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Show I SENATORS ARE CHIDED Public Welfare Above Importance of a Few Individuals Washington. Ian I ,r. S.nafoi M Lean ol Connecticut, speaking- jester-day jester-day on a bill to provide protection for migratory birds, rhlded bis colleagues for delay on pending legislation, saying say-ing the people were not so much Interested In-terested in the "time honored consideration consid-eration of the importance 01 senators as In securing timely action for public pub-lic welfare." "I consider Senator Bailey's recent defense of our representative system of government one of the best ver mad," he said, 'ibul throoch It all there ran in my mind this question. If the ssiem Is faultless, why do so man honest and able men find fault with It" If the svstem Is sound, why does It fall to satisfy'' Mas the representative rep-resentative system failed, or have ire ftlled to understand how to applj if The people understand that congress con-gress Is a mill to which more chaff It brought than grain, but they don't expect the mill to stop on account of the cbafi " A resolution to direct President Taft to ask foreign uatlons to join in a treaty to protect migratory birds was introduced by Representative! Burke after Mi McLean's speech |