The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-30

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 Ln Toilette rndignauf,
 Showing the greatest indignation. he resorted to every expedient to carry his point hy various motions. but was obliged to abide by a vote of s2 to g. to lay his appeal on the table. Mr. Gore ineieted that the vote showed one tess than 6 quorum and the vice-Phesi. dent announced that a quorum was present in spite of tho vote.
 Does the presiding officer intend to establish a precedent of counting 2 suggesting that that action must come back to plague the Senate"
 Vice President Fairbanks in the chair. read from a decision by Allen e Thurman. June i9. 1873 when he an- nounced that there was a quorum pres ent. although not shown by the vote. During the colloquy, Mir. Aidrieh was on his feet appealing from the ruling. and large number of Senators were present on the Republican side.
 Mir. cuiberson then continued the reading of his statement of receipts and expenditures. During six years Of the Roosevelt administration, said he, there had been created s,sls of.
 acers. "And this" he continued" does not include any commission ne may have created. He quoted figures showing that preceding administrations had created fewer offices than those of dwalt upon the rshc'ss in the revenues compared with the rec sipts since 1908. He reviewed expenditures in various branches of Government. and dwelt upon the increase of the naval military establishments The expenditures for the military and that for the six years exceeded tilose Of the preceding years he said, 10 the extent Of s4is,3t2.fsa. or over tt37 per cent, end for the naval establishments to the extent of s42e,- 100000. or over 2sS per cent. The combined expenditures for these two branches of the service during six years were eS44.a70,S25, or over IFS per cent iS excess of the previous years. while In that time there had been no cor responding increase In the population. He concluded by declaring that these figures should startle the people Of the country and indicate that the nation was pursuing a course of militarisui. 1 During q short interval after the com clusion of Afr. Culberson's remarks and before Mir. LaFoliette took the floor | there was . demand that the question
 of adopting the report be put to the
 senate.
 The Wisconsin senator said he pre- suned he had q right to call for . l quorum and forthwith demanded that l the roll be called. He then declared hs
 had the floor after fifty-seven senators
 had responded to the roll cali. MT l LaFollette proceeded with his re. marks. The railroad bond feature oi | the bill as brought back in the con- l ference report was the chief object oi his comment. On the republican side not more than half 4 dozen appeared to pay much attention to the wfscon, l sin senator.
 Mir. LaFollette in loud tones and with 1 great show Of politeuess. suggested that he would like to have the senator from l Rhode Island hear what he had to sas l and that if he could not hear him, hl ! could draw nigh
 Before he hed spoken half an hour l Mfr. LaFoIiette hal made two demands l for a roll call. Senator Stone upor | whom the Wisconsin senator depended | as his only assistant lfi the hlibuster was present for only q minute and | | was understood that he was preparins a speech against the biIl.