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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
SNAKE LOSING
 FIGHT TO SPIDER

Ossian, N. r., Aug. l3.-(UP).- The death fight between an eight inch, dark brown grass snake and a group of spiders in R. J. Hol- den's farmhouse cellar continued unabated today with the snake slow ly weakening in his intense strug- gle for freedom.
 The spiders are rarely seen now. They have become alarmed over the prisence of visitors and remain hidden.
 AS the struggle entered its 18th day, the snake remained securely imprisoned in the spiders web.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13

Six months ago the nation was aroused by the brutal staying of a lovely bride of a year at Jackson Heights, N. Y, suburb of New York City.
 The slayer, one Major Green, Me- gro janitor of the apartment house where the murder took place, awaits electrocution in the death house at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13

ton, but such a step might cause her to lose rather than gain pres- tige. In the event that she entered a primary and lost her candidacy on the fusion ticket would be tl- jured.
 With party leaders planning ap- parently to give the nomination to a woman, friends of several poten- tial candidates are seeking support for them. Mentioned as possible nominees are Mrs. Mary Kilmartin, Mrs. Belinda Tracy and Miss Mary HenneSSey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13

the rugs are jute or of inferior composition. When compared with the true Orientals the difference is quickly noted, a Chamber official said. It is pointed out that when offered rugs or other merchandise one should investigate before pur- chase. A call to the Chamber or Detective Bureau will, in most cas- es, avoid loss of money. The Cham Der and police urge that women alone should not permit strang'' CTS to enter their homes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
More BuSSeS!

Eight new busses will be pur- chased by the Connecticut com- pany as a cost of $72,0oo, provid- cd the sanction of the U. s. dis trict court can be obtained. The company petitioned the court yes- terday and Judge Carroll c. Hincks set August 24 at 2 p. m, as the Gate for hearing.
 The busses are for use on new line between New Haven and Mil- ford. Connecticut company affllia- tions in Waterbury were abrogat- ed November 16, 1886, when the c. R. & L. took control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
Adjustments

Members of the Waterbury Brass Workers union reported last night at a meeting that not all agreements made with the Wa terbury Buckle company have been adhered to but added that adjust ment probably will be made through a conference. Other com- plaints have been ironed out by committees from the union meet ing with company officials, 1t was reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-13
Spotlighting Brass City News
On Vacation

Rev. Harold E. Craw, associate pastor of the First Congregational church, and Mrs. Craw, will start their vacation on Monday, when Rev. Dr. James E. Gregg, pastor, and Mrs. Gregg return from a six weeks sojourn in Nantucket and Maine.
 MT. and Mrs. Craw will visit their parents in Troy and Glen Falls, New York and then camp in the Adirondacks, returning here about the middle of Septem- Der.
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party-76 in the present session. Sen
ator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania
directed the senatorial campaign as
chairman Of the Democratic Sena-
torial Campaign Committee when this
unprecedented majority was attained.
ONLY two Senators in the history
of the Nation have been honored
by having their likenesseS engraved
on coin of the currency, during their
ifetimes-Senator Joseph T. Robinson
of Arkansas and Senator Carter Glass
Of Virginia. The profile of Senator
Robinson appears on a silver half
dollar in commemoration Of the
Arkansas Centennial this year, while
the profile Of Senator Glass appears
on a silver half-dollar commemorating
the Sesquicentennial at Lynchburg
last year.
Two Representatives in Congress
have died on the floor OF the House.
Congressman E. E. Eslick expired
on June ID, 1882, and T. T. Bouldin
died on February II, 1884, while ad-
dressing the House. Two members
have died in the House Committee
on Appropriations, Martin B. Mad
den, April 81, 1928, and James Burns
of Missouri Three Speakers have
died in office-Champ Clark and Mich
olas Longworth and Mr.. Byrnes. Two
Representatives died presumably from
the effects of poison secretly placed
in food served at a banquet in the
old National Hotel during the inaugu-
ration of President Buchanan; they
were David F. Robinson and John G..
Montgomery.
There have been some very touch
ing friendships among members of
Congress. In this respect one recalls
the friendship Of Senator Nelson Of
Minnesota, who was a Union soldier,
and Senator Bankhead-the present
Speakers father-who was a Con-
federate The two were inseparable.
A similar friendship existed between
Senator Martin of Virginia, Confed-
crate, and Senator Nelson. At a Con-
federate reunion some few years ago
the two marched arm-in-arm down
Pennsylvania avenue.
The latest induction recalls the in
auguration of Theodore Roosevelt on
March 4, 1905, which, history records,
was an exceedingly cold and blustery
day. On this occasion Senator William
B. Tate of Tennessee marched with
the Senate onto the outdoor platform,
not wearing his hat. On March 9 he
had succumbed to pneumonia, for he
was at the advanced age Of 70 and
could not withstand the exposure.
Looking back this century and a
half, we find many examples Of devoted
service in thA Senate. not only on the
part Of the Senators themselves but on
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S. Morrill,, Representative and Senator
from Vermont, still holds the record
he held at his death for longest con-
tinuous service IN both House and
Senate. He served for 43 years, s
months and "a days. having been
elected as Whig to the Thirty
fourth and five succeeding Con-
crosses, when he became Senator. His
land-grant bill, which passed both
Houses of Congress but was vetoed by
President Buchanan, became law in
1862. He was also author of the tar
i'll act of 1861. He entered the Sem
ate in 1866 as a Union Republican
and was a member continuously until
his death, in 1898.
CONGRESS has had "a Negro mem
bers, % of whom sat in the House
and 2 in the Senate. Both Negro
Senators were from Mississippi. Hiram
r. Revels, the first of these, held Of
fee one year, from 1870 to 1871, but
the second Negro Senator, Blanche K.
Bruce, was in Office for the full term,
from 1875 to 1881.
Bruce, curiously enough, was once
a slave, born into slavery in Prince
Edward County, Va. March /, 184l.
Some question arose when he took his
seat in the Senate as to his eligibility,
as 1t was contended by some that he
had not been free man long enough
to be eligible as an American citizen.
However, he was seated and had q
distinguished career that led to his
appointment at the conclusion of his
Senate term as register of the Treas
ury, having been named by President
Garfield. He died in washington in
1898
There have been two professional
pugilists in Congress. Senator w.
Warren Barbour of New Jersey, re-
Gently defeated, was a well-known
boxer, and John Morrissey, a Repre-
sentative from New York, was the
champion heavyweight boxer of the
world in 1858. He was elected as a
Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty
first Congresses and was not a candi-
date for reelection in 1871.
"A CdtHOliC pFltSI IldS Sdt LII SOu-
gress-the only priest to have served
in this way during the last $50 years.
Gabriel Richard was delegate from
Michigan Territory. He was born in
La Vile des Saintes, in France, in
1767. He pursued classical studies
and later theology at the Seminary of
Augers In France. He was ordained a
priest on October is, 1890, and emf
grated to the United States two years
later. He settled in Baltimore, becom-
ing subsequently professor of mathe-
matics at St. Mary's College in Mary
land.
Bishop Carroll sent him as a mis-
sionary to the Indians of the North
west territory, and he was stationed
for q time in what Is now Kaskaskia,
Ill. Later he went to Detroit, also ns
missionary, and while in this city he
published French periodical. "Essais
du Michigan" and some Roman Cath
ole books. On March Z. 1925 he took
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cation Of the demands Of the times,
1t is interesting to note that 975 OF
these were enacted in the Seventy
third Congress and 839 in the Sew
enty-fourth. In lat years, out Of
10000 cases decided by the Supreme
Court. 76 have been held unconsti-
tutional. In the light Of current
interest In the Supreme Court, the
distribution Of these decisions is sig
nificant. During the first SO years one
case was held unconstitutional. Nine
teen cases were so adjudged in the
next so years and Sc in the last AZ
years. Sixty-four different acts have
been construed. Three of these were
enacted between 1889 and 1899, out of
a total of 5,741; % were enacted be-
tween 1889 and 1889, out of total Of
1884; 80 were enacted from 1889
through the Seventy-fourth Congress,
out Of a total Of 36,676.
Eighty-four different provisions OF
law were in some respect invalidated.
ranging from an entire act to the
necessary implication of q single
phrase.
During the past century and a half,
1856 Senators have served in the
upper house. or this number IL
served for 80 years or more. The list
includes Francis E. Warren of Wyo-
ming, William B. Allison of Iowa, JUS
tin s. Morrell of Vermont, John Sher-
man Of Ohio, William P. Frye of
Maine. John T. Morgan of Alabama,
Shelby McCullom of Illinois, Eugene
Hale of Maine, Francis M. Cockrell
of Missouri, John P. Jones of Nevada
and William E. Borah Of Idaho.
SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD is
dean of Congress and holds the
record among living members for long
est continuous service. Elected to the
Fifty-seventh Congress on October IL,
1902, to fill the unexpired term of his
father, John L. Sheppard, as Repre-
sentative, he was reelected to the
Fifty-eighth and succeeding Con-
crosses through the Sixty-second.
When Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey
OF Texas retired from the United
States Senate, on January 20. 1918,
Mr.. Sheppard succeeded him, having
been nominated at the Democratic
primaries on July 27. 1912. Elected
to the full term beginning March 4,
1918. Senator Sheppard was re-elect-
ed in 1918, 1924, and 1890. His pres
ent term expires in 1887.
Senator William E. Borah Of Idaho
has served continuously in the United
States Senate since January IS, 1907,
his record not equaling to date that of
William B. Allison of Iowa, whose
terms in the United States Senate
covered period Of IS. years. 5 months
and l day. Elected March 3, 1873, he
served until his death, on August 4,
1908. For some time Henry H. Bing-
ham Of Pennsylvania held the laurel
for longest continuous service on the
House side, 80 years and 10 days. but
this record was broken subsequently by
Gilbert n Haugen Of Iowa. Justin
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35-year-old former pitcher. Cooney
did not set the league af1re with his
hitting, as he did for several seasons in
class AA leagues, but he batted .282,
produced many timely hits and did
great job of fielding.
When the New York Giants needed
a catcher, they found Roy Spencer to
be the best available bet Spencer was
well past 80 and formerly had served
with Cleveland and Washington, but
he was good enough for the team that
won the National League pennant,
and he proved that Long George Kel-
ley was partially correct. at least.
When the Senators, getting back to
the American League for a moment,
also needed a catcher late in the sea-
son, they came up with the veteran
Francis (Shanty) Hogan from Albany.
The one-time Braves and Giants back
stop weighed 263 pounds, but he filled
the bill, and, thanks to his expert
handling Of pitchers, the Senators
managed to run In the money.
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Great Current Events Compare Without Question With
Most Important Days in History of Republic
Colorfu Personalities Since Founding.

his seat as delegate from Michigan
Territory in the Eighteenth Congress,
but was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1924.
ONE Senator in the past has repre-
sented three different States.
James Shields served as Senator from
Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
What is more, he was born in Ire
land, in County Tyrone. Emigrating
to the United States in 1928, he
studied law, practicing in Illinois,
where he was admitted to the bar
He was elected to the United States
Senate in 1849, but was deferred from
taking his seat for a few days while
his eligibility as an American citizen
was under discussion. On March he
took his seat, but on the 18th the Sem
ate declared his election void. Re
elected for the same term, he served
from Octobr 81, 1849, to March 8,
1855.
He moved to Minnesota in that year.
as he had been an unsuccessful candi-
date for reelection from Illinois.
When Minnesota was admitted to the
Union as State he was elected from
the new State, serving in the Senate
from May IL, 1858, to March 3, 1859.
Shortly thereafter he left for Califor-
mia, when he was unsuccessful for re-
election from Minnesota, and from
California he went to Missouri. Here
he practiced law until elected Senator
on January %, 1879, to fill the unex-
pired term of Lewis v. Bogy. He was
not a candidate for reelection, de-
clining the nomination.
There is Senator now on the Hill
who has the distinction of having
been Governor of State, Representa-
tive and United States Senator-elect,
all within a period of two weeks.
Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas was
elected to the Fifty-Eighth Congress
as Representative and served con-
tinuously to the Sixty-Second Con-
greSs, from which he resigned on jan
uary IA, 1918. On the 18th of Janu-
ary he was inaugurated Governor of
Arkansas, having been elected in Sep
tember, 1912. On the 28th of the
same month Of January he was elected
Senator and took his seat on March
10, 1918, resigning from the Governor
ship. Reelected in 1918, 1924 and
1880, his present term expires in 1887.
1t is pretty generally conceded that
this legislator has handled one of the
most exacting assignments in Con-
gress, for as Democratic floor leader
it has been up to his tact and in
genuity to explain complicated bills,
route them strategically through COM
mittees and marshal votes for passage
of New Deal legislation. No Senate
leader before him has ever been called
On 10 guide 70 many men OF one
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VETERANS IN GAME
Managers Find Promising Material in Ranks
of Those Who Have Been Discarded
in Other Years.

1895 Peter Appleton, nee Jablanowski,
| was the most effective pitcher on the
washington club. Not until midSeason
was he given much of a chance, but
he finished with IA victories as against
defeats, had the best earned-run
average on his team and the fifth best
in the American League. Washington
jumped from seventh place to the first
| division, missing second place by less
| than half game.
1t was at the same time that Griffith
grabbed Appleton that Philadelphia
| picked up Kelley, and in much the
same manner After he went back
to the Southern Association to toll
for long years at Atlanta, Kelley, like
Appleton, was caught in the vortex
| Of the 1885 draft. But, according
to reports, Connie Mack did not want
Kelley as Griffith wanted Appleton.
The taciturn manager of the AS was
rebuilding, too, and using youngsters
fresh off college campuses and back
woods diamonds, but Philadelphia had
working agreement with Atlanta,
and in order to protect that minor
league team, it is said that Mack
picked Kelley, intending to turn him
back to Atlanta later The Crackers
had won pennants, thanks to Kelley,
and were loath to lose him in the
draft.
Kelley, however, made certain he
did not go back to Atlanta. On a
team that was the laughing stock of
the league, club dubbed the "Apa-
thetics" by sportswriters, Kelley was
a star from the start. The AS had
little batting attack, less defensive
ability, and frequently played in the
uninspiring atmosphere of compara-
tive privacy. Yet Kelley ranked tenth
in the American League in effective
ness, outranking such established stars
as Wes Ferrell, Buck Newsom. Lefty
Gomez, Schoolboy Rowe and Vernon
Kennedy.
X ELLEY'S remarkable showing, plus
that of Appleton, plus that of
few others, set the wheels of base
balls front Office" machinery into
motion. Other veterans were shared
from all sources. In the American
League the 37-year-old Al Thomas
helped Appleton and Kelley in the
awakening, when he won II games |
and lost 9 with the seventh-p place |
Browns, whose pitching staff ranked |
as the worst in the league, barring
not even the Athletics. Thomas |
started pitching professionally in 1918.
He was with the White Sox and then
with Washington, a team which re-
leased him Internationally. The
Phillies took him, but they, too, turned
him loose. He was through" or so
it firmly was believed, until Rogers
Hornsby gave him chance.
In the National League the vet
eran, bespectacled Danny MacFayden
pulled a similar stunt. He was waived
out OF the American League in 1884
and was passed along from Cincin-
natl to Boston during an indifer-
ent 1885 campaign. Last season, with
a sixth-place Boston team, he had
a great year, winning II games and
losing Is.
Waite Hoyt, 81 years old, pitching
professionally for two decades and out
OF action for half of the 1886 season
because of appendicitis, finished ahead
OF the 500 mark for Pittsburgh, with
seven wins and five losses. Brooklyn,
casting desperately for an outfielder,
brought up the veteran Johnny Cooney,
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"Sesquicentennial' Session Promises To Be One of
Great Periods in Record of National Legislation,
and Talented Arkansan Is Factor.

ator to read a newspaper at his desk
in the Senate chamber when the Ma
ton was young, by the same token to-
days legislators do not challenge one
another to bloody combats on the
duelling fields as they did in another
generation. o temporal o moresi
will be sighed so years from now, just
as it is being sighed today, and was,
no doubt, sighed in England when an
audacious little group of rebels first
stood up against a parent country.
There is a fine beat in the history
Of the first $50 years Of our congress.
Through all the trappings of the times
the fundamental principles Of DEM
ocratic government have been hus-
banded and. like the torch Of F1an-
ders, passed on to each succeeding
generation. Not so many weeks ago,
Mussolini announced to the Italian
nation, Democracy is dead!" Our
position In the world today, as a
Nation blessed with peace, regaining
prosperity, respected at home and
abroad. enjoying the rights and priv
ileges of a people free in body, mind
and spirit, is answer enough to any
such unintelligent declaration. Look
ing back, this sesquicentennial year, to
the very beginnings of our Congress,
it is thrilling to observe how faith
fully Senators and Representatives,
all through the vicissitudes of war,
political turmoils, national disasters,
or in affluent and prosperous times,
have been true to the ideals intrusted
to them. and have brought us on the
strength Of them to this point in our
national history.
GREAT names have stood out in our
history, from the First Congress,
that met March 4, 1889, to the Sew
enty-fifth, in this year of 1887. APP
pearing early on the distinguished
congressional roster we find such gen.
tlemen as Charles Carroll, Caleb
Strong, Philip Schuyler, Peter Sill
vester, Robert Morris, James Monroe,
James Madison, John Brown, George
Cabot, Fisher Ames. Andrew Jackson,
Elijah Paine, Gouverneur Morris, De
Witt Clinton, John Quincy Adams,
even before the Ninth Congress had
met, in 1905.
Then Henry Clay. James Bayard.
Stephen Bradley, John Pope. Daniel
Webster, Isaac Tiehenor, David Crock
EFT. John c. Calhoun, Jefferson Davis,
Sam Houston. Stephen Douglas, Abra-
ham Lincoln. Hamilton Fish, John
Hancock and, more recently. John w.
Daniel, Morris Sheppard, Carter Glass,
John Nance Garner, Joseph T. Rob-
inson, to name a few at random.
These men and others, down through
the years, have placed ,5s,422 laws
upon our statute books. Is an indi-
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contrary, If there is any chance Of
these slapStick tactics coming back
this Spring, the veterans might well
be the fair prey of the recruits. To
many of the rockies" this Spring,
training camp will be an old story,
older than it will be to most Of the
established regulars.
Pitcher Bill Harris, who will 90
South with the Boston Bees, can re-
member a big-league tryout as far
back as 1928. Cincinnati gave him a
chance but turned him loose. The
Pittsburgh Pirates tried him again in
1881 but sold him to Buffalo in 1884.
Now, at 36, the Bees are bringing him
back on the strength of a 15-11 sea-
son with Buffalo, where his record
was more sensational than his Won
and-lost record indicates. He pitched
two no-hit, no-run games, one of them
under flood-lightS, to be the first noe
turnal no-hitter in International
League history. Besides his two no
hitters, he pitched two other shutouts.
The Bees also bought Outfielder
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the part of faithful employees. The
Mcdonald family, for example, served
three generations in the United States
Senate as clerks, with service total
ing 98 years. Mcdonald was chief
clerk for 25 years; his father preceded
him in office for 80 years, and his
grandfather 43 years before that.
When the British invaded the Capitol
in 1914 McDonald's grandfather got
a donkey cart, rushed to the Senate,
collected all the official documents Of
that body and drove post-haste to the
Congressional Cemetery, where he
dumped them into an open grave and
covered them up.
Unfortunately, the same service was
not rendered in the House, and the
papers of that body are missing for the
period prior to 1914.
McDonald's action indirectly occa-
stoned a House resolution against the
clerk of the House, charging him with
being derelict in his duties in not hav-
ing saved the papers on that side, but
the records do not show that the reso-
lutlon was passed.
THE highest of1cial of the Senate Is
its secretary, and the present sec
retary of the United States Senate,
Col. Edwin A. HalSey, is fourteenth in
line. having been elected in March,
1888. The secretary's connection with
the Senate, however, goes back for IS
years, for he first entered this branch
Of the Government as page in the Sem
ate press gallery.
Col. Halsey, from the vantage point
of 35 years, has many interesting OBJ
serVations to make with regard to the
Senate. For one thing, he points out
that all three powers of the Federal
Government are vested, in measure,
in the Senate. AS branch Of Con-
gress it exercises its legislative power;
under the constitutional mandate re-
quiring the Senate'S advice and con-
sent to all nominations made by the
President to Federal Offices before they
may become effective, it exercises its
executive power, and when the Senate
sits as court Of impeachment, in ts1sk
Of Federal officers for "high crimes
and misdemeanors," 1t exercises its
judicial power.
When Col. Halsey first became con-
nected with the Senate, it was prac-
tically unheard of to permit women
on the floor of the Senate chamber.
THE only woman ever saw in the
Senate in the olden days." he OBJ
serves, was a witness in an impeach-
ment trial" Gradually, however,
women have been accorded floor privi-
leges, from the visiting Lady Astor
to woman experts from tariff com.
missions, Congresswomen and woman
clerks of Senate committees and Sec
retarieS.
The secretary of the Senate recalls,
too, the strenuous manner in which
Vice President Roosevelt, in preside
ing over the Senate for three days,
made use of the time-honored ivory
gavel, which already showed signs
of age and had cracked in several
places. Mr.. Roosevelts resounding
whacks made the Senators vince for
It's safety. Vice President Marshall
lCorsahued on Page R-2,