Putnam patriot., 1929-11-14
BINGHAM UNPERTURRED
 BY SENATE'S CENSURE

as representative of Connecticut in the Upper House.
 Certainly the censure in no wav humiliated Senator Bingham, for smil- ing with a Coolidge-like disregard of political animosity. Bingham passed the criticism of without any percepti- Die signs of fear and remained the same suave, immaculate person who cant shed the college professor cloak of intellectual superiority, no matter how hard he may try.
 And just as certain is the fact that the eensure as passed by the Senate was far from satisfactory to Senator Norris of Nebraska and those other Senators seeking to reprimand Bing- ham for political purposes.
 The censure was undeniably a com promise, and as to what the compro- mise accomplished remains a moot question for Washington political cir cles.
 Failed in Accomplishment
 The compromise did not satisfy Senator Norris who presented the un- amended resolution of censure. for the Senator frankly told the Senate that the amended resolution did not accomplish what he had intended to be accomplished by his resolution.
 Before the session in which the resolution was softened and passed, Norris told newspaper men that he would insist upon the approval of his resolution as written unless Senator Bingham apologized. And he was spe- eific in insisting that he would force his resolution through unless the apology covered two points, the first point to be a confession that he had erred in charging the lobby investigat- ing committee with playing dirty politics.
 Norris was emphatic in asserting that his resolution would be passed as written, unsoftened by amend ments. unless Bingham told the Senate he was sorry. And the Nebraska Sen ator felt that he had sufficient backing Co pass his eensure unamended.
 No Apology
 Of course, no apology was forth coming from Bingham. The Connecti- cut Senator, to the last. defied Norris and the lobby committee members to do their worst. and the record shows that Norris was forced to accept amendments to his resolution which placed the Senate in the position of recognizing Senator Bingham as an honest man and softened the censure despite the efforts of MT. Norris to the contrary.
 Norris pleaded his case with the mastery born of sitting on the bench for many years and listening to the appeals of versatile lawyers, and told the Senate that it would stand con demned if t did not pass the resolu ton as written.
 But a hesitant and awkward Sen ate, looking back to where the tall college professor from Connecticut sat in quiet ease. apparently aloof from the petty politics being played about him, recalled that that same Yale in- struetor had commanded aviation in France. that he was a man of bril- liant intellect, and decided the resolu- ton should not be passed unless words were written into it to give Senator Bingham an untarnished character.
 Seeks No Quarter
 And even then Bingham showed that he was offering or seeking no quarter by telling the Senate he was opposed to any "softening" process unless that same process should wipe away from the name of Charles L. Eyanson all evidence of the scars re- sulting from the attack of the Cara way lobby committee
 Spectators and Senators alike look ed at Bingham with startled admira- ton in their eyes as the tall Senator, fully at ease and unperturbed. arose in his seat and requested a Senate engaged in softening it's censure of him to refrain from so doing unless 1t could also extend it's charity" to Eyanson.
 Bingham has been officially censur- ed. He has also been branded by many of his eollagues as displaying "inexcusable ignorance. His em- ployment of Eyanson has done much damage to the tariff bill-even his Re- publican friends admit that.