The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-19

entire day down the Poton pastime- fishing.
 He had gone out in a small boat with Leslie Biffle, secretary to the Senate majority, and with Russell Arundel, former secretary to ex. Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island. Senator Robinson was e really expert fisherman. It was not Q question of luck with him. If there were fish to be had any, where around him, he got them. And on this particular Sunday, his last day of fishing, he hauled them in almost as fast as they could bite. He caught about e hundred Norfolk spots, throwing the hard.heads back into the water.
 Roosevelt, who also brides himself on being . good fisher man, always keeps the hard- heads, which gre easy to catch, and brings them back to the White House.
 Senator Robinson fished all day. The sun was hot, but he ap- peared to be having Q wonderful time. His spirits were at their highest. They were especially high when at the close of the day he saw RooseveltS yacht, the Po- tomac, sail by.
 And from his small boat, the Senator looked up at the chief whom he served, and remarked:
 "Ill bet he's got nothing on board but hardheads."
 New Senate Leader
 Senator Alben Barkley, who in all probability will succeed Joe Robinson as Majority Floor Lead CT of the Senate, would be the first sympathetic New Dealer Roosevelt has had in that position.
 Joe Robinson was . good sol. dler and died fighting, even though he did not always have his heart In the fight
 But Barkley has had his heart In the fight before the days of Roosevelt. He already had 100 per cent liberal voting record when Roosevelt came to Washing. ton. And when he ran for Gov- ernor of Kentucky in 1929, he was bitterly opposed by the horse"rac- ing crowd, which in Kentucky B synonymous with big business. They defeated him.
 But when he ran for the Sem ate in 1926, they got behind him flor the sole and simple reason of keeping him out of the State. Sharp Tongue
 However, Barkley's greatest aS- set Is that he is an excellent par- liamentary scrapper. He does not go berserk as Joe Robinson did on occasion. He thinks on his feet, aS fast aS lightning. and was the only Senator who could knock the ears of the late Huey Long.
 one day Huey was holding forth about the fact that he had had only . fourt.l grade education. when he was interrupted by the Senator from Kentucky, who in. nocently inquired:
 "Did the senatog ever study muslc?"
 "A iittle," replied Huey mod estly.
 "Then suppose" shot back Barkiey, "the Senator sings for us--a little"
 Or again when Senator Tydings of Maryland was demanding c processing tax on shoddy, Senator Barkley interrupted with:
 "The Senator ought to know something abou: shoddy, since that Is something on which he Is an expert"-shoddy being, ac' cOrding to Webster. Ian unfit person or thing claiming supe. riority."
 NOTE--According to BarkleyS WlleI hG VOSol Hlhld pShte W grandfather, but he hates like the devil to be married to q grand- mother"
 Congressional Wives
 There is one potent reason why the present sessioi. of Congress may come to a: earlier close than was anticipated.
 It Is Congressional wives.
 Every wife 0: Senator over bo years old Is now dinning him to close the sesiSon ana get home, be. fore the same thing happens to him which happened to Senator Robinson.
 UndercOver Attack
 A piece of evidence has fallen into Administration hands indi- eating that despite William orene's public endorsement of the wage-hour regulation bill, his henchmen secretly are against it. It consists of . letter written by Representative E E. Cox, bit- terly anti-iabor Georgian, to George L. oooge, chief A. ?. of L. organizer in the South and
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