Evening star., 1933-02-14
Ousting of Barry Produces
Spirited National Discussion

Senate risked a further damage to its
public reputation"
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Doubt that "the lynching OF Sergeant
at Arms Barry has greatly increased
the Senate's prestige or the peoples
confidence in the purity Of senatorial
souls" Is voiced by the Baltimore Eve
ming Sun, which is convinced that "a
man in the Senate can collect in a
clumsy and dangerous way Of accept
ing cash." and holds that "a great
many well-informed people are Sc
riously disturbed over the menace af-
fcrded by senatorial votes that are
cast for the benefit of Senators and
not for the benefit of the country"
The Fort Worth Star Telegram argues:
washington rarely contains less than
1000 lobbies. They are there to in
fiuence' legislation. If various men,
bers Of Congress were not approach
able the interests which maintain them
would not be spending the money"
"As matter of fact, a few 'out-and-
out grafters are likely to do less harm
to the country than many dema-
gogues' who sell their votes for bad
legislation to insure their own re-elec-
ton. The many members can out
vote the few grafters, and protect the
Nation. 1t Is not SO easy to outvote
the many emagogues.' And their bad
bills may be as bad or worse than those
the grafters support. What, really, Is
the moral difference between selling q
vote for cash in hand paid or for q
chance to buy stock with a note, and
selling it for reelection worth $4,000,
or 100000, plus perquisites?"
THE lynching of Barry" Is con-
demned by the Roanoke World News,
which sees the cause Of the resentment
In the word "demagogues" That paper
adds as to sale of votes for money:
Very few Congressman actually sell
them for money A great many, in
cluding those who took part in the
Senate debate. sell them regularly for
votes" The World-News concludes:
The idea has probably never occurred
to the members Of this senatorial
lynching party that they might so con-
ground for criticism, either on the
part of their own employees, or the long
suffering public which continues meek
ly to pay the bill for this era of con-
gressional extravaganza, waste and
wholesale vote buying from the public
treasury"
Assailing the proceedings as "coarsely
comic" the New York Times advises
that heat and fury tend to confirm
the impression that the sting Of the
libel lay In its truth or partial truth"
and adds: Don't they owe an apology
to the people of the United States?"
The New York Herald-Tribune argues:
"Mr. David S. Barry was wrong, because
he misstated the facts and understated
the truth. He should doubtless be
thrown out of his job on the first count.
On the second, the Senate should go
into mourning for the evil days upon
which it has fallen, days of disgrace
and dishonor, of a menace far more
dangerous to the welfare of the Nation
than any occasional buying of Senators
by dollars honestly earned"
The Milwaukee Sentinel declares that
congress has been indicted on every
hand Tor tneff1ciency, ineptitude, and
inability to grapple with great prob
lens; the Boston Transcript, that
.'the Senate, not Mr. Barry, is on trial
before the people; the Jersey City
journal, that Ito those who have read
the daily press for the last few months
their sudden ire seems bit astonish-
ing; the Chicago Daily News, that
Mr.. Barry might have pointed out
that the honorable and extremely SEN
sltiye Senators agree with Tammany in
classifying certain pickings, perquisites
and rakeoffs as legitimate graft; the
Danbury News-Times, that THE Aneri-
can system has streak Of corruption
in it nine feet wide; and the Port
Huron Times Herald, that "there Is a
general disposition to look upon the
present proceedings as sort Of smoke
screen"