THE ROLL CALL
THE ROLL CALL ON MEN AND MEASUBB Dilatory Tactics AS REQUIRED by the Constitution, and also because it is required by the Constitution, Congress convened on Monday, December 4, 1909, for the long...
...The Presiding Officer...
...The motion was agreed to...
...The Pinchot-Ballinger controversy is agitating official circles from center to circumference...
...And so the Senate met on Monday next, being December the 13th, and in the Record of that day appears the following: "Mr...
...The motion was agreed to...
...The papers are full of exciting news...
...Stirring things are doing at Washington...
...So the Senate met again on Monday, December 20, and met also on Tuesday, December 21...
...THE ROLL CALL ON MEN AND MEASUBB Dilatory Tactics AS REQUIRED by the Constitution, and also because it is required by the Constitution, Congress convened on Monday, December 4, 1909, for the long session...
...To which Mr...
...Mr...
...Hale...
...The motion was agreed to...
...Accordingly the Senate met again on Monday, January 10, the following week, and the same program was followed, and on Thursday, immediately after the formal opening of the Senate Mr...
...At the conclusion of the reading the Record contains: "Mr...
...After a time the steering committee will allow some measures of legislation on public questions to come before the Senate for consideration and debate...
...Aldrich...
...They will have the right of way, crowding everything else aside...
...Hale made the same motion, which aftJer brief discussion was agreed to as before and the Senate adjourned on January the 20th, to meet again on Monday, January 24...
...It marks time with the same measured step...
...But the Senate—the Aldrich machine—grinds tranquilly on in the same old way...
...The question is agreeing to the motion of the Senator from Maine that when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Friday next...
...Hale made the same motion and the motion was again agreed to...
...Hale...
...The motion was agreed to...
...Hale made the following answer in the Record: "Mr...
...They will be jammed into the "small end of the horn" and passed in a bunch without opportunity for inspection or legislative consideration...
...I move that when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Friday...
...Accordingly the Senate met on Friday, December 10, when the following appears in the Record: "Mr...
...The motion was agreed to...
...The third week in January the Senate met again on Monday the 17th, and on Thursday the 20th Mr...
...Two days in succession...
...I move that when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Monday next...
...December 21, the Senate adjourned, pursuant to a joint resolution, for the holiday recess, to meet again Tuesday, January 4, 1910...
...I should have no hesitation in saying that I suppose on Friday, with the consent of the Senate, (the Aldrich-Hale steering committee), it will adjourn over until Monday...
...Some of the important committees are at work in somewhat the same leisurely fashion, upon the consideration or in preparation for the consideration of the regular annual appropriation bills...
...Its proceedings are unruffled by any manifestation of interest or concern in public affairs which might be unbecoming the dignity of the "American House of Lords...
...I move that when the Senate adjourns today it be to meet on Monday next...
...Then Congress, having made up its mind to go home, will adjourn without having enacted any legislation which the Aldrich-Cannon management, by the employment of dilatory tactics at the beginning of the session and railroading at the end of the session, can prevent...
...President Taft's gentle reminders of the obligation of Congress to enact measures pledged in the party platform and his special messages recommending constructive legislation along various lines, in the public interest, are arousing the keenest interest in the minds of public men, progressives and reactionaries...
...He said: , "I think the Senator from Maine has pretty well in mind the belief that there is going to be nothing done this week...
...I move that when the Senate adjourns today it adjourn to meet on Monday next...
...Aldrich...
...Pursuant to Senator Aldrich's motion, the Senate met again on Thursday, December 16f when the following motion was made: "Mr...
...After the holidays the Senate convened January 4, and met January 4, 5, and 6. On the 6th, being Thursday, immediately after the formal opening of the Senate, the following appears in the Record: "Mr Hale...
...I move that when the Senate adjourns today it adjourn to meet on Thursday next...
...The Senate, after a session of eight minutes, adjourned to meet again the following day, Tuesday, December 5, to hear the reading of the President's annual message...
...Presumably this excess of industry was indulged in by the Senate management in view of the fact that the Senate was about to take a recess of two weeks, which should enable it to recuperate...
...Then, as the time draws near when most members of both Houses of Congress will be ready to insist upon an adjournment to enable them to return to their constituents and "explain" their records on the tariff session, the appropriation bills will be brought before the Senate for action...
...Lodge...
...Bailey wanted to know if it could not be understood that when the Senate met on Friday, it would adjourn over until the following Monday...
Vol. 2 • February 1910 • No. 5
