Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-03-06

Especial washington Letter.l
HAVE no pride Of opinion as {
prophet, and yet because I low
Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey
of Texas as brother l rejoice
and am exceeding glad that {
prediction which / have frequently
made about him has already been par
TALLY verified 1t was this: "Withir
two years from the day he sets foot il
the senate Bailey will be universally
recognized as the strongest debater il
that body" The way he knocked 10
seph Benson Foraker, George Frisbie
Hoar and other Republican senators
out in a running fire debate on the
Suspension" of Tillman and McLaurir
by the arbitrary action of President
Pro TEN. Frye was one of the most re
freshing performances ever witnessed
in the house Of the conscript fathers
The engagement was short and SHARP
and ended in decisive victory for the
brave, brainy young Texan. 1t at once
gave him front rank in the less numer-
GUS branch of the national legislature
The constitution was the theme. AS
an eXpOunder of constitutional law
Bailey has no superior on this conti-
nent. His position was absolutely i'm
pregnable. 1t was this: The senate
has no right to deprive a senator of
his vote; much less has the presiding
officer such right by his mere ipse dix
If Qyonpt hv eyp11Jciop
On that proposition Bailey brayed
his opponents in a mortar, and be it
remembered that the men against
whom he was pitted are not weaklings,
but the crack Republican debaters of
the senate.
Bailey freely admitted that the SEN
ate could infict any punishment-even
to expulsion by a two-thirds vote-but
that so long as Tillman and McLaurin
remained senators the state of South
Carolina and the country were entitled
to their votes.
So complete was Bailey's triumph,
so thoroughly did he demonstrate the
absurdity and danger of permitting the
senate to suspend senators by a major
ity vote, that Senator Frye, president
pro tem., who had ordered the names
Of the belligerent senators stricken
from the rolls, hastened to have their
names restored to the list, which DEM
onstrates beyond all cavil that Senator
Frye's hindsight is superior to his fore
sight.
If the contention of the Republicans
is correct, that a majority of the sen.
ate can suspend" a senator for one
hour and deprive him of his vote, Their
corrupt majority might at some flu
ture time suspend every minority
senator, not for an hour, but for the
entire term, thereby depriving states
of their senatorial representation. That
would be doing by a bare majority
what the constitution says can be done
only by two-thirds majority. Indeed
as Senator Bailey so clearly pointed
out, suspension" with deprivation of
vote is worse than expulsion, for in
case of expulsion the governor may ap-
point somebody else to the senate,
whereas in case of suspension with
deprivation Of vote it leaves the state
without senatorial representation.
The Republican senators deposited
Everett would say.
Prince Henry's Visit.
The magnificent reception or, rather,
series Of receptions rendered to Prince
Henry Of Prussia by the American peo-
pie and government must do great good
for us in Germany in many ways. 1t
will most assuredly create friendly
feeling between the two great nations.
who have been trying to get up a row
between us and Germany, but Anglo
maniacs don't count.
Prince Henry created most favora-
BILE impression upon all who saw him.
He is handsome, well built, modest
gentleman and seemed immensely
pleased with the reception, as he had a
perfect right to be, and will undoubt-
edly carry back with him to his native
land most pleasant recollections of the
American people.
Not Becoming Effeminate.
Those pessimists who lie awake of
nights pestering their heads about men
growing effeminate under the enervat-
ing influences of modern civilization
may take heart again since in one week
there was knockdown and dragout
fight in the Maryland legislature; also
quite pugilistic set-to in .'the most
august body on earth"-to wit, the
senate of the United States. Whatever
else the American statesman of today
may be he is not effeminate; at least
the Maryland and South Carolina
statesmen are not. The swatting of
McLaurin by Tillman is the first 'lay-
ing on of hands, in violence Of one
senator by another since fiery Joe
Blackburn Of Kentucky pulled the ear
of William Eaton Chandler of New
Hampshire, but that was in a commit
tee room and not in the open senate.
Senator means old man, and it's pity
that the grave and reverend seigniors
do not behave in a way to set good
example to the members of the house,
whom they superciliously consider
their interiors. 1t is now nearly four
years since we had a personal encoun-
ter in the house, and that was during
the stress of the initiation of the Span
fish war, when nerves were strung to
highest tension.
1t is regrettable that Messrs. Tillmar
and McLaurin let their angry passions
rise, for Tillman is man of dynamic
force of character, while McLaurin is
one of the most amiabie of mortals
The chances are ten to one that some
body-perhaps several-Will be killed
before the feud is ended. Neither obeys
the injunction contained in the ser
mon on the mount, "Whosoever shall
smite thee on the right cheek, turn tC
him the other also"
About the same time that the afore
mentioned statesmen at Washington
and Annapolis were pummeling eacf
other ex-Mayor Phelan of San Francis
co was giving Minister WI Fling Tang
a taste of pugilistic diplomacy in
swell hotel in New York.
AS proof conclusive that the new
American is not growing effeminate il
the same week Rev. Ralph D. Schoon
maker of Plainfield, N. j., gave an ex
hibition of muscular Christianity by
so thoroughly walloping fellow NOR
tai that he recalled the halcyon days