THE CONGRESS: Prevailing Sentiment

The U. S. Senate is an assortment of 96 statesmen and timeservers, wise men and fools, honest men and hypocrites, hardy-hearts and lily-livers, but the collective assortment has one distinguishing characteristic: it goes its own way and makes public life hard for every President. For the greater part of the past two years the Senate has not been true to character. Last week, however, the Senate was again the Senate.

Most striking evidence of this return to form was the behavior of Senator Wagner of New York. Twenty-five years ago Robert Wagner, son...

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