The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 21, 1929, Page 10

« THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE : TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929 | aN f PAGE TFN hi A SNAP SHOT OF, MARY= = a ng awa JAKEN WE LAST DAY By RODNEY DUTCHER | The Greatest of All worla~ WE WERE our (NEA Service Writer) Henry Clay is regarded as the ci 7 Washington, May 21.—The Hon, | sreatest of American speakers, and bur Is OGETHER = a he | 685 the youngest man ever elected to and memories~ Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the) the office. He realized the possibili- ‘Som Carre house of representatives, has con-| ties of the job and played them for all ceived the optimistic ambition of es-| they were worth, organizing commit- weves as only tablishing the prestige of the house | tees so that he could run the house e lost 2 loved above that of the senate and the of-| to suit himself. He manipulated the ficial ranking of the speaker above | rules for political purposes, but none that of the vice president or the chief | of his decisions was ever overruled. one can grieve~ justice of the supreme court. He even overshadowed President Mad- Wi ‘The Hon. Mr. Longworth’s theory is| ison. Many tess competent successors EALTH = that, as presiding officer of the house, | have been far less powerful. He was Al he is the supreme representative of | six times elected to the position. F ME mg the people and that the dignity of James G. Blaine, elected in 1869, the dear people must be recognized | manipulated the power of his office to LUXURY - to the extent that Mr. and Mrs, Long- | help his presidential ambitions. He worth must be parked at dinner tables | denied members the privilege of the EVERYTHING above Vice President Curtis and Mrs.| floor when he didn't like what they a Gann and everyone else except Mr.| were going to say and came to exert and Mrs. Hoover. great power in framing bills. His POOR If the Hon. Mr. Longworth, with] authority was virtually absolute. His wl! the help of his able wife, should act- | immediate successors did not surren- ba (*) t ually be able to put it over it would] der much. be a crowning climax to the history] Speaker Thomas B: Reed of Maine, of the speakership and would add a| able, shrewd and aggressive, became complete social triumph to that of-; known as “Czar” Reed in the carly fice’s gradual accumulation of po-| nineties. Under Reed, nine legally litical power. It’s a long story. elected Democrats were fired out of the house in order to increase the An Ancient Office Republican Majority to a safe vost The office originated in the British | ing margin. Democratic members be- “ house of commons and the first}gan to revolt by refusing to vote, WELL GET AN EaRLy Une! : 7 = z speaker whose name is recorded was! though present, refusing a quorum. START SO WELL BE aaron o Bn TWE MEAN- * Boy! To Day's me Thomas de Hungerford, who served | Reed counted them “present” despite THERE IN PLENTY OF i" yy |] OAY L 6ET OfF]= in the year 1377. Early speakers ap- | their protests, and when they sought TINE BEFORE THE - GREAT " WONT TAG'S TIME, NAN, THE yy BOARD HER AND “ TLL cf INL pear to have been subservient to the|to bolt the chamber had the doors TRAIN GETS IN D0 EYES PoP WHEN HE iy WY: ERTAINLY king just as ours generally are to the | locked. You Tan KNOWS E'S GOING Z TWE WHOLE THING a4 BE GLAD 7 se president today. They became more| Reed took many other arbitrary eee aa MAKING A SloRT . S WILL BE. OVER g FRecuLES independent. however, especially after | measures to discourage filibustering (OE WORSE BaAcL CUT To THE WATER ve IN ME SHAVE J the Cromwell period. and other dilatory tactics, He was an Colonial legislatures in America| absolute dictator in the 5ist congress. 7 u TANK NIKERE THE had their speakers, who were subject | The Democrats held power in the en- G COAST LIMITED IS to removal or expulsion when they| suing four years and scrapped the failed to command a majority of the} “Reed Rules,” only later to adopt house or obey its orders. Presiding | some of them while giving over some officers of the continental congresses} of the speaker's power to the rules were known as presidents rather than | committee. Reed re-elected ‘as speakers. Election of a speaker was | speaker in 1894, serving four more provided for in the constitution, but | years. y b nothing was said about his duties— Cannon Was a Dictator Ly S A) s A \ or his social precedence. Uncle Joe Cannon, who served as i A ’ a y Uy ‘ Prederick A. Muhlenberg of Penn-| speaker from 1903 to. 1910, preserved sylvania became the first speaker un-| the Reed tradition and under him der the constitution. He was a portly, | methods of legislation in the house prosperous gent, more patriotic than | became recognized as the most ar- brilliant. Originally he was merely a} bitrary of any legislative body in the presiding officer, but the house gave| world. Once when a majority of him the privilege of making commit- | members signed a petition requesting tee appointments. He was succeeded | permission to consider a bill Cannon by Jonathan Trumbull of Connecti-| merely threw the petition in the cut, but in 1793, when the house first | wastebasket. Eventually insurgent divided along partisan lines, the anti- | Republicans united with Democrats Feleralists re-elected him. to unhorse Cannon, and the rules Nathaniel Macon of North le were somewhat modified. But the 1 lina, who used to enter the births | rules committee continues to rule the fe ie! THE “ and pedigree of his horses on the fly- | house and the speaker dominates the y eushteeer scrrblicta ion eter eebaes en i, Je ANYONE WANTS leaf of the family Bible, was elected | rules committee. @ AND HIS OFFICE IVE GOTTA "4 A BIG ARGUMENT AND LEFT OU, WILL SOU BE speaker in the first Jefferson admin-| Unfortunately, Longworth’s hopes LOCATE UIM'ER Mt RUINED !! \N A HUFF . SINCE THEN 4T BRAGG'S OR istration and became the first one to| of establishing house supremacy over i T™ RU yo : TWEYNE BEEN RINGING INCESSANTLY Hawn's 2- assert his constitutional right to vote, | the senate is hampered by the fact 7 OW MR. BRAGG, IS |/HAPPENED AGoUT ARYING TO GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU . despite an existing house rule which | that the same rules which allow his T YOU? VES;TLL ? AND ENA WANTS You To COME “To denied him the privilege. He was also | oligarchy to dictate to the house have WANE HIM CALL - WIS OFFICE OW YES, MoM CALLED the first to lead his party from the | produced a situation where the house - AND = iu chair. But the speaker remained a| merely proposes legislation and the SAID FOR YOU To COME HOME servant of the house, rather than its | senate, unbound by any such rules, is 4 _ AT ONCE master. really the disposing body. It did not occur to Tony Tarver that| “I was jist thinkin’,” Mom Ross con- She should make an effort to chat| fessed with a chuckle, “that that poor brightly with Mary Burns. She did | darlin’ foot of mine takes a size seven not feel bright or chatty or friendly.| shoe! Who's your date tonight, Instead, she gave up her bedside} Mary? Don't tell me you ain't got chair to the girl-next-door, sprawled | one, ‘cause I'll know better.” her own long, slim body in an old-{ The vivid little thing bridled and fashioned rocking chair near the| laughed, and for some reason the Aiaiadgh pres looked on with drawn] pain that had Tony's heart in its rows, scowling eyes and tightened clutch lightened a little. MES, INDEED, Madam ! 1’ GLAD TO SHOW YA) (Now, THIS BIRD Wi “Yes : JAS BORN Sot mouth. 'Yes'm, I have got a date, but “THE OSTRICHES —@N’ (TLL ONLY TaKe tn Tine. AGO, So Ya see rite Her withdrawal was apparently aj} shucks, it don't amount to a hill o° relief to Mary Burns, who had been | beans!” Mary Burns oonfessed. “It’s . ABOUT & MINUTE TA TELL Ya ALL ( KNOW |/OL' “Than ‘fa THINK SHE IS — obviously at a loss for words which | just that boy in the necktie depart- “he! en’ FUL —ticost, ste could possibly interest this dazzling | ment I was tellin’ you and Sandy (S PLAYTEUL -- creature from a world entirely for-| about. My! I thought Sandy'’d die — HA” On “THANKS, EVER eign to her own. She seemed glad to} when I told him his name was Apple- - BON Hi so KINDLY! be free to chatter along, in her| jack—didn't you?” r x southern drawl, with Sandy's mother,! Tony saw delighted color flood the with whom she was on the best of | dark, vivid little face at the very idea terms. of Sandy Ross's being jealous. “Well, Her conversation was full of little | he ain’t got no call to be jealous of clucking sounds of endearment and| Roy Applejack or any other man,” of strange but picturesque phrases protested. “You know, Miz Ross, which Tony had never heard before.| I wouldn't look at another man, She had said, “You'd die laughin’ to| much less have a date with one, if hear Sandy mock me,” but at the] Sandy wasn’t busy putterin’ around very thought of the teasing, intimate | that old airplane of his so much. It’s friendship which that remark im-/ just awful! I didn’t have but one date Tony clenched her hands until} with Sandy the whole week before the nails cut the palms. . i he went to New York. ‘Course I'd a But Tony listened, and herself; heap sight rather go with Sandy, but knew the impulse to imitate that light | a girl's got to have some fun—” drawl, broken so frequently by a} Tony heard no more, for there was shallow, breathless little laugh: a sudden crashing and thundering in “Yes'm, Miz Ross, it sure is grand| her ears. The other two, who had i to have a day off. Sometimes I| heard nothing, went on chatting 7 / Tl simply die, standin’ on my | comfortably .... = feet day in and day out... . You know —_—_ ‘what, Miz Ross? These new shoes of| NEXT: Mom Ross, matc! ‘hmaker. ¢@ i and a half. I id 's what comes of} New York, May 21.—The old Bel- feet all day. Sandy | mont hotel, which was to be delivered hands are funny, | to the wreckers, has been saved at the ae re eleventh hour by one ot those touches Ooh, | Of sentiment typical of Manhattan. and -| When these tender gestures are , they are truly fabulous and generous beyond belief. And it is this sort of intrusion upon the general ruthlessness of the city that New Yorkers so proudly point to when claiming that, after all, New York is || not so hard-hearted. ° Will not be considered tony this sea- 3 f GILBERT, SWAN. (Copyright, 1929, NEA Bervice, Inc.) TRUST BOUGHT PRESS Washington, May 21—()—An at- FL is g2 | i Hi i [ 4 i id te Fe ETH r He fd eee rt Hit fl | £ #i iu z i i! f i ht 3+ i f i i i g g E - &* g*se Aby Gel