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Show Wisecracks Come Back to Plague Maryland Solon By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Feb. s Th youthful youth-ful and exuberant Millard Typings of Maryland has qualified for membership member-ship in that group in the senate whose sharp tongues and witty cracks made in unguarded moment return later to plague them, George Moses of New Hsmpahlre is one of them. His description of progressive Republicans as "sons of the wild Jackass" to mention only one of his celebrated cracks made him a charter member. And now comes Tydinga with his declaration that if he couldn't vote hia sentiment!, "then to bell with thia job." It will be a long time before he is allowed to forget that. They're ribbing him about it in great fashion now. He could hardly have hoped to escape being taken for a ride by Republicans Re-publicans on that statement. It ceme while he was debating his own proposal pro-posal to cut a half billion dollars from federal appropriations In an effort to help balance the budget The next morning, following a Democratic Dem-ocratic caucus on the question, Tyd-' Tyd-' Ings arose In the senste and requested permission to withdraw hi resolution on the subject The senste agreed, but not before the Republicans put him on the spot for his crack. What tickled the Republicans the most was that Tydings' remark on the floor did not appear in the Cengres-sional Cengres-sional Record as he made It What the Record quoted him a saying was: "If we cannot vote reasonably our own sentiments, then who wants the position?" Vsndenberg and Bingham were the Republicans who rode him hsrdeat Vandenberg , expressed dissppolnt-s dissppolnt-s ment that he couldn't find the state-' state-' ment la the Record. Then, as the sen-' sen-' ate chuckled and Tydings blushed, he ' read it from a newspeper. Binghsm then arose with a copy I of the Record in his hand. He ia-1 ia-1 vlted the senate to turn to page J 884 end in a grandiose manner declaimed: ' "It we cennot vote reasonably our 1 own sentiments . . ." He paused for a moment, looked up t sppeelingly, then In a voice scarcely ! audible concluded ". . . who wants the i Job?" The senste and galleries roared and Tydings with them. I There's no bigger sucker Job In the . world than being angel to a political . party. Ogden U Mills, retiring sec-, sec-, retary of the treasury. |