Evening star., 1932-05-15
Capital Sidelights
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

lives uaS JuSt 0lSCOFeIeQ = new pre-
siding oficer who. after two Of the
severest tests in the past quarter Of q
century. has come through with gener-
al appreciation and acclaim. It's Rep
resentative Lindsay Carter Warren of
Washington, Beaufort County, N. c.,
who Is still young fellow" Of only
43 years.
It's new thing for members Of the
House to comment favorably on the
ability of presiding officer who may
be called temporarily to the chair TO
pinch hit for the Speaker or to take
charge In the Committee Of the Whole
House. But there has been an amaz-
ing amount OF favorable comment about
the way that this fellow Warren has
been presiding and-he'n be given plen-
ty Of opportunity to develop. In his
own right he is chairman of the Com
nittee on Accounts, succeeding during
the Democratic control Representative
Charles L. Underhill of Massachusetts,,
last Congress. This committee Is often
called the housekeeping committee or
the auditing committee of the House
Speaker Garner called this young
fellow to take the chair when the two
billion dollar Reconstruction Finance
Corporation bill was taken up for con-
sideratton. During the next five days
he preserved amazing order In a usu-
ally restless and belligerent House, was
forced to make many difficult parlia-
mentary decisions, speeded up the dis
cussion and emerged q marked man.
Then when the legislative appropria-
alton bill, to which the omnibus econ
omy bill was added as q rider, came
along, Speaker Garner felt that Warren
was the one man he could trust best
to preside over rebellious. turbulent
House, and Warren justified all the
Speakers confidence. During eight
days and three nights Warren ruled
efficiently. This measure called for
more rulings from the chair than any
within the history Of veterans about
the Capitol.
And when they came out Of the
Committee Of the Whole and Warren
took the floor to make his report to
the Speaker the entire House applauded
and cheered.
Representative Warren had well pre-
pared himself for s-lch an opportunity.
He had previously been O member of
both the House and the Senate of his
home State, and President pro tenpore
OF the State Senate when he was only
30 years Of age. He had several times
been chairman Of the Democratic State
Convention in North Carolina. He was
member of the State Code Comnis-
sion for compiling the consolidated
statutes In 1919; was chairman Of the
Legal Advisory Board and the Govern
ment appeal agent for Beaufort County
during the World War, and is now
member of the Constitutional Commis-
sion of North Carolina preparing a new
constitution for the State.
Speaker Garner Is so well pleased
with this new find" Of his that he is
planning to use him frequently to pre-
side when highly controversial bills are
taken up in the Committee Of the
Whole.
And Warren looks the part-stocky,
strong, resolute, determined, positive,
sure OF himself-and withal not too Sc
rious in tense moments.
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Twoscore years ago a young man
from Wisconsin walking through the
Capitol picked up an acquaintance with
a man in shirtsleeves, asking him what
sort Of work he did and how a fellow
could get a job in the Capitol He was
told that he must get Congressman to
cRO11 AOA AAAAAAs NAlOi bAy d4JCA Whto uS
took a job for one week as messenger
delivering printed speeches from the
House folding room and has been
working In the same old alley building
ever since. That's the story of John
w. cJack") Deards, foreman Of the
Senate folding room.
Try to find the Senate folding room,
as the writer did one rainy aft
ernoon. It's not on the Senate end of
the Capitol at all It's in an alley
south Of the Capitol and is anything
but what you'd expect the Senate to
use as a warehouse for all the books
and publications to be sent to constitu-
ents. 1t formerly was an old car barn
wnen the washington street cars were
horse-drawn. 1t formerly was a two
story structure, and when Congress took
1t over the House folding room was In
one-haf OF the structure and the Sem
ate folding room in the other half.
Then along came a cyclone many years
ago and tore OF the upper story. The
House moved its folding room into the
House Once Building, but the Senate
folding room stayed on in the old car
barns and now is overcrowding the old
structure.
But It's q great place to Jack"
Deards, his kingdom for 40 years, where
he has from time to time entertained
and searched out valuable old books
and documents for some of the greatest
statesmen Of their day. His original
sponsors were the versatile Senator VIII
liam F. Villas, Postmaster General in
Clevelands cabinet and later Secretary
OF the Interior. and Representative Al
len r. Bushnell, also Civil War oficer
IN the famous Iron Brigade. Among
his good friends were Representative
William Jennings Bryan, Speaker
Thomas B. Reed Of Maine and Repre-
sentative william @. Breckinridge of
Kentucky. Among his early fellow
workers were Kennedy r. Rea, then q
messenger and now clerk to the Sem
ate Appropriations Committee, and j.
Martin Mckee, foreman Of the House
folding room.