Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-02-22
KNOCKED OUT FOR THIS CONGRESS.

Triumphant Admission just nc
fore the February EIectIons-sena-
tors Indignant Because the Cor
porntIons Fought So Hard For
Quny-The Legislature Now the
Battle Ground.
CFrorn our own Correspondent)
Harrisburg. Feb. .20.-The Republicans
and not the Democrats or any one OF
them-gave ex-senator NJ. S. Quay his
Knockout dose in the United states
senate on Friday last. In caucus OF
Republican senators it was decided
tEat the Quay case should not be taken
up ahead OF the Porto Rican, Ha-
waiian or Alaskan bills. This decision
Hills Quay's chances of getting into the
senate this term on the appointment OF
MS Governor Stone.
AS is usually the case the quay
newspapers tried to make 1t appear
that it was the ordinary procedure
But Senator Penrose had been declar-
ing with the utmost assurance that
Quay's case was certain to be taken up
on Friday last.
These same Quay newspapers are pa
1ading the action of Senator Chandler
in declaring that the Quay case was a
privileged one and can come up at any
time. To this Senator Hale, of Maine,
agreed, at the same time declaring that
il would require a majority vote for
the case to be taken up out OF the reg
ular order. The impossibility of get
ting a majority of senators to lay aside
the important bills above named ts
everywhere recognized in Washington,
ard hence Mr.. Quay is, in the language
of a Republican senator, "a gone goose.
This action of the Republican sena-
tors in caucus gives the lie to the oft
repeated assertion that Quay could con-
troll all the votes he wanted in the
senate to seat himself. Inded, the ac-
ton of the Republican caucus practi-
oally drops the Quay case for this ses-
sion, and the state legislature will set
lie the question instead of the United
States senate.
CORPORATIONS INFLUENCE.
The Philadelphia Press correspond
ent at Washington in speaking of one
phase of the Quay case says:
Another factor influential in defer
ring the Quay case is the unparalleled
interference of corporations. One of
the most prominent Republican sena-
tors in the body said today that the
pressure used by corporations in favor
of the seating OF Quay is something ap-
palling. In his IS or 10 years service
he never knew anything to equal it.
One senator has filed away in his desk
letters containing threats of what will
happen to him politically if he does not
vote in favor Of Quay. These letters
are from corporations in his state, and
he proposes to read them in the event
of the Quay case being taken up. The
use of corporation influence as a club
to beat senators into line for Quay has
been oyerdone. Senators on both sides
of the chamber are indignant"
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia North American gives
the following striking account of some
features of the startling episodes Of
Friday last:
mo one knows better than the Quay
ties what would happen to any mo-
tion made by Mr. Chandler to inter-
rupt the regular program with the
Quay case The general opinion of
senators for and against Quay is that
his case is dead; that it will never be
reached, and should Senator Chandler
insist upon a test vote ON Monday or
in the near future he would be over
whelmingly defeated There are sem
dlOlS w LO hbhlh NOAt iOi Nuug II no
case ever came up who will not sup
port a motion to change the order and
allow the question to come before the
senate.
when ex-senator Quay heard the
disagreeable news he hurried off to
Philadelphia on an afternoon train to
consult his liutsnantS.
AN ELECTION DODGE.
t, ta ,g IL
rose and navors his disappointment
with the bitterness of gall is the de-
feat of his elaborate plan 10 have had
the speeches in the Quay case made
today and the vote taken on Monday,
so that Quay, on the eve Of the spring
elections, could gloat and say: See
how have been vindiCated by the SEN
ate, and the senatorial appointment of
my Governor Stone upheld But no
such message can he Haunted before
the voters, and there is wailing and
gnashing Of teeth in the Quay camp.
Mr. Penrose alternately complained
about his troubles and uttered venom
Gus epithets against the opposition.
Senator Tillman tonight gave
most significant reason for wishing to
see Mr.. Quay seated.
"Of course, | shall vote against
him said the gcuatOr. but If any Re-
publican from Pennsylvania is to DO
admitted, ! would rather see Mr.. Quay
than any one else. lie has always
been very clever to me personally, but
from the standpoint Of "A Democratic
partisan / should like TO see him in the
senate. MIR. Quay represents interests
against which the people will Ultimate
ly be forced TO revolt, aad his Submission
would only serve to hasten that day.
Senator Money, Of Mississippi, slid
that he could not see how any two
persons could agree on the constitu-
tiOnal point involved in the Quay case |
He cited his own election and subse- |
quent appointment to the senate as an
Illustration. He was first elected he |
said, to serve term which was to be- |
gin two years or more later Before |
that time arrived his predecessor died
and he was appointed by the governor |
to succeed him. Senator Money said |
that he never considered that he was |
appointed for "A longer period than to |
the next session Of the legislature. |
That legislature then chose him simply |
to fiji out the uncxpired portion Of his |
predecessor term
az shall vote against Mr.. Quay |
added Senator Money Just as Senator |
Penrosc voted and Mr. Quay was pair
ed against Mr. COrbctt at our last ses- |
sion. The COrbctt case, to my mind, was |
Infinitely stronger than Mr.. Quay's.'