Show hobart beat dawes to it by 28 years 1010 PRESIDENT DAWES rebuke VICE of senate filibustering was wag not without precedent march 4 1807 when garret A hobart was inaugurated as aa vice president lie he politely criticized the parliamentary obstruct ors and intimated that lie ho would try to apply the senate rules so BO as to expedite business and produce prompt and positive legislation mr hobart did not urge the senate to amend the rules or any particular rule the vice president preferred to condemn the alie whole theory and practice of obstruction and to hint that lio to would do what lie he could individually to smash it hero here Is what mr hobart said in 1897 as to this point my krati gratitude tude and loyalty to the people of 0 the country to whom I 1 owe this honor and my duty to you as well demand such a consetTa conservative tive equitable and conscientious construction and enforcement of your our rules rule as shall promote the well being ant and prosperity of the people and tit at the same time conserve the time honored precedents and established traditions which ha have ve contributed contil buted to make tills 1 tribunal the most distinguished of this tha legislative bodies of 0 the world in entering upon the duties of the th 6 to which I 1 have been chosen chogen 1 I feel a peculiar delicacy for I 1 am aware that your body with whom for a time I 1 will bo be associated has had but a small voice in the election of lt its presiding officer and that I 1 am called upon to conduct your deliberations while not perhaps your choice la in point of either merit or fitness it will be my constant effort to aid you so far as I 1 may in all reasonable expedition of the business of the sm ean ate and I 1 may be permitted to elpi can the belief that such expedition la Is the hope of the country all the interests teresta In of good government and the advancement toward a higher and better condition of things call for prompt and positive legislation at your hands to obstruct the regular course of bisto and prudent legislative action after the fullest and freest discussion la Is neither consistent with true senatorial courtesy conducive to the welfare of the people nor in compliance with their just expectations 11 |