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and Practice of Contempt Of Court, .
the other entitled THE Subserviency
of the Federal Judiciary to Great Cor
porations. By so doing he would have
rendered a vast public service and Incl
dentally would have achieved imper-
ishabIe renown.
Exit the Old.
When Gaiilei said, THE world
moves he was not thinking Of the
United States senate, but nevertheless
his celebrated dictum applies to that
body, which is sometimes styled ''the
most august In it Wis inertiae is at
the maximum, but even it moves. For
decades in fact, alb urbe condita-it
had been the rule until late years that
new senators should experience a
novitiate, should for certain period
remain silent in the presence of their
seniors. take axback seat and tarry at
Jericho till their boards were grown,
under penalty Of being sat upon heav-
lily and unanimously if they violated
the hoary presidents But change is
written on all things human, and in
course of time even that cOnsecrated
rule had to give way. Just who was
the first to infract it may not be stated
with precision Perhaps it was John
Griffin Carlisle, once of Kentucky, now
of New York Whoever was the
pioneer in breaking it, it is now only
a "Reminiscences New senators in this
year of our Lord aud Master 1906 enter
the oratorieal lists whenever the spirit
moves them, and, truth to tell they APP
pear to hold their own with the patri-
archs. Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas,
though still in his first term, looms
large on the senatorial horizon, leading
the Democratic contingent in the rail-
road rate bill, momentous question.
He now ranks among the great con-
stitutional lawyers, not of this era only,
but OF all time Ex-Attorney General
Philander G. Knox spoke like a vet
eran on the same bill, or, to use a
popular newspaper pleonasm, like an
old veteran" This is the second sena-
ltorial year for the Pennsylvania.
Senator Rayner of Maryland SHE'D his
castor into the ring and won immense
applause. He is just beginning his
second year. Senator Francis g. New
lands of Nevada. bright, graceful,
scholarly, philosophic, the father OF the
irrigation bill, spoke as though he was
seasoned to senatorial manners.
Then came Ex-Governor Robert NJ.
ia Fajlettp of Wisconsin. who demon
strated how completely the old senate
rule has fallen into .sinnocuous desue-
tude'' by speaking somewhat more
than two days on the rate bill! The
fact that the conscript fathers treated
him with such scant courtesy that most
of them left the chamber when he be-
gan only drew the more attention to
the pugnacious Bob. Up in Wisconsin
the Spooner faction think that his prop
er appelIation is Robert Le Diable.
I heard him for an hour of bis three
days' speech, and that hour demon
strated thoroughly that he is master OF
his subject and if the Republicans do
not look out he is liable to. be master
Of their side of the senate. 1t was dur
ing that hour that La Toilette called
attention to the fact that his senatorial
brethren were giving him the marble
heart by temporarily vacating their
seats, which he intimated might be
permanently vacated, SO far as the
present occupants are concerned, so
soon as the people come to understand
the true inwardness Of the situation.