Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-16
ASHURST ASSA|LS
LONG IN SENATE
Starts Party "Crack- DoWn"
Provoked by Attacks
and Filibuster.
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A. Farley in regard to sale of stamps.
And Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
Democrat, of Washington, one Of the
new Democrats" who collided with
Long the night of the recent filibuster,
called him abruptly on point Of
order.
The trouble started when Senator
Ashurst put an article in the Con-
greSSional Record praising President
Roosevelt for his attitude on paroles.
This led Senator Long to reply,
defending the parole system as it had
worked out in Louisiana.
Go to the penitentiary." said Sena-
tor Long, and / will guarantee 1t
will be found that many postmasters
are in the pen who did not. steal
over so cents worth of stamps, or
over SIS. but nonetheless we gentle
men of the Senate have allowed one
of our illuStrious men flagrantly to
violate the law to the extent of many
thousand dollars and yet eXtol him as
one of eminent virtue and capacity
to be emulated by our sons and daugh-
ters."
Robinson Resents View.
Senator Robinson, taking this as
fling at Postmaster General Far
ley, retorted:
II do not think insinuations that
high Government officer has stolen
stamps should be passed unnoticed.
I do not feel that the Senator from
Louisiana has any justification for
that statement. I feel that he is Of
fenSive to every one in the Senate ex-
cept himself when he makes that
statement and generally to people who
believe in decency in government.
Senator Long replied that he had
not used the words, stolen stamps, "
but he agreed that the Senator from
Arkansas probably was justified in the
Interpretation which he put on what
he had said.
DO understand it now to be said. "
asked Senator Long. that it is not
true Mr.. Farley printed some special
stamps for his friends?"
If the Senator understands the
English language" replied Senator
Robinson, "he must understand
me to say that when he charges that
Mr.. Farley stole stamps, it is untrue
in every sense of the word. and the
Senator from Louisiana knows 1t is
untrue"
Denies Fear of Libel.
Senator Long intimated he was not
afraid Of libel and said he was will
ing to go outside of the building now
and make the statement.
Meantime Senator Ashurst had the
floor, but was yielding to Senator
Long. Senator Schwellenbach raised
the point of order that Senator
Ashurst could not yield except for a
question. land the Senator from
Louisiana cannot make speeches on
extraneous matter in the time of the
Senator from Arizona"
The chair sustained the point of
order.
Senator Ashurst, reading from man
uscript, said:
Mr.. President: If we walk on the
sea coast after a storm at sea has
subsidized. particularly if the storm was
of such violence as to agitate the ocean
to an unusual depth and send huge
pillows upon the shore, we discover
curious denizens of the deep from
the world of cold and dreadful night
below the oceans surface, that have
been cast ashore by the fury of the
storm. We find wriggling on the
beach crllstacea, such as crawflsh,
shrimps, mud crabs and Holsters.
Among the iish we find the grunt,
puffer, pike, topknot. toadfsh, jelly
fish, starfish, kingf1sh, sawflsh, sting
ray, and indeed too great a variety
of types to admit of complete def
milton.
Unusual Agitation" Blamed.
"when the sea is calm and tran
quill. these creatures seldom appear
on the shore. Only some unusual agi-
tation brings them from ohscurity to
conspicuousness
THE same physical principle oper-
ates on mankind, when the distress
of depression, the fury of financial
panic and storm, and the terror of
economic uncertainty agitate the
people. We then are no longer the
assured, free-swimming. self-reliant
folk we seem to be when the waters
of life we're smoth and placid. This
law of physics is not peculiar to the
American race alone. To all types of
men, when confronted with any in
security, whether it oe economic, en-
vironmentaI, social or philosophical,
there come dangerous thoughts, feel
ing and fears, and thus some men
usually called goldfish are forced to
the surface from me swamps of
anonymity.
Many Of such men thus projected
to conSpicuouSneSs are excellent men
who believe that they know how to
reach the pot Of gold at the rainbow's
end; how to obtain a living in this
practical, brass-tack, workaday world
without giving any equivalent there
for; or hcw to break economic laws
and avoid any penalty.
Thus, in these agitated and dis
tressful days, we must expect to en-
counter whimsical, dro1l, eccentric
and cratic persons who occupy the
stage for a time, and they at last
divert us. interest US, entertain us,
and, am bound in fairness to add,
they sometimes instruct us.
Success Must Be Difficult"
Their fatal error IS that they re-
fuse to face the fact that only iron
sacrifice can rescue nation from
depression; they never realize that no
easy way to achieve success has ever
been, or ever will be, discovered. 1t
was ordained at the beginning of time
that success shall be difficult.
In such whirligig epoch as the
present many persons, in normal
times sensible, become overweight
and unjustly suspect and defame
such of their fellow citizens as do not
subscribe to their particular reforms
and gyrations.
Therefore, the suspiciousness Of
the Senator from Louisiana and his
intolerant attitude toward and his
denunciations of his colleagues, are
quite understandable.
such structures, reproaches and
incorporate speeches from the Sen
ator Of Louisiana are really the wall
ings of an apostle of despair, he has