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over physical disability are the
“addresses” made by deaf, dumb
and blind individuals to audiences
of deaf, dumb or blind persons.
On such occasions the “speaker”
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pressure of his hand to an inter¬
preter who, using the sign lan¬
guage, conveys it to the deaf
mutes in the audience and they
in turn slate it through hand
pressure to their blind neighbors
beside them.—Collier’s Weekly.
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Washington. — In connection with
President Roosevelt’s proposed gov¬
ernment reorganization and Su¬
preme court changes, several sen¬
ators have shrewdly recalled the
origin of the “filibuster.”
Every one knows that when one or
more senators begin talking against
time, normally against the passage
of some measure to which they ob¬
ject, it is called a filibuster. But
very few realize, these senators are
pointing out, the origin of the use of
the word in this- connection.
Originally the word meant pre¬
cisely what it means in connection
with a revolution—gun-running. Un¬
der cover of night, or darkness, or
by creating a commotion in one
place and then rushing the guns,
ammunition and supplies ashore
somewhere else, things were gotten
through to the insurgents needing
them.
That’s filibustering in the original,
Richard Harding Davis sense.
And precisely that sort of thing
was called filibustering when the
word was first applied to the prac¬
tice of lengthy speaking against
time when it grew up in the senate.
For the object of the original sen¬
ate filibusterers was to get some¬
thing through— not to kill it. A sen¬
ator would learn that the leaders
had decided not to permit passage
of his bill appropriating $500,000 for
a new federal building in his home
town of Squeedunk. So he would
take the floor, towards the close of
the session, pile up his desk with
ponderous tomes, and get word sec¬
retly to the leaders that he in¬
tended to talk and talk and talk,
thus stopping all sorts of bills that
they wanted passed.
They Gave In
Generally they capitulated. In sev¬
eral instances, back in the days
when the control of the house and
senate was more frequently vested
in a few leaders in each house than
at the other end of Pennsylvania
avenue, word was sent by the sen¬
ate leaders to the house leaders tha
the program had been changed
that senator B’s bill must pass the
house. They knew if they could not
get this co-operation from the house
that bills in which both senate and
house leaders were vitally interested
would be talked to death by Sen¬
ator A.
When the practice expanded to in¬
clude talking primarily to kill a
measure, instead of primarily to
smuggle another bill through, the
word was not changed, though vio¬
lence had been done to its original
meaning.
In the present session of congress
there are a lot of measures that
President Roosevelt wants passed.
There are also a lot of others he
does not want passed, but against
which he does not care to come
out openly.
He has provided, in the proposed
Supreme court changes and govern¬
ment reorganization, plenty of diver¬
sion. The spotlight will be centered
on these two debates. No matter
what question is officially before
the senate, any speech on either
one of these, especially the Supreme
court, will get the newspaper head¬
lines.
Which provides, the senators re¬
calling the history of the word “fili¬
buster” point out, an admirable sit¬
uation from the White House view¬
point. For bills can be rushed
through and others can be rushed
into pigeonholes without attracting
nearly the attention that would oth¬
erwise be the case.
Supreme Court
Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Ari¬
zona, chairman of the senate judi¬
ciary committee, is one of the ex¬
planations why the number of Su¬
preme court justices may be in¬
creased to fifteen, as President Roos¬
evelt wishes, despite the very strong
opposition to such a move. It is
far too early to predict what will
really happen—at the moment there
is no accurate gauge of public opin¬
ion.
The old habit of judging the pub¬
lic reaction by reading newspaper
editorials passed into history with
the 1936 campaign. The public was
heavily against the President and
for Governor Alfred M. Landon, if
that test meant anything. Hence the
present cross section of newspaper
editorial opinion, as reported here,
does not frighten the White House.
More important, it does not deter
senators and representatives from
willingness to follow the President.
But when Henry F. Ashurst in¬
dicates a right-about-face it is news
of the page one variety, for the
shrewd Arizonian knows what it is
all about, politically. In fact, he is
one of the shrewdest and most ac¬
curate gaugers of public opinion ex¬
tant in American political life.
Maybe he should be ranked next to
J. Hamilton Lewis, and maybe on
a par with Lewis. It is difficult to
say.
But to go back just a few years.
Senator Ashurst saw the handwrit¬
ing on the wall when Woodrow Wil-
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son began his fight with the senate
over the League of Nations. Marcus
A. Smith, his colleague, was coming
up for re-election very shortly. Ash
urst, seeing the approaching storm
so clearly, and having a personal
fondness for Mark Smith, went to
that gentleman and advised him to
come out strongly for all sorts of
changes in the pact of Versailles,
despite the fact that this meant op¬
posing his President and the head
of his party.
Ashurst was not, at that time,
coming up for election for several
years. But he made a big noise
about a few reservations to the
treaty himself, just to be on the
safe side.
Ashurst’s Record
Let’s look at his record. Elected
unanimously to the Unitea States
senate by the first legislature of the
then new state of Arizona in 1912,
and then re-elected in 1916, 1922,
1928 and 1934. Never in real danger
a single time, either in primaries
or general election!
The present significance is that
Senator Ashurst has just announced
he will introduce a bill providing the
judicial changes recommended by
the President.
Despite the fact that within ten
days of the President’s surprise mes¬
sage on the judicial situation Sen¬
ator Ashurst had said, on the floor
of the senate:
“In all tyrannical governments, no
monarch, no tyrant, makes any
progress whatever unless and until
he seizes in his hands the legisla¬
tive, the executive and the judicial
powers. The first thing a wise, pru¬
dent, scheming, subtle monarch in
Europe does, if he wants.complete
control, is to seize legislative, execu¬
tive and judicial powers. ”
The point of all this is tkiat Sen¬
ator Ashurst has proved beyond per
adventure that he his way
around politically—that he does not
bat his head against brick walls on
political issues, and that he does not
permit himself to be put in a posi¬
tion where he would be easy picking
for some younger political opponent.
Trade Treaties
No rule has been adopted to this
effect, but American manufacturers
and producers interested in tariff
duties can very generally rely on
one point in connection with the
reciprocal trade treaties to come.
This is that most rates of duty will
be held at the level fixed in the
1922 tariff act—the Fordney-McCum
ber law.
There will be exceptions to this,
but by and large exceptions will be
made only in what are palpably
flagrant cases of too high duties,
Any manufacturer can calculate the
knger spots spots without witno inside informa¬
tion, for the obvious reason that no
matter what he says publicly he
knows privately whether the duty
imposed on any commodity in the
Fordney-McCumber act is consid¬
erably in excess of the difference in
cost of production at home and in
the foreign countries producing it.
Actually this rough rule that no
duties will be reduced below the
1922 level except in exceptional cir¬
cumstances has never been formu¬
lated, much less approved. It is ab¬
solutely unofficial. Its existence was
wondered about by some interested
parties, who just happened to note
how accurately it was working, and
queried the State department to dis¬
cover if they could rely on it in
trade treaties yet to be made.
What has developed is a state of
mind on the part of the men negoti¬
ating these treaties. Always, it is
insisted by the State department,
before any duty is reduced hi a
reciprocal trade treaty, a very care¬
ful study of possible consequences
is made—especially consequences to
American producers.
It has gradually developed that
lots of business men engaged in
various productive lines after the
passage of the Fordney-McCumber
act.
Little Criticism
There is a strong presumption that
many of them had in their minds
the tariff duties fixed in the then
law as a permanent protection.
There is the fact also that, while
this measure was bitterly fought, it
seemed to have the support of a
very large majority, and there was
comparatively little criticism after
the passage of the act as compared
for instance with the criticism of th*
1930 (Smoot-Hawley) law, passed
under President Hoover’s admin¬
istration.
The situation that has crystalized
in the State department will be very
interesting to any future historian
seeking tariff data, for in effect
the Democratic party, after bom¬
barding the Smoot-Hawley law as
few tariff acts have ever been at¬
tacked, is virtually seeking to bring
about the the precise tariff situation
that existed prior to the passage of
that act.
The really striking feature of the
method, however, is that instead of
a blanket repeal, which so many
persons expected after President
Roosevelt’s inauguration, the repeal
is being made very slowly, bit by
bit, in return for concessions from
countries with which we wish to in¬
crease trade.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, all
his life regarded previously as al¬
most a fanatic for free trade, has
been working to eliminate not only
our own but foreign trade barriers.
But the amusing angle is that for
the time being at least the rock
bottom of our concessions is the gen¬
eral line of the Republican Fordney
McCumber tariff act, which at the
time of its passage Hull regarded
as little short of a crime!
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
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Scolt Watson
His Gun Became a “Judge”
^ COMEONE once observed: “The
Declara’ion of Independence
stated that all men are equal, but
the Colt revolver made that state¬
ment a fact.” Certainlv that was
proved on the Western frontier
where the quality of man depended
upon his quickness of the “draw”
and where this little weapon be¬
came the symbol of law in a law¬
less land—it was judge, jury and
high executioner all in one. Little
wonder then that it should become
known as “Judge Colt.”
The father of “ludge Colt” was a
Connecticut Yankee, born in 1814.
As a boy Samuel Colt listened to
veterans talk about battles of the
Revolution and especially about the
feats of a rifleman named Tim Mur¬
phy who had a double- arrelled ri¬
fle. If someone could invent a gun
that would shoot five or six times
without reloading, that nation would
rule the world. But, of course, that
was impossible, said the men of
that day.
Young Sam Colt didn’t believe it
was impossible. So he began ex¬
perimenting with a four-barrelled
rifle but he couldn’t make it work
satisiactorily. Then he was appren¬
ticed to a sea captain and from the
sailors he learned to carve out little
objects in wood.
One day in the Indian ocean,
while idly watching the steersman
at the wheel, he noticed that re¬
gardless of which way the wheel
was spun, each spoke always came
directly in line with a clutch that
could he set to hold it. As he
watched he found himself visioning
holes in the rim of the wheel—holes
which successively came into align¬
ment with a stationary opening. In
a flash he saw the answer to his
problem of a repeating gun. Then
with “a jacknife that cost less than
a dollar he started to whittle out the
foundation of a fortune which was
to run into millions.” From that
model came the revolver which first
proved its value in the war with the
Seminole Indians, won an even
greater reputation in the Mexican
war and by the time the Civil war
had begun was ar indispensable
part of a soldier’s armament..
Not only was Sam Colt the inven¬
tor of a weapon which vitally af¬
fected military history, but he “was
the first of the great American in¬
dustrialists. Colt, nut the modern
motor car manufacturer, conceived
and first utilized in his plant stand¬
ardized machine production, di¬
vision of labor and the ‘assembly
line.’ He showed the way to the
modern promoters of war ... .he
was the precursor of the modern
munitions kings—a pioneer in the
art of playing one nation against an¬
other to increase his sales.”
An Important Vice-President
IT’S a standard joke that the vice
* president of the Unitei' States is
about the most unimportant indi¬
vidual in our federal government
unless the President happens to die.
In that case he immediately be¬
comes a very important man. But
there was one vice president whose
high place in American history is
due to hi own death, rather than
that of a Pr-sident.
Tn 1884 Thomas A. Hendricks of
Indiana, who had served as con¬
gressman, senator and governor
and who had twice before beer an
unsuccessful candidate for the Pres¬
idency and once before defeated for
the vice presidency, was elected
vice president when Grover Cleve¬
land defeated Blaine, the Republi¬
can candidate. Hendricks died eight
months after his inauguration but
his death while in office was not
unique. Four other vice presidents
— George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry,
William R. King and Henry Wilson
—had suffered the same fate. But
foi the first time in three-quarters
of a century America became aware
of the potential dangers in such a
situation.
The Constitution provides, that in
the case of removal, death, resigna¬
tion or disability of a President,
the vice president shall succeed
h.rri. But in 1885 the vice president
was dead. Suppose now that the
President should also die, resign or
be removed from office. Who would
then become Presiaent? Neither the
Constitution nor any act of congress
had provided for that emergency,
and apparently no one had ever
given any thought to its possible re¬
sults.
So congress got busy and on Jan¬
uary 19, 1886 it passed a law pro¬
viding for a Presidential succession
in case , the vice president could
not serve. Under its terms the sec¬
retary oi state would become Presi¬
dent. In case he, too, would be un¬
able to serve, the next in line would
be the secretary of the treasury
and so on down the cabinet—sec¬
retary of war, attorney-general,
postmaster • general, secretary of
the navy, secretary of the interior,
secretary of agriculture, secretary
of commerce and secretary of la¬
bor.
Thus in bringing about this
change Thomas A. Hendricks be¬
came an “important” vice president
—but. he had to die to dc it!
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