The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-03
TORRI .::f DEBATES IN :5'T;I WEATHER. LaFo|Isrlv Is Star in the Big
 Senate Discussions MIR GORE Is INTERESTING Republicans Pay Close Attention to LaFoIlette Because He Is Backed
 In His Attacks On the Tariff
 By Cummins.
MR. GORE Is INTERESTING

Washington. Jung -(SpeciaL) Mot only has the weath> warmed up in Washington but the senators, and par ticularly the republican insurgents; ->s also warming up in the tariff discus sion. The speeches of Seuators Lodge and Shoot yesterday in which they en- deavored so industriously to defend the cotton goods schedule, appear to have put the republican insurgents on their mettle. They do not relish either the sudden turn of things under which the republican bosses of the Senate after all decided to try the~ night session on the bill. Senator Burkett of Nebras- ka, who is one of the most persistent and fwatchful insurgents, is known to have privately informed the managers that in this move they are making a gigantic mistake but evidently they do not think so, otherwise they would not have passed the order for the evening sessons, especially after having last week decided not to be too exacting. Mir. Burkett says, and quite a number of other senators agree with him, that more would be accomplished really if the daily sessions were limited to four or five hours. Then he contends that nearly all the senators would remain pretty regularly in their, seats and no time would be lost in the many calls for a quorum that are made on ac- count of the empty seats in the cham Der. Another thing the senator's gen erally would be better posted on what Is being said and done and not com pelled to read the record each day to see what has taken place duging tn cir absence. They have a whole lot of oth- CT matters to look after besides at
 tending the sessions while Congress is grinding away. They are aware that the fight for higher duties is dragging wearily along, and that is why they | disappear Tn squads from th \ cha n7h V, The prediction is Hssde Sts { yAVu. ! sle l Votes items are taken MT. Aldrich and his followers are going to have
 trouble in keeping their forces on hand l if they insist upon roll calls during the l evening sessions.
 l Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin was the star today in the discussions. In the early part of the morning the blind statesman from Oklahoma, Mir Gore, made some hot replies to the arguments of Mr Lodge 1 yesterday. But the Oklahoman Is dem- ocrat and what he says does not count so much in a body so heavily republican LaFollette, however, Is one of the most rampant lIiclxers within the republican fold and his long talk today was full of fire and spunk. Aldrieh Lodge, Hale and Shoot would not do him the honor to listen to much of his speech. Every now and then one of this quartet would emerge from the cloak room to look over the situation and report to the others just how many senators were in their seats listening to the pointed attack being made upon the finance committees bill by the badger statesman
 All of the republican insurgents paid the closest attention to IaFollette. He has a seat over on the democratic side of the hamber. Most of them came over and located near him. This was not be- cause they had any difficulty in hearing him for he spoke in loud tones. Senator Cummins of Iowa got up close enough to him to every now and then suggest in undertones new line of attack. And when the Senate, on account of the excess sive heat took a recess for 30 minutes Mir Cummins promptly got the ear of Senator LaFollette and engaged him in earnest conversation