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CHAFEE TALKS AT COLBY FETE

Sees Congress in Danger Of Separating From People

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In an address made at the Commencement exercises of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, on Sunday, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law, said Congress is in danger or becoming disconnected with the general popular will and "just an inconvenient body which has to be reckoned with in order to get anything done." Chafee was awarded on honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

"The members of Congress," Professor Chafee continued, "are becoming spokesmen for particular self-regarding groups, and are ceasing to be the channel through which the people frame laws and make their wishes known to the executive.

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