14868 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 8, 1981 SENATE-Wednesday, July 8, 1981 The Senate met at 12 noon, and was Court Justice William Rehnquist was "A Brainy Perfectionist Who 'Loves to called to order by the President pro tem first. Work,'" with two separate articles on pore (Mr. THURMOND). Judge O'Connor married John Jay that. O'Connor 3d, one of her law school class There being no objection, the articles PRAYER mates. Mr. O'Connor practices law at one were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard of Arizona's top law firms. They have as follows: C. Halverson, LL.D., D.D., offered the three sons. WOMAN JUSTICE SPARKS DEBATE! O'CONNOR following prayer: After her graduation, Judge O'Connor ls ATTACKED OVER ERA, ABORTION spent 6 years in private practice in Ari (By Roberta Hornig and Allan Dodds Frank) Let us pray. zona before becoming that State's assist maAyl mthieg hcteyl eGbroadt,i oLno ordf ooufr aNlla t1tihoen 'sE bairrtthh, awnats aatptopronienyte gde ntoe rafill li na 1s9l6o5t. Iinn 1t9h6e9 ,A srhie PGreOsLiDdWeAnTtE RR eVaOgWaSn 'sF IGchHoTi cFeO Ro f NSOaMnINdrEaE D. O'Connor to fill a Supreme Cour·t vacancy not have been perfunctory and easily for zona Senate and subsequently won elec was given a cool rec6ption by some conserva gotten. We were reminded of our roots: tion for two full terms, culminating in tives in the Senate, but Barry Goldwater "We hold these truths to be self-evident, her election as majority leader of that ·who claims to be the chamber's most con that all men are created equal, ithat they body. In 1974, Judge O'Connor ran for servative member-vowed to battle any op are endowed by their Creator with cer Superior Court Judge in Maricopa Coun position to the nomination. tain inalienable rights ..." Teach us to ty and was appointed to Arizona's sec Liberals and moderates generally praised take seriously our spiritual roots, for ond-highest court, the court of appeals. the selection of the judge from Goldwater's without a Creator-God there are no in I applaud the characteristically forth home state of Arizona yesterday. alienable rights, and to refuse Thee is right statements of the distinguished Goldwater, in an interview, excoriated the to forfeit our rights. Forgive us, O God, Senator from Arizona rry and Ada Mae Day to take their marks today, as part of my continuing nities were allowed, and she wanted to give female students equal opportunity. three children to church. series of addresses on the history of t}lP Her friends also say that she personally "We have a good moral life," Mrs. Day United States Senate. has a strongly "pro-family" philosophy. said. "We raised our three children that In my last address, I discussed the They cite a homily she gave at the wedding way." Senate during the era of Thomas Jeffer of two people whom she had introduced, in Alan Day, Judge O'Connor's brother and son, concluding with the election of his which she said that "marriage is the single now the Lazy B manager, told The Star yes successor, James Madison. On January mpeoosptl ei minp olorvtae n.t. .e.v eMnta rirnia gteh eis ltihvees foouf ntdwao tweerdrea ys ethnat t bhye tahnerli rh ipsa trweno tssi sttoe rsv ifsriet~ ufa0mnti.llyy 23, 1808, Madison was chosen as his tion of the family, mankind's basic unit of friends in El Paso, Los Ano:eles. Phoenix and party's presidential candidate by a Re society, the hope of the world, and the other cities for a month or more to gain ex publican congressional caucus. According strength of our country." posure of life away from the ranch. to the diary of John Quincy Adams, who In the state senate, she has been identi Day said that the children attenf1ed what was then a Senator from Massachusetts, fied with a number of "good government" ever church the family friends visited. He it was Vermont Senator Stephen Bradley issues--.sponsoring bills to make it more dif said there wes no p3rtlcular de11ominat.ional who called the caucus together. Bradley cult to commit persons to mental institu focus, but that more often than not the claimed to have received authority to call tions, to use gasoline tax funds to pay for churches were Eois-::ooal. such a conclave by the Republican caucus bike paths, to broaden the state's open "We always had friends from all walks meetings law, to codify state anti-trust law of life." four years earlier, and so he sent circ into a uniform code, to adopt a no-fault Mr. O'Connor declined to comment about ulars announcing the meeting to all Re divorce law, to restrict child labor, and to his family's religious practices. He is Cath publ: can members of the House and oppose residency requirements for welfare. olic, however. and the three O'Connor boys Senate. In fact, because party lines were In addition, she sponsored a blll to pro attended a Catholic prep school in Phoenix so indistinct in those days, he sent vide for merit selection of judges, a practice before going to college. notices to all but five members of the that has now become law in Arizona, where With her brother, sister and parents, the Senate and twenty-two members of the judges once stood for election. On the Supreme Court, she wlll jo'1n an judge owns the 101-year-old Lazy B, a vast House, excluding them only on the old friend, Willlam H. Rehnquist. Both were agglomeration of federal and state land grounds that they "have never been in le.:rnes in the bi12'h desert built around water academic leaders in the 1952 class at the the habit of acting with us." Madison holes. She handles the legal work for the Stanford University Law School and were ranch, her sister Ann hel"s with the book won by a vote of 83 to 6, indicating his editors of the Stanford Law Review. k.eeping and Alan is the head. cowboy and strong popularity with congressional The O'Connors and the Rehnquists re manager. Republicans. However, this margin is mained friendly while practicing law in Phoenix and frequently visited each other. Her family came to Arizona from Kansas somewhat deceiving, since some sixty The Rehnquists once took Sandra O'Con and Vermont, and o'otained land around supporters of James Monroe of Virginia nor's mother, then in her 60s, on a pack trip waterholes from homesteaders and from and George Clinton of New York boy through the Gila wilderness in southeastern Apache Indians. Tbe ranch covers an area cotted the caucus. One who boldly at Arizona. more th·an four times the 61 square miles of tended the caucus and paid the price for land area in the District of Columbia, and Judge O'Connor is acquainted with, and it was Senator John Quincy Adams, son was once roamed by Geronimo and Cochise. close to, most of the state's political leaders, of former President John Adams whom Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater has been Alan Day said that O'Connor visits the Jefferson had defeated for the presidency one of her strongest boosters. He said yes ranch "three or four times a year. She likes terday that he has consulted her from time to come over when we're rounding up and in 1800. The younger Adams' conversion to time for advice about constitutional ride with us for a day." to republicanism cost him his Senate seat issues. Mr. O'Connor said that he and his wife that year when the Massachusetts legis She got to know Sen. Dennis DeConcini do not ride horses for recreation frequently. lature, outraged over Jefferson's Em D-Ariz., in the mid-1960s when she worked He explained that "when you're on a ranch, bargo, elected James Lloyd over Adams. 14872 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 8, 1981 President Jefferson, however, repaid his lengthier speeches, more heated debate, tion between boarding house residency political debt to Adams by appointing and a willingness to take up a far greater and patterns of voting in the Senate and him minister to Russia.1 range of subjects. le edifice in which Erie, but their attack against Fort stone." 25 The interior of the Capitol was it was deposited. Plattsburg on Lake Champlain proved totally destroyed and the exterior was To replace the burned copies o.f the a complete failure. As a diversionary saved only by a fierce thunder storm Library, Jefferson offered his own mag tactic, to reduce pressure on the Cana and heavy wind-of the type we so often nificent collection, which he had spent dian front, the British launched a force experience during Washington sum fifty years putting together, having of 4,000 men to attack the mid-Atlantic mers. As we know. the British also de "spared no pains, opportunity, or ex seacoast, and the city of Washington stroyed the White House, forcing Presi pense, to make it what it is now." Jeffer became their prime target. In mid-August 1814, the British fleet dmeonstt Mofa dtihseo nW toh itfele eH otou sVe iragritn iaan. dW fhuilre spoonli'tsi clsi,b rhair.svto cryo,n tsaciinenedce 6, .4la8w7 , vloi1t1e1rmaetus roef, sailed into the Chesapeake Bay to the mouth of the Patuxent River. British nishings were destroyed, Dolley Madison fine arts, and philosophy. It is somewhat did order the staff to save the Gilbert stunning to read that some members of troops disembarked and marched over Stuart portrait of George Washington. Congress obiected that Jefferson's col land to Marlboro, Maryland, where they which hangs in the White House to this lection was "too philosophical, had too were met by the combined American day. It was after the destruction of many boo.Ks in foreign languages, was too militia and naval forces under General Washington that the British moved to costly, and was too large for the wants of lWtawtioel lri asCmido emWs minfooddueogrr heta- Jnodos nhN uaatvh yBe aCrfniaeeplyd.ts a Tinhoe f BKFoaelyrtt i mMtoorc eH,w eanrnirtdye win"hsTeprhieer e tdh SeFtiarr raf nirciSinpsg a nSugcplooetndt Cc1h8o1an5sg,e rC etsohsne.g" l rieFbsrosa rartvuu.tn haAotcericlzyoer ddo in$n2 g3J ,ta9on5 0ua a torrey pc ue2nr6 t, Bladensburg, near the infamous old Banner." publication, "The Jefferson Library dueling grounds. Despite the American Because so many of the staff of the forms the nucleus around which the advantage of more numerous troops Senate and House were caned to duty in present collections o.f the Llbrary of Con fighting on their own territory and de the miJ.itia to guard the city, the records gress have been arsembled." Many of the fending their capital city, the British of the Congress were left in the Capitol volumec; in JeffP.rson's Lihrary were sub broke through the lines at Bladensburg and proceeded towards Washington. until the last moment. As a result, many se:iuently destroyed in a fire in 1851, but House documents were destroyed in the at.he:· volumes rema!n and have been as Needless to say, the city was filled with fire. The Senate, already in some disar sembJed as a unit in the Rare Book and panic and its citizens fled. ray following the recent death of its Sec Special Collections Division of the Li Here is the account of Mrs. Margaret retary, SJ.muel A. Otis, was fortunate to brary.28 tBeallyigaerndc Serm'si thfo, uwnidfee r,o f Stahme uNeal tiHonaarrli sInon hMaavceh ean ,q uwihcko -wcoimttemda cnldeerekr enda ma efda rLmeewr'iss iroTnhye. TWhea rT oref at1y8 1o2f eGnhdeendt wcoitnhc lugdrienagt Smith. Having observed the cheerful cart and loaded up the Senate's records the war was signed on Christmas eve rSema~iithne shsa do fn toh ed oAumbtesr iccoann cmerinliitniag, tMhersir. ctoo ucnatrrryys idthee. m to safety in the Virginia e1n81c4e. tToh et hpee aicsesu terse aotfy immaodree snsmo ernetf eor f eventual victory over the British, but When the members of the Thirteenth American seamen, naval blockades, and Footnotes at end of arttcle. Congress returned to Washington in the disputed boundary with Canada 14876 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE July 8, 1981 which had caused the war in the first effort to renew the charter, while William troversial one, from the earliest days of place. It merely restored conditions to Branch Giles led the "Old Republicans" our republic. Prior to 1816 members of the way they had been before the war determined to defe at the Bank. Giles and Congress had been paid six dollars a broke out. In those days, news traveled others saw in the Bank the last vestiges day for every day the Congress was in slowly, and word o.f the treaty did not of Federalism, and an unconstitutional session. Wartime inflation had reduced reach American shores until February 11, institution as well. On February 20, 1811, buying power significantly enough that 1815. By then, the Americans had already the Senate voted 20 to 20 on the bank the legislators were prepared to tackle received news of the great victory of issue, which was then decided in the the "particular delicacy of the subject." General and former Senator Andrew negative by Vice Presldent George Clin Some members who were independently Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. ton. Clinton explained his action by say wealthy were opposed to the whole con Regular troops and frontier riflemen ing that the "tendency to consolidation" cept of salaries for legislative services. under Jackson's command had inflicted seemed to him a "just and serious cause But others believed that more adequate appalling casualties on the British line, of alarm." 30 compensation would attract more com killing or wounding over 2,000 British So the United States went through the petent men to government service. On soldiers at a cost of only twenty-one difficult War of 1812 without a national March 13, 1816, the Senate followed the American casualties! This great victory bank, and its finances fell into disarray. lead of the House of Representatives and was actually won after the peace treaty The war made the need for a central voted 22 to 11 and Rhode Island

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