Evening star., 1935-03-06
|L0NG OPENS WAR
|0NSENATEFOES|N
FURIOUS ATTACK
New Clash With Robinson
Launches Campaign on
Roosevelt Aides.
THREATENS TO PREVENT
ENEMIES REELECTION
Suggestion of Fight in "0ld.Fash.
ioned Way" Declined-Friend
Searched for Arms.
BY the Associated Press.

by IIe ASSOCldtcu EIcoS.
Huey P. Long was embarked today
on an intensified campaign to smash
the careers of some of the Roosevelt
administration principal supporters.
Meanwhile, the Capital, still echo
ing with the furious words the LouiSi-
ana dictator and Democratic Leader
Robinson flung at each other on the
Senate floor yesterday, wondered how
it all would come out
Whether the Roosevelt forces would
take any action to stop Longs head.
long onslaught was not indicated
There was no elaboration of Senator
Robinson's roaring remark yesterday
that 1t was time for the Senate tc
put Long lin his proper place"
Among the headliners upon whom
Long has sworn to do vengeance are
Robinson, Postmaster General Farley
and Hugh S. johnson. He was known
to be preparing new assaults.
Neracity Challenged.
Another Democrat, Senator Bailey
of North Carolina. got a prominen,
place yesterday on the list Of mer
whom Long VOWS to remove from po.
litical life. During. the fast and furi.
Gus exchange between Long and
Robinson, Bailey challenged the
Louisianan's veracity. He said he was
utterly unwilling" to take Longs
word for anything"
Unnecessary insult" shouted Long
You won't come back here, either"
That was a reference to his previous
threat to campaign against Robinson
when the latter comes up for re-
election in Arkansas next year.
Most Senators, Republicans and
Democrats, were preserving a deter.
mined silence today on the bitter row
which eliminated late yesterday when
the Senate sergeant-at-arms, Chesley
w. Jurney. searched q friend ol
Longs for firearms. in the belief that
he might be one of the Louisianarl'.
bodyguards.
Several Hold Tongues.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia
declared last night that II regard
Senator Longs exhibition as being
disgraceful." but several other Sena.
tors who were asked for their views
declined to comment
The galleries were crowded all day
as Long and Robinson. enemies OF
three years standing. slashed at each
other. 1t started after Long opened
up an attack on Bernard M. Baruch
and his friend, Gen. johnson. who
had assailed Long and Father Charles
E. Coughlin in a New York speech
Monday night.
Comparing Long to mad man. u
Robinson said Long has disguised
this body with repeated attacks on
men who are superior to him. with
repeated efforts to discredit the Presi-
dent and humiliate him and now it
is about time that the manhood In
the Senate reaSSert itself"
Long flung back that Robinson had
put relatives on the pay roll, and that
he once engaged in fisticuffs on the
Chevy Chase golf course here. Robin
son called Longs attack silly and
declared it was disgrace" for Long
to employ armed guards to protect
him.
Long declared President Roosevelt
and Postmaster Farley had body
guards
las Big As Farley"
II am just as big a man as Farley"
he shouted.
When Senator McKellar, Democrat,
of Tennessee, asked If Long kept an
armed guard in the gallery, he de-
MED it. Later Sergeant-at-Arms Jur-
ney stopped Robert Brothers as he
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