Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-22 | Page 15 | Buffer in Cabinet Plan of Marshall

BUFFER IN CABINET PLAN OF MARSHALL I i Vice P Pate President ent Urges Senate Sen Sen- Sen-I Sen ate Aid to President I KANSAS City Mc Me v 20 With a bitof bit bitof bitof of the humor that has bas long characterized him Thomas R. R Marshall about to quit of office rIce as vice president urged support of any Institution which will serve nerve as a buffer between the president and senate sen sen- ate That bueter buffer he said should by no means be the vice rice president but rather the floor I leader of the majority party w wilo who o should sit with the cabinet and bo be equipped d to parry the blows of both the minority and the majority Only experience gave me my perspective perspective per per- of tho the office of vice president Mr lIr Marshall said 1 I early recognized that It had bad no power but that It had possibilities From the political standpoint I 1 consider it to that of oC a pinch hitter In so far as the vice president can ascertain what the he political views of oC his chief are I 1 have conceived it to be his duty when called upon to address the public public pub pub- lic to voice as nearly as he can the views of his chief If It I have failed In tn this it has been more a matter of stupidity than of ot deliberate Intention No vice president will ever over find any satisfaction of soul in turning his room into a cave of where all those who may be discontented with the administration administration administration ad ad- ministration may seek seck to set up a counter counter counter coun coun- ter court There has baa been of old a contest between between between be be- tween the executive and legislative branches of ot government In crisis this grows acute Dissatisfied senators do not hesitate to call the president an autocrat autocrat autocrat auto auto- crat and the president does not hesitate to believe the an oligarchy I approve of President Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's conduct in not having called meto me meto meto to sit with his cabinet I dont don't believe that the minority party In the senate will do than look with suspicion ona on ona ona a vice president who does docs sit In the cab cab- inet His conduct will be subjected to suspicion and misrepresentation and that without any power on his part to explain Content as I am with the treatment that has been accorded me mo both by he and the senate it may be deemed a bit of Impertinence for me to suggest any reform In the Looking I toward the success of any administration however I should say it would be better betterto to have the floor leader of the majority party sit with the cabinet and then be equipped to parry the blows of ot the mi mi- The theory that the vice president should know the purposes of his chief In order to carry carryon on his work should the calamity of death exalt him does not appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal to IncI meI mer me Inc I r have learned as a lawyer that free tree advice usually profits neither the advisor nor the advised The utmost I can hope for my successor is that the people will willbe willbe willbe be as kind to forget hi and as generous to his conduct as to mine Nothing gives me a moments moment's worry save this question Is there any place In American life where a man who has served eight years as vice president cando can cando cando do as little as the vice president does and get a better salary than the vice president president dent If It some charitably disposed will answer this question the worry of ot my life will have been dissipated and I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall go down Capitol Hill genially grinning grinning grinning grin grin- ning toward that oblivion from whence novice no novice novice vice president ever emerged