Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-16
YOUNG BREAKS
ALL SENATE
PRECEDENT
COLLEAGUES TO
GASP AND THEN LAUGH
Says Country Would Be Re-
Iieved if Congress Would
Go0ut of Business Altogether
for a Couple of Years,

my Morning Journal Special Isassd wirsl
Washington, Dee. l6.-Senator La.
fayctte Young OF iowa today gave the
exclusive body of which he has been
u member exactly ten days the sur
prise Of its existence.
lie had prepared to make an attack
on his colleague. senator cummins,
who seeks the passage Of q concurrent
resolution. changing the rules Of the
senate ana house so as to permit
p~eieemeli revision Of The Payne-Al-
drich tariff law, This he said. and
more.
Doffing his tosa when he arose. n
lccturod the grave and dignified sena-
t0rh from the standpoint OF an editor,
which tfe is in private life.
The senate gnspcd and then laughed
when Mr.. Young told II that the
try would feel relieved were congress
90 adjourn altogether for TWO solid
years, II sasped again when he al
.luded to It's members In breezy fash
ion as boys. and when he declared
that the editors OF the country, ana
not congress, ruled the country, the
galleries joined with senators in gen
.eral hilarity.
senator Young's speech, which oc~
.cupicd less than nm hour, commanded
the strictest attention. The senator
mad prepared an address which WAS
before him on his desk, bnt he seldom
consulted the printed transcript. lie
warmed az he proceeded. and appar-
rntly realizing that IL might he at once
his aalntatcry ana his swan song, he
a. pkc his real thoughts on legislation
ana on the national legislature.
His reference To editors and print
crs' ink, az the real directors of the
destiny of the nation. was followed by
d%isnvoWal of any intent to offend.
when he called his colleagues boys"
he accompanied it With a wave of his
hand. This incident followed a story
Of how. just rs he was about 70 take
the train FOR WASHINGTON and the sen
ate, q constituent "button-hOled' him.
"Co down there, senator said the
constituent. "and for heavens sake,
put up a fight for the consumer"
Il viii not Mr.. Young said he re-
pliod. Those boys there are doing
right. ann going to fight for the pro-
Queer
Standing IN senator Tillman's place,
AIR. Young attracted general attention
when he arose. not only because of
the novelty involved in n set speech
from SO new q senator, but because
Of the duaintness ana forcefulness Of
his language as he warmed to his
work.
MIR. Young opposed all efforts at re-
vision on the existing tariff, because,
he continued, the law protects the
farmer. He had great fear. he said,
that ultimately the adoption of the
resolution would prove in
furious to the great agricultural in
t~ercsts,
THE principal complaint against
the tariff MS regards prices he said,
il reference to the products o.
the farm, Therefore, we might antici-
pate chat the first schedule that would
come from the other house would be
the agricultural schedule. ! would be
for Secretary Wilson or II
number Of great farmers To be caught
alone with that schedule with no
means of defense.
''The weapons of offensc and de-
Tense IN LEGISLATION are the right of
amendment. and the privilege of Of
substitutes. NY colleague would
away from himself ana myself
the right OF introducing the wooden
schedule as "A substitute for Il pro-
posed amendment which might put
agricultural products on the free list.
III the proposed rule should become a
of the TWO houses we would be de-
the privileges of fighting for our
by the arraignment of the
interests of others.
MIR. Young spoke Of the recent
events, and plainly referring to the
progressive republicans, said that ar
by men within the repub-
.icun party had produced democratic
In discussing the attacks by in
.urgonts upon the principle of protee-
ion. Mr.. Young told of meeting Col
mel william }. Bryan recently and
To- him that just as h latter
progressed in fitness for the presi-
honey his chances had diminished, and
hat. ass he had now become "a con
ervntlye. his party would not prefer
MIN Tor that high office.