The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-25

good story is told in connection with the spectacular resignation of his senatorship by the Hon. Joseph w. Bailey. When it was writ one old woman of a senator was sitting on his right hand and another old wom- an of senator was on his left, both expostulating and beseeching that he tarry a little longer with them to the confusion of the reprobate and the edification of the elect. After the mo- mentous paper was concluded the great man turned to pacify the old woman or one side and the old woman on the other side swiped the document anc hid 1t in his bosom. When old woman No 1 was confounded by the argument of Ulysses 1t was discovered that tn resignation was missing and there wa more or less confab about it, but th' paper was not produced. In tones son orous and resonant the great man ob- served There is other paper" And there was.
 Again the fatal writing was penned and sent off. wheeupon another old woman senator bolted for the tele- graph office in the patriotic endeayor to suppress it. They say you could dance a jig on his coat tails as he fairly flew to execute his devout mis- zion, the success of which he hoped would put him in the class of the fel- low who leaped into the yawning chasm that opened in the Roman forum. But, alas, he was too late-the fatal missive was then in the godly town of Austin in far-away Texas.
 Now, to come to the meat of the story. As soon as 1t was common Knowledge that the resignation was dis patched a paper was circulated for tn 2 signatures of senators volunteering ad vice to the governor of Texas touch- ing his executives duty in the prem ises. Some senators signed it; others refused
 But they say one particular senator to whom Mir. Bailey had rendered val uable service. got wind of the affair and hoped to avoid invitation to sign the remonstrance. He sought the su- preme court library, where he hid him. self away in a corner and did not emerge until the thing blew over, all of which would argue that the Amer ican people sometimes make United States senators of rather common clay This man has no more backbone than fishing worm. If every senator had voted as he wished, instead of 46 votes for Lorimer there would have been 56 at least. which Is a sign of health in that 1t discoveres that public opinion has some weight in the Senate after all.
 When the thirty years war; began the Protestants of Germany were di- vided into two camps-the Lutherans and the Calvinists-ands their mutual hatreds of each other were more in tense than the bitterest animosity eith- CT had for their adversaries. the Cath olics. Had they been united it is like 1y the war would have been terminated in three years, less time. and the world might not have heard that Gus f tavus Adolphus was a hero and Wal 1enstein consummate general. There is something like that situation in the United States Senate between the reg ulars and the insurgents as shown in the ballotings for president pro tenn pore. So far as know there is no precedent for the present condition and if Mir. Gsifinger shall be defeated 1t will be the first time the dominant parry sin the Senate ia He'd to elect its first choice for that stinguished honor It is a mistake to say that there Is nc