May 9, 1911
During the delivery of Mr. STONE'S speech,
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The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Missouri will suspend for a moment. The hour of 4 o'clock having arrived, the Chair lays before the Senate the unfinished business, which will be stated.
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The SECRETARY. A joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing that Senators shall be elected by the people of the several States.
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l\Ir. BORAH. Will the Senator from Missouri yield for just a moment, until I make a statement?
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Mr. STONE. Certainly.
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Mr. BORAH. Mr. President, I think I ought to say that while I am not going to urge the consideration of this measure to-day not later than Thursday it is my purpose to test the sense ~f the Senate from time to time that we may remain in session during the regular hours of the session until the measure is disposed of. In other words, I shall not feel that I am privileged to ask to have this matter laid aside at any time after Thursday.
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The joint resolution was before the last Congress, as we all know, and it was voted upon after a very thorough discussion. Upon the first day of the present session several resolutions covering the general subject matter were introduced, and, of course, everyone understood that it would be up for consideration. I shall not feel, therefore, that I am urging the matter with any undue haste by pressing a continuous consideration of the measure on Thursday.
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l\1r. HEYBURN. I should like to ask the Senator a question. Are we to understand that the Senator will be content to occupy the time allotted for unfinished business, or that he will ask that the Senate not only occupy that time, but some other time?
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Mr. BORAH. The question is a very pertinent one. I want to occupy all the possible time, except the actual sleeping hours, until it is disposed of.
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Mr. HEYBURN. That is, the Senator has taken advantage of the right under the vote to make it the unfinished business. He is not content with that; he not only wants to occupy the time of the Senate which under the rule is devoted to the unfinished s hed business, but be wants to displace all other business. Well, we understand it.
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Mr. BORAH. There is no other business to be displaced so far as the present condition of affairs is concerned. I do not think the Senator in charge of the joint resolution can be char g ed with undue haste. I think that the vote which we had yest e i'day shows it to be the sense of the Senate that we should dispose of this matter. Otherwise, we would not have had so strong a vote as we did. I feel, therefore, that I should urge it, of course at all times considering the convenience of my colle a gue as much as I can do so.
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Mr. HEYBURN. I presume the Senator does not take into - consideration the 1Qte by which this measure was rejected in the Senate at the last ses s ion.
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Mr. BORAH. Yes; I had not overlooked that.
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The VICE PRESIDENT. Did the Senator from Idaho intend to ask that the unfinished business be temporarily laid aside? l\Ir. BORAH. I will ask that it be temporarily laid aside.
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The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator from Idaho asks unanimous consent that the unfinished business be temporarily laid aside. If there is no objection, that order is made.
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ADJOURNMENT TO THURSDAY,
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After the conclusion of 1\Ir. STONE'S speech, l\Ir. GALLINGER. 1\Ir. President, a considerable number of Senators have suggested that the business of the Senate will be expedited rather than retarded by adjourning over until Thur s day. The Senator from Idaho [Mr. BORAH] aside the matter in which he is interested until that time, . and if there be no serious objection, I will make the motion. I move that when the Senate adjourns to-day it adjourn to meet on Thursday next. ·
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The motion was agreed to.
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