Arizona republican., 1903-02-27
The Wolf and Lamb Story, to Date.


 What a compliment some newspapers pay to the intelligence of their readers Here comes the Los Angeles Times. working itself into a rage over Sena- tor Quay's "hold-up'' of the senate Our Los Angeles contemporary indulges in a powerful editorial jeremiad, with this statement as its text:
 Ever since December 10, when the omnibus statehood bill was made the regular order of business in the senate of the United States, that body has been in condition of impotence, so far as the transaction Of legislative business was concerned. The will of one man-Matt, S. Quay-has been more powerful than that of the entire republican majority in the senate. Under the absurd rules of the senate, this one senator. who has charge of the statehood bill, has been able to pre- vent all legislation which he did not favor, to control the hours of debate and the subjects debated, and to exer- else, in fact. power far greater than that of the presiding officer. and greater. in many respects, than the
 
 palmiest days in the other house or congress-,
 For a great journal, the Times ex- hibits a lamentable ignorance of facts -or a deliberate wish to mislead it's readers. Under the senate rules, the omnibus bill became the unfinished business" Not even the most rabid enemies of statehood have complained of these rules-until the Times lifted its voice. Business must be transacted in due order in the senate, and when T measure is taken up for consideration it must remain the unfinished business until it is disposed of, or there would be endless confusion in the proceedings At any hour of the day a pending bill may be displaced from it's position by majority vote. That it is sometimes difficult to obtain a vote is another proposition. But it has happened that neither Senator Quay nor any of his followers at any time offered any oppo- sition to a vote. On the contrary, day after day the Pennsylvania senator renewed his requests for vote, in order that the bill might be disposed of and in order that the senate might go ahead with other business. All the op- struction came from the enemies of statehood.
 Even Senator Bard, whom the Times worships, consumed several days in making an obstructive, dreary speech and other senators consumed as much as ten days-for no other purpose than to obstruct the bill and prevent a vote For time, there was a feeble effort by Senator Beveridge and few others to make the country believe that the obstruction" was coming from the Quay side, but the contention was ridi- culed out of hearing at once by intel ligent people everywhere, and all claims that the "hold-up'' was by Sen ator Quay were abandoned several weeks ago-except in Los Angeles. The Times is nearly a month behind the procession
 Most of the senators opposed to the statehod bill and all the papers in the east frankly admitted long ago that the campaign against statehood WIS purely one of obstruction, and that the mI- nority proposed to indulge in a hold up until the end of the session if necessary
 Did the esteemed General Otis ever hear of the wolf that made a grea howl because the lamb downstream was rolling the water?