The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-20

his broad -bfimmed, black three-gal- lon hat and you know that there, by golly, goes a statesman, even if he doesn't wear frock coat. Maybe, like Samson, his strength is In that hair, At any rate, he has the strength of Q longhorn steer and It's courage too, and when he starts pawin' the ground, 6 stam- pede can start anytime and It's Just as well to get for the top rails of the corral fence.
 NO YAWNs
 FOR TOM
 Tho Senate Of the United States can Do the dullest Of deliberate as- gemblies when some of the dema- gogs start droning, but when the senator from Texas takes the floor it can be llveller than e barn dance, Likewise, Senate committee can bore you to insenslbility, but when the gentleman from Texas starts asking questions of 0 witness who doesn't want to Do too specific or doesn't know exactly what he's talk Ing about, you wake up quick, Talkln' Texas, droppin' g's oil over the carpet and nattenin' his aB all over the table, he Is again the prosecutin' attorney from Falls county with Q barbed-wire fall at the tip of his tongue. He can make bureaucrAt Bquirm through his testimony like coyote in the, sage- brush, It's tail between Its legs, tieadin' for the hills.
 Old Tom-you call him told" af- fectionately, for he is Q lovable euss with . magnificent sense of sarcas- tic hutnor--has beHl in unusually fire fern this last week or 50 back ing his amendment to the selective service law to permit the President to take over tsrike-bound plants, and ripping into the Aluminium Company of America as It's officials came before tho Truman committee Investigating antlonal defense, lash- ing at everything which savored of bunk or didn't make sense to his Texas mind.
 "The senator from Ohio Is q statesman" Connally cracked ct Taft In debate. "He does not think this bill Is any good but he Is for | It."
 A moment later, Taft tried to make the point that Connally's amendment would not prevent men from striking against the United States government, that . strike simply meant the men ceased to work.
 "oh, they can quit if they want to-" agreed Connally, "and they can go plumb to Ohio."
 When Senator Maloney offered an amendment, Connally accepted 1t but when Maloney came back with another, Connally .ducked 1t with e gagline: T have accepted one amendment from the senator from Coaencticut," he said, land the quota today is only one amendment per senator"
 TRKED BY
 DELAYS
 The debate was on for three days and Connally, fighting every minute, Kept peppering his argument with . salty humor that kept his col- leagues and the gallery grinning. T am not in favor of putting into the bill Q great number Of iss', 'ands', 'buts,' and 'wait--a- -minute' clauses" he stormed. T want the government to step in whenever necessary, without having to wait around until three or four walking delegates decide when and If the government may act"
 Connally is, as mentioned, fear less. And in threatening to take over the Aluminium Company of America, If 1t did not behave" he was merely breathing more of the 1 fire that has marked his 24 years in Washington. That long service, however, has never made him less a Texan than he ever was. He Is king of the big Texas delegation in congress. of course. Sam Rayburn may be speaker of the House, but Tom Connally is the senator. Even if Governor Biscuits" ODanlel should be elected to the Senate. he will have a tough time getting ahead of Tom,