| Show EARLY DEBATE I ANTICIPATED UN ON SENATE RULES Changes Advocated by bj General Dawes to Come Up at Present Session AIM IS MADE AT MINORITY RULE r Crusaders for Change Say Dawes Plan Is Reform Proposed by U Underwood nde By By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE f J Written for The Telegram Jan 25 Vice Vic I P rt Dawes' Dawes supporters in th the light 1 h tor for change of ot the senate rules rule the subject to be discussed y 1 t l 1 possibly decided during the P pre ent sent session oC congress They 1 ave ale V been Informed that the rules r committee committee of the senate plans to 7 report port out certain proposals s fo for tor amending the chambers chamber's procedure and when that Is done of of tulea lules revl revis revision lon on on Dawes lines hill be able to come forward with amendments to the committees committee's recommendations It can be stated sm authority that the changes r w wy y will be backed as the Dawes Jan an will be Identical with those e by Senator Oscar VV Y Underwood Un- Un f li derwood Democrat of Alabama I a within thirty four four hours after the vice presidents president's celebrated outbreak on on March 4 4 1925 Mr Dawes has declared himself as s feeling that the Underwood proposals will abolish minority rule in the senate and limit frivolity w a and d Irrelevancy in debate Sen- Sen ator Underwood's plan Is the farthest far far- reaching cloture scheme ever introduced in the United States senate Opponents of the Dawes crusade have been taunting the vice M president with not knowing what he wants or at least not deli deli- nitey formulating what he projects fc UNDERWOOD PLAN The following the following the Underwood r proposal Dawes proposal Dawes now says Is Is' Is exactly exactly ex- ex what he wants Resolved That the rules rule of ot the senate be amended by adding thereto in lieu of ot the rule adopted by the senate for the limitation of debate on l I March 8 8 1917 the b following I 1 1 There shall be be a motion for tor forthe forthe th the previous question which being ordered J by My y a majority of s senators voting 1 if a quorum be present shall have the effect to cut off oft all debate and bring the senate to a a. direct vote upon the Immediate question or q questions on which It has been asI ordered It 1 J shall aU be In or order er pending the motion motion mo- mo tion for or after the previous ques- ques question of tion shall shaH have been ordered on Its passage for the presiding officer to entertain and submit a motion to commit with or without Instructions Instructions to a a. standing or s select com com- 2 All motions for the previous qu question shall shan before being sub sub- I to the senate be seconded by a majority of ot tellers if de de- de 3 When a motion for the previous previous pre pre- question has been seconded it shall hall be in order before final vote votes Is s taken thereon for each senator to o debate the proposition to be voted upon for one hour RADIO REACTION When Vice President Dawes exploded exploded exploded ex ex- ex- ex by radio on the night of January January January Jan Jan- uary 19 over that days day's world court filibuster in the senate he did so with certain knowledge that he he was broadcasting a a. message for which a receptive audience e was waiting in all parts of ot the country Ever since Blease Co inaugurated inaugurated In- In time killing debate on onlie the lie court Dawes has been in receIpt receipt re- re of ot ample evidence that such tactics actis are water on his reform mill He has been told b by word of f mouth by letter by y telegram and nd by countless newspaper editorials edl edl- that nothing could have been een devised so us useful ful for his rules reform cause as the senates senate's dillydallying dilly dilly- dallying with the court and the tax reduction bills Dawes supporters say ay that i if the vice president never exploded on another single occasion occasion oc- oc casion aslon the proceedings now taking place lace in the senate would do his work vork for him TO O FORCE CAMPAIGN General Dawes has no intention ot of f letting a merely horrible example example exam- exam le popularize the demand for change In the senate rules It is still till his firm purpose to take the warpath during the 1926 congressional congressional ional campaign fortified of course as s he did not know he hc was going to o be be by current events on Capitol hill Senator Bleases Blease's typical performance performance per- per in reading leading Washington's farewell address into the court debate debate de- de bate ate and Senator James A. A Reeds Reed's Insistence upon introduction of Andiew Andrew Anrew An- An drew diew rew Carnegie's Carnegles North North- American Review leview article of June 1923 are Sure ure to figure conspicuously in Dawes' Dawes campaign speeches next summer ummer and autumn The vice president will carry the war into every very state in which a United States tales senator Is to be elected He will vill ask the electorate regardless of f politics to commit candidates for or the senate to reform the rules These hese plans of presuppose that that hat the senate during the will not have amended Its procedure on Underwood Dawes lines ines If It does oes the vice president will consider that his work Is done the tho chief woi work k as he views it It for foj which he was elected second second- in command of ot the republic and firstin first in n command of the greatest deliberative deliberative de- de body In the world Estimates of the number of sen- sen senators senators tors ready to support the Dawes ready plan lan ready at this writing writing vary vary from rom two twenty-two to forty A majority majority ma- ma vote Is 13 necessary to a change Copyright 1926 |
