The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-18
HE NIGHT TELEGRAPH REPORTS THE NEWS OF A CONTINENT


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lures have proved themselves unfit to
be the depositaries Of the power Of
electing senators.
The reasons which demand this
change, if acted upon and carried to
their logical result, will. lead to the
election by the direct popular vote, and
by popular majorities Of the president
and of the Judiciary, and will compel
the placing Of these elections under
complete national control It will re-
suit in the overthrow of the whole
Of the whole scheme of the national
constitution as designed and established
by the trainers Of the constitution and
the people who adopted it. -
The closing apostrophe of the re-
markable speech in which Senator Hoar
addressed himself to that resolution was
as follows: H.
f ''The great conquests which gave the
union and the constitution their empire
over the reason and affection Of our
countrymen have been achieved here
Here Webster hurled the weighty pro-
jectiles Of his irresistible argument.
Here the voice of Clay taught his coun-
trymen north and south the great les
son Of reconciliation. Here Calhoun
was borne in his dying hours, his great
heart overc oming the weakness and in
firmities of his sinking body, sitting, as
his colleague said, like "a wounded
eagle, with his eyes turned to the
heavens to which he scared, but into
which his wings could never carry him
again. Here the blood of Sumner was
shed-the baptismal water of our newer
liberty. Here Seward summoned his
countrymen to that irrepressible con
f1ict from whose issue the vanquished
gained even more than the vietors
Victories in arms are common to all
ages and to all nations. 49,
Victories in the Senate.
"We do not excel, and it may be we
do not equal, other people in these
things. But the greatest victories OF
constitutional liberty since the world
began are those whose battle ground
has been the American senate anC
whose champions have been the senators
who for hundred years, while they
have led, represented, guided, obeyec
and made effective the deliberate viii
of free people, .... aC. 49,
| S2nQfOr Of 4ho
minded men in public life in the United
States since the civil war. He wa.
honest himself, and he was quick to i'm
pute honesty to- others. The popula,
clamor which he undertook to answe,
was not directed against the Legitimate
delays Of the senate, due to honest anj
disinterested inquiry into public ques
tions. The idea,of the trainers of tn.
constitution that the senate should ac
as buffer between the statute book
and the demands Of a public that i
sometimes carried off its feet by ex
citement, is well understood today, an.
moreover is Endorsed. r.
y The thing to which Mr.. Hoar SCENE,
to be blind when he made his famou
address, is the painful fact that man
OF the most vexatious of senate dc
lays have been due, not to disinterest
ed search after knowledge, and tn
good OF the country, but to the 81
schemes of designing and subseryien
members, who come to this high bod
as the special representatives Of greed
corporate interests. These interest
have grown so strong that when unitec
as they always are in the senate, the
M nj 01y,on xSS l.
vent legislation that affected capits
| unfavorably-this regardless of tn
abstract justice of the proposed mea
ures. ..~ =
1t is against this situation that til
clamor Of today is directed. -"
One illustration of the adamantseha
acter of this corporation influence i
the senate is to~be found in the hi
tory of attempted pure food legisl
ton in that body. For considerabl
more than half score of years thel
has been a continuing effort to secul
the passage thru the senate of pu
food bill, and time after time the Sc
ate, after celebrating it, would d
cline to permit it to come to a vot
, This session, probably because of ii
7 int1amed condition Of the public min
: the senate permitted the bill to reat
: vote, and it passed with practical
no opposition. -.. T..
J y There are other measures almo
) without number, as meritorious as IL
, pure food bill, which have, not v
3 reached vote, altho pending for year
: This. seems to indicate the general pu
| pose of the senate. not to run count
: to certain corporate interests in Il
+ manufacturing states of the east.
The Senate's Error.
The senate will probably discov
: that it will take good deal more tn;
= the republication of Senator ,Hoar
o eloquent address to convince the cou
. try that senate practices have alwa
! been disinterested and directed
= high motives. If the senate won
permit bills, no matter how objectio
able they may be, to reach a rollca
= the country would be satisfied, no ms
ter whether these bills were passed
3 not. The responsibility could be mo
: accurately fixed.
1t is the habit which the senate h
8 of secretly .strangling these importa
t the death Of the Philippine tar
Y bill Of this session in committee is
illustration in point-that is respon
], BILE for almost the whole of the pub
b dissatisfaction.
i The senate policy Eof killing legisl
y ti0n in secret, and thus preventing t