Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-19
THE CONSTITUTICN.-
Dull Day When the DigrfieI lay
makers Can't Start Something On It.


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tf,s ea1lof,es md rho conptIz. Win tho
fact that thev are keeping vigilant guard
L. see that liberty and freedom don't get
away i'm the press of passing appronria-
tfon bills Senator's are only human. ana
they certainly do love to sit around the
stove fiSurativcly Spea king. ana wnttle
on stick The Senate isn't so all 4.red
different from the Crossroads store at
home where Senators got their first
training. Give the Senate a nice smooth
weIl-seas soned constitutional barrel stave
to make shaVings of. and it can pass
mighty comfortable rainy afternoon.
After a hard mornings work passing
bills by the fatiguinG method of leaning
back in their chairs and watching the
clerk do all the work the Senate bright
ems Up when one of its constitutional ex-
perts rises and begins to unroll that sa-
cred document of the fathers After pay
ing a high tribute To the wisdom and
patriotism of the trainers. he points out
that they didn't mean anything like what
the Senators on the other side think they
meant when they wrote the instrument
under which the Government now exists,
but a great deal more
Tho ,fahata is than m
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n So the anproDriation hills in peace with |
,ut dragging jefferson and Hamilton in. |
But that is not the Senate's way. 1t does |
lot want to pass the bills in peace. Con-
stitutionaI debates are not forced ,lpon |
he Senate--it goes out and drags the |
in bv the hair Let a bill !
,ome in to build an addition to a post !
,fTice out in Arkansas or to correct the !
military record of a voluntee~ who |
ont two teeth climbing over a !
ence in the Black Hawk War. and in 10 !
minutes Senators will he deadlocked in a |
lebate over the proposition whether
lanes Madison or Alexander Hamilton