The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-27
EL0QuENcE OF
SOUTHERN S0LON
ON HATCH BILL

w IT u oil al
. pearances, the afternoon of Tuesday
/ March IL in the nations capitol wa
dull.
Activities at the White House ha,
been curtailed because the presiden
had cold At the offices of the CI(
and AFL there was little more thai
lroutine activity. No explosions dis
lturbed the serenity of the government
departments.
In the capitol, the house was dis
cussing the naval expansion bill Con
tradicting statistics, in some instances
obtained from the same source, were
being cited by representatives to sup
port or destroy this or that point OF
logic.
The galleries of the senate chamber
were comfortably filled while on the
floor more than the usual half dozen
senators slumped in their chairs The
subject of debate was the new Hatch
bill, introduced by Senator Hatch 3D.,
N. M, which would make illegal po-
|litical activity on the part of state en-
ployes paid in whole or in part with
federal funds.
Senator Bailey 3D., N. CO. was on
the floor He was attacking the at
tack being made, he said, upon states
rigts and he made it plain that he was
opposed to the pending measure.
Bailey had been preceded by Sena-
tor Smith d., S. CO., the man who
annually makes speech about the
undoubted purity of southern woman
hood in which he reaffirms the fact
that God spent at least one of the
six days of creation on South Caro-
lima soil specifically and to the ex-
clusion of all other interests.
Smith had been against the bill
also because it did not apply to the
president and the president had sought
his defeat in the 1888 election.
States rights, Bailey went on to
say are precious things. North Car
he Numbered, will not be
governed by the congress of the U. S."
There was, for example, Bailey said,
that meddling with our southern
civilization and its processes known as
the anti-lynching BILL" Thanks to the
nlibuster that civilization and "its
remain, unimpaired.
The doctrine of the right of states,
Bailey continued, comes straight to
the democratic party from Thomas
Jefferson, the man to whom the dem
ocrats look as the founder of their
party.
The republicans look to Alexander
Hamilton as the spiritual leader of
their group. They also look to Abra-
ham Lincoln. Lincoln was a great
man. He saved the union. He was
the greatest man produced in the new
world.
Recently, though he is not a novel
reading man, the senator from North
Carolina read Gone With the Wind
It was true, every word of it. He
wondered if the people who were see
ng the motion picture from the novel
If the same name knew how true it
vas, knew how accurately the desola- |
ion caused by federal control of the |
outh was depicted. Lincoln was a
,reat man.
The funny thing about the pending
ill is that republicans are all for it.
his country was coming out of the
oppression in 1888 until the new deal
assed the national recovery act which
ent the people of the nation back to
he depths of the depression.
The majority leader, Senator Bark
by 3D., Ky.), had proved himself an
BILE leader of the minority, the re-
ublicans, but why couldn't he respond
, the majority of the democratic
arty?
The senator from North Carolina
as interrupted by questioner, Sen
tor Clark 3D., MOI, who wanted to
now If the senator recalled having
lat very morning, in the commerce s
)mmittee, voted with the republican
inority. The senator from Missouri !
the senator from North
arolina.
AS the senator talked, sightseers
lme ana WeHt DIT lU-llluule lutci Fdlo II
the visitors gallery. In the family
i1lery a row of ladies sat knitting. II
ne of them was darning socks. In
e back row an extremely good look II
e girl held hands with young man
ext to her and giggled at words
in her ear. II
The senator sat down after saying II
at the next thing you knew, unless
is federal control of states theory II
as crushed at it's fountainhead, fed
al money for schools would be al
tied only on the condition that there II
mixed schools, places in which II
,groes and whites would learn to II
ad and write together. Some peo- II
Q would even go that far" II
There was brief furry as Senators II
lrkley and Glass debated the re- II
ective merits of Chief Justice Mar II
all and Justice Frankfurter. After II
while the senate adjourned. III
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