Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-11
LA FoLLETTE AND CARTIER.
Two Senators Who arc Expected to
 Have . Talking Match Soon.

Washington, D. C., July 1l.-Sen- ator La Toilette of Wisconsin, who
 has disturbed the equanimity of the united States senate to greater de- gree than any new senator in the his- tory of the body. proposes to make this a pretty hot summer for some of
 his republican colleagues. His re-
 ception in the senate was not as cor
 dial as 1t might have been, to put 1t
 mildly. In fact. considerable num-
 Der of the older republican senators
 quietly took occasion to lay some
 logs in the way of Senator La Fol-
 lette's pet legislative ideas, with the
 result that those reforms which are
 very near to the Wisconsin senator's
 heart had pretty rough sailing
 through the legislative sea.
 Senator La Toilette, whose reputa-
 tion as fighter had preceded him in Washington, battled manfully for
 his pet theories, but the odds were
 too strong for him and the end of the
 session came with many of his ideas
 hung up high and dry. Several times
 during the session senators applied
 the rules of the senate to MT La Fol
 lette and blocked his plans by mo-
 tions to lay on the table his amend ments, which embodied the reforms
 he desired to inaugurate. Oddly enough. Senator La Toilette had lit tie or no difficulty with his own col league, Senator Spooner. The two Wisconsin senators are as far apart as the poles in their methods and ideas. but openly they did not clash. They treated each other with studied courtesy, much to the surprise of those who were cognizant of their feelings toward each other. Other senators, however, did not hesitate to exercise their parliamentary pre- negatives to the undoing of the junior senator from Wisconsin. Senators Nelson of Minnesota, Hale of Maine and Carter of Montana incurred the enmity of Mir La Toilette, and they are among the men under whom the Wisconsin senator intends to build a hot fire.
 At the close of the recent session La Toilette said to Carter that he proposed to visit Montana before congress reconvened and to pay his to him in the presence of his own constituents. "All right" the Montana senator. Come out and see us. Let me know when you are coming and I'll make arrangements to give you a good time."
 It is not unlikely, therefore, that the two senators may become in volved in a sort of joint debate be- fore many weeks pass, and it is cer- tain that if they do there will be going on in the state of Montana that will be worth a trip | across the continent to hear. Both are accomplished speakers md both are possessed of vitriolic .ongues. Of the two, Carter Is the nore experienced rough and tumble lebater, and, in the opinion of old observers, the chances Ire that before the debate has pro- ,eeded far La Toilette will have ound that he has dug up more makes than he conveniently can kill.
 The Wisconsin senator intends, %, to visit Minnesota and attack senator Knute Nelson before the atter's Scandinavian constituents. Nelson will be there when he arrives md the promise on both sides of a lisplay of intellectual pyrotechnics s given with an intensity of feeling hat will make for spirited time.
 La Toilette will extend his 'lec- ure" engagements to the eastern tates. He is expected to speak in Delaware. Connecticut and perhaps n Rhode Island. He will tell what Ie knows about the senators from hose states. It is not likely he will xtend his peregrinations to Senator Iale's state of Maine, for even he ecognizes that he might be wasting lis breath in trying to pry Hale loose rom his hold on that commonwealth. lis seeming neglect of Senator Hale rill not be due, however, to either ear of the Maine veteran or desire ot to give him trouble. He will wait his chance in the forum of the enate and there the two may be ex- ected some day to clash brilliantly.