Show SE aan 2720 ramal senatorial DIGNITY vice president dawes lectured the united states senators at his first appearance as presiding officer very much like a school teacher would lecture her pupils right eight or wrong the senatorial dignity was very much perturbed it must have been a distinct shock to the finer sensibilities of the senators who have gloried in their prerogatives tives so ion long D without anyone having the temerity to question them the country recognizes that the senate is a deliberative body that it was created as a check upon the more or less impulsive lower house of congress but it likewise knows when the senate takes its exalted position too seriously vice president dawes said the system of rules if unchanged can not but lessen the effectiveness prestige 1 I and dignity of the united states senate in that he is entirely right when one senator who may not have the purest motives is able to prevent legislation for which there is isan an actual need and a great demand there is something seriously wrong with the senate machinery |