The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-26
! . BEHIND 1.-THE SCENESI WASHINGTON HV RODNEY OUTcHER-i
 Democrat Washington
 Correspondent
Little Sign Of So Called Era
 of Good Feeling
 In Washington

Washington, Nov. 26.-By no stretch of imagination could this period be called an "era of good feeling" in Washington and the chances are that greater bitterness lies in the month ahead.
 In few sessions of congress have so many names been called dur ing the first couple of weeks. Most of these names are being called behind peoples backs and some times they're only muttered, but they're dirty ones and seem more and more likely to be hurled around openly.
 The depression seems to breed eXasperation on Capitol Hill, per- haps because no one knows what to do about 1t. Members find themselves able to get unusually nasty over farm or wage-hour bill ard of courSe the anti-lynch- ing bill, which always produces hotter, meaner interchanges of personal scorn than any other, has been under debate in the Senate. Assistant Whip Cracks When "the senator from New York" was being accused of prompting the anti-lynching bill as 6 getting expedition into the Harlem "black belt" Senator Royal s. Copeland of New York arose to point out that the junior senator from New York, Robert r Waener and not Copeland, was meant. ..
 "The senior senator from New York has already been on a vote- getting expedition pointed out Senator Sherman Minton of h. diana in what was an especially mean dig, considering the wallop- ing which Copeland took in both the Republican and Democratic mayoralty primaries in New York.
 But the really extraordinary thing about Mint0n's crack is to he found In the fact that MintOn is the Senate's assistant Demo- cratic whip. Actually he is the real whip. since the title of whip is held by the venerable J. Ham Lewis of Illinois.
 One of a whips jobs--or an as- sistant whips is to go around trying to make everybody happy and one of the ways not to make Senator Copeland happy is to re- mird him of those primaries. or course Senator Copeland doesn't make Senator Minton happy since he is violently anti-NeW Deal Democrat. Just the same, a whip is a whip.
 Cherry Tree "Raz"
 One hates to see the ladies of Congress mixing into anything that suggests a personal squabble. since 1t is always to be hoped that they will be angels of sweetness and light in sordid political world. There have been physical encounters between members and many threats of them--but 6 hair-pulling match between two congresswomen is almost unim- aginable.
 There was much suppressed cx- citcment when Senator Dixie
 Graves of Alabama jumped into the anti.lynching debate, because
 of the rough fighting that had
 been going on there. but Mrs.
 Graves used no fighting words and
 her delivery was so good that
 many listeners commented on 1t.
 Nevertheless, 1t does seem to be too bad about Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes of Indiana and Congresswoman Nan Lee Honeyman of Oregon. Mrs. Honey man seems to stand guilty of giv- ing Mrs. Jenckes and one of her pet ideas the razz.
 COngreSswOman Jenckes has
 just started Onc-wOman cam
 paign for uprOOtlng the famous
 Japanese cherry trees around
 Washingt0n's Tidal Basin and
 burning them up as firewOOd. Mrs. Jenckes doesn't think much of
 Japan.
 But Congresswoman Honeyman, who lives much nearer Japan than Mrs. Jenckes, seemed to just about put the kibosh on her Indiana sisters idea when asked for com- ment. She said tearing up those cherry trees would be just like slashing an old painting by one of the Italian masters just ecause of a dislike for Mussolini.
 Exit Senatorial Courtesy"
 Senatorial courtesy isn't the grand old institution it was before the Black -Klan incident. The notion that any senator or ex-Senator is godo enough for any job without question, has dropped out the win dow
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