The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-07-07

OF the senate, however, was shaken by
the stress and strain Of that tariff bin
and he never recovered it. Perhaps
Senator Penrose had the making Of a
regal chairman Of finance, who, under
more favorable auspices, could have
ruled with an iron hand. He started
of that way, but he has fallen upon
evil times. The triumphant alliance Of
the senate has taken him and his com.
mittee figuratively by the nap Of the
neck That alliance has no respect for
thelfinance committee, which the stand.
patters of the senate "packedn only
a few weeks ago, and its position is
one of abieetness. The opportunity of
Senator Penrose to make a career there
has been blasted. Even the nice little
plans of the organizers of the senate
to have such a finance committee that
a favorable report on any of the bills
from a Democratic house would be i'm.
possible, seem Co have been foiled. For
Senator McCumber, of North Dakota,
one of the most solicitous friends of the
farmer during all the discussion Of the
Canadian reciprocity, will probably be
for some of the revision bills. IL 30
he and Senator La Toilette and the.
Democratic members may make a ma.
joTity of one.
i, ~ Vote to Come soon.
OF course, the snow win not swirl
around the Goddess of Liberty and TO.
tary plows will not be working on the
railroads before the senators vote FOR
or against the revision OF the wooden
schedule. Chairman Boies Penrose who
warned the senate that there would be
long delay in revision will have to
make his annual trip out into the Rocky
Mountains if he-expects to see a snow.
drift prior TO the senate rolleall on
that bill. The upshot. Of all the fine
talk win be that the finance commit
tee, having executed sudden right
about face, and reported the home bills
adversely, will have little else to do as
O. .eYmmittee. The standpat senators
who had fixed things up splendidly so
that all the senate might fuss and fdget
about the wooden bill to no purpose
will now bestiF themselves
Back to the Fold.
The approach of leading insurgents to
the mourners bench during that memoir.
able debate of Wednesday afternoon
and evening was striking senate feat
ure.r Gore, the blind man, had project
Ell the motion to refer the wool bill
to the finance committee with instruc.
tions to report it out before July 10.
He is the same Senator Gore who let
loose the pent up enthusiasm Of the
Democratic masses at the Denver con-
yention in 1908 and started the demon
tration that broke all convention rec
ords. The sage leaders of the Demo.
cratic senate seem to like to let Gore
start things. Bailey, Martin and Viii.
liams began to chastise the Republican
regulars and to exhort the insurgent
brethren. They had proceeded but lit.
tie way before the insurgents one after
another began to clamor for recogni.
ton.
The old Viking of the Northwest,
Senator Knute Nelson, sometimes in.
surgent, sometimes regular, headed the
procession of penitents. With word
ABOUT the iniquity of Canadian reciproc-
ity this senator, who, as member of
the house, used to vote for Democratic
tariff bills, declared with tears in his
voice:
- am very anxious to have this wool
bill voted upon about the same time
that the reciprocity bill is voted upon. "
Senator Martin was trying to get
under way again when he was further
interrupted by Senator Coe l. Crawford,
eff South Dakota. 81 for one,' said
he, in the frame of mind / now have,
will not consent to fixing a day to
vote on the reciprocity bill, that singles
out the American farmer, until some
other proposition can be considered at
the ssme time. There seems to be no
necessity for the finance committee to
spend long time considering these
tariff bills.D
Then "Mose" Clapp, Of Minnesota,
another insurgeht, said, "there is no
special necessity of our being so very
particular from this time on about hear
ings."
The procession of recruits halted then
for little and the battle of words pro,
crossed but after a while that plain
spoken North Dakota Seotehman, Me-
CumbeT, blurted out his sympathy with
the Gore motion. Then Senator Bailey
got that youngster from Montana, Sen.
ator Dixon, into running colloquy.
~ am in state OF mind" said
Dixon.
Almost persuaded, y intefposed Bailey
amid laughter and in moment the
new Montana convert was seated. And
tihs the list grew during one Of the
really remarkable scenes before the SEN
ate in recent years.
Not Hero.
When Senator Williams of Missis-
sippi, had gotten going at high speed
with his speech in behalf of the wool.
en- bill and the Gore motion, some OF
his oldtime Republican colleagues OF
the house, who, like him, have been
promoted 70 the senate, undertook TO
break In. Williams Is a little deaf
and when he Is interrupted hAaraises
palm 10 one ear and walks over TO the
Republican side 10 catch the inquiry.
Senator Curtis Of Kansas, wanted TO
know about Wlllisms'a position on
veal IN 1894 aud observed that the
Mlsalssippian nY6ted for (he final pas.
aage " tAe Blls0u blll, Nhiah contain,
ed = provision for free wool,
H0h, yeh, ! did, IeleTlea the ais.
alesippiasl nand meny 3 poor fellow