Show I I t- t 4 f 4 t tt LIFE SENATORS I t t t t I I M 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 4 M I 4 I 44 4 t The Phi Philadelphia Inquirer belongs to the section of the press which believes in the movement to make Presidents ex-Presidents life members of the Senate It says This is not n t a question of pensions It It Itis is isone isone isone better betterin informed informed in in- one of merit A President is naturally formed on all public matters than is a Senator or a Representative His services in committee and inthe inthe in inthe S S SAs the Senate would be worth securing As we have remarked hith hitherto the plan if put into operation would not cost a great deal a as things go in the th legislation of the present day d da t. t There are bardl hardy hardly ever eier more than two or three cx- cx Presidents living liying at the same time The labors and u 1 anxieties of the Executive office largely due aue to o seekers office ers and politicians with impecunious rel relatives el s to provide for always assure that And the then how bow pleased it would make the few old veterans who might be surviving at any time to s sit t together in the historic chamber and exchange mendacities about the days when they were the aggregated It How happy Andrew Johnson and General Grant would have been leen in such association and what bat a lively time there would have been when de jure President ex Tilden should have haye contested the seat sett se t of de facto President ex-President Hayes The scheme is too full of merit to be treated lightly But nut it would seem to involve indifference to our noble and self immolating Vice Presidents which we fear will condemn it in the minds of right- right p people p e. e If ex Presidents ex-Presidents ar arp to be billeted on on the Upper House shou should d not Vice ex Presidents get a show in the l lower one There are not pot apy any more of the one than the other class ut uta t ta a time time timet at t least not enough more to make a difference difference difference differ differ- S S ence in principle |