Show 30 Years a Senator Pat Harrison Looks Lazy but Hes He's Real Fight By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON M March a r c h 4 marked eight years In the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House for President Roosevelt but that's a short time compared with the records of continuous government service it marked for a group of congressmen Adolph J. J Sabath of Chicago completing 34 years Robert L. L Doughton of Laurel Springs N. N C. C 30 years Clarence F. F Lea of Santa Rosa Cal Cat 24 years Hiram W. W Johnson of San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco 25 years Pat Harrison of Gulfport Miss 30 years To mention a few Its It's a good life if life if you can get reelected No wonder they work for lor these jobs build fences back home so they can return to Washington in spite of all the battles the grief the arguments the demands of job seekers the boys to take care of the crackpots crackpots crackpots crack crack- pots the delegations the lobbyIsts lobbyists lobbyists lobby lobby- the people they have to be benice benice benice nice to Enough to drive most people nuts Yet the man born to be a congressman congressman congressman con con- gressman loves it Hell He'll fight like hell with some opponent on the floor They'll call each other names and question their mo mo- tives You'd think they'd stay mad forever Yet when the debate debate debate de de- de- de bate is over they'll slap each other on the back in the cloak cloakrooms cloakrooms cloakrooms rooms and talk about their lovely lovely lovely love love- ly fight Light They dont don't stay mad long Maybe that's why they like the work TROUBLES TROUBLE'S A BUB BUBBLE LE AFTER AFFER A WHILE Take the case of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi Hes He's 60 Half his life has been spent in Washington There are six men who have been in the senate longer than he but today Pat Patis is president pro tempore and whenever Vice President Wallace Wallace Wallace Wal Wal- lace is away Pat rules the roost Also hes he's chairman of the fi finance finance finance fi- fi nance committee and a member of the foreign affairs and rules committees That gives him enough to do Yet troubles roll off his big pink bald head off the fringe of gray hair off the big rounded shoulders and leave him outwardly outwardly out out- unperturbed As he sits slouched in his chair on the senate senate sen Zen ate floor or in his office vest open hands clasped over his paunch wide-eyed wide speak slow ing utterly relaxed even lazy- lazy looking you'd oud think he didn't have a care in the world Mass Massat at rest Two hundred pounds six feet two even when he stands stoop shouldered He takes secret pride though in being known as the Mississippi fox And in his early years in inthe inthe inthe the senate he liked to be called the Mississippi gadfly Buzzin round people fixin things and poli poll tics A He has had so many fights he cant can't remember them all The battle over the Hull reciprocal trade agreements was the most bitter His battle against Barkley Barkley Bark- Bark ley Icy for senate leadership the most intense His feud with his fellow Mississippian Senator Bilbo Bilbo Bilbo Bil Bil- Bil- Bil bo the longest That began when Harrison supported for federal appointment appointment appoint- appoint ment a state judge who had once put Bilbo in jail for 10 days for contempt of court The fight lasted six years It cost Harrison the leadership for Bilbo Bilbo Bilbo Bil Bil- bo threw his vote to Barkley who won von 38 to 37 The breach was healed only a year ago when the two men met by accident in inan inan inan an elevator and shook hands This year Bilbo seconded the nomination of Harrison for presidency of the senate and the ax was buried WHEN A SENATOR SHEDS HIS IllS TOGA They get relief from this war of nerves in the same way as other people Golf Pat once won 73 in a foursome at a dollar a hole with side bets and was told Senator Senator Sena tor tar you OU ought to earn your livIng living liv liv- ing some other way than by playing golf Baseball Hes He's a Washington fan He was considered for baseball baseball baseball base base- ball commissioner when Landis r v Pat Harrison got the job The little finger fineu his right hand has the but baser break which he got as a apro se Ie pro pitcher Too old for those things n nr when he wants real relief relict he beg g t to the movies and weeps I 0 the sentimentality of a sw SWat River which he saw three t tie III He goes home to a house third Forty-third street to the o I who was his star pupil when taught school at Leaked Miss She calls him Patto which is his real nam name name-Bw Patton Harrison The Pat assumed to win Irish votes a it has stuck Congressmen get called o of things besides their They change their min minds or orth tho tb positions and that brings na nan nai calling Harrison voted for term measure in t Coolidge days days but but he support Roosevelt He was a whIp when he flayed extravagance the Hoover administration b i he supports many new deal e I because of their theirs i cial benefits He lIe still for economy and for tax rell relland l land and and is called the friend of ot I business FUNNIEST TIlING THING V i IN SENATE HISTORY The funniest thing that e ei happened in the senate u ii Senator Harrison came cane delthe dun del the depression I IA IA A senator now dead rose present a bill for the relief relie I Ia a constituent The senator h hr hi self had been pretty prelly hard hit hl the measure was presented III af l full sympathy He reached in ml i 1 pocket for the paper and wit all out looking at it handed It the page boy He took it to t Ii reading clerk who wIo read everything that was hated hated hat hated ed to him which in this case cases casesa a telegram from the senate senator own bank j j For lack sufficient marjii martt necessary foreclose your BIN soi selling collateral at preset preen market value The senator let out a yel eU II an dived to retrieve the wire ff wh gallery and floor roared 1 |