The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-05-25

Senator Fairbanks found another occasion to max
j. isthmian address. I'm til the hour came for it
livery he had an eye sin gle for Senator Morgan
le Alabaman, however, for in his life whe
pet subject up for discussion was content
still and say nothing. In the press galleries
as whispered that Mr.. NJ organ wasn't feeling yer
ell that day
In the particular case Of the Panama matter SEN
tor Cullom, being the chairman the committee
on foreign relations, had charge of the legisla.
ton the floor of the senate. The trials OF
Senator Cullom that occasion were the trials
of the pilot every measure of magnitude that
is launched for passage through either house
or senate.
Nearly every senator and representative wishes
to make a speech the big things that are
before congress. OF course all of them cannot
speak, but the trials of the in charge begin
when the members ask that their speaking may
be postponed for day two. The intending
speakers have their frailty of vanity. They want
to speak when the galleries not crowded, and
If the galleries are not crowded they ask that
they may speak another day.
When the Panama matter up Senator Gull
lom finally became angry and tired with the
tors who asked that yet another day be set for
the making of their speeches. The Illinois senator
did not wish Senator Morgan to have all the
time to himself, and Morgan could be counted
on to take every minute that dropped to him
to talk about the glories of the Nicaraguan route
for canal, about the imbecility of using the
Panama route and about the Republican sin Of
the recognition of the republic on the isthmus.
The Panama matter is only an instance in
point. Many a speech on the railroad rate bill
was put off because the attendance not
what it should have been from the viewpoint of
the who was to speak. Congressman have
their human weaknesses.
The last great duty which Senator Plat of
Connecticut performed for his country his
work as presiding officer Of the senate court dur
ing the trial of Judge Charles Swayne. Unques-
str If fhof riol CHI
Platt's life He presided with dignity and with
the rarest impartiality. The hours of the courts
session were long and yet the aged Connecticut
senator refused to leave his seat even for the
getting of necessary food until the session of
each day ended.
Prior to the opening of the trial Senator Plat
stood in the vice presidents place and told his
colleagues that 1t was their duty not to lose a
word of the testimony lest they bring in an un
just verdict. The result of this was that with
one or two exceptions the senators sat in their
seats and heard important and unmportant test
mony listening to every argument OF counsel.
and lest anything should escape them they made
insistent demand that every witness should speak
so that all men in the chamber might hear.
1t is probable that before onequarter Of the
trial proceedings of the against Charles
Swayne ended every senator had made up
his mind to the guilt or the innocence OF the
accused but the belief of guilt innocence
formed early did not prevent the attendance of
any member of that high court during the entire
time of the trial. Judge Swayne acquitted.
His acQuittal not made party matter, as
many feared it to be. On of the counts
against him he acquitted unanimously On
others where there minority which believed
him guilty both Democrats and Republicans
formed part of that minority.
Senator Jacob H. Gallinger is known in con-
gress as the chief Of the humanitarians and as
the father of many reforms.