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unanimous consent agreement as 1ar
IS the Senator from Louisiana is con-
cerned?"
While the rain poured in torrents
outdoors, another Senator rose to
plague Long. This time 1t was Henry
Fountain Ashurst of Nevada, the
modern Chrysostom, the Senates mas
ter of words and satire.
us it not true" asked Ashurst,
shat the Senator's pop is about as
great as that of cuckoo clock IN a
boys dormitory at 3 o'clock In the
morning."
Soon after 8 o'clock Senator Long,
eroggy. unaided throughout the fill
buster by any of his colleagues, quit.
It was the longest one-man stand
since Senator Bob La Toilette, senior,
talked against the Aldrich-Vreeland
currency bill for 18 hours and 81 min
utes in 1908.
Filibusters are an old trick, but US
ually they are run by groups. In lS46
a fllibuster held up the Oregon bill
two months; from March "a to May
is, 1881, filibuster prevented organi-
cation of the Senate for business; in
1903, Senator "Pitchfork Ben" Till
man, South Carolina character, be-
gan to read Byron's "Childe Harold"
to delay Senate action until an item
of $4,000 claimed by his home State
from the Federal Government was
put into an appropriation bill. Ten
years before that f1libuster on the
silver purchase bill ran two months.
A CID Carter Glass. fighting gen.
tleman from Virginia, is another
Democrat who haunted the happy
visions of the White House. This Bit
ter fighter tore to shreds the bank
ing bill urged by Federal Reserve Gov.
Eccles; he tried to smother the work.
relief bill by keeping it buried in COM
mittee, and he killed all hopes of in
Guiding bee husbandry in the agri-
cultural adjustment amendments by
his biting comments on controlling
the sex life of the queen bee.
Glass has been fighting since the
day he learned to talk, and he always
has done it out of one side of his
mouth.
1llIlhB a 41IC1Io OLlNCB
"what an insuperable foe he would be
If he used his whole mouth to speak
with
He is pretty well-nigh insuperable
right now. If he doesn't win his bat
ties, he leaves his mark on his oppo-
nents. One of the fights he lost last
session was to have the Senate pass
a rule forcing Senators to talk to the
point when appropriation bills were
under consideration. Glass barked at
his colleagues:
1T has seemed to me perfectly ridic-
ulous that the Senate should sit here
day aft day and have to listen to
speeches which have no relevancy
whatever to appropriation bills under
consideration.
The senatorial liking for talking on
everything under the sun, however,
was too ingrained for removal Glass
was moved to seek this debate limit
when Senator Long made his first
fllibuster Of the year, against the War
Department money bill. 1t was at a
time whe1 Long was daily show and
not long after red-faced Joe Robin
son, Senate majority leader, had
shouted at him in bull voice:
"Egotism, arrogance and ignorance
are seldom displayed in the Senate
OF the United States. They require a
measure of talent possessed only by
the Senator from Louisiana. It is
about time the manhood of the Sen
ate should assert itself"
A changeless old order is Glass
hope. He told the Tufts College
graduating class in June as he re-
ceived one of eight honorary degrees
awarded him this Spring in recogni-
ton of his brave, relentless fighting
for what he considers sound eco
Monies:
Everything new is not right"
He mistrusted Mariner Eccles and
left the room of the Banking and
Currency Committee when his nomi-
nation for the Federal Reserve gov
ernorship was brought up. He is not
chairman Of this committee the job
belongs to Duncan Fletcher of Florida,
rs, whom Glass, rs, labels, that old
man"
1T is simply shocking" he told the
Senate when the banking bill came
up, ut Is appalling to think that the
newest member of the board, who
never had days association with the
Federal Reserve System in his life,
proceeded within less than 80 days
after his nomination to propose revo-
lutionary changes in all the funda-
mental provisions of the law
The Lynchburg bantam wages an
eternal war on imitation, urged daily,
monthly, yearly on the Senate by
handsome Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa, who told his colleagues:
There is no money anywhere bet
ter than greenbacks
"Greenbacks forever" was the rally
ing cry of the bonus hackers, whose
ardent efforts in behalf of the soldiers
led to the threat of having President
Roosevelt in person come to the Capi-
toll to denounce imitation and the
bonus in veto message, which was
followed at once by House repassage
despite his objections.
WHILE rebellion dubbed in the
Nv House and Senate and the heat
wilted collars and melted self-control,
inconsistencies seized the legislators.
Percy Lee Gassoway, long spurred,
high booted, tall cussing trick rider
from Oklahoma, left early for his
home. Lest others follow his lead.
Speaker Byrns exhorted his charges:
Il don't know of anything better
except going to church than to come
here and devote ourselves faithfully
to the discharge of the peoples duty"
Byrns championed the independ-
ence OF the House. He wanted it
understood the Representatives acted
or their own initiative.
I'VE get no orders from the Presi-
dent, so help me God!" he ex-
pressed it.
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