Eulogies and Expense

Morris Sheppard of Texarcana, Tex., is, as he says, "Sovereign Banker, or National Treasurer" of the Woodmen of the World, "the second largest fraternal insurance order in the United States." He is also Senator from Texas and a Democrat of the school which clings tenaciously to the policies of Woodrow Wilson. At the first meeting olf Congress this year he rose and: said: "The recent recess of Congress was marked by the 67th birthday of Woodrow Wilson. I regard it a fitting notice of; that event to discuss at this time the origin, status and principal achievements of the League of Nations, of which Woodrow Wilson was in larger degree the author than was any other man."

Thereupon he launched into extended praises of the former President's work, and--although several Republicans absented themselves from the chamber-- he was heard.

It was not the same, however, when a Republican Senator strove to promulgate the praises of President Coolidge. Senator Spencer, Republican, of Missouri, asked unanimous assent to have printed in the record a magazine article entitled The Scientific Political Training of Calvin Coolidge.

Senator Moses, Republican, of New Hampshire, a supporter of Coolidge, but Chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing which supervises the official printing.expenses, said: "I object."

Senator Spencer: "Very well, then, if the Senator from New Hampshire objects, I shall read the article."

Senator Moses: "You won't read it to me. I shall go out."

Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Arkansas : "I wish the Senator from Missouri would speak a little more distinctly. . . . Did the Senator say The Scientific Political Training of Calvin Coolidge' or The Scientific Politcal Trading of Calvin Coolidge'?"

Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas: "Is the article a romance?"

Senator Spencer: "It is a presentation of solid, substantial facts, which I am sure the Senators would be glad to hear."

Nevertheless, the Senators did not hear the article nor was it printed.