Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-06-26
some OF OUR SENATORS.


Correspondence New York Evening Post.
Washington, June ID. There are a
good many persons unfamiliar 18th
Washington life who wonder why ex-
perionced and we'll informed newspaper
writer's Of the capital object so strenu-
ously to any change of law, like the
threatened change in our Philippine
legislation, which takes batch Of
Federal appointments out of the ex-
elusive control of the President and
makes them dependent on confirmation
by the Senate.
Ii we could pick out the Senators
who are to do the confirming, no com
plant would be made. This, of course,
is out of the question; and, what is
worse, the unwritten but all the more
rigid rule of Senatorial courtesy en-
ables practically any Senator to lift
his finger and prevent the confirmation
of nomination in, or for, or from his
own State, on no ground except that
Of personal prejudice; and, trading on
this fact, any of the men who would
thus let themselves be ruled by prriu.
dice may tholG up" the President
himself and say not only that this mln
must not, but that that man must, be
appointed to some important office. In
view. then. of the necessary of having
the consent Of such natrons 70 tbe issue,
of n Eoderal commission n is interest
inc to Glance over Inc record Of n single
session and see what SORT of persons
may. have the making or The narrinp
of n hundred nossibla earecrs
Two Senators from tue same State
enp,ged in a hont at Hs+icuffs nm tha
fioor ~ tne rha,nber and in tha midst
of its dipnitiod mblic rrocerdings,
One. IL annears. obierted to he;ps .aIleh
nv tho other n liar. ana ra,,istereI Ills
obiectinns on his colleaguots nnsa IN
was n brisk as4anIt. mn Ia The t,aat trn
ditions NJ ths nriae. rino The 4 ssa;lant
climhed ovar thr ss.,fs with acil;tv
If not with gra3e. and botb rartic,nants
nrnched in earnest In tha GALLERY
there could he heard the dull ssnfnttl
Mutt =, which, only fist can make.
For n moment the other Senators we're
naralyzed then tbnrn was a rush a
bricf strngale. and iii wns over
Ii vas nf,t long .ftar th;s affair tb.t
tke senator Who reoeiyed tbe fir.t blow
arnearaI IN thc role If assnilant him.
selF II was in tbe rotnnda If q botal
Thu Senator and the noIitic;an from
a n inn nj a m
taI,las ,nnd had leff tba ruhlir rafacs
tory for tba ciror ss,nJ irba rol;t;n;.n
n,,de and;hIn ran,arl.s of an otYansiro
nh i, and the San,t,r rosante'3
Item with nhva,c,l y;nlenco ending
IN - knncl, dawn s''
E,iinwing bnrd nnon +bis o.r,o tho
affair Of q Senator wbo ;nsistea On
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