Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-06-05
SENATOR ALDRICH, EVER ALERT
SECURES ROLL CALL WHEN
STONE SLEEPS"
CURRENCY BILL Is PASSED.
Rulings of Vice-President, According to
Burkett, Were Mostly Response
BILE for Result.
CONGRESS ENDS IT'S SESSION.

| Tic a1LeC . CLOCK SATURDAY AFTERNOON
and the currency bill was passed by a
vote of 43 to %, four Republican sena-
| tors voting in the negative. If Gum
| Shoe BilP' Stone of Missouri had been a
little more watchful and if Sly Steve
Elklns had not artfully engaged him in a
prolonged converse ton in the cloakroom
at critical moment there might be a
different story to tell Gum Shoe Bill
| slipped down. Aldrich worked a clever
trick, Vice President Fairbanks wavered,
| but in the end played a Gar Reed-like
game, dominated by the influence of the
clever and desperate Aldrich, and it was
all over. The bridge was rushed and
victory perched upon the banners of the
| Republican hosts. Horatius La Toilette,
after breaking all records for long-dis-
lance talking, and refreshing himself
! with fatal sleep, came upon the scene
ten minutes too late, just in time to hold
post mortem upon the remains OF his
| most sensational performance i'll the ma
| tlOnal arena.
The currency bill being out of the way,
both houses passed resolutions to adjourn
| sine die at 1850 Saturday night, and at
that hour the long session of the SiXtieth
Congress came to an end. President
Roosevelt signed the bill few minutes
! before adjournment.
Senator La Toilette gave way to Sena-
| tor Stone of Missouri D few minutes
| after Z o'clock Saturday morning, having
! held the floor for little more than
eighteen hours. Senator Stone held the
floor with a rambling speech, occasionally
| interrupted, till near l o'clock, when he
| gave way to Senator Gore. While he
was speaking Senator Stone whispered
/ to him that he was in the cloakroom
Il Ir1%r S,ynt'
notice. The alert Aldrich noticed this
| maneuver.
Aldrich's Plan Works.
| AS soon as Gore sat down Aldrich,
| standing in the center aisle, only a few
| feet from the presiding officers rostrum,
| quickly moved that a vote be taken on
the motion to adopt the conferees' report
on the currency bill and on that he de-
manded the yeas and nays. Before the
| vice president could more than half fin
| ish statement of the question and while
! the words were still falling from his lips
| the hair-trigger clerk having received his
instructions from the leader of the Sen
ate, began singing out: Mr.. Aldrich.
| ''YeaH' Mr.. Allison!' Mr.. Ankeny"'
''Mr. Bacon!'
| In twinkling the Senate chamber was
| in a great uproar. Senators rushed to
| and fro. Men came running out of the
cloakrooms, among them the lank form
of Gum Shoe Bill followed by Elk
| ms. Three or four men were prepared
to protest and to demand the floor. But
| it was too late. The magic roll call had
begun.
ceeding was sufficiently shown when the
currency bill was passed by vote of
43 to %.
The Democrats voted solidly against
it, and with them were only five Repub-
licans, La Toilette, Brown, Borah,
Bourne and Hepburn. Senator Kittridge
paired against it, but they did not go on
the record.
La Toilette Is Congratulated
President Roosevelt congratulated Sen
ator La Toilette at the capitol tonight
on his record breaking eighteen-hour
speech in the Senate yesterday and last
night against the Aldrich- VreeIand cur
rency bill.
'AIdrich has just been talking to me
about your big speech and how much
the Republicans enjoyed it. | congratu-
late you, senator, on breaking the rec
ord.''
Mr.. La Toilette laughingly thanked the
President and said he wished he was
still entertaining Mr.. Aldrich.
Mr.. Roosevelt then noticed a four-leaf
clover Mr.. La Toilette was wearing in
his lapel.
Did you find that before or after your
speech?'' asked the President
After" was the Wisconsin senator's
reply.
Why Fiibuster Failed.
To those who gave close attention to
the progress of events in the Senate dur
ing the filibuster which marked the clos
ing days of the recent session, the change
in the Interpretation of the Senate rules
was considered of far greater impor-
lance than the filibuster itself
Senator Burkett of Nebraska. who OBJ
served the parliamentary tactics en-
ployed by the majority to bring the OBJ
struction to an end, thus summarized the
situations:
was within the province of the chair to
count q quorum and that he would not or
der roll call if a quorum was actually
present.
2 The Senate by vote upon a point of
order submitted to, it by the vice president,
determined that the question of no quo
rum could not be raised until after in
tervening business, if the previous roll call
had disclosed a quorum present, and that
debate was not such intervening business.
3. A rule of the Senate. which in prac-
tice has always laid dormant, was invoked,
prohibiting a senator from addressing the
Senate upon any question more than twice
in any one day.
The result of these three interpreted
tons of the rules make 1t absolutely I'M
possible to prolong debate indefinitely,
and thus makes a filibuster impossible
where the end of the session is indeter-
inmate, for they give no opportunity for
intermission by a speaker except by
yielding the floor and after two such
Weddings of the floor, under the rule, he
will not be permitted to speak further on
that day. By refusing to adjourn and
thus continuing the same day until the
legislation shall be enacted, it is only
contingent car be successfully worn out.
Drawing on the Old Man.
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