The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-30
Is Making One of the Greatest
Fights in the History of
The United States Sen
ate.
BEGAN TO TALK YES
TERDAY ABOUT NOON
He Continued His Grafton Un-
til Seven O'clock This Morn
ing, When He Was Re-
Iieved by Stone.


| Washington. D. c., May 3O-At sew
en- o'clock this morning, Senator La
Toilette, the leader of the filibuster
against the compromise currency bill,
was relieved by Senator Stone of Mis-
souri,, after speaking continuously
since twelve forty o'clock yesterday,
thereby breaking all previous records.
/ Lafollette showed but little fatigue and
said he felt fresh. He went home to
/ sleep three or four hours with the in
intention of returning TO the floor of
the Senate resumng his argument.
However, AIdrich, of the committee on
/ rules, has dug up an old rule from the
archives, providing that senator may
not speak on the same subject twice
during one legislative day, and expects
to force LaFollette to surrender. La
toilette will object to this.
! The most tense, dramatic and inter
! esting proceedings of recent years in
! the United States senate were ushered
+ in yesterday, when the filibuster be-
! gan.
Assisting LaFollette in the effort to
prolong the session and defeat the bill
are Senator Gore of Oklahoma and
| Senator Stone of Missouri. LaFOl-
lette has other sympathizers, but none,
it is said, who will go so far as to join
! him in what he promises to be one of
! the famous loug distance talking
matches in history.
LaFOllette declares that he will be
able to furnish chin music to keep the
! senate running six. weeks longer.
Stone is Determined.
When Stone appeared in the Senate
chamber with a mass of manuscript
large enough to choke an elephant his
democratic colleagues gathered around
him and tried to dissuade him but he
shook his head in d determined way
and made ready to open the flood
gates of his elocuence
There is a shreWd suspicion abroad
| that his attack on the currency meas
ure championed by Aldrich may give
him lift in the senatorial race.
La Toilette leaned on the back of his
chair a considerable part of the time
while speaking. He said he would do
everything to conserve his strength, as
| he wanted it to last a long time. Oc-
! casionally when he became excited he
| would forget his recent sickness and
exhibit great agility in rushing down
the aisle and shaking his fist at Sen
ator Aldrich and others.
| With the filibuster only apparently
started La Toilette has got on the ner-
yes Of many of the senators. who had
made their arrangements to start
home today. The cloakroOm COM
ment on his performance is anything
! but complimentary. Some of the East
ern clique of senators say there can
/ be no point to his opposition except to
advertise himself and create a demand
( for his chautauqua lectures, as con-
gress will stay in session long enough
| to wear him out and pass the bill if
| that takes all summer.
Senator Beveridge is inclined to be
a La Toilette sympathizer in this fight
| His objection is chiefly to the asset
currency provision of the AIdrich-
Vreeland bill. He thinks that the rec
/ ognition of asset currency is a bad
precedent to establish in legislation
His views on this point are very pro-
/ nounced, but it is not believed he will
break away from the republican ma
jority and vote against the bill
The feature that drew forth the
! fiercest attack from the badger states
man is the fact that the railroad bond
feature of the Aldrich biIl-the feature
which the Rhode Island senator with
drew from his measure the day that
La Toilette arose from his sick bed to
talk against the bill-has been rein
! serted in the compromise document
! Senator La Follette's clerk was Or
dered out from the floor of the senate
/ yeSte rday afternoon on a point of or
der made by Senator Gallinger. who
said that under the rules no clerk of
senator could remain in the chamber
/ for more than two hours unless engag-
/ ed in the transaction Of actual busi-
ness. The clerk had been constantly
keeping La Toilette supplied with in
/ formation as to the number of sena-
/ tors present, which aided him mater
. tally in making the point of no quorum
| Other senators resented his action in
/ this resDect