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Show "SEEN and BEAHD around the NATIONAL (CAPITAL fo Carter Field Washington. Down In South Carolina, where cotton benefit payments pay-ments abound and which Is so regular reg-ular In its Democracy that even the Bishop Cannon movement did not affect it In 192S, there are said to be rumblings against the New Deal. There are enough rumblings to decide Col. William C. Harllee, retired, re-tired, of the Marine corps, to throw his hat In the ring for the senate. And against none other than Senator James F. Byrnes, generally regarded regard-ed as the closest follower President Roosevelt has in the senate, if not in congress. So close, In fact, that until Joe Robinson simply turned himself Into a White House rubber stamp there was very serious talk of making Byrnes leader in his place. Colonel Harllee, who is a graduate grad-uate of West Point but chose the marines instead of the army and has seen service In nearly every martial theater in which the devil dogs burned powder, thinks Byrnes Is too New Deallsh to suit the South Carolina folks. And judging from some newspaper clippings which have come to Washington there are at least a few editors In the Palmetto state who agree. Professor Tugwell seems to be the colonel's chief target, hut he Insists In-sists that he is not a John Itaskob Democrat either just a plain, old-fashioned, old-fashioned, Jeffersoninn, nullifica-tionist, nullifica-tionist, pro-Calhoun and anti-.Iacl;-son, states' rights, low tariff, Democrat. Demo-crat. In fact, he Is not for any tariff at all, sticking strongly by the old nullihcatioulst doctrine, when South Carolina held that the federal government gov-ernment at Washington had no right to rear tariff barriers which would keep foreign goods out of her ports. Some very shrewd observers think that Colonel Harllee Just might make a lot of trouble for the administration's ad-ministration's fair-haired senator. They say that the people who put the money up for Byrnes' campaigns cam-paigns In the past are very disappointed disap-pointed in him. Particularly on his sticking by the administration on the processing taxes, and on his fight for the death sentence in the public utility holding bill. Now They Doubt It just so happens that many of the interests that supported Byrnes In his several races were of the conservative variety. They liked Byrnes, all right, but what they were really anxious to do was to defeat de-feat Cole Please. Now some of them are wondering if Please would not have voted more often in their Interests, as they see them. "What do you think of Senators Byrd and Glass of Virginia?" the writer asked Colonel Harllee. "Especially "Es-pecially of the way they have opposed op-posed the administration on a number num-ber of important measures?" "I wish yon would tell your readers read-ers that I will ont-Byrd Harry and otlt-Glass Carter," grinned the colonel. colo-nel. "A great many of our people are getting tired of this relief thing. They want to get people to work, and find them on relief, buying cheap new cars on time with the relief money, nnd just stepping on the gas. I think Washington Is going go-ing to be surprised nt some of the primaries and elections to come. If the feeling In South Carolina is any Indication." It promises to be rather warm In South Carolina next spring nnd summer ! The Ethiopian Mess Italy will have no difficulty In defeating the Abyssinians in whatever what-ever battles may occur in the a-prnnching a-prnnching war, in the opinion of high military experts both in our own War department and In various vari-ous embassies here. The trouble will come after that, they believe, as they fully expect there will be a constant guerrilla warfare for years during Italian efforts at colonization. col-onization. Hence It Is expected that the Ethiopian mess, which the rest of the world Is so nnxioiis to avert, but Italy Is so determined to push, will prove highly costly to the Italian treasury for many a long day to come. Experts here figure that Italy will have to garrison the country, coun-try, so to speak, with strong forces at strategic points, and this, of , course, will prove expensive. I Confidentially, for no officer dares speak on such a situation for publication, pub-lication, our army officers are com paring the situation to that which existed for a time aTter the Spanish-American war In the Philippines. Philip-pines. They expect Italy to have more trouble than the United States did for several reasons. For example, some of them say. It Is not likely that any Abyssinian Abyssin-ian leafier would walk Into any such trap as clamped Aiuinaldn In American Amer-ican custody. Incidentally, there Is no great pride, even to this day, In our army over that episode. It i smacked a little too much of had faith. Of treachery. Then, too, our military experts do not believe that any one man In Abyssinia means as much to the fighters of that land as Aguinaldo did to the Filipinos. Are Good Fighters But tlie most important distinction distinc-tion of all, no army oiucur would dare, whisper, save on the deepest deep-est pledge of secrecy. But the truth is that our uruiy olhcers do not believe be-lieve the Filipiuos are in the same class with the Abyssinians as lighters, light-ers, either physically, morally or mentally. Opinion here is that .the followers of the King of Kings are pretty tine specimens, capable of great hardships and valor, und that in addition tiiey ure, at least, approaching ap-proaching the fanatic class. Which makes them very difficult to handle. And which promises little in the direction di-rection of their submitting to the inevitable after a few spectacular Italian victories. That there will be these spectacular spec-tacular Italian victories no one here doubts very inueli. opinion is that no such force us that of the Abyssinians, Abys-sinians, no matter bow brave or how well directed, could possibly be a match for tlie well drilled, well equipped army the Italians will send against them. Especially as Mussolini is apparently taking no chances. He is not sending out tlie forlorn hope type of expedition. He is pouring men to the vicinity of the Abyssinian border iu numbers num-bers that have amazed the military mili-tary experts of the remainder of the world. Meanwhile the answer to why nothing happens is simply one thing water. The Italians are waiting for the rainy season. Shaves Hoary Legend Just when the public, for the first time in a generation, had a chance to get a liberal education on the value of seniority in congress con-gress just why the multi-service-striped boys always run the machine ma-chine Cactus Jack Garner comes along and shaves the hoary wals-kered wals-kered legend ! He is appointing conferees on important controversies betweer. the house and senate to suit himself! Or more accurately, to rellect what he regards as the majority view of the senate. There lias been no particular par-ticular protest about this, for In every instance his appointees represented repre-sented tlie majority view. Had It been otherwise, in any instance, a mere motion would have resulted in the senate's naming the conferees con-ferees by vote. Which explains why the senate takes this upsetting upset-ting of an old tradition lying down. Seldom before lias the country had such a vivid picture of how legislation is really settled not on the floors of the house or senate not even In the house or senate committees prior to bringing the measures on the floor but in the conference between the two houses. After the conferees get through, assuming as-suming they ever agree (and the probability Is that conferees will agree on all hills this lime) there Is nothing much for the mere memberships mem-berships of the house nnd senate to do except take It or leave It. And generally, It has always been take it. Will be this time. Normally in the past no discretion discre-tion has been exercised by the presiding pre-siding ollicers in making the selections. selec-tions. Appointments have almost Invariably been made of the ranking members of the committee that handled the bill. Absurd Rule Vice President Garner had tin early illustration of the absurdities this rule sometimes effects. For instance, in-stance, when he was naming conferees con-ferees on the pink slip income tax publicity repeal bill, he named the three ranking Democrats of the senate sen-ate finance committee, Harrison. King and George. Also the two ranking Republicans, Couzens and Keyes. So far strictly according to Hoyle. But Couzens didn't like (he senate's sen-ate's position was not In sympathy sympa-thy with the repeal, as a manor of fact. So he announced bis resignation resigna-tion from tlie floor. Garner at once appointed the next ranking Republican, Repub-lican, I. a Follette. The Wisconsin man shared Couzens' views also resigned. So Garner Appointed the next ranking Republican, Metcalf. Still according to llovle. But there was the Idea, and Garner announced an-nounced he would exercise his own discretion in future. Contrary to some newspaper nc-counts, nc-counts, be has not tried to use this power to impose White House will. It seemed so In the death sentence of the public utility holding company com-pany bill. Put the senate had voted for the death sentence, even If only by a majority of one. So Garner threw seniority to the winds. He appointed Wheeler, the chairman, skipped Smith of South Carolina and Wagner of New York, to pick administration wheel horse liarklev, and then skipped Neely, Dieterich, I.onergan anil Long, to pick Brown of New Hampshire. On the minority side be skipped ranking members Couzens. Metcalf and Hastings, and picked White. Then he Ignored Davis and fucked Shipstcad, who is not a Republican at all. On the TVA bill Garner took the list of conferees from George Nor-ris, Nor-ris, daddy of Muscle Shoals. Put on the banking bill he permltter Carter Glass to name the conferees. Coi'ri;h WNU Scrvico. |