The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-05
YALR.PRINCETON DEBATE
WON .BH TALES TEAM IN LAST
 EVENINGS MEET.
This Decides the Series fin yaie's Favor A Large Attendance at College Street Ha'I-Brief synopsis of Main Points of of0pposing Teams. # '~

oH OppostnE Tenms.
 The ninth annual Princeton de- bate was held last evening at o'clock in College street hall and was won by Yale. The debate was a very thorough and interesting discussion of the modes of procedure in the United States sem ate. The point at issue was whether power shall be given to tWo-thirds of the senators to order vote to be taken on a pending measure without the unanimous consent of the senators. Yale upheld the affirmative of the ques- tion, while Princeton supported the neg ative. Not only was this discussion of very unusual interest and profit, but great importance attached to the de- bate. inasmuch as of the eight previous debates Princeton had won four and Yale four. and last evenings contest decided the series. s.
 President Hadley was the chairman of the evening and three noted lawyers acted as judges-Hon John G. Carlisle, ex-speaker of the house of representa- tives and secretary of the treasury; Francis Lynde Stetson, the well-known railroad attorney, and Charles c. Bur- 1inghanl. < The Yale speakers were:
 Walter Maxwell Adriance, F. G., of St. Louis. graduated with the class of 1900. While in college he was mem Der of the Phi Beta Kappa and on the track team He is now taking post graduate course in English, and was alternate upon the recent Yale Harvard debate. He is q very pleasing, grace ful speaker, but effective rather through his good diction than through force and directness.
 Robert Studebaker Binkerd, 1904 S., of Brooklyn, was a very forceful and convincing speaker, and in rebuttal the most skillful speaker of the team. He had four years of experience in inter scholastic debating, but had never spoken for Yale. 3.
 Jason Noble Pierce, T. S, of Brock ton, Mass, was the orator of the team. He had a fine voice, a good presence and was an easy and graceful speaker. He had, moreover, a faculty of picking out and dwelling upon the important points in the debate. At times he was apt to become ponderous and lack gin- ger. He graduated from Amherst in 1902, where he debated for his college many times and also won prizes in ora tory.
 The leading speaker for Princeton was Axtell Julius Byles, a polished speaker and fine debater. Besides rep resenting Princeton in debate, he was manager of last years university elev- en and full-back on the same until in jured. The othert Princeton speakers were T. R. Good and A. P. Scott.
 The aiternates for Yale were H. H. Clark, 1903, F. E. Pierce, 1904, and Phil ip Troup, L. S; for Princeton, J. j.. Forstall, G. s. Hornblower and A. l.. Randall.
 The coaching for the Yale team has been in charge of, Mason Trowbridge and Professor c. H. Smith, assisted by MT. Wetzell c. U. Clark and Professor H. W. Rogers. -.
 A noteworthy feature of this debate was the unusual interest shown in it by the professors throughout the col- Iege. .a-~ .,-. s..t,, -
 The first speaker for the affirmative was W. M. Adriance, of Yale. His points were excellent and his manner most convincing. Reference was made to the innovation introduced by the Pennsylvania legislators who in sum- mary style forcihly took three recreant members who endeavored to tie up pro- ceedings by, staying away, and carry ing them to the state house, where they were shut in and made to vote. The fact that most of Europe uses the clos- ure rule was mentioned. The principal points of this speaker were that prece- dence in other countries, the necessity of stopping the holding up of the whole senate by the few. At the last con- gress many important questions were brought forward, but not one ever reached a vote. Obstruction must be stopped. The precedent of vetoing by two-thirds vote has been four times specified in the United States constitu-
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