| Show STEWART AND POWELL It would have been disgraceful of course if Senators STEWAKT andRcAGAX had come to blows on Wednesday The former is nearly sixtythree years of age and the Texan will be seventytwo at his next birthday Men pf that age whatever their position in life ought not to fight and if they arc Senators the suggestion of a probability prob-ability of engaging in a fisticuff is degrading degrad-ing At the same time it would have served STEWART right if in the familiar language of his own state REAGAX had knocked the stuffin out of him It is simply shameful the manner in which the Nevada Senator has assaulted Major POWELL On the floor of tho Senate in tho press through carefully prepared interviews and in private conversation STETVAHT has assailed and maligned the energetic director of the geological survey He has charged Major POWELL with in competency accused him of willfully di vertintr appropriations charged him with rank and almost criminal favoritism and made the man out to bo a knave who ought not to be permitted to run at large much less be intrusted with public funds POWELL during all these attacks has been jn a sense powerless to defend himself He was compelled to submit to the abuse of his privileged assailant Even after it had been shown 6y books and over tho signature signa-ture of a cabinet secretary that POWELL had performed his duty faithfully had not gone outside the path marked out by the law and had diverted not a dollar of any appropriation intrusted to him but had expended the money precisely as Congress had said he must expend it STEWART was not content and went on with his vindictive abuse and malicious assaults as-saults He was after POWELLS scalp and it is believed wanted the place for a certain pet of his own who knows better how to get himself talked about in the newspapers than he does to perform the important duties du-ties attending to the office so long and so successfully held by Major POWELL THE HERALD has been following STEW ARTS mean and wicked fight against POWELL from the first and has been unable un-able to discover any element of justification in the Senators course STEWARTS conduct con-duct has been that of a bulldozer who would hesitate at nothing to carry his point We are heartily glad that he has been defeated and would not have grieved if REAGAN had put him down and sat on him although the Texan weighs SCO pounds and over |
