Puss-in-Corner

As the Senate prepared to reconvene, Republican members were poised for a hard game of puss-in-corner. The corner: a Finance Committee seat vacated by Walter Evans Edge, now Ambassador to France. Pusses: young Senator Robert Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, old Senator Guy Despard Goff of West Virginia.

The fleet-footed, Peter-Panic La Follette was ready to dash for this corner because Old Guardsmen control the Finance Committee to the exclusion of all Progressives. On the basis of seniority (length of Senate service) he had seemed sure of edging into the Finance Committee corner. But Old Guardsmen, alarmed, commenced beckoning the loose-jowled, slow-stepping Goff, Republican regular. They wanted him to run for the Finance Committee corner to head off bold Puss La Follette, over whom he has a technical advantage of seven months seniority. But Puss Goff was reluctant to obey the party summons because to do so would leave his cozy corner on the Interstate Commerce Committee open to capture by Puss La Follette. It is from his Interstate Commerce Committee corner that Puss Goff watches over legislation important to West Virginia's coal trade.

The game of shifting committee places for Republican Senators threatened to become rougher than child's play. Puss La Follette had the solid support of the G. O. Progressives. Regular Republican Senators were ready to shove Puss Goff from one corner to the other at any hazard. Democrats were spoiling to join the scramble on the Senate floor. In the meantime all other committee assignments were held in abeyance.

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