course is the one espoused by support
erS of Ware, who include for the most
part the Republican regulars In the
Senate. They will do their utmost TO
thWart any movement to deny him the
oath. If they can once swear him in
and give him a seat, motion to expel
on the grounds of fraudulent nomina-
ton and election would need q two
thirds vote. On all hands 1t Is doubted
whether so large a majority against
Ware could be mustered, once he was
in the Senate.
The Republican Progressives, who will
fight Wares admission to the last ditch,
are captained by Senator Norris Of Ne.
braska. Norris caInpaigned openly
against Ware and for Wilson in the
1926 Pennsylvania election campaign.
various resolutions to bar and bolt the
Senate door against the Philadelphian.
BOrah Also Is Opponent.
Borah of Idaho is another senatorial
Progressive opposed to letting Ware stay
grounds, for which the Idahoan is so
famous a Stickler, he thinks the Penn
Sylvania Senator ELECT, because his Gre
dentials are in formally good order,
should be sworn and seated. After that
Borah has no objection to the Senate's
exercising its right to expel a seated
member on the ground that his scat
was obtained under irregular conditions.
The Ware case involves deep-seated
WNpNV
claSsically set forth In Representative
Beck's booklet, "The Vanishing Rights
Of the States Now and then it has
been suggested that a considerable group
of Democrats, mostly Southerners,
might be found lined up in Wares favor
when the showdown comes, baSing their
position on States rights issues.
Nobody on Capitol Hill thinks that
Wares recent comeback rs Ptiladel-
phia Republican boss VIII advantage him
to the extent of single senatorial vote
next month. Nor does anyone believe
that the Senator-elect's acknowledged
aid to the Hoover cause ct the eleventh
hour before the Kansas City convention
will result in anything savoring of
White House support for his cause. Ware |
drew Senate salary from March 4, to |
December 5, 1927, or about three-quar- |
tiers Of $4,000, and also enjoyed a clerk |
4AAAC 1AOWnAAIC VA oCNCAd al tAAOuodlu nOA~
lars for that period. It was on the last |
named date that the Senate declined TO |
administer him the oath of ONCE, and |
his financial perquisites came automati- |
eally to an end.
100000 Voting Papers Studied.
The contest filed by william B. VIII |
son, Democrat, has lasted three years.
1t has been a colossal transaction, be- |
cause Of the fact that, roundly, $780, |
600 voting papers had to be individual |
ly scrutinized. They were for the most |
part votes cast in Philadelphia and |
Pittsburgh, although ballots cast in sew
eral upstate counties also were exam |
1ned. The counting and other contest
proceedings were held before the Wat
erman subcommittee, which includes
Senators Moses, New Hampshire, and
Steiwer, Oregon, Republicans, and Car
away, Arkansas, and Bratton, New
Mexico, Democrats. In announcing that
the subcommittee would report Deem
Der 8, Chairman Waterman said WI
sons contest had in all respects been "a
bona fide" one. Wilson'S friends say
they proved to the hilt that his election
was accomplished under conditions
which smell to heaven"
Former Secretary Wilson, for eight
years at the head of Woodrow Wilson'S
Department of Labor, is now employed
as referee jointly by the miners and
operators of the Illinois bituminoug
field. He is in his sixty-eigrth year.
but physically and mentally vigorous.
(Copyright, 1927