Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-05-13
SENATE IS WITHOUT
SECOND OFFICER
Voting ON Successor to Frye
for President Pro Teempore
for President Pro Tempore
day, in Upper Branch.

sumcd Monday
In the absence of In. ,ice.pt,si.
dent 70 would oe Impossible to pro.
| ccod with the consideration OF the
resolution for election of senators by
direct vote aud II IL possiJi. 20 tic
up that matter until TIE election is
disposed.
| When senator William t. Frye,
| statesman from Maine recently re-
signed ~ president pro TEN of the
senate he had held that place longer
than ANY other man IN the history of
The government
CHOSEN on December :, 1898. at the
opening pf the stth congress. he
had served for more than fifteen
years, and during nearly one half OF
that time hc actually presided over
the deliberations Of the senate be-
cause thsr" was no vice. president
For nearly three years. following the
( death OF Vicc-Prcsident Hobart. he
sat Ia the presidents chair, and
Tor more than three years after Vice
Pr, sidont Roosevelt moved up To the
white house To- take the place OF the
iamentcd Mckinley. he was also the
presiding officer of the senate.
| ordinarily the prcsidon, protein Of
tho senate who IN chosen by the sem
ate Itself. * merely a substitute pre-
siding Office who wields the gavcl,
when the vice. president happens to
be absent. There rs nothing Ia com
pol 'hc vice. president to attend ses-
sions of the senate. and he can re-
main away whenever he picascs
knowing that IL he is not there tho
senate viii do business Just the same.
ana that the president protein will
set ia his place When the vico-prc
/ idcncy * vacated. however. the prcsl-
dent protom steps into his shoes Ho
moves into the presidents office.
aud enjoys the porguinltes thereof.
which include the appointment of a
| few clsrks. u secretary and messenger
and he also draws thu salary allowed
thu vic"- president WHOM Vico-Prcs-
ldcnt Hobart died aud senator Frye
t"pk his place az presiding oificrr and
his office room. he was surprised ono
day when he dropped into the Office
of the sergcani-at arms OF the senate
80 draw his salary as senator. ana
that official handed him considerably
more than he had been accustomod
To- receive
Tho senator handed back the
lnmnuut. which was lu excess of tho
monthly salnvy ~ senator. and re-
marked that the oincial had made q
mistake md had ovorpnid him
"Np. IN" amount is correct par-
sisted The sergeant -at-arms IL then
lcNpl1jned, 90 be the surprise of Mr.
Frye that being president protein uf
the senate and acting IN place of the
" ee- president he was entitled TO
draw the sainry of the vice. president
The salary uf the Vice president was
then tS.00o a year. aud that OF som
ato' S1.0on Since then the salary
OF the vicc-prcsidcnt has been incroas-
ell Ia si2.ooo q year. and that of sen.
latnrf Ia 81. $40.
When The N!co- president has indi-
Gated 70 the president protein tha;
h. win D., absent on certain day,
II IL the duty of the president protein
to designate a senator a. preside over
The senate II he himself can ne, bo
lpres MT This senator Fry. has re-
poatcdl, done recently when Illness
has made Il impossible for him a.
preside, senator FRYE is the only
senator during whose service as pres
id,ut protein the Office of vice-p -prosi-
dent has twice been vacated
Waiir there have been - different
speakers of the house. in2iuding the
present one. there have been 81 diff
frent presidents protein of the sen
ate The first one was John Langdon
of Nea Hampshire who served
throughout the first congress. and
! was succeeded Ia the second con,
sress by Richard Henry Lee of vir-
: Rtnia. While the service of senator
Frye has been the longest IN the hs.
tory ~ the senate, that Of Lewis tass
; of Michigan. once Democratic candl'
dsir for the presId, ncy. was tho
shortest. lie served one day as pres,
ident protein of the senate. He wal
elected on peccmber 1, 1894 as pres
ideni protein of the senate, in tn;
second session of the 33rd congress
and resigned the following day Jesse
In. Bright of Indiana was chosen 4
auccccd him,
The record Of John iill,rd O
South Carolina. as president pro ten
of the senate Is nearly as long as tina
OF senator Frye. lie served In tina
position for fourteen years, but hi
service was not continuous as ha'
y been that uf senator Frye. Gillar,
= occupied the post In the second scs
sion of the iith congress. In The sec
! on,l and third sessions Of the 18TH
Throughout the 18TH and tho iirs
session of the ihth, and throughou
the sessions of the 18Th. 18th. lSti
aud 18th congresses.
I, John Tyler, who was president pro
tom during thr second session of tn
= gard congra ass and III. FIRST session %
} the atth, afterwards became vice.
I president, ana later president bN rea
. son OF th. death OF President william
Henry Harrison. Theodore SodRwick
of Massachusetts, who was peesiden
pretem during part of the thir'