Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-13 | Page 3 | Dawes Digs up Ancient Rules

DA DAES DIGS oms UP i I ANCIENT RUl RULES I Enforces Courtesy to Chair on Part of Solons While Speaking WASHINGTON March larch 13 AP Whether to remind the senate of his view that Its rules are archaic or for other reasons Vice President Dawes digs up a rule now and then that even the eldest of f the elder statesmen seems to have forgotten was In the book The latest he has invoked Is that requiring senators to face the chair when speaking He enforced that one yesterday when Senator Watson Watson Watson Wat Wat- son of ot Indiana one of the Republican Republican Republican lican wheel horses was Interrogating ing Senator l Fess ess Republican ican of Ohio who was in a row far behind the Indiana senator WATSON ANNOYED Im against that rule shouted Senator Watson Vatson but the vice pl president SI- SI dent smiling broadly the while In Insisted insisted in- in alsted on its observance Only a day or two ago during a heated prohibition discussion General General General Gen Gen- eral Dawes with vigorous use of ot othis his handless gavel enforced another another another an an- other rule which some senators senator contended didn't mean what he thought It meant Senator Reed Dem Democrat crat 0 of ot MisSouri Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- one of those foremost In op opposing opposing opposing op- op posing the vice president in his campaign for reform of ot the senate sen senate sen- sen ate rules was particularly Insistent In this Instance but for tor this once at least Mr Dawes had the last word and the rule was Invoked RAPID FIRE OFFICER These are not the only evidences that the man who made Hell aMaria an anI Maria famous is developing Into a rapid fire presiding officer He frequently fre ftc takes the senate through the the morning hour for tor the Introduction Introduction introduction Intro intro- of bills resolutions petitions petitions peti peti- and the like with a rapidity that leaves senators fairly gasping And every once orice in a awhile while when unanimous us consent Is given for the consideration of a measure the vice ice president has put it through Its various parliamentary stages to Its passage with such celerity that frequently the author is uncertaIn uncertain un un- un- un certain as to what has happened Its It's all aU a somewhat new experIence experience experience ence to the senate but to which that heretofore leisurely body appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears to be adjusting Itself momentarily momentarily mo mo- at least