The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-12
Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
Inc inside on the Washington scene Of
interest to the Carolinas,
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-ScholarIy digni-
fled Josiah W. Bailey. North Cardinals senior
senator, is again in the national spotlight
this time as champion of Estates rights
and leader in the hight by Congress to re.
turn to the legislative branch the powers dele
gated to it by our founding fathers"
Bailey, who recently gained national prom
lnence as the author OF constitutional amend.
ment that would limit an individual to two
terms as president of the United States. be-
IeveS that when Democrats of the East cast
slurs upon him and his Southern colleagues,
they are guilty of Ingra titude toward those
VINO nave kept the Democratic party alive
But the current rebellion as expressed bv
Bailey's South Carolina colleague, Senator
Burnet R. Maybank, lis not just a rebellion
OF Southern Democrats although many Dixie
solons are fighting shoulder to shoulder to
prevent both congressional ans executive ac-
ton assertedly designed to continue the dis
advantages which have kept the South in the
shackles of economic slavery since the War
Between the States.
There are no party lines involved in this
matter of principles Maybank declared
Democrats and Republicans who believe the
legislative branch should regain the powers
oelegated to the Congress by the founding
tathers, but given away during the pas few
years, now find themselves fighting side-by-
slde-the same those of all political faiths
VINO desire permanent and just peace fought
Tor enactment of the 3D. H-2 resolution.
BY the ''B-2 H-2' resolution, Maybank meant
the Ball-Burton-Hatch-H Hill measure commit
ting the United States to postwar coiiabora-
uon with other United Nations in establish
ing machinery for permanent peace fol-
lowing an Allied victory in the current con.
flict
Independent Party Threatened
AS Tar as North Carolina and other South
ern states are concerned, the outstanding fea-
ture OF the so-called rebellion currently in
progress on Capitol Hill is the return of ''Old
Man States Rights
The "old gentleman blossomed forth under
the wing of Senators Bailey, Maybank, Ell
Ason D. Cotton Ed Smith, South Cardinals
dean OF the Senate, and Harry F. Byrd, of
Virginia, choice Of Bailey and Smith as pres
ldentlal nominee. The issue was settled by
the Senate when the upper body declined to
interfere with the constitutional delegation to
each state of the power to set forth qualifi-
cations under which its citizens may vote is
both state and federal elections.
1t all came about when Senators Scott Lucas,
OF Illinois, and Theodore F. Green, of Rhode
Island, both Democrats sought to create a
federal war ballots commission under which
American soldiers On duty away from home
would be permitted to vote ir next years
elections.
Bailey took the floor to refute charges by
Senator Joe Guffey, of Pennsylvania chair
man OF the Democratic senatorial campaign
committee. that failure of the Lucas-Green
proposal was due to an ''unhoiy alliance
between Southern Democrats and Joseph Pew.
weaitny pennsylvania oil magnate and Re-
publican leader. The North Carol;nian thre.+-
ened that the South may form, its own inde-
penoent party declaring that 'by the eternal
Co., there are men in the South, and women
TOO VINO VIII not permit men in control Of
our party to betray u.s. "a u
Heateo words were also uttered by Smith
Byrd and other indignant Dixie Democrats tli. a.,
OF wnUm expressed eagerness for adoption Of
cohstltutlonaP' plan whereby men in W. ~
service may be permitted tc vote n j., III ene
y fions presidential and congressional cleo.
Vote By States Possible
,r nauey concurs in the contentior of p,,x,
at ua,k mat it is possible fc. the $500 anu
~ ''l"cnlnery whereby soldiers and sailors ,D
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