Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-03 | Page 4 | A Washington Daybook

A Washington Da DaBy J By HERBERT PLU PLUMMER IER WASHINGTON May 3 3 Char lie he Underhill of Massachusetts a l six six- In the house and a l rather severe Individual when he wants tobe to tobe tobe be is having a big time these days disciplining those freshman Democrats Demo Demo- who he thinks become too impetuous im Em- and loquacious on the floor loor Already he feels he has put two of or them in their place place given given them thema a sound spanking for their freshness which he expects they ar arc not likely to forget forset Underhill bald bespectacled and stern seems to get riled over nothing quite so quickly as when a new member member member mem mem- ber criticises his elders ciders in the house And if it the new member be a Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat crat- crat Freshman Sweeney of ot Ohio was the thc first t to incur the ire of ot Underhill Early in the session Sweeney undertook undertook under under- took look to lecture the house on the way it behaved while legislation was under under un un- un der considerationS consideration S Some mc of you act like perfect gentlemen gentlemen gen gen- he said Others of oC you act like old women liE HE TELLS EM EMA A day or so later laler Underhill proceeded proceeded pro pro- to give Sweeney a lacing for saying saing such things He gave him to understand that a new member should first learn what it is all 11 about before he said such things Sweeney has refrained since from criticising his colleagues I Parker of Georgia is the latest to torun torun run afoul loul of Underhill The Georgian a big man who has spent much of his life lite in the military took teok it upon himself not so long ago agoto agoto agoto to speak his mind about the way ay the country was being run Underhill let him finish before dressing him down But If he was severe with Sweeney he was devastatingly so with Parker His Plis iS sarcasm and ridicule of the new Georgia member was vas such as to infuriate m in in furiate almost any man maci And it did infuriate Parker UNDERHILL SATISFIED When Underhill had finished Parker Parker Parker Par Par- ker arose to say that no Georgian would be dictated to by Massachusetts He lIe referred to an editorial recently recently recently re re- re- re printed in a Georgia Georcia newspaper newspaper I per captioned captioned- To Hell HeJl With Massa Massa- and added that if the theof e rul J of or the house permitted him he woj say the thc same thing to But he didn't t get eel very tar far With that Evidently later to cause him something to have a t 0 ot of heart A few days later change h he ng t these remarks from the he c. c ord and publicly apologized apologised