Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-12

framing Ol the hllu Tic
thorities sustaining the position rendering
untenable Mr.. Quays claim to scat in the
Senate. He said that it seemed to him that
one could not follow these proceedings of
the convention in detail without being I'M
pressed with the conviction that the only
purpose the convention had in view in
making provision for supplying vacancies
was to provide a method by which casual
vacancies happening in term, and when
the legislature was not in session, might De
temporarily supplied by the executive OF
the state until the legislature, the primary
power, could have the opportunity to I'LL
such vacancy.
After citing the vote on the Corbett case,
in which Mr.. Penrose voted against Corbett
and Quay was paired against Corbett, Mr..
Burrows said:
I'm the light of these presidents. and in
the face of the vote in the last Congress-
in the Corbett case / submit it Is asking q
great deal, 1t is a heavy draft even on the
demands of friendship. for the claimant IN
this case to insist that tine Senate shall re-
verse the adjudications of hundred years,
which he himself and his colleague have
so recently approved, that be may gain az
best but temporary seat in this body. Ana
It, is little less than audacious Tor the gov
ernor of the state of Pennsylvania to dlsre.
gard the mandates of the constitution of
his state, which he has sworn to support,
refusing to call the Legislature together 10
elect a senator and force the Senate OF the
United States to place its stamp OF approval
upon his disregard of official duty and his
assumption of power
Effect of a Reversal.
He said that disastrous consequences
would result from the reversal OF the es-
tablished policy of the Senate in order TO
seat Mr.. Quay. He declared that the Sen
ate could not afford to reject claimant
for a seat today and on the same state OF
facts admit another claimant tomorrow.
1t could not afford to give credence 10 tne
Oh, bot b., nf
is after ALL but social club, where gooo
fellowship is a better credential than
certificate of election in conformity to law
Mr.. President he said. in conclusion,
when this work of demolition has been
consummated. if it must be. and the peo-
pie realize that the Senate, trampling under
foot the precedents of a century, mas SOL
EMMY adjudged that 1t will receive into us
membership the appointees of governors
whenever the legislature fails to elect or
can be prevented from choosing senator.
that governors may fill the seats in this
chamber whenever vacant for any cause
though themselves conspfratorS TO produce
such vacancies; that the Senate itself, with
the cooperation of state executives. VIII
hereafter make up the membership or TINS
body out of their personal or political
friends, independent of the legislatures and
regardless of the will of the people-when
that time comes, ! repeat there will come
with it the remedy, swift and complete.
The people will not submit to It, Ihey
ought not to submit to it. They are we'd
ded to representative government ana theg
will not permit it to be subverted. There
is yet power mghter than Senates more
potent than senators-a power that can
make and unmake both.
And let me say to senators that no sooner
shall you have established the doctrine
contended for by the minority than there
will be popular uprising in this country
which no power resist or suppress to
take from the state legislatures and gov
errors all control over the election of sem
ators and lodge it with the sovereign peo-
Pile. Already thirty-four states, through
their legislatures, have demanded 1t. The
House of Representatives has repeatedly
proposed it.
Il implore senators, therefore, to. follow
the beaten path of the century. in the foot
steps of Ellsworth. Benton, Cass. Vance
Bayard, Hill, Davis. Garland. Cameron,
Douglas. Mason Blaine. Edmunds, Conk-
ling Carpenter and the long line of illus
trious men whose genius and learning 1ilu-
mines the way. and save the Senate
from public scandal and reproach. restore
and preserve its ancient dignity and insure
the perpetuity of representative govern
ment