THE ROLL CALL
A Pregnant Difference WHEN SENATOR ROOT, by his protest against the pairing of two Republican Senators—one for and the other against the election of Gallinger as president pro tempore—drew from...
...The laughter apparently was aroused not so much by Bailey's repartee as by Root's implied admission that there really was a difference between Republicans...
...THE INFLUENCE of woman today is spreading...
...And the action of the Senate in proceeding to choose such a successor carries with it the presumption that a vacancy exists...
...A successor to Frye has not yet been chosen...
...I do not propose to be read out of the Republican party because I can not conscientiously support some man whom a number of my party associates have agreed upon in a secret meeting as their choice for President pro tempore of the Senate...
...Frye's resignation was not made contingent upon the election of a successor...
...I regard the election of a President pro tempore of this great body as of great importance in the conduct of its business...
...LEGISLATION cannot make men moral...
...But it can remove temptations...
...The Gallinger supporters have let the impression gain circulation that Frye is still president pro tempore, and will be until his successor is elected...
...This is untenable...
...And indirectly that amounts to making men moral.—The Catholic Citizen...
...A Pregnant Difference WHEN SENATOR ROOT, by his protest against the pairing of two Republican Senators—one for and the other against the election of Gallinger as president pro tempore—drew from Senator Bailey the retort, "But they are different kinds," there was boisterous laughter...
...Yes, there are different kinds of Republicans...
...President, in determining what measures shall pass this body...
...Anything that tends to emancipate woman helps the movements for international peace...
...The difference is just as clean-cut in the Senate as it is among the voters...
...I deny the right of any secret caucus held outside of the Senate Chamber behind closed doors, with no reporters present, to dispose of the public business or anything which may exercise an important or controlling influence upon the public business...
...And this difference was further emphasized by Senator La Follette, when he said in answer to Root's objection: "I do not recognize, sir, the right of any Senator here, directly or indirectly, to make against me the criticism that I am voting against my party because that vote is against the action of Members of this Senate regarding the PUBLIC BUSINESS in a SECRET MEETING held in some place outside this Chamber...
...Baron d'Estournelles de Constant...
...Disregarding a few dolls, or caricatures, which are inevitable and negligible, this influence of woman is constantly working against war...
...The balloting will go on...
...It is of tremendous importance at times, Mr...
...Yet, tardy though this recognition may have been in public debate on the part of those Republicans who feel that nothing is too sacred to be sacrificed to "harmony," still it is recognized everywhere in the country...
...That one element in the Republican party is the handmaid to Privilege and that the other is the champion of Popular Rights is a fact that was uppermost in the minds of Republican voters when they last went to the polls...
...And it is in this difference that we find promise of the Republican party becoming the instrument whereby our government may be made really for, by and of the People...
...Meanwhile the progressives who have made Clapp their choice will stand steadfastly by their guns in opposing the election of Gallinger...
Vol. 3 • May 1911 • No. 21
