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decades-in fact, alb urbe condta-it
had been the rule until late years that
new senators should experience
noyitiate, should for certain period
remain silent in the presence of their
seniors, take back seat and tarry at
Jericho till their boards We're 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
q "Reminiscences. New senators in this
year of our Lord and Master 1905 enter
the oratorical lists whenever the spirit
moves them, and truth to tell, they ap-
pear to hold their own with the patri-
aSehs. 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 c. Knox spoke like vet
eran on the same bill, or, to use
popular newspaper pleonasm, like IAN
old veteran This is the second sena-
torial 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 M.
La Toilette of Wisconsin, who demon
strated how completely the old senate
rule has fallen into "innocuous 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 appellation is Robert lie Diable."
heard him for an hour of his 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
BOON us the people come to understand
the true inwardness Of the situation.
This was received with uproarious APP
plause by the crowded galleries, which
50 outraged the tender feelings of Sen
ator Kean Of New Jersey that he asked
that the galleries be cleared" They
were not Cleared" but simply "ad-
monished." By actual count there were
exactly ten senators present during
that episode, but others came trooping
In. Evidently Hon. Robert NJ. La Fol
lette brought his nerve with him to
Washington.