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1 / 1 / MAY 192S Gen. Charles G. Dawes, i Presidential Possibility Amazed Capitol When He Bawl rd Uut United States Senate for Antiquated Rules The following: is one of a series of "Presidential Campaign Portraits" j written for NEA Service by Robert! Talley, and is the last of four arti-j cles on the career of Vice President Charles C. Dawes: So far as history records, the only man who ever bawled out the U. S. senate to its face is Vice President Charles G. Dawes. Dawes did it on Inauguration Day. March 4, 11)25. when He and President Coolidge rode in together on the crest of the Republican landslide. The outburst was its unexpected as a cloudburst out of a clear sky in the the middle of the Sahara desert. The senators and congressmen were there in their long-tailed coats. The justices of the supreme court were there in their flowing black robes. The foreign diplomats were 1 there in brilliant full-dress uniforms, heavy with gold lace and braid. The cabinet members were there, the chiefs of the army, navy and marine I corps v.-ere there and so was President roolidgc, who had just taken his own oath outside. Everybody was waiting to hear the foi mal speech of acceptance by a new vice-president, soon to be submerged in the four years of obscurity for which this office had been famous. Dawes began. Quickly he turned to scathing condemnation of the senate rules. Eyes widened as Dawes gained speed, practically calling the senators a bunch of old fossils for operating under antiquated procedure. Senator Jim Reed of Missouri snickered and then doubled up in convulsions of silent laughter. Dawes became hotter and hotter, louder and louder. Qqolidge looked 1 uncomfortable; the gold-laced diplomats looked at the green carpet on i the floor. For several hours after it was over, indignant senators were busyissuing statements in reply. Jim Reed. when asked what he thought, I quoU-d the old proverb. "It is a f waste of lather to shave an ass." Other senators said things equally unkind. Rut Dawes, cooly calculating from the first, had Won. Newspaper headlines from coast to coast screamed with the vice-president's attack on the senate. The little known and less understood subject of senate * lynii t- ocvuiiiv a nuviuiuii uj|mc. ri*yple begun to discuss it as they would the weather or their favorite murder trial. And so, when Dawes later made speeches urging' revision of the antiquated senate rules and curbing of unlimited debate in the interest of legislative efficiency, he faced interested and informed audiences. Nothing has vet heen done about it?a senator may speak until doomsday, if his voice holds out?but as the result of Dawes* "super-salesmanship" the eountry now understands. Dawes entered into the prosaic obscurity of a vice-president, his sole duty being to pytyside over the senate. Custom does not permit the presiding officer to make a speech, nor tides it allow him to cast a vote except, in event of a tie. A short time later the president's nomination of Charles Beecher Warion as attorney general came up for j senate, confirmation. The nomination was bitterly contested and the vote was a tie. Where was Dawes? A senator was acting as presiding officer and the vice-president was missing. His vote was needed to break the deadloci:. Atler 1 ran tic search Dawes was found at his home?peacefully taking an afternoon nap. He sped to the capita) in a taxi hut. arrived too late. Another vote had been taken and Warren's hopes of being attorney general of the United States had died forever. By one stroke Dawes strengthened himself with the agricultural west and the banking east when he succeeded in inducing senators to pass the McNar.v-Haugen . farm relief bill and the McFadden banking bill. President Coolidge later killed the MeNary-Haugen bill with a veto, but that did not detract from Dawes' efforts to achieve its passage. " The conference at which this was arranged was held in Dawes' office. "1 have asked you to come here," said Dawes, "to see if you cannot bring these two measures to a vote. T am not asking?" A senator arose and obviously started a long-winded speech. "Sit down!" barked Dawes. "There may not be cloture in the senate but there is in my office." And proceed they did. Vice Presidnet Dawes is wealthy, a heavy investor in public utilities and the Pure Oil company. For this reason he excused himself from participation in arrangements for a publ?r? titilifv invoctitratmn caiiitVI Kc Senator Walsh of Montana. Beeneath the fire and brimstone exterior of Dawes lies a home-loving man whose books, paintings and music are his delight. He shuns as many dinner invitations as his office will permit in order to spend his evenings with his wife and their two adopted daughters?Dana, 15 and Virginia, 13. Their own daughter, Carolyn, is now the wife of a former classmate of Dawes* son, who THIS WEEK By ARTHUR BRISBANE Viv Id Yonth, Dull Age Making the Mississippi Safe Depsw Wiie Man Could Coolidge Say No? In youth impressions are vivid., and last into old age. Therefore, the manuscript of "Alice in Won deflantl" sells for S7r?,25^. a record price, more than would have been paid for the manuscript of Dante's "Inferno," or of Voltaire's "Zadisr," each word worth a thousand "Alice in Wonderland" manuscripts. Years dull imagination. Millions that remember "Robinson Crusoe," "Swiss Fatnilyj Robinson," "Gulliver's Travels" vividly have a faint impression 01 more important hooks read later. Washington reporters say. probably inaccurately, that President Co'olidjre is "shocked** at the suggestion of $750,000,001) to make the Mississippi River safe. A country that could give ten thousand millions to Europe. and half a billion a year to railroad receipts. and plan, wisely, to cut $200,000,000 a year from corporation taxes, need not shudder at the thought of spending part of a billion to make the Mississippi safe. Chauneey M. Depew, (lead in his ninety-fourth year, older than the. Republican party, which he served long and faithfully, said: "I have lived long because 1 could laugh at anything.'* Of Napoleon, it was said that in his youth "no one ever saw him laugh.' He didn't live ninety-three years, but he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his n*nety-four years. C'hauncey Depew attended 8,000 banquets and never let boredom drive, him into eating too much. That's wisdom. He campaigned for Lincoln, got $1.75 for his first legal services, Hvpd liniW KfPinti'-fnni' muiei/lonfe from Andrew Jackson to Calvin Coolidge, and knew thirteen of them personally. I low many can name the twenty-four from Jackson on? Mr. Harrow of the house naval affairs committee, told President Coolidge his friends "still hoped he would be a candidate." The president replied: "I am afaid they will have to he disappointed." Die-hard Coolidge enthusiasts will find some comfort in that word "afraid." A man cannot help being persuaded if arguments are good. Suppose the president were convinced, as he may he, that his renomination and re-election would boom business, increase employment, stabilize prosperity and free his party from oil stain danger, could he continue to say no? Aviation is a reality, says General was drowned in 1012. The memory of Rufus Fearing Dawes still lives with his lather. All through General Dawes* war diary one finds tender references to him, the wistful hope that he might have lived. The monuments that Dawes has erected in his hoy's memory are the Itu fus Fearing Dawes hotels for working men in Chicago and Boston. There the man who is out of a job can get a clean bed for a dime and a full meal for a quarter. In the evening Dawes often improvises for hours on the piano in his home. Perhaps in his musings the vice president dreams of a day when the family circle will gather in the evening round the famous gold piano in the White House after a hard day's work in the executive office with its great circular walls where Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Goolidge have labored. Who knows? WWWWVWVVtfW^WWUWA | Yours t< In any kind j; Building Mai ^ Ceiling, Sid ? Casing, Step ?; Lime, Plaste ;! Sheet Rock, I; dows, Doors, We Sell Good 5 Good j Watauga I ? "Everything to Cellar to W.V.'.V.V.V,V.".W//.".VlW TUB WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EY Atterbury, and railroads should know it. He is said to plan for the Pennsylvania a part railroad, partflying: machine service from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The traveler would spend daylight in the flying machine, night hours on the train, cross the continent in forty-eight hours, avoiding mountain flying. This rumor is not guaianteed. New York merchants report business excellent in women's apparel. They buy more of it and less of it. more garments, less material in them. Paper underwear for ladies makes its appearance in several stories. Silk of wool, underwear of paper ?not pleasant news for cotton | growers. 1 I Old British builders of wooden : ships who said ships made of steel ! would sink in heavy storms would I be interested in the Leviathan's latest trip. She reached New Vork with r.e?" forecastle deck snuu deck itruc; lures badly twisted by a wave said I to be 150 feet high, that dropped j 1.000,000 pounds of water on her ' deck at once. Men build ships that the ocean : cannot sink. Water waves are hca vier than air waves. Airships ; will soon be built that no air wave I will worry. In Seattle a tiny Pomeranian j barked too much. Its owner wanted I the vocal chords removed, reducing \ the bark to a gesture, but humane | societies said "No." Dog Trainer Sandcrlin removed | the bark in two weeks by training, i "Obedience is the secret," says he. i "I taught Darkie (the Pomeranian) j the meaning of the words 'shut up/ " That trainer might make a fori tune in politics. Gerald: "S'omebody took a roll of bills from me today." Geraldine: "But you will have to pay them just the same. I suppose." Jill: "Do you like the revolving ( door?" Bill: "No: you can't slam it when j you're mad." ! 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