Show 7 Z St t 9 ion wn S HI t Y CH EIt I AUK ARE SY r W I IN IX CONGRESS ny y MILES CH-MILES P H SF NEA Sen Ice Writer llIe WASHINGTON Jan There 22 22 really rally are too many lawyers lawyer In ress Congress The senate debate over the thc ques- ques question que I lion tion of Gerald P Nyes Nye's Ny yes ye's title to a seat eat In the upper house brought title out as It hasn't been emphasized emphasized sized In a long Ion time though time though Nye I Idid did win In n the end I IThe The thing lIs was ono one on long wrangle over legal leri quibbles quibble It If wasn't alii all pure politics politic either cither The The divisIon I was not nat much along alone party lines line It was as disagreement a I between law law- lawyers lawyer yer To th the th-o In lay mind the proposition J ropo seemed simple e ough Governor o 0 ot North Dako Dakota ta to appointed Ny Nye e to th the fill acan vacancy vacancy cy ey cau caused ed by Senator death next election Now ow three men dY I I pled pied renate seats at by ap appointment tinder similar circumstances w the Ny Ny Nys dispute William Wililam M Butler of Massachusetts George H Williams of oJ Missouri and Arthur R H Robinson Robinson n of ot In- In Indiana Indiana In Indiana diana It looked as It the governor of North Dakota to have hav as asgood rood good a right to till tOl a senate mate vacancy vacancy cy temporarily by appointment as anth the governors of MissourI and Indiana Its It's If tru true that the th state elate late law has hasto hasto hasto to authorize the governor to make mak such uch an n appointment or he cant can't make It But Dut the th North Dakota law does doe authorize It Its It's Its Ifs In the thestal th stal slate tata constitution con Uon But 64 4 of ot the senates senate's enate 96 mem mem- members member berg bers ber are lawyers lawyer and they got Into a 0 technical squabble quibble which they argued quite meaninglessly to a legally untrained intellect to Intellect to the tune p of about 10 no pages pace In the Congressional Record As A compared with with the law law- look what a ml miserable erable showing other lines of human endeavor make mak In Inthe inthe Inthe the senate i for Instance there ther are only nine farmer senators That Is eena- eena torl ena i tors whose who main maln business Is I farm farm- farmIng farming farm Ing And It Includes both regular dirt farmers and cattle men That's a 1 pretty retty poor second Then there are arc six elx editors and publishers and five bankers banken counting Senator Smoot who's also a manufacturer l I turere tie with bankers unless s s you count Smoot among amont them instead or of as al a a banker In which co caso cohere there here are arf six tying with editors and publishers publisher Senator lOess fees as an educator rather than as ft R lawyer la there thero are arc two senatorial teachers Senator Ferris being the other one OC or the balance theres there's there only one of each ch kind Senator Bingham Bineham an explorer end nd writer Senator tead n a dentist Senator Rowell a civil engineer Senator Copeland a physician Senator Pine Pin an oil operator Senator Norbeck who drills wells And finally young yount oung Bob Dob La LaFot Fol- Fol Follette lette whoa who's who d difficult to classify Speaking of senators Senator T Thomas F n Bayard pard of Delaware has something to brag of that nobody else In the United d Stat has ha- ha haIll Ills Ill father hi hl grandfather r his Ireat great and his hi Great great- creat gran great grandfather all were senators from Delaware before betor him |