Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-12-09

| charge of that measure, senator Gull
lom did most of the work of it's prep
aration. When it came to passage in
the senate there was practically no dis
cussion. One or two senators rose to
inquire as to the manner of it's prepa-
ration, and when given assurance that
Senator Cullom had carefully scanned
and considered its every item and
recommended it for passage, the great
bill went through in less than fifteen
minutes.
AS chairman of the foreign relations
committee, Senator Cullom has played
most important role in the senate
during the fifty-seventh congress, and
thus far in the fifty-eighth. He had
fight at the beginning of the fifty-sev>
enth congress to secure the chairman
ship Senator Lodge, an ambitious
and young senator, who is the personal
friend of the president, tried hard to
get the assignment, and 1t was only
through a firm and dignified insistence
on seniority that the Craftsmanship
came to him. Since thar time all of the
dignity and power and prestige that
has inferred in the Craftsmanship has
been maintained by the senior senator
from Illinois.
The foreign relations committee of
the senate is different in most respects
from that of any other committee.
Senator William p. Frye of Maine,
president protempore of the senate, is
next in rank to Senator Cullom; John
c. Spooner of Wisconsin, an interna-
tional lawyer without a peer; Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts,, pub
licist of acknowledged reputation and
literary worker of no mean order; Jo-
seph B. Foraker of Ohio. a student of
history. sledge- hammer debater and
a lawyer of standing, and Charles w.
Fairbanks of Indiana, whose many
qualities have been industriously ex-
plotted because of his candidacy for
the presidency, republicans, are includ-
ed in it's membership.
Procedure Is Dignfied
The proceedings of most of the sem
ate committees are not marked by any
regular order, but this is not true of
foreign relations. Senator Cullom in
sists upon and secures dignified pro-
cedure. He sits at the head of long,
solid mahogany table which stands in
the center of the committee room. On
it's polished border are gold plates
bearing the names of each of the MEM
bers and showing the order in which
they must seat themselves. Their plac-
ing is in the order of seniority. Sena-
tor Frye seats himself in the high
backed green leather chair at the right
of that of Senator Cullom, and the re-
publican senators occupy the balance of
the room on the right side of the table.
The democratic senators seat them
selves according to seniority on the left
side. In all of the sessions which are
executive Senator Cullom raps for or
der and and the clerk, Mr.. William
Malloy, calls the roll, and each of the
senators answers to his name. There
is no confusion, and noone presumes to
make remark, much less to discuss
point under consideration, until after
/ he has formally addressed the chair
man and been recognized. Mr.. Malloy
reads every treaty through, section by
section and because of their import
ance to the future of the United States
i'm its International relations, there Is a
record aye and no vote on every prop
osition.
| The legislative record which Senator
/ Cullom has made since the beginning
of the fifty seventh congress and dur
/ ing the period of his craftsmanship, in
dicates clearly that perhaps the most
! important grist for the legislative mill
comes to the hopper from the foreign
relations committee. The senator has,
of course, voice in the general policy
of the republican ma jority in the sem
ate. He exercises this from his vantage
point as a member of the steering COM
mittee of the senate. 1t includes in its
membership such men as Allison, Aid
rich. Spooner, Hale. Hanna and Plat
of Connecticut Cullom has been a
member of this committee for num-
! Der of years. 1t has no place In the
congressional directory and yet it has
| grown more powerful every year until
now its function is recognized to be
/ closely akin to that of the powerful
committee on rules of the house of rep
resentatives. For the exercise OF COM
p1ete and absolute power by it, 1t is
only necessary for the senate to adopt
rule of closure in lieu Of the unani-
nous consent procedure customary in
the senate now.
Cuilom has been on the foreign fei
lations committee for fifteen years, ana
so in that time has had a hand in
shaping every measure or treaty that
affected our relations with foreign
countries. Since his craftsmanship he
has long list of important measures
with which his name win always be as
sociatNd. Some OF thes have not seen
absolute fruition. but that has not been
in consequence of faGit of the United
States. It was Senator Cullom who
successfully managed a treaty with
Denmark providing for the cessfon OF
the Danish West indies to the United
States. 1t was the failure of the Folks