Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 6

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Like other yel- low cowards of the Wheeler, Walsh, Heflin and Harrison type, he would not dare to face an ad- versary, man to man in the opene, he would shoot only from the sanctuary of the senate. “Safety first” is their adopted policy. It is the policy adopted by Dill when his gountry was in trouble. As a slinger of muck Dill can qualify for the long distance record. But the never took a chance with a hand grenade. He inhales the poison gas ‘of senatorial slander and thrives thereon. But ho was mighty careful not to expose himself to a whiff of war gas. Section six of article one of the federal constitution is Dill’s dugout, but section eight was dodged by him in 1917. Dill was not quite thirty-three years of age when the United States declared war. From his viewpoint he was lucky. He was unmarried and husky, and two years over the draft age ~#afe. La Guardia, Republican, of New York, for ex- ample, was thirty-five and a representative in congress. He went to war in the air service, and commanded the American flying force on the Italian front. Koyal ©. Johnson, Republican, of South Da- kota, was thirty-five and married and in con- gress but he enlisted in the infantry and be- came a first lieutenant. fi avid Reed, Republican, senator from Penn- sylvania, was thirty-seven and married. He en- listed and became major of the 311th field artil- ‘ Davis Elkins, Republican, of West Virginia, was firty-one. He went to war and became a major and was elected to the United States sen ate. Smith Brookhart, senator from Iowa, was forty-eight and married. But he helped out by taking on as chief instructor in marksmanship at Camps Perry and Benning, and he became a lieutenant colonel. Robert B. Howell, Republican, senator for Nebraska, and married, was fifty-three but he served as lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve force. John Philip Hill, Republican representative from Maryland, was thirty-eight, but he became a lieutenant colonel in the World War and ro- ceived the croix de guerre. But Dill, Democrat, of Washington, does not appear on this roll of honor. His profession is politics, Dill’s specialty in WRe PePPeeereetere rs statescraft ,consists in slandering Republicans, and his pet aversion is Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., assistant secretary of the navy. Roosevelt was thirty years old when he got into the war—within the draft age. But he could, had he chosen to do so, have claimed exemption on account of being a married man with children, with better grace than Dill did because of being two years over draft age. But the Rooseyelts were not built that way. Young Teddy came out of the war‘a lieutenant, “colonel, wearing a distinguished service cross, “a legion of honor ribbon and a croix de guerre. ~ Roosevelt is just the sort of chap that men like Dill attack under the cover of senatorial or other immunity. If it had not been for the Roosevelt type of American we would have no nation. « If we had a Dill majority in the United States we would have worse than no nation. We would have a bolshevik syncopation. Some sweet day some red blooded American will rise up and everlastingly pickle this Dill >. thing, and take the consequences, which in view ‘of tho present attitude of the American people toward senatorial cowardice and blackguardism, would be a bounty for the pelt of one of the nest of polecats that infests the senate of the * United States, Are They Sincere Having heard vigorous protests from their constituents, Democratic leaders have announced an intention to abandon obstructive tactica and permit national legislation to proceed. A rd ing to their public pronouncements they will hereafter co-operate with Republicans in endea voring to get bills perfected in committee and acted upon in house and senate. It remains to be seen whether this policy will be really pur sued or merely set forth for political purposes while ignored in practice. Up to the present time the numerour “investi gations” have occupied much of the attention of : ERPS. MALT HO. SLE OR TIRE OP ERD members of congress though Republican lead-' ers have been endeavoring to get action on leg- islation at the same time. There is no controlling reason why investigations and legislation should | not both proceed at the same time. The investi- gations are conducted by committees, and the committees may, and usually do, sit while the houses of congress are also in session. While a senate committee was conducting the oil in- vestigation, there was nothing to prevent sena: tors from going ahead with legislation. That is, there was no need of delay. ~ But the Democrats not members of the inves- tigating committees were not willing to let the senate devote its time and attention to other matters. Some of the noted wind-jammers on the Democratic side, insisted upon getting up day after day and discussing theyprevious day's tes- timony which had been printed in the newspap- ers and read by every senator. Absolutely noth- ing could be gained by discussing the testimony on the floor of the senate on the same day that it had been printed in the newspapers, and while it was under consideration by the committee. But it furnished an excuse for almost inter- minable talk, and that was what the timekillers 4.50] wanted. 2.2: When Republican leaders sought to bring the discussion down to measures actually before the senate, the Democratic experts in haraugue re- vented the effort and proclaimed their inten- tion to talk just as long as they wished regard- less of whether their speeches were germane the same sort of street corner political bunk day after day. No soap-box orator in the halcyon days of calamity howling, could have commanded a more elaborate vocabulary of invective than was displayed by the Democratic venders of vi- tuperation for several weeks. This was carried on under the pretense of keeping the county in- formed as to the facts when, in truth, the public had already read the testimony in the daily press. Whether there is to he a change of policy re- ; mains to be seen. Democratic leaders say there will be, but, if experience is any guide) it is safe to predict that under one pretense or another, re- } sumption of scandal mongering will be used as a means to delay legislation. Pettifogging pol- iticians, skilled in subterfuge, will even occupy the time of the senate declaring their willingness to hasten legislation, when even that speech has for its purpose the same sort of delay that has gone before. When every other means of killing time has been exhausted, the obstructionists can easily spend an hour or so denouncing the Re- publicans for not getting something done. A perusal of the Congressional Record will later disclose the extent to which the Demo- crats fulfill their professed purpose to co-oper- ate in expediting the work of congress. Integrity of Oil Industry Narrow minded persons or politicians seeking ||scenery” as a background for political activity indict the whole industry. Commenting on this phase of the situation, Thomas A. O'Donnell, president of the Ameri- can Petroleum Institute says: “The integrity of the American petroleum in- dustry is beyond question. It is distinctly Amer- ican, and world wide in its ramifications. Those engaged in the business represent American standards and are average American citizens, no better and no worse than‘ any other part of our economic life. “Its healthy and prosperous development is of the utmost importance to all of the American people, and it must have their confidence and co- have seized upon the recent so-called scandal to! Che Casper Daily Cribune Section 2, Article II, of the United States Constitution lays down that the President “shall have power by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, pro- vided two-thirds of the senators present concur.” This provision in practice works out that treaties are Negotiated by the Secretary of State with the President's approval, but to obtain ratification must be yassed on-and discussed by the senate. In Great Britain no such constitutional provision exists, treaties being ne- gotiated by the Foreign Office and thereafter recelving the signature under the great sea! of the Crown. In other words, Parliament when it discusses a treaty can do 80 only after it is made. In either country the respective methods have oper- ated fairly well, but to this question we do not draw attention, What the reader should note {s that Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, the labor govern- ment’s under secretary of state for foreign affairs, has announced, to the house a step that has the pos- sibility of great changes. Mr. Ponsonby, so despatches state said that “in order to strengthen the control of Parliament over interna- Honal treaties the government had ------ -75| to the subject before the senate. They repeated |‘aecided that Parliament should be allowed an adequate opportunity: for discussion of all treaties before final ratification.” As we under- stand the further text of the des- patch, treaties would be tabled for twenty-one days in the Commons and the Lords, after which they would be ratified and published. This plan does not change constitu- tional powers and leaves the treaty making power where it was; nor is ratification put in the hands of Parliament. This is most {mport- ant to bear Jn mind, but the propo- sal of the present government is no less important, as it erects a right of discussion before ratification which parliament has not possessed. It has the car-marks of emanating from the Prime Minister, for he long ago advocated more parliamentary control of international affairs and at a time when that would have been apparently the last step to take in the face of the attitude of the Central Powers. To condemn it in advance would be unwise, be: cause English politics are in a state of flux, or what may more accur- ately be described as a tentative and experimental stage. * But what is manifest is that the proposal is a decided adaptation of American constitutional usage and _prescrip- tion. It is intimated that the Con- seryatives have asked for a debate on the question, nor can we believe that a large body of Liberal opinion has not the same desire, all thé more so that Mr. MacDonald's gov- ecnment has to recede from its po- sition on the second reading of the rents bill. Mr. Asquith as good as said that were it not revised he should oppose it, and the govern- ment gracefully reduced its propo- sals. To Americans accustomed to the Provision of a written Constitution and convinced by experience that on the whole it has been a good one {t may seem the most natural thing in the world that the law-making body should have control over the treaties and they are strengthened in this conviction by the American Successor operation in order to meet our industrial neces- sities, and maintain the present predominate place of the industry in the advance of the world. “Ninety-seven per cent of the oil industry is not involved in the charges of fraud at Wash- ington. 16,000 companies and individuals with millions of stockholders produced more than 2,- 000,000 barrels of oil per day during the last year in the United States. “The companies holding the leases about which the controversy is raging, produced not to ex ceed three per cent of the total production in this country, It is unthinkable because of the al- leged corruption involving a handful of men in governmental service and this particular busi- ness that the public confidence in a great in- dustry should be destroyed by reckless charges and the destruction of that industry threatened through dangerous agitation or by impractic- able supervision. The petroleum industry desires that the facts be made clear, the responsibility fixed, and the guilty, if any, punished,” Among the Sober Folks The New York Times is possibly the ablest and fairest Democratic newspaper in the coun- try. What it thinks of the congressional situa- tion in the face of the fact that the members of its own party are to blame is worth the at- tention of the readers of all parties, The Times says: “Sober folk are not thinking which party will be helped or hurt by what has been going on*in Washington for the past month, They look deep- er and see dangers. One of them is the possibil ity of great injury to congress itself. It has too frequently in the weeks just past shown itself a victim of mob-psyhology. Senators who are to be the sworn judges in impeachments brave an- nounced themselves in advance as ready to con- vict. The inquisitorial power of congress, which should be reserved for great events, has been placed at the disposal of men who display no sense of responsibility and who make use of it for the pettiest and most malicious purposes. What should be the strong medicine of the con- stitution, reserved for rare occasions has been made the daily bread of scandal-mongers and as- sassins of character. “All these things bring congress under sus to demonstrate to the country that it is in Wash ington to see that the government is allowed to do its work without Iintitmidation by gognes or baseless attacks by scheming parti- sans.” | | The great and good Senator Heflin need give himself no concern over any Republican doing him bodily harm, He js the Best politicnl-aid the Republicans have outside their own ranks, Lord Northcliffe's successor as the owner of the biggest string of British newspapers is his brother, Viscount Rothermere (above), He is in this country for a visit. The Iast word in heat- picion and into disrepute. For its own sake it| should make haste to recover its judgment and | dema. | ing for homes; apart- ment houses, stores, schools. Ali the comfort and healthfulness of radia tor heat, but no wait- no bother, no ment, no coal. And POTTER Warnt Air Gas Radiation ventilates as well as heats, uckhahn, Ine. Cc. T, Pl 13 math David hone 1287 Formerly Enterprise atruction Company Con- A Leaf from America’s Book BOSTON TRANSCRIPT and English rule that a treaty once ‘made becomes part of the law of the land, affecting the whole country. But when this opinion is used re- Sarding English constitutional pro- cedure, there are practical consider- ations that make the American view not so easy of application. There is the rule of thumb argument that English diplomacy is very astute and very successful. There is the further consideration that in actual technical diplomatic work of nego- tiating and drafting treaties, the British government has the services of a great body of experts much better acquainted with facts and conditions than any parliamentary body. This is most conspicuous in England today, when the member- ship of the House has been changed tremendously in character and at- tainments and yet retains a great body of opinion that fundamentally is conservative. Whether the pur- posed step proves a success for a power whoss international interests are so far reaching as Great Brit- looks eas though the present govern- ment had decided to try a leaf from America’s book, though not to the extent of a constitutional change. 4 doesn't justify th’ means often as th’ means justify th’ end.” Lines And Angles BY TED OSBORNE Arty—"“Did the doctor tell you what you had?” Choke—"No, he just took it." Reckless Spending Him—"It costs me over five thou- sand dollars a year to live?" Her—"Goodness, what a waste of money.” A philosopher is a man who will sit up all night and worry over things that none of the rest of us ever heard of. There was a young woman named Flo, F Who thought paper waists were the “go.” But when she would wear ‘em, And happen to tear ‘em, To the waist paper basket they'd go. Judge—"It seems very strange to me that you could keep on robbing that enormous corporation for so long without being caught.” Prisoner—Well, the corporation was pretty busy itself.” Headline: “Scientist Discovers Method of Stopping Waste Gas.” We move that he take it at once to Washington and apply it to both houses of Congress. Proximity Mutt—“I wonder what makes my hair so thick.” Jeff—“Look where it’s growing.” Aren't people Funny? They would Much rather Read a Line written Like this ‘Than clear Across the Column. 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