The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-01
MUST VOTE ON
LARGE QUESTION
III SENATE WILL NOT FACE LIVE
ISSUES APPROPRIATION BILLS =
MAY BE HELP UP.
FORCING EXTRA SESSION
NORRIS BROWN TELLS
UPPER HOUSE THAT LORI
MER KNEW OF TRICK
ERY.
FORCING EXTRA SESSION

WASHINGTON. d. c., Feb. L.
Four big questions will be voted upon
at this session, or there will be an
extra session of congress. Senator Nor
ris Brown tRepublican), of Nebraska,
declared to the senate to-day.
There are now pending he said,
before the committee of the senate
or the senate itself. propositions which
involve the integrity and the welfare
of American institutions, including
the senate of the United States. They
are of vast and vital importance. They
include:
"A resolution to determine the
validity of the election of a senator
now sitting in this body.
"A resolution TO amend the funda-
mental law of the land, providing for
the popular election of senator's
"A proposition to provide a tariff
hoard or commission.
"A proposition to raise the level
of pensions to the old soldiers of the
Union in what is known as the Sullo-
way bill.
1T may as well be understood now
as later that II these questions. or
any of them. are to be put over TO
another congress. some of the appro-
priation bills Will so over with them
This Is not said as a threat nor In
the nature of an ultimatum I am
stating simple fact, and 1t Is we'll
with only four working weeks ahead
or us that we understand now what
the fact Is in this regard. If congress
adjourns without action on these
measures. congress Will adjourn with
out action on some of the appropria-
ton bills"
Failure by congress to pass anyone
nf hEa h L.
make an extra session necessary.
The Lorimer case he said,
brings home to the Senate an issue
involving Its own good name and
honor. A wrong Judgment by the Sem
ate In this case liz likely to mean and
ought TO mean eventually the end of
the Senate. A Senate too cowardly
to acauit when acquittal Is right ought
to go out of business, and Senate
too serrffe to convict when conviction
is right will be put out OF business. f"
The evidence given In the investi-
CATION, Mr.. Brown said. showed that
there We're seven tainted votes and
that Lorimer knew what had been
done to get them.
He was there himself" said Mr..
Brown. His headquarters were on
the ground. His political agents
were round and about him. He room
ed With his creature. the Speaker OF
the state House of Representatives.
NO man can read the story as told
by all of these records without con-
Guiding that behind the organization
and activities of that legislature was
one single powerful mind The mind
the controlling brain behind the scene
was the mind and brain OF Mr.. Lori
mer himself.
The only theory on which the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lorimcr can be sustained
is that no one was bribed by Browne
to vote for him. If Browne bribed
nobody, Loriner knew It, If Browne
hribed anybody Lorimer knew It and
consented To II. and thereby forfeited
all title TO the Office. The silent and
| iron hand behind the scenes. knowing
| all that was being done for him by
! his agents and consenting to, II not
directing their every act, was Mr.. Lori
/ mer himself. Such Ia the story of
this record and such should be the
verdict OF the Senate"