The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-24
SENATOR CUTTING
HELPS in BATTLE
TO FURNISH JOBS
THREE MUSKETEERs OF SEM
ATE RIDING ABREAST; BILL
FOR PROJECTS WOULD AP-
PROPRIATE VAST AMOUNT
By SICRID ARNE
tlsy Associated E'ressD

I
WASHINGTON, May a..
Three musketeers of the senate
are riding abreast again. And this
time the taciturn Senator Bronson
Cutting, of New Mexico, is point
ing the way in a typical bill for
the threea bill proposing expen-
ditures estimated at from $4,000
100000 to $4,000, GOO, 900 on pub
lie works.
His colleagues in the fight. as is
frequently the case, are Young
Bob LaFollette of Colorado.
Time and again the three have
stood shoulder-to-shoulder on some
major battle-for the most part
battles with social welfare as an
expressed objective.
Rated A Republican
For Cutting these battles have
meant rapid rise into the public
limelight. He was appointed to
fill vacancy in 1927 by a demo-
cratic governor, although he, him-
self, places his name in the repub-
lican column on the ballot,
He is elected on the republican
ticket, but his votes in the senate
rate him an independent. He is
found almost invariably on what
he considers the liberal side.
Cutting was born on Long Is
land, where he and his white-hair-
ed mother, Mrs. Olivia Cutting.
still maintain a home. Cutting is
45, and unmarried.
But Long Island, Harvard sheep
skin, or no, his interests seem to
observers to lie with the other half
of the world.
Supported Franklin Roosevelt
He is man to reckon with on
the senate floor, but in a marked
~ unobstrusive way. He seldom
talks, but when he does he speaks
briefly and to the point.
He was watched closely in the
last prediction campaign, and the
day, he as republican, annoHnc-
ed through his Santa Fe news
paper his support of Roosevelt
there was a stir up and down the
political ranks.
The suns of the New Mexico
plains he loves have burned him
to a tan that lasts straight through
the winter.
His face is oval and youthful,
and yet above it is a streak of
white hair that accentuates his
large, dark eyes. He dresses in
grays that emphasize the white
streak, and in browns that tone
with his out-of-door color.
Just recently he marshalled So
cial welfare workers to a hearing
on $15, 100000 bill for the home
less boys which has been absorbed
in the Wagner bill Always at
these hearings there is one con-
slant spectatorhis mother.
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Now he advocates a public
works bill asking that maximum
of six billion be spent in the next
two years to put men back to work.
On his entry into the senate he
threw himself into fight against
censorship which was followed by
liberalization of the rules applying
to admission of recognized litera-
ture.
He has started a battle against
large campaign expenditures which
still hangs fire. He was co-author
Of the Philippine Independence
bill.
Health Sent Him West
His adoption of New Mexico
happened 20 years ago when i'll
ness sent him west, where many of
his new people are accustomed ira
ditionally to the patron" the
kindly and wise adviser in the
'hacienda" who has time for his
neighbours problems.
His large home in Santa Fe is
always open. alike to the man who
ties his bnrro at the gate and to
the ranch-owner who canters up
on a hunter to join the senator in
a morning ride.
ANN0TTNrC DEATH