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About The Columbia sentinel. (Harlem, Ga.) 1882-1924 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1922)
SEEING CONGRESS IN ACTION FROM THE GALLERIES. There is more than one Senator whose temper is of the variety known as “peppery”, and some times there are exhibitions and wordy combats which prove it. When debates wax furious, and Members pop up like jacks in-the-box, calling for recognition, it must confuse the Chair to know which of the active ones is entitled to precedence, in the matter of recognition. seemed to he On Monday last there in the Sen¬ a seething under-current of temper ate, not hard to account ft>r, as the weather had turned to summer-like intensity; the fol¬ lowing extract from the Record will show the tension—but it of course fails to show the temper: Mr. CARAWAY, Mr. STERLING, and Mr. KING addressed the Chair. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from South Dakota. Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, a parliamentary Inquiry. Mr. STERLING. Out of order, I The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Ar¬ kansas will state his inquiry. Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, I should like to know whether anyone on this side Is to be recognized. I have been on my feet here, while half a dozen Re¬ publican Senators have been recognized since I rose and addressed the Chair. Mr. MOSES. Mr. President, who has the floor? Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. President, I have a part of it. If it Is to be the rule of the Senate that the Vice President is to look on the Republican side of the Chamber all the time and ignore every Democratic Senator, let that rule be announced. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair thinks that perhaps the Senator from Arkansas was on his feet. Mr. CARAWAY. The Chair knows that 1 was on my feet. Mr. MOSES and Mr. LENROOT. Regular order, Mr. President. Mr. WILLIS. I demand the regular order. Mr. CARAWAY. The regular order Is to know whether I am to be recognized or not. Mr. MOSER. Evidently not. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Ar¬ kansas will be recognized In due time. Mr. STERLING, 1 will say for the satisfaction ot the Senator from Arkansas that it will take me but a moment. Mi-. CARAWAY. Oh. I wish no favor. I am asking only for my right. Mr. LENROOT. I rise to a point of order. 1 de¬ mand the regular order. Mr. CARAWAY. Welt, T demand it; I am de¬ manding it for myBelf. The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair will recog¬ nize the Senator from Arkansas as soon as the pending matter is disposed of Mr. CARAWAY. T suppose as soon as all Senators oh the- other side are through. 4 (At this point Mr. STERLING introduced a hill and submitted a proposed amendment to the Agricultural Department appropriation bill, which appear under their proper headings.) The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair racognizes the Senator from Arkansas. Mr. CARAWAY. That is very' kind of the Chair 1 tried to attract the attention of the Chair before the morning business was closed in order to introduce a resolution. I ask now, out of order, to be permitted to introduce it. The VICE PRESIDENT. Without objection, the resolution Will be received and the Secretary will read the resolution. The reading clerk read the resolution (S. Res. 271), as follows: Whereas by act of Congress it is provided that in the event of reductions being made In the . force in any of the executive departmentes no honorably discharged soldier or sailor whose record In said department has been rated as good shall be discharged or dropped or reduced In rank or salary; and Whereas many honorably discharged soldiers and sailors whose records were good have been de¬ moted, dropped, and discharged from the service; Now therefore be it Resolved, That the President of the United States Is hereby requested If not incompatible with the public good to inform Congress: (a) How many honorably discharged sailors and soldierB have been demoted, dropped, and dis¬ charged from the service since the 1st day of March, 1921; and (b) By what, if any, charges, or lack of efficiency, justifying said dismissal or demotion; , and (c) Giving the name and 'date of demotion, dropping, or discharge of each soldier or sailor. Mr. CARAWAY. Mr. President The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Ar kansas. Mr. CARAWAY. Section 4 Mr. LENROOT. Mr. President, I demand the regular order. the VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Ar¬ kansas has tho floor. Mr. LENROOT. I demand the regular order. De¬ bate Is not In order. Mr. LODGE. Debate Is not |n order. Mr. KING. I ask unanimous consent Mr. McCORMICK. The resolution should He un¬ der the rule. Mr. KING. I ask unanimous consent that the Sen¬ ator froth Arkansas may make such statement ns he cares to make upon tile resolution which be has offered. The VICE PRESIDENT, la there objection? Mr. Moses, Mr. McCormack, Mr. Lenroot, and Mr. Oddlo objected. The VICE PRESIDENT. Tho Senator from Ar¬ kansas lias the floor. Mr. LENROOT. I demand the regular order. De¬ bate ia not in order. Mr. LODGE. Debate Is not In order. Mr. KINO. I ask unanimous consent-- THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, THOMSON, GEORGIA. Mr. McCORMICK. The resolution should lie over under the rule. Mr. KING. I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from Arkansas may make such statement he cares to make upon the resolution which he has just offered. Mr. Moses, Mr. McCormack, Mr. Lenroot, and Mr. Oddie objected. Mr. CARAWAY. It Is to be presumed that at some time in the course of my lifetime I shall get recognized again and these Senators who are so anx ious to object now The VICE PRESIDENT. The regular order Is the calendar under rule VIII. Mr. CARAWAY. I understand what the regular order Is, but since it took me so long lo get recog¬ nized I shall complete my statement. Mr. MOSES. I call for the regular order. Mr. CARAWAY. Call for the regular order, If you wish, but I shall get the floor somo time In my own right, and then I shall make a statement. The VICE PRESIDENT. The calendar under Rule VIII Is In order and will be proceeded with. Senator Frank Willis, Republican from Olrio, is one of the busiest and handiest of all his party’s representatives in the Senate. He has been sent here, there and yonder, to look after the coming primary preliminaries, and is only in Washington long enough, at inter¬ vals, to get his other suit from the tailor’s, look up the train schedule for the next place he is to go to, kiss his devoted wife good-bye, and go. On one day in the Senate, the following program was part of the early hours: Senator Lodge, Massachusetts, presented various and sundry memorials from his con¬ stituents, relating to establishing a home fo i the Jewish people, in Palestine; Senator Capper, Kansas, presented the objections of his constituents in the matter o forcing Sunday Blue Laws on the District of Columbia; Senator Wadsworth presented petitions from the Presbyterians of his bailiwick, ask ing for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and for a cessation of polygamy, in the United States; And along came Senator Willis with peti¬ tions from his home, covering: the Jewish es¬ tablishment in Palestine, the enforcement ol Blue Laws for the District, the uniformity of marriage and divorce laws and a cessation of polygamy! If that doesn’t give the busy, handsome Ohio Senator the holeless doughnut, then trot out your candidates! .The patience of the Senators is proverbial —and they need a lot of it; some of the Sena¬ tors would be called pests it' it were not for their rxhalted position, and this class includes those Senators who don’t believe in a page of the Congressional Record coming out without their name, once or oftener. They “object” to about every other measure; if Bills are up, they want them to “go over,” and recently, while one of the most active examples was on the Floor of the SJenate, and the Clerk was reading the Calendar, a lady in the Gallery whispered to her escort: “Is that man the Pre¬ siding Elder?”. * Much time is lost that might be beneficial¬ ly used, when the Pest get going strong; they wrangle and argue, and one man who is from a Western State told his friends that, before he had come to the Senate he had read the Congressional Recoi'd every day for five years; and then had declared, if he arrived, he would speak is on every subject that ever came up; and he keeping his word. Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, is one of the biftiest members of the Senate, and the cordial co-operation betweefi himself and Senator Watson has frequently beon comment¬ ed on by their confreres. It would seem that co-operation between Senators from the same State should be the rule, but it is the exception. It is not always because of party affiliations— where there are Senators representing both the Republicans and the Democrats—but it is so often because the purely personal antago¬ nism that develops between some of them. This has been clearly shown several times, and the fact that the entire Georgia Delega¬ tion works more harmoniously than that of any other State, has been regarded with more than passing interest by Members of Congress. Senator McOutnber of North Dakota fired the opening gun in the Tariff discussion. While Senator McCumber is Republican, and few of his sentiments would appeal very strongly to the Democrats, th^re have beet several very telling remarks, in this opening argument on the ever problematic tariff ques¬ tion. It was relative to the very great chasm of cost-of-production and cost-to-the-consumcr that Senator McCumber was referring when he said: We have tried to help bridge this gulf between the production cpst of manufactured articles and the consumer’s ability to buy them by doing what we can to increase the purchasing power of the latter, and it Is now up to the manufacturer to do his part to bring his cost down to moot, the size ot the consumer's pock etbook. With the present high cost of living it would he most unjust to start his economy by forcing a re duction in the wages of his employees. I am not a manufacturer or an employee, but being an American citizen who must buy the articles that result from tlie capital of one and the labor of the other, and that the principal cause of idle mills and Idle men Is this disparity between manufacturers' cost of produc tiou and consumers’ ability to pay, I think I can sug gest a course that will do more for our national perity Ilian can be accomplished by any kind of law, tariff or otherwise. Let the manufacturer be satisfied with a moat meager return upon his investment for a while, then let the employees increase their efficiency to the highest degree. It is a healthful sign that this efficiency is bol’.ig Increased, but It is true that It has not v . reached its pre-war standard. Then if the re¬ tailer will just follow the manufacturer, the great American public, now hungry for more and better things, will give employment to all to supply Its de¬ mands and old-time prosperity will again reign through out the land. But it has never been on record that any manufacturer was willing to lessen his oven when the cost of production had taken slump. the tribute of senator THOs. r. watsox TO GENERAL GRANT. On April 27, the dedication of the magni¬ ficent memorial to General U. S. Grant oc¬ curred. Congress met as usual, but on the motion of Senator McCumber, the Senate adjourned, to attend the ceremonies. Before the adjournment, Senator Watson of Georgia was given the floor, and delivered this tribute to the famous Northern General: Mr. WATSON of Georgia. Mr. President, coming from the South, as I do, 1 wish now and here, by unan¬ imous consent, to pay my tribute and that of the South to the memory of tlie great soldier who at Appomattox refused to accept, in surrender the purest of human sword -that of Robert E. Leo. In behalf of the great seetton, whose Army of Northern Virginia Theo¬ dore Roosevelt said was the greatest that ever took the field, I wish to say that we honor General Grant and we love him, because at. the surrender he was so kind, so hiagnaminous as to say to the ragged and starving Confederate soldiers: “Take your horses home; you will need them in planting your crops.” Had General Grant been President after Mr. Lin¬ coln, we never would have had the agony of recon¬ struction and the bitterness that followed the Civil War. I see him on th.it monument, which Is to be un¬ veiled today and which I think Is one of the subllmest conceptions of the human brain, and I feel like lifting my hat every time I pass It. My heart swells, and l am proud that our reunited country produced this great captain and that his family lived side by side with mine in the old country—his just above the Scotch border and mlnB just below—and that the clans never had a feud. We.of Southern blood and memories bear In mind that, when the administration which followed that of Mr. Lincoln threatened to arrest the paroled Confed¬ erate officers, General Grant virtually put his hand on his sword and . aid to the President, In effect: “You shall not do it. My honor Is pledged: I signed those paroles." And the President of the United States dared not violate the pledged word of General Grant. After the war I see hint with a cancer eating out his life. He knew he was doomed, and yet he put his pen to paper and, with that fortitude which marked George Washington and Frederick the Great, I See him writing those Immortal "Memoirs” which. It is said, were equaled only by those of Cmsar. Having read them myself and having read Ca?sar, I quite agree that the tribute was. deserved. He was a great man, a big-hearted man, a great general whose sword had no poison on it; who con¬ quered, but who, In the very moment of his victory, acknowledged the sincerity of those who * fought him and gave them generous terms, forgave them and loved them. He wanted to bring us all back Into a brotherly Union, when he said, amid the torment and tempest of passion: "Let us have peace! Let us have peace! LET US HAVE PEACE!" Without Irreverence, may 1 liken his words to those of the Galilean when lie spoke to the turbulent waves of the wind-Bwept sea and commanded: “Peace, be still!” Iu the one case, as In the other, the dinger passed and the wav^s sank down Mr.McCUMBER. Mr. President, It is always a pleasure to receive such evidences of a united country, and to receive from men of the South Buch a tribute to the great leader of the national forces. I think we can justly say that for many long yeare there has been no bitterness between any sections of the United States growing out of the Civil War; that we feel that we have today hut one flag, but one country, and we honor the great heroes who fought on both sides In that great conflict. 4 FOR SALE. Three Jiundred thousand June budded peach trees, grown on Pine Mountain In Georgia. Will take orders now for fall delivery. 30p E. C. DUKE, Montezuma, Ga. Vl-BAX-O BLACK TONGUE REMEDY will save your dog.. . Sent Postpaid upon receipt of $1.50. V. B. OLIVER, 2434 Bull St., Savannah, Qn. THE BIBLE ON HELL. An examination of every text of Scripture in which the word “hell' Is found. Fully explains the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and proves that the wages of sin is death and not eternal torment. Nicely bound, 82 pages, by mail 16 cents. 26 pd ASSOCIATED BIBLE STUDENTS, J. P. Jones, Sec., P. O. Box 107, Elko, S. C. 3 Are Women Consistent—in Politics ? (Continued from Cage Two.) prospective mother to tile pllVsicilin ill eliai'gO |], e On the opinion of these two- the nurse and the doctor—would be determined the - ,1! puiro Ot tile coming child. !:, ill tilO minds of those two officials. die pro pc,■live l'a tiler WHS 1101 able to surround the two people who would mean all of life in him with every comfort and sqfe-'Miard- then the mollier-t O lie would be removed to the hospital, and in perfectly scientific surroundings, the child " Oil'd be born it “ wnvd of , ie government 11'OIU its Ill's! breath. Some years ago there was a wave of So¬ cialism sweeping the country. This was be¬ fore we had any thought of war, and before even the most timid had begun to realize what the ill 11 11 X ot foreigners to tins country, was bringing about, in lowering our American standards. Their was one particularly blatant mem¬ ber of the Socialist party of those days, named Most—Herr Most, as he was called; German, I of course, with a tongue that wagged at both I cn ds. Herr Most was the most vociferous and tireless exponent of “let-tho-Govcrnsnent-do it”, that we have ever had. He wanted some of what everybody else had, divided witli those who had nothing. The rich man with two coats was to give one to the man who had been too lazy or too improvident to provide himself with one. There was to be community houses, community kitchens, community schools, community stones, community hospi¬ tals, community nurses, and every thing that had heretofore been done by the individual, was to be done by the mass. No one was to live his or her own life; the children were to be the wards of the Slate, and the time that the parents, house keepers and store keepers saved, was to be- devoted to listening to Herr -Most and his hand of more or less dirty and blatant followers. This was Socialism at its worst; if you didn’t agree with it, you wore blown up with a bomb, or burnt out with a torch, and for a long time the big cities like New York, Chica¬ go, Boston, and San Francisco had an actual reign of terror. I was a school girl when most of this was happening, and I can recall the thrill of horror with which I read much of it, and how hard it was for me to understand how it could happen. But because Miss Alice Robertson, M. C., decided that the child should not be the ward of the State; because she felt that the average American mother and father were the proper ones to care for their offspring; because she said, after carefully studying the Shepard Ma¬ ternity Bill that she felt the home the best plafte for. mother and child, she is to stand re¬ buked before the Nation, and the women of her own State arrayed against her. If any other argument can ever again be used to show the utter inconsistency of the woman-mind, it will have to he a tremendously strong one, based on a premise we know not of, now. Miss Robertson has made a record—not second to Lady Astor, with her rich and pow¬ erful family connections—but. unique and above that of any woman; she has been fear¬ less, honest, faithful to her trust, tireless in her efforts to understand and to he under¬ stood; counting as her friends every member of the Body of which she is a member. And if this isn’t enough record for a wom¬ an to show, coming from her own efforts, the other will have to be supernatural. Miss Robertson deserves fairer treatment at the hands of her own people, than she has received; every man with a vote in her haili wick should cast that vote for her, and every woman who has any doubt, should get the record of Congresswoman Robertson, and read it with understanding and sympathry. A. L. L. 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