The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-04-25
RULES OF THE SENATE
A Man Of Courage Needed to
Reform Them.
AND tom REED Is SUGGESTED,
But No One Has Yet Dared to Ask Him
N He Would Take the Second Place on
the Ticket 80 He Might Laugh at It..
Needs OF the senate.

Z | presidency at - Louis They also laugh
, AT the suggestion which has been made
great many Times that IL Mckinley is
named Mr. Reed would make a good can
I didale for vice president No one has
q dared ask the speaker III no would accept
n the second place on the ticket, aud IL is as
summed that he would scorn such proposal
: IN true Reed fashion Yet IL is not i'm
@ possible that the big man from Maine will
: be taken up by the ~. Louis convention
: | and be made the candidate for vice presi-
dent. What Mr. Reed would do i'm such
an event IL is hard TO say; but, as a rule,
| men do not decline honors which bring
| them as near To a throne rs a nomination
| for vice president would be- likely 20 bring
Mr.. Reed. Moreover. It Is true that few
years ago Mr. Reed would have given
good deal for the privilege Of presiding
over the senate few weeks IL was dur.
ing the Fifty-frst congress- when the IA.
nous force bill was defeated by political |
machination in the senate after IL had |
passed the house.
| when Mr.. Reed Hankercd.
Reed was very angry about the failure
OF the senate to act. He said the upper |
branch was failure as part of our sys.
tenn of government and that IL would con.
tinue 20 be failure until some positive
| personal force was injected 10 bring about
| revolution of method. The speaker in
| timated very pointedly that he would like
| the job OF reforming tho tradition ridden
senate, and that If he were presiding over
| that body it would be made to vote when.
ever majority wanted action, no matter
who stood in the way. Thcre were times
when MIR. Reed fairly hankered for a
chance TO Introduce 10 the senate some of
the methods which he used in revolution.
ling parliamentary practice in the house
While IL may be considered improbable |
that Mr.. Reed will be elected vice presi- {
dent, IL Is not at all impossible. What
would he be able 10 accomplish If he were
made the presiding officer of the senator
Would he be strong enough to effect any
changes whatever IN the methods pursued |
by that peculiar body? Many observers
with whom / have talked think Mr.. Reed
would not be able TO do anything at all |
They say the senate Is bundle Of tradi- | U
tions and that no one man will ever be 81
found strong enough TO break through 10
them. They say be would butt his head | -
against a stone wall if he attempted to =.
revolutionize the parliamentary practices. al
They point out that the senate and the al
house are rs different as white and black. m
In the house the speaker practically rules :
supreme. He leads his majority and his on
and transacts the business which he Is
willing shall be transacted.
Change of Rules.
But there Is another view Of the matter | 60
IL a strong courageous man like Reed
were elected vice president and his party vi
in that body wished to change ne
the rules 50 that business could be trans ev,
acted In an orderly and practical fashion, I'm,
instead Of leaving a branch of the govern
lnent az the mercy Of a small and factious an
minority, the way could be found 70
change the rules and TO institute the now
md better order Of things 1t is admitted
hat Mr.. Reed could not do anything with
'ut the support OF majority of the senate.
lut the same thing l. true Of the house.
de cannot do anything there without the bile
Import OF "A majority. an,
bonge tbo r,log -, , move poen made to lily,
majority the power 10 limit debate and 4 p
o force vote. No such power exists to-
ay, and for this reason the senate Is drift
ng along In dangerous condition. 1t is
snip without master, compass or rudder
iutlhy may break out any moment and L
nder the rules the mutineers NAV run | Ria
lings just as long as their nerve holds tn.
~. There Is no limit TO the extent TO
hich the game may be played. All at. goo
mpts to change the rules have failed for pla
10 single reason that there is no provision goo
the rules for forcing "a vote when rea.
nable debate Is exhausted. The power OF
~" 10 talk forever on any question APP
les as well to the matter of change in Wit
~ a. 20 any other matter. Tho very pile
ttinp rid NJ IL Irntu ,ha.a .''o w" "a rem
nate two factors there will be- no change and
the rules, and these factors are:
FIRST. The presence of party majority.
heslVe and determined and loyal 20 the -,
'der VINO has been placed in tho presid. D."
z chalr by the suifrages of their party, one
oecohd'-ln the chair man of courage sell
! 70 GOOD d pii.'anon.ary REFORM essen for
tslde the rules OF the senate as he finds NOR
IN and to the rules Of common sense for
Lhorization OF his programme Of recog.
ing motion to cut of debate and pro
d to a vote when the proper moment earl.
~ nave arrived Dav
such man, many people think, Is
omas Is. Reed IL would at least be in ga"
osting to have him I'm the vice prosi-
cy for the purpose of ascertaining
ether or not reform I'm senate method is On D
5 not possible. or q,
""s' ne raced some Day. inter
ing the Fifty first congress there was a VI III
nj deal of talk of submitting a motion
hange the rules and Of forcing n vote W.
reon after reasonable debate. The uues-
was as to whether Vice President Nor. p
had the nerve TO put the motion and vi We
r some delay that question was decided Price
he negative and the project was aban
ed. The matter was revived during the
cycle over the repeal of the sherman
er law, and at one time a cabal was
ned to pull from the chair the vice ms
ident or any temporary presiding 10-ce
er who should attempt to recognize n than
ion To cut off debate The men who
Q to pull the presiding officer out of his porte
r were actually selected, and could. II -,
shed, give their names IL the matter WA
been forced TO an issue, the United silks
es senate would have been disQraced tailo,
Genes OF violence more indigenous 70
French assembly than to an American '"'S
ilative body.
ut the question of rational. practical ~
will have to be faced i'm the senate or sal
Q day, and there are indications that IL ner of