The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-20
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WubhlnBton.-~AnB uttcrunces, perhaps induced mainly by election worries, and frayed nerves, arc frequent in congress during these days of strife and strain.
 But members sometimes ina themselves hnmpcrcd to the point of exasperation. Formal rules arc invoked to prevent them from calling each other hasty nanes and, despite their immunity from the legal consequences or any dictates of expcdtency aro cvon forcing them to moderate tho language they use toward ordi- Unhappy lIucy
 Witness the unhappy plight Of Senator Ilucy Long, tho Louisinnii "kingflsh," who wns told that he couldn't say Senator Joe Robinson Of Arkansas, hls own pnrtys floor leader, wns influenced in hiH votes by his corporation law clients.
 They pulled Paragraph Two of Ruic XIX on Huey, ronding ns follows. "No senator in debate shnli, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to m. other senator or to other scnnt0rB any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecOmlng n senator"
 That's a funny rule in moro ways than one, but Huey had to sit down until someone - 1t was John Blaine of Wisconsin---mado q special motion allowing him to resume.
 A "Hnrsh" Word
 Meanwhile, Congrcssman t'l0- reiio II. LnGuardiu. tho New York insurgcnt, was being nskcd to ex- pnnge from n committee record tho word "contcmptlbIc" which ho had applied to President E. l.. Cord of tho Century Ar Lines in conncc. ton with n pilots atrike following
 Chairman Sam itayburn of tho House Interstate Commerce com mittee begged Ladunrdin to strike out tho "harsh word" bee cause, ho snid. when another gent had been similarly criticized pres viously "tho committee had to hear him for two days" That seems to Do the citizens flnt method of retaliation at nttackS rom COnBfobb'
 But whnt roally crentcs com. piicatod commission is q rnzzberry tossed by q representapce at q senator, or vice versa. one calls attention to the recent exchange of punts between tho pcppery It. tlo Senator Carter Glass Of Vir' ginia and tho cx-priznfiEhting. consressman, Fred Britten Of Illinois.
 The 0lass Charges
 Tho House sputtcrcd in anger when 0lnBs charged thnt some Chi. cago bankers had hired one of It's members Co oppose branch banking provisions Of tho Me. B'adden bill H0mc years ago.
 Eut it spent half an hour argu- ing whether Britten could be per- mitted to guote tho Glass charges from tho Congressional Record or even mako any specific reference to them.
 Browning spf Tennessee, who was in tho chair, cited a ruling that no member of tho House might in my way reflect on niy- thing a senator or tho senate Bald or did. Ifo ruled that this pre- vented a membef readlnR from anything that went Into tho f,oc- ord from inc senntc. that if a senator called q member Of the House q thief tho speech mustnt Do referred to in tho House. that Fif q senntor accused every House member of taking bribcD the rep. resentative could not call tho Biander to tho country'B attention from tho floor,
 asaw It in the papers"
 Tho theory of such. rulings. hs promulgated by tho late Speaker Longworth, is that friendly reln- tons between the two branches and their. members must be "enforeed with the utmost rigidity."
 So Britten denounced the Glass charges simply as something ne had road in the newspapers. shafer of wisconsin asked him | if he were "crIticizing newspaper men for correctly reporting. q statement made on the floor Of n supposedly great leElslative body by q politician who holds public | office" whereup0n the House m. pIauded and I3ritten npoioglzed to---or, rather. euIogIzed = the newspapers.
 0bvlously, such circumIocutions --~------s.-------.s---.-..