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Show bined ages of 1C3 are called the "third party" in the Senate. . , . ' President Eoosevelt gained no reputation; it was hard work for him to hold his own. LaFollette comes out of the contention a striking feature. : Hale and Gallinger have tried to badger him and to cast derision upon him, but he has kept his temper; only as he cast his vote he hurled a firm notice upon his foes to look out for the coming election.- . ; : . .' ; . r Dolliver and Aldrich no longer speak when they meet. The enmity began when Aldrich turned the rate bill over to Tillman, and Dolliver, white with anger, told him it was a trick no gentleman would play- v v ' -: : Bailey and Bacon hardly speak as they pass by and Bacon .and Culberson are at swords' points. Both Bacon and Culberson are jealous of Bailey and all through tried to thwart him. ' . . The Democrats are very bitter as a rule toward the President. The young Republicans have broken with the elder class. So Morgan, Pettus and their class have broken with the younger Democratic Senators. ' . y ' . Knox and Spooner, so recently two chief supports sup-ports of the President, are bitter toward him: The bitterness of the debate was almost without precedent. The full effect will not be seen until the fall campaigns come on. But it will be good in the end; the spirit expressed in nature "by the earthquake, earth-quake, found a big vent in the Senate while that debate de-bate was going on. , v ; -' .' However, it is not bad for the country at large. It is time for some shaking up. - There is a loosening of party ties; it is time the ship, of state was floated into fresh water until the barnacles which impede her speed will fall off. . BILL CONTENTIONS., ' The rate bill, according to the New York Times, " has awakened more bitterness in Washington than has ever been known there since the closing days of Congress in 1861. " Some of the antagonisms created are noted by the Times. . ' 1 . " - Senators Tillman and Bailey have gained much in fame through it. The Times correspondent says: ' 'Tbe old Tillman, the imaginary Tillman, is gone forever, the real Tillman has taken his place, the man of great ability, courage, manliness and honor." So, too, Bailey is recognized as a statesman. .The personality of Senator Aldrich has loomed up tre-?mendously, tre-?mendously, but he is now fixed in public estimation "as the representative of certain interests that the 1 majority would like to see curbed." v , - ; The great speeches of Knox, Spooner and For-aker For-aker won instant . admiration, but no suggestion made by either was adopted. The verdict is that both Knox .and Spooner were routed by Bailey, though the impression had long been that Spooner was invulnerable, but Bailey made some big rents in his armor.' Foraker gained fame by sticking to his unpopular convictions with a dogged tenacity to the end. Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, with com- j " - - . - " " " ' . ' ' ' ' ' |