Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-12-20 | Page 4 | Sunny Smiles on Lame Duck Countenances

Sunny Smiles On Lame Duck Countenances By HERBERT PLU PLUMMER lI IER V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 20 20 If If any of those hundreds lucky enough to get geta a seat in either senate or house gal gal- cries on the opening day of at the lame duck session expected to see woebegone woebegone woe- woe expressions on the faces laces of last ast November casualties they went away disappointed They were conspicuously absent If the timers old even cven those who have spent virtually their whole Careers careers careers ca ca- on the hill are downcast at the drubbing they received a month or so ago they manage to conceal it very well wen indeed Jim Watson of Indiana for tor instance on opening day perhaps never lived more nore up to his title of ot Sunny Jim He le was one of the first to arrive on the senate floor and the typical Vat Wat sla back-sla p p ping i ng a and n d shoulder draping had lost none of ot its ferver erver Watson took the few tew sly jibes at him lim in the best of ot humor and returned re re- turned them in the Same same fashion Reed Smoot of Utah dean of the senate habitually serious and long long- faced seemed more ch cheerful er ul than usuaL These are the last days of something close to 30 years on the thc hill for Smoot Smoot roamed the floor before the vice presidents president's gavel fell opening the he session cordially shaking hands with his hIg colleagues and exchanging pleasantries Vice President Curtis humorously dubbed by some colleagues the lamest duck of them all because they hey explain he was retired by the whole country instead of a state or congressional district was in good form He is presiding over what in aU all probability be his hip last congress congress- participating in m his last session of the senate in any form He met all aU with a smile found timeto timeo time to o chuckle a bit at the humor of old frIends In the house the kidding was a bit more more severe and open but everybody seemed to have a good time The congressmen con con- gressmen for one thing were so interested in in- in that vote on prohibition which was to come later to think of at much else But they did do a little joshing in natured good-natured fashion at their more unfortunate brethren as they milled around before the gavel felL