Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1915-01-22
LEE Anglers MARSHALL.

Senator Blair Lee, of Maryland
aud ue-Pfesident Marshall we're il
sharp clash on the Senate floor thi,
>fternoon just before the Senate
voted upon the District of Columbia
Appropriation bill.
An amendment was introduced to
this Liil by Senator Lee and upon a
point OF order Il was ruled out by
tna Vice President. The Maryland
Senator declared the action of Il e
presiding officer unwarranted on the
ground that the Lee amendment had
not been read when ruled upon.
Ibis ingertd the Vice President,
VIII, retortei that he had no idea Of
being called down in this fashion.
Seaa.u. Ire, persisting, appesled
frpm tho As,q-lon of the chair and
demanded Ioll call When the
vote was taken the vote was 60 to l
IN favor of sustaining thn Vice P,esi-
dent. The one contrary vote was
that east BY the Mar lander himse f.
This controversy came up less tnan
half an hour before the final vote
upon the District bill, which for
IN re than'a week has been engineer
ell through the Senate by Senat r
john Waiter Sluilh. Ssnat Lee
amendment provided that certai
tr inins scho is in the District be
open to chiedrel beyond the Dis
triet line. By this the children Of
NJ ryland and VIrgima would be
benefited.
Senator Smith, who all the after
moan had made points of orde
against amendments to the pending
bi !, did not invoke that rule against
his colleague. Senator Shafroth, Of
Colorado, however, made the poin'
a, 4 the Vice President sustained il
The Mary land Senator, in protest
Ing to the Vice President against
this summary treatment of his meas
ure, declared:
Il doubt very much if you read tie
amendment before you decided the
point of ORDER.
Quick as fla a the Vice Presi-
dent respoG led:
The Chair does not believe he l.
called upDa to sit here d have
Statements of that kind made from
th.. Il ,or Of the Senate to i.npngn the
honesty, honor aud dignity of the
Chair"
Senator Lee expressed pleasure al
finding that the Y Co. President had
read the amendment before declar-
ing it out Of order, but added tina.
the Senate and not the Vice l'resi-
dent must i,'le upon the admission
of the measure. II appealed = the
Sen4t. and called for an aye and ray
vote.
The District Appropriation bill
passed the Senate late today after
being before that body for near v 10
days. During that ,iue Senator
Smith, its author, was on the foar
each day from the hour the Senate
convened until it adjourned. IL,
probably addressed tn Senate on
one SUI ject or another 100 times
during this period.---Sun.
The junior Senator has at last
re eived the severe rebuke hs d :.
serves. He has been posing as most
everything since be has been II
Ma ylanj politics aud apparently has
been able to fool the people of thi,
state more than any man living with
in It's Confines since its birth and par.
ticularly democrats. He got hi,
start in politics in Montgomery Coun-
ty through the Peter brothers whom
be afterwards abandoned. No man
in M ryland ever knows where he
stands OF any public question owing
to his tendency to play the game
''hlpfop".
The severe rtbuke gwen him by
the Senate of the United Slaies, ii ).
b. ped, has taught him a lesson thai
be will not soon forget.