Evening star., 1934-04-05
Heated Exchange Follows
| Disputes in Hearing.
on D. D. Moore.
LOUISIANAN CHALLENGES
ATTORNEY FOR NOMINEE
Rightor's Accusation That He
Owned Part of Race Track
Is Termed Falsehood.
BY the Associated Press.

administration leadership burst forth
in the Senate today with Pat Harrison
of Mississippi saying the opinion of
the Senator from. Louisiana is less
respected by the membership of this
body as a whole and by the country
than any other Senator here"
The two outspoken legislators had
been in several lesser disputes a while
before at Senate Finance Committee
hearing on the confirmation of D. D.
Moore as internal revenue collector in
Louisiana, opposed by Long.
Edward Rightor, Moores attorney,
was invited by Long to go outside
after Rightor had said of Jefferson
race track In Louisiana that's your
track, Senator" Long called that
statement an Infamous falsehood."
Hear Longs Tax Speech.
The exchanges between the Louisiana
Senator and Harrison, who heads the
Finance Committee, pertained to con-
duct Of the hearing.
Again a crowd was on hand, many
of whom went to the Senate floor
later and heard Long in a speech
calling for heavier taxes on the
wealthy.
Then Harrison undertook a reply to
a speech yesterday by Long blaming
the Democratic leadership for help
ing the Hoover administration to send
the country to hell"
"A surplusage speech" Harrison
termed Longs earlier address.
Il shall offer no defense of what
this side of the aisle did during the
Hoover administration 1t needs no
defense on the part of good Demo-
Gratis and I am sure the country ap-
preciates the fact when men charged
with high responsibility here at
tempt to cooperate in trying to bring
the country back to economic nor
malcy.
"Of course, the leader on this side
Of the aisle CRobinson of Arkansas)
needs no eulogy from me, because
what is in my heart. and my estimate
Of him and his labors and services
here is shared by every member Of
the Senate on both sides of the aisle,
with possibly one exception
Had Mississippian in Mind.
Here Long interrupted:
In speaking of the leadership I
had more particularly in mind, as
we'll as anybody else. the Senator from
Mississippi. I was not speaking only
of the Senator from Arkansas. When
I speak of the leadership, I think the
Senator knows I certainly had him
in mind for the tax policy he has pur-
sued. He need make no defense of
any one else; let him take care of
himself"
Il am glad" Harrison replied. the
Senator looks en- me as included in
the leadership, but if others care no
more about his estimate of me than
I care about it, it makes no difference.
because IN my opinion the opinion of
the Senator from Louisiana is less re-
spected by the membership of this
body as whole any by the country
than that of any other Senator here"
The Long-Rightor verbal duel
started when William c. Grace.
Washington attorney, testified he had
made bets at New Orleans race
track on the advice of officials and all
his selections won.
Rightor broke in to say Grace was
at Spring meeting and the Louisiana
Jockey Club, in which Col. John P
Sullivan, New Orleans sportsman. and
Col. E. r. Bradley. Kentucky horse
breeder and sportsman, we're inter-
ested, did not have meeting at that
season. The track Grace visited,
Rightor said, was jefferson.
That's your track, Senator" he
added.
Long shot back that Rightor's state
ment was an Infamous falsehood and
there's not word of truth in it."
Il have never been III a race track
in my life," Long added. Il never
placed bet on a horse race"
Meanwhile Rightor had calmly
risen and angrily leaned toward Long
I'D just like to say you wouldn't
say that If there weren't a lot Of
policemen here" he told the Senator
Long then invited him to step out
side.
Shaking his fist, Rightor said, You
wouldn't do a thing to me, old man."
Long has charged that Sullivan
dominated the internal revenue Office
in New Orleans since Moore became
collector He is fighting confirmation
of Moore's appointment.
Asks That News Men Testify.
An effort by Long to get into the
record the exact epithet Sullivan
hurled at him at yesterdays hearing
was temporarily waved aside by
Chairman Harrison.
Long asked that news men be
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