The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-11
BEHIND THE SCENES
 N WASHINGTON
Occasional Touch of Comedy Makes Capital Life More EndurabIe Maverick of Texas Delft With RidicuIe .. He DeplOres Denial of Liberty League Doctrines to Poor Indians.
IaY RODNEY nUTCHEE
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Washington, February II = Into the hurly-burly, the constant strain, and the partisan bitterness of the capital, there sometimes comes a touch of comic relief which greatly relieves the tension of life here.
 Much of the comedy is li1ncon- scious. Frequently 1t is Congress man Maury Maverick of Texas who introduces such with and humor as is obtained by design. Maverick has an idea that laughter and ridi- ctile are important weapons.
 Thus, when Maverick defended the Indian Bureau against an at- tack led by McGroarty of Califor- mia which had slashed the bureaus salary budget from$AO9,O0O to $25,OOO, the Texan mixed in his hard facts and refutations with
 T looked through records last night and studied about Indians, and dreamed about them. Some o fthem scalped me in my sleep, but it avs only Q dream. Let us not consciously and while wide &W@AS oC1AR vtiS AAdA0AAS'
 What! Cheat the Indians?
 Scott of California then intro- duced an amendment to forbid teaching or advocating the legis- lative program of the American Liberty League in Indian schools.
 T rise as the champion of the freedom of speech in defense of the American Liberty League" said Maverick. Docs the gentleman mean to tell me he intends to deny the pure doctrines of James M. Beck and his pal, Newton Baker, who received $50,000 to decide the IVA before 1t came into court, and the doctrines of other inlpeccable and self-righteous citizens for the du Fonts and the holding compai1- les, from being taught to our 1n- dian children?
 "Does the gentleman mean he would prevent the teaching to the Indian children of the doctrine Of MT. "Sixty Grand Shouse, who gets salary and allowable expense of S80,OOO year? Indians know lot about horses they probably know about Twenty Grand = but they should know the du Pont htsc known as Sixty Grand.
 T get sick over all this name- calling; am only calling names so can get in the swim. It sounds as foolish as when Al Smith yelled about the road to Washington and tho road to Moscow.
 m passing, I would remind my republican friends, and some or my others, that when Benedict Ar mold walked out on America to the British, on the British sidelines thure was applause and loud cheer ing. But 1t did not last long; the British soon had sick faces, and got sick of Arnold, too, and he looked like Q poor, hungry, deserted prairie dog, neither fish, fowl, nor animal, with no friends this side of paradise.
 "No, MT. Scott, I would let even tho Liberty League talk. Would you deny these gentlemen who claim to be sole guardians of the Constitution the right also to Do Ruadians of our Indian children?"
 
 A Departure in Reports
 Probably destined to become famous as a departure from the routine, dull committee reports IS Mavericks one-man minority re" port against the bill permitting certain American officials to accept medals bestowed of them by some Latin American governments.
 Had I earned Q foreign medal in the late war against the Ger man Imperial Government" said he in the printed report, when we entered the war to end wars - there now being no wars and with democracy thriving everywhere throughout the world = I suppose l should have worn 1t. But this bill ought to be defeated.
 Congress can legislate and de- bate on medals and titles of n0- bility. This should give us pride. It appears we conn0t legislate on the welfare of those who live from the sail-(and all humanity does) flor that Is Q mere local matter thence, the welfare of 126,000,OOO people Is not within our scope.
 "Nor can we provide naturally even for minimum decent labor standards to protect states as against each other, or for millions of workers on whose lives and purchasing power the welfare of the nation, and business. depends.
 But we can dress our officera in foreign medals from foreign governments; and that proud power