The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-04
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 RESPONSIBLE Senator ElkinS Attacks
 His Party.
 k LAST DF OF THE SENATE Aldry Financial Bill Goes < by the Board. For First Time in Four Years Dela- ware is Now Represented by Its
 Full Quota-Sessions
 Long Drawn Out.

ol tHe AIurICn HnanclaI DlIl was witnessed in the Senate today when it was displaced by the Philippine tariff bill. MT. Aldrich explained in detail his measure and said that a small number of men in the Sem ate had deliberately, with malice afore- thought murdered it.
 One of the features of the session was the fact that for the first time in two years Delaware was represented in the Senate. J. Frank Alice and l.. Heisler Ball, elected for the long and short terms respectively, appeared in the Senate and were sworn in by President pro tempore Frye. Besides the two years that Dela- ware has been totally unrepresented. in the Senate there were two years previous to that time when there was a vacancy in one of the seats. Mir. Balls term of service will expire two years from today, while Mir. Alice has four years to serve. The Senate for the first time in four years has its full membership of ninety.
 MT. Elkins Fixs Blame.
 In the course of the debate today, Mir. EIkins declared that the Republican party had ben false to it's solemn pledges in three successive platform with respect to Statehood for Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico. and he said that 1t was the first time that party had been guilty of filibustering. He declared that upon the Republican party rested the responsi- bility for defeat of several important measures in the Senate.
 A bill was passed for the appointment of three commissioners from Porto Rico.
 The Senate at o'clock took a recess until & o'clock this evening.
 At Il o'clock today the Senate entered upon the last 1egislative- day of the Fifty seventh Congress. There will be no ad- journment till 12 o'clock tomorrw, when Congress expires by limitation. s.
 A resolution was adopted continuing until the next regular session the stand ing and select committees.
 The conferees' report on the sundry civil bill was agreed to and MT. Hoar called up the conference report on the bill to protect the President.
 MT. Bacon of Georgia, declared that the alleged conerence report is bill which, with the exception of one single sentence, had never been read in the Senate The hill. he said Is far reaching in character and absolutely subversive of the funda- mental principles upon which the govern ment is founded,
 Tn reply MT. Hoar insisted that the conference report was the Senate plI III it's entirety with the exception Of the cluase pertaining to anarchists
 Questions of Precedence.
 At o'clock the unfinished business the Aldrich bill-was laid before the Sen ate. Mr Hoar immediately made the point that the unfinished business did not take breeder ce over a conference report:
 MT. Aldrich asked that his financial bill be temporarily laid aside. To this MT. Teller objected, whereupon MT. Hoar moved that the conference report be fur finer considered After MT. Teller had predicted the defeat of the bill, MT. Hoar withdrew his motion.
 MT. McCumber moved to take up the pure food bill, and after some discussion about the order of business in the Senate, Mir. Quay asked unanimous consent that at 2 o'clock vote be taken on i've prop ositions before the Senate, naming the omnibus Statehood bill. the Aldrtch bill, the conference report on the bill to pro feet the President; the Phlnpplhes tarlil bill and the pure food bill.
 MT. Foraker said he took advantage or inc opportunity to say that 1t would be little short of a public calamity for the Senate to adjourn without passing some of these measures.
 .I hope" said he, that the Senate will, in the early future adopt some kind Of a reasonable cloture rule.
 "The destruction of the bill by you gentlemen" he continued, speaking to the Democratic rise tomorrow morning. will impair con- fdence in business circles" and he added that he wanted to put the responsibility where it belonged.
 Mir. AIdrich explained the purpose of his bill. and answered number of criti- cisms made by the Democrats to 1t. MT. Teller followed in continuation of his re- marks begun Saturday, but yielded in or der to permit the two new Senators from Delaware, J. F. Alice and l.. H. Ball, to be sworn.
 Urges Philippine Bill.
 Mir. Lodge expressed his anxiety to have the Philippines tariff bill disposed of at this session.
 Mir. Teller stated that there was no more possibility of pas sing 1t than there was of passing the Aldrich bill
 MT Teller replied to Mir. Aldrich's charge that the D emocrats had flibestcr- cd against his bill. and said that the Sen ate had listened to the dreary readings and dreary speeches against Statehood with no pretense that they were for the purpose of enlightening the Senate. If cloture had existed, he said, there would have been three new States. You have beIied your platform" said he facing the Republican side.
 He said the Statehood advocates finally were compelled, in the interests of the public, to surrender to the minority He declared the Republicans were afraid of the Democratic party in the West. A man was a fool, he said, who had sat in the Senate and did not know it. and it is a coward who, knowing it, is not willing to declare it.
 You are afraid of that power," he said.
 Mir. Teller concluded his remarks by yaioo for int ha
 Mir. LodgD then moved to take up the Philippines tariff bill, which was agreed to displacing the Aldrfch financial bill.
 Elkins Boasts Republicans.
 MT. Elkins then spoke on the Aldrich bill and said 1t was a calamity that the bill had been defeated. He said that the Republican party was responsible for the condition of affairs in the Senate. For fnnrtaan weeks a majority of the Sennta