Show why has not a reform been made in the rules of the U S senate by CHARLES G DAWES vice president in the united states senate anyone can talk ablong as ho he pleases on any subject on or off the earth whether or not it is relevant to the subject which wo we meet to discuss and act upon this situation has obtained in ill the senate of the united states for years alone in tho the senate of the united states of all the great deliberative bodies of the earth the senate cannot bo be properly a deliberative body when through unlimited debate I 1 it has surrendered to the whim and ulterior purposes of individuals and minorities tho the right to allot its own time why has not a reform been made in the rules of the senate sin simply aply because this right of unlimited debate acted upon by authorities and individuals divi duals lias has boon been found to give personal power and prerogative to individual vid u al senators and minorities which they can and have exercised to thwart tha ilia right oi of the ilia majority of the senate to act as a body something soi unheard of in the first xa 17 years of the senate some something tiling not resorted to in the ibe early days of the senate but a custom which has grown up until each senator knows that the ilia power of obstruct obstruction io n afforded by tho the present arese prese nt rules aulca gives to him a personal power and personal prerogative to be used for sectional and selfish interests |