Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-06-05
HOW Ia F0LLETTE'S
FILIBUSTER FELL
G1NATCR ALDRICH, EVER ALERT,
SECURES ROLL CALL WHEN
STONE SLEEPS"
CURRENCY BILL Is PASSED.
Rulings of Vice-President, According to
Burkett, Were Mostly Response
bic for Result.
CONGRESS ENDS IT'S SESSION.

CONORESo ENID LIS SESSlON.
] WASHINGTON, ID. c., June l.
The La Toilette filibuster collapsed lit
lie after / o'clock Saturday afternoon
and the currency bill was passed by Il
vote Of A to -, four Republican sena-
Tors voting in the negative. If Cum
>hOe Bill" Stone Of Missouri had been
little more watchful and if Sly Steve
i1Iklns had not artfuIly engaged him in
prolonged conversation i'll the cloakroom
1t critical moment there might be
Ilfferent story to tell. Gum Shoe Bill
shipped down. Aldrich worked Il clever
rick, Vice President Fairbanks wayered,
Out ~ the enu played IL Gar Reed-like
game, dominated by the influence Of the
.ieyer and desperate AIdrich, and it was
all over. The bridge was rushed and
victory perched upon the banners of the
Republican hosts. Horatius La Toilette,
after breaking ali records for Iong-dls-
lance talking, and refreshing himself
with fatal sleep, came upon the scene
ten minutes too late, just i'll time to hold
L post mortem upon the remains of his
most sensational performance i'll the ma
tIonal arena
The currency bill being out of the way,
! both houses passed resolutions to adjourn
sine die at II 30 Saturday night and at
that hour the long session of the SiXtieth
| Congress came to an end. President
| Roosevelt signed the bill Il few minutes
before adjournment.
Senator La Toilette gave way to Sena-
tor Stone of Missouri few minutes
after o'clock Saturday morning having
held the floor for a little more than
eighteen hours. Senator Stone held the
/ floor with Il rambling speech, occasionally
interrupted till near / o'clock, when he
gave way to Senator Gore. While he
was speaking Senator Stone whispered
to him that he was in the cloakroom
ready to come on duty at a moments
notice. The alert Aldrich noticed this
/ maneuver-
Aldrich's Plan Works.
As soon as Gore sat down Aldrich,
standing III the center aisle, only a few
/ feet from the presiding officers rostrum,
! quickly moved that Il 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
sh statement of the question and while
the words We're 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!'
! Yea, Mr.. Allison" Mr.. Ankeny"'
/ Mr.. Baconr'
/ In twinkIing the Senate chamber was
1 III Il great uproar Senators rushed to
and fro. Men came running out of the
/ clOakroOmS, among them the lank form
of Cum 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.
The folly of the whole flibustering pro-
ceeding WAS sufficiently shown when the
currency bill was passed by wore of
The Democrats voted solidly against
it, and with them We're only five Repub-
! leans, La Toilette, Brown. Borah,
! Bourne and Hepburn. Senator Kttridge
and one or two other Republicans were
! paired against it, but they did not go OH
! the record
La Toilette Is Congratulated
! President Roosevelt congratulated Sen
! ator La Toilette at the capitol tonight
on his record breaking eIghteen-hOur
! speech i'll the Senate yesterday and last
! night against the Aldrich- NreeIand cur
! rency bill
| ''Aldrich has just been talking to me
! about your big speech and how much
! the Republicans enjoyed it. | cOngratu-
! late. you, senator, on break king the rec
! ord
Mr. La Toilette laughingly thanked the
! President and said he wished he was
! still entertaining Mr.. Aldrich.
! Mr.. Roosevelt then noticed Il 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
I 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 tilibuster 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
| situation:
! l. The Vice President announced that it
! was within the province of the chair -
! count quorum and that he would not or
! Ger Il roll call II quorum was actually
! present.
/ > The Senate by vote upon 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 quorum present, and that
! debate was not such intervening business
! uce 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 interpreta-
! tons of the rules make it absolutely i'm
! possible to prolong debate indefinitely.
and thus makes Il fiilibuster impossible
where the end of the session is indeter-
inmate, for they give no opportunity for
! 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
/ 1 alter of time until any filibustering
1 contingent can he successfully worn out.