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OF SEWARD, ALASKA — Established August 19, 1904
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THE SENATE RULES
The next session of Congress will be the short ses
sion. It is in the . short session of Congress that the
present rules of the Senate work such damage to the
public interests and at times result in a travesty upon
representative constitutional government. It is unnec
essary to recapitulate numerous instances in which a min
ority, and even individual senators, have enforced con
cessions in legislation for sectional and political purposes
through the threat of blocking revenue and appropri
ation bills and of compelling the President to call an extra
session of Congress in order to keep government busin
ess functioning.
Vice President Dawes and Senator Underw ood, while
maintaining that proper reform for the Senate rules
would make them correspond with the rules common to
practically all other great deliberative bodies which pro
ride for majority cloture, have suggested a compromise
which if adopted will mark a step in advance and render
impossible the use of a filibuster upon revenue and ap
propriation bills in the short session as a means of en
forcing the demands of a minority in regard to other
legislation. They propose a change in the rules prorid
ing majority cloture on revenue and appropriation bills
alone, allowing senators full time to speak on these bills,
but preventing them from prolonging debate for ulter
ior purposes. Against such a plan no argument can be
made by Southern senators that their right is taken
away to filibuster against the remote possibility of a
force bill or something like it.
The right, apparently so precious to senators, of
blocking or threatening to block general legislation in
order to secure consideration for particular legislation
in which they are interested will still exist, except that
they cannot use the obstruction of revenue or appropri
ation bills for this particular purpose. These latter are
business measures. If they are not passed at the short
session they must be passed at any extra session.
The recent session was prolonged for months by the
use of filibuster open or concealed. It is evident that un
less these rules are changed, with the Senate constituted
as it is, the next short will probably be confronted with
a situation where individual senators with their power
of obstruction will have the government by the throat if
cloture cannot be had on appropriation bills.
Why should the Senate not act on this matter? This
situation affects the country. It can be rectified, and
rectified now, by the adoption of the change of rules
which Senator Underwood suggested, or a modification
of it covering the principle. It is a change winch at one
time the Republican caucus of the Senate favored by a
vote of 32 to 1.
me present underwood amendment can not be op
posed as restricting liberty and constitutional rights. It
is a simple business proposition. Unless revenue and
appropriation bills are passed the machinery of govern
ment can not function. The public has become educated
as to the defects of the present senate rules, and any
marked instances of their abuse is fraught with peril to
the perpetrators. If in the next short session a minority'
cr a single senator under the Senate rules should block
the right of the government to continue to function, in or
der to secure some concession in legislation in which they
or he are interested, public opinion will fix responsibility
for it. If during the next session abuse of the rules com
pels the President to call an extra session of congress
responsibility for it will be fixed in public opinion. In
self protection, as well as in the public interest, the senate
should adopt the Underwood proposition for majority'
cloture on revenue and appropriation bills, or some modi
fication of it embodying its principles.
No man ever won a place in history by pleasing the
neighbors.
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POKE & P AN
Bv SOURDOUCe* BhL
One subscriber made the cruel crack
yesterday that he knew The Gateway
generally printed all the news Iren, a
month to two months late, but neve?
20 years age
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Another chap reports the meanest
man in Alaska was discovered by a lo
cal waitress the either day. Instead of
knocking th* ashes off of his cigar
into the ash tray placed at bis elbow
for that purpose he turns the sugar
bowl lid upside down, deposits his
ashes thereon, then upon leaving the
counter pUk e* the lid back over the
bowl, ashes and all.
A laboring man in Seward expressed
the opinion he thought he wand ac
cept a job in Fairbanks but wondered
if he had tc take out papers"
Could a fan say: ‘That’s one ox
me!" if he happened to get popped
with a base:.all next Sunday.
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The birth rate in the class made
celebrated h;- Bamum seems to be ris
ing rapidly. Seats for the first per
formance of a new revue in yew York
are selling a* 555 each
The customary large quota of house
holders hare made the discowBy this
spring that by painting the kitchen
woodwork you can make everything
else in the place look shabby.
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Twenty-three men with CL horses
plowed and planted 2(> acres of com
one day last week for a sick farmer in
Hardin county. Putting in golden
grain by the golden rule, as it were.
* • •
Ah, well; expensive, gorgeous tackle
isn’t a complete loss if the poor fist
have a sense of humor.
Old version—"The woman tempted
me/’ Modem version—"My wife was
driving.’’
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A poor man has about as muck
chance under the primary system as
he has nnder prohibition. Great is
Reform and Buncombe is his prophet.
DR. HUNTER GOES SOUTV
Dr. H. R. Hunter, government phy
sician in charge of the Pribilof is
lands area, who arrived in Seward
yesterday morning on the E. of F.
vessel Eider, left on the Admiral
Evans last evening for Seattle where
he may possibly undergo an opera
tion for appendicitis
GARDEN' rakes and hoes—GraefV
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some milk each day for
would surely make us
healthy.
and after we pet old
and grey our health
weald make us wealthy.
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