Evening star., 1933-01-25

Viewing the filibuster in the United
States Senate against the Glass bank
ing measure, the country declares that
1t is Inundated. 1t deplores the ex-
istence of the Senate rules which per-
mitted Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
and others representing minority to
hold up public business. The cost Of
such proceedings is emphasized.
The blind adherence of group OF
mature men to set Of rules which are
ridiculous" in the opinion of the Nor
gantown Dominion-News, brought
matters to point where the Nation
hangs its head in shame for its most
important governing body" The Rock
ford Register Republic calls it dis
graceful buffoonery," and declares that
ito the average American taxpayer the
spectacle was both disheartening and
disgusting, a wanton waste of public
funds" adding the Judgment that it
was "one of the most fragrant breaches
Of public trust in recent history" The
Port Huron Times Herald holds that
it was far from something to edify or
even entertain the Nation" while the
Santa Monica Outlook sees in its foun-
dations 1.-The worst evil and the greatest
danger to American institutions" The
Uniontown Herald condemns an "aS-
inine performance"
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It was IAN outrageous and disrepu-
table situation" in the opinion Of the
Rutland Herald, which also declares
that unlimited debate in the Senate
has cost the taxpayers OF the Nation
millions of dollars" The Asbury Park
Evening Press voices the Judgment: the
f1libuster is but the outward sign OF an
no
gress. Were the loquacious Huey alone
in his mockery of the duties OF the
Nations chief legislative body, there
would be little cause for worry. But now
that it is clear that all Congress Is
wandering In fog without leadership
the gravity Of the situation becomes
obvious. Only the fact that this Is a
short session, the swan song OF the
many lame ducks defeated in November,
and that more definite action may be
expected with the inauguration OF Pres
ident-elect Roosevelt relieves the fears
of the Nation"
"The 'Kingfish' Senator" according
to the Rock Island Argus, sis adver-
Using to the Nation at large the I'M
potence >of the Senate of the United
States by defying it to stop his ava
lanche of words in the conduct OF his
filibuster against the Glass bill. BY the
Senate's own rules of procedure 1t
created a system which makes 1t prac-
tically powerless to stop the mouthings
of any Of its members, who, for what
ever reason, decides to talk any meas
ure to death. Such q spectacle as SEN
ator Long presents IS humiliation to
the Senate-and to the country.
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aThe remarkably unusual spectacle
has been staged" says the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, "of Senate per-
sonnel becoming disguised with itself: "
That paper adds: 1T Is Realistically
impossible to vision any $l0,000-a-
year-and-expenses man who had not
graduated past all such Stiffness OF &C
ton and demeanor at the earning ca
pacity age of $25 to $50 a week" The
Appleton Post Crescent declares:
when q Senator Of the United States
starts reading the telephone directory
in order to kill time we appear to have
reached the supreme point IN spurnmg
and flouting the rights Of the majority y
and so evidently was the mischief OF
his evil conduct forced upon him, or
upon his associates who were blostering
him in his wrongdoing, that even the
| tireless Long finally consented to quit.
"The filibuster Is not q serious threat
to legislation" thinks the Lincoln State
Journal, although it comedies that 1T
permits q man to feel pretty big fer a
few days." The Miami Daily News re-
marks that it may last through weary
days before a milksop compromise
halts it, giving new proof that parlia-
mentary government is futile and can
no longer serve any good end" The
Columbia Is. c. Record is convinced
that the incident reveals Long as one
of the major problems of the Roosevelt
administration" The Louisville Cou-
rier- journal and the Roanoke World
News emphaxixe the fact that promi-
nent Republicans were among the sup
porte1s- Of th8 Louisiana Senator, while