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Show Merry-Co-Round By DREW PEARSON ano ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON The last time Senator Robinson Rob-inson saw the leader for whom he fought was on Sunday, three days before he died. Robinson had spent the entire day down the Potomac, indulging in his favorite pastime fishing. He had gone oui in a small boat with Leslie Biffle, secretary to the senate majority, and with Russell Arundel, former secretary to ex-Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island. Senator Robinson was a really expert fisherman. fish-erman. It was not a question of luck with him. If there were fish to be had anywhere around him, he got them. And on this particular Sunday, Sun-day, his last day of fishing, he hauled them in almost as fast as they could bite. He caught about a hundred Norfolk spots, throwing the hardheads back into the water. . Roosevelt, who also prides himself on be-Jng be-Jng a good fisherman, always keeps the hard-heads, which are easy to catch, and brings them back to the White House. Senator Robinson fished all day. The sun was hot, but he appeared to be having a wonderful won-derful time. His spirits were at their highest. They were especially high when, at the close of the day, he saw Roosevelt's yacht, the Potomac, Poto-mac, sail by. And from his small boat, the senator looked up at the chief whom he served and remarked: l a bet ne s got nothing on Doara dui nara-heads." nara-heads." - New Senate Leader Senator ,Alben Berkley, who in all probability proba-bility will succeed Joe Robinson as majority floor leader of the senate, would be the first sympathetic new dealer Roosevelt has had in that position. Joe Robinson was a good soldier and died fighting, even though he did not always have his heart in the fight But Barkley has had his heart in the fight since before the days of Roosevelt He already had a 100 per cent liberal voting record when Roosevelt cam to Washington. And when he ran for governor of Kentucky, in 1923, he waa bitterly opposed by the horse-racing crowd, which, in Kentucky, is synonymous with big business. They defeated him. But when he ran for the senate in 1926. they got behind him for the sole and simple reason of keeping him out of the state. Sharp Tonga However, Barkley' greatest asset is that he Is an excellent parliamentary scrapper. He does not go berserk, as Joe Robinson did on occasion. occa-sion. He thinks on his feet as fsst as lightning, light-ning, and was the only senator who could knock tha ears off the late Huey Long. One day Huey was holding forth about the fact that he had had only a fourth grade education, edu-cation, when he was interrupted by the senator sena-tor from Kentucky, who innocently inquired: "Did the senator ever study music?" "A little," replied Huey modestly. "Then suppose," shot back Barkley, "the senator sen-ator sings for us a little." Or again, when Senator Tydings of Mary-' Mary-' land was demanding a processing tax on shoddy, Senstor Barkley interrupted with: "The senator ought to know something about shoddy, since that is something on which he is an expert" ehoddy being, according to Webster, "an unfit person or thing claiming superiority." su-periority." Note According to-Berkley's wife: "He doesn't mind being a grandfather, but he hates like the devil to be married to a grandmother." Congressional Wives There is on potent 'reason why the present session of congress may come to an earlier close than was anticipated. It is congressional wives. Every wife of a senator over 55 years old is now dinning him to close the session and get home, before the same thing happens to him which happened to Senator Robinson. Undercover Attack A piece of evidence has fallen Into administration admin-istration hands indicating that despite William Green's public indorsement of the wage-hour regulation bill, his henchmen secretly are against it It consists of a letter written by Representative Represen-tative E. E Cox, bitter antilabor Georgian, to George L. Googe, chief A. F. of L. organizer in the south and Green's personal choice to combat com-bat C. L O. organization of southern textile workers. In his letter. Cox acknowledged receipt of a telegram from Googe "expressing opposition opposi-tion to the wage-hour bill," but warns him that the bill will be passed by the house. "I .am strongly opposed to the measure," Cox wrote, "but it comes with administration approval and, in my judgment, ia certain to be put through the house.... I think we might aa well prepare ourselves for this legislation, as objectionable as it is. It is my idea that it will be put through in such form as to make it certain cer-tain the court will hold it unconstitutional." Adminisration leaders plan to use the document doc-ument to induce Green to crack down on his lieutenants; also as an argument showing the need for additions to the supreme court in order to insure the validity of the legislation. .ICafrrlfal. 3T, by t'aiua reaura eyaeKau, lacjt d |