The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-28
Currency Measure Encounters
Obstacles in the Senate.
Democrats Seize Opportunity to
Make Party Capital.
CALL UP THE GHOSTS.
6 Employers Liability and
Campaign Publicity Bills.
Senator Aldridge Is Subjected
to Many Interruptions.

Washington, May 2S.-An unusual
ly large number of senators were in
their places today, many having re-
turned from their homes in response
to kilograms asking their presence
when the conference report on the
currency bill should be taken up. The
temperature was high, all the doors
were open and palm leaf fans were
again in evidence. In the lobby out
side Secretary Taft was holding a
reception and for the want of a fan
he operated his big palmetto hat to
keep down the Precipitation. The
journal had been read only five min
utes when Senator Fulton at the re-
quest of Senator Aldrich asked
unanimous consent to dispense with
Its further readings.
81 object" yelled Mr.. Gore, the
blind senator from Oklahoma. and his
words We're accompanied by laughter
on the Democratic side. Immediately
before the senate was called to order
Mr. Gore was in conference with
Senator La Toilette and his course in
Directing to the approval of the jour
nal without reading suggested that
these two senators who are uncom-
promisingly against the Aldrich-Vree-
land currency bill, which Is the order
for the day, might Join in obstructive
tactics. 1t developed from informal
discussions among senators that Mr..
Gore was the only member of the
Democratic senators that urged a
united stand against the bill which
had been agreed upon should take the
form of a filibuster.
Mr.. Aldrich came into the chamber
a few minutes after IL O'Clock and
smiled when the senator from Okla
homa insisted upon the reading of the
journal in full. Senator La Toilette
moved about on the Democratic side,
his manner being interpreted as in
dicating purpose to secure as COM
plete a discussion of the currency
bill as circumstances would permit.
Senator Warren (Wyo.) reported
bill from the committee on military
affairs and asked immediate con-
sideratfon, but Mr.. Aldrich, declaring
that there would be an abundance of
time for such matters after the con-
ference report on the currency bill
was out of the way objected.
AIdrich Explains.
Mr.. Aldrich then entered upon his
promised explanation of the compro-
mise currency bill, but he did not go
far when the Democratic senators be-
gan demonstration which. Indicated
that they were not quiescent as had
been represented and that they had no
intention of letting the bill go through
without making at least a little trou-
BILE
Beginning, Mr. Aldrich said sections
one and two of the bill were the only
sections that had not been considered
by the senate He explained the change
in the forms of taxation and said it in
creased the average taxation for four
months to the extent of one-ha1f of one
per cent, making the average 61z per
cent. He approved the new features of
the bill reviewing the contents of each
section.
Mr.. Aldrich had not spoken at great
length when Mr.. Culberson asked
whether the senator from Rhode Island
could give some assurance that an an
ti-injunction bill would be passed be-
fore congress adjourned. This was the
first positive indication of an effort to
obtain party capital out of the situa-
ton and the interruption aroused gen.
eral interest.
Mr. Aldrich replied, speaking for
himself, he believed it was absolutely
impossible at this session to pass such
a bill because of the great diversity of
opinion on that subject. Some sena-
tors, he said, believed the powers of
Judges should not be curtailed and
there were other views on that section,
but he did believe that at the next
session such bill could be passed as
there would then be time to adjust
differences of views.
Campaign Publicity Bill.
Again Mr.. Culberson interrupted
and asked to know whether cam