Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-05-17
GALL|NGER BEATEN.
REPUBLICANS OF SENATE FAIL
TO ELECT PRESIDENT PRO
TEMPORE.
OPPOSITION SUPPORTS CLAPP.
Progressives Disregard the Edict Of
caucus.-Regulars Enraqed and
Gulf Between Factions
Is Widened.

which resulted in the United States
senate over the question of electing a
president pro tempore to take the
place of Senator Free, of Maine, re.
Gently resigned, came out just as was
predicted the case would when it was
announced on Saturday last that Sen.
ator Clapp, of Minnesota, would be
made the candidate of the ultra radi.
cal members Of the insurgent Repub.
llcan faction in the senate. The com.
plete disruption of the Republican
majority in the senate was registered
on all the votes taken on the cues
ton, and the lines of battle are thor.
oughly formed between the regular
and insurgent forces of the Republi
can membership Of the senate.
On the votes cast to fill the vacant
place of president pro tempore the
Democratic candidate, Senator Bacon
OF Georgia, received a plurality, or
three votes more than Senator Calm.
ger, OF New Hampshire, the nominee
of the Republican caucus for the place
Senator Clapp received four votes and
the insurgent faction so distributed
their votes, or refrained from VOTING
by pairing among themselves so as
to prevent the Republican nominee OF
the caucus receiving a majority of the
votes cast.
What provoked the regular Repub
licans of the senate more than the in.
surgent votes for Senator Clapp was
the action of these insurgent senators
who attended and participated in the
action OF nomination of Senator Gal
linger for president pro tempore
Three OF these senators, Borah, of Ida
no; Kenyon. Of Iowa, and Dixon, OF
Montana, while nominally for Senator
Gallinger defeated the force of their
standing by pairing with absent insur
gent senators who were pledged to
votes for Senator Clapp. Of the lat
ter were Senators Cummins, of Iowa
Bourne, of Oregon, and Works, of Cal
ifornfa.
Thus it was that these insurgen,
Republicans who had attended the Re
publican caucus and gave their sup
port to the nominee of that cacus
defeated the very action of the caucus
by refraining from voting, and instead
Of pairing with Democrats, paired
with insurgent Republicans.
Lines Are frightened.
The natural result of the contest
is finer drawn line of demarcatio1
between the regular and. insurgent
Republicans in the body. The regular
leaders say there will be no surrender
and that no dictation from the radical
insurgents will be tolerated in this
matter. In other words Senator Gal
linger must be elected, or there will be
no election of president pro tenn
pore, unless it shall chance that the
radical Republicans decide to vote
straight out for Senator Bacon, the
Democratic candidate. The radicals
are playing for time and say they will
! be able to defeat Gallinger when al
their faction members are present thi:
week. Just how this is to be accom-
plished is not disclosed But the mo
ton to postpone action till Monda,
was made by Senator La Toilette, thu
insurgent leader.
The senate probably will fail t,
elect a president pro tempore. Thi:
means nothing except that Vice Presi
dent Sherman will be obliged to sticl
| pretty closely upon the sessions IF +hI
body. He can name a presiding of
ficer for one day, but his absence fo
a greater length of time would fore,
the election of a president pro TEN
pore and renewal of the deadlock
There are suggestions that If tn,
regular Republicans shall conclude t,
withdraw Senator Gallingers name a.
a candidate, Senator Nelson's nam,
may be substituted. No indications
are given, however, of a purpose O
the regulars to desert Gallinger.