The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02
WILL DO NO HARM
Senator Curtis Opinion of the
Financial Bill.
Only a Temporary Measure,
He Says.
NEW FINANCIAL
Will Be the Result Of Currency
Agitation.
NEW FINANCIALPLANS
Expects to Put i'm Summer
Speaking Over State.

From the standpoint of the people
who made it," said Senator Charles
Curtis, who returned from Washing
ton at noon today, the great filibus-
ter which marked the close of the
session of congress was a mistake. 1
believe it was a good thing for the
Republican party. 1t caused the SEN
atorS to look over the old rules. and
lind way by a flibuster could be
checked. l believe it will lead to the
adoption of a new rule which will de-
| fine the authority of the senate SO
that there will be no danger of fur
ther filibustering. Senators should be
compelled to make speeches, not read
from books. Senator LaFOllette and
| the others who handled this filibuster,
except Senator Gore, did not make
speeches, but confined themselves
mostly to reading from documents.
The president of the senate was about
to rule that reading from documents
did not constitute a speech, when this
other rule relating to bringing on a
roll call was dug up and put into
execution.
OF course I suppose that Senator La
Follette will use this as subject for
| a lot of speeches. 1t has given him
much notoriety, and brought him be-
tore the public. But the filibuster was
hopeless. 1t never had a chance OF
success, because we would have stayed
| there six months if necessary to pass
| those bills.
Concerning the currency bill, the
compromise bill which took the place
of the .Aldrich bill, 1 will say mat
there are some features of it 1 don't
| may result in good. 1t is only tenn
porary measure. 1t means that we
will have some new financial legisia-
| ton in the immediate future. a COM
mittee has been appointed to take
charge of the currency Investigations
and that committee is going to get
| right down to work. The result will
be new financial system or cor
| rection of the old one TO suit new
demands No, the bill which we
do any harm. l don't look for any
further financial trouble, but If any
thing should happen, this measure
might afford much assistance.
THE bill was favored by the presi-
dent, and was passed under his ad-
vice. The employees liability bill, the
ash pan bill, and the bill allowing
employees of the government to bring
suits for damages against the govern
ment in personal injury cases, were all
needed very badly, and there was a
general demand for them from all
parts of the country.
MY sister came home with me, and
we will get our house in order mere,
dllu get ISdoy " IOCOlFe lHS lSSt u
the family, who are now In washing
ton. They will stay there until June
II, when the high school closes. My
son is attending the high school. I
will go to Boston on June %, after the
national convention, to see my daugn-
ter graduate from the school she is
attending there. After my return from
| the east 1 will put in the summer
speaking at Chautauquas, reunions.
and other public occasions here in the
CT to n1rf nr,
two or three special commissions to
work this summer, but 1 asked to be
excused. 1 wanted to spend this sum-
mer in Kansas.
II don't know anything about politi-
! cal conditions here. / have not been
here long enough. 1t looks as though
there was going to be a pretty hot
| fight doesn't it?"