Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1937, Page 5

*DOUBTS OB KNEW DEATHNEAR Garner Says Senate Leader Appeared Well at Last Meeting. By the Associated Press TEXARKANA, July 17.—Vice Pres- {dent John N. Garner said here to- night he believed Senator Joseph T. Robinson had no premonition of the death which struck him down in Washington. The Vice President stopped over- night en route from his home in Uvalde to Little Rock, Ark, to at- tend funeral services for the Sena- tor, who had been his close friend and associate in Congress for more than 30 years. Appeared in Good Health. “lI had two letters from Senator Robinson the week before he died,” Mr. Garner said. “I also saw him just before T left Washi appeared in good health had no premonition of d: Speeding overland to join the Na- tion's last tribute to the Democratic Senate leader. the Vice svoided talk of politics, In answer to a question 2s to when he thought Con s would adjourn, he smiled and said, ou answer that one.” A possible indication that the si uation created by Robir death was pressing for attention was seen, I think however, in the intimation he might | terminate his automobile trip in Lit- | tle Rock, going to Washington by train with members of Congress who accompanied the Senator's body from ' the Nationa! Capital Left Before Sun-up. Long before sun-up Mr. Garner left his tree-shaced me In e hills of Southwest Tex where he had been vacationing the middle of June. Mrs. Ga did not accom- pany him. Throughout the day car rolled through Central and Eas: Texas over an unannounced route in order to avoid crowd NAVY CONSIDERS YACHT AUXILIARY Pleasure Craft Owners Are Circu- larized—Boats' Use in Emer- gency Weighed. Creation of a naval vachtinz auxil- fary is under consideration Department revealed yest While details of the #till are being worked out ment said it pleasure craft owners and groups to determine “some basis on which use might be made of this potential ro- eerve in time of emergency.” If sufficient interest develops, the department said. it may be possible to make available to naval district commandants the names of members of yachting groups who are competent navigators, engineers, small craft op- erators, etc. “There is no intention of formally enrolling these individuals in the Na- 'val Reserve, or of asking them to per- form any training duty,” the depart- ment declared. The department summarized the purposes of the organization under study as follows: “To cultivate a closer relationship between the United States Navy and the United States yachting clubs and essociations. “To promote nautical education among members of yachting clubs and associations ‘To preserve a reservoir of men accustomed to the sea as a possible auxiliary to the United States Navy in time of war or emergency. “To make available boats with char- tics suitable for the local de- of naval districts in case of war or emergency. at ization the depart- TU. S. Tractors in Mongolia. Farmers of Mongolia are being taught to use American tractors and other agricultural machinery. gton and he | he | President | the Navy has circularized power. BY H. R. BAUKHAGE. §(] NEVER was a candidate. But I I always had one.” e That answer, made by Senha- tor Alben William Barkley, { when some one asked him about his political activities back in college days, assumes new significance. He has been a candidate since, fre- quently and successfully. Now he stands on the threshold of a new job and a hard*one, for in all likelihood he will be chosen to fill the shoes of the late Senator Joe Robinson as Senate majority leader. But right now that “office” is no sinecure. The way the land lies today, a man has to “have a candidate” if he accepts it, has to be willing to put aside his own personal wishes, has to take a lot of the kick and miss, a lot of the glory. Liberal Torchbearer. If the New Deal is carrying the torch of the new freedom, then it is logical enough to choose the Ken- tuckian as one of its torchbearers. Senator Barkley has consistently fought for the typical “liberal” meas- ures, the Adamson eight-hour act; the | | transportation act, and, finally, after long battling, the Howell-Barkley act which ended the disastrous railroad strikes which had preceded its pas- sage. In the struggle for this latter legis- | lation there is a parallel to the battle {over the court bill. The first time, the bill was defeated by filibuster. In | the following session of December | (1925), it passed. During the Summer, Senator Bark- lev and his colleagues had worked with both sides effecting a compromise. The bill was discharged from committee | by petition—the first time this parlia- | mentary step had been used. | A similar situation may be faced in | the House with regard to the court | famous bill | There is nothing inconsistent in the | Senator’s attitude toward an “inelas- | tic” judiciary. The abuse of “stare decisis,” the lawyer's anchor to prece- | dent, was a matter that he had often | pondered. He undoubtedly was influenced in his thought by a liberal professor in | the University of Virginia. where he | got his law degree. Later it was brought sharply before him again in A remark made by Woodrow Wilson, { which he often quotes. A delegation called on President Wilson to urge a candidate for the supreme bench. The President asked them one question ‘Does your candidate believe the l1aw is a ‘thing that grows or some- | thing that is finished?" If a boy’s mind is &s receptive as they it perhaps some of the Senator's earl experiences turned him toward politics. He oftcn heard his father speak of Adlai Stevenson, sident under Cleveland, who Once the boy went to Cairo, Ili. to hear his illustrious relative speak That was in the campaign of 1892, but he hasn't forgotten it. He was 15 then, a schoolboy Graves County, Ky. At 20 he had graduated from Mar- ) vin College at Clinton. That sounds simple, but it wasn't. He worked his way waiting on table and at any | other job that he could find. i | Weariness Paid for Books. ! He borrowed bocks that he rouldn'ti afford to buy, and he can remem- | ber today the long tramps he took | | returning them at night—he couldn't |take time off during the day, and| | those lonely journeys were no fun. But fun has never been the first con- | sideration with Alben William Bark- | | ley, though he loves a good joke, even when it'’s on himself. By the time he had his diploma from the academy he was ready for | | anything, and off he went to Emory | College in Georgia, where he was graduated. Then he turned to the mecca of the future lawyers of his day—the University of Virginia. Fortunately | for the poor but ambitious student | of those days. Thomas Jefferson hadn't included central heating in the build- | ing plans, and there weré plenty | of fires to build, enough to pay the board of a young man who wasn't afraid to get up at dawn to work. i | By the beginning of the twentieth ! in | | | | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, School Days. SENATOR BARKLEY. Barkley Long a Liberal Torchbearer Robinson’s Probable Successor Trained on Hard Work Since —Underwood Photo. century Alben was back in Kentucky was admitted to the bar and began practicing in the town of Paducah, which has been his home ever since, much Washingtonians by this time. | He married immediately and began | reading law under Judge Wailliam | Bishop, that Blue Grass jurist made by Irvin Cobb as “Judge Soon he was clerk of the and his mastery of short- | Priest.” court, hand and typewriting has served him ever since. l | | Types Own Speeches. Today he likes to write his own speeches on the typewriter and his machine bangs on far into the night m his home, a long-familiar sound to his family. On once did Senator Barkley | nurse the desire for an avocation. He ! thought, when he was still in col- | lege, that it might be nice to be a writer on the side and so he com- | posed his first and only piece and | sent it off to the home-town paper 1n | Paducah. It was returned with re- gret. and that was that. The first rung in the political lad- der wasn't long in being found, and there was a foot ready to mount 1t He had the chance to run for county attorney He decided that the one way to have this job was to go and get 1t, 8o he saddled a horse and set out f he missed a house in the county, it must have been a pretty dark night. He thinks he got them all. Anvhow, he got the votes of the majority and his career was bezun served four years as and was elected judze of the McCracken County Court. Need- less to say, he was quite ready for a | national career when he was nomi- nated for Congress, thus skipping the roundabout path that many Congress- men have to take, the one that leads through the State Legislature. He wasn't one to take the longest way | ‘round on his way to what he was after. His position in the Democratic par- | ty paralleled his political career. 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He has three children, two girls | ested the advisability of avoiding such | One of his daughters | 8 contest, leaving Senator Barkley to and a boy. !del(‘gat@ at large at the San Francisco 1920 and in 1924 at New York and again at Hous- Then came the Chicago although he and his family are pretty | affalr when he was made temporary announced by Mrs. Caraway to the Senate, addressed the Senate. He deplored the death of Senator Rob- inson and then said: “The fate of the Nation, its im- minent peril, the possibility of war, or anything that might be a real menace to our people, would justify the continuance of this session. But no such necessity drives us today.” The New York Senator then proceeded to warn other Seantors that if the session was continued the menace of death to them also was in the Sen- ate chamber. Refer to Wheeler Statement. These President’s supporters also refer to the statements emanating from Senator Wheeler of Montana, and others of the opposition, made directly after the death of Senator Robinson. The probabilities ar>, however, that opponents of the court bill will ask Senator Barkley directly what were the things to which Barkley called the President’s attention—the “certain events of yesterday’—which drew from the President the letter. Although Senator Barkley is acting as leader, through virtue of appoint- ment by Senator Robinson to be as- sistant to him, the Senate Democrats feel that the question of party leader- ship must be cleared up without delay. They are to caucus Wednesday morn- ing to decide upon the question of leadership. The call for the caucus is 1n the process of going out to the 76 Democratic Senators, signed by Senator Black of Alabama, as secre- tary to the caucus, acting on order from Barkley. Contest for Leadership. A real contest for the leadership has developed between Senator Barkley | and Senator Harrison of Mississippi It is expected that the caucus will decide between the two. Failing that, it may postpone the election of a | leader. Senator Pittman, president | pro tempore of the Senate, has sug- served as his secretary until three | CAITY on as leader until next Winter. vears ago. Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) | The Harrison people have declared | (Copyright. 1037, by the North American | themselves utterly opposed to such & L e Court (Continued Prom First Page.) other hand. contend that Copeland of New York the death of Senator the Presi- | dent was justified in this statement. 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They feel that the weight of tne White House approval had already been placed be- hind Barkley. They are willing, how- ever, to take the President at his word and let the contest go on. Supporters of Harrison point out that the Mississippi Senator, like Barkley, has declared for the pas- sage of the President’s court program. Any effort on the part of the ad- ministration, therefore, to inject itself into the contest for leader they con- sider entirely unfair. Some of them are passing the word around that| Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, an independent, although a strong sup- porter of President oosevelt, is work- ing in the interest of the election of Barkley as leader. They are asking by what conceivable right La Follette, who is not a member of the Demo- cratic party, should undertake to say who shall be Democratic leader of the Senate. Adds to Confusion. Altogether, the contest over the leadership has added to the confusion and to bitterness of feeling among the Senate Democrats. | The Democratic caucus meeting will | be to choose a leader, or. discuss post- ponement of the election. It is pos- sible, though scarcely likely, that a dicussion of the party attitude toward the court might be brought up, and of the program for the remainder of the :2ssion. If anything like that is | attempted, the chances are for a| lengthy and he:ted debate in the | caucus. Any attempt to bind the Democrats to support the eourt bill, | through caucus action, would be re- | sisted violently. Senator George of Georgia, a court bill opponent, will deliver an address tomorrow night in the National Radio Forum, attacking the enlargement proposal. Senator George is an ef- fective speaker and is counted upon by the opponents of the court bill to make their attitude clear to the country. New Legislative Day. When the Senate adjourned Wednesday out of respect to Sena- tor Robinson, the legislative day of July 6 was ended. Those Senators who already had addressed the Sen- ate on the court were released from the rule which holds that a Senator may speak only twice in the same day on the same subject. The admin- istration forces maintained that the legislative day means the “same day” under the rule. The situation, there- fore, returns to exactly the same posi- tion as at the beginning of the debate. Each Senator is at liberty to speak twice in the new legislative day which begins Tuesday. Both supporters and opponents of the court bill yesterday expressed con- fidence. The supporters insisted if the compromise bill is ever brought to a vote‘it will carry. They were dubious, | however, that it can be brought to a vote. The opponents of the measure said they were sure a motion to re- commit the bill and thus end the battle on the floor would command a majority vote. 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